All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 13-14 May 2013. Massive education cuts in Michigan, entire school districts closed down!!! Massive health care cuts!

Despite all those print media companies blaming the internet for their demise, an internet news media source is now bankrupt.  New York based Main Street Connect, which operates “hyperlocal” news websites, blames it on debts that are double their assets, and two lawsuits by former employees claiming the company violated federal labor laws.  Back in March, Main Street Connect shut down all its Massachusetts websites and laid off 45 employees.  And a New York based internet wine seller laid off another 11 employees.  Lot18 now has 36 employees, last year they had 100.  It turns out that shipping wine from internet or mail order sales is actually expensive.

Publisher of print and digital learning services, Cengage Learning, warned of a coming bankruptcy after a 22% drop in revenues: “….There can be no assurance that any of our attempts to refinance our indebtedness will be successful…..any of the forgoing alternatives may individually, or in aggregate, have material adverse effects on our business and therefore raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern…”

The Northport-East Northport School District, in New York wants to layoff off 18 teachers.  It’s blamed on an expected loss of 189 students for the upcoming school year!

The school districts of Trumbull and Shelton, in Connecticut, canceled their contracted First Student bus service contracts.  170 bus drivers unemployed!

In New Jersey, Deptford Township Schools laid off 11 employees. It’s blamed on declining student enrollment.  In Bernardsville, BaseCamp Adventure Outfitters shut down.  The owners said they can not compete with internet stores.

In Michigan, the Howell Public Schools laid off 21 employees.  Pontiac School District officials warning of “massive” layoffs.  The Goodrich School District will layoff teachers, staff, outsource bus drivers, eliminate assistant principals, outsource athletic directors, eliminate bus stops and outsource secretaries.  The Flint School District laying off 138 teachers now, and 150 more over the next three years!  After laying off 127 employees last year, the Saginaw School District wants to layoff 150 more this year! Marshall High School shut down in Albion. Ypsilanti and Willow Run consolidating their school districts, rendering 200 employees jobless!  Wealthier Ann Arbor Public Schools laying off 70 employees.  Inkster Public Schools laid off all their teachers!!!  The entire Buena Vista School District ceased to exist!!!  The people of Michigan have pointed out that NAZIistic right to work you over state officials are refusing to use the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in emergency school funds to stop the wholesale destruction of public schools, while unAmerican corporate America continue to get massive state tax breaks!  To make things worse, Hemlock Semiconductor laid off 50 employees at its Thomas Township factory.  It’s blamed on the solar power polysilicon industry crash caused by Obama.  And New York based Pall Corporation closing its Ann Arbor Pall Life Sciences operations.  71 employees affected.  It might have something to do with its new office in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  The city of Ann Arbor now suing Pall Corporation, saying the company contaminated the local water supply with dioxane (locally known as the Unit E Plume).

In Missouri, Chartwells Dining Services lost their contract with the Saint Louis Public Schools.  217 people out-o-work!  And Liberty Hospital laid off 129 employees!  Hospital officials say they are prepping for Obama’s Affordable Care Act that will reduce Medicare/Medicaid payments to hospitals when it takes effect in January 2014.

The merger of U.S. Analogic with Canadian Ultrasonix Medical will result in 140 people losing their jobs in Colorado and Vancouver!

In California, Dignity Health laying off 150 employees in Sacramento, and 300 in Stockton!  It’s due to the sale of their lab services to a New Jersey company.  And California based Agilient Technologies laying off 450 people!  The company makes medical testing equipment, and has been busy taking over European companies.  Video game maker, Gree, laid off 30 people in San Francisco.  Company officials say it’s part of their plans to move to the next gen of social media games.

The labs of Astellas’ OSI Pharmaceuticals subsidiary at the Broad Hollow Business Park in Farmingdale, New York, and of the Perseid Therapeutics subsidiary in Redwood City, California, will be closed.  At least 200 jobs lost to the company’s new Tsukuba Research Center in Japan!

Liberty Medical Supply, in Florida, laying off 211 employees!  Liberty Medical already laid off 260 employees in January, then went bankrupt in February!  Local employment services have been asked to help as more layoffs are planned.

The Pfizer operations in Bristol, Tennessee, laid off 25 employees. It’s blamed on the second recall of their drug Levoxy.

In Texas, Galt Medical shutting down their Garland factory over the next two years.  139 people unemployed!  Galt specializes in medical devices, which are going to be hit with a massive tax under the Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Act!  And electrical power company, AES NA Central, shut down its Woodlands office.  59 Texans laid off.

In Indiana, a new company that hoped to help people with disabilities, is already out-o-business.  Warner Transitional Services shut down and laid off 112 people!  Company officials said the state Family and Social Services Administration would not approve their operations.

In Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill County Housing Authority laid off six employees.  The Pottsville Housing Authority laid off one employee.  It’s blamed on reduced funding.   University City’s Tria Wine Room closed down.  The owner said business wasn’t good enough.

The Eddie Bauer store closed in the Bayshore Town Center, Wisconsin.  And Ruhama’s Yarn and Needlepoint shut down after 52 years of business.  The owner wanted to retire years ago, but was trying to sell the store.  She finally gave up.

In Arlington, Massachusetts, the Holovak & Coughlin Sporting Goods shut down after 49 years in business.  The family owners say the economy is too bad for retail sales, they will switch to other types of sales.

Schreiber Foods shutting down their Gainesville, Georgia, factory.  250 employees affected!  Company officials blame “competition”.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

International, U.S.

Norovirus / Tummy Bug update, 24 July 2013: Rabies misdiagnosed as tummy bug, kills several! Fear forces family to remove stomachs!!! More reasons to be a meat eater!

In Maryland U.S.A., it’s been revealed that people who got organ transplants are dying from rabies.  The latest victim died in February this year.  The North Carolina man who donated his organs had been diagnosed with a tummy bug called ciguatera, from eating contaminated fish.  Turns out he had rabies, which can have symptoms similar to tummy bug.  Three organ recipients have been successfully treated for rabies.  A report says this is not the first time this has happened in the U.S. (at least three other documented cases where several people died), and issued a warning: “This transmission event provides an opportunity for enhancing rabies awareness and recognition and highlights the need for a modified approach to organ donor screening and recipient monitoring for infectious encephalitis.”-report co-authored by U.S. CDC, published in Journal of the American Medical Association

The U.S. CDC has confirmed that this year’s norovirus outbreaks are dominated by the GII.4 Sydney strain (as I wrote months ago).

In eight U.S. states at least 275 people are sick from a protozoa called cyclospora.  10 people hospitalized.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is trying to find the source.

In Washington U.S.A., the Seattle Parks and Recreation closed the Lincoln Park wading pool after children got sick.  They suspect norovirus.  Public pools are chlorinated, but the normal chlorine levels are not high enough to kill the new strains of tummy bugs.

In Massachusetts U.S.A., a family has removed their stomachs.  They have a genetic mutation known as CDH1.  It causes diffuse gastric cancer, which normally shows up when it reaches stage 4, meaning too late for treatment.  They’ve had several relatives die from it.  Stomach cancer is the number two cause of cancer death around the World.

In the U.S., the National Pork Board is investing $800000 USD to fight a killer pig virus called porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED).  It’s fatal for suckling pigs, and 346 cases have been confirmed in 14 states.  It’s been determined that it’s being spread when transporting pigs to markets or slaughter houses.  Right now the pork industry is being told to handle all pigs as if they were bio-hazards.  Pig meat is safe to eat when cooked properly.

Wisconsin U.S.A., reporting an invasion of Lone Star ticks, which cause ehrlichiosis.  The disease has symptoms similar to influenza and tummy bugs.  Health officials suspect the new ticks are surviving through the warmer winters.

In Canada, health officials are warning you to protect from insect bites, some of which cause tummy bug like symptoms.  Blood sucking insects spread diseases from human to human.

In Taranaki, New Zealand, cases of cryptosporidiosis are skyrocketing.  Last year they had none, this year 24 cases so far.  It usually spreads when a sick person swims in a public pool.  Treatment is the same for norovirus, drink plenty of water.

Health officials in Taiwan reporting that norovirus outbreaks are getting larger every year.  They’ve identified GII.4-2006b and GII.4-New Orleans.

In United Kingdom, more reasons to stay out of hospital.  The Royal Blackburn Hospital is apparently intentionally killing patients through neglect and harassment.  A old woman was admitted with tummy bug, but then died.  Her family says the staff ignored her, intentionally moved her to new rooms in the middle of the night, and she even wound up with injuries that she didn’t have when she went in.  The woman called the Royal Hospital “hell on earth”.  A government investigation backs up the family’s claim, saying the Royal Hospital has the highest death rates in the U.K.

Wards in the Royal Bolton Hospital and the Coronary Care Unit in U.K. have been closed.  It’s blamed on tummy bug, but hospital staff are not sure how many people are sick.

Health alarms are ringing in the U.K., after reports that the upcoming winter will see more delays in getting help at the hospital. It’s blamed on huge reductions in staff at Accident & Emergency (A&E) units across the U.K. due to funding cuts.   Also, a disease that can have tummy bug like symptoms being warned about.  It’s the killer coughing bug, called pertussis or whooping cough.  This year’s cases are up ten times from 2008.

In Scotland U.K., officials with Health Protection Scotland reporting massive increase in two or more linked cases of illnesses.  Cases of people being sick with more than two diseases at the same time is up 40% from last year.  Norovirus is the most prevalent co-infector, salmonella the second most prevalent.  68% of cases took place in nursing homes and 28% in hospitals.

U.K. news media have been circulating a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that says 50% of all tummy bugs are caused by raw fruit and veg!  It’s usually the fertilizers used on the plants, which can actually absorb the pathogens through their roots, meaning in some cases you can’t just wash it off ’cause it’s inside the plant.

In Russia, norovirus has been found in frozen raspberries from the Netherlands.  Russian officials are warning of norovirus infections of frozen berries from Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

Pakistan reporting a tummy bug outbreak in Panjpai.  At least 67 people sick.  Several people died. In Punjab, a child died from tummy bug.  Health officials say the disease is being spread by the water supply, at least 200 people sick.

In Madhya Pradesh, India, at least ten people sick from cholera.  Government officials say it’s taking place in “unauthorized” communities, whose water source is contaminated.  In Maharashtra, 31 more students have been admitted to hospital. This is the place where elementary and junior high students were poisoned by their school lunch.  22 children have died so far.  It’s blamed on a deadly pesticide (which is banned in the U.S.) that somehow got into their food.  The school principal has been arrested after an employee said she was forced by him to serve the food even after she discovered the contamination.  Also, in the same state of Maharashtra, health officials are reporting increased cases of cholera, specifically in the city of Mumbai.  Officials there are concerned because they had no cases last year. Also they report increased cases of typhoid and hepatitis.

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 11-12 May 2013. Thousands more layoffs! More education cuts! More Obama Care cuts!

In Washington, the Spokane Country Club now bankrupt after losing gender discrimination lawsuit.  And Boeing will layoff 1500 IT employees in Puget Sound!  Over the next three years IT operations will be moved to Missouri and South Carolina.  The Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital laid off 19 employees.  It’s blamed on declining customers, and that damned Affordable Health Care Act (Obama/Romney Care) for drastic cuts to Medicare and Medicaid funding. And Tacoma Public Schools wants to let go at least 10 career and tech teachers.  It’s blamed on reduced state funding and declining enrollment. (I’ve asked this before: Where are all the students going?)

In Indiana, orthopedic products maker Zimmer laid off at least 50 employees.  Company officials blame it on that damned Affordable Health Care Act (Obama/Romney Care), which created a new federal medical device tax.

In New York, the volunteer run children’s charity High Top Shop shut down.  The operators think they can raise more money by going back to their grass roots fundraising efforts.  The Ticonderoga School District says it needs to layoff about 12 employees and raise local taxes. They’re in debt, and funding is being reduced.

The Brandywine School District, in Delaware, laying off 19 employees.  Teachers blame the state government: “The state needs to recognize and fund technology support. The state has so many demands on the school districts to implement all this technology that they don’t want to pay for people to run it, and that’s where we’re stuck right now.”-Karen Kennedy, Federation Local 762

In Kentucky, Union College laid off 11 employees.  College officials said they must become more efficient, it was cut the jobs or raise tuition by 30%!

In oil rich North Dakota, the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota laid off eight employees. It’s blamed on reduced federal funding, and reduced funding from energy companies.

South Carolina based Kemet laid off 202 employees globally.  More layoffs planned.  They blame it on crashing sales of their capacitors.  Beaufort County’s only camera and photo shop shut down.  The owners of Island Photo and Camera blamed the bad economy and internet competition.

In Florida, food service company FreshPoint North Florida let go at least 79 employees.  The company has been laying off employees and closing operations around the country since last year.  I haven’t found an article that explains why.  Also, U.S. Navy contractor East Coast Repair and Fabrication announced more layoffs.  At least ten people will loose their jobs in August.  In April 25 people lost their jobs.  It’s blamed on uncertainties about federal taxpayer funding.

More layoffs for Pratt & Whitney.  At least 3000 jobs to be cut by the end of the year!  The company is ending its military F100 and F117 jet engine programs.

In Texas, Texarkana’s Twice as Nice Fashions shut down after 41 years in business.

The August Wilson Center for African American Culture, in Pennsylvania, laid off about 10 employees (half its staff), and ended free admissions.  The Center has not been able to make payments on a $7 million USD loan!

In Ohio, J. Gumbo’s Cajun & Creole restaurant closed.  It actually closed at the end of April without notice.  The owners are not happy campers: “Wasn’t in the budget. Hence we’re closed!”

Loopy’s Dollar store closed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  The stores have been closing across South Dakota in the past two years.

In Michigan, Second Chance Clothing closed after 30 years of business.  The owners said the economy is so bad they can’t even break even.

Louisiana based IberiaBank closing nine branch offices by the end of this year.  It’s not the first time, and bank officials blame the bad economy: “We’ve taken small bites of this before, but again considering circumstances, a larger bite is necessary.”-Michael Brown, COO

In New Jersey, after 60 years of movies, the Allwood Cinema 6 in Clifton  closed.  The theater is another victim of the Romney style vulture capitalist Bow Tie Cinemas.

After 62 years of operations, The Floor Shop in Fredericksburg, Virginia, closed down.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

Business/Economics, International

Environmental Martial law: No more charcoal fired BBQs?

24 July 2013 (23:14 UTC-07 Tango 23 July 2013)/16 Ramadan 1434/02 Mordad 1391/17 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

A study is blaming increased particulate mater (PM) in the air on open air BBQs.

The Beijing News and Green Beagle Environment Institute study done in Beijing, China, said open air charcoal fired Bar-B-Ques increased PM by 2.5 levels.  It’s also claimed that charcoal BBQs produce poison gas as well.

You can see where the environmental NAZIs are going with this study.

 

International

Commie health care system in Cuba develop advanced anti-Cancer drug!

24 July 2013 (23:07 UTC-07 Tango 23 July 2013)/16 Ramadan 1434/02 Mordad 1391/17 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

Cuban health officials say they developed an anti-cancer drug that kills cancerous cells, but does not affect healthy cells.

It’s based on peptide RJLB14.  It identifies the cancerous cell, invades and kills it.  More testing will be done before the commie government will approve it.  Cancer is the number one killer in Cuba.

International

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 09-10 July 2013: Obama threatens to give Karzai what he wants! Iran hangs U.S. backed drug smugglers!

The dumb Obama administration has threatened to do what President Hamid Karzai has been asking for; pull out all U.S. personnel.  Obama was trying to play tough with Karzai, who recently refused to continue with post 2014 troop level negotiations after it was revealed that Obama was negotiating directly with Mujahideen for peace, without involving the Afghan government.  If anybody’s been following my Afghan updates, they would know that Karzai has been demanding full withdrawal of U.S. forces for several years now.  He says the U.S. is the reason for the ongoing violence in Afghanistan.

On the same day, the Mujahideen closed their office in Doha, Qatar.  It’s was that office that was revealed to be the place where Obama officials were going to talk peace with Mujahideen.

In Iran, 12 U.S. backed drug smugglers from Afghanistan were hanged.  As many as 5000 Afghans are in Iranian prisons, most charged with drug trafficking.  Drug smuggling is punishable by life in prison, or death, in Iran.  Drug smuggling from Afghanistan to Iran has skyrocketed since the U.S. invasion at the end of 2001.

In Uruzgan Province, the former district governor for Char Chino District was assassinated by Mujahideen.  The assassins escaped.  Officials said the former district governor had tried to avoid contact with government officials for the past year.

In Kandahar Province, Slovak/NATO troops were shot at by a Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier, at Kandahar airbase.  Slovak military officials reported that one Slovak was killed and six wounded.  The ANA soldier was arrested.  In another report, the provincial governor said three U.S./NATO troops at the airbase were wounded, after an argument with an ANA soldier.   Another report said three Czech/NATO troops were also attacked!

In Herat Province, Obe District, at least 17 people were killed, five wounded after their bus ran over a landmine.

In Helmand Province, Khanshin District, two people killed, three wounded, after they drove over a landmine.  In Musa Kala District, 10 ANA troops joined the Mujahideen.  And after 20 days of attack by Mujahideen, the ANA withdrew from their base in Sangin District.

U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) revealed that the United States government has spent $34 million U.S. tax dollars on a massive headquarters complex that will probably never be used!

In Paktika Province, Barmal District, an ANA soldier joined the Mujahideen then shot and killed three ANA soldiers while they were sleeping.

In Kunduz Province, Dashti Archi District, U.S. supported Afghan government contracted security forces murdered three civilians who refused to pay a tax on agricultural produce.

In Paktia Province, Chamkani District, 10 ANA soldiers joined the Mujahideen.

In Ghazni Province, Mujahideen claim they prevented a planned NATO/ISAF offensive by striking first.  They say they attacked a military convoy that left Ghazni city for the offensive, killing or wounding 19 NATO/ISAF personnel, and destroying four armored vehicles.  Mujahideen launched several attacks on the convoy, the last one lasting four hours.  Three Mujahideen killed.

 Baghlan Province, Adarab District, seven Afghan National Police (ANP) joined the Mujahideen.

Zabul Province, Seyuri District, reports that NATO/ISAF forces invaded homes in the Shah Beal village.  Two civilians killed.

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 09-10 May 2013. Prison labor causes law abiding workers to loose their jobs?

Greeting card company, American Greetings, revealed in its annual report that it laid off 2100 people in the past 12 months!  The report subtly mentions “headcount reductions”.   The company also credited the layoffs for its $47 million USD 4th quarter profits.

What housing market recovery?  In Alabama, real estate company J&E Land now bankrupt.  One owner of the company said they’ve been destroyed by Romney style vulture capitalists.

In Washington DC, the little known National Aquarium will close down in September.   The privately owned aquarium is housed in the basement of the U.S. Commerce building, which will undergo renovations.

In Monticello, Indiana, the Woodlawn Elementary School was closed after 63 years of operations!  It’s blamed on declining student enrollment.

The Easton Area School Board, in Pennsylvania, said they need to layoff between 29 and 53 employees, and raise local taxes.  Employees were also laid off in 2010 and 2012.   Frontier Communications continues to layoff employees.  29 employees in Back Mountain out-o-work.  The company has been laying off employees since the beginning of 2012.  In Castle Shannon, the McGinnis Market shut down after 33 years in business.  The owner said the bad economy made him realize he should quit while ahead: “I have no debt, I own my farm, my equipment, my store. I started talking to myself, and said ‘why are you working?’ I made the decision then and there.”-John McGinnis

Digital media company, Say Media, laid off 40 employees, in order to be more profitable.

The New York Post wants employees to voluntarily quit.  The newspaper is offering buyouts to try and remove at least 10% of its employees, as part of its 2014 budget.

The Daily News laid off 15 reporters.  It’s being blamed on ‘restructuring’.

In Orlando, Florida, Comcast cable laying off 260 employees through summer!

In California, another solar power company going down.  SoloPower selling off equipment and letting go about 130 employees in San Jose, and North Portland, Oregon!

Denmark based Vestas Wind Systems continues to layoff employees in Colorado.  Globally the company has laid off 582 employees so far this year, and company officials say another 1196 will be let go by the end of the year!  Last year they laid of hundreds of employees.

Like your tomatoes? NatureSweet laid off 65 employees, mainly managers, at their Willcox, Arizona, tomato farms.  NatureSweet picked up about 400 prison workers when they took over operations from EuroFresh.  However, NatureSweet officials say they are planning on reducing prison labor as well.

State officials in Missouri warned of massive layoffs for the Motor Vehicle Division.  It depends on next year’s budget.

In Falls Church, Virginia, Anthony’s Restaurant closed after 40 years of operations.  It’s blamed on a property developer.  In West End Alexandria, two Giant grocery stores shut down.  Company officials said they were not happy with “…the operating performance of the stores.”

Marie’s Flower Shop closed in Brewer, Maine.  The owner blamed bad luck with locations: “I have had four different locations due to buildings being torn down and a fire at one point. It’s been a struggle….”-Marie Patterson

In New Hampshire, it was announced the Portsmouth Kmart would close in August.  At least 30 employees screwed.

Jewelry and gift shop, Firefly, closed in Boston, Massachusetts.  The owner blamed it on the property owner who jacked up the rent.

In Minnesota, 79 people losing their jobs with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.  The company is reducing operations with its subsidiary ViroMed Laboratories, in Minnitonka.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

Fukushima

Corporate Evil: Evidence of China Syndrome at Fukushima!!! After months of denial, TEPCo admits strontium & tritium contaminating Pacific Ocean! Don’t eat the fish! Run!

23 July 2013 (00:02 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Ramadan 1434/01 Mordad 1391/16 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

“We would like to offer our deep apology for causing grave worries for many people, especially for people in Fukushima.”-Ono Masayuki, current general manager of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

Back in May 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Company revealed that test wells dug near the GE designed reactors 1 and 2 at Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant were contaminated with strontium, tritium and cesium.  But TEPCo swore it was not getting into the Pacific Ocean, even though Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said it was.

Today they’ve admitted that indeed the deadly radiation is spilling into the ocean, since April 2013.  That still contradicts with officials from the NRA who say that radiation has been flooding the ocean since the nuke melt downs back in March 2011 (as I’ve been warning)!!!

TEPCo also revealed that radiation levels in the Pacific Ocean had indeed been increasing since 2011, and are still increasing!

But wait, there’s more!  TEPCo even held an emergency meeting with area fishermen, telling them to stop fishing!  Sato Hiroyuki, a member of the fisheries cooperative in Soma City, told the news media that the meeting was “substantially different” than past meetings with TEPCo.  He said it was the worst news he ever heard, essentially the area’s fishing industry has been destroyed.  Nozaki Tetsu, chairman of Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations, said simply “It was quite shocking…”

Here’s the amazing thing, TEPCo still doesn’t know, for sure, where the contaminated ground water is coming from. With today’s announcement they suspect Reactor 1 is the source.  Here’s a clue, it’s called China Syndrome: The GE designed Reactor 1 not only melted down, but melted right through the ground into the local aquifer!

TEPCo is so desperate to stop the now deadly groundwater from getting into the Pacific Ocean they are now injecting a chemical resin 14 meters (46 feet) deep into the ground.  They hope the chemical will solidify the ground, making a subterranean wall 90 meters (295 feet) long.

Get this, the area where they’re trying to inject the underground wall is so radioactive that workers are exposed to 200 microseverts per hour.  That means that in five hours a person is exposed to the equivalent of one year’s worth of radiation!  Last week TEPCo revealed that at least 2000 employees have been exposed to enough radiation to cause thyroid cancer!  TEPCo hopes to get their resin underground wall completed by the middle of August.

On 18 July 2013, steam was observed coming from the damaged Reactor 3.  TEPCo employees said the steam was noticed for several hours.  A rain storm had gone through during the night, and TEPCo officials admitted that even two years later, the reactor containment vessel is still hot enough to turn rain into steam!  Radiation levels are so high in and around Reactor 3 that TEPCo has to use robots to remove tsunami debris.

The situation has upset Japan’s newly elected nationalistic parliament.  Senior vice industry minister, Akaba Kazuyoshi, criticized TEPCo for being always one step behind: “TEPCo’s actions seem too slow, and they don’t live up to our expectations.”

Ignorant TEPCo officials are still publicly insisting that the impact on the environment is minimal (even after what they told local fishermen)!

International

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 07-08 July 2013: Corrupt U.S. contractor refuses to pay Afghan sub-contractors!

Major battles in Maidan Wardak, Kabul, Kunar, Jawzjan, Nangarhar, Baghlan, Kunduz, Faryab, Uruzgan, Logar, Ghazni, Farah, Helmand and Paktia provinces.  Mujahideen claim they killed 30 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers.  Afghan government officials claim they killed 100 Mujahideen.  Afghan government officials added that U.S./NATO air strikes were called in.

In Parwan Province, Bagram airbase, reports that two groups of ANA soldiers turned their guns on each other.  Three people killed, several wounded.

In Maidan Wardak Province, Sayed Abad District, Mujahideen say they destroyed 19 supply vehicles and killed 14 people.  Mujahideen say their ambush of the U.S./NATO supply convoy took place at several points through out the district.  One engagement lasted three hours. One Mujahid killed, one wounded.

Afghan Major-General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, admits that Mujahideen numbers have increased by 15%.  He says there are at least 5000 Mujahideen in seven southeastern provinces.  He also says there are increased foreign fighters helping the Mujahideen, mainly from Pakistan and Chechnya.

In Kandahar Province, an Afghan interpreter who was working with U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) was arrested in connection to the kidnapping and torture deaths of Afghan civilians.  U.S. SOF was behind the war crimes, a mass grave was found next to an abandoned U.S. SOF base, which contained the bodies of some of the kidnapped Afghans.  Afghan police say the arrested interpreter is seen in a video taking part in the torture deaths of the victims.

Despite Indian government officials denying Afghanistan lethal military  aid, reports say the two governments are still in discussions for India “to contribute lethal weapons” and to “enhance” military cooperation.

Iranian officials say they are holding political discussions with the government of Afghanistan: “There are issues over which Tehran and Kabul need to regularly hold talks and be in touch about them. General relations between the two countries will be discussed…”-Abbas Araqchi, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Pacific Affairs

In Ghazni Province, Deh Yak District, two people killed, and three people wounded, including the provincial high peace council chief, when a remote detonated bomb exploded.  In Khogyani District, Mujahideen claim to have killed 19 U.S./NATO/ISAF troops during an ambush of a military convoy.  In Maqur District, reports that NATO/Afghan forces conducted a home invasion, killing three people.

In Baghlan Province, Burqa District, reports that NATO/Afghan forces raided a Madrasa and kidnapped three students.

After announcing big funding for Afghanistan, Norway is now backing off.  Norwegian officials are now using the excuse of failed Afghan reforms to get out of promised taxpayer funding for the Afghan government: “Norwegian authorities note with disappointment the slow and uneven progress that has characterized the follow-up to the commitments made.”

More proof the corruption is on the U.S. side: In Kabul Province, Kabul city, Afghan civilians protested the U.S. owned contractor Supreme Group.  The Afghans work for a subcontractor called Afghan Mansoor Jalal Logistics and Transportation Company (MLC).  The subcontractor says Supreme Group is refusing to pay them!  The owners of MLC says Supreme Group owes them $20 million USD!  Supreme Group is a U.S. taxpayer funded contractor providing logistical support to military units.  Supreme Group is also involved in a no-bid contract scandal involving military food supply.

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Corporate Martial Law: Hewlett Packard & NEC announce data spying & storage deal!

22 July 2013 (12:26 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Ramadan 1434/31 Tir 1391/15 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

Japan’s computer giant, NEC, announced a data storage deal with Hewlett Packard (HP).  Initial reports say they will develop small servers that can analyze and store large amounts of data.

Officials with NEC admit they and HP are trying to jump on the government/corporate domestic spy, I mean data collection business, being referred to as the promising field of “big data analysis”.