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Total Gun Ban Fail: Knife attacks in Japan skyrocket?

24SEP2018 (15:06 UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Mehr 1397/13 Muharram 1440/15 Xin-You (8th month) 4716

I’ve pointed out many times how Japan has a near total gun ban, and Japan also regulates edged weapons based on their length.

For more proof that gun bans, and even knife control laws, don’t stop violent crime here’s a recent list of knife and gun oddities in Japan:

September 20th, Theft of gun seen as possible motive in Sendai cop stabbing

September 19th, Police officer killed in stabbing incident in northeastern Japan

September 18th, Man arrested after fatally stabbing woman in Tokyo residence

September 15th, Japanese cop loses his gun while guarding prime minister’s motorcade

September 12th, Man arrested for stabbing university student in his car

September 9th, Bullet train passenger with knife detained in Fukuoka

September 4th, Real Utility Knives Were Accidentally Sold as Prank Finger-Slicers

August 25th, Japanese knife craftsman turns underwear into a sharp blade, cuts through vegetables

August 19th, Osaka police catch 14-year-old who allegedly stabbed woman with knife

July 21st, Man arrested for stabbing ‘noisy’ neighbor

July 20th, Japan bans unpacked knives on trains

June 24th, Cambodian man stabbed to death in Tochigi Pref

June 21st, Man wanted in fatal stabbing found dead in apparent suicide

June 19th, 18-year-old youth arrested for stabbing 9-year-old boy 

June 9th, Deadly stabbing on Japan bullet train

May 28th, Man shot dead by police after knife attack in southwestern Japan

May 21st, Man stabbed on subway in Tokyo

May 19th, Man stabbed in neck near NHK headquarters

May 18th, Man arrested for murder after stabbing customer in manga cafe

May 13th, 6-year-old girl dead after ex-politician with knife attacks family of four at Chiba restaurant

April 13th, Man gets 30 years over fatal 2016 stabbing of Osaka father of three

March 14th, Man arrested after stabbing four officials at Kanazawa City Hall

February 9th, Man stabbed after argument with passenger on train in Osaka

January 21st, Kagoshima teen held over stabbing of high school girl 

January 21st, 18-year-old arrested for stabbing father to death in Yokohama

January 15th, Man held after random stabbings leave one dead in Hiroshima

January 8th, 16-year-old girl stabbed in Kagoshima park

Examining the motives behind mass murder in Japan

Learning to live with a vulnerability to violent actions

TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: SCHOOL SHOOTING IN ANTI-GUN JAPAN!

International

Grizzlies: Mysterious Deaths and Behaviors

“…there are occasions where bears don’t behave like other bears.”-Brad Hovinga, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

“…grizzly bears can be more aggressive than black bears when it comes to protecting their young and food sources.”–Johnny Mikes, Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative

24SEP2018 (13:39 UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Mehr 1397/13 Muharram 1440/15 Xin-You (8th month) 4716

The most aggressive version of the Brown Bear, the North American Grizzly, has been behaving even more aggressively than normal and even mysteriously dying.  The strange deaths might be a reason why a U.S. federal judge has repeatedly delayed the promised grizzly bear hunting in the United States (the official reason is to consider putting them back on the endangered list).

The most recent grizzly attack took place this month in the U.S. state of Wyoming, it is unusual in that it involved two grizzly bears working together to attack an experienced hunting guide and his client.  The guide was killed and an investigation showed he was attacked by both the bears.  The client survived and said they were on horseback attempting to retrieve an elk they shot with an arrow.  As they approached the elk they were attacked by both bears, the client was dragged off his horse.  The guide got the attention of the bears away from his client by yelling at them, however they then attacked and killed the guide (beside being armed with a bow and arrows, they were armed with a pistol which proved useless). The client was able to escape on horseback.

It should be noted that the hunting guide’s family posted a gofundme which states he was attacked by a bear, singular, but investigators confirmed he was attacked by a sow and a yearling, two bears.  Wyoming Fish & Game say they were able to find and kill the two bears.

There’s been increased documented cases of deaths of grizzlies, both in the United States and Canada.  In the past year or so most of those deaths are attributed to humans killing them, either through illegal shooting (poaching), mistaken shooting (hunters mistaking them for black bears), or by being run-over by road vehicles or trains.  The latest grizzly death data out of the U.S. Yellowstone National Park area shows at least 33 bears found dead from undetermined causes (so far).  Believe it or not, the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team labeled some of the dead grizzlies as “probable” deaths (if your dead your dead, unless you’re undead, bear zombies?)!  The official Yellowstone grizzly death count has yet to be made public: “The season where everything is usually determined in terms of grizzly bear mortality is still coming up. Basically, the deciding weeks will be in late September or early October. It really depends on how we fare through those weeks.”-Frank van Manen, federal government researcher

Here’s a few news articles about the strange behaviors and deaths of Grizzlies:

Second Canadian grizzly bear cub found illegally shot in Alberta

Strange behavior of humans as Canadian hunter gets death threats for legally shooting an adult Grizzly

Video captures Alberta man and his dog’s close encounter with Canadian grizzly

One of three black bear cubs likely eaten by Canadian grizzly bear

Residents of Aklavik count ten Canadian grizzly bears now living in town

Canadian grizzly bear spotted far from the animals’ usual mainland territory

Yellowstone-Area Grizzlies Suspected In Seven Deaths Since 2010

Minnesotan man mauled by grizzly bear while hiking in Wyoming

2018 Yellowstone area Grizzly Bear Deaths at Record-Breaking Pace (despite the temporary hunting ban)

Montana Grizzly bear killed after getting into turkey feed

Montana grizzly illegally shot and killed

Freight Train Kills Montana Grizzly Bear 

Wyoming Grizzly Bear Raids Apple Tree In Downtown Cody City

Montana Grizzly bear roaming Creston area

Video of Alaska grizzly bear races driver at 30 miles per hour

Ten Montana grizzlies killed by vehicles 

Parents used bear spray to fend off Wyoming grizzly bear

Video Montana grizzly bear rages after release from jail

Injured Grizzly Killed By Montana FWP Officials

In Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Zoo employees disciplined after near-escape of two male grizzlies

Grizzly Bear Cub Euthanized After July Car Crash

Trail closed at Lake Minnewanka after Canadian grizzly charges hiker

BC man recovers in hospital after attack by mother grizzly bear

Grizzly mother shot and killed by hikers, two cubs orphaned

Montana grizzlies found dying slowly and painfully on roads in Glacier National Park

Montana grizzly suspected in death of four calves, can’t be found

Brown bear kills man, mauls rescuer in Alaska

224 Canadian grizzly deaths in 10 years — most caused by humans

Spike in human-caused Canadian grizzly bear deaths

Rocky Mountain Grizzly Conflicts Hit Record Numbers In 2017

Blind Bat News related animal oddities:

FIRE AND HONEY BEES…IT’S ‘GOD’S PLAN’!

MARYLAND KILLS PARK GEESE TO FEED HOMELESS!

BLACK SWAN DEATHS REVEAL BIRD FLU EPIDEMIC

3RD TIME IN 4 MONTHS MASSIVE LOSS OF INDUSTRIAL BEES IN IDAHO!

MOTHER NATURE KILLING OFF BEES, CHICKENS & TURKEYS!

WEST NILE VIRUS=NO MORE BEES?

HONEY BEES DYING IN CHINA, LACK OF WATER

International

Pacific Ring of Fire: “toasting 90% of life on the planet”, Dragon Eggs will save us?

Video

Volcano eruptions to be predicted by remarkable DRAGON EGGS?

Incomplete list of reports from 24AUG2018 through to 23SEP2018.

19 Quakes Rock Ring of Fire in 24 Hours

Last month 70 earthquake in 48 hours along Pacific Ring of Fire

AUSTRALIA:  an eruption in Melbourne? 

CANADA:

British Columbia; 3.3-magnitude earthquake felt by Victoria residents

Strong early-morning Oregon quake felt in Vancouver and Sidney

Receding glaciers make Pemberton-area Mount Meager volcano less stable than ever before

British Columbia’s 18 Sleeping Volcanoes

CHILE: Volcano lights up snowy sky in stunning photo

COLUMBIA: 

Mass casualty earthquake training as part of the multilateral exercise Angel de los Andes, 06SEP2018, at German Olano Air Base.

ECUADOR: Strong quake hits 

FIJI: Very strong deep quake

GUATEMALA: 

U.S. Marines work with the Guatemalan Army Corps of Engineers to build temporary shelters for people fleeing Volcan De Fuego, 11SEP2018.

INDONESIA: VIDEO: Indonesian volcano spews enormous fireballs

Deadly ‘Child of Krakatau’ Volcano Erupts 56 Times

JAPAN: MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Nearly 1,000 public school buildings in Japan still vulnerable to earthquakes

U.S. Marines, and their families, take part in disaster training at Iwakuni, 25AUG2018.

Video report, Iwakuni disaster prep: 

KOREA: Kim, Moon raise hands on North Korea’s sacred volcano

MEXICO: Popocatépetl volcano erupts twice – video

5.4 magnitude tremor hits near holiday hotspot

Earthquakes Continue in Oaxaca

 NEW CALEDONIA: 7.1M quake Southeast of the Loyalty Islands

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: volcano erupts, forcing villagers to flee

RUSSIA: Biggest mass extinction event caused by Siberian super volcano “Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet” (not human made pollution)

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; volcano restless again; scientists issue aviation advisory

California;

USMC Combat Logistics deployed vehicles and equipment to Los Angeles, as part of Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Village demonstration, 29AUG2018.

Strange and unpredicted behavior behind mysterious California earthquakes

6.5 magnitude quake off coast

‘Deep creep’ found near San Andreas fault

A Mysterious Hole Appeared on Mount Shasta!

88-thousand tons of nuke waste in path of future tsunami!

Fearing massive earthquake, California considers requiring lists of buildings that WILL collapse

In Quake-Prone California, Alarm at Scant Insurance Coverage

Hawaii; Will this summer’s limited collapse of Kilauea caldera eventually widen?

Oregon; Civil Air Patrol preps for ‘The Big One’ 

‘Get Ready Coos Bay’ emergency Cascadia prep event

From July; Cascadia Airlift Exercise 2018: “It’s a two-in-one exercise. The main objective is to be able to host airlift-centered planes during a humanitarian response to the Cascadia earthquake and identify limiting factors in being able to properly manage them. We also had the added benefit of being able to have the C-130s and F-15Cs fly together.”– Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard

Washington:

Olympic Ambulance, Bremerton Fire Department and Central Kitsap Fire Rescue stand by following a mock earthquake at Naval Hospital Bremerton, during the Citadel Rumble drill, the first week of September 2018.

Lessons learned from 2011 Japan tsunami could benefit Westport “I believe this is the first time any disaster recovery planners from Japan have visited the coast of Washington to share information about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck their country.”

Help after Cascadia earthquake could take weeks, ‘if not months’

Glacier Peak eruption: ‘HIGH THREAT’ volcano is more DANGEROUS than Yellowstone

Crustal inheritance and a top-down control on arc magmatism at Mount Saint Helens (a scientific explanation of why Mount Saint Helens shouldn’t be in Washington, but is)

The coming Cascadia subduction event

New maps project tsunamis hitting Port Angeles, Port Townsend

In August, the Washington Army National Guard/Washington Emergency Management Division and Malaysia Armed Forces/National Disaster Management Agency agreed to work together on Pacific Ring of Fire disasters: “We want to not only build stronger partnerships, military to military, but expand civilian partnerships as well. Part of the long-term success will include emergency management.”-Major General Bret Daugherty

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Wyoming; SCIENTISTS GROWING CONCERNED OVER YELLOWSTONE ACTIVITY

Ear Spring on Yellowstone’s Geyser Hill erupts for only the fourth time in 60 years

New thermal activity reported in Yellowstone

102 tremors STRIKE

“THE reawakening of Yellowstone volcano would be devastating for the United States as an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the U.S. would be destroyed. But can scientists predict when Yellowstone will erupt?”

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: 11-THOUSAND QUAKES SINCE JULY, GET READY FOR A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER!

April 2018: IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS!

Idaho, Technology

“we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, July 2018

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

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

The Guardian:  Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: Verizon shutting down its call center in Huntsville,  some employees will continue working from home while others will get laid off.

Facebook to Build $750M [spy] Data Center in Huntsville

ARKANSAS: Hewlett-Packard to Lay Off 500 in Conway

CALIFORNIA: Univision continues killing jobs, this time an additional 6% of its workforce.  San Francisco based rideshare Uber suddenly laid off about 1-hundred ‘self-drive’ employees across the U.S., apparently due to self-drive accidents!  Sony Pictures suddenly laid off 25 people. Mountain View based InfoTech company Tintri now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Entertainment marketer Ant Farm issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles office, 80 jobs gone in September. In Palo Alto, Space Systems/Loral revealed they laid off 109 people last month!  Fabless semiconductor maker Cavium issued a layoff WARN for three locations, 45 jobs gone by September.  In Mountain View, ‘data protection’ company Veritas Technologies revealed it laid off 71 people, back in April.  Marvel Semiconductor issued layoff WARNs for two locations, 45 jobs gone by September.  Taylor Communications revealed it shutdown its Livermore ops last month, 37 jobs killed without warning.  Embedded software company Wind River Systems issued a layoff WARN for its Alameda location, 64 jobs gone by Mid-September. iPayment issued a layoff WARN for its Westlake Village location, 30 jobs gone by mid-September.

 A shadow workforce of contract labor keeps Google humming

Layoffs and Management Shuffles Plague Seagate 

Tesla, Pushing for Profit, Faces New Questions Over Finances

Tesla finally hits weekly production target for Model 3 

Elon Musk’s ‘pedo’ attack rattles Tesla investors: ‘This thing is unraveling’

COLORADO: Phone-book publisher turned tech company reveals Denver-area layoffs

CONNECTICUT: What housing market recovery? Online based home loan lender The Money Source suddenly laid off 60 people across the U.S., unnamed victims reported to industry news media that they were only told to attend a webinar where they were informed they were no longer employed.

State taxpayers forced to ‘loan’ Chinese tech company $10-million USD to set up shop in Connecticut!

FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded Space Coast Launch Services eliminating 102 jobs by the end of September!

Industry leaders sound off on Orlando’s high-tech disconnect

GEORGIA: High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

IDAHO:  InfoTech company Sykes issued a shutdown WARN for its Boise call center, 640 jobs gone, asks police to be present! Also in Boise, Marvel Semiconductor issued a WARN, 16 jobs gone in September.  Now bankrupt busted Tintri has city of Lewiston upset because they’re on year one of a three year contract: “We put a lot of money into these Tintri boxes, and we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”-Danny Santiago

North Idaho tech innovator arrested under suspicion of domestic battery

Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225000 in Credit

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

ILLINOIS: The new owner of computer driven Chicago Stock Exchange suddenly laid off about 12 people (the new owner is New York Stock Exchange). Chicago based in-flight wi-fi Gogo laid off 55 people, possibly in connection with problems with its new airliner wi-fi antennas.

Nutrien buys startup Agrible for $63M

INDIANA: Electronic resistor maker CTS issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Elkhart, 103 jobs gone by Xmas!

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA: Iowa Wireless/T-Mobile eliminating 27 jobs in Cedar Rapids, by November.

KENTUCKY: Lexington based Lexmark eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs globally!

MARYLAND: Tech engineering company Sierra Nevada lays off ‘approximately 40’ at Hagerstown-area facility

MASSACHUSETTS: Data storage firm Western Digital to close Marlborough office

F5 Networks ….plans to close an office in Massachusetts

MICHIGAN: Teleperformance USA shutdown its Grand Rapids call center, 91 jobs gone.  Charter Communications laying off 111 people at two locations in August!

MINNESOTA: Information solutions company NCS Pearson issued a WARN, 82 jobs in Bloomington gone in September.

Great Lakes Polymer Technologies plant in Albert Lea to close

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

MISSOURI: BJC HealthCare suddenly laid off 113 InfoTech employees and contractors, in connection to its new Epic go-live ops!

Another 40 employees laid off at EaglePicher Technologies

MONTANA: Five workers in Butte, 100 in Moses Lake lose REC Silicon jobs

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinos, Tesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

‘All humanity has left the area’: paying for Tesla’s Gigafactory

NEW HAMPSHIRE: California  based software maker Extreme Networks WARNing it could eliminate as many as 99 jobs at its ops in Salem, apparently no reason was given.

NEW JERSEY: Taxpayers forced to give $5-million USD to save the main stream news media!  or New Jersey’s Experiment in State-Funded News

NEW YORK: The Illinois based owner of New York Daily News suddenly laid off 93 people. In Painted Post, Sitel shutting down its call center, 184 jobs gone before Halloween! Brooklyn-NYC based advertiser Laundry Service eliminating 45 jobs by October, including its founder.

NORTH DAKOTA: Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

OHIO: ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

PENNSYLVANIA: Aptiv acquires Winchester Interconnect in $650 million agreement

Medtronic closing office & eliminating 63 jobs

SOUTH CAROLINA: InfoTech company Sykes shutting down its Greenwood ops, 213 jobs gone by mid-September!

TEXAS: Circuit board maker Dynalyst now chapter 11 bankrupt busted with more than $1-million USD in debts. San Antonio Express News laid off 20 people.

UTAH: IM Flash to lay off 7% of Utah workforce

VERMONT: WCAX to Cut Production Staff

WASHINGTON: Seattle based multi-cloud F5 Networks laying off 230 InfoTech employees, despite still advertising for more than 3-hundred open jobs and claiming to have made $150-million USD in profits! China based Ofo Bikeshare halting U.S. ops, including in leftist liberal Seattle where local news media speculated that the city’s plans to regulate bike sharing is the reason.  Germany based InfoTech/logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Yakima, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!

Washington DC: DC-based tech start-up FiscalNote to buy CQ Roll Call

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, June 2018: “REDEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES”

Idaho, U.S.

School crimes skyrocketing!: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., July 2018

“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.

“Sesame Street is taking its beloved, critically acclaimed brand of educational television into the highly profitable world of classroom curriculum — a move that experts say could open the door for other companies to move into the sensitive learning space with possible influence on children.”-Associated Press

Nature-Genetics: Scientific study of 1.1-million people proves your DNA affects your ability to stay in school!

The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, July 2018:

ALABAMA: At least 46 Alabama students disciplined for making threats since Parkland

Alabama labels 75 schools ‘failing’ 

Proof it’s still about the ‘jocks’ and not education as University of Alabama opens $15M dining hall for athletes

Paranoid City of Dothan wants to hire 19 more school police officers

school police officer facing three charges of sex crimes

State health and education departments make immunization records easier to get

You know things are bad when a school supply give away is called Christmas in July

ALASKA: Rural students need support

Federal taxpayers fund Refugee/immigrant Students Backpacking program

vandalism of Alpenglow Elementary

ARIZONA: The Art Institutes of Phoenix shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Why Arizona Is Building Tiny Homes for School Teachers

California students flocking to universities in Arizona

specialty license plates garner $1.45M for education

Former Scottsdale school district CFO under indictment breaks silence

ARKANSAS: Panel Calls For Every School To Have An Armed Presence

Mental Health Counseling for Students Must be Priority

Taxpayers raped of $13.6-million USD for school-to-work program

Taxpayers spend $540-thousand to help one school district buy building for use as health clinic.

CALIFORNIA: In San Diego, after 53 years Adams Avenue Bookstore shutdown, the owners said it made more sense to sell the building than to continue selling books.  The Art Institutes of San Bernardino, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Ana shutting down, more than 5-hundred jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!   Privately run Argosy University campuses in Alameda, Ontario and San Diego shutting down, about 150 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Celerity charter network closes a school

Auditors call for criminal investigation of Montebello school system

How one California county is criminalizing bad grades

Los Angeles school board member pleads guilty to conspiracy and resigns

Lawsuit over state’s literacy education can proceed

In high gang violence areas police “…found that school buses were dropping off students from different gangs at the same time.” 

Judge Considers Injunction Against Anti-Islamophobia Program In San Diego Schools

COLORADO:  The Art Institutes of Denver shutting down, 160 jobs gone by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Denver shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Kinder Haus Learning Center shutdown, Mesa County Public Health says the shutdown aggravates the local child care crisis as Kinder Haus was the largest provider in the county.

19 students hospitalized after school bus crash

Colorado Springs School District 11 wants to sell a parcel of vacant land that was slated for a new school

Taxpayers shell out $20-million USD for new District 49 school

You know things are bad when a taxpayer funded school supply give away is called Christmas in August

CONNECTICUT: New Haven Public Schools eliminating 37 teacher, librarian, and counselor jobs due to an audit that showed there weren’t enough students to justify the positions.

Teacher, Supervisors Arrested After Alleged Abuse

Bond raised for special ed teacher charged with sexually abusing students

Police Probe Alleged Criminal Conduct At School Events

DELAWARE:  claims suggest DOE Secretary lied during audit 

FLORIDA: The Art Institutes of Fort Lauderdale shutting down, 148 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Sarasota shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Florida Increases Student Surveillance

At least 1040 teachers out of jobs after failing state test

Charter school amendment triggers School Board dispute

‘No homework’ policy gets bad grade

Manatee County principal under criminal investigation

Four-star university freshman footballer charged with two felonies

First class of armed school cops sworn in Polk County

GEORGIA: School District with less than 3-hundred students gets taxpayer funding to make upgrades to offer “anything that a bigger school would offer.”

New this year, sexual abuse education

Gwinnett Schools in sexual assault lawsuit

assistant principal, teacher arrested for alleged sex crime

teacher sentenced to 2 years in prison for firing gun in class

High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit

Student says ‘My Rifle Makes Me An Athlete, Not A Criminal‘

GUAM: Trial set in teacher’s sexual misconduct case

school supplies still needed

HAWAII: New law allows schools to sell products

State Revokes Charter Of Big Island School

School DESTROYED by Kilauea Volcano 

Kamehameha Schools and plaintiffs announce settlement

IDAHO: State education superintendent amended campaign reports after paying herself $2400

Taxpayers forced to pay $375-thousand USD per year to hire 15 unarmed security guards for Twin Falls School District

Xavier Charter School voted unanimously to allow a school employee to carry a concealed firearm on campus.

Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops

Idaho is last in pre-K participation

IDAHO TEACHER SALARIES RANK LOWEST IN NATION

College of Southern Idaho claims increase in revenues, no ‘external’ debt!

In Mormon dominated School District 25 (aka Chubbuck/Pocatello) students experiencing skyrocketing disciplinary problems, “More children were expelled… …and even elementary students got in trouble more often for threats, drug possession and sexual offenses.” 

ILLINOIS: The Art Institutes of Chicago and Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run Argosy University in Schaumburg shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  Rush University Medical Center outsourcing 110 jobs! 

After years of  mass layoffs schools continue to face teacher shortage (really?)

School, trainer sued over alleged sex crimes

83 school districts flagged by State Board of Education for high rates of suspension and expulsion for three consecutive years.

How Public (taxpayer funded) Education Ranks In Illinois

Investigation discovers that State Board of Education itself caused spike to taxpayer-funded pension

INDIANA: The Art Institutes of Indianapolis shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Gary schools hit the real estate market

teen gang connected to at least 24 violent crimes

State taxpayers to provide handheld metal detector wands to local schools

police arrested teen at school for having e-cigarette

Teacher accused of intentionally making a special restraining chair for autistic student!

Student accused of bringing gun to Griffith High School 

Soon taxpayers will be forced to fund a new public school district  ‘financial monitoring system’, in an attempt to halt the massive numbers of school district financial failures!

IOWA:  University of Iowa furloughed (supposedly temporary layoffs) 33 people and is shutting down seven ‘centers’ and selling off property, due cuts in state taxpayer funding.

The University of Iowa Labor Center is one of the seven centers slated for closure due to budget cuts.

Taxpayers forced to pay an additional $1.13-million USD for Davenport School District’s “emergency” security funding!

Waterloo, Nashua educators’ licenses suspended for drinking at work

Complaint filed against Schools for use of restraints, seclusion

KANSAS: Two workers shot on Kansas elementary school playground

No felony charges against teacher accused of sex crimes

middle school teacher granted probation

sheriff proposes arming teachers

Reward increased for info about the murder of an immigrant Harmon High School wrestler 

Taxpayers funding new mental health program for five school districts

Taxpayers forced to pay $5-million USD for school security

KENTUCKY:  Kentucky State University eliminating 75 jobs (40 vacant positions and 35 filled positions) in an attempt to reduce labor costs by $2.3-million USD, partly blamed on a 6.25% reduction in state taxpayer funding.

Fayette school board approves tax increase for school safety

Kentucky schools ranked 20th

State offers settlement in Jefferson County Public Schools takeover case

School district sells three empty buildings at huge loss to taxpayers

LOUISIANA: God’s own Loyola University New Orleans suddenly laid off more than 24 people, and suspended its payments into the employee retirement 403(b) plan.  The christian university is dealing with a deficit of more than $25-million USD blamed, in part, to the sudden and unexpected loss of 2-hundred freshmen students back in 2013 (The Rapture?).

Little change in public school performance from last school year

Director of School for the Deaf replaced as part of state level staff shakeup

New state law allows families paying private school tuition a tax break

private schools could face sanctions if voucher students opt to go elsewhere

Louisiana leads the nation in high school seniors asking for federal tax-dollars to help pay for college

Southern University students will have to pay more

MAINE:  After 141 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god’s own sexist Maine Girls’ Academy-Saint Elizabeth’s Academy shutdown due to lack of students (The Rapture?).

School ban on cell phones blamed for cell phone addiction?

MARYLAND: Incredibly high graduation rate at DuVal High School now considered a scandal

Maryland schools CEO handed six-figure severance payout

Restraining order remains in place against school board chairman

Asian students ask for a day off on Asian calendar Lunar New Year

new law allows students to bring sunscreen to school

MASSACHUSETTS:  Schools allowed to continue electric shock torture of students!

defunct New England Institute of Art/Brookline Art College accused of lying about employment success of graduates

Charter school funding formula is broken

Fall River schools gets 453-thousand federal taxpayer ‘hurricane relief’ dollars for enrolling 152 students from Puerto Rico!

New law lets juveniles off

MICHIGAN: The Art Institutes of Novi shutting down, 114 jobs gone by Xmas, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!  Privately run South University in Novi shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

“Federal education officials say Michigan is the only state in the U.S. that needs intervention after failing to meet federal special education requirements”

Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read

University of Michigan doctor charged with yet more sex crimes

MINNESOTA: Capella University issued a layoff WARN, 125 jobs gone in August!

boys sue to join girls high school dance teams

Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push

District 518 in violation of special education rules

District 518 battle now includes criminal charges

Teen sentenced for threatening Futures School

Lincoln Park Junior High School teacher accused of sex crimes back in court

Austin school district to raise lunch prices, blames federal government

MISSISSIPPI: Gov’na orders takeover of Noxubee schools

Starkville teacher charged with child exploitation

Sex Education Lessons From Mississippi And Nigeria

Convicted Columbus music teacher gets appeal

School principal arrested for DUI 

MISSOURI: Immigrant student from India, attending University of Missouri-Kansas City, murdered 

University of Missouri’s Columbia campus raises a record $147-million in donations!

Lindbergh is the last taxpayer funded school district where parents pay out-of-pocket for kindergarten

STEM bill vetoed because unAmerican corporate America wrote it!

Federal court orders change to local school board elections

Charter school parents deserve a say in lawsuit

Without warning one of the oldest charter schools in Kansas City suddenly shuts down

Brentwood woman stole $8000 from high school PTO

Gunshots during a football scrimmage at Saint Mary’s High School

Missouri is known as a haven for child marriages.

MONTANA: Victim of high school shooting released from hospital, then arrested

Teen denies Bozeman High School bomb threat

teacher who was convicted for assaulting student selected for new teaching job

Former teacher may have probation revoked due to new sex offense charge

teacher charged with sexually assaulting a student

NEBRASKA: State’s top educator says he’s ‘sick’ of racist comments

For a few terrible hours, Nebraska City feared a school shooting

Walthill school failed to provide special education services

Test scores at Schuyler Central don’t make the grade

New Millard policy prohibits texting between teachers and students

Taxpayers funding $75-million USD in renovations for UNL

Taxpayers funded $43.9-million Student Health Center

NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinos, Tesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs.  Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.

Clark County School District hired 105 special ed teachers, all of them foreigners!

Feuding teachers’ unions battle over package delivery

Marijuana tax money for schools: Where is it going?

NEW HAMPSHIRE: PSU Teams Up With Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of N.H. to Address Bullying in Schools  (when they say ‘address’ does that mean they’re sending them a letter in the mail?)

Parents Think Of Leaving due to new Franklin School Budget

criminal probe of school lunch program

School counselor gets 2½ years for teen sex assault

EPA Money To Address Asbestos In Schools

Accreditation’s Insidious Impact On Higher Education

NEW JERSEY: Why are so many high school students leaving New Jersey?

Too many school boards wasting too much money

Ewing school teacher gets fired amid child sex crimes

ACLU sues 12 school districts for being anti-illegal immigrant

Another Catholic school announces closure

NEW MEXICO: State loses education lawsuit over Constitutional Rights

UNM No. 1 in stolen autos

Youth gangs on rise in Santa Fe

Man who pled guilty to felony appointed to Luna college board

New Mexico Nursing Education Consortium secures only a fraction of what’s needed for yearly budget

Brain drain hurts New Mexico

NEW YORK: The ‘future leaders’ of America prove they are prejudice when New York University students express disdain for the Supreme Court nominee, days before the President made the nomination!  One prejudiced and politically out-o-touch student even said the “…the new nominee is like racist, and he’s starting a new wave of something very negative…”  God’s own Niagara Catholic Junior/Senior High School shutdown without warning, due to a “significant” reduction in church funding and students (The Rapture?).  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, at least 129 jobs affected by Halloween!

Trooper Is Killed Answering Call to Home of School Principal

Mental health education now required 

Special ed teacher convicted of sex crimes, now pleads guilty to welfare fraud

Does Admissions Exam for Elite High Schools Measure Up? No One Knows

Speed Cameras shutoff in NYC School Zones

Taxpayer funded public schools to educate students about Sikhism

NORTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition! Privately run South University in High Point shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

How does North Carolina rank for education?

Teachers view student behavior differently based on race

The Rise Of Charter Schools 

School board makes gutsy decision not to give taxpayer money to its own state government lobby group!

NORTH DAKOTA: For the first time ever, the state Department of Public Instruction asked Native Americans about their education desires!!!

Junior High teacher arrested and accused of enticing boys to have sex with her

Teacher facing drug charges loses license

Minot Teachers at fault 

Number of students who can’t speak English increasing

Investigation discovers that State College of Science’s workforce TrainND computer system is a technical failure resulting in “improprieties, or incorrect reporting”!

North Dakota State University prepping to lose 3-hundred students this school year!

“North Dakota State University has clearly demonstrated negligence which led to dozens of animal deaths, I must insist that you take the most severe action allowable under the Animal Welfare Act and immediately begin the process of issuing the maximum fine allowable…..$10,000 per infraction/ per animal”

Despite oil revenues, the state university system faces lowest taxpayer budget in a decade!

OHIO: Wright State University eliminating 26 jobs in accordance with its new budget.  Privately run South University in Cleveland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Investigation Reveals Thousands Of Ohio K-3 Students Suspended Each Year!!!

U.S. DoE leader’s $40 million yacht vandalized in Ohio

taxpayers paid $7.7 million to renovate charter-school 

ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students

Thousands Of Ohio Seniors Unsure of Graduation Status

Uncertainty and confusion for school districts promised funding windfall from gas pipeline 

Summit Academy Secondary School violations

Open Enrollment actually covert Segregation?

More Than 100 Former Ohio State Students Allege Sexual Misconduct

Ohio State football wide receiver coach fired amid allegations of domestic violence

Ohio State University gets record $600M in donations 

OKLAHOMA:  University of Oklahoma eliminating one third of executive jobs in an attempt to keep student tuition from being increased.

Lottery proceeds for education top $63 million thanks to new law

Declining state taxpayer funding caused by declining student enrollment, yet local school districts say they need more money despite fewer students

Taxpayers forced to pay Tulsa Public Schools administrators who were not certified and did not have employment contracts!

Education Board charter school Langston Hughes Academy on probation

pervasive hunger impacting school, workplace

Judge says Bixby High School football players committed rape

Hartshorne schools allow trained teachers to carry firearms

OREGON: The Art Institutes of Portland shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.  It leaves “students scrambling for ways to continue their education.”

Dallas School District ordered by state to provide more special education

teacher arrested in drug case could return to classroom

Leftist liberal school district forces taxpayers to shell-out $25-thousand USD, because the district illegally suspended a student for wearing a Trump t-shirt!

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh based Education Management (the now former owner of Art Institute) now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating.  The Art Institutes of Philadelphia shutting down, 171 jobs gone by the end of August, the new corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition!

Chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School spending up to 20 months in federal prison, for his part in an $8-million USD taxpayer scam.

Property tax rates going up because of schools, “It’s getting tougher each month to pay that” says a retired homeowner on a fixed income who just got hit with a 2.4% increase in property tax.

Lancaster County school districts raise property taxes as much as 6.3 percent!

Taxpayers forced to spend $2-million to license more people as teachers

How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind

Pennsylvania has among the biggest student loan debt

Investigation says Hazleton Area School District has a bullying problem

Emmaus High School forces students to watch LGBT videos, yet bans parents

Influx of Puerto Rican families challenges school district

Massive Fire Rips Through Delaware County Catholic School

Holy-er than thou christian school principal says city kids need to be taught “to be quiet, clean and orderly.”!

SOUTH CAROLINA: The Art Institutes Charleston shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition, “Students left dangling“.

Cost of replacing a principal: $24000

Education still an obstacle

Tax credits for college tuition just got supersized

Charleston County Schools forced taxpayers to give $64000 to marketing company

school district abolished snow days

RHODE ISLAND: More high schoolers consider suicide

$25-million USD taxpayer funded Providence Public Library redeux will somehow create ‘lifetime education’

North Providence school chief accused of using taxpayer funded credit card for personal purchases

Latinos face hurdles in accessing adult ed classes

Teachers overwhelmed by students who can’t speak English

TENNESSEE: The Art Institutes of Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition. Privately run Argosy University in Nashville shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

Metro Schools Director Accused Of ‘Election Interference’

Principal Sex Scandal Emerges 

Systemic problems in special education

City schools below state averages

Lottery claims it will give nearly $422 million to education

School district replaces snow days with eLearning Days

TEXAS: Privately run Argosy University in Dallas shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

In a Migrant Shelter Classroom

Arrests of students have increased

Number of students accused of making threats triples: “We saw a large number of kids who were being referred to juvenile probation for behaviors like pretending to shoot aliens…” 

Christian mom pleads guilty to trying to hide her high school aged son’s sex crimes, that he committed with elementary students right after going to church!

Administrators to carry guns in east Texas school 

Are college courses for high schoolers worth it? Maybe not

Texas wants to rape taxpayers of nearly $1 billion to help students afford college

UTAH: Privately run Argosy University in Salt Lake City shutting down by the end of August, the corporate for-profit owner blames crashing enrollments and online competition.

school counselor, custodian charged with sex crimes

Student accused in backpack bomb case to face adult trial

teachers taking up guns in their classrooms

Nebo School District to eliminate cross-dressing ban

VERMONT: Law School revokes tenure for 75% of faculty

Half of towns will see increased property tax rates, in the name of education

Teachers union claims to have plan to eliminate education property tax

Taxpayers forced to give schools $4-million USD for security

VIRGINIA: Mental health classes now required

The model state for school safety still has challenges

Lee County to arm school employees

teacher in child porn case had upskirt images of students

man facing child sex crimes used to be a teacher

Fairfax school system rejects former student’s assault claim

Investigators say elementary school teachers helped students cheat on state exams

WASHINGTON: The Art Institutes in Rosslyn shutting down, 118 jobs gone!

teaching assistant charged with raping child at Seattle school kept job

school board member accused of hitting bicyclist while driving

Students caught in middle of new college credit law confusion

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Why there aren’t any Native American charter schools

WASHINGTON DC: Education Dept. Illegally Curbed Workers’ Union Protections

Families accused of residency fraud re-enroll at Duke Ellington School

DC schools among nation’s worst

WEST VIRGINIA: Fayette County Board of Education employee accused of theft

“law enforcement teacher at Putnam County’s Career and Technical Center accused of sexual abuse of a student is among 49 people indicted by a Putnam County grand jury” 

school therapist accused of taking pics of naked students pleads guilty

WISCONSIN: school janitor faces child porn charges

State taxpayers forced to give $3.5-million USD for school security

Spanish immersion early childhood center planned in Shorewood

WYOMING: Riverton High School wrestlers face criminal charges for allegedly homo-sexually raping eight younger students on a school bus!

1 in 4 University of Wyoming students experience sexual assault

Reporting On Migrant Education 

Natrona County selling off Grant Elementary school

Dumbing Down U.S.A., June 2018:“LOCKDOWN, LOCKDOWN”

International

Gun Ban Fail: Even British Bobbies are begging ‘Give us guns!’

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There’s an old saying, “Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.”  In near-total gun ban United Kingdom knife fights have become epidemic (09SEP2018: London BLOODBATH…as knife crime continues to soar).

The BBC (British Bullshit Company, I mean British Broadcasting Corporation) reported yesterday that British Bobbies are now complaining of being “left with a spray and a baton against a large man with two knives.”  And yes, they are now demanding to be armed with, oh my gawd, guns: “Certainly had firearms officers been there the threat maybe could have been neutralized quicker.”-Doug Glaze, unarmed PC (police constable, ‘bobbie’) 

The following is an incomplete list of British main stream news articles reporting the skyrocketing number of knife attacks in near-total gun ban United Kingdom (and yes, the U.K. even regulates the ownership of knives), all the way back to the beginning of the Gregorian year.

14SEP2018: Stabbing victim chased by group of 20

28AUG2018: Man stabbed and 30 officers injured

21AUG2018: Murder suspect wanted over killing of kickboxer, 24, who was knifed

18AUG2018: Man in 50s stabbed to death in THIRD London murder in 24 HOURS

12AUG2018: Man stabbed in two Suffolk attacks on same day

Off-duty London cop stabbed with kitchen knife

06APR2018: Shock as six teenagers stabbed in 90 minutes

02AUG2018: Camberwell stabbing: Drill music rapper Incognito killed in south London

Two men stabbed following mass brawl outside Glasgow’s Ibrox stadium

27JUL2018: Soldier awarded over kebab shop stabbing in Ipswich

23JUL2018: Man fighting for his life after Eltham stabbing

20JUL2018: Police cordon off busy street in Barking after ‘person stabbed’

12JUL2018: Girl, 17, dies in London stabbing as horror death toll continues

24JUN2018: boy, 15, killed in 

12JUN2018: attacker who slashed man’s guts open is jailed

03JUN2018: Seven killed in vehicle and stabbing incidents

01JUN2018: Courageous cops stabbed

28MAY2018: Police blame social media music videos

05MAY2018: Trump’s comments about gun laws in Britain and France prompt anger

21APR2018: Man, 20, dies in Finsbury Park stabbing

11APR2018: ‘My pupils all know someone who’s been stabbed’

08APR2018: “Knife crime in Britain rose by 21 percent last year”

Woman arrested for ‘attempted murder’ after man stabbed

05APR2018:   Met police seen as losing control, warns ex-officer

03APR2018: Boy, 16, dies after second fatal attack (this one actually involves a gun, even though there’s a near-total gun ban)

01APR2018: London murder rate overtakes New York’s

23MAR2018: Somerset stabbing: Police officers guilty of misconduct

13MAR2018: NHS figures show knife-related hospital admissions rise

09MAR2018: murder victim Laura Stuart stabbed in head and chest

22JAN2018: Nine charts on the rise of knife crime in England and Wales

Blind Bat News:

TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: MEXICO’S ELECTIONS PROVE GUN BANS DON’T SAVE LIVES!

TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: MASS KNIFE ATTACKS KILL DOZENS IN CHINA, “TAKING REVENGE ON SOCIETY”!

GUN BAN FAIL: MORE DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS HIT ANTI-GUN LONDON! ‘SHEEPLE’ BEG FOR POLICE STATE STOP & SEARCH OPS!

ANTI-GUN PATHETICS: “THIS IS FOR SYRIA!” GUN BAN FAILS TO STOP KNIFE ATTACK IN UNITED KINGDOM!

International

Fluoride Wars: You can’t escape it, everybody is a target!

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The following are links to the latest articles covering the never ending fluoride wars:

Tapping into Minnesota’s fluoride rules

A Novel Method For Fluoride Detection

Hayward City drops fluoridation on cost concerns

Bisbee City’s decision to remove fluoride from water criticized

Colorado makes it legal for dental hygienists to apply silver diamine fluoride

Colorado Brown Stain and Fluoridation

Many New Jersey Residents Skeptical About Benefits Of Fluoridation

Taxpayer funded Upgrade to system used to inject fluoride into Dothan City’s water 

Fluoride in Darlington water supply inquiry

Fluoridation meeting draws crowd in Potsdam

Fluoride to return to city water supply

India’s excess fluoride in groundwater

Global Food Crisis as Leaf burn caused by hydrogen fluoride

120 million Indians at risk of fluorosis, says Swiss study

Bottled water too has high fluoride level

Fluoride 4 times the limit in Malwa water

Canal water for 340 villages affected by fluoride

Cutting down on fluoride can help tackle anaemia

New Studies Link Fluoride to Adverse Health Effects (lower IQ, ADHD, thyroid dysfunction and depression)

Infant And Fetal Pathologist Warns Against Fluoride

University of Geneva showed that the use of CURODONT is superior to that of fluoride 

And for more proof it’s about the money;  Hydrogen Fluoride-Pyridine Sales  

Manganous Fluoride Market Size

Fluoride Rubber Market Overview

Global Polyvinyl Fluoride Market Summary

This report is a value analysis of the inorganic fluoride industry in China

Ammonium Hydrogen Fluoride Market Demand

Fluoride Varnish Market

Global Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride Market

New Report On Sodium Fluoride Market 

For hundreds of years now, several types of flouride are used to make military grade weapons, like armor penetrating sabot rounds: “The fluxing mixture….is prepared by mixing together fluoride of aluminum, fluoride of sodium, and anhydrous zinc chloride.”-Practical Engineer and Engineers’ Gazette, Volume 17 #578, published on 25MAR1898

Today, several types of Fluoride are used in the modern weapons industry, just as several types of fluoride are used in your precious hi-tech electronic gadgets.  As you can see from the market surveys above, fluorides are in almost everything we use/consume (and I didn’t even list all the various fluoride market surveys that came out in the past month)!

Kansas City Star, 27DEC2017: Fluoride is being added to more everyday products.

FLUORIDE WARS: PETRIFIES YOUR GLANDS, INTERFERES WITH SLEEP, DUMBS DOWN YOUR BABY?

U.S.

Fire and honey bees…it’s ‘God’s Plan’! : U.S. christian Rapture, June 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. Christian shutdowns, layoffs and Rapture oddities for the Gregorian (western christian calendar) month of June 2018.

National Catholic Reporter: bad news is good news in the Catholic sex abuse scandal

The Guardian: Project Blitz: the legislative assault by Christian nationalists

Washington Post: Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations

New York Times: How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World

ALABAMA: Jeff Sessions could be expelled from the Methodist Church over migrant policies

The christian wife of the christian state attorney general killed herself

McElwain Baptist Deacon Accused In Sex Abuse Case

man used church school in $22M computer fraud

Burglary, third degree: First Church of the Nazarene, Highway 157, computers and miscellaneous- $1,700.

ALASKA: Alaska bishops condemn separation of families at US-Mexico border

A Korean church is now a meat market

ARIZONA: Woman panhandling outside Phoenix church exposes herself

Man accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl at church

ARKANSAS: Church Sends Warning to Parents About ‘Gay Pride’ Event 

Downtown Church to City Leaders: Loitering is ‘Out of Hand’

Two Churches Vandalized with Vulgar Symbols

Boy Scouts Sued for Child Sexual Abuse in Arkansas

California pastor charged in Arkansas with multiple counts of rape

CALIFORNIA:  Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo issued shutdown WARNs for a San Francisco office, and its Irvine office, 163 jobs gone between August and the end of September!   Texas based Baptist co-founded retailer JCPenney issued a shutdown WARN for its Buena Park location, 98 jobs gone by August.

Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds challenges the Mormon Church

Mormons grappling with race issues 40 years after church’s ban 

Churches still struggle with race

San Diego church to launch Safe Harbors Network to help illegal immigrants

The First Baptist Church in Venice has closed

Suspect in ‘brutal’ 1974 Stanford church cold case slaying kills himself

COLORADO: After 47 years god’s own alternative school La Academia shutting down in Denver due to The Rapture (lack of students), although they’re actually blaming it on competition from other schools.

Animal Sacrifices In A Hialeah Church Played A Key Role In The Colorado Wedding Cake Case

7 churches in Revelation present challenge to everyone

CONNECTICUT: Marilyn Monroe statue has church venting

Illegal immigrant taking sanctuary in local church 

Economy so bad that Church to give free gas and food in New Haven, and Wilton church volunteers pack lunches for kids

DELAWARE:  Delaware man charged with assaulting elderly Catholic priest, including dousing him with wine and hitting him on the head with the bottle

Interfaith Community Housing accused of violating labor laws

FLORIDA: Hailey Baldwin and Justin Bieber Got Cuddly in Church

appeals court shields priest from testifying

Marianna church lets you worship while wearing cowboy gear

Developer Consolidated-Tomoka buys First Baptist church in downtown Daytona

GEORGIA: Saint Mary on the Hill Church damaged in fire

Police searching for suspect accused of vandalizing several churches

Act of god as 146-year-old church caved in from storm

Church Security Training

Albany church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention

pastor admits to abusing power and foot fetish

GUAM: No abortion providers on Guam

Saint Anthony employee fired over missing funds

Former Guam priest again accused of  molestation

IDAHO: U.S. News & World Report: Idaho has the highest rate per capita of child marriage in the United States.

Brigham Young University-Idaho has gained the attention of the Westboro Baptist Church

Mormon group adds support to growing Boise Pride Fest

Sovereign Grace Fellowship vandalized

ILLINOIS:   Presbyterian founded Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Clinton, 80 jobs gone by the end of August.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ DePaul University from suddenly eliminating 62 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  In 2012 the university had more than 16-thousand undergraduates, by 2017 undergraduates dropped to 14,816.  Evanston police used Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church to ‘buyback’ guns, implying that the guns came from the cops to begin with (why else would they call it a ‘buyback’?).

Flossmoor Community Church held a LGBTQ+ Pride Party

Illinois Great River Conference of the United Methodist Church shutdown and selling-off three famous camp sites, now Federated Church in Clayton is trying to save one of those camps.

Economy so bad that First United Church, and Zion United Church of Christ, are getting federal and state taxpayer funding to provide meals to kids.

Catholic Diocese of Peoria shutting down three churches due to The Rapture (officially it’s due to lack of attendance and lack of money).

INDIANA:  Saint Vincent Health suddenly laid off 85 people, the hospital operator laid off 75 people earlier in the year and 1-hundred people last year.

Church bus catches fire, forcing teens, chaperones to flee

Church Fire Destroys Nearly Everything Except Bibles

church youth leader accused of sex crimes with child; pastor charged with failure to report 

Woman accused of sex crimes with child, police say its part of bigger problem involving churches across two states!

Church Sign Says ‘LGBT Is Hate Crime Against God, Repent’ 

Church being turned into $40-million USD hotel!

IOWA:   Cedar Valley Catholic Schools warning it might have to shutdown three elementary schools due to deterioration of the buildings and The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollments. Alternative plans are being discussed.   In Waterloo (and after 45 years), British empire based Salvation Army shutdown its Family Thrift Store.  After less than three years christian owned Keokuk Medical Center shutting down by the end of August, administrators say it was just a stop-gap clinic until bigger and better centers could be built.  Mercy Medical Center eliminating 43 jobs as part of its consolidation ops.

Rural church is now a hotel

Storm blows down Ottumwa Community Church’s fireworks tent

KANSAS: Security cam captures lightning strike that started Andale church fire

Economy so bad that Family of God Church holds monthly food drive.

Six candidates for governor clashed during a convention of Missionary Baptist Church

priest defrocked after child sex abuse allegations

KENTUCKY: Christian members of the Poor People’s Campaign denied access to state capitol

church in Lexington welcoming LGBTQ

Taxpayer funded Kentucky board of education OKs Bible literacy standards

LOUISIANA: The taxpayer funded state government lowered flags to half staff after the death of the bishop emeritus of the Louisiana District Pentecostal Church.

televangelist Jesse Duplantis: ‘I’m not asking you to pay for my plane’

pastor killed while jogging

church burglar arrested

music minister accused of sexually assaulting teen, begs congregation to help him flee the country

MAINE: Catholic diocese quits Maine Council of Churches

fire at Millinocket church believed to be intentionally set

Man caught on camera stealing church’s U.S. flag

MARYLAND: Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo eliminating 63 mortgage jobs in Frederick, by mid-August.

Funkstown church fire considered suspicious

19th Century Time Capsule Discovered in Berlin Church

MASSACHUSETTS: Immaculate Conception Church to be destroyed

New Bedford churches in danger of being ‘Too big and expensive’

MICHIGAN:  Dean Foods laid off 103 people at its Country Fresh dairy ops in Livonia because its main buyer, Presbyterian founded Walmart, decided to build its own dairy!  Saint Mary School in Mount Morris shutting down due to The Rapture, I mean declining enrollment, declining church attendance, rising costs and more families seeking tuition assistance.  Grand Rapids based and federal taxpayer funded Bethany Christian Services (who’s slogan is Bringing & Keeping Families Together) accused of being  “…an adoption center with financial ties to [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos, has taken 81 immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents at the border. Most have had no contact with their families. They’re charging $700 per child per night. This isn’t foster care, this is state-sponsored kidnapping!”

Burned Middleville church was under construction

Fire in abandoned Calumet church

Bogus christian Claim About Made-up Muslim Waitress

MINNESOTA: Juvenile admits to setting fire that damaged historic church

Burglars break into church under construction

Archdiocese needs $40M for sex abuse settlement.

religious leaders oppose new Enbridge oil pipeline

Thousands of Italian honey bees swarm Central Presbyterian Church.  Is it a sign from god that the honey bee colony collapse is finished?

MISSISSIPPI: Arson investigation underway at Winston County church

Newton church heavily damaged by fire

Three arrested for burglary of Iuka church

Nuns’ killer gets life sentences

Sanctuary shouting match disrupts church service

Congregation Sues United Methodist Church over theological differences

Bettendorf School District sells property to California-based church

MISSOURI: God’s own Fontbonne University suddenly laid off 27 of its employees, due to The Rapture, I mean enrollment is down to just 1,375 students.

Large Fire At South Springfield Church

Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod slashes budget by 10% from last year (and 15% from 2016), 14 vacant jobs eliminated, and major cuts to missionary projects.  The church also sold-off its radio station and is shutting down its Concordia College. 

Church pastor lost $67K gambling!

MONTANA: Catholics can get married outdoors in two places

NEBRASKA: Economy so bad that taxpayer funded state agency joins a network of churches to feed people.

Woman gets probation for embezzling from Lincoln church day care

NEVADA: Man threatening to commit mass shooting at west Las Vegas church

U.S. Circuit Court rules on complicated Maryland property dispute between Christ the Truth Ministries and Nigerian Pentecostal-Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFMM) and MFMM International and MFMM Nevada.  Last year MFMM leaders were accused of using the church to import Nigerian products into the U.S. without paying customs fees.

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  clergy banned from ICE office

Two days in a row honey bees swarmed a single tree on the property of iconic North Church.  Is it a sign from god that the honey bee colony collapse is finished?

NEW JERSEY:  Parents infuriated after short notice of christian school shutdown, especially after they paid more in tuition to keep it open

Benedictines settle sexual abuse lawsuits over school

Church Leader Ousted For Sex Allegations

Cape May church fire caused by van that pulled down live wires

Economy so bad local taxpayer funded county agency refers poor people to the Christ Church Newton, and  Eagles QB Works With Cherry Hill Church Food Truck.

NEW MEXICO: archbishop prays for all ‘in harm’s way’ during wildfire

Economy so bad Assemblies of God Convoy of Hope invades Albuquerque with massive food truck!

Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church offers salvation for your pets through Four Paws Pet Pantry (as if collecting human souls wasn’t enough for the soul-eater Jesus)!

Police arrest christians for interfering with the state government.

“We’ve been swamped:” Twenty thousand people travel to see weeping Mary statue

NEW YORK: Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Pittsford Retail Fulfillment Unit, 48 jobs affected by the end of August.   Taxpayer funded Cardinal McCloskey Community Services shutting down its Head Start Programs due to losing the federal contract, 202 jobs affected by July! Saint John Villa Academy issued a shutdown WARN, 71 jobs gone by the end of August.

Mormons aren’t the only ones who claim a new holy book (Book of Mormon) written in The New World, meet the Faithists and read their Oahspe bible.  There are many ‘Faithist’ branches, one is called Kosmon Temple and its getting a Second Chance in Brooklyn.

Flushing church will be replaced by 8-story apartment building

Illegal immigrant Mom Is Taking Sanctuary at an NYC Church

Transdenominational church, psycho-active drug taking Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

NORTH CAROLINA: Man who helped cover up gruesome murder at historic church

 woman killed in church van crash 

NORTH DAKOTA: Czech ambassador visits priceless Mucha artwork (painted for free) in tiny rural church.

Economy so bad taxpayer funded state agency gives YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association), and and Lutheran Church of the Cross, money to build apartments for 30 poor families. 

OHIO:  In Austintown, British empire based Salvation Army shutting down its Family Thrift Store by the end of August.  Premier Health’s 491 bed Good Samaritan Hospital, in Dayton, shutting down mid-July, 1-thousand-6-hundred jobs affected!  Premier Health said it’s because it has another hospital just five miles from Good Samaritan.

bishop says immigration system contributes to suffering

explosion damages church’s historic stained-glass windows

Leaders rally to save Saint Anthony Church from the wrecking ball

Relics, other items stolen from Saint Barbara Church

 Facebook helps solve theft from Liberty church

pastor pleads guilty to sex crime

Catholic Charities wants to help the 503,911 illegal immigrants in Ohio

OKLAHOMA:  Suspect Steals Luggage From OKC Church 

For some Christian voters medical marijuana is a ‘moral issue’

Anti-Marijuana Sign At Grove Church

Church returns to local ownership

OREGON: Hillside Bible Church burned to the ground, but church leaders and the congregation are confident it’s all God’s plan (does that mean god is an arsonist?)

A 14 years old camp counselor died at Canyonview Ministries’ Canyonview Camp.

Taxpayer owned Cumberland Presbyterian Church up for sale.

Economy so bad that College Park Community Church already begging city leaders to allow homeless warming centers for Winter.

PENNSYLVANIA:  In Harrisburg, Orthodox Christian Charities-Agia Sophia Coffee & Books shutdown because “sales have declined significantly” despite efforts to make “innovative”meals.

Early-morning fire damages Duncannon church

Judge halts release of report on Church sex-abuse allegations

Ever hear of the christian favoring ‘Rose Rent’ agreement for use of cemeteries?

PUERTO RICO: Samaritan’s Purse to Rebuild 55 Churches

RHODE ISLAND: church under construction collapses

church joins national sanctuary movement

Bishop Of Providence, Hospital Operators Accused in Pension Lawsuit

3 Churches in Woonsocket forced to merge into one

bishop says social media humanizes him

SOUTH CAROLINA: Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo eliminating 1-hundred mortgage jobs in Fort Mills, by mid-August, in order “to better align with current volumes.”

U.S. Supreme Court declines review of Episcopal property dispute

Police investigating after pastor said Simpsonville church intentionally set on fire

A local news media article tries to imply that church fires are blessings in disguise.

Judge dismisses Emanuel AME church lawsuits

Family claims grave site was paved over for church parking lot

Act of God (storm) rips roof off church

Church bus crashes, 13 people hospitalized

SOUTH DAKOTA:  Problems with computer voting machines at churches used as polling stations

Fundamentalist Mormons not recording births with state government

TENNESSEE: Brigham Young University president visits Chattanooga

Man found dead on church property

Life Without Parole In Church Shooting Case

Saint Patrick’s church joins fight again ICE arrests of illegal immigrants.

ObamaCare so bad that Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral and the local YWCA providing dental care to poor women.

TEXAS: Southern Baptists to face sexual misconduct cases

Texas church gunman died by suicide

Ivanka Trump Donates to Texas Church Helping Migrant Kids

Texas church’s ‘dangerous isms’ include Judaism, Islamism

DPS identifies those killed in church van crash

Man kills self at a Lakeway church

Dallas Church Should Remove Military Seals from Its Freedom Sunday Program

UTAH:  LDS leaders knew of sex abuser’s history

Why do so many Mormons back Trump? 

‘Domestic foreigner’ (former elitist gov’na of Massachusetts) Mormon Mitt Romney wins GOP primary in Utah

Hypocritically the LDS Church blasts family separations, it’s hypocritical because if you research what the Mormons did to Native Americans, and even their own members, you’ll discover that family separations were part of the Mormon master plan of domination.

Utah Cold Case Coalition supports use of genealogy websites for criminal investigations because tenets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emphasize the importance of family relationships in the afterlife.

VERMONT: Why Vermonters Fear This Mormon Utopia

VIRGINIA: Annandale church vandalized for the 7th time since May

Illegal immigrant mother and two children seek sanctuary in Richmond church

Norfolk church claims state road construction caused permanent damage

Economy so bad church gives away 48-thousand pounds of sweet potatoes!

WASHINGTON: Fire burns Federal Way church, school

Economy so bad that Edmonds church offers safe parking to people living in cars

Pastor shoots Walmart gunman

A well-liked and active member of the church turned out to be a serial rapist.

WASHINGTON DC: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick punished over abuse finding

Archdiocese of Washington apologizes after Maryland family kicked out of funeral

Economy so bad Episcopalians join the Poor People’s Campaign.

WEST VIRGINIA:  “taking up serpents,” a display of faith

Pastor accused of sending sexually-oriented texts to teen

WISCONSIN: Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo eliminating 46 jobs in Menomonee Falls, by October.   Baptist/Methodist founded Piggly Wiggly issued a shutdown WARN for its grocery store in Menasha, 69 jobs gone in August.

Church addiction ‘specialist’ arrested for selling drugs

Trinity Church releases statement about structural stability

WYOMING:  Economy so bad that Element Church is giving people one dollar per gallon to help pay for fuel to go to work.

U.S. Christian Rapture, May 2018: “BLACK FOLKS NEED TO STAY OUT OF WHITE CHURCHES”

“No man can work for two masters, for either he will hate one and will love the other, or he will honor one and the other he will ignore. You cannot work for God and for money.”-Matthew 6:24, Aramaic Bible

“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible

“And Yeshua [Jesus of Nazareth] entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible

“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance (or even be counted as unemployed): “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”

Fukushima

Pacific Ring of Fire: Japan, Modern Day Atlantis

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It’s been six years since I last wrote one of my Japan, Modern Day Atlantis articles, but its looks like 2018 is another big-bad-year for Japan.  The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance, arrogance, immorality and never ending wars.

The following is an incomplete list of main stream news articles from the first eight months of the Gregorian year 2018, concerning the Modern Day Atlantis of Japan.

FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER:

CNN: Japan finally recognizes first death related to Fukushima cleanup

Seatrade Cruise News: Cruise ships steer clear of Japan’s typhoon and quake-impacted areas

The Diplomat: Redundancy and Risk Management: Lessons from Japan’s Disasters

The Washington Post: First came its worst typhoon in 25 years, then deadly landslides

Automotive News Europe: Toyota halts production in Japan after deadly quake

S&P Global Platts: Refinery Shipments halted 

South China Morning Post: Stranded in Japan as typhoon and earthquake strike days apart

Nikkei Asian Review: Earthquake and typhoon expose Japan’s disaster risks

Channel NewsAsia: Singapore Airlines cancels Osaka flights as typhoon floods Kansai

The Japan Times: Hokkaido quake death toll climbs
Foreign workers have been underreported
The Economist: Japan is worried about its alliance with America

Anybody remember the Tower of Babel? Smithsonian: Japan Takes Tiny First Step Toward Space Elevator

AUGUST: 

Military.com: U.S. Marine accused of stealing donation money for Japan flood victims

United States Army: USAG Japan tests emergency preparedness with annual full-scale exercise

Wall Street Journal: Japan to Spend Billions on U.S. Missile-Defense System

Insurance Journal: Insured Losses from Japan Floods Could Reach US$4B

The Guardian: ‘Sick to my stomach’: dolphin and penguins abandoned to die in Japan

Japan’s bid to resume commercial whaling

victims of Tokyo medical school scandal 

Fukushima residents complain over statue of child in radiation suit

AccuWeather: Japan faces flooding in Autumn

Tropical Storm Leepi to persist over Japan

Shanshan to threaten Japan with flooding

The Weather Channel: Typhoon Cimaron Becomes Japan’s Second Typhoon Strike This Week

VolcanoDiscovery: Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake – Volcano Islands, Japan Region on Thursday, 16 August 2018

Aljazeera: Twin typhoons threaten Japan and South Korea

U.S. News & World Report: Japanese Emperor Tries to Make Amends for His Father’s War

Bangor Daily News: Attorney accused of stealing from Japan exchange program

Kyodo News Plus: Flood victims still living in despair 1 month after disaster

In total gun ban Japan, 1400 guns, 1200 swords found buried at Tokyo elementary school

 JULY:

Neowin: Apple is offering free repairs for devices damaged by floods

The Mainichi: Questions over lack of crisis response

Kyodo News Plus: Elderly account for 70% of storm victims

Over 250 schools damaged in rain disaster

Unsuccessful rescue effort

The Japan Times: After deadly heat wave, typhoon could hit Honshu 

Seven-Eleven store chain forced owner to work 50 hours with no sleep during Fukui blizzard

CNN:  Heat spikes to 41.1C near Tokyo 

‘Training thunderstorms’ made Japan’s floods even deadlier

JAPAN Forward: Death Toll Reaches 200 in Western Japan Floods, Dozens Still Missing

Aljazeera: Japan floods: Why is the country experiencing record rainfall?

The Weather Channel: Japan Flooding Forces More Than 1 Million to Flee

AccuWeather: Typhoon Prapiroon to unleash flooding

BBC: Typhoon Jongdari cuts power to thousands

Express:  11 dead and 45 missing as Typhoon Maria strikes

Eos: Two Active Volcanoes in Japan May Share a Magma Source

JUNE:

Kyodo News Plus: M4.6 earthquake hits Gunma

Deer found with paper dart lodged in neck in Nara

Shinkansen bullet train kills intruder on tracks

Japanese lawmaker heckles lung cancer patient

Mount Shimmoe volcano erupts again

KTLA: 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Osaka

AccuWeather: Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi to deliver glancing blow to Japan

The Japan Times: Cities face dramatically higher heat and flood risks by 2050

Shinkansen stabbing raises alarm over security in total gun ban Japan

Tornado in Shiga Prefecture

The Guardian: Why the naked hermit of Japan had to leave his island after 29 years

What was the fallout from Fukushima?

Express: Volcano eruption warning: After Kilauea Japan’s Mount Fuji could be NEXT

The Star Online: ‘Pregnancy rotas’ add to Japan working women’s woes

MAY:

Daily Mail: Japan is poised to FLOOD the Pacific with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear plant

Kyodo News Plus: Japan to welcome 500000 foreign workers to help plug labor shortage

Man arrested in connection with 7-year-old girl’s murder in total gun ban Japan

APRIL:

The Japan Times:  Mount Io in Kyushu erupts for second time in a week

Toys R Us in talks to sell majority stake in Asia unit, including Japan

Lockheed Martin to offer Japan stealthy hybrid of F-22 and F-35 

Chiyoda Ward issues false terror alert to 10000 residents in Tokyo

Boy band investigated for sex with grade school girl

Shikoku prison escapee stymies 6600 police

In total gun ban Japan, Man served second warrant over quintuple murder

Japan’s pet detectives

South China Morning Post: Japan landslide buries homes as people slept

Japan and China try to reset relations in shadow of U.S. trade war 

Firstpost: 5.6 quake hits Honshu

Channel NewsAsia: Japanese volcano erupts

Phys.Org: No-go warning as Japan volcano erupts for first time in 250 years

AccuWeather: Disruptive storm to lash Japan

Wall Street Journal: Japan Shakes Up Army 

The Guardian: Japan’s solar push actually threatens environment

MARCH:

Aljazeera: La Nina triggers extreme weather in Japan

The Japan Times: 30 years on, world’s longest undersea tunnel faces challenges

Giant storm surge could submerge a third of Tokyo

Man freezes to death in storm-battered north Japan

62 victims from 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake still unidentified

Express: Tokyo hit by 5.3 magnitude EARTHQUAKE

Reuters: Seven years after tsunami, Japanese live uneasily with seawalls

TEPCo’s ‘ice wall’ fails to freeze Fukushima’s toxic water

FEBRUARY:

South China Morning Post: U.S. Navy investigating sailors for drug dealing in Yokusuka

Asahi Shimbun: Record-high flu patient numbers exceed national ‘alert level’

The Independent: Giant lava dome discovered growing inside Japanese supervolcano

Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after Fukushima meltdown

Kyodo News Plus: Heavy snow in central Japan

The Japan Times: Massive snow strands 800 cars in Fukui for second day

Japan’s Lower House approves record ¥97.71 trillion budget 

Has Christel Takigawa cursed Japan

TEPCo’s compensation for Fukushima victims has made matters worse

Pictograms on Japanese electric toilets approved as global standard

Express: Was there an earthquake in Honshu

BBC: Japan’s Princess Mako postpones wedding to commoner

JANUARY:

Voice of America: Earthquakes, Volcanoes Shake Opposite Ends of Pacific

The Japan Times: Warning level raised on Mount Zao a week after fatal volcano eruption

Channel NewsAsia: UN warns Pacific Ring of Fire is ‘active’ as volcanoes erupt across Asia

Japan’s Tendai-Buddhist ‘wise monkeys’ morality code; “Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.”   Is it truly wise?

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 12: LAND CONTINUES TO SHIFT, SLOW MOVING LANDSLIDE DEVOURING HOUSES

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 2018: 11-THOUSAND QUAKES SINCE JULY, GET READY FOR A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER!

Business/Economics, Idaho

Is this it?: Sears – Kmart death spiral, September 2018

KTLA: Sears Stock Falls Below $1 For The First Time in Company’s History

Bloomberg: Lampert’s plan to ‘save’ Sears-Kmart will make him $1-billion!

Barron’s: Crashing retailers, like Sears, bringing down consumer products maker Newell Brands

Big Sears Shareholder Slashes Stake

Washington Post: Last minute plan to save Sears, sell everything!

PR Newswire: Lampert proposes increased sales of properties to avoid imminent bankruptcy!

Here’s more proof the demise of Sears/Kmart is not about online shopping: How Sears inspired Warby Parker’s move from online to offline retail

Forbes: 382 stores shutdown since 2nd Quarter 2017!

CNN: Lampert blames retirees for losses!

MarketWatch: More stores to close!

TheStreet: Sears Stock Just Crashed

California: Sears Holdings issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice) for its Pinole Kmart, 67 jobs gone by December.  Sears Holdings created REIT Seritage Growth Properties Announces Construction Underway to Transform the Former Sears Site in Santa Monica into The Mark 302TM

Florida: Sears Holdings’ REIT spin-off Seritage Growth Properties announced it will redevelop the still active Sears store at the at the Westland Mall, in Hialeah, turning the building into an open-air-plaza (which probably means the store will shutdown).   The Sears store and Auto Center in Ocala‘s Paddock Mall listed for sale a week after those locations listed below, local news media said Sears Holdings might keep the store open through a ‘lease-back’.  It’s been discovered that Sears Holdings is attempting to sell-off several properties in Florida, including its still active Sears store in the Volusia Mall (Daytona Beach), still active Sears store and Auto Center in Tampa, still active Sears store in Port Richey, and still active Kmart distribution center in Ocala (the largest building in Marion County)!  86 jobs lost in Doral as the Sears store and Auto Center shuts down in time for Thanksgiving.

Sears sues Gardens Mall owner and city of Palm Beach Gardens, saying the mall owner and the city are blocking efforts to sublease store space to another retailer.

Idaho: The taxpayer funded project to turn the vacant Pine Ridge Mall Sears (in Chubbuck) into a charter school got a little more complicated and expensive.  Newly revealed plans show the west side mall parking lot being turned into a playground, add to that the Sears’ south side parking will be used for the school, this means if mall business ever returns to its late 1990s levels then there’s going to be a major problem with parking!

Illinois: “Taxpayers in Hoffman Estates are seeing a significant portion of their tax dollars subsidize Sears Centre Arena…” (note the evil British empire way of spelling center), $87.6-million USD down the drain since 2009!

Michigan: Sears still closing in Jackson, but auto center is spared

Nevada: Federal and state taxpayers being forced to spend $26-million USD helping a developer turn the vacant Reno Kmart into affordable housing.  Apparently Reno is experiencing a population explosion caused by Californians trying to escape the outrageously high housing prices in the liberal-left-wing not-so Golden State.

New York: Sears Holdings issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice) for its Poughkeepsie Kmart, 71 jobs eliminated just days before Xmas. Sears Holdings also issued a WARN for its Eastview Mall Sears store and Auto Center, in Victor, 51 jobs gone by Thanksgiving.  Taxpayers about to foot the bill for turning a former Irondequoit Sears store into housing for old people, local news reports said the developer “…is working to get state funding and tax credits for the project.”  The still active Sears store in the Eastern Hills Mall (Clarence/Williamsville) suddenly sold-off to property developers for $6.8-million USD.  And it’s now official, the manager of Eastern Hills Mall said the Sears store will shutdown after Xmas (despite claims the store is hiring), however, Sears Holdings issued a WARN saying 40 jobs will be eliminated the week before Xmas.

Ohio: The Sears store in the Belden Village Mall, in Jackson, is being reduced in size (possible even shutdown) and the space will be split-up to allow at least five new retail/entertainment venues to move in.   The Sears store in the Mall at Fairfield Commons, in Beavercreek,  shutting down at an undisclosed time, local news reports say the space will be filled by two smaller operations.

South Dakota: In Rapid City the Northgate Shopping Center was sold in July, it’s home to a still active Big Kmart.  The new owners of the shopping center are about to spend $10-million USD redeveloping it, affecting all the current tenants.  The Big Kmart is currently operating on a four years lease, but active leases hasn’t stopped Sears Holdings from shutting stores down, and even the shopping center’s new owners said “If they decide to move on, then we’ll work with them on it.” 

Texas: More proof it’s not about lack of retail sales as the recently vacated Portland Kmart property can’t be sold because Sears Holdings is still paying rent on a lease that has three years to go. Portland city officials explained that even with Sears Holdings paying rent to the property owner for three more years, the city itself is losing about $2-thousand USD per year in sales taxes!   The Sears Hometown Store located in the Heartland Mall, in Brown County, shutdown due to what the owners called “difficult circumstances”.   The Sears store and Auto Center at the Broadway Square Mall, in Tyler, shutting down right before Xmas.  Despite the city of Tyler approving plans to tear down the Sears store, back in May, the shutdown announcement is still a surprise because Sears Holdings told local news media the lease was good for several years and they weren’t going anywhere.  Taxpayers in the city of Longview on the hook for $1.4-million to pay for the re-development of the vacant Kmart; it’s being turned into a city bus terminal.

 West Virginia: The Sears store in Grand Central Mall, in Vienna, shutting down by Xmas, local news media reported that the town mayor was unaware of the shutdown.  It’s been revealed that the taxpayer ‘marketed’ vacant Bluefield Kmart is still making money for the property owner as Sears Holdings is still paying rent on the space!  Local news media thinks the Kmart lease ends this November, Sears Holdings shutdown the Kmart in 2016 and has been paying rent since then.  City officials in charge of trying to rent out the space say so far there’s been no interested parties. 

U.S. Sears-Kmart death spiral, August 2018: “A BIG RISK.”