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“One day we’re all good…the next day it’s just over.”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., December 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

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

Teachers in recent incidents have taken out scissors and cut students’ hair. One teacher, in California, was arrested and the other teacher, in New Mexico, was fired after an investigation.

Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record

Controversy Over Parents Who Eat Lunch With Their Children at School

In 19 States, It’s Still Legal to Spank Children in Public Schools

South Dakota and Iowa add gun safety class to junior high school course list

ALABAMA: Birmingham based for-profit Education Corporation of America suddenly shutdown all Brightwood College campuses across the U.S., due to having its accreditation revoked by the U.S. Department of Education.

Education Corporation of America also shutting down Virginia College campuses nationwide

State taxpayer funded education budget to hit $7-billion USD in 2020!

Is it because Alabama high schools newest varsity sport is video games?

Yet virtual schools face lack of online access in rural areas

Some Alabama schools look more like factories

Birmingham City Schools employees to get $500 bonus

ALASKA: Classroom video shows students following correct procedure during massive earthquake: “All I can say is, holy crap!”,  “Will they cancel school today?”

Photos from inside earthquake-damaged schools

National Guard pic of Houston Junior High School library

After earthquake, two schools close for the year

ARIZONA: Teachers who talk politics in class could be fired if state lawmaker’s bill passes

Two teachers fined, disciplined for political advocacy

Teacher allegedly breaks ‘special needs’ student’s elbow

ARKANSAS: Teacher Retirement System’s payoff period shrinks

Gun-Carrying Teachers Becoming More Common in Arkansas

Charter school teacher gives 9-year-old a concussion

CALIFORNIA: Brightwood College Permanently Closes 3 San Diego Campuses

School Where Student With Autism Died Violated State Regulations

COLORADO:  Art Institute Of Colorado Shutters

163 Colorado schools in need of improvement

Nurses do. Lawyers do. Yet incompetent Colorado doctors don’t have to take continuing education courses

High School evacuated on same day as planned student walkout

CONNECTICUT: Increase in ‘minority’ teachers not keeping pace with influx of immigrants

teacher fired over medical marijuana card

teacher accused of assaulting 3 cops!

Charter school cash spent on elections

Reduced state workforce is impacting education

School Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent Placed on Leave for ‘misconduct’

DELAWARE: Student bullied because his name is Trump

State seeks to create more charter school seats with federal tax dollars

So many immigrants that a taxpayer funded Spanish language website is needed for immigrant children in public school

Teacher with history of alcohol arrests pleads guilty

wrestling coach fired after claims he pulled gun on student

FLORIDA: school massacre panel recommends arming teachers with concealed weapons

school shooting: New video shows ‘blunders’

teacher arrested after professing love for 13-year-old student

teacher arrested for false criminal report 

students charged with threatening teacher

State education commissioner resigns

GEORGIA: Federal Title I taxpayer funding for Georgia schools drops by $3 million

promised teacher pay raise comes with hidden costs

teacher jailed on sex assault charges

Teacher allegedly steals $750 violin from elementary student 

teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing 4 students

Teacher shortage

GUAM: Parents demand removal of student who allegedly threatened to “shoot up” school

HAWAII:  The Fight Against student Flight At Junior High Schools

Preschoolers served Pine-Sol instead of apple juice!!!

gender bias lawsuit against Hawaii Department of Education

Want To Teach In Hawaii? The Job Often Comes With A Big Pay Cut

Hawaii spending tax dollars on new database to track taxpayer funded school repair backlog!

IDAHO:  It was revealed that the FBI is investigating School District 401 (aka Teton School District) because 784-thousand tax dollars somehow ended up in a ‘fraudulent’ account.  The money was supposed to go to a construction contractor as part of a state bond issue.  The business manager for School District 401 was “removed” and contracted accountants are now handling school funds.

University of Idaho falls below 5% target for reserves

Mormon owned BYU-Idaho’s teacher program fails to meet state requirements

HUNDREDS OF IDAHO TEACHERS LEAVING THE CLASSROOM BEFORE RETIREMENT AGE, turnover rate exceeds national average

Charter commission investigating two Blackfoot schools

Man charged with five sex crimes was a teaching assistant in higher education

Dumb-ass Idahoans are taxing themselves a record additional $202-million for schools that don’t work (despite decades of increasing taxpayer funding)

ILLINOIS: Just a lot of hype about teachers going on strike

INDIANA: Dumb school officials finally know how many thousands of students attend online public schools

Carmel High School explodes then burns

IOWA: teacher arrested, accused of being drunk at school

Iowa Sees Drop in Teacher-Librarians

teacher under investigation after classroom incident

Iowa City Schools predicts fewer teachers due to fewer students next school year

Des Moines Public Schools eliminating “couple million dollars” worth of teaching jobs due to reduced state level taxpayer funding

Waukee taxpayers demand local school officials be fired after state audit

12-year-old boy who allegedly tried to shoot teacher will be tried as adult 

KANSAS: teacher arrested for trafficking meth

Additional charges filed against teacher

Audit finds special ed is indeed underfunded in Kansas

How much do Wichita teachers and administrators make? Here’s a list.

KENTUCKY:  Adults so dumb in Kentucky that high school has to offer ‘how to be an adult’ classes to adults!

Teacher (and former Miss Kentucky) Arrested for Allegedly Sending Nude Photos to 15-Year-Old

LOUISIANA:  Back in September, students at the Virginia College  Baton Rouge campus were told they could transfer to any remaining campuses and administrators promised them they would have until June of 2019 to finish up. Now, that promise is broken and students are left scrambling to figure out what’s next: “Wow, y’all are shutting down all the campuses, so where are we going to go now?”-Marcus Williams.

police officers indicted for allegedly slamming teenage student

Police Investigating Abuse at Celebrated Louisiana School

Police arrest teacher accused of abusing multiple students

MAINE: ‘christian’ school teacher indicted on charges of sexually assaulting student

Maine gets $2.9M federal taxpayer funded grant for school safety

MARYLAND: Brightwood College, with campuses in Towson and Baltimore, is abruptly closing all locations, students were on the verge of tears: “I was going to do my internship in February. Now I have to do an extra 5 to 7 months, somewhere, if I have the money.”-Meleigha McCall, medical assistant student

School District Sued for Years of Abuse Against Transgender Teacher

MASSACHUSETTS: Massachusetts has fastest growing public college costs in U.S.

Newbury College Will Close

Junior high school student attacks other student with a knife

Home-Schooling Parent Arrested In Her Home

MICHIGAN: After 27 years Common Language Bookstore shutdown

$1.3B spending deal shifts funding for schools to roads and environmental clean-ups

teacher, coach allegedly bullied students in front of classmates

‘christian’ priest/coach bullies dead high school student at funeral!

MINNESOTA:  Sixth Chamber Used Books closing in March

Prison for teacher in sex abuse case

College teacher overheard a private conversation between students then decided to play thought-police and ordered one of the students to stay after class (like some Orwellian 1984 high schoolish bully-teacher), the student attacked the teacher and is now in jail

Regents approve $640,000 taxpayer funded salary for new University of Minnesota president

MISSISSIPPI: Virginia College shutdown shocks Mississippi students: “No one really just has an answer for us. It’s, ‘Well, you can try this place or this place.’ Our accreditation is good till the end of the month, but what does that do for me? Because this is a private college, so it’s not like I can go to Hinds, or Holmes, or Jackson State.”-Deonna Dillanes, student 

Over 17% of Mississippi students chronically absent 

MISSOURI: Teachers blow whistle on private-run torture chamber Parkville Children’s Cottage, pics back up claims (it’s not the first time the ‘school’ has been in trouble)

Charter School Teacher Charged With More Child Sex Crimes

Vatterott College stuns Saint Louis students with sudden closure

Saint Louis based Vatterott College blames federal Department of Education for shutting down its nationwide campuses, by blocking access to federal student loans

Small, rural districts driving increase in four-day school weeks

MONTANA:  On a Federal Reservation for Native Americans, Schools still Favor Whites

State Supreme Court strikes down tax credit for private schools

Not just a teacher shortage: Montana also struggles to find superintendents

sixth-grade teacher accused of sexual misconduct has license revoked

Longfellow Elementary closes it’s doors

NEBRASKA: 24 school districts rated as ‘needs improvement’ 

Yes, a school principal tried to ban candy canes

ACLU says Nebraska’s school cop program is actually covert ‘school to prison’ pipeline operation

teacher charged with sexual assault of multiple elementary students has history of ‘interactions’ with students

‘christian’ school teacher accused of sending sex Snapchats to high school students 

NEVADA: High school graduation rates hit record highs

State charter authority board says executive kept them in dark

ACLU condemns school background checks

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Teacher Arrested After Allegedly Exchanging More Than 100 Sexual Emails With Student

teacher on leave after KKK jingle

Six out of 10 High School teachers missed 10 or more days of work

National Guard Joins state Department Of Education For new war on drugs in classrooms

NEW JERSEY:  school district won’t compete in events officiated by ref who forced wrestler to cut his dreadlocks

PARCC graduation requirement struck down by state court

Jewish teacher sues Saint Joseph Regional High School 

teacher arrested for inappropriate contact with students

The 10,000 New Jersey Teachers Who Make $98K Or More

NEW MEXICO: New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority paid out $890,000 in settlements to alleged molestation victims of a teacher who had ties to another teacher recently convicted of sex crimes 

Was school principal, her husband, and an elementary teacher running a sex with children operation?

Is there a connection between a school shooting and an overworked teacher accused of sex crimes and ‘fixing’ grades? (the teacher was working as coach, math teacher and ethics teacher)

Revealed; Charter school gets taxpayer money for ‘non-students’

NEW YORK:  Herkimer College NY closing campus children’s center

Do Children Get a Subpar Education in Yeshivas?

state officials want $2.1 billion in additional in education funding!

Asian-Americans Sue New York City Over School Desegregation Plan

School for Blind Musicians Is Being Evicted 

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 2,000 teachers failed a math licensing exam!

students are missing a lot of school.

Man gets guns, backpack full of bullets into school cafeteria 

NORTH DAKOTA: In an effort to increase enrollments State Board of Higher Education mulls in-state tuition for some out-of-state students

$90-million in additional taxpayer funding to shore-up higher education means cuts elsewhere

board revokes license of teacher convicted of sex crimes

Positive behavior teacher fired after child pornography charges

teacher placed on administrative leave pending investigation

OHIO: Students Must Learn Cursive, it’s the law

TPS fires teacher accused of placing student in chokehold

Private school teacher accused of breaking 10-year-old student’s hand

Ohio eases graduation rules for high school 

Blanchester school board approves arming some staffers

New class created because Ohio women lack outdoors skills

Taxpayer funded state Education Department employee in trouble for selling cosmetics while on-the-clock

OKLAHOMA: Teacher shortage: Oklahoma nearing 2,900 non-accredited teachers

Oklahoma Education Association demands additional $150-million in taxpayer funding

Why Does Oklahoma Have So Many School Districts?

Oklahoma City Public Schools agrees to pay $400,000 in federal teacher harassment lawsuit

OREGON: Teachers Claim there is a Disruptive Student Problem

$1.4 million lawsuit accuses school disciplinary coach of battering 2 additional students

sexual misconduct cast shadow over Crusaders teacher

Substitute teacher banned after making joke about principal who killed his-self

sex-abuse conviction for substitute teacher, but only after years of lack-of-action by the criminal-courts, and only after a civil-court lawsuit revealed the truth

Junior and High school students to take mandatory mental health exams?

PENNSYLVANIA: What the average teacher earns in Pennsylvania

School districts can’t handle medical marijuana

Christian school fired teacher over her pregnancy

PUERTO RICO: FEMA promises more than $158-million for school ’emergency protective measures’

RHODE ISLAND: Students sue over lack of civics education

Warwick School Committee sues city, demands $4.9M taxpayer funded budget increase

Cranston School District hires debt collector to go after children who don’t pay school lunch bill

Schools report ‘totally unacceptable’

SOUTH CAROLINA: Myrtle Beach Golf Academy of America closing its doors: “One day we’re all good…….the next day it’s just over.”-Chase Collins, student

Teacher arrested for ‘playing doctor’ with student

Class sizes are ballooning amid teacher shortage crisis

Principal changed student-athlete’s grade, didn’t report harassment 

student taunting teacher gets suspended

9 Charleston County schools singled out for state intervention

SOUTH DAKOTA: teacher pleads guilty to DUI while driving school vehicle

School district forces taxpayers to buy new land for new junior high

TENNESSEE: Shelby County will consider closing up to 80 Schools

Christian school teacher arrested a second time for child sex crimes

Coach accused of attempting to show sex pics to student

Music teacher suspended over suspicions of inappropriate contact with three students

High School teacher charged with statutory rape 

teacher charged with meth possession

TEXAS: Austin ISD proposes closing 12 Schools

Corpus Christi’s Brightwood College campus is closing. Why?

School contractor Wouldn’t Promise Not to Boycott Israel, So they Stopped Paying Her!

TEXAS FAILED A GENERATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

UTAH: No more letter grades?

Shortage of special ed teachers

In Mormon dominated Utah it’s been proven that some students were discriminated against under the Mormon dominated public schools’ student fee policy!

students suspended for creating social media page that lampooned school shootings!

High school teacher charged with sexual battery of students

teacher accused of killing ex-husband’s girlfriend in front of 3-year-old twins

What happened to Mormon welfare agency Deseret? teacher runs food pantry in her classroom

soon-to-be closed elementary school is the first casualty of Utah’s school ‘turnaround’ program

VERMONT: Lawsuit challenging Vermont’s education funding 

teachers unions allege fraud in health benefits

forced merger lawsuit filed by 31 school boards

Police claim to have stopped student’s plan to shoot-up school

VIRGINIA: Teacher fired after refusing to use trans student’s pronouns

WASHINGTON: Are member dues pushing teachers out of union?

parents can now track their kids on school bus

Metallica donated $100,000 to Spokane Community College

schools serving up lunches made with local food

Father alleges autistic daughter abused, injured in high school

High school students struggle with addiction

child-care crunch takes toll

WASHINGTON DC: U.S. Department of Education to erase debts of teachers, fix grant program that was actually a covert loan op designed to entrap teachers into debt

WEST VIRGINIA: How low does West Virginia rank in teacher pay?

Opponents of Bible classes in taxpayer funded schools win 

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin’s Biggest Education Stories Of 2018

Remains of missing Wisconsin teacher found in Slovenia

‘white’ teacher on paid leave after students recorded her using a racial slur

Teacher beaten and robbed at elementary school, allegedly by ‘black’ man

WYOMING: Forgotten pencil stops possible school shooting (student was disarmed without the ‘help’ of police, yet when police finally arrived, after the ‘incident’,  the school was locked down)

Shortage of Special Educators

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., November 2018:“ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE”

Technology

“Effective immediately”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, October 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Data Breach Report: October 2018 – Nehemiah Security

CALIFORNIA: Aerojet Rocketdyne issued a layoff WARN, 120 jobs gone by the end of November!  Alpine Electronics issued layoff WARNs, 128 jobs gone by the end of March 2019!  Online entertainment software maker NC Interactive revealed it suddenly laid off 52 people in September.  Entertainment company Super Deluxe issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles ops, 103 jobs gone a week before xmas!  Advertising company Crispin Porter Bogusky issued a shutdown WARN for its Santa Monica office, 13 jobs gone by the end of December.  DigiCert suddenly laid off 73 people in Mountain View. Symantec continues eliminating jobs, this time 19 people jobless before xmas.  Also in Mountain View, Veritas Technologies revealed it killed 121 jobs back in April!  Graystone Public Affairs issued shutdown WARNs for its Corona and Torrance locations, 135 jobs gone by November! British empire United Kingdom owned semiconductor maker ARM Inc suddenly laid off 70 people in San Jose.  And San Jose based semiconductor maker Cavium issued multiple layoff WARNs, 73 jobs across California gone by the New Year.  Western Digital Technology eliminating 117 jobs in Irvine and San Jose, by November!  Marvell Semiconductor eliminating 11 jobs by the New Year.   Raytheon issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles ops, 21 jobs gone by the New Year.  SMK-LINK Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for its Camarillo office, 17 jobs gone by the end of December.

Disney-Backed VR Startup Jaunt Lays Off Significant Portion of Staff

HCL Technologies eliminated 85 jobs with its Urban Fulfillment Services

United Technologies eliminating 3-hundred jobs!

Redwood city based video game maker Trion Worlds eliminating jobs do to being taken over by a competitor

San Rafael based video game maker Telltale suddenly laid off all remaining employees

Los Angeles based electric car maker you never heard of Faraday Future suddenly eliminated jobs and is slashing wages, “Effective immediately”

Palo Alto based Essential Products eliminated at least 30% of jobs

The last video rental store in SLO is closing

Elon Musk says $40m tweet was ‘worth it’ after being fined

Musk settles fraud charges

Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose user data leak

Facebook October 2018 security breach: Everything you need to know

UK fines Facebook £500000

Worried Your Facebook Account Has Been Cloned?

Facebook purged over 800 U.S. accounts 

COLORADO: Digital First Media laying off 107 at Colorado Springs

CONNECTICUT: Japan owned Konica Minolta Business Solutions halting ops in Windsor, 219 jobs gone the week before xmas!

FLORIDA: L3 Tech.-Security & Detection issued WARN, 67 jobs gone by May 2019.  Raytheon issued WARN, 52 jobs gone by the end of December. Reconfigurable technology company Raydon suddenly laid off 50 people.

Shopping networks HSN and QVC merging, killing at least 350 jobs!

Taxpayer funded military VR company Raydon Corporation suddenly laid off 50 people

Comcast cuts more workers in Sarasota

ILLINOIS:  ServiCom closes call center and lays off employees

MASSACHUSETTS: UMass Memorial Health Care lays off 17 InfoTech workers

Rethink Robotics re-thought it’s plans and suddenly shutdown 

MICHIGAN: The Michigan Cyber Range hosted an international cyber security event in which National Guard units from seven U.S. states took part, along with military units of seven countries, which included playing the part of ‘cyber threats’ (emulating threats).

MINNESOTA: Teleperfomance’s debt collection arm AllianceOne issued a WARN, 75 jobs gone after xmas. Magnetic read/write head maker Hutchinson Technology suddenly laid off 1-hundred people! Software company Maximum Solutions suddenly laid off five people.

NEW JERSEY:  Germany owned imaging tech maker Agfa issued a WARN, 125 jobs gone the day after xmas!  ‘Big Data’ manager Solix issued a WARN, 149 jobs gone after xmas!

NEW YORK: HSN issued shutdown WARN for its Ingenious Designs ops in Ronkonkoma, 66 jobs gone by February 2019.  Federated Payment Systems issued a layoff WARN, at least 47 jobs gone in January 2019.  CDS NFL Event issued a shutdown WARN, 91 jobs gone between now and December.

Female focused Refinery29 suddenly laid off 40 people

MACOM Technology Solutions issued a WARN, as many as 56 jobs lost

OHIO: Ohio National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on cyber engagements: “This new partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center will be incredibly beneficial to our Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen. They will be able to exchange ideas and technical expertise with their Coast Guard colleagues on projects and initiatives such as cybersecurity exercises and workforce development.”-Major General Mark E. Bartman, Ohio National Guard

“The USCG Research and Development Center has worked with many National Guard components since our establishment in 1972. This MOU takes that relationship to the next level. Maritime Cyber Security is a critical facet of our research….”-Captain Greg Rothrock, U.S. Coast Guard

OKLAHOMA: Official ‘October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month’ video in which Altus Air Force Base personnel state that everybody must join the fight:

OREGON: struggling Oregon Shakespeare Festival kills more jobs, still blaming wildfires

PENNSYLVANIA: QCV Fulfillment Center closing its doors in Lancaster County

TENNESSEE: Fountainhead College of Technology shuts down

VIRGINIA: Ironically, online based job service Snagajob laid off 15 people

Washington DC: National Geographic Hit With New Round of Layoffs

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, September 2018: “INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGES”

U.S.

“Stop incentivizing illegal immigration”!: Immigrant Invasion, United States, January 2019

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Incomplete list of immigrant operations affecting the United States taxpayers, January 2019.

More proof it’s about making money: $11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private run ICE lock-ups

And more proof it’s about saving money: “… a group of protesters who were denouncing President Trump’s immigration policies. They were waving Mexican flags and shouting, ‘¡Si, se puede!’ (‘Yes, we can!’)

Unbeknownst to the protesters, the expression ‘Si, se puede’ was a saying of Cesar Chavez’s. When Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers union, used the expression ‘Yes, we can,’ he meant something entirely different: ‘Yes, we can’ seal the borders. He hated illegal immigration. Chavez explained, ‘As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes.’ Why? Farmers are willing to hire low-wage immigrants here illegally. Chavez had allies in his protest against the hiring of undocumented workers and lax enforcement of immigration laws. Included in one of his protest marches were Democratic Sen. Walter Mondale and a longtime Martin Luther King Jr. aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy.”

U.S. Coast Guard intercepted these 70 illegal immigrants near Haiti, 06JAN2018.

USAF Reserve delivers 8-thousand pounds of taxpayer funded aid to Guatemala, 08JAN2019.  Guatemala is one of the countries trying to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants.

Taxpayer funded U.S. military personnel help build new police outposts along the Pan-American Highway in Panama, 11-17JAN2019, scouting for traffickers of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants.

History Lesson: The ancient Roman army and navy was initially staffed by native born citizens, which helped turn the Republic into a global empire.  But later as the empire crumbled, one of the signs the empire was a failed state was the reliance on immigrants, especially from areas of the world that were considered enemies.  Even in the Roman military immigrants became commanding officers, and it was one of those officers that led the destruction of three Roman legions at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: “Arminius had acquired Roman citizenship and had received a Roman military education, which enabled him to deceive the Roman commander methodically and anticipate the Roman army’s tactical responses.”

Smithsonian: The Ambush That Changed History 

History.com: 8 Reasons Why Rome Fell 

Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates Are Low

Falling Illegal Immigration Numbers

Healthcare Providers Walk ‘Fine Line’ Between Informing And Scaring Immigrant Patients

Official U.S. Navy video about Operation Cutlass Express, which uses your tax dollars to help African countries fight immigration (among other things), because “We must live together”:

As you read this list below note how much the U.S. military is relying on immigrants.

ALABAMA: ICE deports 25 people arrested in New York to Alabama

undocumented workers from Central America accused of deer poaching

ARIZONA: Plans for teachers from the Tucson Unified School District to educate immigrant children being housed at a local facility have been put on hold.

Agents apprehend 131 undocumented persons who ‘turned themselves in’

Border Patrol agents aided nearly 30 undocumented immigrants who required medical treatment

Video of families illegally crossing into the United States near Ajo Station:

CALIFORNIA: Illegal immigrant found not guilty in Kate Steinle’s killing wants gun conviction dropped

illegal immigrant ‘sanctuary’ established on Nancy Pelosi’s lawn

Irony: Illegal immigrant accused of murdering legal immigrant cop faces judge

Governor wants state taxpayers to cover healthcare for undocumented immigrants

COLORADO: Undocumented man enters sanctuary during government shutdown

Boulder man fails to pay undocumented workers, then threatens them

FLORIDA: “Stop incentivizing illegal immigration, which is unfair to our legal immigrants, promotes lawlessness and reduces wages for our blue-collar workers.”-Governor Ron DeSantis

At the end of December the U.S. Navy launched a new recruiting campaign using Swarming Teams.  The focus is on recruiting immigrants because the USN is being built-up to a 355 ship organization and they’re going to need anybody they can get to sail those ships: “I immigrated from the Dominican Republic as a child and grew up in New York, so being in Miami is great because I speak Spanish and that helps a lot.”-Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Jonathan Urraca

“Being a Columbian-American and being a woman helps in recruiting, because recently I was able to speak with a mother who didn’t understand much about the Navy, and getting through that language barrier really helped ease her concerns about the Navy.”– Master-At-Arms 3rd Class Lina Marcella-Arce

“The first Swarm has exceeded our expectations, but where the rubber meets the road is in four to five months where we can see if people’s interest turn into contracts.”-Captain Matthew Boren

Here’s what it takes for an immigrant to get a green card 

Local authorities have had run-ins with undocumented immigrants

GEORGIA: On 31JAN2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the seizure of nearly 285-thousand counterfeit sports-related items worth an estimated $24.2-million USD, as well as the arrests of 28 people (including immigrants), as part of Operation Team Player.  Many fake sports memorabilia are being sold at flee markets/swap meets/’pop-up tent’ locations run by illegal immigrants.

Immigrants, including a member of the Army National Guard, become legal U.S. citizens, 10JAN2019 in Atlanta.

IDAHO: U-Haul domestic ‘migration trend’ data says Idaho is No. 5 growth state/more Spanish language classes being offered to adults

It’s been revealed that a USDA taxpayer supported housing complex (called Farmway Village) intended to house migrant farm workers is being used to house poor non-farm workers instead.

MICHIGAN: Michigan Sheriff tells ICE: We won’t detain immigrants without warrant

MISSOURI: 

Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk is an immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, now working for the USAF at Whiteman Air Force Base.

NEVADA: Illegal immigrant captured, suspect of killing four people

Undocumented immigrant admits killing couple

NEW JERSEY: Undocumented Worker Says Trump Resort Shielded Her

The number of undocumented immigrants is shrinking in these 12 states (including N.J.)

NEW MEXICO: U.S. Border Patrol detains 115 undocumented immigrants, seizes marijuana in New Mexico

NEW YORK: Dream Act Is Approved in NY to Aid Undocumented Students

Immigrant wins release after 5 years ‘detention’ in Batavia

It Was a Sanctuary for undocumented Immigrants. Then One of Its Owners Was Arrested.

$1M campaign supports drivers’ licenses for undocumented immigrants

NYPD Arrested Undocumented Immigrant restaurant Owner and political activist

New York City taxpayers will spend at least $100 million to ensure that undocumented immigrants get healthcare

NORTH CAROLINA: More proof it’s about money; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has more than 20,000 immigrant students, That brings costs and benefits.

OHIO: American citizens Following their Undocumented Spouses back to Mexico

PUERTO RICO: 

35 illegal immigrants caught trying to enter Puerto Rico, 07JAN2019.

One of several boats with 66 illegal immigrants caught trying to get into Puerto Rico, 11JAN2019.

The graphic depicts illegal drug/immigrant activities halted by government forces, from 01OCT2018 to 01JAN2019.

TEXAS: My son was killed by an illegal immigrant

Undocumented Immigrant Saved Houston Cop’s Life Before He Was Killed

UTAH: Man accused of smuggling undocumented immigrants through Utah

VERMONT: Suit says Vermont continuing to feed immigrant data to feds

VIRGINIA: Virginians Push Driving Privileges for Undocumented Immigrants

WASHINGTON: New milestone in King County: Immigrant population tops 500000

Washington DC: Democrats Introduce Bill to Shield illegal Farmworkers from Deportation

Trump Asks Support on Shutdown, Hints at immigrant Farmworker Reform

Trump offers protection to undocumented immigrants in exchange of border wall funding, Pelosi rejects it

Victims of Illegal Immigration storm Nancy Pelosi’s Office

U.S. separated ‘thousands’ more immigrant children than known 

22 immigrants died in ICE detention centers during the past 2 years

Why state issued driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants backfired

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVASION, UNITED STATES, DECEMBER 2018

WISCONSIN: Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants gains more support 

December 2018: Migrant farm worker, working for Idaho employer Simplot, failed to follow pesticide application instructions, killing dozens of fish in nearby river 

November 2018: Hurricane reveals just how many illegals are in North Carolina

So many migrant farm workers are flooding into Idaho that USDA (federal taxpayer) funded rural housing authorities are building more apartments for them. 

October 2018: More legal Mexican farm workers are coming to South Carolina than ever.

September 2018: Farmers’ efforts to legally import workers threatens U.S. crops

August 2018: Mollie Tibbetts case exposes farms’ worst-kept secret: hiring undocumented immigrants

U.S.

“Every single month….has been a grind”: ObamaCare ACA death spiral, October 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

CALIFORNIA: Healthy Living Network issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Newark, 128 jobs gone by December! Adventist Health Bakersfield suddenly laid off 20 people at its Bakersfield hospital. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals/Health Plan issued a shutdown WARN for its office in Downey, 69 jobs gone by December.  Kaiser Foundation Hospitals also issued a statewide layoff WARN, 85 jobs gone by mid-December. Texas based Concentra finally notified state unemployment officials that it eliminated 182 California jobs back in April! La Jolla Pharmaceutical issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego ops, 166 jobs gone right before Xmas!

German drugs maker Bayer cuts 227 California jobs

Sonoma West Medical Center now chapter 7 bankrupt dead due to massive lawsuits alleging fake billings

FLORIDA: Crothall Healthcare issued a WARN, 70 jobs in Lakeland gone before Xmas. AmeriHealth Caritas issued a WARN, 2-hundred jobs statewide gone right after Xmas! DaVita Labs issued a WARN, 94 jobs in Fort Lauderdale gone by January 2019. Magellan Complete Care issued a WARN, 57 jobs in Miami gone by the end of June 2019.  Also in Miami, Sister Emmanuel Hospital eliminating 97 jobs by December.

ILLINOIS: Executive Building Maintenance lost its contract with Stroger Hospital, 85 jobs affected.

IOWA: Country View Care Facility issued a layoff WARN, 167 jobs gone right after Xmas!1

LOUISIANA: Doctors Hospital at Deer Creek now bankrupt busted due to an administrator being caught ripping off taxpayer funded Medicare.

MARYLAND: Biopharma company Lonza to lay off 60

MASSACHUSETTS: UMass Memorial Health Care lays off 17 workers due to a multimillion-dollar budget gap

Mercy Medical Center to lay off employees, close hearing center

Momenta Pharmaceuticals guts leadership team, slashes 110 jobs

MICHIGAN: Pontiac General Hospital must pay doctor at least $484,000 because the hospital illegally charged the doctor a fee for working there!

MINNESOTA: Nuance Transcription Services laid off 18 people in Burlington.

MISSOURI: Ripley County Memorial Hospital closing, leaving patients with no reasonable healthcare options

MONTANA: Taxpayer funded Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ordered to pay Montana Health Co-op more than $1.2 million despite Congress providing no funding

NEW JERSEY: Virtua Center for HealthFitness Washington Township eliminating 125 jobs after Xmas!

NEW YORK: Murray Hill Medical Group issued a shutdown WARN for two locations in NYC, 113 jobs gone after Xmas!  Affinity Health Plan issued a layoff WARN for its Medicare ops in Bronx, at least 28 jobs gone due to ending its Medicare operations.

Hazel L. Carpenter Adult Home in Oneida closing

NORTH CAROLINA: 50 Wake Forest Baptist Employees Laid Off

OHIO: The Cottages of Clayton nursing home issued a WARN, but did not give any layoff numbers.

OKLAHOMA: Non-profit privately run Lawton Veteran Services Center in danger of closing: “Every single month since I’ve been here has been a grind…. If we do not receive the donations we need to run this place, which is $1,800 a month, we take the money out of our pocket. That gets old real quick. …We have 4,300 active veteran claims that we’re working in this office right now….”-Dr. Jeffrey Seright

OREGON: Adventist Health Home Care Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Personal Care and Home Medical Equipment ops in Salem, 92 jobs gone five days before Xmas.

PENNSYLVANIA: Apparently violent crime is so bad that Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center will start using armed security guards

TENNESSEE: GlaxoSmithKline to lay off 99

TEXAS: Steward Health Care shutdown Northside Regional Medical Center due to lack of patients

WASHINGTON: QualChoice Health Plan Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Federal Way location, 164 jobs gone after Xmas!  ZymoGenetics issued a shutdown WARN for its biotechnology/pharmaceutical ops in Seattle, 63 jobs gone after Xmas.

Washington DC: CDC criticized for slow response to polio-like illness affecting children

Medicaid spending grew 4.2%

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral September 2018:  “DANGEROUSLY LOW”

Kit Bashing, Reviews

1:72 F-100 Super Saber kit klash, or more reasons why you can’t trust scale drawings

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As far as I’m aware I’ve collected every North American F-100 Super Saber (I prefer the U.S. English spelling versus the Queen’s English spelling Sabre [for some unknown reason preferred by North American]) kit in 1/72 scale, I feel confident I can honestly direct you as to which F-100 kit to spend your hard earned cash on (please don’t make the Too Big to Jail banks rich by using credit).

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I also have several books with scale drawings, and once again the ‘authoritative’ drawings themselves don’t match-up.

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Detail & Scale Number 4 (1980) uses drawings by Rockwell/Ed Moore/Terry Smith.  Detail & Scale Volume 33 (1989) uses drawings by Dana Bell and Terry Smith. Bunrin Do’s Famous Airplanes of the World Number 22 (May 1990) uses drawings that look like 1:72 but no scale is given.

Revell: According to Detail & Scale, this kit first came out in the 1950s and is a piece-o-crap (photos confirm this), it’s much larger than 1:72 scale.  It’s supposed to represent a ‘A/C’ version of the F-100.  According to Detail & Scale-33 it was last issued in 1987.

Detail & Scale-33 also talks about other ‘1:72’ scale F-100 kits issued by different companies in the 1960s-70s, apparently all actually being scales that are not 1:72.

IMC/Lindberg:  According to Scalemates, the IMC kit was the first 1:72 scale Super Saber, out in 1965. Lindberg currently issues it.  IMC marketed it as a ‘D’ version yet it has the wing of a ‘A/C’ version (Lindberg wisely dropped the reference to the ‘D’ version). The surface detailing is spurious.  Detail & Scale-4 doesn’t mention it, and Detail & Scale-33 simply calls the kit a “gimmick with battle damaged parts”.   I was surprised to find the wing, elevators and canopy matched dimension and shape of the Ed Moore and Terry Smith drawings! The vertical tail is too skinny, tall, and set too far back on the fuselage.  The fuselage is a little long at the ass-end.  The extra long external fuel tanks are too fat and the fins are grossly over-sized.  You get separately molded air intake mouth and exhaust/afterburner butt-hole (this is the part that makes the fuselage too long).  No weapons come with the kit. Compared to the Dana Bell drawings the fuselage and wing measures out the same as the previous drawings, but the elevators are narrower in span.  The same can be said about the Bunrin Do drawings.

Hasegawa/Frog:  According to Scalemates, the Hasegawa kit was issued first by Frog in 1970, then Hasegawa in 1971.  According to the reviewers in Detail & Scale, it’s accurate shape-wise, but represents the F-100D before all the field mods were applied by the USAF, so it can’t accurately represent a service aircraft.  Never-the-less Hasegawa continues to re-issue the thing, and people continue paying too much for it.  Compared to the Ed Moore/Terry Smith drawings the fuselage, wing and elevators are a close match.  The one piece canopy/windshield is smaller than in the drawings.  Compared to the Dana Bell drawings the wing/elevators have too great a sweep-back. You get separately molded air intake mouth and exhaust/afterburner butt-hole, but the fuselage is too long at the air intake and afterburner. The canopy is even smaller compared to Dana Bell drawings.  According to the Bunrin Do drawings the wing is very slightly narrower in chord, but good in span. The elevators have too great a sweep-back. The fuselage is too short and too skinny, the canopy is still small. The old kit comes with two styles of external fuel tanks, but not the extra long ones, plus what looks like napalm bombs and Bullpup missiles.

ESCI/AMT-Ertl:  Scalemates says this kit first came out in 1982.  Reviewers in Detail & Scale-33 praise the kit for being the most accurate F-100D at that time (yes, better than Hasegawa).  ESCI was also the first to release a two seat ‘F’ version.   It has detailed landing gear, extra long external fuel tanks, separately molded intake mouth, two styles of IFR probes and two styles of after burners.  The only weapons are Bullpup and Sidewinder missiles. The wing is a close match to the Moore/Smith drawings, but the elevators are too narrow in span. The fuselage is slightly long at the mouth, the vertical tail is too tall. The canopy/windshield (molded as one) is the closest to matching these drawings.  The wing is also a close match to the Bell drawings, but the elevator is not only too short in span, the sweep-back is too great.  The fuselage is even longer, yet the tail is only slightly taller.  The canopy looks good, but the windshield area looks small.  Going by the Bunrin Do drawings the wing is just slightly narrower in span, the elevators match the shape and sweep but are slightly undersized in overall dimension. The fuselage is shorter and narrower, yet the tail matches the height of the drawing.  The canopy/windshield looks like a good match.

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Pioneer-PM:  This monstrosity was unleashed in the early 1990s by British empire company Pioneer.  It’s made by a company called PM, based in the NATO country of Turkey.  The air intake mouth is molded as part of the fuselage halves.  It’s marketed as a ‘C’ version but has the wing of the ‘D’ version.  It comes with extra long fuel tanks, Bullpup missiles, blobs with fins that’re supposed to be bombs and an IFR probe that’s missing the receptacle end. Oddly the wing and elevators are a close match with the Detail & Scale drawings, yet the fuselage is too small in overall size (as is the canopy/windshield).  Bunrin Do drawings show the wing to be slightly smaller in overall dimension, the elevators having too great a sweep-back, and the fuselage is even smaller, so small you’d think it was a different scale.

Italeri/Revell Germany/Tamiya/Academy:  Time to set things straight.  This kit is not a re-box of the ESCI kit, it is a re-tooled/so-called improved version of the ESCI kit, first coming out in 1998. The surface details, and the wheel well/air brake well details, are exactly the same. The sprue layout is different.  The external fuel tanks are much shorter than the ESCI tanks. You get optional IFR probes and afterburners. For weapons you get two ‘dumb’ iron bombs and two rocket pods. For some odd reason Italeri added a spurious frame to the canopy, about two thirds of the way back on the canopy, rendering it useless.  The most noticeable change (besides the canopy guffaw) Italeri made was to the length of the fuselage, which now matches the Moore/Smith drawings. The tail is still too tall. The wing is slightly shorter in span to the Moore/Smith drawings, but the elevators are a close match (the opposite of the ESCI kit).  Compared to the Bell drawings the wing is a better match, still slightly short in span. The elevators match the shape but are also slightly short in span.  Interestingly the fuselage is too long for the Bell drawings, at the mouth, and the tail is still slightly too tall.   For the Bunrin Do drawings the wing is too short in span, slightly narrow in chord. The elevators match.  The fuselage is too short, yet the tail matches the height of the drawing.  Revell AG (Germany) re-boxed the kit at the same time Italeri first issued it.  Beware, Tamiya re-boxed the kit starting in 2001, and I’ve seen it command prices over $20 U.S. (just because it has Tamiya’s name on the box), Academy re-boxed the kit in 2017 also commanding a high price for it, don’t do it!

Trumpeter:  And the winner is! Starting in 2009 Trumpeter issued what every Super Saber builder wanted; super detailed kits in the ‘C’, ‘D’ and ‘F’ variants. The kit comes with separate flaps and slats for the wing. Optional IFR probes. Detailed exhaust/afterburner section (only the early non-f-102 style of afterburner). Air intake trunking (but the mouth is molded as part of the fuselage halves and is narrower than the other kits).  Optional factory air brake or field modified air brake. Optional extended or folded nose pitot.  Boarding ladder.  Highly detailed interior parts.  The instructions make it look like the canopy suffers from the now ubiquitous ‘parting line’ syndrome that most Asian kits are infected with, but the canopies that came with my kits (the ‘C’ and ‘F’ versions) were free of this parting line.  For the ‘C’ version the instructions want you to attach the tail hook which, according to my references, the ‘C’ version did not have a tail hook. The weapons load is extremely limited (as is with all the kits reviewed); Sidewinders and ECM pods depending on the kit version.  The external tanks are about the size of the Italeri kit’s. Detail & Scale-4’s drawings show the wing to be much too short in span, the elevators are a match.  The fuselage is almost a direct hit with the tail being slightly too tall.  The canopy and separately molded windshield both look slightly small.  Compared to the Bell drawings, in Detail & Scale-33, the fuselage is almost a direct hit with the nose being too long.  The canopy looks good, but the windshield still looks small.  The wing is too short in span and slightly narrow in chord.  The elevators look like a match.  With the Bunrin Do drawings the wing is good span-wise but way too narrow in chord.  The elevators are too long in span. The fuselage and tail are too short.  The canopy is slightly small, but the windshield looks good.

Conclusion: Avoid the odd Pioneer F-100, with its 1:72 scale wings and 1:80(?) scale fuselage.   If you want something cheap that you can assemble and paint in less than a day, then hang from the ceiling, then Lindberg’s re-issue of the ancient IMC kit is for you (sometimes you can find the Hasegawa kit for less cost than the IMC/Lindberg kit so go for that then).  The old ESCI kit is still good-to-go for building something you want to proudly display on the shelf, but don’t waste your time and money on aftermarket detailing sets.  If you want the most detailed F-100 kit available (and you were thinking of buying an ESCI kit plus detailing sets) then it’s the Trumpeter kit hands down, no need to buy aftermarket detail sets (but you can if you’re obsessive and rich ).  Even with its flaws the Trumpeter kit is still better than all the other older kits available.

P.S. The most needed aftermarket item for these kits is a good variety weapons set.

Gate Guards:  F-100 Super Sabre

1/600 MOSKVA: AURORA VS AIRFIX

BLACKLIGHT REVELL DEAL’S WHEELS

HEINKEL HE-51: HASEGAWA VS. ICM

GEORGIA’S MUSEUM OF AVIATION MODEL SHOW, 2017

RED DEVIL AWARDS 2017, ARE THEY REAL OR ARE THEY MODELS?

GROCERY STORE USES MODEL PLANES TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS!

IDAHO CAT CAUGHT INSTRUCTING HUMAN HOW TO BUILD CORVETTE!

1:48 F-105G WILD WEASEL SHOWDOWN, HOBBYBOSS VS MONOGRAM

1:72 SHOCK & AWE LOCKHEED F-104 STARFIGHTER, OR, WHY YOU CAN’T TRUST SCALE DRAWINGS! 

FUJIMI, ESCI, AIRFIX, HASEGAWA, MATCHBOX, REVELL & HOBBY BOSS. MORE REASON NOT TO TRUST SCALE DRAWINGS?

Business/Economics

Too Big to Jail bank admits ‘good’ economy is driven by never ending layoffs!: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, September 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: More Layoffs and Big Changes Rock Meredith’s Alabama Office

CALIFORNIA: Internet based second hand clothing seller ThredUp issued a shutdown WARN for its San Leandro ops, 118 jobs gone a week before Xmas, as the company moves to Arizona! Savers issued a shutdown WARN for its thrift store in Milpitas, 54 jobs gone by November.

Twin Arbors Athletic Club closing all three Lodi locations

San Francisco based Wells Fargo plans to cut up to 26,500 jobs 

Disney Consumer Products Hit With Layoffs

Film studio Global Road files for bankruptcy

Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf to close main building, with 186 layoffs

COLORADO: Dillon bowling alley files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

CONNECTICUT: Wild Bill’s Nostalgia closing its doors

The Day announces company wide layoffs

Farmington Bank to shed 27% of workforce after $544M People’s United deal

Top Farmington Bank Executives See Millions In Severance In Sale Of the Bank

FLORIDA: State Farm issued a WARN for its statewide insurance ops, 159 jobs gone right after Thanksgiving!  Airport services contractor Menzies Aviation eliminating 19 jobs at Tampa International Airport right after Halloween.  Aviation services contractor Eulen America issued a WARN, 5-hundred jobs at Miami International Airport gone by Thanksgiving!  Switzerland based robot maker ABB issued a WARN, 25 jobs in Coral Springs gone by February 2019.

Frank Theaters now bankrupt busted

Thomasville furniture closing at St. Johns Town Center

World of Decor in Bradenton closing

GEORGIA: Merchandiser Siffron issued a WARN, 53 jobs in Centerville gone.

IDAHO: Connections Loyalty issued a WARN, 175 jobs in Boise gone between November and December!

ILLINOIS: Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Pana, 86 jobs gone by Thanksgiving.

Dozens of layoffs expected at ‘solutions’ company

GQ Sports and Collectibles shutting down

Bed Bath & Beyond closing in Machesney Park

IOWA: Broker Dealer issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in West Des Moines, 35 jobs gone by mid-October. Owner Revolution-Schafer Systems eliminating 46 jobs in Adair by the end of October.  Owner Revolution-Connect A Doc eliminating 33 jobs in Atlantic.

Des Moines based Meredith Announces Structural Changes, Lays Off 200 Employees

Eagle’s Rest Antiques shutting down

KENTUCKY: “Covington’s premier neighborhood!” Mainstrasse Village Association now bankrupt busted due to climate change

LOUISIANA: Popular furniture store closing after 66 years of business in Baton Rouge

MARYLAND: Baltimore based Under Armour Is Cutting 400 Jobs

MASSACHUSETTS: Get ready for layoffs as Rockland Trust to acquire Blue Hills Bank

Concord furniture store The Cottage to close shop

Spencer Furniture closing

Family jewelry store closing after more than 200 years on Cape Cod

After 38 years, Gilda’s Place of Bridals is going out of business

MICHIGAN:   Airport services contractor Menzies Aviation eliminating 189 jobs at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport by mid-November, due to loss of contract with Delta!

Groskopf’s closing downtown Grand Rapids store after 137 years

Pell’s Radio TV & Appliance in Cadillac Closing After Nearly 100 Years

MINNESOTA: Hair salon chain operator Regis suddenly laid off 75 people in Edina.

NEBRASKA:  Closing of Barnett’s Do-It-Center marks end of 136-year tradition

Sempeck’s Bowling and Entertainment suddenly shutdown after 25 years

NEVADA: 1970s Las Vegas Costume Rental Business Closing 

NEW JERSEY: Aviation services contractor ABM Aviation issued a WARN, 821 jobs in Newark gone by November! Seaview Dolce Hotel issued a WARN, 226 jobs gone by Thanksgiving!

40 years old Shaws Book Shop closing

‘This place is an institution.’ Clothing store closing after 119 years.

British empire Canada owned Lord & Taylor to close Monmouth Mall store (124 jobs gone according to official WARN)

NEW YORK: Opry City Stage suddenly shutdown, 99 jobs gone.  Security guard contractor FJC Security Services suddenly lost its contract with the city of New York, 782 jobs gone overnight!  P.W. Minor issued a shutdown WARN for its shoe factory in Batavia, 82 jobs gone between now and Xmas.  Stationary company Bigname Commerce issued a shutdown WARN for its Amityville operations, 41 jobs gone by Xmas.

Citigroup Says Job Cuts Boost Profitability

Bed Bath and Beyond in Niskayuna is closing

123-year old Luxury retailer Henri Bendel closing (at least 112 jobs gone according to WARN)

DeWitt Pet Supplies Plus store closing

Alto Music closing after more than 50 years

State Farm to close New Hyde Park office, lay off 82 workers 

The Village Voice is no more

NORTH CAROLINA: Family Dollar to close Matthews HQ, affecting 900 jobs

NORTH DAKOTA: David’s Bridal in Pinehurst Square Mall closing

OHIO: Allpro Parking eliminating 55 jobs in Columbus, mid-November.

OREGON: SHAMROCK FLOWERS AND GIFTS CLOSING AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS

PENNSYLVANIA: Schutt Sports issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Easton, 50 jobs gone between now and Xmas. Uniform company Elbeco issued a shutdown WARN for its Frackville ops, 71 jobs gone by mid-December.

Wentz Hardware store in Emmaus to close after 75 years

RHODE ISLAND: YMCA closing North Kingstown location

SOUTH DAKOTA: TCF Bank Closing Operations Center In Sioux Falls, Laying Off 145 People

TENNESSEE: Rick Terry jewelers closing in Lenoir City

Knoxville’s Soccer Post closing after decade

As stock hovers around $2, Fred’s plans mass layoff

TEXAS: Small Fry closing after 49 years

North Austin ‘Benefits’ Firm To Lay Off Dozens By November

Walmart closing three Neighborhood Market locations in San Antonio

VIRGINIA: Investment company CFA Institute Makes Significant Layoffs despite growth

Dick’s Sporting Goods at Stony Point sets closing date

WASHINGTON: State Farm issued a shutdown WARN for its insurance ops in Tacoma, 269 jobs lost by the end of October!

Aberdeen Salvation Army Store closes

Future of Flight Museum closing

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, September 2018: “SIGNIFICANT CHANGES”

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, September 2018:IS THIS IT?

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, September 2018:“INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGES”

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS layoffs, September 2018:“MANY JOBS WILL BE….ELIMINATED”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, September 2018:TAXES, BAD COPS & CRIMINAL MIGRANTS ON THE RISE!

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., September 2018:“PERCEIVED THREAT”

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, September 2018:“DANGEROUSLY LOW”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, September 2018:“…THE ENTIRE COUNTRY MUST FOCUS ON THIS!” “DRUG DEALERS IN ARMANI SUITS”

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, August 2018:IT’S WORSE THAN YOUR LEADERS WILL ADMIT TO

Business/Economics

It’s worse than your leaders will admit to: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, August 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

MarketWatch: Chief executives who are paid less than their peers are four times more likely to lay off their employees

BoundingIntoComics: Comic Stores Nationwide Close Up

CALIFORNIA: Wells Fargo layoffs in Rancho Cordova may be harbinger for mortgage industry

Deluxe Entertainment lays off 46 in Burbank

SeaWorld cuts 125 jobs

Target plans to close San Bernardino store (108 jobs gone according to WARN)

BMA Car Wash issued a shutdown WARN for their Canoga Park location, 47 jobs gone by the end of September.  Hotel/resort manager Pyramid Petaluma Management issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Petaluma, 89 jobs gone by the end of September.  Law company Archer Norris shutting down, at least 106 jobs gone by mid October! Global Cash Card eliminating 228 jobs in Irvine by mid-October!  Banc of California shutting down locations in Santa Ana and Whittier.  Airport services contractor Menzies Aviation eliminating 172 jobs in San Francisco by mid-October!  Also in San Francisco, InterContinental Hotels Group Resources eliminating 186 jobs right after Halloween!  Insurance company Allstate issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Diego, 58 jobs gone right after Halloween. Rainbow Disposal issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Huntington Beach, 71 jobs gone right after Halloween. The decision by Lowe’s to shutdown all its Orchard Supply Hardware will result in more than 1-thousand-3-hundred Californians becoming jobless by mid-October (according to official WARN)!

COLORADO: Niwot based Crocs shutting down its last shoe factory

FLORIDA: Wells Fargo lays off 137 from Orlando mortgage operations

The Orchard Supply Hardware shutdowns will result in 293 Floridians becoming jobless by mid-October!  1st Global Capital issued a WARN, 108 jobs gone by October!

GEORGIA: The following companies announced or conducted layoffs in August; Bob McCormick and Associates, Clean Break Cleaning, Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter/Ravinia, State Farm Insurance Companies, for a total of 166 jobs lost!

HAWAII: Volcano and hurricane blamed for economic shutdown

ILLINOIS: Moline businesses worry about future after Best Buy closes

INDIANA:  After 44 years, Richmond’s Elder-Beerman shuts down

Security guard contractor Andy Frain issued a shutdown WARN, 148 jobs gone by the end of September!

IOWA: Wells Fargo eliminating 25 jobs in West Des Moines.

MARYLAND: Wells Fargo to lay off 42 additional mortgage workers 

MICHIGAN: Multichannel customer experience ForeSee lays off Ann Arbor employees

MINNESOTA: Waseca Hy-Vee issued a shutdown WARN, 136 jobs gone by the end of September!

NEVADA: Cortez Masto slams Wells Fargo for laying off hundreds in Reno 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Merrimack based Brookstone Is Closing all Its 101 Mall Stores

NEW YORK: JPMorgan Chase & Co. is laying off about 100 employees

White Plains Walmart shuts down a day earlier than expected

Best Buy issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Liverpool, 76 jobs gone by November. Sterling National Bank WARNed the state that all its offices were shutting down due to being taken over by competitor Astoria Bank. Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Pittsford ‘fulfillment unit’.  ‘Intellectual property company’ Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto issued a layoff WARN, 127 jobs gone due to merging with competitor Venable!

NORTH CAROLINA: Mooresville based Lowe’s to close all 99 Orchard Supply Hardware stores 

What’s behind Wells Fargo’s latest layoffs in the Charlotte region

Layoff Notices: 550 workers impacted

OHIO: Cincinnati-based Proctor & Gamble has cut 36,000 jobs since the spring of 2012

Car parts packer Orbis eliminating 105 jobs

Columbus based Victoria’s Secret closing 20 stores

Cincinnati based Macy’s shares tumble as department store struggles to grow sales

Elder-Beerman begins closures of Dayton-area stores

OREGON:  Lowe’s-Orchard Supply Hardware issued a shutdown WARN, 112 jobs gone by mid-October!

PENNSYLVANIA: Coraopolis based Dick’s Sporting Goods’ shares slide as sales miss expectations

York based Bon-Ton Stores is about to disappear

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota unions protest Citi layoffs, bank outsourcing

TEXAS: Capital One to lay off 286 employees from Plano office

Plano based JC Penney Faces Prospects of Closing Dozens of Stores Soon

Houston based Mattress Firm is closing hundreds of stores 

VIRGINIA: Nearly 100 Delta Global Services employees to lose jobs at RIC

WISCONSIN: Kohl’s cuts 60 technology jobs

Despite selling online, Milwaukee based iconic Carson Pirie Scott suddenly shutdown all stores and is going out of business (unless somebody is willing to buy the retailer and keep it alive)

Despite selling online, the end is near for Milwaukee based Younkers

Best Buy issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Grafton, 68 jobs gone by November.

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, August 2018:OUTBREAKS & RECALLS

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, August 2018: “A BIG RISK.”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, August 2018:“UNPRECEDENTED DECLINES” “UNEXPECTED AND UNFORESEEABLE”

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS layoffs, August 2018:“A 45-PERCENT DECLINE”

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, August 2018:ARE COPS THE NEW #1 ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE? IDAHO RAPES TAXPAYERS!

DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., August 2018:BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA

OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, August 2018:“SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, August 2018:‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, JULY 2018: “WE SURVIVED TARGET. WE SURVIVED WALMART, BUT WE COULDN’T SURVIVE THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION…”

U.S.

“significant changes”: U.S. Food Crisis, September 2018

Video

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

In Denmark, one of the world’s most profitable salmon farms is now blaming the mass die-off of salmon (750-thousand around just one of Denmark’s islands) on farm fertilizer run-off which is causing a deadly algae to bloom

Who actually makes money off taxpayer funded farm bills; Wealthy urbanites from Hollywood to Manhattan 

Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

Corn plunges on huge yields

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred Shop ’n Save employees across Illinois and Missouri losing their jobs as a result of failed efforts to sell-off the troubled stores by parent company Supervalu!

ALABAMA: Legal Petition Urges Feds to End Toxic Agricultural Pesticide Use on Alabama Wildlife Refuge Complex

Drought conditions spread

Almost a Half-Million Pounds of Prepared Chicken Is Being Recalled 

ALASKA: worries that Alaskans could lose food stamps 

240 varieties of potatoes grown in Palmer

ARKANSAS: In Texarkana, after more than 40 years Park Place Restaurant shutdown so the owner can retire.

Legal Issues in Arkansas Agriculture

Rain Stalls Potentially Record Arkansas Cotton Harvest

ARIZONA: The owners of Tucson Tamale Company said, on facebook, that they’re forced to shutdown their Broadway location because of road construction, they hope the shutdown is temporary.  In Chandler, after ten years Wimpy’s Paradise shutdown, the owner claiming he is not quiting the eatery scene, he just has to adjust to his age.

The cost of cotton

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

Department of Agriculture investigates well-being of horses in Vail

CALIFORNIA: In Los Gatos, after 36 years Gilley’s Diner shutdown due to family ‘obligations’.  In San Francisco, The Matterhorn Swiss Restaurant shutdown after 24 years “because we’re old and tired.”  Four Ruby’s Diners, in Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Oceanside and Palm Springs, now bankrupt busted.  Color Spot Nurseries issued a shutdown WARN for its Carson location, 52 jobs gone by Thanksgiving. Veggie packer Jackpot Harvesting Company issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Gonzales, 256 jobs gone in January 2019! (it might have something to do with a lawsuit over compensation of piece-rate employees)

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton held a Feds Feed Families food event at the Blinder Memorial Chapel. Feds Feed Families is a U.S. Department of Agriculture operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

Despite California farm shutdowns, Farmers claim they’re Struggling To Find Workers. 

Arrogant leftist-liberal California claims its farmers will show the world how to lead on climate change.

COLORADO: Are hot springs the future of farming?

meatpacker recalls ground beef after E. coli death

CONNECTICUT: In Stratford, after 62 years popular restaurant Marnick’s shutdown without warning to customers and employees, local news media reported that city officials were happy to announce the property (which also included the Rodeway Inn) had been sold.

At Farm Aid In Hartford, Neil Young Tells Fans ‘Corporate Farms Suck’

DELAWARE: Restaurant Cocina Lolo shutdown after only three years, even the facebook page was disabled.

Third equine case of West Nile Virus confirmed

Monsanto grant to help Delaware Farm Bureau

Delaware farmers to get tariff relief

FLORIDA: What exactly is the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture?

GEORGIA: diversity of agriculture industry

Mayfield Dairy (Dean Foods) eliminated 108 jobs!

GUAM: Guam Agriculture Awarded $313-thousand in taxpayer funded Federal Grants

SNAP recipients to get 60% of food stamps automatically added to help deal with Typhoon Mangkhut

HAWAII: Stratos New York Pizzeria shutdown due to ongoing lava flows running-off tourists, and the fact that the owners have been blocked from moving to a new location.

IDAHO: tax panel raising valuations on irrigated farmland

elk hunters are having some of the best hunting of all time

Gov. Otter to lead trade mission to Canada

Raising warm water fish near the cool waters of Idaho

U.S. Department of Agriculture m44 land-mine explodes Pocatello family

ILLINOIS: Chicago based, but British empire Canada/South Africa owned, MillerCoors eliminating 350 corporate jobs in the U.S. by the end of October! MillerCoors is also raising prices, as well as canceling some of its products, due to crashing beer sales.  Shop-n-Save issued shutdown WARNs for grocery stores in Jerseyville, Granite City, Belleville, Cahokia and Springfield, 420 jobs gone just in time for Xmas!

record 300.5 pound watermelon

More proof its farm welfare; farmers anxious about promised federal taxpayer payouts

Rauner declares harvest emergency for 2nd straight year

INDIANA:  Farmers Need Industrial Hemp Or Legal Marijuana To Prosper

Indiana partners with British empire Canadian province to advance agricultural

Why aren’t land values plummeting?

IOWA: VeroBlue Farms issued a shutdown WARN for its fish farm ops in Webster (and also warned of looming bankruptcy), 24 jobs gone by Halloween.

Iowa land values fall

USDA is putting tax dollars into developing new markets

KANSAS: first step toward growing industrial hemp

American Farmers Are in Crisis

KENTUCKY: In Louisville, after 28 years Clifton’s Pizza shutdown because the owner needs to “take care of my personal life.”

AppHarvest launches high-tech agriculture class

test plot of malaria-fighting plant a success

Why Vermont students are farming in Kentucky

LOUISIANA: After 18 years The Melting Pot shutdown its Baton Rouge location because “we have been unable to work out a long term lease deal with our landlord”.

Government data proves Louisiana is in trouble

MAINE: Oyster farm on Maquoit Bay raises concerns

small, midsized farms suffering from labor shortage

Maine ranks highest in New England for food insecurity

MARYLAND: Fudgery shutdown its 33 years old location at Inner Harbor, due to sales that can’t keep up with increasing costs.

Coalition Launches ‘Save A Shore Farmer’ Program

New regulations for lawn-fertilizer 

MASSACHUSETTS: Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its 12 years old grocery store in Taunton, with only a weeks notice, local news media reported the corporate office refused to say why.  In Hyannis, Cape Cod Potato Chips suddenly laid off 21 people as part of efforts to ‘upgrade’ to new equipment, which reduced the three production lines down to just one.

Farmers Revive Historic Hops

Cranberry prices so low farmers are going to dump their crops!

Indigo raises $250M to build online marketplace for farmers

MICHIGAN: Grocery giant Kroger shutting down its store in Mundy, 73 jobs lost by the end of October.  In Hastings, after 30 years Mills Landing shutdown, the restaurant owners didn’t say why.  Great Lakes Coca-Cola Bottling shutting down its Kalamazo operations, 102 jobs affected by November!  Great North Foods issued a layoff WARN, at least 19 people (the official WARN also warned of additional layoffs) jobless right after Thanksgiving.

Here’s one reason for Trump’s tariffs; Michigan lost 143 dairy farms in the past year!

Marie Catrib’s in Grand Rapids closing in October

MINNESOTA: In Minneapolis, Colossal Cafe shutdown so the owner can retire.  Maple Plain Food Center shutdown after 52 years due to increased competition, the owners reminisced about how hard it was to start a family run store because of government regulators: “We were actually the first combination grocery store/pharmacy in the state of Minnesota. We had trouble getting our license initially because the state board of pharmacy thought it was unethical to have groceries and pharmacy in the same facility.”-Tom Reycraft

MISSISSIPPI: farmers, contractors still back Trump

MISSOURI: HeBrews Coffee forced to shutdown its Springfield location due to a court order, as a result of a dispute with the landlord.  In Saint Louis, after more than 40 years Llywelyn’s Pub, on McPherson Avenue, suddenly shutdown so the owner can focus on the more profitable locations.  In Jefferson City, Weber Meat Market shutting down by Xmas because the property owner wants to demolish everything, due to the fact that the majority of spaces in the 60 years old shopping plaza are vacant.  In Kansas City, after about 12 years Domo Sushi & Japanese Grill shutdown so the 75 years old owner can retire.

farmers still struggle

Drought effects persist despite rain

Farm owner refuses to comply with state regulations

MONTANA: The farmers who trust Trump

NEBRASKA: Obviously trying to “revolutionize the way America thinks about food” doesn’t pay-off because Eat Fit Go now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, suddenly shutting down two stores.

New health care plan available for Nebraska farmers

New Costco poultry complex initiates ripple effect at retail

NEVADA: Starving horses suddenly appear, nobody knows where they came from 

tariffs strengthen “perfect storm” slamming Nevada farms

USDA hands out $5-million taxpayer funded grant for snow-pack study

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Farm Bet on Organic Eggs and Won Big

NEW JERSEY:  Grocery store Seasons now bankrupt busted and up for sale.  In Cherry Hill, Asian Food Markets shutdown its 13 years old Barclay Farms location, saying a new location is being sought.

a thriving agriculture industry

Hazelnuts could never grow in New Jersey — until now

NEW MEXICO:  USDA bills New Mexico $164-million for over-billing of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps)!

NEW YORK: Coffee shop chain Fika now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, apparently rent on 11 of the 20 shops hasn’t been paid. Maritima issued a shutdown WARN for its LaSirena restaurant, 140 jobs gone right after Xmas!  Signature issued a shutdown WARN for its North End Grill, 59 jobs gone a week before Xmas.

New invasive pest could impact NY’s agriculture

Immigration policy at the forefront of New York apple farming controversy

NORTH CAROLINA: Golden Corral shut down its buffet in Elizabeth City, without warning or explanation.  Smithfield Foods shutting down its Clayton distribution center, 1-hundred jobs lost to consolidation operations!  The Winterville Rucker Johns restaurant shutdown with no warning and no explanation.  In Washington, after six years Coffee Caboose shutdown.

Florence Engulfs Hog Farms And Chicken Houses causing floods of pig poop and chicken crap, Thrashes North Carolina Agriculture

Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

Video, Maryland National Guard assists North Carolina National Guard in food distribution after Hurricane Florence:

Video, North Carolina National Guard delivers MREs to a local fire department after Hurricane Florence:

Marines from MCAS Cherry Point conduct food distribution ops house-to-house in New Bern, 20SEP2018.

NORTH DAKOTA: Judge rules North Dakota anti-corporate farm law is constitutional

Demand for North Dakota beans goes south

OHIO:  Tilted Kilt suddenly shutdown its pub-restaurant on East Prospect Avenue, in Cleveland, supposedly the employees will be working at a “new venue” elsewhere.  In Cincinnati, after 20 years restaurant Palomino announced it can’t renew the lease on its Fountain Square location and shutdown.  In Findlay, after 40 years New China Inn shutdown, the owners said “we’re getting old.” 

U.S. Defense Logistics Agency associates, along with local food bank volunteers, collected 9-thousand-143 pounds of food that will support more than 525-thousand people in Central Ohio!

Bumper crops not paying off for farmers

OKLAHOMA: Woody’s Corner Bar shutdown after 12 years in Tulsa, the owners claim they’ll be back with something new.  Also in Tulsa, the Natural Grocers store shutting down by November, 16 jobs lost to ‘recent financial performance’.

8-Year-Old Boy Killed In Farming Incident

producers can apply for funds to offset tariff disruptions

Men Charged with Series of Cattle and Equipment Thefts

OREGON:  Beaverton Bakery shutdown after 93 years, apparently due to increased competition as local news media reported there were eight other bakeries in the immediate area.  In Portland, Sweet Heart Pizza on North East 7th Avenue shutdown so it can be turned into something else.

Critical Drought Levels After Driest Summer 

USDA approves emergency grazing, cover crops

Feds will take over troubled Lost Valley Farm megadairy

PENNSYLVANIA:  In Indiana, after 25 years The Coventry Inn shutdown, the owners claiming they can’t find reliable employees saying “We need eight or 10 committed workers, and four or five is hopeless.”  In Pittsburgh, after 28 years Beehive CoffeeHouse & Dessertery forced to shutdown because the building is being sold-off.  In Hermitage, After 86 years family owned Darrenkamp’s grocery chain shutting down and/or selling-off its stores, more than 641 jobs affected!  Hunger relief organization Philabundance got 3-thousand-931 pounds of food from the local U.S. Defense Logistics Agency employees. Philabundance feeds 90-thousand people across Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

Spotted Lanternfly discovered

sounding the alarm on deer disease

$10 million in farm tax credits available

PUERTO RICO: In coffee country, ‘We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil’ 

RHODE ISLAND: In Middletown, after 14 years Rusty’s Bar & Grill forced to shutdown so the property can be gentrified into a 23 unit apartment building, local news media reported that the customers are opposed to the city’s decision.

Hemp will be cropping up 

Topsfield Fair pumpkin record smashed

SOUTH CAROLINA: Hurricane Florence causes at least $125-million in damages to farms

SOUTH DAKOTA: 2-year-old dies from farming accident

Variability leads to questions about crop outcomes

TENNESSEE: In Franklin, after only two years the Buffalo Wings & Rings shutdown with only one weeks notice.

Who wants to be a farmer?

TEXAS: Farmers Branch based Taco Bueno suddenly shutdown 16 restaurants across four states due to “changing traffic patterns”.  In Upper Kirby, Steakhouse Power owned Del Frisco’s Grille suddenly shutdown after five years, local news media reported its another in a long list of restaurants that can’t seem to survive in that area of town.  In Austin, after more than 70 years iconic Hill’s Cafe shutdown, the owners say they’re looking for a new location.

Sheppard Air Force Base Feds Feed Families video promo:

UTAH:  new innovations in food production

Drought conditions prompt emergency meeting

Panguitch Lake closed because of toxic algal bloom

VERMONT: Magnolia Bistro suddenly shutdown after 12 years due to the owner’s negative social media comments about people with addictions, and despite the owner’s apology for those comments.

Scores of farm owners face higher taxes 

Thieves Put Damper On Hemp Harvest

VIRGINIA: man killed in farming accident

WASHINGTON: Starbucks warning of massive layoffs at the corporate level due to “significant changes”.  

Record $171-million spent in farm-land sale

apple crop awaits answers amid ongoing trade uncertainty

WEST VIRGINIA: More Women Are Becoming Farmers

U.S. Attorney Sues Hemp Farm Over Seeds’ Origin

WISCONSIN: On Pace To Hit Highest Loss Of Dairy Farms In 4 Years

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ancient farmers reduced the negative effects of The Ice Age and started Global Warming

The Fort McCoy Commissary donated food as part of the nation-wide Feds Feed Families operation.  Feds Feed Families is a USDA operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

WYOMING: Why a wrinkle in the old water law is worth millions (thanks to the oil industry)

elk populations boom ahead of hunting season

Wyoming to begin international trade with Taiwan

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, August 2018: OUTBREAKS & RECALLS

U.S.

Taxes, bad cops & criminal migrants on the rise!: U.S. government shenanigans, September 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for September 2018:

 U.S. Has Highest Share of Foreign-Born Since 1910

At Camp Foster, Japan, military personnel became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 06SEP2018.

ALABAMA: Selma City Council passes $17.4 million budget

ALASKA: Anchorage budget proposal relies on taxes, revenues, cuts

ARKANSAS: 15 migrants arrested

CALIFORNIA: Rape suspect arrested, turns out he’s a ‘Safety Specialists’ at UC Berkeley!

On-duty Kern County deputy arrested for allegedly being on drugs

Court rules San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy violated the Fourth Amendment rights of students

Deputy arrested for violating probation

Retired cop arrested for grand theft auto and threatening other cops

Stanislaus County Supervisor has DUI arrest record

150 Undocumented Immigrants, Most of Them With Criminal Records, Arrested in 3-Day Operation

Deep in red, Sacramento City school district’s budget rejected 

COLORADO: Denver unveils almost $1.5B budget proposal

FLORIDA: 

U.S. Coast Guard captures 11 migrants and three human traffickers off Boca Raton, 08SEP2018.

Two City of Clearwater employees arrested for stealing from the taxpayers

police lieutenant arrested, accused of molesting little girl

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s  deputy arrested for possessing and sharing child pornography

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s  deputy fired for being drunk (was already in trouble for multiple hazing incidents and assaulting prisoners)

Police Officer arrested for disorderly conduct at restaurant

corrections trainee charged with sexual misconduct

Prison guard arrested for drugs and bribery

“An inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution’s annex was able to strangle and mutilate his cellmate, gouge out his eyeballs, wrap his blood-soaked body in a sheet and walk into the prison’s chow hall wearing the dead inmate’s ear strung around his neck before officers learned anything was amiss…”

Gainesville Regional Utilities jacked-up by 2%

Tampa approves more than $1-billion budget

Bradenton passes record budget. Yes, you will pay more

GEORGIA: deputy kept job despite child cruelty arrest

Deputy arrested for illegally selling guns

ILLINOIS: 63% of registered voters say they’re O-K with immigrants flooding into the state, yet 53% also said they want to get the hell outta Dodge (leave the state)!

Police admit gangs are behind gun violence

Department of Corrections investigating prisoner deaths 

Despite raising property taxes, the City of Evanston still short by $7.5-million, will now increase fees and cut services 

IDAHO: Budget office warns Idahoans may face bigger tax bills

2019 state education budget proposal includes $19.1 million for police-state ‘student safety’

proposed teacher raises revised, after error found in budget

Death, understaffing claims prompt another investigation of taxpayer funded ‘treatment’ center

Nampa asks for volunteers to scare away crows

Taxpayers forced to pay $78000 to national search firm to find next U of I president

INDIANA: Two men, including the Sewer and Maintenance Superintendent of Muncie, arrested for wire fraud, falsification of documents and witness tampering.

Deputy quits job after being arrested for being drunk 

Indianapolis Police & Fire demand more taxpayer funding

IOWA: 2018 budget surplus a higher than expected

LOUISIANA: Five Deputies arrested for beating and raping prisoners!

Opelousas City Council increases taxpayer funded budget

KENTUCKY: 16 U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Knox became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 19SEP2018.

MASSACHUSETTS: 

In Boston, 24 military personnel became U.S. citizens, LEGALLY, 20SEP2018.

MINNESOTA: Big budget cuts, layoffs at White Earth reservation, including police force

MISSISSIPPI: 16 prisoners die

Hattiesburg City Council swears residents will be safer due to more cops, despite efforts to reduce a $3.47 million budget shortfall

Pascagoula jacks-up taxes in effort to stop mass layoffs and reduce $14-million deficit

MISSOURI: City of Jefferson to buy new cop cars and rezone 139 properties

NEW HAMPSHIRE: State’s growth dependent upon foreigners as more citizens left the state, than moved in, from 2002-2012.

NEW JERSEY:  Newark Liberty International Airport eliminating 8-hundred jobs due to United Airlines suddenly changing its ground handling contract!

NJ cop arrested on charges of luring underage children for sex

NEW MEXICO: Every month state taxpayers forced to fund secret lawsuit settlements!

deputy arrested outside Santa Fe bar

Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Connection With Murders of 4 Women

NEW YORK: 7 New York Police Officers Arrested

Police sergeant, firefighter, nurse among 24 alleged child predators arrested in sting operation

Male prison guard arrested for having sex with prisoner

Female prison guard arrested for raping prisoner

OHIO: Sandusky cop arrested on felony charges

Mahoning County Sheriff’s Deputy arrests Lisbon City Police Officer

Corrections officers disciplined after prisoner escapes

Prison guard turns whistleblower revealing pics that show dungeon-like conditions of taxpayer funded prison

OKLAHOMA: Colonel Christopher A. Hussin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Tulsa County Drainage District 12 Levee Commissioner signed a Cost Sharing Agreement for the $3-million taxpayer funded Tulsa-West Tulsa Levee System Feasibility Study.  The levee was first built in the 1940s and apparently is in need of updating if it’s to continue as a flood control system.

Thousands of Oklahomans switch political party affiliation

senator convicted of child sex trafficking sentenced

PENNSYLVANIA: Taxpayer funded for-profit prison contractor GEO issued a shutdown WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification) for its Walker Hall operations, 27 jobs gone right after Thanksgiving.

Corrections officer accused of smuggling drugs

SOUTH CAROLINA: Prison guards arrested for drug smuggling

TENNESSEE: Correctional Officer Accused Of Smuggling 

TEXAS: Arrests of Bexar County cops sets new record in 2018!

Bexar County deputy arrested on drunk driving charge; 17th deputy criminally charged in 2018

Deputy arrested on DWI charge gets fired

Dallas police officer who shot neighbor dead arrested

El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested an El Paso City Police officer for deadly hit-&-run

Wise County deputy arrested for assault

Border agents in South Texas saw increase in migrant families make illegal crossings

San Antonio adopts $2.8-billion budget

Amarillo increases taxes to hire more cops

UTAH: Firefighting group expresses concern over prisoner rape arrest

WASHINGTON: Female prison guard arrested for having sex with prisoner

Seattle unveils $5.9 billion budget proposal

The never ending Hanford nuclear reservation clean-up (proposed) budget is now $15-million higher than last year 

Spokane Public Schools to pay for teacher pay raises by forcing teachers to retire early

Washington DC: Ice arrests more than 40 people trying to sponsor migrant children

Border arrests of migrant families increase 38 percent 

Indians (from India) arrested for illegally entering U.S. nearly triples

New TRAC Report Shows Where ICE Arrests Occur

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, September 2018: “DANGEROUSLY LOW”

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018: TEACHERS MORE VIOLENT & CRIMINAL THAN STUDENTS?

Drugs, the American Way, September 2018: “…THE ENTIRE COUNTRY MUST FOCUS ON THIS!” “DRUG DEALERS IN ARMANI SUITS”

U.S. government shenanigans, August 2018: ARE COPS THE NEW #1 ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE? IDAHO RAPES TAXPAYERS!

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Are Cops the new #1 Enemy of the People? Idaho rapes taxpayers!: U.S. government shenanigans, August 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for August 2018:

Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Guide to Policing For Profit. 

USA Today: Prisoners nationwide go on strike to protest ‘modern-day slavery’

ALABAMA: Warrior police officer arrested for 2nd time in 2 years

Video released proves female cop summarily executed a man for trying to help a stray dog and for refusing to show a drivers license!

Retired Drug Task Force cop turns out to be a drug dealer

Sanitation and gas tax dominates

ARIZONA: Video update of National Guard support ops for U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection (Border Patrol) at Port of Nogales, Operation Guardian Support:

CALIFORNIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 1-thousand-493 NASSCO jobs (according to official WARN) in San Diego, by the end of September, supposedly due to an accident involving a USN ship and a new floating dry dock! Electronic voting software company Everyone Counts eliminating 18 jobs in La Jolla.  Texas based prison contractor ISI Detention Contracting Group suddenly halted ops in Orange, 27 jobs suddenly gone.

Border Patrol cop arrested for ‘strangling’ traveler 

Whittier police officer arrested for sexually assaulting 2 minors

Politician and his wife arrested for illegal use of campaign money

Illegal gun dealer was a cop!

California spends more than half its yearly taxpayer funded fire budget in one month!

COLORADO:  Fort Collins expects slowing tax revenues, despite legalized ganja

FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded GCR eliminating 35 jobs at Cape Canaveral, in September.  Taxpayer funded Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky eliminating 5-hundred jobs, in Jupiter, by the end of December!

Police officer arrested, accused of breaking prisoner’s leg

Prison guard arrested for drugs

Yes, Rick Scott did cut $700 million from Florida’s water management

GEORGIA: congressional candidate arrested for murder

congressional candidate sentenced to six months in jail

GUAM:  New Island Sustainability Community Advisory Board formed

IDAHO: Taxpayer funded software problem closes driver’s license offices, hinders police

FBI arrests ten people for selling fake cellphones

One Third of Middleton police department serves in Idaho Army National Guard

Idaho prisons mulling 20 percent taxpayer funded budget boost

“Idaho has the highest incarceration rate of any of its surrounding states, but the lowest rate of violent crime. The state is currently considering a $500 million prison expansion.”

Canyon County blames massive budget increase on prison overcrowding

South Idaho deputy’s shooting of family dog investigated

Idaho schools chief’s new security plan may cause chaos

State leaders report a surprise $100-million increase in tax collections!

State government sells-off 51 Priest Lake properties for $26-million

Kootenai County wants to jack-up property taxes

Idaho County wants to jack-up property taxes

City of Meridian reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes

Twin Falls reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes

Idaho Falls police demand more taxpayer funding

Boise Fire Department ‘loses’ $17-million in taxpayer funding!

Lewiston Airport sees increase in operating costs, yet suffers 60% decrease in flights

Problems getting worse for the now taxpayer funded Portneuf Wellness Complex (I must point out this ‘wellness complex’ was originally built without Bannock County taxpayer approval as it was touted as being funded with donations)

Bannock County official placed on paid administrative leave

Pocatello’s massive taxpayer burdening Northgate interchange project delayed until at least next summer

Pocatello’s community access channel will shut down

Zimbabwe man who lived in Pocatello for 15 years to be deported

Troubled University of Idaho reports big drop in funding for athletic programs

College of Idaho warns of budget cuts and layoffs due to crashing enrollments and funding

Paranoid grade schools cut operating budgets in order to increase spending on police-state ‘security’!

ILLINOIS:  Politician’s campaign staffer arrested for attacking political opponents

INDIANA: Arrest caught on video ends with cop being fired

LOUISIANA: Saint Tammany Parish laying off 21 people, as part of an earlier warning that as many as 40 Parish employees would lose their jobs due to local sales tax collections crashing by millions of U.S. dollars.

10 new laws that could affect your daily life

Oak Grove cop charged with rape

Shreveport police officer arrested

MARYLAND: Baltimore cop resigns after ‘disturbing’ video

MICHIGAN: County cop arrested for being drunk and fighting with city cops

MISSISSIPPI:  12th Mississippi prisoner Dies in August

MISSOURI: Ferguson officer fired for stalking, assault

NEVADA:  911 dispatcher arrested 

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Top Democrat arrested for domestic violence

NEW JERSEY: Mail-order cocaine and a top cop’s arrest spark new calls to kill an entire police department!

NEW MEXICO: Oil boom drives tax revenues to record high

NEW YORK: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 31 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Fort Drum, by the end of October, officially due to loss of contract.

Cop arrested for grabbing women

NORTH CAROLINA:  Dozens of people arrested in one county for ‘illegal voting’!

congressional candidate arrested on stalking charges

OHIO:  Cop arrested, charged with drug trafficking

Female corrections officer arrested

OKLAHOMA: taxpayer funded Veterans Center doctor arrested for attacking a taxpayer funded cop

Cop arrested, accused of choking son

PENNSYLVANIA: Prison guard arrested for drug smuggling

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Cop charged with killing his wife

TENNESSEE: Lack of tax revenues threaten police departments

County promises no tax increases or budget cuts, in return for selling taxpayer owned hospital

TEXAS:  Entire police force turns out to be criminal gang as Series of indictments nearly wipes out Llano Police Department

Female cop arrested twice in 3 weeks

police officer found guilty of murder

Cop arrested Just 10 Days After Being Sworn-In

Cop spending just 15 years in prison for killing high school student

Mansfield mayor demands tax relief for home owners

VIRGINIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 101 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Chesapeake, by the end of September, as a result of taking over taxpayer funded CSRA this year!

Police Officer Arrested in Death of Baby Daughter

WASHINGTON:   eighth prisoner to die in Spokane County custody

cop arrested again in domestic violence case

Spokane police officer pleads guilty

police sergeant sentenced to 7-years in prison for sexually assaulting another cop!

Ongoing jump in retail sales tax revenues allows city of Spokane Valley to suspend planned property tax increase, now expects nearly $4-million surplus!

Washington DC: CIA officer faces arrest 

Former head of CDC (and Obama lackey) Tom Frieden arrested

Congressmen arrested for Insider Trading

How many of Donald Trump’s advisers have been convicted?

Three Men Arrested for Impersonating Senate Staff

Trump gives $717 billion taxpayer funded military bill a green light

Trump cancels pay raises for federal employees

Senate increases taxpayer spending on the National Institutes of Health to $39-billion!

Federal budget deficit increases 79%

WYOMING: Greybull police officer arrested on federal charge

Drugs, the American Way, August 2018: ‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018: BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, August 2018: “SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES”

U.S. government shenanigans, July 2018: TAXES & NEW LAWS PROVE IT’S NO LAND OF THE FREE!