Category Archives: Idaho

Idaho, International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 01-04 March 2014: U.S. POW to be left behind? Another drone strike takes out innocent family!

Helmand Province: In Gerishk District, villagers say government military type men conducted an Israeli style home invasion and kidnapped four people.

Herat Province:  Reports of a massive attack on a government compound.  Some reports say there were multiple explosions, but no more details have been given.

Kabul Province:  In Kabul City, a man was arrested for buying voter ID cards, and then re-selling them.  Mujahideen claim they assassinated a Afghan National Army Colonel.

Kandahar Province: In Kandahar City, Mujahideen say a suicide bomber attacked the local National Directorate of Security and local police compound.  Dozens of people killed or wounded.  23 Mujahideen were successful in breaking out of the provincial prison.  In Hisarak District, ten government personnel joined the Mujahideen.

Kunar Province:  In Ghaziabad District, a U.S. drone strike killed five people.  The location of the airstike is the same place where Mujahideen killed 21 U.S. trained Afghan government soldiers, last week.  Mujahideen say that those killed by the U.S. drone strike were not part of the Mujahideen.  Mujahideen say the drone strike killed a family of one man, two women and two children.

Logar Province: In Pul-e-Alam City, a car bomb exploded killing 14 people.  Local cops claim almost all those killed were Mujahideen, and at least seven were from Pakistan.

Nangarhar Province: There are reports that 40 people have been kidnapped in the districts of Goshta and Lalpur.  Nobody seems to know whose behind it.

Parwan Province: In Kohi Safi District, three civilians were killed during a firefight between Mujahideen and Afghan government forces.

Takhar Province: In Iskamish District, villagers are accusing U.S. military of conducting night time Israeli style home invasions.  Four people kidnapped.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai criticized the U.S.-led War on Terror, saying  Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9-11: “Afghans died in a war that is not ours!”

There are reports that U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, of Idaho, will be left in Afghanistan after the Obama regime pulls out combat personnel for actions elsewhere.   Maybe it’s becasue he realized the U.S. War on Terror is a lie: “The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.”-Bowe Bergdahl, letter to his parents that was leaked to news media in 2012

A Lieutenant with the New Hampshire Air National Guard died in Qatar, of a heart attack.  He was supporting ops in Afghanistan and at least seven other countries.

260 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 371st Sustainment Brigade (Ohio) returned from Kuwait.  They were supporting combat ops in Afghanistan and seven other countries.

50 militia-airmen of the Air National Guard’s 127th Special Forces Squadron, 127th Wing (Michigan) returned from Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s Detachment 52 Operational Support Airlift Command (Wisconsin) deploying to Afghanistan.

The Air National Guard’s 290th Joint Communications Support Squadron (Florida) deploying to Afghanistan.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: General Mills abandons East Idaho!

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Minnesota based cereal maker General Mills selling off all its eastern Idaho grain elevator operations.  It will affect the cities of Newdale, Blackfoot, American Falls, Rockford, Idaho Falls and Pocatello.

General Mills has been experiencing crashing sales.  Awake consumers will tell you it’s because General Mills uses GMO (genetically engineered) crops.  Also, Oxfam International ranks General Mills in last place for sustainability and human rights, including treatment of women and farm workers.   This has led to a boycott of General Mills products by awake consumers.

But that’s not how General Mills sees it: “The slowdown in category sales……isn’t a consumer issue, it’s due to insufficient product news and advertising….”-Ken Powell, CEO

The new owner of the east Idaho grain elevators, Agspring, claims they have plans to expand their new operations in Idaho, by using a “…a new combination of existing resources with a different business approach….”

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 10-15 November 2013. Once again, more ObamaCare layoffs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Alabama: In Jasper, Twin Pines Resort & Conference Center shutdown.  60 jobs lost.  In Birmingham, Rock Mountain Mining laid off 53 employees.

California:  Intuit laid off 13 employees.  Symantec laid off seven people.  In Riverbank, more layoffs by Silgan Containers, this time 30.  In Los Angeles, Investors Business Daily laid off 15 employees.  NBC Universal laid off 97 entertainment industry workers.  In San Bernardino, McLain/Suneast laid off 53 workers.   In El Centro, International Paper laid off two employees.  At Fort Irwin U.S. Army National Training Center, taxsucker Northrop Grumman laid off 55 employees.  At Yosemite National Park, taxsucker DNC Parks & Resorts laid off 1396 people!  In Santa Anna, PSS World Medical laid off 38 employees.  In San Diego, US Security Associates laid off 53 security guards.

Idaho: In Idaho Falls, Mattress Country “Calls it Quits!”, and shutdown.

New York:  Atlantic Express Transportation went bust and shutdown.  At least 199 jobs lost!  Too Big to Jail, Sterling National Bank laid off 16 employees.  12th Restaurant began shutting down some of its operations (such as Nathan’s/ Roy Roger’s/Tim Horton’s/Lindy’s).  So far 46 jobs lost.  In Rouses Point, legal drugs maker Pfizer shutdown its drugs factory.  51 jobs lost.  In Brooklyn, Interfaith Medical Center shutdown.  1542 jobs lost!  In the official WARN statement they blamed Obama Care for funding cuts.  In Yonkers, Excelsior Packaging shutdown.  112 jobs lost to the bad economy!  In Buffalo, Budwey’s Supermarket shutdown, 156 jobs lost!  The grocery store was sold to a competitor. 

Wisconsin: What automotive industry recovery?  In Oshkosh, AxleTech International laid off 63 workers.

According to employment consultant Challenger, Gray & Christmas, employers in the United States issued 45314 “planned” job cut notices in November 2013.  This does not count the small mom and pop operations.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Idaho

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Black men tased & arrested by Idaho cops, court throws out charges, cops swear they are not racists.

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Two brothers, and the wife of one of the brothers, are now suing the city of Idaho Falls.

On 31 August 2013, the two black skinned brothers were tased and arrested.  One was charged with battery on an officer, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.  The other was charged with resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.   The police were responding to a simple noise complaint, when they attacked the brothers.

In February 2014, a jury acquitted one of the brothers, and the Idaho Falls prosecutor dropped all charges against the other!  So, de facto, the actions of the court imply the cops lied!

Idaho Falls police boss, Mark McBride, says there was no racial motivation in the tasing of the two ‘black’ men.

Idaho

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Idaho’s police response to Crisis Calls a big fail! Lawmakers respond by creating three massive Crisis Center jails! False Flag op to comply with ObamaCare?

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“…..they unknowingly overmedicated him. He went into a psychotic episode. And they couldn’t transfer him to another facility unless he was restrained and accompanied by police. Law enforcement finally had to transport him for four hours to the closest facility, and when he came off of the drug, he wonder where he was and what the heck had happened. This is just one example of something that got out of control and shouldn’t have.”-Michelle Stennett, state Senator from Ketchum

“This is not getting better. We need to do something.”-Dick Armstrong, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, commenting on the  growing number of Crisis Calls

Apparently the bad economy is taking a mental toll on the people of Idaho, yet the crony capitalist leaders don’t see it that way.  They believe it’s a failure in how police respond, and the answer is to create three massive jails, I mean mental health centers called Crisis Centers.

According to Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW), the number of calls from people in ‘distress’ have gone way up.  In Idaho these distress cases are called Crisis Calls, and can range from people who are just upset over their situation (like unemployment) to people actually suffering a mental breakdown, or even someone who’s been labeled a terrorist (aka “mental holds” aka “a threat to themselves or others”).  The police handle Crisis Calls.

IDHW officials say that specifically, the biggest increase in Crisis Calls is something the cops call “mental holds” (a possible danger to themselves or others), but sometimes this turns out to be people overly intoxicated.  Cops give a mental hold the option of going to jail or a stay in a hospital until they detox.  There is no long term mental care for the average person in Idaho.

The only stat I’ve seen, so far, is that Boise cops respond to as many as 20 Crisis Calls everyday,  which is a little high compared to the rest of Idaho.  I’d like to know the stats for the rest of Idaho, as the population drops way off from the ‘Boise area’.  It would suck that we taxpayers are actually footing the bill for a project that’s really meant to benefit Boise.

That project is Senate Bill 1352, which has already passed the Senate and is likely to pass the House.   At an estimated cost to overburdened taxpayers of an estimated $5-million, it would create three Crisis Centers, one in Boise, one in Idaho Falls and one in Coeur d’Alene.

Here’s an interesting catch; police (supposedly) can’t force anybody into a Center, it’s totally voluntary.  The idea is to provide a place for people feeling stressed out to get long term help, because there is no such service in Idaho, unless you’ve got lots-o-money to hire a professional counselor or attend an expensive privately funded clinic.

Perhaps the real motivator for these Crisis Centers is Obama Care, because under Obama Care people are supposed to have access to affordable mental health care, and right now Idaho has no such thing (unless you meet Idaho’s draconian standards for Medicaid).  So it looks like we Idaho taxpayers are getting double, triple taxed because of that great Affordable Health Care plan.

Idaho, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Wimp ass Idaho governor begs Obama regime not to steal Army National Guard’s air assets!

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Not only is the Obama regime planning on stealing the last of Idaho’s Air National Guard air assets, but they also want to take Idaho’s Army National Guard air assets as well!

The Obama regime wants all of Idaho’s AH-64 Apaches and the newer Eurocopter designed UH-72 Lakotas (based on the old Messerschmitt-Kawasaki BK-117).

Here’s the pathetic appeal by puppet governor Butch Otter:

Dear Mr. President,
I join my fellow governors in strongly opposing the potential cuts to the Army National Guard advocated by the U.S. Army’s fiscal 2015 budget request.

For more than a decade, our National Guard has demonstrated it is a cost-effective operational force that is critical to our national security at home and abroad.

As commanders-in-chief, we appreciate the need to reorganize, restructure and modernize the military to meet new threats and economic realities. All sectors of the military need to be involved in meeting the targets set by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the realities of having fewer forces engaged abroad. In doing so, however, the Army Guard’s operational capabilities and 350,000 personnel strength level must be preserved. The Army’s proposed cuts suggest a pre-2001 strategic reserve construct.

Governors are extremely proud of the role that the National Guard plays in protecting this nation and its citizens. The modern National Guard is a highly experienced and capable combat force and an essential state partner in responding to domestic disasters and emergencies. A return to a pre-9/11 role squanders the investment and value of the Guard and discredits its accomplishments at home and as an active combat force.

Two years ago we opposed similar efforts to dramatically cut personnel and equipment from the Air National Guard. Congress subsequently chose not to impose the cuts and called for a National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force. That commission recently concluded that the Guard is a cost-effective and invaluable force that should be a critical component of the total force structure. The Commission’s conclusions and the ongoing Army debate strengthen the case for a similar independent review of the Army’s future force structure and active and reserve component mix.

We respectfully request that you reconsider proposed cuts to the Army National Guard and changes to the Guard’s combat aviation capabilities, and that you work with us to fashion solutions that provide a scalable, cost-effective force that best serves the interests of our nation.

As Always – Idaho, “Esto Perpetua”
C.L. “Butch” Otter
Governor of Idaho

Idaho, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Obama regime to steal all of Idaho Air National Guard’s air assets!

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Recently the U.S. Department of Defense stated they wanted to get rid of all A-10C tank killing Thunderbolt-2s.  The Idaho Air National Guard has already been reduced to just A-10s (five years ago their C-130s were stolen from them).  This means, if the U.S. Air Force gets its way, that Idaho will have no aircraft in its Air National Guard inventory.

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At least 1-thousand jobs will be lost in Idaho if the A-10 is stolen from us.  The real reason for taking away state National Guard assets is to make it easier for the federal government to repress those regions that decided to declare independence from the British empire controlled United States of America!

Arizona Capitol Times, February 2014: Pentagon to cut A-10 jets

September 2012: My walk-around photos of Idaho’s A-10C on the Pocatello Airport

Idaho

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Idaho parks & rec cracks down on parents who cheer for their kids in sporting events!

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On 22 February 2014, the Rathdrum Parks and Recreation Department, in northern Idaho, held an “experimental no cheer day” basketball game.  Any parents caught cheering were placed in time out.

Recreation coordinator, Justin Brown, said he got the idea after attending a sporting event in NAZI-land San Diego, California.  He says the new theory in the new children’s sporting industry is that kids play better if their parents are shut up.

The Rathdrum Parks and Recreation experiment was a big fail, as more than a dozen of parents were placed in time out, including teacher Cherish Hansen: “My daughter made a free-throw, I had to shout!”

A grandma expressed shock at the idea of not cheering for your grandkids: “Nobody had ever heard of this before. I thought, ‘I’m going to get thrown out right off the bat.'”-Lorna Allen, and yes she made it into time out

Even Brown admitted his NAZI plan failed.  He said parents were allowed to clap but even that backfired on him: “I’ve never heard them clap that loudly before!”

The NAZI Rathdrum Parks and Recreation actually employed two “referees” to monitor the parents!  They handed out a total of 15 “parent penalties”.

If I remember right, cheering for the home team is the main reason people go to watch a sporting event.

Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Idaho lawmakers demand FBI go after Tennessee based prison profiteer CCA!

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“We believe this is a big deal, and that there’s a real question of whether crimes have been perpetrated on the citizens of Idaho.”-John Rusche, State House Minority Leader

I’ve been covering the evil doings of for profit prison operator CCA in the state of Idaho, and thanks to revelations that the company has been ripping off taxpayers Idaho has given Corrections Corporation of America the boot (it’s a shame that the torture of prisoners wasn’t enough to get Idaho ‘elected’ officials to come down on the CCA run “Gladiator School”).

The Idaho State Police are already conducting their own criminal investigation of CCA.  Now, state lawmakers are asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to go after the crony capitalist crooks: “There are 26-thousand hours of fraudulent time cards in one year, and we’ve had the contract for several years! To me….it’s fraud. It’s a crime.”-John Rusche, State House Minority Leader

CCA officials claim they only recently “discovered” that their management team at the Gladiator School (Idaho Correctional Center) was lying about staffing and overcharging state taxpayers.  However, it was an investigation by Associated Press that made public the taxpayer ripoff, and only then did Idaho ‘elected’ officials (like govna Otter who’s received large campaign contributions from CCA) take action to kick out CCA.

surprise investigation into evil for profit prison operator CCA 

Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Washington property manager sued over sickening water supply in Idaho mobile home park!

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The Washington based manager of the Syringa Mobile Home Park in Moscow, Idaho, is being sued by 150 residents and the state of Idaho, after nearly three months with no clean water.

Residents say their water supply is so bad that it’s still not safe to drink even after boiling it.  The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) backs that claim up, and says the management has consistently failed to comply with state water testing and reporting requirements.

Back in December 2013, residents were told to boil the water due to a drop in pressure.  It was blamed on the failure of water pumps.  However, by the end of December the problem got worse, and the DEQ told residents that the water was now so contaminated that even boiling it wouldn’t help!

By then the DEQ realized that boiling the water was actually raising the toxic led (sic) content.  On top of that the chlorination system had malfunctioned and was either adding too much chlorine or not enough. It was noted that the type of water pumping and chlorination system in use at the mobile home park could take six months to repair.