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Harvey: Singapore joins Texas Militia!

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“This was a small gesture to express our appreciation and gratitude to the U.S., and in particular the State of Texas, which have been good hosts for our Peace Prairie Detachment.”-Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s Prime Minister

Singapore Air Force CH-47 Chinook in Texas

Since 1996 Singapore has based a small unit at the Grand Prairie Army Aviation Support Facility in Dallas.  They’ve helped out the Texas National Guard with other natural disasters like Hurricane Floyd in 1999, fire and flood operations in Texas in 2000, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

HARVEY: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE JOINS RESCUE OPS!

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Harvey Food Crisis: Massive food delivery ops for Texas underway!

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Video, U.S. Army Fort Hood personnel join Meals on Wheels to deliver food supplies to Houston:

Video, Texas National & State Guard units distributing food supplies in Victoria:

Video, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Auxiliary Airfield CH-47 Chinook loaded with pallets of Meal Ready Eat (MRE):

Official USN video of food deliveries via sea:

Video U.S. Coast Guard food delivery ops, Corpus Christi:

HARVEY: CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE DELIVERS AID WITH WORLD WAR 2 AIRCRAFT

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, AUGUST 2017: HARVEY KILLS TEXAS CROPS?

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Harvey: C-A-F delivers aid with World War 2 aircraft

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t was once called the Confederate Air Force (formerly Confederate Air Corps), but for politically correct reasons the name was changed to Commemorative Air Force (CAF) in 2002.

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

CAF’s mission is normally to restore old combat planes, but on 02SEP2017 they used one of their restored birds to deliver food aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey.

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

The U.S. Army Reserve’s Echo Company, 7th Battalion (General Support Aviation Battalion) 158th Aviation Regiment joined with the Commemorative Air Force in loading up an old C-47 cargo plane to bring supplies to people in the Orange area of Texas.

https://www.facebook.com/CommemorativeAF/videos/10155594289787510/?t=36

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

‘Bluebonnet Belle’ delivered 3-thousand-8-hundred pounds of supplies to the residents in the area of Orange, Texas.

U.S. Army Reserve photo by Captain Loyal Auterson, 02SEP2017.

The CAF C-47 is operated by the Highland Lakes chapter, based in Burnet, Texas.

Update:  On 21JUL2018, the ‘Bluebonnet Belle’ crashed and burned while taking off from its home port of Burnet, Texas. News reports said nobody was hurt.

Fox7 Austin: Survivor of Bluebonnet Belle crash files suit against plane operator

HARVEY: TEXAS MILITIA RESCUES NEW MASCOT, NAMED HARVEY!

HARVEY: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?

HARVEY: ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE JOINS RESCUE OPS!

HARVEY: BEAUMONT CATASTROPHE

HARVEY: KENTUCKY MILITIA RESCUE OPS!

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Harvey: What happens to your pets?

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Texas Army National Guard rescue flood victim’s dog in Orange, Texas. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Carl Greenwell, 04SEP2017.

U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety Security Team San Francisco rescues a puppy in the Port Arthur area of Texas. USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Valerie Higdon, 01SEP2017.

USCG Sector Lower Mississippi River joins with Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon, 02SEP2017.

Video, Darlene Chandler of Harris County Precinct One Constable’s Office praises U.S. Coast Guard’s efforts to save pets and livestock:

Livestock trapped on a sliver of dry land, U.S. Army photo by Specialist Dustin D. Biven, 03SEP2017.

Video, Alabama National Guard drops hay to stranded Texas livestock:

U.S. Customs & Border Patrol rescued pets in Rockport, Texas. USCBP photo by Glenn Fawcett, 27AUG2017.

USCG sailor with Maritime Safety Security Team Seattle rescues a dog in the Beaumont area of Texas. USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Valerie Higdon, 01SEP2017.

Cypress Creek, Texas. Texas Army National Guard photo by Captain Martha Nigrelle, 28AUG2017.

WORLD ANIMAL DAY: EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS DURING WAR? IT AIN’T PRETTY!

International, U.S.

Harvey: Royal Canadian Air Force joins rescue ops!

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RCAF CC-130J Hercules at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Kelly Field, Texas, 03SEP2017

The British empire’s (Commonwealth of Nations, aka The Commonwealth) Royal Canadian Air Force (also a member of NATO) delivered supplies to Texas.   Official USAF video report:

SHHH, DON’T “CROSSTELL”, BUT U.S. AIR MILITIA UNITS & CANADA PREPPING FOR TFR EMERGENCY!

MARYLAND MILITIA SPENDS MEMORIAL WEEKEND RESCUING PILOTS IN CANADA!

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Harvey: Beaumont catastrophe

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“…it’s horrific. I have lived here my whole life. I have been a cop for my whole adult life and I have never seen anything like this.”-James Singletary, Beaumont police chief, PBS Newshour interview 04SEP2017

Video Beaumont rail yard flyover, 02 SEP 2017:

“There were at least 150 adults and 1-hundred kids, along with 15 animals. That was the first day. The other vehicles were only able to carry three people at a time, and ours could transport twenty-five to thirty people at a time.”-Sergeant Ronald Allen, U.S. Army reserve

Texas Army & Air National Guard set up a field hospital in the parking lot of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Beaumont, due to the hospital being damaged by Harvey

By 02 SEP 2017 U.S. Army Reserve personnel assisted in more than 7-hundred evacuations of people, 170 pets, and transported more than 1-hundred emergency personnel to critical locations.

Texas Militia personnel hand out MRE (Meal Ready Eat) to flood victims in Beaumont, 03SEP2017

As of 04 SEP 2017 at least 3-thousand flooded Beaumont homes are still inaccessible.  Video of Texas National Guard searching Beaumont’s flooded neighborhoods, 03 SEP 2017:

U.S. Army and Navy personnel load-up a MH-60S SeaHawk with drinking water for Beaumont, 03SEP2017

Due to the unprecedented flooding, and the failure of Beaumont’s fresh water pumps, there is no drinkable water.  Video of Army Reserve CH-47 Chinook loaded with volunteers delivering 49 U.S. tons of fresh water (supposedly donated by an “anonymous billionaire”) to Beaumont, 02 SEP 2017:

U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules, from North Carolina, delivering drinking water for Beaumont, 03SEP2017

“We got the call to come over to east Texas, into Beaumont, Lumberton and Port Arthur areas. So we’ve been doing humanitarian missions, going out with the swift water rescue survival team and finding areas that traditional military vehicles cannot get in and out of. The amphibious assault vehicles help us get to those areas.”-Gunnery Sergeant Alan Daigle, USMC Reserve

Marines rescued almost 1-thousand-3-hundred people and countless pets/livestock from the affected areas.

U.S. marines confer with mayor of Rosehill Acres, a town just north of Beaumont

Video of USMC Reserve operation to deliver supplies to Red Cross warehouse in Beaumont:

BlackHawk flies over Beaumont, Texas, 03SEP2017

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“We moved quickly and quietly.”: Dumbing Down the U.S. of A., August 2017

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

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

theguardian: Pics of Civil War statues being torn down across the U.S.

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

Alabama:  Books-A-Million shutdown its month old 2nd & Charles branded store in Madison, supposedly to build a new store nearby.

California:  Iconic privately owned Hollywood Forever Cemetery caved in to threats from pinko commies and removed a Civil War monument.  The United Daughters of the Confederacy took the monument saying they were tired of people defacing it and denying history.  High levels of lead were found in the water at several locations of the San Diego Unified School District (including the district HQ).  Lead is proven to ‘dumb down’ (retard) children.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ non-profit Shepherd University from going bankrupt and shutting down, local news reports say the theological college refused to give financial details. In Fresno, god powerless(?) to help ‘his’ Saint Helen’s elementary school pay its $500-thousand USD debt, however, the school remains open because a mysterious human came along and gave the Catholic school $250-thousand which then resulted in other humans donating money to save the school!   In Reseda, after 57 years Continental Art Supplies shutdown so the owner can retire.

Connecticut:  Middletown eliminating 11 teacher jobs funded by a special state taxpayer backed grant, which was canceled due to lack of taxpayer funding.   Silly uneducated teachers, don’t they know that when your economy is in a Death Spiral you can’t generate the taxes needed to support bloated taxpayer funded schools?

Florida:  College Book & Supply shutting down its store near University of Central Florida, due to a property development project.  In Tampa, pinko commies defaced a privately owned Civil War statue.  The statue is not on public land.  In an effort to deny the factual reality of the history of the United States, pinko commie leaders of Gainsville tore down a Civil War statue and returned it to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who made a simple statement: “We accept the Confederate Soldier Statue.”

Idaho: 10 former Idaho State University athletes threatening to retract $80-thousand USD in donations if the university president and the athletic director don’t resign, because “…we believe the state of ISU athletics is at an all-time low. When comparing ISU to its Big Sky peers, it’s easy to see that ISU is at the bottom of the league in facilities. Coaches’ pay, fundraising efforts and competitive records for revenue sports are also among the worst in the Big Sky Conference.”   Then suddenly, without warning, ISU president Arthur Vailas resigned!  Officially he said he was “retiring”.  ISU also reported that ‘preliminary’ overall enrollment is down for the Fall Semester, again, despite Freshman enrollment being up by about 2-hundred.

Illinois: In Chicago, supposed christian Bishop James E. Dukes is demanding a statue of the 1st President of the United States, George Washington, be torn down!   Chicago Public Schools conducted (yet again) a new round of layoffs, this time at least 950 people now jobless!  Both the teacher’s union and the state gov-na blamed it on inept management by Chicago’s ‘elected’ leaders.

Iowa: After 42 years the Metro Arts Alliance of Greater Des Moines shutdown due to lack of donations.

Kentucky:  In an effort to deny the factual reality of the history of the United States, pinko commie leaders of Lexington announced the removal of two Civil War statues, claiming they will be relocated.

Louisiana: The Orleans Parish School Board unanimously agreed to provided illegal immigrant children with a U.S. taxpayer funded education. 

Maryland: In an effort to deny the factual reality of the history of the United States, pinko commie leaders of Baltimore tore down four Civil War statues in the dead of night.  “We moved quickly and quietly.” boasted ‘elected’ mayor Catherine Pugh.  A ‘Civil War’ statue in Annapolis will also be removed.

Minnesota:  Lyon County Museum’s 14 years old thrift store shutdown due to a sudden crash in sales in the past eight months.  Even though it’s a county museum it is not funded with taxes and was relying 100% on donations and its thrift store sales.   Another reason for the shutdown is taxpayers began using the thrift store as a trash can, resulting in the museum having to pay huge trash removal fees: “We were spending a lot of money getting rid of trash. It is an ongoing problem. People bring stuff here that people know full and well should be on the way to the dump.”-Mike Hagan

Nevada: Returning students discovered that Sierra Nevada College had laid off six teachers over the Summer.  Administrators blamed it on crashing enrollments.

New York:  In an effort to deny the factual reality of the history of the United States, pinko commies are demanding the American Museum of Natural History remove its statue of the 26th President of the United States; Theodore Roosevelt!

North Carolina: After 38 years, the Piedmont Council for the Arts announced it will shutdown as soon as financial and legal matters are settled.   In Wilmington, two Civil War statues were defaced by an obviously under-educated Big Brother Double Speak loving gang of pinko commies  in an effort to deny the factual reality of the history of the United States.   In Durham, an obviously under-educated Big Brother Double Speak loving gang of pinko commies tore down a Civil War statue in an effort to deny the factual reality of the history of the United States.  So far four people were arrested, at least two were promptly released after being charged with several crimes.

Pennsylvania: Native Americans are pissed as imperialist leaders of Pittston re-erected a statue of Christopher Columbus after spending $65-thousand U.S. tax dollars repairing it.  In Center City, a man was arrested for defacing a statue of a former city mayor.  Obviously the man was desperate for attention because he did it in daylight in front of visible cameras.

Texas:  In Temple, after only a few months of operations non-profit Central Texas School for the Performing Arts shutdown without warning, blaming it on a massive lack of financial and moral support from the local community.    Newsweek reported that Hurricane Harvey shutdown hundreds of school districts and some might not ever reopen: “These schools are going to be affected for at least a couple of months. It’ll be December before some can even be functional.”-Dan Domenech, American Association of School Administrators

Washington: The city ‘leaders’ of Seattle are proven commie pinkos as they allowed the erection of a statue to Russian communist Vladimir Lenin.

Dumbing Down July 2017: “OF ALL THE MONEY WE SPEND ON EDUCATION, LESS THAN 32% GOES TO TEACHERS.”

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“gut-wrenching decisions” Harvey kills U.S. oil industry?: U.S. Industrial/Mining/Logistics Layoffs, August 2017

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in August 2017.

31% of U.S. fuel refining operations shutdown by Hurricane Harvey.  The largest fuel pipeline shutdown (Colonial Pipeline), halting 3-million barrels per day (bpd) of refined fuel to the eastcoast.  1-million barrels of oil released from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  Contrary to what many main stream news media reports implied (that fuel prices should go down due to the release of stored oil) the problem is not lack of oil but lack of refined fuel, and as such the price of gasoline is going up (there’s so much oil available globally that the price of oil actually dropped after Harvey).

 California:  Oil exploration company Brinderson issued a shutdown WARN for its El Segundo location, 204 jobs gone by mid-October!  What construction industry recovery?  Contractor Irwin Industries issued shutdown WARNs for eight locations, at least 250 jobs gone in October!  In Anaheim, Universal Alloy eliminating 149 jobs by October!  KapStone Container Corporation shutting down its Oakland ops, 67 jobs gone by October.

Colorado:  What construction industry recovery?  Castle Rock based Xtreme Xcavating now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to a larger contractor screwing them over by lying about hazardous materials at the job site: “We found ground water, we found asbestos, we found all sorts of crazy stuff, all sorts of different changes that weren’t listed when we signed up for the contract.”-Sean Fabela

Georgia: What auto industry recovery?  Atlanta based automotive publisher Cox Automotive initiated “gut-wrenching decisions” resulting in 225 people retired early through bribery (buyouts), the elimination of vacant positions and 950 people being outright laid off by September!  It’s due to several causes like slow sales and Cox Automotive’s takeovers of competitors (resulting in redundant jobs).

Illinois:  Nuclear decontamination company Aptim suddenly laid off more than 4-hundred people, blaming it on the sudden cancellation of a contract!  In Cahokia, Jet Aviation Saint Louis issued a shutdown WARN, 347 jobs gone by March 2018 due to lack of sales!  What construction industry recovery?  Skanska suddenly laid off 18 HQ employees, blaming it on “redundancies”.  Skanska is considered one of the top global construction companies.  General Electric (GE) shutdown its 71 years old light factory in Mattoon, local news reports said at one time the factory employed 1-thousand-8-hundred people!  Plastics maker Amcor shutting down its factory in Batavia, 110 jobs gone by March 2018!  What automotive industry recovery?  Semi-Truck maker Navistar shutting down its medium-duty 9/10 liter engine factory in Melrose Park, 170 jobs gone by April 2018!  It’s blamed on emission regulations: “Looking at the financial impact it would take to keep this engine compliant with Environmental Protection Agency standards, it just wasn’t in the cards.”

Indiana: Railroad job killing continues as CSX eliminating an undisclosed number of jobs at its Avon rail-yard.  Deufol North America issued a layoff WARN, about 250 people jobless after September, no reason given!

Iowa:  Packaging company Westrock issued a shutdown WARN, 80 jobs gone by the end of September.

Kansas:  Farm equipment maker AGCO halting production and idling 2-hundred factory workers for at least four months, due to lack of sales!

Kentucky:  Coal company Booth Energy issued a WARN, 217 jobs gone in September as a result of shutdown of coal mining ops!

Louisiana: Oil industry supply company Knight Energy Holdings now chapter 11 bankrupt busted after the CEO, and two policemen, were charged with staging a false drug bust in order to frame the CEO’s brother! 

Maryland: Baltimore based clothing maker Under Armour eliminating 280 jobs due to continued low revenues (despite slight increase in sales, and despite direct retail selling on its website)!

Missouri:  General Dynamics halting operations at its Jet Aviation Saint Louis factory, 330 jobs gone in 2018!  Nebraska based maker of store fixtures Lozier laying off 92 people at its Spartan Showcase factory, which is being shutdown in October.

Nebraska:  Omaha based railroad giant Union Pacific eliminating 750 jobs by mid-September, proving the economy sucks by saying “Union Pacific for some time has leveraged employee attrition and technology to reduce general and administrative costs. Unfortunately, attrition alone will not keep pace with our need and ability to reduce these costs.“

New Jersey:  Aluminum Shapes suddenly laid off 13% of employees due to being hit by a $1.9-million USD fine for 51 violations of labor safety laws, including chemical burns and even broken bones!

New York: New ‘green’ packaging maker Evocative Design suddenly laid off 18 people, despite getting a taxpayer funded $9.1-million USD grant from Defense Department’s DARPA.    British empire Canada based Cascades shutting down and selling off its packaging factory in NYC, 148 jobs gone!   General Electric (GE) shutting down its electronic board factory in Rochester Science Park, 145 jobs being affected by GE’s plan to off-shore production to China!  Nuclear contractor Lutech Resources suddenly laid off 195 people, due to sudden contract cancellation by Aptim!  Nuclear decontamination company Aptim suddenly laid off 167 people, blaming it on the sudden cancellation of a contract with Exelon Generation Company!  Jay Strongwater shutting down its pewter factory in Union Springs, 29 jobs gone by Xmas, the property was sold-off.  New York Air Brake getting the hell outta The Empire State as it shuts down its operations in Watertown and consolidates ‘peripheral product assembly production’ to North Carolina starting in November.

North Carolina: Plastics maker General Foam Products (General Foam Plastics) issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Tarboro, 215 jobs gone by Xmas!

Ohio: Canton based Suarez Corporation Industries chapter 11 bankrupt busted blaming massive lawsuits.  LSI Industries suddenly laid off 75 people.  In Carrollton, dlhBOWLES Engineering Manufacturing and Fluid Management factory suddenly laid off 94 people in a sudden decision to shutdown the factory.

Pennsylvania:  California based oil engineering company AECOM issued a WARN, 108 people in Carlisle jobless by January 2018 due to loss of contract!  Fuel station operator Sunoco suddenly laid off 94 HQ employees, and many hundreds more employees will become unemployed as Sunoco sold its fuel station ops to competitor 7-Eleven!    Excel-DHL Supply Chain issued a mass layoff WARN, 223 jobs gone by January 2018! Nuclear decontamination company Aptim suddenly laid off almost 3-hundred people!  Nuclear contractor Lutech Resources suddenly laid off 90 people.  What construction industry recovery? Lancaster based flooring maker Armstrong announced it will shutdown factories in Mississippi and Tennessee, more than 3-hundred jobs gone due to a 22% crash in profits!

South Carolina: Formerly Japan owned (Toshiba) U.S. tax-sucking bankrupt nuclear power plant builder Westinghouse suddenly laid off 850 people! Westinghouse now hit with a lawsuit claiming the tax-sucking company was violating federal labor laws.  Boeing offering hundreds of North Charleston employees bribes to quite (buyouts) after already laying off 2-hundred people!

Tennessee: Resolute Forest Products halting newsprint paper making at its Calhoun paper factory, 222 jobs lost as part of its plan to focus on tissue making only!  Logistics company U.S. Xpress Enterprises suddenly laid off more than 1-hundred people “as part of a shift in company focus”!

Texas:  In Crosby, Harvey caused a chemical factory to lose power. The France owned Arkema chemical factory uses oil (petroleum) to make compounds used to create plastics.  The problem is that those compounds are sensitive to heat and will spontaneously burn or explode when they get too hot. So far several small explosions and fires have occurred.  A 2.4km (1.5-mile) radius around the factory has been evacuated.  Houston based offshore deep-water oil company Rowan laid off 85 people and warned more layoffs will be made in the near future. Industry reports say Rowan already eliminated 150 jobs prior to the August layoffs.  Houston based NRG Energy suddenly laid off 1-hundred employees!

Washington: Boeing issued yet another layoff WARN, this time 74 people jobless by October.

Wisconsin:  After more than 40 years pallet maker Thunder Pallet issued a shutdown WARN, 46 jobs gone in October.

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, July 2017: “BUSINESS HAD DECLINED SINCE 2008″