“Summer is the time the program has given us to step outside our normal curriculum and experiment to try out new areas of STEM and develop new lessons we can then possibly submit to our national program for youth and other Starbase programs across the nation. Our Starbase staff were really excited about developing this new program and we hope to continue the curriculum into future summer camps and possibly the normal academic year.”-Courtney Taylor, Idaho Starbase director
During the months of June and July, 2022, fewer than 2-hundred 5th grade students in Idaho took part in an Idaho National Guard STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Summer Camp program, called Starbase (STARBASE A Department of Defense Youth Program). It is not the first time, but this year demand for such a program was high enough that the normal one camp was expanded into eight separate camps, and three new unique/specialized programs were tried-out.
The Starbase camp is for children of members of the Idaho state militia. Military based STEM camps began in 2018, under the federal Department of Education’s (DoE) Title 1, however, according to the Idaho National Guard the federal Department of Defense (DoD) is actually providing the funding for the state militia operated STEM camps and after-school programs.
Children of migrant workers learn how to use computers to do facial reconstruction, on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 15JUL2022.
Military based STEM camps are also for children of migrant farm workers, under the federal DoE’s Migrant Education Program. It appears that the DoD’s Starbase STEM camps are exclusively for children of National Guard personnel, and children of migrant workers!
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 28JUN2022.
For June 2022, Idaho’s Starbase introduced three new categories for its Summer camp; identifying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) under the guise of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), Space-Force training under the guise of Mission to Mars, and survival training under the guise of search and rescue. Students were part of other programs such as the Caldwell Migrant Summer School Program, the Idaho Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the Learning Garden Children’s Center in Meridian, and four different regions of the YMCA (Christian organization founded in the United Kingdom, based in Switzerland).
Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 08JUL2022.
For July 2022, Starbase Idaho wrapped-up the season by introducing 3rd through 6th grade students to Idaho Army National Guard armored vehicles.
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Recently in the U.S. state of Idaho, apparently (supposedly) a City of Pocatello council person inquired about the funding for the Pocatello Arts Council. It sounded very much like she was ‘fishing’ for ways to appropriate some of that funding for local government use, not unusual for a city council that has a history of non-transparent, and even non-existent, financial record keeping. There is one major problem; the Pocatello Arts Council is not a government operation, it is a non-governmental organization (NGO) created and funded totally by donations!
On July 21st, Twelfth Night will be performed on The Quad, starting at 18:30 (6:30PM). Then King Lear makes an appearance on July 23rd, same location. Food trucks will be staged, but they are not free, bring money or bring your own food.
On this map The Quad is the area marked as #9.
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes conduct sunrise prayer on ISU’s Quad.
For those wanting more academic information about some guy named Shakespeare, on the 20th of July there is a free lecture (with live sample performances) at the Marshall Public Library, in the Old Town part of Pocatello.
The lecture is held before the theatrical plays take place so you’ll get a better understanding of the mind-set of The Bard.
In October 1991, the Pocatello Arts Council was created by a generous grant from an individual. The council members are not paid a dime, they are volunteering their own time and efforts. While Pocatello Arts Council is a non-taxpayer funded NGO, they do serve as an ‘advisory council’ to the Mayor of Pocatello.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for June 2022:
Long explanation how food crisis is second biggest factor behind price inflation (housing is number one). Food price inflation directly linked to fertilizer shortage caused by sanctions and war, yet as a result fertilizer is being stockpiled (farming ops are buying more than what they need out of fear) which will have a long term effect of fertilizer price drops, reducing food prices:
International food analysts (this leftist-liberal report loves to call them ‘experts’) say the food crisis is actually about “…access to food, that people don’t have money to pay for food, that people are jobless.” It is not about a lack of food (I’ve already posted about migrant farm workers in Idaho that say the same thing):
Indiana National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Tackora Farrington, 15JUN2022.
On 15JUN2022, Walmart conducted their yearly Feed ’em for Freedom food fest, on Camp Atterbury, for state National Guard personnel, and their families. Never mind that taxpayers already pay for the meals of military personnel, Walmart probably gets a tax write-off for providing a free BBQ for them. Is this a covert way for the Department of Defense to save money, by preparing state militia to rely on private sector donations for their meals?
NORTH CAROLINA:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Isaiah Campbell, 29JUN2022.
On 29JUN2022, U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) volunteered to help operate the Unite Way’s Children Healthy Eating on Weekends (CHEW) Center, in Jacksonville.
VIRGINIA: On Fort Lee, the USDA kicked off its 13th annual Feds Feed Families (FFF) campaign. This means that for the past 13 years federal employees are being encouraged to donate food to silly-vilians, I mean civilians who are going hungry. Isn’t that a sign the country’s economy sucks? After all, a federal job is considered the best paying entry level job now, and I remember when being a federal employee meant you got less than private sector minimum wage (because I was one)! The FFF program will be collecting food until September 30th. This year U.S. military officials are blaming the food crisis on The Pandemic, as well as domestic and foreign political intrigues: “The annual Feds Feed Families food drive is one of the best ways for commissaries and military families to give back to the communities which host us around the nation. Unfortunately, with the pandemic and related issues of the last few years, the need is as great as it has been in a long time. The good news is that a little goes a long way.”-Sergeant Major Michael R. Saucedo, U.S. Marine Corps, Director of Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)
Once again, the U.S. Coast Guard captured illegal drugs in the Gulf of Oman, on 31MAY2022 (not reported until 02JUN2022). This time 310 kilograms of heroin.
FLORIDA: On 17JUN2022, the USCG off-loaded 5-thousand-237 pounds of illegal drugs, onto Coast Guard Base Miami Beach. Video by Petty Officer Third Class Vincent Moreno:
Nearing the end of a 55 day patrol. USCG photo by Seaman Brad O’Brien, 30MAY2022.
On 24JUN2022, the USCG Cutter Steadfast (WMEC 623) returned to homeport in Astoria. While out patrolling the Eastern Pacific for the past 55 days, the crew of Steadfast helped Mexican law enforcement, on two occasions, to interdict drug smuggling boats, resulting in the seizure of 2-thousand-747 kilograms of cocaine.
Welcome to borderland hell under the U.S. President, highly incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and links to news/government agency reports for June 2022:
Between 01-07JUN2022, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) called Operation Cross Check. More than 1-hundred illegals were captured (which is nothing compared to the thousands captured during previous year’s Cross Check operations), most have convictions for crimes including, but not limited to, aggravated assault with a gun, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, hit and run, drug trafficking, and child molestation. Operation Cross Check has been conducted yearly since 2011. ICE video by Charles Reed:
The U.S. Coast Guard District 7 PADET captured 23 illegals from Cuba, they were handed over to the Bahamas on 03JUN2022:
USCG District 7 (Air Station Clearwater) video of a boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, approximately 16 miles from Great Inagua, Bahamas, 12JUN2022:
USCG District 8 photo by Petty Officer Third Class Seth Rentz, 24JUN2022.
Somewhere in The Caribbean Sea (for an unknown reason the USCG did not want to give an exact location), the USCG surrounds a boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, 24JUN2022.
25JUN2022, immigrant posts video of passage into Canada via the United States:
Illegals boarding the Navy of the Dominican Republic patrol boat Aldebarán. USCG District 7 PADET photo, 26JUN2022.
On 26JUN2022, the USCG handed over 11 illegals to the Navy of the Dominican Republic, near Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
On 28JUN2022, for some reason the President of Mexico felt he had to issue an apology regarding the mass-murder of illegals, by Mexican human smugglers, in a truck in Texas:
ARIZONA:
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol photo by Jerry Glaser, 07JUN2022.
U.S. taxpayers are now being raped to fund heat stress ‘Go-Bag’ kits being handed out to illegals in Arizona’s Tucson Sector! It is part of a 90 days study to make Border Patrol’s mission more ‘humanitarian’, eventually the Go-Bags will be issued across the U.S. southern land border.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol reports 2-thousand-1-hundred-and-92 ‘rescues’ in the month of May! On 09JUN2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) issued a warning to illegals. The warning was about Mother Nature, and a 90 day ‘scale-up’ of border patrol operations, also, new taxpayer funded heat survival kits will be used to ‘rescue’ illegals. Video was edited for time reasons:
On 10JUN2022, citizens (what the USCG calls ‘good Samaritans’) reported a homemade boat (what the USCG calls a “rustic vessel”) about 7 miles south of Key West. The USCG says the illegals onboard are from Cuba, and claims they were returned on 14JUN2022.
Between 01JUN2022 and 12JUN2022, the USCG District 7 reported capturing at least 52 illegals from Cuba, who were using various forms of rustic vessels. The USCG claims they were returned on 14JUN2022.
USCG District 7 photo, 12JUN2022.
On 12JUN2022, ‘good Samaritans’ reported an obvious illegal’s boat, 13 miles south of Marquesas Key. The USCG says the illegals are from Cuba, and claims they were returned on 17JUN2022.
USCG District 7 photo, 17JUN2022.
A good Samaritan reported a rustic vessel filled with people, on 17JUN2022. The USCG captured the boat about 22 miles south of Big Pine Key. The illegals from Cuba were sent back home on 19JUN2022, along with other captured Cubans totaling 45.
USCG District 7 PADET Jacksonville photo, 23JUN2022.
On 20JUN2022, the USCG captured yet more illegals from Cuba, about 68 miles south of Key West. The USCG photo purports to show the return of 89 illegals to Cuba, on 23JUN2022.
Photo by crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joshua Applebly, 25JUN2022.
On 25JUN2022, the USCG captured this rustic vessel about five miles south of Marquesas Key. The illegals were returned to Cuba, on 27JUN2022, as part of a larger group of 106!
Coast Guard Station Islamorada video of USCG and CBP interception of a boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, about 40 miles southeast of Islamorada, 25JUN2022. The USCG claims 98 illegals were returned to Haiti on 29JUN2022:
MICHIGAN: 29JUN2022, Fox 2
Detroit shows you the problems of patrolling the border with Canada; weapons & human smuggling, CBP operations along Mexican border distracts from problems along Canadian border. CBP says “It’s not just a mom and a pop….trying to come across….it’s organized.”:
PUERTO RICO:
USCG District 7 PADET photo, 17JUN2022.
The USCG says this boat was filled with 56 illegals from Dominican Republic, they were captured near Mona Island, 17JUN2022, and handed over to the Navy of the Dominican Republic the next day.
Photo by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Doyle, 27JUN2022.
58 illegals from Dominican Republic and Haiti were captured near Desecheo Island, 27JUN2022. They were returned to the Dominican Republic the next day.
TEXAS:
USCG District 8 photo, courtesy Tim Oberle, 07JUN2022.
In Houston, on 07JUN2022, Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston, Homeland Security Investigations Houston (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Houston and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Houston established a new Joint Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center to support Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.
On 09JUN2022, USCG-Air Station Corpus Christi videoed Mexicans illegally fishing in U.S. water. A total of two illegal fishing boats, and six people, from Mexico were captured:
On 15JUN2022, El Paso Sector Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent in Charge Gloria Chavez joined with Mexican Consul General in El Paso Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon, to issue a warning to anybody trying to cross from Mexico into the United States. Video by Greg L. Davis:
Incomplete list of the latest news media links and scientific information regarding the continuing spread of rabies, as of 21JUN2022.
Rabies is caused by a type of Lyssavirus and is spread through scratches, bites and even exposure to saliva. Infected animals, including humans, can spread rabies even before symptoms occur.
TURKEY: On Incirlik Air Base, U.S. Army Veterinarian Captain Alicia Bailey explains the different symptoms of rabies. This is a result of increased cases of (“possible”) rabies during The Pandemic in 2020-21. U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sergeant Pedro Tenorio, 01DEC2021:
UNITED STATES:
70% of human rabies originated from bats in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (aka CDC). But even horses can get rabies.
Minnesota Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Mahsima Alkamooneh, 08MAY2022.
In May 2022, Minnesota Army National Guard medics administered rabies shots to people’s pets in Alaska, during operation Arctic Care 2022.
In October 2021, the Vermont Air National Guard announced they will work with the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Rabies Management Program, by dropping vaccine laced food (“bait”) from aircraft in wildlife areas: “This research aims to improve Oral Rabies Vaccination strategies in urban areas to be more effective in reaching the NRMP’s goals of preventing the spread of and eliminating the raccoon rabies variant.”-Fred Pogmore, USDA’s Wildlife Service
“Families, employers, and citizens of Idaho, Montana and Oregon should be extremely proud and reassured that their Soldiers are motivated, well trained, and ready to represent their communities and the United States in a combat zone.”-Major Sam McDowell, commander of 2nd of the 116th Combined Arms Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team
Sniper training. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 10MAY2022.
‘Shoot house’ training. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 13MAY2022.
In May 2022, National Guard personnel from Idaho, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina continued their ‘extended training’ (since March) for deployment to Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in just a few months, for the ongoing Operation Spartan Shield.
Idaho’s M1064 (M113 mortar carrier). Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 17MAY2022.
Launching 120mm mortar rounds. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 17MAY2022.
They have been assigned the official moniker of Task Force Rattler. They will be relieving Task Force Griz, another National Guard unit consisting of personnel from Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Oregon (which deployed at the end of 2021). It looks very much like the Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team is stuck in a deployment loop.
So-called final Task Force Griz video report, by Sergeant Nicholas Ramshaw, 22MAY2022. Notice the Snake River Brigade patches:
Swedish made AT4 rocket launcher. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 12MAY2022.
“Back-blast area clear!” Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez, 12MAY2022.
The 12 months deployment of Task Force Rattler (2nd of the 116th Combined Arms Battalion) will start with a short stop on Fort Bliss, Texas, for final deployment training, then on to Kuwait.
Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant William Cowley, 11JUN2022.
At the beginning of June2022, and while many Idaho National Guard personnel are still deployed/deploying overseas, as well as to other locations within the United States, about 2-thousand National Guard artillery personnel from California, Iowa, North Carolina, Utah, and an Army Reserve unit from Texas (2-364 Training Support Battalion ), as well as Active Army ‘gods’ (Observer, Coach, Trainers aka OCTs from 189th Infantry Brigade) from Washington, invaded Southwestern Idaho!
Pulling the lanyard of an M109A6. Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant William Cowley, 11JUN2022.
Utah National Guard’s 65th Field Artillery Brigade led the charge, blasting Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center (formerly Orchard Training Area) with its artillery guns. Orchard Combat Training Center is 18 miles south of Boise.
Utah suffered some casualties. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Scott Evans, 07JUN2022.
Utah Army National Guard’s 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 211 Aviation Regiment, provided air transport. Video by Sergeant Alejandro Lucero, 05JUN2022:
A ‘flat’ of 155mm ammo is off-loaded. Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant James Bunn, 10JUN2022.
California’s 340th Brigade Support Battalion helped supply the 155mm ammo for the guns of Utah’s M109A6 Paladins.
Moment of launch. Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant William Cowley, 11JUN2022.
Video of some M109A6 Paladin action, by Sergeant Alejandro Lucero:
North Carolina Army National Guard sent in their 13F FiST-ers (Fire Support Team, artillery forward observers) to help guide Utah’s artillery fire: “Our motto is ‘the eyes of the battlefield,’ we observe everything including mortars, artillery, fixed and rotary winged aircraft, and even naval gunfire.”-Corporal Joshua Morris, 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, North Carolina Army National Guard
‘My’ M981 FiSTV (artillery forward observer M113), on Idaho’s Orchard Training Area (now called Orchard Combat Training Center), Summer 1997.
Been there done that, in the late 1990s.
FiST-ers board UH-60 Black Hawks, Utah Army National Guard video by Sergeant Alejandro Lucero, 09JUN2022:
But the North Carolina Army National Guard’s 5th Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment also brought their artillery rocket system called HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System).
HIMARS launcher tubes get sling-loaded by UH-60 Black Hawk. Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Rebecca Call, 13JUN2022.
An M142 HIMARS moves into launching position. Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Rebecca Call, 13JUN2022.
HIMARS launch. Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alejandro Lucero, 06JUN2022.
Utah Army National Guard video by Sergeant Alejandro Lucero, showing North Carolina’s HIMARS in action, 06JUN2022:
Utah SF soldier launches a rocket out of the AT4. Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 13JUN2022.
Utah Army National Guard also sent in their Special Forces unit, the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne). Here’s a dramatic music promo-video by Staff Sergeant Jordan Hack, 11JUN2022:
An 81mm round is launched out of the M252 mortar. Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 12JUN2022.
Iowa Army National Guard deployed their 734th Regional Support Group and 883rd Engineer Company. Here is video of some fun explosions brought to you by the 883rd Engineer Company, video by Sergeant Alejandro Lucero, 10JUN2022:
Iowa National Guard personnel also had fun with the M2HB, Utah Army National Guard video by Sergeant Ariel Solomon, 05JUN2022:
Emergency, emergency! Tactical Toilet system on it’s way, just hold it in a little longer! Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jordan Hack, 11JUN2022.
Western Strike 22 also included the successful deployment of tactical toilets (I assume).
You can’t camp on the OCTC without your Tactical Toilet. Utah Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Ariel Solomon, 05JUN2022.
Idaho’s OCTC actually sits on federal Bureau of Land Management (the real BLM) property, which strictly enforces rules about when, where and what you can or cannot do….doo.
Arty rounds impact Idaho’s OCTC. Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Jordan Hack, 11JUN2022.
This year’s artillery wargame ended on 16JUN2022. Just short of 3-thousand rounds were fired during 14 days: “The Idaho National Guard and Orchard Combat Training Center have been great hosts, allowing us to take full advantage of the training facilities.”-Colonel Shawn Fuellenbach, brigade commander, 65th Field Artillery Brigade, Utah Army National Guard
Night shot…..out! Utah Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Ariel J. Solomon, 10JUN2022.
On 05JUN2022, twenty-five Idaho Air National Guard Airman arrived on Cherokee Nation, in Oklahoma. Idaho’s 124th Civil Engineer Squadron was one of several National Guard and active military units, as well as the U.S. Public Health Service, deployed to build homes for the Cherokee Veterans Housing Initiative.
The deployment is considered an Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) mission lasting two weeks. IRTs are the federal government’s way of ‘giving back’ to the taxpaying community (like the Appalachian Care IRT, Alabama Wellness IRT, Operation Empower Health Greater Savannah).
Traditional home buyers, families wanting to have a place of their own, have been overwhelmingly outbid by Limited Liability Companies (LLC), speculators and even criminal money launderers, for at least a decade. It is these profit seeking/money laundering operations that have driven-up housing costs, not traditional market forces. It seems that local, state and federal politicians are fine with that. Especially local politicians because a top source of tax & fee revenues for local governments is real estate.
U.S. tax schemes benefit LLCs:
Traditional investors, like Warren Buffet, do not like the idea of putting their money into real estate, yet there is a new game in town involving LLCs that are buying-up homes across the U.S., turning those homes into high dollar rentals:
Using U.S. real estate is so prolific that a company called CRES Real Estate Errors and Omissions Insurance has published a guide explaining how to identify and report real estate transactions that are possibly foreign money laundering schemes.
It is not just the U.S. that is suffering Housing Hooliganism, Canada news outlet Global News shows you the detailed global money laundering web created by organized criminals from Communist China, who are snatching up homes in British Colombia:
IDAHO JOINS ISRAEL IN NEW GLOBAL CYBER DOMINANCE OPERATION?
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