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Possibly due to increasing radical weather patterns, the Arkansas National Guard’s 77th Combat Aviation Brigade decided it was time to train up local Boy Scouts in the art of survival:
OPERATION SNOW BASH: IDAHO TRAINS UP THE CHILDREN, FOR WAR!
77th Combat Aviation Brigade returns from deployment, 2017:
During the last full week of February 2018, hundreds of National Guard personnel from Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, South Dakota, Utah and Washington deployed to Valdez, Alaska, in response to a major CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) event.
Two M1135 NBCRV—Strykers search for the fictional Russian satellite that has hit near Valdez. Colorado Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant John Rohrer, 22FEB2018.
Operation Arctic Eagle 2018 was underway, a ‘Russian’ satellite had crashed to Earth contaminating the impact area with radiation. National Guard units, along with various federal agencies, had six hours to complete their mission: “The Homeland Response Force is a regionally aligned Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, high-yield Explosive asset established in response to natural, man-made, or terrorist initiated CBRNE disasters.”-First Sergeant Fausto Crespo, Washington National Guard
There are ten Homeland Response Force units across the United States, working in conjunction with FEMA’s ten regions. Region Ten includes Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Washington.
Don’t worry Arctic Eagle 2018 was a training event……or was it? Mulder, Scully?
During the training event an actual CBRN event took place, forcing the 103rd Civil Support Team of the Alaska National Guard, and the 10th Homeland Response Team of the Washington National Guard, to respond, 23FEB2018:
UTAH’S SECRET(?) WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION EVENT IN EAST IDAHO!
NATIONAL GUARD RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL ATTACK(?) IN ARIZONA!
NATIONAL GUARD PREPS FOR CATASTROPHIC EVENT!
OPERATION JUPITER: ISRAEL CONDUCTS CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE IN U.S., CONTROLS NATIONAL GUARD?
ECONOMY SO BAD COLORADO ACTIVATES NATIONAL GUARD!
“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt
On 28FEB2018, personnel from the now stretched thin South Carolina Army National Guard landed in Ansbach, Deutschland.
It should be noted that in 2016 a refugee from Syria blew himself up in Ansbach, no thanks to NATO Germany’s pro-immigrant policies.
South Carolina’s 678th Air Defense Artillery will be in Germany for the next nine months, to provide a “visible symbol” against so called Russian aggression (stop denying the Nue Kalt Krieg).
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA JOINS THE FENTANYL FIGHT!
GREAT RENEGER: SOUTH CAROLINA & ILLINOIS MILITIA FOB AFGHANISTAN
HARVEY: ARKANSAS, OREGON & SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIAS DEPLOY!
2017: ILLINOIS, IOWA, PENNSYLVANIA & SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIAS DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN!
CLANDESTINE IMMIGRATION: GERMAN BOAT SEIZED FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING! ITALY & LIBYA FORM UNITED NAVY TO BLOCK MIGRANTS?
Albany Business Review: Shopping mall ViaPort Rotterdam (Rotterdam Square) suing Sears for half-a-million in back due rent!
Hardware Retailing: Sears Continues to See Dropping Sales and Revenue
Kankakee Daily Journal: Sears Logistics now Innovel
Chicago Tribune: Sears slashed more than 50,000 jobs last year!
CNNMoney: Sears downgraded to default status
The Real Deal: Half of vacant Santa Monica Mega Sears store sold for $50-million USD, to pay off mortgage and fund redevelopment
Chief Investment Officer: Sears Holdings gets $440-million loan to pay employee retirement fund
Newsday: Local Business owner, forced out by Sears Auto Center closure
Chief Investment Officer: Court Orders Inquiry into Sears Canada Dividend Payment
Media Post Communications: Federal Trade Commission loosens terms of 2009 settlement that restricted Sears’ ability to sell products through mobile e-commerce apps
WLS-TV: Sears under scrutiny after customer complaints and product disputes
Alaska: In Juneau, the Sears Hometown reverted to corporate ownership after the franchise owner quit, it’s now for sale.
California: Taxpayers are the new owners of the vacant Highland Kmart as they will be funding the construction of a new high school on the property. The school will be operated by taxpayer funded San Bernardino Public Charter School, Real Journey Academies.
Colorado: Ohio based mall owner-operator Washington Prime just bought the Sears store and Auto Center in Aurora (see Ohio below).
Florida: RD Management-University Mall is the new owner of the still active 43 years old Sears store, which sold for $7-million USD. Local news media says RD Management has plans to ‘revamp’ the building, marking “a significant milestone in the transformation of the entire University Mall site.” The mall will be renamed Uptown. Public feedback forces changes to redevelopment plans for vacant Neptune Beach Kmart.
Indiana: WFIE reporting that the Evansville Sears has been listed for sale, for a paltry $3-million USD. The store is shutting down in April.
Iowa: Ohio based mall owner-operator Washington Prime just bought the Sears store and Auto Center in Sioux City (see Ohio below).
Kansas: Local news media discovered that the Lenexa Point Sears Outlet store will shutdown, local realtors announced that the store front will be “available” on 01JUL2018.
New Jersey: It’s been confirmed, the Paramus Park Mall Sears store and Auto Center will shutdown by Spring 2019, to be redeveloped into a grocery store and movie theater (a smaller Sears Appliance store will remain). Without warning the Brick Big Kmart is being shutdown, it was revealed when Store Closing Sale signs were posted. Local news media reported that no official shutdown date was made public.
New York: A former Sears employee accused of stealing $8-thousand USD from the Arnot Mall Sears store. State taxpayers are funding the demolition of the now city taxpayer owned vacant Kmart plaza in Binghamton, as part of the Restore NY taxpayer rip-off operation. Three other cities are also getting millions in state taxpayer funding to demolish commercial properties now owned by city taxpayers.
North Carolina: In Wilmington, the owners of the Independence Mall revealed their plan to demolish and redevelop the entire mall, including the still active Sears operation. Local news reports stated that the planned The Collection at Independence shopping-“village lifestyle” plaza does not list the currently active Sears store and Auto Center as one of the future tenants. In July 2017, Eddie Lampert sold the Independence Mall Sears store and Auto Center to New York based Rouse Properties for $10-million USD.
Ohio: Columbus based mall owner-operator Washington Prime just shelled out $28.5-million USD buying four Sears stores and their related Sears Auto Centers, including the Sears store and Auto Center in Columbus. Local news media reported that the four stores and auto centers will be redeveloped, however, Washington Prime says it signed new leases with Sears worth $1.25-million which give Sears an easy out if it wants to shutdown; just give 30 days notice.
Pennsylvania: Taxpayer funded MaST charter school is offering to buy the still active Middletown Sears store for $9.6-million USD. MaST’s plan is to kick out Sears to make room for up to 1-thousand-275 students, if their plan is approved by the local school district and taxpayers.
Tennessee: The Thompson Lane Sears Outlet/Home Services & Repair sold to C.B. Ragland for $13-million USD.
Texas: Ohio based mall owner-operator Washington Prime just bought the Sears store and Auto Center in Longview (see Ohio above).
Virginia: Regency Mall owner The Rebkee Company, along with Thalhimer Realty Partners, just spent $3-million USD buying eight acres of the now vacant Sears store property in Richmond. The mall owner claims it has new tenants lined up for the Sears store, which shutdown last year. Local news media reports that a Sears “subsidiary” still owns three acres of the property, including the vacant Auto Center, but that it is currently under “negotiations”.
Washington: Sears Holdings suddenly selling off six active locations in The Evergreen State. The 48 years old Lacy Sears store, the 47 years old Tukwila Sears, Union Gap Sears, two Sears operations in the Spokane area, and the Spokane Kmart.
Wisconsin: Taxpayers of Greendale being raped of $2.2-million USD as their ‘elected’ leaders use taxpayer money to turn a former Southridge Mall Sears store into the unAmerican anti-Constitution Dick’s Sporting Goods! UnAmerican city leaders claim taxpayers will ‘recover’ the tax incremental financing by 2030, via increased property taxes on the property, but my lifetime of taxpayer experience shows your exalted leaders will find many other ways to jack-up your taxes between now and 2030. Taxpayers in La Crosse might become the new owners of a vacant Kmart store, currently the property is valued at $4-million. Apparently the plan is to turn the vacant lot in more residential housing, at taxpayer expense.
SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, FEBRUARY 2018: “MONOTONOUS”
Incomplete list of U.S. model kit/hobby shop, retail/wholesale industry shutdowns from 2016 through 2017:
California: After 45 years brick-n-mortar chain store, as well as mail order and online retailer, Hobby People (formerly Hobby Shack) suddenly shutdown, possibly in connection to the founder’s death although many fans say quality of service had been in decline, and the company ‘lost’ some of its in-house brands. In Palm Desert, the owner of popular Uncle Don’s Hobbies was found laying on the side of a road, dead. His hobby shop had been robbed of merchandise, including RC (drone) electronics, months earlier. In Goleta (Santa Barbara), California Hobbies was robbed of RC (drone) monster trucks, it was caught on video. News reports out of Long Beach report that local hobby shops are being repeatedly robbed, the burglars are targeting RC (drone) electronics.
Colorado: In Denver, Guinness Book certified as the world’s largest model train store in 2014, Caboose Hobbies shutdown after 65 years because the owner wants to retire. At one time the model train store employed 60 people!
Idaho:
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, November 2014.
After first going up for sale at the end of 2014, then making one last attempt to stay alive in 2015 (by moving to a much smaller location), Southeast Idaho’s once iconic Dapco Hobbies finally died, and nobody noticed. More details in Model-Land Deaths; 2013-15.
Illinois: In Bloomington, after 63 years Hobbyland shutdown after a failed attempt to sell the store.
Indiana: Granger Hobby Stop shutdown after 18 years, the owner says he never recovered from the 2008 recession.
Massachusetts: In Brocktown, after six years Hogie’s Hobbies shutdown, but continues to run its model railroad museum. The owner blames customers for his hobby shop shutdown saying for the month of December he had a measly $5-hundred USD in sales: “There’s a lot of people downtown, but they don’t spend their money downtown. The whole atmosphere for people actually shopping here is not here.”-Bill Hogan
Michigan: In Detroit, after 70 years iconic Doll Hospital & Toy Soldier Shop shutdown, the owners admitting that even though they beat-out the ‘big-box’ competition they just couldn’t “adapt” to online competition. In Bridgeport, after 23 years hobby shop Junction Valley Railroad announced on Facebook “Due to declining sales, we are being forced to close the Hobby Shop Doors!
Our final day open will be October 31, 2017!”
Montana: In Great Falls, after more than 25 years Hobby Land shutdown, the owner said she was ready to retire.
New Hampshire: In West Lebanon, Hobbies ’N’ Stuff/Valley Art Suppliers evicted by the the Grafton County Sheriff at the request of the landlord. The owner of the hobby shop told customers he had to shutdown due to health problems, but the landlord’s civil complaint said the owner hadn’t paid the rent for months (more than $10-thousand USD worth).
New Jersey: After 48 years Jackson Hobby Shop put up for sale due to the owner’s health problems. If it doesn’t sell it’ll be shutdown. Shadow Hobbies was robbed of thousands of dollars worth of stuff, including RC (drone) electronics, it was caught on video.
New York: After 31 years Niagara Hobby & Craft Mart shutdown due to crashing sales: “We can’t compete on price with the national chains or an internet-only site. But you can’t stand inside the internet and ask to open a package or put a locomotive on a test track and see it run.”-John S. Kavulich
North Carolina: In business since 1968 the owners of the two story The Antique Barn and Hobby Shop blame declining sales caused by internet competition, plus Mother Earth’s climate change, for their demise: “We were making money, but it’s going down. Ten years ago it was thriving and 18 years ago we were a victim of Floyd and we had 7 feet of water in here for a couple of weeks. So we started from scratch again and of course, we had two more 500-year floods this past year, Matthew and in April this one that didn’t even have a name…”
Ohio: After 40 years John’s Hobby Shop shutdown so the owner could retire.
Oklahoma: Christian Evangelical Hobby Lobby caught illegally importing more than 5-thousand artifacts from The Middle East. The top illegal artifact dealer in The Middle East is Islamic State (DAIISH). Hobby Lobby admits most of those illegally acquired artifacts were meant to be displayed in their massive Biblical Museum in Washington DC.
Pennsylvania: After 33 years J&C Hobbies shutdown so the owners could take a “proper vacation”.
Rhode Island: AA Hobby Shop was hit by burglars who apparently didn’t steal anything, it was caught on video.
Texas: A San Antonio Hobby Town was robbed by a man armed with brass knuckles. Police say the man seemed obsessed with RC vehicles (drones).
Utah: Police captured burglars when they tried to sell the stolen goods, including RC (drone) kits burgaled from a hobby shop in Sandy, on the OfferUp app.
In Canada: R.I.P. Niagara Central Hobbies
Car and Driver: Where Have All the Hobby Stores Gone?
MARTIAL LAW U.S.A.: RC MODEL PLANES NOW CONSIDERED ‘DRONES’ MUST BE REGISTERED WITH OBAMA REGIME!
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of February, 2018: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.
While I don’t like most of the crazy stuff the folks at PETA do, they have compelling evidence that those ‘free range’ poultry products you buy at Walmart, Harris Teeter and Whole Foods are anything but:
Alabama: A female employee of Dothan’s Farm Service Agency charged with fraud, theft of government property, and using a false document, relating to crop insurance. Pike Road Butcher Block suddenly shutdown due to “small town politics”, the landlord is the town of Pike Road.
Alaska: Hook Line and Sinker-Humpy’s Great Alaskan Alehouse now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. It’s blamed on a massive re-development project (gentrification) which left Humpy’s Great Alaskan Alehouse with millions of dollars of debt.
California: In The Golden State that loves migrant workers “A Soledad farm labor contractor has been fined $168,082 in penalties for housing employees in unsanitary and dangerous conditions following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.” New York based Seneca Foods shutdown its factory in Modesto, 265 full-time jobs suddenly gone due to “competition from overseas”! DineEquity owned, Gelndale based, schizophrenic IHOP shutting down 40 restaurants in 2018, while at the same time claiming they will open even more restaurants. Cafe Napa Valley Traditions forced to shutdown after 24 years by a huge rent increase. San Francisco based coffee roaster Four Barrel began laying off employees due to crashing wholesale orders. K and R Farms shutting down operations in Salinas, 235 jobs gone by April! CKE Restaurant Holdings (aka Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s, Green Burrito and Red Burrito) eliminating 54 jobs in Anaheim, by mid-April. Freshly Picked issued a shutdown WARN for its Cypress location, 26 jobs gone in March. After 25 years non-profit animal rescue op Farm Sanctuary-Orland Shelter shutdown, the owners got the hell outta The Golden State and took the 250+ animals to a new 39 hectares (96 acres) ranch in New York. In San Luis Obispo, after three years popular Bowl’d shutting down because the owners say the profits just aren’t high enough to cover the rent. In Fresno, Parsley Garden Cafe suddenly shutdown due to not being able to renew the lease. Tyson Foods killing yet more jobs as it issues another WARN, this time 401 people in Otay Mesa out-o-work as the frozen food factory is shutdown! Oregon based New Seasons Market suddenly shutdown its six months old grocery store in Sunnyvale saying “This location proved to be a challenge for several reasons”, 101 jobs gone! Connecticut based food service company Centerplate issued a mass layoff WARN, 759 Levi’s Stadium jobs in Santa Clara gone by mid-April! TGI Friday’s issued a shutdown WARN for a restaurant in Brea, 57 jobs gone by mid-April. In Modesto, the 25 years old Hometown Buffet was suddenly shutdown by a greedy landlord who canceled the lease. After 60 years Menlo Park’s Oasis Beer Garden shutting down by March because of the greedy landlord: “After several months of effort, we were unable to negotiate a reasonable lease for our business, nor meet the requested terms of the building’s owner.”-facebook post
Colorado: In Fort Collins, employee owned New Belgium Brewing suddenly laid off 28 employees (25 in Colorado, three in North Carolina). It’s probably due to increasing competition as local news sources reported that in Denver alone four new breweries have opened in the past four months!
Connecticut: Iconic Woody’s hot dog joint shutdown after 41 years so the owners can take a vacation, before their next business venture.
Florida: Southeastern Grocers owned, BI-LO, Harveys, Winn-Dixie, and Fresco y Más threatening to shutdown 2-hundred grocery stores in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy, it could mean more than 18-thousand jobs lost! In Fort Pierce, Granny’s shutdown after 53 years, the worn-out owners saying “We are going to sit on the front porch and rest…..I think we deserve it.” Hard Rock Cafe issued a shutdown WARN for its HQ in Orlando, 184 jobs gone between April and July!
Georgia: Atlanta based Coca Cola eliminating even more jobs, this time an additional 350 corporate level jobs! At the same time Coca Cola administrators swear they are hiring. Kroger shutting down a 26 years old grocery store, on the south side of Savannah, more than 1-hundred jobs gone in March due to “declining sales and negative profit” (‘negative profit’ is Orwellian doublespeak for losses). Local news reports said customers were shocked as the store is “always packed”, but also admitted there were now a lot of competitors in the area.
Hawaii: The Shack suddenly shutdown its 26 years old Hawaii Kai location, the owners were not able to renew the lease.
Idaho: Blind Bat News reader reported that the Pita Pit, in Pocatello, shutdown without warning.
Illinois: In Chicago, after 41 years iconic Carson’s Prime Steaks Famous BBQ forced to shutdown by property developers. Also in Chicago, Marcello’s suddenly shutdown one of its three pizza joints, no official reason given but property redevelopment (gentrification) is suspected. In Downers Grove, after 15 years restaurant Carlucci suddenly shutdown, the property was sold. In Belleville, IHOP shutting down its 45 years old restaurant, on Carlyle Avenue, because the local franchise owner is retiring and nobody wanted to take-over the franchise. In Crystal Lake, Joseph’s Marketplace shutdown after 12 years, no official explanation, but residents and even city leaders blame it on several new grocery stores that have opened since 2015: “I’m not sure we can support all these stores. Obviously, we can’t.”-Judi Spizzirri, customer
Iowa: Hy-Vee shutting down its grocery store in Waterloo, 282 jobs gone by the end of March because Hy-Vee built too many grocery stores in the region!
Louisiana: In New Orleans, Lakeview Harbor Restaurant forced to shutdown after 25 years because the landlord revoked the lease. Non-profit Hollygrove Market & Farm suddenly shutdown saying “We are reorganizing financially and will have another announcement about our permanent status as soon as possible.” It was later revealed they ran out of money. Internet based food delivery service Street Breads now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to debts that far outweigh its assets.
Maine: Somebody is going around and shooting people’s goats and shooting cows.
Massachusetts: In Arlington, after a couple of decades Bagels By Us shutting down in March, the property is for sale.
Michigan: In Brighton, after 35 years iconic ice cream shop Yum Yum Tree suddenly shutdown, on facebook the owners promised a detailed explanation would be released. Angry customers said they should have given at least a month notice so they could fatten up on the unique ice cream treats. In Ostego, after 70 years Harding’s (Harding and Hill) shutdown, no reason given.
Minnesota: Colorado based Pilgrim’s Pride shutting down a former Gold’n Plump corporate office in Saint Cloud, 30 jobs gone due to Pilgrim’s Pride $350-million USD take-over of Gold’n Plump in 2016-17. In Saint Paul, after 20 years the Wild Onion shutting down in March, the owner blamed reduced revenues and increased costs such as minimum wage. In Duluth, after 14 years Johnson’s Bakery Lakeside shutting down by the end of April, due to not being able to renew the lease. In Minneapolis, after more than 60 years the last Vescio’s Italian Restaurant shutdown. At one time there were two Vescio’s. Bellisio Foods issued a WARN, 105 jobs in Austin gone by April!
Missouri: DineEquity owned, Kansas City based, Applebee’s added an additional 80 restaurants to its previously announced plan to shutdown 1-hundred restaurants in 2018, due to “lack of performance”. In Kansas City, after 54 years upscale Plaza III The Steakhouse shutting down in March, 30 jobs lost with no explanation by the owners. Pi Pizzeria suddenly shutdown its Kirkwoood location due to gentrification (construction projects) destroying the employee parking lot: “…we’ve lost our employee parking lot due to a redevelopment, and that leaves us with fewer than 25 guest parking spots…”-facebook post
Montana: In Missoula, after 27 years Uptown Diner shutdown, crashing sales were blamed on the demise of the Macy’s store next door.
Nebraska: C & C Specialty Market shutting down its store in Beatrice, in April, so the owners can focus on their more profitable operations.
New Jersey: In Freehold, International Vitamin eliminating 160 jobs in May!
New Mexico: In Albuquerque, the once profitable Farmers Market chain is now dead. Local news media say at one time there were ten Farmers Markets in New Mexico: “We’ve always had competition, but in the last five to seven years, it was much harder.”-Jhett Browne, owner of the last Farmers Market
New York: In NYC, 21-Club revealed to state officials that they suddenly shutdown back in January, 156 jobs suddenly gone, blamed on Mother Earth (climate change-storm damage)! Also in NYC, Siggy’s Good Food suddenly shutdown, the owner saying “…it’s time to fly.” JJC Food suddenly shutdown its Hicksville grocery store, 38 jobs gone, blamed on Mother Earth (climate change-storm damage)! Williamsville based Tops Friendly Markets now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming increased competition. GLK Foods shutting down ops in Shortsville, 50 jobs gone in September due to consolidation. In Rochester, after almost 20 years restaurant 2-Vine shutdown due to the owner’s health problems. PepsiCo eliminating 2-hundred corporate level InfoTech and finance jobs in Westchester, as part of its global plan to kill jobs. Local news media revealed that PepsiCo (Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Gatorade, Quaker) was getting $4-million USD in state taxpayer funded credits and another $7-million from sales-tax breaks in Westchester County!
North Carolina: Charlotte based Healthy Home Market grocery chain now chapter 7 bankrupt and being consumed by its creditors, its last two stores were shutdown in January, thousands of jobs lost! In Monroe, after 25 years Seacrest Feed & Seed shutting down by March, due to the greedy property owners. Logan’s Roadhouse suddenly shutdown due to a “corporate decision”.
North Dakota: In Bismarck, Dan’s Supermarket shutdown after 65 years, due to not being able to renew the lease.
Ohio: A fire in a barn on Country Lane Tree Farm killed dozens of goats and chickens.
Pennsylvania: After almost 50 years Mattocks Five Incorporated suddenly shutdown several operations (known as Albion Mill, Meadville Farm and Garden, 5M Feeds Waterford, 5M Feeds Titusville) with only a two days notice on facebook, and no explanation. In Ardmore, Chung Sing forced to shutdown by the end of March, due to the landlord canceling the lease. In Pittsburgh, BYOB restaurant Avenue B shutdown due to not being able to renew the lease. “The Greater Washington County Food Bank reports on its website that Washington County has an estimated 25,000 people who are food insecure, more than 30 percent of its clients are children under the age of 18 and 20 percent are senior citizens.”
Despite supplying restaurants with poultry for more than ten years, family run Quails R Us Plus facing foreclosure, several area chefs are holding a ‘rescue dinner’ to save the poultry farm.
South Carolina: Florida based Tijuana Flats shutting down its less than two years old restaurant on Percival Road, in Columbia, by March. Terrace Restaurants suddenly shutdown its Greenville location, after being open less than a year, due to lack of sales.
Tennessee: In Murfreesboro, after more than two years Sub Stop suddenly shutdown because the owners got an offer from a property developer they couldn’t refuse. After ten years in East Nashville, Pied Piper Eatery shutdown as a result of the owner’s death two years ago.
Texas: In Pflugerville, after one year Idle Vine Brewery shutting down by March. In Austin, after 45 years Buck Moore Feed & Supply shutdown. Bellisio Foods shutting down its factory in Austin. Kettle & Brine shutdown its brick-n-mortar store in Austin, will continue selling kitchen krap online. In San Angelo, after 30 years Chinese Kitchen shutdown, the overworked underpaid owner complained “It has been extremely hard to get workers for the restaurant……..working 14 hours for seven days a week is hard on my husband and me.” After seven years Grinners Daiquiri Bar shutdown due to not being a good ‘fit’ for San Angelo.
Virginia: After more than 35 years Frankie’s Place for Ribs shutdown without warning, die-hard fans were shocked, the owner blamed declining sales and increasing costs. In Richmond, after less than five years Kitchen on Cary suddenly shutdown. A poultry farm fire in Mount Vernon killed an estimated 14-thousand chicks!
Washington: In Spokane, after 20 years Wolf Creek Lodge Steakhouse suddenly shutdown. Marine View Beverage shutting down operations across the state, 278 jobs gone by mid-April! Pacific Seafood issued a shutdown WARN, 69 Federal Way jobs gone by the end of April.
Washington DC: Le Mano Coffee Bar shutdown after almost five years, the owner wants more family time. After nine years award winning chocolate restaurant Co Co Sala suddenly shutdown. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) warns “…a relatively strong U.S. dollar is expected to dampen growth in U.S. agricultural exports, the United States remains competitive in global agricultural markets, in part due to efficiency and quality margins, and export values grow over the next ten years. Net farm income is expected to increase in 2018 followed by a drop…”
Wisconsin: After 110 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Silver Spring House Bar & Restaurant suddenly shutdown, the property is for sale, asking price $1.2-million USD. For the fifth year in a row income for Wisconsin farmers is expected to be down from the record high in 2013.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
U.S. Food Crisis, January 2018: “IT’S TIME TO ADAPT OR DIE”
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“The threat environment has changed.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Bowling, explaining that the new ‘threat’ is not terrorists using guns or bombs, or even vehicles, but using drugs
South Carolina Army National Guard’s 43rd Civil Support Team took part in a ‘multi-agency’ drug lab training session. It also involved the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Lexington Fire Department, Cayce Department of Public Safety and the Pine Ridge Police Department.
South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Specialist Chelsea Baker, 22FEB2022.
“One of the biggest concerns we have right now is dealing with fentanyl exposure. Fentanyl is not just a police problem, or a CST problem. It’s everyone’s problem. We are seeing more and more fatalities from fentanyl exposure. The goal of this training is safety. We want to make sure that when these guys enter a situation and see evidence of fentanyl, they know what to do.”-Michael Cashman, retired DEA
Fentanyl can be ingested orally, inhaled through the nose or mouth, or absorbed through the skin or eyes, any substance suspected to contain fentanyl must be treated with extreme caution as exposure to even a small amount can lead to significant health-related complications, respiratory depression, or death.
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: U.S. TAXPAYERS BUY COSTA RICA NEW NAVY SHIPS!
GREAT RENEGER: SOUTH CAROLINA & ILLINOIS MILITIA FOB AFGHANISTAN
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of February 2018.
“Teaching kids about the harms of drugs isn’t really a prevention tactic, it doesn’t really work. They know that drugs are dangerous.”-Alfgeir Kristjansson, School of Public Health at West Virginia University, making a statement about something that’s actually common knowledge but none of your political/social/law enforcement leaders want to admit to
Trust for America’s Health: Drugs killing record numbers of people, still top killer of ‘whites’
Click to see the ClinCalc DrugStats Top 200 Drugs of 2018, and find out where your fav legal drug ranks.
Israel based Teva Pharmaceuticals lied about its low cost version of Syprine, people who need it were shocked to learn it will still cost them more than $18-thousand USD per pill!
Wall Street Journal: Hidden Profits In the Prescription Drug Supply Chain
Washington Post: Divorce, drugs, drinking: Billy Graham’s children
Several mid-west states reporting that drugs trafficking along Interstate 94 is skyrocketing.
Several western states want to import cheaper drugs from British empire Canada.
In a case of ironic hypocrisy, the drugs industry is pushing the concept of vaccines to prevent drug addiction!
Associated Press: “…some large law enforcement agencies have recently abandoned the routine tests out of concern that officers could be exposed to opioids that can be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. Even a minute amount of the most potent drugs, such as fentanyl, can cause violent illness or death.”
snopes.com: Are All Homeopathic Drugs Now Illegal?
naturalnews.com: 77 holistic doctors now dead since 2015, is it a pharmaceutical industry conspiracy?
Human Rights Watch: U.S. nursing homes over-medicate patients on purpose!
Illegal drugs are so pervasive that one person got rich creating software that allows players of video game The Sims 4 to do drugs in virtual reality!
Arkansas: A Siloam Springs man arrested for dealing drugs at church. Elementary school teacher arrested for possession of six pounds of cocaine in her Little Rock home.
California: A man who called himself the Rehab Mogul (because he owned at least 13 drug rehabilitation centers) was actually a drug dealer, Christopher Bathum was convicted of 31 counts of sex and drug crimes. Opioid kills three people, bodies found near a San Francisco school.
Connecticut: Out of fear of lawsuits, Stamford based Purdue Pharma halted promotional ops to get doctors to push their opioid drugs.
Florida: Overdoses, DUIs, stolen drugs. State Department of Law Enforcement accuse two Titusville cops of buying illegal drugs.
Idaho: Two people were arrested after the Idaho Falls Police Department seized 504 grams of marijuana and 1.4 grams of methamphetamine.
Illinois: Federal indictments of nine people on drugs charges reveal link to unsolved murders going back to 2016.
Indiana: Police responding to reports of vehicles blocking access to postal mail boxes (which is a federal crime) ended up arresting six people on drug and counterfeiting charges in Columbus. Kids Count Report from the Indiana Youth Institute says drug overdoses now kill more Hoosiers than car crashes and gun violence combined!
Iowa: Is the state Department of Human Services accusing parents of doing drugs in order to ‘legally kidnap’ children? In the latest case a woman who swears she’s never done illegal drugs, and also tested negative for illegal drugs, is still fighting to get her child back (and have her name removed from child abuse records) after a DHS employee burst into her home, without a warrant, and stole her child!
Kentucky: The gov’na blames mass shootings on prescription drugs.
Maryland: USN running drugs as an investigation into a report of illegal drug use at the U.S. Naval Academy gets underway. Baltimore Police Stole, Sold Drugs and Covered Up Killings!
Michigan: The son of billionaire Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch was found dead in a Troy hotel, surrounded by drugs. A former The Voice contestant arrested and accused of trafficking marijuana and opioids.
Missouri: A 21 years old woman sentenced to 40 years for murdering a Mexican drug dealer, in an attempt to avoid paying her illegal drugs bill.
New Jersey: Non-profit hospitals are so desperate to save money they’re proposing a plan that will allow them to make their own prescription drugs. Prospect Park Police arrest a man with drugs near Manchester High School (maybe it is a ‘high’ school).
New York: Columbia University discovered the Hudson River is full of prescription drugs. A Niagara County Probation Officer finally caught stealing prescription drugs from parolees, the victims said they were afraid to report the crime-by-cop because of fear of retribution and the fact that nobody believes a parolee.
North Carolina: A Hickory man and a Phoenix, Arizona, woman both were charged in Morganton for trafficking drugs. Greenville woman arrested for trafficking more than two pounds of ‘coke’, in front of her children.
Ohio: State Department of Health warning that synthetic opioid fentanyl is being mixed with other drugs, resulting in overdoses.
Oklahoma: Two people arrested for dealing drugs right in front of the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office!
Oregon: A man found with a firearm, a knife, meth and marijuana after he was suspected of car prowling in Northwest Portland, on 26FEB2018.
Pennsylvania: Neshannock Township police confiscated drugs and money, and arrested two men from New Castle’s East Side.
South Carolina: A 20 years old ‘christian’ woman had a really bad trip and gouged out her own eyes during a church service! Apparently the meth-ganja mix she took before church caused her to think she had to blind herself to get to heaven.
Tennessee: Uber driver arrested with multiple drugs in his system.
Texas: A woman tried to hide her illegal drugs by shitting on them while detained inside a Corsicana cop car!
Utah: A woman arrested with 35 pounds of meth and ‘coke’, she gave the excuse that “I am just a single mom and I was offered an opportunity.” She also doesn’t know how to drive because that’s how she was caught.
Vermont: A Canadian was arrested trying to smuggle illegally made prescription drugs into the United States on a sled. Apparently he had been doing it since 2016, because ‘Mericans are so addicted to prescription drugs that drug runners from British empire Canada can make millions of U.S. dollars every time they cross the border with their stash.
Washington: Seattle based Amazon wants in on the drugs racket by launching its own line of non-prescription drugs. Everett man accused of raping a high school student as she died from an overdose.
Washington DC: A Senate level investigation revealed that the pharmaceutical industry spent at least $10-million USD to promote opioid drug use! Gizmodo reports that the FDA is trying to make it easier for you to get drugs. The FDA even approved a record number of generic prescription drugs (1-thousand and 27) in 2017! While the Food & Drug Administration wants to make it easier for you to get your prescription meds, the FDA discovered that mass produced canned pet food is laced with drugs designed to kill! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that ‘Mericans love for legal drugs will cause taxpayer funding of prescription drugs to grow faster than any other segment of healthcare.
West Virginia: Parkersburg police arrest two people after a drug bust at a motel in Mineral Wells.
Wisconsin: 64-year-old Milwaukee man placed on probation for sending a drug to his son who is serving time in Fox Lake Correctional Institution.
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY: ADDICT ‘DONATES’ DRUGS TO THRIFT STORE!
U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JANUARY 2018: SEX & DRUGS = THE AMERICAN WAY!
OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER?
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“Savers has made it quite clear to us that they do not want these items. So in the spirit of good gift giving and charity, please remove your drugs before donating your clothing.”-Crestwood Police Department
In Crestwood, Missouri, the for-profit Savers Donation Center got something it didn’t want (at least officially), a donation of illegal drugs!
“Since you obviously do not want your drugs anymore, we applaud that you have chosen to no longer be an illegal drug user. While we fully appreciate the spirit of giving, we kindly ask that you destroy your unused drugs instead of trying to give them away.”-Crestwood Police Department
VEHICLE I-D: ARMORED DRUG SMUGGLING BOATS
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: U.S. TAXPAYERS BUY COSTA RICA NEW NAVY SHIPS!
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: PROOF YOUR GOVERNMENT IS BEHIND DRUG ADDICTION, ‘DRUG TAKE BACK DAY’!
U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JANUARY 2018: SEX & DRUGS = THE AMERICAN WAY!
Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., January 2018:“LET’S PISS IN HIS MOUTH.” (teacher found dead in school toilet room, of drug overdose)
Nigeria is the largest producer of oil in Africa. In 1970 Nigeria became a member OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries). Since about 2012 the United States reportedly reduced the amount of oil it was buying from Nigeria, yet increased military activities in the central African country, in the name of fighting terrorism.
Official video of U.S. AfriCom vehicle clearance training, Jali, Nigeria, 13FEB2018:
British empire exploration for oil in Nigeria began in 1907, yet drilling didn’t start until 1951, with oil finally being discovered in 1953. Nigeria was a colony of the British empire until 1960.
Official video U.S. Army infantry training, Jali, Nigeria, 09FEB2018:
Since then the United States and the British empire (Commonwealth of Nations) covertly vied for control of so-called independent oil rich Nigeria by causing False Flag civil wars and now terrorism. During the 1960s, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk even denied the U.S. was involved in such covert ops: “America is not in a position to take action as Nigeria is an area under British influence.”
By the 1980s, despite record level oil revenues Nigeria was deep into debt, mainly to the U.S. based International Monetary Fund (IMF). Almost half of the Nigerian government’s revenues were going to the IMF! The economic situation for the working class was made worse due to the implementation of the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Program.
In the 1990s new civil wars began, but this time they were tied directly to foreign oil companies (including Chevron, Exxon-Mobil and Texaco).
In 2013, the Netherlands ruled that its own oil company, Royal Dutch Shell (co-owned by the British empire), was responsible for the massive pollution of the Niger Delta.
Despite the current civil violence Nigeria is the world’s fifth largest producer of oil. Its main buyer is the United States, because most of its oil is the type consumed by U.S. industries (known as ‘light’, ‘sweet’).
M777 : PROOF THE UNITED STATES IS THE TOOL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!
OPERATION JUPITER: NIGERIAN MILITARY YELLOW FEVER VACCINE CAMPAIGN!
OPERATION JUPITER: Nigerian MILITARY IMPOSED VACCINATION PROGRAM KILLS THREE!
U.S. AFRICOM: FROM WAR ON TERROR TO WAR ON POACHING
NIGERIA ADMITS SHADOW GOVERNMENT, TAXPAYERS SCREWED OVER BY $12-MILLION MONTHLY!
WORLD WAR 3, AFRICAN FRONT: U.S. BEHIND GENOCIDE AGAINST NIGERIAN MUSLIMS?
2012 OIL & GAS PRICES: NIGERIA OIL & GAS BOOM.
MILITARY INCOMPETENCE: ITALY SAYS THE U.K. ROYALLY F—ED UP A HOSTAGE RESCUE MISSION IN NIGERIA
WORLD WAR 3: OBAMA INCREASES U.S. TROOPS IN AFRICA, KILL SO CALLED ‘CHRISTIAN’ MILITIA LEADER, IT’S REALLY ABOUT THE OIL