Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss announcements and shutdowns for June 2016.
Arizona: Switzerland owned solar panel maker ABB shutting down its Phoenix-Sky Harbor factory and moving to Italy and Latvia! At least 89 U.S. jobs will be lost.
California: Maker of foam cushion products Carpenter Company issued a shutdown WARN for their Lathrop factory, 198 jobs […] Continue Reading…
01 July 2016 (17:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Tir 1395/25 Ramadan 1437/27 Jia-Wu 4714
A new study shows ammunition sales in the United States have skyrocketed to the point where 48.9% of ammo is imported from other countries, and that counts only the imports that come in by ship!
Main stream U.S. news media are blaming individual […] Continue Reading…
01 July 2016 (15:00 UTC-07 Tango 01) 11 Tir 1395/25 Ramadan 1437/27 Jia-Wu 4714
Beginning today Idahoans can now carry a concealed gun without a permit. Don’t confuse this with the Open Carry law that’s been in effect for more than a hundred years.
Also, it’s been legal to Conceal Carry outside city limits, but now […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2016 (12:54 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
Fire investigators now consider the illegal use of fireworks as the cause of a fire that’s now burned more than 1-thousand and 12 hectares (2-thousand 5-hundred acres).
The ‘Table Rock’ fire started about midnight, near the Wild Horse subdivision, but stopped short […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2016 (04:42 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
As Boise area news media confirming at least four “structures” burned, inside unnamed sources at the Allstate insurance call center, in Chubbuck, reporting to Blind Bat News that numerous claims for fire damage have already come in.
The Table Rock Fire east of boise […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2016 (04:14 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
“There were people up there shooting off fireworks; mortars, the ones that will go up in the air.”-Taylor Kemp, telling Boise news media that he saw people setting off fireworks despite a burn ban. Kemp says the perpetrators ran as soon as […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2016 (03:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
“Keeps erupting in places.”-Aryssa May Hutchins
Pic by Aryssa May Hutchins might show explosive fireball emanating from the ‘south’ fire, east of Boise.
The fires appear to be moving eastward, over the hills, away from residential areas.
30 June 2016 (03:36 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
“When we first woke up, there were huge flames. All the trees in the foothills right in front of us are gone, completely.”-Dawn Green, resident of East Barber Drive to KTVB
“I just heard two or three huge explosions and I’m seeing […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2016 (03:06 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
“Smoke just got really bright from the south fire.”-Aryssa May Hutchins reporting
The capital of Idaho, Boise, has seen numerous home fires and wild fires in the area since the start of June. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently declared several western […] Continue Reading…
30 June 2016 (02:52 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Tir 1395/24 Ramadan 1437/26 Jia-Wu 4714
“The whole damn hill is embers! But the cross is still there.”-Aryssa May Hutchins reporting three more large explosions in the ‘Table Rock’ fires (multiple fires now) on the east side of Boise. Several smaller explosions heard from the ‘southern’ fire.