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“people are starting to decompress.”: U.S. industrial/mining/logistics layoffs, May 2018

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

God is Evil: ICE hits Hobby Lobby, returns Sumerian artifacts to Iraq!

18JUN2018 /23:26 UTC-07 Tango 06  (29 Khordad 1397/05 Shawwal 1439/06 Wu-Wu 4716)

“Such efforts are to be noted, not only do they enforce the law they serve as a sense of historic justice, and they help in the fight against criminal and terrorist networks.-Fareed Yasseen, Iraqi Ambassador to the United States

Not even a year after first getting into trouble, the co-owners of Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible are in trouble again.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is returning more than 3-thousand smuggled Sumerian/Babylonian/Ancient Iranian (primarily from the Ur III and Old Babylonian period, 2100-1600 BCE) artifacts to Iraq.  The tablets and cylinders were illegally acquired by the ‘christian’ owned Hobby Lobby for its new Bible Museum in Washington DC. 

On 02MAY2018 the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. signed documents with ICE for the return of archaeological items, bought by Hobby Lobby which inadvertently(?) provided $1.6-million USD of funding for Islamic extremists.

The ‘christians’ who run Hobby Lobby tried to smuggle in the artifacts by labeling the boxes as Tile Samples.   The criminal act was discovered by  ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agents, in conjunction with Assistant U.S. Attorneys at United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, investigating funding ops for DAIISH (Islamic State).  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted the smuggled items.

Hobby Lobby must now pay a $3-million fine, plus other punitive actions.  This isn’t the first time ICE returned stolen artifacts to Iraq.

Smithsonian: Hobby Lobby’s Smuggled Artifacts May Come From Lost Sumerian City

Live Science: Lost City of Irisagrig Comes to Life in Ancient Stolen Tablets

“Morale has never been lower.”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., May 2018

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

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

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

Alaska: So much for anti-gun (anti-2nd Amendment) efforts, Anchorage police report a student at Gruening Middle School attacked other students with a razor.  Police arrested a boy for vandalizing the Fire Lake Elementary School, the school has been targeted since March with spray paint and windows being broken.

Alabama: The voluntary Alabama Sentry Program will allow school administrators to carry guns.  A Tuscaloosa City Schools substitute teacher arrested for having sex with a student.  The teacher is actually on contract through Kelly Educational Staffing, and her last name is Lovely.

Arizona: Christians have taken over the taxpayer funded public school system and removed references to evolution, causing one high school biology teacher to quit in protest: “I was directed to make changes to adjust the wording to ‘evolution’. That was coming from levels above me, I believe, from the superintendent’s office. I turned in my resignation and said, ‘I will not be part of this.'”-Lacey Wieser

Arkansas: A man pled guilty to stalking and killing a Sheridan High School student, the reason was stupid, the victim was dating his son’s ex-girlfriend.  A Conway High School student, who is also a father, was shot to death as he got inside his car, police say there are no witnesses or evidence to go on.

California: Dedicated to preventing violence in schools, Richstone Family Center issued a layoff WARN for its Hawthorne location, 58 jobs gone mid-June.  First Student issued a shutdown WARN for its school bus ops in Los Angeles, 174 jobs gone by the end of June!  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Notre Dame de Namur University from eliminating more programs and five teaching jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS.  Frederick K.C. Price III Christian Schools issued a shutdown WARN for a school in Los Angeles, 46 jobs gone by the end of June.   A new northern California elementary school is being named after an illegal immigrant. 

Colorado: Public schools are being boosted by a population boom and by an oil fracking boom. 

Connecticut: A Black Yale Student Was Napping, and a White Student Called the Police

Delaware: The state Department of Education revealed that 44% of students at Stubbs Elementary School were suspended last year.  A Middletown High School student arrested for threatening another student with a gun in the school toilet room.   A lawsuit claims the state Department of Education spends more taxpayer funding on students from high income families, at the expense of low income students. 

Florida:  First it was an Idaho teacher feeding a live puppy to an illegal snapping turtle (they are considered invasive specie in Idaho), now a teacher at Forest High School is accused of forcing students to drown live raccoons and opossums: “It made me sick. It made me sick to my stomach! …..took the cages, filled up large trash cans full of water, and had the children drown the raccoons in the cages inside the water, inside the trash cans!”-mother of student who said the incident was also captured on video

Georgia: Northgate High School and Canongate Elementary School locked down prison style after reports of a person with a gun  walking along a road near the schools.  Apparently no such person was ever found.

Hawaii: Schools near the Kilauea volcano shutdown by the goddess.  On Oahu, Waipahu Intermediate School locked down prison style as police searched for a ‘suspect’ that a woman reported as armed with a gun, police found no such ‘suspect’.

Idaho: Despite the fact that it is legal to carry a gun in public, without a permit, and that some teachers can have guns in school in The Gem State, the Lakeland Joint School District is spending taxpayer money on hiring armed guards.  Despite previous lawsuits that revealed that fees charged by Idaho school districts violates the state constitution, districts continue to charge fees and now another lawsuit at the federal level.   Non-profit “emergency shelter, residential care, youth and family therapy, job readiness training, adoption services,  and more for at-risk kids” Idaho Youth Ranch shutdown five of its thrift stores in Blackfoot, Boise (on Chinden Boulevard), Buhl, Emmett and Twin Falls, due to lack of sales.

Illinois: After only nine years Motherland College shutting down after the U.S. Department of Education accused it of illegal activity. High schools Belleville East and Belleville West were shutdown after a male student threatened a female student, the male student was arrested.  A school cop stopped a former student from shooting up Dixon High School by shooting and wounding the former student. Litchfield High School and Junior High was locked down after two rounds of ammo were found in a toilet room, no other info was released because it involves juveniles.  Benedictine University eliminating 32 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (enrollment dropped by about 2-hundred since 2016).

Indiana: A student used two pistols (not assault rifles) to shoot another student, and a teacher, at Noblesville West Middle School. The teacher knocked the pistols away and subdued the shooter.  Hoosier Academy issued a ‘pending’ shutdown WARN, 62 jobs gone possibly by June.

Iowa: A Linn-Mar High School nurse (who also worked for god’s own Saint Luke’s Hospital) pled not guilty to having sex with a student.  Three Waukee School District schools were placed in ‘non-emergency lock-down’ after one report of a man with guns near the schools, no such ‘man’ was found.  Fulton and Holy Ghost Elementary schools were locked down prison style because of a stand-off between police and three adults after a failed attempted traffic stop, the three adults were arrested but the incident had nothing to do with schools.  Paranoid parents unfairly forced Iowa City Community School District to fire a substitute teacher, after the parents discovered that the substitute was arrested, not convicted, on drug charges ten years ago.  On top of that the drug charges were supposed to have been expunged from arrest records in 2014.  Apparently Iowa City Community School District has a policy of rejecting applicants just for arrests, not convictions, all you unAmerican paranoid taxpayers of Iowa City Community School District can expect a lawsuit. 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:  No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Kansas:  In Derby, after 20 years Blue Dragon Books shutdown due to “family issues”  State law allows teachers to have guns in school, but more powerful insurance companies are blocking teachers from doing so!

Kentucky: Jefferson County Public Schools suddenly laid off 224 people as a result of what I call DSS!  Gray’s College Bookstore shutdown after 31 years, saying “The college textbook industry has changed dramatically over the years, and there is a bunch of things coming down the road for digital delivery.  Small family-owned college stores don’t have a place.”

Maine: After only three years the privately run Portland Science Center shutdown due to lack of customers.

Maryland: Several schools in Baltimore County placed on prison lock-down after a home burglary-in-progress/shoot-out left one cop dead, and four suspects arrested. It had nothing to do with schools, entire neighborhoods were also prison locked down. Ironically one of the locked down schools is named Gunpowder.   Four Glenelg High School students charged with vandalizing the school with ‘hate’ graffiti.

Massachusetts: Paranoid Phillips Andover, Curtis Middle School and Algonquin Regional High School shutdown over various threats.  One school got an email that, after investigation, revealed it might not even have been a threat, and was meant for an out-of-state school! Another school claimed a student had a gun, but police found no such thing!  The third threat came in the form of a note found at a school, yet police said there was nothing to go on in the note, it didn’t even mention students or a specific school!

Michigan:   Van Hoosen Middle School and Rochester Adams High School shutdown after high levels of mercury was found in the drinking water. The federal EPA says 2 parts per billion (ppb) is the maximum safe level for mercury, the school’s average sampling was 56-ppb!   Allendale Public Schools canceled its planned Sex Education Advisory Board hearing, and will ‘gather more info’, due to what is being posted on facebook regarding the school system’s sex ed course.

Minnesota: Taxpayers being raped of $25-million USD to ‘improve’ school security!  A student with a history of mental illness nearly beat to death a teacher’s aid at Harrison Education Center (security camera video shows the student using his fists, no gun needed)!  The teacher’s aid was put into a hospital in critical condition, but get this, a judge released the mentally deranged student to his family because the public defender said being in jail would make the student’s mental problems worse!  A  female Lincoln Park Middle School special ed teacher allegedly confessed to sex crimes with a 15 years old student that took place almost daily over a two weeks period.  Saint Francis Schools eliminating 36 jobs in June.

Mississippi: Due to massive math teacher shortage the state Board of Education lowered the standardized test score to qualify as a math teacher.

Missouri:  The ACLU is suing Independence School District after the district labeled a student’s Craigslist joke a threat.  The 3.9 g-p-a senior, with no school history of causing problems, wrote on the ad site that Truman High School was for sale. Now he can’t graduate.

Nebraska:  Hastings Public Schools refused to allow a graduate from wearing her U.S. Army sash to graduation, even threatened her on the day of graduation: “He pulled me out of line and said, ‘I talked to you and your father and you are not to be wearing that. If I see you wearing that again, you will not receive your diploma.'”-Megan Pohlmeier  

The school system has a clothing accessory policy that basically says if the school didn’t issue it you don’t wear it.

Nevada: Bonanza High School teacher arrested for making terroristic threats 

New Hampshire: Exalted state Department of Education screwed-up on state assessment tests, and as a result cost public schools $1.5-million USD! There’s now a push to get that $1.5-million issued to 163 districts, somebody send that Department of Education back to school.

New Jersey: Union Schools warning of as many as 2-hundred layoffs due to lack of funding, possibly caused by budgetary incompetence and taxpayer ripoffs by the school board!   Cumberland County College laying off 43 people and considering merging with a competing college due to a steady decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).  A 77 years old school bus driver, with a long history of traffic violations, made an illegal u-turn on a highway, plowing into a dump truck, killing a student and a teacher, and injuring dozens.  But wait, it wasn’t the only school bus that made an illegal u-turn on Route 80, school officials admitted that two other buses also broke traffic rules because the caravan of East Brook Middle School buses missed their exit!

New Mexico:  Taxpayer funded Shiprock High School scheduled christian prayers during graduation, not only in violation of the U.S. Constitution but in violation federal Supreme Court rulings.

Jesus of Nazareth said “Render unto Caesar what is his.”  Meaning if you take part in a government funded system then you play by its rules.

New York: Excelsior College laid off 50 employees due to lack of funding. The Yonkers Board of Education decided to eliminate 251 jobs due to being short $45.3-million USD!  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, 162 jobs gone by the end of the year!

North Carolina: Cape Fear Community College warned employees of layoffs because of “a projected decrease in budget, enhanced technologies and streamlined processes.”

North Dakota: Fargo Public Schools reports that at least 510 teachers and staff were injured by students in the 2017-18 school year, up by 169 from the previous school year!  District officials refused to give news media details of those injuries.  A Bismarck pharmacist already accused of terrorizing students and child porn, now facing new charges of planting hidden cameras to record school girls.

Ohio: Poland School District shutting down Dobbins Elementary School and reducing work hours for employees, in an effort to get outta a multi-million dollar deficit hole.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ own Hiram College from conducting layoffs and radical program restructuring due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS which has caused the school to cut $1-million USD from its budget.

Oklahoma: “Some teachers don’t even have classrooms. They keep their belongings, textbooks and supplies on carts and push them from classroom to classroom, hour to hour. I have been a traveling teacher. Like some of our fellow union members who are adjunct college professors and hold ‘office hours’ in their cars and nurses who travel from school to school, fingers crossed, hoping no one at a school across town will suffer a health crisis, it is almost impossible to be an effective educator while carting your work around.”-Melissa Smith

Oregon:  The University of Oregon apologized for blaming the death of one of its students on life-style choices. A school cop, and the North Bend High School principal, both fired for telling homosexual students they were going to burn in hell.

Pennsylvania: Durham School Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Chester Township ops, 67 jobs gone in June.  Carnegie Museum of Art/Museum of Natural History eliminating 76 jobs by July.  Norwin School District laying off eight teachers and jacking up property taxes by 3.1%, because state level taxpayer funding is no longer enough.  Keystone Central School District laid off 34 teachers due to a 10% decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).

Puerto Rico:  STUDENT PROTESTERS IN PUERTO RICO FACE TRIAL AS GOVERNMENT CRIMINALIZES DISSENT

Rhode Island: Warwick School Committee wants to layoff 71 teachers and one other employee because “Even with the closure of six schools in three years, we have a budget challenge”.

South Carolina:  Taxpayer funded teachers join state employees on strike.  A female Byrnes High School teacher was suspended, then officially retired, after claims that she failed to stop students from performing sex acts in class, on multiple occasions. The alleged sex acts were reported by another student, the teacher said when the classroom is full there are areas of the room she can’t see.

South Dakota: A religious group espousing polygamy discovered that without government issued birth certificates you can’t enroll your masses of children in taxpayer funded schools.

Tennessee: A female federal level Congress’man’ blames school shootings on porno!  

Texas:  A student, and son of an immigrant, shot-up Santa Fe High School, using a shotgun and a pistol (no assault rifles) he managed to kill ten people (possibly because of the inaction’s of police who were trained for such a shooting, at the very same school).  Friends of the shooter, and even his father, blame pervasive bullying at the school, school officials deny it.   God powerless to stop Sojourn Baptist Church from shutting down its Academy due to The Rapture, I mean low student enrollment.   San Antonio Independent School District eliminating 132 teaching jobs ostensibly to save money, however, an Army ROTC teacher said he was being laid off even though the U.S. Army pays most of his salary!  Houston Independent School District eliminating 250 jobs due to a $115-million deficit hole supposedly caused by crashing property taxes caused by Hurricane Harvey!

Utah: A teacher with Nebo School District says district officials repeatedly ignored her reports of a janitor sexually assaulting boys.  A teacher at North Sanpete High School under investigation for sexting a female student.

Vermont: Taxpayer funded schools are prepping for a population death spiral as lack of babies being born in the state set another record.

Virginia: Taxpayer funded schools use of ‘seclusion’ under scrutiny after a mentally challenged student, who can’t speak, was placed into seclusion, and Belmont Ridge Middle School couldn’t give her mother a reason why!  It was revealed because another student took a pic of the incident on an iPad, The Washington Post reports the incident is not isolated but systemic across the U.S. 

Washington DC: God’s own Catholic University of America laying off at least 35 people because of The Rapture, I mean DSS, school officials said “Morale has never been lower.”

Wisconsin: In Saint Nazianz, after 134 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Gregory Catholic School, due to The Rapture, I mean because they’ve “had declining enrollment numbers for some time”Delavan-Darien School District laying off 39 teachers and an undisclosed number of other employees, due to cash strapped taxpayers voting down a plan to spend an additional $3-million USD just for operating costs.

Dumbing Down U.S.A., April 2018: “THIS IS SOMETHING UNEXPECTED”

ROARING BACK WITH A VENGEANCE, U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GUN CLUBS!

“historic changes”: U.S. industrial/mining/logistics layoffs, April 2018

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

More U.S. jobs being killed by European Union and China.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

 California: Diversified Silicone Products issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Santa Fe, 68 jobs gone by July.  Germany based shipping company DHL issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Moreno Valley, 136 jobs gone by June!  France based aerospace company C and D Zodiac issued a multiple shutdown WARNs for its Garden Grove ops, at least 79 jobs gone by mid-July.  Washington based aerospace company Leach International suddenly eliminated 46 jobs at its Esterline Power Systems ops in Buena Park. Hecny Transportation shutting down its Brisbane location mid-June.   Workrite Uniform Company issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Oxnard, 101 jobs gone by June!  What automotive industry recovery?  Floor mat maker Kraco Enterprises issued a layoff WARN for its factory in Compton, 83 jobs gone by June.

Illinois: Washington based industrial valve maker DeZURIK eliminating 61 jobs in Schaumburg due to “relocation”, taking place in 1st quarter 2019.   In Collinsville, energy company Dynergy eliminating 53 jobs by June.

Iowa: Germany based Siemens shutting down its recently acquired steam turbine factory in Burlington, 125 jobs gone, however a federal mandated WARN has yet to be issued! What automotive industry recovery? Germany based engine parts maker MAHLE shutting down its ops in Winterset, 33 jobs gone by mid-July.

Louisiana: What automotive industry recovery? Monster Moto laying off 30 assembly line workers, in May, and transferring those jobs to China despite the company’s motto being Made in America!  Local news reports say just a year ago Monster Moto promised to hire 3-hundred people (even the state gov’na attended the announcement) but actually hired only 1-hundred!

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery?  Belgium based exhaust system maker Bosal eliminating 40 jobs at its factory in Ypsilati, in June, apparently on-top of the 77 jobs eliminated in April.

Mississippi: What automotive industry recovery?  Advance Auto Parts shutting down and selling off its distribution center in Gallman, 284 jobs gone by Xmas as part of a plan to consolidate 54 distribution centers!

New Jersey: What automotive industry recovery?  Germany based Mercedes-Benz shutting down its U.S. HQ in Montvale, 115 jobs lost due to relocation to Atlanta, Georgia! About 1-thousand jobs transferring to Georgia, so the net loss to New Jersey is about 1-thousand-115 jobs! 

New York: Ireland based electrical parts maker Eaton Corporation eliminating 29 jobs at its Horseheads ops.  It should be noted that Eaton got U.S. taxpayer funded incentives for its operations in Horseheads. Bankrupt (due to $1.5-billion in debts) clothier Nine West Holdings (Nine West, Anne Klein, Bandolino, etc) shutting down its wholesale shoe and handbag distribution ops in NYC, 203 jobs gone by July!

North Carolina: Saudi Arabia based SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) issued a shutdown WARN for its Huntersville Innovative Plastics operations, 83 jobs gone by the end of July.

Oklahoma: Petroleum company Devon Energy eliminating 3-hundred additional jobs due to never ending debt!   Between 2016 and January 2018 the natural gas company killed 1-thousand-4-hundred jobs!

Ohio: What automotive industry recovery? Comprehensive Logistics-Source Providers eliminating 150 Austintown jobs due to production cutbacks at the GM-Chevy Cruze factory in Lordstown!  Lordstown Seating killing 83 jobs by mid-June.  And of course the GM-Chevy Cruze production cutbacks will result in 1-thousand-5-hundred GM-Chevy employees becoming unemployed!  GM administrators blame low sales in the U.S.: “…the market continued to undergo historic changes, it required us to reduce production rates and take numerous down weeks to match production with lower customer demand…”

Pennsylvania: In New Kensington, years of down prices for metals and then a $209-thousand USD theft forced Quality Machined Products to layoff employees for the first time in its history.  British empire United Kingdom based chemical company Johnson Matthey issued a shutdown WARN for its Conshohocken location, 119 jobs gone by August!  Dicom Transportation Group issued a shutdown WARN for its Philadelphia location, 51 jobs gone by June.   Pittsburgh Glass Works shutting down its factory in East Deer, at least 160 jobs affected by June, layoffs starting in May!  Worldwide Flight Services eliminating 161 air-freight jobs at Philadelphia International Airport, due to losing a contract!

South Carolina:  Textile maker Alice Manufacturing shutting down its 50 years old factory in Ellison, 175 jobs gone in June due to competition from overseas!

Texas: Salon products maker/supplier Sally Beauty warned of an undisclosed number of layoffs at its Denton HQ, in an effort to save $15-million USD!  Fort Worth based Bell Helicopter suddenly eliminated 120 jobs across the United States!  Houston based Erin Energy (Camac Energy) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to the collapse of the African oil industry.  Petroleum company EV Energy Partners now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to as much as $1-billion USD of debt.

Washington: Jorgensen Forge issued a shutdown WARN for its Tukwila ops, 101 jobs gone by mid-June!  Hot water heater maker A.O. Smith issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Renton, 57 jobs gone by mid-June.

Wisconsin: Mattel-American Girl shutting down its call center/distribution center in Wilmot, 185 jobs gone by the end of June!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, March 2018: “THIS IS A SAD DAY…”

America Spread Thin: West Asia, April 2018

West Asia, or as the U.S. Department of Defense calls it Southwest Asia.  Iran, Iraq and Turkey are sometimes considered part of West Asia and sometimes Central Asia.  I consider Iraq and Turkey part of West Asia and Iran is part of Central Asia.

The following is a smidgen of what the United States is involved in, in the Middle East, during April 2018:

On 04APR2018 an honor guard from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, receive the body of Major Andreas B. O’Keeffe, who was killed in Iraq while flying an HH-60 Pave Hawk for the 106th Rescue Wing.

At Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, the body of para-rescueman Master Sergeant William Posch, killed in Iraq, was brought home:

Another Florida resident, Staff Sergeant Carl Enis, was also killed in Iraq.

Hawaii Army National Guard personnel with 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, deployed to somewhere in South West Asia.

At Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 47 USA (U.S.Army) personnel with the 8th Human Resources Sustainment Center, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, returned from supporting ops in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.

On 15APR2018, the Louisiana Air National Guard honored 16 Airmen from the 259th Air Traffic Control Squadron for their service in Iraq: “These 16 Airmen went over there and basically took charge of airfield operations. They did an outstanding job delivering sorties and increasing the payload of goods coming in and out to support our warfighters. The thing that impressed me is that they increased the MedEvac time by 75%!”-Major General Glenn Curtis

North Carolina Army National Guard‘s 449th Combat Aviation Brigade, along with British empire United Kingdom-NATO personnel, conduct aeromedical evacuation (MedEvac) training at Camp Taji, Iraq.   The North Carolina National Guard, and Vanderbilt University, donated medical books to the Iraqi Army Hospital, Camp Taji, at the end of March.

Between the end of March and beginning of April, about 285 personnel from Ohio National Guard‘s 2nd Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq.

At Fort Hood, Texas, the U.S. Army 3rd Cavalry Regiment deploying to Iraq:

On 03APR2018, a Wisconsin Air National Guard 128th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 refuels USAF E-3 Sentry AWAC as it conducts missions over Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wisconsin National Guard soon deploying personnel to Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

A missile armed MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System at an undisclosed location (secret) returns sans one missile after an anti-ISIS (DAIISH) mission over Iraq

‘Undisclosed Location’: Official video USAF 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron says good-bye to SouthWest Asia:

USAF F-15E Strike Eagle gets refueld from a KC-10 Extender, somewhere over SouthWest Asia, 21APR2018

Bahrain: 

U.S. 5th Fleet observes Denim Day in Manama, Bahrain, 25APR2018

Iraq: 

Iraqi Army fast rope training from U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil Mi-17 helicopter, U.S. taxpayer funded contractors are also maintaining the Russian helicopters for Iraq

U.S. Army, 2011: Army equipping Afghans, Iraqis on Mi-17s

U.S. Army conducts Combat LifeSaver course for Iraqi Army personnel

Israel:

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 29APR2018

South Carolina National Guard take part in change of command ceremonies for the 13th Missile Defense Battery in Israel, 10APR2018

Jordan: Jordan is increasingly being drawn into the influence of NATO.

Closing ceremonies for NATO – Jordan Planning Course, 04APR2018

Official USMC/USN video explainer of Eager Lion 18:

U.S. Army town clearing video, 19APR2018:

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:  

U.S. military leaders meet with Royal Saudi military leaders at Ministry of Defense Officer’s Club, Riyadh, KSA, 19APR2018

Kuwait: 

More than 45 U.S. and Kuwait Land Forces soldiers took part in CBRN training, Camp Patriot, Kuwait, 25APR2018

U.S. Army combat engineers employ the Talon Robot, and VMR/2 Mine Hound, at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, 10APR2018

Qatar: 

Mom and daughter with Pennsylvania Air National Guard deployed to Qatar; Staff Sergeant Victoria Moran and Senior Master Sergeant Michelle Mersing

Official video of Pennsylvania Air National Guard rapid repair training at Al Udeid Air Base, Kuwait:

Syria: 

USAF C-17 moves cargo between undisclosed (secret) locations from Iraq to Syria, 13APR2018

A Syrian contractor demonstrates to U.S.-NATO advisers that the Zir Water Pumping Station, near Busayrah, is now working, 21APR2018

Video of Tomahawk cruise missile launch against Syria from USS Monterey, 14APR2018:

USAF F-15C Eagle refuels during mission over Syria, 14APR2018

Video of NATO airstrike against supposed DAIISH headquarters in Abu Kamal, 17APR2018:

(BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH)

Turkey: Official video of NATO operated AWACs based at FOB (Forward Operating Base) Konya, and used over Iraq and Syria:

United Arab Emirates: 

USAF F-22 Raptor based at Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE, gets refueled inflight, 01APR2018

Official video, U.S. Army and UAE deployment of high mobility artillery rocket system (HiMARS):

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST ASIA, MARCH 2018

Vehicle I-D: CH-53K King Stallion

Forget the CH-53 Super Stallion, there’s a new heavy lift Marine coming onboard; CH-53K King Stallion.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ethan Pumphret.

Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron-1 load the main gear box of the new CH-53K King Stallion onto the aircraft, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 03OCT2018.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

The first CH-53K King Stallion hovers above the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.It’s not a rebuild, it’s completely new with reduced weight yet stronger construction, fly-by-wire, and able to lift three times more that the Super Stallion (externally transport 27-thousand pounds/12247 kilos over 110 nautical miles/127 miles/203.7km and has a max external lift of 36-thousand pounds/16329.3 kilos).  The most noticeable visual difference is the cockpit/nose section of the rotary wing aircraft.

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

The first CH-53K King Stallion taxis across the flight line at MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.

Offical U.S. Marine Corps video explainer:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

Another video, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018:

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Leynard Kyle Plazo.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

USMC General checks out the new CH-53K at the Berlin Air Show, Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, Schönefeld, Deutschland, 25APR2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

Video of heavy lift demo at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18JAN2018:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

Test flight over West Palm Beach, Florida, 22MAR2017.

Official video from April 2017:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

By April 2017, the CH-53K had passed its Defense Acquisition Board assessment, and low-rate initial production began. The CH-53K is scheduled to completely replace the CH-53E Super Stallion by 2030.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

“Experimental” silly-vilian colors (and nose) at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Florida, 08MAR2016.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

Vehicle I-D: CH-53 SEA STALLION MCAS-YUMA, APRIL 2017

Red Neck Fail: Covert Civil War in Texas causes bullied immigrant to shoot up school with shotgun?

19MAY2018 (16:40 UTC-07 Tango 06)  29 Ordibehesht 1397/04 Ramadan 1439/05 Ding-Si (4th month) 4716

The Washington Post: Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died.

Yes, another school shooting, don’t blame guns (this latest Texas shooting involved a low-rate of fire pump action shotgun and a revolver, no assault weapons used, realizing that low-rate of fire weapons were used, supposedly by one person, it’s amazing how many people were wounded or killed, and never-mind that the ‘christian’ shooter is from an immigrant family who was bullied at school “for smelling bad”), it’s called a Covert Civil War.

The following are mainstream news media reports of the disintegration of Texas during the first three weeks of May 2018 (note how many involve education):

KHOU: 22 injured in Pasadena plant explosion

Texas is now tied to the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak

Houston Chronicle: Texas pastor calls social justice ‘anti-biblical’ and ‘Marxist ideology’

Texas man accused of possessing 58 terabytes of data related to child pornography

Texas police receive training from anti-Islam ex-FBI agent

Home prices rising in most Texas cities

Texas regulators move to shut down Houston cryptocurrency site

North Texas teacher wrangles snake that invaded elementary school

Texas violated federal voting laws

Texas teacher fired after sending profane text to mother of autistic student

CBS DFW: Ammo Box Falls From Military Chopper, Crashes Into Texas School

The Texas Tribune: Texas’ “revenge porn” law violates the First Amendment

Women at Texas community colleges aren’t getting the kind of birth control they want

Trump administration preparing to shelter migrant children on Texas military bases

Texas executed Juan Castillo, who said he was innocent

Former University of Texas law school official arrested 

Judge approves settlement mandating air conditioning at hot Texas prison

Texas prisons “You’re not as safe as you should be.” 

Fort Worth Star Telegram: ‘End times’: Nude family walks away from burning home before parents assault PD chief

The Root: Texas 13-Year-Old Abducted, Assaulted after Getting Off School Bus

NBCNews: Young Texas Latinos are an untapped voting goldmine

Corpus Christi Caller-Times: Corpus Christi protesters slam ‘homophobic’ policy

ProPublica: Help Us Investigate Care at the Texas Medical Center

Austin American-Statesman: Texas Humor founder responds after woman requests ‘learn English or go home’ T-shirt

Drunken Texas mom disrupts play, kicks officer, floods jail

The Nation: In West Texas, the US-Mexico Border Disappeared

ABCNews: 2 Texas transgender women dead within a week of each other

Texas family targeted in ‘swatting’ prank

CBSNews: Man arrested in Texas transgender woman’s strangulation

WJLA: Baby accidentally left in parked car dies in Texas

Dallas News: Texas father, sex-offender son both charged after authorities find child porn at their home

STAAR test glitches, causing stress for Texas special ed students

Texas uses hypnosis to investigate crimes.

Texas doctors send letter slamming Blue Cross’ ER billing process

Texas added more red tape to its arcane beer regulations

Positive lab test results for opiates, amphetamines and marijuana went up in Texas

Texas confuses voters, hurts turnout with two elections in one month

Plano teen arrested in ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass school shooting

FoxNews: Texas man shoots dead ex-wife’s three children, boyfriend

Texas man, 25, posed as high school student to play basketball

U.S. News & World Report: Feast or Famine in South Texas

PolitiFact: Political candidate lies about Texas schools shutting down for hunting season

Live Science: New Smallpox-Related Virus Found Lurking in Texas Rodents

KTKR: Texas energy manager warns of rolling power outages 

Air Force veteran dies alone in Texas

Texas school ends ‘birthday spankings’ after complaints

Fox29: Texas teen died after unbuckling her seat belt while trying to take a selfie

Greenville News: South Carolina National Guard deployed to Texas to deal with immigrants

Bloomberg: Searing Heat Has Texas Power Surpassing $1000 a Megawatt-Hour

MySanAntonio.com: South Texas doctor indicted in medical fraud case

Popular Texas swimming hole closes indefinitely

Sacramento Bee: California and Texas need a peace treaty

KTLA: A Texas woman who killed her cheating husband by repeatedly running him over, released from prison

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Texas State University Police Chief Resigns Amid Racial Tensions

University of Texas System Apologizes for Revoking Nepali Students’ Scholarships

WFAA: Former North Texas mayor was bribed with cash and luxury hotel

The Texas Observer: The Ghosts of Abandoned Texas Buildings

New York Times: Texas Teacher Showed a Photo of Her Wife, and Was Barred From the Classroom

Seven States, Led by Texas, Sue to End DACA Program

Newsweek: Texas Student with Autism Arrested for Allegedly Firing ‘Imaginary Rifle’

MarketWatch: Why Texas is labeled Canada on this map

NBC5 Dallas-Fort Worth: Taxpayers to pay North Texas school superintendent more than $750K despite Bullying Claims

AzCentral: Texas teen beaten with jack handle after offering help to motorist

2017USAF FAILED TO COMPLY WITH LAW, ENABLING TEXAS CHURCH SHOOTER!

TEXAS LAWMAN CHARGED WITH USING A GUN DURING ROAD RAGE INCIDENT!

HARVEY: TEXAS MILITIA RUNNING ON FUMES?

HARVEY: SINGAPORE JOINS TEXAS MILITIA!

HARVEY KILLS TEXAS CROPS?

RED NECK OBAMACARE FAIL: U.S. ARMY DEPLOYED ON ECONOMIC MISSION IN TEXAS!

MILITARIZING THE POLICE: AIR MILITIA TRAINS UP TEXAS COPS!

RED NECK FAIL: SAUDI ARABIA TAKES OVER TEXAS OIL SUPPLY?

TEXAS MILITIA PREPS FOR COMBAT DEPLOYMENT!

RED NECK FAIL: TURKISH TANKERS TAKE TEXAS!

2016RED NECK FAIL: ‘CHRISTIAN’ TEXAS HOME BASE FOR TAXPAYER FUNDED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST SCHOOLS!

RED NECK FAIL: TEXAS CARIBBEAN XMAS THEME PARK BUILT WITH CHINESE LABOR!

OBAMA DEPLOYS TEXAS MILITIA ON HISTORIC MIDDLE EAST DOMINATING MISSION!

MULTIPLE SHOOTINGS AUSTIN, TEXAS

TEXAS COPS GENOCIDE NEARLY 7-THOUSAND PEOPLE IN FIVE YEARS!

BRITISH EMPIRE ABANDONS TEXAS!

2015TEXAS COLLEGE FIRES EMPLOYEES FOR REVEALING THE TRUTH? 

Deutschland Über Alles!: Revell USA is dead, long live Revell Germany!

12MAY2018 /21:37 UTC-07 Tango 06  (23 Ordibehesht 1397/27 Sha’ban 1439/28 Ding-Si 4716)

“It is a sad time for the model building community… I have not seen anything ‘official’ from Revell, but It has been confirmed to me by a reliable source that Revell USA has in fact closed their doors.”-UP Scale Hobbies facebook post

Another victim of the so called recovered economy, the end of a long model building era in the United States, Revell USA (Revell-Monogram) is dead!

Starting out in California in 1943, as a subcontractor for plastics manufacturers, its first job reportedly being parts for washing machines, followed by anything relating to HO (1:87) scale train sets.   It was known as Precision Specialties.

When the company decided to focus on toys the name was changed to Revell (Wikipedia says it’s from the French word reveille, however Revell is a English/French family name that goes back to medieval times).  In the 1950s the focus was originally on model cars, but shifted to U.S. Navy ships, the most infamous being the constantly re-issued and horribly inaccurate USS Missouri.  This is humorous because supposedly the USN kits were considered so accurate that the Soviet Union bought Revell kits to learn about U.S. warship development (maybe that’s why the U.S.S.R. was constantly behind in the naval arms race).

Purportedly this crappy kit is what got the ball rollin' for Revell

Purportedly this crappy kit is what got the ball rollin’ for Revell

The success of Revell’s ship kits led to the company producing kits of almost anything you can think of.  However, this didn’t stop Revell from succumbing to the same economic forces as other industries, as I’ve previously explained in 1:72 SHOCK & AWE LOCKHEED F-104 STARFIGHTER, OR, WHY YOU CAN’T TRUST SCALE DRAWINGS! PLUS MASSIVE HISTORICAL CONFUSION ABOUT REVELL-MONOGRAM!

Monogram's classic 1974 issue Do 335, Monogram was Revell's biggest competitor at that time

Monogram’s classic 1974 issue Do 335, Monogram was Revell’s biggest U.S. competitor at that time

By 2012, longtime model kit builders thought economic bad times were over for Revell when an employee owned, Illinois based company, called Hobbico bought and merged Revell USA and Revell Germany (GmbH).  Wrong again!  In January 2018, Hobbico went bankrupt busted and began liquidating its divisions.  Immediately, Revell Germany issued a statement saying they were not impacted (“Hobbico’s bankruptcy filing was made in the United States and is strictly limited to the company’s U.S. operations, Revell-Germany is unaffected.”).

For decades (since 1970s) Revell Germany has reissued British Frog kits

For decades (since 1970s) Revell Germany has reissued British Frog kits

Revell USA production was halted in April, even shipments of already packaged kits were stopped. A group of investors called Quantum Capital Partners aus München (for some odd reason many U.S. and British sources are calling the group Blitz GmbH, my source is Revell Germany itself) which bought both Revell Germany and Revell USA.

The month before Revell was sold-off, Revell USA announced the much longed for reissue of the coveted Deal’s Wheels Baja Humbug

According to bankruptcy court documents, on 13APR2018 Quantum Capital Partners of Munich won the rights to Revell with a bid of about $3.9-million USD.  Revell USA ceased to exist, Revell Germany will continue as if nothing had happened.  I should point out that the $3.9-million was the high bid, apparently there was only one other bidder, it’s just more proof the model kit industry is in decline.  Hobbico was hoping for $10-million.

According to a press release by Revell Germany, Deutschland is the new home base for all Revell operations, including ops in North America: “Revell is pleased to partner with Quantum Capital Partners who supports the company in its further international growth.  At this point, I would also like to thank all trading and business partners for the Thank you for your confidence during the transition period in recent weeks.”-Stefan Krings, president of Revell Germany

“Revell is a renowned and well-established company and has been an impressive and internationally established successful toy brand. We will build on this strength and the brand with its unique positioning as a model maker….”-Steffen Görig, Quantum Capital Partners

Since its founding in 2008, Quantum Capital Partners (QCP) has taken over several dozens of companies including BASF, Bosch, Deutsche Bahn and even Airbus (even joining with the Islamic Investment Bank to make sure Airbus aircraft are Shariah compliant)!

Classic Hasegawa Voodoo, one of the first jet kits I built in the 1970s

Classic Hasegawa Voodoo, one of the first jet kits I built in the 1970s

By the way, Hobbico’s demise also affected Japan’s Hasegawa and Italy’s Italeri as Hobbico had become the distributor of those brands in the United States.

Italeri's old M47 (from late 1970s) is so good that recently Korea's Academy issued it

Italeri’s old M47 (first released around late 1970s early 80s) is so good that recently Korea’s Academy issued it

FALLING DOWN: U.S. MODEL KIT/RAILROAD HOBBY DEMISE, 2016-17

BLACKLIGHT REVELL DEAL’S WHEELS

America Spread Thin: North America, April 2018

These are just a few of the military operations happening across the North American region for the Gregorian month of April, 2018.

Canada: USS Pearl Harbor arrived in Victoria, British Columbia 12APR2018.  Commander Ben Miller stated “This visit helps to demonstrate the continuing commitment the U.S. has to our long-standing and important relationship with Canada……   the port visit gives the crew of Pearl Harbor a chance for some rest and relaxation…”  That taxpayer funded R&R includes visits to the Craigdarroch Castle, British Columbia Parliament buildings, Butchart Gardens, Fisherman’s Warf Park and the Fisgard Lighthouse.

El Salvador: Video previewing operation Beyond the Horizon scheduled for May, in which lots of U.S. tax dollars will be spent on El Salvador. The video shows U.S. taxpayer funded activities from previous Beyond the Horizon operations:

Guatemala: U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet conducting operation Continuing Promise 2018, spending your tax dollars not just on military training engagements, but on medical, dental, and veterinary help for silly-vilians.

Taxpayer funded USAF delivered a fire truck and ambulance to Tecpan, Guatemala, 20APR2018, as part of the evil USAID (United States Agency for International Development) Denton Program.  Supposedly the vehicles were paid for by religious organization Mission of Love Foundation.  As of March 2018, ‘christian’ Mission of Love Foundation, via USAID’s taxpayer funded Denton Program, has conducted 60 ‘missions’ to Guatemala: “We work on five continents with an all-volunteer force….. With a group of volunteers, the Denton Program and the Air Force together are making this possible for those in need. I couldn’t do it alone. I am just a facilitator.”-Kathleen Price, Mission of Love Foundation

Haiti: On 07APR2018, the U.S. Coast Guard captured and repatriated about 50 migrants from Haiti.

Mexico: Leaders of the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional met with U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) as well as Arizona, New Mexico and Texas National Guards, along with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, in Tucson, Arizona: “We not only have the huge responsibility as customs and border protection, we need this to be a team effort with U.S. Army North, Deptartment of Defense, Mexico and other agencies. By coming together we are able to exponentially provide security and safety for citizens in Mexico and the U.S.”-Juventino F. Pacheco, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent, Foreign Operations Branch, Tucson Sector Border Patrol  (THE WALL IS GOING UP, U.S. TAXPAYERS ARE FUNDING IT!)

United States:

So much for ObamaCare, operation Arctic Care involves U.S. regular forces, Alaska National Guard and British empire Canadian military forces providing taxpayer funded medical help to ‘underserved regions’ of Alaska.

Video of USAF C-17 leaving Alaska after delivering taxpayer funded medical supplies:

 Arizona Air National Guard Airmen listen to border deployment briefing, 09APR2018.

Your tax dollars at work as Sesame Street videographers visit Channel Islands Air National Guard station in California, 06APR2018.

Alabama Army National Guard fire mortar rounds at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 07APR2018.

Florida National Guard DISCOVERS MAJOR CAUSE of slow deployment of disaster relief supplies, NEW PREPS FOR HURRICANES!

U.S. Coast Guard delivers the Flame of Hope for Hawaiian Special Olympics, 18APR2018.

U.S. Army off-loads food for climate change victims in Kauai, 17APR2018.

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted local emergency responders in Hanalei Bay area of Kauai, Hawaii, after a thunderstorm caused landslides and flooding.  Video of flooding:

Hawaii Businesses Are Making Billions Off The Military

This is not a CBRN drill, on 11APR2018 several nuke waste drums exploded at the U.S. Navy’s Idaho National Laboratory. Initially it was reported as one drum, but a week later it was revealed that at least three more drums exploded.  The nuke waste is said to have come to Idaho from Rocky Flats Plant in  Colorado, in the 1960s.  Contractor Fluor Idaho stated that the decades old waste had just been re-packed into 55-gallon drums the morning of the explosions. The latest nuke waste explosions are significant because the explosions at New Mexico’s WIPP (in 2014) might have involved nuke waste packaged at the Idaho National Laboratory.

IDAHO MILITIA TOP GUNS

IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS!

GREAT RENEGER: IDAHO & NORTH CAROLINA MILITIAS DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN, AGAIN!

Video of Vibrant Response zombie apocalypse preps in Indiana, note the pathetic Fix it Jesus sign at the end:

Maryland Army National Guard takes part in Vibrant Response, CBRN exercise in Indiana, 12APR2018.

Video of Guardian Response 2018, Indiana:

 

U.S. Coast Guard responds to toxic dielectric oil leak in Mystic River, Massachusetts, 14APR2018.

Members of Michigan National Guard and U.S. Virgin Islands National Guard train at Camp McCain, Mississippi, 06APR2018.

Toys used at Camp McCain, Mississippi, for yearly hurricane disaster training.

Water sampling at Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Michigan, due to possible contamination from Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Perfluorooctane Sulfanate (PFOS), and two compounds found in aqueous film forming foam (AFFF): “We want to test as a precaution, in order to determine if there is need for any further environmental investigation.”-Melanie Brown, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

U.S. Coast Guard underwater drone (ROV) examined damage caused to American Transmission Company hi-voltage cables in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan.  Local news media reported two cables were cut when the anchor of a boat got caught in them.  Electric underwater cables use toxic oil for insulation, the damage caused about 6-hundred gallons of dielectric oil to leak into The Great Lakes.

New Mexico Army National Guard coordinate with U.S. Border Patrol at El Paso Sector Intelligence Operations Center, 07APR2018.

Official New Mexico Air National Guard Red Horse & SOW FTX video:

 

580 personnel from New York and New Jersey National Guard units took part in FEMA Region-2 CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) training in New York and Connecticut, during the second weekend of April.

Active shooter training at the New York State Preparedness Center, in Oriskany, 18APR2018.

Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant (RVAAP) Environmental Restoration team recognized for helping to turn a former ammo factory into the new Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in Ohio.

Video, USAF A-10C Thunderbolt-2 pulls 540 over Ohio River during Thunder over Louisville, Kentucky, 21APR2018:

Video report, Oklahoma National Guard responds to record level wildfires:

Army National Guard is being used as a guinea pig for the new Human Resources, Pay and Talent Management software system, to be phased in over the next 360 days.  The Pennsylvania Army National Guard will be the first to try it out: “We’re going to be the first organization in the DoD [Department of Defense],  maybe the Federal government, that will have HR on their mobile device. This is going to be the largest HR system in the world … the largest roll-out of Oracle systems for all Soldiers.”-Colonel Darby McNulty, Project Manager for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System

On 21APR2018, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard conducted Safety Stand-down 2018, apparently over growing concerns about the safety and survival of personnel: “What we do is inherently risky and we send our condolences to those personally affected by the recent tragic incidents in our military aviation community.”-Chief Warrant Officer 5 Joe Sandbakken

Georgia Air National Guard’s 202 Engineering Installation Squadron deployed to Puerto Rico‘s Muñiz Air National Guard Base to restore, protect and sustain vital communications equipment.  It’s part of several planned deployments: “I was here working on a project before last year’s hurricanes hit and enjoyed it, so I wanted to come back and help the community get back in order.”-Staff Sergeant Wilson Gardner

Official Army Reserve video report on the never ending hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico (see also MILITARIZATION OF PUERTO RICO & VIRGIN ISLANDS), and Viper Command transition:

Militarizing police as South Carolina Army National Guard and Army Reserve Officers Training Corps conducted terrorist training with South Carolina police at the Moncks Corner Armory in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, 11APR2018: “Ten years ago, we never would have thought to do a mission like this.”-Chief Warrant Officer 3 Will Sirmon, South Carolina Army National Guard’s Aviation Brigade

U.S. Coast Guard captured illegally caught fish, and several Mexican fishermen, off the coast of Texas, 11APR2018.  They were illegally fishing in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.

Texas National Guard scans the shores of the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas, 10APR2018.

National Guard personnel muster to patrol the border at Del Rio Sector, Texas, as part of Operation Guardian Support, 20APR2018.

U.S. Coast Guard responds to oil pipeline fire near Port O’Connor, Texas, 17APR2018:

WEST VIRGINIA National Guard OPERATION CARROT? STATE SPONSORED SURVIVAL-ISM!

Alpine Guard 2018 WYOMING NATIONAL GUARD RESPONDS TO ‘CHEMICAL ATTACK’ IN COLORADO?

MAKING ZOMBIES: USAF SECRET SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENT REVEALED!

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST PACIFIC, MARCH 2018

Guardian Response 2017: NUKE ATTACK HITS UNITED STATES, NEARLY 6,000 U.S. PERSONNEL MOBILIZED!

Great Reneger: Idaho & North Carolina militias deploy to Afghanistan, again!

18APR2018 /23:04 UTC-07 Tango 06  (30 Farvardin 1397/03 Sha’ban 1439/04 Bing-Chen 4716)

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

Idaho gov’na Butch Otter says goodbye to personnel of the 1/168 General Support Aviation Battalion, 19APR2018

Just over 30 personnel of Idaho Army National Guard’s 1st of the 168th General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB) deploying to Afghanistan.  They’ll be joining about a dozen other Idaho militia members that have already deployed.  It’s the eighth deployment for the 1/168 GSAB. (STOP YOUR BITCHIN’: IDAHO WOMAN COMMANDS 1ST FEMALE COMBAT TEAM!)

IDAHO MILITIA TOP GUNS

Almost 3-hundred personnel from North Carolina National Guard’s 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion and Detachment 1-B Company-638th Aviation Support Battalion deploying to train the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.  This crusade has been going on for so long that for some it’s now a family affair: “I’m going with my son, so it will be a unique experience, probably my last big hoo-rah probably. What better way to graduate from the Guard than a deployment with your son.”-Command Sergeant Major J.P. Cole

To prove this a religious war the deployment ceremony was held in the Hope Community Church.

GREAT RENEGER: SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA DEPLOYS TO GERMANY!