Category Archives: Idaho

Vehicle I-D 2018: Idaho A-10C ‘dissimilar’

In July 2018, Idaho was the site of U.S. Air Force ‘dissimilar’ air combat training hosted by Mountain Home Air Force Base.

Louisiana Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Dane M. St. Pe, 18JUL2018.

Air National Guard units from Indiana (A-10Cs) and Louisiana (F-15Cs), and the Idaho National Guard’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2s, took part and were all based on Gowen Field (part of the Boise airport).

Indiana Air Guard ‘Blacksnakes’ A-10Cs mingle with Idaho A-10Cs on Gowen Field. Louisiana F-15Cs in the background. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.

IDAHO PRIDE A-10C NOSE ART

 

“a big risk.”: Sears – Kmart death spiral, August 2018

Forbes: Inside Sears Hometown Stores’ War With Its Local Entrepreneurs

WRAL: Sears struggling with customer service complaints

Fox Business: Sears’ pension liabilities may be a thorn in Kenmore sale

CNNMoney: Eddie Lampert offers to buy Kenmore for $400-million

TCPAland: Sears Misses out on Millions in TCPA Settlement Funds

Wall Street Journal: Sears Franchise Owners Get Caught in Retailer’s Woes

24/7 Wall St: How Sears Is Branching Out in E-Commerce

New York Business Journal: In the ‘Blink’ of an eye, your local Sears is now a gym

ARIZONA:  Flagstaff Mall Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

CALIFORNIA: 64 employees of the Clovis Kmart arrived at work only to find out they’re being shutdown, the only thing local news media was told was that the Kmart would shutdown in time for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.  It’s been revealed that the still active Manchester Center Sears store, in Fresno, has leased out half its active space to an unnamed retailer, who will occupy the north half of the building by Summer 2019.  The real estate agency handling the deal also revealed that active Sears store downsizing efforts are taking place with the Sequoia Mall, in Visalia, and at the Merced Mall.  All stores are owned by Sears Holdings’ REIT spin-off (and Warren Buffett funded) Seritage Growth Properties.  Spring Valley Kmart, Antioch Kmart and Los Angeles Kmart (on West 3rd) all  shutting down by Thanksgiving, 152 jobs killed according to WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice)! Capitola Mall Sears store in Santa Cruz shutting down by Thanksgiving.

COLORADO: Grand Junction Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

CONNECTICUT: Milford Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

DELAWARE: Newark Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

FLORIDA: University Square Mall Sears, the Doral-Miami Sears store and Auto Center (86 jobs gone by Thanksgiving) and the Naples Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.   Neptune Beach leaders shoot down controversial redevelopment plans for vacant Kmart

GEORGIA: Sears stores and Auto Centers in Savannah (Oglethorpe Mall), Atlanta (Cumberland Mall) and Brunswick shutting down by Thanksgiving.

IDAHO: The Sears Hometown Store in Moscow is for sale, a very incomplete local news report gave no details.

ILLINOIS: Steger Kmart and Bloomington Sears and Auto Center (East Empire Street) shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The 16 years vacant Lake Zurich Kmart is being torn down by the property owner, under threat of a taxpayer funded court order.  The Kmart property owner apparently promised to redevelop the property in 2017, claiming it would turn it into a massive apartment/retail shops complex. The city is demanding construction on the massive complex must start by March 2019.

Chicago Tribune: Stanley, Sears to have competing Craftsman tool brands

INDIANA: On Coldwater Road the Fort Wayne Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.   After five years the Anderson Sears Hometown Store shutting down, the owner saying “I have just reached a point being here for five years and asking for another five years, that’s a big risk.” 

KENTUCKY: Florence Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.

LOUISIANA: Hammond Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The still active Clearview Shopping Center Sears store and Auto Center, in New Orleans, was just purchased by the family owners of the mall. The Sears store will supposedly continue operating, but will be reduced in size as most of the 14 acre Sears space will be carved up into smaller retail shops.

MARYLAND: The Westfield Montgomery Sears store, in Bethesda, shutting down in March 2019.  The store was bought by the mall owner last year, for $105-million USD, their plan is to tear it down and replace it with a multitude of smaller brick-n-mortar shops.

MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke and Taunton Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

MICHIGAN: Jackson Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

MISSISSIPPI: Columbus Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

MISSOURI: Cape Girardeau Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

NORTH CAROLINA: Raleigh-Crabtree Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Salem and Manchester Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

NEW JERSEY: Mays Landing Sears store and Auto Center shutting down, 63 jobs gone by Thanksgiving.

NEW YORK:  Riverhead Kmart, as well as Queensbury-Glens Falls, New Hyde Park and Victor Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

OHIO: Dayton and Cincinnati-Northgate Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The 23 years old Chillicothe Kmart/Little Caesar’s Pizza shutting down by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, local news media said they were alerted to the shutdown when customers were being told that layaways were halted.  It was also discovered that the Kmart property had been sold at the end of July to Rural King Realty for $4.7-million USD.

OREGON: Happy Valley-Portland Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

PENNSYLVANIA: Store closing signs confirmed that the McMurray Kmart is shutting down in October, employees were told last month, but also were told not to tell anybody.  After more than 20 years, the Pine Township Sears Hometown Store shutdown at the end of July, no reason was given.

TENNESSEE: The taxpayers of Clarksville being forced to give a property developer a tax abatement incentive (amount undisclosed at this time) to redevelop property that has a vacant Kmart on it.  The developer is promising that 427 new jobs will be created.

TEXAS: Houston-Memorial and College Station-Bryan Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

UTAH: West Jordan Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.

VIRGINIA: Fairfax Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.

WASHINGTON: Vancouver Mall Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The Sears Hometown Store in Toppenish suddenly shutdown, the owners said they couldn’t renew the lease and will focus on their stores in Sunnyside, and in Hood River (Oregon).

WEST VIRGINIA: Scott Depot Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.  Kmart used flooding as excuse to layoff employees at Crossings Mall in Elkview, according to lawsuit.

WISCONSIN: Eau Claire and La Crosse (Valley View Mall) Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The five years old Appleton (Grand Chute) Sears Outlet store shutdown on the 19th, the owner didn’t say why, only that he was consolidating the remaining inventory to his new store in Germantown.

WYOMING: Gillette Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

Sears-Kmart death spiral, July 2018: “THIS WAS THE SLOWEST ICEBERG HIT.”

‘The Dream Market’: Drugs, the American Way, June 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of June 2018.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

Trump proves he’s a Great Reneger by commuting sentence for Kardashian-backed drug offender.

Associated Press: British empire Canada drug smuggler used helicopter to fly marijuana into Washington and Idaho, then pick-up cocaine from California.

CBS News: Ex-DEA agent says Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and taxpayer funded Congress

CNN: Cocaine and heroin supplies hit ‘record highs’ globally

National Geographic: Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine

Center For American Progress: Ending the War on Drugs

Vox: Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for U.S.

Los Angeles Times: Mexico sent in the army to fight the drug war

New York Times: Drug Dealers Targeted in nation wide Sweep of Illicit Online Marketplaces

Forbes: Drug Use Rankings Show Big Surprises And Even Bigger Problems

ESPN: NBA player high on drugs when he killed himself and his wife in car crash

Science News: narcolepsy may play a role in opioid addiction

New study says Superbug infections rising among injection drug users

ALABAMA: Heroin, cocaine, illegal guns, silencers, $16k seized

37-year-old Chilton County drug dealer gets life in federal prison

Mobile Police raids capture drugs, illegal guns, 7 suspects

Opelika Police find 4 pounds of drugs

Rise in major crimes taxing on Florence Police

“Pieces of meth all through that house.”Monroe County 10 people drug busted

Trio accused of shooting man in retaliation for theft of cash, meth

2 women charged with using illegal drugs while pregnant

A judge dismissed drug charges against 55 people and recalled 20 arrest warrants supposedly because of the incompetence of the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office!

ALASKA: The state Department of Public Safety released drug seizure statistics from March through May.

Troopers now posting monthly drug seizure data

10 years in prison for meth, heroin distributor

Attorney accused of slipping drugs to prisoners

Anchorage police arrest dozens in ‘Operation Midnight Sun’

ARIZONA: CBP Arrest 3 Foreign Women for Drug Smuggling across the U.S./Mexican border

CBP arrests Tucson woman for trying to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S.

CBP arrests foreign man for smuggling meth and heroin from Mexico

Naked Man killed by federal officer tested negative for drugs

Arizona seeing increase in DUI drug arrests

$2.5-million of meth confiscated during traffic stop

Former registered nurse accused of stealing narcotics

Yavapai County Attorney’s Office gets $5-thousand state taxpayer dollars to attend state drug summit

Large number of work-release prisoners test positive for dangerous drugs

Man with ankle monitor caught transporting drugs in Phoenix

CVS creates unwanted drugs drop-off sites

Man arrested after calling police to have his illegal drugs tested

Hashish Not Included in Medical Marijuana Law

ARKANSAS: Raids in Hope yield cars, drugs

Central Arkansas drug court a disaster

Ex-judge called on to scrutinize central Arkansas drug court 

Arrested men face federal drug charges

Caregiver arrested, faces drug charges after abandoning her patient

37 pounds (16.7 kilos) of pot outside west Little Rock

Ex-Bryant school employee arrested in drug-fraud case

Drug fund tapped by bribed lawmakers

drug bust at tire shop

COLORADO: 6 Questions About Colorado’s Interest In Suing Opioid Drug Makers

El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy facing felony drug charges

El Paso County sees increase in drug deaths

El Paso County won’t join federal opioid lawsuit

Pikes Peak Library district arms itself against overdoses

Operation Dry Water 

CONNECTICUT: Drug deal leads to shooting

13 people arrested for drug trafficking in Hartford

Ellington prison, I mean High School locked down for drugs 

Mystery heroin overdoses in Waterbury

K9 uncovers cocaine during Bristol traffic stop

2 men arrested after 160 bags of heroin found in car

Drug factory shut down in Bridgeport

Nursing home Director Caught Stealing Patient’s Drugs

Cell phone crime leads to drug arrest

Artists install drug spoon sculpture outside pharmaceutical headquarters

Connecticut’s New Drug Pricing Law 

DELAWARE: Prescription Drug Assistance Program Restored

1,306 Heroin Bags found in Laurel

Investigation yields vast amount of drugs

Visitor to Smyrna prison arrested on drug possession charges

Woman sold Rx drugs

Dover police nab fugitive; hotel room yields crack, heroin, ecstasy

Woman Found With 65 Bags of Heroin

Semi-truck driver puller over for not using headlights at night, police find heroin, crack cocaine, various drug paraphernalia, and cash.

FLORIDA: Ex-NFL player arrested on drug charge

A French citizen pled guilty to Oxymonster (Oxycodone and Ritalin) trafficking through the ‘dark web’ site known as the Dream Market.

$2-million USD worth of marijuana  captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.

5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port  Everglades.

Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government.  The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed.  Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.

As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!

IDAHO: Convicted of the Iran-Contra conspiracy (which included cocaine dealing) USMC Colonel Oliver North gave speech at GOP convention at Idaho State University.
 ILLINOIS:  K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in Chicago    Video, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:

Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:

INDIANA: He Sold Drugs for $225. Indiana Took His $42000 Land Rover.

6 arrested after drugs, explosives found

1 current Indiana University football player, 1 former player arrested for drugs

4 prison officers sickened by suspected drug fumes at Indiana jail

Indiana and Kansas troopers make interstate drug bust

Police Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative says using drugs to stop using drugs works good

mother of prisoner charged with trafficking drugs

Police find drugs in mom’s diaper bag

IOWA: man sentenced in mail-order drug case that killed woman

Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic

Police screw up?  Without explanation charges of meth possession were suddenly dropped against a man pulled over for an expired registration, Worth County Attorney’s Office would only say “it was in the interest of justice.”  

Drug bust at Viking Lake State Park

KANSAS: Walgreens opens Safe Drug Disposal kiosks in Wichita

KENTUCKY: How a McDonald’s receipt revealed a celebrated Louisville cop was really a drugs criminal!  (I wonder how many innocent people are in prison because of this guy?)

LOUISIANA: California-based drug ring ran drugs into New Orleans, involved “corrupted agents, subcontractors and employees” and threatened the safety of airline passengers.

“Operation Meltdown” results in 26 arrests in Bienville Parish

Man freed from drug-related life sentence immediately rearrested

Former U.S. attorney/New Orleans DA accused of supplying drugs to prisoner

Prescription drugs in Louisiana are exempted from state sales tax, but new legal medical marijuana will be taxed!

MAINE: Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) stopping people in Maine and New Hampshire, make at least nine drug busts and arrest two illegal immigrants.

Family Loses Second Son In Less Than A Year To Drug Addiction

Report shows drug deaths remain high and fentanyl on the rise

Attempted overdose leads to large drug bust

police dog credited with finding 120+ grams of cocaine

Drug treatment for drug addiction?

Drug convicts Still Face Lifetime Ban from SNAP (food stamps) even after completing their prison/probation time, end up back in prison for stealing food!

MARYLAND: Raids of four homes in Hagerstown led to drugs and 11 arrests

Drug addiction treatment one key to revitalizing Hagerstown

Freddie Gray’s sister gets probation for bringing drugs into prison

Maryland Prisons Reverse Policy after failed attempt to stop drug smuggling

man and woman found guilty in heroin O-D death

MASSACHUSETTS: Drug Busts In Lawrence Net Huge Score

More dying from overdoses of fentanyl-laced cocaine

Brockton Gang Unit detectives witness drug deal

100 overdoses, 25 dead, in Fall River

‘Targeted acts of violence’ in Fall River

Drug Overdose Uptick In Waltham

Worcester County emerging as marijuana central

Mother Charged With Drugged Driving in Crash That Injured Her 2 Kids

Drugmaker Eisai to close Andover research site, lay off employees

MICHIGANDemocrats introduce plan to repeal drug liability law

Michigan ranked fourth in nation for drug problems

alcohol still No. 1 addictive drug

Michigan is hiring prison contractor known for smuggling drugs to prisoners!

Female Detroit doctor has license suspended for over-prescribing drugs

Libraries now the front lines of Michigan’s opioid war

Mail-order pharmacy system delays meds for some patients

MINNESOTA: Fentanyl in Minnesota

Mexican drug cartel ‘flooded our market’ with meth

police to stop arresting people for selling small amounts of marijuana

Minneapolis police ordered EMTs to inject suspects with rape drug, secret ‘official policy’ changed after being caught!

MISSISSIPPI:  ‘Operation High Life’

Operation Shark Tank

Federal judge shuts down Delta Pharma for distributing dangerous drugs

woman charged with prescription fraud

multi-million dollar pharmacy fraud scheme

MISSOURI: Man accused of deadly shooting over prescription drugs

Twenty-two indicted in undercover Boonville drug bust

Opioid-related deaths in Missouri grow

MONTANA:  Already record number of meth labs shutdown, so far this year!

Blackfeet Tribe bans convicted drug dealer from reservation

Fort Peck Indian Reservation fatal heroin overdoses

Drugs possible motive in Missoula shooting

Saint Ignatius School Board unanimously voided the contract with school bus contractor, after the owner was charged with smoking meth on buses.

Former Billings police clerk accused of stealing drugs from evidence locker

NEBRASKA: Drug use has gotten so outta hand in the predominantly ‘christian’ plain states that the U.S. DEA has opened a new Division Office in Omaha. Agents operating out of the office will cover Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

NEVADA: Our Big Pot Feature

20 charged in Reno drug trafficking and gun case

Nevada’s First Report on Compensation & Samples Distributed by Pharmaceutical Sales

13 arrested in FBI probe of meth trafficking

NEW HAMPSHIRE:   2017 was deadliest year for overdoses

Will Soon Have Millions More tax-dollars to Fight the Opioid Crisis. But Where Will it really Go?

Opioids cause 21% increase in child abuse

NEW JERSEY: 70 pounds (31.7 kilos) of drugs seized 

Drug dealers still a problem despite 12 arrests

Massive Amounts Of Heroin, 10,000 bags moved per week, In Monmouth County

election worker accused of being on heroin

Ocean County cop stole cocaine, gets 3 years

meth deal in parking lot of Buffalo Wild Wings

NEW MEXICO:  Smuggling is a growing border problem

Over $1 million in heroin, cocaine found in wrecked car at immigration checkpoint

Drug addicts killing innocent victims caught on home video

Seizures of deadly fentanyl soaring

Almost 40% of women in prison are there because of drugs

NEW YORK: County prisoners charged with smuggling drugs

Nassau police officers arrested in drug probe

11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini

Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Mexican Meth+California+U.S. Postal Service+New York=Operation Meltdown

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 100 arrested in Johnston County drug bust

Dozens arrested in WPD drug round-up

Police officer charged with drug possession

city councilman arrested in drug bust keeps his taxpayer funded job

College football signee arrested on drug charges

NORTH DAKOTA: Police incinerate pounds of drugs after big busts“We’re getting better at it.”-Leutenant Troy Hischer, North Dakota Highway Patrol

Drug arrests increase

Now former deputy fails drug test, again!

Major traffic stop ganja bust unusable as evidence because of incompetent deputy, who claimed his only reason for being suspicious of the driver was that he was driving 2-mph under the speed limit, which is not a crime!

OHIO: Fentanyl seized in local drug bust called enough to kill millions

Feds bust 25 people

Record Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in Cuyahoga County

Officers arrest 22 during Warren drug sweep

Cocaine worth $3.4 million seized 

‘Haunted Farm’ turns out to be Mexican run meth house.

Columbus health department giving heroin users fentanyl test strips 

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Users Can’t Possess Guns

Prisoner pleads guilty to running drug operation from prison

Investigators trying to figure out how prisoner got drugs

Claremore doctor indicted for drug distribution 

New trend; cattle rustling for drugs!

OREGON: Task Force Arrests Suspect in Southern Oregon Drug Trafficking

55 people arrested in downtown Portland

Angry taxpayers forced to save known drug house from foreclosure!

Rogue Area Drug Enforcement (RADE) finds heroin and meth in local park

Employers warning they’ve run-out of employees who can pass a drug test!

PENNSYLVANIAMom, Son Accused of Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine, Fentanyl & Marijuana

Retailers experiment with blue colored lights to Prevent heroin Use in store toilet rooms.

Study reveals that Pennsylvania coroners are not able to identify drugs used in O-D deaths!  Which explains why Pennsylvania led the U.S. in unreported opioid deaths!

The opioid overdose crisis is hitting all of Philadelphia

RHODE ISLAND:  $1M worth of fentanyl seized in drug bust, 3 people arrested including a man from Dominican Republic

Pawtucket police seize $100K in marijuana

Drugs to be used to treat alcohol addiction?

‘Kristen’s Law’

SOUTH CAROLINA: Police continue illegal ‘no knock’ home invasions!

Prisoner caught running ‘multi-stage’ drug trafficking op from state prison.

Pile of powerful pills found on the street

man tricked into life in prison for nonviolent drug crime

Officers stopping for water make unexpected drug bust

Cop with six years on the job resigns after failing drug test

SOUTH DAKOTA: Fentanyl hits South Dakota with deadly force

A now ex-cop blames his meth use on the U.S. Army’s anti-malaria vaccine!

8 pounds of heroin, 2 pounds of fentanyl in traffic stop

TENNESSEE: Metro Schools teacher arrested for meth use

Meth Remains A Big Problem

Nineteen accused in Claiborne County

Man Accused Of Selling Drugs While pushing baby In Stroller

Heroin Overdoses Increase

Big expensive camping RVs used to traffic drugs from Oregon to Tennessee.

TEXAS:  Taxpayer funded immigrant prison contractor accused of injecting children with date rape drug!

20 charged in West Texas drug conspiracy

Alabama man arrested with nearly 5 pounds of meth

Corpus Christi store owner pleads guilty to ‘cutting’ diet supplements with “unapproved foreign drugs”.

‘Affluenza Mom’ Fails Drug Test

The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? OBAMA!

UTAH: meth hidden in package of ‘snacks’

Emery County, 11 arrests

True reason why marijuana is illegal in Utah: Mormon Church’s Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Investment

Woman attempts to drug husband because she “didn’t want to deal with him”.

VERMONT: 25 arrested in Washington County 

Act 86 Will Not Change Vermont National Guard Drug Policy

Despite legalized marijuana employees can still be fired for using it

VIRGINIA:  National Guard soldier high on drugs steals armored personnel carrier.

Police push confidential informant program as drug offenses jump 42%

Operation Purge, 11 arrests

WASHINGTON: Seattle based Amazon jumps into drug business with PillPack acquisition

Seattle officials propose mobile safe injection site

Spokane dentist indicted on federal drug charges

  Authorities arrest about three dozen in Western Washington drug busts

The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.

Washington DC:  The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.

FDA approves first cannabis-based drug

Government issues warning about Nuetexta pushed on the elderly by pharmaceutical company

WEST VIRGINIA: Feds indict 31 

21 arrested in multi-agency drug sweep in Wayne County

Taxpayers turning apartments into drug treatment centers for women under Project Hope for Women and Children (this proves there is no hope for men?)

WISCONSIN:  International drug deal in Door County

meth use grows in Wisconsin, DOJ warns of “Altered State”

Older adults overlooked in opioid abuse epidemic

Wawautosa nurse practitioner indicted in major federal drug take down

Trucker was on drugs before crashing into school bus

High school students caught giving sex drugs to classmates, school officials criticized for lack of disciplinary action.

WYOMING:  Deadly drug found in Casper

Casper Police discover local families with small children are packing into motel rooms so the parents can do drugs!

Entire family accused of dealing meth

drug treatment gaps drive Wyoming’s prison problem

Wyoming man caught trying to traffic meth from Mexico

Female prisoners used vaginas to traffic meth inside county jail

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: U.S. Air Force says “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”

SUMERIAN LAMENT: HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

THE NEW GREAT OPIUM WAR: MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! (thanks to United States?)

2012: Occupation of Afghanistan designed to raise the price of opioids

“Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches”: U.S. christian rapture, May 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. Christian shutdowns, layoffs and Rapture oddities for the Gregorian (western christian calendar) month of May 2018.

ALABAMA: The New Era Baptist Church posted a sign reading Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches”.

ALASKA: Muslim prisoners accuse taxpayer funded ‘christian’ state prison guards of starving them to death, christians admit it’s a misunderstanding about Ramadan/Islam.  The lawsuit says not only are the long sunny days of Alaska making it hard to fast, but the prison does not give them enough food after dusk, mainly because the food includes domesticated pig meat which Muslims don’t eat.  (I’ve lived in Iran and they can and do eat wild boar, it’s the domesticated pigs that’re banned)

ARIZONA: Christians have taken over the taxpayer funded public school system and removed references to evolution, causing one high school biology teacher to quit in protest: “I was directed to make changes to adjust the wording to ‘evolution’. That was coming from levels above me, I believe, from the superintendent’s office. I turned in my resignation and said, ‘I will not be part of this.’”-Lacey Wieser

God Ministries church mysteriously collapses

ARKANSAS: Despite having an ankle monitor, parolee manages to break into five churches, stealing musical instruments.

Non-profit group lobbies state politicians to save churches.

CALIFORNIA: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Notre Dame de Namur University from eliminating more programs and five teaching jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  Frederick K.C. Price III Christian Schools issued a shutdown WARN for a school in Los Angeles, 46 jobs gone by the end of June.  Too Big to Jail Catholic founded Bank of America eliminating 575 jobs in Pasadena in 2019, due to the Too Big to Jail bank not wanting to renew the lease on the property!  Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Rancho Cucamonga car loan office, 58 jobs gone as part of plans to move vehicle loan operations out of The (not so) Golden State.

2 men injured in shooting at church in San Francisco’s Mission District

California church vows to never call police again

California police confer with Arizona counterparts in clergy sex scandal

COLORADO: Penrose-Saint Francis Health Services suddenly laid off 42 people, including a CAO, in an attempt “to increase efficiency of operations”.

Former youth helper at church charged with sex crimes

CONNECTICUT: Body of man found near Saint Martha Church

Mount Olive Church Ministries gave away $5-thousand USD worth of fuel during operation Gas on God.

Milford Church Loses Faith….. in highly recommended Contractor

Members of a wealthy Catholic family want their $5-million back after the Our Lady of Mercy school they donated it to was shutdown, the Catholic church essentially said ‘no the money is now ours’!

DELAWARE:  More proof christians are not united in Christ as members of Reach Church pull their children from the christian school due to rumors they’ve been black-listed by new school administration, as a result of a merger with another christian school.

FLORIDA:  Baptist Health South Florida eliminating 588 jobs by the end of July!

Man caught on camera vandalizing the security cameras of New Jerusalem Church of God.

First Baptist Church burglar linked to as many as 12 crimes

GEORGIA: Pathetic scene as former Baptist minister and U.S. President Jimmy Carter gave one of his last Sunday school classes at Maranatha Baptist Church; hundreds of ‘christians’ lined up for hours to watch the class (130 turned away) and then broke into applause when the class concluded, proving church is nothing more than entertainment. 

A pastor who was sentenced to just 35 days in jail for sex crimes, hit with new sex crimes charges just days before being released.

GUAM: Catholic Father stripped of priestly duties

The Archdiocese of Agana lost $236-thousand USD

Minnesota priest accused of abusing 60 boys in Guam

HAWAII: Christians evacuate from ‘Big Island’

Episcopalians displaced by volcano

750 Hawaiian Mormon Boy Scouts rush to earn Eagle rank before church severs ties. 

IDAHO: After Oregon abuse, problem priest was sent to Idaho.

Jailed priest conducts Mass from prison

Nampa church displays rainbow flag 

Grand Teton Council Affected by LDS Church and Boy Scouts

Retired Idaho doctor and Mormon temple president denies fraud

Idaho Falls Mormon Ward’s church building vandalized

ILLINOIS:  Benedictine University eliminating 32 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (enrollment dropped by about 2-hundred since 2016).

Davenport church leaders call summit to stop juvenile crime

An apparently Blacks Only church was vandalized with ‘White Supremacy’ graffiti.

Fire damages Otterbein United Methodist Church

Mega Church Elders Apologize For Response to Hybels Allegations

INDIANA:  Christians dispute church sale

Iconic Columbus Church Placed On taxpayer funded government Endangered Places List

Church embezzler jailed 

Woman run over by unlicensed immigrant driver as she walked to the Fervent Prayer Church preschool

Family Christian Center facing lawsuit over drowning death of babysitter 

Family can claim historic Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church severs ties with no-profit over sexual orientation

Members of the same unnamed church facing federal charges in $8-million USD fraud and money laundering case

IOWA: Fulton and Holy Ghost Elementary schools were locked down prison style because of a stand-off between police and three adults after a failed attempted traffic stop, the three adults were arrested but the incident had nothing to do with schools.  A Linn-Mar High School nurse (who also worked for god’s own Saint Luke’s Hospital) pled not guilty to having sex with a student.

KANSAS: More proof christians are not united in Christ as Topeka based Westboro Baptist Church launched protests against what it believes are false christians.

People shot during graduation party at Church of the Resurrection 

Man shot during funeral at Greater Pentecostal Temple 

Priest at Divine Mercy Parish charged with stealing thousands from church

KENTUCKY: ‘Is your church van a death trap?’

Once vibrant  Pollard Baptist Church closing its doors

Body found behind Doctor’s Fork Baptist Church, four days after he died

A sign of a bad economy as Crossroads Church ends weekend services to take part in largest ever community service projects.

Man arrested for stealing from Lexington church

MAINE: Catholic diocese parts ways with the Maine Council of Churches

United Methodist Church Food Pantry Reopened After Hungry Burglar Ate Way Through It

More proof the economy is bad as Saint Mark’s Parish Hall and Episcopal Church being sold-off, forcing three charity services to find new homes

MARYLAND: The pastor of the Oxon Hill Assembly Of Jesus Christ as well as a another church minister, along with a Washington DC cop, were all arrested and charged with committing sex crimes, police say they confessed.

Baltimore priest suspended over allegations of child sex abuse

MASSACHUSETTS: Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded (but now under new ownership) Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!  Methodist co-founded Coca Cola shutting down its Pittsfield warehouse, at least 12 jobs gone in July.

MICHIGAN:  Downriver church creates transgender support group

MINNESOTA: Saint Francis Schools eliminating 36 jobs in June.

Archdiocese paying $210 million to 450 priest sex abuse victims

MISSISSIPPI: Man arrested for breaking into the Hardy Street Baptist Church.

Booneville church fire

MISSOURI: Catholic co-founded motorcycle maker Harley Davidson shutting down its factory in Kansas City, about 4-hundred U.S. jobs being sent to Thailand (according to union reps)!

Light fixture ignites Community of Christ church during graduation

MONTANA:  Woman distraught after Bitterroot Valley Calvary Chapel Church worker traps, shoots and kills her cat, church officials said they trap cats and raccoons in order to stop them from getting into their precious sand volleyball court!  Police have charged the church employee with a crime.

Vandals spray church with penis….graffiti 

NEBRASKA: Former First-Plymouth church Youth Leader Accused of Making Sexual Advances to Boy

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Saint Peter’s Church being sold to property developer who specializes in turning churches into high-priced condos.

NEW JERSEY:  Two people arrested for having sex in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church.

After a million dollar renovation, god burns down Mary Help of Christians Academy

NEW MEXICO:  Virgin Mary Statue Seen ‘Weeping’, Catholic church begins investigation

Taxpayer funded Shiprock High School scheduled christian prayers during graduation, not only in violation of the U.S. Constitution but in violation federal Supreme Court rulings.

Jesus of Nazareth said “Render unto Caesar what is his.”  Meaning if you take part in a government funded system then you play by its rules.

NEW YORK: 18-year-old charged with hate crime after Catholic church statue damaged

Family Church Fredonia tower destroyed

3 priests linked to sex scandal who didn’t make bishop’s list

NORTH CAROLINA: Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded (but now under new ownership) Staples shutting down its Henderson distribution center (fulfillment center), transferring 1-hundred jobs from Henderson to Charlotte as part of consolidation operations!

OHIO: God powerless to stop ‘his’ own Hiram College from conducting layoffs and radical program restructuring due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome which has caused the school to cut $1-million USD from its budget.

The homosexual pastor of the Clifton United Methodist Church had his seminary diploma stolen

Two men seen stealing a lawnmower from Liberty Assembly of God Church.

OKLAHOMA: A Oklahoma city councilman, and member of the Faith, Hope & Love Missionary Baptist Church, charged with tax evasion and stealing money from the charities he helped create.

High-speed pursuit through metro ends in crash at Mustang church

Wagoner church burglarized

Churches now included in Oklahoma’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law

Matthew 5:39: “But I am saying to you, you shall not rise up against an evil person, but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other.”-Jesus of Nazareth

OREGON: Silverton church hopes to build tiny homes for homeless women (I guess they don’t care about homeless men)

LGBT Students Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible

Portland business sues LGBTQ Catholic church for causing it to lose business

Virtual reality baptism

PENNSYLVANIA:  The YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) of Greater Pittsburgh now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down its Fifth Avenue location due to lack of money.

Grand jury report expected to shed more light on church sex abuse

PUERTO RICO: Court halts embargo of Puerto Rico Catholic church accounts

RHODE ISLAND: Church Group’s Leader Transitioning From a Man to a Woman

Not a single man has signed up for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence‘s fall semester seminary!

103 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Brigid Church being reduced to ‘mission’ status, open for special occasions only.

SOUTH CAROLINA:  More proof christians are not united in Christ as the Red Bank Baptist Church getting rid of its Jesus idol, I mean statue because bigoted members think it looks ‘too Catholic‘!

SOUTH DAKOTA:  A religious group espousing polygamy discovered that without government issued birth certificates you can’t enroll your masses of children in taxpayer funded schools.

TENNESSEE: After 120 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Presbyterian (some say Masonic cultists) co-founded iconic guitar maker Gibson now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to $500-million USD of debts.  Apparently the justice system is so bad in Shelby County that The Healing Center church is now helping people who have criminal records, despite never having been convicted of a crime, expunge those records. 

TEXAS: God powerless to stop Sojourn Baptist Church from shutting down its Academy due to The Rapture, I mean low student enrollment.

Director of Wylie Baptist Church Child Development Center wanted for failure to report sex crimes

Baptist leader Fired, Stripped of Retirement Benefits after sex scandal

Bomb targets Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church

UTAH: Mormon founded and controlled The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 64 people.

Some Mormons say their church needs a culture change, after sex abuse scandal

Mormon church wants 1984 rape suit against ex-leader tossed

Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship

How the LDS Church manages its finances

Congregation raising money to repair Utah church featured in ‘Footloose’

VERMONT: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception downgraded to ‘church’ status and being prepped for sale (estimated value $4-million USD), the Catholic Church blames The Rapture, I mean crashing membership.

VIRGINIA: Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church hung a body from a tree for Easter!

Episcopal Church halts search for a second bishop suffragan due to internal problems

WASHINGTON: Presbyterian founded Georgia Pacific laid off 225 employees at the Camas Paper Mill!  After 114 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) boat shaped Memorial Lutheran Church shutdown due to The Rapture, I mean the congregation is down to only 25 members: “Our congregation has shrunk rather dramatically in the past two years.”– CJ Nevijel, vice president church council

Boy Scouts in Spokane feel the split as Mormon Church announces separation

WASHINGTON DC: God’s own Catholic University of America laying off at least 35 people because of The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome, school officials said “Morale has never been lower.”  

Pruitt dinner included Vatican figure accused of sexual abuse

 LDS (mormon) Church leader prays at White House

WEST VIRGINIA: First Baptist Church was ejected from the Fairmont Baptist Association

Bluefield church celebrates final service

WISCONSIN: In Saint Nazianz, after 134 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Gregory Catholic School, due to The Rapture, I mean because they’ve “had declining enrollment numbers for some time”.    A stupid church member thought they were doing a good thing by returning ‘personal items’ to the Bread of Life Church, the problem is they used a USPS box and never shipped it through the mail, just left it with no note or explanation on the steps of the church. It ended up costing taxpayers a lot of money when the bomb squad was called in.

Massive fire causes $17M damage to Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Mysterious fire inside Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

U.S. Christian Rapture, April 2018: “YOU CAN’T STOP THE CHURCH!”

“No man can work for two masters, for either he will hate one and will love the other, or he will honor one and the other he will ignore. You cannot work for God and for money.”-Matthew 6:24, Aramaic Bible

“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible

“And Yeshua [Jesus of Nazareth] entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible

“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance (or even be counted as unemployed): “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

“we’re too busy, we can’t keep up”: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, May 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in May 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

It’s been revealed that Deutschland (Germany) based Deutsche Bank killed 4-hundred U.S. jobs in April, and now wants to kill another 10-thousand jobs world wide!

ALABAMA: In Homewood after 32 years of selling clothing, White Flowers shutdown due to crashing sales over the past two years.

ARKANSAS: In Bella Vista the only movie theater, Sugar Creek 10 Cinema, suddenly shutdown.  Local news media say exalted city leaders were shocked because they truly believed their local economy was booming.

 CALIFORNIA: UnAmerican Bank of America eliminating 575 jobs in Pasadena in 2019, due to the Too Big to Jail bank not wanting to renew the lease on the property! Home Point Financial Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for its Forest Lake location, 83 jobs gone in July.  Bank of the West eliminating 35 jobs in San Ramon, by the end of June.  Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Rancho Cucamonga car loan office, 58 jobs gone as part of plans to move vehicle loan operations out of The (not so) Golden State.  In Burbank, after 51 years Book Castle-Movie World shutdown so fast the owner was literally giving away his inventory.  The Toys R Us store in Los Angeles shutdown without warning, 72 jobs gone.  State unemployment administrators noted that the WARN sent by Toys R Us was written back in March, but state officials didn’t get it until a week after the shutdown took place!  British empire Canada based RA Centre issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Francisco, 140 jobs gone by the end of July!  Jasari Investments-Manteca Bowl issued a shutdown WARN, 69 jobs gone in July.   Irvine Property Management eliminating 55 jobs in Irvine, by July.   Spartan Shops eliminating 881 student jobs due to losing a contract with San Jose State University, university admin swore to students their jobs are not in jeopardy and even swore their hours and pay will remain the same, students called bull-shit on that promise!   California’s Saban Brands sold to Rhode Island based toy maker Hasbro and is now eliminating 70 jobs.  WWF Operating Company finally notified state unemployment admin that it killed 72 California jobs back in March.

COLORADO: In Pueblo, Rebound Sports shutdown after six years of selling second hand sports equipment, due to a sudden crash in sales.

CONNECTICUT: In New Milford, Kathy Henkel Fitness shutdown, the owner will continue teaching fitness classes at a competing fitness center.  “Supply Chain People Solutions” company Eclipse Advantage eliminating 51 Dayville jobs in July.

FLORIDA: In Orlando, Colonial Lanes shutdown after 59 years due to being sold to a property developer.  ‘Live game’ venue EXIT Tallahassee suddenly shutdown due to being kicked out by the landlord.  ABM/GCA Vehicle Services eliminating 86 Hollywood
International Airport jobs in July.   British empire United Kingdom based airport services contractor Menzies Aviation eliminating 123 Tampa International Airport jobs by the end of June!

IDAHO:  Non-profit Idaho Youth Ranch continues to kill jobs, this time five thrift stores in Blackfoot, Boise, Buhl, Emmett and Twin Falls suddenly shutdown because sales weren’t enough to pay the rent, utilities, transportation and labor!

ILLINOIS: Consulting company CVR issued a mass layoff WARN, 220 Chicago metro-sexual jobs gone by Xmas, due to loss of contract!  Too Big to Jail First Midwest Bank shutting down 19 offices, 150 jobs gone between now and Xmas!  The demise of Carson’s stores in the Chicago metro-sexual area will cost at least 8-hundred jobs! In Collinsville, after 83 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Home Furniture shutting down by Xmas, due to years of dealing with weather related property damage and declining sales: “We’ve been losing money for a number of years. The last 10 years have been tough.”-Ronnie Y. Fredman

INDIANA: In Seymore, after 124 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions, and even a building fire) Union Hardware shutdown because the owner took declining sales as a sign to retire.

IOWA: In Sioux City, after 11 years Salem Cycle Solutions shutting down when the inventory is gone, the owners say they’re tired of spending nights and weekends helping customers with bike problems, and they just lost their in-house mechanic: “We’re busier than we’ve every been, but we’re too busy, we can’t keep up, we want to but there’s a fine line there.”-Nick Salmen

KANSAS: Taxpayer subsidized passenger train Amtrak suddenly shutdown its ticket offices in Topeka and Garden City, outsourcing the sale of tickets to a contracted online company.

LOUISIANA: Fads and Frames shutting down its 25 years old Pineville store when the inventory is gone.

MASSACHUSETTS: Mitt Romney co-founded Framingham based, but now privately owned, Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!  After 65 years Balich 5 & 10 shutting down, the second generation owner explaining “What hastened my decision was the fact that business has been slowing down to the point where it was hard to pay all my bills.”

MICHIGAN: What housing market recovery?  Illinois based MB Financial Bank eliminating 594 Michigan jobs due to the shutdown of mortgage operations in the state!  After more than 50 years House of Bedrooms shutting down two locations as soon as the inventory is gone.  In Battle Creek, after 29 years popular Images Formal Wear shutting down in July, so the tired owner can retire.  Also in Battle Creek, music/movie store FYE shutting down its Lakeview Square Mall location in July, saying “With the decline in sales, the store was no longer profitable.”  

MINNESOTA: Washington based Savers shutting down two for-profit thrift stores in the ‘Twin-Cities’ area, 146 jobs gone between July and October!   In Saint Cloud, Too Big to Jail Capital One announced plans to layoff Tech Engineering employees, local news media reported that since November 2017 Capital One has laid off more than 130 people in Saint Cloud! Also in Saint Cloud, California based clothier GAP shutting down its factory outlet store by the end of July, due to lack of sales.   In Detroit Lakes, after 112 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Norby’s Department Store shutting down when the massive inventory is gone, the family owners said that even though they have their own website (www.norbysonline.com) they still can’t compete with Amazon, another reason is that many product manufactures also sell directly to the public on the internet.   Best Buy shutdown its 10 years old Mall of America brick-n-mortar store.

MISSISSIPPI: Saks Fifth Avenue eliminating an undisclosed number of jobs at its Jackson service center, due to consolidation of work.

MISSOURI:  In Cape Girardeau, after 20 years Somewhere in Time Antiques shutdown.   In Dexter, the almost 90 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Ben Franklin store shutting down when the inventory is gone.

MONTANA: In Missoula, after 23 years the last video store in the city, Crazy Mike’s,  shutdown not because of sales, but because the greedy landlord kicked them out.

NEW JERSEY: Apple shutdown one of its brick-n-mortar stores in Atlantic City, 52 jobs gone “Due to a sharp decline in tourism and visitors to the area…”   Online clothing seller Tahari ASL eliminating 101 jobs in Millburn, in July!  Online clothing seller Tory Burch eliminating 64 jobs in Jamesburg, in July.  The Hallmark gift store shutting down its Hampton Plaza location by the end of June, due to lack of sales.

NEW MEXICO: In Albuquerque, after 27 years Shoes on a Shoestring shutting down due to not being able to renew the lease.

NEW YORK: Fashion ‘start-up’ Le Tote eliminated 50 jobs between its NYC and California offices, because the online clothing ‘rental’ company became “too bloated”.  In Buffalo, after 17 years Spoiled Rotten Gift Boutique shutting down when the inventory is gone, because the owners realized they can make more money renting-out their property.  Premier Aviation Overhaul Center shutting down its ops in Rome, 127 jobs gone in August!  Triangle Aviation Services halting ops at Terminal 8 in John F. Kennedy Airport, 85 jobs gone due to loss of contract.  Also at JFK, Airline Service Professionals eliminating 236 jobs due to loss of contract with Jet Blue!   Sterling National Bank shutting down its Forest Hills Financial Center, and offices in Patchogue and Franklin Square, between August and Xmas, due to the take-over of competitor Astoria Bank.  Japan based Citizen Watch shutting down operations in NYC, 148 jobs affected by the end of June!

NORTH DAKOTA: In Grand Forks, Texas based Pier 1 Imports shutting down in July, apparently due to lack of sales.  In Bismarck, after eight years Branded Envy shutdown so the owner can spend more time with her family.

OHIO: Taxpayer subsidized passenger train Amtrak shutting down its Union Terminal (Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal) ticket office in June, outsourcing the sale of tickets to a contracted “caretaker”.  After 112 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Goldsteins Furniture shutting down three locations, the CEO blamed competition, the soon-to-be former Goldsteins locations will be taken over by a competitor.  What housing market recovery?  UnAmerican Too Big to Jail U.S. Bank shutting down mortgage ops in Bedford, 260 jobs gone in July!   Discovery Tours now bankrupt busted amid criminal investigation into the sudden cancellation of $100-thousand USD worth of taxpayer funded (paid in advance) school field trips.

PENNSYLVANIA: In Hellertown, after 54 years Hero Electric shutting down when the inventory is gone, so the owner can retire, because “Over the past few years, the business has mostly been repairs and service, and now the repairs are dying down, too.”  In Pittsburgh, after almost 70 years Murray Avenue News and Toys shutdown, the owner lamenting “The avenue isn’t the same. We don’t have the foot traffic we used to have. Mornings used to be so busy.” 

SOUTH DAKOTA: After 40 years Sioux Falls Music shutdown due to a crash in the number of people buying guitars, the ignorant owners blamed internet competition (ignorant because even Tennessee based guitar maker Gibson is bankrupt busted because of an across-the-board crash in global guitar sales). In Rapid City, after eight years Who’s Game House shutdown: “When you get too much competition, it puts a strain on all of those businesses they’re all fighting for the same dollars and so everybody kind of suffers but our biggest competitor honestly is mail order.”-Clancy Kingsbury, owner

TENNESSEE: First Tennessee Bank eliminating 58 jobs due to merging with competitor Capital Bank Financial.

TEXAS: “But wait, there’s more!” Cheap-ass As Seen on TV invention seller Ronco is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to a failed attempt to raise $30-million USD.

UTAH: Utah led the nation in housing growth, but would-be buyers are feeling the price pinch

In Providence, Edward’s Furniture shutting down because the building has been sold, the store owner said he might open a new store if the rent is cheap enough.

VERMONT:  What construction industry recovery?  After 1-hundred years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Parker & Stearns building supplier shutdown both its locations due to a failed attempt to sell the business.

VIRGINIA: What construction industry recovery? After 1-hundred years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Boston Lumber Company suddenly shutdown due to failed attempts to sell the building supply store.  In Lynchburg, after two years the Patriotic Peacock shutdown, but the owner claims they were making money, the shutdown is because her family is moving to Arizona. For the second time since last November a Victory Lady Fitness center shutting down, this time a 30 years old op in Richmond, the administrators blame the greedy landlord: “Victory Lady’s lease is due for renewal and the rent renewal has become very expensive. The growth on West Broad Street has made it difficult to find affordable rent…”– Wendy Campbell, President of Victory Lady

WASHINGTON: British empire United Kingdom based airport services contractor Menzies Aviation issued a layoff WARN, 63 SeaTac jobs gone by July.

WISCONSIN: In Pleasant Prairie, marketing company M.G. Design Associates shutdown, 46 jobs gone due to lack of money, however, local news media report that the shutdown has resulted in a federal lawsuit by former employees who say the company has also affected 150 other jobs in California, Florida (51 jobs suddenly gone) and Nevada, and violated federal WARN rules!

Your leaders are lying to you, don’t forget to check out the thousands of layoffs in all these other U.S. industries.

OBAMA LEGACY: U.S. APPAREL INDUSTRY DEATH-SPIRAL

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, April 2018: “A RETAIL COLLAPSE LIKE…THE GREAT DEPRESSION.”

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, May 2018:“ACCELERATED THE CLOSING OF UNPROFITABLE STORES”

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS, May 2018:“PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO DECOMPRESS.”

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., May 2018:“MORALE HAS NEVER BEEN LOWER.”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, May 2018:“TO ACHIEVE PROFITABILITY.”

U.S. government shenanigans, May 2018:‘ZOMBIE ALERT’ IS FOR REAL

U.S. food crisis, May 2018: “THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT”

ObamaCare ACA death spiral, May 2018:“…WILL CREATE DEATHS. THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS.”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”

“Thank you for the support”: U.S. food crisis, May 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of May, 2018: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.

ALABAMA: In Birmingham, after 32 years family illness (and crappy healthcare in the U.S.) forcing the owners of popular Silverton Cafe to shut it down and move back to Italy.

ARIZONA: Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar suddenly shutdown after only one year in the Tucson Mall.

CALIFORNIA: In Bakersfield, the “largest grower….of carrots in the world” Grimmway Farms issued a shutdown WARN, 201 jobs gone by July!  Grimmway Farms administrators hope the shutdown is temporary.  France based food service contractor Sodexo issued several shutdown WARNs, at least 252 Californians unemployed between now and the end of June! San Francisco based booze maker Campari America issued a shutdown WARN, 95 jobs gone by August.  Crab Cooker laying off 60 people in Newport Beach at the end of July, supposedly temporarily.  Sky Chefs issued a shutdown WARN for its San Jose ops, 78 jobs gone by July.  Chow Danville suddenly shutdown its ten years old restaurant, local news media said no reason was given.  Boyd Coffee issued a mass of shutdown WARNs, ten coffee shop locations across The (not so) Golden State shutting down in June.  In Fresno,  after 44 years DiCicco’s Italian Restaurant suddenly shutdown due to the owner’s ongoing struggle with cancer.  Earl of Sandwich issued a shutdown WARN for its Anaheim location, 69 jobs gone by the end of June.  After 20 years upscale and popular (with “hour plus wait times”Bandera American Cooking shutdown its Sacramento restaurant, initial news reports said it was because the rent was increased, however, the property owners went public and swore they did everything they could to keep what’s been called a “cash cow” from leaving and that the restaurant’s corporate owners said the Sacaremento location was “not consistent” with their plans. In Los Olivos, only a year after being saved from foreclosure, and despite signing a new seven years lease, iconic Mattei’s Tavern shutdown due to lack of customers.  In Berkeley, after almost 50 years upscale restaurant Hs Lordships shutdown, the lease is up and apparently other businesses are fighting over the space.   Online food ordering company Munchery issued a shutdown WARN for its Gardena location, 82 jobs lost in July (Munchery shuts down operations in LA, New York and Seattle).  In Saint Helena, after 30 years Terra shutdown its restaurant and bar locations, blaming lack of qualified workers caused by competition and lack of affordable housing for employees: “It is mostly about staffing. It is so difficult to find someone; there are so many more businesses opening, and housing is so limited and expensive.”-Lissa Doumani, co-owner

COLORADO: So much for legalized marijuana saving the economy,  Way to Grow hydroponics chain now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to a lawsuit and massive debts, including a past due $73-thousand USD state tax bill.   Boulder Natural Meats now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, however, the owners claim it’s part of their plan to expand the business.

FLORIDA: With only a weeks notice, and no explanation, Crispers shutdown its Tallahassee restaurant.  At the Orlando Airport, Flying Food Group laying off 86 people due to losing its contract with Jet Blue. Emeril’s of Orlando eliminating 108 jobs by July!    FDC Vitamins-Nutri-Force Nutrition eliminating 276 jobs in Miami in July!

GEORGIA: In Columbus, after 13 years Ben’s Chophouse shutdown because the owner is tired of the long work days and wants to focus on family.  After 14 years, restaurant Meritage Columbus gave a to weeks notice of shutdown due to the property being sold to a developer.

IDAHO: In Twin Falls, after ten years Moxie Java Tuscany shutdown, the owners say they’re trying a new direction.

ILLINOIS:  Aramark issued a shutdown WARN, 198 jobs gone by the end of June due to losing a contract with Indian Prairie School District!

INDIANA:  Indianapolis based Monarch Beverage eliminating at least 1-hundred jobs and shutting down its booze distribution ops in September!  Company administrators blame it on politicians and wholesalers who’re opposed to their plan to distribute booze.  In Mishawaka, the S&P Discount Grocery (aka Dents for Cents) shutdown due to the health problems of the owners.  The owners said they were motivated to open their heavily-discounted-damaged-packaging grocery store ten years ago because “We noticed that people in line at retail grocery stores were just unhappy, angry and stressed out because you spend $50 and leave with two bags and you still don’t have anything to make for dinner.” (unfortunately it’s still like that)

KANSAS:  Grocery store Dean & DeLuca suddenly shutdown its Town Center Plaza location as part of company plans to “focus on our core business in New York and our digital capabilities.”

KENTUCKY:  The Lexington Jimmy John’s on South Limestone shutdown without warning, apparently due to lack of profits according to the manager of another Jimmy John’s (maybe there’s too many Jimmy John’s), local news media call restaurant shutdowns a “trend” as nine restaurants on the same street shutdown in the past year.

 Prairie Farms shutting down its milk processing ops in Fulton, 52 jobs gone by the end of June, no reason given for the shutdown (probably due to the dairy industries massive losses due to low global milk prices).

LOUISIANA: In Alexandria, after almost 40 years Julia’s Mexican Restaurant shutdown because of a sudden reduction in customers, the owners said many of their daily customers stopped coming in.

MARYLAND: In Hagerstown, Thunder Road Bar & Grill suddenly shutdown after the owner ‘surrendered’ his booze license, due to being accused of refilling used booze bottles with illegally purchased booze!

MASSACHUSETTS: In Milford, after 51 years Ray & Dick’s Bakery shutdown, the family owners said they don’t want to end up like their father; too old and sick to enjoy retirement.  In Fitchburg, coffee roaster and cafe Chaibo Coffee and Tea House shutting down, possibly due to violations of city building codes, or possibly due to lack of employees, as speculated by local news media. In Belmont, short lived Foodie’s Market shutdown without warning, a sign was on the door saying “Thank you for the support over the past year…..Foodies is closed.” The corporate owners told local news media they blame low sales on a false perception by consumers that their prices were too high. 

Garelick Farms shutting down its dairy ops in Lynn, 3-hundred jobs lost due to milk prices being too low!  Ignorant city administrators blamed low prices on a “nationwide decrease in milk consumption.” (it’s called globalism, capitalist global commodity markets driving prices down artificially)

MICHIGAN:  France based Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN, 34 jobs gone by the end of June due to losing a contract with College of Creative Studies/Argonaut.

MINNESOTA: In Saint Paul, after a little more than five years restaurant Ward 6 Eastside shutdown, the owners saying “The sad fact is Ward 6 has had a difficult time financially for the past couple of years.”  Also in Saint Paul, after 27 years Fern’s Bar & Grill (aka Fabulous Fern’s) shutdown, the owners went bankrupt in 2017 due to lack of sales.  In Duluth, Iron Mug Coffee House shutdown because the owners are making more money with their custom carpeting ops.  In Thief River Falls, Texas based Dean Foods issued a WARN, 110 jobs gone, date yet to be determined!

MISSOURI: Shop-n-Save shutting down its Maplewood grocery store, 95 jobs gone in June due to not being able to renew the lease. 

MONTANA: In Bozeman, after 130 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Voss Inn Bed & Breakfast shutdown and for sale: “Now it is pathetic. Airbnb has really cut a chunk out of our market.”-Frankee Muller, co-owner

NEBRASKA: In Omaha, after eight years Crave suddenly shutdown its Midtown Crossing restaurant due to not being able to renew the lease.  Akin’s Natural Foods shutting down two locations, by the end of June according to a store manager, no reason was given.

NEVADA: In Las Vegas several restaurants shutting down; Carnevino Italian Steakhouse, B&B Ristorante and Otto Enoteca e Pizzeria, hundreds of people unemployed as a result of the owner’s sex scandal!

NEW JERSEY:  Popular Thailand Restaurant in Clark shutting down after almost 20 years, the owners are too old and tired to keep it going, their adult ‘American’ raised children admitted to local news media that they didn’t have the skill (apparently all the food is made from scratch in-house) to take over the family restaurant.

NEW YORK: Eden Ale House suddenly shutdown.  In Watertown, after almost 20 years Sandy’s Luncheonette shutdown, the owner blamed increased competition and increased costs of food, minimum wage, utilities and insurance.  In NYC, after 116 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Glaser’s Bake Shop shutting down in July, the brother owners say “we’re gettin’ old.”  Umami Burger shutting down its Hudson Hotel location, 71 jobs gone by mid-July.  In Poughkeepsie, restaurant/sports bar Tilted Kilt suddenly shutdown after only two years, officially saying “Due to the economic downturn, we are closing the pub permanently…”  In Thompson, after 32 years Blue Horizon Diner shutdown, to be replaced by a bank.  The owner of the diner said the bank made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.  The Jackson Heights IHOP shutting down, 53 jobs gone by the end of August due to not being able to renew the lease.   Trans-Packers Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC food packaging ops, 105 jobs lost to New Jersey in July!

NORTH CAROLINA: In Burlington, once popular but now dead Stokely’s BBQ officially chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Local news media said that last year the owners had plans to expand due to booming sales and bankruptcy document show they were making profits in 2017, but for some unknown reason sales crashed big time during the first four months of 2018.  In Raleigh, the 50 years old Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop shutdown so the owners can retire.

NORTH DAKOTA: In Minot, after 14 years Sevens bar and Restaurant shutdown due to a sudden crash in sales, probably as a result of a nearby motel shutting down in February.

OHIO:  In Akron, Fairlawn’s West Point Market now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, partly due to delays in city permitting for constructing a new on-site bakery.

OKLAHOMA: In Tulsa, after 78 years Ann’s Bakery shutting down in July, the current owner blaming it on a death in the family and that “the town has moved south”.

OREGON: In Portland, after more than 85 years (surviving The Great depression and numerous recessions) Sunshine Dairy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and being sold to a competitor.   Evil vulture capitalist Cerberus Capital owned, Idaho based, Albertsons-Safeway suddenly announced the shutdown of the Jantez Beach Safeway, 75 jobs gone by June.

PENNSYLVANIA: In East Allen, California based Trader Joe’s reduced its contract with transportation contractor NFI, resulting in at least 261 people losing their jobs in July!  In West View, after more than 30 years Townsend’s Sweet Shoppe shutdown due to the death of the owner.  After more than 40 years filling up University of Pittsburgh students, Peter’s Pub shutdown because the owners want to retire. Rivertowne Brewing, which operates four pubs, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, the owners blaming “decisions of the past”.   Evil vulture capitalist Cerberus Capital owned, Idaho based, Albertsons-Safeway suddenly announced the shutdown of two Acme Markets grocery stores in Montgomery County, by June.

SOUTH DAKOTA: After ten years popular restaurant View34, and Pub34, shutdown, on facebook the owner blamed “lack of labor”.

TEXAS: In The Woodlands-Houston, Bloomin’ Brands-Bonefish Grill and 14 years old burger joint Culver’s both shutdown.  The owner of Culver’s said they couldn’t renew the lease.  Bloomin’ Brands gave no acceptable reason for shutting down Bonefish Grill calling it a “business decision”.

VERMONT: Struggling coffee company Keurig Green Mountain suddenly laid off 53 people, as part of ongoing efforts to regain profitability. 

WASHINGTON:  Seattle based online cooked meal delivery company Peach suddenly laid off 33% of its employees, blaming it on a “sales experiment”.  Evil vulture Cerberus Capital owned, Idaho based, Albertsons-Safeway shutting down two Seattle area grocery stores (a Albertsons and a Safeway) in June claiming that no matter what they did the stores just can generate enough profits to keep the vulture capitalist investors happy.  Another reason is that city imposed regulations have increased operating costs: “As a result of the implementation of a series of regulations in just the past three years, our city stores have experienced over a 10% increase in operating expenses. Due to the fact that we are a mainstream grocer with the primary purpose of holding down prices to provide value to customers in all of our locations, we are not able to adjust to additional expenses simply by increasing our prices.”

WISCONSIN: In Madison, after three years Red Elephant Chocolate shutdown its brick-n-mortar store to focus on special events, wholesale and internet deliveries.  Hall of Fame Chophouse shutdown its 17 years old Green Bay location, apparently its being replaced with a new concept restaurant.

WYOMING: In Cheyenne, the Candy Store Emporium Museum shutdown due to the landlord reneging on the two year lease option.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

U.S. Food Crisis, April 2018:“WE’RE TIRED AFTER SEVENTY YEARS OF SEVEN DAYS A WEEK!”

‘Zombie Alert’ is for real: U.S. government shenanigans, May 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for May 2018:

Tax Foundation: Average Per Capita Property Taxes: How Does Your State Compare?

New York Times: Federal Tax Cuts Leave States in a Bind

CNBC: Here’s how the new federal tax law may impact you

ALABAMA: Lowest local tax collections per capita in the U.S. 

ALASKA Analysis by state officials finds that requiring people who receive Medicaid to work won’t save the state government money, and police continue to investigate one of their own for rape.

Legislature bans smoking in bars, restaurants 

State lawmakers ask for support from other U.S. states to fight Canadian mining ops

ARIZONA: Gov-na gives teachers a taxpayer funded raise

The most politically corrupt state in nation?

ARKANSAS:  Lawsuit says judaeo-christian-islamic Ten Commandments display at the Arkansas state Capitol violates 1st Amendment

Governor’s son arrested on DWI charge

$377-thousand USD taxpayer funded grant for cyber security program linking a high school with Little Rock Air Force Base 

Gov-na Asa and the Corruption State

Work requirement OK’d for Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion

CALIFORNIA: Proof the Golden State’s economy sucks as Democrat state senators wants to nearly triple taxpayer funding for the ever expanding number of low income people

Neo-Nazi Senate candidate kicked out of California Republican Party

Marijuana tax cut could be in jeopardy as revenue lags behind

Federal taxpayer funded USA (U.S. Army) contractor DynCorp issued a layoff WARN for its Fort Irwin NTC operations, 27 jobs gone by the end of July. Federal taxpayer funded USAF (U.S. Air Force) contractor Unisys issued a layoff WARN for its ops at Edwards Air Force Base, 90 jobs gone by mid-July.  Federal taxpayer funded USAF contractor JT3 issued a shutdown WARN of its ops at Edwards Air Force Base, 746 jobs gone by mid-July!

California cop tied to Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime

He Paid for His Mentos. Then an Officer Pulled a Gun on Him.

COLORADO: Gov-na signs bills improving state’s immigrant driver’s license program

Failed state employee payroll plan ends up costing state taxpayers $5-million USD!

CONNECTICUT: A man arrested for holding up a “cops ahead” sign near a police checkpoint

Gov-na signs bump-stock gun ban

A former Connecticut Gov-na released from federal custody

Connecticut Joins Effort to Overturn Electoral College

DELAWARE: State Department of Health and Social Services warning of new killer heroin 

State Department of Justice revealed that more than 200-thousand residents had their facebook data stolen

FLORIDA: Miami police officer relieved of duty after a video showed him kicking a suspect in the head

Gov-na takes part in controversial embassy opening in Jerusalem 

Federal government lies about record low rate of unemployment?

Florida ban on smokable medical marijuana ruled unconstitutional

Florida gets $19-million federal taxpayer dollars for elections-cybersecurity

Palm Beach accidentally sends real ‘zombie alert’ to residents 

GEORGIA: New law changes how you can drive

Gubernatorial Candidate Points Gun at Teen “who’s interested in one of my daughters”

Gov-na signs bill to tax online sales

GUAM: The territorial government issued an additional $2-million USD in tax refunds

3-month tax amnesty begins

Gubernatorial candidates discuss Guam decolonization

Guam hit with Agent Orange?

Gov-na claims there are no H2B immigrant workers on the island

HAWAII:  Residents scrambling for masks the government says won’t protect them from deadly VOG

Hawaii Gets An ‘F’ For Its Transparency On State Government Spending

Hawaii first state to ban sunscreen (what happened to blaming Global Warming for coral reef deaths?)

Volcano eruption puts $5M dent in Hawaii tourism industry

IDAHO: Aircraft maintenance contractor PKL Services issued a shutdown WARN for their taxpayer funded ops at Mountain Home Air Force Base, 103 jobs gone by July!

The super-expensive (for taxpayers), heated governor’s race you aren’t paying attention to

Taxpayers forced to pay transgender women’s attorney fees

Who’s behind that printed voter guide in your mailbox, and who really paid for it?

 What the Fastest Growth in the U.S. Means for Idaho Politics

Rape kit testing backlogged in Idaho state labs

ILLINOIS:  Chicagomag.com: The Illinois Taxes No One Wants to Talk About

Gov-na issues amendatory veto on gun bill

State lawmakers trying to license Illinois gun stores

Illinois needs term limits to protect the people 

INDIANA: Teacher credited with disarming student in Indiana school shooting

Poverty protesters lock themselves to gates at gov-na’s mansion

5 quirky highlights from gov-na’s taxpayer funded trip to Europe 

IOWA:  Female Police Officer Arrested After Alleged Domestic Abuse

Gov-na signs largest tax cut in state’s history 

Iowa Constitution bars new fetal heartbeat abortion law

Three women accuse governor candidate of sex crimes

Gov-na signs Bill Intended to Curb Opioid Overdose Deaths

KANSAS:  Police handcuff driver over ‘vegetation’

13000 state employees may soon get taxpayer funded raises

Gov-na Helps Former Criminals Seeking State taxpayer funded Jobs

Three Things To Know About The State Of Cannabis In Kansas

Kansas approves religious veto on LGBT adoptions

Gov-na gives religious groups access to taxpayer funded welfare programs, even if the religious groups discriminate!

Attorneys press for $1.5-Billion USD more from state taxpayers for schools

Data is so bad on taxpayer funded healthcare (KanCare) that legislative auditors can’t tell if it’s working

KENTUCKY: The gov-na suddenly sold-off many of his out-of state properties in 2017, how much does he still own?

Gov-na and lawmakers take taxpayer funded business trip to Asian Continent

LOUISIANA:  Lawmakers want more taxpayer funding

Louisiana Senate committee’s ‘pretend budget’ meant to calm fears

Tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients could face eviction

Ban on abortions after 15 weeks signed into law

79 new state laws

Louisiana may expand use of prison labor to taxpayer funded construction projects

MAINE: Recreational marijuana is now legal in Maine – sort of. 

How ranked-choice voting is changing Maine campaign strategy

Maine’s taxpayer funded Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) “failed to follow policies and procedures” in one of two horrific child abuse cases.

MARYLAND: Gov-na plans to sign ‘free’ (100% taxpayer funded) community college bill into law

1,900 HONDURANS IN MARYLAND AFFECTED BY ORDER

Maryland becomes 11th state to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’ for minors

Taxpayer funded E-ZPass toll road transponders now ‘free

MASSACHUSETTS: Taunton Police admit Wrong person may have been arrested in stabbing case

ICE agents halt controversial practice of office arrests

State taxpayers funding 800-Megawatt foreign built Offshore Wind Farm!

State taxpayers to give $1.8-billion USD to residential property developers!

MICHIGAN:  Detroit police chief blasts judge in case of man who allegedly cut tether

Flint, Islam and fixing the damn roads.

New Michigan law makes recounts tougher for election losers

State taxpayers continue to get screwed over deal that benefits foreign food company, at local water user’s expense! 

Flint water declared safe, residents say bullshit!

State taxpayers forced to spend $50-million USD on Soo Locks

State taxpayers forced to welcome 150-200 Chinese officials & business executives

Fire marshal says state ignored mandated inspections for 40 years, in past 18 months firefighters battled 1,245 building fires!

MINNESOTA: The state Department of Corrections canceled its contract with food service contractor Trinity Services Group, 279 jobs affected by the end of July!

Minnesota cops can legally have sex with people in custody.

The 2018 session of the Minnesota Legislature was a failure.

Taxpayers forced to spend $1.5-billion USD on infrastructure

Government and private industry motor vehicle registrars demanding that taxpayers fork over millions in ‘rescue funding’ to keep Department of Motor Vehicles ops rolling!

MISSISSIPPI: Baby born at taxpayer funded abortion clinic

Two counties sue state, claim governor can’t close bridges

After eight years Mississippi is still the hungriest state

Despite having the highest rate of food insecurity, federal taxpayers are giving Mississippi $4.5-million USD for election cybersecurity

MISSOURI: FBI investigates gov-na’s ‘associates’

Court Examines gov-na’s Cellphone In Criminal Case

State House committee subpoenas embattled governor

Missouri May Be First State To Get Serious About The Definition Of Meat

MONTANA:  Montana is the first state to enact its own net neutrality rules

Montana deploys chatbot fleet, eliminating thousands of support calls

Outside money flows for Montana’s U.S. senate slot

Taxpayer funded prison hospital has new policies after ‘perceived emergency situation.’

NEBRASKA: Fast moving developments on Nebraska’s death penalty

Gov’na boasts of Japanese investments

Independent wanna-be politicians have little chance of getting on election ballots due to state law

Watchdog discovers lobbyists spent $17-million USD bribing state politicians

NEVADA:  Federal Nuclear Dumping Stirs Statewide Resentment

Nevada Attorney General Rails Against California Laws

Clark County School District announces $68-Million USD deficit due to arbitration agreements, including paying teachers more money  

Taxpayers/utility customers to fund $15-million worth of electric car charging stations

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Police Arrested a Man for Criticizing Them on the Internet

Highest taxpayer funding rate in the U.S. for college, yet also has the highest in-state tuition rate as well 

Federal taxpayers funding state Syringe Services Programs for addicts, under the guise of infrastructure development!

When a fee becomes a tax

Partially taxpayer funded (through state Office of Planning) Regional Economic Development Center creates loan program for immigrants/refugees (officially called New Americans)

NEW JERSEY:  Fourth Paterson cop arrested by FBI, this time over beating of suicidal hospital patient

School funding shell game negatively affects low-income districts

NEW MEXICO: Call center contractor Convergys eliminating about 1-hundred jobs in Albuquerque due to the expiration of a contract, local news media revealed that Convergys received almost $200-thousand USD in taxpayer funded incentives to create 1-hundred jobs last year!

State Supreme Court reconsidering its ban on the use of taxpayer funds for textbooks in private schools

State taxpayers forced to increase Funding for State Pre-K Program

Data shows increased federal taxpayer funding for New Mexico schools is not improving academic performance

Lottery funded scholarships for New Mexico college students increasing, mainly because of declining enrollments

NEW YORK: Schenectady police officer charged with DWI, after crashing his car near police HQ

Prior Arrests, Yet Still Hired as NYC Correction Officers

Federal taxpayers forced to pay for job training for Two New York Organizations 

NORTH CAROLINA: State government finds an extra $600-million taxpayer dollars?

“Pork” proliferates in the 2018-19 budget

Does the Lottery actually fund education?

NORTH DAKOTA: State tax revenues from oil/gas up 25% due to higher oil prices

OHIO: School Districts Struggle to Cover Lost Transportation Funding

Some Ohio districts miss out on taxpayer funding for construction

Ohio’s school-funding system was bad in 1997; it’s still bad today

Do you know how your schools are funded, gymnastics 

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma approves religious veto on LGBT adoptions

Is education funding crisis self-inflicted?

Can medical marijuana save education

OREGON: Earthquake alert funding and southern Oregon

Oregon receives $1-million USD taxpayer funded grant for endangered species study

Federal taxpayers fund efforts to stop Sudden Oak Death

PENNSYLVANIA: York City Police officer arrested for alleged domestic assault

York City school district is most underfunded per student

PUERTO RICO:  Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4000

Puerto Rico Enters a New Age of Austerity

Inside the Federal Response to Maria: “Is This Really the Best FEMA Can Do?”

FEMA funding running out for hundreds

Universities Get Just a Fraction of Storm Aid

FCC approves additional taxpayer funding for Puerto Rico 

Puerto Rico Is a ‘Geopolitical Black Hole’

The Skilled Worker Exodus

RHODE ISLAND: Providence Mayor spends the most on election campaigns

State taxpayer funding for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be restored

Privatizing Providence Water will hurt Rhode Island ratepayers

SOUTH CAROLINA: Accusations of murder, hypocrisy and playing God in state budget debate on abortion

South Carolina wants more federal taxpayer funding for election security

SOUTH DAKOTA:  The state gets only $500-thousand federal taxpayer dollars per year to provide federally mandated protection for endangered species.

Court ruling could mean legal sports wagering headed to South Dakota

South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture resigns after only one year 

South Dakota’s K-12 education leader quits after only six months

TENNESSEE:  900 ‘free’ (taxpayer funded) pre-K classrooms

$9.7-million USD taxpayer funding for attorneys to represent poor residents in court

Illegal immigrant ‘Sanctuary cities’ now illegal in Tennessee

TEXAS: Cop arrested in death of brother, a Harris County sheriff’s deputy

El Paso Police officer raped woman while responding to police call

activist jailed for his Facebook posts reveals secret FBI surveillance on ‘identity extremists’

State Supreme Court sides with short-term renters

Texas ranks 36th nationally in per-student education spending.

“It is shameful that Texas continues to pour millions of taxpayer dollars into fake women’s health centers that operate with no accountability or oversight. In shutting down licensed abortion clinics and instead legitimizing crisis pregnancy centers, Texas officials have made it clear that they do not truly care about the health and safety of pregnant Texans.”Alexa Garcia-Ditta, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas

The federal government took $41,000 from this Texan at a Houston airport six months ago. They never gave it back.

UTAH: A wannabe spy got a job at Utah government agency to send documents to Russia

404 new Utah laws take effect!

Feds give Utah three years to bring ozone pollution down

Facebook gets $150-million taxpayer funded incentives to build a massive data center in Utah

VERMONT: Calling All Remote Employees: Vermont Will Pay You to Move There

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS: FCC Announces Additional taxpayer Funding to Help Virgin Islands

VIRGINIA:  Taxpayer funded University of Mary Washington’s newspaper budget was slashed from $13,765 to just $100.

Virginia counties beg for transportation improvement funds

State taxpayers forced to pay record level $154-million USD for the Metro rail system in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.

The state Tobacco Commission claims it will spend 6-million tobacco settlement dollars on creating small businesses, jobs and education

WASHINGTON:  Bellingham Police officer fired after arrest for allegations of beating two men

Bernie Sanders says Seattle based Amazon paid no federal income tax in 2017

WASHINGTON DC: Investigation reveals federal agencies fail at cybersecurity

White House Cracks Down on Unions with Executive Orders

Federal Employees Face Cuts To Retirement Benefits And Pay Freezes

WEST VIRGINIA: HUD wants to know why West Virginia suspended flood recovery

Revealed that West Virginia politicians sat on federal taxpayer funded flood relief for months before releasing it

West Virginia Pursues FCC Mobile Broadband taxpayer Funding

West Virginia wants federal taxpayer funding to fight opioids

West Virginia Super PACs covered up massive out-o-state donations

WISCONSIN: Milwaukee Cop Suspended After Violent Arrest Caught on Video

22 schools get taxpayer funded ‘fab lab’ technology grants

Local governments create their own vehicle taxes to fund road repairs, due to lack of state level funding

WYOMING: University of Wyoming gets 9.77-million federal tax dollars for carbon storage

Yellowstone-Area Grizzly Bears to Be Hunted for First Time in Decades

Politicians want to create taxpayer funded trust to supposedly update and maintain the election system

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Government Shenanigans, April 2018:“BULLSHIT!”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”

ObamaCare ACA death spiral, May 2018:“…WILL CREATE DEATHS. THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS.” (even doctors are canceling their insurance)

Dumbing Down U.S.A., May 2018:“MORALE HAS NEVER BEEN LOWER.”

“Morale has never been lower.”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., May 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

 Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, May 2018:

Alaska: So much for anti-gun (anti-2nd Amendment) efforts, Anchorage police report a student at Gruening Middle School attacked other students with a razor.  Police arrested a boy for vandalizing the Fire Lake Elementary School, the school has been targeted since March with spray paint and windows being broken.

Alabama: The voluntary Alabama Sentry Program will allow school administrators to carry guns.  A Tuscaloosa City Schools substitute teacher arrested for having sex with a student.  The teacher is actually on contract through Kelly Educational Staffing, and her last name is Lovely.

Arizona: Christians have taken over the taxpayer funded public school system and removed references to evolution, causing one high school biology teacher to quit in protest: “I was directed to make changes to adjust the wording to ‘evolution’. That was coming from levels above me, I believe, from the superintendent’s office. I turned in my resignation and said, ‘I will not be part of this.'”-Lacey Wieser

Arkansas: A man pled guilty to stalking and killing a Sheridan High School student, the reason was stupid, the victim was dating his son’s ex-girlfriend.  A Conway High School student, who is also a father, was shot to death as he got inside his car, police say there are no witnesses or evidence to go on.

California: Dedicated to preventing violence in schools, Richstone Family Center issued a layoff WARN for its Hawthorne location, 58 jobs gone mid-June.  First Student issued a shutdown WARN for its school bus ops in Los Angeles, 174 jobs gone by the end of June!  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Notre Dame de Namur University from eliminating more programs and five teaching jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS.  Frederick K.C. Price III Christian Schools issued a shutdown WARN for a school in Los Angeles, 46 jobs gone by the end of June.   A new northern California elementary school is being named after an illegal immigrant. 

Colorado: Public schools are being boosted by a population boom and by an oil fracking boom. 

Connecticut: A Black Yale Student Was Napping, and a White Student Called the Police

Delaware: The state Department of Education revealed that 44% of students at Stubbs Elementary School were suspended last year.  A Middletown High School student arrested for threatening another student with a gun in the school toilet room.   A lawsuit claims the state Department of Education spends more taxpayer funding on students from high income families, at the expense of low income students. 

Florida:  First it was an Idaho teacher feeding a live puppy to an illegal snapping turtle (they are considered invasive specie in Idaho), now a teacher at Forest High School is accused of forcing students to drown live raccoons and opossums: “It made me sick. It made me sick to my stomach! …..took the cages, filled up large trash cans full of water, and had the children drown the raccoons in the cages inside the water, inside the trash cans!”-mother of student who said the incident was also captured on video

Georgia: Northgate High School and Canongate Elementary School locked down prison style after reports of a person with a gun  walking along a road near the schools.  Apparently no such person was ever found.

Hawaii: Schools near the Kilauea volcano shutdown by the goddess.  On Oahu, Waipahu Intermediate School locked down prison style as police searched for a ‘suspect’ that a woman reported as armed with a gun, police found no such ‘suspect’.

Idaho: Despite the fact that it is legal to carry a gun in public, without a permit, and that some teachers can have guns in school in The Gem State, the Lakeland Joint School District is spending taxpayer money on hiring armed guards.  Despite previous lawsuits that revealed that fees charged by Idaho school districts violates the state constitution, districts continue to charge fees and now another lawsuit at the federal level.   Non-profit “emergency shelter, residential care, youth and family therapy, job readiness training, adoption services,  and more for at-risk kids” Idaho Youth Ranch shutdown five of its thrift stores in Blackfoot, Boise (on Chinden Boulevard), Buhl, Emmett and Twin Falls, due to lack of sales.

Illinois: After only nine years Motherland College shutting down after the U.S. Department of Education accused it of illegal activity. High schools Belleville East and Belleville West were shutdown after a male student threatened a female student, the male student was arrested.  A school cop stopped a former student from shooting up Dixon High School by shooting and wounding the former student. Litchfield High School and Junior High was locked down after two rounds of ammo were found in a toilet room, no other info was released because it involves juveniles.  Benedictine University eliminating 32 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (enrollment dropped by about 2-hundred since 2016).

Indiana: A student used two pistols (not assault rifles) to shoot another student, and a teacher, at Noblesville West Middle School. The teacher knocked the pistols away and subdued the shooter.  Hoosier Academy issued a ‘pending’ shutdown WARN, 62 jobs gone possibly by June.

Iowa: A Linn-Mar High School nurse (who also worked for god’s own Saint Luke’s Hospital) pled not guilty to having sex with a student.  Three Waukee School District schools were placed in ‘non-emergency lock-down’ after one report of a man with guns near the schools, no such ‘man’ was found.  Fulton and Holy Ghost Elementary schools were locked down prison style because of a stand-off between police and three adults after a failed attempted traffic stop, the three adults were arrested but the incident had nothing to do with schools.  Paranoid parents unfairly forced Iowa City Community School District to fire a substitute teacher, after the parents discovered that the substitute was arrested, not convicted, on drug charges ten years ago.  On top of that the drug charges were supposed to have been expunged from arrest records in 2014.  Apparently Iowa City Community School District has a policy of rejecting applicants just for arrests, not convictions, all you unAmerican paranoid taxpayers of Iowa City Community School District can expect a lawsuit. 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:  No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Kansas:  In Derby, after 20 years Blue Dragon Books shutdown due to “family issues”  State law allows teachers to have guns in school, but more powerful insurance companies are blocking teachers from doing so!

Kentucky: Jefferson County Public Schools suddenly laid off 224 people as a result of what I call DSS!  Gray’s College Bookstore shutdown after 31 years, saying “The college textbook industry has changed dramatically over the years, and there is a bunch of things coming down the road for digital delivery.  Small family-owned college stores don’t have a place.”

Maine: After only three years the privately run Portland Science Center shutdown due to lack of customers.

Maryland: Several schools in Baltimore County placed on prison lock-down after a home burglary-in-progress/shoot-out left one cop dead, and four suspects arrested. It had nothing to do with schools, entire neighborhoods were also prison locked down. Ironically one of the locked down schools is named Gunpowder.   Four Glenelg High School students charged with vandalizing the school with ‘hate’ graffiti.

Massachusetts: Paranoid Phillips Andover, Curtis Middle School and Algonquin Regional High School shutdown over various threats.  One school got an email that, after investigation, revealed it might not even have been a threat, and was meant for an out-of-state school! Another school claimed a student had a gun, but police found no such thing!  The third threat came in the form of a note found at a school, yet police said there was nothing to go on in the note, it didn’t even mention students or a specific school!

Michigan:   Van Hoosen Middle School and Rochester Adams High School shutdown after high levels of mercury was found in the drinking water. The federal EPA says 2 parts per billion (ppb) is the maximum safe level for mercury, the school’s average sampling was 56-ppb!   Allendale Public Schools canceled its planned Sex Education Advisory Board hearing, and will ‘gather more info’, due to what is being posted on facebook regarding the school system’s sex ed course.

Minnesota: Taxpayers being raped of $25-million USD to ‘improve’ school security!  A student with a history of mental illness nearly beat to death a teacher’s aid at Harrison Education Center (security camera video shows the student using his fists, no gun needed)!  The teacher’s aid was put into a hospital in critical condition, but get this, a judge released the mentally deranged student to his family because the public defender said being in jail would make the student’s mental problems worse!  A  female Lincoln Park Middle School special ed teacher allegedly confessed to sex crimes with a 15 years old student that took place almost daily over a two weeks period.  Saint Francis Schools eliminating 36 jobs in June.

Mississippi: Due to massive math teacher shortage the state Board of Education lowered the standardized test score to qualify as a math teacher.

Missouri:  The ACLU is suing Independence School District after the district labeled a student’s Craigslist joke a threat.  The 3.9 g-p-a senior, with no school history of causing problems, wrote on the ad site that Truman High School was for sale. Now he can’t graduate.

Nebraska:  Hastings Public Schools refused to allow a graduate from wearing her U.S. Army sash to graduation, even threatened her on the day of graduation: “He pulled me out of line and said, ‘I talked to you and your father and you are not to be wearing that. If I see you wearing that again, you will not receive your diploma.'”-Megan Pohlmeier  

The school system has a clothing accessory policy that basically says if the school didn’t issue it you don’t wear it.

Nevada: Bonanza High School teacher arrested for making terroristic threats 

New Hampshire: Exalted state Department of Education screwed-up on state assessment tests, and as a result cost public schools $1.5-million USD! There’s now a push to get that $1.5-million issued to 163 districts, somebody send that Department of Education back to school.

New Jersey: Union Schools warning of as many as 2-hundred layoffs due to lack of funding, possibly caused by budgetary incompetence and taxpayer ripoffs by the school board!   Cumberland County College laying off 43 people and considering merging with a competing college due to a steady decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).  A 77 years old school bus driver, with a long history of traffic violations, made an illegal u-turn on a highway, plowing into a dump truck, killing a student and a teacher, and injuring dozens.  But wait, it wasn’t the only school bus that made an illegal u-turn on Route 80, school officials admitted that two other buses also broke traffic rules because the caravan of East Brook Middle School buses missed their exit!

New Mexico:  Taxpayer funded Shiprock High School scheduled christian prayers during graduation, not only in violation of the U.S. Constitution but in violation federal Supreme Court rulings.

Jesus of Nazareth said “Render unto Caesar what is his.”  Meaning if you take part in a government funded system then you play by its rules.

New York: Excelsior College laid off 50 employees due to lack of funding. The Yonkers Board of Education decided to eliminate 251 jobs due to being short $45.3-million USD!  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, 162 jobs gone by the end of the year!

North Carolina: Cape Fear Community College warned employees of layoffs because of “a projected decrease in budget, enhanced technologies and streamlined processes.”

North Dakota: Fargo Public Schools reports that at least 510 teachers and staff were injured by students in the 2017-18 school year, up by 169 from the previous school year!  District officials refused to give news media details of those injuries.  A Bismarck pharmacist already accused of terrorizing students and child porn, now facing new charges of planting hidden cameras to record school girls.

Ohio: Poland School District shutting down Dobbins Elementary School and reducing work hours for employees, in an effort to get outta a multi-million dollar deficit hole.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ own Hiram College from conducting layoffs and radical program restructuring due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS which has caused the school to cut $1-million USD from its budget.

Oklahoma: “Some teachers don’t even have classrooms. They keep their belongings, textbooks and supplies on carts and push them from classroom to classroom, hour to hour. I have been a traveling teacher. Like some of our fellow union members who are adjunct college professors and hold ‘office hours’ in their cars and nurses who travel from school to school, fingers crossed, hoping no one at a school across town will suffer a health crisis, it is almost impossible to be an effective educator while carting your work around.”-Melissa Smith

Oregon:  The University of Oregon apologized for blaming the death of one of its students on life-style choices. A school cop, and the North Bend High School principal, both fired for telling homosexual students they were going to burn in hell.

Pennsylvania: Durham School Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Chester Township ops, 67 jobs gone in June.  Carnegie Museum of Art/Museum of Natural History eliminating 76 jobs by July.  Norwin School District laying off eight teachers and jacking up property taxes by 3.1%, because state level taxpayer funding is no longer enough.  Keystone Central School District laid off 34 teachers due to a 10% decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).

Puerto Rico:  STUDENT PROTESTERS IN PUERTO RICO FACE TRIAL AS GOVERNMENT CRIMINALIZES DISSENT

Rhode Island: Warwick School Committee wants to layoff 71 teachers and one other employee because “Even with the closure of six schools in three years, we have a budget challenge”.

South Carolina:  Taxpayer funded teachers join state employees on strike.  A female Byrnes High School teacher was suspended, then officially retired, after claims that she failed to stop students from performing sex acts in class, on multiple occasions. The alleged sex acts were reported by another student, the teacher said when the classroom is full there are areas of the room she can’t see.

South Dakota: A religious group espousing polygamy discovered that without government issued birth certificates you can’t enroll your masses of children in taxpayer funded schools.

Tennessee: A female federal level Congress’man’ blames school shootings on porno!  

Texas:  A student, and son of an immigrant, shot-up Santa Fe High School, using a shotgun and a pistol (no assault rifles) he managed to kill ten people (possibly because of the inaction’s of police who were trained for such a shooting, at the very same school).  Friends of the shooter, and even his father, blame pervasive bullying at the school, school officials deny it.   God powerless to stop Sojourn Baptist Church from shutting down its Academy due to The Rapture, I mean low student enrollment.   San Antonio Independent School District eliminating 132 teaching jobs ostensibly to save money, however, an Army ROTC teacher said he was being laid off even though the U.S. Army pays most of his salary!  Houston Independent School District eliminating 250 jobs due to a $115-million deficit hole supposedly caused by crashing property taxes caused by Hurricane Harvey!

Utah: A teacher with Nebo School District says district officials repeatedly ignored her reports of a janitor sexually assaulting boys.  A teacher at North Sanpete High School under investigation for sexting a female student.

Vermont: Taxpayer funded schools are prepping for a population death spiral as lack of babies being born in the state set another record.

Virginia: Taxpayer funded schools use of ‘seclusion’ under scrutiny after a mentally challenged student, who can’t speak, was placed into seclusion, and Belmont Ridge Middle School couldn’t give her mother a reason why!  It was revealed because another student took a pic of the incident on an iPad, The Washington Post reports the incident is not isolated but systemic across the U.S. 

Washington DC: God’s own Catholic University of America laying off at least 35 people because of The Rapture, I mean DSS, school officials said “Morale has never been lower.”

Wisconsin: In Saint Nazianz, after 134 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Gregory Catholic School, due to The Rapture, I mean because they’ve “had declining enrollment numbers for some time”Delavan-Darien School District laying off 39 teachers and an undisclosed number of other employees, due to cash strapped taxpayers voting down a plan to spend an additional $3-million USD just for operating costs.

Dumbing Down U.S.A., April 2018: “THIS IS SOMETHING UNEXPECTED”

ROARING BACK WITH A VENGEANCE, U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GUN CLUBS!

“Bullshit!”: U.S. government shenanigans, April 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for April 2018:

Alabama: The state Department of Public Health discovered that immigrant girls under the age of 15, in Montgomery, are getting taxpayer funded abortions: “When a 13-year-old child–with non-English speaking parents–is given an abortion, without a third-party counselor and no suspicion of sexual abuse and no report, we know Montgomery needs new leadership.”-Scott Dawson, christian gubernatorial candidate

According to one political candidate most crime in the city of Mobile can be blamed on a small group of families: “In Mobile, it’s something like, 1,700 families generate 80% of the crime. We know who those families are.”Bill Hightower, gubernatorial candidate, 18APR2018

Seattle Times: Corruption case: Alabama lawmaker, 2 others plead not guilty

Chattanooga Times Free Press: ‘It smells like death’: Alabama endures New York City ‘poop train’

Slate Magazine: It’s Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama

Alaska: You might have heard that residents get income subsidies from the oil industry, but did you know most of it ends up back in the hands of state government (even though there is no income tax in Alaska), and that greedy state lawmakers are trying to find ways to squeeze even more out of residents? 

Seattle Times: 2 Alaska salmon fishermen charged with killing Steller sea lions, and interfering with federal investigations

Arizona: The governor exempted coal fired power-plants from paying state sales taxes. The irony is that the Navajo Generating Station, in Page, is scheduled to shutdown in 2019 anyway, meaning Arizona is losing about $12-million in tax revenues until then!   

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the epicenter for a growing e. coli epidemic is lettuce farms in Yuma, Arizona.

Arkansas:  NWAOnline: $42M in state aid to fix up Arkansas schools

Arkansas Online: Ecclesia College awarded state taxpayer funded grants before it even applied for those grants!  

Defense rests for ex-Arkansas legislator accused of fraud

Man claiming to being paid by taxpayers to hunt for Big Foot arrested on child porn charges

California: After almost 50 years, and more than 50 rapes and at least 12 murders it turns out The Golden State Killer was at one time a taxpayer funded cop!  Not only that, but it took police using unethical, and possibly court challenge-able (because it possibly violates California’s own Online Privacy Protection law), use of DNA and ancestry data to catch the killer cop.  The suspect killer was also in trouble as a cop, losing his taxpayer funded police job in 1979 after being caught shoplifting.

Homeless crisis in Los Angeles County as desperate officials offer to pay homeowners to take in homeless people!

Washington Post: California limits National Guard’s border mission

KPBS: More local governments in California are resisting the state’s immigrant sanctuary policy

Washington Times: Californians defy Gov’na with nearly 1 million signatures to repeal gas tax

Colorado:  The gov’na approved a $28.9-billion USD taxpayer funded spending bill, claiming it’s the result of a booming economy and federal-level taxpayer funded ‘reforms’.    Money will supposedly be spent on schools, roads and the state employee taxpayer funded retirement system.    The Colorado Petroleum Council could be getting what it wants; an increase the number of oil and gas wells, as well as forcing “nonconsenting owners” to give up access to their mineral rights, it’s known as the ‘pooling statute’. 

Connecticut: State taxpayers could be being forced to pay University of Connecticut student-teachers a new contract worth $15.4-million USD.    

State taxpayers forced to pay for a five years plan to bailout the city of Hartford, despite the Municipal Accountability Review Board saying the bailout plan will fail by the third year: “The City of Hartford should be immediately classified as a Tier IV and should re-look at going into bankruptcy.”-Bart C. Shuldman

Florida: Defense contractor Lockheed-Martin eliminating 2-hundred jobs at its Sikorsky factory in Jupiter, which builds Black Hawk helicopters for the taxpayers of the British empire member Canada!   The Crestview Police Department arrested a U.S. Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) soldier for the murder of his estranged wife.

Tampabay.com: Cops used dead man’s finger in attempt to unlock his phone

Georgia:  It’s been revealed that Newnan Police got nearly $1-million worth of taxpayer funded military equipment from the U.S. Department of Defense, half-a-million of which was classified as “non-lethal”

Chattanooga Times Free Press: Georgia city won’t share police shooting video

Guam: After telling territorial government employees they would be furloughed, supposedly due to unpaid taxes going back to 2016, the gov’na suddenly reversed course due to cutting $30-million USD from the general fund budget and because of a sudden approval of immigrant work visas!  The gov’na also said it was possible that up to $25-million in tax refunds could be issued.

Hawaii:  The federal government is suing defunct Sandwich Isles Communications in an attempt to recover 128-million taxpayer dollars, loaned to the company through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide phone service to rural areas.

Idaho: It’s been revealed that Gov’na Butch Otter pardoned a convicted drug felon, back in February, only now was it made public.  The Gov’na said it was because the convict successfully obtained a doctorate degree while on parole.  A former state representative was removed from the May primary elections because she is now living in a new district, Idaho law says you must reside for at least a year in your legislative district before you can run for election.  The greedy leaders of Boise are spending taxpayer funding on a new propaganda operation called Livability Ambassadors Program where “selected community members” will tour selected city sites and then “will be expected to share their experiences….through social media”.   Owyhee County Sheriff’s Department warning that a man is going around claiming he’s an undercover cop, already four people have been victimized.

Illinois: The city of Harvey is on the verge of bankruptcy, already laid off police and firefighters after $1.4-million in tax revenues were blocked by the Cook County Circuit Court.  The state Appellate Court overturned the Cook County Court’s ruling. Harvey is in the debt hole by as much as $7-million USD, and that’s just for its employee retirement fund! Did you know that Cook County charges a tax on vehicles bought outside of the county?   Lead contamination found in the city of Chicago‘s tap water, three out of every ten residences contaminated.   A vehicle sharing program has been suspended in a Chicago ward, primarily because of the construction of the Obama Presidential Library.   The gov’na is spending tax dollars traveling to Germany and Poland, supposedly in an attempt to increase tourism from those countries.  Taxpayers being forced to pay for 5G cell phone service installation, this after the state increased income tax rates last year.  The Illinois Pharmacy Association says ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies are paying the more than 5-hundred independent pharmacies less than what it actually costs them to buy the drugs at wholesale, and that ObamaCare-ACA ‘benefits managers’ (like CVS) are actually favoring the big corporate pharmacies: “It’s kind of a predatory market practice and misuse of state tax dollars.”-Garth Reynolds, Illinois Pharmacists Association

Indiana:  The gov’na announced he’s going on taxpayer funded trips to Europe and Israel, supposedly in an attempt to increase economic development.  British empire Commonwealth member India based InfoTech (IT) contractor InfoSys getting at least $101.8-million in state and local taxpayer incentives to build a massive training and data center at now vacant terminal of the Indianapolis International Airport, the ecstatic gov’na Eric Holcomb referred to the bribery by saying “This is a powerful partnership. It’s going to change the way we do business.”  You know your capitalist economy is a lie when taxpayers are forced to shell-out millions of dollars to create jobs (isn’t that communism?).  By the way most of the news media in Indiana failed to mention how much the InfoSys deal was costing taxpayers, one source even lied and said such info wasn’t available, however, news sources outside the state had the taxpayer rape data.

Iowa:  An ‘ally’ of the gov’na now accused of sexual harassment, the gov’na swears she didn’t know. The Iowa Pharmacy Association says ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies are paying  independent pharmacies less than what it actually costs them to buy the drugs at wholesale, and that ObamaCare-ACA ‘benefits managers’ like CVS are actually favoring the big corporate pharmacies.  And in response to a statement by a CVS Caremark spokesperson about price adjustments, Representative John Forbes, who is also a pharmacist, actually said “Bullshit!”

Kansas:  State legislators claim they can spend more money on education because they’ve jacked-up future tax collections by $540-million USD between now and June 2019!  However, the state Supreme Court says the proposed $4-billion in education funding still isn’t enough!  Politicians started jacking up state taxes in 2017.   Three men convicted in federal court of planning to blow up a ‘refugee’ apartment complex in Garden City.  The small city of 27-thousand people is known as a “meatpacking town” and apparently the ‘refugees’ are being brought in as cheap labor at the meat packaging plant at the expense of federal taxpayers.  The influx of ‘refugees’ and immigrants began at the end of 2013 under the Obama regime.  Even an NPR report from December 2013 suggested the use of immigrants and ‘refugees’ by unAmerican corporate America is intentional saying “…many plants have moved to rural Midwestern towns, which have seen a huge influx of immigrants as a result.”,  as well as “Garden City’s refugee and immigrant population is expected to grow, as Tyson continues recruiting more workers.”  The 2013 NPR report also revealed that by using immigrants and ‘refugees’ that “requests for food stamps are up 230 percent”

Kentucky: Massive drug addiction and resulting deaths causing requests for autopsies to skyrocket 26% since 2013, and the state does not have the funding to deal with it.  As a result the gov’na suggested moving Medical Examiner’s Office pathologists from direct state employment to indirect employment through universities, which would come with a pay raise but would also mean those pathologists would lose their state employee retirement accounts. Perhaps it’s actually a covert plan to save the state’s troubled employee retirement system?   The state Department of Education is recommending direct state control of Jefferson County Public Schools, after a year long audit revealed local ignorance regarding how to use funding for the school district, among other major problems.

Kentucky Career Center: Kentucky issued 30% more Workforce Opportunity Tax Credits to employers in fiscal year 2017​​

Louisiana:  Taxpayers might be raped of $1.5-billion (yes, ‘Billion’) in state and local tax incentives for convincing a plastics company from Taiwan, called Formosa Petrochemicals, to set up shop in Saint James!

Maine: Seattle Times: Police thought they’d seized heroin, but it was cremated human remains

Maryland: Baltimore based executive vehicle rental company AutoFlex officially protested the cancellation of its federal taxpayer funded contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 

The Washington Post: Montgomery County economy is stagnant, and leaders are ignoring job creation

Maryland rakes in millions of dollars from toll fines and penalties

Maryland flunks freedom of speech

Massachusetts: Providing body cameras for Boston cops will cost taxpayers $2-million USD in 2019.  At one time Boston was known for its rebellion against unfair taxes, now there’s a new push to create taxes that target specific income groups. 

Michigan:  A state judge ruled it’s unconstitutional to use taxpayer money to fund private schools, this after state ‘christian’ lawmakers gave 5-million tax dollars to religious schools in the past two years!  Taxpayers of Michigan will be forced to help fund a British empire United Kingdom based study on driverless cars! 

Minnesota:  Texas based Enbridge Energy spent $5-million USD bribing, I mean lobbying state politicians in 2017, making it the most costly state lobbying effort since 2007.  A now former FBI counter-terrorism agent, from Minnesota, pled guilty to leaking classified government documents to the mainstream ‘fake’ news media. 

Mississippi: More proof the criminal justice system is about making money as “Current Mississippi law requires an inmate to pay a monthly $55 fee when he or she is paroled…”  It’s been revealed that Japan based Toyota is getting even more taxpayer funded incentives to re-tool its Blue Springs Corolla factory, yet how much has not been revealed.  One of the taxpayer funded incentives rewards Toyota for paying employees more than $41-thousand USD per year.  Past state and local taxpayer funding for Toyota amounted to $325-million.  If the only way you can create ‘private sector’ jobs is with taxpayer funding then your capitalist/corporate economic system has failed.

Missouri: The gov’na is now charged with felony computer tampering regarding the theft of a charity list from his own charity organization, The Mission Continues.

Montana:  One of the biggest recycling operations in the state, Aware Incorporated, shutting down ops in Butte due to the crashing prices of recycled materials and crashing state taxpayer funded subsidies for recycling companies.  

Nebraska: A new law was created to protect state taxpayers from an ‘inadvertent’ increase in state taxes, which supposedly could be caused by the Trump Tax Reforms of 2017.   Another new law ensures “that gun control extremists won’t have access” to gun owner’s personal information.

Nevada:  Atlantic Richfield, owner of the former Anaconda copper mine-now a federal SuperFund site, suddenly halted home delivery of bottled water to the Yerington Paiute Tribe: “I believe that this dismissive, arrogant act means to punish us by cutting off our water in an attempt to pressure us to stop fighting for our legal rights.”-Laurie Thom, Tribal Chairman

Las Vegas Sun: 20 ways legal marijuana has affected Nevada

New Hampshire:  Taxpayers funding BirdsEyeView Aerobatics of Andover with $1.8-million USD for a measly 50 airborne drones to help the U.S. Department of the Interior fight ever increasing wildfires.

New Jersey:  A new law automatically registers people to vote when they get a drivers license or I-D card.  The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says New Jersey has the highest rate of autism in their latest survey.   U.S. Senator Robert Menendez ordered to pay-back ‘gifts’ he got from a doctor whom he actively promoted by using his position as a U.S. senator.  

New Mexico: Albuquerque now requires federal immigration agents to get a warrant before entering the cityState taxpayers have been funding up to 75% of job training for call center employees, already the state has set aside as much as $9-million USD for this year’s call center job training!  On top of that, taxpayer funded subsidies for job training for all industries is at $13.7-million!  One of the biggest recipients of call center training subsidies is Ohio based Convergys, who has already laid off 258 New Mexicans so far this year!  To prove that the U.S. is now run by communists, the state Legislative Finance Committee justified the spending of working class taxes to create working class jobs as a way of “…creating well-paying opportunities for a skilled labor force that in turn bolsters the state’s average income and incentivizes workers to stay.”

New York:  Yet another reason that more and more people are leaving NYC as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is now considered the most expensive toll bridge in the United States.  State taxpayers being forced to create a new Medicaid Doula (Greek for ‘servant’) system in an attempt to stop the unusually high maternal mortality rate among ‘black’ women.

North Carolina: The paranoid gov’na wants taxpayers to fork-over an additional $130-million USD for school building safety improvements and to hire hundreds of additional school nurses, psychologists and police officers.

North Dakota: The gov’na ordered state agencies to prep for major taxpayer funding cuts, caused by a reduction in budget funding of $1.7-million USD as a result of crashing petroleum industry activity.

Ohio: The Ohio Pharmacy Association says ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies are paying  independent pharmacies less than what it actually costs them to buy the drugs at wholesale, and that ObamaCare-ACA ‘benefits managers’ are actually favoring the big corporate pharmacies like CVS, who just happens to be the subcontracted pharmacy benefit manager.  As a result, 165 independent pharmacies in Ohio have gone out-of-business in the past two years!   Taxpayers funding a new law to study why Ohio courts have been reluctant to upload criminal records to the anti-gun National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Oklahoma: A new law changes the way people convicted of drug crimes, including repeat offenders, are treated by the state’s criminal justice system.  But don’t think it’s for ‘humanitarian’ reasons, the state prison system is overcrowded with drug crime offenders and if something isn’t done to reduce the prison population then it’s expected that taxpayers would have to fork-over more than $1.2-billion USD to build new prisons over the next ten years.

Oregon: The state is being overwhelmed with data concerning its legalized ganja program.  By law the 1-thousand-8-hundred licensed Mary-Jane dealers have to input data everyday into the state Cannabis Tracking System, the result is that state law enforcers can’t deal with the data!

Pennsylvania: A failed political candidate and assistant vice president of Villanova University shot and killed by the wife of her lover, after getting caught: “You had a man who was married who was having an affair with this other woman. The wife knew about it, and this was a calculated, planned attack.”-Police Superintendent William Colarulo

Puerto Rico: The Columbian: US mainland politicians wooing Puerto Ricans who fled storm

BuzzFeed News: Puerto Rico Wants To Send Thousands Of Inmates To Private for-profit Prisons on mainland U.S.

Rhode Island: Despite ongoing problems, the state Health & Human Services is extending a contract for a vendor responsible for the ‘UHIP debacle’.  The Unified Health Infrastructure Project for low income people is also known as RI Bridges, and is meant to ascertain a person’s eligibility for SNAP, cash assistance and/or Medicaid.  Contractor Deloitte Consulting has so far failed to get the $492-million taxpayer funded UHIP system to work, but is getting the contract extension because it claims to continue working on UHIP for free.

South Carolina: The State: SC guards who take bribes, deal drugs in prison get off easy

NBCNews: Shortage of guards eyed after South Carolina prison riot 

South Carolina Corrections employees charged in prison contraband

New York Post: Inmates in South Carolina prison riot bled to death

USA Today: “While South Carolina’s prison system now ranks among the country’s cheapest for taxpayers, it’s also become one of the deadliest…”

South Dakota:  Three First Nations tribes want direct control over the federally run Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City, saying the taxpayer funded U.S. Indian Health Service is a failure: “…as we all know and have seen for several years, they have failed to do that at the cost of lives and at the cost of healthcare for our people.”-Jerilyn Church, Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board

Tennessee: A new law will require healthy adults with no children to work in order to qualify for Medicaid, never-mind that already an estimated 180-thousand working (employed) Tennesseans should, but don’t, qualify for ObamaCare-ACA Medicaid!

Texas: The police chief of New Boston could be fired for the ‘F-5’ termination of a police officer.  City leaders say the firing was not justified, but the police chief indicated the officer lied to him.  Texas law requires a written reason for being fired, the city says the police chief didn’t give one.  The police chief also accused the city attorney of lying saying “Lying on a government document is a crime and you should know that being the city attorney.”

Utah: State taxpayers forced to fork-over $650-million USD for a new prison west of Salt Lake City International Airport.

Vermont: According to The Washington Post, Vermont is so lacking in working aged adults that the state government has launched a program to hire tourists!   A taxpayer subsidized program to bring cell phone service to 26 towns is in trouble because the Massachusetts based contractor,  Vanu-CoverageCo, is out of money.  It’s also blamed on connectivity problems with AT&T, and on unspecified problems with taxpayer funded Public Service Department.  What happened to the old landline system?

Virginia:  The state Supreme Court revived the idea that scanning vehicle license plates could be a violation of personal information, and as such could affect every law enforcement agency in the state.

Washington: Despite openly anti-2nd Amendment cities like Seattle, pro-gunners held rallies across The Evergreen State.

Washington DC: It’s been revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained U.S. citizens for weeks, and even years, simply because agents refused to accept the fact they were detaining U.S. citizens!  

The U.S. Department of the Interior requesting Congress to consider forcing you to pay for access to taxpayer funded U.S. Geological Survey data! 

New York Times: IRS Website Crashes on Tax Day as Millions Tried to File Returns

US Must Keep DACA and Accept New Applications, DC Judge Rules

West Virginia: The West Virginia National Guard is now assigned to mentor the military of Qatar, but don’t think it’s about national security, it’s about the oil: “This new partnership will benefit West Virginia as we learn from their extensive natural gas and energy infrastructure programs.”-David McKinley, U.S. Representative

Wisconsin: Two former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh administrators face felony charges regarding an ongoing financial scandal surrounding several construction projects.

Milwaukee Business Journal: 5 new laws that will impact Wisconsin’s housing market in 2018

Wyoming:  Cody Regional Health is offering an opioid addiction treatment, the only problem is that it uses an opioid as part of the treatment.  Officials with the hospital wouldn’t say what the opioid was, but claims it “doesn’t make them high.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Government Shenanigans, March 2018: “THEY GOT IT WRONG.”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: TAKE BACK DAY

ObamaCare ACA death spiral, April 2018:“NEW NORMAL”

Dumbing Down U.S.A., April 2018:“THIS IS SOMETHING UNEXPECTED”

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: Military Ops NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018

“new normal”: ObamaCare ACA death spiral, April 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in April 2018:

A study by Crowe Horwath says for-profit insurance companies take 30 days longer to reimburse a healthcare provider than taxpayer funded Medicare.  

According to The Economist it cost the royal family of England less money to give birth than it does the average ‘commoner’ family in the United States!  

Fidelity Investments says Americans about to retire need at least $280-thousand USD to cover healthcare expenses, a 75% increase since 2002 (so much for Obamacare).

The Commonwealth Fund accuses the U.S. healthcare industry of being the world’s 7th largest producer of CO2.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that only 37% of doctor quality of care standards are to be considered valid! 

Two studies warn that even after ‘reprocessing’ 71% of endoscopes still infected by active bacteria.

Operator of 11 ObamaCare-ACA call centers General Dynamics Information Technology now accused of shorting its employees of $100-million USD in taxpayer funded paychecks! 

According to a study by Verizon the healthcare industry is the only industry were cybersecurity threats by ‘insiders’ outnumber outside cybersecurity threats! 

JPMorgan Chase Institute reporting that more and more Americans who get tax refunds are using their refunds on healthcare, despite ObamaCare-ACA.

Possible cause of increased STDs as Quest Diagnostics reports 1 in 4 doctors ignore STD testing guidelines if the female patient has no symptoms. 

PayScale says females working as medical assistants make more money than male medical assistants. 

Medscape Physician Compensation Report says ‘black’ doctors make and average of $50-thousand per year less than ‘white’ doctors!

The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the United States could be short 121-thousand doctors by 2030!

More than 80% of Chief Nursing Officers say they can’t find qualified nurses. 

Becker’s Hospital Review reports an unusually high number of hospital executives are quitting their jobs.

Non-profit Shriners Hospital for Children shutting down inpatient care service at many of its 22 hospitals around the U.S.!  It’s blamed on lack of donations and ObamaCare-ACA drastically cutting back on reimbursements for inpatient care.  Administrators for Shriners said their only other option was to start shutting down hospitals!

Arizona: Phoenix based Banner Health fined $18-million USD for filing fake taxpayer funded Medicare claims.

California: Symantec is warning of a new computer virus primarily targeting the healthcare industry; Orangeworm is infecting internet connected X-Ray, MRI and other medical devices as part of an operation to steal your data (Symantec first noticed it in 2015).  Healthcare tech company Theranos issued a layoff WARN for its Newark operations, 105 jobs gone by mid-June It’s in connection to the fact the company was accused of frauding investors regarding a new hi-tech way of testing blood donations, which turned out didn’t really work the way it was advertised.   At one time Theranos employed 8-hundred people. Molina Healthcare finally notified state employment officials that it laid off 79 Californians in March.  Texas based Concentra suddenly laid off 177 people in Valencia!  Pacific Alliance Medical Center, which shutdown in December, finally notified state employment officials of how many people lost their jobs; 739!  In Long Beach, Community Medical Center issued a shutdown WARN, 353 jobs gone by July!  San Diego based Biotheranostics paying $2-million USD fine for frauding taxpayer funded Medicare.  The FBI raided the home of now former CEO of Tulare Regional Medical Center, who is suspected of all kinds of fraud ops while at the hospital.  It’s been revealed that a woman was charged $792 for a mandatory ambulance evacuation during a possible dam break in 2017!  Memorial Medical Center fined only $71-thousand for causing the 2016 death of a female patient by giving the woman 25 times the standard dose of blood thinner, which caused the woman to bleed to death internally!  The state Attorney General has ordered Mission Community Hospital, Emanuel Medical Center, and University of Southern California Verdugo Hills Hospital to fork over millions of dollars for failing to follow the state’s charity care rules!  Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center in trouble for sending home a 90 years old patient with kidney failure in a taxi, without notifying the family.  Goleta based medical device maker Inogen revealed that data of 30-thousand of its customers has been stolen, I mean improperly accessed!  The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education took away Kern Medical’s surgery residency program’s accreditation.  In Los Angeles, Avalon Villa Care Center accused of dumping a diabetic patient at homeless shelter, without his insulin!  Facebook halted its hospital patient data collection ops due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Colorado: Saint Mary-Corwin Medical Center laying off 3-hundred people, but then says that it’ll hire back most of them!  Non-profit Boulder Community Health suddenly laid off 25 people, due to rising costs, declining admissions, falling reimbursements and increased competition.  Centura Health’s Longmont United Hospital eliminating less than 30 jobs due to a variety of reasons.   Memorial Regional Health outsourcing 24 billing/coding jobs.  A now former medical assistant at Kaiser Hospital, in Union City, charged with sex crimes against patients.  God’s own Porter Adventist Hospital admitted that an infection control breach, which potentially exposed 5-thousand-8-hundred patients, was caused by human error.  The state Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed that several of Porter Adventist Hospital’s patients have become infected as a result of the breach.  CovenantCare at Home shutting down, 67 jobs gone in May.  Sky Ridge Medical Center charged a new mom more than $1-thousand USD for circumcising her newborn daughter!

Connecticut: Birmingham Health Center issued a shutdown WARN, but did not say how many people would lose their jobs in June.  Police locked down MidState Medical Center after a man came in covered in a white powder, which turned out to be baking soda.

Florida: In Pinellas Park, Transitions Optical eliminating 12 jobs by June.  An employee of a Sunshine State based medical supplier surrendered after getting caught stealing, and then selling on ebay, $231-thousand USD worth of medical supplies.  It was his own employer who caught him after somebody noticed the stolen goods on ebay. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital drastically cut back on surgeries after a baby was discharged with a suture needle in its heart!  Tennessee based Community Health Systems selling-off its Munroe Regional Medical Center to god’s own Adventist Health System.

Georgia: Chestatee Regional Hospital shutting down, 2-hundred jobs gone by the end of July due to being sold!  Taxpayers forced to pay for out-of-pocket expenses of 600-thousand employees affected by the contract lapse between Piedmont Healthcare and Blue Cross/Blue Shield!  Georgia Bone & Joint, Southern Bone & Joint aka Summit Orthopaedic Surgery Center, Southern Crescent Anesthesiology, PC (SCA), Sentry Anesthesia Management, and David LaGuardia hit with $3.2-million USD federal fine for bribes to guaranty business and filing fake Medicare claims for drugs bought outside the United States.

Idaho: In Sandpoint, ‘Supplements and At-Home Health Tests’ maker Thorne Research laid off 136 people!  In Caldwell, West Valley Medical Center revealed to have the most teaching hospital rules violations in the U.S., from 2014 to 2017!   The National Health Security Preparedness Index says The Gem State is among 21 states that are the least prepped for a social health emergency.  Benewah Community Hospital discovered that its main cause of recent lost revenue was the new Cerner billing software program!  Parts of the Saint Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center lost electrical power for an hour, supposedly because of a bird getting tangled in power lines.

Illinois: The doctor owner of Palos Medical Care charged with charging $1-million USD worth of fake treatments to insurance companies and taxpayer funded Medicare.  It’s been revealed that taxpayer funded DeKalb County Rehab and Nursing Center was fined $25-thousand USD for causing a patient to fall and break their leg.  UnityPoint Health revealed it got hacked, resulting in 16-thousand patient records being stolen!  State Healthcare and Family Services has banned Blue Cross/Blue Shield from enrolling any new customers into Medicaid due to ‘noncompliance’.  A now former doctor with the taxpayer funded Cook County Health and Hospitals System accused of spending more than 248-thousand tax dollars on unauthorized expenses for personal items (like a piano and radar detector)!  University of Illinois Hospital wants to shutdown its physical therapy ops.  NorthShore University HealthSystem sued for collecting employee fingerprints without consent.

Indiana: A Ball State University study says 95% of mental health providers are failing patients in rural areas.  Anthem reported a 30% increase in profit, despite losing 1-million ObamaCare-ACA customers! The insurance company claims the profit is a result of cost cutting.  Miller’s Health System suddenly shutdown its short-term rehab unit due to lack of customers.

Iowa: Genesis Health System suddenly laid off 48 people, blaming “shrinking reimbursements and escalating costs” that have thwarted “cost-saving measures in recent years”.

Kansas: The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) halted payments to Blue Valley Hospital, the hospital is now suing.

Kentucky: Mountain Manor Nursing Home bankrupt busted due to fines imposed by Medicare and Medicaid services, declining patient volume and undisclosed deficiencies discovered during a state inspection.  KentuckyOne Health selling its Saint Joseph Martin hospital and four clinics to Appalachian Regional Healthcare.

Louisiana: Lafayette General Health notified 8-hundred employees of potential layoffs due to lack of state-level taxpayer funding!

Maryland: MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center shutting down its pediatric inpatient and emergency room units due to a 40% drop in customers.

Massachusetts:  So many people are sick that a study found that in order for the state funded RomneyCare system (prototype for the national ObamaCare system) to provide enough nurses for adequate care taxpayers would have to cough-up an additional $1.31-billion USD, plus another $900-million every year after that!  Lowell General Hospital suddenly laid off 29 people due to lack of money.  Lahey Hospital & Medical Center revealed it fired an employee for secretly video recording co-workers in the toilet room.  UMass Memorial Health Care System shutting down its Plumley Village Health Services, in Worcester, because it serves profit eating low income zombies on Medicaid: “We’re sorry for the people impacted by this, but really, this is the right decision for the organization.”-Eric Dickson, CEO

Michigan: Aspirus Crystal Falls Clinic suddenly shutdown its dialysis operations, blaming a sudden crash in customers.  Sturgis Hospital shutting down three urgent care clinics primarily because of a lack of ObamaCare-ACA reimbursements.  In Lake City, after 26 years Jerry’s Pharmacy shutdown due to ‘economic realities’.  Mental health provider New Center Community Services issued a shutdown WARN, 66 jobs gone due to “unforeseen business circumstances”.  Six employees of god’s own Providence Christian Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center suing because they’re mad that patients are being allowed to request ‘white’ caregivers only.  As proof there are too many people addicted to the healthcare industry, automobile maker Ford has launched a GoRide non-emergency medical transportation service covering about 322 square kilometers (2-hundred square miles) of Michigan, to stress this is for regular non-emergency medical appointments. 

Minnesota: UnitedHealth Group admitted its CEO makes 298 times more than its median employee!  Illinois based medical device maker Vyaire Medical shutting down its factory in Plymouth, 50 jobs gone.  The Mayo Clinic is bribing 4-hundred transcriptionists to voluntarily quit (buyouts)!

Mississippi: A Saint Dominic Hospital employee arrested for stealing and selling patient’s financial information.  University of Mississippi Medical Center got caught by local news media in overcharging for treatment of children.   Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center eliminating 1-hundred jobs due to ObamaCare funding cuts and the cost of being forced to upgrade the hospital to federal standards!  A judge has ordered a 25% cut in retirement pay for retired employees of the Singing River Health System, in a desperate attempt to keep the retirement fund from going bust!  The state Supreme Court ruled that federal Medicaid ripped off Mississippi hospitals to the tune of $2-million in unpaid reimbursements!  The U.S. Burden of Disease Collaborators says The Magnolia State has the lowest life expectancy in the country.

Missouri: CoxHealth-Cox South Hospital admitted it gave a patient the wrong blood type! Local news media says hospital admin refuses to answer questions about the patient’s condition.   State investigators are trying to find out why there’s been a surge in air-ambulance billing.   The family of a boy injured on a camping trip charged $32-thousand USD for the air-ambulance ride, because Anthem-Blue Cross/Blue Shield said the ambulance service was out-of-network!

Montana: Community Medical Center suddenly laid off 16 people due to state-level cuts for people on taxpayer funded Medicaid.  Kalispell Regional Healthcare suddenly laid off about 40 people due to reduced taxpayer funded reimbursements.

Nebraska: Community Healthcare System warns of shutdown if it can’t come up with $800-thousand USD to pay for ObamaCare-ACA mandated upgrades.  Mary Lanning Hospital paying more than $600-thousand USD for fake Medicare claims.

Nevada:  Community Triage Center under threat of shutdown due to taxpayer funding disputes with the state Health and Human Services, the city of Las Vegas, other government entities, as well as funding disputes with Las Vegas hospitals.  WalletHub declared The Silver State to be the worst state for children’s healthcare.

New Hampshire: Cigna eliminating 50 jobs at its Hooksett credentialing office.

New Jersey:  Arizona based medical device maker MedPlast shutting down its factory in West Berlin, 67 jobs lost by the end of June.  Lakewood Pathology Associates-Inform Diagnostics issued a WARN, 117 jobs gone by June!  Personal Touch Home Care issued several WARNs, 181 jobs gone by mid-May!  West-Ward Pharmaceuticals eliminating 38 jobs by July.  Virtua Medical Group paying more than $400-thousand USD as a result of making patient records publicly available online.

New Mexico: New Mexico Heart Institute canceled its contract with god’s own Presbyterian Health Plan, affecting 3-thousand patients!

New York: CCS Oncology and Healthcare now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to “substantial debt” and the fact that the FBI ‘raided’ the company.  Easter Seals issued a shutdown WARN for four of its Intermediate Care Facilities, 78 jobs gone by mid-July. Association for Neurologically Impaired Brain Injured Children issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Oakland Gardens, at least 25 jobs gone by the end of June.  Phoenix House Foundation issued a layoff WARN for its addiction treatment ops in Brooklyn-NYC, 30 jobs gone between July and the end of September. MZL Home Care Agency halting ops in Brooklyn-NYC, 1-thousand-535 jobs gone by mid-July due to operations being sold to a competitor! Aspire of WNY issued a layoff WARN for its Buffalo and Lakewood locations, 61 jobs gone by the end of June.   Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled issued a layoff WARN for its Buffalo location, 31 jobs gone by the end of June.  A North Shore University Hospital nurse arrested for stealing $34-thousand USD worth of medical devices.  NYC Health + Hospitals lost a laptop containing data for 595 patients.  NYC Fire Department paramedic arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient.

North Carolina: A now former employee of Mission Hospital accused of stealing $104-thousand USD from her former employer.  Atrium Health suddenly shutdown two clinics supposedly due to lack of employees.

Ohio: Philips Medical Systems issued a layoff WARN, 79 jobs gone by the end of June.  Prescription drugs manager Express Scripts issued a shutdown WARN for its Columbus ops, 456 jobs gone by mid-June!  A civil-trial jury awarded a 77 years old doctor $28-million USD after he was fired from the Cleveland Clinic Head & Neck Institute because of his age.

Oregon: Providence Saint Vincent Medical Center warning that one of its nurses came to work sick with TB.   The hospital offering free tuberculosis testing as a result.

Pennsylvania:  Allegheny Health Network suddenly laid off 75 people, despite claims that the company is growing.  Penn State Health-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center apologized to 2-thousand-1-hundred patients after refusing to treat people with multiple sclerosis, claiming they didn’t have enough employees to do so!  A woman was arrested after stealing a credit card from a patient in the Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital, and racking up $4-thousand USD in charges.  Bloomberg reports that the CEO of Universal Health Services was paid 541 times more than the average Universal Health Services employee.  God’s own UPMC Presbyterian notified 4-thousand-7-hundred patients that an employee came to work infected with TB between October 2017 and February 2018!  The employee is on leave.  UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center warning of shutdown due to the hospital needing at least $10-million in repairs.  It’s been revealed that the now dead doctor-owner of Pelicci Pain Relief Center ripped-off the worker compensation insurance program and his estate must now pay a federal fine of $625-thousand.  Jefferson Health announced plans to reduce the number of its hospital beds by 4-hundred, blaming it on a decline in need for inpatient care.  Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh shutdown its inpatient rehab hospital, about 90 jobs gone.  For proof that having insurance doesn’t pay; a family went to the hospital but forgot their Aetna insurance card, the family’s initial out-of-pocket cost of the visit was $821, but after they brought in their Aetna card their out-of-pocket cost jumped to  $1-thousand-214: “I wanted to go back and ask if I could pretend I didn’t have insurance anymore.”-Annette Alexander

South Carolina: Roper Hospital  being sued for actually making 27 patients sick with non-tuberculosis mycobacteria.  There is a connection, all those made sick had gone in for breast cancer treatment.  AnMed Health shutting down two of its retail pharmacy ops.

Tennessee: Ballad Health suddenly laid off 150 people and shutdown 49 vacant jobs, claiming the positions were redundant!  But wait, at the same time schizophrenic Ballad Health admin claim they are hiring for 7-hundred positions! A man who dressed as Spider-Man, to wash the windows at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, sentenced to 105 years in prison for child porn.   The CEO of Brentwood based Quorum Health got a big raise, to a total compensation of $3-million USD in 2017, despite the fact that Quorum Health has been laying off employees and selling-off assets supposedly due to lack of money (claiming tens of millions of dollars in losses every year).  However, the poor CEO defended his pay by saying that last year he didn’t get a bonus, claiming that his 2017 compensation was 34% less than in 2016.  Oh boo-hoo!

Texas: To show you how screwed up your taxpayer funded state health regulators are, the state Health and Human Services Commission fired an employee for violating HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules, then violated the rules itself by mailing the now former employee a box of patient’s personal records!  God’s own Seton Medical Center Austin forcing pregnant female patients to ‘agree’ to pay for fetal burials if they miscarry.  For-profit BlueCross BlueShield telling some Texans that they’ll have to pay for 100% of non-emergency ‘out-of-network’ hospital visits.  Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Hospital reports they fired a doctor after finding child porn on his computer.  Dallas based Tenet Healthcare says it’s hurting so much for nurses that its offering a $25-thousand sign-on bonus (maybe Tenet shouldn’t have laid off so many people?).  College Station Medical Center shutting down its labor and delivery unit in July.  A now former nurse with Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital and Christus Mother Frances Hospital charged with intentionally killing a patient, and leaving at least two other patients in vegetative states. Texas Health Resources revealed that about 4-thousand patients had their data stolen by a ‘unauthorized third party’.  A now former Parkland Memorial Hospital employee pled guilty to stealing patient data of Dallas County prisoners. Huntsville Memorial Hospital suddenly shutdown its emergency room ops in an effort to reduce expenses.

Washington: Grays Harbor Community Hospital District suddenly laid off 60 people,  in March it laid off 31 people as well as layoffs in January.  Some full time employees were reduced to part time hours. Other employees are being asked to retire early or go on voluntary furlough. Local news media called it the “new normal” for healthcare.  University of Washington Medical Center shutting down its inpatient psychiatric unit.

Washington DC: Another sure sign the prescription drug industry is a mafioso scam; at the National Business Group on Health‘s conference the national drug supply chain was described as “convoluted” and “expensive”.  Senator Ron Wyden (from Oregon) says 20 major healthcare companies will get a total of $100-billion USD in tax benefits over the next decade due to the Trump Tax Law.   The U.S. FDA finally admitting there’s a problem with medical devices by unveiling The Medical Device Safety Action Plan.  The mayor of DC wants to spend taxpayer dollars to replace the United Medical Center with a hospital half its size.  A lawsuit against MedStar Washington Hospital Center alleges that never ending infections of patients (which directly caused the death of at least one patient) is the result of unresolved ‘black water’ sewage leakage in the operating rooms.

West Virginia: Mylan Pharmaceuticals suddenly laid off more than 4-hundred people in Morgantown, saying the drugs factory “needed to be rightsized”!  A now former employee of WVU Medicine University Healthcare-Berkeley Medical Center fined $22-thousand USD for stealing patient data.  It’s been revealed that a nurse who worked for four months at the Eastbrook Center was actually an impostor: “… the leadership of Eastbrook became aware that a woman with a history of deceptive behavior had posed as a registered nurse using another person’s license number.”

Wisconsin: God’s own Sacred Heart Hospital and Saint Joseph’s Hospital both warning of massive layoffs saying “The healthcare industry continues to experience a shift in the way people utilize health care services nationwide. High deductible insurance plans are causing many people to postpone care…”   Mmmm, isn’t that what ObamaCare-ACA was trying to avoid?  A nurse at Waukesha Memorial Hospital accused of stealing more than $2-thousand USD from a patient.   Wheaton Franciscan-Saint Joseph Hospital shutting down surgical and inpatient care in low-income neighborhood, due to lack of revenues.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral March 2018: “HEALTHCARE IS A TAPEWORM”