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Great Reneger: Maryland Militia deploys to Africa

“We are a small piece of IO and intel in the grand scheme of U.S. Army force structure, but we make a world of difference through each one of our team members supporting these global missions.”-Lieutenant Colonel Kristin L. Henry, 11FEB2019

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

Maryland National Guard IO Field Support Team (110th Information Operations Battalion) deployed to Djibouti in support of the Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa.

Many of the personnel are full time cyber security workers, some of them deployed to Africa previously.

Great Reneger: OHIO MILITIA DEPLOYS TO KUWAIT

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Great Reneger: Ohio Militia deploys to Kuwait

“On behalf of a grateful nation, we want you to know we recognize that without you, there would be no democracy.”-Major General John C. Harris Jr., Ohio National Guard, 08FEB2019

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

More than 100 personnel with Bravo Company, 638th Support Battalion (Aviation Support) Ohio Army National Guard deploying to Kuwait.  To prove this is actually a continuance of the ancient ‘christian’ Crusades, the taxpayer funded deployment ceremony was held in a church (like many other deployment ceremonies around the U.S.)!

It’s the unit’s first deployment as a company in its 71-year history.  They will be joined on the deployment by units of the Massachusetts and Indiana National Guards, and the Army Reserve’s 244th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade from New Jersey.

GREAT RENEGER: LOUISIANA MILITIA DEPLOYS TO MIDDLE EAST

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Great Reneger: Louisiana Militia deploys to Middle East

“We’ve been in this war for almost 19 years, and I know that a lot of you have been involved from day one. I would ask the old guys to take care of the young ones who haven’t deployed. Mentor them through the deployment and let them know that everything will be ok.”-Major General Glenn H. Curtis, Louisiana National Guard, 16FEB2019

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

Louisiana National Guard’s 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment deploying 70 of its personnel to the Middle East.

Some of the personnel are siblings. It’s the 1-244th’s fourth overseas deployment since 9-11.

GREAT RENEGER: IDAHO & NORTH CAROLINA MILITIAS DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN, AGAIN!

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Ghost ships washing ashore on secluded Navy base!

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On 14FEB2019 a ghost ship washed ashore, at the end of a U.S. Navy runway on the secluded Naval Air Station North Island (part of Naval Base Coronado), off the southern coast of California.  According to the official report this was not the first time, it’s the sixth mystery boat to come ashore and block the runway since the beginning of the Gregorian year!

While Air Station North Island belongs to the USN (U.S. Navy), it’s airport runway is used by all branches of the U.S. military.  On 01JAN2019, the USAF (U.S. Air Force) deployed V-22 Ospreys, AC-130Ws and MC-130Js for special ops Exercise Emerald Trident:

The USA (U.S. Army) also deployed MH-47 Chinooks for Exercise Emerald Trident. 

On 09FEB2019, USN-Reserve Coastal Riverine units conducted launch and recovery training.  

Is there a connection between the mystery ghost ships and all the military activity around Naval Air Station North Island?

The official report concerning the latest ghost ship says Navy personnel found that the fuel tank in the ship had ruptured.  Other unnamed ‘hazmat’ materials were found.

Since 2014, Naval Base Coronado has removed more than 60 boats, 90 tons of debris and 6-hundred pounds of hazmat at a cost of more than half a million dollars to federal taxpayers.  The USN blames the city of San Diego for the mystery debris, saying the city’s Zuniga Shoal area has become a dumping ground for abandoned ships because the city doesn’t police the area.

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‘just another nail in the coffin’: U.S. Food Crisis, October 2018

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Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of October, 2018:

how America treats its black farmers

Trump boosts dairy industry

Farmers struggle to store crops

Grains try to avoid market meltdown

Ag Economy Barometer falls to lowest reading since October 2016

Agricultural damage from Hurricane Michael forecast to top $1.3 billion

Farmers face ‘new normal’; hurricanes

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

President Trump is correct! In this official U.S. Marines Corps video you’ll learn that your tax dollars are going to support the local food economies of NATO member countries in Europe:

ALABAMA: USMCA trade deal impact on Alabama farmers

cotton farmer devastated by Hurricane Michael 

ALASKA: Can pot save the pumpkin farm?

Muskox transported from Greenland to Alaska

ARKANSAS: Hog Haus Brewing forced to shutdown after the building was sold-off

Arkansas farmers, politicians welcome new trade deal

ARIZONA: Impasse Over Who Loses Water, and How Much, Could Sink Arizona

Arizona meat processor recalls 6.5 million pounds of beef

self-driving tractors 

CALIFORNIA: Switzerland based Nestlé issued massive, yet supposedly temporary, layoff WARNs, at least 1-thousand California jobs suspended right after Thanksgiving!  Los Amigos Harvesting issued a shutdown WARN for its Watsonville ops, 175 jobs gone by April 2019!  Bon Appetit food magazine issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco office, 91 jobs gone four days before xmas.   Jack in the Box issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego HQ, 66 corporate jobs gone in January 2019.  Also in San Diego, Phils BBQ issued a temp-shutdown WARN, 118 jobs suspended in January 2019!  Pepsi Bottling Group issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Buena Park, 95 jobs gone right after xmas. Stockton Spaghetti Restaurant issued a shutdown WARN, 51 jobs gone by the end of the year.  Popular restaurant Mexicali West issued a shutdown WARN for its Bakersfield location, 55 jobs gone by the end of the year due to the property being sold to a secretive developer.

America’s first autonomous robot farm replaces humans

Hemp farming in California plagued by roadblocks

Agriculture Checkpoint Moved to Ease Traffic Delays

New California law aims to protect pollinators

Pluto’s restaurant in downtown Chico is shutting its doors after 15 years, due to recent 10% crash in customers

Zacky Farms (aka Zacky & Sons Poultry) suddenly shutdown its 47 years old poultry factory in Fresno, (323 jobs lost without proper warning, according to the days late WARN), the local mayor said Zacky Farms promised him they were going to expand the operation!

And without warning Zacky & Sons Poultry also shutdown its Stockton location, the WARN said 142 people suddenly lost their jobs!

Starbucks closing a Folsom store

La Victoria bakery closing shop after 67 years

Camino is closing after 10 years in Oakland

Lagunitas Brewing Cuts More Than 100 Jobs due to being taken over by Heineken!

U.S. Marines and Sailors helped supply 23-thousand pounds of apples to more than 4-hundred food pantries in the San Francisco Bay area, 04OCT2018!

COLORADO: 45-year-old Lakewood chicken restaurant closing

Denver-based frozen fruit snack firm files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

CONNECTICUT: IMCMV Connecticut issued a shutdown WARN for its Margaritaville restaurant in Uncasville, 59 jobs lost by January 2019 due to not being able to justify renewing the lease.

After 40 years Black Duck Cafe Announces Closing: “In the last 6 months, we’ve been experiencing slower business and now have fallen on significant financial hardship…”

Anthony’s Sub Shop closing after more than 30 years 

DELAWARE: Destructive spotted lanternfly spreading south through Delaware

two more cases of West Nile Virus in horses

FLORIDA: Without warning Blackfinn permanently closes its doors 

Crestview Hooters restaurant closing after 15 years

At Eglin AFB, U.S. Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) helped distribute more than two tons of food to local families, 17OCT2018!

Tyndall AFB video showing food distribution after Hurricane Michael:

Florida National Guard’s 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2-124 Charlie Company, provided food and water to at least 750 citizens in Panama City, in just one day, as a result of Hurricane Michael.

GEORGIA: Georgia National Guard distributes food after Hurricane Michael, 12OCT2018.

GUAM: 

Stacks of donated pet food await the U.S. Coast Guard, 26OCT2018, to be delivered to Saipan as a result of Typhoon Yutu.

HAWAII: Wailana Coffee House closing after 48 years due to skyrocketing costs just to maintain the operation

IDAHO: Confusion in Boise as a vindictive food vendor started a rumor that Fatty’s Bar was bankrupt and shutting down, it was news to the new owner of Fatty’s

Idaho ranks as top U.S. producer of four commodities

ILLINOIS:  CherryBerry self serve yogurt in Springfield closing

Last Bonanza steakhouse in Illinois closing

Treasure Island Foods suddenly shutdown remaining stores after 55 years, official WARNs put job losses at 486!

INDIANA: Brown County’s Nashville House Restaurant Closing After 91 Years

Papa Roux shutting down after 11 years due to everything: “Too much constant issues and problems with everything from the city, the landlord, the facilities, my vendors, the employee pool in this town is actually not what it was 11 years ago.”-Art Bouvier

IOWA:  New North American trade deal good for Iowa 

KANSAS: Farmers Frustrated by Winter Wheat Planting Delays

KENTUCKY: Mellow Mushroom shutdown its Lexington Green pizza joint

LOUISIANA: “This is the worst agriculture crisis to hit Louisiana in my 53 years of farming.”-James Guillot

MAINE: organic farmers’ group gets $600000 to train beginners

MARYLAND:  Brio Tuscan Grille closing its downtown Baltimore restaurant

Ellwood Thompson’s closing grocery store

MASSACHUSETTS: See inside the marijuana facility 

MICHIGAN: Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries issued a shutdown WARN for its Bays Bakery, 50 jobs gone by January 2019.

GR’s Marie Catrib’s closing for good

Baby food maker Gerber laying off 50 people

Tumultuous markets in its seed, pesticide and herbicide businesses have wiped $4.6 billion off DowDuPont’s agriculture division

MINNESOTA: Hemp could become a leading Minnesota crop

Wet weather worries farmers

MISSOURI:  Tanner’s Bar & Grill closing 27 years old Waldo location

Price Cutter grocery store on Division & Glenstone To Close 

Coffee Cartel closing after 22-years

MONTANA: record 22000 acres of hemp planted in 2018

NEBRASKA: Chef fired after serving kangaroo meat to students (I don’t understand, people in Australia eat it, isn’t there a food crisis going on?)

NEVADA: Wildflower Café in Incline Village closing after 3 decades 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Six months after opening in Portsmouth, 900 Degrees Pizzeria shutdown claiming there are not enough people willing to work there

NEW JERSEY:  Acme grocery in Park Ridge to close

Yet another Pei Wei restaurant closes in N.J.

NEW MEXICO: State requests public input on future growth of hemp

Farm Credit invested $1.3 million in Junior Livestock

NEW YORK: Nathan’s Famous issued a shutdown WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC restaurant, 20 jobs gone by January 2019.   It was revealed by a WARN that Molloy College suddenly canceled its contract with food service provider Compass Group-Chartwells, 26 jobs gone.  Food service contractor Jan Services-Gourmet Garage issued a shutdown WARN for multiple locations, 92 jobs gone by the end of the year.

Stewart’s Shops closing two low-volume grocery stores

Tortilla Flats in West Village closing for good

Tonarlo’s Pizza and Restaurant in Conklin will shut down after 15 years

Hinerwadel’s clambake closing after 104 years

NORTH CAROLINA: Less than seven months after its opening Dapper Doughnut shutdown its Morganton location

100 years old restaurant’s closing leaves residents heartbroken

Wrightsville Beach Eatery Closing After 32 Years

Sugarland bakery files for bankruptcy suddenly closes shops

02OCT2018, U.S. Coast Guard C-130 drops a weeks worth of food to a disabled cargo ship that was heading for Haiti, from Greece.

NORTH DAKOTA: Over 17 Inches of Snow Fell in North Dakota and It’s Only October

Snow Storm Hammers Grain Farmers

OHIO: Renick’s Family Market closing after nearly 60 years

Just Pies closing 2 central Ohio stores

Tremont General Store announces its closing

Red Restaurant Group (Red, The Steakhouse, Moxie The Restaurant) chapter 11 bankrupt busted

Union Street Grille in Bryan closing “Due to circumstances way beyond our control”

Seven crew members and a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from Ohio Army National Guard’s Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment, deployed to Florida to help deliver food and water in support of Hurricane Michael recovery efforts.

OKLAHOMA: Department of Ag. suspends all pending & expanding poultry farm operations

OREGON:  Alameda Brewhouse closing doors

PENNSYLVANIA:  After 47 years Barn Door Food & Spirits closing, no reason given

PUERTO RICO: A Local Food Revolution

After Hurricane Maria, farmers struggle to rebuild

RHODE ISLAND: 2 People Die While Fishing

council OKs zoning change for ‘farm brewery’

SOUTH CAROLINA: More than $100 million in damages to crops after Florence

researchers optimizing pulse and cereal crops for organic production

SOUTH DAKOTA: volatile Per Pair and Yearling Monthly Pasture Rental Rates 

Farmers back in the field after harvest delays

TENNESSEE: Changes coming to Industrial Hemp Pilot Program

University of Tennessee serves food made with insects

TEXAS: Italian restaurant is closing in Fort Worth, and it won’t be the last, More than 600 chain restaurant locations are expected to close this year 

Fuego Burger is closing one of its locations, due to the greedy landlord refusing to fix a roof leak that’s literally flooding the restaurant 

El Fenix Mexican Restaurant shutdown its Wichita Falls location without warning

Iconic Chu-Mikal’s Cafe shutdown

Mid-County creamery closing after only two years

Albertsons, Tom Thumbs closing 4 North Texas grocery Stores

Three Houston-area Randalls grocery stores closing in December

UTAH:  drought emergency declared for all of Utah

Plans to tap more Bear River water raise concerns

VERMONT: Keurig-Dr Pepper laying off about 500 employees!

Perfect Wife closing Saturday after 23 years

VIRGINIA:  Kroger closing Wards Corner Norfolk location, going against original plans

WASHINGTON: Twin City Foods issued a shutdown WARN for its Stanton location, 65 jobs gone by December.

Washington DC: Capitol Hill cocktail bar files for bankruptcy

WEST VIRGINIA: Excessive rainfall soaked apple harvest

DNR and Dept. of Agriculture team up on Hunters Helping the Hungry

WISCONSIN: Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries issued a shutdown WARN for its bakery in Madison, 159 jobs gone in January 2019!

Soggy weather delaying fall harvest is ‘just another nail in the coffin’ 

WYOMING: Lift is grounded, restaurant is closing after sale

Controversial Wyoming agriculture lawyer joins Interior Department

Wyoming court rules controversial ag-gag law violates free speech

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, September 2018:  “SIGNIFICANT CHANGES”

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Nuclear helicopters spotted in Wyoming?

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Does the ‘N’ in UH-1N mean nuclear?  Maybe it does if you’re part of an elite USAF team training to protect the transport of nuclear ballistic missiles.

In yet more proof that we’ve returned to a Cold War mindset, training missions are being conducted in Wyoming, in which swarms of UH-1N ‘Huey’s fly ballistic missile convoy protect missions.

The 37th Helicopter Squadron, based at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, “…supports emergency war order taskings, by transporting tactical response force teams in support of launch facility denial and recapture and convoy operations.”

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“Stop incentivizing illegal immigration”!: Immigrant Invasion, United States, January 2019

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Incomplete list of immigrant operations affecting the United States taxpayers, January 2019.

More proof it’s about making money: $11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private run ICE lock-ups

And more proof it’s about saving money: “… a group of protesters who were denouncing President Trump’s immigration policies. They were waving Mexican flags and shouting, ‘¡Si, se puede!’ (‘Yes, we can!’)

Unbeknownst to the protesters, the expression ‘Si, se puede’ was a saying of Cesar Chavez’s. When Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers union, used the expression ‘Yes, we can,’ he meant something entirely different: ‘Yes, we can’ seal the borders. He hated illegal immigration. Chavez explained, ‘As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes.’ Why? Farmers are willing to hire low-wage immigrants here illegally. Chavez had allies in his protest against the hiring of undocumented workers and lax enforcement of immigration laws. Included in one of his protest marches were Democratic Sen. Walter Mondale and a longtime Martin Luther King Jr. aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy.”

U.S. Coast Guard intercepted these 70 illegal immigrants near Haiti, 06JAN2018.

USAF Reserve delivers 8-thousand pounds of taxpayer funded aid to Guatemala, 08JAN2019.  Guatemala is one of the countries trying to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants.

Taxpayer funded U.S. military personnel help build new police outposts along the Pan-American Highway in Panama, 11-17JAN2019, scouting for traffickers of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants.

History Lesson: The ancient Roman army and navy was initially staffed by native born citizens, which helped turn the Republic into a global empire.  But later as the empire crumbled, one of the signs the empire was a failed state was the reliance on immigrants, especially from areas of the world that were considered enemies.  Even in the Roman military immigrants became commanding officers, and it was one of those officers that led the destruction of three Roman legions at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: “Arminius had acquired Roman citizenship and had received a Roman military education, which enabled him to deceive the Roman commander methodically and anticipate the Roman army’s tactical responses.”

Smithsonian: The Ambush That Changed History 

History.com: 8 Reasons Why Rome Fell 

Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates Are Low

Falling Illegal Immigration Numbers

Healthcare Providers Walk ‘Fine Line’ Between Informing And Scaring Immigrant Patients

Official U.S. Navy video about Operation Cutlass Express, which uses your tax dollars to help African countries fight immigration (among other things), because “We must live together”:

As you read this list below note how much the U.S. military is relying on immigrants.

ALABAMA: ICE deports 25 people arrested in New York to Alabama

undocumented workers from Central America accused of deer poaching

ARIZONA: Plans for teachers from the Tucson Unified School District to educate immigrant children being housed at a local facility have been put on hold.

Agents apprehend 131 undocumented persons who ‘turned themselves in’

Border Patrol agents aided nearly 30 undocumented immigrants who required medical treatment

Video of families illegally crossing into the United States near Ajo Station:

CALIFORNIA: Illegal immigrant found not guilty in Kate Steinle’s killing wants gun conviction dropped

illegal immigrant ‘sanctuary’ established on Nancy Pelosi’s lawn

Irony: Illegal immigrant accused of murdering legal immigrant cop faces judge

Governor wants state taxpayers to cover healthcare for undocumented immigrants

COLORADO: Undocumented man enters sanctuary during government shutdown

Boulder man fails to pay undocumented workers, then threatens them

FLORIDA: “Stop incentivizing illegal immigration, which is unfair to our legal immigrants, promotes lawlessness and reduces wages for our blue-collar workers.”-Governor Ron DeSantis

At the end of December the U.S. Navy launched a new recruiting campaign using Swarming Teams.  The focus is on recruiting immigrants because the USN is being built-up to a 355 ship organization and they’re going to need anybody they can get to sail those ships: “I immigrated from the Dominican Republic as a child and grew up in New York, so being in Miami is great because I speak Spanish and that helps a lot.”-Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Jonathan Urraca

“Being a Columbian-American and being a woman helps in recruiting, because recently I was able to speak with a mother who didn’t understand much about the Navy, and getting through that language barrier really helped ease her concerns about the Navy.”– Master-At-Arms 3rd Class Lina Marcella-Arce

“The first Swarm has exceeded our expectations, but where the rubber meets the road is in four to five months where we can see if people’s interest turn into contracts.”-Captain Matthew Boren

Here’s what it takes for an immigrant to get a green card 

Local authorities have had run-ins with undocumented immigrants

GEORGIA: On 31JAN2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the seizure of nearly 285-thousand counterfeit sports-related items worth an estimated $24.2-million USD, as well as the arrests of 28 people (including immigrants), as part of Operation Team Player.  Many fake sports memorabilia are being sold at flee markets/swap meets/’pop-up tent’ locations run by illegal immigrants.

Immigrants, including a member of the Army National Guard, become legal U.S. citizens, 10JAN2019 in Atlanta.

IDAHO: U-Haul domestic ‘migration trend’ data says Idaho is No. 5 growth state/more Spanish language classes being offered to adults

It’s been revealed that a USDA taxpayer supported housing complex (called Farmway Village) intended to house migrant farm workers is being used to house poor non-farm workers instead.

MICHIGAN: Michigan Sheriff tells ICE: We won’t detain immigrants without warrant

MISSOURI: 

Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk is an immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, now working for the USAF at Whiteman Air Force Base.

NEVADA: Illegal immigrant captured, suspect of killing four people

Undocumented immigrant admits killing couple

NEW JERSEY: Undocumented Worker Says Trump Resort Shielded Her

The number of undocumented immigrants is shrinking in these 12 states (including N.J.)

NEW MEXICO: U.S. Border Patrol detains 115 undocumented immigrants, seizes marijuana in New Mexico

NEW YORK: Dream Act Is Approved in NY to Aid Undocumented Students

Immigrant wins release after 5 years ‘detention’ in Batavia

It Was a Sanctuary for undocumented Immigrants. Then One of Its Owners Was Arrested.

$1M campaign supports drivers’ licenses for undocumented immigrants

NYPD Arrested Undocumented Immigrant restaurant Owner and political activist

New York City taxpayers will spend at least $100 million to ensure that undocumented immigrants get healthcare

NORTH CAROLINA: More proof it’s about money; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has more than 20,000 immigrant students, That brings costs and benefits.

OHIO: American citizens Following their Undocumented Spouses back to Mexico

PUERTO RICO: 

35 illegal immigrants caught trying to enter Puerto Rico, 07JAN2019.

One of several boats with 66 illegal immigrants caught trying to get into Puerto Rico, 11JAN2019.

The graphic depicts illegal drug/immigrant activities halted by government forces, from 01OCT2018 to 01JAN2019.

TEXAS: My son was killed by an illegal immigrant

Undocumented Immigrant Saved Houston Cop’s Life Before He Was Killed

UTAH: Man accused of smuggling undocumented immigrants through Utah

VERMONT: Suit says Vermont continuing to feed immigrant data to feds

VIRGINIA: Virginians Push Driving Privileges for Undocumented Immigrants

WASHINGTON: New milestone in King County: Immigrant population tops 500000

Washington DC: Democrats Introduce Bill to Shield illegal Farmworkers from Deportation

Trump Asks Support on Shutdown, Hints at immigrant Farmworker Reform

Trump offers protection to undocumented immigrants in exchange of border wall funding, Pelosi rejects it

Victims of Illegal Immigration storm Nancy Pelosi’s Office

U.S. separated ‘thousands’ more immigrant children than known 

22 immigrants died in ICE detention centers during the past 2 years

Why state issued driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants backfired

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVASION, UNITED STATES, DECEMBER 2018

WISCONSIN: Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants gains more support 

December 2018: Migrant farm worker, working for Idaho employer Simplot, failed to follow pesticide application instructions, killing dozens of fish in nearby river 

November 2018: Hurricane reveals just how many illegals are in North Carolina

So many migrant farm workers are flooding into Idaho that USDA (federal taxpayer) funded rural housing authorities are building more apartments for them. 

October 2018: More legal Mexican farm workers are coming to South Carolina than ever.

September 2018: Farmers’ efforts to legally import workers threatens U.S. crops

August 2018: Mollie Tibbetts case exposes farms’ worst-kept secret: hiring undocumented immigrants

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“Nobody has skin in the game. It’s all tax money.”: Sears Kmart death spiral, February 2019

Motley Fool: Sears spin-off Seritage Growth Properties Will Suspend Its Dividend

American Banker: Citi cards bracing for hit caused by Sears reorganization

For proof you can’t blame it on lack of hi-tech Retail Dive says Sears has 46 smart appliances that work with Alexa

Miami Herald: “Observed rodent droppings on all shelving near dog food, green plastic bins, on shelving with air fresheners, on floors under shelving.” Inspector’s statement regarding a Florida Kmart

nwfdailynews: Woman finds cremated remains in parking lot of Kmart during going out-of-business sale

The Real Deal: Post bankruptcy plan; sell the stores

The Atlantic: Sears Once Sold Heroin

Elliot: what did Sears Optical do with my glasses?

Forbes: Did Steve Mnuchin help Lampert take over Sears-Kmart?

Sears Lives To Die Another Day

Pueblo Chieftain: Sears plans to close three Kmarts a month

Fox: employees tell the judge not to ‘be a pawn in Lampert’s game’

CBS: Sears plans to unload pensions and close more stores

KTVI: TV station helps family resolve Sears warranty dispute, “We’ve been customers with Sears for over 40 years”

ETF Trends: How Kmart Went From Beating Walmart And Target To Bankruptcy

Guam Daily Post: Kmart employees rip off customers by 117-thousand U.S. dollars

CONNECTICUT: It was revealed that Hartford city officials rejected U-Haul’s plan to turn a long vacant Kmart site into a storage unit/Neighborhood Store.

MINNESOTA: The huge Kmart in Rochester was secretly sold-off for $7-million USD, while the store is scheduled to shutdown in March local news media reported that it was never listed as for sale.

NEW YORK:  The Queensbury Kmart was sold-off for $7.1-million USD even though the property was valued at $4.9-million, it was already scheduled to shutdown in March, local news media report that the company which bought the Kmart is actually a ‘holding’ company for U-Haul.

OREGON: Sale of vacant Kmart (to the taxpayers of Oregon City) might force a local business to shutdown: “Nobody has skin in the game. It’s all tax money. Nobody personally has any other finances in this deal here. I’m the one that is hurt…”-Shawn Kapfhammer, owner of S&K Mow and Snow

VIRGINIA: Newport News residents complained about a long vacant Kmart, now they’re the owners of it!  Newport News Economic Development Authority is spending $2.9-million USD buying the property from owner Kroger.

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, JANUARY 2019: “A SEQUENCE OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS”

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“Every single month….has been a grind”: ObamaCare ACA death spiral, October 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

CALIFORNIA: Healthy Living Network issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Newark, 128 jobs gone by December! Adventist Health Bakersfield suddenly laid off 20 people at its Bakersfield hospital. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals/Health Plan issued a shutdown WARN for its office in Downey, 69 jobs gone by December.  Kaiser Foundation Hospitals also issued a statewide layoff WARN, 85 jobs gone by mid-December. Texas based Concentra finally notified state unemployment officials that it eliminated 182 California jobs back in April! La Jolla Pharmaceutical issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego ops, 166 jobs gone right before Xmas!

German drugs maker Bayer cuts 227 California jobs

Sonoma West Medical Center now chapter 7 bankrupt dead due to massive lawsuits alleging fake billings

FLORIDA: Crothall Healthcare issued a WARN, 70 jobs in Lakeland gone before Xmas. AmeriHealth Caritas issued a WARN, 2-hundred jobs statewide gone right after Xmas! DaVita Labs issued a WARN, 94 jobs in Fort Lauderdale gone by January 2019. Magellan Complete Care issued a WARN, 57 jobs in Miami gone by the end of June 2019.  Also in Miami, Sister Emmanuel Hospital eliminating 97 jobs by December.

ILLINOIS: Executive Building Maintenance lost its contract with Stroger Hospital, 85 jobs affected.

IOWA: Country View Care Facility issued a layoff WARN, 167 jobs gone right after Xmas!1

LOUISIANA: Doctors Hospital at Deer Creek now bankrupt busted due to an administrator being caught ripping off taxpayer funded Medicare.

MARYLAND: Biopharma company Lonza to lay off 60

MASSACHUSETTS: UMass Memorial Health Care lays off 17 workers due to a multimillion-dollar budget gap

Mercy Medical Center to lay off employees, close hearing center

Momenta Pharmaceuticals guts leadership team, slashes 110 jobs

MICHIGAN: Pontiac General Hospital must pay doctor at least $484,000 because the hospital illegally charged the doctor a fee for working there!

MINNESOTA: Nuance Transcription Services laid off 18 people in Burlington.

MISSOURI: Ripley County Memorial Hospital closing, leaving patients with no reasonable healthcare options

MONTANA: Taxpayer funded Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ordered to pay Montana Health Co-op more than $1.2 million despite Congress providing no funding

NEW JERSEY: Virtua Center for HealthFitness Washington Township eliminating 125 jobs after Xmas!

NEW YORK: Murray Hill Medical Group issued a shutdown WARN for two locations in NYC, 113 jobs gone after Xmas!  Affinity Health Plan issued a layoff WARN for its Medicare ops in Bronx, at least 28 jobs gone due to ending its Medicare operations.

Hazel L. Carpenter Adult Home in Oneida closing

NORTH CAROLINA: 50 Wake Forest Baptist Employees Laid Off

OHIO: The Cottages of Clayton nursing home issued a WARN, but did not give any layoff numbers.

OKLAHOMA: Non-profit privately run Lawton Veteran Services Center in danger of closing: “Every single month since I’ve been here has been a grind…. If we do not receive the donations we need to run this place, which is $1,800 a month, we take the money out of our pocket. That gets old real quick. …We have 4,300 active veteran claims that we’re working in this office right now….”-Dr. Jeffrey Seright

OREGON: Adventist Health Home Care Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Personal Care and Home Medical Equipment ops in Salem, 92 jobs gone five days before Xmas.

PENNSYLVANIA: Apparently violent crime is so bad that Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center will start using armed security guards

TENNESSEE: GlaxoSmithKline to lay off 99

TEXAS: Steward Health Care shutdown Northside Regional Medical Center due to lack of patients

WASHINGTON: QualChoice Health Plan Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Federal Way location, 164 jobs gone after Xmas!  ZymoGenetics issued a shutdown WARN for its biotechnology/pharmaceutical ops in Seattle, 63 jobs gone after Xmas.

Washington DC: CDC criticized for slow response to polio-like illness affecting children

Medicaid spending grew 4.2%

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral September 2018:  “DANGEROUSLY LOW”