27 July 2019 (02:51 UTC-07 Tango 06) 05 Mordad 1398/24 Dhu l-Qa’da 1440/25 Xin-Wei 4717
Bannock County-City of Chubbuck-City of Pocatello, Idaho, are home to numerous taxpayer sapping ‘white elephant’ projects, from Hoku to the latest Siphon Road-Interstate 15 connector (bridge to nowhere)/Northgate District.
Realize that Siphon Road only exists in Chubbuck, and doesn’t extend to Interstate 15, which means Chubbuck tax-fee payers are paying for the road’s extension to I-15. (Massive taxpayer funded development in Chubbuck involves construction of up to 1,200 homes)
(Chubbuck plans to create an additional three taxpayer funded parks)
The tax-fee payers of Pocatello are paying for the annexation of farmland to the north of the northeast side of the city, and will also be paying for the creation of a Northgate District, as well as a road that will connect to the Pocatello side of I-15. (Pocatello imposes Northgate Tax Incremental Financing district on cash strapped residents)
(Pocatello taxpayers extorted for $750-thousand for Northgate roads project)
(Pocatello councilman partnering with developer to build Northgate retirement community)
State tax-fee payers are funding the I-15 to Siphon Road connection bridge (to nowhere?).
(State investigators says Pocatello’s water plan for Northgate falls short)
The following pics were taken 14JUL2019: 
Storm clouds forming over yet another White Elephant for taxpayers?
All that farmland going to be torn up to build homes for…nobody?
Looking south along I-15, from the Pocatello side of where the Siphon Road-I-15 connector bridge is being built.
Looking towards Chubbuck, the Sun is already setting on the Bridge to Nowhere.
Chubbuck spent tax dollars putting in an intersection where Siphon Road ended, it’s now overgrown with weeds and you can hear the pedestrian crossing signals beeping in the wind.
This is the new part of Siphon Road, in Chubbuck, which still doesn’t go anywhere. The Road Closed sign has been run-over numerous times.
“He’s as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see….
…….Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody”-The Beatles, Nowhere Man
Bannock County scams: 609 hearings later, Bannock County is left with 2,188 unheard property assessment appeals on morning of deadline
Local appraiser files breach of contract lawsuit against Bannock County
Chubbuck 2017: NO MORE XMAS LIGHTS? THE TRUTH ABOUT GENTRIFICATION
Bannock County, Chubbuck & Pocatello shenanigans, June 2016: Governor declares economy has “RISEN FROM THE ASHES”
School District 25 also screws over local taxpayers: Pocatello High renovations Raises Questions About Public Input from taxpayers
yet again school district embroiled in a controversy involving a hungry student seeking food
PaveGate 2015: POCATELLO TAXPAYERS ASKED TO CLEAN UP THEIR OWN STREETS, WHILE PAYING MORE TAXES!
Promises of jobs, July 2015: Pocatello administrators have revealed their hyped up deal to bring a major employer to Pocatello Regional Airport is dead.
Main stream news reports on the never ending taxpayer sucking White Elephant called Hoku;
Idaho State Journal, 2018: Two years later, lease with Indian company amounts to nothing for abandoned Hoku
New York Times, 2013: “So what if the company wanted breaks and concessions? The decision by the city [Pocatello] to buy the land and lease it back almost free seemed like a bargain at $1.4 million…”
Read the history of the Hoku saga starting with this report (the Blind Bat News reports go back to 2010):
IDAHO’S FAILED HOKU LEADS TO 1ST CHINESE COMPANY TO DEFAULT ON LOAN PAYMENTS
In this report, which chronicles the destruction of iconic Green T, the mayor of Chubbuck boasts it’s “…the beginning of some real good things coming in.”: POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!
IDAHO’S DOCUMENTED ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION FOR 2017: “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”
Hoku-Gate, PaveGate now Amy’s-Gate! It’s been revealed that Bannock County administrators were under investigation by the Idaho Tax Commission over massive local tax breaks given to California based frozen veggie food maker Amy’s Kitchen.
MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: EAST IDAHOANS OBLIVIOUS TO SHUTDOWN OF THEIR ONLY POSTAL PROCESSING CENTER!
MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: IDAHO POLITICIANS GIVE AWAY MORE THAN $1-MILLION IN IDAHO TAXES, TO FRANCE!
EXCEPTIONAL FAILED STATE: IDAHO POLITICIANS GIVE AWAY TENS OF MILLIONS TO COMPANIES THAT SHUT DOWN!
“They can hear you!” The new electronic warfare ‘Greywolf’ vehicle spotted at U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin National Training Center, 13JAN2019.
Over one weekend, 03-04FEB2019, three USAFR C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft delivered food to three of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants; Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. The U.S. Air Force Reserve described the food aid mission as occurring periodically through out the year. The food is supposedly donated, but the cost of flying it to the recipients rests on the U.S. taxpayers.
In Djibouti, Africa, taxpayer funded U.S. Army veterinarians were deployed to help locals improve their livestock. It’s called a Veterinary Civic Action Project (VetCAP).
In the leftist-liberal socialist ‘Golden State’, U.S. Navy sailors still have to help deliver food for the Meals on Wheels program in San Diego. Since January 2018, Makin Island Sailors delivered more than 550 meals to the local San Diego community.
U.S. Army Officer Cadet School trainees took part in a 16FEB2019 food drive, in partnership with the Midland Feeding the Valley Food Bank, and Columbus Community Warriors Incorporated.
Since July 2018, the U.S. Coast Guard and the British empire’s Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans joined forces to enforce international fishing laws across the Indo-Pacific: “Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing threatens food security, impacts the sustainability of fisheries, and causes irreparable damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems across the globe. Partnerships, like this one with Canada’s Department of National Defence and the United States Coast Guard, are the key to tackling IUU fishing that threatens many vulnerable coastal communities. We will continue to work with other countries and assist small island developing states in combating IUU fishing to increase security and protect the health of fish stocks around the world.”-Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
A volunteer with the Fort McCoy Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers group helps distribute food 4FEB2019, at the Oasis Church in Tomah.
19th Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management journeyman, takes a sample of an unknown substance found on Little Rock AFB, 12JUN2019.
New taxpayer funded temp-housing designed to hold 5-hundred illegals, Yuma, 26JUN2019.
New taxpayer funded washing machines at the new temp-housing, Yuma, 26JUN2019.
First panels of new wall up at Calexico crossing, 20JUN2019.
U.S. Coast Guard captured and returned 44 illegals to Dominican Republic (you know, the country where U.S. tourists are mysteriously dying), 28JUN209.
U.S. Coast Guard captures 24 illegals from Dominican Republic, 10JUN2019. 18 were returned to the Dominican navy, the rest are in U.S. custody.
Things are so bad on the Texas/Mexico border that visiting Mississippi gov’na Phil Bryant, and Mississippi Army National Guard Major General Janson D. Boyles, had to cover their faces while on an inspection of National Guard border ops, 18JUN2019. According to official sources the Mississippi National Guard has helped stop more than 2-thousand pounds of illegal drugs from coming into Texas.
James Cook University (JCU) held a Health and Humanitarian Action in Emergencies (HHAE) course as part of a global disaster coordination plan, during the first week of June 2019. The concept for HHAE was originally developed by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, United States, and JCU’s College of Health of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences.
U.S. Marines arrive at Soto Cano Air Base, 05JUN2019, officially for ‘security’ ops (Honduras is one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegals), but their secondary mission is to be on ‘standby’ for natural disaster response.
U.S. Marine wearing gas mask during humanitarian assistance training at Marine Corps (pronounced -core-) Air Station Iwakuni, 10JUN2019.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief was the main topic at the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium (PALS) on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 06JUN2019.
03JUN2019, USAF Personnel from Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, and Yokota, Japan, traveled all the way to Oregon to take part in the now yearly Cascadia Airlift exercise, as part of Oregon National Guard’s preps for the coming Cascadia Subduction Zone event.
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.
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
During the week of 13 May, U.S. tax dollars were spent conducting the
Department of Homeland Security fabrication and storage yard for border wall fencing, near Yuma, known as Arizona Primary Replacement Barrier.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspects ‘Normandy’ vehicle barrier near El Centro.
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.