Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, conduct press conference and report that their main concern is increasing taxpayer funding for the purpose of supporting the U.S. military industrial complex, and expanding Poland’s military industrial complex.
Video via U.S. Department of Defense, 14FEB2025, Warsaw, Poland:
Gaza? Lebanon? Syria? It has always been about Iran!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States Secretary of State Marco A. Rubio conduct press conference on 16FEB2025, blaming Iran for the regional wars launched by Israel.
Video via U.S. Department of State, Jerusalem, Israel:
May 2024: U.S. DoS halts weapons deliveries to Israel! Says Israel has killed too many civilians!
April 2024: False Flag? Israel bombs ex-U.S. base in Iraq?
On a cold, blustery, snowy day, the Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society held another Open House. On 15FEB2025, non-club members could come in from the cold and watch some neat displays come to life. Hopefully the club, which also helps to preserve a very important part of Pocatello’s history, which many local railroad hating officials seem to want to bury (I’ve noted elsewhere that a major cause of the demise of the local economy is due to public officials making a decision that ultimately killed thousands of local Union Pacific jobs), will gain more members, or better yet, raise some much needed cash.
Always under construction.
Anybody remember their display in the old Pocatello Mall? Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society’s current location needs a new roof. My blustery video report:
East Idaho News, March 2024: “The railroad went to Chief Pocatello to get permission to lay their tracks through here. The Chief asked (what was in it for them) if they donated land. The railroad said, ‘Anytime you or your braves want to ride the train, we’ll let you ride it for free.’ That’s what it took to get the tracks through here.”-Larry Gilbreath, President of the Model Railroad and Historical Society
The ‘Big Room’.
Tax revolt? Some of my video from the Big Room:
Pocatello Model Railroad and Historical Society is funded with membership fees and donations. The club was started by Union Pacific railroad employees, and other fans of mini-trains.
Alas! No more passenger service.
More Big Room video:
If you missed the 15FEB2025 open house, no worries, since the end of the fake-news Pland-emic (which temporarily shutdown the club) they are usually open to the public every third Saturday of each month, from 10:00 to 14:00 hours.
Some of my video of the Middle Room:
They have a working telegraph, and you can try it out!
The Small Room:
You can see more of my PMRHS videos on my YouTube channel: Aaron Hutchins
Follow PHMRS here: https://www.facebook.com/PMRHS
KPVI, April 2023:
KIFI, PMRHS reopens after the Pland-emic, February 2022:
Idaho State Journal, 2010: Model train enthusiasts attend PMRHS event
Trains.com: Did UP’s Big Boy run through Pocatello?
Idaho economy:
Anybody wanna buy a hobby store?
Chubbuck:
JCPenney; the final domino falls at the Pine Ridge Mall, now under 4th ownership!
Pocatello:
Big Lots! failure, par-for-the-course.
U.S. economy, 2016-17: Model railroad hobby demise?
U.S. economy 2014: Model Power, a major internet model railroad retailer, is being killed off by Too Big to Jail banks!
“I can confirm that we have been working with Kohl’s to backfill the space that was the former home of the C-A-L Ranch store on the southern side of the mall property next to Hobby Lobby… …Everything north of the old C-A-L Ranch to where Planet Fitness is located in the former Herbergers would be demolished…”-Joshua Simon of SimonCRE, May 2024
The beleaguered Pine Ridge Mall, in the small Idaho city of Chubbuck, now under a new, fourth, owner: Scottsdale, Arizona, based SimonCRE, which just had their demolition plans approved by the City of Chubbuck.
Are they aware of what is underneath the property?:
The lie (starting in the early 2000s) that commercial property developers/REITs, and local officials, propagated:
According to the local newspaper, SimonCRE will begin demolishing the 1980s era mall, replacing it with free-standing businesses, as well as a Target store and a Kohl’s (aka the mall will be repurposed as an ‘outdoor shopping venue’). Supposedly the demolition begins in 2025, a completion date has not been determined, but the last surviving anchor store (also one of the first in the mall) JCPenney is shutting down, apparently by the month of May 2025.
No more indoor car shows, and what happened to ZCMI?:
Some newer buildings at the ‘mall’ will not be torn down because they are technically, and legally by contract, not part of the original mall structure. That includes Hobby Lobby (new built under the 3rd owner), C-A-L Ranch and Big Deal Outlet (both occupying the old Shopko building, which was never part of the original mall), and the Gem Prep charter school located in the old Sears building (which was added onto the mall in 1999 when Sears moved from the dead Pocatello Mall to the Pine Ridge Mall, the Pocatello Mall was replaced by a new expanded Fred Meyer).
A little history tour, and the true beginnings of the demise:
Some of the businesses inside the soon to be executed mall will move to new locations. Contrary to local news reports, Dillard’s was not one of the original anchor stores at the mall, it was a short lived replacement for the original two story Utah based, Brigham Young founded, anchor called ZCMI. Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution was considered the first ‘department store’ in the United States, even though when it was founded Utah was still a territory and not a state. At the end of 1999, the ZCMI brand was sold-off and thus began a rapid confusing succession of owners and name changes, to include Dillard’s in 2001 and Macy’s in 2005-06.
What about the old Shopko/new C-A-L Ranch & Big Deal Outlet?:
2019: 
No more Idaho ShopKo? There never was a Shopko in Pocatello (it was in Chubbuck)!
As I’ve chronicled elsewhere, 1999-2007 are pivotal years for the U.S. retail market which directly impacted U.S. shopping malls. And this brings me to another point; for decades the ‘industry’ has been blaming the way the U.S. consumer shops for the radical changes the ‘industry’ made to brick-n-mortar operations. The truth is that online shopping has remained relatively steady over the decades, even during the pland-emic the expected rush of shoppers to the inter-web failed to materialize. The majority of shoppers still want to see and feel what they are buying and prefer brick-n-mortar stores. The misinformation postulated by the ‘industry’ was, and still is, a push by corporations, investors/REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) to greatly increase their profit margins by massively cutting labor costs by shifting to online operations only. Those exalted ones have backed off their plan because operating huge online stores has proven to require just as many costly humans in warehousing and delivery, and expensive robots as well.
More history tour, what about the old Sears?:
2014:
Moved from Pocatello to Chubbuck in 1999, this Sears is finally dead!
Finally it’s official, Chubbuck/Pine Ridge Mall Sears going down!
2013: Chubbuck/Pine Ridge Mall Sears was already dead!
The Pine Ridge Mall is officially dead and will supposedly be gone sometime this year, leaving only one of the original three malls in the area; the Westwood Mall in Pocatello (which has been so radically remodeled it no longer has a semblance of the 1970s era mall it once was, with its wall-to-wall carpeting and big indoor fountain). However, in 2016 the City of Pocatello rezoned the Westwood Mall for a planned demolition and building of residential apartments. Eventually there will be no malls at all in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area.
Here’s what happened to the old Sears:
Even more history:
What happened to the short lived, but popular, Spencer’s? Blame the City of Chubbuck:
What happened to the beloved KB Toys? Blame Mitt Romney co-founded Bain Capital:
What happened to JJ North’s, the clinic, and racing events:
Pocatello, Idaho, Big Lots! failure:
Par-for-the-course, for U.S. national & local economies.
2024: Early Halloween, Trunk or Treat at the Pine Ridge Mall!
First ever (legal) Drift Car event, at the Pine Ridge Mall!
Inaugural(?) Summer AutoFest, Pine Ridge Mall, Idaho.
Inaugural(?) Pine Ridge Mall Spring Auto-Fest!
Inaugural(?) indoor Winter/New Year Car Show!
2018: Pine Ridge Mall loses yet another anchor store! Lazy ‘Experts’ continue to blame online sales!
East Idaho’s Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, sells for paltry $9 million!
Pine Ridge quietly put up to be auctioned off in November! Merry Xmas!
East Idaho’s Grand Teton Mall, in Idaho Falls, for sale! GGP dumping malls en masse!
Some independent local Eastern Idaho news outlets reported, in October 2024, that the Pocatello Big-Lots! was being shutdown. That’s 14 years of overpriced ‘resale’ merchandise, having opened the Pocatello location (in the Foothill Plaza Shopping Center) at the end of October 2010.
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, early October 2010.
I say ‘overpriced’ because a couple of months after opening, in 2010, I checked out the new store and was shocked to find their prices to be higher than the same items sold in the Chubbuck WalMart and the Kroger owned Pocatello Fred Meyer! That was the first and last time I ‘shopped’ at the Pocatello Big-Lots!
Here is video (during a windy day) of my tirade about the closure of the Pocatello Big-Lots!, 08FEB2025:
Big-Lots! is a ‘reseller’, other wise known as a discount retail chain store, reselling products that the main stream-first run retail stores couldn’t sell. In Ohio, in 1967, the business started out as Consolidated Stores. Consolidated made investments into such troubled operations as Delorean Motor Company, CVS Pharmacy, Pic-N-Save and KB Toys (just naming a few among other troubled investments). In 2001 Consolidated became Big Lots! In 2005 Big Lots! shutdown 170 stores. In 2023, Big Lots! shutdown 52 stores and announced plans to shutdown dozens of stores in 2024. In October 2024 Big Lots! filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and local news sources in Idaho reported that the Pocatello Big Lots! had made the latest hit list for shutdown. In December 2024 the Pocatello Big Lots! was closed permanently, on top of that Big Lots! announced that all stores would be shutdown or sold-off in 2025.
On 08FEB2025, in an attempt to take back control of their economy, the local population conducted a one day farmers market in the former Pocatello Big Lots! location. Maybe a massive Motorsports Complex (click this link to donate) will save our local economy:
I’ve been following/reporting on the local economy for more than a decade:
2019: POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!
2018: Idaho’s economic destruction “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”!
2017: The truth about Chubbuck’s gentrification.
2016: FEDERAL AGENCY SAYS IDAHO IS DOMINATED BY POOR IMMIGRANTS!
Idaho Governor declares local economy has “RISEN FROM THE ASHES”!
2015: Taxpayer funded ‘BUY IDAHO’ program IS a BIG FAIL!
Hoku-Gate, PaveGate now Amy’s-Gate!
2013: Heinz pulls stake, Warren Buffett abandons Pocatello, Idaho! Happy New Year!
The Chubbuck & Pocatello BRIDGE TO NOWHERE?
Pocatello’s Old Fred Meyer & Albertsons on Yellowstone Ave, did not close down in the 1990s.
More than 16 years ago the Oregon Military Museum (near Clackamas/Camp Withycombe-Happy Valley) shutdown for renovations. The museum is expected to reopen during the Summer of 2025, a year later than originally planned.
In January 2025, final work was being completed for the weapons display.
Kathleen Sligar, Director/Curator of the Oregon Military Museum, talks about the final preparations for the weapons display in this video report, via Oregon National Guard’s First Sergeant Zachary Holden, released 29JAN2025:
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 23JAN2025.
Despite being closed for renovations, special tours were conducted for veterans organizations.
The museum has outdoor displays that visitors can view.
A woman with a mission: https://youtu.be/gg17C0W9BoU?list=OLAK5uy_kAZ6e1Hh1OnpO2PyMSjbMe7ajDbDDy6Ac
Oregon Military Museum, 2020:
How to assemble your 1:1 scale F-86
U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth reports, morning of 30JAN2025, about efforts to use Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba, to hold violent illegals. Video via Department of Defense:
CALIFORNIA: U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) video showing the capture of illegals, about 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma, by the crew of Cutter Terrell Horne (WPC-1131) during the early morning of 28JAN2025:
The USCG delivers illegals, captured 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma, to U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) on 28JAN2025.
On 31JAN2025, two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey (Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron [VMM] 161-Marine Aircraft Group 16-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing) were assigned to help Border Patrol and National Guard conduct operations along the California/Mexico border. I edited down video via Staff Sergeant Luc Boatman:
FLORIDA: 
Crew from USCG Cutter Campbell (WMEC 909) offload more than 8-thousand pounds of cocaine (captured on the Eastern Pacific Ocean) on Port Everglades, 27JAN2025.
At the end of January, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon, out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville (Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron [VP] 45), began patrolling the U.S. southern border.
NEW MEXICO: 
Under Task Force Sentinel, National Guard personnel, and equipment (like this Arizona National Guard UH-72 Lakota), from several states are assisting the Border Patrol on the Dona Ana Airport, which helps to cover the El Paso Sector.
TEXAS: 
USCG Marine Safety Security Team (MSST) Houston, and the Border Patrol, patrolling on the Rio Grande River, 28JAN2025.
A militiaman with the 877th Engineer Company, Georgia Army National Guard supports Border Patrol operations along the southern border in Del Rio, Texas.
2025:
Trump’s Wall War is on!
2021: New year, new President, same war on drugs & illegals?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth reports, morning of 30JAN2025, about the 29JAN2025 crash between U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk and American Eagle Flight 5342, video via Department of Defense:
On 28JAN2025, a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning-2 crashed near Richardson Highway in Alaska. Colonel Paul Townsend, 354th Fighter Wing commander, conducts a local media press conference:
2022: MiG 31 crashes in Novgorod
2011:
United States blows-up crashed French Mirage 2000D!
1949:
NACA’s ramjet F-82 Twin Mustang, 1949 crash & burn? Reborn more than 60 years later!
1947:
Cold War Dragon crashes into Antarctic Ocean, caught on film.
“U.S. Northern Command is aggressively bolstering security at the southern border. For initial actions, Soldiers and Marines are immediately deploying to seamlessly integrate with forces already along the border and working together with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. In a matter of days, we will have nearly doubled the number of forces along the border, effectively implementing the President’s intent while planning and posturing for expanded efforts to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States.”-General Gregory M. Guillot, U.S. Northern Command (NorthCom)
On 20JAN2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Orders (EO), including a national emergency declaration, concerning the southern U.S. border. Under Title 10, NorthCom is deploying 1-thousand-5-hundred Regular (active duty) military personnel to assist the 2-thousand-5-hundred military personnel already working the U.S./Mexico border.
Operation Lone Star is still in effect. The Texas Military Department-Air National Guard and Department of Public Safety conducted a Migration Operational Readiness Exercise (MORE) in Roma, 20JAN2025.
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) deployed a Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 to Fort Bliss, Texas, to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) deport illegals on 23JAN2025, video via Sergeant First Class Nicholas J. De La Pena:
On 23JAN2025, during the day USAF C-130s delivered the U.S. Army’s 401st Military Police Company to Fort Bliss, Texas, and then during the night the 41st Engineer Company arrived, for duty on the border with Mexico. I edited together videos via Sergeant Logan Ubaldo Lechuga and Sergeant First Class Nicholas J. De La Pena:
On 24JAN2025, USMC Bell-Boeing MV-22B Ospreys, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 161-Marine Air Control Group 16-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing on Brown Field Municipal Airport in Otay Mesa, California, transported palletized concertina wire to the border with Mexico. Video via Sergeant Gabriel Tavarez:
On 25JAN2025, U.S. Air Force 62nd Air Wing Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 delivers the U.S. Army’s 23rd Military Police Company-716th Military Police Battalion-16th Military Police Brigade to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, video via Lance Corporal Alexander Vaughn:
On 25JAN2025, USMC 1st Combat Engineer Battalion-1st Marine Division reinforce the wall near San Ysidro, California. Video via Staff Sergeant Luc Boatman:
Local Chicago, Illinois, news media reporting that on 26JAN2025 Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) began what is called Enhanced Targeted Operations (ETO). The Chicago ETO arrests added to the nationwide Sunday total of 956 arrests! Chicago ICE video via Todd Packard:
Texas Army National Guard board CH-47 Chinooks on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, as part of the Texas Tactical Border Force.
USMC’s 1st Combat Engineer Battalion-1st Marine Division reinforce the border wall near San Ysidro, 27JAN2025, video via Corporal Logan Courtright:
Task Force DC: 
Massive National Guard mobilization for the U.S. Capital City!
Biden’s Borderland:
Eating fish is a major cause of human trafficking?!
Curtiss XP-40 Warhawk tested in the NACA wind tunnel, Langley Research Center, Virginia, 1939.
I edited together videos from United States Army Air Corps/Forces (USAAC/USAAF) newsreels, released in 1941. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk:
Before the U.S. entered the Second World War, ‘volunteers’ were being paid by the U.S. government to fly P-40 ‘Flying Tigers’ for China, against the Japanese. However, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor the Flying Tigers became an official USAAC/USAAF unit, along with some of their pilots being transferred to the Navy/Marine Corps, and the Chinese began flying their own P-40s. Here is a poor quality, silent film of Chinese operated P-40s:
Here are some photos of various versions of P-40s throughout the war:
P-40 tied down on Iceland, 23SEP1941.
P-40E being tested by NACA, 20MAY1942.
Warhawk lands at Burg-el-Arab, Egypt, October 1942.
Somewhere in the Caribbean, December 1942.
25DEC1942, “…SSGT J.A. Muller, CPL John W. Coleman, and CPL L.B. Thomas of the 16th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, consume their Christmas dinner on the field at a base somewhere in China.”
A P-40F is presented to a French air force chaplain in northern Africa, 1943.
May 1943, Dobodura, New Guinea.
A bullet riddled British Royal Air Force P-40 ‘Kittyhawk’ somewhere in northern Africa, 1943.
Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea. A P-40 converted into a two seat observation plane, sometime in 1943.
Sometime in 1943, Burma-India Theater of Operations.
Sometime in 1943, Abadan, Iran, Soviet pilots play chess before flying their U.S. taxpayer funded P40s to the Karelian Front.
P-40 lands on a new airfield on Baker Island (aka New Nantucket), 11SEP1943.
Apamama Island, Gilbert Islands, January 1944.
February 1944, Upper Assam, India.
A Curtiss C-46 lands while a Curtiss P-40K watches, somewhere in China, sometime in 1945.
Chinese anti-air spotters are taught not to shoot down a Warhawk, sometime between 1945 and 1946.
Final flight outta the U.S.?: 
Yankee Lady, the last take-off? Does anybody know what is going on?
