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.
Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Scientific testing shows fish contaminated! U.S. news media claims testing unscientific? California scientists conduct Kelp Watch 2014!

14 January 2014 (23:31 UTC-07 Tango 13 January 2013)/12 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/24 Dey 1392/14 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

The exalted Los Angeles Times is poo-pooing any scientific claims that radioactive contamination is indeed spreading across the World, saying “If you’re looking for honest, factual information on the effect of the Fukushima reactor spill, there are a couple of very good, reliable sources to check. I’ve found Deep Sea News to be very good. And of course the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is authoritative….”-Russ Parsons

If you’ve read my past Fukushima updates you should have noticed that I’ve quoted researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute that say this Fukushima thing is bad, bad, bad!

But wait, here’s some latest scientific results that say don’t eat the fish!

Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency just announced that a black sea bream caught 37 kilometers (23 miles) south of Fukushima Daiichi, contained 12400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium!  That’s 124 times more than what the Japanese government (in all their lack of wisdom) has deemed to be safe to eat!  So LA Times, is Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency full of shit or what?

By the way, the fish was caught back on 17 November 2013, and Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted that radiation levels pouring out of the GE designed disaster reactors has increased since then.

Hey LA Times, here’s some more “authoritative” scientific statements from an actual scientist: “We’ve already seen some effects in infant mortality and thyroid cancer in Japan. So I think this is just going to get worse. I think we are going to see a major effect on the general health of the Japanese population in Northern Japan. There’s going to be a decrease in the birth rate and an increase in the death rate.”-Chris Busby, Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk and U.K. Department of Health Committee Examining Radiation Risk for Internal Emitters (CERRIE)

But just because Busby is not ‘main stream’ you probably don’t consider him “authoritative”!

And hey LA Times, are you saying all those U.S. military personnel who served in Operation Tomodachi and are now suffering from radiation poisoning, are full of shit?

There are now 70 current and former U.S. military personnel taking part in a class action lawsuit because of radiation contamination from Fukushima Daiichi.  Apparently the USN has refused to monitor the health of those who took part in Op Tomodachi, so the individuals suffering from symptoms that look a lot like radiation poisoning had to get outside medical help!  Some military personnel are now wheelchair bound!

The lawsuit also revealed that TEPCo maintains an office in Washington DC! Why for is TEPCo maintaining an office in Washington DC?  Why to beggar the U.S. taxpayers for funding!  Now you know another of the many reasons the U.S. government is involved with TEPCo.

Now comes scientist right there in California.  Despite what writers for the LA Times are promulgating, California State University Long Beach is monitoring radiation levels in the kelp forests along the California coastline.  It’s called Kelp Watch 2014: “It is imperative that we monitor this coastal forest for any radioactive contaminants that will be arriving this year in the ocean currents from the Fukushima disaster.”-Steven L. Manley, biology professor

“Authoritative” officials have revealed that radioactive iodine has been detected in kelp along the coastline of Orange County.

It’s that detection that has launched operation Kelp Watch 2014 (which starts in February).  It involves 19 governmental and academic groups, as well as three private sector groups.  Hows that for “authoritative” mister LA Times?

Now I must confess, Russ Parsons, of the LA Times, was actually talking about all those social media postings of giant squids and what nots showing up on beaches.  But in a way he was also downplaying the severity of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster, as is most of the U.S. main streamer news media.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 30 December 2013-02 January 2014: Woman who bitch slapped cop to face criminal charges! Afghans have the guts to fight hand to hand with corrupt cops! Pakistan wants U.S. to stay! Snow Leopards thriving in war!

Farah Province: In Qala Ka District, two road workers were killed when they struck a landmine.

Helmand Province: A 22 years old USMC Sergeant, from the U.S. state of Washington, was shot and killed. The U.S. Department of Defense said they were investigating the incident.

Herat Province: Reports that a female politician in the city of Herat was assassinated.  She was shot as she walked home from work.

Kabul Province: The Interior Affairs Ministry of Afghanistan says it will take legal action against the female representative from Ghazni Province, who bitch slapped a cop in front of the Pakistani Embassy.

Logar Province: In Baraki Barak District, a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market.  Six people killed, 18 wounded.

Samangan Province:  Residents protesting the provincial governor, turned violent after a week of demonstrations.  They want him and other politicians to resign on the grounds of corruption.  Police fought the protestors, two people killed, at least eight wounded.  What anti-corruption protestors in the United States have the guts to mano-a-mano with pro-government cops?

Uruzgan Province: U.S. led Afghan government forces stopped a young man and his aunt as they were riding on a motorcycle.  In classic Israeli style, the government forces accused the man of using the motorcycle to traffic explosives and beat him senseless in front of his aunt.

Zabul Province: In Qalat City, one cop killed two wounded when they drove over a landmine.

British empire news media are reporting that the Obama regime is so desperate, that officials with the U.S. Department of Defense are now begging President Hamid Karzai to sign the 2014 Security deal!  The Bilateral Security Agreement could see U.S. military personnel incountry for another ten years.  Recent surveys show an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens hate the occupation of Afghanistan, even more than the number of U.S. citizens who hated the U.S. occupation of Vietnam.

Pakistan’s new ambassador to the United States, Jalil Abbas Jilani, says the fear of a U.S. pullout is flooding Pakistan with refugees: “Even the talk of U.S. pullout has started having its impact. Pakistan has started to receive more Afghan refugees than before….”

U.S. taxpayers ripped off again! The highly expensive armored car known as MRAP (mine resistant armored patrol vehicles) are being chopped up for scrap in Afghanistan, rather than be shipped back to the United States.  U.S. taxpayers forked out $1-million USD for each MRAP!  So far, as of October 2013, 938 MRAPs have been scrapped (that’s more than $1-billion worth down the shit hole!).

Snow Leopards are making a comeback despite decades of war among humans.  The National Environmental Protection Agency of Afghanistan reports an increase in the number of Snow Leopards being sighted.  This seems to coincide with the decline of Snow Leopards further north in Mongolia.

Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing Civil Engineering Squadron, from the U.S. state of Arkansas, returned home from Afghanistan.

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: The Hell of ObamaCare Lies! More proof it’s about killing the economy & your health care! Taxpayer bailout of insurance industry in the works, in case of Obama Care failure!

13 January 2014 (09:47 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/23 Dey 1392/13 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

There are more studies that show that more and more people are getting their working hours cut drastically, all so unAmerican Corporate America can avoid providing mandatory health benefits (under Obama Care) for employees who work 30 hours a week or more: “Employers often prefer part-time workers because they don’t have to pay benefits and can pay less per hour than full-timers.”-Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina

Even if minimum wage is increased to a pathetic $10 USD per hour, it still won’t be enough because so many people will be working less than 30 hours per week!

Recently the Obama regime proudly said that 6-million people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act.  Lie!  It’s been revealed that 3.9-million of that claim was actually people finding out that they were ‘eligible’ for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and that was back in October/November!

Then Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, went and spoiled it even more by stating most of the people that the Obama regime claims have been signed up for Medicaid under Obama Care were already enrolled long before, and just happen to be renewing their Medicaid enrollment at the time Obama Care begins!

In other words most of the 6-million Obama Care “enrollments” are actually people finding out they’re eligible, or mostly people already enrolled in Medicaid and simply renewing!

CNN has been reporting on the growing number of people who’ve paid for insurance through Obama Care, and have sought medical help only to be denied because of technicalities!  Those technicalities range from not having proper insurance ID cards, to not picking the right doctor under their Obama Care insurance plan, to being “lost” within the insurance provider’s “system”!

The people being denied care, many who make too much money to get ‘free’ Obama Care coverage, are also complaining that they are constantly given the “runaround” by insurance companies and Obama Care reps when they call to complain. CNN also reported that insurance companies admit they are getting swamped by a “unprecedented level” of complaints.

Daily News reporting that the supposed Spanish language version of the Obama Care website (CuidadoDeSalud.gov) is preventing Spanish speaking residents from signing up because it’s not written in Spanish: “When you get into the details of the plans, it’s not all written in Spanish. It’s written in Spanglish….”-Adrian Madriz, Obama Care ‘navigator’ in Florida

U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, Darrell Issa, is warning U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  He basically accused her of lying to Congress: “Witnesses who purposely give false or misleading testimony during a congressional hearing may be subject to criminal liability……With that in mind, I write to request that you correct the record and to implore you to be truthful with the American public about matters related to Obamacare going forward.”

Click here to read the Forbes report on the Milliman study that proves Obama Care will fail financially.

And now there are reports that if Obama Care fails, then U.S. taxpayers will pay to bailout out the insurance industry! Seems fitting, the insurance industry wrote Obama Care to begin with, so why not rip off the dumb ass taxpayers of the United States even more!!!!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Jews control United States banking system! Obama kisses their asses! Mein Kampf becomes a best seller, again!

13 January 2014 (08:47 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/23 Dey 1392/13 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” -Quote attributed to Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President who signed Federal Reserve Act in 1913

Ever since the end of World War 2 we’ve been hit by massive pro-Israeli/Jewish propaganda stating that the idea that the Jews control international (western) banking is nothing but a false stereotype, or a myth.  If you check just a few facts you’ll realize the most famous NAZI, Adolph Hitler, was right!

Fact: The Obama regime recently nominated an Israeli citizen and former Bank of Israel boss, Stanley Fischer, to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Fact: The new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, is Jewish.

Facts: Former Federal Reserve bosses Ben Bernanke (2006-14), Alan Greenspan (1987-2006),  Arthur F. Burns (1970-78), Eugene R. Black (1933-34) and Eugene I. Meyer (1930-33, also became the first president of the World Bank) are Jewish.

Facts: Paul Volker (Fed chairman 1979-87) was born to a Jewish mother who converted to Lutheranism. Under orthodox Jewish law you are Jewish if your mother is Jewish.  Volker helped the Nixon administration destroy the Brenton Woods agreement by taking the U.S. off the gold standard.  Also, other researchers claim the following Fed Reserve chairmen are Jewish or have Jewish ancestry, although info on these guys is sparse:  Roy A. Young (1927-30), Daniel R. Crissinger (1923-27), William P. G. Harding (1916-22) and Charles S. Hamlin (1914-16).

Facts: Apparently the only ‘Christian’ Fed Chairmen were Marriner S. Eccles (1934-48), a Mormon from Utah, and William M. Martin Jr (1951-70) a Presbyterian from Missouri.  Eccles was involved in creating the evil World Bank and International Monetary Fund.  Martin’s father helped create the Federal Reserve bank. Info available for Thomas B. McCabe (1948-51) and G. William Miller (1978-79, also member of evil Club of Rome) do not suggest any religious/ethnic affiliation.

Fact: 11 out of 15 Federal Reserve chairman are Jewish or have Jewish ancestry.

Facts: Fed Reserve governor Sarah Bloom Raskin is married to Jamie Raskin, who is Jewish.  Fed Reserve governor Jeremy C. Stein is Jewish, as is Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University.  Governor Frederic Stanley “Rick” Mishkin is Jewish and has worked for the evil World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund. Governors Jerome H. Powell and Daniel Tarullo appear not to be Jewish, both have connections to Georgetown University.  Tarullo was also a member of  the evil Council of Foreign Relations and Center for American Progress.  Powell is a member of the evil Carlyle Group and The Nature Conservancy.

Facts: Former Fed Reserve vice chairman Donald L. Kohn, and former governor Randall S. Kroszner are Jewish.

Fact: When the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank was created in 1913, as a privately held operation, the Ashkenazi Jewish (in the 12th-13th centuries Gregorian time elite Ashkenazi became government backed moneylenders) founded and controlled Rothschilds of London (N M Rothschild & Sons Limited) somehow gained an estimated 57% control of the new U.S. Central Bank.

Now, almost as a counter to this Jewish domination of western crony capitalism, Adolph Hitler’s 1925 best seller Mein Kampf is a best seller again, this time through iTunes and Amazon e-books!

Read what Hitler wrote about Jews in the 1920s, think about the current zionist state of Israel, the World banking/stock exchange system, the control of western government by Israeli political lobbies, and even the nuclear destruction (?) of Japan by Jewish intrigue.  Read and contemplate Hilter’s warnings: (from the Hurst and Blackett edition) ….the Jewish State….has absolutely no territorial boundaries……the Jewish intellect will never be constructive but always destructive……the Jew does not ever think of leaving a territory which he has once occupied…..the Jew has at all times lived in States that have belonged to other races….hidden behind the mask of a ‘religious community’…..the Founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of His estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God; because then, as always, they used religion as a means of advancing their commercial interests. But at that time Christ was nailed to the Cross for his attitude towards the Jews; whereas our modern Christians enter into party politics and when elections are being held they debase themselves to beg for Jewish votes. They even enter into political intrigues with the atheistic Jewish parties against the interests of their own Christian nation…..this first and fundamental lie, the purpose of which is to make people believe that Jewry is not a nation but a religion….the Jew gained an increasing influence in all economic undertakings by means of his predominance in the stock-exchange. If not the ownership, at least he secured control of the working power of the nation……By means of the Press he began gradually to control public life in its entirety…….under the name of ‘public opinion’….(from Volume 1, Chapter 11)…They created the economic weapon which the international Jew uses for the purpose of destroying the economic foundations of free and independent national States, for ruining their national industry and trade and thereby enslaving free nations to serve Jewish world-finance, which transcends all State boundaries.(from Volume 2, Chapter 12)…the transference of our productive forces to the control of Jewish international finance…commanded by international and Jewish stock-exchange capital…Hence it is that at the present time the Jew is the great agitator…the Jew is always the instigator. In peace-time, as well as during the War, the Jewish-Marxist stock-exchange Press systematically stirred up hatred…until one State after another abandoned its neutrality and placed itself at the service of the world coalition, even against the real interests of its own people….Jews control the financial forces of America on the stock exchange……He does not want to see a national Japanese State in existence when he founds his millennial empire of the future, and therefore he wants to destroy it before establishing his own dictatorship…(from Volume 2, Chapter 13)

Nazi is the incorrect term for the NSDAP (National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei), the word Nazi is considered to be an evolution of Southern German derogatory terms used against people you don’t like. It is interesting how it sounds like Ashke-Nazi, which might explain why some conspiracy theorists think elite Jews actually created the ‘Nazi Party’.

“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

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 03 October 2013. More call center layoffs! More health care layoffs! More coal mining layoffs! More mortgage industry layoffs! More……..

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Video game maker Capcom is restructuring its U.S. and European ops, which means layoffs.

Alabama:  The 88 years old Huntsville Country Club now bankrupt.

California: In San Rafael, Autodesk finally revealed they are laying off 90 employees. Company officials blame it on the bad European economy.  Kroger owned Ralph’s grocery store laid off 108 employees across SoCal! In San Clemente, Southern California Edison laid off 547 people!

Colorado: The Elk Creek coal mine laid off 115 employees! One year ago there was a collapse at the mine, and a fire began which is still burning.

Florida: In Boca Raton, the last Legal Sea Foods restaurant shut down.  The Massachusetts based owners blamed the bad economy.

Indiana: Arc of Northwest Indiana shutdown all of its 22 assisted living homes!  90 patients and 120 overworked employees affected! The Indiana Department of Health is investigating complaints of inadequate nursing care and had already revoked licenses for several of the homes.

Kansas: The Apadana Iranian rug store shutdown after 39 years of sales.  The longtime owner, Bahman Raisdana, blames the bad economy and said “I don’t feel good……..I cannot afford to have inventory anymore.”

Michigan: Too Big to Jail and taxpayer funded bailout sucker, Monarch Community Bancorp, warned of layoffs as it tries to pay off the TARP.

New York: In New York City, Italian restaurant Bice laid off 66 employees, the restaurant could be sold off.  Fab announced a second round of layoffs, this time at least 84 people in NYC will lose their jobs. In Utica, the bad economy and Obama Care forcing Saint Luke’s Healthcare to eliminate 106 jobs!  The hospital eliminated 37 jobs back in January.  In Carthage, Carthage Area Hospital laid off 29 employees.  Cayuga Community College laid off seven workers. College officials warned of more layoffs due to declining student enrollment.

North Carolina: In Cary, Xerox laid off at least 508 people at their call center!

Ohio: Call Henry laid off at least 98 people, due to a lapsed contract with NASA.  What housing market recovery? Too Big to Jail PNC Financial laying off employees due to crashing demand for home mortgage refi loans.  In Bedford, chemo therapy drug maker Ben Venue shut down its 72 years old factory, despite making $300-million USD in upgrades.  1100 jobs lost, on top of other Ben Venue layoffs earlier in 2013!!!  It’s connected to a lawsuit involving Johnson & Johnson versus Boehringer over the chemo drug Doxil.

Tennessee: What housing market recovery? Churchill Mortgage laid off at least 19 employees.  Company officials blame it on crashing home loan demand.

Texas: In Austin, social media video gamer Kabam laid off 23 employees.  In McAllen, Globe Supermarket shutdown. In Canyon, unique books, videos and music store Hastings shutdown. 35 jobs lost.

Virginia: In Burke, Treasured Child Consignments shutdown after almost 22 years in business.  The greedy landlord made a new lease agreement with another business.

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

Influenza

Influenza: Sudden spike in U.S. H1N1 deaths! No more vaccine? More medical incompetence! Cases increasing as vaccination rate increases! Medical coverup?

13 January 2014 (19:31 UTC-07 Tango 12 January 2013)/11 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/23 Dey 1392/13 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Alberta, Canada: Reports that clinics have run out of flu shots.  According to Canadian news sources Alberta’s Health Minister, Fred Horne, said they’re expecting 65-thousand more shots, but they are literally the last of the current global supply of flu shots!  At least one million people in Alberta have been vaccinated.

British Columbia, Canada: At least 17 people have died from H1N1. Pharmacies are running out of vaccines.

Nova Scotia, Canada: Two people have died from H1N1, and the province is running out of flu shots.

Ontario, Canada:  Health officials in Ottawa report that on 11 January they had 900 people show up for flu shots at “pop up clinics”.  The pop up vaccination clinics are in response to growing reports of H1N1 cases and deaths in the western half of Canada.  At North York General Hospital five people are so sick that they are now quarantined!

California, U.S.A.:  Several pharmacies in the Golden State are reporting they’ve run out of flu shots.  A 23 years old Santa Rosa man also died from H1N1. The man had been sick, thought he recovered, but then suddenly ended up in the hospital, going ‘Code Blue’ within hours of being admitted.  One of his friends, Tanner Petersen, said “Just this quickly, like boom, he goes from being completely fine to where we’re at right now.” Health officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are reporting 13 confirmed H1N1 deaths.  State health officials are investigating 28 other deaths.  Alameda County reports two deaths, Kings County reports two deaths, Fresno County reports one death, Merced County reports two deaths, Contra Costa County reports one death, Santa Clara County reports one death.  Most of the deaths took place after 01 January.   Marin County reports 20% of flu cases there are H1N1.  Stanislaus County reports a spike in critical cases of H1N1.  San Diego County reports that more than 80% of flu cases are H1N1.  The Fresno County Jail is in lockdown after an inmate had to be hospitalized with H1N1.  It only took two days for the virus to make the 61 years old man sick enough to be hospitalized.

Colorado, U.S.A.:  Department of Public Health and Environment reports 748 flu hospitalizations the week ended 04 January 2014.  Compare that to 263 two weeks prior.

Florida, U.S.A.: State health officials are warning that this flu season’s H1N1 could be more lethal than in 2009.  UF Health Shands Hospital reports 12 H1N1 deaths since October 2013.  A 47 years old Santa Rosa County paramedic has died from H1N1, his wife is now sick and hospitalized.  Jay Gajewski, the brother of the paramedic, said he was not aware that his brother and sister-in-law were sick, it was sudden: “The last text I got just said he and his wife were in the hospital.”

Kansas, U.S.A.:  The Chief Medical Officer for the University of Kansas Hospital explained why H1N1 is killing people: “They’ve got such a bad infection in their lungs that they can’t oxygenate their blood enough to keep all of their vital organs going…”-Lee Norman

Louisiana, U.S.A.:  An eight years old Bossier City girl died from H1N1.   She went to school on Tuesday, 07 January, got sick that night and died the next day!  I think everybody who has children who attend Central Park Elementary School need to keep their kids home and/or have them checked out by competent doctors, NOW!

Massachusetts, U.S.A: In Salem a 53 years old woman died, but health officials refuse to say why.  The woman’s roommate, Keith Rich, told local news sources she was sick with H1N1.  He also said that as soon as she was admitted to the hospital she went into a coma and died the next morning.  Rich stated that hospital officials told him, and others who knew the woman, to stay away from the hospital because they had been exposed to H1N1, and the hospital did not want any patients exposed.  He went to the news media because “It seemed to me like we need to let the general public know…”

Michigan, U.S.A.: Jackson County Medical Care Facility locked down after an influenza outbreak. Patients are being treated with tamiflu.  Washtenaw County reports two deaths, 200 confirmed cases.  Ann Arbor area pharmacies ran out of flu shots, and there are reports that those people getting sick with H1N1 are people with no other health problems.  Kalamazoo Hospital restricts visitation.  The Michigan Department of Community Health is warning college students.  Health officials are concerned as the students return to school after the end of year break, because so many people will be in close quarters and the H1N1 is targeting young adults.

Missouri, U.S.A.: Department of Health and Senior Services reports more than 6-thousand influenza cases! Local news sources point out that state health officials lump flu and pneumonia deaths together, so it’s hard to get a definitive death by flu count.  Barnes-Jewish Hospital reports nine H1N1 deaths.  35 people in intensive care. The age range of those who died were 20s to 60s.  Hospital officials say almost 100% of flu cases in their area are H1N1.  They also say being alive before 1957 could save you from H1N1: “Most people who were infected with flu before 1957 and are still alive today have some protection versus the current H1N1, because it’s closely enough related…”-Steven Lawrence, Infectious Disease Physician

Ohio, U.S.A: Lucas County reports two H1N1 deaths in the past two weeks.  Apparently the 62 years old woman, and a 50 years old man, got sick right after New Years Day and only got worse regardless of treatment. Mercy Health Systems confirms 71 cases of influenza in their hospital.  Toledo Hospital says 39 patients confirmed to have flu.  Athens County reports a 31 years old woman died from H1N1.

Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Officials with Allegheny General Hospital say the main cause of death from H1N1 is oxygen starvation.

Texas, U.S.A.: A 41 years old man dies from H1N1.  The Christian family is trying to understand why he got sick and why doctors failed to help: “Remember that the good Lord will pick you up….[he had] no pre-existing medical condition…he didn’t smoke. He was perfectly healthy!……He laid down to take a nap and two hours later I went to check on him and found him [dead].….It scares me to death that it was not diagnosed properly!”-Lacy Waskom, widow

U.S.

4-methylcyclohexane methanol poisons water supply in United States! Time to throw away those air fresheners!

13 January 2014 (17:32 UTC-07 Tango 12 January 2013)/11 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/23 Dey 1392/13 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

At least 7500 U.S. gallons of toxic chemicals, mainly 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, has shutdown the Elk River water supply for 300-thousand+ people in West Virginia.

The chemicals (aka Crude MGHM) are used in coal mining.  The West Virginia National Guard has been tasked with supplying clean water to the residents of at least nine counties.  FEMA is also involved.

The National Guard has also been testing river water every hour.

From day one of the incident Freedom Industries and West Virginia American Water Company has been secretive about what exactly was spilled, and by how much.

The Charleston Gazette discovered that state officials knew at least one year before the incident that Freedom Industries was storing the chemicals near the Elk River.  The U.S. coal industry has been in crash mode, closing down several mines and laying off thousands of employees in the past couple of years.  They had to have somewhere to store their chemicals.

People have been complaining of headaches and skin rashes.  Officials claim the chemicals evaporate quickly.  Officials say if you smell the chemical get to fresh air, but wait, many air fresheners that so many people seem to like are made using the cyclohexane component of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol!

 

Idaho, International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 26-29 December 2013: Crime rate increases under U.S. occupation! Idahoan killed! Afghan woman bitch slaps cop in public!!! Contractor sniped! National Guard gives away taxpayer paid for equipment!

Helmand Province: In Nad-e-Ali District, a motorcycle bomb exploded.  Two people wounded.  General Peter Wall, of the Red Coat Bilderberg British empire Army, said he expects the Mujahideen to take control of the province after 2014. Also, a U.S citizen and former Virginia cop, working for security contractor Pax Mondial (subcontractor for Black & Veatch), was sniped and killed while jogging.

Herat Province: In Shindand District, one border cop was killed, three others wounded when their vehicle ran over a landmine.

Kabul Province: Near Camp Phoenix, a car bomb impacted a U.S.-NATO-ISAF convoy, killing two Slovak-ISAF personnel and one U.S. Air Force Captain from Sandpoint, Idaho. At least nine Afghans were wounded.  Mujahideen say that 16 military vehicles were damaged or destroyed in the attack.  In Kabul City, police say the crime rate has skyrocketed under U.S. occupation.  Police held a press conference to report a record 100 kidnapping, robberies and murder cases in the past month.  More than 200 people have been arrested.  The cops blame it on people from other parts of Afghanistan flooding into the U.S. occupied capital city to look for jobs.  And what was that about Afghan women being oppressed?  Female politician, Human Sultani, publicly bitch slapped a male cop in front of the Pakistani Embassy! Reports say there is video of the incident.  Back to Camp Phoenix, the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, from the U.S. territory of Guam, gave away more than 120 pairs of boots to the Afghan National Army!  Don’t those Guam guys know that U.S. taxpayers are already giving the ANA billions in cash and material?

Kandahar Province: In Spin Boldak District, police report a explosion killed one child and wounded another.   The cops gave no further explanation.  In Maiwand District, a mini-bus ran over a landmine, killing two people and wounding at least seven.  In Ghorak District, reports that cops turned Mujahideen attacked and killed seven government personnel.  No comment from government officials.

Uruzgan Province: In Dehrawod District, reports that U.S. led Afghan government forces killed a mentally retarded man.  The man had a habit of wandering the desert at night, which caused the government forces to suspect him of planting bombs.  Also, a man claims he shot down a small U.S.-NATO-ISAF recon drone.  He says he recovered the UAV.

The U.S. Army’s 96th Transportation Company, 49th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command, deployed to Afghanistan from Fort Hood, Texas.

The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is predicting that the Mujahideen will take control of many parts of Afghanistan by 2017.

The United Nations praise Angelia Jolie for her role as High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy for girls education.

Iran has opened up its Chabahar Port for Afghan shipping companies.  Afghan shipping companies will use it to make shipping runs to India.  The port is located between the Indian Ocean and Oman Sea.

Pakistan claims a rocket fired from Afghanistan’s Nangarahar Province, killed a Pakistani man in Hashim village of Bajaur tribal region.

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: Sears & Kmart sinking fast, everybody get out now! More closings announced!

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Another Kmart in Kentucky being shut down by mid-April.  Sears is closing a store and auto center in South Carolina, by early March.  Another Kmart in Michigan is closing down by mid-April.  Sears is closing a store in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

A number of retailers and even ‘dollar stores’ reported crap ass sales for the end of year holidays.  That includes Sears and Kmart (so their ridiculous Black Friday hours of operations were totally wasted).  The bad sales report was so bad that investors began unloading their stocks in Sears Holdings immediately.

Sears Holdings officials report they lost as much as $316-million USD in their fourth quarter 2013!  For the whole year they expect a loss of as much as $914-million!

Moody’s Investors Service now rates Sears Holdings stock at Caa1, which is seven levels down into the ‘Junk’ category.

Brian Sozzi, of Belus Capital Advisors, declared Sears holdings in “a slow death spiral”!  He also said he sees no way the company can recover.

Rocco Pendola, of The Street, said “If You Work For Sears, Quit and Find a New Job, NOW”!  Unfortunately in today’s U.S. economy that’s much easier said than done.

Here’s the updated list of U.S. Sears/Kmart store closings since the end of 2011:

Arizona: Scottsdale Sears/Great Indoors, Chandler Sears/Great Indoors.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Anniston Kmart (no word yet on how many jobs lost), Birmingham Eastwood Kmart (70 jobs lost).

California:   El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (at least 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost), Torrance Kmart,  Fairfield Kmart (63 jobs lost),  Lampert owned OSH taken over by Lowe’s home improvement in bankruptcy court, at least 17 of 99 stores to be closed down (935 jobs lost!), Rancho Cordova Kmart (97 jobs lost), San Clemente Kmart/Sears/Kmart on Camino de Estrella (58 jobs lost), placed on an official hit list in 2011 the Oceanside Kmart on College Boulevard finally being shut down.

Colorado:  Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears/Great Indoors, Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost),  Denver Kmart (number of jobs lost have not been made public at this time, but could be at least 40).

Connecticut:  Waterbury Big Kmart.

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost),  Hiram Kmart (53 jobs lost).

Guam:  Sears Hometown Store.

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway closed in February 2013 (69 jobs lost),  Pensacola Kmart on East 9 Mile Road will close in May (73 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost), Bonita Springs Kmart (67 jobs lost), Mount Dora Kmart (100 jobs lost), Lake Mary Kmart, Panama City Beach Kmart (54 jobs lost).

Hawaii: Honolulu Sears (owned by GGP, 372 jobs lost!!!),  Kauai Sears (41 jobs lost),  Iwilei-Honolulu Kmart for lease (no confirmation of store closing).

Vacant bedroom/bathroom section.

One corner of the half vacant Chubbuck, Idaho, Sears. No official closing announcement was made.

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost).  No official announcement, but it’s painfully obvious the Chubbuck Pine Ridge Mall Sears going’ down. Or, maybe it’s preps for Shop within a Shop, or one of those domestic spy data storage centers?  On 07 November 2013, GGP sold off the Pine Ridge Mall for a paltry $9 million USD.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

Ever since the Kmart bankruptcy, this pad site for sale sign has been seen in the Pocatello, Idaho, Big Kmart parking lot. The Kmart is the only building on the lot.

Indiana:  Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Sears (49 jobs lost), South Anthony Kmart (70 jobs lost), Fort Wayne Kmart on South Anthony Boulevard (70 jobs lost).

Illinois:  Alton Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Zion Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Lawn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), McHenry Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Peru Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lombard Sears/Great Indoors (at least 40 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost), Homer Glen Kmart (82 jobs lost), Streator Kmart (45 jobs lost), Lombard Kmart (70 jobs lost), Naperville Kmart (98 jobs lost), Calumet Sears (164 jobs lost), two Sears stores in Grand Crossing area of Chicago (247 jobs lost!), Mount Vernon Sears (68 jobs lost), Moline Sears (at least 60 jobs lost),  Homewood Kmart (185 jobs lost),  Belvidere Kmart (91 jobs lost),  Champaign’s Market Place Mall Sears (56 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (60 jobs lost), Montgomery Kmart (81 jobs lost).  58 Chicago area stores up for lease or sale.  By the way, Illinois elected officials gave Sears Holdings/Hoffman Estates a $150 million USD tax break to keep their headquarters in the state.  The tax break was not tied to any promise not to close stores.

Iowa:  Cedar Rapids Kmart on 16th Ave (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost), Coralville Sears (94 jobs lost, this is a store sold to GGP earlier in the year), Cedar Rapids Kmart on Collins Road NE (56 jobs lost).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears (in September 2012 the Sears store re-opened under independent ownership, official grand re-opening scheduled for November), Winchester Kmart (back in May, Rankin Paynter bought out what was left of the inventory and gave it to charity), Hazard Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lexington Fayette Mall Sears (114 jobs lost!), recently revealed Newport Kmart (81 jobs lost).

Maine: Lewiston Sears (60 to 70 jobs lost), Presque Isle Sears (80 jobs lost).

Maryland: Ellicott Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Gaithersburg Sears/Great Indoors, Landover Sears (115 jobs lost).

Massachusetts: North Reading Sears Hardware store closed, lease not renewed.

Michigan: Novi Sears/Great Indoors, Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials,  Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart, Flint Kmart (46 jobs lost), Gaylord Kmart (48 jobs lost), Sterling Kmart (58 jobs lost), Bloomfield Township Kmart and Sears, recently revealed Bad Axe Kmart (61 jobs lost).

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart, Bemidji Kmart, Monticello Kmart, GGP owned Sears Auto Center in the Apache Mall closed (10 jobs lost), the entire Sears store in the Apache Mall being sold off, Fergus Falls Kmart (40 jobs lost).

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line, Gautier Sears (71 jobs lost), Waveland Gulfport Kmart (32 jobs lost), Pass Road Gulfport Kmart (52 jobs lost),  Pascagoula Sears at the Singing River Mall.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line, High Ridge Kmart (59 jobs lost).

Montana: Missoula Kmart (50 jobs lost).

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials,  Portsmouth Kmart (30 jobs lost).

North Carolina: Cary Kmart (71 jobs lost), High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost), Asheville Kmart (53 jobs lost),  West Smithfield Kmart (59 jobs lost), Winston-Salem Kmart (69 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (58 jobs lost), South Ashville Kmart on Hendersonville Road, Raleigh Kmart (88 jobs lost), Garner Kmart, Cleveland County mall Sears (56 jobs lost).

North Dakota: Jamestown Kmart (45 jobs lost).

New Jersey:  Lawnside Kmart (about 80 jobs lost), Howell Kmart (57 jobs lost).

New Mexico: Las Cruces Kmart (58 jobs lost).

New York: Depew (Lancaster?) Kmart (68 jobs lost), Colonie Kmart (72 jobs lost),  Fulton Kmart (51 jobs lost).

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Columbus Sears/Great Indoors, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost), Austintown Sears auto parts and service on Interstate Boulevard,  London Kmart (no word on number of jobs lost),  Trotwood Sears (67 jobs lost).   Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City Sears (98 jobs lost, GGP owned, GGP wants a $2 million sales tax rebate, claiming it’s needed to offset capital investments needed to bring the space up to the standards for potential new tenants), recently revealed Shawnee Sears (31 jobs lost).

Oregon: Roseburg Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Tualatin Kmart Center (new property owner from California is tearing everything down for new shopping center, so far no indication the Kmart will be part of the new shopping center), Milwaukie Kmart (61 jobs lost), Coos Bay Kmart (25 jobs lost), Bend Sears (48 jobs lost).

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears, Warminster Kmart (85 jobs lost), Shippensburg Kmart (46 jobs lost), Moon Kmart (143 jobs lost), Bethlehem Township Kmart (62 jobs lost).

South Carolina: Sumter Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Orangeburg Sears (57 jobs lost), Columbia Kmart on Fort Jackson Boulevard in 2012, Columbia Kmart on Bush River Road in 2009, Columbia Kmart on St Andrews Road (66 jobs lost), Irmo Kmart (no info on how many jobs lost),  both Greenville Kmarts (140 jobs lost between the two),  Mount Pleasant Kmart (43 jobs lost), recently revealed Harbison Sears & Sears Auto Center in the Columbiana Centre mall (97 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Cleveland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Oak Ridge Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Hendersonville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Morristown Sears (about 70 jobs lost), Clinton South Kmart, Franklin CoolSprings Galleria Sears (92 jobs lost), Memphis Hickory Ridge mall Sears (job loss data not revealed), 48 years old Nashville Kmart on Nolensville Pike to close by January 2014 (57 jobs lost).

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost), Farmers Branch Sears/Great Indoors, Houston Sears Great/Indoors.

Utah:  Orem Kmart (no details reported).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears (at least 40 jobs lost),  Midlothian Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Richmond Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost), Fairfax Kmart (no word on how many jobs lost), Christiansburg Sears (59 jobs lost), Norfolk Kmart on East Little Creek Road (77 jobs lost), Manassas Kmart (71 jobs lost), Stafford Sears Hometown.

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line (in August 2012, it was reported that an independent owner of Sears Hometown stores will open a store in Walla Walla), Lacey Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Kelso Sears (47 jobs lost), Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost),  Seattle Kmart (85 jobs lost), East Wenatchee Sears (59 jobs lost), Puyallup Kmart (51 jobs lost).

West Virginia: Oak Hill Kmart (59 jobs lost), Morgantown Kmart (100 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears (at least 40 jobs lost, local village officials say the store generated 3% of local tax collections), Rice Lake Kmart (about 71 jobs lost),  Brookfield Kmart (56 jobs lost), Racine’s Regency Mall Sears (52 jobs lost), Fort Atkinson Kmart (51 jobs lost), Greenfield Kmart (107 jobs lost), Portage Kmart (78 jobs lost) and Hales Corner (129 jobs lost).

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall (it’s official the Sears is closing, see above), and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall (it’s official, the Sears closed, see above)

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center (closed, see above)

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall  (see update above, GGP will close Sears store by 2014)

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center (see update above, GGP closing store)

U.S.

Virus hitting hundreds of children in the United States, no it’s not the Flu! Hospitals telling kids to Keep Out! Keep kids out of school!

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The Arizona Department of Health Services reports 164 cases of  RSV so far this season.  32 of those cases showed up this past week. More than 80% of the cases involve children under the age of five.

Hospital officials in the city of Phoenix are telling kids to stay away from the hospital: “Any kids less than 12, we don’t like them coming to the hospital because they obviously are at a higher risk of carrying those infections and passing them on.”-Wassim Ballan, Phoenix Children’s Hospital

In Houston, Texas, an outbreak of RSV has sent hundreds of children to the hospital since the beginning of the 2013/14 flu season.  Just one hospital, Children’s Memorial Hermann, reports that since October they’ve admitted more than 140 children for the viral infection.

RSV is not the flu, but it might just be what most people have called the common cold.  The ‘season’ for human Respiratory Syncytial Virus just happens to be the same ‘season’ as for influenza.

Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting a 45% increase in RSV cases in December 2013, compared to December 2012.  By the end of December 2013 there were 600 confirmed cases of RSV in Texas.  State officials admitted they do not track deaths, but also said they haven’t heard of any, yet.

RSV hits children hardest. There is no vaccine, and treatment is limited to trying to help the patient breath and observation.

In New Jersey, by the end of December 2013 there were more confirmed RSV cases than confirmed influenza cases.  120 RSV versus 16 flu (of course that might have changed by now).

A study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases says grade schools are the main source of RSV infections.  The study was done in a rural area of Kenya, on the continent of Africa.  It concluded that “…for a high proportion of infant RSV infections, the source is from within the household and predominantly introduced by an elder school-going sibling…”-Wellcome Trust Research Program study

RSV also affects adults.  Another study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases says some transplant patients are at risk of getting RSV.  It involves hematopoietic cell transplant and lymphopenia: “This study identified a protective lymphocyte count level (more than 1,000/mm3), which might suggest that patients who acquire RSV during the first 100 days after transplantation do not require treatment if they have good lymphocyte counts. On the other hand, patients with the risk factors identified in this study may be good candidates for early antiviral treatment.”-Michael Boeckh, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Center

A study by the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation concluded that even though RSV is currently considered to mainly target children, older people are targeted as well, which challenges current beliefs that by the time most people become adults they’ve become immune to RSV.  At least 10% of hospitalizations of people 65 years of age, or older, for pneumonia is actually caused by RSV: “Knowing that adults’ susceptibility to RSV increases as they age is important for health care providers and public health officials to note as they treat and monitor respiratory illnesses this season.”-Edward Belongia, Director of the Epidemiology Research Center at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation

A troubling study involving mice suggests that getting sick with RSV as a child, and infected again as an adult is not a good thing.  The study was published in the Journal of Virology, it basically says your immune system has a short term memory regarding its encounter with RSV when you were a kid.  This immune system memory is called Innate Immune Pathogenic Recall Response: “Infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in neonatal mice leads to exacerbated disease if mice are reinfected with the same virus as adults……….These findings indicate a hitherto unappreciated role for the innate immune response in governing the pathogenic recall responses to RSV infection.”-Delayed Sequelae of Neonatal Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Are Dependent on Cells of the Innate Immune System

The above study would also suggest that if a vaccine was made it would be of short term benefit only.