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“…..we were done!”: Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., April 2017

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

Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs & school shutdowns, April 2017:

California:  San Diego Unified School District sent out 2-hundred layoff notices, in addition to earlier layoff announcements!  The district is short $124-million USD in taxpayer funding!  God powerless to stop ‘his’ elementary and secondary school services op Roman Catholic Welfare Corporation from halting operations at three locations, 126 jobs gone by June!

Connecticut: In New Haven, school for students who don’t fit in, Domus Academy shutting down in June due to state budget cuts.

Illinois: Lutherbrook Child and Adolescent Center shutting down, 84 jobs lost, no reason given.

Indiana:  Ivy Tech Community College suddenly laid off 12 people, blaming what I call DSS and a taxpayer funding shortfall of $2.6-million.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Joseph’s College from renouncing its accreditation, suspending campus activities and eliminating 416 jobs in June! Administrators said they hope to be re-accredited once they get some money to operate the school. Purdue University Northwest shutting down its Charlotte R. Riley Child Center by the end of June, blaming “…recent year….decreased enrollment…..along with escalating costs of providing high quality child care…”

 Louisiana: Pinko commie leaders of New Orleans officially denying the history of the United States by beginning the process of removing four Civil War statues.  “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

Maryland: Baltimore City Schools warning that even with city and state taxpayer funding increases as many as 1-thousand people will become unemployed!  Administrators say it’s because only now are the previous year’s budget cuts impacting employment, the new funding increases are not enough to stop the bloodletting.

Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Medical School eliminating 65 jobs due to lack of money.

Michigan: After only five years Grand Rapids Ellington Academy of Arts and Technology shutdown due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  Kenowa Hills Public Schools eliminating 20 jobs due to lack of $1.6-million in taxpayer funding caused in-part by crashing enrollment.  Horizon Books shutdown its Petoskey location because the company owner wants to retire, and nobody wanted to take over the operation (due to crashing sales).

Minnesota: Minneapolis Public Schools warning of “hundreds” of layoffs due to the budget being $28-million USD short!

Missouri: University of Missouri eliminating 20 jobs in July, due to both crashing enrollments and taxpayer funding.  After 137 years Wentworth Military Academy shutdown due to DSS and escalating operating costs.

New Jersey: Bayonne School District eliminating 3-hundred jobs due to being $6-million short!  Local taxpayers are pissed because last year school funding was boosted by a 3.95% tax increase!  Known for Home of the Friars basketball, god powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Anthony High School from shutting down due to The Rapture (not enough students or money: “Our seats had not gotten warm and we were done!”-Bob Hurley, basketball coach

New Mexico: Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) eliminating teaching jobs covertly by increasing class size and cutting department budgets by 10% and by requiring high school teachers to teach more classes. Also, APS is reducing the number of ‘contract days’.  Administrators say they’re just getting ready for state taxpayer funding cuts. Santa Fe Public Schools warning it could be forced to shutdown two elementary schools due to expected state taxpayer funding cuts.

New York: In Wallkill, school bus contractor First Student lost two contracts, 238 jobs gone by June!  In Bronx-NYC, Montauk Student Transport eliminating 116 jobs in September due to loss of contract!  In Brooklyn-NYC, Otsar Early Childhood Center shutting down, 61 jobs gone by the end of June.  God powerless to stop Catholic Charities from shutting down its Fidelis Parenting/Fatherhood Program by July.   In Ronkonkoma, Community Program Centers shutting down its Early Discoveries Center Childcare program, at least 33 jobs gone by the end of June.

North Carolina: War of budgets as state lawmakers force schools to reduce class sizes, and schools say they don’t have the money to hire the extra teachers.  Lawmakers called bull-shit on that and claim that next year’s state budget for schools includes money to hire new teachers.  School administrators call bull-shit on that saying the increase in state funding barely makes up for previous year’s cutbacks.

Ohio: Wright State University warning 170 employees of layoffs in an effort to save $35-million, never mind that they admitted they over-spent $40-million!  North Royalton School District are threatening 23 job cuts if cash-strapped taxpayers don’t vote to approve yet another levy.  In Columbus, Half Price Books shutdown its store on North High Street.  Apparently it’s the third Half Price Books to recently shutdown.

Oregon: Rogue Community College jacked-up tuition and warned of about 20 layoffs due to state ‘lawmakers’ reducing taxpayer funding for next year by about $5.2-million.  Students are not happy.

Pennsylvania:  Mark DiRocco, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, stated “Many districts have still not recovered from the Great Recession.”  Remember, Barack Obama declared The Great Recession over in 2013!

Education Management shutting down in Pittsburgh, 75 jobs lost by the end of August.  DuBois Area School Board shutting down three elementary schools due to not enough students and not enough money.   God powerless to stop ‘his’ Saint Bartholomew School from shutting down.  It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollment, and skyrocketing debts incurred to operate the school.  California, Cheyney, Clarion, and Edinboro universities all say they must eliminate jobs and cut programs due to long term taxpayer funding cuts.  Now obviously corrupt Quakertown warning of two school shutdowns and 50 teacher layoffs due to lacking $4.8-million in funding, despite 30 straight years of tax increases for cash-strapped local taxpayers (who are really pissed-off right now)! 

Virginia: Central Virginia Training Center  laying off 14 people in the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in May.

Dumbing Down March 2017: “EXPERIENCING DECLINING ENROLLMENT, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO”

Vigilant Catamount: North Carolina militia preps for disaster, militarizes local cops!

11 JUN 2017 (10:05 UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Khordad 1396/16 Ramadan 1438/17 Bing Wu 4715

A North Carolina law enforcement personnel taking part in Vigilant Catamount. The official caption that was issued with the pic said he was “identifying” a survivor of a plane crash. I didn’t know an M4 assault weapon was now an accepted way of identifying survivors!

Under the Big Brother watch of Homeland Security, North Carolina begins Vigilant Catamount, a disaster training exercise involving multiple state agencies:

In this ‘disaster’ exercise state Militia fire-crews take part in securing the site of a downed military aircraft.

In this ‘disaster’ exercise a burning car simulated a crashed F-15 Eagle.

In this official pic, Sheriff department personnel take part in what was called “The Manhunt” exercise.

MISSOURI MILITIA PREPS FOR DISASTERS, AGAIN!

MILITARIZING THE POLICE: AIR MILITIA TRAINS UP TEXAS COPS!

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

11 JUN 2017 (08:59 UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Khordad 1396/16 Ramadan 1438/17 Bing Wu 4715

At the beginning of 2017 it was revealed that ‘fake news’ Idaho republicans made a secret deal with Amazon to impose an internet sales tax on any Idahoan who buys online!   The Idaho Tax Commission reports that so far there’s been no significant increase in tax revenues as a result!

The so called conservative republican ‘Butch’ Otter regime says it’s too early to pass judgement on the new tax imposed on Idahoans.  However, national main stream news source Associated Press discovered that ‘Right to Work’ (you over) Idaho politicians forbade the state Tax Commission from revealing specific details concerning the Amazon internet tax deal, under the guise of respecting Amazon’s privacy.

Until the Amazon deal residents of Idaho were required to self-pay taxes on purchases made outside the state, including internet purchases.  The deal with Amazon is just the first step by ‘republicans’ to find new ways to squeeze taxes out of cash strapped Idahoans.

Overall state tax collections were slightly higher than expected in May (by a piddly 0.8%), but apparently not due to the new Amazon tax deal.

The Associated Press pointed out that in 1992 the federal Supreme Court ruled that in order for a retailer to collect taxes for any state it must have operations within that state.  Amazon has made secret tax collection deals with almost every state in the Union.

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, JUNE 2017: Don’t blame internet competition!  Karen Edwards, instructor at University of South Carolina’s College of Hospitality Retailing and Sport Management, stated to local news media that internet sales make up only 10%-15% of all U.S. retail sales!

U.S. APPAREL INDUSTRY DEATH-SPIRAL: Don’t blame the internet, the overwhelming majority of apparel retailers that’ve died, or are dying, sell online!

Old Oil War: U.S. forces killed in Afghanistan, day after U.S. forces killed Afghan police!

10 JUN 2017 (17:51 UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Khordad 1396/15 Ramadan 1438/16 Bing Wu 4715

Reports out of Afghanistan that at least two U.S. personnel (possibly up to four) were shot and killed by an Afghan National Army Special Operation Forces soldier, in Achin District of Nangarhar Province.

Afghan government officials say at least two U.S. personnel were killed and another two wounded, and the Afghan soldier who launched the attack was killed.  Mujahideen say the ANA Special Ops soldier was one of them, and he killed four U.S. personnel.  The U.S. Department of Defense says three soldiers killed, one wounded, and refuses to give any details.

Despite claims by Mujahideen, western ‘real news’ media say ‘Islamic State’ (DAIISH) is claiming credit for the attack.  Western news media, as well as U.S. Department of Defense, are now calling DAIISH in Afghanistan and Pakistan ISIS-K.  The Achin District is considered the capital of DAIISH in Afghanistan (OBAMA LEGACY: MUJAHIDEEN RE-TAKE MORE OF AFGHANISTAN).  In April, the USAF dropped what it calls The Mother of All (non-nuclear) Bombs on supposed DAIISH positions in Achin District.

It should be noted that many of the tunnel systems used by rebels and insurgents in Afghanistan were built with help from the U.S. during the Soviet occupation. Some reports say the cave/tunnel system hit by the MOAB were built with U.S. advise to the Mujahideen.  This means the DAIISH somehow had knowledge of the Cold War era tunnel system.  Here’s video of aftermath of GBU-43/B MOAB strike in Achin, note you can hear gunfire in the background, so apparently the MOAB didn’t kill ’em all:

In Helmand Province it was revealed that Afghan government personnel were killed by U.S. forces, on 09 JUN 2017.    In Helmand’s Nad Ali (Nad-e-Ali) District, during the night, U.S. aircraft targeted Afghan Border Police killing at least two and wounding six.  The Trump regime war-pigs simply said they were “investigating” the incident.   Afghan government officials said their Border Police had just captured a Mujahideen base when they were hit by a missile fired by a U.S. plane.  They revealed that their Border Police were not wearing uniforms.

U.S. taxpayers give Afghanistan MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR

SYRIA, 22 – 23 SEPTEMBER 2015: HEROIN FROM U.S. CONTROLLED AFGHANISTAN INTERCEPTED!

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

AFGHANISTAN, 01 – 06 SEPTEMBER 2015: TOTAL FAILURE OF U.S. OCCUPATION!

AFGHANISTAN, 12 – 16 DECEMBER 2014: MORE USAID TAXPAYER RIP OFFS, PROVING IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE OIL! OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN IS COVERT CHILD TRAFFICKING OP?

AFGHANISTAN, 05 – 09 SEPTEMBER 2014: The USGS has determined that the rare earth mineral resources of Afghanistan are worth $1-trillion USD!

AFGHANISTAN, 26-31 MARCH 2014: ANOTHER $1.3-BILLION FOR AFGHAN OIL!

AFGHANISTAN, 07-09 OCTOBER 2013: $12 BILLION OIL DEAL!

New Oil War: Trump deploys combat troops to Philippines? Facebook asked to help!

10 JUN 2017 (11:39 UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Khordad 1396/15 Ramadan 1438/16 Bing Wu 4715

The admitted extrajudicial murderer and current president of Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, begged Donald Trump for help in fighting so-called Islamic insurgents, and Trump complied.

U.S. supplied Vietnam era ‘Huey’ rotary wing about to land in Marawi.

At this point no details are being given about the U.S. involvement, but it sounds like the ‘christian’ Filipino military was getting their butts kicked in the fight to re-take Marawi City.

It should be noted that Marawi City has a checkered history.  It wasn’t until the 20th Century that it was officially named, by the government, an “Islamic City” in an attempt to attract investment from oil-rich Muslim countries.

‘Christian’ government troops patrol in front of one of the many Mosques in Marawi.

Initially main stream ‘real news’ media reports stated that U.S. “special forces” were sent in, but Filipino field commanders swear there are no U.S. boots on the ground, that it’s just “technical support”.  Interestingly the majority of Filipino losses were at the hands of their own air force (supposedly by mistake) on 01 JUN 2017!

Remember, this is a country where the president (not even a year into his presidency) recently declared martial law in Mindanao after months of boasting of murdering people by cop, under the guise of fighting a drugs war (“Hitler massacred three million Jews….there’s three million drug addicts…I’d be happy to slaughter them.”).  And, recently Duterte even demanded the U.S. military leave his country while openly considering a military alliance with China!   It should be noted that fighting between rebels and the Filipino government skyrocketed after Duterte declared martial law.

A rebel waving an ‘Islamic State’ flag.

Not only is the Philippines asking for help from the United States, but from Facebook as well.  Duterte says Facebook has 63 ‘fake news’ accounts linked to a new rebel group known as Maute, and he wants Facebook to shut-em down.  Facebook replied with “We will remove accounts and content that violate these policies when we are made aware of them.”

‘Muslim’ women flashing the V for Victory sign? Main stream news media said locals were told to wave the “peace sign” if they didn’t want to get shot by occupying ‘christian’ government troops.

The Philippine army claims they’ve killed the founders of the Maute group.  At the end of May, Duterte’s military commanders claimed they were “close” to re-taking the city.

A Polish made Filipino rotary wing brought down over Marawi.

Is anybody wondering why this seemingly sudden war in Mindanao? In 1960s the Sulu Sea, just off the west coast of Mindanao, was found to be full of petroleum. The Sulu Sea oil field (Sulu Sea Block) is part of the East Palawan Basin, which is connected to the West Palwan Basin, which is connected to the super oil rich South China Sea Basin. The Philippine Petroleum Resource Assessment Project estimates that the Philippines is sitting on nine billion barrels of fuel oil equivalent (bfoe), with the majority being in the West Palawan and Sulu Sea regions!

In 2009 ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton International Exploration began jointly exploring the possibility of getting at that oil. In 2010, ExxonMobil signed a security deal with the Philippine military, over concerns of terrorism and piracy.  The Philippines military promised to deploy surveillance aircraft and two patrol boats.  It was called a “No cash involved” deal, ExxonMobil would supply all the logistics needed by the Philippine military to patrol the area. The ExxonMobil security deal was also sanctioned by the U.S. Department of State, who saw it as part of the legally undeclared War on Terror.  Analysts with BMI Research praised the deal saying “This provision allows for increased military assistance to the Philippines and ensures that the country has access to external expertise in combating domestic insurgencies.”

The Philippines even established the WestMinCom (Western Mindanao Command) to establish control over the oil rich area.

However, in 2010 Australian oil company Tap Oil exited the Sulu Sea oil game, saying there really wasn’t enough oil to be had.  Then at the end of 2011, and after spending at least $400-million USD exploring, ExxonMobil also pulled out saying the amount of petroleum they found was not enough to justify full-blown production.

Seemingly in response, the Philippines Department of Energy claimed they found yet more oil sites and encouraged foreign oil companies to get involved.  In 2012, Philippines signed a deal with Chinese oil company Seng Hong Exploration-South Seas Petroleum to conduct drilling in Mindanao.  The site saw two earlier attempts to extract oil/natural gas but were abandoned in the 1990s, supposedly due to low oil prices. Government administrators admitted that oil needed to be above $50 per barrel to make Philippine petroleum a “commercially viable option” for oil companies. In 2013, French oil company Total and Malaysia’s Mitra Energy became the latest players in the Sulu Sea game.  Total is reported to have an exploration contract that’s good until 2020.

In 2015, the Malaysian military announced it was establishing a “forward operating base” in the Sulu Sea because “The oil platforms of petroleum companies on the high seas will be the first to face any threat out there, similar to that posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”   

In 2016, videos started popping up on YouTube showing that several farmers in Mindanao drilling for water hit natural gas instead!  At the end of 2016 Platts Marine reported “Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia are considering to establish a high security corridor along the Sulu Sea….   ….because billions of dollars worth of commodities move to and fro on commercial ships in the vicinity of the Sulu Sea….”

In March 2017, The Diplomat reported “…..coordinated trilateral patrols to tackle security challenges in the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas…. ….would be inaugurated sometime in April or May….  …the Sulu Sea patrols are…..a more strategic attempt to replicate the network of patrols conducted by the littoral countries in the Malacca Straits, a critical waterway which carried more than one fourth of the world’s commerce and half its oil.”

Inquirer.net, 25 OCT 2016: “US troops are staying despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that they should go and leave Mindanao.”

Pivot to Asia: Under operation Pacific Partnership, U.S. taxpayers are being forced to build-up the economies of Sri Lank, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Philippines (now under martial law) and Vietnam.  All countries surrounding oil rich South China Sea. 

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

U.S. AIR FORCE ‘ADMITS’ IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL!

God is Evil: U.S. UN ambassador meets with Israeli terrorist Lieberman

Between April and now the U.S. Trump regime has spent a lot of time meeting with Israeli leaders, even conducting joint military exercises.  Why?

Israeli Major General Yaacov Barak lays a wreath at the U.S. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Virginia, 09 JUN 2017.

Meeting of U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley meets Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman, at the King David Hotel in Al-Quds (The Holy One) -Jerusalem, 09 JUN 2017:

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley visits the Gaza border region, 08 JUN 2017.

Trump/Netanyahu press conference, 22 MAY 2017:

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, USMC General Joseph F. Dunford arrives in Israel, 08 MAY 2017:

USMC General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. receives an award for “the defense of the State of Israel” at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, 09 MAY 2017.

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) in Haifa, Israel, 09 MAY 2017.

USAF & IDF F-15E Strike Eagles at Uvda Air Base, Israel, 07 MAY 2017, taking part in joint war-games that were first begun under the Obama regime in 2011:

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Israel’s Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman, 21 APR 2017.

 

Notice how the cover art on this ‘Bible of Israel’ has the country of Israel looking like a knife, or bayonet.

GOD IS EVIL: SAUDI ARABIA ADOPTS ‘CHRISTIAN’ CALENDAR SYSTEM, IT’S ABOUT THE MONEY!

GOD IS EVIL: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS MEET WITH ZIONIST TERRORIST AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN!

WORLD WAR 3: U.S. SENATOR FROM IDAHO SAYS THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE IS NOT ABOUT PROTECTING YOU, IT’S ALL FOR ISRAEL!

U.S. CHRISTIAN RAPTURE (?), 1ST Q 2017: “A MASSIVE APOSTASY” 

Vehicle I-D: Mississippi Militia shows-off mine detection vehicles

Mississippi Buffalo in California?

While on rotation at the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, California, Mississippi National Guard’s 287th Engineer Company conducted anti-mine vehicle training on 04 JUN 2017:

Husky Mark-3 electromagnetic detection vehicle followed by Buffaloes with anti-mine rollers.

MISSISSIPPI MILITIA ‘CLEANS UP’ ITS ACT AT NTC!

VEHICLE I-D: ALASKA MILITIA GETS NEW HC-130J

Trump deploys yet another Oklahoma Militia unit!

“We cannot be the policeman of the world, we cannot protect countries all over the world…..”-Donald Trump, September 2016

On 08 JUN 2017, at Fort Bliss, Texas, members of Oklahoma’s 2120th Engineer Company, 120th Engineer Battalion, 90th Troop Command said goodbye to spouses and children as they deployed to an unnamed location in Southwest Asia (Middle East).

The men and women of 90th Troop Command had just completed mobilization training at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma.  Here’s video of some of that training:

TRUMP DEPLOYS OKLAHOMA ON NATO POLICE MISSION in Kosovo

Missouri Air Militia preps for yet more deployments, adopt German standards!

“We cannot be the policeman of the world, we cannot protect countries all over the world…..”-Donald Trump, September 2016

Missouri National Guard’s 139th Airlift Wing spent the first weekend of June, 2017, prepping for possible future deployment under the Trump regime:

In the month of May, 2017, Missouri and Nebraska Air Guard units conducted a physical fitness ‘exercise’ in Kansas, not to qualify by U.S. standards, but to qualify for Deutsch Das Abzeichen für Leistungen im Truppendienst (German Badge for Services in Troop service, or Badge for Military Proficiency) standards.

The same qualifying event, held for Deutsch standards, was held in April 2016.  It’s not just German physical fitness standards being adopted, but Guard and Regular units across the U.S. are also adopting German marksmanship standards as well.

Shooting for Deutsch marksmanship standards in Washington state, 19 MAY 2017.

Trump Deploys MISSISSIPPI MILITIA

TRUMP DEPLOYS OKLAHOMA ON NATO POLICE MISSION

TRUMP DEPLOYS ARKANSAS MILITIA ON NATO POLICE MISSION

 

Militarizing the Police: Air Militia trains up Texas cops!

On 31 MAR 2017 the Texas 147th Air National Guard hosted training for Houston’s police/SWAT and Fire Department.  In the official ‘recruitment’ video you can see it wasn’t about natural disasters but how to ‘storm’ a building:

MILITARIZING THE COPS: MISSISSIPPI MILITIA TRAINS UP POLICE!

Colorado National Guard hosted rotary wing rescue training with the Rocky Mountain Fire Rescue team

OREGON MILITIA UH-72 LAKOTAS HELP PORTLAND POLICE CONDUCT HI-RISE ASSAULT TRAINING