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116th Armored Cav NTC, June 2019. Overseas deployment in 2020!

Video, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, M1A2 SEP and M2 Bradley live fire (the voice you hear in the video is one of the first female armor platoon leaders in the U.S.):

At the end of May, 2019, the  Idaho Army National Guard’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (which includes personnel from Oregon, Montana and Nevada) deployed more than 3-thousand troops to the U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC) in California.

Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing also deployed their A-10C Thunderbolt-2s to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, to provide close air support at NTC.  Even Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) personnel from Brazil joined in.

Video explainer of helicopter ops:

Specialist James Patrick launches a RQ-11 Raven Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, drone).

Another 1-thousand-plus support troops from several other state militias (Arizona, California, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Puerto Rico), and several Army Reserve units, joined the 116th Armored Cav.

Specialist Brett Neal on his M1 Abrams based M1150 Assault Breacher.

Video, M1150  Assault Breacher live fire:

11th Cav OpFor ‘surrogate vehicle’ is an M113 dressed up to look ‘Russian’.

The state militias faced off against the U.S. Army’s 11th Cav Opposition Force (OpFor), who provided what’s now called ‘near peer’ threats.  Near peer is a reference to China and Russia.

Even Idaho Air National Guard’s 266th Range Squadron played bad guy, deploying fake 1/1 scale models of ‘enemy’ anti-air vehicles.

The wargame lasted 14 days.  The official report stated that this training is preparation for 116th’s deployment to NATO Germany in Spring 2020.

VEHICLE I-D: M1A2-V2-SEP ABRAMS IDAHO LIVE FIRE, FEBRUARY 2019, preps for NTC

116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How 300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet

Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water

Polar vortex strikes U.S. farm belt

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: HEMP PROGRAM: Farmers with interest urged to apply

Mad cow testing halted by government shutdown

Alabama company recalls hot sausages due to metal bits

ALASKA: Taxpayer funded program aims to cultivate specialty crops

Experimental Farm survives government ups and downs

ARKANSAS: Hemp firm partners with university researchers to develop cannabis

5 migrant workers claim mistreatment on Arkansas farm

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

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

Canadian farm robot tested in Arizona

Drought plan fight between farms and cities escalates

Experimental hops farm attempts year-round grow

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

Lucca Ravioli shutdown after 94 years, no reason given

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

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

Almanac Beer shutdown San Francisco taproom

After 40 years Harry’s Hofbrau shutdown 

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

Could California produce soon cost you more?

CONNECTICUT: Brew Makers Want More Flexibility 

‘Frost Quakes’ Cause Explosive Sounds

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

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

Man arrested for poaching deer

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

Taxpayer funded Director of Cannabis position created

State ag commissioner sworn-in on Hebrew holy book

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

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

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

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

GUAM: Five arrested for allegedly keeping endangered green sea turtles

Coconut drink taxed, outlawed, now threatened by rhino beetle

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

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

Kauai dairy farm scrapped

Bee parasites also affect bee eaters

Taxpayer funded specialty crop funding

IDAHO:  East Idaho potato growers barely breaking even

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

Vineyards recover from snow-mageddon

State of the art gravitational irrigation system 

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

Restaurant Michael being shutdown to make room for two smaller restaurants

Tuscany restaurant closing Oak Brook location after 25 years

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

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

INDIANA: After less than 2 years Crispy Bird suddenly shutdown

Dairy Producers Facing Another Year of Change 

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

IOWA: Iowa ‘ag gag’ law ruled unconstitutional

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

Farm incomes down 60%!

Focus on GMO soybeans to increase yield

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

LOUISIANA: Breaux Mart suddenly shutdown a grocery store in Gretna

Invasive plant is threatening, again

Tariffs force farmers to leave soybeans in fields to rot

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

No let up in fight against salmon farm

Maine hemp ops benefit British empire Canadian company

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

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

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

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

After 60 years Santoro’s Sub-Villa shutting down

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

Taxpayer funded help for local wineries

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

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

Almost half-a-million more pigs

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

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

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

Tyson Foods, Inc. Recalls Chicken Nugget Products

Missouri’s new labeling law criminalizing ‘meat’ 

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

Dodge County says no to large Costco poultry farm

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

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

controversial water market approved

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the dawn of a new hard cider era

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

Micro-farming network plans expansion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming

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

State and County agencies sue city over anti-pig law

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

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

Giant Eagle shutting down its grocery store in Willoughby Hills

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

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

State Ag Secretary suddenly resigns 

Poultry rules still in place

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

State files objection to Lost Valley Farm sale

Widmer Brothers closes North Portland pub

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

New rules for Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dairy farms vanishing after 4-year crash in milk prices

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sovrano’s Gatti’s pizza chain now bankrupt busted

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

Eastside Cafe shutdown, to be replaced by another restaurant

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

Taylor Farms recalls chicken products due to mislabeling

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

USDA confirms virulent Newcastle disease

VERMONT: 10 percent of Vermont dairy farms closed in 2018

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

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

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

Cannabis stocks look set to flourish thanks to Trump

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

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

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

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

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub suddenly shutdown

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

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

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

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

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

Prison Industrial Complex

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 SNAP benefits to be issued early

Why People Are Flocking From California to Arizona

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

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

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

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

Several Fairfield Police personnel disciplined for sex ‘crimes’ 

Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers

video of alleged assault of a veteran by Vallejo cop

three Pomona Police Department cops facing federal criminal charges

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

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

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

CONNECTICUT: Has Among the Lowest Growth in the Nation

GEORGIA: New laws that went into effect

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

University of Idaho will cut $5 million

STEM Action Center downplays $1M funding gap

federal taxpayer funding to assist statewide charter schools

ILLINOIS: More than 250 new state laws take effect

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

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

Des Plaines Moves Forward With Oakton Corridor Tax Increment Financing

DeKalb council approves Tax Incremental Funding audit, HUD money amendment

Property owners forced to pay for Shorewood Towne Center project

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

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

Property owners forced to fund rebuild of failing Granada Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

Cops on Leave After Man’s Death from Head Injury

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

Demand for transparency after Pleasant Hill jail death

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

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

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

Department of Energy secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada

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

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

criminal investigation of Salem deputy chief

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UTAH: Once a national model, Utah struggles with homelessness

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

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

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

WASHINGTON: New laws in effect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“market demands”: ObamaCare death spiral, January 2019

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

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

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

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Heart of Florida Health Center suddenly cuts 24 jobs

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

lawsuit to overturn voter-passed Medicaid expansion

BVA to acquire Saltzer Medical Group

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

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

INDIANA: Vibra Hospital to Lay Off 120!

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

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

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

Rite Aid in Mondawmin Mall shutting down

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angel Medical Systems files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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

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

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

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

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

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

SOUTH CAROLINA: Palmetto Health eliminates 140 positions!

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

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

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

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

UTAH: University of Utah doctor killed in murder-suicide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KLAS: Sears to close another 72 stores 

Seeking Alpha: Investors And Employees Are Disappointed

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

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

Kmart Cuts StarKist Loose From lawsuit

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

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

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

ALABAMA: Sears Hometown Store in Cullman shutting down in July

Moundville Sears Hometown also made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

Ramona Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

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

MAINE: Houlton Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

MASSACHUSETTS: Dartmouth Mall Sears store shutting down in August.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Greenville Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

TEXAS: Granbury Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

In gun loving Idaho….Bulletproof family photos?

23 MAY 2019 (11:36 UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Khordad 1398/18 Ramadan 1440/19 Ji-Si 4717

Photos by me (AAron B. Hutchins)


In a nearly abandoned rail car repair shop, a father and son team are trying to combine machining techniques and artistry to create almost bulletproof family photos, and maybe a local artists’ gallery next to their machine shop.

Forgotten in the rafters

The rail car shop is located at the south end of the old town area of Pocatello, Idaho.  It used to be run by Alpha Pacific Incorporated (not to be confused with the Chinese company ALPHA PACIFIC ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING, now operating out of California), now a shadow of itself called Alpha Engineers Incorporated (almost killed off by the fateful decision of city and county officials to refuse Union Pacific’s request to make Pocatello its Pacific Northwest depot).

Boiler from Illinois

There’s a lot of forgotten railroad history in the building.

Coal Bunker

This is what happens when you “Go West, young man!”

Gone skiing…no more

But that’s not what I want to write about.

Chiron FZ 08 W

The good old (relatively) German made vertical CNC (computer numerical control) machine, Chiron FZ 08 W.

Explaining how the Chiron works to a willing audience…did you catch all that?

Eric V. Erickson, and his son Andrew, are using it to replicate photos and even smart phone selfie pics onto aluminum, plexiglas, anything non-fibrous.

Some ol’ dude hicktown singer, now immortalized in aluminum

At this angle you can see the engraving better

Here’s how thick (or thin) the aluminum plate is

If you prefer, you can get cool lighting affects etching your selfie into ‘plastic’.  Unfortunately it’s not ‘bulletproof’ and can get scratched up if you’re not careful with it.

With white light behind it…

…or you can be leftist liberal hip with the rainbow lighting…oooo!

The plastic has a more interesting 3D effect

But there’s a magical thing you can do with the aluminum plate, automotive grease and a glass plate!

That’s not an old timey photo of Tesla (no, not the car, the ancient electromagnetic genius), it’s an etched aluminum plate covered in grease, then a glass plate is placed over it, sandwiching the grease between the two and turning it into an almost bulletproof photo!  There are other ways to color affect the aluminum, like anodizing (and maybe powder coating?), but it’ll drive up the price.  Oh yeah, expect to pay around $150 for a basic engraving (more for anything extra like anodizing), so it’s only for memorializing those special family moments.   I forgot to measure the examples, I think the aluminum country singer was like 5×6 inches, and the plastic selfie was maybe 9×12?

Wait, what about the art gallery?  There are a couple of areas they hope to make available for local artists to display their works, one in the small foyer….

…and a larger area up the stares.

Don’t disturb Cello Cat

For much more accurate (but you might also get more confused, because these guys speak only ‘Technical’) info call Erickson Design and Machine at (928) 299-9723, or email at [email protected].

More Decline: Popeyes quietly shuts down four Idaho restaurants!

25 April 2019 (02:26 UTC-07 Tango 06) 05 Ordibehesht 1398/19 Sha’ban 1440/21 Wu-Chen 4717

On 24 April the Idaho State Journal discovered the three years old Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, in Chubbuck, had quietly shutdown.  So hush-hush was the shutdown that the exalted city leaders didn’t even know about it! That’s a far cry from the 2016 grand opening in which city leaders made a big deal about it:

In the above KIFI TV report you hear the Popeyes manager state that the location was chosen because they were expecting hundreds of customers from the new Pocatello FBI data center “in the next two months”.  That never happened.  Just like all the other big job promises by Pocatello and Chubbuck political and business leaders, it hasn’t happened.

Where’s the prosperity?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation digital data center is still under construction, and the promised 6-hundred (reports vary between 500 and 700, depending on which news source reported it, and when) permanent high paying jobs (the majority of which will be transfers from other parts of the U.S.) are still in limbo as the construction is taking much longer than the originally promised one year.

But it wasn’t the only Popeyes in Idaho to recently shutdown; the Ammon (the sudden shutdown was reported by East Idaho News on 19 April) and Twin Falls (KEZJ reports this is not the first or second Popeyes to fail in Twin Falls, it’s the third) locations also shutdown.  In January, Boise news media reported the Popeyes there was shutting down by early Spring, as with the other shutdowns no reason was given.

Some people speculate that Idahoans just don’t like fast-food chicken. Maybe it’s the economy.

Not a good pic, but this was taken before the Chipotle shutdown, it’s just to the left of the now shuttered Popeyes. This property was once the iconic Green T, which was gentrified in 2015 to make room specifically for Chipotle and Popeyes!

Oh, the Chubbuck Popeyes isn’t the first restaurant which came to town because of the promise of hundreds of FBI data center customers, to shutdown, in July 2018 the Chipotle (right next door to the Popeyes) suddenly shutdown.

Historic and iconic, after 89 years no more Green T in Idaho!

Does anybody in Chubbuck or Pocatello remember the popular and profitable Green T Bar & Grill, which was shutdown in order to make room for the strip-plaza which became home for the now failed Chipotle and Popeyes?  The 89 years old Green T was so popular that even President Truman and Willie Nelson ate there, yet greedy local leaders tried to make more money by gentrifying the historic property!  The current mayor of Chubbuck even uttered some famous last words about the tear-down of the Green T, saying it  was “…the beginning of some real good things coming in.” 

To see the latest Idaho restaurants available for lease or sale go to loopnet.com.

MORE DECLINE FOR IDAHO: PAYLESS TO KILL REMAINING 2,500 STORES!

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: NO MORE IDAHO SHOPKO? THERE NEVER WAS A SHOPKO IN POCATELLO!

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: IDAHO MALL LOSES YET ANOTHER ANCHOR STORE! LAZY ‘EXPERTS’ CONTINUE TO BLAME ONLINE SALES!

MORE DECLINE: NO MORE XMAS LIGHTS FOR CHUBBUCK? THE TRUTH ABOUT GENTRIFICATION

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: IDAHO’S taxpayer funded White Elephant HOKU LEADS TO 1ST CHINESE COMPANY TO DEFAULT ON LOAN PAYMENTS? 

“this is a really big deal”: U.S. Food Crisis, November 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of November, 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: After 12 years Sam and Greg’s Pizzeria’s forced to shutdown by the property owner

ALASKA: Denny’s shutting down a restaurant in Anchorage

ARKANSAS:  peanut acreage down, harvest could suffer from weather

mom & pop Sawbucks went from being temporarily shutdown to being permanently shutdown, due to increasing competition, increased minimum wage and high employee turnover 

Local Pizza Restaurant Closing after 40 years

ARIZONA: Reps from 15 counties attended the yearly Arizona Flood Control District Directors meeting, which included the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District: “The biggest take away is that the Los Angeles District is more than just LA. We are equally the Arizona District.”-Colonel Aaron Barta

The Waffle Love restaurant shutting down so the owners can focus on food truck ops

CALIFORNIA: West Coast Berry Farms issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Salinas, 465 jobs gone in January 2019!  Warren Buffet owned Kraft Heinz suddenly shutdown its Fullerton food factory, 248 jobs suddenly gone according to the WARN!  Ovations Fanfare-Spectra Food issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Oakland, 763 jobs gone in January 2019!  Yosemite Meat Company issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Modesto, 188 jobs gone by the end of January 2019!

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District met with officials from Orange County Public Works to discuss ways to reduce future flooding: “First and foremost, this is a really big deal. We know there’s over 400,000 people and 40,000-plus structures within the Westminster watershed that would be directly impacted by flood risk, so that’s what our objective is … to come in and help reduce flood risk.”-Colonel Aaron Reisinger

 crab fishermen sue 30 oil firms over climate change

30 years old Albona Ristorante Istriano shutting down

Carl’s Jr. parent CKE closing shop in Anaheim

After suddenly shutting down food factories Zacky Farms filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Switzerland based Nestle plans layoffs for 729 Bakersfield factory workers!

Also in Bakersfield (and Tulare), Häagen-Dazs will layoff 1-thousand employees due to massive slow down in ice cream sales!

Because The Golden State is having problems with people going hungry, the U.S. Marines conducted a 9 mile Hike for the Hungry, transporting more than 8-thousand-6-hundred pounds of non-perishable food items in their rucks!

COLORADO: Bring a turkey to work day?  That’s what Airmen stationed at Peterson Air Force Base did, donating turkeys for a food drive to help people in southern Colorado.

CONNECTICUT: Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville restaurant will close its two-floor dining space at Mohegan Sun, resulting in 59 layoffs

DELAWARE: Kitchen & Co. closing location near Stanton after 20 years

Xtreme Brewing Supplies shutdown after 25 years, the owners saying it’s easier to shutdown than try and sell the business

FLORIDA:  Publix Greenwise shutdown its Palm Beach Gardens grocery store

Salvation Army Disaster Responders hand out bottled water and prepared food to disaster survivors in Blountstown, Florida, at a FEMA/State Disaster Recovery Center following Hurricane Michael.

Volunteers with Servant Heart Disaster Relief, prepare Low Country Boil for the Apalachicola Seafood Festival to help panhandle residents gain some normalcy after Hurricane Michael.

GEORGIA: After only a few months Z. Brown Distillery closing its doors

After only one year farm to table River and Rail shutting down

The 3rd Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment, held a food drive for the Battle Buddy Resource Center at Fort Benning, Georgia.

GUAM: Guam National Guard joined with Regular military forces, and FEMA, to deliver food, and other forms of help, to Super Typhoon Yutu ravaged Saipan.

HAWAII: State Leaders Push to Double Food Production by 2020

IDAHO: Idaho Air National Guardsman, Technical Sergeant Mario A. Pile, doesn’t just cook-up food for fellow Guard personnel during drill weekends, he’s also the  program manager for the Idaho Youth Ranch Hays House, a homeless shelter for teenagers.

ILLINOIS:  Pepperidge Farm issued a layoff WARN, 76 people in Downers Grove becoming jobless due to reduction in production.

Food supplier ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) conducting layoffs, without giving numbers

Daylight Donuts shutdown without warning to employees, now up for sale

BBQ Supply Co. closing original location

IOWA: Devotay Restaurant and Bar in Iowa City shutdown

KENTUCKY:  After 12 years in business, Cole’s Place suddenly shutdown, due to a shooting

1860 Bistro suddenly shutdown due to “irreconcilable differences” with the landlord

Popular Southland Hotspot Willie’s Locally Known Closing

One Lexington restaurant closed, another leaving downtown

LOUISIANA: Japanese to Build $70M Vegetable Oil Plant in Louisiana

U.S. Sailors help sort food at the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana as part of Shreveport/Bossier City Navy Week.

MASSACHUSETTS:  Papa Gino’s now bankrupt busted after suddenly shutting down 95 restaurants, affecting 1-thousand-1-hundred jobs

MICHIGAN: Arrogant British empire founded Hard Rock Cafe issued a shutdown WARN for its Monroe Street ops in Detroit, 60 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.  No reason was given.  Perfection Associates issued a shutdown WARN for its bakery in Coldwater, 74 jobs gone by January 2019.

30 layoffs expected as Kellogg’s restructures

Great Lakes Fresh Market shutdown one of three stores

A 62 years old Valle’s Village Supermarket shutting down

Cheli’s Chili Bar announces they are shutting down

8 Degrees Plato Beer Company shutting down its Ferndale store, not because of low sale but to reduce the stress that comes with having multiple locations 

More trouble in ‘food desert’ Flint as after only six months the new Hamady grocery store shutdown without warning, the owner said there isn’t enough paying customers

MINNESOTA: Two Perkins restaurants shutdown in Rochester

After 30 years Rusty’s Corner Cafe shutting down, unless somebody buys it

MISSOURI: Público restaurant shutting down

NEW HAMPSHIRE: After just three years Neighborhood Beer Co. closing its doors due to “business challenges”

NEW JERSEY:  James Candy Co., maker of Fralinger’s Salt Water Taffy, files for bankruptcy

NEW YORK: Food service contractor FLIK International issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in NYC, 60 jobs gone by February 2019 due to British empire Canada owned Lord&Taylor shutting down its massive NYC store.

Online Blue Apron continues losing profits and continues killing jobs

After 45 years Integral Yoga Natural Foods shutdown

Carrot Top Pastries shutdown 

Prime Meats shutdown

Supposedly famous East Village bar, Continental, shutting down as part of gentrification ops to make way for a seven-story structure with two floors of offices.

Restaurant Steadfast wasn’t steadfast enough and suddenly shutdown, the owner blaming it on the location, rent and admittedly not enough startup funding 

After 50 years a Clifton Park apple orchard closing down: “sales are down over 15% from last year”

NORTH CAROLINA: ‘christian’ owned Chick-fil-A closing downtown Raleigh location after 22 years

OHIO:  Remke Markets shutdown two grocery stores 

El Arepazo closing Pearl Alley location as ongoing construction threatens other business owners

OREGON: Oregon crabbers sue oil companies

After seven years The Woodsman Tavern shutting down

PENNSYLVANIA:  After six years pie shop Magpie shutdown

Lenny’s Italian Deli Closing

Jon’s Bar & Grille shuts its doors after 37 years

RHODE ISLAND:  4corners Coffee and Pink Pig BBQ both shutting down in Warwick

Also in Warwick, after 18 years The Remington House Inn shutdown

SOUTH CAROLINA:  22 years old Wild Wings Cafe shutting down in Mount Pleasant 

TENNESSEE:  ‘healthy’ food doesn’t mean your restaurant will survive, after one year health-conscious EiO & The Hive shutting down.  Ignorant local news media said the restaurant was “widely-appreciated”

JJ’s Market and Cafe to shutter after more than 40 years

TEXAS:  After 25 years, Huertas Tamales closing shop

Taco Bueno Restaurants filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Frank & Angie’s Closing because the stress of operating multiple restaurants is too much for the owners

Fort Hood Soldiers volunteer to collect and separate food during the Central Texas Food for Families food drive, the one-day drive collected more than 2 million pounds of food for 20 food banks in 9 counties!

VERMONT: Nature’s Grocer shutdown, no reason given, but social media says it was losing money

WASHINGTON:  Starbucks suddenly laid off 350 people at its HQ!

After 42 years of selling local food supplies Mrs. Cook’s is closing

JW suddenly sold-off and shutdown its Gig Harbor restaurant

Food Service Soldiers assigned to 508th Military Police Detention Battalion, Fort Lewis, prepared Thanksgiving meals for prisoners, and visiting families, at the Northwestern Joint Regional Correctional Facility.

Washington DC:  Ventnor Sports Cafe Is Closing After 14 Years

WYOMING:  Western Sugar Cooperative announced it would be permanently laying off 92 employees by the end of January 2019

Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Sparks presents concepts for becoming better leaders to the Wyoming National Guard.  Sparks currently works full-time for Central Arkansas Water, and previously worked for Tyson Foods.

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, October 2018:‘JUST ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN’

‘routine tests’ & ‘logistics hell’: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, November 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Facebook documents seized by British empire

Mexico’s tequila council pumps the brakes on Elon Musk’s ‘Teslaquila’

5 Reasons Cryptocurrency Prices Are Plunging Again

CALIFORNIA:  Tobi.com issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Mateo County, 62 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.  SMK-LINK Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Camarillo.  ‘Truth in Data’ company Merkle Group issued a layoff WARN for ops in Burbank, 82 jobs gone by the end of the year. Communication tech company Polycom suddenly shutdown its operations in Tracy.  Cisco Systems suddenly laid off 462 people in San Jose and Milpitas!  Universal Electronics issued a layoff WARN, 38 jobs in Santa Ana gone in February 2019. Source Broadband Services eliminating 44 jobs right after xmas.  Warner Music finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 58 jobs, back in July.  Madhouse Entertainment shutting down its Los Angeles office right after xmas.

Taxpayer funded Amtrak to close Riverside call center, eliminating 550 jobs!

New tech start-up Moogsoft lays off 30 people

Broadcom eliminating 2-thousand jobs as part of its take-over of CA Technologies!

Defy Media Shuts Down (90 jobs gone according to WARN)

Disney Digital Network Hit With a New Round of Layoffs

Facebook claims outage was the result of a ‘routine test’

Facebook admits years-old messages are randomly coming back

Elon Musk scraps plans for Los Angeles tunnel after lawsuit settlement

Tesla was near death during Model 3 ramp-up

Tesla’s ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’ 

FLORIDA: Tampa Bay Times cuts more jobs

Global security and detection firm L3 to lay off 70 workers 

Syniverse lays off 3-hundred!

Duke Field, USAF video attempts to explain Synthetic Expeditionary Communication Training (SECT):

HAWAII: Commercial printer Hagadone Hawaii blames New tariffs, rising costs for layoffs of 93 employees

IDAHO: Ivanka Trump gets a first-hand look at Boise elementary school’s tech partnership with Apple

Tech. co. with Boise office sold to bankrupt radio firm

Why this Idaho chipmaker is suddenly at the center of the US-China trade war

INDIANA: Q-Edge Corporation and Foxconn notified the state that they would be cutting approximately 155 jobs by the end of February 2019!

IOWA: Varsity Theatre closing after 80 years of business

MARYLAND: The state’s Army National Guard 110th Information Operations Battalion celebrated 10 years of operations: “This unit is on the cusp of the U.S. Army’s movement to a new information warfare strategy concept…..our adversaries attack us within the information domain every day.”-Lieutenant Colonel Kristine L. Henry, 110th Bn commander

MINNESOTA:  Thomson Reuters suddenly laid off 140 people in Eagan!

Downtown Minneapolis newspaper closing after 48 years

NEVADA: Tesla will live and die by the Gigafactory

NEW JERSEY:  CA Technologies issued a WARN, 54 people in Ewing jobless by January 2019.

NEW YORK: Mic Network shutdown its NYC ops, 120 jobs suddenly gone due to loss of digital publishing contract (according to official WARN)! Broadcom issued a mass layoff WARN for ops in Islandia and NYC, at least 280 employees affected!   Without warning low priced tablet maker Bak shutdown ops in Buffalo, 78 jobs suddenly gone according to the WARN, even the website is offline.  The founders of the company wanted to prove it was possible to make profits off of low priced tablet computers, they failed.

Glamour to Cease Publishing Regular Print Mag in Condé Nast’s Latest Digital Shift

Vice Media is cutting its staff by up to 15% amid missed revenue and a traffic slump

3-year-old Roomi lays off more than half of its workforce after start-up funding falls through

Thomson Reuters closing office in Rochester

360i Goes Through Round of Layoffs Across Multiple Departments

More than 50 positions in NBCUniversal’s advertising sales group are expected to be eliminated as the company works to allocate more resources to digital

NORTH CAROLINA:  Cisco’s large Research Triangle Park campus braces for layoffs

OHIO: Motel operator closing Clintonville call center, laying off 150!

OREGON: Ergontron issued a shutdown WARN for its office in Tualatin, 103 jobs gone by March 2019!

PENNSYLVANIA: Dash Solutions offers to rescue data customers of bankrupt CloudMine

WASHINGTON: Tacoma Tribune News issued a layoff WARN, 67 jobs gone by March 2019.

crypto-currency pioneer GigaWatt now chapter 11 bankrupt busted

Microsoft Accidentally Downgrades Windows 10 Pro

Microsoft’s Office 365 MFA security crashes for second time

The Washington Air National Guard’s 262nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron was tasked with providing cyber security for the state’s electronic voting system during the November elections.

Washington DC: Facebook’s latest scandal has Washington’s full attention

WEST VIRGINIA: State Army National Guard video explaining their new ‘cyber center’:

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, October 2018: “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY”

Ides of March: Pacific Ring of Fire, March 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, March 2019.  Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.  Does it have anything to do with the Earth moving away from the Sun?

Taking pics of the stars reveals earthquakes under your feet

Massive 66 million-year-old tsunami caused by dinosaur-killing meteor

Volcanoes! Lightning! And Radioactive Gas, Too

Volcano cliffs can affect monitoring data

Volcanic threats to global society

Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to ‘maybe’

The Underappreciated Threat of Volcanic Tsunamis

BOLIVIA: Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake

CANADA: Rare 4.5-magnitude earthquake shakes Fort Good Hope (not on the Pacific Ring of Fire, but significant)

‘Raw beauty’ on display at site of Canada’s last volcano eruption

researchers studying effects of U.S. Mount Saint Helens eruption on Canadian province of Alberta

Real-life tsunami threat in Port Alberni forces evacuation updates

CHILE: 5.5 earthquake – Near Coast of Northern Chile

Light mag. 4.6 earthquake

Minor mag. 3.6 earthquake

3.5 earthquake – 33 km al O de Mina Collahuasi 

4.0 earthquake – 28 km al O de La Higuera

Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake 

CHINA: 4.7 earthquake jolts Northeastern Taiwan

Explosion at chemical factory causes 2.2 quake

COLUMBIA: Did the Moon trigger Saturday’s M=6.1 earthquake? 

6.1 Magnitude Earthquake 

ECUADOR: El Reventador Volcano Continually Remakes Itself

7.5 Earthquake near Palora

EL SALVADOR: $6-million USD earthquake proof data center to be built

FIJI: 6.2 quake

4.9 quake

GUATEMALA: Some remains of volcano victims not identified

INDONESIA: At first sign of trouble, don’t wait on tsunami warning. Just run

4.9 earthquake – Flores Region

 5.8 magnitude strikes Sulawesi

3.5 earthquake – Bali Region

3.8 earthquake – Northern Molucca Sea

5.5 earthquake – Sumbawa Region

Flooding, strong earthquake claim more than 80 lives

JAPAN: A government panel says a massive eruption of Fujiyama could send volcanic ash all the way to the wider Tokyo metropolitan area, the eruption would last 15 days.  The last time Fujiyama erupted was from December 1707 to January 1708 (Gregorian calendar).  Interesting that Fujiyama erupted seven years after the last Cascadia Event hit the Pacific Northwest of North America.

Tsunami-hit railway in Iwate resumes full operation

Mega-quake would likely flood more of Fukushima than 2011 tsunami

Tohoku residents still haunted by memories of devastating 3/11 triple disaster

U.S. military took part in the Great Tohoku Earthquake remembrance, 11MAR2019.

Official video report, U.S. military personnel recall Operation Tomodachi, 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake:

KOREA: One of the Worst Earthquakes in Korea’s recent History (just two years ago) Was Caused by Humans

MEXICO: Moderate earthquake – Off Coast Of Jalisco

New Dramatic video as volcano erupts again

Watch video as Popocatépetl volcano sends plumes of ash in the air in powerful explosion

 4.4 earthquake – Offshore Oaxaca

The riddle of the 19 September 2017 earthquake

NEW ZEALAND: A surprising, cascading earthquake

Civil Defence retracts tsunami warning issued by mistake 

The U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division (based in Hawaii) deployed its Tropic Lighting Division to New Zealand, to receive training on New Zealand’s National Disaster Response Framework and prep for future disaster deployments: “While the Indo-Asia Pacific presents unique challenges in disaster relief emergencies, it all comes down to people and relationships that make the absolute difference. Building partnerships and alliances ahead of those disasters are a critical component to mission success.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jason Hetzel, U.S. Army

PANAMA: 4.3 quake

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: One year later Survivors still contend with the fallout of Papua New Guinea’s earthquake

PERU: 5.0 earthquake – Peru-Ecuador Border 

7.1-magnitude earthquake

PHILIPPINES: Taal volcano (Philippines): volcano is warming up, alert level raised

U.S. Navy Seebees work to complete the Santa Elena Evacuation Site in Tacloban City, as a part of Pacific Partnership-19.

Local emergency responders practice casualty evacuation during Pacific Partnership-19, 16MAR2019.

RUSSIA:  6.1 quake strikes near Ozernovskiy

4.5 earthquake – Southwestern Siberia

Shiveluch volcano continuing activity, frequent small glowing avalanches

Kamchatka volcano eruptions captured by satellites

Significant increase in Bezymianny volcano activity

Aleutian Flights Affected By Erupting Volcanoes in Russia

THAILAND: Tsunami warning issued for 6 provinces 

TONGA:Tonga earthquake poses no threat to Fiji

UNITED STATES: Scientists argue for more comprehensive studies of Cascade volcanoes

Ignorant Louisiana gov’na criticizes new federal volcano monitoring bill

Are you an ‘Earthquake Detective’?

Alaska; Tsunami Preparedness Week: Where to Evacuate

 FEMA looks to hire Alaskans to help with earthquake recovery

Engineering reports reveal extent of earthquake damage

snow and ice melt revealing earthquake damage

rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake 

Applicants for state earthquake damage assistance must re-apply 

New tsunami evidence along one of Earth’s largest faults, the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust

Arizona; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District conducted an earthquake continuity of operations training by simulating an emergency move of their Los Angeles HQ to Pheonix, Arizona. Think about that, the Army Corps of Engineers is prepping for a southern California quake so big that they’ll have to move their HQ out of California! According to the military report, preps for such a scenario began in 2018, as part of a Presidential Directive, Public Law and Corps regulations.

California; Magnitude 2.9 earthquake shakes East Bay

3.2 quake strikes near Mercuryville

4.2 earthquake – Offshore Northern California

‘Thanks for the heart attack’

3.0 quake strikes near Gilman Hot Springs

Magnitude 3.5 earthquake strikes near Petrolia

3.3 quake strikes near Ribbonwood

ShakeAlertLA users are concerned about earthquake app’s security 

earthquake early-warning system will mean false alarms

200-thousand People Go Into California’s Volcanic Hazard Zones Every Day

Californians Now Need to Prepare for Erupting Volcanoes

Humboldt State gears up for Tsunami

Colorado; Earthquake likely human-triggered, seismologists say

Guam; 04MAR2019, fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam for Pacific Partnership 2019, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Hawaii;  3.5 Earthquake Felt In North Kohala

lawmakers approve Kilauea volcano disaster relief

Did groundwater trigger explosive eruptions? 

How fluid viscosity affects earthquake intensity

Kilauea’s Lava Fields Become Home to an Unlikely Species

5.5-magnitude earthquake strikes near Kilauea

Piles of Lava Nearly as Tall as Eiffel Tower

U.S. military/USAID Humanitarian Assistance Response Training conducted 06MAR2019, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

On 09MAR2019, more than 120 state militia personnel (National Guard) took part in FEMA Region 9 mass-casualty training: “Det. 1 Hawaii is poised in the middle of the pacific, where we train to respond quickly with a team made up of professional responders. Some of our Airmen are already in the local fire department, police and EMS departments. It makes it easy to just sync right in. So there’s a credibility that we worry less about catching up to the civilian standards, because we come trained, equipped and interoperable with our civilian response partners. We have a small, close knit community in Hawaii, but at the same time, it’s also like we’re one big, extended family always find ways to provide kokua.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Faumuina, 154th Medical Group’s Detachment 1

Idaho:

Idaho Air National Guard, along with local responders, trained for mountain disaster/rescue ops 08MAR2019.

Federal, state, and local agencies train in earthquake emergency

From 07-13MAR2019, the Idaho Army National Guard conducted Idaho Response-19 at Orchard Combat Training Center (aka Orchard Training Area).  More than 350 Guard personnel from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah took part.  Apparently the chemical weapons suits were part of an earthquake simulation in which the earthquake caused an argon gas leak.

Montana: Seismic activity in Montana means potential for large earthquake

Oregon; Portland’s new Earthquake building code Backlash

Video report of Oregon National Guard personnel taking part in disaster response training (called Patriot South) in the Southeastern state of Georgia, 07MAR2019 (when you watch the video note that what they are really prepping for is a catastrophic disaster in which all law & order goes out the window, aka ‘Zombie Land’):

Utah; 2.32 earthquake strikes near Bluffdale

2.7-magnitude earthquake

Washington; Coast Guard to partake in tsunami drill at Port Angeles base

New earthquake map shows Washington’s at-risk buildings

Scientists getting new tools to monitor volcanoes

2.9-magnitude earthquake hits Snohomish County

Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force took part in Idaho Response-19, despite the ‘bad’ weather: “It’s actually good training…because the weather will almost certainly not be ideal if we were called to a real world disaster.”-Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bugbee

Wyoming; Mild earthquake recorded near Green River

Student Treks to Yellowstone and Finds Bacteria That Eats Pollution

Caldera Chronicles: Yellowstone staff works to move boardwalks, latrines away from hotspots

Happy Birthday, Yellowstone National Park!

VANUATU: Strong mag. 6.0 earthquake 

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, February 2019: OMINOUS QUIET