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To save the animals, U.S. military deployed to Georgia!

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19JUN2018 (15:00 UTC-07 Tango 06)  29 Khordad 1397/05 Shawwal 1439/06 Wu-Wu 4716

Georgia Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jamila A. Haven, 10MAY2018.

In May, the Department of Defense deployed hundreds of personnel to the U.S. state of Georgia. It was part of Operation Empower Health Greater Savannah, in response to the fact the economy has not recovered (and ObamaCare isn’t working).  Not only can’t people pay for their own healthcare, but they can’t pay for the care of their pets!

Wyoming Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant John Galvin, 13MAY2018.

The military operation was conducted in conjunction with Humane Society for Greater Savannah, Georgia Southern University and the christian owned Saint Joseph/Chandler hospital system (“No proof of income, residency or picture ID is required for services”).

Official video explainer:

MARIA: FREE SHOTS FOR PUERTO RICO PETS!

HARVEY: WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PETS?

LOUISIANA MILITIA RESCUES FLOOD VICTIMS & THEIR PETS!

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

MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW AS SPANISH COPS START KILLING EBOLA VICTIM’S PETS!

PETS ABANDONED TO DIE ALONE IN ALABAMA!

PETS BEING THROWN OUT?

FLUORIDE WARS: STUDIES SHOW YOUR PETS ARE BEING POISONED BY FLUORIDATED WATER & GRAPES!

Fukushima: DOGS & CATS STILL ABANDONED IN RADIATION ZONES

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God is Evil: ICE hits Hobby Lobby, returns Sumerian artifacts to Iraq!

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18JUN2018 /23:26 UTC-07 Tango 06  (29 Khordad 1397/05 Shawwal 1439/06 Wu-Wu 4716)

“Such efforts are to be noted, not only do they enforce the law they serve as a sense of historic justice, and they help in the fight against criminal and terrorist networks.“-Fareed Yasseen, Iraqi Ambassador to the United States

Not even a year after first getting into trouble, the co-owners of Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible are in trouble again.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is returning more than 3-thousand smuggled Sumerian/Babylonian/Ancient Iranian (primarily from the Ur III and Old Babylonian period, 2100-1600 BCE) artifacts to Iraq.  The tablets and cylinders were illegally acquired by the ‘christian’ owned Hobby Lobby for its new Bible Museum in Washington DC. 

On 02MAY2018 the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. signed documents with ICE for the return of archaeological items, bought by Hobby Lobby which inadvertently(?) provided $1.6-million USD of funding for Islamic extremists.

The ‘christians’ who run Hobby Lobby tried to smuggle in the artifacts by labeling the boxes as Tile Samples.   The criminal act was discovered by  ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agents, in conjunction with Assistant U.S. Attorneys at United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, investigating funding ops for DAIISH (Islamic State).  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted the smuggled items.

Hobby Lobby must now pay a $3-million fine, plus other punitive actions.  This isn’t the first time ICE returned stolen artifacts to Iraq.

Smithsonian: Hobby Lobby’s Smuggled Artifacts May Come From Lost Sumerian City

Live Science: Lost City of Irisagrig Comes to Life in Ancient Stolen Tablets

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“Morale has never been lower.”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., May 2018

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

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

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, May 2018:

Alaska: So much for anti-gun (anti-2nd Amendment) efforts, Anchorage police report a student at Gruening Middle School attacked other students with a razor.  Police arrested a boy for vandalizing the Fire Lake Elementary School, the school has been targeted since March with spray paint and windows being broken.

Alabama: The voluntary Alabama Sentry Program will allow school administrators to carry guns.  A Tuscaloosa City Schools substitute teacher arrested for having sex with a student.  The teacher is actually on contract through Kelly Educational Staffing, and her last name is Lovely.

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

Arkansas: A man pled guilty to stalking and killing a Sheridan High School student, the reason was stupid, the victim was dating his son’s ex-girlfriend.  A Conway High School student, who is also a father, was shot to death as he got inside his car, police say there are no witnesses or evidence to go on.

California: Dedicated to preventing violence in schools, Richstone Family Center issued a layoff WARN for its Hawthorne location, 58 jobs gone mid-June.  First Student issued a shutdown WARN for its school bus ops in Los Angeles, 174 jobs gone by the end of June!  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 DSS.  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.   A new northern California elementary school is being named after an illegal immigrant. 

Colorado: Public schools are being boosted by a population boom and by an oil fracking boom. 

Connecticut: A Black Yale Student Was Napping, and a White Student Called the Police

Delaware: The state Department of Education revealed that 44% of students at Stubbs Elementary School were suspended last year.  A Middletown High School student arrested for threatening another student with a gun in the school toilet room.   A lawsuit claims the state Department of Education spends more taxpayer funding on students from high income families, at the expense of low income students. 

Florida:  First it was an Idaho teacher feeding a live puppy to an illegal snapping turtle (they are considered invasive specie in Idaho), now a teacher at Forest High School is accused of forcing students to drown live raccoons and opossums: “It made me sick. It made me sick to my stomach! …..took the cages, filled up large trash cans full of water, and had the children drown the raccoons in the cages inside the water, inside the trash cans!”-mother of student who said the incident was also captured on video

Georgia: Northgate High School and Canongate Elementary School locked down prison style after reports of a person with a gun  walking along a road near the schools.  Apparently no such person was ever found.

Hawaii: Schools near the Kilauea volcano shutdown by the goddess.  On Oahu, Waipahu Intermediate School locked down prison style as police searched for a ‘suspect’ that a woman reported as armed with a gun, police found no such ‘suspect’.

Idaho: Despite the fact that it is legal to carry a gun in public, without a permit, and that some teachers can have guns in school in The Gem State, the Lakeland Joint School District is spending taxpayer money on hiring armed guards.  Despite previous lawsuits that revealed that fees charged by Idaho school districts violates the state constitution, districts continue to charge fees and now another lawsuit at the federal level.   Non-profit “emergency shelter, residential care, youth and family therapy, job readiness training, adoption services,  and more for at-risk kids” Idaho Youth Ranch shutdown five of its thrift stores in Blackfoot, Boise (on Chinden Boulevard), Buhl, Emmett and Twin Falls, due to lack of sales.

Illinois: After only nine years Motherland College shutting down after the U.S. Department of Education accused it of illegal activity. High schools Belleville East and Belleville West were shutdown after a male student threatened a female student, the male student was arrested.  A school cop stopped a former student from shooting up Dixon High School by shooting and wounding the former student. Litchfield High School and Junior High was locked down after two rounds of ammo were found in a toilet room, no other info was released because it involves juveniles.  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).

Indiana: A student used two pistols (not assault rifles) to shoot another student, and a teacher, at Noblesville West Middle School. The teacher knocked the pistols away and subdued the shooter.  Hoosier Academy issued a ‘pending’ shutdown WARN, 62 jobs gone possibly by June.

Iowa: 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.  Three Waukee School District schools were placed in ‘non-emergency lock-down’ after one report of a man with guns near the schools, no such ‘man’ was found.  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.  Paranoid parents unfairly forced Iowa City Community School District to fire a substitute teacher, after the parents discovered that the substitute was arrested, not convicted, on drug charges ten years ago.  On top of that the drug charges were supposed to have been expunged from arrest records in 2014.  Apparently Iowa City Community School District has a policy of rejecting applicants just for arrests, not convictions, all you unAmerican paranoid taxpayers of Iowa City Community School District can expect a lawsuit. 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:  No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Kansas:  In Derby, after 20 years Blue Dragon Books shutdown due to “family issues”.   State law allows teachers to have guns in school, but more powerful insurance companies are blocking teachers from doing so!

Kentucky: Jefferson County Public Schools suddenly laid off 224 people as a result of what I call DSS!  Gray’s College Bookstore shutdown after 31 years, saying “The college textbook industry has changed dramatically over the years, and there is a bunch of things coming down the road for digital delivery.  Small family-owned college stores don’t have a place.”

Maine: After only three years the privately run Portland Science Center shutdown due to lack of customers.

Maryland: Several schools in Baltimore County placed on prison lock-down after a home burglary-in-progress/shoot-out left one cop dead, and four suspects arrested. It had nothing to do with schools, entire neighborhoods were also prison locked down. Ironically one of the locked down schools is named Gunpowder.   Four Glenelg High School students charged with vandalizing the school with ‘hate’ graffiti.

Massachusetts: Paranoid Phillips Andover, Curtis Middle School and Algonquin Regional High School shutdown over various threats.  One school got an email that, after investigation, revealed it might not even have been a threat, and was meant for an out-of-state school! Another school claimed a student had a gun, but police found no such thing!  The third threat came in the form of a note found at a school, yet police said there was nothing to go on in the note, it didn’t even mention students or a specific school!

Michigan:   Van Hoosen Middle School and Rochester Adams High School shutdown after high levels of mercury was found in the drinking water. The federal EPA says 2 parts per billion (ppb) is the maximum safe level for mercury, the school’s average sampling was 56-ppb!   Allendale Public Schools canceled its planned Sex Education Advisory Board hearing, and will ‘gather more info’, due to what is being posted on facebook regarding the school system’s sex ed course.

Minnesota: Taxpayers being raped of $25-million USD to ‘improve’ school security!  A student with a history of mental illness nearly beat to death a teacher’s aid at Harrison Education Center (security camera video shows the student using his fists, no gun needed)!  The teacher’s aid was put into a hospital in critical condition, but get this, a judge released the mentally deranged student to his family because the public defender said being in jail would make the student’s mental problems worse!  A  female Lincoln Park Middle School special ed teacher allegedly confessed to sex crimes with a 15 years old student that took place almost daily over a two weeks period.  Saint Francis Schools eliminating 36 jobs in June.

Mississippi: Due to massive math teacher shortage the state Board of Education lowered the standardized test score to qualify as a math teacher.

Missouri:  The ACLU is suing Independence School District after the district labeled a student’s Craigslist joke a threat.  The 3.9 g-p-a senior, with no school history of causing problems, wrote on the ad site that Truman High School was for sale. Now he can’t graduate.

Nebraska:  Hastings Public Schools refused to allow a graduate from wearing her U.S. Army sash to graduation, even threatened her on the day of graduation: “He pulled me out of line and said, ‘I talked to you and your father and you are not to be wearing that. If I see you wearing that again, you will not receive your diploma.'”-Megan Pohlmeier  

The school system has a clothing accessory policy that basically says if the school didn’t issue it you don’t wear it.

Nevada: Bonanza High School teacher arrested for making terroristic threats 

New Hampshire: Exalted state Department of Education screwed-up on state assessment tests, and as a result cost public schools $1.5-million USD! There’s now a push to get that $1.5-million issued to 163 districts, somebody send that Department of Education back to school.

New Jersey: Union Schools warning of as many as 2-hundred layoffs due to lack of funding, possibly caused by budgetary incompetence and taxpayer ripoffs by the school board!   Cumberland County College laying off 43 people and considering merging with a competing college due to a steady decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).  A 77 years old school bus driver, with a long history of traffic violations, made an illegal u-turn on a highway, plowing into a dump truck, killing a student and a teacher, and injuring dozens.  But wait, it wasn’t the only school bus that made an illegal u-turn on Route 80, school officials admitted that two other buses also broke traffic rules because the caravan of East Brook Middle School buses missed their exit!

New Mexico:  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: Excelsior College laid off 50 employees due to lack of funding. The Yonkers Board of Education decided to eliminate 251 jobs due to being short $45.3-million USD!  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, 162 jobs gone by the end of the year!

North Carolina: Cape Fear Community College warned employees of layoffs because of “a projected decrease in budget, enhanced technologies and streamlined processes.”

North Dakota: Fargo Public Schools reports that at least 510 teachers and staff were injured by students in the 2017-18 school year, up by 169 from the previous school year!  District officials refused to give news media details of those injuries.  A Bismarck pharmacist already accused of terrorizing students and child porn, now facing new charges of planting hidden cameras to record school girls.

Ohio: Poland School District shutting down Dobbins Elementary School and reducing work hours for employees, in an effort to get outta a multi-million dollar deficit hole.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ own Hiram College from conducting layoffs and radical program restructuring due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS which has caused the school to cut $1-million USD from its budget.

Oklahoma: “Some teachers don’t even have classrooms. They keep their belongings, textbooks and supplies on carts and push them from classroom to classroom, hour to hour. I have been a traveling teacher. Like some of our fellow union members who are adjunct college professors and hold ‘office hours’ in their cars and nurses who travel from school to school, fingers crossed, hoping no one at a school across town will suffer a health crisis, it is almost impossible to be an effective educator while carting your work around.”-Melissa Smith

Oregon:  The University of Oregon apologized for blaming the death of one of its students on life-style choices. A school cop, and the North Bend High School principal, both fired for telling homosexual students they were going to burn in hell.

Pennsylvania: Durham School Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Chester Township ops, 67 jobs gone in June.  Carnegie Museum of Art/Museum of Natural History eliminating 76 jobs by July.  Norwin School District laying off eight teachers and jacking up property taxes by 3.1%, because state level taxpayer funding is no longer enough.  Keystone Central School District laid off 34 teachers due to a 10% decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).

Puerto Rico:  STUDENT PROTESTERS IN PUERTO RICO FACE TRIAL AS GOVERNMENT CRIMINALIZES DISSENT

Rhode Island: Warwick School Committee wants to layoff 71 teachers and one other employee because “Even with the closure of six schools in three years, we have a budget challenge”.

South Carolina:  Taxpayer funded teachers join state employees on strike.  A female Byrnes High School teacher was suspended, then officially retired, after claims that she failed to stop students from performing sex acts in class, on multiple occasions. The alleged sex acts were reported by another student, the teacher said when the classroom is full there are areas of the room she can’t see.

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: A female federal level Congress’man’ blames school shootings on porno!  

Texas:  A student, and son of an immigrant, shot-up Santa Fe High School, using a shotgun and a pistol (no assault rifles) he managed to kill ten people (possibly because of the inaction’s of police who were trained for such a shooting, at the very same school).  Friends of the shooter, and even his father, blame pervasive bullying at the school, school officials deny it.   God powerless to stop Sojourn Baptist Church from shutting down its Academy due to The Rapture, I mean low student enrollment.   San Antonio Independent School District eliminating 132 teaching jobs ostensibly to save money, however, an Army ROTC teacher said he was being laid off even though the U.S. Army pays most of his salary!  Houston Independent School District eliminating 250 jobs due to a $115-million deficit hole supposedly caused by crashing property taxes caused by Hurricane Harvey!

Utah: A teacher with Nebo School District says district officials repeatedly ignored her reports of a janitor sexually assaulting boys.  A teacher at North Sanpete High School under investigation for sexting a female student.

Vermont: Taxpayer funded schools are prepping for a population death spiral as lack of babies being born in the state set another record.

Virginia: Taxpayer funded schools use of ‘seclusion’ under scrutiny after a mentally challenged student, who can’t speak, was placed into seclusion, and Belmont Ridge Middle School couldn’t give her mother a reason why!  It was revealed because another student took a pic of the incident on an iPad, The Washington Post reports the incident is not isolated but systemic across the U.S. 

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

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”.  Delavan-Darien School District laying off 39 teachers and an undisclosed number of other employees, due to cash strapped taxpayers voting down a plan to spend an additional $3-million USD just for operating costs.
Wyoming:  Fremont County School District 25 in trouble for giving students cocktail glasses and playing cards branded with a casino’s name. 

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

ROARING BACK WITH A VENGEANCE, U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GUN CLUBS!

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“…will create deaths. This will kill people. People will die because of this.” : ObamaCare ACA death spiral, May 2018

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

Kaiser Family Foundation: 22% increase in healthcare costs

Bloomberg: Even doctors are canceling their health insurance

The Harris Poll: 66% of people say insurance cost is a major source of stress in their lives (gee, wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to remedy that?)

eHealth: 74% of people consider ObamaCare-ACA insurance rates unfair

Law360:  Humana Fights To Keep $45-billion tax dollar funded  Tricare Deal secret

VOX: Humana hits patient with surprise bill even though his surgery was ‘in-network’  (the hospital was in-network, but not the doctors)

NTT Data: Medicare Advantage online enrollment process is confusing 

Health Affairs: 86% of doctors suspicious of genetic test results, concern over insurance discrimination

Arizona: Banner Health reports a 55% crash in net income for its first quarter of 2018 due to increased operating costs.

California: A now former fraud investigator for insurance company Anthem facing charges of fraud himself, accused of helping two San Fernando Valley plastic surgery clinics falsify about $20-million USD in claims.  IDEX Health & Science issued a shutdown WARN for its Carlsbad ops, 58 jobs gone by the end of July. Concentra suddenly killed 180 jobs in Valencia!   Molina Healthcare eliminating 93 jobs in Sacramento and Los Angeles by July.  In Paradise, SunBridge Paradise Rehabilitation Center eliminating 78 jobs by July.

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

Connecticut: UnitedHealth and AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) being sued in federal court for allegedly diverting $400-million USD per year in Medigap rebates in violation of state law.  Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics eliminating 198 jobs in Brookfield by September!  Homecare provider Maplewood at Home issued a shutdown WARN for its Danbury ops, 115 jobs gone by mid-July!

Delaware: In May, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield revealed to state regulators that back in March it sent 507 customers the wrong benefits information.

Florida: A now former CEO of Calhoun Liberty Hospital charged with stealing $1-million USD from the hospital.  Baptist Health South Florida eliminating 588 jobs by the end of July!

Georgia: Schizophrenic HCA Healthcare controlled Memorial Healthcare suddenly laid off 85 people but then said it would be hiring 2-hundred.  Atlanta based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the number of people without health insurance increased in 2017, compared to 2016, however it decreased when compared to 2014. Bottom line is that ObamaCare-ACA didn’t significantly reduce the number of people without health insurance (yet it’s costing people more money).

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!!!

Illinois: State inspectors discovered that Cook County’s taxpayer funded Health and Hospitals System lost at least $165-million in revenue due to billing errors, over the past three years!  Siemens Medical Solutions Advanced Therapies Division issued a shutdown WARN for its Hoffman Estates ops, 104 jobs gone by March 2019!  After 20 years non-profit nursing home River to River shutting down due to lack of money, which is caused by lack of patients (occupancy rate only 51%).

Indiana: Medical device maker DJO Global issued a shutdown WARN for its Plainfield location, 70 jobs gone by October.

Iowa: Mercy Medical Center issued a layoff WARN, 43 jobs gone by July.  University of Iowa Health Ventures issued a layoff WARN, 190 jobs gone by the end of June!

Kansas:  The CFO of Shawnee Mission Health accused of  being part of the now settled 20 hospital kick-back fraud by god’s own Adventists Health.

Maryland: ObamaCare-ACA insurance companies demanding a 30% increase in premiums in 2019.  Two now former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials found guilty of helping a New York investment company get inside information on taxpayer funded operations. 

Michigan: Sparrow Carson Hospital halted inpatient obstetrics, resulting in an undisclosed number of layoffs, blaming it on the increasing number of people who don’t want to get pregnant (population death spiral).

Minnesota: Eastern European hackers took control of the computer records of Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology, which agreed to pay a ransom of just under $4-thousand worth of Bitcoin to free-up their computers.  MedTronic eliminating 30 jobs in Saint Paul by the end of June.

Missouri: Local politician owned pharmacy chain (20 stores) Family Pharmacy now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and selling its assets to Smith Drug Company.  Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center shutting down, 259 jobs gone by the end of June due to ObamaCare-ACA forcing the hospital to focus on outpatient care only!  Politicians are calling for an investigation into Hospital Partners-Putnam County Memorial Hospital after a state audit discovered that the small 15 bed hospital was paid $92-million USD for lab work that was actually done at other hospitals!

New Jersey:  According to the 2017 New Jersey Health & Well-Being Poll, one in seven New Jersey adults get a surprise medical bill.   The University Medical Center charged a woman $5,751 for an ice pack, even though she refused treatment when she found out the hospital was not ‘in-network’.

New York: ‘Over the counter’ lotion maker Geritrex issued a shutdown WARN, 26 jobs gone by the end of June.  Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation issued a shutdown WARN for its Brooklyn-NYC ops, 305 jobs threatened because the company sold-out to a competitor!   Nassau Health Care-Nassau University Medical Center owes the New York State Health Insurance Program $62.6-million USD in insurance premiums for its own employees!    NYC Health + Hospitals accuses UnitedHealthcare of wrongfully rejecting insurance claims of $11.5-million, from 2014 to 2017: “For too long, NYC Health + Hospitals has been leaving money on the table and subsidizing private insurance companies by letting denials slide.”-Mitchell Katz, CEO NYC Health + Hospitals

North Carolina: A now former finance director for High Point Regional Hospital sentenced to eight and-a-half years in prison for stealing $3.9-million USD from the hospital.

Ohio: Salem Regional Medical Center eliminated 26 jobs, one week after shutting down its maternity ward.  IBM controlled Watson Health suddenly laid off at least 40 people in Cleveland, a now former employee posted online “….to close the shop, will happen in early 2019. … This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one…”  Toledo based ProMedica reported a $2.7-million USD operating loss for its first quarter of 2018, due to increased operating costs.

Oklahoma: BlueCross BlueShield charged a retired doctor, who underwent foot surgery,  $619 for a saw blade, $4,265 for a drill bit and $15,076 for three screws used in the surgery!

Oregon: CNN reports UnitedHealthcare denied a dying mother’s liver transplant.

Pennsylvania:  MedTronic issued a shutdown WARN for its Bala Cynwyd location, 76 jobs gone. 

Rhode Island: Blue Cross Blue Shield facing federal level antitrust lawsuit which accuses the insurance company of “purposely” stopping the sale of financially troubled Landmark Medical Center over insurance reimbursement rates.

Tennessee: A Rite Aid Pharmacy in Springfield shutting down mid-June, as a result of Rite Aid being taken over by Walgreens (there’s a Walgreens across the street from the Rite Aid).  Envision Healthcare straight-up blamed insurance companies and the government (ObamaCare-ACA) for screwing with patient’s healthcare coverage, saying “We strongly believe payers, regulators and providers must work collaboratively. We object to many of the current payer tactics that fuel conflict and adversely impact the unique relationship between patient and physician.”

Texas: Doctors in The Lone Star State saying Blue Cross Blue Shield’s new insurance policy “…will create deaths. This will kill people. People will die because of this.”    Acuity Healthcare shutting down its ten years old San Antonio Acuity Hospital mid-July, due to declining revenue and industry changes.  Also in San Antonio, Illinois based medical supply company Arjo eliminating 54 jobs in June due to “a global decision”.  A Texas doctor facing federal charges of intentionally misdiagnosing patients with cancer as part of a $240-million USD fraud to provide the doctor and his co-conspirators with a “lavish and opulent lifestyle”,  many people were subjected to toxic cancer treatments when they didn’t have cancer!  Another Texas man was convicted of impersonating electronic health records company Cerner, causing several victims to lose millions of dollars, another man pled guilty.   Three former executives of now bankrupt busted billing company Constellation Healthcare Technologies face charges of falsifying bank records to make the company appear to be worth more than $300-million USD.  Memorial Hermann Health System paying a $19-million fine for filing false Medicare claims.  In Webster, after only four years of operations Bay Area Regional Medical Center suddenly went bankrupt busted and shutdown, 9-hundred jobs suddenly gone (Bay Area Regional also unable to make final paychecks and is ‘working’ with creditors to attempt to pay the now former employees)!  Several now former employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the short-lived defunct hospital. Insurance companies Cigna and Aetna claim the hospital owes them $43-million USD, however Bay Area Regional Medical Center blames lack of ObamaCare-ACA insurance reimbursements for their demise: “When it came to negotiations with our managed care contracts we were unable to come to an agreement, a favorable agreement and due to overhead, we couldn’t survive.”-Santiago Mendoza

Wisconsin: Medical equipment renter Degen-Berglund issued a layoff WARN for La Crosse, 30 jobs gone in July.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral April 2018: “NEW NORMAL”

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“You can’t stop the church!”: U.S. christian rapture, April 2018

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

Catholic Relief Services revealed that in 2017 about 14-thousand  parishes and schools in the United States were helped with the Lenten Rice Bowl food program.  However, Catholic Relief Services also admitted that only 25% of donations collected for the program actually go to help low income Catholics, where those donations were collected, the remaining 75% is spent on Catholic agriculture/education/micro-loan operations around the world.

Alabama: A former pastor with Mount Gilead Baptist Church charge with child sex crimes.  The attorney for the former pastor said his client is being charged on “the slimmest and most vague allegations I’ve ever seen.”  A man arrested for stealing just over $20-thousand USD from the Mayfair Church of Christ, he confessed in front of the congregation.  A construction worker fell 12 meters (40 feet) while working on a new day care building for the Tanner Williams Assembly of God.

Alaska: At the Anchorage Community House-Church of Love political activists (described by local news media as “left leaning”) were prepping for a non-violent civil disobedience demonstration when a man burst in and pepper sprayed them.   Also in Anchorage, a woman praying at Holy Family Cathedral says a man burst in an exposed himself to her (say, isn’t that similar to how Virgin Mary got pregnant?).

Arizona: A Phoenix woman accused of using a tazer to wake up her son so they wouldn’t be later for Easter Sunday services.   The Sacred Heart Church, in Tucson, is so desperate for money they held a document shredding event, $5 per box.  Interestingly the event was co-sponsored by a local politician.  In Peoria, police finally arrested a man for stealing a trailer filled with $40-thousand USD worth of christian idols, from the Cross of Glory Lutheran Church.  Police got a tip the trailer was parked in an apartment parking lot, a man was living inside, police say the homeless man admitted to trading the church idols for drugs.

Arkansas: In Warren, despite being on the National Register of Historic Places god was powerless to stop ‘his’ New Zion A.M.E. Zion Church from being torn down after being condemned because the roof caved in.

California: Presbyterian founded Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Simi Valley, 130 jobs gone by June!  The California Catholic Conference is warning “Could a California bill ban Christian teaching on homosexuality?”   Anti-gun laws failed to stop a man from stabbing to death a woman in the parking lot of the City of Refuge Church in Gardena, because she broke off their relationship. The man was arrested a few days later in Texas, hiding in his ex-wife’s house.  The First Congregational Church of Oakland has joined a growing list of churches now refusing to call police for help, not even for acts of violence, because they believe the police of The Beast, I mean police of local government are the problem.   In San Diego, the First Unitarian Universalist Church joined the growing list of churches harboring illegal immigrants, saying 93% of its members approved the decision. San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral replaced The Virgin Mary with a Beyoncé Mass.  Church leaders claim Beyoncé is the new goddess, I mean spiritual leader of black women: “Conservative Christians see a high wall separating the Church from the world; Progressive Christians do not.”-Reverend Jude Harmon

Colorado: Centura Health’s Saint Mary-Corwin Medical Center laying off 3-hundred people, but then says that it’ll hire back most of them!  Centura Health’s Longmont United Hospital eliminating less than 30 jobs due to a variety of reasons. Porter Adventist Hospital admitted that an infection control breach, which potentially exposed 5-thousand-8-hundred patients, was caused by human error.  The state Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed that several of Porter Adventist Hospital’s patients have become infected as a result of the breach.  Evangelical CovenantCare at Home shutting down, 67 jobs gone in May.

Connecticut: The Bible Way Temple Nation church mysteriously caught fire, with 12 people inside. The churchgoers escaped, investigators trying to figure out what caused the blaze. The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme joined the growing list of churches protecting illegal immigrants.  The Archdiocese of Hartford hit with a sex crimes lawsuit, the sex crimes allegedly taking place at Saint Matthew Church in Bristol.

Delaware:  The pastor of Iglesia El Espiritu Santo (located in next door Maryland) was arrested at his home in Laurel, for selling child pornography.   Also in Laurel, police are looking for a man who burgled the Rock Church, at least three times.   They know who he is, but he seems to have disappeared.

Florida:  The Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a teacher from god’s own Evangelical Christian School for having sex with a student, according to a notice posted by the school “…a female Upper School teacher admitted to sexual misconduct with a student.”  God allowed fire to destroy the Lighthouse Church in DeLand. Investigators think the fire started as a result of a sparking exterior light.

Georgia: Mallary Baptist Association has declared the Raleigh White Baptist Church racist.  Reports that the computer of the Calvary Baptist Church of Augusta was hacked in retaliation for the church’s support of Senate Bill 315.  Somebody stole the Pentecostals of Bainbridge Church van right out of the church parking lot.  A now former church bookkeeper spending at least two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing $420-thousand USD from the First Presbyterian Church in Peachtree.   Baptist/Methodist founded Piggly Wiggly shutdown their 25 years old grocery store in Hogansville, with only four days notice.

Guam: Yet another Catholic priest accused of child sex crimes, the only problem is he’s already dead.  The Archdiocese of Agana is now facing more than 160 sex crimes lawsuits from residents of the U.S. territory.

Hawaii: God flooded out the Calvary by Sea Lutheran Church, which is also home to the Angel Network Charities food pantry.

Idaho:  Parts of the Saint Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center lost electrical power for an hour, supposedly because of a bird getting tangled in power lines.  In Napoleon Dynamite’s Preston, a car crash killed two old people and injured four Mormon missionaries. Police say for an unknown reason the old married couple (who were most likely Mormons as well, if you know the area) turned in front of the car carrying the missionaries.

Illinois:  Despite being ‘cleared’ of all sex crimes allegations (not by police but by his own church committee) the founder of the megachurch Willow Creek Community Church resigned, I mean officially retired.

Indiana:  Spray paint artists tagged Woodside Community Church, then spray painted an apology that read “Sorry, we just realized this was a church.”   The anti-2nd Amendment Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church offering gun owners $125 USD in grocery gift cards if they give up their guns/accessories.  Obviously the naive church members don’t realize how much guns and gun accessories actually cost.

Iowa: To show you that there are too many potatoes on the market, the First United Methodist Church attempted to give away 18143.7 kilos (40-thousand pounds) of spuds in Mason City.  In an apparent effort to support the 1st Amendment, just over 30 members of the Collegiate Methodist Church listened to a university professor explain why Jesus the Christ was evil.  The professor also wrote a book called The Bad Jesus.

Kansas: A member of the Unity of Wichita Church confessed in writing to stealing $100-thousand USD from the church, the police were notified.

Kentucky: KentuckyOne Health selling its Saint Joseph Martin hospital and four clinics to Appalachian Regional Healthcare.  The property of United Church of Paducah being auctioned off in May due to The Rapture, I mean crashing membership.

Maryland: A now former youth pastor sentenced to three years in prison for having sex with a teenager at Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church.  The pastor of Sonrise Church is crusading against the local taxpayer funded public schools because they’re now using yoga to help students relax.  The pastor says yoga is a Hindu act and therefore evil.

Massachusetts: God powerless to stop the June shutdown of ‘his’ 61 years old Marian High School due to lack of students. Students have started a social media fundraising operation, hoping to raise enough money to keep the school open.  In Worcester, god powerless to stop property developers from tearing down ‘his’ iconic Notre Dame des Canadiens.

Michigan:   A five years old boy had his mouth taped shut and his school lunch thrown in the trash by a Crestwood School District substitute teacher’s assistant (who doesn’t deserve a penny of her taxpayer funded paycheck).  But wait there’s more! The taxpayer funded preschool program is being run out of the Cherry Hill Baptist Church, and that other substitute teachers have been violent with students, one even tried to bribe a student not to tell by giving him a bracelet.     Six employees of Providence Christian Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center suing because they’re mad that patients are being allowed to request ‘white’ caregivers only.

Minnesota: A taxpayer funded charter school bus driver, who also happens to be a pastor of an unnamed Minneapolis church, was suspended after being caught forcing students to take part in prayer sessions on the bus (according to complaints by parents).  It’s the second time he was caught doing that (the first time he was actually fired).  Policy says drivers can pray as individuals, but cannot make students take part in group prayers.

Mississippi: A Saint Dominic Hospital employee arrested for stealing and selling patient’s financial information.

Missouri: Weekend Masses were halted at Saint Martha Church in Wayland, Notre Dame Church in LaGrange and the Shrine of Saint Patrick in Saint Patrick, the Diocese of Jefferson City blames The Rapture, I mean a sudden shortage of priests.  A now former youth pastor at the Central Presbyterian Church reportedly confessed to child sex crimes after church leaders called the cops.  The state Supreme Court overruled god saying Antioch Community Church cannot continue using its small digital sign, because it violates the zoning laws of Kansas City.

Montana:  Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings agrees to pay $20-million USD in an attempt to “continue the healing process” for 86 victims of its sex crimes.

Nebraska: While 40 people were prepping for choir practice god decided to set the United Methodist Church, in Grand Island, on fire.  The fire department said the fire was started by a burning bush next to the church, they don’t know how the bush caught fire!  Also in Grand Island, police removed a camper with two ganja and meth smoking occupants from the property of Trinity United Methodist Church.  Apparently the tokers had been parked on church property for ten days before anybody decided to call police.  The Protestant political leaders of the state are refusing to allow Catholic nuns, who are required to live a low income lifestyle by the church, to get Medicaid.  It’s the results of recent state cuts to taxpayer funded health insurance. 

New Hampshire: The Saint James Catholic Church sold for $2.3-million USD to a property developer who wants to build condominiums.

New Jersey:  The state Supreme Court ruled against Morris County’s plan to use more than $4-million USD in taxpayer funding to restore old churches.  Not only does it violate the federal Constitution, but it violates the state Constitution of New Jersey which says nobody can be forced to “…be obliged to pay tithes, taxes or other rates for building or repairing any church or churches, place or places of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry…”

New York: Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services halting housing ops in Howard Beach, Far Rockaway and Brooklyn-NYC, due to loss of funding.  Catholic Guardian Services halting ops for disabled people across several cities, at least 99 jobs lost due to loss of contract.  Heritage Christian Services halting ops for disabled people in Rochester, 49 jobs lost due to loss of contract.  Easter Seals issued a shutdown WARN for four of its Intermediate Care Facilities, 78 jobs gone by mid-July.  In South Buffalo, god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ 38 years old Franciscan Center because “numbers of young men seeking help have gone down.”  God powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ YWCA (Yong Women’s Christian Association) operations in Batavia: “We’re working to keep the doors open but right now we have to close, and we’re reviewing the finances. There’s considerable longstanding debt and there’s no money on reserve to get us through this situation.”-Tomidy-Pepper, executive director

North Carolina: A christian pastor with Izmir Resurrection Church faces 35 years in a Turkish prison if convicted of supporting Muslim ‘terrorist’ groups connected to the 2016 coup attempt.  Anglican/Episcopalian/Presbyterian founded Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo eliminating 593 jobs in Winterville, between June and October!  God burned down the New Gospel Tabernacle Holiness Church, which was not covered by insurance, the defiant pastor exclaimed “You can’t stop the church! Keep us in your prayers.”  The Winston-Salem Fire Department said “We are still trying to figure out where it started and what started it.”

North Dakota: A teacher at god’s own Saint Joseph Catholic School, in Williston, arrested last month for sex crimes, hit with even more charges of sex crimes this month.  He is now accused of having sex with at least five girls. He was also a coach with Williston Public School District.

Ohio: In Weston, god destroyed the Antioch Church by driving a delivery truck through it, local news media said there were multiple injuries.

Oklahoma: In Oklahoma City the vacant and for sale Calvin Presbyterian Church caught fire, according to the fire department it’s the second time since December.  Fire fighters say the church was locked-up tight when they arrived  and they’re not sure what started the fire (god?).

Oregon: Providence Saint Vincent Medical Center warning that one of its nurses came to work sick with TB.   The hospital offering free tuberculosis testing as a result.

Pennsylvania:  UPMC Presbyterian notified 4-thousand-7-hundred patients that an employee came to work infected with TB between October 2017 and February 2018!  The employee is on leave.  UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center warning of shutdown due to the hospital needing at least $10-million in repairs.  The Catholic Diocese of Erie released a list of 51 Catholics accused of sex crimes. 

Rhode Island: Saint Patrick Church in Cumberland being shutdown and members being forced to attend Saint Aidan Parish, due to The Rapture, I mean lack of members at the Saint Patrick Church.   The Healing Church (once a Catholic church) now promotes the use of ‘kosher’ homegrown marijuana.

South Carolina:  After more than 160 years god decided to burn down the historic Saint Andrews Church in Mount Pleasant.  Church leaders say they’ll recover pronouncing “Lift high the cross! We’ll be just fine.”

South Dakota:  A woman already on probation for embezzlement sent back to three years in prison after admitting she ripped-off the United Church of Christ.

Texas: Covenant Church donated $10-thousand USD to help payoff the debts of military veterans, through the RIP Medical Debt charity.  RIP Medical Debt claims that donation helped them payoff more than $10-million in medical debts!  A different church is under suspicion about its donations, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs is trying to raise $3-million USD for new construction.  The church was the site of a mass shooting last year and the families of the victims are questioning if donations for the victims are being diverted to the construction project.  Church leaders deny the accusation, but some families say the church has refused to help pay for some shooting victims, and others say it’s taken months for the church to respond to their request for help.  Families have noticed that the church has already spent millions of dollars in donations on construction projects: “This has gotten way out of hand, way out of hand! There’s some greed going on, and it’s wrong.”-Lisa McNulty, mother of shooting victim killed last year

Utah: A woman is suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (LDS, Mormon) saying she was raped by a ‘priesthood’ leader in a secret room at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, back in 1984.  The leader in question denies raping her, but admitted to police that he asked her to get naked. The leader has been accused of rape before.

Vermont: A former politician, now minister of the Congregational Church of Rupert, says even at $15 per hour minimum wage is still poverty level.  Desperate state leaders are trying to raise tax revenues through the back-door by ending tax deductions for charity donations, including to church run charities. 

Washington: The Bethel Church of the Nazarene was vandalized: “A urinal and drinking fountain were ripped off the walls, a sink was ripped out of the counter, cupboard doors were ripped off their hinges, miscellaneous food items were strewn about the church, and other items were moved and broken during the crime spree.” 

Washington DC: Catholic bishops from El Salvador lobbied the U.S. government to protect the immigration status of 200-thousand El Salvadorans working in the United States.

West Virginia: God blew the steeple off The Family Word Church of God of Prophecy in Point Pleasant.

Wisconsin:  Sacred Heart Hospital and Saint Joseph’s Hospital both warning of massive layoffs saying “The healthcare industry continues to experience a shift in the way people utilize health care services nationwide. High deductible insurance plans are causing many people to postpone care…”   Mmmm, isn’t that what ObamaCare-ACA was trying to avoid?  Wheaton Franciscan-Saint Joseph Hospital shutting down surgical and inpatient care in low-income neighborhood, due to lack of revenues.

U.S. Christian Rapture, March 2018: “GOD ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN.”

“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.”

Business/Economics

“their year of demise.”: Sears Kmart death spiral, June 2018

Sears Holdings has already announced new store shutdowns that weren’t on the shutdown list issued at the end of May.  However, Sears Holdings representatives claim some of the store shutdowns announced in May are now on hold pending further review.

Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores reported a $9.4-million USD loss for its first quarter of 2018 and as a result will shutdown 1-hundred stores (the majority will be shutdown during the second quarter).  It was also revealed that 20 Hometown & Outlet stores were shutdown during the first quarter of 2018.

Alabama: The Sears Hometown Stores in Enterprise, Jasper and Moulton just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Arizona: The Nogales Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

California: A Sears store and Auto Center in Newark (54 jobs gone by the end of September), and the almost 50 years old Thousand Oaks Sears store to shutdown in September.  Local news media reported that in 2014 officials in Thousand Oaks approved a plan to chop up the Sears store.  In Modesto, the Vintage Faire Mall Sears shutdown by an escalator fire, even though the fire was contained to the escalator for some reason the Auto Center and Avis/Budget car rental operations have also been shutdown.  In Sacramento, the owners of Arden Fair Mall filed a lawsuit to stop the sale of the still active Sears store to a ‘retail redevelopment’ company.  Local news media reporting that the still active Goleta Kmart is being taken over by Target, due to the Kmart lease being past due expired (the Kmart is not on the current official shutdown list).  The Lompoc Sears Hometown Store shutting down by the end of July, local news media say employees claim its because the landlord is demanding a huge increase in rent and is not linked to the official Sears shutdown list (even though it is on the official Hometown shutdown list).  The Sears Hometown Stores in Banning, Gilroy and Red Bluff just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Colorado: The Rifle Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Connecticut: The only two Sears Hometown Stores in the state, Barkhamsted and Colchester,  just made the new and evolving shutdown list.    The Waterbury Sears shutting down by September.

Florida: The Altamonte Mall Sears store and Auto Center, in Altamonte Springs, being shutdown by the end of August, possibly due to mall owner (and Sears Holdings spin-off) Seritage Growth Properties’ plan to turn the mall into a massive real estate trade show convention center.  The Labelle Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.   In Pensacola, the 44 years old University Town Plaza Sears shutting down by the end of July.

Georgia: The Sears Hometown Stores in Commerce and Wrens just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.   The shuttering Duluth Gwinnett Place Mall Sears suddenly sold to an apartment developer. 

Illinois: More proof Sears Holdings isn’t serious about saving its ass as the Litchfield owner of a Sears Hometown Store has been told by Sears Holdings that he can’t move into a soon-to-be-vacated  ‘full line’ Qunicy Sears store for another 18 months: “Unfortunately, when a full-line Sears store leaves a city per the contract with Sears Hometown, no one can put a store in the city again for 18 months.”-facebook post

The Sears Hometown Stores in Moline, Plano and Sterling just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Indiana: The Sears Hometown Stores in Auburn, Greensburg, North Vernon and Washington just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Kansas: The Lawrence Sears Hometown Store  just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Kentucky: The Sears Hometown Stores in Glasgow, London, Morehead and Paintsville just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Louisiana: Pecanland Mall Sears in Monroe, as well as the Shreveport Sears (local news media says Sears repeatedly denied it was shutting the Shreveport location down, until now) and Bossier City Sears, all shutting down by September.  The Sears Hometown Stores in Cut Off, Jennings and Leesville just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Maine: The Sears Hometown Stores in Beddeford and Ellsworth just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Maryland: Local news media reporting the Westfield Montgomery Sears, in Bethesda, will shutdown by March 2019, for massive property redevelopment. 

Michigan: The Oakland Mall Sears in Troy to shutdown in September.  In Marquette, a facebook post announced the July shutdown of the Sears Hometown Store.  The Sears Hometown Stores in Fort Gratiot and Waterford shutting down in July.   For more proof that the claim that brick-n-mortar retail shopping is dead, is bull-shit, local news media revealed that the now vacant Fenton Kmart is being replaced with four brick-n-mortar stores; TJ Maxx, Petco, Five Below and Michaels.  As I’ve been warning since 2012, it’s ALL PART OF Real Estate Investment Trust PLAN TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU SHOP, AND THEY BLAME YOU THE SHOPPER!

Montana: The Havre Kmart shutting down in September. The Great Falls Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Mississippi: Sears Hometown Stores in Columbus, Corinth and Ripley just made the new shutdown list, for July.

Nebraska: In Omaha, the Oak View Mall Sears shutting down between July and September.  GGP, owner of Oak View Mall said “For retailers who had been in a decline for more than a decade, 2017 was their year of demise. These retailers lost their emotional connection to the consumer, lacked investment in their physical platforms, and had not made appropriate investments in an omni-channel environment”

New Hampshire: The Sears Hometown Stores in Gorham, Rochester, Seabrook and Walpole just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

New Mexico: In anticipation of the shutdown of a Albuquerque Kmart, the city has already re-zoned the property for a massive brick-n-mortar development.

New York: The Great Northern Mall Sears store and Auto Center, in Clay, 57 jobs gone by September.  The Sears Hometown Stores in Batavia, Ithaca and Malone just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

North Carolina: Without warning the Raleigh Sears Home Services, on Six Forks Road, was sold for $5-million USD to a developer based in Virginia.  Without warning the active Northgate Mall Sears store property was sold for $6.5-million to a property developer in Colorado. The Sears Hometown Stores in Boone, Rocky Mount and Waynesville just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Ohio:   The Sears Hometown Stores in Jackson and Washington Court House just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July. The Tri-County Mall Sears, in Cincinnati, shutting down by September.  Local news media says the shutdown was revealed when Store Closing signs were posted outside the building.

Oklahoma:  The last Sears store in Oklahoma City to shutdown in September.   The Grove Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Oregon: For more proof the store shutdowns are a False Flag, the franchise owner of the Sears Hometown Stores in Corvallis, Madras and Prineville (shutting down by the end of July) Heidi Wood publicly stated her stores were profitable, stressing “I just want people to know, we didn’t leave by choice. This was a corporate decision.”  Local news media also discovered that Sears Holdings-Hometown & Outlet Store forced Wood to move one of her stores, and also forced a landlord to invest $100-thousand USD into the property to bring it up to ‘Sears standards’ months before the shutdown order came, the landlord is now suing Sears: “We’ve locked the tenant out of the building, and Sears doesn’t have any rights to get into it.”-John Goodman, attorney for landlord

Pennsylvania: It’s been revealed that the 2014 shutdown of the Sears store in Century III Mall is killing the mall.  Sears violated its lease contract when it shutdown the store, meaning they owe the mall owner $4.2-million USD, which Sears Holdings has refused to pay.  The ongoing lawsuit is now resulting in a ‘sheriff’s sale’ of the Century III Mall.  The Ebensburg Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Rhode Island: The Wakefield Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

South Carolina:  The happy taxpayers of Camden are about to become the proud owners of the vacant Kmart, as city leaders consider an annexation ordinance.   The Aiken Sears Hometown Store shutting down by July, an employee told local news media “It was a corporate decision, and we’re not supposed to talk to the media….”   Sears Hometown Stores in Lancaster, Loris, Port Royal and Seneca all shutting down by the end of July.

South Dakota: The Mitchell and Aberdeen Sears Hometown Stores shutting down by the end of July.

Tennessee: The Franklin, Milan and Oak Ridge Sears Hometown Stores shutting down by the end of July. In Oak Ridge, the Sears Hometown Store suddenly shutdown, a sign reads Closed Until Further Notice, customers are being directed to call a competing Sears Hometown Store in Harriman.  The year-and-a-half old Franklin-Mckay’s Mill Sears Hometown Store shutting down by the end of June, the store operator said “There are many reasons for the store closing. Sears Hometown Stores and I have mutually agreed to close the store.”

Texas: The Athens, Azle, Kingsville, Mineral Wells and Palestine Sears Hometown Stores all shutting down by the end of July.  In San Antonio, the Park North Shopping Center Sears shutting down by the end of July, Sears Holdings is blaming the landlord of Park North Shopping Center for the shutdown.  The shutdown of the Rolling Oaks Mall Sears store on hold pending the outcome of lease-back negotiations.  It was revealed that the Wichita Falls Sears Hometown Store was suddenly shutdown at the end of May, and now Sears Hometown & Outlet is suing the property owner.  The surprise shutdown came just 54 days after the store had its grand ‘soft’ opening, the landlord said the store owner failed to pay rent and other fees! (twisted update on Wichita Falls shutdown)

Utah: The Tooele Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Vermont: The Middlebury, Saint Johnsbury and Saint Albans Sears Hometown Store just made the new and evolving shutdown list,  shutting down by the end of July.

Virginia: Sears/Kmart operations in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach to shutdown in September.  The Covington, Lynchburg and Williamsburg  Sears Hometown Stores all shutting down by the end of July.  A facebook post revealed that Sears Hometown Stores in Staunton (the oldest Sears Hometown franchise in the U.S.) and Harrisonburg are shutting down by July, the independent owner blames increased competition and the shopping habits of young adults.  The Lightfoot Sears Hometown Store shutting down in July.  The manager of the independently owned Sears store said “We weren’t selling enough. Our sales have dropped over the years…”, and added that “The owner of the property doesn’t maintain it.”

Washington: The Deer Park Sears Hometown Store shutting down by the end of July.

West Virginia: The Harpers Ferry and Summersville Sears Hometown Stores shutting down by July.

Wisconsin: The West Towne Mall Sears, in Madison, shutting down in September, local news media reported that Sears Holdings recently spent a lot of money remodeling the store.   The city of Portage about to burden local taxpayers in an effort to redevelop the long vacant Kmart site, by imposing a new tax increment financing (TIF) district, however city leaders claim the TIF will not become a blank check for the property owner.  Brookfield taxpayers forking over millions of dollars as the demolition of the abandoned Sears store gets underway, to make room for a partially taxpayer funded move theater and bumper cars.  Local news media also revealed the city is creating a special tax district (known as  tax-incremental-financing, TIF) to provide $4.8-million USD towards the purchase of land for a new hotel, which includes the land the now vacant Sears Auto Center is on.

Wyoming: The Laramie Sears Hometown Store shutting down in July, officially due to the new owners ‘forfeiting’ their contract with Sears.  It might have something to due with the property being suddenly sold-off.

Business Insider: Sears’ prices are going up during a liquidation sale

GlobeNewswire:  Sears Hometown and Outlet Recognized as One of Chicago’s Best

Elliott: Be careful, that Sears.com order you made might really be from SearsHomeTown, which could affect any refunds/warranties

Motley Fool: Sears and Kmart Deepen Their Marriage 

CNBC: Sears expands Auto Center partnership with Amazon

Bloomberg: Lands’ End Exits More Sears Stores

The Mercury News: Sears took my money and kept the dishwasher, too

Tribune-Review: Bill Gates to pay-off Sears Holdings’ debt!

Forbes: Shopping At Sears Drops 50% 

Chicago Tribune: Sears gets more time to repay lenders

Picture People photo studio chain shutters in Sears stores

Sears Kmart death spiral, May 2018: “ACCELERATED THE CLOSING OF UNPROFITABLE STORES”

Business/Economics

“a retail collapse like…The Great Depression.” One retailer kills 23,000 jobs!: U.S. retail/banking/service sector collapse, April 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in April 2018:

“….they`ll be economic consequences of epic proportions….not this year, but in 2019, 2020, you`ll see a retail collapse like the 1930s and The Great Depression…..We`re already going to have 12,000 stores closed this year. So, it`ll hollow out retail and hurt jobs and actually the shoppers and taxpayers will pay more because you`ll lose the commercial property taxes and you`ll lose the sales tax which is a third of all local and state revenue.”-Burth Flickinger, Strategic Resource Manager interviewed on NBR, 17APR2018

NightlyBusinessReport (NBR): The amount of retail space closing in 2018 is on pace to break a record

FierceCEO: Announced job cuts surged in March, a 71% increase from February

Germany (Deutschland) based Deutsche Bank eliminating 4-hundred U.S. jobs!  

 California: Westlake Village based Guitar Center suddenly laid off 1-hundred people after losing $11-million USD (despite selling online)!  In Ocean Beach, Newport Avenue Antique Center suddenly shutdown, being replaced by a Target Express, which local shoppers say they will boycott.  In Long Beach, after more than 1-hundred years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Jones Bicycles shutdown so the owner can retire.  Local news reports say at one time there were three Jones Bicycles stores.  In Burbank, Warner Music issued a layoff WARN, 55 jobs gone by the end of July. In Fontana, clothier LuLaRoe issued a layoff WARN, 127 jobs gone by mid-June! In Irvine, Roth Staffing-Ultimate Staffing issued a layoff WARN, 128 jobs gone by mid-June! Arkansas based Walmart issued a shutdown WARN for its store in Simi Valley, 130 jobs gone by June! San Diego Gaming Ventures issued a mass layoff WARN, 650 jobs gone by the end of May!

Connecticut: In Ridgefield, after 44 years All the King’s Horses tack-shop shutting down when the inventory is gone.  In Westport, after almost 70 years Liberty Army & Navy shutting down in May, so the owner can retire.  Public transportation contractor DATTCO issued a shutdown WARN for its Trumbull ops, 160 jobs gone by the end of June!

Illinois: The North Face suddenly shutdown its store in Evanston due to high rent and low sales.  Shutdown WARNs were issued for ten Carson’s, one Bergner’s and one The Bon Ton stores (see Pennsylvania below).   Acceptance Auto Insurance shutting down its office in Lombard, 52 jobs gone by the end of July.

Iowa: In Iowa City, after 36 years of “If you can’t find it at Paul’s, then you don’t need it” Paul’s Discount shutting down by the end of July, after two years of trying to sell it.  The owners say prospective buyers shied away saying there was too much retail competition in the area.  The Bon Ton issued shutdown WARNs for eight Younkers stores (see Pennsylvania below).

Maryland:  Towson University Marriott Conference Hotel eliminating 60 jobs by the end of June.

Michigan:   Three Detroit area Carson’s stores shutting down (see Pennsylvania below), more than 5-hundred jobs gone by June!  Music venue Live Nation Worldwide temporarily shutting down The Fillmore Detroit, 180 jobs lost to four months of renovations!  After more than 60 years the owners of Hazel Park Raceway suddenly announced they sold-out to a property developer, 90 jobs suddenly gone.  Local news media reported that riders and horse racers had driven miles for the opening day, only to have to turn around and go home.  California based clothier PacSun shutting down its store in The Lakes Mall.  What real estate market recovery? Too Big to Jail MB Financial eliminating 495 mortgage jobs as it exits mortgage industry!  Online furniture seller izzyplus (izzy+) issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Spring Lake, 72 jobs gone by July.  Apparently izzyplus is dead, so much for online sales.

Minnesota: In Bloomington, after almost 90 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Johnson Hardware shutdown, the retiring second owner described his job as “Six days a week, all my life.”  The Bon Ton issued mass shutdown WARNs for 18 Herberger’s and two Younkers stores (see Pennsylvania below).  In Mankato, after ten years Arrow Ace Hardware shutting down.

Missouri: What automotive industry recovery? In Hazelwood, car seller Gateway Buick GMC now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to several years in a row of crashing sales.

Montana: In Great Falls, after 20 years Party America shutting down by the end of May, because the owners want to retire.

New Jersey: In Union, after a year-and-a-half home decor store Wrapped Moments shutdown its brick-n-mortar store to focus on internet sales only.  Clothier Nine West Holdings eliminating 102 jobs in West Deptford, by June!  Clothier Maggy London International issued a WARN for its East Rutherford ops, 80 jobs gone by the end of June.

New York: Matty’s Toy Shop shutting down its 14 years old Manhasset location due to not being able to renew the lease.   In Olean, after 15 years Willoughby’s Furniture & Gifts shutdown due to the health problems of one of the owners.  After 18 years B.B. King Blues Club suddenly shutdown, blaming skyrocketing rents.  In Caledonia, after almost 160 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Hamilton & Son Hardware shutting down by June.  Toy maker Mattel issued a shutdown WARN for its NYC ‘office’, 143 jobs gone by August!  It’s part of a plan by Mattel to cut costs by $650-million USD.  British empire United Kingdom based Too Big to Jail Barclays transferring more than 430 NYC jobs to New Jersey! Too Big to Jail Sterling National Bank shutting down its Penn Plaza Financial Center location and eliminating jobs at its Lefrak City Financial Center, due to being taken over by Astoria Bank. Convenience store operator Express Mart Franchising Corporation shutting down its Syracuse location, 53 jobs lost due to the company selling out to competitor Speedway.  The Neiman Marcus Group shutting down its Last Call clothing store in Central Valley, 40 jobs gone by the end of July.  Golden Touch Transportation halting its NYC Airporter Express Bus Services, 176 jobs gone due to loss of contract!

North Carolina: Brooks Brothers Factory Outlet suddenly shutdown its store in Garland, no explanation was given.  California based Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo eliminating 593 jobs in Winterville, between June and October!  In Greensboro, after 66 years Scruggs Florist shutdown because the owners (one in her 80s, the other in his 90s) are tired of working holidays: “Every holiday you work and the only one you get is July the Fourth or something like that.”-Rigdon Scruggs, 90 years old

What real estate industry recovery?  Online mortgage company Ditech shutting down its Charlotte Reverse Mortgage Solutions ops, 79 jobs gone by the end of June.

North Dakota: In Fargo, the West Acres Mall Herberger’s shutting down (see Pennsylvania below).

Ohio: Shopping center owner DDR suddenly laid off 50 people and refused to give details.

Oklahoma:  In Lawton, after 44 years Nick’s Pawn and Jewelry shutdown.

Pennsylvania:  Too Big to Jail BB&T issued a shutdown WARN for its Allentown bank, 50 jobs gone by mid-June.  Pittsburgh based supplements pusher GNC shutting down 2-hundred stores, due to $1-billion USD of debts.  Administrators warned that the number of store shutdowns could increase depending on attempts to renegotiate leases.  Clothier Nine West Holdings issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Bristol, 98 jobs gone by June!Bankrupt York based The Bon Ton shutting down all remaining 256 stores, 23-thousand jobs gone due to failed efforts to sell the retailer! Don’t forget, The Bon Ton is also the parent company for retailers Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s, and Younkers.

Rhode Island: In Providence, after 42 years Cable Car Cinema shutdown due to change, fear, excitement, and dread at what’s happening with new entertainment technologies, plus the landlord said the old “historic” building was getting rickety.

South Dakota: In Sioux Falls, after 14 years Family Orthopedic & Shoe Repair shutdown.

Washington: In Seattle, after 37 years Leroy Menswear shutdown, due to the owner losing his fight with cancer.

Wisconsin: In Madison, music venue Frequency shutting down by the end of June due to increased costs and crashing sales.  Too Big to Jail First Citizens Bank shutting down offices in Glendale and Brown Deer, and eliminating 1-hundred corporate jobs by September!  The Bon Ton issued a mass shutdown WARN for all its stores in the state, 2-thousand-255 jobs gone by June (see Pennsylvania above)!

Wyoming: Cheyenne based Great Lakes Airlines suddenly halted operations after 40 years, blaming lack of qualified pilots caused by the Obama era revision of Flight Officer Qualifications.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Your leaders are lying to you, don’t forget to check out the thousands of layoffs in all these other U.S. industries.

OBAMA LEGACY: U.S. APPAREL INDUSTRY DEATH-SPIRAL

U.S. RETAIL/BANKING/SERVICE SECTOR COLLAPSE, March 2018: “THE THIEVES ARE….MORE BOLD.”

SEARS KMART DEATH SPIRAL, April 2018: “TOO BIG FOR OUR NEEDS.”

U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS, April 2018:“HISTORIC CHANGES”

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

U.S. HI-TECH/COMMUNICATIONS BREAKDOWN, April 2018:“…TO THRIVE IN THE FUTURE.”

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

U.S. food crisis, April 2018:“WE’RE TIRED AFTER SEVENTY YEARS OF SEVEN DAYS A WEEK!”

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

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

Business/Economics

“historic changes”: U.S. industrial/mining/logistics layoffs, April 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in April 2018.

More U.S. jobs being killed by European Union and China.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

 California: Diversified Silicone Products issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Santa Fe, 68 jobs gone by July.  Germany based shipping company DHL issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Moreno Valley, 136 jobs gone by June!  France based aerospace company C and D Zodiac issued a multiple shutdown WARNs for its Garden Grove ops, at least 79 jobs gone by mid-July.  Washington based aerospace company Leach International suddenly eliminated 46 jobs at its Esterline Power Systems ops in Buena Park. Hecny Transportation shutting down its Brisbane location mid-June.   Workrite Uniform Company issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Oxnard, 101 jobs gone by June!  What automotive industry recovery?  Floor mat maker Kraco Enterprises issued a layoff WARN for its factory in Compton, 83 jobs gone by June.

Illinois: Washington based industrial valve maker DeZURIK eliminating 61 jobs in Schaumburg due to “relocation”, taking place in 1st quarter 2019.   In Collinsville, energy company Dynergy eliminating 53 jobs by June.

Iowa: Germany based Siemens shutting down its recently acquired steam turbine factory in Burlington, 125 jobs gone, however a federal mandated WARN has yet to be issued! What automotive industry recovery? Germany based engine parts maker MAHLE shutting down its ops in Winterset, 33 jobs gone by mid-July.

Louisiana: What automotive industry recovery? Monster Moto laying off 30 assembly line workers, in May, and transferring those jobs to China despite the company’s motto being Made in America!  Local news reports say just a year ago Monster Moto promised to hire 3-hundred people (even the state gov’na attended the announcement) but actually hired only 1-hundred!

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery?  Belgium based exhaust system maker Bosal eliminating 40 jobs at its factory in Ypsilati, in June, apparently on-top of the 77 jobs eliminated in April.

Mississippi: What automotive industry recovery?  Advance Auto Parts shutting down and selling off its distribution center in Gallman, 284 jobs gone by Xmas as part of a plan to consolidate 54 distribution centers!

New Jersey: What automotive industry recovery?  Germany based Mercedes-Benz shutting down its U.S. HQ in Montvale, 115 jobs lost due to relocation to Atlanta, Georgia! About 1-thousand jobs transferring to Georgia, so the net loss to New Jersey is about 1-thousand-115 jobs! 

New York: Ireland based electrical parts maker Eaton Corporation eliminating 29 jobs at its Horseheads ops.  It should be noted that Eaton got U.S. taxpayer funded incentives for its operations in Horseheads. Bankrupt (due to $1.5-billion in debts) clothier Nine West Holdings (Nine West, Anne Klein, Bandolino, etc) shutting down its wholesale shoe and handbag distribution ops in NYC, 203 jobs gone by July!

North Carolina: Saudi Arabia based SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) issued a shutdown WARN for its Huntersville Innovative Plastics operations, 83 jobs gone by the end of July.

Oklahoma: Petroleum company Devon Energy eliminating 3-hundred additional jobs due to never ending debt!   Between 2016 and January 2018 the natural gas company killed 1-thousand-4-hundred jobs!

Ohio: What automotive industry recovery? Comprehensive Logistics-Source Providers eliminating 150 Austintown jobs due to production cutbacks at the GM-Chevy Cruze factory in Lordstown!  Lordstown Seating killing 83 jobs by mid-June.  And of course the GM-Chevy Cruze production cutbacks will result in 1-thousand-5-hundred GM-Chevy employees becoming unemployed!  GM administrators blame low sales in the U.S.: “…the market continued to undergo historic changes, it required us to reduce production rates and take numerous down weeks to match production with lower customer demand…”

Pennsylvania: In New Kensington, years of down prices for metals and then a $209-thousand USD theft forced Quality Machined Products to layoff employees for the first time in its history.  British empire United Kingdom based chemical company Johnson Matthey issued a shutdown WARN for its Conshohocken location, 119 jobs gone by August!  Dicom Transportation Group issued a shutdown WARN for its Philadelphia location, 51 jobs gone by June.   Pittsburgh Glass Works shutting down its factory in East Deer, at least 160 jobs affected by June, layoffs starting in May!  Worldwide Flight Services eliminating 161 air-freight jobs at Philadelphia International Airport, due to losing a contract!

South Carolina:  Textile maker Alice Manufacturing shutting down its 50 years old factory in Ellison, 175 jobs gone in June due to competition from overseas!

Texas: Salon products maker/supplier Sally Beauty warned of an undisclosed number of layoffs at its Denton HQ, in an effort to save $15-million USD!  Fort Worth based Bell Helicopter suddenly eliminated 120 jobs across the United States!  Houston based Erin Energy (Camac Energy) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to the collapse of the African oil industry.  Petroleum company EV Energy Partners now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to as much as $1-billion USD of debt.

Washington: Jorgensen Forge issued a shutdown WARN for its Tukwila ops, 101 jobs gone by mid-June!  Hot water heater maker A.O. Smith issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Renton, 57 jobs gone by mid-June.

Wisconsin: Mattel-American Girl shutting down its call center/distribution center in Wilmot, 185 jobs gone by the end of June!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, March 2018: “THIS IS A SAD DAY…”

International, U.S.

America Spread Thin: West Asia, April 2018

Video

West Asia, or as the U.S. Department of Defense calls it Southwest Asia.  Iran, Iraq and Turkey are sometimes considered part of West Asia and sometimes Central Asia.  I consider Iraq and Turkey part of West Asia and Iran is part of Central Asia.

The following is a smidgen of what the United States is involved in, in the Middle East, during April 2018:

On 04APR2018 an honor guard from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, receive the body of Major Andreas B. O’Keeffe, who was killed in Iraq while flying an HH-60 Pave Hawk for the 106th Rescue Wing.

At Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, the body of para-rescueman Master Sergeant William Posch, killed in Iraq, was brought home:

Another Florida resident, Staff Sergeant Carl Enis, was also killed in Iraq.

Hawaii Army National Guard personnel with 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, deployed to somewhere in South West Asia.

At Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 47 USA (U.S.Army) personnel with the 8th Human Resources Sustainment Center, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, returned from supporting ops in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.

On 15APR2018, the Louisiana Air National Guard honored 16 Airmen from the 259th Air Traffic Control Squadron for their service in Iraq: “These 16 Airmen went over there and basically took charge of airfield operations. They did an outstanding job delivering sorties and increasing the payload of goods coming in and out to support our warfighters. The thing that impressed me is that they increased the MedEvac time by 75%!”-Major General Glenn Curtis

North Carolina Army National Guard‘s 449th Combat Aviation Brigade, along with British empire United Kingdom-NATO personnel, conduct aeromedical evacuation (MedEvac) training at Camp Taji, Iraq.   The North Carolina National Guard, and Vanderbilt University, donated medical books to the Iraqi Army Hospital, Camp Taji, at the end of March.

Between the end of March and beginning of April, about 285 personnel from Ohio National Guard‘s 2nd Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq.

At Fort Hood, Texas, the U.S. Army 3rd Cavalry Regiment deploying to Iraq:

On 03APR2018, a Wisconsin Air National Guard 128th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 refuels USAF E-3 Sentry AWAC as it conducts missions over Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wisconsin National Guard soon deploying personnel to Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

A missile armed MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System at an undisclosed location (secret) returns sans one missile after an anti-ISIS (DAIISH) mission over Iraq

‘Undisclosed Location’: Official video USAF 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron says good-bye to SouthWest Asia:

USAF F-15E Strike Eagle gets refueld from a KC-10 Extender, somewhere over SouthWest Asia, 21APR2018

Bahrain: 

U.S. 5th Fleet observes Denim Day in Manama, Bahrain, 25APR2018

Iraq: 

Iraqi Army fast rope training from U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil Mi-17 helicopter, U.S. taxpayer funded contractors are also maintaining the Russian helicopters for Iraq

U.S. Army, 2011: Army equipping Afghans, Iraqis on Mi-17s

U.S. Army conducts Combat LifeSaver course for Iraqi Army personnel

Israel:

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 29APR2018

South Carolina National Guard take part in change of command ceremonies for the 13th Missile Defense Battery in Israel, 10APR2018

Jordan: Jordan is increasingly being drawn into the influence of NATO.

Closing ceremonies for NATO – Jordan Planning Course, 04APR2018

Official USMC/USN video explainer of Eager Lion 18:

U.S. Army town clearing video, 19APR2018:

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:  

U.S. military leaders meet with Royal Saudi military leaders at Ministry of Defense Officer’s Club, Riyadh, KSA, 19APR2018

Kuwait: 

More than 45 U.S. and Kuwait Land Forces soldiers took part in CBRN training, Camp Patriot, Kuwait, 25APR2018

U.S. Army combat engineers employ the Talon Robot, and VMR/2 Mine Hound, at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, 10APR2018

Qatar: 

Mom and daughter with Pennsylvania Air National Guard deployed to Qatar; Staff Sergeant Victoria Moran and Senior Master Sergeant Michelle Mersing

Official video of Pennsylvania Air National Guard rapid repair training at Al Udeid Air Base, Kuwait:

Syria: 

USAF C-17 moves cargo between undisclosed (secret) locations from Iraq to Syria, 13APR2018

A Syrian contractor demonstrates to U.S.-NATO advisers that the Zir Water Pumping Station, near Busayrah, is now working, 21APR2018

Video of Tomahawk cruise missile launch against Syria from USS Monterey, 14APR2018:

USAF F-15C Eagle refuels during mission over Syria, 14APR2018

Video of NATO airstrike against supposed DAIISH headquarters in Abu Kamal, 17APR2018:

(BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH)

Turkey: Official video of NATO operated AWACs based at FOB (Forward Operating Base) Konya, and used over Iraq and Syria:

United Arab Emirates: 

USAF F-22 Raptor based at Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE, gets refueled inflight, 01APR2018

Official video, U.S. Army and UAE deployment of high mobility artillery rocket system (HiMARS):

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: NORTH AMERICA, APRIL 2018

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: WEST ASIA, MARCH 2018

Technology

Vehicle I-D: CH-53K King Stallion

Video

Forget the CH-53 Super Stallion, there’s a new heavy lift Marine coming onboard; CH-53K King Stallion.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ethan Pumphret.

Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron-1 load the main gear box of the new CH-53K King Stallion onto the aircraft, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 03OCT2018.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

The first CH-53K King Stallion hovers above the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.It’s not a rebuild, it’s completely new with reduced weight yet stronger construction, fly-by-wire, and able to lift three times more that the Super Stallion (externally transport 27-thousand pounds/12247 kilos over 110 nautical miles/127 miles/203.7km and has a max external lift of 36-thousand pounds/16329.3 kilos).  The most noticeable visual difference is the cockpit/nose section of the rotary wing aircraft.

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

The first CH-53K King Stallion taxis across the flight line at MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.

Offical U.S. Marine Corps video explainer:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

Another video, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018:

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Leynard Kyle Plazo.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

USMC General checks out the new CH-53K at the Berlin Air Show, Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, Schönefeld, Deutschland, 25APR2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

Video of heavy lift demo at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18JAN2018:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

Test flight over West Palm Beach, Florida, 22MAR2017.

Official video from April 2017:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

By April 2017, the CH-53K had passed its Defense Acquisition Board assessment, and low-rate initial production began. The CH-53K is scheduled to completely replace the CH-53E Super Stallion by 2030.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

“Experimental” silly-vilian colors (and nose) at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Florida, 08MAR2016.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

Vehicle I-D: CH-53 SEA STALLION MCAS-YUMA, APRIL 2017