In July 2018, Idaho was the site of U.S. Air Force ‘dissimilar’ air combat training hosted by Mountain Home Air Force Base.
Louisiana Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Dane M. St. Pe, 18JUL2018.
Air National Guard units from Indiana (A-10Cs) and Louisiana (F-15Cs), and the Idaho National Guard’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2s, took part and were all based on Gowen Field (part of the Boise airport).
Indiana Air Guard ‘Blacksnakes’ A-10Cs mingle with Idaho A-10Cs on Gowen Field. Louisiana F-15Cs in the background. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant John Winn, 27JUL2018.
The older HMMWV parts are being harvested for use on the brand new Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV).
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kristen Murphy, 01MAY2018.
The U.S. Marines Corps is cannibalizing older High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles in an attempt to save taxpayers millions of dollars, and “increase the JLTV’s survivability.”
New York might be ground zero for an epidemic of a new version of Influenza A subtype H3N2 flu now targeting dogs, called H3N2 canine influenza virus (CIV).
H3N2 was first identified in 1968, evolving from H2N2. By 2007 a version of H3N2 evolved (mutated) into one of three swine flus. H3N2 CIV first showed up China and Korea in 2005. CIV first appeared in the United States in 2015. (H3N8 is another form of CIV) In 2016, the U.S. strain of H3N2 CIV evolved to infect cats.
In June, the U.S. state of Arkansas began reporting cases of CIV there. And in New York, New York City reported 1-hundred cases of CIV.
Oakland County currently has the highest rate of CIV in the U.S. state of Michigan, with 49 confirmed cases so far. And so far this year Michigan has 98 confirmed cases of dog flu, last year there were only nine cases of dog flu.
Connecticut is also reporting dog flu cases, and dog owners are being told to keep their dogs away from doggie daycares and pet groomers, avoid other dogs, and get them vaccinated.
Veterinarians say CIV can survive on your hands for 12 hours, on your clothes for 24 hours and a dog bowl for 48 hours. Typical signs of CIV are just like human flu infections; lethargy, fever, boogery nose. Most local news media report CIV is not fatal, however some local news media are calling it fatal. In January 2018 (in the middle of the 2017-18 flu season) some news media reports warned of a possible dog flu epidemic in the future, while others downplayed the possibility. However, in August of 2017 veterinarians warned of increasing cases of CIV during Summer months. To show you that CIV is expected to get worse, greedy vaccine investment analysts did research that predicts increasing CIV outbreaks worldwide until 2028 (thus creating a lucrative market for profit seekers).
Veterinarians say dogs that die while infected with CIV are dying from secondary diseases, the result of their immune systems being weakened by CIV. But some cats are being directly killed by ‘cat flu’.
A possible latest victim is an adult cat who was about to be given an award for saving the life of its owner. In United Kingdom, Theo died one week before an award ceremony honoring him for saving his owner from a blood clot. News media say no official cause has been announced in the cat’s death, but that the owner took the cat in when it was a kitten and infected with cat flu.
It seems the United Kingdom is being hit hard with an epidemic of cat flu (there are lots of reports of hundreds of abandoned cats who are sick, there’s even a case of sick kittens being dumped by overwhelmed animal control officers).
‘Cat flu’ is not necessarily an influenza, the name comes from the symptoms which can be caused by several types of viruses and even bacteria.
In Australia, warnings of the reemergence of ‘cat plague’ virus, called feline panleukopenia. It’s being found in abandoned kittens and has veterinarians urging cat owners to get their cats vaccinated. Last year there were reports of the deadly feline calicivirus, also referred to as a cat flu, which has a 40% kill rate.
In South Africa, the Boksburg SPCA is warning dog owners after a puppy had to be put down due to a severe case of what South Africans call ‘cat flu’ (which is actually canine parvo-virus). Boksburg SPCA manager blames the pet shop where the puppy was bought: “These animals appear to be healthy but can be incubating a disease which can manifest once the pet has been purchased. You then usually end up with a very sick animal that usually dies.”-Maggie Mudd
In the U.S. state of Idaho a Elmore County cat died, in July this year, from plague commonly found in rodents. In June another cat in the same county got sick with plague but recovered. A human child (also in Elmore County) got sick with plague in May (also recovered).
In Connecticut, the VCA Cheshire Animal Hospital reported two cats died from H1N1 influenza (swine flu), despite advanced in-hospital care: “Cats can catch the flu from people.”-Anthony Pierlioni
In Florida, the Bay County Animal Shelter had to halt adoptions at the beginning of July, due to an outbreak of ‘cat flu’ (upper respiratory infection).
In New Jersey, the Saint Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center rescued more than 172 cats in July, the most in its operational history. Most of the cats had to undergo medical treatment for infections and physical conditions.
ARIZONA: Flagstaff Mall Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.
CALIFORNIA:64 employees of the Clovis Kmart arrived at work only to find out they’re being shutdown, the only thing local news media was told was that the Kmart would shutdown in time for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. It’s been revealed that the still active Manchester Center Sears store, in Fresno, has leased out half its active space to an unnamed retailer, who will occupy the north half of the building by Summer 2019. The real estate agency handling the deal also revealed that active Sears store downsizing efforts are taking place with the Sequoia Mall, in Visalia, and at the Merced Mall. All stores are owned by Sears Holdings’ REIT spin-off (and Warren Buffett funded) Seritage Growth Properties. Spring Valley Kmart, Antioch Kmart and Los Angeles Kmart (on West 3rd) all shutting down by Thanksgiving, 152 jobs killed according to WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice)! Capitola Mall Sears store in Santa Cruz shutting down by Thanksgiving.
COLORADO: Grand Junction Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.
CONNECTICUT: Milford Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.
DELAWARE: Newark Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.
GEORGIA:Sears stores and Auto Centers in Savannah(Oglethorpe Mall),Atlanta (Cumberland Mall) and Brunswick shutting down by Thanksgiving.
IDAHO: The Sears Hometown Store in Moscow is for sale, a very incomplete local news report gave no details.
ILLINOIS:Steger Kmart and Bloomington Sears and Auto Center (East Empire Street) shutting down by Thanksgiving. The 16 years vacantLake Zurich Kmart is being torn down by the property owner, under threat of a taxpayer funded court order. The Kmart property owner apparently promised to redevelop the property in 2017, claiming it would turn it into a massive apartment/retail shops complex. The city is demanding construction on the massive complex must start by March 2019.
KENTUCKY: Florence Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.
LOUISIANA:Hammond Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving. The still active Clearview Shopping Center Sears store and Auto Center, in New Orleans, was just purchased by the family owners of the mall. The Sears store will supposedly continue operating, but will be reduced in size as most of the 14 acre Sears space will be carved up into smaller retail shops.
MARYLAND: The Westfield Montgomery Sears store, in Bethesda, shutting down in March 2019. The store was bought by the mall owner last year, for $105-million USD, their plan is to tear it down and replace it with a multitude of smaller brick-n-mortar shops.
MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke and TauntonSears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.
MICHIGAN: JacksonSears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.
MISSISSIPPI: Columbus Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.
MISSOURI: Cape Girardeau Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.
NORTH CAROLINA: Raleigh-CrabtreeSears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Salem and ManchesterSears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.
NEW JERSEY: Mays LandingSears store and Auto Center shutting down, 63 jobs gone by Thanksgiving.
NEW YORK: Riverhead Kmart, as well as Queensbury-Glens Falls, New Hyde Park and VictorSears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.
OHIO:Dayton and Cincinnati-NorthgateSears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving. The 23 years old Chillicothe Kmart/Little Caesar’s Pizza shutting down by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, local news media said they were alerted to the shutdown when customers were being told that layaways were halted. It was also discovered that the Kmart property had been sold at the end of July to Rural King Realty for $4.7-million USD.
OREGON: Happy Valley-PortlandSears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.
PENNSYLVANIA: Store closing signs confirmed that the McMurray Kmart is shutting down in October, employees were told last month, but also were told not to tell anybody. After more than 20 years, the Pine Township Sears HometownStore shutdown at the end of July, no reason was given.
TENNESSEE: The taxpayers of Clarksville being forced to give a property developer a tax abatement incentive (amount undisclosed at this time) to redevelop property that has a vacant Kmart on it. The developer is promising that 427 new jobs will be created.
TEXAS: Houston-Memorial and College Station-BryanSears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.
UTAH: West Jordan Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.
VIRGINIA: FairfaxSears shutting down by Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON:Vancouver MallSears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving. The Sears Hometown Store in Toppenish suddenly shutdown, the owners said they couldn’t renew the lease and will focus on their stores in Sunnyside, and in Hood River (Oregon).
WEST VIRGINIA:Scott Depot Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving. Kmart used flooding as excuse to layoff employees at Crossings Mall in Elkview, according to lawsuit.
WISCONSIN:Eau Claire and La Crosse (Valley View Mall)Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving. The five years old Appleton (Grand Chute) Sears Outlet store shutdown on the 19th, the owner didn’t say why, only that he was consolidating the remaining inventory to his new store in Germantown.
WYOMING: Gillette Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.
Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in June 2018:
Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk eliminating 3-thousand jobs globally, blaming the “uncertain and unpredictable” U.S. healthcare system (ObamaCare-ACA)!
“…the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving more than $2 billion in false billings.”–National Health Care Fraud Takedown
CALIFORNIA: Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital threatened 45 med-techs with layoffs if they weren’t willing to work 12 hours shifts. Citrus Valley Health Partners accused of destroying competition through ‘doctor poaching’. Sonoma West Medical Center said despite recent layoffs and its slightly improved cash flow, it can’t cover its mountain of debts and operating costs, on top of that its minimum debt payment is expected to double to almost half-a-million dollars per month in Autumn, and wait there’s more as health insurance company Anthem is suing the hospital, so it will most likely shutdown by the end of the year. Coalinga Regional Medical Center suddenly shutdown, about 175 jobs gone due to lack of revenue! California Medical Business Services issued a shutdown WARN, 64 jobs in Arcadia gone by the end of August. Tri-City Healthcare issued a shutdown WARN for its Oceanside location, 80 jobs gone by the end of August. In Palmdale, Antelope Valley Hospital issued a layoff WARN, 137 jobs gone mid-August! In Long Beach, Molina Healthcare eliminating 106 jobs by July! In Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai suddenly laid off 187 people! Generic drugs maker Impax Laboratories issued a shutdown WARN for its Hayward factory, 533 jobs gone by August!
COLORADO: Non-profit Mental Health Partners suddenly laid off 17 people, blaming “continuing changes in the healthcare landscape”.
CONNECTICUT: Medical and drugs supplier McKesson shutting down its Rocky Hill facility, 105 jobs gone! Purdue Pharma laid off 350 people due to lawsuits over the opioid crisis: “Purdue has ended its sales force engagement with prescribers for all of its medicines…”-Bob Josephson
FLORIDA: Transitions Optical eliminating nine jobs in Pinellas Park.
Three Rite Aid locations shutdown in Hall County due to the take-over by British empire owned Walgreens Boots Alliance. Chestatee Regional Hospital shutting down at the end of July, to be sold-off to a competitor who in turn plans to sell it to state taxpayers (Georgia Board of Regents), resulting in 141 jobs killed!
Pleasant Hill Healthcare issued a shutdown WARN for its Girard location, 66 jobs gone by September.
INDIANA: Saint Vincent Health suddenly laid off 85 people, the hospital operator laid off 75 people earlier in the year and 1-hundred people last year. Syneos Health issued a layoff WARN, 98 jobs gone by the end of July.
IOWA: After less than three years christian owned Keokuk Medical Center shutting down by the end of August, administrators say it was just a stop-gap clinic until bigger and better centers could be built. Mercy Medical Center eliminating 43 jobs as part of its consolidation ops. Wellmark eliminating 30 jobs in Des Moines, by August.
Pikeville Medical Center laid off 1-hundred people and forced another 30 to quit or be fired! Hospital administrators claim the decision was made 45 days prior: “So what happened is in 2016 we had the best year we ever had at the end of the 2016 year, but in 2017 we had the worst year we ever had.”-Donovan Blackburn, CEO
LOUISIANA: Tennessee based HCA Healthcare announced it will sell Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Lafayette. University Health Conway forced to temporarily shutdown clinic ops due to a broken water line.
MASSACHUSETTS: Flex Pharma eliminating 60% of its jobs due to the failure of one of its experimental drugs!
In Jersey City, Majestic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center eliminating 166 jobs by September!
NEW YORK: Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services’troubled youth treatment center Hawthorne Cedar Knolls eliminating 107 jobs as part of its pending shutdown due to never ending security problems (like formerly sex trafficked children escaping almost daily)! Metro Athletic Medicine and Fitness issued a layoff WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC location, 54 jobs gone by September due to loss of contract. Millennium Medical Staffing shutting down ops in Bronx-NYC, 135 jobs gone by the end of August, due to being taken over by a competitor! First Care of New York, also in Bronx-NYC, eliminating 851 jobs by August, also due to being taken over by a competitor!
Premier Health’s 491 bed Good Samaritan Hospital, in Dayton, shutting down mid-July, 1-thousand-6-hundred jobs affected! Premier Health said it’s because it has another hospital just five miles from Good Samaritan.
OKLAHOMA: Tennessee based Community Health Systems selling AllianceHealth Deaconess, a 291 bed hospital in OK City, to a competitor.
TENNESSEE: Big South Fork Medical Center eliminating 20 jobs, admitting they’ve been overstaffed since their grand opening last year. Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 employees.
TEXAS: The state Fire Marshal’s Office investigating the cause of an explosion at the construction site of Coryell Memorial Healthcare System, which killed one person and wounded 15! Medical supplies provider Arjo shutdown its San Antonio location, 54 jobs gone due to “A global decision has been made to co-localize research and development…” Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital warning of mass layoffs and bankruptcy due to $11-million USD of debts. Huntsville Memorial eliminating its Joe G. Davis School of Vocational Nursing due to increasing competition from area nursing schools. Stamford Healthcare System suddenly shutdown its Regional Services Department and laid off 29 people, directly blaming lack of ObamaCare-ACA insurance reimbursements: “Unfortunately, the refusal of insurance companies to pay for the healthcare services provided has decreased the viability of the program.”-statement made to Jones County Regional Healthcare System board of directors
WASHINGTON: Seattle based Qliance Medical Group/Qliance Management bankrupt busted after shutting down six ‘members only’ primary care clinics last year, due to lack of ‘membership’.
WISCONSIN:Roche Molecular Systems shutting down its ops in Madison, 79 jobs gone by June 2020.
Active pharmaceutical ingredients maker Lannett-Cody Laboratories eliminating 50 jobs in Wyoming by moving them to New York, despite last year promising to expand Wyoming production.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of June 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018
$2-million USD worth of marijuana captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.
5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port Everglades.
Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government. The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed. Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.
As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!
ILLINOIS: K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in ChicagoVideo, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:
Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:
11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini
Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.
The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.
Washington DC: The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.
During May 2018, U.S. Coast Guard rescued several Sea Turtles found entangled in abandoned fishing nets, in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The Coast Guard Cutter Campbell, from Kittery, Maine, was in the Pacific Ocean on anti-drugs operations when the crew spotted the struggling Sea Turtles.
The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., 
The Coast Guard Cutter Campbell, from Kittery, Maine, was in the Pacific Ocean on anti-drugs operations when the crew spotted the struggling Sea Turtles.