Kadena Air Base, Japan. The F-105 flew out of Kadena AB from 1962 to 1972.
U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, 19JUN2017.
A-10C Thunderbolt-2s over-fly a weathered F-105 at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona, 18SEP2015.
Repairs being made to the F-105B gate guard at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 01MAY2017.
1:48 F-105G WILD WEASEL SHOWDOWN, HOBBYBOSS VS MONOGRAM
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of January, 2019:
Farm fatalities on the rise: Ag industry ranked most hazardous in the U.S.
“Ag-gag laws” hide the cruelty of factory farms from the public.
U.S. Army food inspection specialists check expiration dates of food in Poland, 29JAN2019, as part of anti-Russia NATO ops.
Near the island of Fiji, U.S. Coast Guard personnel join with Canadian counterparts, as well as the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, to enforce international fishing laws. In the pic a Coast Guard ‘small boat’ approaches a suspected illegal fishing boat, 25JAN2019.
How 300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet
Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water
Polar vortex strikes U.S. farm belt
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ALABAMA: HEMP PROGRAM: Farmers with interest urged to apply
Mad cow testing halted by government shutdown
Alabama company recalls hot sausages due to metal bits
ALASKA: Taxpayer funded program aims to cultivate specialty crops
Experimental Farm survives government ups and downs
ARKANSAS: Hemp firm partners with university researchers to develop cannabis
5 migrant workers claim mistreatment on Arkansas farm
Canadian farm robot tested in Arizona
Drought plan fight between farms and cities escalates
Experimental hops farm attempts year-round grow
CALIFORNIA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for ops in Los Angeles, 59 jobs gone by the end of March. Tokyo Table issued a shutdown WARN for its Alhambra restaurant, 33 jobs gone by mid-March.
Lucca Ravioli shutdown after 94 years, no reason given
San Francisco based online meal-delivery Munchery suddenly ceased to exist
British empire Canada based McCain Foods shutting down its factory in Colton, 1-hundred jobs gone!
Almanac Beer shutdown San Francisco taproom
After 40 years Harry’s Hofbrau shutdown
Yankee Pier seafood restaurant shutting down after almost 11 years: “It wasn’t about quality and service, it was about sales and rent.”-Steve Sarrell, manager
Could California produce soon cost you more?
CONNECTICUT: Brew Makers Want More Flexibility
‘Frost Quakes’ Cause Explosive Sounds
DELAWARE: Abbot’s Grill shutdown after nine years, due to not being able to renew the lease due to increasing competition
Code Purple Declared As Bitterly Cold Temperatures, Sub-Zero Wind Chills Arrive
Man arrested for poaching deer
FLORIDA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a WARN for ops in Miami, 149 jobs gone by the end of March! Food service contractor Aramark issued a WARN for its ops at Raymond James Stadium, 919 jobs affected in February!
Taxpayer funded Director of Cannabis position created
State ag commissioner sworn-in on Hebrew holy book
After 12 years, Fiddler’s Seafood Southside suddenly shutdown its Hodgson Memorial Drive location.
Brazil muscles-in on local farming ops, due to locals being desperate for jobs
For more proof that farmers are actually taxpayer funded welfare recipients; peanut industry halted after government shutdown
GUAM: Five arrested for allegedly keeping endangered green sea turtles
Coconut drink taxed, outlawed, now threatened by rhino beetle
HAWAII: The U.S. Coast Guard was called to rescue a sick employee of a Vanuatu registered tuna boat. It was reported that the tuna boat crewman had been sick for days and was getting worse, Coast Guard personnel determined hospitalization was needed and airlifted him to Kauai.
Bee parasites also affect bee eaters
Taxpayer funded specialty crop funding
IDAHO: East Idaho potato growers barely breaking even
farmers see production increase, revenue decrease (welcome to the reality of the commodity market)
Vineyards recover from snow-mageddon
State of the art gravitational irrigation system
ILLINOIS: Tavern at the Park issued a shutdown WARN, 80 jobs gone in March due to being sold. O’Charlie’s issued a shutdown WARN, 60 jobs gone by April.
Restaurant Michael being shutdown to make room for two smaller restaurants
Tuscany restaurant closing Oak Brook location after 25 years
New farming method in yet another attempt to reduce nitrogen pollution (I guess all the other attempts failed? How about just stop using oil industry chemicals?)
INDIANA: After less than 2 years Crispy Bird suddenly shutdown
Dairy Producers Facing Another Year of Change
Rising Interest Rates and Strong Dollar Will Make 2019 Another Tough Year for Farmers
IOWA: Iowa ‘ag gag’ law ruled unconstitutional
KANSAS: Chick-fil-A shutdown its West Ridge Mall location with only a two weeks notice
Focus on GMO soybeans to increase yield
KENTUCKY: State Ag commissioner orders facebook to stop deleting hemp companies
LOUISIANA: Breaux Mart suddenly shutdown a grocery store in Gretna
Invasive plant is threatening, again
Tariffs force farmers to leave soybeans in fields to rot
MAINE: After nine years, The Roost suddenly shutdown its Orono restaurant.
No let up in fight against salmon farm
Maine hemp ops benefit British empire Canadian company
MARYLAND: Starbucks shutting down its Tollgate Marketplace cafe, no reason given
For more proof farmers are taxpayer funded welfare recipients; farmers waiting for promised soybean subsidies
MASSACHUSETTS: West Bridgewater based Shaw’s shutting down four grocery stores
After 60 years Santoro’s Sub-Villa shutting down
MICHIGAN: Mr. B’s Food & Spirits shutdown after 40 years
Taxpayer funded help for local wineries
MINNESOTA: Bakers Square and Perkins restaurants finally notified state unemployment officials of that they both eliminated jobs in Rochester.
Pet food recalled after state health department finds salmonella in a human
Almost half-a-million more pigs
MISSOURI: TreeHouse Foods closing Saint Louis office, 170 jobs gone!
Saint Louis based grocer Save-A-Lot suddenly laid off 1-hundred corporate level employees!
Tyson Foods, Inc. Recalls Chicken Nugget Products
Missouri’s new labeling law criminalizing ‘meat’
NEBRASKA: After 22 years Millard Roadhouse suddenly shutdown, no reason given
Dodge County says no to large Costco poultry farm
NEVADA: For the past eight years Nevada Air National Guard’s High Rollers have helped with the Evelyn Mount Food Distribution both at Thanksgiving and Xmas, but not anymore: “They came in and showed leadership in coordinating everything from organizing food distribution lines, helping to direct parking and made sure all the lines of customers stayed calm with no incidences. I couldn’t have done it without them…..”-Evelyn Mount, who has had to halt her food donation ops at the urging of her family and doctors
controversial water market approved
snowpacks in the Great Basin appear to be transitioning from seasonal, with a predictable amount and melt rate, to ‘ephemeral’, or short-lived, which are less predictable and only last up to 60 days: “Small temperature changes can lead to large ecological changes. More intermittent snowpacks means water flow is more difficult to predict. We might not get as much water into the ground, throwing off the timing of water for plant root systems, reducing our supply and use, and even affecting businesses such as tourism.”-Rose Petersky, Hydrology Graduate Student
Taxpayer sponsored horse rustling? Illegal round up of publicly owned horses for slaughter might also have taken privately owned horses, according to lawsuit against Nevada Agriculture, Native Americans, and a Utah company that’s been in trouble before. The lawsuit says most of the horses were not part of tribal reservation herds but were on federal public land and included privately owned horses which were herded into Utah from Nevada:“We respect the sovereignty of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe for activities that occur on their nation’s lands. However, the roundup of the Palomino Valley horses occurred on private lands outside the reservation, involving trespass, taking of private horses and violations of state law. We are bringing this suit on behalf of the residents whose property rights have been violated and the wild horses who have lived peacefully in Palomino Valley for years.”–Suzanne Roy, whose own horse was rounded up
Federal Judge Bars Slaughter of Horse taken during taxpayer funded Tribal Roundup
NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Wine’ing Butcher shutting down its Bedford location, owner blames market saturation and skyrocketing rent: “We had the best holiday season we ever had, but I can’t make a decision based on one month, especially since I don’t know what Trader Joe’s will bring. I really can’t afford to sign another five-year lease with an increase…”-Rob Smith
Rescued horses being rescued again after non-profit animal rescue farm begs for food donations
NEW JERSEY: Allied Beverage issued WARNs for two locations, 108 jobs gone by March! Switzerland based Nestlé issued a WARN for its ops in Florham Park, 62 jobs gone by April. Winberie’s Restaurant and Bar suddenly eliminates 43 jobs.
Carlo’s Bake Shop shuts down two brick-n-mortar locations due to not being able to renew the leases
the dawn of a new hard cider era
NEW MEXICO: Bakery La Fiesta shutting down after 13 years: “We’re doing paperwork and on Monday my husband is showing me the numbers and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God there’s no way.’ There is no way, we are beating a dead horse!”-Gina Ortega, referring to crashing sales caused by a taxpayer funded road ‘improvement’ project that’s been ongoing for the past year
Micro-farming network plans expansion
NEW YORK: Centerplate issued shutdown WARNs for several New York Racing Association locations, about 6-hundred jobs affected by loss of contract! Restaurant Dos Caminos issued shutdown WARN, 1-hundred jobs gone due to not being able to renew the lease! After 18 years, Nirchi’s On The Avenue shutting down in favor of yet another pizza joint.
After 37 years Pelham Bay Diner suddenly shutdown, the owner blames market saturation (too many new restaurants)
Papa Jakes Saloon/Pop’s Sports Bar and Grill shutdown
Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its grocery store in Norwich
Justin’s Grill in East Syracuse shutdown after almost 18 years
After less than two years in Mount Kisco, Siegel Bros. Marketplace suddenly shutdown
The Italian Grill in downtown Paducah merging with a competing pizza joint to save money
Now bankrupt busted Gigi’s Cupcakes shutting down its Cameron Village location
The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming
NORTH DAKOTA: Ag groups, hunting groups face off over trespassing bill
State and County agencies sue city over anti-pig law
OHIO: Pennsylvania based Eat’n Park closing all its Ohio restaurants, 2-hundred jobs lost!
After 63 years the owners of Hathaway’s Diner are threatening to shutdown because of high rent
Giant Eagle shutting down its grocery store in Willoughby Hills
Quarter Barrel Brewery & Pub shutdown two locations in Oxford and Hamilton
OKLAHOMA: After 20 years Goldie’s Patio Grill shutdown without warning
State Ag Secretary suddenly resigns
OREGON: Lost Valley Farm issued a shutdown WARN, 75 dairy jobs gone by April.
State files objection to Lost Valley Farm sale
Widmer Brothers closes North Portland pub
Elmer’s shutdown its 17 years old Klamath Falls restaurant, 30 jobs gone due to ‘multiple economic factors’.
New rules for Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program
PENNSYLVANIA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for ops in Philadelphia, 59 jobs gone by the end of March. The owner of the ShopRite grocery store in Haverford issued a shutdown WARN, 109 jobs affected by March!
Belko Foods closing Waynesburg store: “We just haven’t been able to make it profitable enough to keep it open.”-Larry Krupko, owner
Switzerland based Nestlé shutting down its Breinigsville call center, 72 jobs lost
ACME shutting down its grocery store in Gladwyne because they now have too many stores in the area
PUERTO RICO: How a cockfighting ban could affect Puerto Rico’s struggling economy
British empire Canada based hemp company taking advantage of U.S. government inaction in Puerto Rico
RHODE ISLAND: Brown University criticized for using live pigs in medical training
dairy farms vanishing after 4-year crash in milk prices
SOUTH CAROLINA: Louisiana and Mississippi ban sweet potatoes from South Carolina
SOUTH DAKOTA: Shrimp farming coming to land-locked South Dakota
The South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Weapons Element has joined the ever growing war on hunger in the U.S.A.: “For our first year we feel like we had a good start…..Even though the donation may seem small…”-Technical Sergeant Karl Hoskins
TENNESSEE: World Market shutting down its Hendersonville location due to not being able to renew the lease
Sovrano’s Gatti’s pizza chain now bankrupt busted
Tennessee founded, but now Texas owned, Gigi’s Cupcakes now bankrupt busted
Eastside Cafe shutdown, to be replaced by another restaurant
Chick-fil-A shutdown its Sunland Park Mall location with only a two weeks notice
Taylor Farms recalls chicken products due to mislabeling
UTAH: After 25 years Village Inn Restaurant shutdown due to being sold
USDA confirms virulent Newcastle disease
VERMONT: 10 percent of Vermont dairy farms closed in 2018
VIRGINIA: Perdue Foods’ fun-shaped chicken nuggets recalled due to mislabeling
WASHINGTON: The employees of the only Pizza Hut in West Seattle leaked news of a shutdown, no reason given
Washington DC: USDA clears early February food stamp disbursement due to shutdown
Cannabis stocks look set to flourish thanks to Trump
WEST VIRGINIA: State expecting $6-million in assistance from taxpayer funded USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program
The Whiskey Bar shutdown, the owner saying “We have been the only tenant in this building for 10 years and knew someday this building would be razed and there will be an incredible development opportunity….”
Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub suddenly shutdown
After 80 years Jacobson Brothers Quality Deli and Meats shutdown all three locations
WYOMING: Western Sugar announced yet another round of layoffs, as part of its plan to shutdown ops in Torrington: “It’s like a punch to the gut for the City of Torrington. There’s no way our community can absorb 200 jobs.”-Mayor Randy Adams
U.S. FOOD CRISIS, December 2018: ‘BRINK OF EXTINCTION’
Incomplete (literally the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for January 2019:
Military Times: military spouses could receive potentially thousands of dollars in state tax refunds
ALABAMA: Paying out SNAP (food stamps) a month early
Trump is right? Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race
State Department of Corrections wants 20% increase in pay and to hire 5-hundred more prison guards
ARIZONA: Pima County Department of Transportation hit 36 workers with layoffs after cash strapped taxpayers rejected a $430 million construction package
SNAP benefits to be issued early
Why People Are Flocking From California to Arizona
ARKANSAS: University of Arkansas Medical Sciences center Had $29M Deficit, Used Restricted Funds
Public-housing contracts expire; tenants risk rent increases, loss of homes
CALIFORNIA: Hawthorne based taxpayer (NASA) funded Space X eliminating 7-hundred jobs!
Several Fairfield Police personnel disciplined for sex ‘crimes’
Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers
video of alleged assault of a veteran by Vallejo cop
three Pomona Police Department cops facing federal criminal charges
‘Red’ county sheriffs decry sanctuary laws after crime spree, cop killing
Nevada City sets up ‘goat fund me’ page to fight wildfires
CONNECTICUT: Has Among the Lowest Growth in the Nation
GEORGIA: New laws that went into effect
IDAHO: University of Idaho professor placed on leave after speaking out
University of Idaho will cut $5 million
STEM Action Center downplays $1M funding gap
federal taxpayer funding to assist statewide charter schools
ILLINOIS: More than 250 new state laws take effect
Barack Obama’s buddy Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent an incredible amount of taxpayer money on big corporations to encourage economic development. However, entire swaths of the city have seen little return on investments made with their tax dollars: “Development that does not address displacement is not development, it is whitewashing our neighborhoods and our communities.”-Amisha Patel, Grassroots Collaborative
Community groups try to slow down taxpayer raping $5 billion Lincoln Yards development
Des Plaines Moves Forward With Oakton Corridor Tax Increment Financing
DeKalb council approves Tax Incremental Funding audit, HUD money amendment
Property owners forced to pay for Shorewood Towne Center project
Property owners forced to fund rebuild of failing Granada Theatre
MARYLAND: A former Baltimore cop has published a book detailing the level of crimes committed by cops, including fake drug busts, ‘disappearing’ drugs from police evidence lockers, just to name a few: “I learned about cops burglarizing houses and transporting stolen antiques in a paddy wagon. I’d seen cops sleeping and drinking on the job. I lost trust in fellow officers I had respected who were accepting bribes – even one who was my academy instructor. After two and a half years, I knew I had to get out of there!”–James I. Cabezas, who helped convict state lawmakers, city councilmen and, famously, a Baltimore mayor
(Reminds me of a cop crime while I was working in the News Department of KYMA, in Arizona, in 1995. Store owners in a shopping plaza were reporting massive thefts, they were taking place overnight even though the shop owners were paying the city of Yuma to have cops patrol the plaza. Yep it was a cop! The dumb cop that was committing the crime didn’t stop to realize that it’d be easy to finger him because the thefts took place only on his watch. Other cops staked out the plaza on his watch and caught him red handed.)
MISSISSIPPI: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take your property?
Cops on Leave After Man’s Death from Head Injury
Demand for transparency after Pleasant Hill jail death
NEBRASKA: court system lacks the funds to establish mental health courts
Operation Jupiter: U.S. Department of Defense spending $11-million in tax funding for development of drug therapies to protect military service members from the effects of radiation exposure
NEVADA: New laws lift tampon tax, restore some voting rights
Department of Energy secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada
Nevada Army National Guard ends lease of Camp Stead after 50 years. The land is owned by the city of Reno and was leased at one dollar per year, but don’t think it saved state taxpayers any money. Official reports say the state Military Department spent millions of tax-dollars, including $4-million in just the past ten years, upgrading the property. The lease was allowed to expire because the property is part of the Reno-Tahoe Airport, and the Federal Aviation Administration says the land must be used for airport operations.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: He Disparaged the Police on Facebook. So They Arrested Him.
criminal investigation of Salem deputy chief
NEW MEXICO: Leftist liberal state rated worst for raising a family
More proof New York is anti-American; New gun-control laws in New York: Find out what is planned six years after the SAFE Act
For proof how paranoid NYC is, taxpayer dollars being spent on having New York Army National Guard conduct Operation Empire Shield “…patrolling through Penn during a Multi-Agency Super Surge, a mission where multiple law enforcement agencies have a very strong show of Force and work in a Unified, collaborative Effort to share intelligence, best practices, relevant information in a Unified effort to detect, deter and defeat terrorism.”
OREGON: The local taxpayer owned former Sgt. Jerome F. Sears U.S. Army Reserve Center building was to be remodeled into Portland’s new Cascadia Event crisis center (Bureau of Emergency Management response center), but nine years later nothing is being done because, according to local news media, exalted city leaders can’t still decided which emergency response unit will use it, how to rebuild it or how to fund it!
Man shot by Portland police was legally blind, suffered from paranoia
PENNSYLVANIA: cops still abandon drivers on side of the road, in violation of ‘Live Stop’ policy
PUERTO RICO: A Wave of Daytime Killings Has People on Edge
DC Democrats Favoring illegal aliens over U.S. Citizens from Puerto Rico
SOUTH CAROLINA: again ranked among the worst states to raise a family
TEXAS: Waco City to force property owners to pay $1.6 million in Tax Incremental Financing to develop competing residential and commercial business properties!
UTAH: Once a national model, Utah struggles with homelessness
VERMONT: Retired sex crimes cop is himself arrested for sex crimes
WASHINGTON: New laws in effect
Washington DC: Senate unanimously passes taxpayer raping funding bill to reopen government
WISCONSIN: Property owners in La Crosse forced to fund the building of new North Side apartments
U.S. government shenanigans, December 2018: “THEY ARE LETTING THE INMATES KILL EACH OTHER”
Immigrant invasion, U.S.A., January 2019: “STOP INCENTIVIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION”!
Dumbing Down the U.S.A., January 2019: “IT’S OVERWHELMING.”
Drugs, the American Way, January 2019: ‘DEATH PARTY’
ObamaCare ACA death spiral, January 2019: “MARKET DEMANDS”
Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns, crimes and taxpayer ripoffs in January 2019:
In Poland, the U.S. Army’s 64th Medical Detachment Veterinary Service Support, 30th Medical Brigade, conducted inspections of food storage areas for NATO operations.
USAID funded (and built by USN SeaBees) Ali Oune Medical Clinic, in Djibouti, opened on 31JAN2019.
U.S. tax dollars spent providing medical care in Honduras, one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ARIZONA: Nurse arrested in rape of woman who BECAME PREGNANT WHILE IN A COMA
CALIFORNIA: British empire Cayman Islands based Theravance Biopharma issued layoff WARNs, 50 people jobless by March. God powerless to stop the wildfire from shutting down Adventist Health Feather River, in Paradise, 1-thousand-331 jobs lost (supposedly temporarily)! In San Jose, Verity Health System issued a layoff WARN, 20 jobs gone in March. However, and also in San Jose, Verity Medical Foundation issued a shutdown WARN, 2-hundred jobs gone by the end of March! Germany owned bio-tech company Roche-Genentech issued a layoff WARN for South San Francisco, 67 people jobless by the end of March.
San Francisco based health-tech start-up uBiome cuts more than 50 jobs
California reaches nearly $1M settlement with Aetna over HIV data breach
COLORADO: British/Swedish empire drugs maker AstraZeneca is laying off more than 200 employees!
FLORIDA: Molina Healthcare issued layoff WARNs, 43 jobs gone by April.
Heart of Florida Health Center suddenly cuts 24 jobs
IDAHO: New Report Blasts the taxpayer funded Southwest Idaho Treatment Center
lawsuit to overturn voter-passed Medicaid expansion
BVA to acquire Saltzer Medical Group
ILLINOIS: PharMEDium issued a layoff WARN for its ops in Lake Forest, 41 jobs gone in March. Decatur Living Facility issued a shutdown WARN, 90 jobs gone starting in March.
Israel based Teva Pays $135M to Settle Illinois Medicaid Drug Price scam
INDIANA: Vibra Hospital to Lay Off 120!
IOWA: Genesis Health System issued a WARN, 196 people jobless by the end of June! Mahaska Health issued a WARN, 55 people jobless by the end of May.
LOUISIANA: Destrehan Pharmacy closing after more than 50 years in business
MARYLAND: At Aberdeen Proving Ground, the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Edgewood Chemical Biological Center signed a taxpayer funded deal with tech startup TrekReader, to create a pocket-sized instrument that will provide military personnel, silly-vilian first responders, and even school nurses, with the ability to detect biological and chemical warfare agents. (you gotta wounder what’s coming if the Army thinks even school nurses will need something like that)
Rite Aid in Mondawmin Mall shutting down
MASSACHUSETTS: Selecta Biosciences lays off staff as R&D cash crunch looms
MICHIGAN: God powerless to stop Trinity Health from issuing a shutdown WARN for its continuing care ops at the Huron Woods Facility, 119 jobs gone by the end of April!
Spectrum Health rejects woman’s heart transplant because she lacks a “secure financial plan”
MISSOURI: Troubled psychiatric hospital will close doors, layoff 129!
NEW JERSEY: As a result of a 2017 Congressional mandate, the U.S. Army joined forces with Cooper University Health Care Center in order to improve readiness for deployment to combat zones, and to find new military doctors: “As far as U.S. Army Medical Recruiting is concerned, this is the future of army medicine; our health care soldiers have this great opportunity to be professionally trained in civilian medicine which will ultimately provide better care for the soldiers in the field.”-Captain Blake Corbitt
Capital Health issued a WARN, 103 jobs in Trenton gone by March!
Angel Medical Systems files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
NEW YORK: Physician assistants who join the New York Army National Guard will get $60,000 up front to repay college loans and a $25,000 annual bonus for four years.
Saint Lawrence Health issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Ogdensburg, 72 jobs affected. Morrison Healthcare Food and Nutrition Services issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Erie Medical Center, 172 jobs affected! Independence Care System issued a shutdown WARN for its ops across NYC, about 3-hundred jobs affected! Senior Rehab Solutions-Norwegian Home and Health Center issued a layoff WARN, 22 jobs gone in February. CareConnect Insurance issued a shutdown WARN for its location in East Hills, 46 jobs affected. That Which Cannot be Named powerless to stop Metropolitan Jewish Home Care from issuing a layoff WARN, 112 jobs affected!
PENNSYLVANIA: Germany owned Bayer Closing Pittsburgh Site, Nearly 600 Jobs Eliminated!
UPMC Pinnacle will close its hospital in Lancaster and layoff 505 employees! UPMC Pinnacle also shutting down its ops in Lititz.
RHODE ISLAND: Emergency room doctors under investigation, essentially for incompetence
SOUTH CAROLINA: Palmetto Health eliminates 140 positions!
Tennessee based Community Health Systems plans to sell all of its hospitals in South Carolina
TENNESSEE: PharMEDium to layoff at least 225 employees due to failing U.S. FDA inspections!
Cumberland River Hospital shutting down, 146 jobs gone by 07:00 hours, 01MAR2019!
UTAH: University of Utah doctor killed in murder-suicide
VIRGINIA: Signify Health issued a shutdown WARN for its home healthcare ops in Dallas, 132 jobs gone in March!
WASHINGTON: Bellevue based Amazon is selling software that mines patient health records
WISCONSIN: Pepin Health and Rehab issued a shutdown WARN, 54 jobs gone by the end of March. God powerless to stop Unison-Interfaith Older Adult Programs from suddenly eliminating 53 jobs due to the “sudden and unexpected loss of contracts”.
ObamaCare Death Spiral, December 2018: FEDERAL JUDGE DECLARES OBAMACARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the month of January 2019:
South China Morning Post: Mexico’s new president declares ‘drug war’ over
The Guardian:Mexico’s murder rate broke new record in 2018 as drug war drags on
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.
Off the coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden, the USN captured 4,700 kilograms of hashish, 24JAN2019.
USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Logan C. Kellums, 29JAN2019.
It was the second Gulf of Aden hash capture, by the USN, in the past four weeks. The hash boat crew were allowed to sail away after the drugs were confiscated.
U.S. Coast Guard photo, 04JAN2019.
U.S. Coast Guard came across this drug ‘fast boat’, somewhere in the Pacific, 04JAN2019.
New York Times: Former Mexican President and Barack Obama buddy, Enrique Peña Nieto, accepted $100-million bribe from drug lord
U.S. News & World Report: Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket Among Women
Many Addiction Centers Lack Anti-Opioid Meds
Journal of the American Medical Association: Medical marketing increased substantially….especially DTC (Direct To Consumer) advertising for drugs…only two countries allow DTC drug advertising, New Zealand and United States
ALABAMA: Student busted with guns and drugs on High School campus
man arrested for trading teen girl for drugs
Knives, drugs, more found in Marshall County Jail crackdown
ALASKA: Federal taxpayers giving Juneau Police Department $2.5-million, the police admitted the drugs war is all about making money for the cops: “Those interdictions are now our bread and butter, whether that’s postal or on the airlines or through the ferry.”-Jeremy Weske, JPD drug unit
Woman indicted for bringing meth, heroin on flight to Juneau
What do drugs in Alaska have to do with President Trump’s ‘border crisis’?
ARIZONA: Nogales border officers make record 254-pound fentanyl bust
Meth, cocaine, heroin: Most gets smuggled through ports of entry.
16 arrested across Pima, Cochise counties
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sabrina Candiaflores, 22JAN2019.
In Yuma, the USMC tried to convince high school students not to get intoxicated by having them play fun games with vision impairing ‘beer goggles’ on, 22JAN2019.
ARKANSAS: 8 Pounds Of Meth In Washington County
3 pounds of meth found in apartment
Co-founder of youth outreach program confesses to federal drug and gun charges
CALIFORNIA: For proof how commonplace drug smuggling has become in the leftist liberal Blue State; dumb repeat offender drug traffickers get arrested for a traffic violation, then while in jail openly reveal their latest major drug trafficking op!
Australian and U.S. cops capture record-setting 1.7 tons of meth worth $1.29 billion
mass drug overdose killed one person and sent more than a dozen to hospitals
Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment
San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students
COLORADO: Lawmakers so addicted to prescription drugs they want to directly import cheapo foreign made stuff
Again, despite legalized marijuana, prison population is expected to skyrocket due to drug crimes
Police report record number of cops shot while doing their job, it coincides with an increase in property crimes, specifically stolen vehicles, and if you look at the map of cop shootings you’ll notice it’s along a metro-area drugs trafficking corridor (so much for legalized marijuana)
CONNECTICUT: U.S. Postal Service captures 60 packages of cocaine shipped to Connecticut from Puerto Rico
judge dismisses opioid lawsuits against drug makers
Doctor pleads guilty in compound medicine case
DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing
131 drug incidents in one week!
Two men busted for attempting to sneak drugs into Delco prison
CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Despite being acquitted of drug crimes, court decides to keep the more than $13-thousand dollars in cash the thieving cops took from the man, because he can’t prove it’s his cash!
FLORIDA: For the second year in a row, cruise ship passengers arrested on drug charges
man says 3 syringes found in his butt aren’t his
Police dog exposed to ecstasy powder
Cocaine making a deadly comeback
USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray, 31JAN2019.
31JAN2019, five miles east of Haulover Inlet, a Coast Guard ‘smallboat’ intercepts a fishing boat that turned out to be hauling about 130 pounds of cocaine.
USCG District 7 Photo, 07JAN2019.
07JAN2019, at U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, personnel test seven kilograms of cocaine captured by Homeland Security Investigations, and Customs and Border Protection agents. The drug smugglers were also smuggling illegal immigrants.
GEORGIA: Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana
15 arrested in $3.5M meth ring bust
Truck carrying $10M worth of liquid meth busted at repair shop
Doctor’s husband accused of prescribing drugs in wife’s name while she’s sitting in jail
Two mothers accused of selling drugs near elementary school
$1M of narcotics from shipping container
local ‘Smoke shops’ selling illegal drugs to teens
GUAM: Drugs found in Postal Service priority mail packages
HAWAII: Marijuana use in workplace increased
6 things to know about new flu drug Xofluza
IDAHO: man admits to eating cocaine while being chased by police
drug lab explodes inside Idaho Falls residence
Idaho Falls juvenile arrested with 500 doses of LSD, marijuana
Fourth state level prison cop pleads guilty to smuggling drugs into prison
Judge orders partial release of state prison lethal injection documents
Example of why first time drug offenders SHOULD NOT make a plea deal in Idaho; harsher sentencing!
new DUI law requires first-time offenders to install ignition locking devices
ILLINOIS: Madison County Sees Record 109 Drug Overdose Deaths in 2018
Mayor, State Senator jailed on drug charge
Food-truck gun deal leads to Chicago drug case
Drugs company executive gave Illinois doctor lap dance while promoting drug
INDIANA: a rural Indiana town descends into drug addiction
10 indicted in drug running between Indiana and Mexico
Death doctor run out of Tennessee for causing deadly overdoses, is now working in Indiana
infants suffering from drug crisis
IOWA: Mayor, and her husband, caught with 18 marijuana plants during search for shooting suspect
Iowa’s growing dependence on China for pharmaceutical drugs
Faulty muffler leads to drug arrests
KANSAS: parents arrested after child tests positive for meth
CVS pharmacist, husband charged with prescription drug crimes
Johnson County mom is accused of hosting parties where minors were served alcohol
KENTUCKY: teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana
The fall of a Kentucky-Mexico drug gang
Grandpa says he sold meth to save son from Mexican cartel
Fatal drug overdose leads to a bartender facing federal drug charges
man had 2 ounces of meth ‘stuffed inside his butt crack’
Pharmacist fatally shoots robber at drug store
MAINE: Police seize drugs and cash at Oxford hotel
Residents now turning to gun ownership to protect themselves from druggies: “He was standing on our porch and kept yelling for help. The only thing that separated us was the glass on the front door. In my 35 years, I never felt the need to own a gun to protect my family until we moved to Presque Isle. I guarantee that if he had broken the glass on that front door, there would have been shots fired.”-Jonathan Guerrette, complaining to city councilors, interestingly the deputy police chief admitted they’ve known about the druggie problem in certain neighborhoods ‘for many years’ yet gave a plethora of excuses why nobody was arrested, supposedly the state law enforcement is going to get involved
Death leads to discovery of meth lab
MARYLAND: Washington County sees sharp increase in drug, alcohol deaths
Baltimore to No Longer Prosecute Marijuana Possession Cases
More Than 300 Bags Of Heroin, Cocaine & Meth Found In Car
MASSACHUSETTS: What does 2019 have in store for marijuana
Fentanyl-laced cocaine, not heroin, is now the biggest overdose threat
Suspect was operating ‘very significant’ drug ring while out on $200K bail
Leftist Liberal Mayors Visit Safe Injection Sites in British empire Canada
New Yorkers head to western Massachusetts to buy pot legally
MICHIGAN: Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction
Michigan lists pain drug Gabapentin as controlled substance
Life of high-tech savant cut short by drugs
Recreational marijuana is legal, but Lansing’s largest employers don’t allow it
More employees than ever test positive for marijuana
More than half of Michigan medical marijuana users admit to driving while high
MINNESOTA: man allegedly holds drug-fueled ‘death party’ for wife
Man dies of opioids at experimental homeless shelter
Dakota County drug bust nets 45 pounds of meth, 15 kilos of cocaine
MISSISSIPPI: 8 arrested
CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take property?
State Highway Patrol Admits: Police officers high on duty or test positive for drugs
Retired pharmacists arrested for operating an illegal pharmacy out of his flower shop
MISSOURI: Shoes, package of cookies lead to drug bust at taxpayer subsidized Amtrak station
Two homicides linked to $8.5 million meth trafficking ring
Seven fugitives captured during drugs sweep
Cops Find Stolen ATV, Gun, Meth And Dead Bald Eagle
MONTANA:4 died in due to fentanyl disguised as less-dangerous drugs
man, daughter accused of running ‘dark web’ drug operation
Woman says meth testing patch gives false positives (it wouldn’t be the first time a drug test was faulty)
NEBRASKA: Busted Omaha drug operation sounds like fiction, except it wasn’t
Drug-dealing cases against CBD oil shop owners
Killing was the result of ‘Attempted robbery of a drug dealer’
Woman dealt heroin, meth from home where she ran daycare
NEW HAMPSHIRE: One dead, two in critical condition after taking drugs
NEW JERSEY: Local cops fail drug tests!
Medical marijuana can now be used to treat opioid addiction
NEW MEXICO: 15 lbs. of meth and 2,000 fentanyl pills smuggled by ‘family business’
U.S. Border Patrol captures 115 illegal immigrants with marijuana
Drug addiction so bad there is now a new museum dedicated to drug abuse
“Highly organized drug delivery service” netted about $50,000 weekly in drug addicted NYC
Legal drugs Middlemen Got Big Markup in New York
NORTH CAROLINA: 27 arrested in Bladen County
Illegal immigrants, including MS-13 gang member, charged in 2 kilo drug bust
USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Corinne Zilnicki, 08JAN2019.
Off North Carolina’s coast, on board an HC-130 Hercules, U.S. Coast Guard personnel operate radar and cameras to detect suspicious boats.
NORTH DAKOTA: drug raid in Fargo, in connection to heroin O-Ds across two counties
Burleigh County cop gets prison time for stealing drugs
OHIO: The Union County Drug Free Coalition honored the Ohio National Guard Counterdrug Task Force as the 2019 Community Champion Award: “We are grateful to the Ohio National Guard for their commitment to the health and safety of families in Union County.”-Rich Baird, superintendent of North Union Schools and chair of the Union County Drug Free Coalition
Overdose deaths falling throughout Ohio, but not in Franklin County
nightclub owner pleads guilty to drug crimes
Drug-fueled wave of kids taken from homes peaks
OKLAHOMA: Police find 18000 pounds of suspected pot during traffic stop
Sheriff frustrated with relaxed drug laws
24 serving life without parole for drug trafficking
new emergency rules for medical marijuana
OREGON: Operation Wildfire
PENNSYLVANIA: Drug deaths are rising in Coal Country and treatment is hard to come by
PUERTO RICO: FBI says there’s a “crisis of violence” in Puerto Rico
USCG photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 30JAN2019.
29JAN2019, U.S. Coast Guard captures 2-hundred pounds of cocaine off the coast of Arecibo.
RHODE ISLAND: Illegal immigrant gets 9 years in prison for major drug trafficking ring
Suspended Firefighter admitted to Police He Was Doing Cocaine
SOUTH CAROLINA: Clemson University football players suspended for failing drug test
64 suspects charged, many still wanted, in Spartanburg County
CIVIL FORFEITURE, the real reason local governments love illegal drugs: seizing vehicles in drug cases. Mistakes still happen.
SOUTH DAKOTA: chief justice calls for reform in handling of drug cases
Multi-state drugs gang tries to rip-off Mexican cartel?
grandmother faces felony child abuse, drug charges
TENNESSEE: Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school
12 Arrested On Drug Charges In Franklin County
Thousands of fake Viagra, Cialis pills confiscated
TEXAS: Cops invade home, shoot and kill military veteran husband and his wife, several cops wounded, (next it’ll be revealed that one of the invading cops has a documented history of lying about drug raids, and apparently it’ll be three months after the cop invasion before investigators even search the crime scene for evidence, evidence that will counter the official police version of the story)
UTAH: Illegal immigrant drug smuggler has been deported eight times, caught yet again
387 drug dealers arrested in Operation Rio Grande
Two drug busts in one day yield combined $2 million worth of meth and cocaine
U.S. Virgin Islands: New governor signs bill legalizing medical marijuana
Virgin Islands was source of heroin shipped to Michigan
VIRGINIA: drug case against actress involved in Me Too Movement
dozens of arrests after hundreds of indictments
WASHINGTON: Sodo District; drugs and RVs
overdose spike in north Seattle
drug and alcohol counselor arrested for selling drugs
Washington DC: millions of dollars’ worth of heroin seized
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Workplace drug overdoses increasing
WEST VIRGINIA: teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens
teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs
WISCONSIN: ERs fight drugs with drugs
Shopko owes drugs supplier $67-million
woman convicted of smuggling drugs into prison
WYOMING: Restaurants accused of ‘laundering’ drug money
Drugs, the American Way, December 2018: “THE WHOLE THING IS CUCKOO NUTS….WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE LIVING IN?”
Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, May 2019. Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.
NASA Planetary Science: Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes
Next door to the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the Indian Ocean, Geologists Witness Largest Underwater Volcano Explosion Ever Recorded, Explains Weird Hum Heard Around the World?
On the other side of the world, can the Bermuda Triangle mysteries be explained by the discovery of the hybrid, one-of-a-kind, volcano that built Bermuda?
A study published by Science Advances claims that you can determine if you’re experiencing a major magnitude 7 to 9 quake 10 seconds into the shaking. I’ve experienced dozens of earthquakes in my life, both large and small, and I concur there is a noticeable difference in the M6 and large quakes; if you’re directly over the epicenter the Earth heaves under your feet, I’ve seen people literally thrown straight up into the air by a couple of feet (I was sitting in a parked minivan at the time and it bounced violently, as if we were off-roading at 30mph.) If you’re on the periphery of a major quake it feels like a giant dog has grabbed you and is trying to shake you to death.
National Geographic: THE PACIFIC’S FIERY RING
A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean
WeatherNation: Scientific studies conflict over volcanoes impacting hurricane season
AUSTRALIA: 5.4 magnitude earthquake
Leaked secret document admits police communications hub will be ‘crippled’ during a major quake
BOLIVIA: Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake – Chile-Bolivia Border Region
Light mag. 4.0 earthquake – Southern Bolivia
Light mag. 4.3 earthquake – Chile-Bolivia Border Region
CANADA: A big earthquake near Vancouver is almost inevitable. Are we ready?
Does earthquake insurance cover sinkhole damage?
Alberta regulator restricts oil/gas fracking near dam following earthquake
CHILE: Magnitude 4.9 earthquake 61km from Putre, 31MAY2019
Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake – Northern Chile
M4.7 earthquake 37km from Orcopampa, 30MAY2019
Minor mag. 3.7 earthquake – Araucania
CHINA: Invests in first modern earthquake observation station (for the mainland)
Magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocks E. Taiwan
Magnitude 4.9 earthquake jars NE Taiwan
Light mag. 4.2 earthquake – Taiwan
COLUMBIA: Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake – 29MAY2019
Light mag. 4.5 earthquake – 12MAY2019
Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake -11MAY2019
ECUADOR: ‘exploder’ volcano lights up night sky
Light mag. 4.1 earthquake – Near Coast Of Ecuador, 24MAY2019
Light mag. 4.1 earthquake – Near Coast Of Ecuador, 4MAY2019
EL SALVADOR: Earth from Space: El Salvador, despite being a small country, it has 25 volcanoes
Magnitude 6.6 quake off the coast
M4.3 earthquake 46km from La Libertad, 30MAY2019
Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – Off Coast of Central America/El Salvador
A 49-kilometer-high volcanic ash column rose up over the Mayan civilization
FIJI: Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region, 27MAY2019
Moderate mag. 5.0 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region, 12MAY2019
Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – 207km NE of Ndoi Island
Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake – South of Fiji Islands, 02MAY2019
GUATEMALA: Light mag. 4.0 earthquake – 31MAY219
12MAY2019, U.S. Army personnel help conduct a survey of locals during operation Beyond the Horizon, a yearly exercise ostensibly to build capacity for response to major disasters.
INDONESIA:Bali volcano spews ash in new eruption, 31MAY2019
M5.4 earthquake 106km from Labuhankananga, 31MAY2019
A Volcano Along The ‘Ring of Fire’ Erupted, And It Looks Terrifying, 25MAY2019
Indonesian Volcano Erupts, 07MAY2019
JAPAN: M4.4 earthquake 58km from Nemuro, 31MAY2019
M4.1 earthquake 114km from Hasaki, 30MAY2019
Earthquake Strikes Japan The Day President Trump Arrives
Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – eastern Honshu
Volcanic alert level raised for popular Mount Hakone resort
Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake – Kyushu
Sakurajima Volcano ash plume that rose up to estimated 13000 ft (4000 m) altitude
Small volcanic eruption observed again on Mt. Aso
KOREA: Revealed by Science Daily; recent massive Korean earthquake was caused by new geothermal energy plant, and it turns out that there are flaws in some of the most common ways to minimize the risk of earthquakes when harnessing Earth’s heat for energy.
MICRONESIA: Light mag. 4.6 earthquake – 248km SSW of Satawal
‘Vog’ from Hawaii volcano blankets Marshall Islands
MEXICO: Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake – Off Coast of Jalisco
M4.6 off coast of Michoacan, 31MAY2019
M5.8 earthquake 241km from Tomatlan, 31MAY2019
El Popo blasts away with two explosions
villagers beseech “Sleeping Woman” volcano goddess for rain
NEW CALEDONIA: HUGE 6.8 quake rocks island
NEW ZEALAND: Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 29MAY2019
Parliament building ‘safe’ while engineers probe earthquake concerns
Step closer to forecasting massive hikurangi subduction zone quake
Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 11MAY2019
PANAMA: Magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Panama area near Costa Rica
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 7.5 quake 14MAY2019
PERU: At least one dead, 11 injured in magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Peru
Alphabet’s balloons provide internet service two days after 8.0 quake
PHILIPPINES: M6.1 earthquake 42km from Pondaguitan, 31MAY2019
Unlike California, 100% of the Philippines is earthquake country
Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake – Luzon
RUSSIA: Magnitude 4.9 Quake Jolts Kamchatka
Earthquake of 5.6 Magnitude Rocks South Kuril Islands
Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake – East of Kuril Islands
Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake – Komandorskiye Ostrova Region
Japanese mountaineer dies climbing volcano in Russia
TIMOR-LESTE: Light mag. 4.2 earthquake
Apparently taxpayer funded live music is part of preparing for natural disasters, as demonstrated by this multi-national military band taking part in this year’s Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation.
TONGA: Moderate mag. 5.9 earthquake
UNITED STATES: Series of small earthquakes detected in Washington and Oregon
Alaska; Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes off coast of Homer
Anchorage utility racing to fix sewer line unmoored by quake
New monitoring allows for recording of smaller earthquakes
Eagle River Town Center closed due to Nov. 30 quake damage
California; More than 30 earthquakes hit one town in one day
Do swarms of tiny temblors rattling the West Coast warn of a catastrophic quake?
Colorado; Earthquake rattles lower Eagle Valley
Second earthquake along Colorado-New Mexico border
Hawaii; tsunami center says tsunami alert was fake
U.S. Soldier Survives 70-Foot Plunge into Hawaiian Volcano
Montana; 3.0 magnitude earthquake rumbles near Manhattan
Nevada; Minor mag. 3.9 earthquake – 47km NW of Austin
Emergency preparedness gathering
Oregon; Clatskanie area small tremor illustrates ‘Slow Slips’
Scientists find telling early moment that indicates a coming megaquake
policymakers to shake up development rules in tsunami zones
Utah; Magnitude 4.2 earthquake 16 miles from Moab, 26MAY2019
Washington; A rockfall on unstable Mount Rainier has killed 1 climber and injured 2 others
How a Mount Rainier eruption could impact Seattle vs. the South Sound
39 years ago: Mount St. Helens woke up and blew her top
The Native American myth was true. Proof one village was hit five times by mega tsunamis!
Wyoming; Scientist Predicts 5 Billion Deaths In Eruption Of Yellowstone
WSGS (Wyoming State Geological Survey) Teton fault map reveals mountain range still growing, available for download (a local internet news source reported it at the beginning of April, but for some reason the ‘main stream’ news media didn’t report it until the end of May)
VANUATU: Moderate mag. 5.1 earthquake
Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 25MAY2019
Moderate mag. 5.7 earthquake, 10MAY2019
VIETNAM:Drills prepare students for tsunamis
U.S. and British empire Australian navy officers inspect a taxpayer funded construction site in Tuy Hoa, 06MAY2019, as part of the expensive Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation conducted in the Indo-Pacific every year.
Whatcha gonna eat after the disaster? U.S. Army and Navy personnel inspect a poultry operation in Vietnam, 09MAY2019.
Pacific Partnership was created supposedly in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which has since been dwarfed by more recent earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indo-Pacific region.
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, April 2019: ‘NOT NORMAL’
30 MAY 2019 (09:41 UTC-07 Tango 06) 09 Khordad 1398/25 Ramadan 1440/26 Ji-Si 4717
Once again, in total gun ban Japan, people were killed by a guy using knives, and it only took “less than 20 seconds”!
Two adults and 15 children (reports vary between 16 and 18 ‘people’ being attacked) were stabbed (killing two of them) while waiting for a school bus, in less than 20 seconds according to Kawasaki police. The 51 years old attacker then killed himself with a knife. Contrary to what some U.S. news outlets reported, he did not kill himself as police were chasing him, his body was found after police arrived on scene.
There is also a report that on the same day police in Saitama city shot and killed a 68 years old man after he attacked them with a knife.
And in near total gun ban United Kingdom, death by stabbings have skyrocketed, but don’t blame it on lack of laws, not only does the United Kingdom make it almost impossible for the average citizen to own a gun, but they even have laws regarding the ownership and registration of knives.
The taxpayer funded (through a ‘license’ to watch) BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) reports the number of fatal stabbings the highest since Home Office records began in 1946.
Just this month of May has experienced dozens of knife (and baseball bat) attacks. Here’s a little selection of U.K. news media reports,
The Star: Police seal off Sheffield street after man is stabbed on Shiregreen estate
Liverpool Echo:A teen stabbed with his own knife
The Sun: Knife gangs keeping ‘scoreboard’ of violence
Man fighting for life after being attacked by group armed with baseball bat
Telegraph: Scotland Yard criticised over knife crime after another teenager is stabbed to death
BBC: Is austerity causing rising knife crime in Birmingham?
Independent: Teenager chased down and killed
It should be noted that even leftist liberal United Kingdom news media admitted that the overwhelming majority of violent crimes in their imperialist country involved no weapons at all!
TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: KNIFE ATTACKS IN JAPAN SKYROCKET?
TOTAL GUN BAN FAIL: MASS KNIFE ATTACKS KILL DOZENS IN CHINA, “TAKING REVENGE ON SOCIETY”!
GUN BAN FAILURE: YET MORE MASS STABBINGS OF CHILDREN IN TOTAL GUN BAN CHINA!
ANTI GUN JAPAN CAN’T STOP MASS STABBINGS!
“THIS IS FOR SYRIA!” GUN BAN FAILS TO STOP KNIFE ATTACK IN UNITED KINGDOM!
FAILED STATE MARTIAL LAW U.S.A.: ANTI-GUN LAWS FAIL TO PREVENT MASS STABBINGS OF CHILDREN!
U.S. CIVIL WAR 2014: ANTI-GUN MARTIAL LAWS CAN’T STOP DEATHS BY STABBING!
EXCEPTIONAL FAILED STATE: ANOTHER U.S. UNIVERSITY ‘UNOFFICIALLY’ LOCKED DOWN AFTER STABBING!
ANTI-GUN LAWS CAN’T STOP SCHOOL STABBINGS IN TEXAS!
ANTI-GUNS LAWS FAIL TO PREVENT MULTIPLE STABBINGS IN UNITED STATES!
U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs, 30JAN2019.
Modified/upgraded NF-16D VISTA (Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft) departs Hill Air Force Base, Utah, 30JAN2019. It the future it will be called the X-62A.
USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 30JAN2019.
This aircraft is the only one of its kind in the world and is the flag-ship of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School.
USAF photo by Cynthia Griggs, 30JAN2019.
It’s has been highly modified, allowing pilots to change the aircraft’s flight characteristics to mimic other aircraft.
USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd, 30JAN2019.
Hill AFB: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!
VEHICLE ID: USAF F-35A “COMBAT READY” IN UTAH
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
U.S. Navy spends taxpayer dollars building new high school in Federated States of Micronesia, 07JAN2019.
Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, January 2019:
ALABAMA: 76 schools on ‘failing’ list
Are Alabama’s latest high school graduation rates fake?
Nearly all Alabama school superintendents earning six-figure salaries
Superintendents demand $22-million in taxpayer funding, just for ‘security’!
How the Department of Defense could help end Alabama’s teacher shortage
Construction of new wing of federally funded Maxwell Elementary and Junior High School on Maxwell Air Force Base.
ALASKA: UAA students stunned by accreditation problems
ASD may alter parent-teacher conferences after quake
Even the U.S. military is short on education employees. Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson has put out a call for help, citing lack of child development center teachers, cooks and food service workers. In fact they have as many as 30 full-time jobs available, and it’s severely affecting their on-base child care ops: “Currently, we only have one [center] at full capacity, three at partial capacity and one temporarily closed due to a lack of workers….”-Tina Roberts, program manager
“If you have a love for children, you can advance quickly in childcare. A high school diploma or equivalent and a couple of references is all you need to apply….. From start to finish, the pre-employment timeline is about 14 days, and we try to make it as beneficial and smooth as possible. During the process, we educate our applicants about the many benefits of working for the CDC along with giving them a paid-for physical, immunizations and background check….. If eligible new hires already have a child development associate (CDA) credential we can bring them in as a target level, which starts out at $15.87 per hour.”-Meghan Govin, non-appropriated fund assistant director
ARIZONA: teachers continue to call it quits turning the teacher shortage into a crisis
Family claims teacher used school app to ‘groom’ her students
teacher enters guilty plea for sex crimes with minors
ARKANSAS: Little Rock teacher placed on leave for referencing monkeys
high school students call dress code discriminatory
female teacher admits sexual contact with teen
CALIFORNIA: The economy is booming. Why are so many California schools broke?
California schools were once the nation’s envy. What went wrong?
6th grade male teacher arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing two girls
Molestation lawsuit targets student-teacher contact
as many as 24 schools in one district could be closed in next 5 years
Los Angeles schools lost $15 million on Day 1 of strikes
U.S. Navy Band teaches ‘master class’ at Mission Bay High School, San Diego, 30JAN2019.
COLORADO: No charges filed against teacher who taped student to chair
High School teacher arrested in child pornography investigation
Cherry Creek School District leaders earn $200,000 total while waiting for their criminal trial
CONNECTICUT: community college professor who gave ‘Nazi’ salute fired
teacher placed on involuntary leave at Naugatuck High School
teacher accused of failing to report child abuse
teacher convicted of raping girl in skate park
The small state is turning to a military program called Troops to Teachers to deal with teacher shortages. Connecticut Army National Guard Sergeant First Class Benjamin Simon just finished the program: “Teaching is definitely the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. You have to be dedicated, and you have to have thick skin. There’s a lot of trial and error. Composure is so important. You have to understand you’re working with kids. These aren’t NCOs and Privates who have gone through Basic Training. Every child has different sensibilities, different backgrounds, different learning styles and it’s on you as a teacher to mold yourself to meet their needs.”
DELAWARE: Teacher With History of Alcohol Arrests Faces DUI Sentencing
Saudi Arabia sending teachers to teach in Delaware schools?
FLORIDA: Scandal ridden Bethune-Cookman University announces layoffs, salary cuts: “It’s as if they’re penalizing employees who had nothing to do with the misappropriation of funds!”-Cynthia Slater, NAACP
State Department of Education lays off 20 employees
Schools Will Install Facial Recognition Cameras
governor suspends sheriff over school massacre
Female substitute teacher fired, accused of sexual battery
Teacher and aides lock children with autism in closet
Male elementary teacher arrested on child sex charges
Male biology teacher caught doin’ it with 14-year-old student at an Airbnb
Female teacher vandalized park with human feces
A Mother Says a Teacher Molested Her 8 years old Daughter.
GEORGIA: school board member stabbed 17 times
Teacher punched student at least twice in lunchroom attack
Evidence eaten after teacher allegedly gave students marijuana
For some reason school districts are not reporting teachers who violate their contracts
GUAM: 8 reasons to attend the University of Guam over a mainland school
HAWAII: Tuition decrease proposed for University of Hawaii
DoE lied about school repair backlog
God’s own Saint Francis Junior High and High School shutting down
ILLINOIS: 10 new laws affecting schools, colleges
Chicago schools fire 6 workers, block 4 substitute teachers after sexual misconduct investigations
female high school teacher engaged in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy
Male substitute teacher (who is also a ‘christian’ minister) arrested on child sex charges
Female high school secretary charged with sex crimes
‘of age’ female student admits in court she tricked male teacher into having sex with her
Seven teacher licenses suspended over state testing scandal
IOWA: ‘Rainbow’ teacher sentenced to 60 years for sexually abusing boys
Female teacher pleads guilty to sexual exploitation
University of Iowa student found dead of possible exposure
KANSAS: Sorting Fact And Fiction On Kansas Schools
female teacher charged with having sex with student
teacher accused of child sex crimes says he’s not guilty
KENTUCKY: Teacher caught on video dragging child with autism through school
special needs teacher accused of inappropriate relationship with student
Three school employees charged with abuse of autistic student
teacher at party where juveniles admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana
‘christian’ school apologizes for mistreatment of Native American students
What happened to separation of church and state? U.S. Army personnel visited children at the South Christian Elementary School.
LOUISIANA: God’s own Historic Saint Peter Claver School in Treme closing its doors
school employee under investigation for inappropriate relationship with student
High school student arrested after ‘scuffle’ left another student with a scared face
charter school principal sued, accused of sex crimes
educators confounded over student behavior problems
Hundreds of Bats Found at Louisiana High School
Louisiana is one of the least-educated states in the nation
MAINE: Greater Bangor schools making it easier for students to earn diplomas
Deer Isle teacher pleads not guilty to sex crimes against student
‘christian’ school teacher pled guilty to sex crimes
teacher seeks another appeal in sexual assault case
‘Well respected’ private music school teacher accused of sex crimes, fired from job just for being arrested (I guess in Maine you’re guilty just by being arrested, and even if proven innocent in court you’re still black-listed)
teacher sentenced for trying to break into funeral home
schools closed due to possible shooting threat
MARYLAND: ‘Highly credible’ reports of child sex abuse at private sexist boys only school
High school student accused of sexual assault in the school halls
Guidance Counselor Arrested on Multiple Sex Crime Charges
Transgender teacher was harassed
The U.S. Army directly targets ‘christian’ recruits at Saint Mary Catholic School, in Hagerstown, 28JAN2019.
MASSACHUSETTS: Education ‘nazis’ want an additional taxpayer killing $500-million for school funding
college closure threat growing, police state seeking new powers
teacher accused of molesting two students in his class
teacher-coach charged with assault and battery
MICHIGAN: Female special education teacher charged with sexual criminal conduct
Female high school teacher charged with sexual assault
‘Well-respected’ male principal arrested for alleged sex acts
Male teacher arrested on child porn charge
teacher admits to sexual assaults, then kills self
MSU Interim President resigns after tell Detroit News that sex crimes victims “enjoy the spotlight”
Federal report cites Michigan State with systemic ‘serious violations’ of campus-safety law
Michigan schools face nation’s worst decline in state taxpayer raping education funding
MINNESOTA: school board member, NAACP plan to sue taxpayers for more special education funding
Teacher-coach accused of sex assault and making porn
teacher suspended following ‘demeaning’ Instagram posts
MISSOURI: Federal taxpayers forced to give Missouri $6.5-million for ‘early education’ (when I was a kid, Kindergarten was considered early education)
Starting teacher salary in Missouri ranks 2nd lowest
Proof immigrants are taking over: In every grade level, Springfield Public School students score below state average, except in one area; English as a second language
teacher arrested on child porn charges
teacher pleads ‘not guilty’ in child porn case
Piano teacher enters guilty plea to sexual misconduct
MONTANA: Woman pled guilty to killing teacher with her car
teacher sentenced to 10 years for raping student
U.S. DoE investigating Montana schools for discrimination against Native Americans
So much for hiring ‘experts’ with college degrees; $771 million pension shortfall a product of ‘mind-boggling’ mistakes
superintendent placed on leave for fight video quits his job
LPS limits high school tansfers
Day care center shutdown in connection to homosexual sex crimes arrest
NEVADA: scholarships make college free (supposedly) for aspiring teachers
$10k annual bonuses to teachers at struggling schools
high school teacher, student kissed
teacher arrested on new meth trafficking charges
NEW HAMPSHIRE: teacher’s aide fired after arrest on child porn charges
teacher pleads guilty to witness tampering
Upscale Boarding School Teacher Accused Of Sexual Exploitation Of Student
Judge rejects plea deal for teacher
NEW JERSEY: Getting Sued Over School Segregation
cash-strapped taxpayers deny a nearly $170 million schools proposal
State taxpayers forced to double ‘security’ funding for religious and private schools
State high school exit exams declared illegal by state court
These 24 coaches are now banned
teacher pleads guilty to sexually assaulting student
high school teacher-coach faces sex abuse charges
Special education teacher charged with having sex with student
preschool teacher arrested after saying she’d shoot up school
Special education teacher admits to wanting to commit ‘gun violence’ against her school
Hundreds of teachers quitting mid-year
Governor orders end to high school exit testing
Governor wants taxpayers to shell out an additional $500-million for schools!
Recruiting military volunteers thru school counselors. Kirkland Air Force Base held an event to win over local high school counselors, 18JAN2019, and convince them to convince students to join-up.
NEW YORK: Yes, ‘blacks’ are racists too; ‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools
Blackface Video Has Elite Private School in an Uproar
Junior High School Teacher accused of Raping Student
High School Special Ed teacher accused of rape
Oxford Teacher’s Aide Charged With Rape of Child
NORTH CAROLINA: North Carolina teacher accused of molesting children arrested in Arizona
For the third year in a row, schools disproportionally suspend students of ‘color’ (gee you mean there are people that have no color?)
high school teacher facing new charges for sex crimes
Asheville City Schools worst in the state
Religious favoritism for ‘christian’ military families as Richlands and Northside High School given a $906,121 grant to run a National Math and Science program that’s specifically for the College Readiness Program for Military Families. By the way, the award ceremony was held at a church.
NORTH DAKOTA: teacher accused of sending naked photos to students
teacher put on administrative leave following felony burglary charge
Bill would give universities access to Bank of North Dakota funds
OHIO: Are charter school building leases fleecing state taxpayers?
What harsher federal guidelines on school discipline and suspensions mean for Ohio students
Cleveland joins national program to provide scholarships to students
State agency rules against Toledo School for Arts in racial discrimination case
Teacher Arrested for Touching Himself in Front of Students
48 years old teacher indicted on eight charges of sex with 15 years old student
teacher guilty of drug parties, deals took place in her home
student high on LSD attacks teacher’s breasts, says his dog gave him the drugs
Here’s hypocrisy; police accuse high school teacher of abuse of power
OKLAHOMA: nearly tops nation in holding back early-grade kids
teacher arrested after alleged sexual assault on woman in bar
17-year-old accused of killing Broken Arrow teacher
OREGON: Audit reveals Many Problems with taxpayer funded state Department of Education
Audit reveals Portland schools fail to track what they do with taxpayer funding
Police kill man at junior high school during custody dispute
teacher arrested on child porn charges
Substitute teacher sentenced to 6 years
PENNSYLVANIA: Art Institute of Pittsburgh to close permanently in March
K-8 teacher’s aide facing trial on child-sex charges
elementary teacher accused of groping three students
State wants more tax dollars for technical schools
State seizes control of Penn Hills School District’s finances
initial report on university hazing violations published
program will offer $100 for college savings to every baby born or adopted in the state
PUERTO RICO: Taxpayer funded University of Puerto Rico could lose accreditation for failing to reveal how it spends the money
Repairing Puerto Rico’s schools post-Maria will cost taxpayers $11Billion, take 7 years
RHODE ISLAND: School employee charged with indecent solicitation
teachers who take a lot of time off could face discipline
Federal taxpayers give Rhode Island $4-million for early childhood education
SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘deep’ teacher shortage got even worse
South Carolina hasn’t enforced classroom size limits since 2010
school volunteer coach charged with sex assault
Coach, who has criminal record of assault, accused of slapping and punching student
SOUTH DAKOTA: God’s own Busy Blessings Day Care Closing due to failing to meet state requirements
TENNESSEE: Female teacher arrested, accused of sex crimes
Head Start teacher arrested after she brought meth to school
Sevier County schools hires teacher with history of sex crimes, almost immediately new accusations emerge, teacher called “creepy” by students and co-workers, only now is he being investigated (makes you wonder about the true intentions of school administrators)
TEXAS: Why some people aren’t sold on giving Texas teachers a $5000 raise
Female teacher had young girl pose in lingerie, planned to sell her in Africa
Teacher shot, killed by U.S. Air Force employee for making too much noise
UTAH: teacher to serve one year in jail for sending ‘seductive’ emails
substitute teacher gets prison time for sex crimes against children
Utah’s new version of school ‘grades’
VERMONT: Green Mountain College to close: “I knew our school was doing poorly financially, but I had no idea that it was going to shut down. …….going to have to do it all again. All of us are and it’s overwhelming.”-Meg Scognamiglio, a student who obviously hasn’t been following Blind Bat News
Church hires man to be new pastor, despite his sex crimes record as a ‘christian’ school teacher
VIRGINIA: student completes 13 years of perfect attendance
School District Sues State to Arm Employees
high school that honored a Confederate general gets a new name
teacher to serve 2 years for indecent liberties with child
band teacher to serve five years in prison
WASHINGTON: High School teacher charged with felony sexual misconduct
The Seattle Times pathetically begs Be a part of the solution to the teacher shortage
Major changes around corner for junior high schools
Washington Army National Guard personnel help build a school in Imperial Thailand at the end of January, 2019, as part of taxpayer funded operation Cobra Gold.
Washington DC: DC public school teacher was arrested for assaulting a child
DC considers ‘high-stakes’ teaching offers
U.S. Labor Department reveals mass exodus of teachers across the country
WEST VIRGINIA: teacher accused of giving alcohol to teens
teacher jailed after allegedly soliciting drugs
WISCONSIN: Student teacher charged with videotaping woman without consent
teacher accused of raping girl is now charged with intoxicated driving
Christian school teacher robbed at gunpoint
Students sexually assaulted a 16-year-old classmate
School employee gets probation for masturbating
Another teacher removed for using racial slur
WYOMING: teacher sentenced to at least 20 years in sex abuse case
Senate Cuts External Cost Adjustment In School-Funding
Dumbing Down the U.S.A., December 2018: “ONE DAY WE’RE ALL GOOD…THE NEXT DAY IT’S JUST OVER.”
23 MAY 2019 (11:36 UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Khordad 1398/18 Ramadan 1440/19 Ji-Si 4717
Photos by me (AAron B. Hutchins)
In a nearly abandoned rail car repair shop, a father and son team are trying to combine machining techniques and artistry to create almost bulletproof family photos, and maybe a local artists’ gallery next to their machine shop.
Forgotten in the rafters
The rail car shop is located at the south end of the old town area of Pocatello, Idaho. It used to be run by Alpha Pacific Incorporated (not to be confused with the Chinese company ALPHA PACIFIC ENGINEERING & CONTRACTING, now operating out of California), now a shadow of itself called Alpha Engineers Incorporated (almost killed off by the fateful decision of city and county officials to refuse Union Pacific’s request to make Pocatello its Pacific Northwest depot).
Boiler from Illinois
There’s a lot of forgotten railroad history in the building.
Coal Bunker
This is what happens when you “Go West, young man!”
Gone skiing…no more
But that’s not what I want to write about.
Chiron FZ 08 W
The good old (relatively) German made vertical CNC (computer numerical control) machine, Chiron FZ 08 W.
Explaining how the Chiron works to a willing audience…did you catch all that?
Eric V. Erickson, and his son Andrew, are using it to replicate photos and even smart phone selfie pics onto aluminum, plexiglas, anything non-fibrous.
Some ol’ dude hicktown singer, now immortalized in aluminum
At this angle you can see the engraving better
Here’s how thick (or thin) the aluminum plate is
If you prefer, you can get cool lighting affects etching your selfie into ‘plastic’. Unfortunately it’s not ‘bulletproof’ and can get scratched up if you’re not careful with it.
With white light behind it…
…or you can be leftist liberal hip with the rainbow lighting…oooo!
The plastic has a more interesting 3D effect
But there’s a magical thing you can do with the aluminum plate, automotive grease and a glass plate!
That’s not an old timey photo of Tesla (no, not the car, the ancient electromagnetic genius), it’s an etched aluminum plate covered in grease, then a glass plate is placed over it, sandwiching the grease between the two and turning it into an almost bulletproof photo! There are other ways to color affect the aluminum, like anodizing (and maybe powder coating?), but it’ll drive up the price. Oh yeah, expect to pay around $150 for a basic engraving (more for anything extra like anodizing), so it’s only for memorializing those special family moments. I forgot to measure the examples, I think the aluminum country singer was like 5×6 inches, and the plastic selfie was maybe 9×12?
Wait, what about the art gallery? There are a couple of areas they hope to make available for local artists to display their works, one in the small foyer….
…and a larger area up the stares.
Don’t disturb Cello Cat
For much more accurate (but you might also get more confused, because these guys speak only ‘Technical’) info call Erickson Design and Machine at (928) 299-9723, or email at [email protected].