Tag Archives: immigrants

‘the new normal’: Immigrant Invasion, United States, February 2019

Incomplete list of immigrant operations affecting the United States taxpayers, February 2019.

More proof farmers are to blame: With fewer illegal workers to hire, U.S. farmers are reluctantly going through the process to hire legal guest workers

The Human Costs of Non-Enforcement of the Immigration Laws

Less than 5% of global refugee resettlement needs met last year

Wait Times for Citizenship Have Doubled in the Last Two Years

ALABAMA: Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Can’t Return Home

ALASKA: State hires taxpayer funded for-profit prison operator which has checkered past, including deaths of patients and employees at mental hospitals, and substandard care at immigrant detention centers.  

ARIZONA:  Border Patrol video of 3-hundred families flooding into Yuma, 25FEB2019:

New layers of concertina wire added to the border wall near Nogales.

CALIFORNIA: British empire Anglican (Church of England) priest arrested for sex crimes with immigrants: “Serna preyed on the undocumented because he knew they would be reluctant to talk to the police.”-police statement

Doctor going to prison for sex crimes against illegal immigrants because “…no one would believe them because they were undocumented.” 

Kamala Harris ‘mischaracterized’ past San Francisco policy on undocumented minors

Can winery workers get a visa?

COLORADO: immigrant teachers threatened with deportation if they join strikes (now you know one of the reasons school districts are hiring immigrant teachers)

ICE reports immigrants in Denver are bringing in mumps

U.S. Army 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s Alpha Company (based at Fort Carson) deploy for operations along the southwest border with Mexico, 15FEB2019.

CONNECTICUT: Illegal immigrant suspect in gruesome murder

FLORIDA: Undocumented immigrant captured after hit-and-run crash killed unborn child

gang kidnapped and tortured an illegal immigrant

Jewish illegal DACA immigrant now the student president of University of Central Florida

Criminal bankers from Ecuador caught trying to enter the U.S.

GEORGIA:  No Charges for Off-Duty ICE Officer in Fatal Shooting

U.S. Customs and Border Protection used scanners to ‘look inside’ food trucks making deliveries to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium prior to Super Bowl 53, in Atlanta.

IDAHO: Undocumented immigrant who had sex with a teen girl will likely get probation

ILLINOIS: panel recommends new immigrant detention center

IOWA:  Iowa does not require employers to check immigrant status of employees

KENTUCKY: Indian immigrants are flocking to Kentucky universities

LOUISIANA: Border Patrol arrests previously deported child sex offender

MARYLAND:  University denies request by students to suspend contract with ICE

MASSACHUSETTS: Massachusetts Attorney General Joins Brief To Protect Asylum Seekers

Woman accused of assaulting man in MAGA hat faces possible deportation

MICHIGAN: ICE Ran a Fake University in Michigan 

Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency

Gov’na blocks immigrant detention plan

Ex-Marine detained by ICE was racially profiled

MISSISSIPPI: Immigrants seeking asylum stop in Jackson every day. 

MONTANA: Border Patrol Detained Me for Speaking Spanish in Montana. Then My Town Turned Against Me.

NEVADA: Sheriff instructed corrections staff to stop alerting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement about arrests of low-level undocumented offenders.

NEW JERSEY: NJ gave 500 illegal immigrants money for college.

NEW MEXICO: Border Patrol detains 180 Central American migrants in Sunland Park

Gov’na Pulls National Guard Troops From Mexico Border

NEW YORK: Restaurant owner now in prison for intentionally hiring illegal immigrants as a way of avoiding taxes

12 Years Behind a Stove—An Undocumented Immigrant in NYC

NORTH CAROLINA: ‘the new normal,’ feds arrest 200 illegal immigrants

6 undocumented immigrants arrested for drug trafficking

ICE captures illegal migrant workers at Bear Creek Arsenal gun factory!

Immigrant living in Charlotte says undocumented immigrants “disrespect” the United States

OHIO: Unauthorized immigrant arrested after seeking detained son’s release

Teenager now promoting vaccinations even though his immigrant parents are anti-vaxxers

OKLAHOMA:  Saudi immigrant pleads guilty to operating a credit card scam, lying to the FBI and trying to join al Qaeda!

2 Oklahoma companies accused of human trafficking settle lawsuit 

OREGON: migrant farm contractor repeatedly failed federal and state inspections

Ruthless cartel violence drives a wave of asylum seekers

PENNSYLVANIA: Third Trump Club Fires Undocumented Workers

state police now limited in flagging undocumented immigrants

Illegal immigrant accused of raping a 12 years old girl

PUERTO RICO: In Need of Workers, the Midwest Recruits From Puerto Rico

TENNESSEE: schools are having to hire more English language learning teachers due to an influx in students who are in the country illegally

TEXAS: As El Paso region sees surge in migrant crossings, nonprofit groups’ support services feel the strain

white supremacists are cashing in by smuggling illegal immigrants

Third migrant dies in Border Patrol custody

ICE reports that immigrants in Houston are bringing mumps into the U.S.

Honduran migrant delivers stillborn baby

And now for some proof you can’t trust the news media; CNN claims Texans solidly against Trump…, while the Fort Worth Star-Telegram says Texans have mixed feelings about ……President…

Officers of the U.S. military, Border Patrol and Texas Department of Public Safety inspect patrol training as it was being conducted at Camino Real International Bridge, 06FEB2019.

UTAH:  Utah’s immigration judges tough on asylum seekers

VERMONT: Justice Department relents in immigration policy dispute with Vermont

VIRGINIA: Pentagon to send another 1000 troops to Mexican border

WASHINGTON: Undocumented man sentenced to prison for organized cocaine trafficking

Washington DC: Democrats willing to pay for 55 miles of new barrier.

The 26 Democrats Who Voted To Pass ICE Amendment In New anti-Gun Bill

Thousands of migrant children report they were sexually assaulted 

secretive ICE effort to make profits for privately run corporate prisons

refugee children leave Nauru for resettlement in U.S.

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin governor orders troops to leave southern border

Immigrant Invasion, United States, January 2019: “STOP INCENTIVIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION”

Valentines Hell:  BUYING FLOWERS FROM OVERSEAS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!

Operation Faithful Patriot: U.S. government shenanigans, October 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for October 2018:

 Operation Enduring Promise; As ObamaCare fails in the U.S., the U.S. Navy proudly created this graphic to show what your U.S. tax dollars were spent on providing ‘free’ medical care in Ecuador.

ALABAMA: At least 68 Selma city jobs on chopping block after budget oversight

DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy records audio of his boss extorting him over political campaign support

‘Beach House Sheriff’ used pistol permit fees to pay for TV commercials during political campaign

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency drug-cop sentenced for computer tampering, ethics charges

ALASKA: Gov. Bill Walker drops re-election bid days after deputy resigns

Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott abruptly resigns

Uninvestigated rape allegations, unfollowed tips on possible connections to a Mexican drug cartel, alleged plans to fly drugs in National Guard aircraft, and years of internal police department strife that led to all of it finally being revealed publicly.

ARKANSAS: Sheriff department in trouble for forcing detainees to wear Nike shirts for their mug shots

ARIZONA: State Parks bulldozed archaeological sites for cabins, trails

Temporary/seasonal park ranger gets subsidized taxpayer funded housing normally reserved for full time employees

CALIFORNIA: California Faces Some Big Problems. Are We Ready?

San Diego Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sentenced for Groping teenagers at Panda Express

Kern County Deputy takes plea deal in theft case

San Francisco deputy working for organized crime gets ‘slap-on-the-wrist’ sentence of three years probation

Man Who Died After Deputy Tased Him Was Unarmed

Dashcam footage released of California deputy repeatedly punching drunken suspect

Sheriff’s deputy crashes into home 

California Deputies Use Doritos To Round Up Rebellious Pig

Border Operation Faithful Patriot; U.S. military personnel inspect spools of barbed wire at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, 26OCT2018.

COLORADO: Washington County deputy arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a child

Mistrial declared in assault case against Adams County deputy

Deputy cleared in fatal McElmo Canyon shootout gets fired

In A Drying Climate, Colorado’s ‘Water Cop’ Patrols For Water Thieves

Public Paychecks: Colorado’s highest-paid state employees

North American Aerospace Defense Command-U.S. Northern Command, Colorado Springs, conducts a ‘synchronizer’ meeting for Operation Faithful Patriot, 28OCT2018.

CONNECTICUT: Ignorant elected officials apparently unaware that their massive bond issue actually created a mandated debt limit on taxpayer spending

University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity says Doctors are Making The Obesity Stigma Worse!

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a study warning of crumbling foundations that affect hundreds of homeowners in Connecticut.

DELAWARE: Retiring Lawmaker Takes newly created $95K State Job

New Castle County paying out more $100k salaries

Incorporating in Delaware: The Perks and Pitfalls

FLORIDA: Deputy suspected of disappearing two men now faces wrongful-death lawsuit

Polk Sheriff’s deputy sexually battered trainee 

Sheriff’s deputy plows patrol car into pickup truck, killing the pickup’s driver, same deputy reported brake failure the month before

Jackson County deputy accused of planting drugs and ‘hanky-panky’

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy and FBI Task Force Agent sentenced to three years of probation for lying on federal records

Trump praises America’s law enforcement during Orlando speech

U.S. Coast Guard captured 84 illegal immigrants from Haiti, 28OCT2018, supposedly they returned all of them to Haiti.

GEORGIA: deputy charged with child molestation

Richmond County deputy charged with theft, violation of oath

A city manager, county commissioner, assistant school principal and two former university employees are among those charged in a sexual misconduct case at Fort Valley State University

President Trump issues disaster declaration for Georgia

GUAM: EPA investigates drums in relation to Agent Orange

GDOE launches investigation on screaming teacher

Diploma scam linked to enrollment drop

Guam pushes for native-only vote on U.S. relationship

A.B. Won Pat Guam International Airport Authority accused of ‘fixing’ contract years in advance

HAWAII: No charges in stolen police drug case; deputy chief calls investigation

Cop’s home explodes, wife and daughter killed

Jury convicts Big Island officer in death

Authorities seize Hawaii Kai home of ex-police chief

IDAHO: Canyon County deputies get ‘slap-on-the-wrist’ sentence of 3 days in jail for planning to attack prisoner!

Ex-Cascade Police chief accused of stealing five taxpayer funded guns after taking job with another city’s police department, also encouraged retiring cops to keep their taxpayer funded guns!

Who does Idaho send to prison?

Former Idaho Stampede owner hit Boise official ‘upside the head’

ILLINOIS: S&P downgrades sales tax-backed Build Illinois bonds

The Worst Job in American Politics

94,000 Public Employees & Retirees Cost Taxpayers $12B

Joliet’s Deputy Chief Gets Huge Retirement Severance

Woman still seeking justice after she said a deputy raped her, twice

INDIANA: 15 public officials face charges for corruption

deputy found guilty on 11 counts

Summary judgment for former sheriff reversed after sexual assault allegations against deputy

deputy accidentally discharges firearm

IOWA:  Man sues Cherokee County deputy who shot dog

Woman in car during officer-involved shooting in Davenport says it was unjustified

Des Moines repeals new panhandling ordinance

LOUISIANA: Ascension Parish sergeant terminated after second DWI arrest

Avoyelles deputy’s certification revoked before fatal arrest; officers he hired also accused of abuse

grand jury scheduled to hear case involving deputy accused of sexual misconduct

St. Tammany deputy indicted, accused of falsifying DWI report

KANSAS: Deputy back in jail after two arrests on the same day

Deputy Collides With 3 Horses

sheriff’s deputy sentenced for lying about machine gun

sheriff to resign after admitting to selling a gun to a felon

Three Hutchinson Police officers fired following internal investigation

Sheriff’s office ‘extremely concerned,’ reviewing protocol in wake of reported sex acts between deputy and inmate

KENTUCKY: Unburied bodies, alleged harassment. Scandals central to Fayette coroner

LaRue deputy jailer indicted

jail corporal agrees to plead guilty to sexual misconduct

Graves County Sheriff’s Office employees send letter detailing accusations against sheriff

Border Operation Faithful Patriot; U.S. Army’s 89th Military Police Brigade (part of Task Force Griffin) prep their gear for deployment to Arizona, 27OCT2018.

MAINE: Woman sues corrections officer who sexually assaulted her 

Southwest Harbor town clerk indicted

District Attorney Candidate Facing Abuse Allegations

MARYLAND: The company that owns and operates the Maryland Airport now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to county officials changing the zoning laws

Report reveals abusive football culture at University of Maryland

‘Serious Inventory Control Problem’ in Maryland’s Body Donation Program Led to Mishandled human Remains

MASSACHUSETTS: Environmental Police boss suspended without pay

Natural Gas Explosions Highlight Tension Between Recovery and Long-Term Efficiency 

MICHIGAN: Deputy Charged With Morley Murder

state trooper accuses prosecutor of hiding evidence during sex assault trial

Eaton County sheriff’s clerk broke stalking condition, arrested again

prison guard takes plea in prisoner’s death

They look like cops, but they’re not. And they’re all over Michigan.

MINNESOTA: Itasca County deputy turned political candidate accused of ‘sexting’ use of taxpayer funded cell phone 

deputy pleads guilty to killing Perry man

County settles with sheriff’s deputy in retaliation lawsuit

deputy demoted after racist tweets sues to get his job back

Minnesota FBI Agent Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Leaking Documents

police accused of obstructing investigation into officer misconduct

MISSISSIPPI: video shows deputies forcing their way into a home without giving the residents a reason why

Tallahatchie County sheriff back in jail 

State Forester Resigns After DUI Arrest

MISSOURI: Gasconade County Sheriff’s deputy charged with sodomy

parole officer receives $550K settlement after hostile workplace claim due to her boss going ballistic over prisoner releases

Child molestation cases Against Law Enforcement Officer Continued Until January

MONTANA: deputy charged with having sex with 17 years old

Officer fired bullet into neighbor’s apartment, tried to cover it up

$265K contract to correct Montana voter info goes to company run by ex-GOP leader

Spending in Montana Senate race at record $60M

NEBRASKA: Deputy gives opioid overdose antidote to Lincoln officer

Three counties approved for 100% thru the mail voting

Nebraska concedes that ‘honestly, it’s not for everyone’

NEVADA: bombastic legal pimp and Assembly candidate, has died

Woman arrested in Carson City on nearly 30-year-old traffic ticket

suicide by cop

Immigration agents visit Lyon County brothels 

NEW HAMPSHIRE: ‘It’s a poll tax’: how New Hampshire became a battlefield for voting rights

State Supreme Court restores voter registration forms

refugee vying for a state house seat

Lawsuit Highlights Prison Inmate ‘Pay to Stay’ Law (What happens if they can’t pay? Do they get released? Oh, it’s slavery!)

NEW JERSEY:  Understanding The New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act

lawmakers miss yet another deadline for marijuana legalization vote (maybe they’re too stoned to vote?)

Minimum Wage Going up to $8.85

9th child dies at taxpayer funded, privately run, nursing home 

He blew the whistle on NJ Transit. He paid for it with his career.

deputy chief suing Atlantic City Police Department

Jersey City agency awards taxpayer funded contract to deputy mayor

NEW MEXICO: Prison violence hits 10 years high

deputy a no-show at contempt hearing

Judge rejects prosecution of Santa Fe cop

Santa Fe deputy city manager has left the building. And there won’t be a replacement.

NEW YORK: sheriff’s deputy sentenced for assault

New York ‘elected officials’ Knew Some Schools in Its $773 Million taxpayer raping Plan Were Likely to Fail. It Kept Children in Them Anyway.

Corrupt De Blasio Fires Investigations Chief, Citing Abuse of Power

NORTH CAROLINA: Law Enforcement Hypocrisy; A North Carolina woman is charged with killing her son after his death during a hurricane, yet two South Carolina cops were simply fired for abandoning two mental health patients, who died, during the same hurricane! 

NC jails on track for deadliest year.

NC plans to sell Rex Hospital 

Did North Carolina Admit to Targeting Black Voters with a ‘Voter ID’ Law?

NORTH DAKOTA: Supreme Court Makes It Harder for Tribal North Dakotans to Vote

Why 5 big pot busts were thrown out of court in North Dakota

OHIO: Rifle, shotgun stolen from Hamilton County unmarked cop car

Harris County deputy indicted in deadly shooting

A scammer is now using the names of actual cops in an attempt to dupe people out of their money

Fired state agriculture director says he was give no reason for it (welcome to Right-to-Work [you over] laws bi-yatch!)

OKLAHOMA: Lawton Veteran Services Center in danger of closing

 Mayes County Deputy Sheriff turns himself in

Three cops arrested for 2017 traffic stop

Man pretended to be sheriff’s deputy in order to rob lawn care workers

13 years old girl identifies cop as her rapist

OREGON: More proof the left-wing liberal state is (and a possible covert civil war between cops and the military) evil as cops recorded their own personal video of themselves laughing as they allowed a U.S. Army veteran to die from a massive drug overdose, as his girlfriend listened from a neighboring cell: “We should go show this to his girlfriend and be like, ‘You love this?’”-one deputy heard on his own video recording

The leftist female gov’na accused of not being transparent, after she accused the previous gov’na of not being transparent

Illegal immigrant sanctuary state law dates to pivotal lawsuit in 1970s

PENNSYLVANIA: Alex Trebek gets booed at governor race debate

‘Come And Arrest Me’: Governor Defies Federal Justice Department

Feds charge Pittsburgh healthcare employees of multi-million dollar Medicaid scam

PUERTO RICO: FBI agents raid San Juan city offices in fraud, obstruction investigation

Why Florida Democrats need Puerto Rican voters

SOUTH CAROLINA: SC made it easier to hide criminal records from the public

Secret Service impostor turns out to be 17 years old

deputies fired after abandoning patients who died in hurricane

SOUTH DAKOTA:   Immigrant Visa Scandal

TENNESSEE:  Prisoners escape

Correctional officer attacked at CoreCivic prison 

jail deputy suspended after helping prisoners to escape

 deputy sentenced to 15 years for sex crimes

TEXAS: largest counties have nearly doubled voter turnout

Deputy in Houston Indicted in Killing of Unarmed Man

Milam County Sheriff’s deputy arrested for assaulting ex-girlfriend, throwing dog against wall

Harris County lawman convicted of sexual assault

Border Operation Faithful Patriot; coordination meeting between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Department of Defense, Brownsville, 26OCT2018.

Border Operation Faithful Patriot; U.S. Army’s 541st Engineering Company, 19th Engineering Battalion (part of Task Force Griffin), deployed from Kentucky to San Antonio, 30OCT2018.

UTAH: Ex-deputy Attorney General sues Salt Lake County DA office over arrest

firefighters sue the Unified Fire Authority, top bosses for alleged nepotism

Utah Guard special unit assists with ricin investigation

Utah man charged for sending toxic letters to Trump

VERMONT: sheriff’s deputy files gender bias complaint

Death of woman in police custody has resulted in outpouring of donations to drug addiction center

Sex discrimination, harassment cases (because of corrupt government employees/officials) have cost taxpayers $1M

VIRGINIA: sheriff’s deputy charged with sexually assaulting prisoner

Superintendent Apologizes for Handling of Threat Against Virginia School Employee

Goochland voter registrar replaced just weeks before midterm elections

“A long time coming”: 7 Virginia Indian tribes celebrate federal recognition

U.S. taxpayers funding Operation Enduring Promise, in which USN hospital ship USNS Comfort (departing from Norfolk) will provide ‘free’ medical care to people in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Honduras.

WASHINGTON: Stevens County elections rife with questions about taxpayer money

Support Initiative 940 to better train police and save lives

sheriff’s deputy charged in sexual assault of prisoner

Washington DC: DC deputy mayor agrees to pay $3000 fine

Weak minded veterans affairs official removes painting of Confederate officer from his office after being threatened by reporter.  Main Stream left-wing news media calls names of U.S. Army bases treasonous.

WEST VIRGINIA: law officer pleads guilty to lying to FBI

elementary teacher pleads not guilty to child abuse 

Boston gangster killed in West Virginia prison

WISCONSIN: Video shows County Prosecutor falling down during OWI incident

sheriff suspends election opponent over 2001 case

Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion taxpayer funded Foxconn boondoggle

WYOMING: Controversial lawyer named to key fish and wildlife post

Honor Farm prisoner Dies

Political candidate Sent $20,000 to Newly-Formed Company in Wyoming

Online stripping and panty selling may cause candidate to drop out of race

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, October 2018:“EVERY SINGLE MONTH….HAS BEEN A GRIND”

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., October 2018: TEACHERS MORE VIOLENT & CRIMINAL THAN STUDENTS?

U.S. government shenanigans, September 2018: TAXES, BAD COPS & CRIMINAL MIGRANTS ON THE RISE!

Drugs, the American way, October 2018: “NOW YOU TELL ME WHO THE ENEMY IS!”

“significant changes”: U.S. Food Crisis, September 2018

Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, outbreaks and recalls for the month of September, 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

In Denmark, one of the world’s most profitable salmon farms is now blaming the mass die-off of salmon (750-thousand around just one of Denmark’s islands) on farm fertilizer run-off which is causing a deadly algae to bloom

Who actually makes money off taxpayer funded farm bills; Wealthy urbanites from Hollywood to Manhattan 

Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

Corn plunges on huge yields

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred Shop ’n Save employees across Illinois and Missouri losing their jobs as a result of failed efforts to sell-off the troubled stores by parent company Supervalu!

ALABAMA: Legal Petition Urges Feds to End Toxic Agricultural Pesticide Use on Alabama Wildlife Refuge Complex

Drought conditions spread

Almost a Half-Million Pounds of Prepared Chicken Is Being Recalled 

ALASKA: worries that Alaskans could lose food stamps 

240 varieties of potatoes grown in Palmer

ARKANSAS: In Texarkana, after more than 40 years Park Place Restaurant shutdown so the owner can retire.

Legal Issues in Arkansas Agriculture

Rain Stalls Potentially Record Arkansas Cotton Harvest

ARIZONA: The owners of Tucson Tamale Company said, on facebook, that they’re forced to shutdown their Broadway location because of road construction, they hope the shutdown is temporary.  In Chandler, after ten years Wimpy’s Paradise shutdown, the owner claiming he is not quiting the eatery scene, he just has to adjust to his age.

The cost of cotton

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

Department of Agriculture investigates well-being of horses in Vail

CALIFORNIA: In Los Gatos, after 36 years Gilley’s Diner shutdown due to family ‘obligations’.  In San Francisco, The Matterhorn Swiss Restaurant shutdown after 24 years “because we’re old and tired.”  Four Ruby’s Diners, in Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Oceanside and Palm Springs, now bankrupt busted.  Color Spot Nurseries issued a shutdown WARN for its Carson location, 52 jobs gone by Thanksgiving. Veggie packer Jackpot Harvesting Company issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Gonzales, 256 jobs gone in January 2019! (it might have something to do with a lawsuit over compensation of piece-rate employees)

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton held a Feds Feed Families food event at the Blinder Memorial Chapel. Feds Feed Families is a U.S. Department of Agriculture operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

Despite California farm shutdowns, Farmers claim they’re Struggling To Find Workers. 

Arrogant leftist-liberal California claims its farmers will show the world how to lead on climate change.

COLORADO: Are hot springs the future of farming?

meatpacker recalls ground beef after E. coli death

CONNECTICUT: In Stratford, after 62 years popular restaurant Marnick’s shutdown without warning to customers and employees, local news media reported that city officials were happy to announce the property (which also included the Rodeway Inn) had been sold.

At Farm Aid In Hartford, Neil Young Tells Fans ‘Corporate Farms Suck’

DELAWARE: Restaurant Cocina Lolo shutdown after only three years, even the facebook page was disabled.

Third equine case of West Nile Virus confirmed

Monsanto grant to help Delaware Farm Bureau

Delaware farmers to get tariff relief

FLORIDA: What exactly is the Florida Commissioner of Agriculture?

GEORGIA: diversity of agriculture industry

Mayfield Dairy (Dean Foods) eliminated 108 jobs!

GUAM: Guam Agriculture Awarded $313-thousand in taxpayer funded Federal Grants

SNAP recipients to get 60% of food stamps automatically added to help deal with Typhoon Mangkhut

HAWAII: Stratos New York Pizzeria shutdown due to ongoing lava flows running-off tourists, and the fact that the owners have been blocked from moving to a new location.

IDAHO: tax panel raising valuations on irrigated farmland

elk hunters are having some of the best hunting of all time

Gov. Otter to lead trade mission to Canada

Raising warm water fish near the cool waters of Idaho

U.S. Department of Agriculture m44 land-mine explodes Pocatello family

ILLINOIS: Chicago based, but British empire Canada/South Africa owned, MillerCoors eliminating 350 corporate jobs in the U.S. by the end of October! MillerCoors is also raising prices, as well as canceling some of its products, due to crashing beer sales.  Shop-n-Save issued shutdown WARNs for grocery stores in Jerseyville, Granite City, Belleville, Cahokia and Springfield, 420 jobs gone just in time for Xmas!

record 300.5 pound watermelon

More proof its farm welfare; farmers anxious about promised federal taxpayer payouts

Rauner declares harvest emergency for 2nd straight year

INDIANA:  Farmers Need Industrial Hemp Or Legal Marijuana To Prosper

Indiana partners with British empire Canadian province to advance agricultural

Why aren’t land values plummeting?

IOWA: VeroBlue Farms issued a shutdown WARN for its fish farm ops in Webster (and also warned of looming bankruptcy), 24 jobs gone by Halloween.

Iowa land values fall

USDA is putting tax dollars into developing new markets

KANSAS: first step toward growing industrial hemp

American Farmers Are in Crisis

KENTUCKY: In Louisville, after 28 years Clifton’s Pizza shutdown because the owner needs to “take care of my personal life.”

AppHarvest launches high-tech agriculture class

test plot of malaria-fighting plant a success

Why Vermont students are farming in Kentucky

LOUISIANA: After 18 years The Melting Pot shutdown its Baton Rouge location because “we have been unable to work out a long term lease deal with our landlord”.

Government data proves Louisiana is in trouble

MAINE: Oyster farm on Maquoit Bay raises concerns

small, midsized farms suffering from labor shortage

Maine ranks highest in New England for food insecurity

MARYLAND: Fudgery shutdown its 33 years old location at Inner Harbor, due to sales that can’t keep up with increasing costs.

Coalition Launches ‘Save A Shore Farmer’ Program

New regulations for lawn-fertilizer 

MASSACHUSETTS: Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its 12 years old grocery store in Taunton, with only a weeks notice, local news media reported the corporate office refused to say why.  In Hyannis, Cape Cod Potato Chips suddenly laid off 21 people as part of efforts to ‘upgrade’ to new equipment, which reduced the three production lines down to just one.

Farmers Revive Historic Hops

Cranberry prices so low farmers are going to dump their crops!

Indigo raises $250M to build online marketplace for farmers

MICHIGAN: Grocery giant Kroger shutting down its store in Mundy, 73 jobs lost by the end of October.  In Hastings, after 30 years Mills Landing shutdown, the restaurant owners didn’t say why.  Great Lakes Coca-Cola Bottling shutting down its Kalamazo operations, 102 jobs affected by November!  Great North Foods issued a layoff WARN, at least 19 people (the official WARN also warned of additional layoffs) jobless right after Thanksgiving.

Here’s one reason for Trump’s tariffs; Michigan lost 143 dairy farms in the past year!

Marie Catrib’s in Grand Rapids closing in October

MINNESOTA: In Minneapolis, Colossal Cafe shutdown so the owner can retire.  Maple Plain Food Center shutdown after 52 years due to increased competition, the owners reminisced about how hard it was to start a family run store because of government regulators: “We were actually the first combination grocery store/pharmacy in the state of Minnesota. We had trouble getting our license initially because the state board of pharmacy thought it was unethical to have groceries and pharmacy in the same facility.”-Tom Reycraft

MISSISSIPPI: farmers, contractors still back Trump

MISSOURI: HeBrews Coffee forced to shutdown its Springfield location due to a court order, as a result of a dispute with the landlord.  In Saint Louis, after more than 40 years Llywelyn’s Pub, on McPherson Avenue, suddenly shutdown so the owner can focus on the more profitable locations.  In Jefferson City, Weber Meat Market shutting down by Xmas because the property owner wants to demolish everything, due to the fact that the majority of spaces in the 60 years old shopping plaza are vacant.  In Kansas City, after about 12 years Domo Sushi & Japanese Grill shutdown so the 75 years old owner can retire.

farmers still struggle

Drought effects persist despite rain

Farm owner refuses to comply with state regulations

MONTANA: The farmers who trust Trump

NEBRASKA: Obviously trying to “revolutionize the way America thinks about food” doesn’t pay-off because Eat Fit Go now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, suddenly shutting down two stores.

New health care plan available for Nebraska farmers

New Costco poultry complex initiates ripple effect at retail

NEVADA: Starving horses suddenly appear, nobody knows where they came from 

tariffs strengthen “perfect storm” slamming Nevada farms

USDA hands out $5-million taxpayer funded grant for snow-pack study

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Farm Bet on Organic Eggs and Won Big

NEW JERSEY:  Grocery store Seasons now bankrupt busted and up for sale.  In Cherry Hill, Asian Food Markets shutdown its 13 years old Barclay Farms location, saying a new location is being sought.

a thriving agriculture industry

Hazelnuts could never grow in New Jersey — until now

NEW MEXICO:  USDA bills New Mexico $164-million for over-billing of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps)!

NEW YORK: Coffee shop chain Fika now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, apparently rent on 11 of the 20 shops hasn’t been paid. Maritima issued a shutdown WARN for its LaSirena restaurant, 140 jobs gone right after Xmas!  Signature issued a shutdown WARN for its North End Grill, 59 jobs gone a week before Xmas.

New invasive pest could impact NY’s agriculture

Immigration policy at the forefront of New York apple farming controversy

NORTH CAROLINA: Golden Corral shut down its buffet in Elizabeth City, without warning or explanationSmithfield Foods shutting down its Clayton distribution center, 1-hundred jobs lost to consolidation operations!  The Winterville Rucker Johns restaurant shutdown with no warning and no explanation.  In Washington, after six years Coffee Caboose shutdown.

Florence Engulfs Hog Farms And Chicken Houses causing floods of pig poop and chicken crap, Thrashes North Carolina Agriculture

Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

Video, Maryland National Guard assists North Carolina National Guard in food distribution after Hurricane Florence:

Video, North Carolina National Guard delivers MREs to a local fire department after Hurricane Florence:

Marines from MCAS Cherry Point conduct food distribution ops house-to-house in New Bern, 20SEP2018.

NORTH DAKOTA: Judge rules North Dakota anti-corporate farm law is constitutional

Demand for North Dakota beans goes south

OHIO:  Tilted Kilt suddenly shutdown its pub-restaurant on East Prospect Avenue, in Cleveland, supposedly the employees will be working at a “new venue” elsewhere.  In Cincinnati, after 20 years restaurant Palomino announced it can’t renew the lease on its Fountain Square location and shutdown.  In Findlay, after 40 years New China Inn shutdown, the owners said “we’re getting old.” 

U.S. Defense Logistics Agency associates, along with local food bank volunteers, collected 9-thousand-143 pounds of food that will support more than 525-thousand people in Central Ohio!

Bumper crops not paying off for farmers

OKLAHOMA: Woody’s Corner Bar shutdown after 12 years in Tulsa, the owners claim they’ll be back with something new.  Also in Tulsa, the Natural Grocers store shutting down by November, 16 jobs lost to ‘recent financial performance’.

8-Year-Old Boy Killed In Farming Incident

producers can apply for funds to offset tariff disruptions

Men Charged with Series of Cattle and Equipment Thefts

OREGON:  Beaverton Bakery shutdown after 93 years, apparently due to increased competition as local news media reported there were eight other bakeries in the immediate area.  In Portland, Sweet Heart Pizza on North East 7th Avenue shutdown so it can be turned into something else.

Critical Drought Levels After Driest Summer 

USDA approves emergency grazing, cover crops

Feds will take over troubled Lost Valley Farm megadairy

PENNSYLVANIA:  In Indiana, after 25 years The Coventry Inn shutdown, the owners claiming they can’t find reliable employees saying “We need eight or 10 committed workers, and four or five is hopeless.”  In Pittsburgh, after 28 years Beehive CoffeeHouse & Dessertery forced to shutdown because the building is being sold-off.  In Hermitage, After 86 years family owned Darrenkamp’s grocery chain shutting down and/or selling-off its stores, more than 641 jobs affected!  Hunger relief organization Philabundance got 3-thousand-931 pounds of food from the local U.S. Defense Logistics Agency employees. Philabundance feeds 90-thousand people across Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

Spotted Lanternfly discovered

sounding the alarm on deer disease

$10 million in farm tax credits available

PUERTO RICO: In coffee country, ‘We have to motivate the farmers to come to the soil’ 

RHODE ISLAND: In Middletown, after 14 years Rusty’s Bar & Grill forced to shutdown so the property can be gentrified into a 23 unit apartment building, local news media reported that the customers are opposed to the city’s decision.

Hemp will be cropping up 

Topsfield Fair pumpkin record smashed

SOUTH CAROLINA: Hurricane Florence causes at least $125-million in damages to farms

SOUTH DAKOTA: 2-year-old dies from farming accident

Variability leads to questions about crop outcomes

TENNESSEE: In Franklin, after only two years the Buffalo Wings & Rings shutdown with only one weeks notice.

Who wants to be a farmer?

TEXAS: Farmers Branch based Taco Bueno suddenly shutdown 16 restaurants across four states due to “changing traffic patterns”.  In Upper Kirby, Steakhouse Power owned Del Frisco’s Grille suddenly shutdown after five years, local news media reported its another in a long list of restaurants that can’t seem to survive in that area of town.  In Austin, after more than 70 years iconic Hill’s Cafe shutdown, the owners say they’re looking for a new location.

Sheppard Air Force Base Feds Feed Families video promo:

UTAH:  new innovations in food production

Drought conditions prompt emergency meeting

Panguitch Lake closed because of toxic algal bloom

VERMONT: Magnolia Bistro suddenly shutdown after 12 years due to the owner’s negative social media comments about people with addictions, and despite the owner’s apology for those comments.

Scores of farm owners face higher taxes 

Thieves Put Damper On Hemp Harvest

VIRGINIA: man killed in farming accident

WASHINGTON: Starbucks warning of massive layoffs at the corporate level due to “significant changes” 

Record $171-million spent in farm-land sale

apple crop awaits answers amid ongoing trade uncertainty

WEST VIRGINIA: More Women Are Becoming Farmers

U.S. Attorney Sues Hemp Farm Over Seeds’ Origin

WISCONSIN: On Pace To Hit Highest Loss Of Dairy Farms In 4 Years

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ancient farmers reduced the negative effects of The Ice Age and started Global Warming

The Fort McCoy Commissary donated food as part of the nation-wide Feds Feed Families operation.  Feds Feed Families is a USDA operation, relying totally on unpaid volunteers (federal government employees), to help provide food to food pantries near military bases.

WYOMING: Why a wrinkle in the old water law is worth millions (thanks to the oil industry)

elk populations boom ahead of hunting season

Wyoming to begin international trade with Taiwan

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, August 2018: OUTBREAKS & RECALLS

“…the entire country must focus on this!” “drug dealers in Armani suits”: Drugs, the American Way, September 2018

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 September 2018:

Boston Globe: Veterinarians worry that people are taking their pets’ opioids; “People become angry or enraged or belligerent far out of proportion to the level of pain their dog or cat is experiencing. They’re screaming and yelling and using swear words.”-Virginia Sinnott, veterinarian

MedicalExpress: New study says current drug addiction crisis is like “chain reaction that builds to a nuclear explosion.”

Bloomberg: The Secret Drug Pricing System Middlemen Use to Rake in Millions (for more on the failed healthcare system read ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, September 2018: “dangerously low”)

New York Times: Workers Overdose on the Job, and Employers Struggle

The Guardian: Big Pharma nothing but “drug dealers in Armani suits”

BBC: Mexican police turn out to be drug gang (again)

The Seattle Times: Instagram has a drug problem

ALABAMA: mother charged after 5 children test positive for cocaine

police net 27 pounds of pot in drug arrest

Woman charged with smuggling drugs into daughter’s prison

Albertville dog randomly fetches bag full of drugs

ALASKA:   report shows Alaska drug problem worsening

Alaska to get 10M taxpayer dollars to combat opioids

ARIZONA: Ten pounds of heroin stashed in soda-pop 20 pack

Border Patrol arrest seven U.S. citizens who were using shuttle vans to smuggle drugs across the border

 1000 cannabis vape cartridges seized

State funded Border Strike Force cops capture more than 200 pounds of methamphetamine

U.S. Air Force Airmen caught on drugs after crashing into cop car

Former mayoral candidate in Nogales faces cocaine-trafficking charges

ARKANSAS: Drug task force makes 1260 arrests

Authorities Bust International Drug Trafficking Operation

15 migrants arrested 

Arkansas gets 13M taxpayer dollars to fight opioid crisis

CALIFORNIA: 6 Members of L.A. Area Gang Linked to Mexican Mafia Convicted of Racketeering, Drug Trafficking Charges

Reality show doctor charged with California drug rapes

Another doctor accused of illegally prescribing drugs which killed five people

Colombian Drug Ring Kingpin Extradited to Los Angeles

California Senate Passes Drug and Needle Take-Back Program (by calling it a ‘take back’ operation are your elected government officials admitting the drugs originated with the government?)

man sentenced to 35 years for using taxpayer supported Amtrak to trafficking drugs

‘Drug Llama’ woman accused of selling 50000 fentanyl pills over the dark web

San Francisco man documents shocking drug dealing ‘madness’ for months, police refuse to take action

largest drug trafficking bust in recent history

University of California San Diego’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research buys its drugs from Canada

COLORADO: Colorado-based international cocaine trafficking ring busted

Meth makes comeback even as opioid epidemic worsens

Irony; The man who made billions of dollars from OxyContin is pushing a drug to wean addicts off opioids

Colorado gets 30m taxpayer dollars to fight opioids

A closer look at the effects of Colorado’s legal weed industry

CONNECTICUT: 515 Fatal Drug Overdoses just In First Half Of 2018

Dark Web Dealer Shipped Fentanyl From Connecticut

Prescription Drug Kickback Lawsuit Names East Haven Couple

17 Arrested In South End Drug Bust 

DELAWARE: deadliest month ever from drug overdoses

running drug operation out of Stanton motel room 

Multiple Drug Arrests in Milford

First responders sickened during overdose investigation

FLORIDA: Yet again, six U.S. tons of cocaine was off-loaded by the U.S. Coast Guard which now says “…the entire country must focus on this!” Watch official video:

Use of Florida’s drug database increases

47 arrested in Martin County

Giant marijuana bundles wash up on Florida beaches

GEORGIA: Edible drugs sold on church property, 2 arrested

Alleged Columbus drug traffickers arrested in Marietta

Homer Simpson- and Hello Kitty-shaped ‘candies’ actually drugs

4 Illegal Aliens Connected to Mexican Cartel Arrested With Nearly $6M in Drugs, Cash, and Weapons on Hand

largest meth seizure in Banks County history

Operation Unicoi Pipeline

rapper Ty Dolla $ign faces drug charges

rapper Columbia BT charged with trafficking $4M worth of cocaine

GUAM: Cocaine an ‘alarming problem’

Man on release in drug case arrested again

Department of Corrections officer’s meth use detailed in federal case

HAWAII: Escaped drug dealer sought

Hawaii gets 8M taxpayer dollars to fight opioids

IDAHO:  drug and hate crimes see double-digit rate increase

Lethal injection drug source is secret for now

California sheriff’s deputies convicted of drug crimes arrested again, this time in Idaho

Twin Falls police arrest man for using fake money in drug deal

ILLINOIS:  Official video explaining why the Illinois National Guard is ramping-up Counter Drug Operations:

Drug task force, feds scores big

Freeport police arrest 20 people in one day

Psychedelic Drug Lab Found In Man’s Bedroom

Feds want to confiscate $500000 in cash found in RV

INDIANA: 10 people arrested in Johnson County after search found stolen gun, drugs

Ten people arrested in Washington County

Shooting investigation leads to drugs

Indiana University offers classes to general public on how to treat overdoses

Do Indiana’s Civil Forfeiture Laws Violate The State Constitution?

Hamilton County given 100-thousand state taxpayer dollars to fight opioids in just two cities

IOWA: Ambulance call leads to arrest

Lawn mower heist, mall lawsuit, meth

men used storage locker for drug distribution 

KANSAS: Nurses charged with Medicaid fraud, stealing patients’ drugs

Kansas Expanding Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Man tortured over $185 in lost drug money

Restaurant manager says she caught boss doing drugs in kitchen

KENTUCKY: U.S. Attorney declares war on gangs, guns and drugs in Louisville

Drug-addled and out of work. Here’s how much opioids have hurt Kentucky’s economy.

Rich white brats engaged in drug selling at a university, then tortured one of their own after he was caught-but-released by police, they got ‘light’ sentences, now local news media asks ‘where’s the justice’?

LOUISIANA: 5 arrested in Ascension Parish

22 arrested in Covington

30 pounds of marijuana recovered by police (by using the word ‘recovered’ this Fox15 news outlet implies the ganja came from the police to begin with)

deputies seize $850k+ in illegal drugs

Louisiana Congressman Wants to Drug-Test All of Congress

MAINE: Five arrested in drug raid 

Five arrested in Bucksport, Orland

Man sentenced to prison for selling drugs that killed

restaurant sedates lobsters with marijuana

fifth-highest in nation in prescribing psychotropic drugs

Overdose deaths averaged nearly one per day

MARYLAND: What-the-hell is the taxpayer funded SAMSHA?

Here’s a video of the U.S. Navy’s Health Clinic Annapolis explaining how to track prescription opioid drug users (the government knows who you are), note that it’s labeled “not for public distribution”:

13 indicted In $400K Drug Ring

University of Maryland president admits illegal drug use in football programs!

Are the cops on drugs?  Two stupid cops shot after they conducted a drug raid on the wrong house!

Female security guard kills 3 at Rite Aid drug distribution center

MASSACHUSETTS:  67 baggies of heroin in Whitman

148 bags of heroin in Bernardston

Deadly Hep-A outbreak blamed on drug users

Japanese drug giant will move its U.S. headquarters to Boston

Drug crimes number one reason for incarceration

MICHIGAN: Legal marijuana would ‘change the landscape of Michigan’

Raids at ‘White Boy Justin’ homes seize vast amount of drugs

Canadian trucker busted with 41 kilograms of cocaine, kilo of heroin

Quitting junk food produces similar withdrawal-type symptoms as drug addiction

MINNESOTA: 170 pounds of meth seized in record bust

‘Pink Death’: Synthetic Opioid Returns

$345K worth of marijuana found in southern ditch

Operation Ghostbusters Leads to 11 Charged With Drug Crimes

MISSISSIPPI:  $70M in marijuana in Jefferson Davis County

Teenager admits to using drugs in an attempt to end pregnancy

9 arrested in Hattiesburg

12 arrested during Laurel drug roundup

MISSOURI: KC pharma CEO under fire after asserting ‘moral requirement’ to raise legal drug price 400%!

Massive fentanyl bust in Saint Charles County

Cops capture 20 pounds of meth, because the drug smuggler was driving too slowly

Five arrested in Hannibal

Mom stole dying daughter’s painkillers to feed her opioid addiction

MONTANA: sheriff facing felony charges after drug evidence goes missing

Heroin use on the rise 

Hidden epidemic: Drug-addicted infants

‘Alcohol, drugs and stupidity’: A day in the life of a sheriff’s deputy

NEBRASKA: 1000 pounds of marijuana seized 

12 arrested in Grand Island

80 years old parents of county prosecutor guilty of trafficking marijuana, claimed it was xmas present! 

NEVADA: prisons drug buyer knew firms opposed execution use

teacher arrested on drug charges

NEW HAMPSHIRE: 25 arrested in Grafton County

Rochester fentanyl bust may be biggest ever

NEW JERSEY:  27 charged in South Jersey

At Least 430 Doses Of Heroin, 31 Arrested

Meth use spikes

19 Arrests, $100000 In Heroin In Union County 

NEW MEXICO:  teenager arrested for murder after drug deal

Convicted murderous drug gang leader reveals “It’s all politics. Dirty politics.”

Reservation cops capture 17 pounds of meth, heroin

high rates of drug experimentation among students

Prisoners caught in jail drug smuggling scheme

producers seeing green on medical pot sales

NEW YORK: At the United Nations U.S. president Donald Trump expressed support for the Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem, where was the leftist main stream news media on this? Watch official UN video:

NYC Drug Dealer brought his kids with him to sell Cocaine At Applebee’s

New Yorkers Who Use Drugs Report Changing Behaviors

John Jay College of Criminal Justice accused of sex and drugs crimes

Dumb police trying to figure out where the crack pipe vending machines came from

fentanyl responsible for 44% of New York City overdose deaths

5 men overdose on K2 on the same street corner

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 130 people face federal drug charges after raid on Reservation 

Operation targeting dealers nabs 16 in Harnett County

Correctional officer arrested at women’s prison on drug charges 

Increase in meth deaths outpacing growth in opioid-related fatalities

NORTH DAKOTA: $10000 in narcotics, 4 arrests

woman convicted of killing pregnant neighbor and cutting out the baby was high on drugs

Medical marijuana dispensaries chosen for Bismarck and Fargo

University student will not spend time in jail for selling drugs

OHIO:  Fatal Drug Overdoses Increase to Record Number

Drug ring used restaurants to launder money

Bar loses liquor license after drugs, lap dances bought with food stamps

quadriplegic indicted again in drug-related case

Issue 1 could make Ohio substance abuse magnet

Drug charges against Cincinnati VA Medical Center dropped

OKLAHOMA: FBI takes down Irish Mob meth suppliers

Dangerous counterfeit drugs reported

City Council approves proposal reducing marijuana possession penalty

Body Cam Video Released In Large Drug Bust

OREGON:  Pot in the workplace: Oregon is No. 1 for positive drug tests

23 overdoses in Lane County since weekend

Half-Pound of Meth in Grants Pass, Two Arrests

PENNSYLVANIA: drug deaths increased in 2017

Philadelphia’s weekend overdose spike kills 7, sickens more than 110

Recycling center workers in Bensalem sold discarded ‘take back’ drugs

Prisoners are smuggling medicine to treat their addictions

PUERTO RICO:  

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos captured three smugglers and approximately $3.3 million dollars of cocaine off Loiza, 16SEP2018.

Transnational Criminal Group Used U.S. Postal Service to Traffic Drugs 

RHODE ISLAND: Prison guard sentenced for trying to smuggle drugs into prison

Hemp will be cropping up on farms

SOUTH CAROLINA: 50 People Charged 

Guns, drugs, bulletproof vests seized

$116K in Forest Acres drug arrests

felon had drugs in lunchbox, had illegal gun

correctional officers arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs 

SOUTH DAKOTA: She reported on the opioid epidemic for years, then, her daughter died of an overdose

Jail guard charged with attempting to help an accused drug dealer escape

TENNESSEE: O-D deaths set another record, upsetting insurance companies

Nearly 100 pounds of marijuana seized in Clarksville

19-year-old Mexican immigrant busted with 10 pounds of meth

How to spot a drug house

Kindergarten school teacher among 6 arrested 

TEXAS:  Texas National Guard Joint Counterdrug Task Force continues using the War on Drugs as an excuse to demolish houses in poverty stricken areas (as if that will somehow make drug crimes go away, truth is that no body wants to buy a house used by druggies, it’s like buying a house where somebody died), local school children are even forced to watch.

$18 million worth of cocaine hidden in several boxes of bananas headed for Texas prisons

tow truck caught with 63 pounds of Cocaine

18 Arrests

meth is top threat to Texas

‘low risk prisoners’ operating county jail drug smuggling ring

UTAH: Cops sickened after discovering drug lab 

corrections officer jailed on drug, alcohol charges after fatal crash

Woman driver fails to yield the right-of-way, gets arrested for drugs

Mexican immigrant known for drug smuggling caught with 5.8 pounds of meth

VERMONT:  Woman uses 100 Bags Of Heroin A Day

Vermont Sues OxyContin Maker 

Spate of Overdoses

State-federal Cops capture 14-thousand bags of heroin

VIRGINIA: ‘Operation California Dreamin’ 

Woman accused of using glitter & crayons to mail drugs

‘drastic spike’ in drug overdoses

WASHINGTON:  LEAD program expansion means drugs are legal in King County

Nearly $1M cash, 33 guns and 10-thousand fentanyl pills

Nearly 60 pounds of drugs, 29 guns seized in Pierce County

Washington DC: FDA approves new class of drugs

WEST VIRGINIA: New arrests reveal new multi-state drug pipeline

Half of West Virginians know someone addicted to prescription drugs 

Nearly 100 arrested in Fayette County

33 under federal indictment in meth bust

doctor wrote 130 opioid prescriptions a day, seven days per week, says she did nothing wrong.

WISCONSIN:  high school student charged for selling marijuana, pills

drug trafficking on interstate 41

140 grams of fentanyl, heroin recovered (by using the word ‘recovered’ this Fox6Now headline makes it sound like the drugs originally came from the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department)

WYOMING: DCI Busts Casper-Area Meth Ring

Cheyenne teens arrested on felony drug charges

Seven arrested in Torrington

Wyoming gets more than 4.8M federal taxpayer dollars to fight opioids

Report of Prostitution Results in Drug Arrests

Drugs, the American Way, August 2018: ‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’

“Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”: Drugs, the American Way, May 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of May 2018.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

United States Naval Institute News:  U.S. Navy admits at least 10 Navy SEALs were high on cocaine

Official Air National Guard video promoting the concept of prescription drug ‘Take Away’, “Bag it, Ship it, Forget it!”:

NBC: Foreign cartels embrace home-grown marijuana in pot-legal states

ALABAMA: Walker County has the highest percentage of drug deaths relating to its population.  Drug raid in Dekalb County captures 1.3-kilos (three pounds) of meth, 1.3-kilos of marijuana, 20 illegal guns, $30-thousand USD in cash and captured two men believed to be from Mexico.  Three children were also found in the home, the raid was the result of “several months” of investigations.  Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force conducted multiple raids, capturing 14 alleged druggies, 180-grams of synthetic marijuana, 100-grams of marijuana, several grams of methamphetamine, crack and heroin, four guns, one vehicle and $8-thousand-761 in cash.    Marshall County Drug Task Force captured more than 50 people (they had warrants for 1-hundred) in one night, Sheriff Scott Walls says it’s the biggest round-up of druggies in the past 38 years: “The majority of these arrests are crystal meth, there are heroin cases mixed in with this. We’re living in a time where that seems to be the norm, where people are selling in their communities, and we have a lot of drug abuse, and this is the first step to solving some of those problems.”

What’s sad about the above statement is that these druggie round-ups have been going on ever since the Reagan Era of the War on Drugs, and as you can see it has had no effect on the reduction of illegal drug use.   Also, local news media is publishing the names of the people captured, I mean arrested.  In the United States you’re supposed to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in court, not by police, news media or by public opinion.

ALASKA: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy declared Alaska to be a high-intensity drug trafficking area, opening up federal level taxpayer funding to police. Federal prosecutors in Anchorage discovered a new tactic of drug dealers; intentionally getting captured.  People are intentionally getting arrested in the hopes they can smuggle into prison drugs and illegal guns.

Alaska Public Media:  Is meth back in Alaska? Or did it never leave?

KTVA: 7 accused in violent Sitka drug trafficking conspiracy

Daily News-Minor: Illegal booze, drugs smuggled into remote villages

The Marshall Project: Want to Escape a Criminal Past? Move to Alaska

ARIZONA: Merry Jane: Arizona Group Pushing to Legalize All Drugs in 2018

Reflections Recovery Center: Arizona Opioid Addiction Statistics 2018

KNXV: Two suspected north Phoenix drug dealers arrested

Arizona Daily Independent: Teens Turn To Drug Trafficking In Nogales

Arizona Daily Independent drug crime reports

AzCentral: 5 arrested on suspicion of running meth trafficking ring

DailyMiner: Kingman, Arizona & Mohave counties crime reports 

Border Patrol agent sentenced for helping smuggle drugs into Arizona

ARKANSAS: Arkansas Online: Two people found in Cleburn County park die from O-D

In 3rd big bust in weeks, 200 pounds of pot captured

KARK: Multiple Arrests Made in Year Long Drug Investigation in Prairie County

KLRT: 4 Arrests Made in Ouachita County Drug Bust

KFSM: Arkansas Highway Police Seize 340 Pounds Of Marijuana

KTHV: Arkansas ranks 3rd in nation for Spring 2018 ‘Prescription Drug Take Back Day’

The state National Guard warns in this video that even exercise supplements are ‘drugs’:

CALIFORNIA: Several state National Guard Counterdrug Task Force personnel officially became DARE officers, even though the program has been proven, multiple times, to be a failure (LiveScience: Was D.A.R.E. Effective? VOX: Why anti-drug campaigns like DARE fail  VICE: We Asked Seven Drug Addicts What They Learned from D.A.R.E.  Time: Just Say No to DARE Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Admits Failure).

U.S. News & World Report: Mexican Mafia Busted for Running Crime in LA County Jails

The Mercury News: Authorities arrest 85 people, seize drugs in major Orange County gang crackdown aimed at disrupting Mexican Mafia

BBC: Police find border drug tunnel from Mexico to California 

Riverside police arrest 23 in undercover drug sting

New York Times: Needle by Needle, a Heroin Crisis Grips California’s Rural North

NPR: Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California

COLORADO: The Denver Post: Officials charge 37 people and seize 141 pounds of meth in drug bust spanning Colorado and two other states, The drug ring as been operating in Colorado since at least July 1, 2015

Drug trafficking reports

Drug & Booze crime reports

CONNECTICUT:  NBC: Triple killings motivated by guns, cash and drugs

Meriden Record-Journal: Local Walgreens robbed of 3-thousand pills worth $60-thousand USD

RepublicanAmerican: Police find huge drug cache in Waterbury

DELAWARE: WDEL: Joint task force makes Wilmington drug bust 

Delaware State News: drug reports

First State Update: drug crime reports

Delaware State Police: crime reports

FLORIDA:  BuzzFeedNews: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami

Miami Herald: Florida cuts drug programs, costing hundreds of jobs

Pensacola News Journal: Santa Rosa County Sheriff captures more than 23 pounds of illegal drugs and 52 people during Operation Spring Cleaning

WJXT: Statewide, Operation Spring Cleaning captures 5-thousand people and 27-thousand pounds of drugs

TCPalm: Saint Lucie County captures guns, drugs and 17 people 

WTXL: Suwannee County sheriff announces massive drug bust

WPLG: 6 arrested, 6 others sought by Miami-Dade police in drug bust

Coast Guard Cutter Resolute off-loaded almost 0.9 tonne (1 ton) of ganja in Saint Petersburg, 08MAY2018

NavyTimes: Coast Guard unloads 6 tons of seized cocaine in Florida

At Port Everglades, Coast Guard Cutter James off-loads almost 5.4 tonnes (metric tons/6 short [U.S.] tons) on 10MAY2018, all captured in the eastern Pacific

Official USAF video in which a Security Forces Airmen reveals that they routinely catch taxpayer funded contractors bringing drugs and guns onto Hurlburt Field:

The Recovery Village: Florida’s Top 10 Counties for Drug Overdose Deaths

Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association: may 2018 patterns and trends of substance use

(remember, Guam is just a U.S. military base, mmmm, I wonder why so many drugs are shipping through Guam?)
Idaho Mountain Express: Suspect leaves meth in cop car
The Spokesman Review: drug reports
Illinois Department of Public Health: Drug Overdose Deaths – May 2018

INDIANA: RTV: Indiana is one of the worst states for drug use

WANE: 1,500 Indiana drug cases a month … and rising

WLFI: Police respond to string of overdoses 

WTTV: 15 people face federal charges in connection with drug trafficking ring that prompted Kokomo raids

The Herald Bulletin: ‘Clean Sweep’ nets 52 suspects, guns and drugs

WXIN: “‘It is loaded. Get your drugs and get out of my neighborhood!’ He pulled his gun out and when I saw the gun come out that is when I grabbed my gun. If you are stupid enough to sell it to these kids..you get what you deserve!”-gun toting grandma who challenged drug dealers who came after her for her grandson’s spice debt

IOWA: DesMoinesRegister: 20 years after the meth crisis began, Iowa’s addiction is worse than ever

Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy: Drug Trends in Iowa – May 2018

KANSAS:  The Kansas City Star: Operation Triple Beam, 200 people arrested

KENTUCKY: USA Today: Kentucky football player charged with drug trafficking

Courier Journal: Mexican drug cartels saturate Louisville with deadliest meth ever

Louisville company wins FDA approval to produce opioid withdrawal drug

WDRD: Arrests, drugs and more than $1 million in cash during Operation Safe Haven

KFVS: More than $11000 of drugs seized

WAVE: Opioids infiltrate ranks of organ donors, rendering donations unusable

LOUISIANA: U.S. News & World Report: DEA orders Louisiana pharmaceutical wholesaler Must Stop Selling Controlled Drugs 

The Advocate: Born addicted: Louisiana’s rate of newborns dependent on opioids is rising, pregnant women lack treatment options

The Times Picayune: Despite opioid crisis, Louisiana may cut drug treatment options

MAINE: Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to Kittery,  after capturing 5896.7 kilos (13-thousand pounds) of cocaine in the eastern Pacific.

Bangor Daily News: Drug agents bust 9 in Aroostook County trafficking ring

Central Maine:  Augusta police arrest 4 on drug charges

WABI: Center Street home drug bust in Bangor, 6 arrested

MARYLAND: WJZ-TV: Mother Arrested After 8-Month-Old Ingests Drugs

WTOP: Maryland curbs prisoner access to books, citing drug smuggling

MASSACHUSETTS: U.S. News & World Report:  13 Arrested in Bust of Major Drug Trafficking Ring

WBUR: Black Drug Users Grapple With Surging Opioid Overdose Death Rates

WWLP: 7 arrested, 3 wanted in Massachusetts drug sweep

MASS.gov: Current opioid statistics

MICHIGANMichiganLive: Michigan has 4th biggest drug problem in United States

DetroitNews: New Michigan opioid laws may mean longer prescription wait times

ClickOnDetroit: 3 pharmacists, 2 ‘recruiters,’ doctor charged in $9.6M prescription drug scheme

MINNESOTA: KIMT: 27 people arrested in Olmsted County

PostBulletin: Austin drug bust nets $100,000 worth of meth, cocaine

MPRNews: Federal taxpayer funded grant funds heroin trafficking investigations 

MISSISSIPPI: Clarion Ledger: Feds charge 11 in multi-state ‘Operation Highlife’

MSNewsNow: Marijuana, $69000 cash seized in north Jackson drug bust

WTVA: Officers seize package containing drugs in Nettleton

U.S. News & World Report: Woman Arrested, Signed for Parcel Carrying Drug

MISSOURI: News Tribune: Jefferson City woman arrested in traffic stop turned drug bust

KOAM: Three Missouri Residents Arrested For Illegal Drug Activity

Missouri Sheriff’s Association: Major Drug Operation Nets 5 Arrests 

Herald-Whig: Man dies after apparent meth overdose

MONTANA: KULR: Montana school bus provider accused of dealing meth

KXLF: Feds raid home in Deer Lodge as part of ongoing investigation

Missoulan: 48 marijuana plants found in Missoula warehouse

U.S. Food & Drug Administration: Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center fails inspection, “which put patients at risk.” 

NEBRASKA: The Washington Post: Record drug bust finds enough fentanyl to kill 26-Million people (let’s call it chemical warfare, it’s definitely a weapon of mass destruction)

NEVADA: The Spectrum: Mesquite traffic stop turns drug bust

The Washington Post: Nebraska pushes to carry out the country’s first execution using fentanyl

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  New Hampshire Public Radio: New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis

The New York Times: Drug Arrests at Immigration Checkpoint Violated Constitution

NEW JERSEY: NorthJersey: Drugs and prostitution: What might be next for New Jersey

LehighValleyLive: 2 arrested in P’burg police drug raid in Alpha

The Trentonian: $2 million drug bust

Guns, drugs and fatality

WPVI: NJ State Police arrest Philly duo, seize $2K in drugs

NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque Business First: New Mexico has the sixth biggest drug problem

New Mexico-Indicator Based Information System (NM-IBIS): New Mexico’s drug overdose death rate has been one of the highest in the nation for most of the last two decades

NEW YORK: A Venezuelan veterinarian is now in NYC facing federal drug charges after a 2005 drug raid in Columbus revealed the veterinarian was sewing up bags of liquid heroin inside puppies for transport to the U.S.  The so called animal doctor was finally caught in Spain in 2015.

New York Post: Drug Bust reports

The New York Times: Overdoses From ‘Dangerous Batch’

Drug Abuse and Traffic reports

You’re Not a Drug Dealer? Here’s Why the Police Might Disagree

NYPD News: Narcotics Archives

NORTH CAROLINA: WNCN: NC drug bust highlights ‘meth highway’ as I-85

KABC: 90M worth of liquid meth found in semi-truck fuel tank

KTVD: Drug, gun bust leaves police looking for suspects

WECT: Smithfield Foods employees arrested in multi-agency drug bust

NORTH DAKOTA: KFGO: Guns, drugs, cash seized from Fargo home

Reservation drug bust nets $100,000 in narcotics

KVRR: Meth Archives

Grand Forks Herald: Drug reports

OHIO: KULR: Ohio Highway Patrol makes $3.7M heroin, meth bust

Cincinnati.com: Candidates say they’ve tackled heroin crisis. But it’s getting worse

OKLAHOMA: NewsOK: Addicted Oklahoma reports

News On 6: Two Men Caught In Canadian County Drug Bust

OREGON: KOBI: drugs Archives

KDRV: Suspected Drug Den in Medford

KOIN: Man gets 17 years for Mexico-to-Oregon drug trafficking

PENNSYLVANIAPhillyNews: prosecutors are charging heroin dealers with killing their customers

KPMT: York City Police arrest 7 in connection to drug trafficking

PUERTO RICO:  U.S. Department of Justice: Seven Puerto Rico Police Officers Arrested For Corrupt Activities Including Drug Trafficking And Firearms Violations

Boston Globe: 10 charged in cocaine ring that brought drugs from Puerto Rico 

RHODE ISLAND: The Sun Chronicle: Police arrest 49 people and seize 53 illegal guns and a large quantity of drugs during Operation Patched Out

SOUTH CAROLINA: WISTV: South Congaree drug bust nets thousands in heroin

Meth, money and Mercedes seized in major drug bust

GoUpstate: Operation Rolling thunder hits University of South Carolina

The Herald: 11 arrested in York County drug raid

The Washington Post: South Carolina anti-drug police unit admits to violating 4th Amendment Rights of U.S. citizens by conducting ‘no-knock’ home invasions!

SOUTH DAKOTA: KSFY: After being busted two years ago, a drug dealer finally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and then ten years of probation after that

TENNESSEE: WVLT: Four arrests in ‘one of the largest’ drug busts in Harriman

Knox News: raid seizes 10000 Xanax pills, 8 pounds of pot 

Drugs land more women behind bars

TEXAS:  Times Record News: Man kidnapped, part of finger chopped off by gang members in meth ring

KRGV: Bust at Donna Home Yields Drugs, 3 Arrests

KLTV: Drug bust takes dealer who sold to both kids, adults, off street

7 arrested in drug search in Van Zandt County

Star-Telegram: 10 schemed to load drugs, weapons and explosives on aircraft at DFW Airport

Corridor News: Texas Border And Port Narcotic Seizures, Arrests And Apprehensions For The Week Of May 2 – May 8

Your tax dollars at work tearing down ‘drug houses’ in Corpus Christi.  Local elementary students were indoctrinated into the government’s latest vain attempt at looking like its fighting the War on Drugs by observing the National Guard knock-down known as Operation Crackdown, while chanting “Knock it down! Knock it down!” (as if it were some kind-o sporting event)

UTAH: KUTV: ‘This is a big one,’ feds announce Utah drug bust

KSTU: Meth ‘forgotten drug,’ seizures skyrocketing in Utah

KTVX: Flesh-eating drug may have made its way to Utah

Salt Lake Tribune: The cheap drug spice is on the rise in Salt Lake City — and it’s killing

Deseret News: New tenant arrested in large drug bust

VERMONT: CNN: Vermont law could allow state to import cheaper Canadian drugs

VIRGINIA:  WSLS: 21 people arrested in ‘Operation Blue Thunder’

WASHINGTON: KHQ: Police seize 50 pounds of meth from truck after traffic stop

The Daily News:  Three Lewis County drug busts in two weeks

CNN: Mussels from Puget Sound test positive for opioids

 Official video Coast Guard Cutter Active, home-port Port Angeles, cocaine interdiction somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 18MAY2018:

 

Washington DC:  Perry Center Hosts Hemispheric Forum on Efforts to Address the Opioid Crisis and Transnational Organized Crime with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.   Read the Official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime report website.  Read official Department of Justice (DoJ) crime report website.

WEST VIRGINIA: WSAZ: police find more than $40,000 in heroin

The Herald-Dispatch: Drug firms deny role in sparking opioid epidemic in WV

WVNews: Mason County man arrested after deputies find drugs, guns

WVVA:  Monroe County indicted 19 people on 46 felony offenses

MetroNews: Two charged after drug overdose in Upshur County

Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA): West Virginia drug crime reports

WISCONSIN:  Wisconsin State Journal: Madison man charged with selling heroin that killed drug purchaser

South Side drug search nets cash, drugs, gun

DoseOfReality: Native Americans in Wisconsin get $2.4-million USD to fight opioid addiction

WKBT: Wisconsin 3rd in nation with drug disposal program

WYOMING: CBSNews: U.S. Air Force admits Airmen guarding nuclear missiles in Wyoming used LSD

Idaho State Journal: Wyoming troopers seize $425000 worth of meth

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: More proof your government/police is behind drugs; TAKE BACK DAY, as Chinese news media reveal that China is behind major California drug ops!

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, FEBRUARY 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”

SUMERIAN LAMENT: HISTORY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ARE GREATEST SELF-INFLICTED THREAT TO EMPIRES!

THE NEW GREAT OPIUM WAR: MYANMAR NOW SECOND LARGEST PRODUCER OF OPIUM! (thanks to United States?)

2012: Occupation of Afghanistan designed to raise the price of opioids

Red Neck Fail: Covert Civil War in Texas causes bullied immigrant to shoot up school with shotgun?

19MAY2018 (16:40 UTC-07 Tango 06)  29 Ordibehesht 1397/04 Ramadan 1439/05 Ding-Si (4th month) 4716

The Washington Post: Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died.

Yes, another school shooting, don’t blame guns (this latest Texas shooting involved a low-rate of fire pump action shotgun and a revolver, no assault weapons used, realizing that low-rate of fire weapons were used, supposedly by one person, it’s amazing how many people were wounded or killed, and never-mind that the ‘christian’ shooter is from an immigrant family who was bullied at school “for smelling bad”), it’s called a Covert Civil War.

The following are mainstream news media reports of the disintegration of Texas during the first three weeks of May 2018 (note how many involve education):

KHOU: 22 injured in Pasadena plant explosion

Texas is now tied to the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak

Houston Chronicle: Texas pastor calls social justice ‘anti-biblical’ and ‘Marxist ideology’

Texas man accused of possessing 58 terabytes of data related to child pornography

Texas police receive training from anti-Islam ex-FBI agent

Home prices rising in most Texas cities

Texas regulators move to shut down Houston cryptocurrency site

North Texas teacher wrangles snake that invaded elementary school

Texas violated federal voting laws

Texas teacher fired after sending profane text to mother of autistic student

CBS DFW: Ammo Box Falls From Military Chopper, Crashes Into Texas School

The Texas Tribune: Texas’ “revenge porn” law violates the First Amendment

Women at Texas community colleges aren’t getting the kind of birth control they want

Trump administration preparing to shelter migrant children on Texas military bases

Texas executed Juan Castillo, who said he was innocent

Former University of Texas law school official arrested 

Judge approves settlement mandating air conditioning at hot Texas prison

Texas prisons “You’re not as safe as you should be.” 

Fort Worth Star Telegram: ‘End times’: Nude family walks away from burning home before parents assault PD chief

The Root: Texas 13-Year-Old Abducted, Assaulted after Getting Off School Bus

NBCNews: Young Texas Latinos are an untapped voting goldmine

Corpus Christi Caller-Times: Corpus Christi protesters slam ‘homophobic’ policy

ProPublica: Help Us Investigate Care at the Texas Medical Center

Austin American-Statesman: Texas Humor founder responds after woman requests ‘learn English or go home’ T-shirt

Drunken Texas mom disrupts play, kicks officer, floods jail

The Nation: In West Texas, the US-Mexico Border Disappeared

ABCNews: 2 Texas transgender women dead within a week of each other

Texas family targeted in ‘swatting’ prank

CBSNews: Man arrested in Texas transgender woman’s strangulation

WJLA: Baby accidentally left in parked car dies in Texas

Dallas News: Texas father, sex-offender son both charged after authorities find child porn at their home

STAAR test glitches, causing stress for Texas special ed students

Texas uses hypnosis to investigate crimes.

Texas doctors send letter slamming Blue Cross’ ER billing process

Texas added more red tape to its arcane beer regulations

Positive lab test results for opiates, amphetamines and marijuana went up in Texas

Texas confuses voters, hurts turnout with two elections in one month

Plano teen arrested in ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass school shooting

FoxNews: Texas man shoots dead ex-wife’s three children, boyfriend

Texas man, 25, posed as high school student to play basketball

U.S. News & World Report: Feast or Famine in South Texas

PolitiFact: Political candidate lies about Texas schools shutting down for hunting season

Live Science: New Smallpox-Related Virus Found Lurking in Texas Rodents

KTKR: Texas energy manager warns of rolling power outages 

Air Force veteran dies alone in Texas

Texas school ends ‘birthday spankings’ after complaints

Fox29: Texas teen died after unbuckling her seat belt while trying to take a selfie

Greenville News: South Carolina National Guard deployed to Texas to deal with immigrants

Bloomberg: Searing Heat Has Texas Power Surpassing $1000 a Megawatt-Hour

MySanAntonio.com: South Texas doctor indicted in medical fraud case

Popular Texas swimming hole closes indefinitely

Sacramento Bee: California and Texas need a peace treaty

KTLA: A Texas woman who killed her cheating husband by repeatedly running him over, released from prison

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Texas State University Police Chief Resigns Amid Racial Tensions

University of Texas System Apologizes for Revoking Nepali Students’ Scholarships

WFAA: Former North Texas mayor was bribed with cash and luxury hotel

The Texas Observer: The Ghosts of Abandoned Texas Buildings

New York Times: Texas Teacher Showed a Photo of Her Wife, and Was Barred From the Classroom

Seven States, Led by Texas, Sue to End DACA Program

Newsweek: Texas Student with Autism Arrested for Allegedly Firing ‘Imaginary Rifle’

MarketWatch: Why Texas is labeled Canada on this map

NBC5 Dallas-Fort Worth: Taxpayers to pay North Texas school superintendent more than $750K despite Bullying Claims

AzCentral: Texas teen beaten with jack handle after offering help to motorist

2017USAF FAILED TO COMPLY WITH LAW, ENABLING TEXAS CHURCH SHOOTER!

TEXAS LAWMAN CHARGED WITH USING A GUN DURING ROAD RAGE INCIDENT!

HARVEY: TEXAS MILITIA RUNNING ON FUMES?

HARVEY: SINGAPORE JOINS TEXAS MILITIA!

HARVEY KILLS TEXAS CROPS?

RED NECK OBAMACARE FAIL: U.S. ARMY DEPLOYED ON ECONOMIC MISSION IN TEXAS!

MILITARIZING THE POLICE: AIR MILITIA TRAINS UP TEXAS COPS!

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

TEXAS MILITIA PREPS FOR COMBAT DEPLOYMENT!

RED NECK FAIL: TURKISH TANKERS TAKE TEXAS!

2016RED NECK FAIL: ‘CHRISTIAN’ TEXAS HOME BASE FOR TAXPAYER FUNDED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST SCHOOLS!

RED NECK FAIL: TEXAS CARIBBEAN XMAS THEME PARK BUILT WITH CHINESE LABOR!

OBAMA DEPLOYS TEXAS MILITIA ON HISTORIC MIDDLE EAST DOMINATING MISSION!

MULTIPLE SHOOTINGS AUSTIN, TEXAS

TEXAS COPS GENOCIDE NEARLY 7-THOUSAND PEOPLE IN FIVE YEARS!

BRITISH EMPIRE ABANDONS TEXAS!

2015TEXAS COLLEGE FIRES EMPLOYEES FOR REVEALING THE TRUTH? 

“Bullshit!”: U.S. government shenanigans, April 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for April 2018:

Alabama: The state Department of Public Health discovered that immigrant girls under the age of 15, in Montgomery, are getting taxpayer funded abortions: “When a 13-year-old child–with non-English speaking parents–is given an abortion, without a third-party counselor and no suspicion of sexual abuse and no report, we know Montgomery needs new leadership.”-Scott Dawson, christian gubernatorial candidate

According to one political candidate most crime in the city of Mobile can be blamed on a small group of families: “In Mobile, it’s something like, 1,700 families generate 80% of the crime. We know who those families are.”Bill Hightower, gubernatorial candidate, 18APR2018

Seattle Times: Corruption case: Alabama lawmaker, 2 others plead not guilty

Chattanooga Times Free Press: ‘It smells like death’: Alabama endures New York City ‘poop train’

Slate Magazine: It’s Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama

Alaska: You might have heard that residents get income subsidies from the oil industry, but did you know most of it ends up back in the hands of state government (even though there is no income tax in Alaska), and that greedy state lawmakers are trying to find ways to squeeze even more out of residents? 

Seattle Times: 2 Alaska salmon fishermen charged with killing Steller sea lions, and interfering with federal investigations

Arizona: The governor exempted coal fired power-plants from paying state sales taxes. The irony is that the Navajo Generating Station, in Page, is scheduled to shutdown in 2019 anyway, meaning Arizona is losing about $12-million in tax revenues until then!   

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the epicenter for a growing e. coli epidemic is lettuce farms in Yuma, Arizona.

Arkansas:  NWAOnline: $42M in state aid to fix up Arkansas schools

Arkansas Online: Ecclesia College awarded state taxpayer funded grants before it even applied for those grants!  

Defense rests for ex-Arkansas legislator accused of fraud

Man claiming to being paid by taxpayers to hunt for Big Foot arrested on child porn charges

California: After almost 50 years, and more than 50 rapes and at least 12 murders it turns out The Golden State Killer was at one time a taxpayer funded cop!  Not only that, but it took police using unethical, and possibly court challenge-able (because it possibly violates California’s own Online Privacy Protection law), use of DNA and ancestry data to catch the killer cop.  The suspect killer was also in trouble as a cop, losing his taxpayer funded police job in 1979 after being caught shoplifting.

Homeless crisis in Los Angeles County as desperate officials offer to pay homeowners to take in homeless people!

Washington Post: California limits National Guard’s border mission

KPBS: More local governments in California are resisting the state’s immigrant sanctuary policy

Washington Times: Californians defy Gov’na with nearly 1 million signatures to repeal gas tax

Colorado:  The gov’na approved a $28.9-billion USD taxpayer funded spending bill, claiming it’s the result of a booming economy and federal-level taxpayer funded ‘reforms’.    Money will supposedly be spent on schools, roads and the state employee taxpayer funded retirement system.    The Colorado Petroleum Council could be getting what it wants; an increase the number of oil and gas wells, as well as forcing “nonconsenting owners” to give up access to their mineral rights, it’s known as the ‘pooling statute’. 

Connecticut: State taxpayers could be being forced to pay University of Connecticut student-teachers a new contract worth $15.4-million USD.    

State taxpayers forced to pay for a five years plan to bailout the city of Hartford, despite the Municipal Accountability Review Board saying the bailout plan will fail by the third year: “The City of Hartford should be immediately classified as a Tier IV and should re-look at going into bankruptcy.”-Bart C. Shuldman

Florida: Defense contractor Lockheed-Martin eliminating 2-hundred jobs at its Sikorsky factory in Jupiter, which builds Black Hawk helicopters for the taxpayers of the British empire member Canada!   The Crestview Police Department arrested a U.S. Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) soldier for the murder of his estranged wife.

Tampabay.com: Cops used dead man’s finger in attempt to unlock his phone

Georgia:  It’s been revealed that Newnan Police got nearly $1-million worth of taxpayer funded military equipment from the U.S. Department of Defense, half-a-million of which was classified as “non-lethal”

Chattanooga Times Free Press: Georgia city won’t share police shooting video

Guam: After telling territorial government employees they would be furloughed, supposedly due to unpaid taxes going back to 2016, the gov’na suddenly reversed course due to cutting $30-million USD from the general fund budget and because of a sudden approval of immigrant work visas!  The gov’na also said it was possible that up to $25-million in tax refunds could be issued.

Hawaii:  The federal government is suing defunct Sandwich Isles Communications in an attempt to recover 128-million taxpayer dollars, loaned to the company through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide phone service to rural areas.

Idaho: It’s been revealed that Gov’na Butch Otter pardoned a convicted drug felon, back in February, only now was it made public.  The Gov’na said it was because the convict successfully obtained a doctorate degree while on parole.  A former state representative was removed from the May primary elections because she is now living in a new district, Idaho law says you must reside for at least a year in your legislative district before you can run for election.  The greedy leaders of Boise are spending taxpayer funding on a new propaganda operation called Livability Ambassadors Program where “selected community members” will tour selected city sites and then “will be expected to share their experiences….through social media”.   Owyhee County Sheriff’s Department warning that a man is going around claiming he’s an undercover cop, already four people have been victimized.

Illinois: The city of Harvey is on the verge of bankruptcy, already laid off police and firefighters after $1.4-million in tax revenues were blocked by the Cook County Circuit Court.  The state Appellate Court overturned the Cook County Court’s ruling. Harvey is in the debt hole by as much as $7-million USD, and that’s just for its employee retirement fund! Did you know that Cook County charges a tax on vehicles bought outside of the county?   Lead contamination found in the city of Chicago‘s tap water, three out of every ten residences contaminated.   A vehicle sharing program has been suspended in a Chicago ward, primarily because of the construction of the Obama Presidential Library.   The gov’na is spending tax dollars traveling to Germany and Poland, supposedly in an attempt to increase tourism from those countries.  Taxpayers being forced to pay for 5G cell phone service installation, this after the state increased income tax rates last year.  The Illinois Pharmacy Association says ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies are paying the more than 5-hundred independent pharmacies less than what it actually costs them to buy the drugs at wholesale, and that ObamaCare-ACA ‘benefits managers’ (like CVS) are actually favoring the big corporate pharmacies: “It’s kind of a predatory market practice and misuse of state tax dollars.”-Garth Reynolds, Illinois Pharmacists Association

Indiana:  The gov’na announced he’s going on taxpayer funded trips to Europe and Israel, supposedly in an attempt to increase economic development.  British empire Commonwealth member India based InfoTech (IT) contractor InfoSys getting at least $101.8-million in state and local taxpayer incentives to build a massive training and data center at now vacant terminal of the Indianapolis International Airport, the ecstatic gov’na Eric Holcomb referred to the bribery by saying “This is a powerful partnership. It’s going to change the way we do business.”  You know your capitalist economy is a lie when taxpayers are forced to shell-out millions of dollars to create jobs (isn’t that communism?).  By the way most of the news media in Indiana failed to mention how much the InfoSys deal was costing taxpayers, one source even lied and said such info wasn’t available, however, news sources outside the state had the taxpayer rape data.

Iowa:  An ‘ally’ of the gov’na now accused of sexual harassment, the gov’na swears she didn’t know. The Iowa Pharmacy Association says ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies are paying  independent pharmacies less than what it actually costs them to buy the drugs at wholesale, and that ObamaCare-ACA ‘benefits managers’ like CVS are actually favoring the big corporate pharmacies.  And in response to a statement by a CVS Caremark spokesperson about price adjustments, Representative John Forbes, who is also a pharmacist, actually said “Bullshit!”

Kansas:  State legislators claim they can spend more money on education because they’ve jacked-up future tax collections by $540-million USD between now and June 2019!  However, the state Supreme Court says the proposed $4-billion in education funding still isn’t enough!  Politicians started jacking up state taxes in 2017.   Three men convicted in federal court of planning to blow up a ‘refugee’ apartment complex in Garden City.  The small city of 27-thousand people is known as a “meatpacking town” and apparently the ‘refugees’ are being brought in as cheap labor at the meat packaging plant at the expense of federal taxpayers.  The influx of ‘refugees’ and immigrants began at the end of 2013 under the Obama regime.  Even an NPR report from December 2013 suggested the use of immigrants and ‘refugees’ by unAmerican corporate America is intentional saying “…many plants have moved to rural Midwestern towns, which have seen a huge influx of immigrants as a result.”,  as well as “Garden City’s refugee and immigrant population is expected to grow, as Tyson continues recruiting more workers.”  The 2013 NPR report also revealed that by using immigrants and ‘refugees’ that “requests for food stamps are up 230 percent”

Kentucky: Massive drug addiction and resulting deaths causing requests for autopsies to skyrocket 26% since 2013, and the state does not have the funding to deal with it.  As a result the gov’na suggested moving Medical Examiner’s Office pathologists from direct state employment to indirect employment through universities, which would come with a pay raise but would also mean those pathologists would lose their state employee retirement accounts. Perhaps it’s actually a covert plan to save the state’s troubled employee retirement system?   The state Department of Education is recommending direct state control of Jefferson County Public Schools, after a year long audit revealed local ignorance regarding how to use funding for the school district, among other major problems.

Kentucky Career Center: Kentucky issued 30% more Workforce Opportunity Tax Credits to employers in fiscal year 2017​​

Louisiana:  Taxpayers might be raped of $1.5-billion (yes, ‘Billion’) in state and local tax incentives for convincing a plastics company from Taiwan, called Formosa Petrochemicals, to set up shop in Saint James!

Maine: Seattle Times: Police thought they’d seized heroin, but it was cremated human remains

Maryland: Baltimore based executive vehicle rental company AutoFlex officially protested the cancellation of its federal taxpayer funded contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 

The Washington Post: Montgomery County economy is stagnant, and leaders are ignoring job creation

Maryland rakes in millions of dollars from toll fines and penalties

Maryland flunks freedom of speech

Massachusetts: Providing body cameras for Boston cops will cost taxpayers $2-million USD in 2019.  At one time Boston was known for its rebellion against unfair taxes, now there’s a new push to create taxes that target specific income groups. 

Michigan:  A state judge ruled it’s unconstitutional to use taxpayer money to fund private schools, this after state ‘christian’ lawmakers gave 5-million tax dollars to religious schools in the past two years!  Taxpayers of Michigan will be forced to help fund a British empire United Kingdom based study on driverless cars! 

Minnesota:  Texas based Enbridge Energy spent $5-million USD bribing, I mean lobbying state politicians in 2017, making it the most costly state lobbying effort since 2007.  A now former FBI counter-terrorism agent, from Minnesota, pled guilty to leaking classified government documents to the mainstream ‘fake’ news media. 

Mississippi: More proof the criminal justice system is about making money as “Current Mississippi law requires an inmate to pay a monthly $55 fee when he or she is paroled…”  It’s been revealed that Japan based Toyota is getting even more taxpayer funded incentives to re-tool its Blue Springs Corolla factory, yet how much has not been revealed.  One of the taxpayer funded incentives rewards Toyota for paying employees more than $41-thousand USD per year.  Past state and local taxpayer funding for Toyota amounted to $325-million.  If the only way you can create ‘private sector’ jobs is with taxpayer funding then your capitalist/corporate economic system has failed.

Missouri: The gov’na is now charged with felony computer tampering regarding the theft of a charity list from his own charity organization, The Mission Continues.

Montana:  One of the biggest recycling operations in the state, Aware Incorporated, shutting down ops in Butte due to the crashing prices of recycled materials and crashing state taxpayer funded subsidies for recycling companies.  

Nebraska: A new law was created to protect state taxpayers from an ‘inadvertent’ increase in state taxes, which supposedly could be caused by the Trump Tax Reforms of 2017.   Another new law ensures “that gun control extremists won’t have access” to gun owner’s personal information.

Nevada:  Atlantic Richfield, owner of the former Anaconda copper mine-now a federal SuperFund site, suddenly halted home delivery of bottled water to the Yerington Paiute Tribe: “I believe that this dismissive, arrogant act means to punish us by cutting off our water in an attempt to pressure us to stop fighting for our legal rights.”-Laurie Thom, Tribal Chairman

Las Vegas Sun: 20 ways legal marijuana has affected Nevada

New Hampshire:  Taxpayers funding BirdsEyeView Aerobatics of Andover with $1.8-million USD for a measly 50 airborne drones to help the U.S. Department of the Interior fight ever increasing wildfires.

New Jersey:  A new law automatically registers people to vote when they get a drivers license or I-D card.  The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says New Jersey has the highest rate of autism in their latest survey.   U.S. Senator Robert Menendez ordered to pay-back ‘gifts’ he got from a doctor whom he actively promoted by using his position as a U.S. senator.  

New Mexico: Albuquerque now requires federal immigration agents to get a warrant before entering the cityState taxpayers have been funding up to 75% of job training for call center employees, already the state has set aside as much as $9-million USD for this year’s call center job training!  On top of that, taxpayer funded subsidies for job training for all industries is at $13.7-million!  One of the biggest recipients of call center training subsidies is Ohio based Convergys, who has already laid off 258 New Mexicans so far this year!  To prove that the U.S. is now run by communists, the state Legislative Finance Committee justified the spending of working class taxes to create working class jobs as a way of “…creating well-paying opportunities for a skilled labor force that in turn bolsters the state’s average income and incentivizes workers to stay.”

New York:  Yet another reason that more and more people are leaving NYC as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is now considered the most expensive toll bridge in the United States.  State taxpayers being forced to create a new Medicaid Doula (Greek for ‘servant’) system in an attempt to stop the unusually high maternal mortality rate among ‘black’ women.

North Carolina: The paranoid gov’na wants taxpayers to fork-over an additional $130-million USD for school building safety improvements and to hire hundreds of additional school nurses, psychologists and police officers.

North Dakota: The gov’na ordered state agencies to prep for major taxpayer funding cuts, caused by a reduction in budget funding of $1.7-million USD as a result of crashing petroleum industry activity.

Ohio: The Ohio Pharmacy Association says ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies are paying  independent pharmacies less than what it actually costs them to buy the drugs at wholesale, and that ObamaCare-ACA ‘benefits managers’ are actually favoring the big corporate pharmacies like CVS, who just happens to be the subcontracted pharmacy benefit manager.  As a result, 165 independent pharmacies in Ohio have gone out-of-business in the past two years!   Taxpayers funding a new law to study why Ohio courts have been reluctant to upload criminal records to the anti-gun National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Oklahoma: A new law changes the way people convicted of drug crimes, including repeat offenders, are treated by the state’s criminal justice system.  But don’t think it’s for ‘humanitarian’ reasons, the state prison system is overcrowded with drug crime offenders and if something isn’t done to reduce the prison population then it’s expected that taxpayers would have to fork-over more than $1.2-billion USD to build new prisons over the next ten years.

Oregon: The state is being overwhelmed with data concerning its legalized ganja program.  By law the 1-thousand-8-hundred licensed Mary-Jane dealers have to input data everyday into the state Cannabis Tracking System, the result is that state law enforcers can’t deal with the data!

Pennsylvania: A failed political candidate and assistant vice president of Villanova University shot and killed by the wife of her lover, after getting caught: “You had a man who was married who was having an affair with this other woman. The wife knew about it, and this was a calculated, planned attack.”-Police Superintendent William Colarulo

Puerto Rico: The Columbian: US mainland politicians wooing Puerto Ricans who fled storm

BuzzFeed News: Puerto Rico Wants To Send Thousands Of Inmates To Private for-profit Prisons on mainland U.S.

Rhode Island: Despite ongoing problems, the state Health & Human Services is extending a contract for a vendor responsible for the ‘UHIP debacle’.  The Unified Health Infrastructure Project for low income people is also known as RI Bridges, and is meant to ascertain a person’s eligibility for SNAP, cash assistance and/or Medicaid.  Contractor Deloitte Consulting has so far failed to get the $492-million taxpayer funded UHIP system to work, but is getting the contract extension because it claims to continue working on UHIP for free.

South Carolina: The State: SC guards who take bribes, deal drugs in prison get off easy

NBCNews: Shortage of guards eyed after South Carolina prison riot 

South Carolina Corrections employees charged in prison contraband

New York Post: Inmates in South Carolina prison riot bled to death

USA Today: “While South Carolina’s prison system now ranks among the country’s cheapest for taxpayers, it’s also become one of the deadliest…”

South Dakota:  Three First Nations tribes want direct control over the federally run Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City, saying the taxpayer funded U.S. Indian Health Service is a failure: “…as we all know and have seen for several years, they have failed to do that at the cost of lives and at the cost of healthcare for our people.”-Jerilyn Church, Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board

Tennessee: A new law will require healthy adults with no children to work in order to qualify for Medicaid, never-mind that already an estimated 180-thousand working (employed) Tennesseans should, but don’t, qualify for ObamaCare-ACA Medicaid!

Texas: The police chief of New Boston could be fired for the ‘F-5’ termination of a police officer.  City leaders say the firing was not justified, but the police chief indicated the officer lied to him.  Texas law requires a written reason for being fired, the city says the police chief didn’t give one.  The police chief also accused the city attorney of lying saying “Lying on a government document is a crime and you should know that being the city attorney.”

Utah: State taxpayers forced to fork-over $650-million USD for a new prison west of Salt Lake City International Airport.

Vermont: According to The Washington Post, Vermont is so lacking in working aged adults that the state government has launched a program to hire tourists!   A taxpayer subsidized program to bring cell phone service to 26 towns is in trouble because the Massachusetts based contractor,  Vanu-CoverageCo, is out of money.  It’s also blamed on connectivity problems with AT&T, and on unspecified problems with taxpayer funded Public Service Department.  What happened to the old landline system?

Virginia:  The state Supreme Court revived the idea that scanning vehicle license plates could be a violation of personal information, and as such could affect every law enforcement agency in the state.

Washington: Despite openly anti-2nd Amendment cities like Seattle, pro-gunners held rallies across The Evergreen State.

Washington DC: It’s been revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained U.S. citizens for weeks, and even years, simply because agents refused to accept the fact they were detaining U.S. citizens!  

The U.S. Department of the Interior requesting Congress to consider forcing you to pay for access to taxpayer funded U.S. Geological Survey data! 

New York Times: IRS Website Crashes on Tax Day as Millions Tried to File Returns

US Must Keep DACA and Accept New Applications, DC Judge Rules

West Virginia: The West Virginia National Guard is now assigned to mentor the military of Qatar, but don’t think it’s about national security, it’s about the oil: “This new partnership will benefit West Virginia as we learn from their extensive natural gas and energy infrastructure programs.”-David McKinley, U.S. Representative

Wisconsin: Two former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh administrators face felony charges regarding an ongoing financial scandal surrounding several construction projects.

Milwaukee Business Journal: 5 new laws that will impact Wisconsin’s housing market in 2018

Wyoming:  Cody Regional Health is offering an opioid addiction treatment, the only problem is that it uses an opioid as part of the treatment.  Officials with the hospital wouldn’t say what the opioid was, but claims it “doesn’t make them high.”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Government Shenanigans, March 2018: “THEY GOT IT WRONG.”

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, April 2018: TAKE BACK DAY

ObamaCare ACA death spiral, April 2018:“NEW NORMAL”

Dumbing Down U.S.A., April 2018:“THIS IS SOMETHING UNEXPECTED”

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: Military Ops NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018

Take Back Day: Drugs, the American Way, April 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of April 2018.

“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire, 19MAR2018

The official National Drug Take Back Day was 28APR2018, proving that the government is behind the drug epidemic (why else would they call it ‘Take Back Day’ if they aren’t the source of the drugs?).  Since National Drug Take Back Day began in 2010 more than four million kilos (nine million pounds) of prescription drugs were given back to the government, I mean turned in on National Drug Take Back Day across the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) reports that for fiscal year 2017 they captured 269,790 pounds of cocaine; 384,230 pounds of marijuana; 5,721 pounds of methamphetamine; 1,089 weapons, $26.1 million USD in cash, and captured 37,009 illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that drug overdoses (O-D) killed 63-thousand-632 people in 2016, compared to 40-thousand-2-hundred vehicle deaths and 38-thousand gun deaths.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner blamed Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Google, Yahoo and Bing for enabling the opioid epidemic.

Official Department of Defense opioid video explainer:

Alabama: The six months old Alabama Drug Task Force received a piddly $64-thousand USD federal taxpayer funded grant.  After only six months of operations the Drug Task Force boasts of capturing illegal and prescription drugs along with 145 guns.  A Dothan Police sergeant was arrested for illegal possession of drugs as well as theft!  Gulf Shores Police arrested two men on marijuana charges, the two men turned out to be cops from Taliaferro County, Georgia!  The Heflin Police Department reports arresting five people and capturing 34-kilos (75-pounds) of drugs, adding that anti-drug ops are ongoing and more arrests are expected. Bay Minette Police Department arrested at least 20 people in taxpayer led anti-drug ops: “These arrests took place as the result of citizen complaints…    These enforcement efforts are ongoing and will continue. We want to thank the citizens for providing us information and tips to act on.”-Bay Minette press release

Alabama Public Radio: Benzodiazepines: America’s ‘Other Prescription Drug Problem’

Alaska: State Troopers arrested a Fairbanks resident allegedly in possession of meth, shrooms and ganjaState Troopers, and the federal DEA, also found two kilos (five pounds) of heroin inside the engine compartment of a Chevy Tahoe that was being shipped in from Thermal, California. Drug dealers were also arrested, but the DEA noted that the dealers were conducting counter-surveillance ops, meaning they suspected the cops had been tipped-off.  Nine people indicted for trying to smuggle methamphetamine, heroin and Suboxone into the Lemon Creek prison, using code words like ‘soup’, ‘movies’ and ‘painting’.  A woman in Eagle River reported to police that she got robbed by her friendly neighborhood drug dealer.  She says when she got into the dealer’s car, to buy ganja, he robbed her instead.   Samoan Customs report they arrested a man who came from Alaska, along with $26-thousand worth of meth, supposedly to attend a funeral in the tiny island nation.

Anchorage Daily News: Alaska fentanyl overdose deaths more than quadrupled in 2017

Arizona: The possible first overdose in The Grand Canyon State involving an opioid drug more powerful than fentanyl; carfentanil.   A man was found dead in his car, “The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s report confirmed the presence of carfentanil, yet the source of the carfentanil remains unknown…”  The Canadian Centre for Addiction says “The equivalent of one gran of salt of Carfentanil is enough to kill a human being.”  Carfentanil was originally used to tranquilize elephants.  A group of doctors revealed that Arizona’s new drug law actually punishes doctors for prescribing alternatives to opioids, and allude that the British empire maker of Suboxone bribed state lawmakers to create the pro-opioid law!  The U.S. Border Patrol says they captured a Mexican smuggling 121.5-kilos (268-pounds) of marijuana and meth across the border using two horses. A woman was arrested as she and her three children were trying to cross the border, because one of her children had two pounds of cocaine strapped to her body.

Arkansas:  The Land of Opportunity has the second highest rate of prescription drug over-prescribing at an average of 114.6 opioid prescriptions per 1-hundred people!  A federal judge ordered the temporary shutdown of Cantrell Drug Company due to the U.S. FDA accusing the company of selling adulterated drugs throughout the U.S.   The chairman of the Anthropology Department at the University of Arkansas arrested by the DEA for buying prescription drugs illegally and illegal possession of guns!   Benton Police credit good neighbors for helping to shutdown a drug dealer, who was captured with methamphetamine, LSD, mushrooms, marijuana, prescription pills, unknown powders, and stolen guns: “Definitely a shocker. We never considered this to be a hot spot for any kind of drug dealing.”-Anthony Natale, concerned neighbor

California: Menlo Park based Kaiser Family Foundation says opioid addiction treatment, for employees of ‘large’ companies with insurance, cost $2.6-billion USD in 2016, compared to $273-million in 2004!  The federal DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) considers the city of Thermal to be a major illegal drug distribution center for the United States.  Six Californians arrested for trafficking 22.6-kilos (50-pounds) worth of meth, smack and coke between Washington state and Alaska. A now former U.S. Border Patrol agent sentenced to six years in federal prison after getting caught smuggling meth and coke from Mexico!  A member of the drug gang MS-13 revealed in a federal court, in New Jersey, that the MS-13 drug distribution operations are run out of the Calipatria State Prison in California!  One prisoner at the Mule Creek State Prison killed and 11 others required medical treatment after taking an undisclosed drug.  Riverside, Inyo and Mono counties, along with Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, began experimenting with ketamine for pain relief: “It will be used for pain control in lieu of our current medication which is Fentanyl. Fentanyl is an opioid-based narcotic, and due to the ongoing opioid crisis nationwide, emergency medical services have been faced with finding alternatives.”-Greg Kunkel, Emergency Medical Services

South China Morning Post: 100 Chinese-run ‘pot-growing’ houses seized in one of the largest residential drug busts in U.S./California history 

Crew of the USS Zephyr rescue smugglers from a burning drug smuggling ‘stealth’ boat from Columbia, 07APR2018, the drug boat was sunk

Colorado:  According to Colorado Health Institute 912 Coloradans died from drug use in 2016, more than those who died from cars and guns combined!  Between 2001 and 2016 there was a 756% increase in heroin deaths!  The DEA reports that almost 907-kilos (2-thousand pounds) of prescription drugs were given back to the government, I mean turned in on National Drug Take Back Day in Colorado!

Connecticut: 19 people indicted for selling cocaine, fentanyl and heroin: “…this drug trafficking organization, which used multiple sources of supply, has been responsible for the distribution of significant quantities of heroin and cocaine in Connecticut.”-John Durham, U.S. Attorney

Delaware: The state Department of Health and Social Services confirmed at least 71 people died from drugs, so far this year.  There was a 12% increase in overdose deaths in 2017.

Florida: An immigrant from South Africa was arrested in a Honda minivan full of drugs, police were paroling the Vero Beach area due to increased burglaries. In Miami, police raided two strip-clubs, arresting dozens of strippers for dealing drugs, as part of ongoing Operation Neon Lights.  Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over a Chevy Tahoe to find unknown pills and heroin, and a nine years old boy. The vehicle had been involved in a hit-&-run accident, a female passenger had been arrested three previous times on felony drug charges. The Hillsborough County Sheriff reports a local high school student was killed while trying to buy marijuana and that the dealer confessed to shooting the student.  In Wakulla County a mom is awaiting trial for making her two years old smoke meth: “The toxicology results concluded that the 2-year-old tested positive for both methamphetamine and amphetamines and the findings were ‘chronic’ rather than ‘acute’.”-Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare (based in Florida), along with Canadian Navy ships, captures $390-million worth of cocaine and ganja during the months of March and April

Georgia: DeKalb County Drug Task Force arrested two women after finding meth, marijuana and drug selling equipment in a hidden compartment in their car.  It was revealed that ten immigrants were arrested for operating a massive $1-million USD meth distribution op in the counties of DeKalb and Gwinnett.  A now former teacher/cheer-leading coach at Northwest Whitfield High School arrested for possession of illegal opioids and having sex with students.  A doctor lost her medical license after threatening to slit her own employee’s throats, as well as committing actual acts of violence, she surrendered herself to police.  Two other doctors, and a hospital CEO, indicted for illegally prescribing pain meds.
Hawaii:  The Hawaii Police Department raided a home in Puna, finding heroin, meth, marijuana and cash, however, local news media says it’s the second time this year the same home has been raided finding the same type of drugs.  Diagnostic Laboratory Services reports that the new work-place drug testing rules of the U.S. Department of Transportation has resulted in a 50% drop in Hawaiian workers testing positive for opiods.  Mmmm
Idaho:  Idaho Department of Correction employees, prisoners and contractors arrested; five prison guards, one prisoner, one contract nurse and another person charged with drug trafficking, among other crimes, after a two years investigation by the FBI!  Mormon dominated Idaho is blaming Mormon dominated Utah for a 958% increase in heroin trafficking: “Every single day someone’s ‘tripping’ to Utah and bringing back heroin. Five years ago we were seeing almost none, and now it’s the biggest problem we’re seeing in southeast Idaho.-Lieutenant Clint Skinner, Idaho State Police, Pocatello office
Illinois: For some reason Chicago based American Medical Association (AMA) is opposed to limiting opioid prescriptions  Synthetic Ganja (K2) being blamed for at least three deaths and causing more than 1-hundred people to suffer bleeding: “Each day we’ve seen the number of cases rise. Synthetic cannabinoids are unsafe. They are not regulated and people don’t know what chemicals may be in them, like rat poison.”-Nirav D. Shah, Illinois Department of Public Health

Indiana: In Clark County a mom confessed to using her toddler children to make sex videos, which she sold to get money to buy drugs!   State Police pulled over a mom for driving too close to other cars, they found heroin, methadone and the mom’s one year old daughter in the car.   State Police also report 794.6-kilos (1-thousand-752 pounds) of prescription drugs were given back to the government, I mean turned in on National Drug Take Back Day in Indiana!

Iowa: A local pharmacist accuses CVS Pharmacy of gross over-billing of taxpayers for prescription drugs supplied to prisoners.  In one example he said that CVS charged Wapellow County $5-thousand for drugs that should’ve cost $1-thousand.   Iowa set a record for give your drugs back to the government day, I mean National Drug Take Back Day; more than six U.S. tons (5594-kilos or 12,333-pounds) of prescriptions collected, breaking the record set last year!

Kansas:  The U.S. FDA ordered Epic Products to recall its ‘over the counter’ male sexual enhancing drug because it contains actual prescription strength erectile dysfunction drugs sildenafil and tadalafil.

Kentucky: The supposedly highly educated gov’na blamed teacher strikes for causing children to be raped and become drug users: “Children were harmed, some physically, some sexually, some were introduced to drugs for the first time, because they were vulnerable and left alone.”  He supposedly apologized for the implication.

Louisiana: The state Legislative Auditor discovered that more than 25-thousand prescriptions went missing from the state Board of Pharmacy’s Prescription Monitoring Program!  The audit was prompted by a sudden increase in overdose deaths.  Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office, along with state and federal police, arrested 12 people in possession of meth, marijuana, pills and AK-47 assault rifles.

Maine: National Guard armories were used during the National Drug Take Back Day.

Maryland: A Prince George’s County special ed teacher was among 27 people busted for drugs in Maryland and Washington DC, federal cops say the drug ring had been selling heroin, cocaine and crack-cocaine since 2016.  In Frederick County a smaller drug gang was busted, six people arrested.

Massachusetts: The state Supreme Judicial Court dismissed nearly 8-thousand drug cases after it was shown that an employee of the contracted drug testing lab falsified results and was even using the drugs captured during drug raids! Also, the court vacated more than 22-thousand drug convictions because a different contracted drug lab basically did the same thing!!!

MichiganA study by the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Appriss Health reports a 30% increase in O-Ds (overdose deaths) from 2013 to 2015, with Detroit and Grand Rapids suffering the most deaths. 

Minnesota: 29 members of what police call a ‘multi-generational drug gang’ were arrested in Hubbard County, for selling meth, prescription drugs, hash oil and Mary-Jane.

Mississippi: Three Adams County Sheriff’s deputies went to eat lunch at their fave restaurant only to end up busting two men and a woman making a Xanax drug deal right outside the restaurant window!   A man was arrested using a former, but still marked, Newton County Sheriff’s cop car to traffic marijuana.  When cops raided the man’s home they say they found 31 types of marijuana. The man apparently bought the cop car at a government auction, however, it is the responsibility of the government agency to remove all police markings from the vehicle which, for some unknown reason, was not done.  Jackson Police report they’re arresting people who are driving to states where marijuana is legal, buying a crap-load and smuggling it into Mississippi.

Missouri: McLean County Sheriff’s Office reports arresting a woman who had ecstasy in her bra, heroin in her car and a locked and cocked pistol in her vagina!  As many as 8-hundred people in Saint Louis area died from opioids last year.  In just the past six months Saint Louis County reports 14-thousand cases of people trying to get multiple issues of prescription opioids, a clear case of doctor involved prescription drug addiction: “Even if you set aside the fact there are quite a few people who have genuine pain management needs, clearly there is over-prescribing going on.”-Faisal Khan, Saint Louis County

Montana:  A social worker at Meadow Hill junior high arrested for having meth, heroin and psilocybin mushrooms in her residence, but wait, there’s more. Officials with Missoula County Public Schools are so paranoid they used taxpayer money to hire a company to clean the now former social worker’s office at the junior high, due to fears over her “…personal drug activity.”  In Missoula County, a woman who worked with infants at the YMCA Learning Center arrested after building a ‘meth smoking den’ in the laundry room! The overwhelming smell of meth gave it away, despite her attempt to use a vent fan.  17 people arrested in Billings for meth related crimes as part of a new version of the national Project Safe Neighborhoods.  It should be noted the Project Safe Neighborhoods was originally a federal anti-gun operation launched in 2001.

Nebraska: The daughter of the mayor of North Port, and another woman, arrested while driving a Chevy Tahoe full of 46.7-kilos (103-pounds) of marijuana!

Nevada: According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The Silver State has the highest rate of psycho-stimulants O-D deaths; a 32% increase from 2015 to 2016: “I’ve been doing this job six and a half years, and for the last three of four years, we’ve seen the numbers rising. It unfortunately doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon.”-Jamie Ross, PACT (Patient Access Community Treatment) Coalition

“The number one drug seized by all of our task forces is meth.-Keith Carter, Nevada High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

New Hampshire:  The state experienced its largest ever fentanyl drug bust involving 20 different federal, state and local agencies resulting in 45 indictments and more than 30-kilograms (66 pounds) of fentanyl captured.  The drug gang involved originated in Massachusetts.

New Jersey:  The FBI arrested a Paterson cop for dealing heroin, crack cocaine, powder cocaine and marijuana since 2017, even using a city police car in a parking lot right next to the police HQ to do so!  One report says that from 2015 to 2016 at least 16-thousand people in New Jersey had to be revived with Narcan A convicted immigrant drug dealer was able to order his girlfriend’s murdered while he was in a New Jersey prison!

New Mexico: 14 people in Las Cruces arrested, 16 indicted, for trafficking cocaine, heroin and meth across four states.  In Las Vegas, a man who wanted some meth got mad when the female dealer told him she needed more money, he chopped her with a machete, she survived, he’s in jail.  And possibly as a result of such crazy drug crimes, the West Las Vegas School Board considering making it mandatory for school employees and student athletes to be tested for drugs, including prescription drugs: “In light of the recent events of what’s happened at schools, I think that anybody, or any teacher, any administrator who may be using a prescription medication or may be using narcotics, poses a safety threat to the school.”-Ambrosio Castellano, board member

New York: A NYC drug bust revealed nine kilos (20-pounds) of drugs in an apartment oven and couch, and $600-thousand USD in cash inside a Lamborghini.  The state Comptroller’s Office says 63% of counties couldn’t adequately Take Back drugs because they don’t have enough drug drop boxes, and five counties don’t have any drug Take Back boxes.  A doctor facing charges of killing six people with overdoses of opioids has somehow gotten another job at another clinic!  80% of New Yorkers blame doctors for the opioid epidemic, 70% blame the government.

North Carolina:  A local TV station revealed that illegal drug dealing has become such big business that state lawmakers created a special tax, called the Unauthorized Substance Tax, and drug dealers are actually paying it!  Perhaps in response, the federal government declared operation Take Back North Carolina: “The stakes are so high, the risk is so great that I almost don’t care what the cause is, we just got to stop the problem.”-Robert Higdon Junior, U.S. Attorney

North Dakota: A Burleigh County Sheriff’s Deputy now in jail after getting caught stealing cell phones and meth right outta the police evidence locker.   It turns out the cop doesn’t have a good work record, being rated unacceptable and getting reprimands.  A female University of North Dakota student arrested for attempting to sell drugs on campus.

Ohio: Official video report National Guard Counterdrug Task Force Airman who lost her brother to opioids:

Oklahoma: The state Bureau of Narcotics held a public meeting at Southern Tech about Current Oklahoma Drug Threats, one news report said only 13 people attended.  The DEA arrested a retired Edmond cop for money laundering and selling illegal steroids out of his home and through local businesses, for at least three years. At least two other people were also arrested. Police say the operation involved drop-shipping, PO Boxes for fake companies, PayPal accounts, bank accounts under fake names, and auto-shops.

Oregon:   In another case involving a Chevy Tahoe from California, two men finally pled guilty to using the upscale Sport Utility Vehicle to traffic cocaine and marijuana from California to Alaska. They got caught in Medford, in April of last year, as they were driving the drug-stuffed SUV up to Alaska.  Their sentencing scheduled for June.  News reports say a ‘secret’ federal drug raid in Portland almost backfired. The DEA is confiscating discovered drug stashes without the dealers knowing, and intentionally making it look like another drug gang stole the merchandise (under what is called a ‘delayed notice warrant’), however, it almost went bad when an innocent storage warehouse manager almost got killed by upset drug dealers. 

Pennsylvania: State Police report that for the first quarter of 2018 they captured almost $6-million USD worth of drugs, and for all of last year they captured $41-million worth of illegal drugs!  According to a study released in November 2017, drug deaths in Pennsylvania are expected to increase by 70% over the next seven years!

Puerto Rico:  Perhaps because of its crashed economy and damage caused by back-to-back hurricanes, the island territory is now a distribution point for drugs from South America heading towards the United States.  Last year a record 29887-kilos (65,890-pounds) of narcotics were captured! 

Personnel off-load $13-million worth of heroin from Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon in San Juan, 18APR2018

Rhode Island: In comparison to other states, only 11-kilos (25-pounds) of drugs were turned in on National Take Back Day.   After years of increases in prisoner opioid addictions Rhode Island began screening prisoners for opioids and treating them for addiction, which proves drugs are easy to get in prison. A local TV station discovered that drugs from China and Mexico are being shipped in via the U.S. Postal Service. 

South Carolina: Two ‘guests’ of the Department of Corrections get to spend yet more time behind bars after they were caught running a multi-state drug dealing op right outta their prison cell!  On top of that, 14 now former prison guards, nurse, groundskeeper and service workers now indicted for drug smuggling and their connection to prison riots that left seven prisoners dead!  In yet another case involving prison guards, prisoners at Broad River Correctional Institute claim guards (who were also members of drug gangs) were forcing them to buy drugs and have sex!  Some taxpayers are blaming increased prison guard crimes on the state’s so called prison reforms!  The now former Walhalla Police Chief facing charges of extorting drugs from his own personnel!  

South Dakota: Police report increased trafficking of ganja from Minnesota, the most recent involved 38.5-kilos (85-pounds) found in a Toyota Tundra from Minneapolis/Saint Paul.

Tennessee: The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office tipped off by U.S. Postal Inspectors, which resulted in the captured $1.3-million USD worth of Xanax (Alprazolam).

 

Texas:  57 ‘white’ gang bangers arrested for kidnapping and selling meth.  A 46 years old man was convicted of beating young children, including his own, into packaging meth for him to sell.

Utah: Two men facing charges of making fake prescription drugs (fentanyl) and selling them online, making $2.8-million USD in less than a year.  Orem Police arrested a man from California with $1.5-million worth of meth.

Vermont: The tiny state of Vermont (with 30-thousand estimated addicts) got 32-million tax dollars to fight opioids: “Vermont was one of the first states to receive and benefit from this program because I could argue that we were prepared for it. Our little state could use it and make the program work.”-Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator

Virginia: State Department of Health reports a ten years high in drug O-D deaths, 1-thousand-534 in 2017!  Fentanyl caused more than half the deaths.

Washington: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) intercepted a package shipped from Seattle to Yalobusha County, Mississippi.  It contained 5.8-kilos (13-pounds) of pills, THC oil and ‘weed’.  But wait, the man arrested for the postal crime claims there’s still 2-kilos (5-pounds) of weed in the mail!

Washington DC:  The CDC reports that DC is number one in the country for drug O-D deaths, a 106.9% increase from 2015 to 2016!  The U.S. Surgeon General begging all citizens to carry the anti-overdose med naloxone!  The FDA banned the sale of bulk powdered caffeine.

West Virginia: Perhaps because of guilt, drug maker Pfizer (through its Pfizer Foundation) gave the state half-a-million dollars to help treat drug addicted moms and their babies!  The CDC says West Virginia has the highest rate of babies born addicted to drugs!  West Virginia also broke its record for drug O-D deaths, 909 in 2017!

Wisconsin:  Drug addiction causing a doubling of children being pushed into the state’s foster care system, since 2010.  27669-kilos (61-thousand pounds) of pills were collected on Take Back Day.

Wyoming: A repeat offender was caught, as he was entering prison, with a bag of opioid pills shoved up his butt.

KGAB: Why Wyoming Drug Traffickers Are So Stupid

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, March 2018: ZOMBIES ARE FOR REAL! “THE FENTANYL…IS ENOUGH TO KILL EVERYONE…SEVERAL TIMES OVER.”

America Spread Thin: North America, April 2018

These are just a few of the military operations happening across the North American region for the Gregorian month of April, 2018.

Canada: USS Pearl Harbor arrived in Victoria, British Columbia 12APR2018.  Commander Ben Miller stated “This visit helps to demonstrate the continuing commitment the U.S. has to our long-standing and important relationship with Canada……   the port visit gives the crew of Pearl Harbor a chance for some rest and relaxation…”  That taxpayer funded R&R includes visits to the Craigdarroch Castle, British Columbia Parliament buildings, Butchart Gardens, Fisherman’s Warf Park and the Fisgard Lighthouse.

El Salvador: Video previewing operation Beyond the Horizon scheduled for May, in which lots of U.S. tax dollars will be spent on El Salvador. The video shows U.S. taxpayer funded activities from previous Beyond the Horizon operations:

Guatemala: U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet conducting operation Continuing Promise 2018, spending your tax dollars not just on military training engagements, but on medical, dental, and veterinary help for silly-vilians.

Taxpayer funded USAF delivered a fire truck and ambulance to Tecpan, Guatemala, 20APR2018, as part of the evil USAID (United States Agency for International Development) Denton Program.  Supposedly the vehicles were paid for by religious organization Mission of Love Foundation.  As of March 2018, ‘christian’ Mission of Love Foundation, via USAID’s taxpayer funded Denton Program, has conducted 60 ‘missions’ to Guatemala: “We work on five continents with an all-volunteer force….. With a group of volunteers, the Denton Program and the Air Force together are making this possible for those in need. I couldn’t do it alone. I am just a facilitator.”-Kathleen Price, Mission of Love Foundation

Haiti: On 07APR2018, the U.S. Coast Guard captured and repatriated about 50 migrants from Haiti.

Mexico: Leaders of the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional met with U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) as well as Arizona, New Mexico and Texas National Guards, along with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, in Tucson, Arizona: “We not only have the huge responsibility as customs and border protection, we need this to be a team effort with U.S. Army North, Deptartment of Defense, Mexico and other agencies. By coming together we are able to exponentially provide security and safety for citizens in Mexico and the U.S.”-Juventino F. Pacheco, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent, Foreign Operations Branch, Tucson Sector Border Patrol  (THE WALL IS GOING UP, U.S. TAXPAYERS ARE FUNDING IT!)

United States:

So much for ObamaCare, operation Arctic Care involves U.S. regular forces, Alaska National Guard and British empire Canadian military forces providing taxpayer funded medical help to ‘underserved regions’ of Alaska.

Video of USAF C-17 leaving Alaska after delivering taxpayer funded medical supplies:

 Arizona Air National Guard Airmen listen to border deployment briefing, 09APR2018.

Your tax dollars at work as Sesame Street videographers visit Channel Islands Air National Guard station in California, 06APR2018.

Alabama Army National Guard fire mortar rounds at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 07APR2018.

Florida National Guard DISCOVERS MAJOR CAUSE of slow deployment of disaster relief supplies, NEW PREPS FOR HURRICANES!

U.S. Coast Guard delivers the Flame of Hope for Hawaiian Special Olympics, 18APR2018.

U.S. Army off-loads food for climate change victims in Kauai, 17APR2018.

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted local emergency responders in Hanalei Bay area of Kauai, Hawaii, after a thunderstorm caused landslides and flooding.  Video of flooding:

Hawaii Businesses Are Making Billions Off The Military

This is not a CBRN drill, on 11APR2018 several nuke waste drums exploded at the U.S. Navy’s Idaho National Laboratory. Initially it was reported as one drum, but a week later it was revealed that at least three more drums exploded.  The nuke waste is said to have come to Idaho from Rocky Flats Plant in  Colorado, in the 1960s.  Contractor Fluor Idaho stated that the decades old waste had just been re-packed into 55-gallon drums the morning of the explosions. The latest nuke waste explosions are significant because the explosions at New Mexico’s WIPP (in 2014) might have involved nuke waste packaged at the Idaho National Laboratory.

IDAHO MILITIA TOP GUNS

IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS!

GREAT RENEGER: IDAHO & NORTH CAROLINA MILITIAS DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN, AGAIN!

Video of Vibrant Response zombie apocalypse preps in Indiana, note the pathetic Fix it Jesus sign at the end:

Maryland Army National Guard takes part in Vibrant Response, CBRN exercise in Indiana, 12APR2018.

Video of Guardian Response 2018, Indiana:

 

U.S. Coast Guard responds to toxic dielectric oil leak in Mystic River, Massachusetts, 14APR2018.

Members of Michigan National Guard and U.S. Virgin Islands National Guard train at Camp McCain, Mississippi, 06APR2018.

Toys used at Camp McCain, Mississippi, for yearly hurricane disaster training.

Water sampling at Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Michigan, due to possible contamination from Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Perfluorooctane Sulfanate (PFOS), and two compounds found in aqueous film forming foam (AFFF): “We want to test as a precaution, in order to determine if there is need for any further environmental investigation.”-Melanie Brown, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

U.S. Coast Guard underwater drone (ROV) examined damage caused to American Transmission Company hi-voltage cables in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan.  Local news media reported two cables were cut when the anchor of a boat got caught in them.  Electric underwater cables use toxic oil for insulation, the damage caused about 6-hundred gallons of dielectric oil to leak into The Great Lakes.

New Mexico Army National Guard coordinate with U.S. Border Patrol at El Paso Sector Intelligence Operations Center, 07APR2018.

Official New Mexico Air National Guard Red Horse & SOW FTX video:

 

580 personnel from New York and New Jersey National Guard units took part in FEMA Region-2 CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) training in New York and Connecticut, during the second weekend of April.

Active shooter training at the New York State Preparedness Center, in Oriskany, 18APR2018.

Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant (RVAAP) Environmental Restoration team recognized for helping to turn a former ammo factory into the new Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in Ohio.

Video, USAF A-10C Thunderbolt-2 pulls 540 over Ohio River during Thunder over Louisville, Kentucky, 21APR2018:

Video report, Oklahoma National Guard responds to record level wildfires:

Army National Guard is being used as a guinea pig for the new Human Resources, Pay and Talent Management software system, to be phased in over the next 360 days.  The Pennsylvania Army National Guard will be the first to try it out: “We’re going to be the first organization in the DoD [Department of Defense],  maybe the Federal government, that will have HR on their mobile device. This is going to be the largest HR system in the world … the largest roll-out of Oracle systems for all Soldiers.”-Colonel Darby McNulty, Project Manager for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System

On 21APR2018, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard conducted Safety Stand-down 2018, apparently over growing concerns about the safety and survival of personnel: “What we do is inherently risky and we send our condolences to those personally affected by the recent tragic incidents in our military aviation community.”-Chief Warrant Officer 5 Joe Sandbakken

Georgia Air National Guard’s 202 Engineering Installation Squadron deployed to Puerto Rico‘s Muñiz Air National Guard Base to restore, protect and sustain vital communications equipment.  It’s part of several planned deployments: “I was here working on a project before last year’s hurricanes hit and enjoyed it, so I wanted to come back and help the community get back in order.”-Staff Sergeant Wilson Gardner

Official Army Reserve video report on the never ending hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico (see also MILITARIZATION OF PUERTO RICO & VIRGIN ISLANDS), and Viper Command transition:

Militarizing police as South Carolina Army National Guard and Army Reserve Officers Training Corps conducted terrorist training with South Carolina police at the Moncks Corner Armory in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, 11APR2018: “Ten years ago, we never would have thought to do a mission like this.”-Chief Warrant Officer 3 Will Sirmon, South Carolina Army National Guard’s Aviation Brigade

U.S. Coast Guard captured illegally caught fish, and several Mexican fishermen, off the coast of Texas, 11APR2018.  They were illegally fishing in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.

Texas National Guard scans the shores of the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas, 10APR2018.

National Guard personnel muster to patrol the border at Del Rio Sector, Texas, as part of Operation Guardian Support, 20APR2018.

U.S. Coast Guard responds to oil pipeline fire near Port O’Connor, Texas, 17APR2018:

WEST VIRGINIA National Guard OPERATION CARROT? STATE SPONSORED SURVIVAL-ISM!

Alpine Guard 2018 WYOMING NATIONAL GUARD RESPONDS TO ‘CHEMICAL ATTACK’ IN COLORADO?

MAKING ZOMBIES: USAF SECRET SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENT REVEALED!

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST PACIFIC, MARCH 2018

Guardian Response 2017: NUKE ATTACK HITS UNITED STATES, NEARLY 6,000 U.S. PERSONNEL MOBILIZED!

My Immigrant Idaho: The “Spanish Section” Keeping Idaho Farms Strong!

18JAN2018 (02:54 UTC-07 Tango 06) 28 Dey 1396/01 Jumada l-Ula 1439/02 Xin-Chou (12th month) 4715

This year’s theme of the Idaho Ag Expo is Keeping Idaho Farms Strong.  Spectra Productions (which manages the expo) is running promos on TV and I notice they end it by reminding you to check-out their “Spanish Section.”

MY IMMIGRANT IDAHO: MORMON FARMERS SUFFER UNDER TRUMP’S ILLEGALS POLICY!

MY IMMIGRANT IDAHO: UNEMPLOYMENT SERVICES NOW IN SPANISH!

MY IMMIGRANT IDAHO: FEDERALES SAY IDAHO DOMINATED BY POOR IMMIGRANTS!

IDAHO BURDENED BY $187-MILLION WORTH OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! 

IT’S OFFICIAL; MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. FARM WORKERS ARE ILLEGAL! FARMERS ARE THE BIGGEST U.S. WELFARE PROGRAM?

Right to Work (you over) Idaho governor Butch Otter gives praise at the Chobani immigrant employment alter!