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aMERICA sPREAD tHIN: nORTH aMERICA mAY 2018

These are just a few of the U.S. military operations happening across the North American region for the Gregorian month of May, 2018.

ALABAMA: More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of Active, Guard and Reserve personnel from around the U.S. for the Alabama Wellness Innovative Readiness Training mission.

ALASKA: The National Guard Best Warrior Region VI 2018 competition was held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.  State militia competitors come from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. 

Red Flag Alaska 2018 included units from NATO countries

ARKANSAS: 

Arkansas National Guard deployed Lakotas to the New Mexico/Mexico border, as part of Operation Guardian Support

ARIZONA: 

National Guard personnel clear brush as part of Operation Guardian Support in Yuma

Missouri National Guard preps for air patrol of border, in Tucson, as part of Operation Guardian Support

CALIFORNIA:  Why does our government keep insisting the War on Terror isn’t about religion?  In violation of the U.S. Constitution, Travis Air Force Base became the headquarters for Firefighters for Christ, a specifically christian organization using christianity to influence firefighters from Sweden, the Philippines, Germany, Northern Ireland, Canada and Switzerland: “While the experiences of someone who is Muslim or Jewish may differ from our own, we enjoy the opportunity to deepen each other’s spiritual resilience.”-John Speakman, Travis Fire Emergency Services

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan inspected border wall construction efforts in Calexico

National Guard getting briefed on their deployment to border patrol near San Diego, as part of Operation Guardian Support

U.S. Border Patrol at Friendship Park just south of Imperial Beach

Video of Australian’s invading (?) Camp Pendleton (RIMPAC):

Video report Fort Hunter Liggett burned by wildfires:

Cub Scouts help Army Corps of Engineers restore native plants along the Santa Ana River

Army Corps of Engineers declares debris removal, from January’s Santa Barbara County mudslides, complete

CANADA: U.S. Army Reserve units from California and South Dakota took part in Maple Resolve 18-01, Wainwright, Alberta.  

COSTA RICA: 

The USAF spent three weeks training Costa Rican police in anti-drug ops

DELAWARE: 

Attempting to save taxpayer’s money by installing solar panels at Dover Air Force Base

EL SALVADOR: Texas Air National Guard video explainer of what they’re doing in El Salvador:

67th Signal Battalion, from Georgia, video explainer of what they’re doing in El Salvador:

Video report Puerto Rico National Guard serving up food in El Salvador:

Your tax dollars at work building schools in El Salvador:

FLORIDA: 

Your tax dollars at work at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, 23MAY2018

Video report U.S. Special Operations Command  CAPEX in Tampa:

Video report Fleet Week:

Video Coast Guard diver school:

GEORGIA:  More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel under Operation Empower Health- Greater Savannah, which provided free (taxpayer funded) healthcare to people and their pets!!!

GREENLAND: 

New York Air National Guard attends Kool Skool at Camp Raven

GUATEMALA: 

U.S. military personnel honored by Guatemala with the  Medalla Monja Blanca (Medal of the White Nun), after spending a year training up elite naval special forces in counter-narcotics operations.

HAWAII: Video National Guard responds to volcano: 

HONDURAS: 

USA Sergeant First Class Levon Fernandez awarded the Soldier’s Medal for Heroism for helping two Honduran pilots after their plane crashed

INDIANA: Video report NetWars Operation Cybershield:

Military propaganda at the Indy 500

LOUISIANA:  

Louisiana National Guard deployed Lakotas to the Texas/Mexico border, as part of Operation Guardian Support

MARYLAND: 

Army Corps of Engineers begins jetty project on Rhodes Point Smith Island

NEW MEXICO: 

Region 7 Best Warrior Competition

Red Flag Rescue 18-2

NEW YORK:New York Army National Guard along with State Police, U.S. Health and Human Services, Brookhaven Labs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in a Weapons of Mass Destruction training event at the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Facility.

USN/USMC personnel help renovate a building in Brooklyn-NYC for Habitat for Humanity

Video San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Arlington during Fleet Week:

Video USAF Alpha Warrior Challenge:

New York Army National Guard’s 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion deploys to Kuwait

OKLAHOMA: 

290 Army National Guardsmen from across the nation took part in Air Assault, Pathfinder and Rappel Master Schools in Oklahoma

OREGON: 

Oregon National Guard CH-47 Chinook crews trained for expected ‘domestic missions’, mainly responding to natural disasters

I’m still upset over how many local TV news reporters and anchors still say “Have a happy Memorial Day.”  Only the ‘enemy’ would be happy about that.

Oregon Army National Guard fire their M119 Howitzers at Willamette National Cemetery, for Memorial Day

PANAMA: 

U.S. tax dollars and military personnel help the Panamanian Ministry of Health hand out drugs to silly-vilians

PENNSYLVANIA: 

Pennsylvania National Guard plans for hurricane season

PUERTO RICO: Video of funeral for Major José Ramón:

Army Corps of Engineers and taxpayer funded contractors so far have collected 4-million cubic yards of dead vegetation since Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017!

SOUTH CAROLINA: USMC video prepping for hurricanes: 

TEXAS: 

South Carolina National Guard deployed their Lakotas to Texas as part of Operation Guardian Response

Airmen from Dyess AFB deploy to Afghanistan

Texas Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment deploys to the Horn of Africa

UTAH: 807th Medical Command Deployment Support video explainer:

WASHINGTON: Video 100 years of the Army Chemical Corps:

WASHINGTON DC:  48th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018

“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.”

“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!”

Grand Teton seismic anomaly shuts down popular hiking trail!

11JUL2018 (01:52 UTC-07 Tango 06)  20 Tir 1397/27 Shawwal 1439/28 Ji-Wei 4716

Park Superintendent David Vela, at Grand Teton National Park in the western U.S. state of Wyoming, shutdown a popular hiking trail due to sudden “expanding cracks and fissures in a large rock formation”.

The Hidden Falls Area Trails and Inspiration Point are temporarily closed “until we can properly assess the situation.”  Park rangers say “noticeable” cracks suddenly appeared in overhanging boulders within a 24 hours period!

Employees with Exum Mountain Guides were forced to move their training operation to a new location.  However, nearby Jenny Lake Boating tours will continue.

Wyoming is also home to the supervolcano known as Yellowstone.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: VOLCANOES TRUE CAUSE OF ARCTIC ICE MELT! SUNSCREEN TRUE CAUSE OF CORAL REEF DIE OFF?

‘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.”

“Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”: Drugs, the American Way, May 2018

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

United States Naval Institute News:  U.S. Navy admits at least 10 Navy SEALs were high on cocaine

Official Air National Guard video promoting the concept of prescription drug ‘Take Away’, “Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”:

NBC: Foreign cartels embrace home-grown marijuana in pot-legal states

ALABAMA: Walker County has the highest percentage of drug deaths relating to its population.  Drug raid in Dekalb County captures 1.3-kilos (three pounds) of meth, 1.3-kilos of marijuana, 20 illegal guns, $30-thousand USD in cash and captured two men believed to be from Mexico.  Three children were also found in the home, the raid was the result of “several months” of investigations.  Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force conducted multiple raids, capturing 14 alleged druggies, 180-grams of synthetic marijuana, 100-grams of marijuana, several grams of methamphetamine, crack and heroin, four guns, one vehicle and $8-thousand-761 in cash.    Marshall County Drug Task Force captured more than 50 people (they had warrants for 1-hundred) in one night, Sheriff Scott Walls says it’s the biggest round-up of druggies in the past 38 years: “The majority of these arrests are crystal meth, there are heroin cases mixed in with this. We’re living in a time where that seems to be the norm, where people are selling in their communities, and we have a lot of drug abuse, and this is the first step to solving some of those problems.”

What’s sad about the above statement is that these druggie round-ups have been going on ever since the Reagan Era of the War on Drugs, and as you can see it has had no effect on the reduction of illegal drug use.   Also, local news media is publishing the names of the people captured, I mean arrested.  In the United States you’re supposed to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in court, not by police, news media or by public opinion.

ALASKA: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy declared Alaska to be a high-intensity drug trafficking area, opening up federal level taxpayer funding to police. Federal prosecutors in Anchorage discovered a new tactic of drug dealers; intentionally getting captured.  People are intentionally getting arrested in the hopes they can smuggle into prison drugs and illegal guns.

Alaska Public Media:  Is meth back in Alaska? Or did it never leave?

KTVA: 7 accused in violent Sitka drug trafficking conspiracy

Daily News-Minor: Illegal booze, drugs smuggled into remote villages

The Marshall Project: Want to Escape a Criminal Past? Move to Alaska

ARIZONA: Merry Jane: Arizona Group Pushing to Legalize All Drugs in 2018

Reflections Recovery Center: Arizona Opioid Addiction Statistics 2018

KNXV: Two suspected north Phoenix drug dealers arrested

Arizona Daily Independent: Teens Turn To Drug Trafficking In Nogales

Arizona Daily Independent drug crime reports

AzCentral: 5 arrested on suspicion of running meth trafficking ring

DailyMiner: Kingman, Arizona & Mohave counties crime reports 

Border Patrol agent sentenced for helping smuggle drugs into Arizona

ARKANSAS: Arkansas Online: Two people found in Cleburn County park die from O-D

In 3rd big bust in weeks, 200 pounds of pot captured

KARK: Multiple Arrests Made in Year Long Drug Investigation in Prairie County

KLRT: 4 Arrests Made in Ouachita County Drug Bust

KFSM: Arkansas Highway Police Seize 340 Pounds Of Marijuana

KTHV: Arkansas ranks 3rd in nation for Spring 2018 ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’

The state National Guard warns in this video that even exercise supplements are ‘drugs’:

CALIFORNIA: Several state National Guard Counterdrug Task Force personnel officially became DARE officers, even though the program has been proven, multiple times, to be a failure (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail  VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E.  Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure).

U.S. News & World Report: Mexican Mafia Busted for Running Crime in LA County Jails

The Mercury News: Authorities arrest 85 people, seize drugs in major Orange County gang crackdown aimed at disrupting Mexican Mafia

BBC: Police find border drug tunnel from Mexico to California 

Riverside police arrest 23 in undercover drug sting

New York Times: Needle by Needle, a Heroin Crisis Grips California’s Rural North

NPR: Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California

COLORADO: The Denver Post: Officials charge 37 people and seize 141 pounds of meth in drug bust spanning Colorado and two other states, The drug ring as been operating in Colorado since at least July 1, 2015

Drug trafficking reports

Drug & Booze crime reports

CONNECTICUT:  NBC: Triple killings motivated by guns, cash and drugs

Meriden Record-Journal: Local Walgreens robbed of 3-thousand pills worth $60-thousand USD

RepublicanAmerican: Police find huge drug cache in Waterbury

DELAWARE: WDEL: Joint task force makes Wilmington drug bust 

Delaware State News: drug reports

First State Update: drug crime reports

Delaware State Police: crime reports

FLORIDA:  BuzzFeedNews: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami

Miami Herald: Florida cuts drug programs, costing hundreds of jobs

Pensacola News Journal: Santa Rosa County Sheriff captures more than 23 pounds of illegal drugs and 52 people during Operation Spring Cleaning

WJXT: Statewide, Operation Spring Cleaning captures 5-thousand people and 27-thousand pounds of drugs

TCPalm: Saint Lucie County captures guns, drugs and 17 people 

WTXL: Suwannee County sheriff announces massive drug bust

WPLG: 6 arrested, 6 others sought by Miami-Dade police in drug bust

Coast Guard Cutter Resolute off-loaded almost 0.9 tonne (1 ton) of ganja in Saint Petersburg, 08MAY2018

NavyTimes: Coast Guard unloads 6 tons of seized cocaine in Florida

At Port Everglades, Coast Guard Cutter James off-loads almost 5.4 tonnes (metric tons/6 short [U.S.] tons) on 10MAY2018, all captured in the eastern Pacific

Official USAF video in which a Security Forces Airmen reveals that they routinely catch taxpayer funded contractors bringing drugs and guns onto Hurlburt Field:

The Recovery Village: Florida’s Top 10 Counties for Drug Overdose Deaths

Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association: may 2018 patterns and trends of substance use

(remember, Guam is just a U.S. military base, mmmm, I wonder why so many drugs are shipping through Guam?)
Idaho Mountain Express: Suspect leaves meth in cop car
The Spokesman Review: drug reports
Illinois Department of Public Health: Drug Overdose Deaths – May 2018

INDIANA: RTV: Indiana is one of the worst states for drug use

WANE: 1,500 Indiana drug cases a month … and rising

WLFI: Police respond to string of overdoses 

WTTV: 15 people face federal charges in connection with drug trafficking ring that prompted Kokomo raids

The Herald Bulletin: ‘Clean Sweep’ nets 52 suspects, guns and drugs

WXIN: “‘It is loaded. Get your drugs and get out of my neighborhood!’ He pulled his gun out and when I saw the gun come out that is when I grabbed my gun. If you are stupid enough to sell it to these kids..you get what you deserve!”-gun toting grandma who challenged drug dealers who came after her for her grandson’s spice debt

IOWA: DesMoinesRegister: 20 years after the meth crisis began, Iowa’s addiction is worse than ever

Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy: Drug Trends in Iowa – May 2018

KANSAS:  The Kansas City Star: Operation Triple Beam, 200 people arrested

KENTUCKY: USA Today: Kentucky football player charged with drug trafficking

Courier Journal: Mexican drug cartels saturate Louisville with deadliest meth ever

Louisville company wins FDA approval to produce opioid withdrawal drug

WDRD: Arrests, drugs and more than $1 million in cash during Operation Safe Haven

KFVS: More than $11000 of drugs seized

WAVE: Opioids infiltrate ranks of organ donors, rendering donations unusable

LOUISIANA: U.S. News & World Report: DEA orders Louisiana pharmaceutical wholesaler Must Stop Selling Controlled Drugs 

The Advocate: Born addicted: Louisiana’s rate of newborns dependent on opioids is rising, pregnant women lack treatment options

The Times Picayune: Despite opioid crisis, Louisiana may cut drug treatment options

MAINE: Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to Kittery,  after capturing 5896.7 kilos (13-thousand pounds) of cocaine in the eastern Pacific.

Bangor Daily News: Drug agents bust 9 in Aroostook County trafficking ring

Central Maine:  Augusta police arrest 4 on drug charges

WABI: Center Street home drug bust in Bangor, 6 arrested

MARYLAND: WJZ-TV: Mother Arrested After 8-Month-Old Ingests Drugs

WTOP: Maryland curbs prisoner access to books, citing drug smuggling

MASSACHUSETTS: U.S. News & World Report:  13 Arrested in Bust of Major Drug Trafficking Ring

WBUR: Black Drug Users Grapple With Surging Opioid Overdose Death Rates

WWLP: 7 arrested, 3 wanted in Massachusetts drug sweep

MASS.gov: Current opioid statistics

MICHIGANMichiganLive: Michigan has 4th biggest drug problem in United States

DetroitNews: New Michigan opioid laws may mean longer prescription wait times

ClickOnDetroit: 3 pharmacists, 2 ‘recruiters,’ doctor charged in $9.6M prescription drug scheme

MINNESOTA: KIMT: 27 people arrested in Olmsted County

PostBulletin: Austin drug bust nets $100,000 worth of meth, cocaine

MPRNews: Federal taxpayer funded grant funds heroin trafficking investigations 

MISSISSIPPI: Clarion Ledger: Feds charge 11 in multi-state ‘Operation Highlife’

MSNewsNow: Marijuana, $69000 cash seized in north Jackson drug bust

WTVA: Officers seize package containing drugs in Nettleton

U.S. News & World Report: Woman Arrested, Signed for Parcel Carrying Drug

MISSOURI: News Tribune: Jefferson City woman arrested in traffic stop turned drug bust

KOAM: Three Missouri Residents Arrested For Illegal Drug Activity

Missouri Sheriff’s Association: Major Drug Operation Nets 5 Arrests 

Herald-Whig: Man dies after apparent meth overdose

MONTANA: KULR: Montana school bus provider accused of dealing meth

KXLF: Feds raid home in Deer Lodge as part of ongoing investigation

Missoulan: 48 marijuana plants found in Missoula warehouse

U.S. Food & Drug Administration: Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center fails inspection, “which put patients at risk.” 

NEBRASKA: The Washington Post: Record drug bust finds enough fentanyl to kill 26-Million people (let’s call it chemical warfare, it’s definitely a weapon of mass destruction)

NEVADA: The Spectrum: Mesquite traffic stop turns drug bust

The Washington Post: Nebraska pushes to carry out the country’s first execution using fentanyl

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  New Hampshire Public Radio: New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis

The New York Times: Drug Arrests at Immigration Checkpoint Violated Constitution

NEW JERSEY: NorthJersey: Drugs and prostitution: What might be next for New Jersey

LehighValleyLive: 2 arrested in P’burg police drug raid in Alpha

The Trentonian: $2 million drug bust

Guns, drugs and fatality

WPVI: NJ State Police arrest Philly duo, seize $2K in drugs

NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque Business First: New Mexico has the sixth biggest drug problem

New Mexico-Indicator Based Information System (NM-IBIS): New Mexico’s drug overdose death rate has been one of the highest in the nation for most of the last two decades

NEW YORK: A Venezuelan veterinarian is now in NYC facing federal drug charges after a 2005 drug raid in Columbus revealed the veterinarian was sewing up bags of liquid heroin inside puppies for transport to the U.S.  The so called animal doctor was finally caught in Spain in 2015.

New York Post: Drug Bust reports

The New York Times: Overdoses From ‘Dangerous Batch’

Drug Abuse and Traffic reports

You’re Not a Drug Dealer? Here’s Why the Police Might Disagree

NYPD News: Narcotics Archives

NORTH CAROLINA: WNCN: NC drug bust highlights ‘meth highway’ as I-85

KABC: 90M worth of liquid meth found in semi-truck fuel tank

KTVD: Drug, gun bust leaves police looking for suspects

WECT: Smithfield Foods employees arrested in multi-agency drug bust

NORTH DAKOTA: KFGO: Guns, drugs, cash seized from Fargo home

Reservation drug bust nets $100,000 in narcotics

KVRR: Meth Archives

Grand Forks Herald: Drug reports

OHIO: KULR: Ohio Highway Patrol makes $3.7M heroin, meth bust

Cincinnati.com: Candidates say they’ve tackled heroin crisis. But it’s getting worse

OKLAHOMA: NewsOK: Addicted Oklahoma reports

News On 6: Two Men Caught In Canadian County Drug Bust

OREGON: KOBI: drugs Archives

KDRV: Suspected Drug Den in Medford

KOIN: Man gets 17 years for Mexico-to-Oregon drug trafficking

PENNSYLVANIAPhillyNews: prosecutors are charging heroin dealers with killing their customers

KPMT: York City Police arrest 7 in connection to drug trafficking

PUERTO RICO:  U.S. Department of Justice: Seven Puerto Rico Police Officers Arrested For Corrupt Activities Including Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations

Boston Globe: 10 charged in cocaine ring that brought drugs from Puerto Rico 

RHODE ISLAND: The Sun Chronicle: Police arrest 49 people and seize 53 illegal guns and a large quantity of drugs during Operation Patched Out

SOUTH CAROLINA: WISTV: South Congaree drug bust nets thousands in heroin

Meth, money and Mercedes seized in major drug bust

GoUpstate: Operation Rolling thunder hits University of South Carolina

The Herald: 11 arrested in York County drug raid

The Washington Post: South Carolina anti-drug police unit admits to violating 4th Amendment Rights of U.S. citizens by conducting ‘no-knock’ home invasions!

SOUTH DAKOTA: KSFY: After being busted two years ago, a drug dealer finally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and then ten years of probation after that

TENNESSEE: WVLT: Four arrests in ‘one of the largest’ drug busts in Harriman

Knox News: raid seizes 10000 Xanax pills, 8 pounds of pot 

Drugs land more women behind bars

TEXAS:  Times Record News: Man kidnapped, part of finger chopped off by gang members in meth ring

KRGV: Bust at Donna Home Yields Drugs, 3 Arrests

KLTV: Drug bust takes dealer who sold to both kids, adults, off street

7 arrested in drug search in Van Zandt County

Star-Telegram: 10 schemed to load drugs, weapons and explosives on aircraft at DFW Airport

Corridor News: Texas Border And Port Narcotic Seizures, Arrests And Apprehensions For The Week Of May 2 – May 8

Your tax dollars at work tearing down ‘drug houses’ in Corpus Christi.  Local elementary students were indoctrinated into the government’s latest vain attempt at looking like its fighting the War on Drugs by observing the National Guard knock-down known as Operation Crackdown, while chanting “Knock it down! Knock it down!” (as if it were some kind-o sporting event)

UTAH: KUTV: ‘This is a big one,’ feds announce Utah drug bust

KSTU: Meth ‘forgotten drug,’ seizures skyrocketing in Utah

KTVX: Flesh-eating drug may have made its way to Utah

Salt Lake Tribune: The cheap drug spice is on the rise in Salt Lake City — and it’s killing

Deseret News: New tenant arrested in large drug bust

VERMONT: CNN: Vermont law could allow state to import cheaper Canadian drugs

VIRGINIA:  WSLS: 21 people arrested in ‘Operation Blue Thunder’

WASHINGTON: KHQ: Police seize 50 pounds of meth from truck after traffic stop

The Daily News:  Three Lewis County drug busts in two weeks

CNN: Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids

 Official video Coast Guard Cutter Active, home-port Port Angeles, cocaine interdiction somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 18MAY2018:

 

Washington DC:  Perry Center Hosts Hemispheric Forum on Efforts to Address the Opioid Crisis and Transnational Organized Crime with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.   Read the Official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime report website.  Read official Department of Justice (DoJ) crime report website.

WEST VIRGINIA: WSAZ: police find more than $40,000 in heroin

The Herald-Dispatch: Drug firms deny role in sparking opioid epidemic in WV

WVNews: Mason County man arrested after deputies find drugs, guns

WVVA:  Monroe County indicted 19 people on 46 felony offenses

MetroNews: Two charged after drug overdose in Upshur County

Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA): West Virginia drug crime reports

WISCONSIN:  Wisconsin State Journal: Madison man charged with selling heroin that killed drug purchaser

South Side drug search nets cash, drugs, gun

DoseOfReality: Native Americans in Wisconsin get $2.4-million USD to fight opioid addiction

WKBT: Wisconsin 3rd in nation with drug disposal program

WYOMING: CBSNews: U.S. Air Force admits Airmen guarding nuclear missiles in Wyoming used LSD

Idaho State Journal: Wyoming troopers seize $425000 worth of meth

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: More proof your government/police is behind drugs; TAKE BACK DAY, as Chinese news media reveal that China is behind major California drug ops!

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

Gun Ban Fail: Maine cop has AR-15 and pistol stolen! Hundreds of police guns stolen every year!

27JUN2018 /23:30 UTC-07 Tango 06  (07 Tir 1397/14 Shawwal 1439/15 Wu-Wu 4716)

Somebody broke into a Maine State Police car and stole the 5.56mm (.223 caliber) AR-15 assault rifle and .38 caliber pistol, possibly “for cash or drugs.”  The pistol was found during an investigation into another burglary, the AR-15 is still missing.

This is not the first time a cop had his/her weapons stolen, despite stricter gun laws, and even un-Constitutional efforts to ban guns.  Hundreds, possibly thousands (because it’s rarely made public) of police guns go missing every year across the United States!

IndyStar: 2 arrested after patrol rifle stolen from Greenfield police car

New York Post: Cops recover officer’s gun stolen from Burger King bathroom

Chicago Tribune: Zion City employee uses stolen police badge to get a discount on gun

Slate: Watch Off-Duty California Police Officer Pull Gun on Man He Thought Had Stolen Mentos

WCGL: Guns stolen from evidence room of Lithonia police department

KNTV: Gilroy Police Chief’s Gun, Badge Stolen While Attending College Graduation

GUN BAN FAIL: YET ANOTHER CALIFORNIA COP CAUGHT ILLEGALLY SELLING GUNS!

KNBC: Reward for Stolen Compton Police Guns Rises to $20K

North Jersey: Police officer’s gun stolen from the trunk of his car

WickedLocal: Warrant for man with stolen Atlanta police gun

AR-15 = GOD’S ‘ROD OF IRON’?

NBCNews: Philly Cop Ambushed with Stolen Police Gun

KABC: Gun stolen from San Francisco police officer’s car used in gang-related homicide days later

WRC-TV:  More Than 350 Firearms Lost or Stolen From DC-Area Police Since 2011

GUN BAN FAIL: CALIFORNIA ANTI-GUN LAWS FAIL TO STOP COP FROM HAVING HIS OWN GUNS STOLEN! Includes more ‘real’ main stream news article links

POLICE CAUSE GUN VIOLENCE: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS KILLED BY COPS ARE WHITE MEN!

CANADIANS DEMAND GUN RIGHTS AFTER POLICE ADMIT TO STEALING LEGALLY OWNED GUNS!

FALSE FLAG: AR-15 IS NOT “HIGH POWER” OR “HIGH VELOCITY”! IT’S A “PLINKER”!

ANTI GUN LAWS FAIL TO STOP STOLEN COP GUN FROM BEING USED TO AMBUSH U.S. COP!

POLICE CAUSE GUN VIOLENCE: COPS CHARGED WITH MURDER TRIPLES, FORMER COP CREDITS VIDEO EVIDENCE!

Orlando Sentinel: Police guns stolen again from cop car

WABC: How often do police officers lose their guns

GUN SECURITY? HOW CAN WE BE SECURE IF EVEN THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES CAN’T STOP THE THEFT OF THEIR WEAPONS?!

WSVN: POLICE GUNS STOLEN from North Miami Beach Police 

U.S. CIVIL WAR: NEW TREND OF BURGLARS(?) TARGETING GUN OWNERS & COPS! POLICE ADMIT THEY HAVE VAULTS FULL OF UNCLAIMED STOLEN GUNS!

EXCEPTIONAL FAILED STATE: TRUCK LOAD OF AR-15s STOLEN!

KFVS: Carbondale releases report on police chief’s stolen gun

To save the animals, U.S. military deployed to Georgia!

19JUN2018 (15:00 UTC-07 Tango 06)  29 Khordad 1397/05 Shawwal 1439/06 Wu-Wu 4716

Georgia Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jamila A. Haven, 10MAY2018.

In May, the Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel to the U.S. state of Georgia. It was part of Operation Empower Health Greater Savannah, in response to the fact the economy has not recovered (and ObamaCare isn’t working).  Not only can’t people pay for their own healthcare, but they can’t pay for the care of their pets!

Wyoming Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant John Galvin, 13MAY2018.

The military operation was conducted in conjunction with Humane Society for Greater Savannah, Georgia Southern University and the christian owned Saint Joseph/Chandler hospital system (“No proof of income, residency or picture ID is required for services”).

Official video explainer:

MARIA: FREE SHOTS FOR PUERTO RICO PETS!

HARVEY: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?

LOUISIANA MILITIA RESCUES FLOOD VICTIMS & THEIR PETS!

WORLD ANIMAL DAY: EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS DURING WAR? IT AIN’T PRETTY!

MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW AS SPANISH COPS START KILLING EBOLA VICTIM’S PETS!

PETS ABANDONED TO DIE ALONE IN ALABAMA!

PETS BEING THROWN OUT?

FLUORIDE WARS: STUDIES SHOW YOUR PETS ARE BEING POISONED BY FLUORIDATED WATER & GRAPES!

Fukushima: DOGS & CATS STILL ABANDONED IN RADIATION ZONES

God is Evil: ICE hits Hobby Lobby, returns Sumerian artifacts to Iraq!

18JUN2018 /23:26 UTC-07 Tango 06  (29 Khordad 1397/05 Shawwal 1439/06 Wu-Wu 4716)

“Such efforts are to be noted, not only do they enforce the law they serve as a sense of historic justice, and they help in the fight against criminal and terrorist networks.-Fareed Yasseen, Iraqi Ambassador to the United States

Not even a year after first getting into trouble, the co-owners of Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible are in trouble again.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is returning more than 3-thousand smuggled Sumerian/Babylonian/Ancient Iranian (primarily from the Ur III and Old Babylonian period, 2100-1600 BCE) artifacts to Iraq.  The tablets and cylinders were illegally acquired by the ‘christian’ owned Hobby Lobby for its new Bible Museum in Washington DC. 

On 02MAY2018 the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. signed documents with ICE for the return of archaeological items, bought by Hobby Lobby which inadvertently(?) provided $1.6-million USD of funding for Islamic extremists.

The ‘christians’ who run Hobby Lobby tried to smuggle in the artifacts by labeling the boxes as Tile Samples.   The criminal act was discovered by  ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agents, in conjunction with Assistant U.S. Attorneys at United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, investigating funding ops for DAIISH (Islamic State).  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted the smuggled items.

Hobby Lobby must now pay a $3-million fine, plus other punitive actions.  This isn’t the first time ICE returned stolen artifacts to Iraq.

Smithsonian: Hobby Lobby’s Smuggled Artifacts May Come From Lost Sumerian City

Live Science: Lost City of Irisagrig Comes to Life in Ancient Stolen Tablets

“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”

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