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U.S.

Alabama Militia preps for hurricane using world’s largest Alabama map!

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“TSR [Tropical Storm Risk] predicts Atlantic hurricane activity in 2018 will be slightly above the long-term norm and close to the last 10-year norm.”-Aon Benfield, University College London

Climate Forecast Applications Network predicts 80% chance of above ‘normal’ hurricane activity for 2018-19.

Colorado State University predicts no ‘El Niño’ developing, which usually prohibits hurricane development.

The Alabama National Guard is already prepping for the next hurricane season, and they’re starting out by using a giant map of The Yellowhammer State.

The plan is to synchronize the state militia with other Alabama Emergency Management responders before the next hurricane season.

This use of a large scale map, at Joint Force Headquarters in Montgomery, is called a Rehearsal of Concept.  Actual disaster drills will take place closer to hurricane season.

MARIA: ARMY RESERVE RESPONDE AL LLAMADO DE AYUDA EN PUERTO RICO!

PUERTO RICO MILITIA DEPLOYED TO VIRGIN ISLANDS WHEN MARIA STRUCK!

IRMA & MARIA KILL 80% OF CROPS!

FOOD CRISIS IRMA: U.S. COAST GUARD

FOOD CRISIS IRMA: ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MINNESOTA MILITIAS DELIVER SUSTENANCE!

HARVEY: MILITARY REVEALS SEVEN YEARS OF PREPARATION!

HARVEY: VET=VETERINARY EMERGENCY TEAM, HELPING ANIMALS IS GOOD FOR YOU!

HARVEY: NEW THREAT, PESTILENCE!

HARVEY: 3 WEEKS LATER RESCUE RECONS CONTINUE!

HARVEY: MARINES USE AMPHIBIOUS COMBAT TANKS TO SAVE LIVES!

ARIZONA MILITIA DEPLOYED FOR HURRICANE HARVEY!

HARVEY: TEXAS MILITIA RESCUES NEW MASCOT, NAMED HARVEY!

HARVEY FOOD CRISIS: MARINES DELIVER THE GOODS TO ORANGE!

HARVEY FOOD CRISIS: MASSIVE FOOD DELIVERY OPS FOR TEXAS UNDERWAY!

HARVEY: BEAUMONT CATASTROPHE

WC-130J SUPER HERCULES TRACKS HURRICANE HARVEY

HURRICANE MATTHEW CLEAN UP VID FEST

MATTHEW HITS SOUTH CAROLINA WITH CIVIL WAR CANNONBALLS!

U.S.

They’ve found some ‘Thing’ under the Ice, Welcome to Ice Camp Skate!

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It’s the U.S. Navy’s ICEX 18, and they’re motto is Serving Silently Beneath the Ice.

There’s something under the ice of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, the Undersea Warfighting Development Center Arctic Submarine Laboratory (UWDC ASL), the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation, and even the British empire’s Queen’s Royal Navy are spending a lot of time there.

Video of something breaking through the ICEX 18:

Video explaining how Ice Camp Skate location was chosen:

U.S. Navy’s ICEX is part of a larger operation known as Arctic Edge, which includes the U.S. Army’s Arctic Pegasus and National Guard’s Arctic Eagle 18.

Another video explaining how Ice Camp Skate location was chosen:

Video of Alaska National Guard air supply drop mission as part of operation Arctic Edge:

Arctic Eagle 2018: WYOMING INVADES ALASKA!

ANCIENT NUCLEAR POWERED JET ENGINE FOUND IN IDAHO DESERT, PROOF OF ANCIENT ALIEN VISITORS?

U.S.

Oregon militia responds to Contamination event in Montana!

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“Air and Army medics always work well together and it was great knowing that Oregon’s CERFP was eager to support us.”-Staff Sergeant Brianna Howse, Montana Air National Guard

Nearly 2-hundred Oregon National Guard personnel deployed to Montana after an earthquake and flood resulted in undisclosed ‘contamination’.

Oregon personnel joined Montana’s own Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) team in Great Falls, it was all part of a U.S. Northern Command training event called Vigilant Guard 18.

Lieutenant Colonel Abe Gilman, Oregon National Guard, explains Vigilant Guard 18 in this video interview:

NUCLEAR EVENT HITS ALASKA, HUNDREDS OF MILITIA UNITS FROM ACROSS THE WEST RESPOND!

UTAH’S SECRET(?) WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION EVENT IN EAST IDAHO!

VIGILANT CATAMOUNT: NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA PREPS FOR DISASTER, MILITARIZES LOCAL COPS!

FIRST OPERATION VIBRANT RESPONSE & VIGILANT GUARD, NOW VIGILANT VORTEX! 

Influenza

“not cost effective.”: Vaccine Fail, January-February 2018

Incomplete list of revealed vaccination failures, from January to  February 2018.

“Our current vaccines are based on 1940s research. Deploying them against a severe global pandemic would be equivalent to trying to stop an advancing battle tank with a single rifle…….We will have worldwide flu pandemics.”–Michael Osterholm, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and Mark Olshaker

United Nations World Health Organization blames a 400% increase in measles cases, in Europe, on lack of vaccination. However the UN-WHO blames the lack of vaccinations on lack of healthcare for “….marginalized groups, interruptions in vaccine supply or underperforming disease surveillance systems.”

Canada: Study challenges mandated vaccinations for healthcare workers (HCW) saying “The impression that unvaccinated HCWs place their patients at great influenza peril is exaggerated.”

Japan: Shionogi & Company rendering vaccines useless by developing a treatment that cures influenza infection within 24 hours. Drug trials were run in Japan and United States. 

Mexico: Despite vaccinations being mandatory in the socialized healthcare country, and despite claiming that 97% of the vaccines made available in Mexico City have been administered, the rate of infection continues to increase.  This is par for the course as I’ve reported year after year.  In Mexico City alone, as of the beginning of February three people have died and 310 people confirmed infected. Across the mandatory vaccine country 41 people died as of February.  The dominant version is H3N2.

Philippines: The touted 2016 Dengue vaccination program ended in failure for Public Health as the government and vaccine maker now being sued for the deaths of children who got the shot. More than 24 people died, more than 362 people suffered adverse reactions, then the vaccine maker revealed the shot was meant only for people who had been previously infected with Dengue! In February 2018, the government admitted that their own investigation proved the vaccine killed at least three people.

Switzerland: Roche is licensed to globally distribute the Shionogi drug which cures flu infection within 24 hours.

United Kingdom: Meningitis B vaccines for toddlers are provided at taxpayer expense, nearly 1-million people demanded that all children be given the vaccine at taxpayer expense, but surprisingly the usually pro-vaccine National Health Service refused to do so saying it’s “not cost effective.”

Bloomberg: Bad U.S. flu season is money maker for healthcare industry

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: 72% of U.S. hospitals fail to test older patients for possible flu infection

Scientific Reports: Low dose UV light kills H1N1 flu virus

CBS News: Commonly used Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Tests produce more false results than comprehensive lab tests

TechnologyNetworks: Targeted vaccination (as opposed to mass vaccinations) was found to be the best option in nearly all epidemic cases. 

It should be noted that many healthcare workers’ organizations across the United States legally challenge any attempt to force healthcare workers to get vaccinated.

California: It was revealed that overall flu vaccination rates for nurses in Golden State hospitals is about 83%, even with vaccinations of healthcare workers being paid for by taxpayers, and with some counties making it mandatory to get vaccinated. Healthcare workers can avoid legally mandated vaccinations by wearing a surgical mask. The California Nurses Union opposes mandatory vaccinations.    San Diego County revealed the true cause of spread of disease; poverty and freedom of choice.  County health administrators say they quashed the Hep-A outbreak by making vaccines available free of charge and by imposing medical martial law: “We offered free vaccines at libraries, had officers accompany nurses into homeless encampments, won state approval so our firefighter paramedics could administer vaccines….”

Colorado: Despite insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield reporting increased vaccination rates (for most vaccines), the state Department of Public Health and Environment reports record hospitalization rates for influenza infections. 

Florida: State Department of Health arrests doctor for improper vaccination of at least 5-hundred children, saying “If your child received vaccines from Dr. Sohail between 2016 and 2018, you should contact a new primary care provider to consider revaccination. There is also the possibility that Dr. Sohail did not follow best practices in maintaining the sterility of the vaccines she administered.”

Georgia: Fulton County Board of Health imposed a ‘proactive’ policy of targeting homeless people for vaccination.

Hawaii: 57% of residents refuse to get flu shots, yet only 32% of flu infection tests were positive.  Tripler Army Medical Center reporting mumps outbreak on the island state, but warned the MMR vaccine isn’t 100% effective saying “MMR is only 88% effective against mumps in persons who have had two doses and immunity has been shown to wane over time…”

Maryland: After the Maryland Board of Physicians destroyed a doctor’s career for connecting vaccines with early puberty, aggression and symptoms of autism, a Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge sided with the doctor and ordered Maryland Board of Physicians to pay him $1.25-million USD in damages!

Michigan: Memorial Healthcare facing a federal lawsuit after allegedly rejecting a nurses job application, because she refused to get a flu shot as part of her religious beliefs.

New York: A CBSNew York report revealed that citizens are questioning why health administrators refuse to reveal if a person who died from influenza was vaccinated or not.   New York City offering 1-thousand free flu shots, big whoop in a city of 8.5-million. The free flu shots are only for people living in neighborhoods ‘secretly’ determined to have low vaccination rates (I say secretly because of the CBSNew York report).  The Public Employees Federation opposes mandatory vaccinations. 

North Carolina: Orange County Health Department reports outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) at two schools, and are demanding people get vaccinated.

Ohio: Cleveland doctor who was criticized for linking vaccines to autism has co-founded Inspire Wellness with another doctor who also questions the use of vaccines.

Oregon: The Oregon Health Authority is freaking out about a possible measles outbreak due to so-called low vaccination rates. But wait, lets reveal what’s considered ‘low’; any rate below 92% is considered low.  250 schools have MMR shot rates below 92%, ten schools are below 69%.  This is despite vaccinations being mandatory for grade school students, private and public. The deadline is called Exclusion Day because no school if no vaccination by February 21.  Many schools report hundreds of families refusing to get their children vaccinated.

Washington: Global vaccine pushers Bill & Melinda Gates denied that their vaccination program was a way of pushing their personal beliefs on other people by arrogantly saying “It’s a human value.”  

Washington DC: At least 40% of U.S. residents had been vaccinated for influenza by November 2017, yet it didn’t stop the influenza outbreak.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) teaming up with other health agencies to find out why this flu season’s vaccine didn’t work against H3N2, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted it was only 25% effective against H3N2.  The CDC also said that at least 15% of children who’ve died from influenza were vaccinated.  Speaking of the CDC, they’ve just re-approved FluMist as a vaccine for next year’s flu seaon, after banning it for this year’s flu season.  The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has issued ‘notable changes’ regarding vaccinations for mumps, shingles and influenza.  Despite pro-vaccer’s fears that not enough children are getting vaccinated, the CDC reports that 77% of children born in 2013 have been vaccinated, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association reported a 12% increase in the number of children covered by its insurance getting shots.  However, both the CDC and Blue Cross Blue Shield whine that not enough children are being vaccinated for HPV.  Regarding medical martial law, the Department of Homeland Security has launched Operation Hidden Signals Challenge, which seeks to create a computer program that can predict disease outbreaks, either naturally or in the case of biological warfare.

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, February 2018: “WE ARE IN VERY CHALLENGING TIMES.”

OPERATION JUPITER: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

VACCINE FAIL: HOSPITALS CONSIDER FLU A NON-EMERGENCY! AS MANY AS 20% OF CHILDREN WHO DIED HAD FLU SHOT!

2017: Vaccine maker commits crime by injecting people with live herpes virus, in a hotel! 

Idaho, U.S.

“We are in very challenging times.”: ObamaCare ACA death spiral, February 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in February 2018:

For the month of February at least 13 U.S. hospitals had their patient data bases hacked, affecting more than 80-thousand people.

Beasley: Global healthcare industry number one target for cyber attacks in 2017

JAMA: ObamaCare-ACA mandated Electronic Health Records (EHR) billing system does not reduce healthcare costs

American Journal of Managed Care: ObamaCare-ACA mandated outpatient care for cancer victims actually increases taxpayer funded Medicare costs 

JAMA Pediatrics: Skyrocketing number of U.S. babies under one year of age dying of suffocation

U.S. News & World Report: Best/worst state healthcare rankings

U.S. CDC: 28.9 million people still don’t have health insurance. Almost half of those that do have high deductible insurance. 

The New York Times: Skyrocketing nursing home evictions due to Medicare/Medicaid changes

Center for Connected Health Policy: Beware tele-health programs

Gallup Poll: Four out of ten doctors say the cost of their degree was not worth it

Becker’s Hospital Review: In first two months of 2017, 12 hospital executives resigned without notice or explanation

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: One in three early drug/device trials for patients with chronic conditions, falsified data

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH): Corporate healthcare systems getting NIH taxpayer funding

The Washington Post: Bank loans to be made available to hospital patients.   No loan, no healthcare? 

The Medicus Firm: Don’t cry for the doctors as sign-on bonuses hit record average high of $30-thousand USD in 2017

Arkansas: University of Arkansas Medical Science eliminating 124 additional jobs, on top of the 6-hundred positions announced last month, due to being $72.3-million USD in the hole!

California:  San Diego based Scripps Health reported a 94% crash in operating income!  The hospital says operating costs are outpacing revenues.  Anthem Blue Cross accusing Sonoma West Medical Center-Palm Drive Health Care District of a $13.5-million USD fraudulent billing scam.  Federal government accusing Health Net of interfering with a Info-Tech audit, violating its contract with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.  A husband and wife team accused of ripping off Medicaid taxpayers to the tune of $5-million, while they were managing Community Health Group in San Diego. Federal auditors also accuse California of failing to scrutinize $7-billion of Medicaid payments in 2016.  San Diego based life science company Illumina eliminating 61 jobs mid-April.  ReVision Optics issued a layoff WARN, 40 jobs in Lake Forest gone by the end of March. Blue Shield issued a layoff WARN, 44 San Francisco jobs gone by March. God powerless to stop ‘his’ Adventist Health Bakersfield from eliminating 177 jobs by April!  Adventist Health White Memorial eliminating 160 Los Angeles jobs by April!  Novartis Pharmaceuticals suddenly laid off 29 people in San Carlos.  Pacific Alliance Medical Center finally revealed that it killed 731 Los Angeles jobs when it shutdown back in December!  Texas based Concentra issued a layoff WARN for its Valencia ops, 134 jobs gone by April!   Maker of plastic medical products Nypro issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Porterville, 111 jobs gone by April!

Connecticut: New haven based Achillion Pharmaceuticals eliminating 18 jobs after partner Johnson & Johnson halted its support for developing a new Hep-C drug.  After almost non-stop layoffs since 2016, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced an additional 107 more layoffs by April, as part of a plan to halt operations in Wallingford!  Out of fear of lawsuits, Stamford based Purdue Pharma halted promotional ops to get doctors to push their opioid drugs.  Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics eliminating 198 jobs as part of its plan to halt ops in Brookfield by September!

Florida:  Pensacola Naval Hospital shifting to outpatient pediatric care only, starting in July.  Transitions Optical eliminating 34 Pinellas Park jobs mid-April.

Georgia: Federal government accusing HCA Healthcare owned Memorial University Medical Center of failing to comply with Medicare billing rules, at least 39 times, estimating that taxpayers overpaid the hospital by $1.4-million USD.   Marietta based WellStar Health System laid off 49 people, including seven executives.  Six hospitals suing Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for refusing to cover the costs of MRIs and CT scans.  Two nurses with Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation charged with killing a patient in 2014, while other nurses watched and laughed. Others were charged with covering up the death. Security camera video shows the nurses cutting off the air to a World War-2 veteran and other nurses laughing as he begged for his life! 

Idaho: The federal Health and Human Services Secretary met with Idaho administrators to discuss Idaho’s plan to offer health insurance that is not approved by ObamaCare-ACA, details of the meeting were not made public.

Illinois: Outcome Health suddenly laid off an additional 20 people (after eliminating 215 positions last year), possibly in connection with an investor fraud settlement. Naperville based Edward-Elmhurst Health slashing $35-million USD from its budget (on top of slashing $50-million last year), with layoffs in the works, due to a $92-million accounting error!  Chicago based Norwegian American Hospital threatening to shutdown its pediatric unit by the end of March, due to crashing demand for services (only nine patients in 2016 and zero in 2017).  News reports say other hospitals are considering similar shutdowns.  Israel based Teva issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Gurnee, 101 jobs gone between now and the end of the year!

Indiana: Med Express Urgent Care in Terre Haute shutdown due to ‘business reasons’.  Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital shutting down its obstetrics unit, ten jobs affected by the end of March.  Medical device maker Cook Medical restructuring in response to the changing global healthcare market, mainly through consolidation of operations (which usually means job cuts).

Kentucky: Kindred Healthcare reported a $135-million USD loss in its fourth quarter of 2017.  Four executives of Louisville based Humana made more than $12-million USD combined by selling-off their own stock holdings in Humana.

Massachusetts: UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital shutting down its gastrointestinal unit, eight jobs affected. Morton Hospital shutting down its maternity ward in April.  Lemuel Shattuck Hospital shutting down, 7-hundred jobs affected by 2021!  Boston based drugs maker Intarcia suddenly laid off 60 people due to the FDA rejecting its latest drug.  Steward Health Care moving its HQ to Texas, affecting 1-hundred jobs in Boston!  Partners HealthCare off-shoring 1-hundred tech jobs, to India!   Also in Boston, Sanofi Genzyme laying off 130 people in an effort to reduce operating costs!  Lowell General Hospital laid off seven health info-tech employees.

Michigan: Employees of Borgess Medical Center warned of massive layoffs due to the hospital being “over budget”, despite hospital administrators boasting of building a new addition to the hospital, which will cost at least $35-million USD.  Mmmm, wonder why they’re over budget?  Texas owned Detroit Medical Center reducing meal options for patients and eliminating 3-hundred jobs saying “It’s part of a plan to be much more efficient…”  Sparrow Health System shutting down its Saint Lawrence emergency room in May.  Henry Ford Allegiance Health agreed to settled a federal lawsuit accusing it of colluding with other hospitals to intentionally limit advertising competition within their respective counties.  Memorial Healthcare facing a federal lawsuit after allegedly rejecting a nurses job application, because she refused to get a flu shot as part of her religious beliefs.

Minnesota: Shriners Hospitals for Children-Twin Cities “evaluating alternative options for inpatient care” including a total shutdown.  The Star Tribune reporting 341 ‘preventable’ medical errors in 2017, at least 12 people died and 103 injured due to increased incompetence in Minnesota hospitals.  In Fridley, DaVita Clinical Research eliminating 53 jobs by mid-April.

Missouri: Non-profit Western Missouri Medical Center suddenly eliminated 41 jobs saying “We have not been immune to the ever-growing challenges in the healthcare industry…”   A woman sentenced to five years probation for posing as a nurse instructor at Saint Alexius Hospital, it was shown she lied about her education and employment history, and stole a nursing license from a nurse in New Mexico.  Taxpayer funded Iron County Medical Center now chapter 9 bankrupt busted.  Administrators are also asking voters to approve a sales tax hike to increase funding of the hospital.

Montana: A now former CFO of Rocky Boy Health Clinic spending 12 months in prison for fraud.

Nebraska: Methodist Hospital halting home health and hospice services in March, affecting 40 jobs.

New Hampshire: LRGHealthcare shutting down its maternity ward by the end of May.  Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital shutting down its maternity ward, 12 jobs gone mid-July.

New Jersey:  Israel based Teva Pharmaceuticals suddenly laid off 46 people in Parsippany, as part of its plan to eliminate 18-thousand jobs globally.

New Mexico: University of New Mexico Hospital being sued by a former immigrant employee who says co-workers bullied her because of her accent.  The state health department is facing lawsuits claiming conflict of interest in how Medicaid contracts are awarded, such a lawsuit by Molina Healthcare has been thrown out of court, but other lawsuits are pending.

New York: Pfizer issued a shutdown WARN for its Rouses Point drugs factory, 82 jobs affected by March.  Cayuga Centers eliminating 120 jobs as it halts residential treatment ops, blaming ObamaCare-ACA for the loss of $2-million USD since July 2017!  On-demand tele-health company Teledoc reported a loss of $106.8-million, possibly in connection with its take-over of rival Best Doctors.  A U.S. District Judge found the now former drugs company CEO Martin Shkreli (the one who jacked-up prices outrageously) guilty of frauding investors and causing the companies he worked for to lose a combined total of $10.4-million.  Nassau University Medical Center spent two days eliminating $674-thousand worth of salaried and contracted jobs, in an effort to save $1.67-million for “mission critical” jobs.  Taxpayer funded Hunter College is suing one of its nurses after it discovered the nurse is living in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing dorm, and has been for the past 40 years. Local news reports say that particular nurse isn’t the only one living in the college dorm as it’s apparently the result of a contract from a discontinued nursing program that dates back to the 1960s.

North Carolina: A doctor at Duke University School of Medicine sued saying the university engaged in hiring collusion with UNC School of Medicine.  The case could affect 5-thousand-649 faculty at both universities!  Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System) admitted it had reduced working hours for 90 employees since November 2017 and more labor cost cuts were in the planning, which is interesting because Atrium Health is still advertising that it is hiring.  Novant Health suddenly eliminated 23 jobs.  State investigators fined Strategic Behavioral Health Center $20-thousand for violating patient safety laws. The ‘behavioral’ center was mistreating patients so badly that dozens escaped, which alerted investigators.

Ohio:  New York Based Personal Touch Home Care halting ops in Ohio and eliminating at least 257 jobs by mid-April!   Memorial Health Systems suddenly laid off 15 people and shifted 1-hundred employees into new jobs, blaming it on an expected reduction in taxpayer funded Medicare spending.  Philips Medical Systems eliminating 65 jobs mid-April.  Cardinal Health eliminating 101 jobs mid-April!

Oklahoma: The state Department of Health interim commissioner and Cabinet Secretary of Finance, Administration and Information Technology resigned after being accused of domestic violence.

Oregon: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Adventist Medical Center from eliminating 157 jobs in Portland!

Pennsylvania:  A now former UPMC Health Plan director is spending two years in federal prison for stealing $846-thousand USD from UPMC, by creating ‘ghost workers’ on the payroll.

South Carolina: Regional Medical Center suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, an audit last month revealed the hospital lost $7-million USD, administrators warned of more layoffs saying “We are in very challenging times.”  Medical University of South Carolina revealed it fired 13 employees for espionage-ing patient records, in 2017.

Tennessee: Franklin based Community Health Systems reported a loss of $2-billion USD in their fourth quarter of 2017, despite selling-off hospitals!  More Community Health Systems owned hospitals will be sold-off in 2018.

Texas: Dallas based Tenet Healthcare reported a $230-million USD loss in its fourth quarter of 2017, despite $5-billion in revenues, despite killing 2-thousand jobs nationwide and despite taking advantage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Utah: State legislators advanced a bill to the state Senate that would prohibit hospitals and health systems from testing a doctor’s competency!  20 volunteers at University of Utah Hospital are ensuring no patient dies alone, it’s part of a growing movement called No One Dies Alone.

Vermont: It was revealed that Brattleboro Memorial Hospital paid state and federal regulators $1.7-million USD to settle claims that it submitted false outpatient laboratory claims to Medicaid and Medicare.

Virginia: University of Virginia Health System ‘exposed’ data of more than 1-thousand-8-hundred patients over 17 months.

Washington: Skagit Regional Health revealed it had laid off 94 people and shutdown 36 vacant positions during the past seven months, due to $17-million USD in losses since 2016.

Washington DC: The former CMO of United Medical Center says he was fired for blowing the whistle on the hospital’s “malfeasance affecting patient health and safety” and “submission of fraudulent statements to Medicare and Medicaid.”  The Internal Revenue Service hitting employers with fines for violating ObamaCare-ACA employee insurance mandate.  Federal Health and Human Services new Conscience and Religious Freedom division received more than 3-hundred complaints since 18JAN2018.

Wisconsin: Marshfield Clinic Health System reported a loss of $17-million USD directly blaming lower reimbursements on the halting of cost sharing taxpayer funded subsidies to ObamaCare-ACA.  Agnesian HealthCare hit by federal lawsuit accusing it of a doctor kick-back Medicare scam.  Mike Flint Enterprises-Interim Healthcare of Wisconsin-Mallatt’s Homecare Pharmacy eliminating 168 jobs starting in April!

Wyoming: Campbell County Health-Powder River Surgery Center lost $200-thousand USD as a result of Medicaid and Medicare billing delays caused by recent changes to the hospital system, including software upgrades, however they still reported an overall profit in 2017.

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral January 2018: “INADEQUATE MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES”

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Massachusetts Militia flood rescue ops

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“….I’ve seen lots of snowstorms, rainstorms, wind but I have never seen anything like this before. That kind of flooding, I didn’t think it was possible.”-Wayne Adams, rescued resident

According to local news reports more than 1-hundred people in the city of Quincy were rescued after becoming trapped in their homes by a nor’easter (north easter) storm.

Video of Massachusetts Army National Guard’s 125th Quartermaster Company assisting local emergency responders with flood rescue operations:

ARKANSAS MILITIA, TRAINING UP THE CHILDREN, for climate change?

2017: MISSOURI MILITIA RESPONDS TO RECORD FLOODING!

Kit Bashing, Reviews

1/600 USS Iowa Class Kits: Aurora, Monogram, Otaki, Revell. An appeal to Airfix!

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I am disappointed with Ship Craft 17 Iowa Class Battleships, while it is still a good overview for somebody just getting into building the iconic battleships it doesn’t pack the information that the excellent Ship Craft 16 Hipper Class Ships does, and in the same number of pages.

Ship Craft 17

Ship Craft 17 (copyright 2012 Seaforth Publishing) fails in, among other areas, the kit review section, primarily in the 1:500 through 1:600 range. It also fails to mention the 1:350 scale Revell kit so I’ll mention it here; stay away from that kit as it is a revised version of the inaccurate Otaki-Life Like Hobbies kit first issued as a World War-2 Missouri in 1971 (revised in 1983 to look like a modernized ship, before being sold to Revell who’s been revising-reissuing it ever since, it was even issued under the Monogram label in the 1990s).  Recently Revell-Germany re-issued it with a mass of aftermarket parts to make it look better, but the result is that you have to spend a crap-load of money and end up doing even more work on a kit to make it resemble a ‘modern’ Iowa Class ship.

1:665 to 1:535 Iowa Class Kits

I’m a fan of 1:600 scale battleships because they’re small enough you can display a lot of them on a single bookshelf and are still big enough that your guests don’t go blind looking at your handy-work.  Plus, they were basically the only battleship kits I could get my hands on as a kid in the 1970s.  Because the highly praised Ship Craft series failed to discuss these kits, and because I’m amazed at the high prices kit sellers on the internet are demanding for them, I feel compelled to do my own review of these now ancient, and unfortunately crappy kits.

Iowa Class=Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin

The first offender is Revell’s 1:535 offering.  First released in 1953, terrible, inaccurate, does not come with water-screws (propellers) but has one rudder (the real ship has two rudders).  Hull bow incorrectly angled, aft end of hull shaped like a step-pyramid. Wood planks on deck represented by continuous raised lines. Anti-aircraft .50 cal guns represented by molded-on crucifixes. Molded on life boats in the upside down position.  Blocky looking Seahawk float-planes. The decals for the ship’s hull number are the large ‘shadowed’ post World War-2 type, yet the kit is supposed to be the World War-2 version.  Amazingly Revell repeatedly re-issues the crappy kit, and for some odd reason people are willing to pay high prices for it.  To make things more confusing, in the mid-1990s Revell began using the original artwork for Monogram’s 1:665 (16 inch) Missouri for its 1:535 Missouri.

Aurora’s 1:600 offering was first released in 1957 (Ship Craft 17 says “in the early 1960’s”), it looks like a scaled down version of Revell’s 1:535 kit. The hull bow has the same angle and the stern has the same stepped pyramid shape, except Aurora gives you four propellers.  The propellers are incorrect as they have three blades per screw, the real ship has four bladed screws outboard and five bladed screws inboard.  You get one big ugly rudder.  The deck detailing is similar to Revell’s except for recessed wood plank lines (which are also continuous/unbroken) and molded on solid railing.  The life boats are molded separate, the Seahawks look better than Revell’s.  The main gun turrets look like scaled down Revell turrets. Interestingly the Aurora kits are the only ones in this review that provide boarding ladders, but there is no mention of them in the instructions.

Vietnam New Jersey

From the mid-1960s to mid-1970s Aurora used some excellent artwork on their boxes.  For the Iowa Class ships the artist actually did a better job representing the ships than the kit itself.  The Missouri is painted in its post World War-2/Korean War guise, still bristling with anti-aircraft guns but minus its Seahawk float-planes.  The Iowa also looks to be depicted as post World War-2/Korea, and the New Jersey (the best artwork of the bunch in my opinion) is in its Vietnam War livery with the big rectangular ECM box on its forward tower, and a helicopter pad on its aft deck (unfortunately the artist failed to mount the big antenna on the bow).   Regardless of the box artwork each kit is the same World War-2 version, yet the decals for the ship’s hull numbers are the large ‘shadowed’ post World War-2 type (World War-2 hull numbers were small with no ‘shadowing’).

Monogram (not mentioned in Ship Craft 17) entered the Iowa Class race in 1976 with issues of Missouri, New Jersey and Wisconsin (in that order).  THEY ARE NOT RE-ISSUES OF AURORA KITS, OR REVELL KITS!  Also, I’ve seen them listed as 1:600 scale, they are a smaller 1:665 scale.  The odd scale is the result of Monogram deciding to issue battleship kits based on a standard 16-inch (40cm) hull (as stated on the box), rather than a ‘constant scale’.  The hull has the best looking bow of the bunch, even has the three ‘eyes’ for anchors and cables, however, there are mysterious vertical lines along the hull sides (the real ships have noticeable horizontal lines down the length of the hull), and the stern is still incorrectly shaped.  You get four propellers but they’re all four bladed.  The most accurate looking parts of this kit are the two rudders and the excellent looking secondary gun turrets-guns (which are the same size as 1:600 scale Aurora/Otaki).  Amazingly for a late 1970s issued kit the deck looks like it came right outta the 1950s (which might explain why some people think its a revised issue of the Revell or Aurora kits), it even has the raised wood deck lines and crucifix .50 caliber machine guns similar to Revell’s.  There are two Kingfisher float-planes and the hull number decals are the small WW-2 type, yet the main mast looks like the type fitted after WW-2.

In 1984 Japan’s Otaki issued a 1:600 scale motorized version of a modern Iowa Class ship (not mentioned in Ship Craft 17).  In the mid-1980s Otaki became Arii and it was issued under that label.  It has been ripped-off and issued by Korea’s Kangnam and China’s Lee (aka C.C. Lee, aka Shanghai C.C.Lee Model Company).  It is currently issued by Japan’s MicroAce (the new Arii). From here on out I’ll refer to this kit as The Asian Kit.  The kit is totally lacking in detail, and even though the hull and deck size is similar to Aurora’s 1:600 hull/deck the main gun turrets are as big as the bigger Revell kit’s turrets.  The helicopters are crappy, the Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers are a bad joke, the secondary gun turrets are chunks with stubs for guns, the Phalanx gatling gun systems are fat and missing the barrels.  The life boats are huge. The stern of the hull is close to being accurate, but the propellers are all four bladed, you get two rudders.  The kit is not worth the full U.S. MSRP (Manufacture’s Suggested Retail Price) that the majority of internet sellers demand.

Here’s more depressing news;  Main Gun Turrets-Guns: Aurora’s turrets are the smallest yet resemble Revell’s, also the guns are as big as The Asian Kit’s.  The Asian Kit’s turrets are almost as big in diameter as Revell’s, they are devoid of detailing, except for recessed ladders. Revell’s main gun tubes will not fit into Revell’s turrets.  Monogram’s turrets are slightly bigger than Aurora’s, the guns look the most accurate, are the same diameter as the 1:600 scale kits, but shorter in length, the anti-aircraft gun enclosures on the top of the turrets are the wrong shape.

Superstructure: All kits lack detailing. The Asian Kit is the worst offender completely devoid of details, it is molded separately and look like that ancient underwater ‘structure’ known as Yonaguni Submarine Ruins.

Here’s some pictorial evidence to back up accusations against the offenders (click each pic to view more in the full-sized image):

There’s no excuse for Revell’s continuous re-issuing of their crappy kit (in fact they’ve just re-issued it again). You’d think with the merging of Revell and Monogram, in the 1990s, they’d issue the better Monogram kit. It should be noted that Monogram’s 16 inch Iowa kits were rarely issued (for some unknown reason), along with Monogram’s 16 inch Bismarck/Tirpitz (which works out to about 1:615/17 scale, a 1:600 scale Bismarck hull is approximately 16 & 3/8th inches long). I remember reading an article, many years ago, that was talking about a train derailment and fire that destroyed many of the Aurora molds that had just been purchased by Monogram.  I believe it happened in 1979, the Monogram 16 inch battleship kits were originally issued between 1976 and 1978.  It would make sense that they were never issued again if their molds were also destroyed in that train fire, and it would explain why both the Monogram and Aurora kits command high prices on the internet, however, I’ve seen issues of the Monogram 1:665 (16 inch) Iowa kits in 1990s style boxes, and even the original late 1970s boxes but with 1990s style Skill Level 2 stickers on the shrink-wrap (you can’t trust the copyright date on boxes as being indicative of when that particular kit was issued).

Regarding Ship Craft 17, it’s still a great starting point for learning about the ship and has enough information in the text that you’d realize there isn’t, as yet, a model kit in any scale of the Iowa Class that doesn’t have some discrepancy (which is amazing considering the historical importance of the world’s last and best battleships).

It would take a lot of work to correct the old American kits.  The Asian Kit’s near total lack of detail has an advantage; it makes it easier to detail-up with aftermarket parts and scratch building, you could even back date it to Vietnam, Korea or WW-2.  There are plenty of aftermarket photo etched sets for 1:600 Fast U.S. Battleships, and a company called Model Monkey is producing 1:600 scale 3D printed ‘correction’ parts, including an early WW2 rounded bridge for the New Jersey.

I end this review by appealing to Hornby-Airfix to produce a new line of 1:600 scale Iowa Class ships, including options for World War-2, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm.

ITALERI 1:720 DEUTSCHLAND, LUTZOW, SCHEER & GRAF SPEE

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New War on Drugs: South Carolina Militia joins the Fentanyl fight!

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“The threat environment has changed.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Bowling, explaining that the new ‘threat’ is not terrorists using guns or bombs, or even vehicles, but using drugs

South Carolina Army National Guard’s 43rd Civil Support Team took part in a ‘multi-agency’ drug lab training session.  It also involved the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Lexington Fire Department, Cayce Department of Public Safety and the Pine Ridge Police Department.

South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Specialist Chelsea Baker, 22FEB2022.

“One of the biggest concerns we have right now is dealing with fentanyl exposure. Fentanyl is not just a police problem, or a CST problem. It’s everyone’s problem. We are seeing more and more fatalities from fentanyl exposure. The goal of this training is safety. We want to make sure that when these guys enter a situation and see evidence of fentanyl, they know what to do.”-Michael Cashman, retired DEA

Fentanyl can be ingested orally, inhaled through the nose or mouth, or absorbed through the skin or eyes, any substance suspected to contain fentanyl must be treated with extreme caution as exposure to even a small amount can lead to significant health-related complications, respiratory depression, or death.

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.” 

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: U.S. TAXPAYERS BUY COSTA RICA NEW NAVY SHIPS!

GREAT RENEGER: SOUTH CAROLINA & ILLINOIS MILITIA FOB AFGHANISTAN

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“Teaching kids about the harm of drugs…doesn’t really work.” : Drugs, the American Way, February 2018

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of February 2018.

“Teaching kids about the harms of drugs isn’t really a prevention tactic, it doesn’t really work. They know that drugs are dangerous.”-Alfgeir Kristjansson, School of Public Health at West Virginia University, making a statement about something that’s actually common knowledge but none of your political/social/law enforcement leaders want to admit to

Trust for America’s Health: Drugs killing record numbers of people, still top killer of ‘whites’

Click to see the ClinCalc DrugStats Top 200 Drugs of 2018, and find out where your fav legal drug ranks.

Israel based Teva Pharmaceuticals lied about its low cost version of Syprine, people who need it were shocked to learn it will still cost them more than $18-thousand USD per pill! 

Wall Street Journal: Hidden Profits In the Prescription Drug Supply Chain

Washington Post: Divorce, drugs, drinking: Billy Graham’s children

Several mid-west states reporting that drugs trafficking along Interstate 94 is skyrocketing.  

Several western states want to import cheaper drugs from British empire Canada.

In a case of ironic hypocrisy, the drugs industry is pushing the concept of vaccines to prevent drug addiction!  

Associated Press: “…some large law enforcement agencies have recently abandoned the routine tests out of concern that officers could be exposed to opioids that can be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. Even a minute amount of the most potent drugs, such as fentanyl, can cause violent illness or death.”

snopes.com: Are All Homeopathic Drugs Now Illegal?

naturalnews.com: 77 holistic doctors now dead since 2015, is it a pharmaceutical industry conspiracy?

Human Rights Watch: U.S. nursing homes over-medicate patients on purpose!

Illegal drugs are so pervasive that one person got rich creating software that allows players of video game The Sims 4 to do drugs in virtual reality!

Arkansas: A Siloam Springs man arrested for dealing drugs at church.  Elementary school teacher arrested for possession of six pounds of cocaine in her Little Rock home.

California: A man who called himself the Rehab Mogul (because he owned at least 13 drug rehabilitation centers) was actually a drug dealer, Christopher Bathum was convicted of 31 counts of sex and drug crimes.  Opioid kills three people, bodies found near a San Francisco school. 

Connecticut: Out of fear of lawsuits, Stamford based Purdue Pharma halted promotional ops to get doctors to push their opioid drugs. 

Florida: Overdoses, DUIs, stolen drugs.   State Department of Law Enforcement accuse two Titusville cops of buying illegal drugs.

Idaho: Two people were arrested after the Idaho Falls Police Department seized 504 grams of marijuana and 1.4 grams of methamphetamine.

Illinois:  Federal indictments of nine people on drugs charges reveal link to unsolved murders going back to 2016.

Indiana: Police responding to reports of vehicles blocking access to postal mail boxes (which is a federal crime) ended up arresting six people on drug and counterfeiting charges in Columbus.  Kids Count Report from the Indiana Youth Institute says drug overdoses now kill more Hoosiers than car crashes and gun violence combined!

Iowa: Is the state Department of Human Services accusing parents of doing drugs in order to ‘legally kidnap’ children?  In the latest case a woman who swears she’s never done illegal drugs, and also tested negative for illegal drugs, is still fighting to get her child back (and have her name removed from child abuse records) after a DHS employee burst into her home, without a warrant, and stole her child!    

Kentucky: The gov’na blames mass shootings on prescription drugs. 

Maryland: USN running drugs as an investigation into a report of illegal drug use at the U.S. Naval Academy gets underway.  Baltimore Police Stole, Sold Drugs and Covered Up Killings!

Michigan:  The son of billionaire Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch was found dead in a Troy hotel, surrounded by drugs.  A former The Voice contestant arrested and accused of trafficking marijuana and opioids.  

Missouri: A 21 years old woman sentenced to 40 years for murdering a Mexican drug dealer, in an attempt to avoid paying her illegal drugs bill. 

New Jersey:  Non-profit hospitals are so desperate to save money they’re proposing a plan that will allow them to make their own prescription drugs.  Prospect Park Police arrest a man with drugs near Manchester High School (maybe it is a ‘high’ school).

New York: Columbia University discovered the Hudson River is full of prescription drugs.  A Niagara County Probation Officer finally caught stealing prescription drugs from parolees, the victims said they were afraid to report the crime-by-cop because of fear of retribution and the fact that nobody believes a parolee.  

“Two correction officers at Wende Correctional Facility were arrested Saturday for allegedly trying to bring drugs into the maximum security prison in Alden…”-Buffalo News

North Carolina:  A Hickory man and a Phoenix, Arizona, woman both were charged in Morganton for trafficking drugs.  Greenville woman arrested for trafficking more than two pounds of ‘coke’, in front of her children.

Ohio: State Department of Health warning that synthetic opioid fentanyl is being mixed with other drugs, resulting in overdoses.

Oklahoma:  Two people arrested for dealing drugs right in front of the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office!

Oregon: A man found with a firearm, a knife, meth and marijuana after he was suspected of car prowling in Northwest Portland, on 26FEB2018.

Pennsylvania:  Neshannock Township police confiscated drugs and money, and arrested two men from New Castle’s East Side. 

South Carolina: A 20 years old ‘christian’ woman had a really bad trip and gouged out her own eyes during a church service!  Apparently the meth-ganja mix she took before church caused her to think she had to blind herself to get to heaven. 

Tennessee: Uber driver arrested with multiple drugs in his system.

Texas:  A woman tried to hide her illegal drugs by shitting on them while detained inside a Corsicana cop car!

Utah: A woman arrested with 35 pounds of meth and ‘coke’, she gave the excuse that “I am just a single mom and I was offered an opportunity.”  She also doesn’t know how to drive because that’s how she was caught.

Vermont: A Canadian was arrested trying to smuggle illegally made prescription drugs into the United States on a sled. Apparently he had been doing it since 2016, because ‘Mericans are so addicted to prescription drugs that drug runners from British empire Canada can make millions of U.S. dollars every time they cross the border with their stash.

Washington: Seattle based Amazon wants in on the drugs racket by launching its own line of non-prescription drugs.  Everett man accused of raping a high school student as she died from an overdose. 

Washington DC:  A Senate level investigation revealed that the pharmaceutical industry spent at least $10-million USD to promote opioid drug use!  Gizmodo reports that the FDA is trying to make it easier for you to get drugs.   The FDA even approved a record number of generic prescription drugs (1-thousand and 27) in 2017!  While the Food & Drug Administration wants to make it easier for you to get your prescription meds, the FDA discovered that mass produced canned pet food is laced with drugs designed to kill!  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that ‘Mericans love for legal drugs will cause taxpayer funding of prescription drugs to grow faster than any other segment of healthcare. 

West Virginia: Parkersburg police arrest two people after a drug bust at a motel in Mineral Wells. 

Wisconsin:  64-year-old Milwaukee man placed on probation for sending a drug to his son who is serving time in Fox Lake Correctional Institution. 

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY: ADDICT ‘DONATES’ DRUGS TO THRIFT STORE!

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JANUARY 2018: SEX & DRUGS = THE AMERICAN WAY!

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER?

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Drugs, the American Way: Addict ‘donates’ drugs to Thrift Store!

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“Savers has made it quite clear to us that they do not want these items. So in the spirit of good gift giving and charity, please remove your drugs before donating your clothing.”-Crestwood Police Department

In Crestwood, Missouri, the for-profit Savers Donation Center got something it didn’t want (at least officially), a donation of illegal drugs! 

“Since you obviously do not want your drugs anymore, we applaud that you have chosen to no longer be an illegal drug user. While we fully appreciate the spirit of giving, we kindly ask that you destroy your unused drugs instead of trying to give them away.”-Crestwood Police Department

VEHICLE I-D: ARMORED DRUG SMUGGLING BOATS

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: U.S. TAXPAYERS BUY COSTA RICA NEW NAVY SHIPS!

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: PROOF YOUR GOVERNMENT IS BEHIND DRUG ADDICTION, ‘DRUG TAKE BACK DAY’!

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JANUARY 2018: SEX & DRUGS = THE AMERICAN WAY! 

Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., January 2018:“LET’S PISS IN HIS MOUTH.” (teacher found dead in school toilet room, of drug overdose)