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“we are beating a dead horse!”: U.S. food crisis, January 2019

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Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of January, 2019:

Farm fatalities on the rise: Ag industry ranked most hazardous in the U.S.

“Ag-gag laws” hide the cruelty of factory farms from the public.

U.S. Army food inspection specialists check expiration dates of food in Poland, 29JAN2019, as part of anti-Russia NATO ops.

Near the island of Fiji, U.S. Coast Guard personnel join with Canadian counterparts, as well as the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, to enforce international fishing laws.  In the pic a Coast Guard ‘small boat’ approaches a suspected illegal fishing boat, 25JAN2019.

Blue C Sushi suddenly shutdown restaurants in California and Washington, without warning all employees now jobless

How 300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet

Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water

Polar vortex strikes U.S. farm belt

Judge temporarily block’s Trump imposed wage increase for foreign farm workers, as lawsuit reveals 400% increase in H-2A foreign workers!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: HEMP PROGRAM: Farmers with interest urged to apply

Mad cow testing halted by government shutdown

Alabama company recalls hot sausages due to metal bits

ALASKA: Taxpayer funded program aims to cultivate specialty crops

Experimental Farm survives government ups and downs

ARKANSAS: Hemp firm partners with university researchers to develop cannabis

5 migrant workers claim mistreatment on Arkansas farm

Honey farmer blames popular herbicide for killing honey production, saying the herbicide caused “…the destruction of the pollinating plants that bees need.”

ARIZONA: Shot in the Dark Café shutdown due to “gentrification of …the surrounding area” indicated by a “400% rent hike”!

Canadian farm robot tested in Arizona

Drought plan fight between farms and cities escalates

Experimental hops farm attempts year-round grow

CALIFORNIA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for ops in Los Angeles, 59 jobs gone by the end of March.  Tokyo Table issued a shutdown WARN for its Alhambra restaurant, 33 jobs gone by mid-March.

Lucca Ravioli shutdown after 94 years, no reason given

San Francisco based online meal-delivery Munchery suddenly ceased to exist

British empire Canada based McCain Foods shutting down its factory in Colton, 1-hundred jobs gone!

Almanac Beer shutdown San Francisco taproom

After 40 years Harry’s Hofbrau shutdown 

Yankee Pier seafood restaurant shutting down after almost 11 years: “It wasn’t about quality and service, it was about sales and rent.”-Steve Sarrell, manager

Could California produce soon cost you more?

CONNECTICUT: Brew Makers Want More Flexibility 

‘Frost Quakes’ Cause Explosive Sounds

DELAWARE: Abbot’s Grill shutdown after nine years, due to not being able to renew the lease due to increasing competition

Code Purple Declared As Bitterly Cold Temperatures, Sub-Zero Wind Chills Arrive

Man arrested for poaching deer

FLORIDA:  France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a WARN for ops in Miami, 149 jobs gone by the end of March!  Food service contractor Aramark issued a WARN for its ops at Raymond James Stadium, 919 jobs affected in February!

Taxpayer funded Director of Cannabis position created

State ag commissioner sworn-in on Hebrew holy book

GEORGIA:  After 42 years Rainbow Natural Foods shutting down in February after failed attempts to sell the grocery store, due to local building codes

After 12 years, Fiddler’s Seafood Southside suddenly shutdown its Hodgson Memorial Drive location.

Brazil muscles-in on local farming ops, due to locals being desperate for jobs

For more proof that farmers are actually taxpayer funded welfare recipients; peanut industry halted after government shutdown

GUAM: Five arrested for allegedly keeping endangered green sea turtles

Coconut drink taxed, outlawed, now threatened by rhino beetle

New study blames U.S. occupation of the island for massive food insecurity.  After World War Two the U.S. Navy evicted natives from their farms and villages, now as much as 95% of the island’s food comes from other countries.  It’s estimated that the current U.S. occupation has resulted in the natives having only five to 10 days food supply in an emergency! 

HAWAII: The U.S. Coast Guard was called to rescue a sick employee of a Vanuatu registered tuna boat.  It was reported that the tuna boat crewman had been sick for days and was getting worse, Coast Guard personnel determined hospitalization was needed and airlifted him to Kauai.

Kauai dairy farm scrapped

Bee parasites also affect bee eaters

Taxpayer funded specialty crop funding

IDAHO:  East Idaho potato growers barely breaking even

farmers see production increase, revenue decrease (welcome to the reality of the commodity market)

Vineyards recover from snow-mageddon

State of the art gravitational irrigation system 

ILLINOIS: Tavern at the Park issued a shutdown WARN, 80 jobs gone in March due to being sold.  O’Charlie’s issued a shutdown WARN, 60 jobs gone by April.

Restaurant Michael being shutdown to make room for two smaller restaurants

Tuscany restaurant closing Oak Brook location after 25 years

Cerar’s Barnstormer Steakhouse and Catering suddenly shutdown, the owner saying “Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have to close….The future is uncertain…”

New farming method in yet another attempt to reduce nitrogen pollution (I guess all the other attempts failed? How about just stop using oil industry chemicals?)

INDIANA: After less than 2 years Crispy Bird suddenly shutdown

Dairy Producers Facing Another Year of Change 

Rising Interest Rates and Strong Dollar Will Make 2019 Another Tough Year for Farmers

IOWA: Iowa ‘ag gag’ law ruled unconstitutional

KANSAS:  Chick-fil-A shutdown its West Ridge Mall location with only a two weeks notice

Farm incomes down 60%!

Focus on GMO soybeans to increase yield

KENTUCKY:  State Ag commissioner orders facebook to stop deleting hemp companies

LOUISIANA: Breaux Mart suddenly shutdown a grocery store in Gretna

Invasive plant is threatening, again

Tariffs force farmers to leave soybeans in fields to rot

MAINE: After nine years, The Roost suddenly shutdown its Orono restaurant.

No let up in fight against salmon farm

Maine hemp ops benefit British empire Canadian company

MARYLAND: Starbucks shutting down its Tollgate Marketplace cafe, no reason given

For more proof farmers are taxpayer funded welfare recipients; farmers waiting for promised soybean subsidies

MASSACHUSETTS: West Bridgewater based Shaw’s shutting down four grocery stores

After 192 years, iconic Durgin Park shutdown “due to declining revenues and expenses that keep growing”

After 60 years Santoro’s Sub-Villa shutting down

MICHIGAN: Mr. B’s Food & Spirits shutdown after 40 years

Taxpayer funded help for local wineries

MINNESOTA: Bakers Square and Perkins restaurants finally notified state unemployment officials of that they both eliminated jobs in Rochester.

Pet food recalled after state health department finds salmonella in a human

Almost half-a-million more pigs

MISSOURI: TreeHouse Foods closing Saint Louis office, 170 jobs gone!

Saint Louis based grocer Save-A-Lot suddenly laid off 1-hundred corporate level employees!

Popular chain McArthur’s Bakery shutdown two brick-n-mortar locations and will focus on new internet sales

Tyson Foods, Inc. Recalls Chicken Nugget Products

Missouri’s new labeling law criminalizing ‘meat’ 

NEBRASKA: After 22 years Millard Roadhouse suddenly shutdown, no reason given

Dodge County says no to large Costco poultry farm

Taxpayer funded UNL’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources‘ relatively new Undergraduate Scholarship Program targets foreign students

NEVADA: For the past eight years Nevada Air National Guard’s High Rollers have helped with the Evelyn Mount Food Distribution both at Thanksgiving and Xmas, but not anymore: “They came in and showed leadership in coordinating everything from organizing food distribution lines, helping to direct parking and made sure all the lines of customers stayed calm with no incidences. I couldn’t have done it without them…..”-Evelyn Mount, who has had to halt her food donation ops at the urging of her family and doctors

controversial water market approved

snowpacks in the Great Basin appear to be transitioning from seasonal, with a predictable amount and melt rate, to ‘ephemeral’, or short-lived, which are less predictable and only last up to 60 days: “Small temperature changes can lead to large ecological changes. More intermittent snowpacks means water flow is more difficult to predict. We might not get as much water into the ground, throwing off the timing of water for plant root systems, reducing our supply and use, and even affecting businesses such as tourism.”-Rose Petersky, Hydrology Graduate Student 

Taxpayer sponsored horse rustling? Illegal round up of publicly owned horses for slaughter might also have taken privately owned horses, according to lawsuit against Nevada Agriculture, Native Americans, and a Utah company that’s been in trouble before. The lawsuit says most of the horses were not part of tribal reservation herds but were on federal public land and included privately owned horses which were herded into Utah from Nevada:“We respect the sovereignty of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe for activities that occur on their nation’s lands. However, the roundup of the Palomino Valley horses occurred on private lands outside the reservation, involving trespass, taking of private horses and violations of state law. We are bringing this suit on behalf of the residents whose property rights have been violated and the wild horses who have lived peacefully in Palomino Valley for years.”–Suzanne Roy, whose own horse was rounded up

Federal Judge Bars Slaughter of Horse taken during taxpayer funded Tribal Roundup

NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Wine’ing Butcher shutting down its Bedford location, owner blames market saturation and skyrocketing rent: “We had the best holiday season we ever had, but I can’t make a decision based on one month, especially since I don’t know what Trader Joe’s will bring. I really can’t afford to sign another five-year lease with an increase…”-Rob Smith

900 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria shutting down yet another location, blamed on lack of employees willing to work in the crappy restaurant industry

Rescued horses being rescued again after non-profit animal rescue farm begs for food donations

NEW JERSEY: Allied Beverage issued WARNs for two locations, 108 jobs gone by March!  Switzerland based Nestlé issued a WARN for its ops in Florham Park, 62 jobs gone by April.  Winberie’s Restaurant and Bar suddenly eliminates 43 jobs.

Carlo’s Bake Shop shuts down two brick-n-mortar locations due to not being able to renew the leases

the dawn of a new hard cider era

NEW MEXICO: Bakery La Fiesta shutting down after 13 years: “We’re doing paperwork and on Monday my husband is showing me the numbers and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God there’s no way.’ There is no way, we are beating a dead horse!”-Gina Ortega, referring to crashing sales caused by a taxpayer funded road ‘improvement’ project that’s been ongoing for the past year

Micro-farming network plans expansion

NEW YORK: Centerplate issued shutdown WARNs for several New York Racing Association locations, about 6-hundred jobs affected by loss of contract!  Restaurant Dos Caminos issued shutdown WARN, 1-hundred jobs gone due to not being able to renew the lease!  After 18 years, Nirchi’s On The Avenue shutting down in favor of yet another pizza joint.

After 37 years Pelham Bay Diner suddenly shutdown, the owner blames market saturation (too many new restaurants)

Papa Jakes Saloon/Pop’s Sports Bar and Grill shutdown

Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its grocery store in Norwich

Justin’s Grill in East Syracuse shutdown after almost 18 years

After less than two years in Mount Kisco, Siegel Bros. Marketplace suddenly shutdown

The Italian Grill in downtown Paducah merging with a competing pizza joint to save money

Despite boasting it has more than 245 job openings, non-dairy products maker Rich’s (Rich Products) suddenly laid off 19 people

NORTH CAROLINA: After 56 years Bill Ellis Barbecue shutdown suddenly, 55 jobs gone: “Against all obstacles, we fought the good fight, but realized it’s time.”-Tanya Neville

Now bankrupt busted Gigi’s Cupcakes shutting down its Cameron Village location

The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming

NORTH DAKOTA: Ag groups, hunting groups face off over trespassing bill

State and County agencies sue city over anti-pig law

OHIO: Pennsylvania based Eat’n Park closing all its Ohio restaurants, 2-hundred jobs lost!

After 63 years the owners of Hathaway’s Diner are threatening to shutdown because of high rent

Giant Eagle shutting down its grocery store in Willoughby Hills

Quarter Barrel Brewery & Pub shutdown two locations in Oxford and Hamilton

OKLAHOMA: After 20 years Goldie’s Patio Grill shutdown without warning 

State Ag Secretary suddenly resigns 

Poultry rules still in place

OREGON: Lost Valley Farm issued a shutdown WARN, 75 dairy jobs gone by April.

State files objection to Lost Valley Farm sale

Widmer Brothers closes North Portland pub

Elmer’s shutdown its 17 years old Klamath Falls restaurant, 30 jobs gone due to ‘multiple economic factors’.

New rules for Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program

PENNSYLVANIA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for ops in Philadelphia, 59 jobs gone by the end of March.  The owner of the ShopRite grocery store in Haverford  issued a shutdown WARN, 109 jobs affected by March!

Belko Foods closing Waynesburg store: “We just haven’t been able to make it profitable enough to keep it open.”-Larry Krupko, owner

Oakshire Mushroom Farm now bankrupt due to losing its biggest customer Costco, and the difference in value between the Canadian and U.S. dollars 

Switzerland based Nestlé shutting down its Breinigsville call center, 72 jobs lost

ACME shutting down its grocery store in Gladwyne because they now have too many stores in the area

PUERTO RICO: How a cockfighting ban could affect Puerto Rico’s struggling economy

British empire Canada based hemp company taking advantage of U.S. government inaction in Puerto Rico

RHODE ISLAND:  Brown University criticized for using live pigs in medical training

dairy farms vanishing after 4-year crash in milk prices

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Louisiana and Mississippi ban sweet potatoes from South Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA: Shrimp farming coming to land-locked South Dakota

The South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Weapons Element has joined the ever growing war on hunger in the U.S.A.: “For our first year we feel like we had a good start…..Even though the donation may seem small…”-Technical Sergeant Karl Hoskins

TENNESSEE: World Market shutting down its Hendersonville location due to not being able to renew the lease

TEXAS: North By Northwest Brewing shutting down its Austin location due to challenges brought by ongoing area construction

One of the largest employers in the Corpus Christi area, Kane Beef Processing, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Sovrano’s Gatti’s pizza chain now bankrupt busted

Tennessee founded, but now Texas owned, Gigi’s Cupcakes now bankrupt busted

Eastside Cafe shutdown, to be replaced by another restaurant

 Chick-fil-A shutdown its Sunland Park Mall location with only a two weeks notice

Taylor Farms recalls chicken products due to mislabeling

UTAH: After 25 years Village Inn Restaurant shutdown due to being sold

USDA confirms virulent Newcastle disease

VERMONT: 10 percent of Vermont dairy farms closed in 2018

VIRGINIA: Perdue Foods’ fun-shaped chicken nuggets recalled due to mislabeling

WASHINGTON: The employees of the only Pizza Hut in West Seattle leaked news of a shutdown, no reason given

Washington DC: USDA clears early February food stamp disbursement due to shutdown

Cannabis stocks look set to flourish thanks to Trump

WEST VIRGINIA: State expecting $6-million in assistance from taxpayer funded USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program

WISCONSIN: Mail order/online gift gourmet food seller Figi’s suddenly halted some operations and will layoff 276 people by March!  For proof brick-n-motars are not the only companies suffering declining sales, Figi’s reps said that despite investing millions of dollars into their ops, profits keep falling. 

The Whiskey Bar shutdown, the owner saying “We have been the only tenant in this building for 10 years and knew someday this building would be razed and there will be an incredible development opportunity….” 

Applebee’s shutting down its 12 years old Wauwatosa location due to not being able to renew the lease

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub suddenly shutdown

After 80 years Jacobson Brothers Quality Deli and Meats shutdown all three locations

WYOMING: Western Sugar announced yet another round of layoffs, as part of its plan to shutdown ops in Torrington: “It’s like a punch to the gut for the City of Torrington. There’s no way our community can absorb 200 jobs.”-Mayor Randy Adams

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, December 2018: ‘BRINK OF EXTINCTION’

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‘Traveling Terrorists’: U.S. Immigrant invasion, May 2019

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, May 2019.

During the week of 13 May, U.S. tax dollars were spent conducting the ‘Securing our Borders against Traveling Terrorists’ symposium in the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.  It was touted as the first collaborative global counterterrorism alumni workshop.

Here’s an official U.S. Army Corps (pronounced -core-, not -corps-) of Engineers video proving the border wall construction started under the Obama regime, not Trump!  In the video it’s stated the military was asked to help build a border wall (called Border Barrier Project) starting in “fiscal 2017”.  Fiscal 2017 began in July 2016 while Barack Obama was President:

 

Department of Defense to build temporary shelters for illegal immigrants in Arizona and Texas

Trump is now using E-Verify in his golf courses. The result: More firings of undocumented workers

Trump’s winery exposed for hiring and exploiting illegal immigrants 

ALABAMA:  Illegal immigrants arrested in human trafficking operation

ARIZONA:  Trial begins in the case of ASU teacher charged with harboring illegal immigrants

Department of Homeland Security fabrication and storage yard for border wall fencing, near Yuma, known as Arizona Primary Replacement Barrier.

Security camera video of at least 111 illegal immigrants near San Luis, 07MAY2019:

Video of alleged smuggling tunnel discovered by Mexican State Police and U.S. Border Patrol, under a parking lot in Nogales, 29MAY2019:

CALIFORNIA:  UCSF medical school graduates first illegal student in its history

California considers health care for illegal immigrants

24-thousand illegal immigrants known to be living in Ventura County

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspects ‘Normandy’ vehicle barrier near El Centro.

CONNECTICUT:  State senate passes bill restricting cooperation with ICE

 FLORIDA: sheriffs sign on to help ICE catch illegal immigrants

IDAHO: ISU president says vandalism on campus targeted foreign students

Yet again, migrant farm workers contaminated with unknown chemical

Town of Wilder built by migrant farm workers, originally created by USDA taxpayer funding

ILLINOIS:  ICE arrests DACA student, and her parents, local churches and news media supports the illegals

MASSACHUSETTS:  judge indicted for allegedly helping illegal immigrant

Elitist ‘christian’ founded Harvard University holds first ever illegal immigrant graduation 

MICHIGAN: Michigan farm’s use of E-Verify in question after two illegal employees killed coworker

MISSISSIPPI:  Illegal immigrant arrested for driving intoxicated and running over a child on a bike 

MISSOURI: State funding budget intends to block taxpayer funded education for illegal immigrants 

NEW YORK: More than 230 undocumented immigrants transferred to NYC-area jails

ICE arrests illegal immigrants in 10 Long Island communities

OREGON: considering granting driving privileges to illegal immigrants

TEXAS:  02MAY2019, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 670 migrants illegally crossing the border in three separate groups in less than 24 hours.

Taxpayer dollars spent on temporary ‘processing’ shelters for illegal immigrants near the town of Donna.

Officials from U.S. Department of Defense, and Homeland Security, inspect National Guard personnel serving on border patrol duty, 11MAY2019.

Security camera video showing more than 1-thousand illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. near El Paso, 29MAY2019:

Border Patrol Says More Than 1,000 Migrants in Texas Is Largest It Has Encountered

Washington DC: USDA admits fewer and fewer illegals are coming to the U.S. to work on farms, creating a farm worker crisis (see also Migrant farm workers say Organic Farms are a worker’s Hell on Earth)

President Trump announces tariffs on Mexico over immigration

Trump’s new immigration plan emphasizes skills and education 

House Hearing Grows Heated Over Migrant Children’s Deaths

HUD Secretary Ben Carson defends plan to evict illegal immigrants from taxpayer funded housing 

U.S. President demands legal immigrants reimburse the government for welfare programs

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 made it a federal crime for non-citizens to vote in national elections and classified any unlawful voting by non-citizens (in local, state, and national elections) as a deportable offense.

U.S. immigrant invasion, April 2019: HIGH ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING?

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mULTI-aGENCY sUPER sURGE: U.S. government shenanigans, January 2019

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Incomplete (literally the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for January 2019:

Prison Industrial Complex

United Van Lines moving company reported the top five states people are fleeing are New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, New York and Kansas.

Military Times: military spouses could receive potentially thousands of dollars in state tax refunds

ALABAMA: Paying out SNAP (food stamps) a month early

Trump is right? Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race

State Department of Corrections wants 20% increase in pay and to hire 5-hundred more prison guards

While we would hope committing crimes and “doing really dumb things” are always a bad idea, members of the Priceville Police Department want residents to know such shenanigans are cancelled

ARIZONA: Pima County Department of Transportation hit 36 workers with layoffs after cash strapped taxpayers rejected a $430 million construction package

 SNAP benefits to be issued early

Why People Are Flocking From California to Arizona

ARKANSAS: University of Arkansas Medical Sciences center Had $29M Deficit, Used Restricted Funds

Public-housing contracts expire; tenants risk rent increases, loss of homes 

The Faulkner County Quorum Court improperly used $350,000 in restricted taxpayer funds that were meant to support the 20th Judicial Circuit public defender’s office

CALIFORNIA: Hawthorne based taxpayer (NASA) funded Space X eliminating 7-hundred jobs!

Several Fairfield Police personnel disciplined for sex ‘crimes’ 

Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers

video of alleged assault of a veteran by Vallejo cop

three Pomona Police Department cops facing federal criminal charges

‘Red’ county sheriffs decry sanctuary laws after crime spree, cop killing

Nevada City sets up ‘goat fund me’ page to fight wildfires

COLORADO: Map shows Colorado police shootings so far this year, note that the overwhelming majority of shootings by cops are in the metro area along Interstate 25

CONNECTICUT: Has Among the Lowest Growth in the Nation

GEORGIA: New laws that went into effect

IDAHO: University of Idaho professor placed on leave after speaking out

University of Idaho will cut $5 million

STEM Action Center downplays $1M funding gap

federal taxpayer funding to assist statewide charter schools

ILLINOIS: More than 250 new state laws take effect

Barack Obama’s buddy Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent an incredible amount of taxpayer money on big corporations to encourage economic development. However, entire swaths of the city have seen little return on investments made with their tax dollars: “Development that does not address displacement is not development, it is whitewashing our neighborhoods and our communities.”-Amisha Patel, Grassroots Collaborative 

Community groups try to slow down taxpayer raping $5 billion Lincoln Yards development

Des Plaines Moves Forward With Oakton Corridor Tax Increment Financing

DeKalb council approves Tax Incremental Funding audit, HUD money amendment

Property owners forced to pay for Shorewood Towne Center project

The city of Woodstock’s property owner raping Tax Increment Financing fund ended the fiscal year in the red!

Springfield City Council sent a message to developers who ask for large amounts of Tax Increment Financing: the risk is on you

Property owners forced to fund rebuild of failing Granada Theatre

INDIANA: Greenfield to rape property owners with Tax Incremental Financing for infrastructure projects, including one for a Chinese company!

MARYLAND: A former Baltimore cop has published a book detailing the level of crimes committed by cops, including fake drug busts, ‘disappearing’ drugs from police evidence lockers, just to name a few: “I learned about cops burglarizing houses and transporting stolen antiques in a paddy wagon. I’d seen cops sleeping and drinking on the job. I lost trust in fellow officers I had respected who were accepting bribes – even one who was my academy instructor. After two and a half years, I knew I had to get out of there!”–James I. Cabezas, who helped convict state lawmakers, city councilmen and, famously, a Baltimore mayor

(Reminds me of a cop crime while I was working in the News Department of KYMA, in Arizona, in 1995.  Store owners in a shopping plaza were reporting massive thefts, they were taking place overnight even though the shop owners were paying the city of Yuma to have cops patrol the plaza.  Yep it was a cop!  The dumb cop that was committing the crime didn’t stop to realize that it’d be easy to finger him because the thefts took place only on his watch.  Other cops staked out the plaza on his watch and caught him red handed.)

MICHIGAN:  Traverse City Downtown Development Authority to further explore the possibility of expanding downtown’s Tax Increment Financing

MISSISSIPPI: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take your property?

Cops on Leave After Man’s Death from Head Injury

MISSOURI:  Department of Corrections announces plan to consolidate prisons, blaming it on the biggest taxpayer funded pay raise for prison guards in the state’s history

Demand for transparency after Pleasant Hill jail death

NEBRASKA: court system lacks the funds to establish mental health courts

Operation Jupiter: U.S. Department of Defense spending $11-million in tax funding for development of drug therapies to protect military service members from the effects of radiation exposure

NEVADA: New laws lift tampon tax, restore some voting rights

Department of Energy secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada

Nevada Army National Guard ends lease of Camp Stead after 50 years.  The land is owned by the city of Reno and was leased at one dollar per year, but don’t think it saved state taxpayers any money.  Official reports say the state Military Department spent millions of tax-dollars, including $4-million in just the past ten years, upgrading the property.  The lease was allowed to expire because the property is part of the Reno-Tahoe Airport, and the Federal Aviation Administration says the land must be used for airport operations.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: He Disparaged the Police on Facebook. So They Arrested Him.

criminal investigation of Salem deputy chief

NEW MEXICO: Leftist liberal state rated worst for raising a family

NEW YORK: a private investigator, who used to be a cop, now fights for people accused of crimes because he knows first-hand that the justice system is bull-shit!

More proof New York is anti-American; New gun-control laws in New York: Find out what is planned six years after the SAFE Act

For proof how paranoid NYC is, taxpayer dollars being spent on having New York Army National Guard conduct Operation Empire Shield “…patrolling through Penn during a Multi-Agency Super Surge, a mission where multiple law enforcement agencies have a very strong show of Force and work in a Unified, collaborative Effort to share intelligence, best practices, relevant information in a Unified effort to detect, deter and defeat terrorism.”

OHIO:  City of Barberton warning of massive layoffs due to the loss $1.5 million in state government funding, the continued rising costs of day-to-day operations, the loss of $1.3 million in income tax revenue as private sector employer Babcock & Wilcox relocates its 600 employees to Akron later this year, and carry over of last-year’s $800,000 deficit!

Commercial property owner fails to pay taxes, Painesville City seizes property, now taxpaying residents of Painesville being forced to pay for it!

Property owners within a five square miles area of Dublin being forced to pay for new Bridge Park development

OREGON: The local taxpayer owned former Sgt. Jerome F. Sears U.S. Army Reserve Center building was to be remodeled into Portland’s new Cascadia Event crisis center (Bureau of Emergency Management response center), but nine years later nothing is being done because, according to local news media, exalted city leaders can’t still decided which emergency response unit will use it, how to rebuild it or how to fund it! 

Man shot by Portland police was legally blind, suffered from paranoia

PENNSYLVANIA: cops still abandon drivers on side of the road, in violation of ‘Live Stop’ policy

PUERTO RICO: A Wave of Daytime Killings Has People on Edge

DC Democrats Favoring illegal aliens over U.S. Citizens from Puerto Rico

SOUTH CAROLINA: again ranked among the worst states to raise a family

TEXAS:  Waco City to force property owners to pay $1.6 million in Tax Incremental Financing to develop competing residential and commercial business properties!

UTAH: Once a national model, Utah struggles with homelessness

State Employees Receive taxpayer funded Transportation and a $500 Cash Bonus to travel to Mexico to buy drugs

VERMONT: Retired sex crimes cop is himself arrested for sex crimes

VIRGINIA:  State lawmakers are playing chicken with a deadline that could leave state taxpayers in the dark about how to file their state taxes

WASHINGTON: New laws in effect

Washington DC: Senate unanimously passes taxpayer raping funding bill to reopen government 

WISCONSIN: Property owners in La Crosse forced to fund the building of new North Side apartments

U.S. government shenanigans, December 2018: “THEY ARE LETTING THE INMATES KILL EACH OTHER”

Immigrant invasion, U.S.A., January 2019: “STOP INCENTIVIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION”!

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., January 2019: “IT’S OVERWHELMING.”

Drugs, the American Way, January 2019: ‘DEATH PARTY’

ObamaCare ACA death spiral, January 2019: “MARKET DEMANDS”

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“market demands”: ObamaCare death spiral, January 2019

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Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns, crimes and taxpayer ripoffs in January 2019:

In Poland, the U.S. Army’s 64th Medical Detachment Veterinary Service Support, 30th Medical Brigade, conducted inspections of food storage areas for NATO operations.

USAID funded (and built by USN SeaBees) Ali Oune Medical Clinic, in Djibouti, opened on 31JAN2019.

U.S. tax dollars spent providing medical care in Honduras, one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ARIZONA: Nurse arrested in rape of woman who BECAME PREGNANT WHILE IN A COMA

ARKANSAS: Mental health provider Youth Home in Little Rock announced that 31 of its team members will be laid off

CALIFORNIA: British empire Cayman Islands based Theravance Biopharma issued layoff WARNs, 50 people jobless by March.   God powerless to stop the wildfire from shutting down Adventist Health Feather River, in Paradise, 1-thousand-331 jobs lost (supposedly temporarily)!  In San Jose, Verity Health System issued a layoff WARN, 20 jobs gone in March.  However, and also in San Jose, Verity Medical Foundation issued a shutdown WARN, 2-hundred jobs gone by the end of March!  Germany owned bio-tech company Roche-Genentech issued a layoff WARN for South San Francisco, 67 people jobless by the end of March.

San Francisco based health-tech start-up uBiome cuts more than 50 jobs

California reaches nearly $1M settlement with Aetna over HIV data breach

COLORADO: British/Swedish empire drugs maker AstraZeneca is laying off more than 200 employees!

FLORIDA: Molina Healthcare issued layoff WARNs, 43 jobs gone by April.

 Heart of Florida Health Center suddenly cuts 24 jobs

IDAHO: New Report Blasts the taxpayer funded Southwest Idaho Treatment Center

lawsuit to overturn voter-passed Medicaid expansion

BVA to acquire Saltzer Medical Group

ILLINOIS: PharMEDium issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Lake Forest, 41 jobs gone in March.  Decatur Living Facility issued a shutdown WARN, 90 jobs gone starting in March.

 Israel based Teva Pays $135M to Settle Illinois Medicaid Drug Price scam

INDIANA: Vibra Hospital to Lay Off 120!

IOWA: Genesis Health System issued a WARN, 196 people jobless by the end of June! Mahaska Health issued a WARN, 55 people jobless by the end of May.

LOUISIANA: Destrehan Pharmacy closing after more than 50 years in business

MARYLAND: At Aberdeen Proving Ground, the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Edgewood Chemical Biological Center signed a taxpayer funded deal with tech startup TrekReader, to create a pocket-sized instrument that will provide military personnel, silly-vilian first responders, and even school nurses, with the ability to detect biological and chemical warfare agents.  (you gotta wounder what’s coming if the Army thinks even school nurses will need something like that)

Rite Aid in Mondawmin Mall shutting down

Union Hospital laying off 32 employees, many of whom were senior management-level staff, due to a failed merger bid

MASSACHUSETTS: Selecta Biosciences lays off staff as R&D cash crunch looms

MICHIGAN: God powerless to stop Trinity Health from issuing a shutdown WARN for its continuing care ops at the Huron Woods Facility, 119 jobs gone by the end of April!

Spectrum Health rejects woman’s heart transplant because she lacks a “secure financial plan”

MISSOURI: Troubled psychiatric hospital will close doors, layoff 129!

NEW JERSEY:  As a result of a 2017 Congressional mandate, the U.S. Army joined forces with Cooper University Health Care Center in order to improve readiness for deployment to combat zones, and to find new military doctors: “As far as U.S. Army Medical Recruiting is concerned, this is the future of army medicine; our health care soldiers have this great opportunity to be professionally trained in civilian medicine which will ultimately provide better care for the soldiers in the field.”-Captain Blake Corbitt

Capital Health issued a WARN, 103 jobs in Trenton gone by March!

Angel Medical Systems files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

NEW YORK:  Physician assistants who join the New York Army National Guard will get $60,000 up front to repay college loans and a $25,000 annual bonus for four years.

Saint Lawrence Health issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Ogdensburg, 72 jobs affected.  Morrison Healthcare Food and Nutrition Services issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Erie Medical Center, 172 jobs affected! Independence Care System issued a shutdown WARN for its ops across NYC, about 3-hundred jobs affected! Senior Rehab Solutions-Norwegian Home and Health Center issued a layoff WARN, 22 jobs gone in February.  CareConnect Insurance issued a shutdown WARN for its location in East Hills, 46 jobs affected.  That Which Cannot be Named powerless to stop Metropolitan Jewish Home Care from issuing a layoff WARN, 112 jobs affected!

Surgeon charged with assault, strangulation after choking nurse with elastic cord at Nassau University Medical Center

PENNSYLVANIA: Germany owned Bayer Closing Pittsburgh Site, Nearly 600 Jobs Eliminated!

UPMC Pinnacle will close its hospital in Lancaster and layoff 505 employees!  UPMC Pinnacle also shutting down its ops in Lititz.

RHODE ISLAND: Emergency room doctors under investigation, essentially for incompetence

SOUTH CAROLINA: Palmetto Health eliminates 140 positions!

Tennessee based Community Health Systems plans to sell all of its hospitals in South Carolina

TENNESSEE: PharMEDium to layoff at least 225 employees due to failing U.S. FDA inspections!

Cumberland River Hospital shutting down, 146 jobs gone by 07:00 hours, 01MAR2019!

TEXAS: Texas Health Resources, one of the largest health systems in North Texas, is laying off hundreds of workers due to “market demands”!

UTAH: University of Utah doctor killed in murder-suicide

Public Employees Receive taxpayer funded Transportation and a $500 Cash Bonus to Purchase drugs in Mexico

VERMONT: once one of the states with lowest uninsured rates now experiencing increase in uninsured as out-of-pocket costs climb

VIRGINIA: Signify Health issued a shutdown WARN for its home healthcare ops in Dallas, 132 jobs gone in March!

WASHINGTON: Bellevue based Amazon is selling software that mines patient health records

WISCONSIN: Pepin Health and Rehab issued a shutdown WARN, 54 jobs gone by the end of March.  God powerless to stop Unison-Interfaith Older Adult Programs from suddenly eliminating 53 jobs due to the “sudden and unexpected loss of contracts”.

ObamaCare Death Spiral, December 2018: FEDERAL JUDGE DECLARES OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

U.S.

‘death party’: Drugs, the American Way, January 2019

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of January 2019:

South China Morning Post: Mexico’s new president declares ‘drug war’ over

The Guardian:Mexico’s murder rate broke new record in 2018 as drug war drags on

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

Off the coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden, the USN captured  4,700 kilograms of hashish, 24JAN2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

It was the second Gulf of Aden hash capture, by the USN, in the past four weeks. The hash boat crew were allowed to sail away after the drugs were confiscated.

U.S. Coast Guard photo, 04JAN2019.

U.S. Coast Guard came across this drug ‘fast boat’, somewhere in the Pacific, 04JAN2019.

New York Times: Former Mexican President and Barack Obama buddy, Enrique Peña Nieto, accepted $100-million bribe from drug lord

U.S. counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids

U.S. News & World Report: Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket Among Women

Many Addiction Centers Lack Anti-Opioid Meds

Journal of the American Medical Association: Medical marketing increased substantially….especially DTC (Direct To Consumer) advertising for drugs…only two countries allow DTC drug advertising, New Zealand and United States

ALABAMA: Student busted with guns and drugs on High School campus

man arrested for trading teen girl for drugs

Knives, drugs, more found in Marshall County Jail crackdown

ALASKA:  Federal taxpayers giving Juneau Police Department $2.5-million, the police admitted the drugs war is all about making money for the cops: “Those interdictions are now our bread and butter, whether that’s postal or on the airlines or through the ferry.”-Jeremy Weske, JPD drug unit

Woman indicted for bringing meth, heroin on flight to Juneau

What do drugs in Alaska have to do with President Trump’s ‘border crisis’?

ARIZONA: Nogales border officers make record 254-pound fentanyl bust

Meth, cocaine, heroin: Most gets smuggled through ports of entry.

16 arrested across Pima, Cochise counties

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sabrina Candiaflores, 22JAN2019.

In Yuma, the USMC tried to convince high school students not to get intoxicated by having them play fun games with vision impairing ‘beer goggles’ on, 22JAN2019.

ARKANSAS: 8 Pounds Of Meth In Washington County

3 pounds of meth found in apartment

Nine arrested 

Co-founder of youth outreach program confesses to federal drug and gun charges

CALIFORNIA: For proof how commonplace drug smuggling has become in the leftist liberal Blue State; dumb repeat offender drug traffickers get arrested for a traffic violation, then while in jail openly reveal their latest major drug trafficking op!

Australian and U.S. cops capture record-setting 1.7 tons of meth worth $1.29 billion

mass drug overdose killed one person and sent more than a dozen to hospitals

new phase of opioid epidemic

New Opioid Laws

Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment 

Californians so addicted to prescription drugs that veterinarians must counsel pet owners on pet drugs

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

COLORADO:  Lawmakers so addicted to prescription drugs they want to directly import cheapo foreign made stuff

Despite ganja being legal in the state, cops raid 50 ‘blackmarket’ marijuana growers…since 2014 at least 350 illegal mary-jane growers have been raided by police

Again, despite legalized marijuana, prison population is expected to skyrocket due to drug crimes

Police report record number of cops shot while doing their job, it coincides with an increase in property crimes, specifically stolen vehicles, and if you look at the map of cop shootings you’ll notice it’s along a metro-area drugs trafficking corridor  (so much for legalized marijuana)

CONNECTICUT:  U.S. Postal Service captures 60 packages of cocaine shipped to Connecticut from Puerto Rico

A defense lawyer for a police sergeant accused of running a drug factory out of his home, has withdrawn a request to exclude the public and the press from the courtroom

judge dismisses opioid lawsuits against drug makers

Doctor pleads guilty in compound medicine case 

DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing

131 drug incidents in one week!

Two men busted for attempting to sneak drugs into Delco prison

Opioid Overdoses Up In 2018

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Despite being acquitted of drug crimes, court decides to keep the more than $13-thousand dollars in cash the thieving cops took from the man, because he can’t prove it’s his cash!

FLORIDA: For the second year in a row, cruise ship passengers arrested on drug charges

man says 3 syringes found in his butt aren’t his

Police dog exposed to ecstasy powder 

Cocaine making a deadly comeback

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray, 31JAN2019.

31JAN2019, five miles east of Haulover Inlet, a Coast Guard ‘smallboat’ intercepts a fishing boat that turned out to be hauling about 130 pounds of cocaine.

USCG District 7 Photo, 07JAN2019.

07JAN2019, at U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, personnel test seven kilograms of cocaine captured by Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection agents. The drug smugglers were also smuggling illegal immigrants.

GEORGIA: Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana

26 suspects arrested

15 arrested in $3.5M meth ring bust

Truck carrying $10M worth of liquid meth busted at repair shop

Doctor’s husband accused of prescribing drugs in wife’s name while she’s sitting in jail

Two mothers accused of selling drugs near elementary school

$1M of narcotics from shipping container 

local ‘Smoke shops’ selling illegal drugs to teens

GUAM: Drugs found in Postal Service priority mail packages

HAWAII: Marijuana use in workplace increased

Hawaii County Police Department reveals a few details of massive cop crimes involving drugs and other things, so far seven cops suspended, one forced into early retirement, two fired! Cop crimes include stealing drugs from evidence locker, assault of a juvenile suspect, and falsifying traffic tickets.

6 things to know about new flu drug Xofluza

IDAHO: man admits to eating cocaine while being chased by police

drug lab explodes inside Idaho Falls residence

Idaho Falls juvenile arrested with 500 doses of LSD, marijuana

Fourth state level prison cop pleads guilty to smuggling drugs into prison

Judge orders partial release of state prison lethal injection documents

Journalism professor banned from University of Idaho for allegedly admitting to using meth and threatening  access to guns

Example of why first time drug offenders SHOULD NOT make a plea deal in Idaho; harsher sentencing!

new DUI law requires first-time offenders to install ignition locking devices

ILLINOIS: Madison County Sees Record 109 Drug Overdose Deaths in 2018

Mayor, State Senator jailed on drug charge

Food-truck gun deal leads to Chicago drug case

Drugs company executive gave Illinois doctor lap dance while promoting drug

INDIANA: a rural Indiana town descends into drug addiction

10 indicted in drug running between Indiana and Mexico

Death doctor run out of Tennessee for causing deadly overdoses, is now working in Indiana

infants suffering from drug crisis

IOWA: Mayor, and her husband, caught with 18 marijuana plants during search for shooting suspect

Meth, cocaine overdoses rise

Iowa’s growing dependence on China for pharmaceutical drugs

Faulty muffler leads to drug arrests

KANSAS: parents arrested after child tests positive for meth

CVS pharmacist, husband charged with prescription drug crimes

Johnson County mom is accused of hosting parties where minors were served alcohol

KENTUCKY: teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana

The fall of a Kentucky-Mexico drug gang

Grandpa says he sold meth to save son from Mexican cartel

Fatal drug overdose leads to a bartender facing federal drug charges

Connecticut based drugs maker Purdue appeals order to unseal OxyContin records to Kentucky Supreme Court

 man had 2 ounces of meth ‘stuffed inside his butt crack’

LOUISIANA: ‘star agent’ for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) now on trial for essentially ‘faking’ drug busts, after three-year investigation that has roiled the federal law enforcement community

Undercover bust: 168 arrests!

Pharmacist fatally shoots robber at drug store

MAINE:  Police seize drugs and cash at Oxford hotel

Residents now turning to gun ownership to protect themselves from druggies: “He was standing on our porch and kept yelling for help. The only thing that separated us was the glass on the front door. In my 35 years, I never felt the need to own a gun to protect my family until we moved to Presque Isle. I guarantee that if he had broken the glass on that front door, there would have been shots fired.”-Jonathan Guerrette, complaining to city councilors, interestingly the deputy police chief admitted they’ve known about the druggie problem in certain neighborhoods ‘for many years’ yet gave a plethora of excuses why nobody was arrested, supposedly the state law enforcement is going to get involved  

Death leads to discovery of meth lab

MARYLAND:  Washington County sees sharp increase in drug, alcohol deaths

Baltimore to No Longer Prosecute Marijuana Possession Cases

More Than 300 Bags Of Heroin, Cocaine & Meth Found In Car

MASSACHUSETTS: What does 2019 have in store for marijuana

Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat

Suspect was operating ‘very significant’ drug ring while out on $200K bail

Leftist Liberal Mayors Visit Safe Injection Sites in British empire Canada

New Yorkers head to western Massachusetts to buy pot legally

MICHIGAN: Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction

Michigan lists pain drug Gabapentin as controlled substance

Life of high-tech savant cut short by drugs

Recreational marijuana is legal, but Lansing’s largest employers don’t allow it

More employees than ever test positive for marijuana

More than half of Michigan medical marijuana users admit to driving while high

Macomb County had 380 drug-related deaths in 2017, in desperation local government agencies are now ‘deputized’ under a new federal government program called FANTOM (Federal Anti Narcotics Team Of Macomb)

MINNESOTA:  man allegedly holds drug-fueled ‘death party’ for wife

Man dies of opioids at experimental homeless shelter

Dakota County drug bust nets 45 pounds of meth, 15 kilos of cocaine

MISSISSIPPI: 8 arrested 

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take property?

State Highway Patrol Admits: Police officers high on duty or test positive for drugs

Retired pharmacists arrested for operating an illegal pharmacy out of his flower shop

MISSOURI: Shoes, package of cookies lead to drug bust at taxpayer subsidized Amtrak station

Two homicides linked to $8.5 million meth trafficking ring 

Seven fugitives captured during drugs sweep

Cops Find Stolen ATV, Gun, Meth And Dead Bald Eagle 

MONTANA:4 died in due to fentanyl disguised as less-dangerous drugs

man, daughter accused of running ‘dark web’ drug operation

Woman says meth testing patch gives false positives (it wouldn’t be the first time a drug test was faulty)

In the sparsely populated state a new report says even more taxpayer funded drug treatment centers are needed

NEBRASKA: Busted Omaha drug operation sounds like fiction, except it wasn’t

DEA captures 4,737 pounds of marijuana, 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 27 pounds of heroin over six months

Drug-dealing cases against CBD oil shop owners

Killing was the result of ‘Attempted robbery of a drug dealer’

Woman dealt heroin, meth from home where she ran daycare

NEW HAMPSHIRE: One dead, two in critical condition after taking drugs

NEW JERSEY:  Local cops fail drug tests!

Medical marijuana can now be used to treat opioid addiction

NEW MEXICO: 15 lbs. of meth and 2,000 fentanyl pills smuggled by ‘family business’

U.S. Border Patrol captures 115 illegal immigrants with marijuana 

Drug addiction so bad there is now a new museum dedicated to drug abuse

NEW YORK: Syracuse University football wide receiver arrested along with 14 others as part of a federal drug bust

“Highly organized drug delivery service” netted about $50,000 weekly in drug addicted NYC

Legal drugs Middlemen Got Big Markup in New York

NORTH CAROLINA: 27 arrested in Bladen County

Illegal immigrants, including MS-13 gang member, charged in 2 kilo drug bust

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Corinne Zilnicki, 08JAN2019.

Off North Carolina’s coast, on board an HC-130 Hercules, U.S. Coast Guard personnel operate radar and cameras to detect suspicious boats.

NORTH DAKOTA: drug raid in Fargo, in connection to heroin O-Ds across two counties

Burleigh County cop gets prison time for stealing drugs

OHIO: The Union County Drug Free Coalition honored the Ohio National Guard Counterdrug Task Force as the 2019 Community Champion Award: “We are grateful to the Ohio National Guard for their commitment to the health and safety of families in Union County.”-Rich Baird, superintendent of North Union Schools and chair of the Union County Drug Free Coalition

Overdose deaths falling throughout Ohio, but not in Franklin County

nightclub owner pleads guilty to drug crimes

Drug-fueled wave of kids taken from homes peaks 

OKLAHOMA: Police find 18000 pounds of suspected pot during traffic stop

Sheriff frustrated with relaxed drug laws

24 serving life without parole for drug trafficking

new emergency rules for medical marijuana

OREGON: Operation Wildfire

Man with criminal history, including running one of the largest drug gangs in the state, continues to commit crimes yet is released from jail, all charges dropped

PENNSYLVANIA: Drug deaths are rising in Coal Country and treatment is hard to come by

77 suspects arrested 

PUERTO RICO: FBI says there’s a “crisis of violence” in Puerto Rico

USCG photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 30JAN2019.

29JAN2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 2-hundred pounds of cocaine off the coast of Arecibo.

RHODE ISLAND: Illegal immigrant gets 9 years in prison for major drug trafficking ring

Suspended Firefighter admitted to Police He Was Doing Cocaine

SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson University football players suspended for failing drug test

64 suspects charged, many still wanted, in Spartanburg County

Doctors and cops come out in opposition to legalized marijuana, calls it “the most dangerous drug” in the U.S.

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: seizing vehicles in drug cases. Mistakes still happen.

SOUTH DAKOTA: chief justice calls for reform in handling of drug cases

Multi-state drugs gang tries to rip-off Mexican cartel?

South Dakota charges ingestion of drugs separately from possession, meaning someone can be charged with a crime if a blood or urine test comes back positive for marijuana or other drugs.

Wisconsin woman driving rental car from Colorado says South Dakota cop unlawfully captured the suitcase full of drugs in the car

grandmother faces felony child abuse, drug charges

TENNESSEE: Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school

12 Arrested On Drug Charges In Franklin County

Thousands of fake Viagra, Cialis pills confiscated 

New opioid laws

State cop assigned to protect governor was on prescription painkillers, repeatedly fell asleep on job…..supervisors knew about his problem with prescription medication, and that his “pattern of behavior was allowed to continue for months without any knowledge of the THP command staff”

TEXAS: Cops invade home, shoot and kill military veteran husband and his wife, several cops wounded,  (next it’ll be revealed that one of the invading cops has a documented history of lying about drug raids, and apparently it’ll be three months after the cop invasion before investigators even search the crime scene for evidence, evidence that will counter the official police version of the story)

A six month multi-agency investigation resulted in nine people being arrested for piddly amounts of drugs

UTAH: Illegal immigrant drug smuggler has been deported eight times, caught yet again

Defense attorney who smuggling drugs into prison, sentenced: “I never dreamed in a million years that I would be an addict.”-Tony Miles

387 drug dealers arrested in Operation Rio Grande

Two drug busts in one day yield combined $2 million worth of meth and cocaine

Public Employees Receive taxpayer funded Transportation and a $500 Cash Bonus to Purchase drugs in Mexico

U.S. Virgin Islands: New governor signs bill legalizing medical marijuana

Virgin Islands was source of heroin shipped to Michigan

VIRGINIA: drug case against actress involved in Me Too Movement

dozens of arrests after hundreds of indictments

WASHINGTON: Sodo District; drugs and RVs

overdose spike in north Seattle

drug and alcohol counselor arrested for selling drugs

‘christian’ university student, accused of murder, in more trouble after being caught doing drugs in the courtroom 

Washington DC:   millions of dollars’ worth of heroin seized 

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Workplace drug overdoses increasing

WEST VIRGINIA:  teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens

 teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs

A 7th Special Forces Group soldier and a West Virginia National Guard Special Forces soldier pled guilty to trying to smuggle marijuana from Columbia 

WISCONSIN: ERs fight drugs with drugs

Shopko owes drugs supplier $67-million

woman convicted of smuggling drugs into prison

WYOMING: Restaurants accused of ‘laundering’ drug money

Drugs, the American Way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”

Business/Economics

“we are throwing in the towel”: Sears Kmart death spiral, June 2019

Just-Style: Sears inks sourcing pact with Li & Fung and Triburg

Chicago Tribune: Judge backs 29-thousand retirees who lost their Sears life insurance

KLAS: Sears to close another 72 stores 

Seeking Alpha: Investors And Employees Are Disappointed

Yahoo News: Sears Unveils New “Home and Life” Stores

Law360: Judge orders creation of committee to oversee the cancellation of Sears employee’s retirement plan

Kmart Cuts StarKist Loose From lawsuit

Retail Dive: Lands’ End sales take a $17.9M hit as it closes Sears shops

Star Tribune: Sears-Kmart new ‘parent’ Transform Holdco plans to merge hometown and outlet stores

New York Post: Sears bankruptcy has burned thousands of vendors worldwide

ALABAMA: Sears Hometown Store in Cullman shutting down in July

Moundville Sears Hometown also made the latest shutdown list.

ARKANSAS: Conway Sears Hometown and Searcy Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

CALIFORNIA: U-Haul buys Santa Maria Kmart for $6.5 million

Ramona Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

GEORGIA: Canton Sears Hometown and Monroe Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

IDAHO:Taxpayer funded charter school moving into Chubbuck Sears department store

ILLINOIS: Once again, Eddie Lampert wins over city government support, this time for the redevelopment of the Chicago-Galewood Sears store

MAINE: Houlton Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

MASSACHUSETTS: Dartmouth Mall Sears store shutting down in August.

MICHIGAN: Sears Hometown Store in Coldwater shutting down in July.

After six years the Bad Axe Sears Appliance & Hardware shutting down in July, the store started liquidating in May but only now is local news media aware of it.

MINNESOTA: International Falls Sears Hometown Store shutting down: “… we are throwing in the towel at Sears and going to be going a different way. The doors will close.”-Tony Olson, owner

NEW MEXICO: Las Vegas Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

NEW YORK: Transform Holdco announced “Sears store in Yonkers at Cross Country Shopping Center did not meet our go-forward criteria” and will be shutdown.

OHIO: Owner of Sears appliance store in Bryan is dropping the Sears brand (on the official Sears Hometown website it’s listed as shutting down)

Greenville Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

According to a news report updating the massive remodel of the Ohio Valley Mall “Sears will most likely close by mid-July.” 

OKLAHOMA: Broken Arrow Sears Hometown and Stillwater Sears  Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

TEXAS: Granbury Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

WISCONSIN: Marshfield’s Sears Hometown will be closing in July.

Sears Kmart death spiral, May 2019: “WE’RE NOT IN THEIR LONG-TERM PLANS”

Technology

Vehicle I-D: New look & name for the F-16 VISTA

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U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs, 30JAN2019.

Modified/upgraded NF-16D VISTA (Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft) departs Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 30JAN2019.  It the future it will be called the X-62A.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 30JAN2019.

This aircraft is the only one of its kind in the world and is the flag-ship of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School.

USAF photo by Cynthia Griggs, 30JAN2019.

It’s has been highly modified, allowing pilots to change the aircraft’s flight characteristics to mimic other aircraft.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 30JAN2019.

 

Hill AFB: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

VEHICLE ID: USAF F-35A “COMBAT READY” IN UTAH

U.S.

“it’s overwhelming.”: Dumbing Down U.S.A., January 2019

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“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.

U.S. Navy spends taxpayer dollars building new high school in Federated States of Micronesia, 07JAN2019.

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, January 2019:

ALABAMA: 76 schools on ‘failing’ list

Are Alabama’s latest high school graduation rates fake?

Nearly all Alabama school superintendents earning six-figure salaries

Superintendents demand $22-million in taxpayer funding, just for ‘security’!

How the Department of Defense could help end Alabama’s teacher shortage

Construction of new wing of federally funded Maxwell Elementary and Junior High School on Maxwell Air Force Base.

ALASKA: UAA students stunned by accreditation problems

ASD may alter parent-teacher conferences after quake

Even the U.S. military is short on education employees.  Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson has put out a call for help, citing lack of child development center teachers, cooks and food service workers.  In fact they have as many as 30 full-time jobs available, and it’s severely affecting their on-base child care ops: “Currently, we only have one [center] at full capacity, three at partial capacity and one temporarily closed due to a lack of workers….”-Tina Roberts, program manager

“If you have a love for children, you can advance quickly in childcare. A high school diploma or equivalent and a couple of references is all you need to apply…..  From start to finish, the pre-employment timeline is about 14 days, and we try to make it as beneficial and smooth as possible. During the process, we educate our applicants about the many benefits of working for the CDC along with giving them a paid-for physical, immunizations and background check…..  If eligible new hires already have a child development associate (CDA) credential we can bring them in as a target level, which starts out at $15.87 per hour.”-Meghan Govin, non-appropriated fund assistant director

ARIZONA: teachers continue to call it quits turning the teacher shortage into a crisis

Family claims teacher used school app to ‘groom’ her students 

teacher enters guilty plea for sex crimes with minors

ARKANSAS: Little Rock teacher placed on leave for referencing monkeys

high school students call dress code discriminatory

female teacher admits sexual contact with teen

UALR to halt eSTEM: “The individuals who would be impacted the most — UA Little Rock students — were not given a say in the approval of this merge, yet face the greatest repercussions. UA Little Rock students are leaving because they do not like the ‘high school atmosphere’ created by eStem students, and because UA Little Rock students cannot adequately access the facilities that they pay tuition for — our facilities were not designed to provide for the number of both collegiate and high school students that they do now.”-Student Government Association statement

CALIFORNIA: The economy is booming. Why are so many California schools broke?

California schools were once the nation’s envy. What went wrong?

6th grade male teacher arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing two girls

Molestation lawsuit targets student-teacher contact 

as many as 24 schools in one district could be closed in next 5 years

Los Angeles schools lost $15 million on Day 1 of strikes

U.S. Navy Band teaches ‘master class’ at Mission Bay High School, San Diego, 30JAN2019.

COLORADO: No charges filed against teacher who taped student to chair

High School teacher arrested in child pornography investigation

Judge throws out charges against Cherry Creek School District employees accused of failing to report a student’s sexual assault, CITING STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

Cherry Creek School District leaders earn $200,000 total while waiting for their criminal trial

CONNECTICUT: community college professor who gave ‘Nazi’ salute fired

teacher placed on involuntary leave at Naugatuck High School

teacher accused of failing to report child abuse

teacher convicted of raping girl in skate park

The small state is turning to a military program called Troops to Teachers to deal with teacher shortages.  Connecticut Army National Guard Sergeant First Class Benjamin Simon just finished the program: “Teaching is definitely the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. You have to be dedicated, and you have to have thick skin. There’s a lot of trial and error. Composure is so important. You have to understand you’re working with kids. These aren’t NCOs and Privates who have gone through Basic Training. Every child has different sensibilities, different backgrounds, different learning styles and it’s on you as a teacher to mold yourself to meet their needs.”

DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing

Saudi Arabia sending teachers to teach in Delaware schools?

FLORIDA: Scandal ridden Bethune-Cookman University announces layoffs, salary cuts: “It’s as if they’re penalizing employees who had nothing to do with the misappropriation of funds!”-Cynthia Slater, NAACP

State Department of Education lays off 20 employees

Schools Will Install Facial Recognition Cameras

governor suspends sheriff over school massacre

Female substitute teacher fired, accused of sexual battery

Teacher and aides lock children with autism in closet

Male elementary teacher arrested on child sex charges

Male biology teacher caught doin’ it with 14-year-old student at an Airbnb 

Female teacher vandalized park with human feces

A Mother Says a Teacher Molested Her 8 years old Daughter.

GEORGIA: school board member stabbed 17 times

Teacher punched student at least twice in lunchroom attack

Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana 

For some reason school districts are not reporting teachers who violate their contracts

GUAM: 8 reasons to attend the University of Guam over a mainland school

HAWAII: Tuition decrease proposed for University of Hawaii

DoE lied about school repair backlog

God’s own Saint Francis Junior High and High School shutting down

IDAHO: Female School District 25 teacher faces up to life in prison after being charged with multiple sex crimes against 1st grader

teacher who fed live puppy to illegal snapping turtle, in front of students, not guilty of animal cruelty

ILLINOIS: 10 new laws affecting schools, colleges

Chicago schools fire 6 workers, block 4 substitute teachers after sexual misconduct investigations

female high school teacher engaged in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy 

Male substitute teacher (who is also a ‘christian’ minister) arrested on child sex charges

Female high school secretary charged with sex crimes

‘of age’ female student admits in court she tricked male teacher into having sex with her

INDIANA: School superintendent facing insurance fraud charges after using her son’s insurance for a sick student

Seven teacher licenses suspended over state testing scandal

IOWA: ‘Rainbow’ teacher sentenced to 60 years for sexually abusing boys

Female teacher pleads guilty to sexual exploitation

University of Iowa student found dead of possible exposure

KANSAS: Sorting Fact And Fiction On Kansas Schools

female teacher charged with having sex with student

 teacher accused of child sex crimes says he’s not guilty

KENTUCKY: Teacher caught on video dragging child with autism through school

special needs teacher accused of inappropriate relationship with student

Three school employees charged with abuse of autistic student

teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana

‘christian’ school apologizes for mistreatment of Native American students

What happened to separation of church and state?  U.S. Army personnel visited children at the South Christian Elementary School.

LOUISIANA: God’s own Historic Saint Peter Claver School in Treme closing its doors

school employee under investigation for inappropriate relationship with student

High school student arrested after ‘scuffle’ left another student with a scared face

charter school principal sued, accused of sex crimes

educators confounded over student behavior problems

Hundreds of Bats Found at Louisiana High School

Louisiana is one of the least-educated states in the nation

MAINE: Greater Bangor schools making it easier for students to earn diplomas

Shrinking enrollment has led Deer Isle-Stonington’s per-pupil education costs to be among the three highest for Maine public schools

Deer Isle teacher pleads not guilty to sex crimes against student

‘christian’ school teacher pled guilty to sex crimes

teacher seeks another appeal in sexual assault case

‘Well respected’ private music school teacher accused of sex crimes, fired from job just for being arrested (I guess in Maine you’re guilty just by being arrested, and even if proven innocent in court you’re still black-listed)

 teacher sentenced for trying to break into funeral home

schools closed due to possible shooting threat

MARYLAND: ‘Highly credible’ reports of child sex abuse at private sexist boys only school

High school student accused of sexual assault in the school halls

Guidance Counselor Arrested on Multiple Sex Crime Charges

Transgender teacher was harassed 

The U.S. Army directly targets ‘christian’ recruits at Saint Mary Catholic School, in Hagerstown, 28JAN2019.

MASSACHUSETTS: Education ‘nazis’ want an additional taxpayer killing $500-million for school funding

The highest-paid state worker, for the second year in a row, was University of Massachusetts Medical School chancellor and senior vice president of health sciences……who took home $1.07 million.

college closure threat growing, police state seeking new powers

teacher accused of molesting two students in his class

teacher-coach charged with assault and battery

MICHIGAN: Female special education teacher charged with sexual criminal conduct

Female high school teacher charged with sexual assault

‘Well-respected’ male principal arrested for alleged sex acts

Male teacher arrested on child porn charge

teacher admits to sexual assaults, then kills self 

High School teacher-coach resigned his job even though he was cleared of “inappropriate touching” allegations, because just being accused of sex crimes ruins your career 

MSU Interim President resigns after tell Detroit News that sex crimes victims “enjoy the spotlight”

Federal report cites Michigan State with systemic ‘serious violations’ of campus-safety law

Michigan schools face nation’s worst decline in state taxpayer raping education funding

MINNESOTA: school board member, NAACP plan to sue taxpayers for more special education funding

Teacher-coach accused of sex assault and making porn

teacher suspended following ‘demeaning’ Instagram posts

MISSOURI: Federal taxpayers forced to give Missouri $6.5-million for ‘early education’  (when I was a kid, Kindergarten was considered early education)

Starting teacher salary in Missouri ranks 2nd lowest

While other schools cry over declining enrollments, Republic Junior High School boasts of student overcrowding

Proof immigrants are taking over: In every grade level, Springfield Public School students score below state average, except in one area; English as a second language 

 teacher arrested on child porn charges

teacher pleads ‘not guilty’ in child porn case

Piano teacher enters guilty plea to sexual misconduct 

MONTANA: Woman pled guilty to killing teacher with her car

teacher sentenced to 10 years for raping student

Male school district employee accused of ‘Rainbow’ sex crimes with boys; part of a systematic sexual abuse scheme known as The Program

Due to skyrocketing teacher-student relationships, state lawmakers want to amend Age of Consent law (which is currently 16) 

U.S. DoE investigating Montana schools for discrimination against Native Americans

God’s own University of Providence cutting 19 programs in athletics and academics, despite spending money on new Student Center construction

NEBRASKA: State taxpayers forced to pay $4-thousand per day for consultants, hired to fix their failing schools!

So much for hiring ‘experts’ with college degrees; $771 million pension shortfall a product of ‘mind-boggling’ mistakes

superintendent placed on leave for fight video quits his job

LPS limits high school tansfers

Day care center shutdown in connection to homosexual sex crimes arrest

NEVADA: scholarships make college free (supposedly) for aspiring teachers

$10k annual bonuses to teachers at struggling schools

high school teacher, student kissed

teacher arrested on new meth trafficking charges

NEW HAMPSHIRE: teacher’s aide fired after arrest on child porn charges

teacher pleads guilty to witness tampering

Upscale Boarding School Teacher Accused Of Sexual Exploitation Of Student

Judge rejects plea deal for teacher

Revealed; state school system ‘forgets’ to spend $10-million in cash strapped taxpayer funding for special education!

NEW JERSEY: Getting Sued Over School Segregation

cash-strapped taxpayers deny a nearly $170 million schools proposal

State taxpayers forced to double ‘security’ funding for religious and private schools

State high school exit exams declared illegal by state court

These 24 coaches are now banned

teacher pleads guilty to sexually assaulting student

high school teacher-coach faces sex abuse charges

Special education teacher charged with having sex with student

preschool teacher arrested after saying she’d shoot up school 

Special education teacher admits to wanting to commit ‘gun violence’ against her school

NEW MEXICO: Female Special Education Principal (as well as actress and beauty queen) arrested for domestic violence after her son found porn on her school work computer

Hundreds of teachers quitting mid-year

Governor orders end to high school exit testing

Governor wants taxpayers to shell out an additional $500-million for schools!

Recruiting military volunteers thru school counselors. Kirkland Air Force Base held an event to win over local high school counselors, 18JAN2019, and convince them to convince students to join-up.

NEW YORK: Yes, ‘blacks’ are racists too; ‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools

Blackface Video Has Elite Private School in an Uproar

Junior High School Teacher accused of Raping Student

High School Special Ed teacher accused of rape

Oxford Teacher’s Aide Charged With Rape of Child

NORTH CAROLINA:  North Carolina teacher accused of molesting children arrested in Arizona

For the third year in a row, schools disproportionally suspend students of ‘color’ (gee you mean there are people that have no color?)

high school teacher facing new charges for sex crimes

Asheville City Schools worst in the state 

Religious favoritism for ‘christian’ military families as Richlands and Northside High School given a $906,121 grant to run a National Math and Science program that’s specifically for the College Readiness Program for Military Families.  By the way, the award ceremony was held at a church.

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher accused of sending naked photos to students

teacher put on administrative leave following felony burglary charge

Bill would give universities access to Bank of North Dakota funds

Did you know North Dakota’s tax money wasting colleges/universities are ‘protected’ from shutdown by the state constitution?

OHIO: Are charter school building leases fleecing state taxpayers?

What harsher federal guidelines on school discipline and suspensions mean for Ohio students

Cleveland joins national program to provide scholarships to students

State agency rules against Toledo School for Arts in racial discrimination case

Ohio State University will somehow pull $45 million out of its ass for need-based student aid next academic year

Teacher Arrested for Touching Himself in Front of Students

48 years old teacher indicted on eight charges of sex with 15 years old student

teacher guilty of drug parties, deals took place in her home

student high on LSD attacks teacher’s breasts, says his dog gave him the drugs

Here’s hypocrisy; police accuse high school teacher of abuse of power

OKLAHOMA: nearly tops nation in holding back early-grade kids

teacher arrested after alleged sexual assault on woman in bar

17-year-old accused of killing Broken Arrow teacher

OREGON: Audit reveals Many Problems with taxpayer funded state Department of Education

Audit reveals Portland schools fail to track what they do with taxpayer funding

Police kill man at junior high school during custody dispute

 teacher arrested on child porn charges

Substitute teacher sentenced to 6 years

PENNSYLVANIA: Art Institute of Pittsburgh to close permanently in March

K-8 teacher’s aide facing trial on child-sex charges

elementary teacher accused of groping three students

State wants more tax dollars for technical schools

State seizes control of Penn Hills School District’s finances 

initial report on university hazing violations published

program will offer $100 for college savings to every baby born or adopted in the state

PUERTO RICO: Taxpayer funded University of Puerto Rico could lose accreditation for failing to reveal how it spends the money

Repairing Puerto Rico’s schools post-Maria will cost taxpayers  $11Billion, take 7 years

RHODE ISLAND: School employee charged with indecent solicitation

To deal with teacher shortages, college level education students will be forced to also be certified in special education, junior high school math or junior high school science

teachers who take a lot of time off could face discipline

Federal taxpayers give Rhode Island $4-million for early childhood education

SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘deep’ teacher shortage got even worse

South Carolina hasn’t enforced classroom size limits since 2010

school volunteer coach charged with sex assault

Coach, who has criminal record of assault, accused of slapping and punching student

SOUTH DAKOTA: God’s own Busy Blessings Day Care Closing due to failing to meet state requirements

TENNESSEE: Female teacher arrested, accused of sex crimes

Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school

Sevier County schools hires teacher with history of sex crimes, almost immediately new accusations emerge, teacher called “creepy” by students and co-workers, only now is he being investigated (makes you wonder about the true intentions of school administrators)

Here are the education issues

TEXAS: Why some people aren’t sold on giving Texas teachers a $5000 raise

Female teacher had young girl pose in lingerie, planned to sell her in Africa

Teacher shot, killed by U.S. Air Force employee for making too much noise

UTAH:  teacher to serve one year in jail for sending ‘seductive’ emails

substitute teacher gets prison time for sex crimes against children 

Utah’s new version of school ‘grades’

VERMONT: Green Mountain College to close: “I knew our school was doing poorly financially, but I had no idea that it was going to shut down. …….going to have to do it all again. All of us are and it’s overwhelming.”-Meg Scognamiglio, a student who obviously hasn’t been following Blind Bat News

Church hires man to be new pastor, despite his sex crimes record as a ‘christian’ school teacher

VIRGINIA: student completes 13 years of perfect attendance

School District Sues State to Arm Employees

high school that honored a Confederate general gets a new name

teacher to serve 2 years for indecent liberties with child

band teacher to serve five years in prison

WASHINGTON: High School teacher charged with felony sexual misconduct

The Seattle Times pathetically begs Be a part of the solution to the teacher shortage

Major changes around corner for junior high schools

Washington Army National Guard personnel help build a school in Imperial Thailand at the end of January, 2019, as part of taxpayer funded operation Cobra Gold.

Washington DC: DC public school teacher was arrested for assaulting a child 

DC considers ‘high-stakes’ teaching offers

U.S. Labor Department reveals mass exodus of teachers across the country

WEST VIRGINIA: teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens

 teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs

WISCONSIN: Student teacher charged with videotaping woman without consent

teacher accused of raping girl is now charged with intoxicated driving

Christian school teacher robbed at gunpoint

Students sexually assaulted a 16-year-old classmate

School employee gets probation for masturbating

Another teacher removed for using racial slur

WYOMING: teacher sentenced to at least 20 years in sex abuse case

Senate Cuts External Cost Adjustment In School-Funding

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., December 2018: “ONE DAY WE’RE ALL GOOD…THE NEXT DAY IT’S JUST OVER.”

Business/Economics

“we were hit so hard…we can’t recover”: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, December 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in December 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: After 20 years Hobby Town of Auburn shutting down: “I know it’s the sign of the times, but the internet has not helped us much. I can’t blame it all on that. The economy for a while wasn’t good; cellphones, Amazon, mail order. It wasn’t helping us much.”-Steve Ziegler, owner

ARIZONA: Taxpayer owned Glen Lakes Golf Course shutting down as the city leaders need to sell the land

God’s own YMCA to close downtown Mesa location amid The Rapture, I mean declining membership

ARKANSAS: Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles shutting down due to the health problems of the owners

CALIFORNIA: Interviewing Service of America issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Lancaster, 58 jobs gone by February 2019.  BARD Associates issued a layoff WARN, 76 jobs in Torrance gone by February 2019.  Renovate America issued a layoff WARN, 71 jobs in San Diego gone by February 2019.  Tahoe Club Employee Company issued a shutdown WARN, 277 jobs in Truckee gone by February 2019 (local news reports say the owner has pumped $14-million of his own money into trying to keep the money pit open, but is now broke)!  Bridgeview Bank Mortgage revealed it eliminated 43 jobs in November.  Gas station Aisle 1 issued layoff WARNs for six locations, at least 74 jobs gone by February 2019.  Abercrombie & Fitch issued a shutdown WARN for its Rolling Hills store.  Debt collector Account Control Technology issued a layoff WARN for its Bakerfield ops, 88 jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

San Francisco’s oldest department store, Gump’s, is closing its doors after 157 years in business

San Francisco based Gymboree shutting down all its Crazy 8 childrens’ clothing stores

The Gap is closing its store in downtown SLO

Marshalls Jewelers is closing after 129 years in SLO 

Petco closing at the Santa Barbara Plaza

Plato’s Closet shutdown in Bakersfield

Randolph Jewelers closing after 166 years

Oklahoma based Gateway Mortgage Group is closing eight retail outlets in California and laying off 25 employees “due to the complexities and uniqueness of the California market” 

CONNECTICUT: After 14 years in Cheshire, Pier 1 Imports shutting down

FLORIDA: HotelBeds issued a WARN, 16 jobs gone by February 2019. H.D. Smith issued a WARN, 20 jobs gone by February 2019.

Habitat ReStore is closing 2 Orlando locations

Payless ShoeSource shutdown its Destin location one day before xmas

GEORGIA: Historic Marietta Trolley Company shutting down, the final straw was “Our insurance went up significantly”

Parsons gifts announces closing after 142 years

IDAHO: Shopko closing Boise store not on official shutdown list

Plastic bag ban coming to a store near you?

ILLINOIS: Marshalls issued shutdown WARNs for two Chicago stores, more than 1-hundred jobs gone by February 2019! Bridgeview Bank Mortgage suddenly eliminated 116 jobs due to selling-out to the competition!

After 30 years Little Shop of Papers shutting down, blamed on the internet

Hartley’s Cycle Shoppe will close after 60-plus years, the owner bemoaned “The expenses are greater than the revenue.”

After 30-plus years, Mole Hole closing at Eastland Mall

INDIANA: Debt collector PMAB issued a shutdown WARN, 82 people in Greensburg unable to pay their debts because they’ll be unemployed by March 2019.

Eagle Valley Golf Course being replaced by a school

First Merchants Bank closing 2 Branches

The Dress Barn in the Honey Creek Mall shutting down

USA Gymnastics files for bankruptcy after hefty lawsuits

Interior Objects closing its doors indefinitely.

KENTUCKY: Camping World-Gander Outdoors shutdown its Paducah location without warning or explanation

MARYLAND: Marshalls shutting down its Mondawmin Mall store, no reason given

Ann Marie’s Hallmark, in the Perry Hall Square shopping center, shutting down when the inventory is gone

After 30 years Fast Break Sports shutdown

MASSACHUSETTS: Big Lots shutting down its Greendale Mall store

Berkshire Blanket shutting down an outlet store

Payless Shoes closing at Swansea Mall

After 70 years upscale Shack’s Fine Clothing shutting down

MICHIGAN: Alutiiq Professional Services’ new state taxpayer funded contract will result in 25 people losing their jobs (according to the WARN).

The Hobbit Place lawn and garden business shutting down after 40 years

Upscale clothing store The Broadway shutting down when its high-end $1-million worth of merchandise is sold, or whenever the new property owner demands it

McFarland Foss funeral home closing after 87 years

MINNESOTA: Cherrydale Fundraising eliminating 20 jobs in January 2019. Shopko issued layoff WARNs for three locations, at least 45 jobs gone between now and March 2019.

Traditions Classic Home Furnishings is closing after 31 years

The Goodwill store that has served the Cloquet area for 30 years shutdown three days before xmas

Plymouth based womens’ clothing store Christopher & Banks closing up to 40 stores

MISSISSIPPI: Tupelo Automobile Museum plans to sell all 178 vehicles

MISSOURI: Kansas City based Beauty Brands shutting down 25 stores: “This year has proven to be a tough year for our business despite our efforts…”

NEBRASKA: Beauty Brands closing Lincoln location

NEW YORK: Bankrupt Clarus Linen System issued shutdown WARNs for several locations, 340 jobs gone by March 2019! Fitness company Iowa Consultants-Manhattan Plaza eliminating 146 jobs by March 2019! 

British empire United Kingdom based Barclays issued a ‘second wave’ layoff WARN, 367 jobs gone by the end of March 2019, as part of the Too Big to Jail bank’s plans to Escape from New York (once Barclays finally clears out to New Jersey, New York City will have lost several thousands of jobs as a direct result, apparently Barclays employs more than 5-thousand people at its NYC locations)!

After 42 years Gee’s Auto Repair shutdown due to the owner’s health problems: “We are still trying to get someone to buy the business. It is up for sale at this time and we’re ready to negotiate.”

After 15 years Comic Depot shutdown due to not being able to find a new owner

After 68 years Costa’s gift shop shutdown due to the death of the owner

An eight years old Party City store shutting down

Bong’s Jewelers closing its doors after 126 years

dance music club Output shutdown with a complicated explanation essentially blaming everything for negatively affecting the economy: “A confluence of factors contributed to the club’s misfortune; rapidly shifting social trends, unfavorable market conditions, and weakening financial outlooks coincided with the simultaneous emergence of multiple existential challenges…” 

After 62 years iconic used car dealership John C. Miller shutdown, the owner saying saying “The competition’s heavy”

Musical instrument String Shoppe closing after 52 years

California based clothing store GAP shutdown in Colonie Center

Stage Stores shutting down four Peebles stores in New York

NORTH CAROLINA: Chapel Hill based Performance Bicycle closing 102 stores

Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo closing a Cameron Village branch

OHIO: Bridgeview Bank Mortgage suddenly laid off 97 people.

After 29 years Blue Manatee Children’s Bookstore could be forced to shutdown

God’s own thrift store Disciple Shop shutdown, saying “we do not have the financial capacity to continue” 

OREGON: Ollie Damon tackle shop shutdown after 73 years

PENNSYLVANIA: After 37 years Dallas Centre Hardware shutdown, the past couple of years of ‘recovered economy’ were the worst they experienced: “Financially we were hit so hard that we can’t recover from it.”-Michele Geise

Burlington Coat Factory to close at Uniontown Mall

After 69 years Moyer Jewelers suddenly shutdown

Carpenters Corner Antiques shutdown after 14 years

God powerless to stop three churches from shutting down

SOUTH CAROLINA: Sexist female only bike seller Pedal Chic halting brick-n-mortar ops and selling online only

Iconic Stroman Appliance closing after 47 years: “We are closing because of retirement and dwindling economy…” 

SOUTH DAKOTA: Gustaf’s Greenery shutdown, the owner blamed health problems and the internet, adding that “42 years slips by real fast”

TEXAS: Bankrupt Samuel’s Diamonds shutting down

VIRGINIA: Janitor contractor Southeast Services Corporation issued a shutdown WARN, 134 jobs gone in Richmond, by the end of January 2019!

Co-founded by husband and wife international dance team American True Value Hardware Store, in Chesapeake, shutdown after 45 years

Family Dollar in Lynchburg is closing.

Petco to close in Danville

WISCONSIN: Ashwaubenon based Shopko to shutdown 39 stores

Blick Art Supplies East Side shop forced to shutdown by property re-development

Laacke & Joys sporting goods store closing after 170 years in business

Abercrombie & Fitch suddenly shutdown its massive store in the center of the Fox River Mall

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, November 2018:“YOU DON’T REALLY MAKE A LOT OF MONEY”

Sears-Kmart death spiral, December 2018: “NOW THEY NEED A JOB.” “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, December 2018: “UNFORTUNATELY OUR RENT IS TOO HIGH”

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, December 2018: ‘BRINK OF EXTINCTION’

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS/MINING LAYOFFS, December 2018: “THE YOUNGER GENERATION…THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND”

Drugs, the American way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, December 2018: FEDERAL JUDGE DECLARES OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., December 2018: “ONE DAY WE’RE ALL GOOD…THE NEXT DAY IT’S JUST OVER.”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, December 2018: “THEY ARE LETTING THE INMATES KILL EACH OTHER”

Business/Economics

“The younger generation…they don’t understand”: U.S. INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS/MINING LAYOFFS, December 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in December 2018.

WARN=Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification

ARKANSAS: Kimberly-Clark to close plant in Conway, affects around 350 jobs!

CALIFORNIA: Lippert Components issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Los Angeles, 56 jobs gone by February 2019.  WWL Vehicle Services Americas issued a layoff WARN, 136 jobs gone by the end of January 2019!  Ambulance maker Halcore Group-Leader Emergency issued a shutdown WARN, 95 South El Monte jobs gone by March 2019. Solaris Paper issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Santa Fe, 32 jobs gone by February 2019. Alamillo Rebar issued a shutdown WARN for its Benicia operations, 74 jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

After 74 years metal fabricator Vic Myers shutting down

Montelli Construction is liquidating its remaining assets after 72 years

CONNECTICUT: Covia Holding Corporation-Unimin Corporation issued a shutdown WARN, 60 jobs gone sometime in 2019.

FLORIDA: First Transit issued a WARN, 85 Miami International Airport jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

PVC manufacturer Cantex will lay off 48 people

ILLINOIS:  DuPont issued a layoff WARN, 33 people in El Paso jobless by February 2019.

IOWA: Contracted manufacturer Buffalo Weaver issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Waterloo.

DuPont Pioneer will lay off 35 workers as parent company DuPont continues work on its merger with Dow Chemical

KANSAS: Jamvold Truck & Tractor Repair shutting down to make room for a warehouse

KENTUCKY: Glass and lamp maker LEDVANCE shutting down, 260 jobs gone because the company can’t afford to switch to making L-E-D!

MICHIGAN: Auto industry supplier CNI Plastics (aka Adient, aka Futuris) issued a shutdown WARN, 212 jobs gone between March and April 2019!

Auto industry supplier, Bosal Industries Georgia, to layoff 58 at Ypsilanti Township facility

General Motors  will cut 50 jobs at its Brownstown battery factory, and 620 jobs at its Detroit-Hamtramck Impala and Cadillac factory! (746 in total according to official WARNs!)

Ford warning of 25-thousand job cuts!

MINNESOTA: Recycler Envirolastech reported to state employment officials it had eliminated 20 jobs.  Wilbrecht Ledco also reported eliminating 18 jobs.

MISSISSIPPI: Serta Mattress Plant shutting down, more than 120 jobs gone!

NEW YORK: Cortland Pump and Equipment issued a shutdown WARN for two locations, 21 jobs gone by April 2019.

Globe Specialty Metals (aka Globe Metallurgical) shutdown its silicon factory in Niagara Falls, 1-hundred jobs gone

Barchella Landscape & Masonry Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Hat maker New Era Cap gives official plant-closing notice, 219 jobs gone!

NORTH CAROLINA: Maker of automotive and office seating Leggett & Platt to lay off 172 employees!

Buyouts, layoffs at Brunswick nuclear plant

Performance Bicycle to eliminate 2-hundred jobs at its corporate office!

OHIO: General Motors issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Lordstown, 1-thousand-607 jobs gone in March 2019!

Lordstown Seating Systems will cease production, 120 automotive jobs gone by March  2019!

Contracted e-commerce ‘fulfillment’ warehouse operator Radial eliminating 2-hundred jobs in 2019!

PENNSYLVANIA: Serta Simmons Bedding issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Lancaster, 86 jobs gone by February 2019.  Arrow International Incorporated/ Teleflex eliminating five jobs in Reading.

After 92 years Easton Upholstery & Furniture Manufacturing shutdown, blamed on the stupid leftist liberal millennials: “The younger generation wants to think green, but when I tell them that re-upholstery is the way to go that’s green, they don’t understand it.”-Edward Adams

24-70 layoffs expected at Amthor Steel

Valmont Industries shutting down, 180 jobs gone!

RHODE ISLAND: Partly taxpayer funded Textron eliminating 4-hundred jobs from its Specialized Vehicle ops across the U.S.!

TEXAS: petrochemical (oil industry) manufacturer Trecora Resources will lay off 20% of its workforce

Brazil oil company Petrobras eliminating 50 jobs in Houston

Parker Drilling files for chapter 11 bankruptcy 

German engineering firm Siemens plans to kill 2-hundred jobs in Houston!

VERMONT: Industrial cleaning company Accuworx suddenly shutdown, saying “business does not appear to be able to become viable within the reasonably foreseeable future”

VIRGINIA: Despite boasting that it is hiring, taxpayer funded builder of nuclear powered warships Newport News Shipbuilding wants to bribe more than 2-thousand-5-hundred employees to quit!

REO Logistics eliminating 70 jobs due to losing a contract

Ikea Industry Danville is laying off about 90 employees due to high inventory and low sales

WASHINGTON: Maker of beauty products sold on the internet, Julep, suddenly shutdown, 102 jobs gone!

WISCONSIN: Prinsco issued a WARN, 33 jobs gone due to consolidation of warehousing/yard operations.

Milwaukee Moulding & Frame closing after 100 years

U.S. MINING/INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS, November 2018: “NOBODY WAS GIVEN THE HEADS UP ON THIS”