07 April 2013 (01:20 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Jumada l-Ula 1434/18 Farvardin 1392/27 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Just one day after finding a massive water leak, contaminated with strontium, Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting another one!
The newest leak is coming from another in-ground waste water holding tank/pool. It’s a smaller pool, holding about 10000 tons of radioactive water.
Now TEPCo has to transfer water from two leaking pools. They do not know why the pools are leaking.
Alaska U.S.A., reporting norovirus outbreak in several high schools. One school reported 140 students out sick in one day.
Stark County, Ohio U.S.A., reporting outbreaks: “We are seeing a large increase of individuals going in for vomiting. We know that we had a confirmed outbreak of norovirus in our county. Those residents were on the eastern end of our county. I don’t know off the top of my head how many we had.”-Christina Henning, Canton Health Department
Mitchell College, in Connecticut U.S.A., hit with outbreak: “Just started throwing up constantly for about four hours.”-John Kaczkowski
“It was only like 24 hours when I got it. It went by pretty fast. Some people had it longer like two or three days.”-Zenoba Howard
Schools in Wake County, North Carolina U.S.A., reporting outbreaks.
Schools in Maine U.S.A., say 28% of all absences are caused by norovirus.
The Southwest Public Health District, in Georgia U.S.A., reporting outbreaks in nursing homes, childcare centers, schools and restaurants.
Montana U.S.A., Richland County Health Department warning residents of norovirus, after three people came down with it in the sparsely populated county.
Regency Park Assisted Living Center, in Oregon U.S.A., hit with outbreak: “We immediately went into action because it spreads so quickly. We did everything that we had to do.”-Pat Holahan, director
Health officials in Muskegon County, Michigan U.S.A., say they’re still dealing with outbreaks. At least five group care homes have reported outbreaks: “It’s still moving rapidly throughout the community. It just rolls through and it’s easily transmissible.”-Ken Kraus, Public Health
Several other counties, in Michigan U.S.A., are reporting spikes in cases. And schools are reporting two types of outbreaks; lice and norovirus. Several public and private schools being hit hard. Of note: School officials and parents are reporting that off the shelf lice treatments are not having any effect on this year’s lice.
In California U.S.A., Marin County health officials declared the outbreak at Deer Park Retirement Residence, finished. Also, Nevada County health officials reporting an outbreak in a local nursing home.
In Illinois U.S.A., nine people from Scandinavian countries arrived at the O’Hare airport sick with possible norovirus.
A new study blows away what doctors used to think, that norovirus was specific to humans. A study at the University of Helsinki, in Finland, says your dog might be the cause: “Our results suggest that HuNoVs can survive in the canine gastrointestinal tract. Whether these viruses can replicate in dogs remains unresolved, but an association of pet dogs playing a role in transmission of NoVs that infect humans is obvious.”
A British newspaper reported an increase in stomach illness in March. The article implied there was a connection to the coldest March in the past 50 years.
In Reading, United Kingdom, the Royal Berkshire hospital imposed visitor restrictions because of an outbreak. This is the third time this year.
In Bristol, United Kingdom, an investigation is underway after a five years old girl died. She died of meningitis, but had been diagnosed and treated for viral gastroenteritis.
Regional Public Health in Wellington, New Zealand, are trying to determine if an outbreak of gastroenteritis at the Karori Normal School was caused by norovirus.
Bissett Produce, in North Carolina, bankrupt. The company was started in 1933, marketing mainly sweet potatoes. Company officials blame declining revenues and increased debt. 40 to 100 employees affected.
Another video game company lays off employees. Activision laid off 30 people in California. Because of the bad economy company officials plan on releasing fewer games this year. And reports that Nanosolar laid off 75% of its employees in San Jose. Company officials would only say “…the company is in a quiet period and will not be issuing any formal statements.”
Powell Steel, in Pennsylvania, bankrupt. Company officials blame declining revenues and increased debt. They say they’re $6 million USD in debt. 75 employees affected. Also, TE Connectivity laid off up to 80 employees. They plan on laying off up to 200 employees in the next few months! Company officials blame a decline in demand for electronics. The city of Jeanette forced to layoff employees. The city is facing a budget shortfall of half a million dollars, and a court ordered settlement of $200000 after they dissed a resident over permits and taxes.
NewPage paper mill, in Wisconsin, laid off 300 people! Company officials blame the bad economy for a decline in demand for paper. And Bergmann Pharmacy, in Middleton, closed down. A store manager said “Insurance reimbursements continue to decrease, and it’s become difficult to stay profitable with decreased reimbursements.” (blame Obama/Romney Care)
Revel Casino, in New Jersey, threatening bankruptcy. The casino has been open for less than 12 months. It cost $2.4 billion to build ($300 million from state taxpayers!). Reports say the casino ended last year with a loss, and is at least $1.5 billion in debt. Some blame Hurricane Sandy, but the casino is also facing lawsuits.
In Florida, Perry Hotel lays off 138 employees. Company officials say it’s due to major remodeling of the hotel. STK Miami Service, which runs a restaurant in the hotel, laid off 84 employees. And after 20 years the Georgio’s restaurant closing down in Tallahassee. The restaurant owner blamed the closing on the property owner.
In Tennessee, LifePoint hospitals warned of layoffs for its 29000 employees country wide! LifePoint also revised its expected 2013 earnings downward.
In New York, Lakeside Hospital laying off at least 120 employees! The hospital is being restructured. U.S. based military contractor, Dyncorp, laying off 150 people at Fort Drum! The company is consolidating operations. And Kayex Crystal Growing Technologies factory, in Rochester, closing down in May. 65 employees affected. Company officials say the solar power market is crashing.
Another military contractor, General Dynamics, laid off 29 workers at a munitions factory in Ohio. Also, Boardman’s Ice Zone ice rink closing down in May, due to lack of profits.
General Electric laying off 500 people at their Appliance Park in Kentucky! GE blames the bad economy for a decline in refrigerator sales.
In Michigan, Demmer laid off 90 employees. Company officials blamed a slowdown in orders from the defense industry, oil/gas industry and commercial heavy fabrication. Old Navy closing a clothing store in Benton Harbor. In Jackson, the Granary restaurant closed down.
In Buckhead, Georgia, Lenox Square Grill closed down.
The Blue Wasabi Sushi & Martini Bar closed in the Hilton Village, in Arizona.
In Colorado, after 25 years Loveland’s Anthology Book store closed down. The owners said sales sucked: “You can’t run a bookstore if you’re not selling books.”-Stephanie Stauder
Another book store closing, in Indiana. Mudsock Books & Curiosity Shoppe closed because the economy sucks: “The money has flowed in the wrong direction for almost five years. We couldn’t seem to get the volume we needed, and never even broke even.”-Cindy Rushton
Also in Indiana, Bonnie & Clyde’s Soda Shop closed down. The owner was trying to purchase the building he was operating out of, but the deal fell through, and he said it wasn’t worth it to keep paying the rent.
In New Hampshire, Portsmouth’s Upper Crust pizza place out-o-business.
Germany company BASF, shutting down its Henderson, Nebraska, operation. BASF is also ending operations in Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota. The problem is the BASF plants were making a specific product that BASF was unable to find a marketing partner to sell them.
In Minnesota, the Saint Rose Christian school closing down. The school’s pastor blamed it on declining enrollment and lack of funding from the church.
In Kansas, Zales Jewelers closed down in the Hutchison Mall. No reason given. Zales is based in Kansas.
Blockbuster video store revealed it will close at least 20 stores in Texas.
Alaska Communications ending operations in Fairbanks, although company officials claim they won’t layoff any employees.
07 April 2013 (20:56 UTC-07 Tango 06 April 2013)/26 Jumada l-Ula 1434/18 Farvardin 1391/27 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The DPRK’s blockade of the Kaesŏng Industrial Region (KIR) is having an effect on the ROK capitalist companies operating there.
At this point four South Korean companies have had to cease operations. Three of them were involved with textiles, the fourth made machinery.
On Saturday a South Korean employee, who finally left the KIR, said he doesn’t recall hearing the North Koreans ordering him to leave: “The security has tightened in the North, but I haven’t received any order to leave the complex. Our company is still in operation because we have some materials left. But in the next three to four days, we will probably reach a critical point.”-Kim Jin-ho
On Friday the estimated 53000 North Koreans working at the KIR refused to show up for work. ROK officials say there is a little more than 500 South Koreans still working in the complex.
07 April 2013 (20:33 UTC-07 Tango 06 April 2013)/26 Jumada l-Ula 1434/18 Farvardin 1391/27 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Nanjing joins Hangzhou and Shanghai in banning live poultry markets.
In Hong Kong, health officials say a seven years old girl brought in to hospital Friday afternoon, tested negative for H7N9.
In Taiwan, health officials have tested six people who returned from mainland China. They say two tested positive for H1N1, two have bacterial infections and the tests for two others are still out. Health officials added that 20 people arriving at the airport, from China, had fevers. But, because they had not been to the provinces reporting H7N9 they were allowed to go home.
Some Taiwanese hospitals will hold H7N9 drills next week. Agriculture officials have increased inspections of livestock for signs the new virus.
06 April 2013 (13:12 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The prefecture of Fukushima is revealing that the sludge generated at their sewage treatment plants continue to show radiation contamination.
At this point they have 68000 tons of radioactive sludge built up. Other prefectures are reporting similar radioactive sludge.
This is proof the GE designed reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are still spewing radiation.
Fukushima Prefecture, along with Japan’s Environment Ministry, has installed an experimental sludge dryer, to speed up the evaporation of liquid from the sludge.
This will make it easier to store the dried hazardous material.
06 April 2013/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
U.S. led NATO troops and contractors killed. ISAF said: “Three International Security Assistance Force service members and two coalition civilians died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today.”
In Zabul Province, a suicide bomber targeted a U.S. led provincial reconstruction team (PRT), and the local provincial governor. The governor was not hurt, but his doctor, and at least three U.S. personnel and two foreign contractors were killed. Five afghans wounded. Later in the day U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, said a U.S. State Department female employee was among those killed: “I wish everyone in our country could see first-hand the devotion, loyalty and amazingly hard and hazardous work our diplomats do on the front lines in the world’s most dangerous places.”
In Helmand Province, Musa Kala District, 80 local cops/militia men joined the Mujahideen. The men went AWOL from their posts and approached the local Mujahideen for membership. Their names were publicized.
05 April 2013/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
In Balkh Province, Akhcha District, locals say U.S. forces kidnapped nine tribal elders in a daring helicopter raid. They said the elders were driving to a meeting in Shubr Ghan District when several helicopters landed around their vehicle.
In Logar Province, Baraki Barak District, Mujahideen ambushed a U.S./NATO led foot patrol. Mujahideen retreated when attack helicopters showed up.
In Kunar Province, Noorgal District, Mujahideen ambushed a U.S.-NATO/Afghan patrol. Another U.S.-NATO/Afghan unit arrived to join the fight. One U.S.-NATO troop killed. One Afghan National Army (ANA) troop killed. One Mujahid wounded.
In Kandahar, Panjwai District, Mujahideen say they led a U.S./NATO unit into a booby trapped compound near a cemetary. They say after the explosions three medivac helicopters were seen rescuing the occupying troops.
In Uruzgan Province, Char Chino District, three ANA officers joined the Mujahideen.
In Nangarhar Province, Khogiyani District, five policemen were killed or wounded while they were trying to diffuse a landmine.
Afghan police arrested a U.S. citizen on corruption charges. U.S. Congressmen intervened and got the guy freed. The corrupt U.S. Congressmen now want legal action against cops who arrested him: “Those who unlawfully detained him need to be held accountable, especially given that this occurred at the hands of those who are supposed to be our ally.”-Scott Rigell, U.S. Representative from Virginia
Study after study (including those being done by the U.S. government) shows the majority of corruption is being done by the hands of U.S. military and contractors. More than 100 U.S. citizens have been quietly prosecuted by the United States.
Recently a former Soviet soldier, missing in action for 33 years was found. Now the Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee says they’ve tried to help him return to his native Uzbekistan, but he refuses (even though he cried when he heard his brother’s voice on a recorded greeting). He says he was rescued by Afghans after his Soviet unit was ambushed and he was wounded. A local village took care of him and he decided to stay. He says he’s been treated better by Afghans: “I have spent most of my life here, there’s nothing to talk about.”
Deputy U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Hugo Lawrence, told the local media that an “important decision” regarding the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan will be made, but added “United States of America will remain committed towards the security pact between Kabul and Washington and we emphasize that the pact will prove better for the national interest of the two nations.”
06 April 2013 (10:46 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Health officials in Shanghai say two more people are infected with H7N9. So far 18 people infected in the past couple of weeks, six have died.
The two new cases are men, one aged 66 the other 74. They began showing symptoms at the end of March and are now hospitalized with pneumonia.
There are also reports that people who get diagnosed soon enough will recover within 48 hours.
Chinese media sayting that even though the health warnings have been made, most people in Shanghai didn’t think anything of it until they saw the poultry culling: “Suddenly I discover that I’m living in an epidemic zone!”-Liu Leting
The Chinese Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of peramivir diluted in sodium chloride for use on people sick with the new bird flu. They claim it shows signs of working in preliminary testing.
06 April 2013 (02:00 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) reports a strontium leak around the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
TEPCo says they discovered a large inground waste water holding tank/pool is leaking. The water is contaminated with deadly strontium. So far 120 tons of water has leaked out.
They are now transferring the water into other tanks. As usual, TEPCo does not know why the tank is leaking.
06 April 2013 (01:53 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
A Russian fleet has just passed India, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. This after the ECB and IMF took over Cyprus with a bailout that is raiding bank accounts and keeping Russia from taking part in the Block 12 Aphrodite gas fields in the Levant Basin.
Russia also maintains the port of Tartus in Syria.
On 11 March 2013, Russian media revealed that orders were given to create a permanent naval force in the Mediterranean, for the purpose of defending Russian interests: “The defense minister has ordered us to form a task force that will operate in the Mediterranean Sea on a permanent basis.”-Admiral Viktor Chirkov
The new Mediterranean Fleet is being built up with ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet.
the war in Syria, and in Lebanon, is about Leviathan’s petroleum!