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.
Influenza

Influenza: H7N9 medical martial law! U.S. CDC issues directive!

22 January 2014 (17:32 UTC-07 Tango 21 January)/20 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/02 Bahman 1392/22 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

China: National Health and Family Planning Commission now coordinating closely with other national and local government departments to stop the spread of deadly H7N9.   The UN World health Organization reports at least 47 confirmed H7N9 cases in China since the beginning of January.  Most are hospitalized in critical condition. 

Since March 2013, there’ve been at least 200 human cases in China, with at least 55 deaths.

Health officials continue to claim H7N9 is not a human to human virus, despite that fact that more and more cases involve people who’s only contact with H7N9 is with infected humans.

Also, The South China Morning Post says an unnamed hospital official confirmed that a 31 years old surgeon who recently died from H7N9 had no contact with birds.  The unnamed hospital official thinks the doctor got sick from hospital patients infected with H7N9.

Back in August 2013, it was confirmed that a woman caring for her sick father caught H7N9 from him.

Japan:  Japanese health officials have been warning for a long time that H7N9 has become a human influenza.  Now the Japanese government is preparing for medical martial law.

The Tokyo Quarantine Station and Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department held a drill in which 35 people were locked down at the Haneda Airport, for being infected with H7N9.  Japanese health officials say the only way H7N9 is going to get into their country is from sick travelers.

Taiwan: Health officials know what Japan is fearing, as two people who traveled to Taiwan, from mainland China, brought H7N9 with them.  One of those has just died.

An 86 years old man who arrived in Taiwan, in December, sick with H7N9 has just died.  Interestingly he died six days after being released from medical quarantine.  The official cause of death is septic shock.

The first person to bring H7N9 to Taiwan was a man returning from a business trip to China, in April 2013.  It took one month of intensive care before he recovered.

United States: “Potential cases of human infection with influenza A (H7N9) virus should also be investigated, using current case definitions and testing recommendations for avian influenza A (H7N9) virus.”-U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Idaho

Idaho’s 13+ years of drought add up to big ass wildfire season for 2014! Emergency declared by incompetent Federal government!

21 January 2014 (17:03 UTC-07 Tango 20 January)/19 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/01 Bahman 1392/21 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“What we need is precipitation that’s 150% of normal between now and April 1!”– Ron Abramovich, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Idaho has officially been in a drought since 2000, and weather forecast say there’s no way we could see 150% precipitation between now and 01 April: “What we’re seeing meteorologically is a blocking pattern that is deflecting all the storms……..when you have fire season and drought, you’ll see more fire.”-Brian Fuchs, National Drought Mitigation Center

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared a drought emergency for Idaho.  This makes available loans to farmers in 40 of Idaho’s 44 counties, but such emergency loans would’ve been unnecessary if Congress got their act together: “If we had a farm bill, they could apply for disaster assistance. But since we don’t, they can only apply for emergency loans.”-Candy Moore, Idaho Farm Services Agency

My question is, what are the farmers going to do with the loans?  Buy more water?  From where? According to the USDA FSA emergency farm loans are to: “Restore or replace essential property. Pay all or part of production costs associated with the disaster year. Pay essential family living expenses. Reorganize the farming operation. Refinance certain debts, excluding real estate.”

Idaho’s drought isn’t just affecting farmers (by the way, Idaho farmers just saw a 4th straight year of record high revenues), it’s affecting recreation like river rafting, electrical power generation (caused by low water levels in the Snake River, of course Idaho Power will use it as an excuse to jack up the rates) and the dreaded wildfire season.

According to one report, ten years ago the cost of fighting wildfires in the U.S. were about 13% of U.S. Forest Service budget, in 2013 it hit 40%!

IDAHO WILDFIRE UPDATE, 20 SEPTEMBER 2012: ANOTHER SMOKEY DAY, STILL LEADING THE NATION, FIREFIGHTER ACCUSED OF STARTING FIRE! 

Idaho, U.S.

Idaho kicks out for profit prison operator CCA! Not for human rights violation, but for ripping off taxpayers!

20 January 2014 (16:19 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

The Gem State’s legislative budget writers have approved funding the state takeover of the notorious Gladiator School.

The state prison has been run, for more than a decade, by Corrections Corporation of America.  It has been plague by lawsuits and accusations of prisoner abuse and medical neglect.  Former victims say prisoners were encouraged to beat the crap out of each other, hence the nickname.

But that’s not what got CCA kicked out of Idaho.  Turns out, as usual, money is more important than human rights.

A 2012 Associated Press investigation accuses CCA of lying to taxpayers about how many employees were actually staffing the Idaho Correctional Center.  AP accuses CCA of falsifying the number of employees at the prison.  The Idaho Department of Corrections admitted they never verified any of CCA’s paperwork! The AP investigation also said Idaho taxpayers were not saving any money by having the prison managed by a for profit private contractor (no shit Sherlock, that’s why it’s called “for profit”).

Also, CCA never explained why it fired some employees.

But note, the AP reported its findings in 2012, and here it is 2014!  The Right to Work you over state officials decided to just let CCA run the place until the contract expires in June 2014.  Oohh, so it’s not like your ‘elected’ officials really care about doing the right moral thing, it’s all about the money, your money!

Business/Economics, International

Do you like working for the 1%? New study says only 85 people control half the World’s wealth! U.S. recession a False Flag used by the 1% to take your money! EU austerity False Flag used to make the 1% even richer!

20 January 2014 (12:25 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

As the economy continues to contract did you ever wonder “Where’s all the money going?”  According to a new study out of the Bilderberg British empire member known as United kingdom, almost half the World’s wealth is being funneled into the pockets of just 85 people!

Oxfam International says “The wealth of the one percent richest people in the world amounts to $110 trillion. That’s 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half.”

In the United States, the top 1% used the 2009 recession to capture 95% of wealth in the U.S., making the majority of U.S. citizens poorer: “…the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth between 2009 and 2012, while the bottom 90 percent became poorer.  The Great Recession did not change the trend in concentration of income: the share of US national income going to the top decile stands at 50.4 percent – its highest since World War I.”

The Oxfam study, Working for the Few, says the austerity (government spending cuts and increased taxes) is a scam run by the rich: “…..the combined wealth of Europe’s 10 richest people exceeds the total cost of stimulus measures implemented across the European Union (EU) between 2008 and 2010 (€217bn compared with €200bn). Furthermore, post-recovery austerity policies are hitting poor people hard, while making the rich even richer. Austerity is also having an unprecedented impact on the middle classes.”

Oxfam blames the growing disparity on tax policies and anti-competition laws that favor the rich.  Oxfam also admitted “It is likely that the full concentration of wealth is in fact even worse, as a significant amount of wealth among those at the top of the scale is hidden away in tax havens. It is estimated that $18.5 trillion is held unrecorded and offshore.”

The laws favoring the 1% is the result of outright bribery of your ‘elected’ officials. Oxfam gave several examples, here’s one: “In 2010, President Obama signed into law the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (known as the Dodd-Frank Bill). The objective of this legislation is to regulate financial markets to protect the economy from a second major crash. However, the financial industry has spent more than $1bn on hundreds of lobbyists to weaken and delay the Act’s full implementation. In fact, in 2012 the top five consumer protection groups sent 20 lobbyists to defend Dodd-Frank, while the top five finance industry groups sent 406 to defeat it. Even though Dodd-Frank was signed into law more than three years ago, only 148 of its 398 rules have been finalized….”

Oxfam discovered that the true shadow government and banking system is that which belongs to the global 1%: “….a global network of tax havens has evolved that has far-reaching implications for increased economic inequality. Large amounts of wealth are hidden from view, and are largely untaxed, denying national treasuries vital resources that could be used to benefit society………This network of secrecy and low tax rates facilitates the illicit flows of large amounts of capital from the poorest countries. It is estimated that between 2008 and 2010, sub-Saharan Africa lost on average $63.4bn dollars this way each year, or more than twice what it received in aid.”

The study also confirmed the adage that the rich get richer, pointing out that it’s children of wealthy parents who get richer, while children born into families of middle and lower classes get poorer.  Oxfam says it’s the result of an effect they call the “privilege cascade”.

Unfortunately the report does not name names, but the biggest share of the global wealth stealing is being done by the 1% of the United States.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Idaho’s Coldwater Creek shuts down first store in 2014! As leases expire stores will close! Warning from NASDAQ!

20 January 2014 (11:38 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

The Sandpoint based women’s clothing retailer Coldwater Creek is shutting down a store in the NorthPark Mall in Davenport, Iowa.   It’s all part of their plans to layoff at least 100 employees in 2014.

In December 2013, company officials stated they had shutdown 50 stores since 2011.  They also said they are adopting the Sears Holdings plan of action, as leases expire stores will close: “the actual number and timing of planned store closures depends on a number of factors that cannot be predicted, including among other things the future performance of our individual stores and negotiations with our landlords“-Third Quarter of Fiscal 2013 Operating Results

NASDAQ has given Coldwater Creek until 01 July 2014 to get its stock price back above $1 USD per share, or the company will be de-listed from the stock exchange.  Being de-listed will allow stock holders to buy and sell Coldwater Creek shares anywhere, not just the NASDAQ.  It could be possible to buy a share for less than one penny!

Company officials also said they are halting all quarterly “guidance” until their financial situation becomes more “predictable”.   That’s funny, because it is very predictable, as in 13 consecutive quarterly losses!  I predict sales will continue to go down.

 

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: ObamaCare Layoffs 2013, part 3!

Incomplete list of publicized healthcare layoffs and closings 01-15 May 2013:

Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance laid off 55 people across Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Utah (some reports said 56).

Medtronic ended about 230 jobs!

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

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, closed.  At least 200 jobs lost!

California: The not for profit doctor and hospital network known as Sutter Health announced 169 people lost their jobs! 54 employees at the Porterville Developmental Center laid off.  Dignity Health laid off 150 employees in Sacramento, and 300 in Stockton!

Florida: Liberty Medical Supply laid off 211 employees!  Liberty Medical already laid off 260 employees in January, then went bankrupt in February!

Indiana:  Eli Lilly, announced drastic cuts.  At least 1624 people lost their jobs!  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. Warner Transitional Services shut down and laid off 112 people!

Kentucky: Hospice of the Bluegrass got rid of 16 jobs.  They blame it on cuts to Medicare and Medicaid no thanks to Obama/Romney Care (Affordable Health Care).  Kentucky Spirit Health Plan laid off all its 145 employees!  The company focused on providing Medicare covered care for children.  Company officials say the drastic cuts to Medicare funding by the Affordable Health Care Act (Obama/Romney Care) forced them to shut down because the new Medicare payments don’t cover the basic costs of operations!

Louisiana: Schumacher Group shut down its Patient Financial Management Services, 41 people laid off.   Blame Obama/Romney Care (Affordable Care Act).

Massachusetts: Blood management systems provider Haemonetics, shut down operations in Braintree. 320 jobs lost!  New England Baptist Hospital in Boston laid off 12 managers.

Minnesota: 79 people lost their jobs with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.

Missouri:  Liberty Hospital laid off 129 employees!

New Mexico:  The Gila Regional Medical Center converted 70 full time jobs to part time only.  The hospital has also stopped the $40 million expansion project, postponed a new health information software system and shut down its Home Health Services in Luna County as well as Home Health’s D&E wavier and Helping Hands programs in Grant County!  Hospital officials blame it on the increase in uninsured customers who can’t pay and the Affordable Health Care Act (Obama/Romney Care) which drastically reduces Medicare and Medicaid payments.

New York: Arnot Health laid off 22 employees at Saint Joseph’s Hospital.  They shut down a surgical unit.  Ulster County warned employees at the Golden Hill nursing home that layoffs were coming. The Malone Veterans Affairs clinic closed down.  And 22 people laid off by MVP Health Care: “The health care marketplace is changing rapidly, and MVP must constantly adapt….”   Saint James Mercy Hospital cut 50 positions: “SJMH is continuing to experience significant declines in patient volumes, patient days and revenues, as well as reduced state and federal reimbursement and we cannot continue to support our current operation under these conditions.”-Mary LaRowe, Saint James Mercy Health System

Ohio: Mercy Hospital eliminated 18 jobs.

Pennsylvania:  In Sellersville, Israel based Teva Pharmaceutical shutting down its research and manufacturing facility by 2017.  472 employees affected!

Rhode Island:  Westerly Hospital eliminated 45 jobs.

Tennessee: Pfizer operations in Bristol laid off 25 employees.

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!

 Washington: The Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital laid off 19 employees.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

ObamaCare layoffs 2013, part 2!

 ObamaCare layoffs 2013, part 1:

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 11-14 October 2013. ObamaCare kills children’s programs! Big time university layoffs! City taxes killing off grocery stores!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Savient Pharmaceuticals now bankrupt.  It’s being sold off to Sloan Holdings.

Alabama: What automotive industry recovery?  France based Michelin laying off 100 people at its BF Goodrich tire factory in Tuscaloosa.  Company officials said there was too much inventory sitting on shelves, due to the bad economy.

Arizona: In Tucson, 63 years old Arizona Mail Order shutdown.  59 jobs lost.  The Massachusetts based owner is moving ops to Pennsylvania.

California: What housing market recovery?  Across the Golden State JPMorgan Chase Mortgage shutdown offices and laid off at least 897 people!  It’s blamed on crashing demand for home loans. In San Diego, LPL Financial laid off 31 employees.

Delaware: What automotive industry recovery?  Evraz Claymont Steel shutting down their steel factory.  375 jobs lost!  Company officials blame declining sales and a steel market flooded with foreign products.  They made steel plate for other industries.  In Harrington, Georgia-Pacific shutdown its Color-Box packaging facility.  95 jobs lost.

Florida: A Kmart in Panama City Beach will shutdown. 54 jobs lost.

Illinois: The city of Galesburg warns it will have to layoff more than a dozen employees in 2014, to save $1-million to $2-million USD.  Dominick’s grocery store shutdown all 72 stores!  Dominick’s was owned by Safeway, which had warned they were “exiting” the Chicago market.  In Sterling, the Kmart will shutdown.

Maine: Electronic mapping company, DeLorme, laid off 10 employees.   Company officials said they were not in financial trouble, but “in transition”.

Maryland: In Frostburg, Acropolis Restaurant shutdown.  The owner blamed his health, the bad economy and the fact that the local fire marshall reduced his legal seating capacity to 49.   The dumb ass city of Baltimore jacked up its “bottle tax” in 2010, and now Santoni’s Supermarket is dead!  80 jobs lost.  The grocery store first opened in the 1930s.  “Since the beverage tax levy went into effect in July 2010, Santoni’s has realized total store sales loss in excess of $4 million….”-Robert Santoni Junior

Massachusetts: Home grown food maker, Joseph’s Gourmet Pasta and Sauces, laid off 73 employees.  The company was sold to Switzerland based Nestle in 2006.  In Somerset, a Wendy’s fast food joint was shutdown after customers complained and it failed a health inspection.

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? In Grand Rapids, Bentler Automotive shutdown, 200 jobs lost!  In Vassar, Metavation shutdown, 113 jobs lost! The company was taken over by Dayco Products.

Missouri: Paper products maker, RockTenn, shutdown their Saint Louis factory. 50 jobs lost. It’s blamed on the company’s purchase of Smurfit Stone Container in 2011.

New Jersey:  After 44 years of art education the Matawan Student Enrichment Program shutdown.  Student enrollment crashed.

New York: In Colonie, a Kmart is shutting down.  72 jobs lost.

North Carolina: Residential treatment facility The Children’s Home and Peek-A-Moo Child Development Center shutdown, 79 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on Obama Care funding cuts.

Ohio: The Dayton Daily News warned of more layoffs. At least 22 people this time.  It’s blamed on declining sales, which company officials blame on the internet.  In Cleveland, iconic Peabody’s and Rascal House live music clubs shutdown. It’s blamed on Cleveland State University, which annexed the properties.  In Solon, Park View Federal Savings Bank laid off 57 employees. In Columbus, what housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail JPMorgan Chase Mortgage shutdown, 97 jobs lost!  In Springboro, tax sucker General Dynamics laid off 31 employees.

Texas: The University of Texas laying off 500 people!   University officials expect continued declines in taxpayer funding and student enrollment for the next ten years!  In Denton, Conn’s appliance and furniture store shutdown. Local news media say employees were given two weeks notice, but the company refused to explain the shutdown.  The company actually reported a profit to investors.   What housing market recovery?  In Coppell, Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase Mortgage shutdown, 52 jobs lost.  In Fort Worth, JPMorgan Chase Home Lending shutdown, 451 jobs lost!

Wisconsin: In Milwaukee, JPMorgan Chase shutdown, 94 jobs lost.

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.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Reactor 3 containment vessel leaking Strontium!

20 January 2014 (22:13 UTC-07 Tango 19 January 2013)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company say they know where the mystery water leak in reactor Unit 3 is coming from; the containment vessel!

Yesterday TEPCo reported the water leak when a robot clearing radioactive rubble from the building discovered it.

TEPCo also adds that the water is contaminated with 24 million becquerels per liter of strontium-90, and 1.7 million becquerels per liter of cesium-137!

Idaho, Influenza

Influenza: H1N1 epidemic now official! More pregnant women going down! More evidence vaccines can make you sick!

20 January 2014 (21:15 UTC-07 Tango 19 January 2013)/18 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/30 Dey 1392/20 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Alberta, Canada: Health Services reporting 10 deaths and 22-hundred confirmed influenza cases.  Don’t blame it on people not getting the flu shot, the province is now rationing their remaining flu shots for children who need a second dose, and for an even bigger outbreak.

New Brunswick, Canada: Health officials report four flu deaths, 300 confirmed flu cases, 50 hospitalizations.  Health officials admitted they do not know how many people have been vaccinated versus those who haven’t been.

Saskatchewan, Canada:  Health Ministry officials report 12 deaths, but they’re not 100% sure if they are flu related.  797 confirmed influenza cases since October. Vaccines are being rationed to children under five years of age, pregnant women and people in ‘high risk groups’.  100-thousand nasal vaccines are expected from the United States.

Mexico: Health Ministry reports 32 deaths from influenza, and 556 confirmed cases (468 confirmed H1N1).  30 of those who died did so from the H1N1 version of flu.  They died within six days of getting infected.  Officials say at least 800-thousand people have been vaccinated.

Spain: The number of H1N1 hospitalizations have jumped to 279, and 11 people have died.  Just a few days ago it was around 43 hospitalizations with two deaths.

The U.S. CDC has declared the influenza an epidemic in the United States.  Interested in becoming an influenza spy?  Apply now for the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS).      At least 20 children have died from H1N1 (the CDC does not track adult deaths from influenza).

Arkansas, U.S.A.:  A 29 years old Fort Smith woman is in critical condition with H1N1.  She went down fast, only a matter of days from first symptoms to a medically induced coma.  She was 20 weeks pregnant but lost the baby.  Family members say her body automatically delivered the baby, in response to the infection.

California, U.S.A.:  State health officials report spike in deaths.  Current deaths are almost at the number of all Golden State influenza deaths for all of the 2012-13 flu season.

Idaho, U.S.A.:  Department of Health and Welfare declared the influenza outbreak to be at “widespread” level.  H1N1 is the dominate strain.

Illinois, U.S.A.: McLean County reports two influenza deaths.  One of the men who died was confirmed infected with H1N1.

Iowa, U.S.A.: Department of Public Health reports a child died from H1N1.  They refuse to give the age or sex, or name of the victim.  They also said there were several adult deaths that could’ve been caused by influenza.

Louisiana, U.S.A.:  An 18 years old senior at Oak Hill High School, in Rapides Parish, died from H1N1.  His family says he was hit hard, laying still in his bed, then a few days later he died.

Michigan, U.S.A.: “This year what is concerning is the unusual number of young, previously healthy adults getting sick, needing to be put on life support, and dying from H1N1.”-Matthew Davis, Michigan Department of Community Health

Montana, U.S.A.:  Department of Health and Human Services reports 19-hundred influenza cases, 150 hospitalizations and three deaths since the start of the 2013-14 flu season in October.  Realize that Montana is a sparsely populated state, and you can see their number of cases are relatively high.

Ohio, U.S.A.:  Toledo-Lucas County health officials are warning that they could see record H1N1 deaths this flu season. Seven deaths in the Buckeye State so far.

Texas, U.S.A.: In Denton, a 46 years old mother of two is now in a coma with H1N1.  Doctors say they were forced to induce the coma, to try and save her.

Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that their study shows that giving children the flu shot along with the pneumococcal shot can make them sick: “Parents should be made aware that their child might develop a fever following simultaneous influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations…….For the small group of children who must avoid fever, these findings provide important information….”-Melissa Stockwell, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 11-14 January 2014: 4-thousand+ U.S. personnel heading to Afghanistan! Obama corrupted 2009 elections! Obama regime shutting down state militias, stealing their airborne firepower! Preps for U.S. civil war?

Badghis Province: Three employees of the government Rural Rehabilitation and Development Directorate were kidnapped.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, a suicide bomber exploded near the police academy.  At least 3 people killed, 21 wounded.

Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, reports say a man and woman were shot and killed as they walked past a U.S.-NATO-ISAF base.  Witnesses say the shots came from the base.  The members of 1st Battalion, 158th Field Artillery, Oklahoma Army National Guard, arrived for duty at the Kandahar Airfield.

Nangarhar Province: In Jalalabad City, three children died when a propane gas cylinder exploded. Two other children, along with the parents, were wounded.   In Khogyani District, a family of six were wounded when a mortar round landed on their house.

Sar-e Pol Province: In Balkhab District, the British empire controlled (London based) Afghan Gold and Minerals Company has been awarded a contract to develop a huge copper mine.  The copper vein was originally discovered by the Soviets during the Cold War.

Uruzgan Province: In Charchino District, three local cops were stabbed to death (see, you don’t need guns to kill, it’s called hand to hand combat).  Apparently the cops were stabbed by two other cops who joined the Mujahideen.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan is reporting skyrocketing incidents involving foreigners hunting rare animal species in Afghanistan.  It is illegal to hunt animals declared as rare in Afghanistan.  Ministry officials said most of the illegal hunters are from Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh.

Despite foreign tax funding and deals with mining companies, The New York Times is reporting that many Afghan cops have not been paid since November 2013!  The report says Obama regime and UN officials are not aware that many cops were not being paid.  So where’s the money?

In Halifax, Canada, people are asking government officials why their war memorial still does not reflect the Canadian involvement in the U.S. led occupation of Afghanistan?

Former chief of Afghanistan Independent Election Commission Secretariat, Daud Ali Najafi, revealed that in the 2009 Afghan elections, Obama regime officials Richard Hallbrooke and Peter Galbraith tried to oust Hamid Karzai by influencing Afghan voters.  Najafi also said the U.S. officials threatened him, saying he should not announce the election result because Karzai won with 55% of the votes. A second election was held at the insistence of the Obama regime.

More than 4-thousand members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force deploying to Afghanistan from California.

10 air-militiamen of the Air National Guard’s 282nd Combat Communications Squadron, from the U.S. state of Rhode island, returned home from Afghanistan and Qatar.

15 militiamen from the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 924th Engineer Facilities Detachment deployed to Romania.  The east European country is the new final landing point (Forward Operating Site Mihail Kogalniceanu) for planes carrying U.S. personnel bound for Afghanistan, since the Central Asian country Kazakhstan kicked out the U.S.

About 50 members of Alpha Battery 2-146th Field Artillery Regiment, Washington Army National Guard, returned home from Afghanistan.

The U.S. state of Oregon’s 186th Infantry 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Army National Guard is undergoing training for deployment to Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s 262nd Engineer Company, from the U.S. state of Maine, undergoing training for deployment to Afghanistan.

After returning from Afghanistan with their AH-64 Apache gunships, the Army National Guard’s 1-211th Attack Helicopter Battalion, in the U.S. state of Utah, were told they will probably lose their Apaches plus 100-200 jobs!  Supposedly it’s part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s plans to cut military spending.  Or is it really a conspiracy to deprive state militias of firepower when the 2nd U.S. civil war starts?

As they are just about to deploy to Afghanistan with their OH-58 Kiowa recon ‘copters (based on the Bell civilian JetRanger), the Army National Guard’s 1-230th Air Cavalry Squadron, in the U.S. state of Tennessee, were told they will probably be shut down by the Obama regime when they return home: “This will have a tremendously negative impact on the Tennessee Guard. If the Army follows this course of action, Tennessee will lose 30 helicopters and the 692 soldiers who support them. It will also eliminate 113 full-time jobs and possibly two of the three Army flight facilities across the state.”-Major General Max Haston, Tennessee National Guard

Tennessee National Guard was also told Obama will probably take their newly acquired German designed LUH-72 Lakotas! (the LUH-72 was originally built in the 1990s by Messerschmitt before that company was absorbed into the new Eurocopter)

After returning from another deployment to Afghanistan the Army National Guard’s 1st 104th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, revealed that the Obama regime is about to steal their Apaches, Chinooks, Kiowas and Lakota ‘copters!  It will affect at least 450 jobs, one officer says it’s a plan to destroy state militias’ airpower: “It’s a very bad deal for Pennsylvania and the entire National Guard……It leaves nothing in reserve in Army aviation. If they get shot up, there’s nowhere else to go to pull in….”-Major General Wesley Craig, Pennsylvania adjutant general

The official U.S. Army (aka Regular Army, RA) reason for stealing Apaches from state militias is that RA units will be replacing their lightweight recon birds with the anti-tank gunships. But that doesn’t explain why Obama is also ordering the RA to take Chinooks as well as the lightweight Kiowas and Lakotas.

It’s not just me, but members of the National Guard state militias suspect a coming civil war with the federales: “The Army chief of staff disparaged the Army National Guard last week by telling reporters in Washington DC, that, essentially, the Army National Guard just isn’t good enough to be relied upon more in the future.”-Major General Gus Hargett, National Guard Association of the United States

The U.S. state of Indiana’s Army National Guard gave several expensive MRAPs ($600-thousand USD each) to the West Lafayette Police Department.  The ‘gift’ will actually cost taxpayers another $4-thousand for modifications to demilitarize them.