Is there such a thing as a situationally deficient Pokémon? Maybe you’re it?
U.S. ALLY SAUDI SHARI POLICE ENFORCE ANTI- POKEMON LAW!
Is there such a thing as a situationally deficient Pokémon? Maybe you’re it?
U.S. ALLY SAUDI SHARI POLICE ENFORCE ANTI- POKEMON LAW!
31 July 2016 (14:35 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714
IDAHO WILDFIRES 16 AUGUST 2012: MAFFS C-130s RETURN TO POCATELLO AIRPORT
MAFFS 2 & 6: USAF RESERVE & NATIONAL GUARD C-130 WATER BOMBERS @ POCATELLO AIRPORT

Me sleeping on Idaho militia C-130 mattress, on the way back from a ‘friendly’ with Canadian armor in Alberta, 2002.
Some of my other C-130 trips (click pics to make bigger):
“C-130 rolling down the strip!
Airborne Ranger gonna take a little trip!
We gonna stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door!
We gonna jump right out, and then count to four!
My main don’t open, I use my reserve!
My reserve don’t open, I loose my nerve!”-U.S. Army running cadence I used to sing during Army Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood in 1982
Hummvees look like toys being tossed out the back of a C-17, includes point of view from a HUMMWV:
30 July 2016 (16:17 UTC-07 Tango 01) 09 Mordad 1395/24 Shawwal 1437/27 Yi-Wei 4714
During the Second World War the Germans used several types of small robot kamikaze tanks to blow up enemy fortifications.

A damaged German R-C Goliath demolition tank, somewhere in the Balkans, 1943(?). Photo via Bundesarchiv.
In Hawaii, the U.S. Army is testing advanced versions of similar robot tanks during the Tiger Balm Command Post Exercise. But instead of being used as bombs they’re being used for more practical things like heavy machine gun carriers. By the way, the program is officially called PACMAN-1.
And any garage mechanic/R-C hobbyist could build one in their own home! Is that why Australia declared R-C toys to be weapons of terror in 2014?
29 July 2016 (16:51 UTC-07 Tango 01) 08 Mordad 1395/23 Shawwal 1437/26 Yi-Wei 4714
Last year VolksWagen suddenly revealed that their emissions software on their newer diesel cars only works when it knows that the vehicle is being smog tested. But has there been actual independent testing of that claim, or we just have to take VW’s word?

Reuters is reporting that the state of California is now working with VW to test new software that will allow diesel loving VW owners to keep their vehicles, rather than sell them back.
But there’s more proof (to me) that this whole thing is a global anti-diesel scam. I’ve already reported that the Rockefellers ‘ordered’ the car manufacturing industry to shift towards electric cars, months before VW suddenly made their ’emission scam’ revelation (the oil baron Rockefellers are the ones who successfully sued Rudolph Diesel because his motor was originally designed to run on vegetable oil). VW’s latest deal with U.S. states will see VW spending billions of U.S. dollars reducing emissions of diesel vehicles it didn’t even make!
That’s right, VW has agreed to spend more than $2.7-billion USD to make diesel vehicles, made by other manufactures, less polluting!
Volkswagen agrees to pay Idaho state government $2.6-million USD
VolksWagen claims Suzuki violated its contract by purchasing diesel engines from another car maker.
11 March 2011 disasters scare VW away from diesel truck maker Izuzu
14 July 2016 (11:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 24 Tir 1395/08 Shawwal 1437/11 Yi-Wei 4714
“What is that thing? What is that thing!”-mother of victim screaming as she tried to pull her child from under the 300 pound K5 security-bot
For the second time in one week, and at the same California shopping mall (Stanford Shopping Center), a 136kg (3-hundred pound) security guard job stealing security robot has injured a human.
Knightscope, the maker of the K5 Autonomous Data Machine (Machine Identification Number 13), claimed in the latest incident the child was running backwards, which somehow confused the bot, and got run over. The angry parents call bullshit on that claim as their 16 months old is too young to know how to run backwards! They say the security-bot drove straight for their child, without deviation, knocking him face-down. Their child survived the accident with a long scratch on the back of his leg.
Unnamed mall employees said this was the second time there was an “incident” with the K5, mall management refused to confirm, or deny, the employee’s claim. Knightscope claims the latest reported incident is the first and only incident.
Interestingly a Catholic news source published a report, last month, which stated that “Robots evolving to defend themselves as people prove dangerous” and concluded that “It’s important that humans respect robots…” ! The report documents how around the world robots are being attacked by humans. It also promoted the use of the K5 Autonomous Data Machine.
Robot’s role in killing Dallas shooter is a first
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in June 2016:
Arizona: California based internet health insurance management company YourPeople-Zenefits shutting down their Grand Canyon State sales office, at least 1-hundred jobs lost!
California: Ebay posted a mass layoff WARN saying they laid off 538 people, back in February 2015! Cupertino based hard disk maker Seagate Technology announced it will kill off 1-thousand 6-hundred jobs by the end of its third quarter! Renewable energy company SunEdison continues killing jobs, this time 121 people in three locations were laid off at the end of May! Once touted as one of the fastest growing women owned companies, military InfoTech contractor Xtreme Solutions issued a layoff WARN for their Ontario location, 80 jobs lost by the end of August. San Jose based Apple computer “human interface” parts supplier Synaptics eliminating 160 jobs! In a round-a-bout way administrators blamed crashing sales. United Technologies shutting down their San Diego office at the end of July. Software company Veritas Technologies revealed they laid off 128 people in Mountain View, back in May! Steiner eOptics (aka Laser Devices) shutting down their Monterey location, 69 jobs gone by August. Connecticut based Xerox shutting down their Cerritos location, 39 jobs lost by August. Internet slots website Playtika eliminating 111 Santa Monica jobs by August! In Los Angeles, ad agency 72andSunny announced it laid off “2%” of its employees in an attempt to maintain the “long term health” of the company. San Jose based electronic payments company VeriFone Systems reports a surprise decline in revenue and will layoff an undisclosed number of people, blaming it on “difficult market dynamics”. Solar Link eliminating 169 jobs in Ontario by mid-July! L-3 Communications revealed it shutdown its San Carlos operations back in April, 69 jobs lost. Video game maker Disney Interactive revealed they laid off 55 people, back in mid-May. In San Jose, Western Digital issued a mass layoff WARN, 232 jobs gone by July! Network and content control freak Lightspeed Systems issued a layoff WARN for their Bakersfield ops, 80 jobs gone by Xmas. Jacobs Technology issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by mid-August. VSE Corporation issued a layoff WARN, nine Barstow jobs gone by the end of July. Resistor maker Caddock Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for their Riverside ops, 60 jobs gone by mid-August.
Florida: News-Press/Gannett Publishing eliminating 79 jobs in Marco Island and Fort Myers, between July and August. Xerox issued a WARN for their Orlando ops, 95 jobs gone by the end of August. Call center operator Convergys issued a WARN for their AT&T Jacksonville ops, 163 jobs gone by mid-August! Call center operator Vertex issued a WARN, 1-hundred Sarasota jobs gone between August and Xmas! Jacobs Technology issued a WARN, 257 jobs in Fort Walton Beach gone between now and the end of August!
Illinois: Cellular One issued shutdown WARNs for multiple locations, 91 jobs gone by September, no reason was given to state employment administrators. In Vernon Hills, custom computer programer Zebra Tech issued a shutdown WARN, 66 jobs lost by August due to “relocation”. British empire United Kingdom based electronics company Laird Technologies shutting down their Schaumburg factory, eliminated 53 jobs.
Indiana: CTS Electric Components shutting down their Elkhart factory and moving production to Mexico and China. 230 U.S. jobs gone by mid-2018!
Maryland: Missouri based finance and healthcare software maker DST Systems shutdown its Baltimore office. Georgia based payment processor Global Payments shutting down their Owings Mills ops, 334 jobs lost between July 2016 and March 2017! Local news media say administrators refused to say why. Global Payments recently reported big profits, and in 2007 said they would expand their Ownings Mills operations. It might have to do with the $3.8-billion USD spent on taking over rivals!
Massachusetts: Braintree based radio station owner Greater Media eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs across the U.S. In the state of Boston Weak, MassMutual Financial Group laying off at least 1-hundred U.S. citizen InfoTech employees, replacing them with H-1B migrants! Local news media reporting that U.S. citizen employees are being threatened with the loss of their two weeks severance if they go public with the plan to replace U.S. employees with migrants: “It’s like a never-ending funeral.”–unnamed U.S. citizen employee to Computerworld reporter
Minnesota: The Post Bulletin laid off 11 people due to declining advertising revenue.
Missouri: Finance and healthcare software maker DST Systems eliminating 150 jobs in Kansas City! Bankrupt solar panel and windmill maker SunEdison eliminating at least 43 jobs.
New Jersey: VALID USA laid off 144 South Plainfield data center employees!
New York: New York Life Insurance issued multiple WARNs, dozens of in-house InfoTech and Finance jobs being lost to cheap-o contractors. NYC based animator Frederator Networks laid off 15 people, calling it “a fairly typical restructuring”. NYC based internet publisher Gawker Media now chapter 11 bankrupt busted after losing a $140-million USD lawsuit brought against them by Hulk Hogan. In NYC, telecommunications company Charter Communications eliminating at least 36 jobs due to their merger with Time Warner. Computer seller Tekserve shutting down their NYC computer store, 79 jobs gone by mid-September. Connecticut based Xerox in the final stages of shutting down their Webster distribution operation, the remaining 48 employees becoming unemployed in August.
Ohio: In Lockbourne, IntelliSource eliminating 235 jobs by mid-August, apparently due to losing its contract at the Zulily Fulfillment Center.
Oklahoma: Newspaper The Oklahoman shutting down its packaging and printing ops in Oklahoma City, 130 jobs gone by September! The Oklahoman was Oklahoma’s largest newspaper but will now contract out work to rival Tulsa World.
Oregon: Data center Peak Hosting laid off 135 people and declared bankruptcy after losing a major internet video gaming client! It was revealed that last month’s 784 layoffs by computer chip maker Intel were the largest ever mass layoff in Oregon’s history! Local news media says several hundreds more are expected to lose their jobs by the end of the year.

Texas: ‘Tech distributor’ Ingram Micro eliminating 937 jobs in Fort Worth, as part of its $6-billion USD sell-out to Chinese company Tianjin Tianhai-HNA Group! In Austin, former drivers for California based internet companies Uber and Lyft filed multiple lawsuits over their sudden dismissal in May. The sudden halt to Uber and Lyft operations is the result of Austin residents approving a new law requiring Uber and Lyft to conduct background checks on ‘independent’ drivers. Apparently Uber and Lyft didn’t want to comply, so they laid off hundreds (possibly thousands) of people without warning. (Uber has already agreed to settle a lawsuit by 350-thousand drivers in California and Massachusetts who say Uber never reimbursed them for fuel expenses! Lyft is offering to pay California drivers $27-million USD to settle their legal action!) Also in Austin, once praised as one of the “best funded startups” 10 years old Spiceworks announced it must layoff 12% of its hundreds of employees, the CEO would only say “…new efforts and strategies require us to reconsider our own organization…”
Washington: Redmond based Microsoft is buying LinkdIn for $26.2-billion USD, expect mass layoffs.
Seattle based Amazon will invest $3-billion USD in creating new jobs, but not here in the United States, the money is going to India! By the way, that’s on top of the $2-billion Amazon has already pumped into India!
Wisconsin: Texas based InfoTech company Compucom issued a shutdown WARN for its Waukesha operations, at least 16 jobs gone by the end of August.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in May 2016:

Once again, five tech companies are leading the way in corporate cash hoarding: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco Systems and Oracle. For the past several years these very same tech companies have dominated corporate cash hoarding. In 2015 they hoarded a combined total of $504-billion USD, or 30% of the cash available in the U.S. economy. Basic economics courses will tell you that cash hoarding is a major drain on economies, pulling money out of the cash flow system which drives economies. And these are the same tech companies that are killing tens of thousands of jobs!
After three years website The Toast will cease new postings by July. The owners revealed they’ve been discussing shutting it down altogether for the past six months. They also admitted it’s actually difficult to finance such a website.
California: Palo Alto based Jive Software laying off 1-hundred people by the end of June, in an attempt to reach “sustainable profitability.” Mountain View based software company Symantec announced a restructuring plan that will eliminate 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs and shutdown some operations! Data storage contractor Western Digital issued multiple layoff WARNs, 204 jobs gone between June and July! Sacramento based newspaper owner The McClatchy Company off-shoring 150 U.S. InfoTech jobs to India! Xerox laying off 55 people in Riverside, by the end of June. Cisco Systems killed yet more jobs, this time 83 people in San Jose rendered jobless. In San Francisco, Roof Diagnostics Solar and Electric issued a WARN, 48 jobs gone by July. Video game maker Glu Mobile warning of mass layoffs after losing $8.6-million USD during its last quarter.
Connecticut: Roof Diagnostics Solar and Electric issued a shutdown WARN for their Middletown operation, 46 jobs lost by mid-July. Norwalk based internet travel company Priceline warning of bad results for its upcoming quarterly report.

Idaho: The Idaho Technology Council reports that from 2014 to 2015 business investments into The Gem State tripled ($3.47 billion to $16.29 billion)! However, when you break it down by region all the big increases in investments went to the Boise area (aka southern sector of the state), north and east sectors saw little change in investments. And 60% went to the service sector (retail).
Illinois: Chicago based internet loan company Avant laid off 60 people. CEO Al Goldstein admitted the economy sucks: “Our biggest competitor [California based Lending Club] just fell down, and the whole space is at an inflection point.” Chicago based e-coupon company Groupon laid off 30 people as part of their larger plan to eliminate 1-thousand 1-hundred jobs! Sports analytics provider to news media Stats eliminating 50 jobs, on top of the 30 jobs eliminated back in October.
Louisiana: In Baton Rouge, Xerox eliminated 84 data collection jobs with its State & Local Solutions ops.
Maine: Tennessee based Sitel eliminating 120 jobs at its Caribou call center, by mid-July! It’s blamed on lack of contracts.
Maryland: Silver Spring based Discovery Communications warning of impending employee buyouts and mass layoffs, this after the CEO took a 79% pay-cut last year! The job cuts are expected to be finalized by 3rd quarter 2016.
Massachusetts: Boston Weak tech start up Localytics admitted that its recent round of layoffs was an effort to maximize profits in a crashing economy. Boston Weak based electronic payment processor Merchant Customer eXchange (MCX) laid off 30 people and is once again delaying the release of its new payment processing software.
Missouri: Two years after re-entering the home loan market internet based Ditech Financial eliminating 103 jobs by September, as it shuts down its debt collects ops in Earth City!
New Hampshire: Teledyne PCT was sold-off and local news reports say the new owner FTC Circuts plans to shut it down, 80 jobs lost.
New Jersey: NGR Solar announced it is streamlining its home solar division, meaning 5-hundred employees becoming unemployed!
New Mexico: California based Intel accelerating layoffs at its Rio Rancho ops, hundreds of people being laid off by Xmas and the Rio Rancho plant is being shutdown as well! Here’s what Intel said about accelerating layoffs across the world : “The majority of changes will be communicated worldwide over the next 60 days with some actions stretching into 2017, through site consolidations, a combination of voluntary and involuntary departures, reevaluation of projects, and an increased focus on efficiency in a variety of programs. We are not providing further site-specific information at this time.”
New York: NYC based internet auction site Paddle8 laid off at least 16 people as a direct result of their merger with Auctionata. And British empire Canada founded but NYC based Vice News laid off at least 15 digital media employees in California and New York, and began eliminating jobs in Europe. The Wall Street journal reporting that Armonk based IBM is conducting yet another round of massive job cuts in Colorado, New York and North Carolina. Those jobs are being off-shored to Costa Rica and India. Analysts think that when IBM is done killing U.S. jobs, this year, that as many as 14-thousand people could be unemployed! 3D printer maker MakerBot issued a layoff WARN for their Brooklyn location, at least 80 people jobless by mid-July. Roof Diagnostics Solar and Electric issued a shutdown WARN for its Henrietta operations, 38 jobs gone by mid-August. Insurance company New York Life issued a WARN saying 104 InfoTech employees in NYC and Sleepy Hollow will become unemployed by January 2017! The jobs are being “outsourced”. It’s finally been revealed that NYC based EmblemHealth eliminated 250 Information Technology (IT) jobs! They’re switching to a contractor.
North Carolina: Sitel shutting down its Ashville call center, 189 jobs gone starting in July!
Texas: Austin based video game maker Wizard101-KingIsle Entertainment revealed they laid off an undisclosed number of employees, after canceling the release of some new smart phone video games.
Utah: In Salt Lake City, without warning Disney Infinity killed 3-hundred jobs as Disney halted production and design of Star Wars related toys and video games! Disney administrators revealed how bad the future economy still is by saying “…we did not have enough confidence in the business in terms of it being stable enough to stay in it.”
Washington: Redmond based Microsoft laying off 1-thousand 850 cell phone employees worldwide, in direct connection to Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia. (Nokia itself took over Alcatel Lucent and announced that 15-thousand people globally will become unemployed as a result!) And Seattle based Amazon ended its Price Matching Refunds on everything by TVs. Amazon administrators swear they didn’t change their policy, but customers are venting on Reddit: “What pisses me off the most is amazon is pretending like they never did this and if it happened before it was a ‘one time exception.’ I have price adjusted at least 50 times in the last 3 years, so that’s bulls**t if it was just an ‘exception’ this was the policy that amazon had.”
TechCrunch posted conflicting emails it got from Amazon: “If the item is shipped and sold by Amazon we have a 7 days price match from the time of delivery.”-28 April 2016
“With the exception of TVs, Amazon.com doesn’t offer post-purchase adjustments.”-02 May 2016
April 2016: “BLOODBATH”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in April 2016:
Mormon Glen Beck’s ‘news’ network The Blaze warned at least 40 employees across the U.S. that they will lose their jobs. This is at least the second round of layoffs for Glen Beck. Back in February a Daily Beast report basically said former employees accused ‘christian’ Beck of being a backstabber. It’s blamed on crashing ratings and the crashing numbers of people looking at Beck’s websites Glennbeck.com and TheBlaze.com.
Arizona: California based Intel eliminating 560 jobs in Chandler, by the end of May!

California: Insiders are reporting that Apple has laid off all its employee recruiters, more than 1-hundred employees! Recruiting bonuses were also slashed from 40% to only 10%. In Irvine, Sage Software eliminating 26 jobs by the end of June. In San Jose, Western Digital Technology eliminating 71 jobs by mid-June. San Louis Obispo based e-commerce company Kibo (Shopatron) suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people (reports vary from eight to 25), blaming it on Kibo’s merger with two other e-commerce companies. After 57 years La Cañada Flintridge based Sport Chalet announced it is dead! Not only are they shutting down all 67 brick-n-mortar stores across nine states, but they’re halting all internet sales! New York based IBM laying off 109 people at its San Jose ops, by the end of May! In Oakland software maker APN (Ask Partner Network) issued a layoff WARN, 19 employees unemployed by the end of May. Mindspark Interactive Network revealed it too will eliminate jobs. Internet company IAC (InterActiveCorp) issued layoff WARNs for 15 employees, effective at the end of May. In San Francisco, KGO Radio laid off as many as 30 people (almost all its newsroom staff) without warning, employees called it a “bloodbath”. The news came from employees who refused to give their names on account they’ve been threatened with losing their jobs as well. Santa Clara based Intel confirmed it is about to eliminate 12-thousand jobs, blaming it on crashing computer sales!

Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox revealed it eliminated 4-thousand 8-hundred jobs in the first quarter of 2016! Xerox has been slashing jobs since 1991.
Idaho: ‘Christian’ led state Department of Labor making money off its own software by selling its Right to Work Internet Unemployment System (ius) to the states of Iowa and Vermont!
Kansas: In Overland Park, Sprint revealed it eliminated an additional 113 jobs at its HQ!
Missouri: Solar panel and windmill maker SunEdison now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The company was called the fastest growing green energy company in the U.S., but that was because it was using debt to finance its growth, now it can’t pay up.
New York: The company behind those crappy entertainment shows like American Idol, NYC based CORE Media, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Despite years of high ratings the company was not able to pay off massive debts, and now ratings for those BS shows are crashin’-n-burnin’. Iconic New York Times announced it will shutdown its Paris, France, printing ops. On top of that, insiders and union members are reporting that New York Times will eliminate “hundreds” of jobs by November! This comes after the CEO of New York Times saw his income skyrocket to $8.7-million USD last year! Amazon halting its clothing line, 94 MyHabit jobs lost in NYC and Brooklyn, in July. In Staten Island NYC, telecommunications company Midtown Express shutting down, 45 jobs gone in May. NYC based digital news service Mashable Studios announced will begin eliminating jobs because “…to keep our voice consistent across every platform, it’s clear that all our video producers should live on the same team.”
North Carolina: Germany based BASF laying off 190 highly educated employees at its Research Triangle Park ops by the end of Summer! It’s part of BASF’s plans to eliminate 350 local jobs in total! Connecticut based Xerox laying off 139 people at its State Healthcare operation “due to a business decision of a single client”. This might be what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs (REL) as many healthcare providers are drastically cutting back on spending due to ObamaCare.

Oregon: Veritas Software issued a WARN for their Springfield ops, 50 jobs lost by mid-June. California based Intel issued a mass layoff WARN, 784 jobs gone by the end of May! California based software company Symantec resumed mass layoffs at its Springfield operations. Exact numbers were not released.
Texas: in Austin internet based business education service Amazing Academy (amazing.com) laid off 50% of its employees without warning! The news came from the former employees. Dallas based AT&T is now offering poor families internet service for as little as $5 per month! This is because the federal government (FCC Lifeline program) is finally recognizing that there are now more poor people than ever before and that the overwhelming majority of employers now do hiring through the internet only. San Antonio based iHeartMedia warning of bankruptcy due to ongoing lawsuit by creditors. If they lose the lawsuit they could be required to make an immediate payment of $15-billion USD! Arlington based software company Opower laid off 25 U.S. employees as “…part of an effort to cut back on our overall spending….”
Washington: California based Intel shutting down its DuPont location (according to the mayor of DuPont), killing 350 jobs! DuPont Mayor Michael Courts says Intel administrators did not tell him when the plant would shutdown. Connecticut based Xerox issued a layoff WARN for their Kent operations, 98 jobs lost by the end of May.
March 2016: “TO RECEIVE SEVERANCE…EMPLOYEES…SIGN AWAY THEIR RIGHT TO SUE.”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed