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‘death party’: Drugs, the American Way, January 2019

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of January 2019:

South China Morning Post: Mexico’s new president declares ‘drug war’ over

The Guardian:Mexico’s murder rate broke new record in 2018 as drug war drags on

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

Off the coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden, the USN captured  4,700 kilograms of hashish, 24JAN2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.

It was the second Gulf of Aden hash capture, by the USN, in the past four weeks. The hash boat crew were allowed to sail away after the drugs were confiscated.

U.S. Coast Guard photo, 04JAN2019.

U.S. Coast Guard came across this drug ‘fast boat’, somewhere in the Pacific, 04JAN2019.

New York Times: Former Mexican President and Barack Obama buddy, Enrique Peña Nieto, accepted $100-million bribe from drug lord

U.S. counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids

U.S. News & World Report: Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket Among Women

Many Addiction Centers Lack Anti-Opioid Meds

Journal of the American Medical Association: Medical marketing increased substantially….especially DTC (Direct To Consumer) advertising for drugs…only two countries allow DTC drug advertising, New Zealand and United States

ALABAMA: Student busted with guns and drugs on High School campus

man arrested for trading teen girl for drugs

Knives, drugs, more found in Marshall County Jail crackdown

ALASKA:  Federal taxpayers giving Juneau Police Department $2.5-million, the police admitted the drugs war is all about making money for the cops: “Those interdictions are now our bread and butter, whether that’s postal or on the airlines or through the ferry.”-Jeremy Weske, JPD drug unit

Woman indicted for bringing meth, heroin on flight to Juneau

What do drugs in Alaska have to do with President Trump’s ‘border crisis’?

ARIZONA: Nogales border officers make record 254-pound fentanyl bust

Meth, cocaine, heroin: Most gets smuggled through ports of entry.

16 arrested across Pima, Cochise counties

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sabrina Candiaflores, 22JAN2019.

In Yuma, the USMC tried to convince high school students not to get intoxicated by having them play fun games with vision impairing ‘beer goggles’ on, 22JAN2019.

ARKANSAS: 8 Pounds Of Meth In Washington County

3 pounds of meth found in apartment

Nine arrested 

Co-founder of youth outreach program confesses to federal drug and gun charges

CALIFORNIA: For proof how commonplace drug smuggling has become in the leftist liberal Blue State; dumb repeat offender drug traffickers get arrested for a traffic violation, then while in jail openly reveal their latest major drug trafficking op!

Australian and U.S. cops capture record-setting 1.7 tons of meth worth $1.29 billion

mass drug overdose killed one person and sent more than a dozen to hospitals

new phase of opioid epidemic

New Opioid Laws

Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment 

Californians so addicted to prescription drugs that veterinarians must counsel pet owners on pet drugs

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

COLORADO:  Lawmakers so addicted to prescription drugs they want to directly import cheapo foreign made stuff

Despite ganja being legal in the state, cops raid 50 ‘blackmarket’ marijuana growers…since 2014 at least 350 illegal mary-jane growers have been raided by police

Again, despite legalized marijuana, prison population is expected to skyrocket due to drug crimes

Police report record number of cops shot while doing their job, it coincides with an increase in property crimes, specifically stolen vehicles, and if you look at the map of cop shootings you’ll notice it’s along a metro-area drugs trafficking corridor  (so much for legalized marijuana)

CONNECTICUT:  U.S. Postal Service captures 60 packages of cocaine shipped to Connecticut from Puerto Rico

A defense lawyer for a police sergeant accused of running a drug factory out of his home, has withdrawn a request to exclude the public and the press from the courtroom

judge dismisses opioid lawsuits against drug makers

Doctor pleads guilty in compound medicine case 

DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing

131 drug incidents in one week!

Two men busted for attempting to sneak drugs into Delco prison

Opioid Overdoses Up In 2018

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Despite being acquitted of drug crimes, court decides to keep the more than $13-thousand dollars in cash the thieving cops took from the man, because he can’t prove it’s his cash!

FLORIDA: For the second year in a row, cruise ship passengers arrested on drug charges

man says 3 syringes found in his butt aren’t his

Police dog exposed to ecstasy powder 

Cocaine making a deadly comeback

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray, 31JAN2019.

31JAN2019, five miles east of Haulover Inlet, a Coast Guard ‘smallboat’ intercepts a fishing boat that turned out to be hauling about 130 pounds of cocaine.

USCG District 7 Photo, 07JAN2019.

07JAN2019, at U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, personnel test seven kilograms of cocaine captured by Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection agents. The drug smugglers were also smuggling illegal immigrants.

GEORGIA: Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana

26 suspects arrested

15 arrested in $3.5M meth ring bust

Truck carrying $10M worth of liquid meth busted at repair shop

Doctor’s husband accused of prescribing drugs in wife’s name while she’s sitting in jail

Two mothers accused of selling drugs near elementary school

$1M of narcotics from shipping container 

local ‘Smoke shops’ selling illegal drugs to teens

GUAM: Drugs found in Postal Service priority mail packages

HAWAII: Marijuana use in workplace increased

Hawaii County Police Department reveals a few details of massive cop crimes involving drugs and other things, so far seven cops suspended, one forced into early retirement, two fired! Cop crimes include stealing drugs from evidence locker, assault of a juvenile suspect, and falsifying traffic tickets.

6 things to know about new flu drug Xofluza

IDAHO: man admits to eating cocaine while being chased by police

drug lab explodes inside Idaho Falls residence

Idaho Falls juvenile arrested with 500 doses of LSD, marijuana

Fourth state level prison cop pleads guilty to smuggling drugs into prison

Judge orders partial release of state prison lethal injection documents

Journalism professor banned from University of Idaho for allegedly admitting to using meth and threatening  access to guns

Example of why first time drug offenders SHOULD NOT make a plea deal in Idaho; harsher sentencing!

new DUI law requires first-time offenders to install ignition locking devices

ILLINOIS: Madison County Sees Record 109 Drug Overdose Deaths in 2018

Mayor, State Senator jailed on drug charge

Food-truck gun deal leads to Chicago drug case

Drugs company executive gave Illinois doctor lap dance while promoting drug

INDIANA: a rural Indiana town descends into drug addiction

10 indicted in drug running between Indiana and Mexico

Death doctor run out of Tennessee for causing deadly overdoses, is now working in Indiana

infants suffering from drug crisis

IOWA: Mayor, and her husband, caught with 18 marijuana plants during search for shooting suspect

Meth, cocaine overdoses rise

Iowa’s growing dependence on China for pharmaceutical drugs

Faulty muffler leads to drug arrests

KANSAS: parents arrested after child tests positive for meth

CVS pharmacist, husband charged with prescription drug crimes

Johnson County mom is accused of hosting parties where minors were served alcohol

KENTUCKY: teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana

The fall of a Kentucky-Mexico drug gang

Grandpa says he sold meth to save son from Mexican cartel

Fatal drug overdose leads to a bartender facing federal drug charges

Connecticut based drugs maker Purdue appeals order to unseal OxyContin records to Kentucky Supreme Court

 man had 2 ounces of meth ‘stuffed inside his butt crack’

LOUISIANA: ‘star agent’ for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) now on trial for essentially ‘faking’ drug busts, after three-year investigation that has roiled the federal law enforcement community

Undercover bust: 168 arrests!

Pharmacist fatally shoots robber at drug store

MAINE:  Police seize drugs and cash at Oxford hotel

Residents now turning to gun ownership to protect themselves from druggies: “He was standing on our porch and kept yelling for help. The only thing that separated us was the glass on the front door. In my 35 years, I never felt the need to own a gun to protect my family until we moved to Presque Isle. I guarantee that if he had broken the glass on that front door, there would have been shots fired.”-Jonathan Guerrette, complaining to city councilors, interestingly the deputy police chief admitted they’ve known about the druggie problem in certain neighborhoods ‘for many years’ yet gave a plethora of excuses why nobody was arrested, supposedly the state law enforcement is going to get involved  

Death leads to discovery of meth lab

MARYLAND:  Washington County sees sharp increase in drug, alcohol deaths

Baltimore to No Longer Prosecute Marijuana Possession Cases

More Than 300 Bags Of Heroin, Cocaine & Meth Found In Car

MASSACHUSETTS: What does 2019 have in store for marijuana

Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat

Suspect was operating ‘very significant’ drug ring while out on $200K bail

Leftist Liberal Mayors Visit Safe Injection Sites in British empire Canada

New Yorkers head to western Massachusetts to buy pot legally

MICHIGAN: Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction

Michigan lists pain drug Gabapentin as controlled substance

Life of high-tech savant cut short by drugs

Recreational marijuana is legal, but Lansing’s largest employers don’t allow it

More employees than ever test positive for marijuana

More than half of Michigan medical marijuana users admit to driving while high

Macomb County had 380 drug-related deaths in 2017, in desperation local government agencies are now ‘deputized’ under a new federal government program called FANTOM (Federal Anti Narcotics Team Of Macomb)

MINNESOTA:  man allegedly holds drug-fueled ‘death party’ for wife

Man dies of opioids at experimental homeless shelter

Dakota County drug bust nets 45 pounds of meth, 15 kilos of cocaine

MISSISSIPPI: 8 arrested 

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take property?

State Highway Patrol Admits: Police officers high on duty or test positive for drugs

Retired pharmacists arrested for operating an illegal pharmacy out of his flower shop

MISSOURI: Shoes, package of cookies lead to drug bust at taxpayer subsidized Amtrak station

Two homicides linked to $8.5 million meth trafficking ring 

Seven fugitives captured during drugs sweep

Cops Find Stolen ATV, Gun, Meth And Dead Bald Eagle 

MONTANA:4 died in due to fentanyl disguised as less-dangerous drugs

man, daughter accused of running ‘dark web’ drug operation

Woman says meth testing patch gives false positives (it wouldn’t be the first time a drug test was faulty)

In the sparsely populated state a new report says even more taxpayer funded drug treatment centers are needed

NEBRASKA: Busted Omaha drug operation sounds like fiction, except it wasn’t

DEA captures 4,737 pounds of marijuana, 83 pounds of methamphetamine and 27 pounds of heroin over six months

Drug-dealing cases against CBD oil shop owners

Killing was the result of ‘Attempted robbery of a drug dealer’

Woman dealt heroin, meth from home where she ran daycare

NEW HAMPSHIRE: One dead, two in critical condition after taking drugs

NEW JERSEY:  Local cops fail drug tests!

Medical marijuana can now be used to treat opioid addiction

NEW MEXICO: 15 lbs. of meth and 2,000 fentanyl pills smuggled by ‘family business’

U.S. Border Patrol captures 115 illegal immigrants with marijuana 

Drug addiction so bad there is now a new museum dedicated to drug abuse

NEW YORK: Syracuse University football wide receiver arrested along with 14 others as part of a federal drug bust

“Highly organized drug delivery service” netted about $50,000 weekly in drug addicted NYC

Legal drugs Middlemen Got Big Markup in New York

NORTH CAROLINA: 27 arrested in Bladen County

Illegal immigrants, including MS-13 gang member, charged in 2 kilo drug bust

USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Corinne Zilnicki, 08JAN2019.

Off North Carolina’s coast, on board an HC-130 Hercules, U.S. Coast Guard personnel operate radar and cameras to detect suspicious boats.

NORTH DAKOTA: drug raid in Fargo, in connection to heroin O-Ds across two counties

Burleigh County cop gets prison time for stealing drugs

OHIO: The Union County Drug Free Coalition honored the Ohio National Guard Counterdrug Task Force as the 2019 Community Champion Award: “We are grateful to the Ohio National Guard for their commitment to the health and safety of families in Union County.”-Rich Baird, superintendent of North Union Schools and chair of the Union County Drug Free Coalition

Overdose deaths falling throughout Ohio, but not in Franklin County

nightclub owner pleads guilty to drug crimes

Drug-fueled wave of kids taken from homes peaks 

OKLAHOMA: Police find 18000 pounds of suspected pot during traffic stop

Sheriff frustrated with relaxed drug laws

24 serving life without parole for drug trafficking

new emergency rules for medical marijuana

OREGON: Operation Wildfire

Man with criminal history, including running one of the largest drug gangs in the state, continues to commit crimes yet is released from jail, all charges dropped

PENNSYLVANIA: Drug deaths are rising in Coal Country and treatment is hard to come by

77 suspects arrested 

PUERTO RICO: FBI says there’s a “crisis of violence” in Puerto Rico

USCG photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 30JAN2019.

29JAN2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 2-hundred pounds of cocaine off the coast of Arecibo.

RHODE ISLAND: Illegal immigrant gets 9 years in prison for major drug trafficking ring

Suspended Firefighter admitted to Police He Was Doing Cocaine

SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson University football players suspended for failing drug test

64 suspects charged, many still wanted, in Spartanburg County

Doctors and cops come out in opposition to legalized marijuana, calls it “the most dangerous drug” in the U.S.

CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: seizing vehicles in drug cases. Mistakes still happen.

SOUTH DAKOTA: chief justice calls for reform in handling of drug cases

Multi-state drugs gang tries to rip-off Mexican cartel?

South Dakota charges ingestion of drugs separately from possession, meaning someone can be charged with a crime if a blood or urine test comes back positive for marijuana or other drugs.

Wisconsin woman driving rental car from Colorado says South Dakota cop unlawfully captured the suitcase full of drugs in the car

grandmother faces felony child abuse, drug charges

TENNESSEE: Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school

12 Arrested On Drug Charges In Franklin County

Thousands of fake Viagra, Cialis pills confiscated 

New opioid laws

State cop assigned to protect governor was on prescription painkillers, repeatedly fell asleep on job…..supervisors knew about his problem with prescription medication, and that his “pattern of behavior was allowed to continue for months without any knowledge of the THP command staff”

TEXAS: Cops invade home, shoot and kill military veteran husband and his wife, several cops wounded,  (next it’ll be revealed that one of the invading cops has a documented history of lying about drug raids, and apparently it’ll be three months after the cop invasion before investigators even search the crime scene for evidence, evidence that will counter the official police version of the story)

A six month multi-agency investigation resulted in nine people being arrested for piddly amounts of drugs

UTAH: Illegal immigrant drug smuggler has been deported eight times, caught yet again

Defense attorney who smuggling drugs into prison, sentenced: “I never dreamed in a million years that I would be an addict.”-Tony Miles

387 drug dealers arrested in Operation Rio Grande

Two drug busts in one day yield combined $2 million worth of meth and cocaine

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

U.S. Virgin Islands: New governor signs bill legalizing medical marijuana

Virgin Islands was source of heroin shipped to Michigan

VIRGINIA: drug case against actress involved in Me Too Movement

dozens of arrests after hundreds of indictments

WASHINGTON: Sodo District; drugs and RVs

overdose spike in north Seattle

drug and alcohol counselor arrested for selling drugs

‘christian’ university student, accused of murder, in more trouble after being caught doing drugs in the courtroom 

Washington DC:   millions of dollars’ worth of heroin seized 

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Workplace drug overdoses increasing

WEST VIRGINIA:  teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens

 teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs

A 7th Special Forces Group soldier and a West Virginia National Guard Special Forces soldier pled guilty to trying to smuggle marijuana from Columbia 

WISCONSIN: ERs fight drugs with drugs

Shopko owes drugs supplier $67-million

woman convicted of smuggling drugs into prison

WYOMING: Restaurants accused of ‘laundering’ drug money

Drugs, the American Way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”

International

Gun Ban Fail: Shooting in Australia, again! Cops knew who it was and did nothing! Academic report says studies supporting gun bans are deeply flawed!

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“He shot up every room in that place!”-witness talking about shooting rampage by paroled prisoner

Another witness told local news media the shooter was so calm that responding police went straight by him, yet it turns out the cops knew exactly who he was!

In near-total gun ban British empire Australia another shooting, this time it was done by a prisoner who had been released and then somehow got a shotgun!

Witnesses in the city of Darwin said the man entered a motel and began randomly shooting into the rooms, apparently demanding to see somebody by the name of Alex.  Some witnesses said the shooter was staying at the motel, but had just been kicked out.  After the shooting he ran out and sped off in a pickup-truck.  At least four people were killed.

What’s even stranger is the shooter drove himself to a police station and turned himself in!  Police knew him because he had been paroled from prison in January.

That’s not all.  There were other shootings/incidents in the Darwin area today, police are currently not willing to say they’re connected.  Somebody was killed at a place called the Buffalo Club, then another person was killed in Woolner, and then there was an incident at the Northern Territory Police headquarters!

The question is; how in a country with such strict anti-gun laws does a parolee get a gun?

For years leftist liberals have been boasting that Australia’s gun ban works, yet in 2018 researchers at University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute discovered that studies supporting gun-bans, enacted since the late 1990s, have an inherent flaw: “Over the period in question, societies elsewhere, including Australia, generally became safer and experienced a downward trend in gun-related homicides. So the issue was how do we disentangle the effect of Australia’s intervention to exclude the effect of the broader downward trend. A lot of studies that looked at this didn’t account for that, so much of their evidence is actually part of the larger trend rather than the actual effect of the law….  …..the bottom line is that we don’t know which parts of those…[laws]…were effective or not and that might mean that implementation of one might do little or nothing, or even two out of the three wouldn’t do much but its some combination that actually matters. That all requires more study.”-Benjamin Ukert, postdoctoral researcher

GUN BAN FAIL: MORE STABBINGS IN JAPAN AS UNITED KINGDOM ADMITS DEATHS-BY-KNIFE ARE SKYROCKETING!

VACCINE FAIL: 156% INCREASE IN AUSTRALIAN ‘HORROR FLU’! EXPERTS FALSELY BLAME SUPER SPREADER CHILDREN!

OBAMA REGIME SECRET REFUGEE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA!

FRACKING SETS AUSTRALIAN RIVER ON FIRE

GUN BAN FAIL: AUSSIE RIPS HOME INVADER A NEW ASS-HOLE, LITERALLY!

TOTAL GUN BAN TOTAL FAILURE, AUSTRALIA: YET ANOTHER GUN RELATED INCIDENT IN COUNTRY THAT TOTALLY BANS GUNS!

AUSTRALIAN COPS DECLARE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ACTIONS TO BE TERRORISM!

Business/Economics

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

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

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

KLAS: Sears to close another 72 stores 

Seeking Alpha: Investors And Employees Are Disappointed

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

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

Kmart Cuts StarKist Loose From lawsuit

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

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

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

ALABAMA: Sears Hometown Store in Cullman shutting down in July

Moundville Sears Hometown also made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

Ramona Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

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

MAINE: Houlton Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

MASSACHUSETTS: Dartmouth Mall Sears store shutting down in August.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Greenville Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

TEXAS: Granbury Sears Hometown made the latest shutdown list.

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

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

International

“nuclear coffin”: Pacific Ring of Fire, May 2019

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Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, May 2019.  Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.

NASA Planetary Science: Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes

Next door to the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the Indian Ocean, Geologists Witness Largest Underwater Volcano Explosion Ever Recorded, Explains Weird Hum Heard Around the World?

On the other side of the world, can the Bermuda Triangle mysteries be explained by the discovery of the hybrid, one-of-a-kind, volcano that built Bermuda?

A study published by Science Advances claims that you can determine if you’re experiencing a major magnitude 7 to 9 quake 10 seconds into the shaking. I’ve experienced dozens of earthquakes in my life, both large and small, and I concur there is a noticeable difference in the M6 and large quakes; if you’re directly over the epicenter the Earth heaves under your feet, I’ve seen people literally thrown straight up into the air by a couple of feet (I was sitting in a parked minivan at the time and it bounced violently, as if we were off-roading at 30mph.)  If you’re on the periphery of a major quake it feels like a giant dog has grabbed you and is trying to shake you to death.

National Geographic: THE PACIFIC’S FIERY RING

A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean

WeatherNation: Scientific studies conflict over volcanoes impacting hurricane season

AUSTRALIA: 5.4 magnitude earthquake

Leaked secret document admits police communications hub will be ‘crippled’ during a major quake 

BOLIVIA: Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake – Chile-Bolivia Border Region

Light mag. 4.0 earthquake – Southern Bolivia

Light mag. 4.3 earthquake – Chile-Bolivia Border Region

CANADA: A big earthquake near Vancouver is almost inevitable. Are we ready?

Does earthquake insurance cover sinkhole damage?

Alberta regulator restricts oil/gas fracking near dam following earthquake

CHILE: Magnitude 4.9 earthquake 61km from Putre, 31MAY2019

Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake – Northern Chile

M4.7 earthquake 37km from Orcopampa, 30MAY2019

Minor mag. 3.7 earthquake – Araucania

CHINA: Invests in first modern earthquake observation station (for the mainland)

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocks E. Taiwan

Magnitude 4.9 earthquake jars NE Taiwan

Light mag. 4.2 earthquake – Taiwan

COLUMBIA: Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake – 29MAY2019

 Light mag. 4.5 earthquake – 12MAY2019

Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake -11MAY2019

ECUADOR: ‘exploder’ volcano lights up night sky

Light mag. 4.1 earthquake – Near Coast Of Ecuador, 24MAY2019

Light mag. 4.1 earthquake – Near Coast Of Ecuador, 4MAY2019

EL SALVADOR: Earth from Space: El Salvador, despite being a small country, it has 25 volcanoes

Magnitude 6.6 quake off the coast

M4.3 earthquake 46km from La Libertad, 30MAY2019

Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – Off Coast of Central America/El Salvador

A 49-kilometer-high volcanic ash column rose up over the Mayan civilization

FIJI: Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region, 27MAY2019

Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region, 12MAY2019

Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – 207km NE of Ndoi Island

Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake – South of Fiji Islands, 02MAY2019

GUATEMALA: Light mag. 4.0 earthquake – 31MAY219 

12MAY2019, U.S. Army personnel help conduct a survey of locals during operation Beyond the Horizon, a yearly exercise ostensibly to build capacity for response to major disasters.

INDONESIA:Bali volcano spews ash in new eruption, 31MAY2019

M5.4 earthquake 106km from Labuhankananga, 31MAY2019

A Volcano Along The ‘Ring of Fire’ Erupted, And It Looks Terrifying, 25MAY2019

Indonesian Volcano Erupts, 07MAY2019

JAPAN: M4.4 earthquake 58km from Nemuro, 31MAY2019

M4.1 earthquake 114km from Hasaki, 30MAY2019

Earthquake Strikes Japan The Day President Trump Arrives

Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – eastern Honshu

Volcanic alert level raised for popular Mount Hakone resort

Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake – Kyushu

Sakurajima Volcano ash plume that rose up to estimated 13000 ft (4000 m) altitude

Small volcanic eruption observed again on Mt. Aso

KOREA: Revealed by Science Daily; recent massive Korean earthquake was caused by new geothermal energy plant, and it turns out that there are flaws in some of the most common ways to minimize the risk of earthquakes when harnessing Earth’s heat for energy.

MICRONESIA: Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – 248km SSW of Satawal

‘Vog’ from Hawaii volcano blankets Marshall Islands

MEXICO: Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake – Off Coast of Jalisco

M4.6 off coast of Michoacan, 31MAY2019

M5.8 earthquake 241km from Tomatlan, 31MAY2019

El Popo blasts away with two explosions

villagers beseech “Sleeping Woman” volcano goddess for rain

The brother of the owner of the school that collapsed in a major quake, in 2017, gets Mex$5-million reward for helping police arrest her

NEW CALEDONIA:  HUGE 6.8 quake rocks island 

NEW ZEALAND:  Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 29MAY2019 

 Parliament building ‘safe’ while engineers probe earthquake concerns

Step closer to forecasting massive hikurangi subduction zone quake

Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 11MAY2019 

PANAMA: Magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Panama area near Costa Rica

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 7.5 quake 14MAY2019

Strong 7.2 quake 06MAY2019

PERU: At least one dead, 11 injured in magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Peru

Alphabet’s balloons provide internet service two days after 8.0 quake

PHILIPPINES: M6.1 earthquake 42km from Pondaguitan, 31MAY2019

Unlike California, 100% of the Philippines is earthquake country

Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake – Luzon

Six years after Typhoon Yolanda it was revealed that the military was sitting on funding meant to be used to help the victims of the disaster, and that about half the donations from Vietnam had been returned!  Military leaders claim it’s due to the lack of victims applying for the funding.  

RUSSIA: Magnitude 4.9 Quake Jolts Kamchatka

Earthquake of 5.6 Magnitude Rocks South Kuril Islands

Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake – East of Kuril Islands

Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake – Komandorskiye Ostrova Region

Japanese mountaineer dies climbing volcano in Russia

TIMOR-LESTE: Light mag. 4.2 earthquake

Apparently taxpayer funded live music is part of preparing for natural disasters, as demonstrated by this multi-national military band taking part in this year’s Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation.

TONGA: Moderate mag. 5.9 earthquake

UNITED STATES: Series of small earthquakes detected in Washington and Oregon

Alaska; Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes off coast of Homer

Anchorage utility racing to fix sewer line unmoored by quake

New monitoring allows for recording of smaller earthquakes 

Eagle River Town Center closed due to Nov. 30 quake damage

California; More than 30 earthquakes hit one town in one day

Do swarms of tiny temblors rattling the West Coast warn of a catastrophic quake?

Colorado; Earthquake rattles lower Eagle Valley

Second earthquake along Colorado-New Mexico border

Hawaii; tsunami center says tsunami alert was fake

U.S. Soldier Survives 70-Foot Plunge into Hawaiian Volcano

Marshall Islands; The ‘U.S. Associated State’ being called a leaking “nuclear coffin” by the United Nations as the radioactive waste from U.S. and French A-bomb testing is in danger of being spread globally by natural disasters  

Montana; 3.0 magnitude earthquake rumbles near Manhattan

Nevada; Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake – 47km NW of Austin

Emergency preparedness gathering

Oregon; Clatskanie area small tremor illustrates ‘Slow Slips’

Scientists find telling early moment that indicates a coming megaquake

policymakers to shake up development rules in tsunami zones

Utah; Magnitude 4.2 earthquake 16 miles from Moab, 26MAY2019

Washington; A rockfall on unstable Mount Rainier has killed 1 climber and injured 2 others

How a Mount Rainier eruption could impact Seattle vs. the South Sound

39 years ago: Mount St. Helens woke up and blew her top

The Native American myth was true. Proof one village was hit five times by mega tsunamis!

Wyoming; Scientist Predicts 5 Billion Deaths In Eruption Of Yellowstone

A swarm of thousands of tiny earthquakes that rumbled below Yellowstone National Park in 2017 and 2018 might be the long-awaited aftershocks of a much larger quake — which struck 60 years ago.

WSGS (Wyoming State Geological Survey) Teton fault map reveals mountain range still growing, available for download (a local internet news source reported it at the beginning of April, but for some reason the ‘main stream’ news media didn’t report it until the end of May)

VANUATU: Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake 

Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 25MAY2019

Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 10MAY2019

“Vanuatu is ranked as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world according to a United Nations Report due to its geographic location on the tropical cyclone belt of the Pacific and the Ring of Fire, an area in the Pacific Ocean basin prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and tropical cyclones.”

VIETNAM:Drills prepare students for tsunamis

U.S. and British empire Australian navy officers inspect a taxpayer funded construction site in Tuy Hoa, 06MAY2019, as part of the expensive Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation conducted in the Indo-Pacific every year.

Whatcha gonna eat after the disaster? U.S. Army and Navy personnel inspect a poultry operation in Vietnam, 09MAY2019.

Pacific Partnership was created supposedly in response to the  2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which has since been dwarfed by more recent earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indo-Pacific region.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, April 2019: ‘NOT NORMAL’

Technology

Vehicle I-D: New look & name for the F-16 VISTA

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U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs, 30JAN2019.

Modified/upgraded NF-16D VISTA (Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft) departs Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 30JAN2019.  It the future it will be called the X-62A.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 30JAN2019.

This aircraft is the only one of its kind in the world and is the flag-ship of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School.

USAF photo by Cynthia Griggs, 30JAN2019.

It’s has been highly modified, allowing pilots to change the aircraft’s flight characteristics to mimic other aircraft.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 30JAN2019.

 

Hill AFB: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

VEHICLE ID: USAF F-35A “COMBAT READY” IN UTAH

U.S.

“it’s overwhelming.”: Dumbing Down U.S.A., January 2019

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“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.

U.S. Navy spends taxpayer dollars building new high school in Federated States of Micronesia, 07JAN2019.

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, January 2019:

ALABAMA: 76 schools on ‘failing’ list

Are Alabama’s latest high school graduation rates fake?

Nearly all Alabama school superintendents earning six-figure salaries

Superintendents demand $22-million in taxpayer funding, just for ‘security’!

How the Department of Defense could help end Alabama’s teacher shortage

Construction of new wing of federally funded Maxwell Elementary and Junior High School on Maxwell Air Force Base.

ALASKA: UAA students stunned by accreditation problems

ASD may alter parent-teacher conferences after quake

Even the U.S. military is short on education employees.  Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson has put out a call for help, citing lack of child development center teachers, cooks and food service workers.  In fact they have as many as 30 full-time jobs available, and it’s severely affecting their on-base child care ops: “Currently, we only have one [center] at full capacity, three at partial capacity and one temporarily closed due to a lack of workers….”-Tina Roberts, program manager

“If you have a love for children, you can advance quickly in childcare. A high school diploma or equivalent and a couple of references is all you need to apply…..  From start to finish, the pre-employment timeline is about 14 days, and we try to make it as beneficial and smooth as possible. During the process, we educate our applicants about the many benefits of working for the CDC along with giving them a paid-for physical, immunizations and background check…..  If eligible new hires already have a child development associate (CDA) credential we can bring them in as a target level, which starts out at $15.87 per hour.”-Meghan Govin, non-appropriated fund assistant director

ARIZONA: teachers continue to call it quits turning the teacher shortage into a crisis

Family claims teacher used school app to ‘groom’ her students 

teacher enters guilty plea for sex crimes with minors

ARKANSAS: Little Rock teacher placed on leave for referencing monkeys

high school students call dress code discriminatory

female teacher admits sexual contact with teen

UALR to halt eSTEM: “The individuals who would be impacted the most — UA Little Rock students — were not given a say in the approval of this merge, yet face the greatest repercussions. UA Little Rock students are leaving because they do not like the ‘high school atmosphere’ created by eStem students, and because UA Little Rock students cannot adequately access the facilities that they pay tuition for — our facilities were not designed to provide for the number of both collegiate and high school students that they do now.”-Student Government Association statement

CALIFORNIA: The economy is booming. Why are so many California schools broke?

California schools were once the nation’s envy. What went wrong?

6th grade male teacher arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing two girls

Molestation lawsuit targets student-teacher contact 

as many as 24 schools in one district could be closed in next 5 years

Los Angeles schools lost $15 million on Day 1 of strikes

U.S. Navy Band teaches ‘master class’ at Mission Bay High School, San Diego, 30JAN2019.

COLORADO: No charges filed against teacher who taped student to chair

High School teacher arrested in child pornography investigation

Judge throws out charges against Cherry Creek School District employees accused of failing to report a student’s sexual assault, CITING STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

Cherry Creek School District leaders earn $200,000 total while waiting for their criminal trial

CONNECTICUT: community college professor who gave ‘Nazi’ salute fired

teacher placed on involuntary leave at Naugatuck High School

teacher accused of failing to report child abuse

teacher convicted of raping girl in skate park

The small state is turning to a military program called Troops to Teachers to deal with teacher shortages.  Connecticut Army National Guard Sergeant First Class Benjamin Simon just finished the program: “Teaching is definitely the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. You have to be dedicated, and you have to have thick skin. There’s a lot of trial and error. Composure is so important. You have to understand you’re working with kids. These aren’t NCOs and Privates who have gone through Basic Training. Every child has different sensibilities, different backgrounds, different learning styles and it’s on you as a teacher to mold yourself to meet their needs.”

DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing

Saudi Arabia sending teachers to teach in Delaware schools?

FLORIDA: Scandal ridden Bethune-Cookman University announces layoffs, salary cuts: “It’s as if they’re penalizing employees who had nothing to do with the misappropriation of funds!”-Cynthia Slater, NAACP

State Department of Education lays off 20 employees

Schools Will Install Facial Recognition Cameras

governor suspends sheriff over school massacre

Female substitute teacher fired, accused of sexual battery

Teacher and aides lock children with autism in closet

Male elementary teacher arrested on child sex charges

Male biology teacher caught doin’ it with 14-year-old student at an Airbnb 

Female teacher vandalized park with human feces

A Mother Says a Teacher Molested Her 8 years old Daughter.

GEORGIA: school board member stabbed 17 times

Teacher punched student at least twice in lunchroom attack

Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana 

For some reason school districts are not reporting teachers who violate their contracts

GUAM: 8 reasons to attend the University of Guam over a mainland school

HAWAII: Tuition decrease proposed for University of Hawaii

DoE lied about school repair backlog

God’s own Saint Francis Junior High and High School shutting down

IDAHO: Female School District 25 teacher faces up to life in prison after being charged with multiple sex crimes against 1st grader

teacher who fed live puppy to illegal snapping turtle, in front of students, not guilty of animal cruelty

ILLINOIS: 10 new laws affecting schools, colleges

Chicago schools fire 6 workers, block 4 substitute teachers after sexual misconduct investigations

female high school teacher engaged in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy 

Male substitute teacher (who is also a ‘christian’ minister) arrested on child sex charges

Female high school secretary charged with sex crimes

‘of age’ female student admits in court she tricked male teacher into having sex with her

INDIANA: School superintendent facing insurance fraud charges after using her son’s insurance for a sick student

Seven teacher licenses suspended over state testing scandal

IOWA: ‘Rainbow’ teacher sentenced to 60 years for sexually abusing boys

Female teacher pleads guilty to sexual exploitation

University of Iowa student found dead of possible exposure

KANSAS: Sorting Fact And Fiction On Kansas Schools

female teacher charged with having sex with student

 teacher accused of child sex crimes says he’s not guilty

KENTUCKY: Teacher caught on video dragging child with autism through school

special needs teacher accused of inappropriate relationship with student

Three school employees charged with abuse of autistic student

teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana

‘christian’ school apologizes for mistreatment of Native American students

What happened to separation of church and state?  U.S. Army personnel visited children at the South Christian Elementary School.

LOUISIANA: God’s own Historic Saint Peter Claver School in Treme closing its doors

school employee under investigation for inappropriate relationship with student

High school student arrested after ‘scuffle’ left another student with a scared face

charter school principal sued, accused of sex crimes

educators confounded over student behavior problems

Hundreds of Bats Found at Louisiana High School

Louisiana is one of the least-educated states in the nation

MAINE: Greater Bangor schools making it easier for students to earn diplomas

Shrinking enrollment has led Deer Isle-Stonington’s per-pupil education costs to be among the three highest for Maine public schools

Deer Isle teacher pleads not guilty to sex crimes against student

‘christian’ school teacher pled guilty to sex crimes

teacher seeks another appeal in sexual assault case

‘Well respected’ private music school teacher accused of sex crimes, fired from job just for being arrested (I guess in Maine you’re guilty just by being arrested, and even if proven innocent in court you’re still black-listed)

 teacher sentenced for trying to break into funeral home

schools closed due to possible shooting threat

MARYLAND: ‘Highly credible’ reports of child sex abuse at private sexist boys only school

High school student accused of sexual assault in the school halls

Guidance Counselor Arrested on Multiple Sex Crime Charges

Transgender teacher was harassed 

The U.S. Army directly targets ‘christian’ recruits at Saint Mary Catholic School, in Hagerstown, 28JAN2019.

MASSACHUSETTS: Education ‘nazis’ want an additional taxpayer killing $500-million for school funding

The highest-paid state worker, for the second year in a row, was University of Massachusetts Medical School chancellor and senior vice president of health sciences……who took home $1.07 million.

college closure threat growing, police state seeking new powers

teacher accused of molesting two students in his class

teacher-coach charged with assault and battery

MICHIGAN: Female special education teacher charged with sexual criminal conduct

Female high school teacher charged with sexual assault

‘Well-respected’ male principal arrested for alleged sex acts

Male teacher arrested on child porn charge

teacher admits to sexual assaults, then kills self 

High School teacher-coach resigned his job even though he was cleared of “inappropriate touching” allegations, because just being accused of sex crimes ruins your career 

MSU Interim President resigns after tell Detroit News that sex crimes victims “enjoy the spotlight”

Federal report cites Michigan State with systemic ‘serious violations’ of campus-safety law

Michigan schools face nation’s worst decline in state taxpayer raping education funding

MINNESOTA: school board member, NAACP plan to sue taxpayers for more special education funding

Teacher-coach accused of sex assault and making porn

teacher suspended following ‘demeaning’ Instagram posts

MISSOURI: Federal taxpayers forced to give Missouri $6.5-million for ‘early education’  (when I was a kid, Kindergarten was considered early education)

Starting teacher salary in Missouri ranks 2nd lowest

While other schools cry over declining enrollments, Republic Junior High School boasts of student overcrowding

Proof immigrants are taking over: In every grade level, Springfield Public School students score below state average, except in one area; English as a second language 

 teacher arrested on child porn charges

teacher pleads ‘not guilty’ in child porn case

Piano teacher enters guilty plea to sexual misconduct 

MONTANA: Woman pled guilty to killing teacher with her car

teacher sentenced to 10 years for raping student

Male school district employee accused of ‘Rainbow’ sex crimes with boys; part of a systematic sexual abuse scheme known as The Program

Due to skyrocketing teacher-student relationships, state lawmakers want to amend Age of Consent law (which is currently 16) 

U.S. DoE investigating Montana schools for discrimination against Native Americans

God’s own University of Providence cutting 19 programs in athletics and academics, despite spending money on new Student Center construction

NEBRASKA: State taxpayers forced to pay $4-thousand per day for consultants, hired to fix their failing schools!

So much for hiring ‘experts’ with college degrees; $771 million pension shortfall a product of ‘mind-boggling’ mistakes

superintendent placed on leave for fight video quits his job

LPS limits high school tansfers

Day care center shutdown in connection to homosexual sex crimes arrest

NEVADA: scholarships make college free (supposedly) for aspiring teachers

$10k annual bonuses to teachers at struggling schools

high school teacher, student kissed

teacher arrested on new meth trafficking charges

NEW HAMPSHIRE: teacher’s aide fired after arrest on child porn charges

teacher pleads guilty to witness tampering

Upscale Boarding School Teacher Accused Of Sexual Exploitation Of Student

Judge rejects plea deal for teacher

Revealed; state school system ‘forgets’ to spend $10-million in cash strapped taxpayer funding for special education!

NEW JERSEY: Getting Sued Over School Segregation

cash-strapped taxpayers deny a nearly $170 million schools proposal

State taxpayers forced to double ‘security’ funding for religious and private schools

State high school exit exams declared illegal by state court

These 24 coaches are now banned

teacher pleads guilty to sexually assaulting student

high school teacher-coach faces sex abuse charges

Special education teacher charged with having sex with student

preschool teacher arrested after saying she’d shoot up school 

Special education teacher admits to wanting to commit ‘gun violence’ against her school

NEW MEXICO: Female Special Education Principal (as well as actress and beauty queen) arrested for domestic violence after her son found porn on her school work computer

Hundreds of teachers quitting mid-year

Governor orders end to high school exit testing

Governor wants taxpayers to shell out an additional $500-million for schools!

Recruiting military volunteers thru school counselors. Kirkland Air Force Base held an event to win over local high school counselors, 18JAN2019, and convince them to convince students to join-up.

NEW YORK: Yes, ‘blacks’ are racists too; ‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools

Blackface Video Has Elite Private School in an Uproar

Junior High School Teacher accused of Raping Student

High School Special Ed teacher accused of rape

Oxford Teacher’s Aide Charged With Rape of Child

NORTH CAROLINA:  North Carolina teacher accused of molesting children arrested in Arizona

For the third year in a row, schools disproportionally suspend students of ‘color’ (gee you mean there are people that have no color?)

high school teacher facing new charges for sex crimes

Asheville City Schools worst in the state 

Religious favoritism for ‘christian’ military families as Richlands and Northside High School given a $906,121 grant to run a National Math and Science program that’s specifically for the College Readiness Program for Military Families.  By the way, the award ceremony was held at a church.

NORTH DAKOTA: teacher accused of sending naked photos to students

teacher put on administrative leave following felony burglary charge

Bill would give universities access to Bank of North Dakota funds

Did you know North Dakota’s tax money wasting colleges/universities are ‘protected’ from shutdown by the state constitution?

OHIO: Are charter school building leases fleecing state taxpayers?

What harsher federal guidelines on school discipline and suspensions mean for Ohio students

Cleveland joins national program to provide scholarships to students

State agency rules against Toledo School for Arts in racial discrimination case

Ohio State University will somehow pull $45 million out of its ass for need-based student aid next academic year

Teacher Arrested for Touching Himself in Front of Students

48 years old teacher indicted on eight charges of sex with 15 years old student

teacher guilty of drug parties, deals took place in her home

student high on LSD attacks teacher’s breasts, says his dog gave him the drugs

Here’s hypocrisy; police accuse high school teacher of abuse of power

OKLAHOMA: nearly tops nation in holding back early-grade kids

teacher arrested after alleged sexual assault on woman in bar

17-year-old accused of killing Broken Arrow teacher

OREGON: Audit reveals Many Problems with taxpayer funded state Department of Education

Audit reveals Portland schools fail to track what they do with taxpayer funding

Police kill man at junior high school during custody dispute

 teacher arrested on child porn charges

Substitute teacher sentenced to 6 years

PENNSYLVANIA: Art Institute of Pittsburgh to close permanently in March

K-8 teacher’s aide facing trial on child-sex charges

elementary teacher accused of groping three students

State wants more tax dollars for technical schools

State seizes control of Penn Hills School District’s finances 

initial report on university hazing violations published

program will offer $100 for college savings to every baby born or adopted in the state

PUERTO RICO: Taxpayer funded University of Puerto Rico could lose accreditation for failing to reveal how it spends the money

Repairing Puerto Rico’s schools post-Maria will cost taxpayers  $11Billion, take 7 years

RHODE ISLAND: School employee charged with indecent solicitation

To deal with teacher shortages, college level education students will be forced to also be certified in special education, junior high school math or junior high school science

teachers who take a lot of time off could face discipline

Federal taxpayers give Rhode Island $4-million for early childhood education

SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘deep’ teacher shortage got even worse

South Carolina hasn’t enforced classroom size limits since 2010

school volunteer coach charged with sex assault

Coach, who has criminal record of assault, accused of slapping and punching student

SOUTH DAKOTA: God’s own Busy Blessings Day Care Closing due to failing to meet state requirements

TENNESSEE: Female teacher arrested, accused of sex crimes

Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school

Sevier County schools hires teacher with history of sex crimes, almost immediately new accusations emerge, teacher called “creepy” by students and co-workers, only now is he being investigated (makes you wonder about the true intentions of school administrators)

Here are the education issues

TEXAS: Why some people aren’t sold on giving Texas teachers a $5000 raise

Female teacher had young girl pose in lingerie, planned to sell her in Africa

Teacher shot, killed by U.S. Air Force employee for making too much noise

UTAH:  teacher to serve one year in jail for sending ‘seductive’ emails

substitute teacher gets prison time for sex crimes against children 

Utah’s new version of school ‘grades’

VERMONT: Green Mountain College to close: “I knew our school was doing poorly financially, but I had no idea that it was going to shut down. …….going to have to do it all again. All of us are and it’s overwhelming.”-Meg Scognamiglio, a student who obviously hasn’t been following Blind Bat News

Church hires man to be new pastor, despite his sex crimes record as a ‘christian’ school teacher

VIRGINIA: student completes 13 years of perfect attendance

School District Sues State to Arm Employees

high school that honored a Confederate general gets a new name

teacher to serve 2 years for indecent liberties with child

band teacher to serve five years in prison

WASHINGTON: High School teacher charged with felony sexual misconduct

The Seattle Times pathetically begs Be a part of the solution to the teacher shortage

Major changes around corner for junior high schools

Washington Army National Guard personnel help build a school in Imperial Thailand at the end of January, 2019, as part of taxpayer funded operation Cobra Gold.

Washington DC: DC public school teacher was arrested for assaulting a child 

DC considers ‘high-stakes’ teaching offers

U.S. Labor Department reveals mass exodus of teachers across the country

WEST VIRGINIA: teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens

 teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs

WISCONSIN: Student teacher charged with videotaping woman without consent

teacher accused of raping girl is now charged with intoxicated driving

Christian school teacher robbed at gunpoint

Students sexually assaulted a 16-year-old classmate

School employee gets probation for masturbating

Another teacher removed for using racial slur

WYOMING: teacher sentenced to at least 20 years in sex abuse case

Senate Cuts External Cost Adjustment In School-Funding

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., December 2018: “ONE DAY WE’RE ALL GOOD…THE NEXT DAY IT’S JUST OVER.”

Business/Economics

“we were hit so hard…we can’t recover”: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, December 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: After 20 years Hobby Town of Auburn shutting down: “I know it’s the sign of the times, but the internet has not helped us much. I can’t blame it all on that. The economy for a while wasn’t good; cellphones, Amazon, mail order. It wasn’t helping us much.”-Steve Ziegler, owner

ARIZONA: Taxpayer owned Glen Lakes Golf Course shutting down as the city leaders need to sell the land

God’s own YMCA to close downtown Mesa location amid The Rapture, I mean declining membership

ARKANSAS: Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles shutting down due to the health problems of the owners

CALIFORNIA: Interviewing Service of America issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Lancaster, 58 jobs gone by February 2019.  BARD Associates issued a layoff WARN, 76 jobs in Torrance gone by February 2019.  Renovate America issued a layoff WARN, 71 jobs in San Diego gone by February 2019.  Tahoe Club Employee Company issued a shutdown WARN, 277 jobs in Truckee gone by February 2019 (local news reports say the owner has pumped $14-million of his own money into trying to keep the money pit open, but is now broke)!  Bridgeview Bank Mortgage revealed it eliminated 43 jobs in November.  Gas station Aisle 1 issued layoff WARNs for six locations, at least 74 jobs gone by February 2019.  Abercrombie & Fitch issued a shutdown WARN for its Rolling Hills store.  Debt collector Account Control Technology issued a layoff WARN for its Bakerfield ops, 88 jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

San Francisco’s oldest department store, Gump’s, is closing its doors after 157 years in business

San Francisco based Gymboree shutting down all its Crazy 8 childrens’ clothing stores

The Gap is closing its store in downtown SLO

Marshalls Jewelers is closing after 129 years in SLO 

Petco closing at the Santa Barbara Plaza

Plato’s Closet shutdown in Bakersfield

Randolph Jewelers closing after 166 years

Oklahoma based Gateway Mortgage Group is closing eight retail outlets in California and laying off 25 employees “due to the complexities and uniqueness of the California market” 

CONNECTICUT: After 14 years in Cheshire, Pier 1 Imports shutting down

FLORIDA: HotelBeds issued a WARN, 16 jobs gone by February 2019. H.D. Smith issued a WARN, 20 jobs gone by February 2019.

Habitat ReStore is closing 2 Orlando locations

Payless ShoeSource shutdown its Destin location one day before xmas

GEORGIA: Historic Marietta Trolley Company shutting down, the final straw was “Our insurance went up significantly”

Parsons gifts announces closing after 142 years

IDAHO: Shopko closing Boise store not on official shutdown list

Plastic bag ban coming to a store near you?

ILLINOIS: Marshalls issued shutdown WARNs for two Chicago stores, more than 1-hundred jobs gone by February 2019! Bridgeview Bank Mortgage suddenly eliminated 116 jobs due to selling-out to the competition!

After 30 years Little Shop of Papers shutting down, blamed on the internet

Hartley’s Cycle Shoppe will close after 60-plus years, the owner bemoaned “The expenses are greater than the revenue.”

After 30-plus years, Mole Hole closing at Eastland Mall

INDIANA: Debt collector PMAB issued a shutdown WARN, 82 people in Greensburg unable to pay their debts because they’ll be unemployed by March 2019.

Eagle Valley Golf Course being replaced by a school

First Merchants Bank closing 2 Branches

The Dress Barn in the Honey Creek Mall shutting down

USA Gymnastics files for bankruptcy after hefty lawsuits

Interior Objects closing its doors indefinitely.

KENTUCKY: Camping World-Gander Outdoors shutdown its Paducah location without warning or explanation

MARYLAND: Marshalls shutting down its Mondawmin Mall store, no reason given

Ann Marie’s Hallmark, in the Perry Hall Square shopping center, shutting down when the inventory is gone

After 30 years Fast Break Sports shutdown

MASSACHUSETTS: Big Lots shutting down its Greendale Mall store

Berkshire Blanket shutting down an outlet store

Payless Shoes closing at Swansea Mall

After 70 years upscale Shack’s Fine Clothing shutting down

MICHIGAN: Alutiiq Professional Services’ new state taxpayer funded contract will result in 25 people losing their jobs (according to the WARN).

The Hobbit Place lawn and garden business shutting down after 40 years

Upscale clothing store The Broadway shutting down when its high-end $1-million worth of merchandise is sold, or whenever the new property owner demands it

McFarland Foss funeral home closing after 87 years

MINNESOTA: Cherrydale Fundraising eliminating 20 jobs in January 2019. Shopko issued layoff WARNs for three locations, at least 45 jobs gone between now and March 2019.

Traditions Classic Home Furnishings is closing after 31 years

The Goodwill store that has served the Cloquet area for 30 years shutdown three days before xmas

Plymouth based womens’ clothing store Christopher & Banks closing up to 40 stores

MISSISSIPPI: Tupelo Automobile Museum plans to sell all 178 vehicles

MISSOURI: Kansas City based Beauty Brands shutting down 25 stores: “This year has proven to be a tough year for our business despite our efforts…”

NEBRASKA: Beauty Brands closing Lincoln location

NEW YORK: Bankrupt Clarus Linen System issued shutdown WARNs for several locations, 340 jobs gone by March 2019! Fitness company Iowa Consultants-Manhattan Plaza eliminating 146 jobs by March 2019! 

British empire United Kingdom based Barclays issued a ‘second wave’ layoff WARN, 367 jobs gone by the end of March 2019, as part of the Too Big to Jail bank’s plans to Escape from New York (once Barclays finally clears out to New Jersey, New York City will have lost several thousands of jobs as a direct result, apparently Barclays employs more than 5-thousand people at its NYC locations)!

After 42 years Gee’s Auto Repair shutdown due to the owner’s health problems: “We are still trying to get someone to buy the business. It is up for sale at this time and we’re ready to negotiate.”

After 15 years Comic Depot shutdown due to not being able to find a new owner

After 68 years Costa’s gift shop shutdown due to the death of the owner

An eight years old Party City store shutting down

Bong’s Jewelers closing its doors after 126 years

dance music club Output shutdown with a complicated explanation essentially blaming everything for negatively affecting the economy: “A confluence of factors contributed to the club’s misfortune; rapidly shifting social trends, unfavorable market conditions, and weakening financial outlooks coincided with the simultaneous emergence of multiple existential challenges…” 

After 62 years iconic used car dealership John C. Miller shutdown, the owner saying saying “The competition’s heavy”

Musical instrument String Shoppe closing after 52 years

California based clothing store GAP shutdown in Colonie Center

Stage Stores shutting down four Peebles stores in New York

NORTH CAROLINA: Chapel Hill based Performance Bicycle closing 102 stores

Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo closing a Cameron Village branch

OHIO: Bridgeview Bank Mortgage suddenly laid off 97 people.

After 29 years Blue Manatee Children’s Bookstore could be forced to shutdown

God’s own thrift store Disciple Shop shutdown, saying “we do not have the financial capacity to continue” 

OREGON: Ollie Damon tackle shop shutdown after 73 years

PENNSYLVANIA: After 37 years Dallas Centre Hardware shutdown, the past couple of years of ‘recovered economy’ were the worst they experienced: “Financially we were hit so hard that we can’t recover from it.”-Michele Geise

Burlington Coat Factory to close at Uniontown Mall

After 69 years Moyer Jewelers suddenly shutdown

Carpenters Corner Antiques shutdown after 14 years

God powerless to stop three churches from shutting down

SOUTH CAROLINA: Sexist female only bike seller Pedal Chic halting brick-n-mortar ops and selling online only

Iconic Stroman Appliance closing after 47 years: “We are closing because of retirement and dwindling economy…” 

SOUTH DAKOTA: Gustaf’s Greenery shutdown, the owner blamed health problems and the internet, adding that “42 years slips by real fast”

TEXAS: Bankrupt Samuel’s Diamonds shutting down

VIRGINIA: Janitor contractor Southeast Services Corporation issued a shutdown WARN, 134 jobs gone in Richmond, by the end of January 2019!

Co-founded by husband and wife international dance team American True Value Hardware Store, in Chesapeake, shutdown after 45 years

Family Dollar in Lynchburg is closing.

Petco to close in Danville

WISCONSIN: Ashwaubenon based Shopko to shutdown 39 stores

Blick Art Supplies East Side shop forced to shutdown by property re-development

Laacke & Joys sporting goods store closing after 170 years in business

Abercrombie & Fitch suddenly shutdown its massive store in the center of the Fox River Mall

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, November 2018:“YOU DON’T REALLY MAKE A LOT OF MONEY”

Sears-Kmart death spiral, December 2018: “NOW THEY NEED A JOB.” “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, December 2018: “UNFORTUNATELY OUR RENT IS TOO HIGH”

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

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS/MINING LAYOFFS, December 2018: “THE YOUNGER GENERATION…THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND”

Drugs, the American way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, December 2018: FEDERAL JUDGE DECLARES OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., December 2018: “ONE DAY WE’RE ALL GOOD…THE NEXT DAY IT’S JUST OVER.”

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

Business/Economics

“The younger generation…they don’t understand”: U.S. INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS/MINING LAYOFFS, December 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification

ARKANSAS: Kimberly-Clark to close plant in Conway, affects around 350 jobs!

CALIFORNIA: Lippert Components issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Los Angeles, 56 jobs gone by February 2019.  WWL Vehicle Services Americas issued a layoff WARN, 136 jobs gone by the end of January 2019!  Ambulance maker Halcore Group-Leader Emergency issued a shutdown WARN, 95 South El Monte jobs gone by March 2019. Solaris Paper issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Santa Fe, 32 jobs gone by February 2019. Alamillo Rebar issued a shutdown WARN for its Benicia operations, 74 jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

After 74 years metal fabricator Vic Myers shutting down

Montelli Construction is liquidating its remaining assets after 72 years

CONNECTICUT: Covia Holding Corporation-Unimin Corporation issued a shutdown WARN, 60 jobs gone sometime in 2019.

FLORIDA: First Transit issued a WARN, 85 Miami International Airport jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

PVC manufacturer Cantex will lay off 48 people

ILLINOIS:  DuPont issued a layoff WARN, 33 people in El Paso jobless by February 2019.

IOWA: Contracted manufacturer Buffalo Weaver issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Waterloo.

DuPont Pioneer will lay off 35 workers as parent company DuPont continues work on its merger with Dow Chemical

KANSAS: Jamvold Truck & Tractor Repair shutting down to make room for a warehouse

KENTUCKY: Glass and lamp maker LEDVANCE shutting down, 260 jobs gone because the company can’t afford to switch to making L-E-D!

MICHIGAN: Auto industry supplier CNI Plastics (aka Adient, aka Futuris) issued a shutdown WARN, 212 jobs gone between March and April 2019!

Auto industry supplier, Bosal Industries Georgia, to layoff 58 at Ypsilanti Township facility

General Motors  will cut 50 jobs at its Brownstown battery factory, and 620 jobs at its Detroit-Hamtramck Impala and Cadillac factory! (746 in total according to official WARNs!)

Ford warning of 25-thousand job cuts!

MINNESOTA: Recycler Envirolastech reported to state employment officials it had eliminated 20 jobs.  Wilbrecht Ledco also reported eliminating 18 jobs.

MISSISSIPPI: Serta Mattress Plant shutting down, more than 120 jobs gone!

NEW YORK: Cortland Pump and Equipment issued a shutdown WARN for two locations, 21 jobs gone by April 2019.

Globe Specialty Metals (aka Globe Metallurgical) shutdown its silicon factory in Niagara Falls, 1-hundred jobs gone

Barchella Landscape & Masonry Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Hat maker New Era Cap gives official plant-closing notice, 219 jobs gone!

NORTH CAROLINA: Maker of automotive and office seating Leggett & Platt to lay off 172 employees!

Buyouts, layoffs at Brunswick nuclear plant

Performance Bicycle to eliminate 2-hundred jobs at its corporate office!

OHIO: General Motors issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Lordstown, 1-thousand-607 jobs gone in March 2019!

Lordstown Seating Systems will cease production, 120 automotive jobs gone by March  2019!

Contracted e-commerce ‘fulfillment’ warehouse operator Radial eliminating 2-hundred jobs in 2019!

PENNSYLVANIA: Serta Simmons Bedding issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Lancaster, 86 jobs gone by February 2019.  Arrow International Incorporated/ Teleflex eliminating five jobs in Reading.

After 92 years Easton Upholstery & Furniture Manufacturing shutdown, blamed on the stupid leftist liberal millennials: “The younger generation wants to think green, but when I tell them that re-upholstery is the way to go that’s green, they don’t understand it.”-Edward Adams

24-70 layoffs expected at Amthor Steel

Valmont Industries shutting down, 180 jobs gone!

RHODE ISLAND: Partly taxpayer funded Textron eliminating 4-hundred jobs from its Specialized Vehicle ops across the U.S.!

TEXAS: petrochemical (oil industry) manufacturer Trecora Resources will lay off 20% of its workforce

Brazil oil company Petrobras eliminating 50 jobs in Houston

Parker Drilling files for chapter 11 bankruptcy 

German engineering firm Siemens plans to kill 2-hundred jobs in Houston!

VERMONT: Industrial cleaning company Accuworx suddenly shutdown, saying “business does not appear to be able to become viable within the reasonably foreseeable future”

VIRGINIA: Despite boasting that it is hiring, taxpayer funded builder of nuclear powered warships Newport News Shipbuilding wants to bribe more than 2-thousand-5-hundred employees to quit!

REO Logistics eliminating 70 jobs due to losing a contract

Ikea Industry Danville is laying off about 90 employees due to high inventory and low sales

WASHINGTON: Maker of beauty products sold on the internet, Julep, suddenly shutdown, 102 jobs gone!

WISCONSIN: Prinsco issued a WARN, 33 jobs gone due to consolidation of warehousing/yard operations.

Milwaukee Moulding & Frame closing after 100 years

U.S. MINING/INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS, November 2018: “NOBODY WAS GIVEN THE HEADS UP ON THIS”

Technology

“Unfortunately our rent is too high”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, December 2018

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

United States and German taxpayers unknowingly hosted the Program on Cyber Security Studies from December 4 to 20.

On Okinawa, Japan, it was revealed that taxpayers helped the U.S. Marines expand its Defensive Cyberspace Operations Internal Defense Measures with the addition of three new DCO-IDM companies, as part of Force 2025 modernization ops.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

CALIFORNIA: Cohu- Everett Charles Technologies issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Fontana, 80 jobs gone by the end of August 2019.  Fullscreen suddenly laid off 91 people in Los Angeles.  TSI Semiconductors America suddenly laid off 241 people in Roseville! Data analyst Interviewing Service of America (ISA Corp) issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Lancaster, 58 jobs gone by February 2019.  The Sacramento Bee issued a layoff WARN, 30 jobs gone by February 2019. Honeywell Aerospace issued a shutdown WARN for its Garden Grove operations, 70 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.  Infinera Corporation suddenly laid off 53 people in Sunnyvale.

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group will lay off 68 employees in Burbank.

After eight years of online movies Fandor suddenly laid off most of its staff

After months of layoffs, San Diego based Qualcom announced another 269 layoffs in California and North Carolina, in connection to its failed data center ops!

Layoffs Hit San Diego based Daybreak Games, Rumored at 70 (the official WARN says 25)

Los Angeles based Jam City suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of video game developers

Pasadena based ad-tech company OpenX confirmed it suddenly laid off approximately 1-hundred people, mainly in New York and California! (the official WARN says 124 in California alone!)

Spanish-language Liberman Broadcasting Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Santa Monica based, AT&T owned, Otter Media suddenly eliminated 10% of its jobs

San Francisco based online mortgage refinancer SoFi (Social Finance) suddenly killed jobs

Tesla has over 3,000 Model 3 vehicles left in U.S. inventory

Visionary tunnel or over-hyped hole? Elon Musk’s design unveiled in Los Angeles

Revealed: Mountain View based Google’s ‘two-tier’ workforce training document

Menlo Park based Facebook’s very bad year, explained

COLORADO: National Guard’s Cyber Protection Team 174 deployed for a year-long mission in Maryland.  CPT 174 is made up of National Guard personnel from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah.

FLORIDA: Centerfield Media Holding eliminating 249 call center jobs!

Ricoh USA Inc. will close its Melbourne call center – 76 Jobs Lost

IDAHO: Tech ‘bootcamp’ Coding Dojo opened a new location in Boise, which has experienced a 61% increase in its tech industries in the past ten years

Boise based Micron misses on revenues

ILLINOIS: Cars.com issued a layoff WARN, 112 jobs gone starting in February 2019!

Without warning (or final paychecks) ServiCom suddenly shutdown its call center in Machesney Park, employees report they haven’t been fully paid for a long time

IOWA: After 80 years The Varsity Theater shutdown, the owner said running a family owned theater is hard work: “Its been kind of grueling. It`s a 365 day a year operation and I’ve done it for last 10 years every single holiday and the majority of weekends and I think it’s just time.”-Denise Mahon

MAINE: Spectrum — the cable television, internet and phone service company — will be closing its office Madawaska office because it is “used infrequently by customers”

MICHIGAN: Detroit Free Press continues layoffs and buyouts

Eagan based Thomson Reuters eliminating 3-thousand-2-hundred jobs by 2020!

Taxpayers unknowingly created 34 new jobs at the National Guard Battle Creek Air Base, in the name of cyber security: “Because of its importance to the Air Force, we’re going to begin standing-up this mission very quickly. The fact that Battle Creek was chosen as a host for this mission is a direct result of our highly-skilled Airmen, their perseverance, commitment, and ability to capitalize on opportunity.”-Colonel Bryan Teff

MINNESOTA: Centurylink to eliminate 32 jobs by the end of February 2019. ECI JobBOSS revealed it eliminated 29 jobs in Bloomington.

MISSOURI: Keller 8 Cinema shutdown with less than a day’s warning: “Unfortunately our rent is too high and we aren’t able to keep up with the payments”-facebook post 

NEBRASKA: Civil Air Patrol cadets, at Offutt Air Force Base, are inspired to take part in the National Cyber Patriot Competition, an event designed to inspire students toward careers in cyber-security, or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers.

NEW YORK: Lucky 8 TV issued a layoff WARN, 110 jobs affected due to a cancellation by Discovery Network! CBS EcoMedia issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC ops, 32 jobs gone in March 2019.  Fullscreen suddenly began eliminating jobs, at least 71 affected at two locations.

British empire Canada influenced ConsenSys plans to spin out most of its startups, and it’s going to mean layoffs 

Xerox eliminating more jobs at its Webster operations

Verizon eliminating 10-thousand-4-hundred jobs by mid-2019!  (Can you hear me now?)

OHIO:  Contracted e-commerce (online shopping) ‘fulfillment’ warehouse operator Radial eliminating 2-hundred jobs in 2019!

OREGON: Thompson Reuters issued a shutdown WARN, 98 Lake Oswego jobs gone by September 2019, due to consolidation ops.

PENNSYLVANIA: Bartash Printing Closes Its Doors After a 66-Year Run

TEXAS: Amazon owned, Austin based, Whole Foods canceling its contract with California based Instacart delivery services, killing at least 240 jobs!

At Fort Bliss, U.S. Army personnel try out experimental man-portable electronic warfare/cyber electromagnetic equipment.

VIRGINIA: It was revealed that taxpayer funded Defense Logistics Agency’s Information Operations Cyber Resilience Integration considered cyber security recommendations from five University of Virginia students, in regards to protecting the military’s food supply.

WASHINGTON: Thompson Reuters issued a shutdown WARN, 58 jobs in Bellevue gone.  Online beauty products company Julep suddenly shutdown, 102 jobs gone!

Tacoma News Tribune Will Layoff 67 People 

Update now! Microsoft patches another zero-day flaw

Washington DC: Anti-President Trump, yet conservative, The Weekly Standard expected to shut down

Google Data Collection testimony

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, November 2018: ‘ROUTINE TESTS’ & ‘LOGISTICS HELL’

U.S.

‘Brink Of Extinction’: U.S. food crisis, December 2018

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

U.S. Marines and Seamen volunteer to make food for people at the Akshaya Patra, Unlimited Food for Children Centralized Kitchen in Visakhapatnam, India.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

The new owner of Taco Bueno will continue shutting down restaurants, another 12 in Texas and Oklahoma

ALABAMA:  Eastside Grille on Atlanta Highway suddenly shutdown

ALASKA: bridge to somewhere going nowhere

ARKANSAS: State soybean losses at $77 million

‘factory farms’ favored by USDA waiver

ARIZONA: Closing of Cafe Ga Hyang, one of best Korean restaurants in Phoenix, an unsolved mystery

Rockin’ R Ranch closing after 35 years

CALIFORNIA: Wholesale bakery Baked in the Sun issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Vista, 211 jobs gone by the end of January 2019!  Ace Beverage issued two layoff WARNs, 130 jobs in Los Angeles gone between January and February 2019!  Also in Los Angeles, Mission Beverage issued a layoff WARN, 2-hundred jobs gone by January 2019! Italy based food service company HMSHost issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Oakland, 204 jobs gone by the end of January 2019! Best Food Produce and Kum Luen Produce shutdown operations in San Francisco.  TreeHouse Foods suddenly shutdown its ops in Visalia, 243 jobs gone without warning!  TGI Fridays issued a shutdown WARN for its City of Industry location, 46 jobs gone in February 2019.  Legendary Baking suddenly laid off 75 people in Santa Ana.

Ventura’s Vagabond Coffee Shop closing after 52 years

InCahoots Dancehall and Saloon shutting down due to the land being sold for redevelopment

Popular Grizzby’s Biscuits & Donuts shutdown because it’s “too expensive to stay open.”

Pauline’s Pizza & Wine Bar, opened in 1985 and shutdown on 21 December 2018 because the owners were forced to sell the building

California politicians serve food to Army and Marines personnel guarding the border with Mexico.

COLORADO: Kroger announced it will shutdown its City Market in Grand Junction

CONNECTICUT: The Stand BBQ shutdown two days before xmas

After more than four decades Royal Fish and Chips suddenly shutdown, blamed on the the Lowe’s shutting down in 2010

After barely six months Teena’s Apizza mysteriously shutdown, local news media speculate that Stamford is cursed

DELAWARE:  Jimmy’s Grille in Rehoboth being forced out by expanding booze store

Big Sky Bread Company shutdown after nearly 25 years: “I’m simplifying my life and business has changed a lot.”-Patrick O’Neill

FLORIDA:  La Familia Cuban Sandwich Shop is set to close after 25 years 

GEORGIA:  After four years in a new location, iconic Smith Brothers Butcher Shop closing doors forever, ignorant customers thought all the new construction in the area would be good for old businesses, but that is never the reality (it’s used to be called Urban Renewal, now it’s called Gentrification, and it’s always bad for the long time local businesses and residents)

Panera Bread shutdown one of its three locations in Buckhead, local news media speculates it’s because of increasing rents

GUAM: At Anderson Air Force Base personnel from the U.S. Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, British empire’s Royal Australian Air Force and silly-vilians packed 143 bundles of food, clothing and medical supplies, to be airdropped to 56 Micronesian islands throughout the Pacific.

HAWAII: Once-Thriving Hawaii Dairy Industry Is On The ‘Brink Of Extinction’

Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Logistics Squadron, delivers a meal to a disabled resident, as part of meal-on-wheels program Kalihi.

IDAHO: One of the last neighborhood markets, Roosevelt Market, shutdown, the news even “surprised” the landlords!

Idaho Farm Bureau policy priorities include wolves

Lost markets take toll on Idaho dairies

ILLINOIS: Kerry issued a shutdown WARN for its dry goods ops in Gridley, 113 jobs gone by mid-February 2019!

Without warning Save-A-Lot shutdown grocery stores in Rock Island and Milan “…due to no longer being able to operate at an effective level”

Schaumburg’s El Meson restaurant closing after 29 years, the owners blame it on increasing competition and their poor health

Protein bar company RXBar eliminating 40 jobs in connection to taking over Kellogg, and other acquisitions 

INDIANA: Rochelle restaurant closing after 10 years due to the building being sold

After 30 years Ponderosa Steakhouse forced to shutdown when the landlord sold the land without warning 

After six years Mystique Winery shutting down so the owners can spend more time with family

IOWA: After 42 years of pizza Scornovacca’s shutdown its East 14th Street location

KANSAS: Fire Wok shutdown after 33 years

KENTUCKY: Maloney’s Pizza & Wings shutdown two days before xmas, 15 jobs lost with only a week’s notice because “Essentially the business is declining and losing money.”

LOUISIANA: Hymel’s Restaurant shutdown without warning after 70 years, no reason given

Lava Cantina shutdown so the owners could focus on entertainment venues

Volunteers of America North Louisiana serve gumbo to homeless veterans during a Christmas party at the Safe Haven shelter in Shreveport.

MARYLAND: Paradise Donuts is now closed after selling-out to competitor Dunkin 

Maines Paper & Food Service will furlough 106 workers in February 2019, due to ‘christian’ owned Chick-fil-A changing its supply chain model!

Donna’s Cafe shutdown after 19 years, the owners blame it on property developers bringing in more restaurants: “…developers turn to restaurants as tenants, and sometimes anchor tenants, when they open a space. That’s, in part, what’s fueling the increase in restaurants. They can’t get a clothing store or a shoe store in, so you see more restaurants.”– Alan Hirsch, co-owner

MASSACHUSETTS: Wilbraham based chain restaurant Friendly’s shutdown six restaurants across the ‘New England’ states, due to not being able to provide “the customer experience that we are working to create.”

Brio Tuscan Grille closure results in 48 layoffs

At Barnes Air National Guard Base, the 104th Fighter Wing collect cash and food donations for local charities.

MICHIGAN:  After many name changes Elwood’s Restaurant (aka Tamolly O’Malley’s, aka Bubba O’Malley’s) shutting down

MINNESOTA: After 12 years Ole & Lena’s Pizzeria in Rothsay shutdown, the owner blaming it on employee problems and it just quit being fun: “I want to say, that having multiple stores does not mean you make more money. But it certainly meant more headaches.”-Shane Balken

After 30 years Mom’s Cinnamon Rolls shuts down, the owners revealing how hard it is to run your own shop: “We want to have some fun while we can. We’ve never been gone for more than a week at a time.”

MISSOURI:  Due to events not related to business, the last frozen yogurt Orange Leaf in Springfield shutting down

Belgium/Brazil owned Anheuser-Busch eliminating 20 salaried jobs

Phil’s Bar-B-Q shutdown after 57 years in business

After 28 years J.F. Sanfilippo’s Italian Restaurant and Bar shutdown, possibly due to increasing competition, local news media reported more than 3-hundred eateries in the city’s ‘downtown’ area, with 12 new openings in the past two months!

NEBRASKA: Diversified Foods shutting down, more than 40 jobs gone by January 2019, the news was leaked by an employee who immediately got fired: “They said it wasn’t news, and my plant manager lost control on me, he screamed at me, used the ‘F’ word. About 10 minutes later, got called into the office, and they said ‘We’re going to let you go’.”-Bill Dawson

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Another Chili’s shutdown, this time in Nashau (the one on Amherst Street)

NEW JERSEY: Industrial food maker Conagra Closing Cherry Hill Office, 196 Layoffs Expected!

Conagra also issued a WARN for its Parsippany ops, 308 jobs gone in March 2019! Allied Beverage issued a WARN, 58 jobs in Mount Laurel gone in March 2019.

NEW MEXICO: Despite local news media calling it “beloved”, Buckhorn Tavern suddenly shutdown, no reason given 

NEW YORK: Jersey Lynne Farms issued a shutdown WARN, 56 jobs gone by the end of March 2019.  DJDatARLOnomad-Massoni (at Arlo NOMAD) issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC restaurant, 51 jobs gone by the end of January 2019. Hudson Hotel issued a shutdown WARN for its Hudson Bar.  Washburn’s Dairy suddenly shutdown its ice cream ops in Gloversville, 34 jobs gone.

The Beeches Restaurant and Conference Center-The Inn at The Beeches shutting down after 70 years

Bayou Cafe in Glenville closing after more than 23 years

After more than 35 years bar and restaurant Uncle Tom’s shutdown

Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe closing at the end of January 2019: “It has simply become unsustainable for us to run a restaurant without pricing ourselves out of the market”-Matt Funiciello

Lombardo’s Restaurant closing after nearly 100 years

After 30 years Lindsey’s Country Store & Sweet Shoppe shutting down in January 2019

After more than 30 years popular Apollo Restaurant forced to shutdown by greedy landlord 

Chip Shop and the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory both shutting down

NORTH CAROLINA: Allen & Son Barbeque quietly shutdown its Chapel Hill location: “There is a finite few left of us that really have the desire to do it right and they’re fading away. I’m afraid we’re going to lose the culture entirely.”-Keith Allen 

Lowes Food will be closing after nearly 20 years of operation in Lumberton: “it is one of our underperforming stores, so we made the decision to not renew the lease”

NORTH DAKOTA: Upscale restaurant sued by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for firing pregnant employee

OHIO: After a social media sexism scandal, restaurant Terry’s Turf Club shutting down before xmas

Restaurant Inspirado suddenly shutdown, the owner said “it came down to a financial versus personal wellness” 

OREGON: Marijuana pesticide contamination worries Oregon farmers

PENNSYLVANIA:  Rebuck’s Meat and Cheese closing after 98 years, the owner said he was too old to continue and nobody wanted to take over the successful business

Bryn Mawr’s Biga Pizza And Beer Closing After Three Years due to disagreements between the co-owners

Murray’s Richboro Market (IGA/Shop-n-Bag) on 2nd Street Pike suddenly shutdown. Could have something to due with ongoing property renovations?

Harry’s Market closing after 73 years

Philadelphia based Capogiro Gelato-Capofitto pizzeria shutting down all locations after failing to recover from fires earlier in the year

After 45 years Loutsion Catering and Club Bistro II shutdown

PUERTO RICO: May Hold the Answer to Saving the Bees

RHODE ISLAND: Young Farmers Can’t Farm Without Land

SOUTH CAROLINA: After two and a half years, and despite being called popular by local news media, White Duck Taco Shop shutdown two days before xmas due to “financial problems”

SOUTH DAKOTA: After only one year Tawooki Mediterranean Chop Chop shutting down

H&I Grain now bankrupt busted because the stupid owner’s son was hedging commodities and lost millions of dollars of H&I’s money, now H&I owes local farmers $15-million!

TENNESSEE: Switzerland based Nestlé suddenly shutdown its controversial Red Boiling Springs water facility, 43 jobs gone without warning 118th Wing, Tennessee Air National Guard, assemble food-boxes at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, for school children who might not get anything to eat on days school is closed because of bad weather (implying that many kids in Tennessee rely on school lunch programs to get fed).

TEXAS: Canino Produce closing after 60 years, the owners blaming their age and “…the complication of owning a store and all the permits. It’s just a different world now.”

66 years old Home Town Market forced to shutdown due to Gentrification (urban renewal, property improvement) 

Coca-Cola bottler cutting nearly 100 jobs, ceasing manufacturing at Dallas facility

After only ten months the owners of Knosh Restaurant and Lounge quit: “We just weren’t getting consistent sales. We have a lot of great reviews….but we just didn’t see the regular sales…”-Derrick Hoffman, co-owner 

Scotty’s Brewhouse files bankruptcy, closing in Waco

Randalls to shutter seventh Houston-area grocery store this year

Houston based food distributor Sysco eliminating finance related jobs in 2019

UTAH: 8 Salt Lake City restaurants that closed for good

VERMONT:  Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets announces manure spreading ban

dairy farm is 100 years old and uses Instagram better you

VIRGINIA: Deschutes Brewery layoffs confirmed, Roanoke facility delayed: “Deschutes Brewery has not seen the business results that were expected over the last two years. We have made the hard decision to reduce staff across sales, marketing and operations to match our sales volume. This decision was extremely difficult to make, but necessary for the brewery given current craft beer market conditions and trends.  At this time, we will continue to watch trends for the right time to build a facility in Roanoke. We don’t foresee breaking ground in 2019 as originally planned…”-President and CEO Michael LaLonde

Irish pub theme restaurant Keagan’s suddenly shutdown, no reason given

A-Town Bar and Grill shutdown so the owners could bring something new

WASHINGTON: Picabu Bistro shutdown after 15 years

Farmers watching for signs export markets will reopen

Washington DC: Congress just passed an $867 billion farm bill

WEST VIRGINIA: USDA announces pilot program to increase internet access

WISCONSIN: After four years Sclavi’s Italian Restaurant and Bar shutdown: “There are so many variables and factors that go into the success and failure of a restaurant, after all, it’s a very high risk business with very low profit margins and the requirements to offer full-service are significant. Our busiest, wildest nights never made up for our slow nights. We’ve operated with our own money and are not backed by banks or investors. The fact is, we simply don’t have enough revenue to stay operational any longer.” 

WYOMING: New farm bill does right by sugar growers

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, November 2018:“THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL”