Incomplete list, mainly links to main stream news media reports, of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and cyber-chicanery announcements in January 2019:
At the end of January, U.S. led NATO countries converged on Estonia to conduct cyber warfare ops. Cyber operations included attempted attacks on industrial control systems, physical security systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and maritime surveillance systems, according to U.S. 24th Air Force/Air Forces Cyber.
During the ongoing U.S. meddling in Syrian politics, a female U.S. Navy Cryptologic Technician was killed in Manbij, on 16JAN2019.
The looming danger in high-tech car safety systems
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
CALIFORNIA: Space Exploration Technologies issued a layoff WARN, 577 people in Hawthorne to become jobless in March! Solid state battery maker Seeo issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Hayward, 45 jobs gone in March. Online entertainment company Machinima issued multiple WARNs, at least 81 jobs in Burbank gone in March. Carlisle Interconnect Technologies issued shutdown WARNs for its ops in El Segundo and Riverside, 338 jobs gone by October! Automotive pricing and information website TrueCar eliminating 35 jobs by mid-March. Verizon subsidiary Oath eliminating 71 jobs by the end of March. Symantec continues killing jobs, this time 14 people were suddenly laid off. Photonics company Invuity finally revealed to state unemployment officials that it laid off 81 people back in October 2018. Texas based AT&T issued several WARNs, 78 jobs gone by the end of March. Software maker VMware issued a layoff WARN for its Palo Alto ops, 126 jobs gone by April!
Helicopters and drones with hi-tech surveillance equipment will ostensibly be used to count how many homeless people live in San Diego County (interesting that apparently nobody has a problem with this, but many people have a hissy about the government counting non-citizens)
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures lays off 20 people
Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group suddenly lays off 22 people
Palo Alto based online home improvement platform Houzz lays off 180!
Elon Musk founded, Palo Alto based Tesla eliminating 3-thousand jobs due to lack of profitable sales!
Elon Musk founded, Hawthorne based Space X eliminating about 7-hundred jobs!
Mojave based Virgin Galactic lays off 40 employees ahead of transition to New Mexico spaceport
Santa Clara based McAfee suddenly lays off 2-hundred employees!
Cupertino based Apple eliminated 2-hundred jobs from its self-driving car program!
After nine years of hype, San Francisco based online meal delivery company Munchery is now dead: “Today, with a heavy heart, we’re reaching out to announce that Munchery is closing its doors and ending operations effective immediately.”
“They can hear you!” The new electronic warfare ‘Greywolf’ vehicle spotted at U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin National Training Center, 13JAN2019.
COLORADO: Cable TV company WideOpenWest (aka WOW!) shutting down a call center, 2-hundred jobs gone by March!
ILLINOIS: Cable TV company WideOpenWest (aka WOW!) issued a layoff WARN, 56 jobs in Warrenville gone by March. Audio/video equipment maker Harman International issued a shutdown WARN for its Vernon Hills ops, 59 jobs gone in March.
MARYLAND: On 04JAN2019, the U.S. Navy Reserve created a new Navy Cyber Warfare Development Group (NCWDG) Reserve unit: “There is a growing demand for Reservist skill sets from all designators. This is where it all comes together. Regardless of their designator, they have impressive skill sets from their civilian work they can apply to Navy needs.”-Captain James Lee, commander of new unit
In the following official USAF video report, new recruits are told that modern warfare IS about creating better video games:
MICHIGAN: Reprise Media issued a layoff WARN for its ‘Search, Social, Mobile Media’ ops in Birmingham, 92 jobs gone. Also in Birmingham, global media advertiser Universal McCann Worldwide issued a WARN, 116 jobs gone! Once again in Birmingham, ‘communication, media and technology specialists’ Mediabrands issued a shutdown WARN for its I-T ops, effective in March.
MINNESOTA: ‘Backup’ security software maker Code42 suddenly laid off 55 people due to crashing global sales
NEW YORK: Concentrix-Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its call center in Watertown, between 114 and 540 people affected by the end of April! Sun & Earth Energy company issued a layoff WARN, between 47 and 58 jobs gone. Monolith Solar issued a layoff WARN, as many as 23 employees affected.
App ‘savant’ kills self with cocaine and heroin!
NYC based global communications company Ketchum warns of Double-Digit Job Cuts
NYC based Verizon eliminating 8-hundred jobs!
Washington state founded, yet headquarters based in NYC (news media still says its based in Washington, for some reason), online make-up seller Julep suddenly lays off 102 people and goes bankrupt busted!
Texas based AT&T shutting down Syracuse call center, 150 jobs gone! (the official WARN says 155 jobs gone as operations are Escaping from New York to Florida)
NORTH CAROLINA: Conduent to lay off 61 employees
OHIO: Teleperformance shuts down Fairborn facility, 334 layoffs!
OREGON: Bend based Western Communications now chapter 11 bankrupt-busted
TEXAS: Official report about taxpayer funded ‘Hack-of-the-Drones’ involving personnel from the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy: DVIDS_News_306568_791ccf518d402d1c6fe40a3ebe93e655210305df63065fd0dc3cec6e2e893243
Dallas Morning News suddenly laid off 43 people due to crashing revenues
WASHINGTON: On 11JAN2019, the U.S. Army created the new Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space unit (known as I2CEWS) at Joint Base Lewis McChord: “Today we’ll activate the Army’s first I2CEWS detachment, which is the critical unit in the Multi-Domain Task Force and the centerpiece of how the Army will conduct Multi-Domain operations in the future.”-Lieutenant General Gary Volesky, I-Corps
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, December 2018: “UNFORTUNATELY OUR RENT IS TOO HIGH”
Over one weekend, 03-04FEB2019, three USAFR C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft delivered food to three of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants; Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. The U.S. Air Force Reserve described the food aid mission as occurring periodically through out the year. The food is supposedly donated, but the cost of flying it to the recipients rests on the U.S. taxpayers.
In Djibouti, Africa, taxpayer funded U.S. Army veterinarians were deployed to help locals improve their livestock. It’s called a Veterinary Civic Action Project (VetCAP).
In the leftist-liberal socialist ‘Golden State’, U.S. Navy sailors still have to help deliver food for the Meals on Wheels program in San Diego. Since January 2018, Makin Island Sailors delivered more than 550 meals to the local San Diego community.
U.S. Army Officer Cadet School trainees took part in a 16FEB2019 food drive, in partnership with the Midland Feeding the Valley Food Bank, and Columbus Community Warriors Incorporated.
Since July 2018, the U.S. Coast Guard and the British empire’s Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans joined forces to enforce international fishing laws across the Indo-Pacific: “Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing threatens food security, impacts the sustainability of fisheries, and causes irreparable damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems across the globe. Partnerships, like this one with Canada’s Department of National Defence and the United States Coast Guard, are the key to tackling IUU fishing that threatens many vulnerable coastal communities. We will continue to work with other countries and assist small island developing states in combating IUU fishing to increase security and protect the health of fish stocks around the world.”-Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
A volunteer with the Fort McCoy Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers group helps distribute food 4FEB2019, at the Oasis Church in Tomah.
New taxpayer funded temp-housing designed to hold 5-hundred illegals, Yuma, 26JUN2019.
New taxpayer funded washing machines at the new temp-housing, Yuma, 26JUN2019.
First panels of new wall up at Calexico crossing, 20JUN2019.
U.S. Coast Guard captured and returned 44 illegals to Dominican Republic (you know, the country where U.S. tourists are mysteriously dying), 28JUN209.
U.S. Coast Guard captures 24 illegals from Dominican Republic, 10JUN2019. 18 were returned to the Dominican navy, the rest are in U.S. custody.
Things are so bad on the Texas/Mexico border that visiting Mississippi gov’na Phil Bryant, and Mississippi Army National Guard Major General Janson D. Boyles, had to cover their faces while on an inspection of National Guard border ops, 18JUN2019. According to official sources the Mississippi National Guard has helped stop more than 2-thousand pounds of illegal drugs from coming into Texas.
James Cook University (JCU) held a Health and Humanitarian Action in Emergencies (HHAE) course as part of a global disaster coordination plan, during the first week of June 2019. The concept for HHAE was originally developed by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, United States, and JCU’s College of Health of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences.
U.S. Marines arrive at Soto Cano Air Base, 05JUN2019, officially for ‘security’ ops (Honduras is one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegals), but their secondary mission is to be on ‘standby’ for natural disaster response.
U.S. Marine wearing gas mask during humanitarian assistance training at Marine Corps (pronounced -core-) Air Station Iwakuni, 10JUN2019.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief was the main topic at the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium (PALS) on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 06JUN2019.
03JUN2019, USAF Personnel from Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, and Yokota, Japan, traveled all the way to Oregon to take part in the now yearly Cascadia Airlift exercise, as part of Oregon National Guard’s preps for the coming Cascadia Subduction Zone event.
For some reason the USAF is now using Lambos to attract potential recruits during Eglin AFB, Florida, ‘resiliency’ events.
Lamborghini Gallardo speeds along the flight line during the Arctic Thunder Open House at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July, 2018.
Lamborghini accelerates past a BT-13, June 2018. “Sunday driver!” yelled the BT-13 pilot.
