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Epidemic Burst Fade Out: New flu killing dogs and cats! Blame Metro-sexual areas?

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New York might be ground zero for an epidemic of a new version of Influenza A subtype H3N2 flu now targeting dogs, called H3N2 canine influenza virus (CIV).

H3N2 was first identified in 1968, evolving from H2N2.  By 2007 a version of H3N2 evolved (mutated) into one of three swine flus.  H3N2 CIV first showed up China and Korea in 2005.  CIV first appeared in the United States in 2015.  (H3N8 is another form of CIV)  In 2016, the U.S. strain of H3N2 CIV evolved to infect cats.

In June, the U.S. state of Arkansas began reporting cases of CIV there.  And in New York, New York City reported 1-hundred cases of CIV.

Oakland County currently has the highest rate of CIV in the U.S. state of Michigan, with 49 confirmed cases so far.  And so far this year Michigan has 98 confirmed cases of dog flu, last year there were only nine cases of dog flu.

Connecticut is also reporting dog flu cases, and dog owners are being told to keep their dogs away from doggie daycares and pet groomers, avoid other dogs, and get them vaccinated.

Veterinarians say CIV can survive on your hands for 12 hours, on your clothes for 24 hours and a dog bowl for 48 hours.  Typical signs of CIV are just like human flu infections; lethargy, fever, boogery nose. Most local news media report CIV is not fatal, however some local news media are calling it fatal.  In January 2018 (in the middle of the 2017-18 flu season) some news media reports warned of a possible dog flu epidemic in the future, while others downplayed the possibility.  However, in August of 2017 veterinarians warned of increasing cases of CIV during Summer months. To show you that CIV is expected to get worse, greedy vaccine investment analysts did research that predicts increasing CIV outbreaks worldwide until 2028 (thus creating a lucrative market for profit seekers).

At the end of July 2018, the Journal of Virology published an ‘epidemic burst-fade-out’ study blaming recurring cases of H3N2 CIV on high population density areas, saying “CIV must therefore rely on metapopulations of high host density (such as animal shelters and kennels) within the greater dog population and reintroduction from other populations or face complete epidemic extinction.”  In other words, if dog owners live in a highly populated area they are inadvertently keeping the CIV alive and well.

Veterinarians say dogs that die while infected with CIV are dying from secondary diseases, the result of their immune systems being weakened by CIV.  But some cats are being directly killed by ‘cat flu’.

A possible latest victim is an adult cat who was about to be given an award for saving the life of its owner.  In United Kingdom, Theo died one week before an award ceremony honoring him for saving his owner from a blood clot.  News media say no official cause has been announced in the cat’s death, but that the owner took the cat in when it was a kitten and infected with cat flu.

It seems the United Kingdom is being hit hard with an epidemic of cat flu (there are lots of reports of hundreds of abandoned cats who are sick, there’s even a case of sick kittens being dumped by overwhelmed animal control officers).

‘Cat flu’ is not necessarily an influenza, the name comes from the symptoms which can be caused by several types of viruses and even bacteria.

In Australia, warnings of the reemergence of ‘cat plague’ virus, called feline panleukopenia.  It’s being found in abandoned kittens and has veterinarians urging cat owners to get their cats vaccinated.  Last year there were reports of the deadly feline calicivirus, also referred to as a cat flu, which has a 40% kill rate.

In South Africa, the Boksburg SPCA is warning dog owners after a puppy had to be put down due to a severe case of what South Africans call ‘cat flu’ (which is actually canine parvo-virus).  Boksburg SPCA manager blames the pet shop where the puppy was bought: “These animals appear to be healthy but can be incubating a disease which can manifest once the pet has been purchased. You then usually end up with a very sick animal that usually dies.”-Maggie Mudd

In the U.S. state of Idaho a Elmore County cat died, in July this year, from plague commonly found in rodents.  In June another cat in the same county got sick with plague but recovered.  A human child (also in Elmore County) got sick with plague in May (also recovered).

In Connecticut, the VCA Cheshire Animal Hospital reported two cats died from H1N1 influenza (swine flu), despite advanced in-hospital care: “Cats can catch the flu from people.”-Anthony Pierlioni

In Florida, the Bay County Animal Shelter had to halt adoptions at the beginning of July, due to an outbreak of ‘cat flu’ (upper respiratory infection).

In New Jersey, the Saint Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center rescued more than 172 cats in July, the most in its operational history.  Most of the cats had to undergo medical treatment for infections and physical conditions.

Metro: 4 common illnesses that could be making your cat sick

SeattlePI: Cat-born parasite may prompt people to start businesses

Blind Bat News: PHILIP J. FRY SHOULD’VE KEPT THOSE SPACE-WORMS! EXERCISE IS ALSO GOOD FOR YOUR…PARASITES?

CRAVING FOOD & SEX? DON’T BLAME YOURSELF, BLAME THOSE MICRO PARASITES IN YOUR STOMACH!

Fox News: Woman scams casino to pay off sick cat’s vet bill

WJLA: Maryland woman spends $19000 on kidney donor for sick cat

Medical News Today: Could ‘dog flu’ be the next pandemic?

Agri-Pulse: USDA training dogs to sniff out bird flu outbreaks

Science News for Students: Dogs carry a grab bag of flu viruses

Scientific American: Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Close Relationship with Contagious Cancer

KABC-TV: Wisconsin man loses both legs and hands after being licked by dog

WebMD: Dog Illness Can Spread to Humans

OPERATION JUPITER: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

Influenza, Technology

Vaccine Fail: Health official accused of Torture in vaccine deaths! It’s all about the money!

More proof it’s all about the money as theperfectinvestor.com reports Vaccine Contract Manufacturing Market Size Is Predicted To Exceed $4-Billion By 2025!

Health Europa: World Vaccine Congress Europe 2018

Arrogant, and ignorant, @caraxdemarco wrote on social media “We vaccinate so that those that medically cannot be vaccinated don’t contract diseases”.  (why don’t you just nail yourself to a crucifix and be done with it!)

Quanta Magazine: Vaccines causing germs to get stronger

WKMG: Florida doctor goes to jail for improper use of vaccines

Forbes: how doctors can force parents to vaccinate their kids

The Conversation AU: Most people don’t benefit from vaccination

The Standard: Filipino pro-vaccine health officials accused by Department of Justice of killing kids with vaccines, in violation of Anti-Torture Act and other laws!

If vaccines are safe why did the U.S. government create the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System?

Business Standard: Indian girl died due to MR vaccine complications

CNN: Samoa pulls MMR vaccine after two babies die

Newshub: Cook Islands lifts vaccine suspension after baby deaths

Stuff.co.nz: Rare condition suspected in children who died after MMR vaccinations

thejournal.ie: Ireland demands citizens get measles vaccine

Note that U.S. measles outbreak ended BEFORE the vaccine was introduced!

Ars Technica: JAMA Pediatrics blames a 2013 outbreak of measles on anti-vaxers in Brooklyn-NYC, saying they should pay for the public healthcare response. 

Press Herald: Romanian measles outbreak blamed on anti-vaxers

Science Magazine: Nobody can prove Congo’s Ebola outbreak was halted by the new vaccine

New Dengue Fever vaccine proven to make people sick and does not offer ‘full immunization’, UN-WHO warns!

UNICEF: Another fine example that if you become a refugee you will have the ‘shit’ vaccinated outta you!

UN News: Record 123 million infants received at least one vaccine in 2017

STAT: Was pandemic flu vaccine tied to an increase in narcolepsy cases?

The Local Italy: Italian parents no longer need proof of vaccinations to enroll children in school

Focus Taiwan News Channel: Taiwan begins baiting ferret-badgers with rabies vaccine

fiddleheadfocus.com: Airborne operations to bombard raccoons with rabies vaccines

Surrey Now Leader: Normally pro-vaccine Canadian health officials refused to give woman rabies vaccine after she was attacked by wild raccoon (the mayor of Surrey got vaccinated, why not her?)

Caixin Global: Rabies Vaccine Producer Ordered to Halt Production

More proof rabies vaccines are about the money as Stock Analysis reports Global Rabies Vaccine for Humans Market 2018

The Mercury: Class warfare as new Australian vaccine costs $1,100 AUD for a family with four children, leaving poor people out in the cold 

Yahoo News: New medical-martial-law plan to crack down on Australian parents who refuse vaccines for children

The Atlantic: Is your horse vaccinated against Hendra, which is deadlier than Ebola and kills humans? 

Honolulu Civil Beat: Want The New Shingles Vaccine? Join The Crowd

Food Poison Journal: Nearly 2,000 Vaccinated for Hepatitis A after Dining at Hardee’s

Arizona State University: Plants produce natural vaccine against norovirus

Ahwatukee Foothills News: Arizona health czars freaking out about declining vaccination rates

NBCNews.com: Anti-vaccine hot spots on rise across U.S.

Sacramento Bee: This lawmaker blocked anti-vaccine activists on Twitter. Now he’s being sued

How to make anti-vax doctors think twice about exempting you from shots

wgbh.org: Anti-Vaccine Doctor Is Disciplined By California Medical Board

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “We thought we could bring brigades of Mexican doctors and we can put free vaccines from Mexico, and we realized that it was not permitted.”-Xochitl Castaneda, Health Initiative of the Americas at University California Berkeley’s School of Public Health

Odessa American: Enforcement of school vaccinations causes shot shortage in Ector County

Dallas Observer: 76 Percent of Texans Believe Vaccines Are Good.

Chron.com: Texas anti-vaccine movement is growing

Infectious Disease Advisor: Universal Purchase Programs in the United States May Not Effectively Increase Vaccination Rates

H1N1 flu shots proved to be failures during the 2015-16 outbreak, new study discovers several factors that will prevent vaccines from working

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Crack down on anti-vax doctors!

The Pioneer News: Kentucky’s new school vaccination laws

Times Free Press: Tennessee law says anybody entering school, including colleges and universities, must be vaccinated

NBC4 Washington:  DC-Area Schools’ Vaccine Requirements

Richmond News: Parents told to check immunization records after Chinese vaccine recall

South China Morning Post: Fake data – the disease afflicting China’s vaccine system.  Disease numbers are being swept under the carpet and false expiry dates slapped on injections, industry insiders say.

Specialty Pharmacy Times: Should drug addicts be forced to get vaccinations? (why not, since they obviously don’t mind putting ‘junk’ into their system?)

Labiotech.eu: Spider web is the new vaccine ingredient

Natural News: Top 9 vaccine ingredients you would never eat if found in food

People: Supermodel caught kissing British anti-vax doctor (oh my!)

VACCINE FAIL, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018: “NOT COST EFFECTIVE.”

OPERATION JUPITER: VACCINES CAN’T SAVE YOU!

Business/Economics, Idaho

“a big risk.”: Sears – Kmart death spiral, August 2018

Forbes: Inside Sears Hometown Stores’ War With Its Local Entrepreneurs

WRAL: Sears struggling with customer service complaints

Fox Business: Sears’ pension liabilities may be a thorn in Kenmore sale

CNNMoney: Eddie Lampert offers to buy Kenmore for $400-million

TCPAland: Sears Misses out on Millions in TCPA Settlement Funds

Wall Street Journal: Sears Franchise Owners Get Caught in Retailer’s Woes

24/7 Wall St: How Sears Is Branching Out in E-Commerce

New York Business Journal: In the ‘Blink’ of an eye, your local Sears is now a gym

ARIZONA:  Flagstaff Mall Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

CALIFORNIA: 64 employees of the Clovis Kmart arrived at work only to find out they’re being shutdown, the only thing local news media was told was that the Kmart would shutdown in time for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.  It’s been revealed that the still active Manchester Center Sears store, in Fresno, has leased out half its active space to an unnamed retailer, who will occupy the north half of the building by Summer 2019.  The real estate agency handling the deal also revealed that active Sears store downsizing efforts are taking place with the Sequoia Mall, in Visalia, and at the Merced Mall.  All stores are owned by Sears Holdings’ REIT spin-off (and Warren Buffett funded) Seritage Growth Properties.  Spring Valley Kmart, Antioch Kmart and Los Angeles Kmart (on West 3rd) all  shutting down by Thanksgiving, 152 jobs killed according to WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice)! Capitola Mall Sears store in Santa Cruz shutting down by Thanksgiving.

COLORADO: Grand Junction Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

CONNECTICUT: Milford Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

DELAWARE: Newark Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

FLORIDA: University Square Mall Sears, the Doral-Miami Sears store and Auto Center (86 jobs gone by Thanksgiving) and the Naples Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.   Neptune Beach leaders shoot down controversial redevelopment plans for vacant Kmart

GEORGIA: Sears stores and Auto Centers in Savannah (Oglethorpe Mall), Atlanta (Cumberland Mall) and Brunswick shutting down by Thanksgiving.

IDAHO: The Sears Hometown Store in Moscow is for sale, a very incomplete local news report gave no details.

ILLINOIS: Steger Kmart and Bloomington Sears and Auto Center (East Empire Street) shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The 16 years vacant Lake Zurich Kmart is being torn down by the property owner, under threat of a taxpayer funded court order.  The Kmart property owner apparently promised to redevelop the property in 2017, claiming it would turn it into a massive apartment/retail shops complex. The city is demanding construction on the massive complex must start by March 2019.

Chicago Tribune: Stanley, Sears to have competing Craftsman tool brands

INDIANA: On Coldwater Road the Fort Wayne Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.   After five years the Anderson Sears Hometown Store shutting down, the owner saying “I have just reached a point being here for five years and asking for another five years, that’s a big risk.” 

KENTUCKY: Florence Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.

LOUISIANA: Hammond Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The still active Clearview Shopping Center Sears store and Auto Center, in New Orleans, was just purchased by the family owners of the mall. The Sears store will supposedly continue operating, but will be reduced in size as most of the 14 acre Sears space will be carved up into smaller retail shops.

MARYLAND: The Westfield Montgomery Sears store, in Bethesda, shutting down in March 2019.  The store was bought by the mall owner last year, for $105-million USD, their plan is to tear it down and replace it with a multitude of smaller brick-n-mortar shops.

MASSACHUSETTS: Holyoke and Taunton Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

MICHIGAN: Jackson Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

MISSISSIPPI: Columbus Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

MISSOURI: Cape Girardeau Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

NORTH CAROLINA: Raleigh-Crabtree Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Salem and Manchester Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

NEW JERSEY: Mays Landing Sears store and Auto Center shutting down, 63 jobs gone by Thanksgiving.

NEW YORK:  Riverhead Kmart, as well as Queensbury-Glens Falls, New Hyde Park and Victor Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

OHIO: Dayton and Cincinnati-Northgate Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The 23 years old Chillicothe Kmart/Little Caesar’s Pizza shutting down by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, local news media said they were alerted to the shutdown when customers were being told that layaways were halted.  It was also discovered that the Kmart property had been sold at the end of July to Rural King Realty for $4.7-million USD.

OREGON: Happy Valley-Portland Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.

PENNSYLVANIA: Store closing signs confirmed that the McMurray Kmart is shutting down in October, employees were told last month, but also were told not to tell anybody.  After more than 20 years, the Pine Township Sears Hometown Store shutdown at the end of July, no reason was given.

TENNESSEE: The taxpayers of Clarksville being forced to give a property developer a tax abatement incentive (amount undisclosed at this time) to redevelop property that has a vacant Kmart on it.  The developer is promising that 427 new jobs will be created.

TEXAS: Houston-Memorial and College Station-Bryan Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.

UTAH: West Jordan Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.

VIRGINIA: Fairfax Sears shutting down by Thanksgiving.

WASHINGTON: Vancouver Mall Sears store and Auto Center shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The Sears Hometown Store in Toppenish suddenly shutdown, the owners said they couldn’t renew the lease and will focus on their stores in Sunnyside, and in Hood River (Oregon).

WEST VIRGINIA: Scott Depot Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.  Kmart used flooding as excuse to layoff employees at Crossings Mall in Elkview, according to lawsuit.

WISCONSIN: Eau Claire and La Crosse (Valley View Mall) Sears stores and Auto Centers shutting down by Thanksgiving.  The five years old Appleton (Grand Chute) Sears Outlet store shutdown on the 19th, the owner didn’t say why, only that he was consolidating the remaining inventory to his new store in Germantown.

WYOMING: Gillette Kmart shutting down by Thanksgiving.

Sears-Kmart death spiral, July 2018: “THIS WAS THE SLOWEST ICEBERG HIT.”

U.S.

“…we had the worst year…ever…”: ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, June 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of healthcare related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes in June 2018:

Denmark based drugs maker Novo Nordisk eliminating 3-thousand jobs globally, blaming the “uncertain and unpredictable” U.S. healthcare system (ObamaCare-ACA)!

“…the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving more than $2 billion in false billings.”–National Health Care Fraud Takedown 

New York Times: U.S. Emergency Rooms Run Out of Vital Drugs

Becker’s Hospital Review: 1 in 3 nurses have reported sexual harassment by physicians; no action taken 74% of the time

The Spokesman-Review: Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die

ALABAMA: Regional Medical Center Jacksonville shutdown, the property was donated to Jacksonville State University as a big tax write-off.

ARIZONA: Bankrupt busted Gilbert Hospital and Florence Hospital both suddenly shutdown, local news reports said employees and patients were notified one day before the shutdowns began.

CALIFORNIA: Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital threatened 45 med-techs with layoffs if they weren’t willing to work 12 hours shifts.  Citrus Valley Health Partners accused of destroying competition through ‘doctor poaching’.  Sonoma West Medical Center said despite recent layoffs and its slightly improved cash flow, it can’t cover its mountain of debts and operating costs, on top of that its minimum debt payment is expected to double to almost half-a-million dollars per month in Autumn, and wait there’s more as health insurance company Anthem is suing the hospital, so it will most likely shutdown by the end of the year.   Coalinga Regional Medical Center suddenly shutdown, about 175 jobs gone due to lack of revenue!  California Medical Business Services issued a shutdown WARN, 64 jobs in Arcadia gone by the end of August. Tri-City Healthcare issued a shutdown WARN for its Oceanside location, 80 jobs gone by the end of August. In Palmdale, Antelope Valley Hospital issued a layoff WARN, 137 jobs gone mid-August! In Long Beach, Molina Healthcare eliminating 106 jobs by July! In Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai suddenly laid off 187 people!  Generic drugs maker Impax Laboratories issued a shutdown WARN for its Hayward factory, 533 jobs gone by August!

COLORADO: Non-profit Mental Health Partners suddenly laid off 17 people, blaming “continuing changes in the healthcare landscape”.

CONNECTICUT: Medical and drugs supplier McKesson shutting down its Rocky Hill facility, 105 jobs gone!  Purdue Pharma laid off 350 people due to lawsuits over the opioid crisis: “Purdue has ended its sales force engagement with prescribers for all of its medicines…”-Bob Josephson

FLORIDA: Transitions Optical eliminating nine jobs in Pinellas Park.

GEORGIA:  Former Georgia Medical Examiner Pleads Guilty to Opioid Conspiracy

Three Rite Aid locations shutdown in Hall County due to the take-over by British empire owned Walgreens Boots Alliance.  Chestatee Regional Hospital shutting down at the end of July, to be sold-off to a competitor who in turn plans to sell it to state taxpayers (Georgia Board of Regents), resulting in 141 jobs killed!

GUAM: Doctor testifies that taxpayer funded Guam Memorial Hospital is ‘dysfunctional on all levels’

IDAHO: Lawsuit: Idaho Can’t Ignore Your Dying Wishes If You’re Pregnant

Idaho GOP panel passes resolution opposing Medicaid expansion

Idaho’s ObamaCare-ACA insurers ask for substantial individual market rate increases

Officials confirm Idaho’s first human plague case since 1992

ILLINOIS:   Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog: Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Drugs from Illinois Nursing Home

Hospital Sisters Health System offers to pay $62.5M USD to settle lawsuit alleging it ripped off the employee retirement plan 

Pleasant Hill Healthcare issued a shutdown WARN for its Girard location, 66 jobs gone by September.

INDIANA: Saint Vincent Health suddenly laid off 85 people, the hospital operator laid off 75 people earlier in the year and 1-hundred people last year.  Syneos Health issued a layoff WARN, 98 jobs gone by the end of July.

IOWA: After less than three years christian owned Keokuk Medical Center shutting down by the end of August, administrators say it was just a stop-gap clinic until bigger and better centers could be built.  Mercy Medical Center eliminating 43 jobs as part of its consolidation ops.  Wellmark eliminating 30 jobs in Des Moines, by August.

KANSAS:  Blue Valley Hospital had its Medicare contract revoked, facing shutdown

KENTUCKY: Signature Healthcare agrees to pay more than $30M USD to settle accusations that it overbilled taxpayers (Medicare and Medicaid)

Judge Strikes Down Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Rules

Pikeville Medical Center laid off 1-hundred people and forced another 30 to quit or be fired! Hospital administrators claim the decision was made 45 days prior: “So what happened is in 2016 we had the best year we ever had at the end of the 2016 year, but in 2017 we had the worst year we ever had.”-Donovan Blackburn, CEO

LOUISIANA: Tennessee based HCA Healthcare announced it will sell Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Lafayette.  University Health Conway forced to temporarily shutdown clinic ops due to a broken water line.

MASSACHUSETTS: Flex Pharma eliminating 60% of its jobs due to the failure of one of its experimental drugs!

MINNESOTA: The exalted Mayo Clinic suing the IRS in an attempt to stop its CEO from facing interrogation by tax auditors

NEVADA: 4 charged for roles in health care fraud

NEW JERSEY:  Healthcare executive goes to prison for $100M USD doctor bribery scheme

In Jersey City, Majestic Rehabilitation and Nursing Center eliminating 166 jobs by September!

NEW YORK:  Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services’ troubled youth treatment center Hawthorne Cedar Knolls eliminating 107 jobs as part of its pending shutdown due to never ending security problems (like formerly sex trafficked children escaping almost daily)!  Metro Athletic Medicine and Fitness issued a layoff WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC location, 54 jobs gone by September due to loss of contract. Millennium Medical Staffing shutting down ops in Bronx-NYC, 135 jobs gone by the end of August, due to being taken over by a competitor! First Care of New York, also in Bronx-NYC, eliminating 851 jobs by August, also due to being taken over by a competitor!

Patients, volunteers and healthcare professionals going to war against Empire BlueCross BlueShield for unfair ObamaCare-ACA reimbursements.

NORTH CAROLINA: Blue Cross Blue Shield accuses  LifeBrite Community Hospital of overbilling

OHIO: Pharmacy middlemen are charging Ohio taxpayers three to six time going rate for drugs.

Premier Health’s 491 bed Good Samaritan Hospital, in Dayton, shutting down mid-July, 1-thousand-6-hundred jobs affected!  Premier Health said it’s because it has another hospital just five miles from Good Samaritan.

OKLAHOMA: Tennessee based Community Health Systems selling AllianceHealth Deaconess, a 291 bed hospital in OK City, to a competitor.

OREGON: Oregon Prescription Drug Program accused of failing to issue rebates

PENNSYLVANIA:  Half of hepatitis C patients with private insurance denied life-saving drugs

North Philadelphia Health System-Girard Medical Center laying off 1-hundred employees in an attempt to reduce operating costs!   

SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota losing fight against resurgent sex diseases

TENNESSEE: Big South Fork Medical Center eliminating 20 jobs, admitting they’ve been overstaffed since their grand opening last year.     Meharry Medical College suddenly laid off 55 employees. 

TEXAS: The state Fire Marshal’s Office investigating the cause of an explosion at the construction site of Coryell Memorial Healthcare System, which killed one person and wounded 15!   Medical supplies provider Arjo shutdown its San Antonio location, 54 jobs gone due to “A global decision has been made to co-localize research and development…”   Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital warning of mass layoffs and bankruptcy due to $11-million USD of debts.  Huntsville Memorial eliminating its Joe G. Davis School of Vocational Nursing due to increasing competition from area nursing schools.  Stamford Healthcare System suddenly shutdown its Regional Services Department and laid off 29 people, directly blaming lack of ObamaCare-ACA insurance reimbursements: “Unfortunately, the refusal of insurance companies to pay for the healthcare services provided has decreased the viability of the program.”-statement made to Jones County Regional Healthcare System board of directors

VIRGINIA: A former patient accusing University of Virginia Medical Center of performing medical tests without permission, saying she was forced to undergo painful testing that she adamantly refused 

WASHINGTON: Seattle based Qliance Medical Group/Qliance Management bankrupt busted after shutting down six ‘members only’ primary care clinics last year, due to lack of ‘membership’.

WISCONSIN: Roche Molecular Systems shutting down its ops in Madison, 79 jobs gone by June 2020.

WYOMING: Antidepressants May Be Less Effective At Higher Elevation 

Active pharmaceutical ingredients maker Lannett-Cody Laboratories eliminating 50 jobs in Wyoming by moving them to New York, despite last year promising to expand Wyoming production.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral May 2018: “…WILL CREATE DEATHS. THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS.” 

Idaho, U.S.

‘The Dream Market’: Drugs, the American Way, June 2018

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

Trump proves he’s a Great Reneger by commuting sentence for Kardashian-backed drug offender.

Associated Press: British empire Canada drug smuggler used helicopter to fly marijuana into Washington and Idaho, then pick-up cocaine from California.

CBS News: Ex-DEA agent says Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and taxpayer funded Congress

CNN: Cocaine and heroin supplies hit ‘record highs’ globally

National Geographic: Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine

Center For American Progress: Ending the War on Drugs

Vox: Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for U.S.

Los Angeles Times: Mexico sent in the army to fight the drug war

New York Times: Drug Dealers Targeted in nation wide Sweep of Illicit Online Marketplaces

Forbes: Drug Use Rankings Show Big Surprises And Even Bigger Problems

ESPN: NBA player high on drugs when he killed himself and his wife in car crash

Science News: narcolepsy may play a role in opioid addiction

New study says Superbug infections rising among injection drug users

ALABAMA: Heroin, cocaine, illegal guns, silencers, $16k seized

37-year-old Chilton County drug dealer gets life in federal prison

Mobile Police raids capture drugs, illegal guns, 7 suspects

Opelika Police find 4 pounds of drugs

Rise in major crimes taxing on Florence Police

“Pieces of meth all through that house.”–Monroe County 10 people drug busted

Trio accused of shooting man in retaliation for theft of cash, meth

2 women charged with using illegal drugs while pregnant

A judge dismissed drug charges against 55 people and recalled 20 arrest warrants supposedly because of the incompetence of the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office!

ALASKA: The state Department of Public Safety released drug seizure statistics from March through May.

Troopers now posting monthly drug seizure data

10 years in prison for meth, heroin distributor

Attorney accused of slipping drugs to prisoners

Anchorage police arrest dozens in ‘Operation Midnight Sun’

ARIZONA: CBP Arrest 3 Foreign Women for Drug Smuggling across the U.S./Mexican border

CBP arrests Tucson woman for trying to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S.

CBP arrests foreign man for smuggling meth and heroin from Mexico

Naked Man killed by federal officer tested negative for drugs

Arizona seeing increase in DUI drug arrests

$2.5-million of meth confiscated during traffic stop

Former registered nurse accused of stealing narcotics

Yavapai County Attorney’s Office gets $5-thousand state taxpayer dollars to attend state drug summit

Large number of work-release prisoners test positive for dangerous drugs

Man with ankle monitor caught transporting drugs in Phoenix

CVS creates unwanted drugs drop-off sites

Man arrested after calling police to have his illegal drugs tested

Hashish Not Included in Medical Marijuana Law

ARKANSAS: Raids in Hope yield cars, drugs

Central Arkansas drug court a disaster

Ex-judge called on to scrutinize central Arkansas drug court 

Arrested men face federal drug charges

Caregiver arrested, faces drug charges after abandoning her patient

37 pounds (16.7 kilos) of pot outside west Little Rock

Ex-Bryant school employee arrested in drug-fraud case

Drug fund tapped by bribed lawmakers

drug bust at tire shop

CALIFORNIA:  Now former Los Angeles cop sentenced to five years in federal prison after his home grown drug lab exploded!
Twenty drug-trafficking suspects indicted
Nearly 400 people used California’s drug assisted suicide law in 2017
California Experiments With Distributing Fentanyl Tests
Study says psychedelic drugs really can fight depression, anxiety.
Prop. 47 reduced racial disparities in drug arrests
Deaths Surge From Fentanyl-Laced Street Drugs In San Diego County
Top USC medical school official feared dean was ‘doing drugs’ 

COLORADO: 6 Questions About Colorado’s Interest In Suing Opioid Drug Makers

El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy facing felony drug charges

El Paso County sees increase in drug deaths

El Paso County won’t join federal opioid lawsuit

Pikes Peak Library district arms itself against overdoses

Operation Dry Water 

CONNECTICUT: Drug deal leads to shooting

13 people arrested for drug trafficking in Hartford

Ellington prison, I mean High School locked down for drugs 

Mystery heroin overdoses in Waterbury

K9 uncovers cocaine during Bristol traffic stop

2 men arrested after 160 bags of heroin found in car

Drug factory shut down in Bridgeport

Nursing home Director Caught Stealing Patient’s Drugs

Cell phone crime leads to drug arrest

Artists install drug spoon sculpture outside pharmaceutical headquarters

Connecticut’s New Drug Pricing Law 

DELAWARE: Prescription Drug Assistance Program Restored

1,306 Heroin Bags found in Laurel

Investigation yields vast amount of drugs

Visitor to Smyrna prison arrested on drug possession charges

Woman sold Rx drugs

Dover police nab fugitive; hotel room yields crack, heroin, ecstasy

Woman Found With 65 Bags of Heroin

Semi-truck driver puller over for not using headlights at night, police find heroin, crack cocaine, various drug paraphernalia, and cash.

FLORIDA: Ex-NFL player arrested on drug charge

A French citizen pled guilty to Oxymonster (Oxycodone and Ritalin) trafficking through the ‘dark web’ site known as the Dream Market.

$2-million USD worth of marijuana  captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Key West.

5443 kilos (12-thousand pounds) of cocaine captured by Coast Guard is off-loaded in Port  Everglades.

Do your research, you’ll find that Florida is the main dumping point for drugs ‘captured’ by the U.S. government.  The federal government claims the drugs are used as evidence in court cases. or destroyed.  Florida was also the cocaine dumping grounds for Oliver North’s Iran-Contra Affair.

As such, the Florida National Guard and local municipalities are struggling to fight illegal, and prescription, drug use through the Civil Operations Program (COP). Saint Johns County alone reported that they collected 943 pounds of prescription medication in just four hours, during national Take Back Day!

 GEORGIA: Former Georgia Medical Examiner Pleads Guilty to Opioid Conspiracy
CNT makes 2 large-scale drug busts
Bust nets 65 kilos of cocaine, seven kilos of heroin
Dangerous new drug linked to at least 7 deaths
State Board of Nursing accused of protecting nurses addicted to opioids!  Nurses working while high!
Atlanta police officer arrested in drug raid 
Wendy’s restaurant accused of dealing meth
DEA drug raid at doctor’s office
66-year-old arrested in drug bust
Mother sentenced to 20 years for allowing men to rape young daughters for drugs 
Opioid prescriptions now require database check
GUAM: Mother of abandoned baby allegedly admits drug use
Election official discussed drug arrest
Guam’s largest cocaine case
HAWAII:  Project Safe Neighborhoods
Japanese tourists attacked by intravenous drug users get stuck with $50-thousand USD medical bill!
IDAHO: Convicted of the Iran-Contra conspiracy (which included cocaine dealing) USMC Colonel Oliver North gave speech at GOP convention at Idaho State University.
9 arrested in Post Falls 
Drug offenses driving Idaho’s soaring prison growth
Idaho to receive more assistant U.S. attorneys to combat exploding opioid-related crimes
University of Idaho tackles opioid addiction
 ILLINOIS:  K9 Assists in $10 Million Drug Bust in Chicago    Video, Customs & Border Patrol’s Perro the drug dog working Chicago O’Hare’s International Airport, finds DVD case containing drugs:

Video, Customs & Border Patrol unveils new laser device for determining type of drugs without opening the package:

  Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog: Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Drugs from Illinois Nursing Home

INDIANA: He Sold Drugs for $225. Indiana Took His $42000 Land Rover.

6 arrested after drugs, explosives found

1 current Indiana University football player, 1 former player arrested for drugs

4 prison officers sickened by suspected drug fumes at Indiana jail

Indiana and Kansas troopers make interstate drug bust

Police Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative says using drugs to stop using drugs works good

mother of prisoner charged with trafficking drugs

Police find drugs in mom’s diaper bag

IOWA: man sentenced in mail-order drug case that killed woman

Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic

Police screw up?  Without explanation charges of meth possession were suddenly dropped against a man pulled over for an expired registration, Worth County Attorney’s Office would only say “it was in the interest of justice.”  

Drug bust at Viking Lake State Park

KANSAS: Walgreens opens Safe Drug Disposal kiosks in Wichita

KENTUCKY: How a McDonald’s receipt revealed a celebrated Louisville cop was really a drugs criminal!  (I wonder how many innocent people are in prison because of this guy?)

LOUISIANA: California-based drug ring ran drugs into New Orleans, involved “corrupted agents, subcontractors and employees” and threatened the safety of airline passengers.

“Operation Meltdown” results in 26 arrests in Bienville Parish

Man freed from drug-related life sentence immediately rearrested

Former U.S. attorney/New Orleans DA accused of supplying drugs to prisoner

Prescription drugs in Louisiana are exempted from state sales tax, but new legal medical marijuana will be taxed!

MAINE: Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) stopping people in Maine and New Hampshire, make at least nine drug busts and arrest two illegal immigrants.

Family Loses Second Son In Less Than A Year To Drug Addiction

Report shows drug deaths remain high and fentanyl on the rise

Attempted overdose leads to large drug bust

police dog credited with finding 120+ grams of cocaine

Drug treatment for drug addiction?

Drug convicts Still Face Lifetime Ban from SNAP (food stamps) even after completing their prison/probation time, end up back in prison for stealing food!

MARYLAND: Raids of four homes in Hagerstown led to drugs and 11 arrests

Drug addiction treatment one key to revitalizing Hagerstown

Freddie Gray’s sister gets probation for bringing drugs into prison

Maryland Prisons Reverse Policy after failed attempt to stop drug smuggling

man and woman found guilty in heroin O-D death

MASSACHUSETTS: Drug Busts In Lawrence Net Huge Score

More dying from overdoses of fentanyl-laced cocaine

Brockton Gang Unit detectives witness drug deal

100 overdoses, 25 dead, in Fall River

‘Targeted acts of violence’ in Fall River

Drug Overdose Uptick In Waltham

Worcester County emerging as marijuana central

Mother Charged With Drugged Driving in Crash That Injured Her 2 Kids

Drugmaker Eisai to close Andover research site, lay off employees

MICHIGAN: Democrats introduce plan to repeal drug liability law

Michigan ranked fourth in nation for drug problems

alcohol still No. 1 addictive drug

Michigan is hiring prison contractor known for smuggling drugs to prisoners!

Female Detroit doctor has license suspended for over-prescribing drugs

Libraries now the front lines of Michigan’s opioid war

Mail-order pharmacy system delays meds for some patients

MINNESOTA: Fentanyl in Minnesota

Mexican drug cartel ‘flooded our market’ with meth

police to stop arresting people for selling small amounts of marijuana

Minneapolis police ordered EMTs to inject suspects with rape drug, secret ‘official policy’ changed after being caught!

MISSISSIPPI:  ‘Operation High Life’

Operation Shark Tank

Federal judge shuts down Delta Pharma for distributing dangerous drugs

woman charged with prescription fraud

multi-million dollar pharmacy fraud scheme

MISSOURI: Man accused of deadly shooting over prescription drugs

Twenty-two indicted in undercover Boonville drug bust

Opioid-related deaths in Missouri grow

MONTANA:  Already record number of meth labs shutdown, so far this year!

Blackfeet Tribe bans convicted drug dealer from reservation

Fort Peck Indian Reservation fatal heroin overdoses

Drugs possible motive in Missoula shooting

Saint Ignatius School Board unanimously voided the contract with school bus contractor, after the owner was charged with smoking meth on buses.

Former Billings police clerk accused of stealing drugs from evidence locker

NEBRASKA: Drug use has gotten so outta hand in the predominantly ‘christian’ plain states that the U.S. DEA has opened a new Division Office in Omaha. Agents operating out of the office will cover Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

NEVADA: Our Big Pot Feature

20 charged in Reno drug trafficking and gun case

Nevada’s First Report on Compensation & Samples Distributed by Pharmaceutical Sales

13 arrested in FBI probe of meth trafficking

NEW HAMPSHIRE:   2017 was deadliest year for overdoses

Will Soon Have Millions More tax-dollars to Fight the Opioid Crisis. But Where Will it really Go?

Opioids cause 21% increase in child abuse

NEW JERSEY: 70 pounds (31.7 kilos) of drugs seized 

Drug dealers still a problem despite 12 arrests

Massive Amounts Of Heroin, 10,000 bags moved per week, In Monmouth County

election worker accused of being on heroin

Ocean County cop stole cocaine, gets 3 years

meth deal in parking lot of Buffalo Wild Wings

NEW MEXICO:  Smuggling is a growing border problem

Over $1 million in heroin, cocaine found in wrecked car at immigration checkpoint

Drug addicts killing innocent victims caught on home video

Seizures of deadly fentanyl soaring

Almost 40% of women in prison are there because of drugs

NEW YORK: County prisoners charged with smuggling drugs

Nassau police officers arrested in drug probe

11 Members of drug ring, including a cop, arrested: “This investigation started out as a narcotics investigation, but we came across information regarding something unique and that was a casino heist involving an active police officer.”-Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini

Pakistani citizen pleads guilty to drug trafficking, in NYC court: “He agreed to send huge amounts of deadly drugs to American streets and neighborhoods, which would have fueled the current opioid epidemic and facilitated addiction and abuse by supplying huge amounts of heroin to New York and nationwide. We are pleased he is facing American justice in a United States court of law.”-Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Mexican Meth+California+U.S. Postal Service+New York=Operation Meltdown

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 100 arrested in Johnston County drug bust

Dozens arrested in WPD drug round-up

Police officer charged with drug possession

city councilman arrested in drug bust keeps his taxpayer funded job

College football signee arrested on drug charges

NORTH DAKOTA: Police incinerate pounds of drugs after big busts: “We’re getting better at it.”-Leutenant Troy Hischer, North Dakota Highway Patrol

Drug arrests increase

Now former deputy fails drug test, again!

Major traffic stop ganja bust unusable as evidence because of incompetent deputy, who claimed his only reason for being suspicious of the driver was that he was driving 2-mph under the speed limit, which is not a crime!

OHIO: Fentanyl seized in local drug bust called enough to kill millions

Feds bust 25 people

Record Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in Cuyahoga County

Officers arrest 22 during Warren drug sweep

Cocaine worth $3.4 million seized 

‘Haunted Farm’ turns out to be Mexican run meth house.

Columbus health department giving heroin users fentanyl test strips 

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Users Can’t Possess Guns

Prisoner pleads guilty to running drug operation from prison

Investigators trying to figure out how prisoner got drugs

Claremore doctor indicted for drug distribution 

New trend; cattle rustling for drugs!

OREGON: Task Force Arrests Suspect in Southern Oregon Drug Trafficking

55 people arrested in downtown Portland

Angry taxpayers forced to save known drug house from foreclosure!

Rogue Area Drug Enforcement (RADE) finds heroin and meth in local park

Employers warning they’ve run-out of employees who can pass a drug test!

PENNSYLVANIA: Mom, Son Accused of Trafficking Heroin, Cocaine, Fentanyl & Marijuana

Retailers experiment with blue colored lights to Prevent heroin Use in store toilet rooms.

Study reveals that Pennsylvania coroners are not able to identify drugs used in O-D deaths!  Which explains why Pennsylvania led the U.S. in unreported opioid deaths!

The opioid overdose crisis is hitting all of Philadelphia

RHODE ISLAND:  $1M worth of fentanyl seized in drug bust, 3 people arrested including a man from Dominican Republic

Pawtucket police seize $100K in marijuana

Drugs to be used to treat alcohol addiction?

‘Kristen’s Law’

SOUTH CAROLINA: Police continue illegal ‘no knock’ home invasions!

Prisoner caught running ‘multi-stage’ drug trafficking op from state prison.

Pile of powerful pills found on the street

man tricked into life in prison for nonviolent drug crime

Officers stopping for water make unexpected drug bust

Cop with six years on the job resigns after failing drug test

SOUTH DAKOTA: Fentanyl hits South Dakota with deadly force

A now ex-cop blames his meth use on the U.S. Army’s anti-malaria vaccine!

8 pounds of heroin, 2 pounds of fentanyl in traffic stop

TENNESSEE: Metro Schools teacher arrested for meth use

Meth Remains A Big Problem

Nineteen accused in Claiborne County

Man Accused Of Selling Drugs While pushing baby In Stroller

Heroin Overdoses Increase

Big expensive camping RVs used to traffic drugs from Oregon to Tennessee.

TEXAS:  Taxpayer funded immigrant prison contractor accused of injecting children with date rape drug!

20 charged in West Texas drug conspiracy

Alabama man arrested with nearly 5 pounds of meth

Corpus Christi store owner pleads guilty to ‘cutting’ diet supplements with “unapproved foreign drugs”.

‘Affluenza Mom’ Fails Drug Test

The Texas National Guard was given a class on anti-drug ops by the Illinois National Guard, which makes sense because ever since Barack Obama became the President of the U.S., Chicago has been the heroin gateway to the United States.

OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? OBAMA!

UTAH: meth hidden in package of ‘snacks’

Emery County, 11 arrests

True reason why marijuana is illegal in Utah: Mormon Church’s Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Investment

Woman attempts to drug husband because she “didn’t want to deal with him”.

VERMONT: 25 arrested in Washington County 

Act 86 Will Not Change Vermont National Guard Drug Policy

Despite legalized marijuana employees can still be fired for using it

VIRGINIA:  National Guard soldier high on drugs steals armored personnel carrier.

Police push confidential informant program as drug offenses jump 42%

Operation Purge, 11 arrests

WASHINGTON: Seattle based Amazon jumps into drug business with PillPack acquisition

Seattle officials propose mobile safe injection site

Spokane dentist indicted on federal drug charges

  Authorities arrest about three dozen in Western Washington drug busts

The 180 crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon, homeported in Seattle, divide their illegal activity patrols (like illegal fishing by foreigners and drug smuggling) between the central American country of Guatemala and the U.S. state of Alaska.

Washington DC:  The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that for April’s Take Back Day 430480-kilograms (474 U.S. tons) of drugs were collected nation wide. I’ve pointed out before that the phrase Take Back Day used by the government implies that it was the government that gave/sold you the drugs.

FDA approves first cannabis-based drug

Government issues warning about Nuetexta pushed on the elderly by pharmaceutical company

WEST VIRGINIA: Feds indict 31 

21 arrested in multi-agency drug sweep in Wayne County

Taxpayers turning apartments into drug treatment centers for women under Project Hope for Women and Children (this proves there is no hope for men?)

WISCONSIN:  International drug deal in Door County

meth use grows in Wisconsin, DOJ warns of “Altered State”

Older adults overlooked in opioid abuse epidemic

Wawautosa nurse practitioner indicted in major federal drug take down

Trucker was on drugs before crashing into school bus

High school students caught giving sex drugs to classmates, school officials criticized for lack of disciplinary action.

WYOMING:  Deadly drug found in Casper

Casper Police discover local families with small children are packing into motel rooms so the parents can do drugs!

Entire family accused of dealing meth

drug treatment gaps drive Wyoming’s prison problem

Wyoming man caught trying to traffic meth from Mexico

Female prisoners used vaginas to traffic meth inside county jail

DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, May 2018: U.S. Air Force says “BAG IT, SHIP IT, FORGET IT!”

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

U.S.

Taxdollars @ work: Entangled Sea Turtles rescued by U.S. Coast Guard

Video

During May 2018, U.S. Coast Guard rescued several Sea Turtles found entangled in abandoned fishing nets, in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The Coast Guard Cutter Campbell, from Kittery, Maine, was in the Pacific Ocean on anti-drugs operations when the crew spotted the struggling Sea Turtles.

Video of one of the rescues:

MARIA: FREE SHOTS FOR PUERTO RICO PETS!

HARVEY: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?

‘TAXPAYERS’ RESCUE PREGNANT DEER TRAPPED IN COASTAL ROCKS!

HARVEY: TEXAS MILITIA RESCUES NEW MASCOT, NAMED HARVEY!

HARVEY: VET=VETERINARY EMERGENCY TEAM, HELPING ANIMALS IS GOOD FOR YOU!

GEORGIA MILITIA RESCUES KITTENS & PUPPIES!

LOUISIANA MILITIA RESCUES FLOOD VICTIMS & THEIR PETS!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Black Hawk with Skis, ‘Hang Ten’

Video

Alaskan UH-60 Black Hawks with skis:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sean Evans, 15MAR2018.

Alaska Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Risinger, 09FEB2019.

This Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk is wearing just the tail ski. U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 30MAY2018.

The rear portion of the main skis can be lowered for hoisting operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Connaher, 30JUL2016.

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 21NOV2017.

Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard, 05JUN2018.

Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard, 05JUN2018.

Photo by John Pennell, 28NOV2017.

Video, aerial refueling March 2018:

 

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 21NOV2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 29JUL2016.

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Pena, 24FEB2015.

Video, Operation Rock and a Hard Place, March 2015:

‘Hang Ten’ was originally a symbol of surfing in late 1950s California, then becoming the logo of a surf-clothing company in the 1960s. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 20AUG2015.

‘Hang Ten’ video, people jumping out of a perfectly good helicopter with Hang Ten painted skies in the middle of an Alaskan Winter, 2014:

Video report, Arctic Care 2013:

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Burt Traynor, 13JUN2019.

MILITIA UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

VEHICLE ID: UH-60 BLACK HAWK M240 LIVE FIRE, GRAFENWOEHR

BLACK HAWK DOWN JAPAN: U.S. ARMY TRAINS YOKOHAMA TO RESCUE DOWNED UH-60 CREWS

Technology

Drone Wars: QF-16 Drone

Video

QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target drones operate out of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Video first sortie, February 2017:

Video QF-4 retirement, replaced by QF-16 December 2016:

 

Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 2015

 

ALABAMA F-16s DEPLOY TO MIDDLE EAST!

FLORIDA F-16s JOIN ITALY & ISRAEL TO INVADE GREECE!

DRONE WARS: QF-4 TO QF-16

SPECIAL LAS VEGAS SHOOTING EDITION F-16 & F-15

UTAH: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

International, U.S.

aMERICA sPREAD tHIN: nORTH aMERICA mAY 2018

Video

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

ALABAMA: More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of Active, Guard and Reserve personnel from around the U.S. for the Alabama Wellness Innovative Readiness Training mission.

ALASKA: The National Guard Best Warrior Region VI 2018 competition was held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.  State militia competitors come from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. 

Red Flag Alaska 2018 included units from NATO countries

ARKANSAS: 

Arkansas National Guard deployed Lakotas to the New Mexico/Mexico border, as part of Operation Guardian Support

ARIZONA: 

National Guard personnel clear brush as part of Operation Guardian Support in Yuma

Missouri National Guard preps for air patrol of border, in Tucson, as part of Operation Guardian Support

CALIFORNIA:  Why does our government keep insisting the War on Terror isn’t about religion?  In violation of the U.S. Constitution, Travis Air Force Base became the headquarters for Firefighters for Christ, a specifically christian organization using christianity to influence firefighters from Sweden, the Philippines, Germany, Northern Ireland, Canada and Switzerland: “While the experiences of someone who is Muslim or Jewish may differ from our own, we enjoy the opportunity to deepen each other’s spiritual resilience.”-John Speakman, Travis Fire Emergency Services

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan inspected border wall construction efforts in Calexico

National Guard getting briefed on their deployment to border patrol near San Diego, as part of Operation Guardian Support

U.S. Border Patrol at Friendship Park just south of Imperial Beach

Video of Australian’s invading (?) Camp Pendleton (RIMPAC):

Video report Fort Hunter Liggett burned by wildfires:

Cub Scouts help Army Corps of Engineers restore native plants along the Santa Ana River

Army Corps of Engineers declares debris removal, from January’s Santa Barbara County mudslides, complete

CANADA: U.S. Army Reserve units from California and South Dakota took part in Maple Resolve 18-01, Wainwright, Alberta.  

COSTA RICA: 

The USAF spent three weeks training Costa Rican police in anti-drug ops

DELAWARE: 

Attempting to save taxpayer’s money by installing solar panels at Dover Air Force Base

EL SALVADOR: Texas Air National Guard video explainer of what they’re doing in El Salvador:

67th Signal Battalion, from Georgia, video explainer of what they’re doing in El Salvador:

Video report Puerto Rico National Guard serving up food in El Salvador:

Your tax dollars at work building schools in El Salvador:

FLORIDA: 

Your tax dollars at work at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, 23MAY2018

Video report U.S. Special Operations Command  CAPEX in Tampa:

Video report Fleet Week:

Video Coast Guard diver school:

GEORGIA:  More proof ObamaCare-ACA is a total failure; U.S. Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel under Operation Empower Health- Greater Savannah, which provided free (taxpayer funded) healthcare to people and their pets!!!

GREENLAND: 

New York Air National Guard attends Kool Skool at Camp Raven

GUATEMALA: 

U.S. military personnel honored by Guatemala with the  Medalla Monja Blanca (Medal of the White Nun), after spending a year training up elite naval special forces in counter-narcotics operations.

HAWAII: Video National Guard responds to volcano: 

HONDURAS: 

USA Sergeant First Class Levon Fernandez awarded the Soldier’s Medal for Heroism for helping two Honduran pilots after their plane crashed

INDIANA: Video report NetWars Operation Cybershield:

Military propaganda at the Indy 500

LOUISIANA:  

Louisiana National Guard deployed Lakotas to the Texas/Mexico border, as part of Operation Guardian Support

MARYLAND: 

Army Corps of Engineers begins jetty project on Rhodes Point Smith Island

NEW MEXICO: 

Region 7 Best Warrior Competition

Red Flag Rescue 18-2

NEW YORK:New York Army National Guard along with State Police, U.S. Health and Human Services, Brookhaven Labs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation took part in a Weapons of Mass Destruction training event at the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Facility.

USN/USMC personnel help renovate a building in Brooklyn-NYC for Habitat for Humanity

Video San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Arlington during Fleet Week:

Video USAF Alpha Warrior Challenge:

New York Army National Guard’s 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion deploys to Kuwait

OKLAHOMA: 

290 Army National Guardsmen from across the nation took part in Air Assault, Pathfinder and Rappel Master Schools in Oklahoma

OREGON: 

Oregon National Guard CH-47 Chinook crews trained for expected ‘domestic missions’, mainly responding to natural disasters

I’m still upset over how many local TV news reporters and anchors still say “Have a happy Memorial Day.”  Only the ‘enemy’ would be happy about that.

Oregon Army National Guard fire their M119 Howitzers at Willamette National Cemetery, for Memorial Day

PANAMA: 

U.S. tax dollars and military personnel help the Panamanian Ministry of Health hand out drugs to silly-vilians

PENNSYLVANIA: 

Pennsylvania National Guard plans for hurricane season

PUERTO RICO: Video of funeral for Major José Ramón:

Army Corps of Engineers and taxpayer funded contractors so far have collected 4-million cubic yards of dead vegetation since Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017!

SOUTH CAROLINA: USMC video prepping for hurricanes: 

TEXAS: 

South Carolina National Guard deployed their Lakotas to Texas as part of Operation Guardian Response

Airmen from Dyess AFB deploy to Afghanistan

Texas Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment deploys to the Horn of Africa

UTAH: 807th Medical Command Deployment Support video explainer:

WASHINGTON: Video 100 years of the Army Chemical Corps:

WASHINGTON DC:  48th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018

Idaho, U.S.

“Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches”: U.S. christian rapture, May 2018

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. Christian shutdowns, layoffs and Rapture oddities for the Gregorian (western christian calendar) month of May 2018.

ALABAMA: The New Era Baptist Church posted a sign reading “Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches”.

ALASKA: Muslim prisoners accuse taxpayer funded ‘christian’ state prison guards of starving them to death, christians admit it’s a misunderstanding about Ramadan/Islam.  The lawsuit says not only are the long sunny days of Alaska making it hard to fast, but the prison does not give them enough food after dusk, mainly because the food includes domesticated pig meat which Muslims don’t eat.  (I’ve lived in Iran and they can and do eat wild boar, it’s the domesticated pigs that’re banned)

ARIZONA: Christians have taken over the taxpayer funded public school system and removed references to evolution, causing one high school biology teacher to quit in protest: “I was directed to make changes to adjust the wording to ‘evolution’. That was coming from levels above me, I believe, from the superintendent’s office. I turned in my resignation and said, ‘I will not be part of this.’”-Lacey Wieser

God Ministries church mysteriously collapses

ARKANSAS: Despite having an ankle monitor, parolee manages to break into five churches, stealing musical instruments.

Non-profit group lobbies state politicians to save churches.

CALIFORNIA: God powerless to stop ‘his’ Notre Dame de Namur University from eliminating more programs and five teaching jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  Frederick K.C. Price III Christian Schools issued a shutdown WARN for a school in Los Angeles, 46 jobs gone by the end of June.  Too Big to Jail Catholic founded Bank of America eliminating 575 jobs in Pasadena in 2019, due to the Too Big to Jail bank not wanting to renew the lease on the property!  Too Big to Jail Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian co-founded Wells Fargo issued a shutdown WARN for its Rancho Cucamonga car loan office, 58 jobs gone as part of plans to move vehicle loan operations out of The (not so) Golden State.

2 men injured in shooting at church in San Francisco’s Mission District

California church vows to never call police again

California police confer with Arizona counterparts in clergy sex scandal

COLORADO: Penrose-Saint Francis Health Services suddenly laid off 42 people, including a CAO, in an attempt “to increase efficiency of operations”.

Former youth helper at church charged with sex crimes

CONNECTICUT: Body of man found near Saint Martha Church

Mount Olive Church Ministries gave away $5-thousand USD worth of fuel during operation Gas on God.

Milford Church Loses Faith….. in highly recommended Contractor

Members of a wealthy Catholic family want their $5-million back after the Our Lady of Mercy school they donated it to was shutdown, the Catholic church essentially said ‘no the money is now ours’!

DELAWARE:  More proof christians are not united in Christ as members of Reach Church pull their children from the christian school due to rumors they’ve been black-listed by new school administration, as a result of a merger with another christian school.

FLORIDA:  Baptist Health South Florida eliminating 588 jobs by the end of July!

Man caught on camera vandalizing the security cameras of New Jerusalem Church of God.

First Baptist Church burglar linked to as many as 12 crimes

GEORGIA: Pathetic scene as former Baptist minister and U.S. President Jimmy Carter gave one of his last Sunday school classes at Maranatha Baptist Church; hundreds of ‘christians’ lined up for hours to watch the class (130 turned away) and then broke into applause when the class concluded, proving church is nothing more than entertainment. 

A pastor who was sentenced to just 35 days in jail for sex crimes, hit with new sex crimes charges just days before being released.

GUAM: Catholic Father stripped of priestly duties

The Archdiocese of Agana lost $236-thousand USD

Minnesota priest accused of abusing 60 boys in Guam

HAWAII: Christians evacuate from ‘Big Island’

Episcopalians displaced by volcano

750 Hawaiian Mormon Boy Scouts rush to earn Eagle rank before church severs ties. 

IDAHO: After Oregon abuse, problem priest was sent to Idaho.

Jailed priest conducts Mass from prison

Nampa church displays rainbow flag 

Grand Teton Council Affected by LDS Church and Boy Scouts

Retired Idaho doctor and Mormon temple president denies fraud

Idaho Falls Mormon Ward’s church building vandalized

ILLINOIS:  Benedictine University eliminating 32 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (enrollment dropped by about 2-hundred since 2016).

Davenport church leaders call summit to stop juvenile crime

An apparently Blacks Only church was vandalized with ‘White Supremacy’ graffiti.

Fire damages Otterbein United Methodist Church

Mega Church Elders Apologize For Response to Hybels Allegations

INDIANA:  Christians dispute church sale

Iconic Columbus Church Placed On taxpayer funded government Endangered Places List

Church embezzler jailed 

Woman run over by unlicensed immigrant driver as she walked to the Fervent Prayer Church preschool

Family Christian Center facing lawsuit over drowning death of babysitter 

Family can claim historic Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church severs ties with no-profit over sexual orientation

Members of the same unnamed church facing federal charges in $8-million USD fraud and money laundering case

IOWA: Fulton and Holy Ghost Elementary schools were locked down prison style because of a stand-off between police and three adults after a failed attempted traffic stop, the three adults were arrested but the incident had nothing to do with schools.  A Linn-Mar High School nurse (who also worked for god’s own Saint Luke’s Hospital) pled not guilty to having sex with a student.

KANSAS: More proof christians are not united in Christ as Topeka based Westboro Baptist Church launched protests against what it believes are false christians.

People shot during graduation party at Church of the Resurrection 

Man shot during funeral at Greater Pentecostal Temple 

Priest at Divine Mercy Parish charged with stealing thousands from church

KENTUCKY: ‘Is your church van a death trap?’

Once vibrant  Pollard Baptist Church closing its doors

Body found behind Doctor’s Fork Baptist Church, four days after he died

A sign of a bad economy as Crossroads Church ends weekend services to take part in largest ever community service projects.

Man arrested for stealing from Lexington church

MAINE: Catholic diocese parts ways with the Maine Council of Churches

United Methodist Church Food Pantry Reopened After Hungry Burglar Ate Way Through It

More proof the economy is bad as Saint Mark’s Parish Hall and Episcopal Church being sold-off, forcing three charity services to find new homes

MARYLAND: The pastor of the Oxon Hill Assembly Of Jesus Christ as well as a another church minister, along with a Washington DC cop, were all arrested and charged with committing sex crimes, police say they confessed.

Baltimore priest suspended over allegations of child sex abuse

MASSACHUSETTS: Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded (but now under new ownership) Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!  Methodist co-founded Coca Cola shutting down its Pittsfield warehouse, at least 12 jobs gone in July.

MICHIGAN:  Downriver church creates transgender support group

MINNESOTA: Saint Francis Schools eliminating 36 jobs in June.

Archdiocese paying $210 million to 450 priest sex abuse victims

MISSISSIPPI: Man arrested for breaking into the Hardy Street Baptist Church.

Booneville church fire

MISSOURI: Catholic co-founded motorcycle maker Harley Davidson shutting down its factory in Kansas City, about 4-hundred U.S. jobs being sent to Thailand (according to union reps)!

Light fixture ignites Community of Christ church during graduation

MONTANA:  Woman distraught after Bitterroot Valley Calvary Chapel Church worker traps, shoots and kills her cat, church officials said they trap cats and raccoons in order to stop them from getting into their precious sand volleyball court!  Police have charged the church employee with a crime.

Vandals spray church with penis….graffiti 

NEBRASKA: Former First-Plymouth church Youth Leader Accused of Making Sexual Advances to Boy

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Saint Peter’s Church being sold to property developer who specializes in turning churches into high-priced condos.

NEW JERSEY:  Two people arrested for having sex in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church.

After a million dollar renovation, god burns down Mary Help of Christians Academy

NEW MEXICO:  Virgin Mary Statue Seen ‘Weeping’, Catholic church begins investigation

Taxpayer funded Shiprock High School scheduled christian prayers during graduation, not only in violation of the U.S. Constitution but in violation federal Supreme Court rulings.

Jesus of Nazareth said “Render unto Caesar what is his.”  Meaning if you take part in a government funded system then you play by its rules.

NEW YORK: 18-year-old charged with hate crime after Catholic church statue damaged

Family Church Fredonia tower destroyed

3 priests linked to sex scandal who didn’t make bishop’s list

NORTH CAROLINA: Mormon Mitt Romney co-founded (but now under new ownership) Staples shutting down its Henderson distribution center (fulfillment center), transferring 1-hundred jobs from Henderson to Charlotte as part of consolidation operations!

OHIO: God powerless to stop ‘his’ own Hiram College from conducting layoffs and radical program restructuring due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome which has caused the school to cut $1-million USD from its budget.

The homosexual pastor of the Clifton United Methodist Church had his seminary diploma stolen

Two men seen stealing a lawnmower from Liberty Assembly of God Church.

OKLAHOMA: A Oklahoma city councilman, and member of the Faith, Hope & Love Missionary Baptist Church, charged with tax evasion and stealing money from the charities he helped create.

High-speed pursuit through metro ends in crash at Mustang church

Wagoner church burglarized

Churches now included in Oklahoma’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law

Matthew 5:39: “But I am saying to you, you shall not rise up against an evil person, but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other.”-Jesus of Nazareth

OREGON: Silverton church hopes to build tiny homes for homeless women (I guess they don’t care about homeless men)

LGBT Students Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible

Portland business sues LGBTQ Catholic church for causing it to lose business

Virtual reality baptism

PENNSYLVANIA:  The YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) of Greater Pittsburgh now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down its Fifth Avenue location due to lack of money.

Grand jury report expected to shed more light on church sex abuse

PUERTO RICO: Court halts embargo of Puerto Rico Catholic church accounts

RHODE ISLAND: Church Group’s Leader Transitioning From a Man to a Woman

Not a single man has signed up for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence‘s fall semester seminary!

103 years old (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Saint Brigid Church being reduced to ‘mission’ status, open for special occasions only.

SOUTH CAROLINA:  More proof christians are not united in Christ as the Red Bank Baptist Church getting rid of its Jesus idol, I mean statue because bigoted members think it looks ‘too Catholic‘!

SOUTH DAKOTA:  A religious group espousing polygamy discovered that without government issued birth certificates you can’t enroll your masses of children in taxpayer funded schools.

TENNESSEE: After 120 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Presbyterian (some say Masonic cultists) co-founded iconic guitar maker Gibson now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to $500-million USD of debts.  Apparently the justice system is so bad in Shelby County that The Healing Center church is now helping people who have criminal records, despite never having been convicted of a crime, expunge those records. 

TEXAS: God powerless to stop Sojourn Baptist Church from shutting down its Academy due to The Rapture, I mean low student enrollment.

Director of Wylie Baptist Church Child Development Center wanted for failure to report sex crimes

Baptist leader Fired, Stripped of Retirement Benefits after sex scandal

Bomb targets Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church

UTAH: Mormon founded and controlled The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 64 people.

Some Mormons say their church needs a culture change, after sex abuse scandal

Mormon church wants 1984 rape suit against ex-leader tossed

Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship

How the LDS Church manages its finances

Congregation raising money to repair Utah church featured in ‘Footloose’

VERMONT: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception downgraded to ‘church’ status and being prepped for sale (estimated value $4-million USD), the Catholic Church blames The Rapture, I mean crashing membership.

VIRGINIA: Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church hung a body from a tree for Easter!

Episcopal Church halts search for a second bishop suffragan due to internal problems

WASHINGTON: Presbyterian founded Georgia Pacific laid off 225 employees at the Camas Paper Mill!  After 114 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) boat shaped Memorial Lutheran Church shutdown due to The Rapture, I mean the congregation is down to only 25 members: “Our congregation has shrunk rather dramatically in the past two years.”– CJ Nevijel, vice president church council

Boy Scouts in Spokane feel the split as Mormon Church announces separation

WASHINGTON DC: God’s own Catholic University of America laying off at least 35 people because of The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome, school officials said “Morale has never been lower.”  

Pruitt dinner included Vatican figure accused of sexual abuse

 LDS (mormon) Church leader prays at White House

WEST VIRGINIA: First Baptist Church was ejected from the Fairmont Baptist Association

Bluefield church celebrates final service

WISCONSIN: In Saint Nazianz, after 134 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Gregory Catholic School, due to The Rapture, I mean because they’ve “had declining enrollment numbers for some time”.    A stupid church member thought they were doing a good thing by returning ‘personal items’ to the Bread of Life Church, the problem is they used a USPS box and never shipped it through the mail, just left it with no note or explanation on the steps of the church. It ended up costing taxpayers a lot of money when the bomb squad was called in.

Massive fire causes $17M damage to Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Mysterious fire inside Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

U.S. Christian Rapture, April 2018: “YOU CAN’T STOP THE CHURCH!”

“No man can work for two masters, for either he will hate one and will love the other, or he will honor one and the other he will ignore. You cannot work for God and for money.”-Matthew 6:24, Aramaic Bible

“But the root of all these evils is the love of money, and there are some who have desired it and have erred from the faith and have brought themselves many miseries.”-1 Timothy 6:10 Aramaic Bible

“And Yeshua [Jesus of Nazareth] entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, It is written: ‘My house will be called the House of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.’ “-Matthew 21:12-13 Aramaic Bible

“Yeshua said to them, ‘Give what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.’ And they marveled at him.”-Mark 12:17 Aramaic Bible

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.-1st Amendment, U.S. Constitution

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance (or even be counted as unemployed): “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”