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New War on Drugs: Proof your government is behind drug addiction, ‘Drug Take Back Day’!

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“Every year, since we’ve been doing the National Take Back, the DEA and the National Guard have worked side-by-side with collection and transportation of the prescriptions. The National Guard is a huge help in collecting a lot of pills in a short amount of time and then getting them to the destruction point.”– Timothy McMahon, DEA

Ever notice that local police, and now National Guard, conduct “drug take back” days?  The problem with this phrase, Prescription Drug Take Back Day, and the fact that it is conducted by government law enforcers, implies your doctor issued prescription drugs came from the government.

Prescription Drug Take Back Day is an operation of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).   As an example of how much prescription drugs are out there, in October 2017, under the guidance of the DEA the New Jersey National Guard Counterdrug Task Force incinerated seven tons of prescription drugs during a Drug Take Back op!

Ohio National Guard conducts Drug Take Back Day, 01May2017

You don’t have to take my word that government and corporations (employees of at least) are involved in drugs dealing, read the following Real News sources from the past month.

Maritime Herald: The US Coast Guard is Operating Floating Prisons in the Pacific

PennLive.com: Lycoming County Prison guard admits providing drugs to an inmate

Boing Boing:  Elite Baltimore police unit robbed with impunity, sold guns and drugs

The Times: “a company-sponsored party where drugs were being done” in Silicon Valley

TheNation: The Pentagon Sent $500 Million Abroad for International Drug Wars

AllAfrica.com: Drugs….. Focus of U.S.-Led Multinational Marine Exercise in Seychelles

amNY: NYC jails’ security flaws remain as undercover investigators smuggle drugs

MassLive.com: Inmate and guard overdose on fentanyl

Cleveland.com: Cuyahoga County jail guard arrested with drugs 

The Albany Herald: Calhoun State Prison guard sentenced for smuggling drugs

WWL: Orleans Parish jail guard allegedly smuggled in drugs

Pacific Daily News: Department of Public Works employee pleaded guilty to illegal drug possession

Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald: Federal judge excludes drug test on fishing boat captain facing manslaughter charges

In December 2017 Hanscom Air Force Base, in Massachusetts,  became the first U.S. Air Force installation to arm its police with naloxone, in an attempt to prevent opioid overdoses.

Also towards the end of 2017, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department began research on a new, potentially weaponized, opioid drug threat called carfentanil.  One poppy seed sized amount of carfentanil (aka Elephant Tranquilizer) can potentially kill you.  The U.S. Department of Defense is so sure that carfentanil is being weaponized (they didn’t say by whom) that efforts are being made to find antidotes for military personnel, and eventually silly-vilians.

Official video attempting to explain why Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Task Force was sent to Kingdom of Tonga:

Another sign of the growing prescription drug problem is that the military health insurance TriCare just jacked up the out-of-pocket cost of drugs for military families.  USAF Lieutenant t. Colonel Ann McManis, of the Defense Health Agency Pharmacy Operations Division, revealed it’s part of a plan to force military families to do their drugs shopping solely on military based: “Military pharmacies and TriCare Pharmacy Home Delivery will remain the lowest cost pharmacy option for TriCare beneficiaries.”

02FEB2018, signing a pledge not to drink booze while watching the Super Bowl

Even drinking booze has apparently become a major problem for the military (despite decades of taxpayer funded anti-booze policies) as before Super Bowl weekend the Naval Medical Center San Diego intimidated personnel to sign a pledge promising they wouldn’t drink booze on Super Bowl Sunday!

Last month Cristina Howe, with the Marine Corps’ Substance Abuse Counseling Center, intimated an increase in cases saying “We have a lot of command referrals that come in, but we also have a lot of self-referrals….”

It was also revealed, at the end of January, that the Defense Logistics Agency has connections with about 1-thousand manufacturers/distributors of more than 25-thousand types of drugs: “If we can’t get drugs to our overseas bases, then it affects our ability to project air power, deploy forces….The fact that they have the ability to push our vendors to make things happen is critical to the warfighting mission….”-Major Rohin Kasudia, USAF Misawa Air Base, Nippon

Militarizing the Police; official National Guard Counterdrug Schools for cops video which claims that drugs cause violence (not people, kinda like the anti-gun argument that guns, and not people, kill people) and that drug dealers are better armed than local cops (after decades of hearing that claim I have yet to see evidence of that, I remember in Junior High in late 1970s southern California we got a visit from a San Bernardino County Sheriff deputy who opened the trunk of his cop-car to reveal a footlocker type box filled with shotguns, M16s, ammo, and various types of grenades, for a short time in the 1980s my father was a San Bernardino County Reserve Sheriff deputy and confirmed that the cops, at least in San Bernardino County, out-gun any criminals or silly-vilians), where even cops from Boise, Idaho, learn how to bash in your door:

Counterdrugs schools operators (usually a local college, with counterdrugs program names varying from region to region) claims to offer free counterdrugs training to local law enforcers across the country.  Specifically it is ‘free’ to local law enforcement agencies because it is 100% funded by your taxes paid to the federal government.  Such counterdrugs schools are overwatched by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Guard Bureau.

Last year it was revealed that the National Guard Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center, in Washington state, began training foreign cops in cooperation with U.S. Southern Command (SouthComm).  The report did not say who was paying to train-up the police coming from South American countries.

NEW WAR ON DRUGS: RECORD # U.S. WORKERS WHACKED ON SMACK AS “…THE SYSTEM IS STACKED AGAINST THEM.” NATIONAL GUARD IN “HIGH OPERATIONS TEMPO”

U.S.

New War on Drugs: Record # U.S. workers whacked on smack as “…the system is stacked against them.” National Guard in “high operations tempo”

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“People are addicted to this idea that you have to use tough love, let people hit rock bottom, kick it cold turkey. That works for some people. It kills others.”-Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance

25JAN2018, U.S. Coast Guard & Royal Canadian Navy proudly displays more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine in California!

U.S. Department of Transportation revealed a 77% increase in drug use by people working in the transportation industry, since 2006!  USDoT administrators admitted the numbers could be higher because their drug testing requirements have “significant gaps . . . that should be addressed.”

02FEB2018, U.S. Coast Guard offloads two tons of cocaine captured off Florida!

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed that ‘offshored’ U.S. airlines maintenance facilities are exempt from drug testing for their U.S. employees.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) reported that random drug testing revealed that the number of railroad employees addicted to drugs jumped by 43% from 2015 to 2016!  Since 2014 there’s been a sudden increase of railroad accidents involving railroad workers whacked on drugs.

National Safety Council reports that car accidents involving drugs is the main reason why accidental deaths is now the third highest cause of death in the United States!  2016 experienced the largest one-year increase in accidental deaths since 1936 (The Great Depression)!

National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that at least 10.9-million people in the United States were addicted to opioids in 2016!

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the number of opioid deaths in 2016 at a record 42-thousand!

In California, a National Guard sergeant blames the capitalist system for the growing number of homeless people whacked on smack: “…these people are being pushed out not because of laziness, not because they couldn’t try hard enough, but because the system is stacked against them.”-Jason Carney, Vets for the 99%

Sergeant Jason Carney says his experience living with homeless people in Sacramento revealed to him three problems driving homelessness; lack of affordable housing, lack of treatment for mental illness and how easy it is to get drugs, despite the decades of hardcore-prison-filling War on Drugs.

Last month the New York National Guard Counterdrug Task Force hosted a forum to come up with ideas about how to end the opioid crisis in The Empire State.  Even representatives of the New York Police Department blamed the current situation on the decades old War on Drugs: “I’m the living history of the failure of the drug war. The fact that I’m here dealing with the same problems that I’ve been dealing with for the past 35 years is no accident.  If we attack this in a more policy-oriented way, to prevent the involvement of the criminal justice system, not only would more treatments be available…”-Jeff Kauffman, former police officer and attorney with the New York Police Department

U.S. Naval Institute News: Coast Guard Fighting New Stealthy, Fast Drug Smuggling Vessels in Pacific

Business Insider: Mexico took down a US citizen who rose to the upper ranks of the vicious Zetas cartel

Opelika Auburn News: Alabama National Guard Counter Drug Unit Region D drug bust

Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier: Iowa National Guard in “high operations tempo”

Daily Yonder: New York Opioid Factory Provides Jobs

6abc.com:  Ground Zero of Philly’s Opioid Crisis

Washington Post: Black helicopters, the National Guard and Ride of the Valkyries 

MassLive.com: National Guard Counter Drug Program involved in 1-kilo raw heroin bust

TCpalm: Florida National Guard Counterdrug Program in high intensity drug trafficking area helps arrest 102 drug dealers

Crime Voice: California National Guard Helps Bust Meth Dealer

The Drive: The US Coast Guard Wants Its Own Prison Ship to Hold Suspected Drug Smugglers

Antiwar.com: Money, The US Military’s Drug of Choice

KAIT: Arkansas National Guard involved in ‘large’ drug bust

Truthdig.com: Drugs suspected in U.S. AfriCom deaths, including the killing of Army Special Forces by Navy Seals! Whatever became of that $500 million? “U.S. Central and U.S. Africa Commands did not provide effective oversight of 2014 through 2016 counternarcotics activities. Specifically, neither U.S. Central nor U.S. Africa Command maintained reliable data for the completion status and funding of counternarcotics training, equipping, and construction activities.”

Since 2011 BlindBatNews has revealed the War on Terror is actually the New Opium War:   WEST VIRGINIA 1ST TO ACTIVATE MILITIA, MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW!

MARTIAL LAW OVER U.S. DRUG ADDICTION EPIDEMIC

SEX & DRUGS = THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WAY!

OBAMA REGIME MURDERS 17 COPS IN AFGHANISTAN, TO STOP DRUG BUST!

OBAMA LED NATO BIGGEST DRUG DEALER IN THE WORLD? AMPHETAMINES, IT’S WHAT ISLAMIC STATE DOES!

AFGHAN OPIUM SETS ANOTHER RECORD, DESPITE RECORD ANTI-DRUGS FUNDING BY U.S. TAXPAYERS! 

 PROOF UNITED KINGDOM BEHIND EXPLOSIVE AFGHAN OPIUM POPPY CROPS!!

2014 HEROIN NOW KILLS MORE ‘MERICANS THAN GUNS & CARS!!!

MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! INTERESTING CORRELATIONS BETWEEN OPIUM PRODUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN AND MYANMAR (CALLED THE UNITED STATES)!

MORE PROOF THE BRITISH-U.S. EMPIRES ARE BEHIND BOY SEX SLAVES & OPIUM! 

 RUSSIA BLAMES U.S. FOR OPIUM! 

MORE PROOF TOP OFFICIALS INVOLVED WITH INCREASED ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE!

U.S. INVESTIGATION PROVES THE U.S. IS FUNDING TERRORISM!

IRAN SAYS ‘I TOLD YOU SO!’ 

MORE PROOF DRUG USE INCREASE IS PART OF EVIL U.S. PLAN! 

 RUSSIA CAPTURES 20 TONS OF DRUGS, PROOF THE U.S. WAR ON DRUGS IS A BIG FAIL!

PROOF OPIUM PRODUCTION IS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS OUTSIDE AFGHANISTAN!

 TWO MILLION DRUG ADDICTS UNDER U.S. OCCUPATION!

 ILLEGAL DRUGS SET NEW RECORDS UNDER U.S. WATCH!

U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL ARE DRUG ADDICTS!

DRUGS USED TO TURN PEOPLE INTO SUICIDE BOMBERS!

U.S. Africa Command, HOW IS THE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDING THIS? DRUGS!

PROOF THE TOO BIG TO FAILS ARE TO BLAME; DRUG MONEY, VIOLATING SANCTIONS, TAX EVASION

2012 WAS ANOTHER BIG YEAR FOR OPIUM! 

EVIDENCE THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND IS A DRUG DEALER, U.K. BANK REGULATOR SAYS SO!

GOVERNMENT ADMITS 70% OF AFGHAN DRUGS USED AGAINST IRAN! 

DRUG WAR DESIGNED TO RAISE THE PRICE OF OPIUM.

OPIUM PRODUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN HITS RECORD LEVELS, AGAIN! BLAME THE UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM

RED HORSE & FALSE WAR ON DRUGS IN MEXICO; 13,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN THE FIRST 9 MONTHS OF 2011

IRAN CLAIMS U.S. AND ISRAEL SMUGGLING CRACK & METH INTO IRAN FROM AFGHANISTAN

Wikipedia: Opium Wars 1839-1860

“First it was the bomb
Vietnam napalm
Disillusioning
You push the needle in….

Don’t stop to think now….

Head starts spinning ’round
You fall down to the ground
Feel your body heave
Death’s hands starts to weave…
Price of life you cry
Now you’re gonna die”-Black Sabbath, Hand of Doom, 1970:

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Technology

“tough challenges that we can no longer ignore”: U.S. Hi-Tech/Communications breakdown, January 2018

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in January 2018:

Maybe the new Whore of Babylon is the Digital Bitch?:

California:  Who said sex sells? A little more than a year after being sold to a Florida based company, Chatsworth based adult magazine Penthouse now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, for the third time in its 52 year history.  World of Tanks maker Wargaming America issued a shutdown shutdown WARN for its Emeryville location, 117 jobs gone by the end of March!  San Francisco based women’s lifestyle online-zine Brit + Co suddenly eliminated 14 jobs, despite a 50% increase in revenues.  Wi-fi startup Eero suddenly laid off 30 people in order to “focus on our core business.”  San Jose based ebay reported a massive loss of $2.6-billion USD (not counting losses caused by the new U.S. tax laws), and that’s just for its 4th quarter of 2017!  Ebay also announced it will ditch paypal and offshore payments processing to a company based in Netherlands. Santa Clara based security-tech company Gigamon issued a layoff WARN, 74 people in Santa Clara jobless in March. Xerox eliminating 47 jobs in Cerritos, in March.  San Mateo based GoPro suddenly laid off 140 people due to major problems with its Karma drone, that’s according to the official WARN, but news media reports say it could end up being as many as 3-hundred!  Act-On Software issued a shutdown WARN for its Roseville location, 96 jobs gone in March.  E-commerce packaging service Smurfit Kappa North America suddenly eliminated 155 jobs in City of Industry!  It was revealed that British empire Canada based Creation Technologies suddenly shutdown ops in Milpitas, 177 jobs killed before Xmas 2017!   Mellanox Technologies Silicon Photonics issued a shutdown WARN for its Monterey Park ops, 98 jobs gone in March.  Iconic video game maker Activision suddenly laid off 194 people in Ventura!  David William Bell, the owner of UST Development-US Telecom, sentenced to nine years in federal prison after being convicted of $1-million USD in fraud schemes involving tricking third party payroll companies to issue paychecks to his employees using their money, plus sending out fake billing statements to ignorant ‘anies are not making customers’ who actually paid them!  VMware eliminating 169 jobs at its Palo Alto HQ!   Mountain View based non-profit Mozilla suddenly laid off more than 12 people in Republic of China (Taiwan) blaming “emerging markets across Asia”.   The Bay Area News Group warning of “significant” layoffs if employees don’t voluntarily quit (buyouts) in the next few months, and yes you can read their newspapers online.   Los Angeles based internet comedy site Funny or Die obviously isn’t funny because it’s dying. An undisclosed number of employees were suddenly laid off, reports say Funny or Die has been laying off employees since 2016.  CEO Mike Farah admitted most online companies are not making money, saying “Like a lot of other digital media companies, we’re facing tough challenges that we can no longer ignore, and so we must adapt.”

Connecticut: Norwalk based Xerox is in merger talks with Nippon’s (Japan) Fujifilm, which could result in 10-thousand jobs being killed globally!

Illinois:  Restaurant owners now joining customers in accusing Arlington Heights based restaurant.com of fraud.  The Better Business Bureau (BBB) gave the website an F grade.  In Chicago, predictive analytics startup Uptake suddenly laid off 51 people, despite raising approximately $260-million USD in funding.

Indiana: Nippon (Japan) based Sony DADC issued a shutdown WARN for its Terre Haute factory, 375 people jobless due to outsourcing to France based Technicolor Home Entertainment Services!

Iowa: Convergys shutting down its call center in Sergeant Bluff, 178 jobs gone in April!  Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its 11 years old Gamesa Renewable Energy factory in Fort madison, 202 jobs gone by the end of March!

Kansas: Police body camera maker Digital Ally suddenly laid off 63 people due to a sudden 31% crash in revenue.

Kentucky:  In Louisville, online retailer of on-demand customized products CafePress laid off 12 people due to a sudden 32% crash in revenues.

Minnesota: Energy-tech company SheerWind now chapter 7 bankrupt dead with zero assets and $3.7-million USD in debts.  In Wadena, after 18 years Cyber Cafe shutdown.  It was revealed that only subsidies (funding) from the local community, and government, kept it in operation, sales alone are not enough to cover operating cost. The owner also revealed competition from ever advancing social media technology played a major role in killing them off.

New York: Florida based JPay supposedly giving prisoners of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision electronic tablets at no cost to taxpayers.  JPay is so desperate for sales they think prisoners who don’t have much, if any, money will make online purchases through their JPay system (prisoners aren’t normally allowed access to the internet).  Hearst Magazines issued shutdown WARN for its Rodale Payroll, between 55 and 2-hundred jobs affected due to the sale/relocation of the business!  Info-Tech solutions company ASM Research issued a shutdown WARN for its Batavia location, 36 jobs gone due to the loss of a taxpayer funded VA contract.

North Carolina: Singapore based Flex (formerly known as Flextronics) eliminating 138 jobs at its Morrisville electronics factory, in May!

North Dakota: After 50 years FM News shutdown, ignorantly blaming low sales of magazines and newspapers on internet competition.

Ohio: California based Rambus issued a shutdown WARN for its Brecksville light factory, 52 jobs gone as Rambus gets the hell outta the lighting business.

Oregon: Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its Wilsonville call center, 208 jobs gone by the end of March!

Pennsylvania: France based Technicolor Home Entertainment Services issued a shutdown WARN for its CD factory in Olyphant, 160 jobs gone starting in March!   California based Autodesk vacating its Bakery Square 2.0 office, 40 jobs lost as the space is being subleased.   Hearst Magazines issued shutdown WARNs for its Rodale Payroll/Photo Studio/Test Kitchen/Iron Run Distribution Center, 145 jobs gone in March!   Convergys issued a shutdown WARN for its Coraopolis location, 52 jobs gone in March.  It was revealed that Philadelphia based Comcast secretly eliminated more than 5-hundred sales jobs two weeks before Xmas 2017!   Best Buy shutting down its Pittsburgh Mills store, 23 jobs gone in March.  New York based, but British empire Canada owned, department store Lord & Taylor suddenly killed 202 e-commerce fulfillment jobs in Wilkes Barre, due to e-commerce ops being moved elsewhere!

Texas: DISH Network suddenly laid off 90 people at its refurbishing factory in El Paso.  Austin based advertising agency GSD&M suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, saying “we are changing our operating rhythm and aligning to a new method”.

Virginia: Telvista shutting down its call center in Danville, 3-hundred jobs gone in March!  Local news media reported that some employees had just been hired.

Washington DC:  The Current Newspapers now chapter 11 bankrupt busted as part of a master plan to expand online services.

West Virginia: Gazette-Mail now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and laying off at least 50 people.

Wisconsin: New York based e-commerce company F+W Media eliminating 41 jobs in Iola, via outsourcing.

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, December 2017:“IN THE INTERESTS OF SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY”

International

U.S. tax reforms? Japan makes $7-billion off U.S. tax-losers!

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Nippon’s (Japan) Toyota, Honda and Nissan reported that together they expect to make a record profit $22-billion USD, not from sales of cars to ‘Mericans, but partly off the pro-corporate U.S. tax reforms.

Residents of many U.S. states are only now being informed that the federal tax reforms are going to actually cost them more money, some states even passing new state level tax rules to alleviate the burden.  Yet administrators of Toyota, Honda and Nissan told Japanese news media that their expected record profits include $7-billion coming directly from the U.S. 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act!

It’s just more evidence that America’s economy is dominated by foreigners.

GREAT RENEGER, 2017: OFF-SHORING OF U.S. JOBS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL INVESTOR MORALE IMPROVES!

BARBARIANS SACKING ROME: FOREIGN LANDLORDS NOW CONTROL THE ‘AMERICAN’ DREAM!

Idaho, U.S.

Sex & Drugs = The American Way! : U.S. government shenanigans, January 2018

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

Ironic, isn’t it?

Alaska: State senator David Wilson in trouble not only for alleged sexual harassment, but for ‘retaliation’.

Alabama: After years of complaints and no action by the state Department of Public Health and Department of Environmental Management, researchers with Auburn University have declared the wellwater under Fruithurst in excess of federal EPA limits for radon and heavy metals.  It was noted that there are several illegal trash dumps in the area.   The state Attorney General ramping up training of law enforcers in how to deal with opioid overdoses.  

Arizona: State representative Don Shooter facing censure, and possible expulsion, over accusations of sexual harassment.  As a result of sexual harassment claims, state lawmakers are considering banning the consumption of alcohol within the state House.  The state militia is being attacked by the Regular Army!   The Arizona National Guard’s 1-285th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion is being shutdown by the end of 2018.

California:  Cities in the leftist liberal fascist Golden State have been passing anti-homeless people laws under the guise of fighting the Hep A outbreak.  The laws ban people from publicly sharing food!  In El Cajon 12 people were ticketed by cops for feeding homeless people! One man, interviewed by a San Diego TV station, asked the logical question ‘why doesn’t the city clean up the parks where the homeless live, instead of banning people from feeding them?’  The unAmerican Golden State will now automatically register illegal residents for the purpose of allowing them to vote, supposedly under a court order regarding driver’s licenses. Attorneys for illegal residents say anybody living in California, including those who got there illegally, are automatically “Californians”.  As many as 90% of students in the Twin Rivers Unified School District are living in poverty, now the federal government charging three taxpayer funded school workers with stealing taxpayer funded USDA food meant for those poor students!   In Orangevale, iconic Wild Sports shutting down, the owners forced to retire due to ‘big box’ and online competition coupled with California’s police-state anti-gun laws.

Colorado: Tax-sucker Northrop Grumman eliminating an additional 38 jobs (on top of the 1-hundred) due to losing a contract at Schriever Air Force Base.  In Denver, after 16 years Mile High Doggie Daycare shutdown and unable to refund money to customers who ‘pre-paid’ for services, the owners blame the lack of sales on the city’s ‘gentrification’ of the area.

This prophetic video proves the taxpayer funded War on Drugs failed a long time ago:

Delaware:  An independent review found that taxpayer funded Vaughn Correctional Center is a potential time bomb as there are not enough guards to manage the prisoners.  The prison guard union said guards are tired of working constant overtime and don’t feel safe.   New Castle County paid $1.4-million USD in overtime for emergency response calls, mainly due to opiod drug overdoses.

Florida:  The Sunshine State allows child marriages, but a new bill could stop that.  The bill was influenced by a woman who was forced to get married at age eleven!   And child marriage isn’t even one of many reasons why Florida is now considered The Worst State in the U.S.   Fluor Federal Solutions eliminating 140 taxpayer funded jobs on Naval Air Station Pensacola!

Georgia:  Mother Earth more powerful than taxpayer funded government as a rare winter storm shutdown state government offices, and local schools, across the southern Peach State.

Idaho: ‘Christian’ Gem State lawmakers supporting a bill that will expand the use of taxpayer funded prisoners in the agriculture industry!  According to Financial Condition of Idaho Agriculture federal taxpayer subsidies to Idaho farmers fell by 44% in 2017.  A study by Blue Review reveals that migrant farm workers in southwestern Idaho have a hard time getting food for their families, despite the high value of some of the crops they harvest. It also reveals Idaho’s true population growth (as I’ve been saying in other articles) is coming from migrant farm workers, U.S. citizens are actually leaving the state!  After resigning last year due to a sex crimes investigation, former state politician Brandon Hixon killed himself.

Illinois: Cook County laid off 328 people and eliminated more than 1-thousand vacant positions due to the new county budget!  As more stores are covertly shutdown under the guise of property redevelopment, dying Sears Holdings demands state taxpayers fork-over $14-million in corporate welfare ‘credits’!

Indiana: After getting $7-million USD in state tax incentives Trump’s buddy Carrier continues killing jobs, this time 215!  Supposedly it’s the last round of layoffs connected to Carrier moving some production to Mexico.

Iowa: The state Auditor and the Iowa League of Cities sounding an alarm over local government corruption and fraud affecting taxpayers in 942 cities!  

Maryland: A new survey says the piddly weekend federal government shutdown revealed that the people of Maryland are the second most dependent upon federal taxpayers.

Michigan:  West Shoreline Correctional Facility shutting down in March, 174 jobs gone due to a “significant decline in the prison population statewide”!  The implication is that either crime is way down in the economically depressed and corruptly run state, and/or residents are ‘getting the hell outta Dodge’.    In already-proven-in-court-to-be-run-by-criminals Flint: “The Flint Community High School athletic department and upper level management does not have the students’ nor the student-athletes’ best interests in mind. Specifically, in the athletic department there has been criminal neglect and incompetence on multiple occasions.   I demand that … the entire Flint administration step down immediately for the greater good of Flint schools.”-Trace Fisher, high school football coach

Minnesota:  In Wadena, after 18 years Cyber Cafe shutdown.  It was revealed that only subsidies (funding) from the local community, and government, kept it in operation, sales alone are not enough to cover operating cost. The owner also revealed competition from ever advancing social media technology played a major role in killing them off.

Mississippi: Mother Earth more powerful than taxpayer funded government as a rare winter storm shutdown state government offices, and local schools, across the normally hot and humid Magnolia State.

Missouri: Taxpayers demanding ‘the swamp’ of their own state government to be drained. There’s growing momentum behind an organization called Clean Missouri, which is pushing for the creation of a law banning lobbyist ‘gifts’ to lawmakers that are more than $5 in value.

Montana: Gov’na Steve Bullock issued an executive order creating a state level ‘net neutrality’ law regarding internet service. 

New Jersey: The city of Hackensack challenging the non-profit tax exempt status of Hackensack University Medical Center, in an attempt to impose $19-million USD in property taxes.  Since 2015 cash strapped cities have challenged the tax exempt status of more than 35 non-profit hospitals! In some cases judges ruled some non-profit hospitals are actually for-profit enterprises.

New York: State taxpayers raped of more than $10-million USD by their own state lawmakers in order to settle at least 88 cases of sex-crimes by the state government!  Does settling a sex-crimes lawsuit turn the ‘victim’ into a ‘prostitute’: 

North Carolina: Taxpayer funded defense contractor ARMA Global eliminating 99 jobs by the end of March.   After getting $475-thousand local tax dollars in incentives Absolute Plastics issued a layoff WARN eliminating 1-hundred of its 150 jobs due to crashing sales! Local politicians claim they’re trying to get the money back.

Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City, Kaiser’s Grateful Bean Cafe shutdown due to the city’s $131-million USD public transportation project, which has killed 80% of the restaurant’s business.

Pennsylvania: More proof that Philadelphia’s job killing soda-pop tax is a failure; first year tax collections are $19-million USD below what was projected.   Capital Area Transit-Cumberland-Dauphin-Harrisburg Transit Authority laid off five people and is consolidating operations to cut costs.   The largest east coast refinery, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, now bankrupt busted due to federal government imposed Renewable Energy Credit (RIN) which cost the refinery $217-million USD in 2017.

Tennessee: Oak Ridge National Laboratory laying off at least 1-hundred people, this after 232 employees were convinced to voluntarily quit!

Texas:  In San Antonio a popular restaurant, Pollos Asados Los Nortenos, was shutdown by ass-hole health inspectors who said the smoke from the grill was polluting the air, even after the restaurant owner spent $250-thousand USD to upgrade the grill to be in compliance with state laws! 50 jobs gone due to the ass-holes TCEQ and the Attorney General’s Office.

Utah: In Lehi, after 47 years iconic Porter’s Place steak joint shutdown because the city is not willing to spend $30-thousand USD to repair corroded sewer lines (the restaurant was leasing the building)!

Virginia:  In Lynchburg, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great Depressions and numerous recessions) Sheard’s Beauty Shopshutdown due to new city parking rules which drive away customers: “Why would they pay to park here when they can go to the mall?”-Mamie Branham, owner

Washington DC: Despite claiming to drain the swamp, under president Trump the federal government hired a net increase of 42-thousand people in 2017, no wonder government taxsuckers demand more money!  The U.S. Department of Labor also reported that state level governments, as a whole, actually reduced their number of workers by 19-thousand.  To back up the fact that federal employees are soaking U.S. taxpayers, a new survey says the piddly weekend federal government shutdown revealed that Washington DC is the most dependent upon federal taxpayers.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Government Shenanigans, December 2017: “IT’S NOT JUST A ONE-YEAR BLIP…DECLINES CONTINUE TO GET BIGGER…”

ObamaCare ACA Death Spiral, January 2018:“INADEQUATE MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES”

Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., January 2018:“LET’S PISS IN HIS MOUTH.” (teacher found dead in school toilet room, of drug overdose)

MOTHER EARTH SAYS ‘NO MORE DRUGS FOR YOU, HUMANS!’

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? 

United States is ‘THE’ drug lord in Mexico’s drug war 

U.S. Marines & sailors turn out to be drug dealers and gun runners! 

Employees at U.S. military helicopter factory doubled as prescription drug dealers 

BANKS & ILLEGAL DRUGS CAUSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO U.S.!

VONS INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS? 

U.S. CIVIL WAR CHICAGO, 16 – 20 JUNE 2014: AFGHAN HEROIN CONNECTION?

Business/Economics, Idaho

“monotonous”: Sears Kmart death spiral, February 2018

Sears Hometown/Appliance and Outlet stores got a $40-million USD loan from Gordon Brothers Finance Company.

ABC Action News: 5 months later family still waiting for their new Sears installed bathroom.

Chicago Tribune: Sears threatened to sue state over tax credit dispute

USA Today: Trump tax cut boosts Sears to profit, but sales slide continues

Finally, a mainstream news media source realizes that the excuse of blaming brick-n-mortar store shutdowns on internet competition might be bullshit, blame “the poverty rate”.

Canadian creditors demand to know what Eddie Lampert did with huge sums of money he got right before Sears Canada went bankrupt!

Yet again, Sears Holdings borrowed money from it’s leader, Eddie Lampert; $210-million USD this time. 

Arizona: The Show Low Kmart shutting down its pharmacy operations by the 12th of February, as part of the plan to shutdown the Show Low Kmart by April.

California: In Redding, the owner of Mount Shasta Mall (Rouse Properties) got approval from the city council to shutdown the Sears store (which is also owned by Rouse Properties) and split it up into six smaller store spaces.   

Florida: An Ocala Kmart employee was caught stealing $6-thousand USD in cash over several months.  She said she did it to feed her child.  The judge must’ve had sympathy because her bond was set lower than the amount of cash she stole, cops say she had a grand total of 70-dollars in her possession.

Idaho: It was revealed to me that Sears Holdings was still paying rent on its vacant (shutdown at the end of 2014) Pine Ridge Mall location, in Chubbuck.  However, the lease finally expired at the end of 2017 and now the mall owners are renting the huge space as a temporary storage unit for Walmart’s store remodeling ops taking place across eastern idaho.

Illinois: Despite never ending shutdowns and layoffs, Sears Holdings claims it is still eligible for $14.8-million USD in state taxpayer credits.  A fine example of corporate welfare!  As Catholic schools across the U.S. continue to be shutdown, the Catholic Church is doing something radical; they’re moving one of their existing schools inside a vacant Waukegan Kmart!  The Catholic school was slated to shutdown due to not being able to repair its crumbling building, but a local fundraiser generated $17-million USD to pay to move the school into the Kmart building.  To show you how miraculous that is, the residents of Waukegan make up 75% of Lake County’s poverty level population!

Indiana: The planned re-opening of the Kokomo Sears Auto Center is now canceled, local news media reported that no reason was given.

Nevada: In Reno, Sears Holdings spin-off Seritage Growth Properties has submitted a plan to city administrators to have the existing Meadowood Mall Sears store shutdown and split-up into three smaller store spaces.  The only reason given for the impending shutdown of the Sears store is that it is “monotonous”!

Utah: Taxpaying residents are pissed about what the West Valley City leadership want to do with the abandoned Kmart property; turn it into yet another apartment/housing development: “We have so many apartments already in the area. It feels like West Valley wants to see if they can pack more people in…  It’s hard to even get out of the neighborhood.”-Brittani Martin

Sears Kmart death spiral, January 2018: 103+ NEW STORE SHUTDOWNS ANNOUNCED!

Idaho

More Economic Decline: Idaho mall loses yet another anchor store! Lazy ‘Experts’ continue to blame online sales!

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Chubbuck Herberger's

Bon Ton owned Herberger’s announced it will exit its Pine Ridge Mall location, in Chubbuck, when the inventory runs out.  The official reason is crashing sales, including declining online sales. However, and as usual, local news media turned to so called experts who lazily blamed it on internet competition and people supposedly spending big bucks on gas to drive to the state of Utah to do their shopping!

First of all, Bon Ton and Herberger’s have their own websites where you can buy their crap!

Back in November 2017 Bon Ton announced it would shutdown 40 stores, including some Herberger’s, across the U.S. in 2018. Despite also selling online, Bon Ton’s family of department stores revealed they had lost $44.9-million USD in Bon Ton’s 3rd quarter of 2017! 

Today, Bon Ton published its shutdown list for 2018, and the Chubbuck Herberger’s is at the top of the list.

Also today, internet selling site ebay reported a massive loss of $2.6-billion USD (not counting losses caused by the new U.S. tax laws), and that’s just for its 4th quarter of 2017!  

Secondly, I’ve been hearing the old “people are driving to Salt Lake” excuse since 2001.  It’s a bullshit excuse mainly because why the hell would people drive their gas guzzling SUV and pickups out-of-state to go shopping?  The majority of jobs in eastern Idaho don’t pay their employees well enough to afford such a luxurious shopping trip! (approximate round-trip driving distance from Pocatello, Idaho, to Salt Lake City, Utah, is 336miles/540km)

Guess what? Retailers in Salt Lake City have been shutting down!

The truth is that ‘wise christian’ leaders in Bannock County began driving off all the good paying jobs from the Pocatello/Chubbuck area in the late 1990s (with Union Pacific suffering the biggest loss of jobs, in the thousands) and that trend has never been reversed (death spiral).     I remember in the late 1990s, one local official (a member of the dominant ‘christian’ sect) stated that industrial jobs were bad because they were the cause of local crime.  Last laugh’s on that exalted politician of god, because crime is so bad now that the Bannock County Sheriff repeatedly begs cash strapped taxpayers to approve funding a new county prison to deal with prison overcrowding!

KPVI interviewed a local labor force ‘expert’ who actually said Herberger’s shutdown could “be a blessing in disguise” for the 46 soon-to-be-unemployed-employees, because he believes the local economy is so good they’re sure to find better jobs!

Herbergers moved into the two story anchor location at Pine Ridge Mall, which was former home to ZCMI, May Company and Dillards.  They were true two story operations, but Herberger’s is a single story operation.  Apparently the top floor is being used for storage and office space.

IDAHO’S CONTINUED ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION, 2017: “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, DECEMBER 2017:“IN THE INTERESTS OF SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY”

MORE DECLINE: NO MORE XMAS LIGHTS FOR CHUBBUCK? THE TRUTH ABOUT GENTRIFICATION

THE LIES OF ECONOMIC DECLINE: Mitt Romney’s POCATELLO STAPLES SHUTDOWN BLAMED ON THE INTERNET!

Don’t blame the Internet: Idaho internet sales tax collections flat-line!

Pine Ridge Mall: Mitt Romney….Destroyed jobs in Chubbuck 

Idaho

Operation Snow Bash: Idaho trains-up the children, for war!

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“A lot of this is teaching resiliency training to military kids so they know how to cope with deployments and know that there’s a support system always there for them.”-Katie Kohlbecker, father is member of Idaho State Militia

Idaho National Guard has a Child and Youth Services program which held a four day Beyond Camp Wonderland-Snow Bash 2018 to instill team building and leadership skills, and build resiliency for tough times ahead, in the children that took part.

Beyond Camp Wonderland-Snow Bash 2018, Cascade, Idaho. Idaho National Guard photo via Captain Robert Taylor, 13JAN2018.

One participant gave ominous Orwellian sounding praise for the program: “Everyone is the same because we all have parents in the military. It’s different than interacting with kids at school because most kids at school don’t have parents in the military and don’t know what it’s like to have a parent gone.”-Elijah Maisey

Keep in mind that Idaho is one of only 11 U.S. states that have the highest per capita participation rate in the U.S. military system! (IDAHO ONE OF ONLY 11 STATES SUPPLYING MOST OF THE HUMAN CANNON FODDER FOR THE OBAMA REGIME)

Children can join the Idaho National Guard Child and Youth Services when they turn ten years old.  They can even gain rank: “It’s rewarding to see the development of the older kids who have transitioned from campers, to counselors to chaperons.”-Colonel Farin Schwartz

Beyond Camp Wonderland-Snow Bash 2018, Cascade, Idaho. Idaho National Guard photo via Captain Robert Taylor, 13JAN2018.

Beyond Camp Wonderland is held every six months.

POCATELLO MILITIA RETURNS FROM MALAYSIA, IS IT ABOUT THE OIL?

GREAT RENEGER TRUMP: IDAHO MILITIA has RECORD NUMBER OF DEPLOYMENTS IN ONE YEAR?

IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD SURROUNDED BY TURKISH TROOPS!

“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!

WIMP ASS IDAHO GOVERNOR BEGS OBAMA REGIME NOT TO STEAL ARMY NATIONAL GUARD’S AIR ASSETS!

U.S. OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN, 04 JUNE – 07 JUNE: IDAHO GUARDSMAN SHOT. 

Idaho, U.S.

“Let’s piss in his mouth.”: Dumbing Down U.S. of A., January 2018

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

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

Across the United States, in metro areas taxpayers could become burdened with yet another cost of providing inadequate grade school education; housing subsidies for teachers!

The U.S. Army and the Department of Homeland Security are designing a simulation of school shooting situations for teachers.

“We can’t prevent evil, and trying to prevent it by taking away the freedom of law-abiding people is not a price our society should pay.”-HomeSchool Association of California, regarding the 13 adults and children rescued from their “Good Christian Family” home-school-hell in Perris

NBC Los Angeles on home schooling: “Alaska and Idaho have virtually no regulations, while New York and Pennsylvania families must submit annual instruction plans to the district, administer standardized tests taken by public school students statewide and provide academic progress reports.”

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

Arkansas: Trusty Elementary school could be shutdown within four years due to the outrageous costs to maintain the almost 100 years old building.

Arizona: A now former Ironwood Ridge High School assistant coach arrested for suspected sex crimes.

California: 60% of estimated 6-million students in The Golden State’s grade school system are considered poor and/or English Learners.  An Infotech employee of the privately funded Nueva School arrested for inappropriate contact with a child.  As many as 90% of students in the Twin Rivers Unified School District are living in poverty, now the federal government charging three school workers with stealing taxpayer funded USDA food meant for those poor students!  At Helix High School a female student refused to leave after being suspended, resulting in her arrest. But here’s the ironic part, police say as they were arresting her she tried to leave, i.e. escape, so she’s also facing resisting arrest charges. Things are so bad in Riverside County that Val Verde Unified School District has created its own police force!  In San Bernardino County (the largest county in the world) four school districts (Fontana, Hesperia, Apple Valley and San Bernardino) have their own police forces!  A teacher (who is also a Pico Rivera City councilmember) at El Rancho High School caught on video dissin’ students wearing clothing displaying U.S. military logos.  The cell phone video was posted on facebook by Kimberlie Flauto, at one point you hear the teacher say “Your freakin’ stupid Uncle Louie or whatever. They’re dumb shits. They’re not high-level bankers. They’re not academic people. They’re not intellectual people. They are the freaking’ lowest of our low.” regarding military personnel fighting the undeclared War on Terror.

Los Angeles Times: “A 67-year-old with two Harvard degrees and an international reputation in ophthalmology, Puliafito started using methamphetamine with a circle of prostitutes and criminals while dean of USC’s Keck School of Medicine…”  and now a suspect in the death of a drug addict’s baby.

Colorado: A Thunder Ridge High School student that obviously hasn’t learned much from being in school posted video of himself biting into a laundry detergent ‘pod’.  Hey, maybe it’s a new form of washing your mouth out with soap after using ‘foul’ language?

Florida: After being suspended for a fight at Surfside Middle School a 12 years old girl killed herself, her parents say she was being bullied and the school’s actions only made things worse. After 64 years privately funded Arlington Country Day School shutdown without warning to parents, while class was still in session!  School administrators gave no reason, but promised to refund field trip money (no mention of refunding tuition).  The cost for attending the private school is about $7-thousand USD per year per child: “She said the school was shutting down. She didn’t say why…   I am livid … It’s crazy. At this point it’s crazy!”-Venessa Balan, pissed parent

“I just assumed they were doing fine. I’ve always heard throughout the grapevine that they were doing fine, and had 300 kids. But I have no idea how many they really have because, obviously, they don’t communicate a lot with us.”-Grace Williams, operator of competing private school

Idaho: Six weeks after being hit by a massive ransomware cyberattack, the Jerome School District claims it has restored about 95% of their computer processes.  Shoshone School District hit by federal lawsuit after a 13 years old girl said she was raped in class, it was recorded on security camera video.  A woman is now suing two state lawmakers, accusing them of non-physical sexual harassment while she was a high school page in the state House. 

PMC West Campus, Pocatello, Idaho.

PMC West Campus, Pocatello, Idaho. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

State lawmakers hoping their new Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine will solve at least one of many deficiencies within the Idaho medical system, however, let me remind you that less than ten years ago ‘wise’ lawmakers rejected an Idaho State University  proposal to build a medical school, even after Portneuf Medical Center offered their old PMC West hospital building (located right next to the ISU campus, it was eventually torn down in 2016-17 ostensibly to make room for a VA clinic) as it was going to be shutdown anyway, and a taxpayer funded study (A Proposed Distributive Model for a Medical Degree Program) said it was sorely needed and would greatly boost the local economy!    Idaho news media boasting of record level student enrolments in taxpayer funded grade schools, however, while overall numbers are up they’re not spread evenly across The Gem State, many districts actually lost students like District 91.   Yet another report says Idaho teachers are ‘getting the hell outta Dodge’, this time the study was done by the State Department of Education itself.   In District 25 signs of religio-class warfare as rich Mormon dominated school board wants to end what it calls “student self-segregation”.

Highland High School, Pocatello

Highland High School, Pocatello.

It involves a decades old rivalry between rich-Mormon-brat-prep’s and wannabe-prep’s Highland High School and everybody else’s (including working class Mormons) Pocatello High School (aka Pokey High).

Iconic Pocatello High School

Iconic Pocatello High School. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

For decades parents have been able to choose which high schools to send their kids to.  District administrators now complain that Highland High is overcrowded by about 7-hundred rich-brats and/or wannabe rich brats, while Pocatello High School is disproportionately full of poor students whose parents can’t pay the outrageous yearly fees, so to ‘correct’ this “socio-economic” imbalance administrators want to end parental school choice!

Century High School

Century High School, ‘The Prison’.

Another possible covert reason for ending parental school choice is that nobody wants to send their kids to the outrageously huge and expensive and controversial Century High School (I call it The Prison because from Interstate 15 it looks like a state prison).  Several years ago the State Department of Education told District 25 there weren’t enough students to justify the state/federal funding for the school (which was built on land purchased from a relative of a school board member).   District 25 recall petition.

Illinois: Community High School District 155 threatening to shutdown the Haber Oaks Campus and relocate the remaining 90 Crystal Lake South High School student body due to at least five years of DSS (Disappearing Students Syndrome).  God powerless to stop the Archdiocese of Chicago from shutting down five schools (Saint Cyprian School, Holy Cross School, Incarnation School, Our Lady of the Ridge School, Saint Michael School)  due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS.  At Morgan Park High School a girl was nearly “stomped” to death for ‘liking’ a boy’s post on social media. Apparently the boy’s girlfriend doesn’t take kindly to other girls liking his posts.

Indiana: Jeffersonville High School student arrested and accused of sex crimes with 17 children.

Iowa: State lawmakers considering making passing a U.S. citizenship test a requirement to graduate high school.

Kansas: A Blue Valley Northwest High School student threatening suicide was obliged by Overland Park police who shot and killed him. Police claim he was trying to run them over with a car.  Some parents of students at Herington Elementary School stood up to christian bullying and halted the 1st Amendment violation of Bibles being forced upon public elementary school students: “The district’s actions in assisting the Gideons in distributing Bibles to elementary students represents a clear breach of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution and we hereby demand assurances that this practice will discontinue immediately.”-Appignani Humanist Legal Center

Kentucky:  The state Public School Commissioner condemned the Cordia School building, forcing it to shutdown by February.  A new state law allows taxpayer funded public schools to violating the federal 1st Amendment by using taxpayer funds to pay for Bible/christian classes! 

Louisiana: A teacher was arrested after questioning why the Vermilion Parish School Board gave the superintendent a $30-thousand USD taxpayer funded pay raise, when teachers and other school employees have gone without a pay raise for years: “I feel like it’s a slap in the face for the teachers, the cafeteria workers or any other support staff we have.”-Deyshia Hargrave

Maryland:  The ‘bomb cyclone’ that hit the east coast revealed that more than 60 Baltimore area schools had no functioning heating system!  In Rockville:  “Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has received multiple reports from community members that one or more individuals is posting inappropriate content on a private social media platform, including nude images of MCPS students.”

Massachusetts: Leftist liberal globalist Harvard Kennedy School is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, alongside President Donald Trump.   Boston Public Schools accused of sharing immigrant student info with ICE.

Michigan: East Michigan University eliminating 60 jobs due to being short by as much as $5.5-million USD, partly caused by lack of students.  In already-proven-in-court-to-be-run-by-criminals Flint: “The Flint Community High School athletic department and upper level management does not have the students’ nor the student-athletes’ best interests in mind. Specifically, in the athletic department there has been criminal neglect and incompetence on multiple occasions.   I demand that … the entire Flint administration step down immediately for the greater good of Flint schools.”-Trace Fisher, high school football coach

Minnesota: Fridley High School engaged in censorship when they edited out a student’s shirt from a school pic.  The shirt read Deport Racists.  It’s been revealed that the 77-acre Duluth Central High School property still hasn’t been sold, the school was shutdown six years ago.  Doesn’t that make you happy taxpayers happy?  Police investigating claims of sex crimes between a Grand Blanc Community Schools employee and a now former high school student, police refused to give any more info.

Missouri: You can now claim a tax deduction for your private school payment, further hurting tax funding for public schools.  Gov’na Eric Greitens wants lawmakers to extend a taxpayer funded college scholarship program for graduates of taxpayer funded high schools to graduates of privately funded high schools.

New Mexico: Nationally recognized teen NanoForm inventors get kicked out of their Taos Middle School lab, with no explanation.  Their invention sponsor said the school principal wanted them out.  Some state lawmakers want to join the police-state-school system by forcing taxpayers to spend between $25-million and $60-million USD to turn the Public Education Department into its own police force.

New York: As a fine example of where education priorities are with students, a New Dorp High School cheerleader wants 500k tweets so she can meet the Mets for prom!  At least 16 school districts actively engage in School Lunch Shaming of students whose parents can’t pay the lunch bill!   A now former Olean High School special ed teacher, along with his mother, is charged with welfare fraud.  A female New School for Leadership and the Arts teacher pled not-guilty to sex crimes with a 14 years old student.  Local news media described the teacher as “booze loving”.  God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 94 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint John Villa Academy, apparently god needs money because The Sisters are conducting a study to see how much money would be made from selling the school.  In Bronx-NYC, at Public School X811 a drug addict was found dead in the school toilet room, he wasn’t a student he was one of the teachers!!!

Ohio: In Stark County, Perry Local School District dealing with the suicides of six students. 

Oregon: A contract worker ripped down Immigrant Welcome signs at taxpayer funded River Road/El Camino del Rio Elementary School.  The worker was fired, but district administrators admitted the signs are too political and will not replace them.  Seaside Heights Elementary janitor accused of sex crimes with students.

Pennsylvania: Scranton School Board laying off 51 teachers and all librarians!  School administrators swear student access to the libraries will continue.  Pleasant Valley School District under investigation for using a vending machine equipped with a wi-fi camera to spy on teachers in the break room, for the purpose of extorting them, the district’s supervisor of support staff already arrested.

Rhode Island: The female principal of Harry Kizirian Elementary School accused of knowing about, and failing to report within 24 hours, sex crimes involving a gym teacher and fifth graders.  In 2016 the state law regarding the reporting of sex crimes was changed, and the principal claims she was unaware of the change.

South Carolina: In a fine example of lack of leadership intelligence resulting in taxpayer ripoffs, Berkeley County School District filed a federal lawsuit against an insurance company claiming that for the past 16 years it sold the school district $14.2-million USD in worthless insurance policies.  Taxpayers should sue the school district for signing onto, and paying for, those insurance policies!

Tennessee: A teenage girl arrested for killing another teenage girl from Glencliff High School, by accident, during a burglary spree the girls were involved in.  In a statement the arrested teen said a gun they were using during the burglaries accidentally went off.   It’s been revealed that it is a crime to be a barber in Tennessee without graduating high school! One requirement to get a barber’s license is that you must be a high school graduate, but a crimewave of fake barber’s licenses reveals a failure of the taxpayer funded grade school system. 

Texas: Houston based Parker School Uniforms now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, local news reports say all 320 employees were laid off without warning and without final pay!  Houston Independent School District warning of calamity due to new state funding requirements, crashing student enrollments and local tax revenues.  Texas school districts caught violating voting laws by using taxpayer funded school buses to transport voting aged students and employees to polling stations to vote on issues affecting education: “This is the first time this behavior has occurred. That’s why it’s different and needs to be commented on. It needed to be stopped before it got out of hand.”-Paul Bettencourt, state senator

Vermont: Rochester School shutting down at the end of the school year, it’s down to just three high school students.  Parents are concerned because they have no way to drive their kids to the nearest school, after the shutdown.  News media report that the state is experiencing a yearly decline of about 1-thousand-3-hundred students!

Virginia: Exalted state lawmakers finally admit their garde school system is nothing more than a ‘school-to-prison pipeline’.  In one example an eighth grade student was ‘arrested’, suspended and sent to juvenile court after a school cop accused him a stealing a 65 cent carton of milk, which turned out to be part of the student’s free lunch due to his family’s low income!  Lawmakers claim they will now change current laws which requires school principals to report specific misdemeanor ‘offenses’ to police.  In 2015, the Center for Public Integrity stated that Virginia has the highest rate of students being sent to police/juvenile courts in the country.  A 2016 Virginia Tech study discovered that students with disabilities, and ‘black’ students, were disproportionately more likely to be suspended or expelled from grade schools.

Washington: After years of courtroom battles, Washington Inter-scholastic Activities Association (WIAA) and a former high school coach settled a defamation lawsuit.  The coach was suspended for two years when Bellevue High School accused him of violating WIAA rules.  The coach is not seeking money in his lawsuit, instead he wants changes to WIAA rules. His lawsuit against the high school continues.

Wisconsin: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Gregory Catholic School from shutting down due to lack of students, apparently they’re unable to meet the minimum of 20 students required for next school year.

Wyoming: Wrestlers at Kelly Walsh High School are facing accusations of waterboarding a teammate, even allegedly saying “Let’s piss in his mouth.” 

Dumbing Down December 2017: “GRADUATION WAS TODAY. DOORS ARE CLOSING. LOCKS HAVE BEEN CHANGED.”

Idaho, U.S.

“inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates”: ObamaCare ACA death spiral, January 2018

Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, announced in January 2018:

ObamaCare-ACA fact: Only one out of four workers has health insurance through their employer, according to a survey by Clutch.

So much for hi-tech security, 5.6-million patient records were illegally accessed online during during 477 incidents in 2017! 

Another reason to stay out of hospitals; the Journal of the American College of Cardiology says if you have a heart attack in the hospital during nights or weekends you’re more likely to die, compared to having a heart attack during ‘working hours’.

Musician Tom Petty died from prescription opioid overdose.

Arkansas: Arkansas Pharmacists Association says pharmacists are being reimbursed less than what prescription drugs actually cost.

California: An Iraq-born Swedish immigrant infiltrated (several times) the Sharp Grossmont Hospital claiming to be an anesthesiologist, which he is not, his final arrest was by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  Ventura County Medical Center warning of a $8.3-million USD loss, canceling overtime pay and suspended hiring for vacant positions.  Surprise Valley Health Care District now chapter 9 bankrupt busted, the rural hospital is hoping to get $1.5-million USD by partnering with Colorado based CadiraMD.  Drugs pusher Allegan eliminating 1-thousand jobs (421 of those job cuts are in California) due to its exclusive drugs now being available for manufacture by generic drugs makers!  Accountable Healthcare eliminating 66 jobs in Signal Hill, by the end of February.  In Ventura, Aurora Vista Del Mar Hospital suddenly eliminated 194 jobs!  Scripps Health Administrative Services issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego location, 69 jobs gone by March.  Is it connected to the fact that Scripps Health has to pay a $1.5-million USD fine for fraudulent Medicare and Tricare billing? Palomar Medical Center Poway suddenly laid off 42 people “To better position the organization for the future”.  SynerMed issued a layoff WARN for its Monterey Park location, 275 jobs gone by March (back in November 2017 news reports said the Medicaid and Medicare manager was going out of business)!  In Woodland Hills, Health Net issued a layoff WARN, 63 jobs gone by the end of March.  Seventh Day Adventists issued massive WARNs for multiple healthcare ops; Adventist Health Sonora eliminating 135 jobs in April, Adventist Health Feather River shutting down 72 jobs gone by April, Adventist Health Glendale shutting down 167 jobs gone by April, Adventist Health Simi Valley shutting down 70 jobs gone by April, Adventist Health Reedley and Selma eliminating 115 jobs, Adventist Health Hanford eliminating 205 jobs, Adventist Health Saint Helena eliminating 2-hundred jobs, Adventist Health Corporate in Roseville eliminating 229 jobs!

Colorado: Denver based Healthgrades laid off an undisclosed number of people.

Florida: Brookdale Senior Living eliminating 110 jobs by the end of March!

Georgia: In a legal settlement Memorial University Medical Center finally to release information concerning finances, failed business partnerships and the planned sale of the hospital.  WellStar Health System suddenly laid off 49 employees “to better align with our strategic plan and improve operational efficiencies”. 

Idaho: Advanced Care Hospital issued a shutdown WARN for its Boise location, 135 jobs gone by February!   Gem State lawmakers allowing insurance companies to bypass ObamaCare-ACA rules, calling the new policies ‘state based plans’.   

Illinois: In Chicago, health insurance giant Cigna suddenly laid off 60 people as part of its plan to get out of the state Medicaid managed care program.  Cigna claims it found company jobs for 2-hundred of its Illinois Medicaid program workers, leaving 60 without employment.  ‘Safety net hospital’ Roseland Community Hospital suddenly laid off 35 people, due to a state financial relief program for hospitals that is now in financial trouble itself.  Unlimited Development shutting down its 52 years old Care Center of Abingdon, 60 nursing home jobs gone by the end of March due to  federal government rules and “inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates”.   Don’t blame lack of patients for disappearing nursing homes, the Knox County Nursing Home and Rosewood Care Center did a survey and found “over 300 empty nursing home beds in Knox County” alone!  The demise of nursing homes is blamed on crashing Medicaid reimbursements.  PCI Pharma Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Woodstock location, 74 jobs gone by May.

Iowa: If you get the flu don’t go to the ER, unless you want to wait all day before getting help.  University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics force you to wait up to seven hours because being sick with the flu or ‘cold’ is considered a non-emergency.

Kansas: A whistleblower accusing Wichita based Christi Health of ripping off federal taxpayers by forcing Medicare patients to undergo unnecessary procedures. Turns out the lawsuit was filed in 2016, but only now is it being made public.

Kentucky: Taxpaying residents are suing the federal government for allowing states to force ‘working age’ Medicaid recipients to work in order to get medical treatment.  

Maryland: University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus under investigation for patient dumping, after a video was posting on social media showing security guards dumping a woman, wearing nothing but a hospital gown, at a bus station in freezing temperatures.

Massachusetts: Vibra Hospital shutting down its Springfield location due to lack of funding, at least 250 jobs gone in March, pending  a hearing by the state Department of Public Health!  Fallon Ambulance Service suddenly laid off 23 employees.   Mental health service provider Pathways by Molina shutting down two locations, 162 jobs gone! 

Michigan: For-profit Detroit Medical Center warning that as many as 3-hundred employees will soon be unemployed as part of a new “transformation plan”!  An immigrant doctor from Poland arrested  by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, suspected of child abuse. Apparently Michigan State Police investigated and dismissed the allegations.

Missouri: SERCO laying off 850 people despite a $1 billion contract by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid!  Local news discovered the layoffs were actually planned back in 2016.

Nebraska: In Minden, taxpayer funded Hinterlong Living for Seniors and Countryside Living Nursing Home shutting down due to lack of reimbursements, the Kearney County Health Services blames it on the state’s version of ObamaCare-ACA.

New Jersey:  Drugs pusher Pernix Therapeutics eliminating 41 jobs due to one of its exclusive drugs now being available for manufacture by generic drugs makers.  Since 2015 cash strapped cities have challenged the tax exempt status of more than 35 non-profit hospitals! In some cases judges ruled some non-profit hospitals are actually tax evading for-profit enterprises!

New Mexico: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Holy Cross Hospital from suddenly laying off 12 people due to a new Medicare payment method.

New York: NYC based drugs pusher Pfizer eliminating 3-hundred jobs as it ends research into creating drugs for treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s!   In Manhattan-NYC, after 33 years Coogan’s shutdown due to a massive $40-thousand USD per month increase in rent by the ‘christian’ owners of the property (New York Presbyterian Hospital)!  A doctor with Nassau University Medical Center arrested and accused of strangling a nurse with an electrical cord.  Reports of a nine fold increase in ambulance diversion due to hospital ERs being cramped of ‘non-emergency’ flu patients.   ArroHealth eliminating 42 jobs in April.

North Carolina: Texas based Conifer Health Solutions halting debt collection services for Frye Regional Medical Center, 81 jobs gone.  Unconfirmed reports say Conifer Health Solutions might be sold-off by its parent company.

Ohio: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Premier Health owned Good Samaritan Hospital, on Philadelphia Drive in Dayton, from shutting down.   1-thousand-6-hundred jobs affected by the end of 2018, due to a plan by Premier Health to ‘repurpose’ the hospital property!  A 76 years old nursing home patient froze to death outside the Hilty Memorial Home!  An investigation revealed that staff failed to conduct routine bed checks, which would have alerted them to the fact the woman had gone missing.  And in a failure of hi-tech, it was also discovered that the electronic monitors worn by patients were not working.  Affinity Medical Center shutting down sometime in late February-early March, a restraining order temporarily halted shutdown ops, at least 692 jobs lost!   Doctor’s Hospital Physician Services revealed that the shutdown of Affinity Medical Center will force them to layoff 116 of their employees! 

Oklahoma: The state Department of Health warning of 198 layoffs and halts to funding for healthcare/abuse treatment grants due to lack of taxpayer funding!  After more than 60 years taxpayer addicted Pawhuska Nursing Home shutting down due to lack of taxpayer reimbursements.   The Oklahoma Association of Health Care Providers revealed that Oklahoma’s nursing homes lost more than $93-million USD in taxpayer reimbursements since 2010.

Oregon:  Diagnostic Imaging of Salem suddenly shutdown, at least 34 jobs gone due to declining ObamaCare-ACA insurance reimbursements.

Pennsylvania: Camp Hill based Rite Aid pays $4-million USD to settle accusations by the federal government of ‘improper’ sale of pseudoephedrine, which can be used to make illegal meth (methamphetamine).  A new state rule makes it mandatory for hospitals to notify patients if they are eligible for ‘charity care’, apparently hospital weren’t voluntarily letting patients know that.

Puerto Rico: Israel based drugs pusher Teva Pharmaceuticals shutting down its drugs factory in Manati, killing 2-hundred jobs!  It’s part of a plan to kill 14-thousand jobs worldwide, due to $35-billion USD of debt!

South Dakota:  Sioux Falls based Sanford Health will focus on providing healthcare outside the United States by spending big bucks expanding to New Zealand, Ireland, Vietnam, Costa Rica and South Africa, and expand existing operations in China and Ghana.

Tennessee: Tennova Healthcare canceled plans to build a new $303-million USD hospital and instead will try to renovate existing hospitals.

Texas: Texas Children’s Hospital reports a 66% crash in income, mainly due to a 20% increase in expenses, from the end of 2016 to the end of 2017! Select Specialty Hospital shutting down in February, 96 jobs gone. Pennsylvania based Universal Health Services canceled plans to lease the bankrupt North Texas Medical Center.

Washington: Bankrupt Trios Health laying off an additional 20 people. 

Washington DC: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) both warning about drugs meant to treat opioid addiction.  The warning is that many treatments might be nothing more than ‘snake oil’, 11 suspect companies have been identified.   Since 2016, drug addicted ‘Mericans spent an estimated $800-million USD on internet purchases of illegal fentanyl pills made in China, according to the Senate Homeland Security Committee.  The Committee also accused FedEx and UPS of profiting from shipping the illegal drug.   The federal government fining India based Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories $5-million USD for dangerous prescription drugs packaging.

West Virginia: Charleston Area Medical Center ended 2017 with a $70-million USD loss, even after killing 290 jobs!  Hospital administrators blame the local economy, and Medicare and Medicaid.

Wisconsin: Patient dumping hits Aurora Sinai Medical Center, an undisclosed number of employees suspended after they were caught ‘dumping’ a mentally ill man in the freezing cold, apparently because the patient was homeless!

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral December 2017: “THE REALITY OF OUR INDUSTRY’S ECONOMICS: FLAT OR DECLINING GOVERNMENT REIMBURSEMENT RATES COUPLED WITH RISING COSTS.”