More decline for Idaho: Payless to kill remaining 2,500 stores!

15 February 2019 (12:49 UTC-07 Tango 06) 26 Bahman 1397/09 Jumada t-Tania 1440/11 Bin-Yin 4717

The writing has been on the wall since Spring 2017, now it’s final, about 2-thousand-5-hundred (here’s a map) Payless shoe stores to be shutdown as part of the company’s plan to file for bankruptcy.

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“It isn’t like the movies”: Pacific Ring of Fire, January 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, January 2019.

CANADA: A strange, low-intensity hum near Vancouver Island

CHILE: Strong mag. 6.7 earthquake – Near Coast of Central Chile

Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Buenos Aires warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 14000 ft (4300 m) altitude or flight level 140.

CHINA: Taiwan earthquake: Magnitude […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: New KC-46A Pegasus

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody Dowell, 08FEB2019.

KC-46A Pegasus flies over Altus Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma, 08FEB2019.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Cody Dowell, 08FEB2019. USAF photo by Airman First Class Alan Ricker, 14FEB2019.

U.S. Air Force video, by Staff Sergeant Joshua […] Continue Reading…

Nuclear helicopters spotted in Wyoming?

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

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

Vehicle I-D: M1A2-SEP-V2 Abrams Idaho live fire, February 2019

Alpha Company, 2-116th CBCT. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

At the Orchard Training Area (OTA, aka Orchard Combat Training Center-OCTC) the Idaho Army National Guard is preparing for the 116th Calvary Brigade Combat Team’s upcoming rotation at the National Training Center (Fort Irwin), California, later this year.

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Vehicle I-D: Idaho M2A3 Bradley, January 2019

Upgraded British empire made (BAE Systems) Idaho National Guard M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) conducting ‘live fire’ exercises at Orchard Training Area (OTA, aka Orchard Combat Training Center-OCTC).

Idaho Army National Guard’s Alpha Company, 116 Brigade Engineer Battalion, prepping for ‘rotation’ to National Training Center (Fort Irwin), California, later this year.

VEHICLE I-D: MITSUBISHI F-2, SURE […] Continue Reading…

“Effective immediately”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, October 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in October 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Data Breach Report: October 2018 – Nehemiah Security

CALIFORNIA: Aerojet Rocketdyne issued a layoff WARN, 120 jobs gone by the end of November!  Alpine Electronics issued layoff WARNs, 128 jobs gone by the end of March 2019!  Online entertainment software maker NC Interactive revealed it suddenly laid […] Continue Reading…

More Economic Decline: No more Idaho ShopKo? There never was a Shopko in Pocatello!

08FEB2019/23:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (20 Bahman 1397/03 Jumada t-Tania 1440/05 Bin-Yin 4717)

The now chapter 11 bankrupt busted Wisconsin based Shopko announced more store shutdowns, including almost every store in the Pacific northwest/Rocky Mountain state of Idaho.

The Chubbuck Shopko, located on the Pine Ridge Mall property (and incorrectly listed as being in next-door Pocatello), is shutting […] Continue Reading…

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

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

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

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

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