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Idaho, Technology

Poky Car Show, July 2023: Hot, Loud, Rude & Crude!

Video

The free Pocatello Car Club show started at 17 hours (5pm), 22JUL2023, it was 100+ Fahrenheit (38+ C)! I started recording video (I need a real video camera) and stills at about 17:30 hours, cars were still rolling in, eventually they would have at least 1-hundred cars show up.

No audio on this video due to loud copyrighted music being played:

This video has audio:

Click on the gallery pics to make them bigger:

The rollout for the Pocatello Car Club cruise started at 19 hours (7pm), hot vehicles in the hot 100+ Fahrenheit climate:

This was the quiet street to view car show cruisers, even though Grandma claimed “I can’t hear you!”:

July’s action on Main Street wasn’t as loud as it was in June:

It seemed most of the car-cruise action was taking place in the Center Street ‘tunnel’:

Cruise the Main, June 2023: “Do a burnout!” 2ND MONTHLY CAR CRUISE, POCATELLO, IDAHO.

Also in June 2023: POCATELLO S-A-C SHOW

2016: Last Car Show for Chubbuck Days?

2014: Last Car Show for Pocatello Airport?

Idaho, Technology

2nd Monthly Car Cruise, Pocatello, Idaho, June 2023.

Video

16JUN2023 was the second time the Pocatello Car Club conducted a monthly car cruise down Main Street, in Old Town Pocatello.

My poor video of the vehicle rollout for the car cruise, part-1:

Rollout, part-2:

Rollout, part-3:

Rollout, part-4:

My poor video of cruising down a section of Main Street:

Things are getting louder:

Diversion through Center Street underpass:

Hunger Games U.S.A.:  POCATELLO, IDAHO, Senior Activity Center  CAR SHOW, JUNE 2023.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

Idaho

Hunger Games U.S.A.: Pocatello SAC show, June 2023.

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On 10JUN2023, the Oldies Rod & Custom Car Show was held in Historic Oldtown Pocatello, Idaho, to benefit the Senior Activity Center‘s (SAC) food delivery service: “It’s the people that we serve are underserved in our community. And so, it really helps with the nutrition for them so that they can hopefully stay in their homes longer and with activities and everything else. That’s part of our goal to.”-Pam Landon, Secretary for SAC

The automobile show was free to the public, proceeds from food vender sales, and raffle ticket sales, went to help SAC.  Just to let you know how much the help is needed, in 2022 the Pocatello SAC served more than 22-thousand meals to local old people.

Here is a sampling of the vehicles that were there (click on each image to make them bigger):

Walk around video of the show, which was supported by many local business sponsors, most of the video has no audio as they were blaring copyrighted music at the event:

For more SAC show videos, check-out my YouTube channel.

Apparently, the first Oldies Rod & Custom Car Show to benefit Pocatello SAC was on 10JUN2018.

For information about upcoming auto-shows around Idaho, visit United Street Rods of Idaho.

Chubbuck Days in Cotant Park, August 2016:

Helicopter ride forced down in neighboring Chase Park, due to too many passengers for the little ‘copter! (note the dejected riders walking away from their ride)

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Pocatello Airport, August 2014: FREE CAR SHOW TO GO WITH THE FREE AIRSHOW!

Busiest Chubbuck Days ever, August 2012:

Things got too hot for this portable toilet.

DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS AND POLES BEING THROWN AROUND, PLUS FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM CHUBBUCK STYLE!

Chubbuck Days, 2010:

Free Car Show!

Planed-emic, 2020: SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

Business/Economics, Technology

Pandemic Logistics Perfidy: Debt Ceiling vs. Armored Suburban!

06 October 2021 (09:53-UTC-07 Tango 06) 14 Mehr 1400/28 Safar 1443/01 Wu-Xu (9th month) 4719

“We’re excited to be developing a fully-integrated, purpose-built HD Suburban in partnership with the U.S. Department of State.”-Steve duMont, GM Defense

While Joe Biden and his team cry about the self-imposed debt limit of the United States government being too low, his Department of State just went and paid General Motors Defense (GM Defense) $36.4-million for ten prototype armored Suburbans, and if the State Department is happy with those ten, they’ll (you’ll) pay for “a fleet of 200 HD Suburbans per year for nine years”!

All you happy taxpayers need to pay attention to news releases about government contracts, notice that they are officially described as ‘awards’, meaning the corporate world considers your future enslaving tax funded contracts (government debt financing) as prizes in some kind of contest you didn’t even authorize!

GM Defense says their ten ‘development’ up-armored Suburbans will use existing parts (“off the self”) and be completed by May 2023, after that GM Defense expects the State Department to ‘award’ a nine years long production contract for 2-hundred of these up-armored fuel wasters per year!

Taxpayers need to ask the question; why does the State Department need so many new armor-ized silly-vilian vehicles when it already has hundreds?  Yes, the U.S. Department of State already operates hundreds of up-armored Suburbans!  And don’t forget about all those armored Suburbans operated by other federal government agencies!

It turns out the Chevrolet Suburban is the most used base vehicle for conversion to a civilian armored car, and those conversions are already done, or sold, by several different companies: Alpine Armoring (which already has 2021 model year armored Chevy Suburbans available)  

INKAS Armored Vehicle Manufacturing

The Armored Group

ARMORMAX

Troy Armoring Company

So why now, when the U.S. government is about to run out of debt financing, is the State Department/Secret Service issuing “first-of-their-kind contracts” specifically for development of a Suburban armored car?

According to a 16SEP2021 press release, the first ever contracts with GM Defense, and Ford, are intended “to ensure a viable and robust AV supply chain.”

The Department of State/Secret Service press release goes on to say that buying armored silly-vilian vehicles from third party conversion companies takes too long, and that they are not “adaptable to growing global threats.”

Mother of all Money Pits: DEBT CEILING vs. MILLION $ GIVEAWAYS!

Pandemic Perfidy: “ALL OF OUR METRICS ARE FLAWED.” COVID CAMP ‘EVACUATED’! MORE PROOF FULLY VACCINATED ARE SPREADING DELTA!

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: GLOBAL CAR SALES CRASH? WHY IS ELECTRIC CAR PRODUCTION/SALES UP? DON’T BLAME THE PANDEMIC, BLAME GOVT. MANDATES!

U.S.

Vehicle I-D: Join the U.S. military get a classic car?

Video

This is a pic-n-vid round-up of some of the car shows across the U.S. involving U.S. military personnel, in 2018-19.

Iron & Ink, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, February:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Isabelo Tabanguil, 24FEB2018.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Isabelo Tabanguil, 24FEB2018.

Also in February, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, ironically used this old maintenance intensive MG to promote the concept of saving money:

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Alexis P. Docherty, 26FEB2018.

In March, the city of Twentynine Palms, California, tried to make Marine Corps personnel fell better about being stationed in the Sun:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Rachel K. Porter, 31MAR2018.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Rachel K. Porter, 31MAR2018.

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida:

Mustangs take part in a public relations car-show on Eglin AFB, 27APR2018. USAF photo by Samuel King Junior.

The Sergeant Slaughter truck was part of the car show on Eglin AFB, Florida. USAF photo by Samuel King Junior, 11MAY2019.

At Fort Benning, Georgia, hosted the Teal Wheels automobile show as part of April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month:

U.S. Army photo by Bryan Gatchell, 28APR2018.

USA photo by Bryan Gatchell, 28APR2018.

In May 2018, Airmen got to ride in the kool kars at the 20th Annual Altus, Oklahoma, car show:

F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, Father’s Day Car Show:

Also in June, the Gearhead Car Show at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico: 

In September, near San Angelo, Texas, the Goodfellow Air Force Base took part in the Ruckus at the Rec Camp, including a car show:

A Lamborghini Gallardo ‘landed’ on the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar flightline, during the MCAS Miramar Air show:

I Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion Car Show at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, September:

Also in September, the 15th Annual Cruisin’ Keesler Car Show at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi:

Another September car show took place at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma: 

September seems to be THE month for car shows on military bases.  Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Kentucky: 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Employees’ Wheels to Work car show, Walla Walla, Washington, October:

Also in October, officials at Luke Air Force Base , Arizona, tricked people into attending a health fair by holding a car show: 

In November, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, a car show was held to celebrate the re-opening of the base Auto Hobby Shop: 

VEHICLE I-D: U.S. MILITARY FERRARI AND LAMBORGHINI

1942 FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE USAF!

NHRA SPONSORS RACING IN IRAN, CHEVY VS BMW!

2016 CHUBBUCK DAYS MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

Technology

Chevy makes hydrogen fuel cell Army truck!

Video

26 OCT 2017 (05:08 UTC-07 Tango 06)  04 Aban 1396/05 Safar 1439/07 Geng-Xu (9th month) 4715

General Motors (GM)-Chevrolet is proud of its new Colorado ZH2 army truck, because it doesn’t need gas or diesel, it’s hydrogen powered.

Official Army video explainer:

Video of trials at Fort Carson, Colorado:

CREATING DOG WARRIORS WITH HI-TECH $13-MILLION HOSPITAL!

OREGON WILDFIRES: MILITIAS LOVE IT, CH-47F AIRBORNE FIREFIGHTER!

HISTORY OF MILITARY COMPUTERS SINCE WW2, BIRTH OF THE INTERNET!

USAF SPEEDS UP WEATHER COURSE, BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE?

HARVEY: PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA SAVING YOUR CELL PHONES?

HARVEY: WHAT’S A DROPSONDE?

International

Syria, 07 October 2015: Proof it’s about Leviathan as Israel discovers oil in Syria! Russian Navy joins the fight (video)! Islamic State skins man alive!

The main stream news media is finally asking the question about where Islamic State, aka DAIISH, gets all those Toyotas, Fords, and Nissans.  Blind Bat News traced the fleet order of Toyotas back to a dealer, back in February! 

Blind Bat News also showed that General Motors (GMC, Chevy) trucks were also sold, or being supplied by the United States military, to DAIISH.  Of course the U.S. Department of Defense says the trucks were given to ‘rebels’ who then immediately turned them over to ‘Islamic State’.

On the 42nd anniversary of the October War, it’s time for the real reason Israel continues to illegally occupy Syria’s Golan Heights: “…large amounts of oil have been found on the Golan Heights. Estimates are that the amount of oil discovered will make Israel self sufficient for very many years to come.   Afek Oil and Gas chief geologist Dr. Yuval Bartov told Channel 2 News, ‘We are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is important is the thickness and the porosity. On average in the world strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities. The important thing is to know the oil is in the rock and that’s what we now know.'”

(Leviathan Front: Russian Navy sets up permanent presence in Med!)  (More proof the war in Syria, and in Lebanon, is about Leviathan’s petroleum!) (Cyprus, Leviathan’s Block 12 and Israel!) (U.S. begins Leviathan war games with Israel.)

VIDEO OF RUSSIAN NAVY CRUISE MISSLE LAUNCHES FROM SHIP IN THE CASPIAN SEA, VARIOUS CAMERA ANGLES.

https://www.facebook.com/RTvids/videos/1087197397957179/

The Voyenno-morskoy Flot Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Military-Maritime Fleet of the Russian Federation) launched 26 cruise missiles at DAIISH targets in Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa.   The Russian ships are located in the Caspian Sea, near Iran.

 

Aleppo Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army and Air Force continue battles with U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham = Syria]) for control of the Syrian Air Force Academy, as well as many locations across the governorate.  Syrian Arab Army Air Force bombed eight U.S. and Japanese made gun-trucks on Hareitan-al-Lairamoun road. Syrian Arab Army says they killed 40 U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) insurgents and wounded 65 others inside Aleppo City.  Syrian Arab Army units, YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units) and YPJ (Kurdish Women’s Defense Units) continued battles with DAIISH over the Aleppo City neighborhood of al- Sheikh Maqsoud and the Scientific Research Center west of Aleppo City.  Unconfirmed reports of three civilian deaths caused by Syrian and Russian airstrikes.

Damascus (Rif Dimashq) area:  Syrian Arab Army attacked insurgents groups calling themselves Islam Army, Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union and Al-Rahman Legion in the farms and villages of Eastern Ghouta.  Many U.S./Japanese made pickup trucks destroyed. Reports that children in areas controlled by insurgents are dying from lack of medical care.

A SyriaTel cell phone service center.

Daraa Governorate:   Syrian Arab Army continued battles with insurgents including repelling another assault on the SyriaTel communications building by Nusra Front.

Deir Ezzor Governorate: Syrian Arab Army hit a car near the oil fields of Tim with an artillery round.  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the car was civilian, not insurgent, and three people were killed.

Hama Governorate: Reports that insurgents are launching artillery rockets at villages.

YPG Russian made MTLB tracked armored transporter.

YPJ (Kurdish Women’s Defense Units) of Hasakah in their Toyota gun-trucks.

Hasakah Governorate: Syrian Arab Army units and YPG-YPJ continued battles with DAIISH.  At least three DAIISH insurgents killed while assaulting a Syrian Arab Army outpost.  Visit Syria: Al Hasakah – Assyrian New Year & Machine Gun Man for a glimpse of what life was like before the U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli instigated war.

DAIISH in their Japanese made gun-trucks.

Homs Governorate: Battles continued between Syrian Arab Army and DAIISH around Tadmur (Palmyra) City, as well as across the governorate.   Syrian Arab Army Air Force and Russian Vozdushno-KosmicheskieSily Rossii destroyed U.S. and Japanese made vehicles and killed many DAIISH insurgents near the al-Shaer oil field and in northern al-Qaryatain village.  103 rebel Syrians reported to the Syrian Arab Army in response to the ongoing reconciliation operation.   Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that DAIISH skinned a man alive for “defaming a chaste women”!

Idlib Governorate: After at least a month of fighting between insurgents and government forces, reports say the Shansharah archaeological site has been destroyed.

VIDEO OF INSURGENT TOYOTA  HZJ79 Landcruiser (aka Landcruiser 70) GUN-TRUCK ARMED WITH TWIN 14.5MM MACHINE GUNS.

Quneitra Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (militia) report a battle with Nusra Front, after Nusra Front hit a village with 20 artillery mortar rounds, killing three civilians.  Syrian Arab Army and NDF destroyed several U.S. and Japanese made gun-trucks, some armed with 14.5mm machine guns, as well as killing insurgents.  Reports that bodies are being pulled from rubble caused by Russian airstrikes days ago.

Swieda Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army destroyed ten U.S./Japanese made vehicles transporting insurgents coming from the U.S.-U.K. puppet country of Jordan.

06 October 2015: U.S. targets oil fields!

International

Syria, 25 September 2015: NATO bombs Syrian refineries! Russia dumps refugees on NATO Norway! Children from around the world fight & die in Syria!

“It’s my deep belief that any actions to the contrary in order to destroy the legitimate government will create a situation which you can witness now in the other countries of the region or in other regions, for instance in Libya, where all the state institutions are disintegrated. We see a similar situation in Iraq……there is no other solution to the Syrian crisis than strengthening the effective government structures and rendering them help in fighting terrorism.”-Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

Police in NATO member Kingdom of Norway reports hundreds of refugees from Syria are flooding into their country via Russia.  The Syrians are given Russian travel visas in Syria, then once in Russia they head toward Norway.

U.S. backed insurgents with brand new Chevy (General Motors) gun-trucks. The U.S. DoD now admits U.S. trained rebels gave their brand new U.S. supplied equipment to DAESH!

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports they’ve discovered that many of the children being forced to fight and die in Syria, by U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed insurgents, are actually from other countries.  They traced many child soldiers back to central Asia, specifically Kazakhstan and Turkistan.  Two DAESH (Islamic State) child soldiers reportedly executed two insurgents accused of being spies for Russia.  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reports that many pro-government local militias (National Defense Forces) are using what they call cub-fighters, or young teenagers.  YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units) are also accused of using child soldiers, however it should be noted that ‘humanitarian’ groups consider anybody younger than 18 a child soldier, that means I was a child soldier in the U.S. Army back in 1982.  I joined the U.S. Army the day I turned 17 years old.  One of my grandfathers joined the USMC when he was 16.  I had relatives younger than that fighting in the War Between the States (U.S. Civil War).  What matters is if the ‘child’ is being forced or tricked into fighting, or did they join up of their own free will?

More details on that reported ceasefire agreement. It was brokered by Iranian and Turkish diplomats through the United Nations.  It involves only Lebanese Resistance Regiments (Hezbollah) and non-DAESH (Islamic State) insurgents operating along the border between Lebanon and Syria.  Apparently the fighters who agreed to the ceasefire are tired of fighting each other and want to leave the areas they’ve occupied.  It also allows wounded civilians to leave so they can get medical help, and releases 5-hundred POWs.

Amazing, is this the Stairway to Heaven? A survivor of massive airstrikes in Syria.

Aleppo Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army claims to have killed 60 U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed insurgents along with an ammo depot. A civilian killed and several wounded. Battles raged between local militias (officially known as National Defense Forces) and Lebanese Resistance Regiments (Hezbollah) on one side and U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed Jabhat al-Nusra on the other.  There was a report that U.S. led NATO launched airstrikes in the northern area of the governorate after midnight, however, the only U.S. Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve mention of airstrikes on this day were against DAESH vehicles mainly in Iraq, claiming one DAESH vehicle in Syria’s Hasakah Governorate (on the Iraq border) was hit by coalition planes.  Reports that YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units) units attacked DAESH (Islamic State) controlled Jarablis City, “killing and injuring dozens of terrorists”.  In Aleppo City, a report that a Syrian anti-government rebel was killed by U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed DAESH insurgents.   Battles continue for control of the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles, of course that’s probably not what it’s called in Syria, but just think of all the personal records those insurgents will get their hands on if they capture the DMV) in Harasta City. Reports made it sound like various insurgent groups are also fighting each other to see who gets to control the DMV!

Damascus (Rif Dimashq) area: Syrian Arab Army and Air Force claims to have killed 14 U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed insurgents in farm areas.  28 barrel bombs reportedly dropped around the Beit Jin farm.  Airstrikes and artillery bombardment of Douma City, at least three people killed.  DAESH chopped off the head of a wounded old man in Wadi Barada market.  They accused him of being a spy.

Daraa Governorate:   Syrian Arab Army claims to have destroyed a convoy of U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) gun-trucks near the al-Sultan fuel refinery.  Insurgents were also attacked just to the south of the SyriaTel telecommunications building in al-Balad neighborhood of Daraa City.    Reports say U.S./U.K. backed Jordanian border guards shot and killed a Syrian as he was walking across the border.

Deir Ezzor Governorate:  Reports that U.S. led NATO bombed the Kuniko fuel refinery.  However, the only U.S. Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve mention of airstrikes on this day were against DAESH vehicles mainly in Iraq, claiming one DAESH vehicle in Syria’s Hasakah Governorate (on the Iraq border) was hit by coalition planes.

YPG T72 Russian made panzers defend Rojava against U.S. made DAESH (Islamic State)!

Hasakah Governorate:  DAESH attacked positions held by YPG near Tal Barak town.

Homs Governorate:  Syrian Arab Army Air Force launched massive airstrikes against U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed DAESH around Tadmur (Palmyra).  Reports say besides dozens of DAESH killed or wounded, one civilian killed and dozens of civilians wounded.  A DAESH insurgent killed in the battle for Sha’er oil field.  Battles also raged for control of Syria’s largest airbase known as T4.

Idlib Governorate: Reports that 15 people were killed by Syrian Arab Army Air Force airstrikes.

Lattakia Governorate:  A wild fire was started in the Jabal al-Turkman area, by Syrian airstrikes.

Quneitra Governorate: Syrian Arab Army and Air Force report major battles across the governorate with insurgents being supplied by Israel (right across the border). Nusra Front insurgents came within 7km (4 miles) of Quneitra City.  Independent reports of major battles between pro-government militias and insurgents.

Sweida Governorate: The local secretary of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party has been kidnapped by U.S.-EU-Saudi-Israeli backed insurgents.  His POV (personally owned vehicle) was founded burnt out.

Syria, 24 September 2015: “the Americans have not delivered any weapons or ammunition to the YPG.”-Saleh Muslim, Kurdish Democratic Union Party

Idaho

2015 Chubbuck Days Car Show

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Click/tap the pics (by AAron B. Hutchins) to make bigger and read the text:

2014 Chubbuck Days Car Show

For kit builders: REVELL 1937 FORD PICKUP, OR WHY MODEL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE WRONG!

Business/Economics

What U.S. automotive industry recovery? Vehicle manufacturing & sales job destruction for 2014

Incomplete list of publicly revealed U.S. automotive related industry shutdowns and layoff announcements made in the Gregorian year of 2014:

Russian steel company Severstal selling off its factories in Deerborn, Michigan, and in Columbus, Mississippi. At least 25-hundred jobs affected! The company was supplying steel for Ford tough trucks, but the new Ford F-150 will be made of aluminum (cans?).

Alabama: After 60 years Graysville Tire Store shutdown.

California:  In Sacramento, Harrold Ford car dealer gave state employment administrators a two days notice of laying off 120 employees! The WARN posting says reason “Not known at this time”.    In La Mesa, car dealer Drew Ford issued a WARN saying it was shutting down due to its sale to a competitor, 281 jobs in limbo!   In Carson, U.S. Auto Parts Network shutdown their distribution center in August, 78 jobs lost.   Car dealer California Superstores shutdown three locations across the Golden State, 203 jobs lost by August!  In San Diego, Midway Jeep Chrysler Dodge Ram shutdown in August, 96 jobs lost.  In San Jose, car dealer Courtesy Chevrolet shutdown in July, 100 jobs lost!  In Roseville, caranything.com killed at least 99 jobs.  In Chino, automotive parts maker Senior Operations/CAPO killed 131 jobs!  Maker of car batteries Exide Technologies killed off 61 jobs at their Los Angeles ops. The battery maker and recycler is also under federal investigation for emissions violations.  In San Jose, Capitol Expressway Ford warned they will render 102 people jobless in December!

Florida: It has been confirmed that Bonita Springs based publisher of many automotive magazines (Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Camaro Performers, GM Hi-Tech, Super Chevy, Import Tuner, Honda Tuning, Super Street, etc), Source Interlink, killed more than 5-thousand jobs at the end of May! Those jobs were in California, Florida and Michigan. The parent company, Source Home Entertainment, went chapter 11 bankrupt busted! Officials with the publisher-distributor blame e-books and “the continuing overhang of the economic downturn” creating a “difficult operating environment”. Company officials also admitted that hundreds of each magazine issue has had to be destroyed at additional costs, because nobody is buying them! 20 years ago there were about 400 magazine wholesalers in the U.S., with the demise of Source Interlink there are now only two!

Georgia: In McDonough, the World’s largest maker of small engines Briggs & Stratton shutdown a factory, 270 jobs lost: “We have not been able to get the McDonough plant running at full capacity for several years. That, and market conditions, have made it even more difficult.”-Laura Timm, public affairs

Illinois: In Chicago, it was revealed that 1-hundred Ford employees were fired on Halloween. Ford administrators said they notified the employees via ‘robocall’, yet many employees said they thought the electronic message was somebody’s Halloween joke.   Isn’t that kind of chicken shit of Ford, to use a type of messaging service to tell employees they’re fired?  Moline based farm vehicle maker Deere (formerly known as John Deere) announced they will kill more than 600 jobs in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas! Some inside reports say it’s more like 1-thousand jobs killed! Company officials blame crashing sales.  Peoria based heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar reports their sales crashed by 12% from March through May. It’s all part of the big mining shutdown conspiracy around the World.  As a result Caterpillar shutdown four of its Anchor Coupling production and logistics facilities, at least 170 full time jobs lost!   Fiat-Chrysler laid off 325 people in Belvidere! It’s blamed on a 37% drop in sales of the new Dodge Dart.

Indiana:  In Mishawaka, taxsucker, and maker of the (in)famous Hummer, AM General (formerly part of American Motors Corporation [AMC]) laid off 60 people. However, the company had actually recalled 200 people earlier in the year due to increased demand for the military general utility machine.  In Kokomo, General Motors (GM) revealed they laid off an undisclosed number of employees at their computer control module factory.   In a surprise announcement, Monaco RV shutdown their towable recreational vehicle factory in Elkhart, 160 jobs lost! It’s blamed on the 2013 takeover by Allied Specialty Vehicles (ASV). Officials with ASV say towable campers are no longer money makers.  Truck maker Navistar International announced they’re shutting down their Indianapolis foundry by the summer of 2015, at least 180 jobs lost! Company administrators say the suck-ass economy is forcing them to get their parts from a cheap-o-contractor instead of making them in their own foundry!

Iowa: Farm vehicle maker Deere continues job killing, this time 462 people in Waterloo are now jobless!  That’s on top of the previously announced Deere layoffs in Illinois.

Kansas: Farm equipment maker AGCO tried to blame their factory shutdown and killing of at least 111 jobs on the embargo against U.S. farm equipment by Russia, however, ag analysts say it’s really the suck-ass economy: “With depressed crop prices, farmers don’t want to spend money, and large equipment dealers like John Deere, like AGCO, are starting to see the effects, and they’re being proactive.”-John Jenkinson, The Ag Network

Massachusetts: Boston based Hill Holiday advertising laid off employees after losing GM’s Cadillac contract.

Michigan:  Detroit based General Motors (GM) announced they are cutting back on car production in Russia, due to crashing sales.  In Lansing, GM revealed that 450 people at its Grand River Assembly Plant could become jobless in early 2015! It’s blamed on crashing sales of upscale Cadillacs.  GM also killing off at least 160 jobs at its Buick and Chevy Orion Assembly Plant by the end of 2015 (they hope production will go up when they introduce the new Camaro)!  Five Suski’s used car lots across two counties shutdown!  Plastic parts maker for the automotive industry Flint Hills Resources shutting down their Marysville plant by mid-2015, at least 75 jobs lost. Company administrators said that despite their best efforts the factory could not “remain competitive”.

Minnesota:  In Minneapolis, Borton Volvo shutdown. They were the last new car dealer in the city. The owner blames city officials for changing zoning laws, now he’s building a mega dealership outside city limits (less tax revenue for the dumb city officials).  However, U.S. Volvo dealers might have a hard time getting new cars to sell as Sweden based Volvo said they lost so much money at the end of 2013 that they had to kill 4,400 jobs around the world in 2014! And that’s on top of the previous 2-thousand job cuts announced at the end of 2013!  After five years of selling Italian motorcycles, Ducati Motors shutdown in the Lyn-Lake area: “We are closing because we are unable to be profitable.”-Merrill Ferguson

Missouri:  In Saint Joseph, car battery maker Johnson Controls laid off 29 employees. They blame “technology advances”.

Nevada:  Reports say construction on one of two secret Tesla Motors Gigafactories in Reno was stopped. No reason given, Tesla officials refused coment. The Gigafactories supposedly will make lithium-ion batteries for electric cars.

New Hampshire:  In Newport, after 80 years City Auto RV Superstore announced they will shutdown sometime in 2015. The current owner says she’s going back to being a nurse.

New York: Manhattan Ford Lincoln shutdown in September, 245 jobs lost!   In several cities across the state Long Island Automotive Group-Land Rover dealers shutdown, 243 jobs lost!   General Motors (GM) shutdown their Treasury Operations in September, 46 jobs lost.  In Owego, France based automotive electronics maker Asteelflash laid off 34 U.S. employees, blaming the bad economy.  In Newburgh, after 65 years Dabrusin Auto Parts shutdown. The owner said the automotive market is so bad that he talked his daughter out of taking over the business!

North Dakota: Reports that Case-International Harvester  eliminated 40 farm vehicle making jobs in Fargo.

Ohio:  After 118 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) E.T. Paul Tire Company shutdown, ironically by the state Department of Transportation to make way for a new road!   Japan based YSK laid off 19 people at its Chillicothe car parts factory. Company administrators were surprised by their crashing sales: “While a difficult decision and an unprecedented one in its 25 year history, YSK’s Management Team felt that it was necessary for the long term health of the company.”

Oklahoma: Auto parts maker Federal Mogul revealed they will shutdown their recently acquired Oklahoma City factory in 2015, at least 165 jobs lost!  Federal Mogul took over the factory from Affina Group in June 2014.

Pennsylvania:  In Shady Grove, heavy construction vehicle maker Manitowoc Cranes, killed 250 jobs! Company officials blame it on crashing orders, which represent crashing building construction.  Only four years after Swedish vehicle maker Volvo set up shop in Shippensburg, Volvo administrators revealed they will shutdown specific heavy construction vehicle production, not only in the U.S. but in Poland and Brazil, killing off at least 1-thousand jobs into 2015!

South Carolina:  In Spartanburg County, after only four years France based car parts maker Faurecia shutdown, 150 jobs lost!  Heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar shutdown its Fountain Inn factory, 510 jobs lost!

Tennessee:  Custom transmission company Keisler Engineering went chapter 7 bankrupt busted. Company officials blame competitors for spreading rumors that the company was shutting down, but yet at the same time they confirmed the company is shutting down: “The order cancellations created a cash flow problem for KE, and placed new customer orders at risk. I took the initiative to refund all new order deposits going back to Thursday January 9 2014 once I realized the company was at risk of closure…”-Shafi Keisler

Vermont: Plasan Carbon Composites shutdown their Bennington operations in May, consolidating to Michigan, 143 jobs lost! The company makes carbon parts for the Dodge Viper and Chevy Corvette. However, company officials say they might figure out a way to use the factory to make armor plate made from carbon.  White River Junction based turbo engineering company, Concepts NREC, laid off employees across several New England states.

Virginia:  Roanoke based Advanced Auto Parts announced the shutdown of 100 stores across the U.S.! And that’s just the beginning, officials calling it their “first round” of store closings! Thousands of jobs will be lost! It’s the result of their takeover of rival Carquest-General Parts in 2013 (company officials say there are just far too many auto parts stores in the U.S., and they need to be culled). But wait, there’s more! Advanced Auto was awarded $17.4-million USD in taxpayer incentives, if they created 600 new jobs in Virginia! One news report said many of those ‘new’ jobs will actually be former Carquest employees simply re-hired by Advanced Auto.

Wisconsin: Tax sucking military truck maker Oshkosh laid off as many as 1,130 people in 2014! Company administrators proudly stated that despite the reduction in sales “We’re still the number one global manufacturer of tactical wheeled vehicles for the military”.   Oshkosh killed at least 900 jobs in 2013!  In Oshkosh, taxsucking AxleTech laid off 65 people. Company administrators blamed “a sharp decline in demand for military-grade axles and components”.