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Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in May 2018.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

CALIFORNIA: Suppler of parts to aircraft manufacturers, Stratoflight Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for its Santa Ana ops, 57 jobs gone in July. Georgia based mattress maker Simmons Bedding Company issued a shutdown WARN for its San Leandro factory, 153 jobs gone in July! Government contractor Bechtel issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Francisco, 126 jobs gone by the end of June! Taxpayer funded bus company First Transit issued a shutdown WARN due to losing its contract with Santa Maria, 69 jobs affected by the end of June. France based Zodiac Aerospace (C&D Zodiac) eliminating 13 jobs in Garden Grove, by July. Petroleum management company Breitburn issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles office, 51 jobs gone by July.

ILLINOIS: What automotive industry recovery? In Des Plaines, NTN Bearing issued a shutdown WARN, 36 jobs gone by August. In Decatur, Jacobson Warehouse Company issued a shutdown WARN, 168 jobs gone in July due to “relocation”!

INDIANA: Duefol eliminating 150 jobs at its largest facility in North America, local news media reported the industrial packaging company also killed 250 jobs last year, due to contract losses!

IOWA: Bankrupt busted Zero Energy Systems suddenly laid off 40 people in Coralville.

MASSACHUSETTS: After 47 years Newport shoe maker Rockport (maker of Aravon, Dunham and Rockport brand shoes) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and selling its assets. Coca Cola shutting down its Pittsfield warehouse, at least 12 jobs gone in July.

MINNESOTA: What housing industry recovery? Mid Continent Cabinetry eliminating 195 jobs at its Cottonwood location, in July!

MISSOURI: Wisconsin based ‘american’ motorcycle maker Harley Davidson shutting down its factory in Kansas City, about 4-hundred once U.S. jobs being sent to Thailand (according to union reps)!

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Stratham based outdoor apparel maker Timberland suddenly laid off about 45 people in an attempt to spur company growth.

NEW JERSEY: Exelon Generation Company eliminating 84 jobs in June, as part of the ongoing shutdown of the country’s oldest nuclear power generator, Oyster Creek.

NEW YORK: Nypro-Jabil issued a shutdown WARN for its Rochester location, 53 jobs gone by November. Shoe wholesaler/supplier Harbor Footwear issued a shutdown WARN for its Port Washington location, 53 jobs gone by the end of July.

NORTH CAROLINA: Mitt Romney co-founded wunderkind Staples shutting down its Henderson distribution center (fulfillment center), transferring 1-hundred jobs from Henderson to Charlotte as part of consolidation operations!

NORTH DAKOTA: What automotive industry recovery? The new owners of vehicle wiring harness maker Fargo Assembly shutting down three factories, supposedly due to lack of orders, about 125 jobs gone as soon as the last orders are filled!

OHIO: Essity Operations Wausau-Wausau Paper Mill eliminating 60 jobs in Middletown by the end of September. Olmsted Falls based kitchen appliance maker Vitamix suddenly eliminated an undisclosed number of corporate jobs in order to “address changing market conditions”. Bellefontaine based gun distributor/wholesaler AcuSport now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and for sale. High heat resistant industrial products maker HarbisonWalker International shutting down its factories in Oak Hill and Sproul, local news media reported that at one time both factories employed 714 people. OPW Fueling Components eliminating 22 Hamilton jobs in July.

OREGON: Boise Cascade Elgin Sawmill eliminating 90 jobs due to factory shutdown.

PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia Shipyards eliminating 275 jobs due to lack of container ship building contracts! State College based petroleum driller Rex Energy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and selling off its assets. In Nazareth, NFI Interactive Logistics eliminating 261 jobs in July! Book printer (both traditional and digital) Edwards Brothers Malloy issued a shutdown WARN for its Blue Ridge Summit office, 18 jobs gone in June. What housing market recovery? Custom glass maker Benson Industries issued a shutdown WARN for its Lebanon location, 112 jobs gone in July! Pittsburgh Glass Works issued a shutdown WARN for its Creighton location, 148 jobs gone by the end of June! ‘Whole home total energy providers’ Worley & Obetz issued a shutdown WARN for its Lancaster location, 64 jobs gone in June.

TENNESSEE: After 120 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) iconic guitar maker Gibson now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to $500-million USD of debts. According to New York Post, guitar sales have crashed by a whopping 1.5-million units in the past ten years! What construction industry recovery? After 28 years, and more than $150-million USD worth of projects, Strauss Construction shutting down.

WASHINGTON: Georgia Pacific-Camas Paper Mill laid off 225 people! Despite warnings from the corporation last year, many employees were still shocked: “The last few weeks were very intense, you know, and it was very sad. You spent a career building it and now it’s going to be coming down, so I think people are starting to decompress.”-Ellisa Schiffman

WISCONSIN: Appliance maker Western Industries issued a shutdown WARN for its Jefferson County location, 85 jobs gone mid-July.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, April 2018:“HISTORIC CHANGES”

OBAMA LEGACY: U.S. APPAREL INDUSTRY DEATH-SPIRAL

U.S.

Grand Teton seismic anomaly shuts down popular hiking trail!

July 11, 2018 Hutchins AAron

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Park Superintendent David Vela, at Grand Teton National Park in the western U.S. state of Wyoming, shutdown a popular hiking trail due to sudden “expanding cracks and fissures in a large rock formation”.

The Hidden Falls Area Trails and Inspiration Point are temporarily closed “until we can properly assess the situation.” Park rangers say “noticeable” cracks suddenly appeared in overhanging boulders within a 24 hours period!

Employees with Exum Mountain Guides were forced to move their training operation to a new location. However, nearby Jenny Lake Boating tours will continue.

Wyoming is also home to the supervolcano known as Yellowstone.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: VOLCANOES TRUE CAUSE OF ARCTIC ICE MELT! SUNSCREEN TRUE CAUSE OF CORAL REEF DIE OFF?

Idaho, U.S.

‘Zombie Alert’ is for real: U.S. government shenanigans, May 2018

July 10, 2018 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for May 2018:

Tax Foundation: Average Per Capita Property Taxes: How Does Your State Compare?

New York Times: Federal Tax Cuts Leave States in a Bind

CNBC: Here’s how the new federal tax law may impact you

ALABAMA: Lowest local tax collections per capita in the U.S.

ALASKA: Analysis by state officials finds that requiring people who receive Medicaid to work won’t save the state government money, and police continue to investigate one of their own for rape.

Legislature bans smoking in bars, restaurants

State lawmakers ask for support from other U.S. states to fight Canadian mining ops

ARIZONA: Gov-na gives teachers a taxpayer funded raise

The most politically corrupt state in nation?

ARKANSAS: Lawsuit says judaeo-christian-islamic Ten Commandments display at the Arkansas state Capitol violates 1st Amendment

Governor’s son arrested on DWI charge

$377-thousand USD taxpayer funded grant for cyber security program linking a high school with Little Rock Air Force Base

Gov-na Asa and the Corruption State

Work requirement OK’d for Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion

CALIFORNIA: Proof the Golden State’s economy sucks as Democrat state senators wants to nearly triple taxpayer funding for the ever expanding number of low income people

Neo-Nazi Senate candidate kicked out of California Republican Party

Marijuana tax cut could be in jeopardy as revenue lags behind

Federal taxpayer funded USA (U.S. Army) contractor DynCorp issued a layoff WARN for its Fort Irwin NTC operations, 27 jobs gone by the end of July. Federal taxpayer funded USAF (U.S. Air Force) contractor Unisys issued a layoff WARN for its ops at Edwards Air Force Base, 90 jobs gone by mid-July. Federal taxpayer funded USAF contractor JT3 issued a shutdown WARN of its ops at Edwards Air Force Base, 746 jobs gone by mid-July!

California cop tied to Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime

He Paid for His Mentos. Then an Officer Pulled a Gun on Him.

COLORADO: Gov-na signs bills improving state’s immigrant driver’s license program

Failed state employee payroll plan ends up costing state taxpayers $5-million USD!

CONNECTICUT: A man arrested for holding up a “cops ahead” sign near a police checkpoint

Gov-na signs bump-stock gun ban

A former Connecticut Gov-na released from federal custody

Connecticut Joins Effort to Overturn Electoral College

DELAWARE: State Department of Health and Social Services warning of new killer heroin

State Department of Justice revealed that more than 200-thousand residents had their facebook data stolen

FLORIDA: Miami police officer relieved of duty after a video showed him kicking a suspect in the head

Gov-na takes part in controversial embassy opening in Jerusalem

Federal government lies about record low rate of unemployment?

Florida ban on smokable medical marijuana ruled unconstitutional

Florida gets $19-million federal taxpayer dollars for elections-cybersecurity

Palm Beach accidentally sends real ‘zombie alert’ to residents

GEORGIA: New law changes how you can drive

Gubernatorial Candidate Points Gun at Teen “who’s interested in one of my daughters”

Gov-na signs bill to tax online sales

GUAM: The territorial government issued an additional $2-million USD in tax refunds

3-month tax amnesty begins

Gubernatorial candidates discuss Guam decolonization

Guam hit with Agent Orange?

Gov-na claims there are no H2B immigrant workers on the island

HAWAII: Residents scrambling for masks the government says won’t protect them from deadly VOG

Hawaii Gets An ‘F’ For Its Transparency On State Government Spending

Hawaii first state to ban sunscreen (what happened to blaming Global Warming for coral reef deaths?)

Volcano eruption puts $5M dent in Hawaii tourism industry

IDAHO: Aircraft maintenance contractor PKL Services issued a shutdown WARN for their taxpayer funded ops at Mountain Home Air Force Base, 103 jobs gone by July!

The super-expensive (for taxpayers), heated governor’s race you aren’t paying attention to

Taxpayers forced to pay transgender women’s attorney fees

Who’s behind that printed voter guide in your mailbox, and who really paid for it?

What the Fastest Growth in the U.S. Means for Idaho Politics

Rape kit testing backlogged in Idaho state labs

ILLINOIS: Chicagomag.com: The Illinois Taxes No One Wants to Talk About

Gov-na issues amendatory veto on gun bill

State lawmakers trying to license Illinois gun stores

Illinois needs term limits to protect the people

INDIANA: Teacher credited with disarming student in Indiana school shooting

Poverty protesters lock themselves to gates at gov-na’s mansion

5 quirky highlights from gov-na’s taxpayer funded trip to Europe

IOWA: Female Police Officer Arrested After Alleged Domestic Abuse

Gov-na signs largest tax cut in state’s history

Iowa Constitution bars new fetal heartbeat abortion law

Three women accuse governor candidate of sex crimes

Gov-na signs Bill Intended to Curb Opioid Overdose Deaths

KANSAS: Police handcuff driver over ‘vegetation’

13000 state employees may soon get taxpayer funded raises

Gov-na Helps Former Criminals Seeking State taxpayer funded Jobs

Three Things To Know About The State Of Cannabis In Kansas

Kansas approves religious veto on LGBT adoptions

Gov-na gives religious groups access to taxpayer funded welfare programs, even if the religious groups discriminate!

Attorneys press for $1.5-Billion USD more from state taxpayers for schools

Data is so bad on taxpayer funded healthcare (KanCare) that legislative auditors can’t tell if it’s working

KENTUCKY: The gov-na suddenly sold-off many of his out-of state properties in 2017, how much does he still own?

Gov-na and lawmakers take taxpayer funded business trip to Asian Continent

LOUISIANA: Lawmakers want more taxpayer funding

Louisiana Senate committee’s ‘pretend budget’ meant to calm fears

Tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients could face eviction

Ban on abortions after 15 weeks signed into law

79 new state laws

Louisiana may expand use of prison labor to taxpayer funded construction projects

MAINE: Recreational marijuana is now legal in Maine – sort of.

How ranked-choice voting is changing Maine campaign strategy

Maine’s taxpayer funded Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) “failed to follow policies and procedures” in one of two horrific child abuse cases.

MARYLAND: Gov-na plans to sign ‘free’ (100% taxpayer funded) community college bill into law

1,900 HONDURANS IN MARYLAND AFFECTED BY ORDER

Maryland becomes 11th state to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’ for minors

Taxpayer funded E-ZPass toll road transponders now ‘free‘

MASSACHUSETTS: Taunton Police admit Wrong person may have been arrested in stabbing case

ICE agents halt controversial practice of office arrests

State taxpayers funding 800-Megawatt foreign built Offshore Wind Farm !

State taxpayers to give $1.8-billion USD to residential property developers!

MICHIGAN: Detroit police chief blasts judge in case of man who allegedly cut tether

Flint, Islam and fixing the damn roads.

New Michigan law makes recounts tougher for election losers

State taxpayers continue to get screwed over deal that benefits foreign food company, at local water user’s expense!

Flint water declared safe, residents say bullshit!

State taxpayers forced to spend $50-million USD on Soo Locks

State taxpayers forced to welcome 150-200 Chinese officials & business executives

Fire marshal says state ignored mandated inspections for 40 years, in past 18 months firefighters battled 1,245 building fires!

MINNESOTA: The state Department of Corrections canceled its contract with food service contractor Trinity Services Group, 279 jobs affected by the end of July!

Minnesota cops can legally have sex with people in custody.

The 2018 session of the Minnesota Legislature was a failure.

Taxpayers forced to spend $1.5-billion USD on infrastructure

Government and private industry motor vehicle registrars demanding that taxpayers fork over millions in ‘rescue funding’ to keep Department of Motor Vehicles ops rolling!

MISSISSIPPI: Baby born at taxpayer funded abortion clinic

Two counties sue state, claim governor can’t close bridges

After eight years Mississippi is still the hungriest state

Despite having the highest rate of food insecurity, federal taxpayers are giving Mississippi $4.5-million USD for election cybersecurity

MISSOURI: FBI investigates gov-na’s ‘associates’

Court Examines gov-na’s Cellphone In Criminal Case

State House committee subpoenas embattled governor

Missouri May Be First State To Get Serious About The Definition Of Meat

MONTANA: Montana is the first state to enact its own net neutrality rules

Montana deploys chatbot fleet, eliminating thousands of support calls

Outside money flows for Montana’s U.S. senate slot

Taxpayer funded prison hospital has new policies after ‘perceived emergency situation.’

NEBRASKA: Fast moving developments on Nebraska’s death penalty

Gov’na boasts of Japanese investments

Independent wanna-be politicians have little chance of getting on election ballots due to state law

Watchdog discovers lobbyists spent $17-million USD bribing state politicians

NEVADA: Federal Nuclear Dumping Stirs Statewide Resentment

Nevada Attorney General Rails Against California Laws

Clark County School District announces $68-Million USD deficit due to arbitration agreements, including paying teachers more money

Taxpayers/utility customers to fund $15-million worth of electric car charging stations

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Police Arrested a Man for Criticizing Them on the Internet

Highest taxpayer funding rate in the U.S. for college, yet also has the highest in-state tuition rate as well

Federal taxpayers funding state Syringe Services Programs for addicts, under the guise of infrastructure development!

When a fee becomes a tax

Partially taxpayer funded (through state Office of Planning) Regional Economic Development Center creates loan program for immigrants/refugees (officially called New Americans)

NEW JERSEY: Fourth Paterson cop arrested by FBI, this time over beating of suicidal hospital patient

School funding shell game negatively affects low-income districts

NEW MEXICO: Call center contractor Convergys eliminating about 1-hundred jobs in Albuquerque due to the expiration of a contract, local news media revealed that Convergys received almost $200-thousand USD in taxpayer funded incentives to create 1-hundred jobs last year!

State Supreme Court reconsidering its ban on the use of taxpayer funds for textbooks in private schools

State taxpayers forced to increase Funding for State Pre-K Program

Data shows increased federal taxpayer funding for New Mexico schools is not improving academic performance

Lottery funded scholarships for New Mexico college students increasing, mainly because of declining enrollments

NEW YORK: Schenectady police officer charged with DWI, after crashing his car near police HQ

Prior Arrests, Yet Still Hired as NYC Correction Officers

Federal taxpayers forced to pay for job training for Two New York Organizations

NORTH CAROLINA: State government finds an extra $600-million taxpayer dollars?

“Pork” proliferates in the 2018-19 budget

Does the Lottery actually fund education?

NORTH DAKOTA: State tax revenues from oil/gas up 25% due to higher oil prices

OHIO: School Districts Struggle to Cover Lost Transportation Funding

Some Ohio districts miss out on taxpayer funding for construction

Ohio’s school-funding system was bad in 1997; it’s still bad today

Do you know how your schools are funded, gymnastics

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma approves religious veto on LGBT adoptions

Is education funding crisis self-inflicted?

Can medical marijuana save education

OREGON: Earthquake alert funding and southern Oregon

Oregon receives $1-million USD taxpayer funded grant for endangered species study

Federal taxpayers fund efforts to stop Sudden Oak Death

PENNSYLVANIA: York City Police officer arrested for alleged domestic assault

York City school district is most underfunded per student

PUERTO RICO: Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4000

Puerto Rico Enters a New Age of Austerity

Inside the Federal Response to Maria: “Is This Really the Best FEMA Can Do?”

FEMA funding running out for hundreds

Universities Get Just a Fraction of Storm Aid

FCC approves additional taxpayer funding for Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Is a ‘Geopolitical Black Hole’

The Skilled Worker Exodus

RHODE ISLAND: Providence Mayor s pends the most on election campaigns

State taxpayer funding for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be restored

Privatizing Providence Water will hurt Rhode Island ratepayers

SOUTH CAROLINA: Accusations of murder, hypocrisy and playing God in state budget debate on abortion

South Carolina wants more federal taxpayer funding for election security

SOUTH DAKOTA: The state gets only $500-thousand federal taxpayer dollars per year to provide federally mandated protection for endangered species.

Court ruling could mean legal sports wagering headed to South Dakota

South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture resigns after only one year

South Dakota’s K-12 education leader quits after only six months

TENNESSEE: 900 ‘free’ (taxpayer funded) pre-K classrooms

$9.7-million USD taxpayer funding for attorneys to represent poor residents in court

Illegal immigrant ‘Sanctuary cities’ now illegal in Tennessee

TEXAS: Cop arrested in death of brother, a Harris County sheriff’s deputy

El Paso Police officer raped woman while responding to police call

activist jailed for his Facebook posts reveals secret FBI surveillance on ‘identity extremists’

State Supreme Court sides with short-term renters

Texas ranks 36th nationally in per-student education spending.

“It is shameful that Texas continues to pour millions of taxpayer dollars into fake women’s health centers that operate with no accountability or oversight. In shutting down licensed abortion clinics and instead legitimizing crisis pregnancy centers, Texas officials have made it clear that they do not truly care about the health and safety of pregnant Texans.”–Alexa Garcia-Ditta, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas

The federal government took $41,000 from this Texan at a Houston airport six months ago. They never gave it back.

UTAH: A wannabe spy got a job at Utah government agency to send documents to Russia

404 new Utah laws take effect!

Feds give Utah three years to bring ozone pollution down

Facebook gets $150-million taxpayer funded incentives to build a massive data center in Utah

VERMONT: Calling All Remote Employees: Vermont Will Pay You to Move There

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS: FCC Announces Additional taxpayer Funding to Help Virgin Islands

VIRGINIA: Taxpayer funded University of Mary Washington’s newspaper budget was slashed from $13,765 to just $100.

Virginia counties beg for transportation improvement funds

State taxpayers forced to pay record level $154-million USD for the Metro rail system in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.

The state Tobacco Commission claims it will spend 6-million tobacco settlement dollars on creating small businesses, jobs and education

WASHINGTON: Bellingham Police officer fired after arrest for allegations of beating two men

Bernie Sanders says Seattle based Amazon paid no federal income tax in 2017

WASHINGTON DC: Investigation reveals federal agencies fail at cybersecurity

White House Cracks Down on Unions with Executive Orders

Federal Employees Face Cuts To Retirement Benefits And Pay Freezes

WEST VIRGINIA: HUD wants to know why West Virginia suspended flood recovery

Revealed that West Virginia politicians sat on federal taxpayer funded flood relief for months before releasing it

West Virginia Pursues FCC Mobile Broadband taxpayer Funding

West Virginia wants federal taxpayer funding to fight opioids

West Virginia Super PACs covered up massive out-o-state donations

WISCONSIN: Milwaukee Cop Suspended After Violent Arrest Caught on Video

22 schools get taxpayer funded ‘fab lab’ technology grants

Local governments create their own vehicle taxes to fund road repairs, due to lack of state level funding

WYOMING: University of Wyoming gets 9.77-million federal tax dollars for carbon storage

Yellowstone-Area Grizzly Bears to Be Hunted for First Time in Decades

Politicians want to create taxpayer funded trust to supposedly update and maintain the election system

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Government Shenanigans, April 2018:“BULLSHIT!”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”

ObamaCare ACA death spiral, May 2018:“…WILL CREATE DEATHS. THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS.” (even doctors are canceling their insurance)

Dumbing Down U.S.A., May 2018:“MORALE HAS NEVER BEEN LOWER.”

International

Pacific Ring of Fire: Volcanoes true cause of arctic ice melt! Sunscreen true cause of coral reef die off?

Video July 9, 2018 Hutchins AAron

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More proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change for coral reef deaths: In November 2015 the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned Skincare Chemical Threatens Coral Reefs.

Time.com, in 2015, said Sunscreen Killing Reefs.

In February 2018, the Sweden based International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) revealed the impacts of sunscreens on coral reefs.

In April 2018 National Geographic reported Sunscreen, Clothing, And Other Coral Reef-Safe Alternatives.

At the end of June, 2018, Mother Nature News said Why your sunscreen is bad for coral reefs.

And for more proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change glacier melt-off, recent discoveries reveal that polar ice sheets are actually melting due to volcanic activity. In August 2017 The Guardian reported Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet.

In October 2017 The Weather Channel reported Volcanic Eruptions May Be Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Sheets.

In June 2018, the Independent reported Active volcano discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet could be contributing to rapidly melting glacier.

Now onto the most recent volcanic/seismic activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Which Ring of Fire Volcano is next to blow?

A group of microbes found in a highly acidic, hot, mineral-rich volcanic lake in Central America may give us clues about life on ancient Mars.

Volcanoes from Space: 50 Breathtaking Astronaut and Satellite Photos

Latin America’s Top Most Dangerous Volcanoes

Volcanic activity worldwide 8 Jul 2018

CANADA: Seismologist warns peers to be careful about what they tell the news media!

Red flag over tsunami warning system

expected powerful earthquake with thousands of victims

CHILE: Minor earthquake – Antofagasta

Volcanic complex in Chile’s south could erupt within days

ECUADOR: Mag. 3.8 earthquake – NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR

Galapagos’ Sierra Negra volcano eruption triggers evacuation

Reventador ash and eruption

GUATEMALA: Survivors of deadly Fuego Volcano begging United States for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

Are the Central American Volcanoes Waking Up?

INDONESIA: Krakatau erupts

Ritual sacrifice draws crowds to Indonesia volcano

Moderate earthquake – Southern Sumatra

Third earthquake in 2018 in Lebak: Is Jakarta ready for megathrust quake?

Dukono spews ash

Earthquake jolts Indonesia’s Bali after Mount Agung erupts

JAPAN: Strong 6.0 earthquake rocks Tokyo

Government Map Forecasts Likely Future Japanese Earthquakes

Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Tokyo, eruption of Ebeko

Shinmoedake volcano erupts

Death toll climbs after 6.1 temblor strikes Osaka

MEXICO: Moderate earthquake – Off Coast Of Chiapas

Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes off Jalisco coast

NEW ZEALAND: Taranaki probably the volcano most at risk of large eruption

A Māori view of the rising volcanic activity

PERU: Sabancaya Volcanic Ash Advisory

Moderate earthquake – Central Peru

RUSSIA: Earthquake HITS volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula

Mag. 5.1 earthquake – Southeastern Siberia

Video, Russian ice lava:

UNITED STATES: The U.S. has over 160 active volcanoes.

Alaska: Volcano Mount Cleveland Could Erupt Soon

California: 4.6 earthquake shakes California-Nevada state line

Earthquake Rattles San Bernardino County

Beyond lava and ash: Stanford geologists explain what makes volcanoes dangerous

Geologists detail likely site of San Andreas Fault’s next major quake

Scientists Fear ‘Slow Earthquakes’ Will Lead To The Next Big California Quake

Salton Sea Could be Ground Zero for Next Big California Earthquake

A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings

Hawaii: In July, Hawaii became first U.S. state to ban sunscreen.

Scientists defy ‘force of nature’ to unlock secrets of Hawaii volcano

Volcanoes and DNA

Volcano evacuees suffering ‘shelter fatigue’

American Land in Pacific Grows Bigger

Idaho: Yet more unexplained Minor earthquakes in Soda Springs

Nevada: 3rd most earthquake-active state in U.S.

Oregon: Earthquake Simulation Reveals Dangers

City mayor doubts Oregon State University computer Cascadia Event models

Cascadia Event training, Warrenton, Oregon, June 2018

Despite doubts by a city mayor, Oregon’s National Guard conducted a small Cascadia Event exercise during June. Dubbed Pathfinder-Minuteman refresher training it revealed that the biggest problem for emergency responders is communication between different groups: “The biggest part of all of this training is team communication. I watched other teams struggle because of communication issues…”-Allison Journey, volunteer taking part in the training for the first time

Small earthquake off coast becomes fifth to strike since April

Earthquake alert funding and southern Oregon

Washington: Yet another Cascadia Event FEMA drill planned, including Idaho and Oregon

Tsunami from Cascadia Event would reach Bellingham in 90 minutes!

Future 9.0 Cascadia Event could produce 5.5-meter (18 feet) deep tsunami

Skagit County gets new maps for tsunami planning

Wyoming: Strange things are happening here

Canadians who walked on Yellowstone hot spring die

Yellowstone’s normally dormant Steamboat Geyser erupts 11th time in 2018

After first poo-pooing eruptions, scientists are finally concerned over Steamboat Geyser’s sudden re-awakening

Yellowstone’s magma chamber is more powerful than we knew

Yellowstone super-volcano warning as heat build-up stronger than first reported

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: ACTIVITY STRIKES IDAHO? VOLCANOES JUST DESTROYED ALL HUMAN ATTEMPTS TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE! GET READY FOR CASCADIA!

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: SEISMOLOGIST SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD PREPARE FOR QUAKE THAT WILL LAST AN HOUR AND CREATE DAYS OF TSUNAMIS!

Business/Economics

“This was the slowest iceberg hit.”: Sears Kmart death spiral, July 2018

July 5, 2018 Hutchins AAron

New Sears-Kmart shutdowns revealed in the month of July, 2018.

Kmarts in Australia and New Zealand are not owned by Sears Holdings, and are not connected to Sears Holdings in anyway, but big news from Down Under as Australia’s first Kmart store is now for sale!

More proof the U.S. shutdowns are about control of commercial property as Warren Buffet loans Sears Holdings’ REIT division, Seritage Growth Properties, $2-billion USD!

Alabama: The taxpayers of Albertville taking the bull by the horns with the redevelopment of the vacant Kmart. City leaders approved a taxpayer $4.4-million USD debt-financing bond issue to partially pay for a $36-million plan to turn the Kmart into an amusement park (recreation center)! It should be noted that residents and tourists have been paying a special Kmart redevelopment sales tax ever since July 2017, and is reportedly bringing in more money than expected. On top of all that city leaders are still pushing for a $5-million bond issue to buy the property outright, making the taxpaying residents the official owners.

California: It’s official, the highly profitable Goleta Kmart (“The Goleta Kmart store for long has been one of the most profitable for the chain…”) shutting down, 146 jobs gone in October (to be replaced by a Target)! Local news media said the Kmart was a profitable store because of its location near University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), yet no reason was given for why the store was being replaced by Target, other than the Kmart lease was not renewed by Sears Holdings. And for more proof the ‘big box’ shutdown epidemic due to online competition is bullshit, the OCRegister reported that Target opens in former Kmart in Anaheim.

Colorado: In Cañon City, the Sears Hometown Store was sold to local competitor Frank’s Appliance. The Arvada Kmart shutting down in September, it’s the last Kmart in the Denver metro area. Local news revealed that taxpayers will be forced to help fund redevelopment of the soon to be vacant Kmart property because it sits within the Ralston Fields Urban Renewal Project Area.

Florida: New development plans for the vacant Neptune Beach Kmart still has taxpaying residents up-in-arms. The plan still calls for apartments, hotel, parking garage, restaurants and brick-n-mortar shops (proving brick-n-mortar shut downs are not because of online shopping), it just reduces the number of apartment tenants compared to the previous plan. Residents have launched a “If It is Too Dense, It Makes No Sense” anti-gentrification campaign.

WJXT: Neptune Beach residents protest development at old Kmart

Illinois: Sears Holdings suddenly laid off 2-hundred corporate level employees, no reason given (speculation is it’s because of crashing sales)! The now former employees are getting severance, which means they won’t be counted in the nation’s official unemployment roles. In January, Sears Holdings laid off 220 people! The city of Sterling considering burdening local taxpayers by creating a TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) district to redevelop vacant commercial property, including a vacant Kmart.

Chicago Business Journal: Illinois wrench-making company loses $6M patent fight with Sears

Chicago Tribune: Sears seeks millions from Caribbean cruise robocall settlement

Indiana: More proof Sears-Kmart shutdowns aren’t about the so-called demise of brick-n-mortar shopping as the recently vacated Bloomington Kmart is about to undergo an estimated $250-million USD make-over. The developer says the vacated Kmart will be turned into a massive ‘pedestrian-friendly’ commercial center. Don’t be surprised if the developer gets taxpayer funding.

Iowa: The 60 years old Des Moines Sears store and Auto Center at the Merle Hay Mall shutting down between August and October, leaving Iowa with only one Sears store, the mall’s owner told local news media it was expected saying “This was the slowest iceberg hit. We’ve been talking about it for a long time.” The 40 years old Oelwein Kmart is shutting down, in October.

Kansas: Sears Holdings is now selling off its Overland Park service center, starting in September.

Minnesota: Twin Cities Business Magazine: The Kmart the City of Minneapolis Wishes Would Go Away

Nevada: Las Vegas Kmart on Washington Avenue shutting down by the end of September. KLAS reported that the whole ‘big box’ shutdown epidemic due to online competition is bullshit after they interviewed local real estate agents, saying “Corporations will also pay to keep stores empty around them to cut down on the competition.” After 27 years the Elko Kmart shutting down, local news media said the store manager confirmed it, but gave no more info. It leaves Elko with only one ‘Big Box’ store.

New York: The last Queens-NYC (Middle Village) Kmart shutting down, 126 jobs gone by the mid-October, the property owner told local news media the lease was still good until January 2019!

North Carolina: Sears Holdings just renewed the lease on a vacant Kmart store, in Wilmington, that was shutdown in 2017! The sudden lease renewal put the kibosh on major redevelopment plans by GHK Cape Fear Development and Capstone Collegiate Communities. Sears Holdings rep Howard Riefs finally admitted the ongoing shutdowns are really part of a plan to stop competition and control available commercial real estate: “Controlling good real estate, long term, at attractive market rents provides the company with many opportunities.”

Ohio: The West Henderson Sears Hardware store shutting down by mid-August.

Oregon: Owners of the soon to be vacated Big Kmart property, in Portland’s Parkrose Heights, upset over the city’s sudden rezoning of the property (part of the city’s 2035 Comprehensive Plan) which now makes it impossible for the property owners to redevelop the land in connection with other commercial property they own nearby. Last month a Sears Hometown owner claimed her stores were profitable even though Sears Holdings forced them to shutdown, now Sears Holdings is suing her, accusing her of processing false refunds, unauthorized bank withdrawals and stealing dozens of snowblowers.

Pennsylvania: Century III Mall sheriff’s sale postponed for a second time

Casino eyed for Sears at York Galleria, as residents speak out against it

Texas: After only five months the Wichita Falls Sears Hometown suddenly shutdown, signage and merchandise seemingly removed in the dead of night, the landlord said the store owner still owes $11-thousand USD in rent! The city leaders of Abilene figuring out how to get local taxpayers to fork out more bucks (or cut construction costs) as the winning low bid on turning the vacant Kmart into a new police-state-ops-center (Municipal Services, Police Department, 9-1-1 Dispatch, Child Advocacy Center, Municipal Court) came in at just under $19-million USD, almost $1-million over the original taxpayer funded budget for the project. Local news media revealed that enforcing the law in Abilene has become so problematic that police/courts need a larger building to operate out of.

Utah: Is the City of Provo forcing taxpayers to turn the vacant Sears into a new city hall?

Virginia: The still open Alexandria Sears (at the dying Landmark Mall) is about to be sold to property developer Howard Hughes.

Washington: The Kent Big-Kmart shutting down in October, so that Sears Holdings can “focus on our best stores”.

Wisconsin: Taxpayers of Stevens Point getting royally raped of more than $3-million USD to buy several commercial properties, including a vacant Kmart! According to multiple local news reports, Stevens Point exalted leaders are also going to force taxpayers to pay an incentive of up to $2.1-million to any property developer who wants to take-on the Kmart location. Taxpayers of Portage being forced to pay for redevelopment of the long vacant Kmart. Exalted city leaders are creating a TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) district, and to add insult to injury they claim they have to use $20-thousand USD of existing ‘contingency’ tax funding to create the TIF! A property developer now claims the vacant Portage Kmart could see a six-fold increase in property value!

Motley Fool: Sears Holdings Has an Expiration Date

Hartford Courant:Why Won’t Sears Help Repair Refrigerator’s Water Dispenser?

Calgary Herald: Sears Canada retirees ask court for retailer’s remaining cash

Law360: Wrench Maker Can’t Save $6M IP Verdict Against Sears

Seeking Alpha: Sears amends credit agreement, takes new loans

TCPalm: Is Sears’ cashback promotion a good deal or big risk?

Reader’s Digest: The most hated store in America, and its not Walmart

The Casual Smart: Big Money Are Not Betting On Sears Hometown

Sears Kmart death spiral, June 2018: “THEIR YEAR OF DEMISE.”

Technology

“to achieve profitability.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, May 2018

July 5, 2018 Hutchins AAron

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

British empire United Kingdom based facebook data stealing Cambridge Analytica now bankrupt busted in the United States, due to $10-million USD of debt: “Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations. The siege of media coverage has driven away virtually all of the company’s customers and suppliers. As a result, it has been determined that it is no longer viable to continue operating the business.”

CALIFORNIA: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group-Deluxe Digital laying off 52 people in Burbank, by the end of July. Charter Communications suddenly laid off 66 people in Cerritos. Data warehousing company VSolvit suddenly laid off 107 people in Ventura! Santa Barbara based consumer electronics company Sonos suddenly laid off 96 people, despite claiming to be growing and profitable. Japan founded DENSO Wireless Systems America issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Vista, 160 jobs gone by the end of July! Electronic device maker AMETEK issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Irvine, 42 jobs gone by the end of June. Symantec continues killing jobs, this time 14 people in Mountain View unemployed in June. Also in Mountain View, data ‘protection’ company Veritas Technologies finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 54 jobs back in April. Japan owned, Culver City based Sony Crackle suddenly laid off a dozen people “to streamline operations and increase efficiency”. Video game maker Blind Squirrel Games laid off 13 people due to the sudden cancellation of a project. Video game maker Daybreak Game Company issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego location, 79 jobs gone by the end of June. Soleil Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego ops, 88 jobs gone mid-July. Also in San Diego, Qualcomm laying off 44 people by mid-July. San Francisco based media-tech company PopSugar laid off 19 people “to achieve profitability.” Qatar based Al Jazeera issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco office, 68 jobs gone by August. Beverly Hills based Relativity Media bankrupt busted and being sold-off due to more than $500-million USD of debts generated over a two years period. Ironically job search website Snagajob shutdown its Oakland office. Taylor Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its Livermore location, 43 jobs gone by the end of June. Credit.org issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside location, 43 jobs gone by July. NetApp issued a layoff WARN for its Sunnyvale location, 36 jobs gone in July. Online food ordering company Munchery issued a shutdown WARN for its Gardena location, 82 jobs lost in July (Munchery shuts down operations in LA, New York and Seattle). Intel issued a layoff WARN for its Santa Clara operations, 65 jobs gone by the end of June. Business communications company RR Donnelley issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego and Ontario locations, 59 jobs gone in July. ‘Content connector’ Grass Valley shutting down in July.

FLORIDA: Time shutting down its Customer Service centers, 621 jobs gone between July 2018 and March 2019!

ILLINOIS: Allstate Print Communication Center issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Wheeling, 220 jobs gone between May and December, due to being outsourced!

LOUISIANA: Monroe based CenturyLink keeps killing jobs, this time around 1-thousand people will become unemployed as a result of CenturyLink’s merger with L3 Communications!

MASSACHUSETTS: Inside the ‘dehumanizing’ cost-cutting efforts by new Digital First Media ownership at the Boston Herald

Mitt Romney co-founded Framingham based, but now privately owned, Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!

MINNESOTA: Best Buy shutdown its 10 years old Mall of America brick-n-mortar store. Artesyn Embedded Tech issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by the end of June. Telemarketer Marketlink issued a WARN, 62 jobs gone mid-July.

NEW JERSEY: Apple shutdown one of its brick-n-mortar stores in Atlantic City, 52 jobs gone “Due to a sharp decline in tourism and visitors to the area…” Mimeo.com issued a WARN, 116 people in Newark jobless by July!

NEW MEXICO: Call center contractor Convergys eliminating about 1-hundred jobs in Albuquerque due to the expiration of a contract, local news media revealed that Convergys received almost $200-thousand USD in taxpayer funded incentives to create 1-hundred jobs last year!

NEW YORK: Condé Nast’s American Vogue and Vanity Fair together laid off 14 people. NYC based Viacom suddenly laid off 1-hundred people as it attempts save money while battling for control of CBS! Software maker for the retail industry Aptos shutting down its Newburgh office, 117 jobs lost over the next 12 months! California based human interface hardware maker Synaptics halting production at its Linden Oaks facility, 40 jobs gone by mid-July.

WRAL Tech Wire: Feds launch age discrimination probe of IBM in making layoffs

NORTH CAROLINA: Sykes shutting down a call center in Fayetteville, 377 jobs gone in July! Local news media said that at one point the call center employed more than 5-hundred people.

OHIO: IBM controlled Watson Health suddenly laid off at least 40 people in Cleveland, a now former employee posted online “….to close the shop, will happen in early 2019. … This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one…”

PENNSYLVANIA: Call center contractor Ibex Global Solutions shutting down its operations in the Indiana Mall, 105 jobs lost unless a new client can be found soon!

SOUTH CAROLINA: QS/1 suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, yet at the same time the healthcare software maker claims to be hiring for multiple technology positions.

UTAH: The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 64 people. The new owner of Standard-Examiner laid off four people.

VERMONT: After 72 years, magazine Vermont Life is now dead.

VIRGINIA: Ironically job search website Snagajob laid off an undisclosed number of employees at its Richmond office.

WASHINGTON: Video game maker Wargaming Seattle shutting down in Redmond, 155 jobs gone by mid-July, company officials saying “Development was discontinued on May 23”!

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, April 2018: “…TO THRIVE IN THE FUTURE.”

International

Total Gun Ban Fail: Mexico’s elections prove gun bans don’t save lives!

July 2, 2018 Hutchins AAron

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What’s happening in Mexico is proof that if you ban individual ownership of guns you make organized crime more powerful.

A ‘crisis management’ company called Etellekt reports that since Mexico’s election campaigns began at least 132 candidates and campaign workers have been assassinated by organized crime, assassinations have hit 22 of Mexico’s 31 states! This is in a country that has a near total ban on individual ownership of guns, in fact there is only one legal gun shop in Mexico and it’s run by the military!

By wait, there’s more! The Mexican government’s Secretaría de Gobernación admits that 2018 is the on its way to being the deadliest year for Mexicans; 4-thousand-381 homicides just in the month of May! More than 25-thousand people murdered in 2017! (not all killed with illegal guns, but the majority of killings were with illegal guns)

According to Mexico News Daily, three more assassinations took place at the end of June!

GUN BAN FAIL: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST U.S. GOVT. EMPLOYEE IN MEXICO!

TOTAL GUN BAN TOTAL FAILURE: MEXICO!

WORLD WAR 3, NORTH AMERICAN FRONT: UNITED STATES IS ‘THE’ DRUG LORD IN MEXICO’S DRUG WAR?

WORLD WAR 3, NORTH AMERICAN FRONT: TENS OF THOUSAND OF MOSTLY CHRISTIANS KILLED IN THE NAME OF U.S. INSTIGATED FALSE FLAG DRUG WAR IN MEXICO! MORE DEATHS IN MEXICO THAN IN SYRIA?

Mexico’s Drug War, another front in the Control through Chaos game

RED HORSE & FALSE WAR ON DRUGS IN MEXICO: PREPARE FOR U.S. INVASION

International

Total Gun Ban Fail: Mass knife attacks kill dozens in China, “taking revenge on society”!

Video June 29, 2018 Hutchins AAron

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Yet again, in total gun ban China students were attacked by a man with a knife.

Three boys and a woman were attacked near Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School, two of the boys died.

Police arrested the stabber, saying he had just moved to the area looking for a job and was “taking revenge on society”. Not being able to find a job is the number one reason why men in China go on slashing/stabbing sprees. Not being able to find a woman who will marry them is the number two reason.

But this wasn’t the only knife attack in Shanghai, just a week earlier another man killed two people and wounded five in the Pudong district. He too was unemployed.

In May, another man killed nine junior high school students in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, ten were wounded. In this case the slasher said he was getting revenge for being bullied when he was a student at the school!

In all three cases the edge weapons users were in their late 20s.

Edged weapons attacks have become so common in Total Gun Ban China that police have published a Monty Python style video on how to survive a knife attack, can you say Run Away? (be warned, it’s hilarious):

GUN BAN FAILURE: YET MORE MASS STABBINGS OF CHILDREN IN TOTAL GUN BAN CHINA!

MARTIAL LAW CHINA: GUN BAN FAILS TO STOP GUN RUNNING! 10,500 GUNS CAPTURED!

GUN CONTROL CHINA: STRICT GUN BAN FAILS TO PREVENT 29 PEOPLE BEING KILLED WITH KNIVES, IN A MATTER OF MINUTES!

MARTIAL LAW CHINA: COPS START CARRYING GUNS DESPITE OUTRIGHT GUN BAN!

NBCNews: 33 Dead, 130 Injured in China Knife-Wielding Spree

WORLD WAR 3, GUN CONTROL FRONT: CHINA’S GUN BAN FAILS TO STOP MASS KILLING!

U.S. CIVIL WAR(?) & MEDIA EVIL: U.S. REPORTERS CALLING FOR GUN CONTROL AFTER DEADLY SCHOOL SHOOTING, BUT NO MENTION THAT IN CHINA ALMOST AS MANY STUDENTS WERE ATTACKED BY A MAN WITH A KNIFE!

U.S.

“Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”: Drugs, the American Way, May 2018

Video June 28, 2018 Hutchins AAron

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

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

United States Naval Institute News: U.S. Navy admits at least 10 Navy SEALs were high on cocaine

Official Air National Guard video promoting the concept of prescription drug ‘Take Away’, “Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”:

NBC: Foreign cartels embrace home-grown marijuana in pot-legal states

ALABAMA: Walker County has the highest percentage of drug deaths relating to its population. Drug raid in Dekalb County captures 1.3-kilos (three pounds) of meth, 1.3-kilos of marijuana, 20 illegal guns, $30-thousand USD in cash and captured two men believed to be from Mexico. Three children were also found in the home, the raid was the result of “several months” of investigations. Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force conducted multiple raids, capturing 14 alleged druggies, 180-grams of synthetic marijuana, 100-grams of marijuana, several grams of methamphetamine, crack and heroin, four guns, one vehicle and $8-thousand-761 in cash. Marshall County Drug Task Force captured more than 50 people (they had warrants for 1-hundred) in one night, Sheriff Scott Walls says it’s the biggest round-up of druggies in the past 38 years: “The majority of these arrests are crystal meth, there are heroin cases mixed in with this. We’re living in a time where that seems to be the norm, where people are selling in their communities, and we have a lot of drug abuse, and this is the first step to solving some of those problems.”

What’s sad about the above statement is that these druggie round-ups have been going on ever since the Reagan Era of the War on Drugs, and as you can see it has had no effect on the reduction of illegal drug use. Also, local news media is publishing the names of the people captured, I mean arrested. In the United States you’re supposed to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in court, not by police, news media or by public opinion.

ALASKA: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy declared Alaska to be a high-intensity drug trafficking area, opening up federal level taxpayer funding to police. Federal prosecutors in Anchorage discovered a new tactic of drug dealers; intentionally getting captured. People are intentionally getting arrested in the hopes they can smuggle into prison drugs and illegal guns.

Alaska Public Media: Is meth back in Alaska? Or did it never leave?

KTVA: 7 accused in violent Sitka drug trafficking conspiracy

Daily News-Minor: Illegal booze, drugs smuggled into remote villages

The Marshall Project: Want to Escape a Criminal Past? Move to Alaska

ARIZONA: Merry Jane: Arizona Group Pushing to Legalize All Drugs in 2018

Reflections Recovery Center: Arizona Opioid Addiction Statistics 2018

KNXV: Two suspected north Phoenix drug dealers arrested

Arizona Daily Independent: Teens Turn To Drug Trafficking In Nogales

Arizona Daily Independent drug crime reports

AzCentral: 5 arrested on suspicion of running meth trafficking ring

DailyMiner: Kingman, Arizona & Mohave counties crime reports

Border Patrol agent sentenced for helping smuggle drugs into Arizona

ARKANSAS: Arkansas Online: Two people found in Cleburn County park die from O-D

In 3rd big bust in weeks, 200 pounds of pot captured

KARK: Multiple Arrests Made in Year Long Drug Investigation in Prairie County

KLRT: 4 Arrests Made in Ouachita County Drug Bust

KFSM: Arkansas Highway Police Seize 340 Pounds Of Marijuana

KTHV: Arkansas ranks 3rd in nation for Spring 2018 ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’

The state National Guard warns in this video that even exercise supplements are ‘drugs’:

CALIFORNIA: Several state National Guard Counterdrug Task Force personnel officially became DARE officers, even though the program has been proven, multiple times, to be a failure (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E. Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure).

U.S. News & World Report: Mexican Mafia Busted for Running Crime in LA County Jails

The Mercury News: Authorities arrest 85 people, seize drugs in major Orange County gang crackdown aimed at disrupting Mexican Mafia

BBC: Police find border drug tunnel from Mexico to California

Riverside police arrest 23 in undercover drug sting

New York Times: Needle by Needle, a Heroin Crisis Grips California’s Rural North

NPR: Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California

COLORADO: The Denver Post: Officials charge 37 people and seize 141 pounds of meth in drug bust spanning Colorado and two other states, The drug ring as been operating in Colorado since at least July 1, 2015

Drug trafficking reports

Drug & Booze crime reports

CONNECTICUT: NBC: Triple killings motivated by guns, cash and drugs

Meriden Record-Journal: Local Walgreens robbed of 3-thousand pills worth $60-thousand USD

RepublicanAmerican: Police find huge drug cache in Waterbury

DELAWARE: WDEL: Joint task force makes Wilmington drug bust

Delaware State News: drug reports

First State Update: drug crime reports

Delaware State Police: crime reports

FLORIDA: BuzzFeedNews: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami

Miami Herald: Florida cuts drug programs, costing hundreds of jobs

Pensacola News Journal: Santa Rosa County Sheriff captures more than 23 pounds of illegal drugs and 52 people during Operation Spring Cleaning

WJXT: Statewide, Operation Spring Cleaning captures 5-thousand people and 27-thousand pounds of drugs

TCPalm: Saint Lucie County captures guns, drugs and 17 people

WTXL: Suwannee County sheriff announces massive drug bust

WPLG: 6 arrested, 6 others sought by Miami-Dade police in drug bust

Coast Guard Cutter Resolute off-loaded almost 0.9 tonne (1 ton) of ganja in Saint Petersburg, 08MAY2018

NavyTimes: Coast Guard unloads 6 tons of seized cocaine in Florida

At Port Everglades, Coast Guard Cutter James off-loads almost 5.4 tonnes (metric tons/6 short [U.S.] tons) on 10MAY2018, all captured in the eastern Pacific

Official USAF video in which a Security Forces Airmen reveals that they routinely catch taxpayer funded contractors bringing drugs and guns onto Hurlburt Field:

The Recovery Village: Florida’s Top 10 Counties for Drug Overdose Deaths

Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association: may 2018 patterns and trends of substance use

GEORGIA: WALB: Multi-agency investigation leads to massive drug bust in Coffee, Jeff Davis counties

WRBL: 23 arrested in Georgia drug trafficking ring bust

GUAM: Pacific Daily News: The largest single drug bust in the U.S. Territory’s history

Cops don’t know where the cocaine is coming from

TheGuamDailyPost: High intensity drug trafficking designation sought for the Marianas

(remember, Guam is just a U.S. military base, mmmm, I wonder why so many drugs are shipping through Guam?)

HAWAII: KITV: Teacher arrested, accused of promoting drug use

IDAHO: Idaho Business Review: Retirees moving to Idaho because prescription drugs aren’t taxed

Idaho Statesman: Boise man busted with meth, heroin in suspected drug house

East Idaho News: Idaho Falls man arrested in connection to mobile meth lab

MagicValley: Twin Falls woman charged with heroin trafficking

Idaho Mountain Express: Suspect leaves meth in cop car

The Spokesman Review: drug reports

Going inside the disappearance and murder of a Nampa Police drug informant

Idaho tribe joins lawsuit against big opioid manufacturers

KTVB: “Our cooler is constantly full. When we come in from a weekend we generally are out of room for bodies. We don’t want to keep picking up the overdoses.”-Dotti Owens, Ada County coroner

ILLINOIS: Patch: Chicago area companies imported opioids from China, sold them online

WBBM: More Than 100 Arrested In Chicago

Herald&Review: $260,000 worth of cocaine found during traffic stop

Illinois Department of Public Health: Drug Overdose Deaths – May 2018

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: Little Hope of Release for Many Juveniles With Life Sentences in Illinois

INDIANA: RTV: Indiana is one of the worst states for drug use

WANE: 1,500 Indiana drug cases a month … and rising

WLFI: Police respond to string of overdoses

WTTV: 15 people face federal charges in connection with drug trafficking ring that prompted Kokomo raids

The Herald Bulletin: ‘Clean Sweep’ nets 52 suspects, guns and drugs

WXIN: “‘It is loaded. Get your drugs and get out of my neighborhood!’ He pulled his gun out and when I saw the gun come out that is when I grabbed my gun. If you are stupid enough to sell it to these kids..you get what you deserve!”-gun toting grandma who challenged drug dealers who came after her for her grandson’s spice debt

IOWA: DesMoinesRegister: 20 years after the meth crisis began, Iowa’s addiction is worse than ever

Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy: Drug Trends in Iowa – May 2018

KANSAS: The Kansas City Star: Operation Triple Beam, 200 people arrested

KENTUCKY: USA Today: Kentucky football player charged with drug trafficking

Courier Journal: Mexican drug cartels saturate Louisville with deadliest meth ever

Louisville company wins FDA approval to produce opioid withdrawal drug

WDRD: Arrests, drugs and more than $1 million in cash during O peration Safe Haven

KFVS: More than $11000 of drugs seized

WAVE: Opioids infiltrate ranks of organ donors, rendering donations unusable

LOUISIANA: U.S. News & World Report: DEA orders Louisiana pharmaceutical wholesaler Must Stop Selling Controlled Drugs

The Advocate: Born addicted: Louisiana’s rate of newborns dependent on opioids is rising, pregnant women lack treatment options

The Times Picayune: Despite opioid crisis, Louisiana may cut drug treatment options

MAINE: Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to Kittery, after capturing 5896.7 kilos (13-thousand pounds) of cocaine in the eastern Pacific.

Bangor Daily News: Drug agents bust 9 in Aroostook County trafficking ring

Central Maine: Augusta police arrest 4 on drug charges

WABI: Center Street home drug bust in Bangor, 6 arrested

MARYLAND: WJZ-TV: Mother Arrested After 8-Month-Old Ingests Drugs

WTOP: Maryland curbs prisoner access to books, citing drug smuggling

MASSACHUSETTS: U.S. News & World Report: 13 Arrested in Bust of Major Drug Trafficking Ring

WBUR: Black Drug Users Grapple With Surging Opioid Overdose Death Rates

WWLP: 7 arrested, 3 wanted in Massachusetts drug sweep

MASS.gov: Current opioid statistics

MICHIGAN: MichiganLive: Michigan has 4th biggest drug problem in United States

DetroitNews: New Michigan opioid laws may mean longer prescription wait times

ClickOnDetroit: 3 pharmacists, 2 ‘recruiters,’ doctor charged in $9.6M prescription drug scheme

MINNESOTA: KIMT: 27 people arrested in Olmsted County

PostBulletin: Austin drug bust nets $100,000 worth of meth, cocaine

MPRNews: Federal taxpayer funded grant funds heroin trafficking investigations

MISSISSIPPI: Clarion Ledger: Feds charge 11 in multi-state ‘Operation Highlife’

MSNewsNow: Marijuana, $69000 cash seized in north Jackson drug bust

WTVA: Officers seize package containing drugs in Nettleton

U.S. News & World Report: Woman Arrested, Signed for Parcel Carrying Drug

MISSOURI: News Tribune: Jefferson City woman arrested in traffic stop turned drug bust

KOAM: Three Missouri Residents Arrested For Illegal Drug Activity

Missouri Sheriff’s Association: Major Drug Operation Nets 5 Arrests

Herald-Whig: Man dies after apparent meth overdose

MONTANA: KULR: Montana school bus provider accused of dealing meth

KXLF: Feds raid home in Deer Lodge as part of ongoing investigation

Missoulan: 48 marijuana plants found in Missoula warehouse

U.S. Food & Drug Administration: Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center fails inspection, “which put patients at risk.”

NEBRASKA: The Washington Post: Record drug bust finds enough fentanyl to kill 26-Million people (let’s call it chemical warfare, it’s definitely a weapon of mass destruction)

NEVADA: The Spectrum: Mesquite traffic stop turns drug bust

The Washington Post: Nebraska pushes to carry out the country’s first execution using fentanyl

NEW HAMPSHIRE: New Hampshire Public Radio: New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis

The New York Times: Drug Arrests at Immigration Checkpoint Violated Constitution

NEW JERSEY: NorthJersey: Drugs and prostitution: What might be next for New Jersey

LehighValleyLive: 2 arrested in P’burg police drug raid in Alpha

The Trentonian: $2 million drug bust

Guns, drugs and fatality

WPVI: NJ State Police arrest Philly duo, seize $2K in drugs

NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque Business First: New Mexico has the sixth biggest drug problem

New Mexico-Indicator Based Information System (NM-IBIS): New Mexico’s drug overdose death rate has been one of the highest in the nation for most of the last two decades

NEW YORK: A Venezuelan veterinarian is now in NYC facing federal drug charges after a 2005 drug raid in Columbus revealed the veterinarian was sewing up bags of liquid heroin inside puppies for transport to the U.S. The so called animal doctor was finally caught in Spain in 2015.

New York Post: Drug Bust reports

The New York Times: Overdoses From ‘Dangerous Batch’

Drug Abuse and Traffic reports

You’re Not a Drug Dealer? Here’s Why the Police Might Disagree

NYPD News: Narcotics Archives

NORTH CAROLINA: WNCN: NC drug bust highlights ‘meth highway’ as I-85

KABC: 90M worth of liquid meth found in semi-truck fuel tank

KTVD: Drug, gun bust leaves police looking for suspects

WECT: Smithfield Foods employees arrested in multi-agency drug bust

NORTH DAKOTA: KFGO: Guns, drugs, cash seized from Fargo home

Reservation drug bust nets $100,000 in narcotics

KVRR: Meth Archives

Grand Forks Herald: Drug reports

OHIO: KULR: Ohio Highway Patrol makes $3.7M heroin, meth bust

Cincinnati.com: Candidates say they’ve tackled heroin crisis. But it’s getting worse

OKLAHOMA: NewsOK: Addicted Oklahoma reports

News On 6: Two Men Caught In Canadian County Drug Bust

OREGON: KOBI: drugs Archives

KDRV: Suspected Drug Den in Medford

KOIN: Man gets 17 years for Mexico-to-Oregon drug trafficking

PENNSYLVANIA: PhillyNews: prosecutors are charging heroin dealers with killing their customers

KPMT: York City Police arrest 7 in connection to drug trafficking

PUERTO RICO: U.S. Department of Justice: Seven Puerto Rico Police Officers Arrested For Corrupt Activities Including Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations

Boston Globe: 10 charged in cocaine ring that brought drugs from Puerto Rico

RHODE ISLAND: The Sun Chronicle: Police arrest 49 people and seize 53 illegal guns and a large quantity of drugs during Operation Patched Out

SOUTH CAROLINA: WISTV: South Congaree drug bust nets thousands in heroin

Meth, money and Mercedes seized in major drug bust

GoUpstate: Operation Rolling thunder hits University of South Carolina

The Herald: 11 arrested in York County drug raid

The Washington Post: South Carolina anti-drug police unit admit s to violating 4th Amendment Rights of U.S. citizens by conducting ‘no-knock’ home invasions!

SOUTH DAKOTA: KSFY: After being busted two years ago, a drug dealer finally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and then ten years of probation after that

TENNESSEE: WVLT: Four arrests in ‘one of the largest’ drug busts in Harriman

Knox News: raid seizes 10000 Xanax pills, 8 pounds of pot

Drugs land more women behind bars

TEXAS: Times Record News: Man kidnapped, part of finger chopped off by gang members in meth ring

KRGV: Bust at Donna Home Yields Drugs, 3 Arrests

KLTV: Drug bust takes dealer who sold to both kids, adults, off street

7 arrested in drug search in Van Zandt County

Star-Telegram: 10 schemed to load drugs, weapons and explosives on aircraft at DFW Airport

Corridor News: Texas Border And Port Narcotic Seizures, Arrests And Apprehensions For The Week Of May 2 – May 8

Your tax dollars at work tearing down ‘drug houses’ in Corpus Christi. Local elementary students were indoctrinated into the government’s latest vain attempt at looking like its fighting the War on Drugs by observing the National Guard knock-down known as Operation Crackdown, while chanting “Knock it down! Knock it down!” (as if it were some kind-o sporting event)

UTAH: KUTV: ‘This is a big one,’ feds announce Utah drug bust

KSTU: Meth ‘forgotten drug,’ seizures skyrocketing in Utah

KTVX: Flesh-eating drug may have made its way to Utah

Salt Lake Tribune: The cheap drug spice is on the rise in Salt Lake City — and it’s killing

Deseret News: New tenant arrested in large drug bust

VERMONT: CNN: Vermont law could allow state to import cheaper Canadian drugs

VIRGINIA: WSLS: 21 people arrested in ‘Operation Blue Thunder’

WASHINGTON: KHQ: Police seize 50 pounds of meth from truck after traffic stop

The Daily News: Three Lewis County drug busts in two weeks

CNN: Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids

Official video Coast Guard Cutter Active, home-port Port Angeles, cocaine interdiction somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 18MAY2018:

Washington DC: Perry Center Hosts Hemispheric Forum on Efforts to Address the Opioid Crisis and Transnational Organized Crime with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Read the Official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime report website. Read official Department of Justice (DoJ) crime report website.

WEST VIRGINIA: WSAZ: police find more than $40,000 in heroin

The Herald-Dispatch: Drug firms deny role in sparking opioid epidemic in WV

WVNews: Mason County man arrested after deputies find drugs, guns

WVVA: Monroe County indicted 19 people on 46 felony offenses

MetroNews: Two charged after drug overdose in Upshur County

Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA): West Virginia drug crime reports

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin State Journal: Madison man charged with selling heroin that killed drug purchaser

South Side drug search nets cash, drugs, gun

DoseOfReality: Native Americans in Wisconsin get $2.4-million USD to fight opioid addiction

WKBT: Wisconsin 3rd in nation with drug disposal program

WYOMING: CBSNews: U.S. Air Force admits Airmen guarding nuclear missiles in Wyoming used LSD

Idaho State Journal: Wyoming troopers seize $425000 worth of meth

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: More proof your government/police is behind drugs; TAKE BACK DAY, as Chinese news media reveal that China is behind major California drug ops!

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

SUMERIAN LAMENT: HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

THE NEW GREAT OPIUM WAR: MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! (thanks to United States?)

2012: Occupation of Afghanistan designed to raise the price of opioids

U.S.

Gun Ban Fail: Maine cop has AR-15 and pistol stolen! Hundreds of police guns stolen every year!

June 28, 2018 Hutchins AAron

27JUN2018 /23:30 UTC-07 Tango 06 (07 Tir 1397/14 Shawwal 1439/15 Wu-Wu 4716)

Somebody broke into a Maine State Police car and stole the 5.56mm (.223 caliber) AR-15 assault rifle and .38 caliber pistol, possibly “for cash or drugs.” The pistol was found during an investigation into another burglary, the AR-15 is still missing.

This is not the first time a cop had his/her weapons stolen, despite stricter gun laws, and even un-Constitutional efforts to ban guns. Hundreds, possibly thousands (because it’s rarely made public) of police guns go missing every year across the United States!

IndyStar: 2 arrested after patrol rifle stolen from Greenfield police car

New York Post: Cops recover officer’s gun stolen from Burger King bathroom

Chicago Tribune: Zion City employee uses stolen police badge to get a discount on gun

Slate: Watch Off-Duty California Police Officer Pull Gun on Man He Thought Had Stolen Mentos

WCGL: Guns stolen from evidence room of Lithonia police department

KNTV: Gilroy Police Chief’s Gun, Badge Stolen While Attending College Graduation

GUN BAN FAIL: YET ANOTHER CALIFORNIA COP CAUGHT ILLEGALLY SELLING GUNS!

KNBC: Reward for Stolen Compton Police Guns Rises to $20K

North Jersey: Police officer’s gun stolen from the trunk of his car

WickedLocal: Warrant for man with stolen Atlanta police gun

AR-15 = GOD’S ‘ROD OF IRON’?

NBCNews: Philly Cop Ambushed with Stolen Police Gun