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.
International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 14-17 December 2013: More drone strikes! Security deal with India! More cops join Mujahideen! Increased child sex crimes under U.S. control!

Ghazni Province: In Andar District, Afghan National Army (ANA) reports battles with Mujahideen.  The ANA says at least eight of the Mujahideen they killed are from Pakistan.

Helmand Province: Camp Bastion, Bilderberg British empire Prime Minister, David Cameron, vowed that the British empire will stay in Afghanistan because only a basic level of security had been achieved. In Sangin District, government officials are investigating reports that Afghan National Police have willingly turned over at least three check points to Mujahideen!

Herat Province: In Obe District, an ANA soldier shot and killed two other ANA troops.  ANA officials say the shootout lasted several hours and the instigator was also killed.

Kandahar Province: A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market place on the boarder with Pakistan. Two people killed, six wounded.

Kapisa Province: In Nijrab District, Mujahideen claim to have repelled an Israeli style home invasion by U.S. led troops. They say they killed six of the invaders.  Two Mujahideen were killed.

Kunar Province: In Chapa Dara Ditrict, two people killed after the vehicle they were in drove over a landmine. In Shigal District, four people killed and one wounded when they drove over a landmine.  Mujahideen claim they’ve killed two members of the U.S. led Counter-terrorism Pursuit Team. They also say one Mujahid was killed in the firefight.

Nangarhar Province: In Lalpoor District, seven people were killed by U.S.-NATO-ISAF drone strike. Of course, government officials said no civilians were killed.  In Torkham City, a suicide bomber blew up inside the National Directorate of Security (Afghan version of Homeland Security) compound.  At least two people killed, three wounded.

Sar-e-Pul Province:  In Asia Abad village, three men were arrested for raping a 17 years old girl. Two other suspects are being sought. The victim is asking the courts to “hang” the men.  This comes as the Independent Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan reports a 28% increase in child rapes in the past year.  The commissioner blamed the increase on corrupt cops and judges.

Zabul Province: Six U.S. Army personnel were killed when their Utility Helicopter-60 Blackhawk crashed. ISAF officials said they are investigating the cause of the crash.  Mujahideen say the incident happened in Shahjoi District, Ibraheem Khelo area, and that they shot the helicopter down as it passed low over a hill.

The Afghan parliament rejected President Hamid Karzai’s request to create seats for religious minorities such as Hindus and Sikhs.

India and Afghanistan have agreed to a new security deal.  Afghan officials presented Indian officials with a wish list for military equipment, and India has agreed to open up positions for Afghans at Indian military academies.

Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman, Janan Mosazai, said Iran is not supporting anti-government forces.  He said Iran is a good ally of Afghanistan.  Mosazai was responding to accusations against Iran by the governor of Farah Province.

In a separate issue, Mosazai said there is no evidence that Afghans are taking part in the U.S. funded civil war in Syria.

The United Nations International Labour Organization reports that since 2002, 5% of Afghans who escaped the U.S. occupation only to be forced to return, have escaped U.S. occupied Afghanistan again.  Afghans who escaped the hell of U.S. occupation say lack of good paying jobs is their number one reason for leaving.  They also blame the lack of good jobs on the U.S. occupation.

Air National Guard’s 105th Base Defense Squadron, from the U.S. state of New York, returned home from Afghanistan. One of the militia-airmen was killed in Afghanistan.

Air National Guard’s 119th Security Forces Squadron, in the U.S. state of North Dakota, was formerly recognized for their mission in Afghanistan.

200 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, from the U.S. state of Georgia, deploying to Afghanistan.

160 militiamen of the Army National Guard’s 1742nd Transportation Company, from the U.S. state of South Dakota, reported for training to be deployed to Afghanistan.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Killer nuke waste incinerator to be re-started! Nuke control room computers hacked! 500% increase in radiation in California? Duct tape preferred tool at Fukushima! Support the resistance!

06 January 2014 (15:58 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/16 Dey 1392/06 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“I am violating the law! But I won’t obey what the government says, because we were betrayed! Our community was destroyed by the nuclear disaster. Instead of slaughtering them, these cattle should be used to study the long-term effects of radiation. Killing them is destroying evidence. I am a cowboy, and cowboys do not abandon their cows! I will stay with them until I die!”-Yoshizawa Masami, Fukushima Nuclear Resistance (for more read below)

A former nuclear waste incinerator is being allowed to go back into operation, even though it was shutdown for killing two employees and contaminating 600 others!

In 1999 JCO, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining, was shutdown after a disaster at its nuke incinerator in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture.  However, due to the overwhelming volume of accumulated nuclear waste, from the ongoing nuke disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, JCO is being allowed to re-start their low-level nuclear waste incinerator.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency discovered that one of its computers at the Monju fast-breeder reactor, on the coast off the Sea of Japan, was illegally accessed!

The JAEA says the computer was hacked at least 30 times.  Officials claim they traced the hack to U.S. puppet South Korea! The computer was used to store office emails and employee training records.  They discovered the hacks while updating the software.

Remember that California video I wrote about, at the end of December? Other people have been conducting their own radiation sampling, some saying their  record keeping shows a 500% increase in radiation levels on the California coast!

The video actually caught the attention of county officials, who promptly poo-pooed the claims: “It’s not something that we feel is an immediate public health concern…”-Dean Peterson, San Mateo County

The so called county ‘expert’ went on to say that what is really happening is an increase in ‘background’ radiation!   Hello, dummy, that still means radiation is increasing!

So what has Tokyo Electric Power Company slave wage throwaway workers been using to repair the leaking contaminated water storage tanks?  According to worker interviews published by Asahi Shimbun, duct tape and chicken wire!

TEPCo has announced it will begin its plan to freeze the ground around the GE designed disaster reactors. In late December TEPCo revealed that radiation leaks containing strontium 90 were increasing from Reactor Unit 1.  Radiation leaks from Reactor Unit 2 have been increasing since November 2013.  Whatever happened to TEPCo’s plan to build an iron wall around Fukushima Daiichi, announced back in September 2011?

The leader of the Fukushima Nuclear Resistance, Yoshizawa Masami, is fighting government orders to have his cattle slaughtered.  His adult cows are showing strange signs, like white spots/speckles developing on their brown skin.

Yoshizawa’s farm is only 14km (8.6 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi.  He insists the cows should live, to be studied by scientists and be an example of the evils of nuclear power.

Reports say scientists are beginning to descended upon Yoshizawa’s farm to study what is happening to his cows.  The cows are confirmed to be contaminated with cesium. The government also wants Yoshizawa to vacate his land. Is there something the government wants to hide?  See ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) report.

 

Fukushima, International

Iran asks Trilateral Commission member (and failed nuke facility operator) Japan to build nuclear power plants in Iran!

06 January 2014 (15:06 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/16 Dey 1392/06 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“Japan has very advanced technology on nuclear power plants…..I see good prospects in the future that Iran and Japan can cooperate….”-Seyed Abbas Araqchi, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs

NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has interviewed Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araqchi, who said Iran very much would like Japan to build electricity generating nuke power plants in his country.

Iran is making such an offer their key issue with the Trilateral Commission (Pacific Asian Group) member known as Japan (Nippon).

Official Orwellian Double-Speak pro-war propaganda program has begun 

Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea!

Japanese news media is reporting that Hagel is planning to officially ask Japan to prepare to take over some U.S. military ops

Trilateral Commission member, Japan, to create new Homeland Security office!

Japan enters U.S. data collection/spying market!

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

TriLateral Imperialism as the U.S. mulls allowing Japan to invade Korea!!!

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973.  The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Japan, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).

In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asian Group.

In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region.  The answer is very simple.  Today’s NATO is a new NATO.  It’s a NATO with a global perspective.  It’s a NATO with global partners.  And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 26-27 September 2013. More University layoffs, as more people refuse college, and fail High School! More publishers in trouble!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Alabama: Birmingham, Butler’s Grooming Club shutdown its downtown location.  Company owners have made a deal to open men’s salons in Saks Fifth Avenue stores.

California: Boeing laid off at least four people across the Golden State. Symantec laid off 80 people.  Palo Alto, business law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati laid off 35 people. A company press release said “…unfortunately, the job and the industry have changed, and we must make some changes to more efficiently serve our internal constituency and clients, and better position the firm for the future.”  West Hollywood, Koo Koo Roo chicken restaurant shut down.  Pico Rivera, Cablofil shutdown, 27 jobs lost.  San Clemente, Southern California Edison laid off 14 workers.  Burbank, Walt Disney Pictures laid off six employees.

Florida: Weston, Too Big to Jail American Express laid off 300 people!  Billing ops in Weston are being moved to California and Connecticut by the beginning of 2015.

Georgia: Central Georgia Health System laid off 50 health care workers. Company officials said it’s because of the expected crash in government and insurance industry reimbursements under Obama Care.

Idaho: Boise, Affinion Group kills 226 jobs!

Michigan: Musgekon, after 31 years Daniels Hair Styling Academy shutdown. The owner said she needs to retire.

Montana: Billings, the Montana Rescue Mission shutdown their downtown operation. The operators say they are moving employees to other operations where demand is higher.

New York:  Regional newspaper publisher, GateHouse Media, now bankrupt.  Company officials claim to be in debt by $1.3-billion USD!  United Airlines laid off 82 employees at the Greater Rochester International Airport and Albany International Airport. New York City, Condé Nast Traveler laid off 14 editors, including the entire ‘photo desk’. Reports say the magazine is shifting to digital formats.  Medina, medical device maker Baxter International laid off “less than 100 people”.  Company officials said that it was due to suspension of shipments of certain products (?due to new Obama Care taxes maybe?).  Buena Vista Books shutdown, 33 jobs lost.

North Carolina: Durham, unconfirmed reports say The Herald-Sun newspaper laid off as many as six employees.  The newspaper recently started charging people to see their internet articles.   Greensboro, after 53 years of cooking Anton’s Restaurant shut down. Owner Tom Anton says “It’s been a struggle for awhile what with the economy and competition.”

Ohio: Columbus, TimberTech shutdown, 58 jobs lost.  Salon, Arrow Electronics shutdown, 54 jobs lost.  Palmerton, after 40 years iconic Spillane’s Variety Store shutdown.  The 71 years old owner, Bill Spillane, said business was good but “…it’s time to go and enjoy things. I’ve been working all those years since I got out of high school, and I just feel I missed out on a lot of things. I worked six days, sometimes seven a week!”   Youngstown State University $6.6-million in the hole! Nine employees laid off, expect more: “Three consecutive years of enrollment declines, combined with consistent reductions in state operating appropriations, has resulted in a significant structural budget deficit that requires us to immediately implement cost savings measures.”-Randy J. Dunn, YSU President

Pennsylvania: 156 years old Mansfield University laid off at least 54 employees. They are short at least $14.3-million! University officials blame their crashing enrollment numbers on the crashing High School graduation rate in the region! Apollo, Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market shutdown. The grocery store was only five years old.  Company officials now realize the small population of Apollo could not support a third grocery store.

Tennessee: The owner of two drive in movie cinemas says he has to shut one down in order to afford the digital upgrade for the other.  His Midtown Drive-In in Harriman was sacrificed to update his Parkway Drive-In in Maryville.

Texas: Houston, Too Big to Jail Pentagroup Financial shutdown, 123 jobs lost!  Xerox laid off 81 people.

Washington: Richland, Fluor Federal Services laid off 150 people!

Washington DC: In Obama’s current back yard, HandsOn Greater DC Care now bankrupt and dissolved, after 24 years of non-profit unpaid volunteer programs to help the poor. No reasonable explanation given.

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

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 10-13 December 2013: Karzai tells Obama F-You! Obama officials slip up admits they’re clueless! Increased attacks by Pakistan! World Bank tricks Afghanistan with offer of free money!

“…they [Obama regime] can’t push us up against the wall! What I’ve been hearing in recent days and heard in the past is classic colonial exploitation…..Afghans will not submit, they have already fought colonial masters!”-Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan during interview with French newspaper Le Monde, concerning the Obama regime’s bilateral security agreement

“We’re nowhere near a decision that would involve our departing Afghanistan altogether.”-James Dobbins, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan, testifying to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee

“I’m very troubled with the fact we may have wasted a half-billion dollars on planes that don’t work, will never be flown and will probably be scrapped!”-John F. Sopko, U.S. Special Inspector General, in interview with FoxNews concerning U.S. taxes spent on inoperable aircraft sitting at Kabul International Airport, and Ramstein Air Base in Germany

The Washington Times reports that the Obama regime doesn’t have a clue as to how many U.S. personnel have been killed or how much U.S. taxes have been spent in Afghanistan!  Obama lackies were unable to give Congressmen specific numbers on death toll or expenditures, prompting Representative Dana Rohrabacher to exclaim “Holy cow!”.

Badghis Province: In Bala Murghab District, a house was hit with rockets.  Six family members dead, three wounded. Of course local cops blame Mujahideen, with no proof.

Baghlan Province: In Doshi District, a 15 years old girl was kidnapped and raped. Police say they’ve arrested a suspect, although the victim says there were several attackers.

Helmand Province: A USMC Lance Corporal, from the state of Massachusetts, was killed by explosion.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City there was a car bomb explosion near the U.S. led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base.  No reports of casualties.

Khost Province: In Gurbaz District, reports say an artillery attack by Pakistan killed one person, and wounded two.

Kunar Province:  In Asmar District, a coed junior high school was burned down.  There is no evidence as to who did it.  In Dandam District, district officials say Pakistan hit their district with six rounds of artillery fire.  No word on damage.

Pakitia Province: In Jani Khel District, reports of government troops shooting up a vehicle, wounding a man and his two children.

Uruzgan Province: In Dehrawod District, reports that five men wearing Afghan National Army uniforms shot up a house, wounding four people.

Zabul Province: In Arghandab District, government forces stole 25 motorcycles, giving no explanation. Eight motorcycles were burned.  The local Imam, a doctor and one other person were kidnapped.  This has happened in other provinces.

The U.S. based World Bank announced more free money for Afghanistan. This time from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), supposedly to increase dairy production.  But wait, it’s a trick!  The $1.83-million USD isn’t going to Afghanistan, it’s actually going to Bilderberg Dutch company Van den Heuvel Dairy Food Equipment B.V., and two individual “investors”!

India is giving Afghanistan two Cheetah helicopters.  The Cheetah is a license built version of an old French helicopter.  India is considering sending a military team to Afghanistan, to help rebuild an old Soviet military maintenance facility.

Army National Guard’s 152nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, from the U.S. state of South Dakota, returned from Afghanistan.

Army National Guard’s Agribusiness Development Team 4, from the U.S. state of Nebraska, returned home from Afghanistan.  The commander of ADT 4 has been deployed six times.

41 militiamen from South Carolina’s Army National Guard returned home from Afghanistan.

About 11 militiamen, from Illinois’ Army National Guard Bilateral Embedded Staff Team A11, returned home from Afghanistan.

International

Vaccines: Three companies stop making Hep B shots! More babies die! UN insists Hep B shots are safe!

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Two more Chinese companies, Tiantan Biological Products and Dalian Hissen Bio-Pharm, have been banned from production of hepatitis B vaccine. This despite the United Nations’ World Health Organization claiming there is nothing wrong with the hep B vaccines they inspected.  The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) also claims they can not find anything wrong with hep B vaccines.

Officially, the shut down of the top three Chinese makers of hep b vaccine is being blamed on new Good Manufacturing Practice rules.

On 03 January 2014, Chinese media reported that deaths connected to the hep B vaccine hit 17.  Chinese government officials said they ruled out nine deaths as being directly caused by the mandatory vaccines.  However, they were not able to explain the deaths, and said they were still awaiting autopsy reports!

On 31 December 2013, health officials in Shandong Province reported two more infants died after getting the mandatory shots.

By 24 December 2013, seven Chinese infants died after getting mandatory hep B vaccines.

On 20 December 2013, CFDA banned the use of vaccines from drug maker BioKangtai, apparently due to the new GMP rules.

There are still four companies in China making hep B vaccines, including British Bilderberg empire company GlaxoSmithKline.  Chinese officials say only two of those companies have passed new certification rules.

U.S. court says vaccine could kill: Hepatitis vaccines causing people to die!

International

World War 3, West Asian Front-Lebanon: Obama regime assassinates their own terrorist to cover up attack against iran?

05 January 2014 (02:15 UTC-07 Tango)/03 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/15 Dey 1392/05 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

19 November 2013: The Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is bombed.  25 people killed, including a diplomat.  U.S. funded al Qaeda group, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claims credit for the bombing.

26 December 2013: Lebanese Armed Forces capture Majid (Majed) bin Muhammad al-Majid, a Saudi Arabian working with Abdullah Azzam Brigades.  Lebanese officials suspect Majid was brought in by Saudi Arabia, in 2012, to lead Abdullah Azzam Brigades in attacks against Shia Lebanese, and Iranian targets.  For some reason the public report of his capture was delayed until 01 January 2014.

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, said Majid is “…a Saudi emir….directly linked to Saudi intelligence…”

03 January 2014: It was reported that Lebanese officials confirmed the ID of Majid through DNA testing.  It was also reported that he suddenly became too sick to be interrogated.  It turns out that Majid was already in hospital on 24 December.  Whatever his condition was it worsened, and the Red Cross/Crescent was contacted for transport to a better hospital.  The Lebanese Armed Forces intercepted that call and that was how they captured him on 26 December.  He ended up in the Baabda military hospital.

04 January 2014: Majid dies.  The Lebanese Armed Forces claim he died from kidney failure (which was why he was in the hospital to begin with), and was so sick they could not interrogate him (how convenient).  Saudi Arabia is demanding the immediate return of Majid’s body. Many eastern news media outlets point out that the death of Majid prevents important info from ever being known.

Iranian officials are demanding an autopsy to determine the true cause of death: “Under the current circumstances, it is necessary for the Lebanese government to conduct tests and perform an autopsy on al-Majed to establish the cause of his death……..al-Majed was a clue to many elements behind the terrorist act outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, his interrogation would have definitely yielded useful information…..”-Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Foreign Policy and National Security Committee of Majlis

 

 

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 25 September 2013. More ObamaCare cuts! Firefighters & prison guards now unemployed! Zoos closing down, what’s in the food?

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Reports saying the U.S. cinema industry shift to digital projectors could result in many Drive Ins closing down.  Most drive in cinema operations can not afford to switch over to digital.  One drive in operator in Connecticut said he needed at least $100-thousand USD to make the switch.

Florida: In Green Cove Springs, Gustafson’s Dairy shut down after 105 years of operations!  It’s blamed on crashing demand for their products.

Illinois: Metals recycler Keywell now bankrupt.  It sounds like the company is trying to make itself more attractive to potential buyers.

Minnesota: In Sartell, mobile advertiser NativeX laid off 28 employees.  NativeX also laid off another 17 people across the U.S.

New Jersey: Too Big to Jail Capital One eliminated 54 jobs in Secaucus.  Bank officials admit they are switching to relying on technology rather than people.  In Atlantic City, 51 federal taxpayer funded firefighters were laid off.  The federal grant that paid for the jobs ended.  In Howell, Pathmark grocery store closed down. It’s part of company plans to close stores in the region.

New York: In Amherst, Sykes Enterprises laid off 65 call center employees.  In Southampton Village, Barrister’s restaurant closed after 35 years of business. In Babylon, Village Basket shut down.  The owner, Nancy Kupferman, blamed both the bad economy and the high rent saying “…but no sales equals the inability to pay any amount of cost to run this business…”

Nevada: The Las Vegas Zoo shut down after all staff quit in protest and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an investigation into what is being fed to the animals.  Local news reports say the USDA had to provide food because the trapped animals had not been fed since the employees quit!

Oklahoma: In Tulsa, Hillcrest Healthcare System laid off 50 people because of Obama Care (the so called Affordable Care Act).  Oklahoma is one of dozens of states that opted out of expanding Medicaid under Obama Care, which means hospitals will not be reimbursed for many treaments.  In Muskogee, Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples shut down. It’s part of company plans to shut down Staples across the country.

Pennsylvania: Metal container maker Crown Holdings laid off 300 people, mostly in Europe!  Company officials blame crashing economies in Europe and North America.

South Carolina: Tax sucker General Electric (GE) laying off about 100 employees at their Greenville ops. GE officials say they are trying to make their Power & Water Business more competitive.

Tennessee: In West Knoxville, optics maker Luxottica North America shutting down, 310 jobs lost!

Texas: Tax sucker Bell Helicopter laid off 28 people at its Amarillo factory.  They blame government spending cuts.

Washington: 16 prison guards lost their jobs at the Pierce County Jail.  It’s blamed on county budget cuts.  The jail was making money by housing prisoners from several cities, but those cities have had to cut back on outsourcing their prisoners because of a lack of tax revenues. Pierce County Jail lost at least $5-million USD in 2013!

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

International, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. Department of Defense violates Federal Law and buys parts from China! F-35 = Failed State!

04 January 2014 (11:50 UTC-07 Tango)/02 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/14 Dey 1392/04 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“It was a pretty big deal and an unusual situation because there’s a prohibition on doing defense work in China, even if it’s inadvertent. I’d never seen this happen before.”-Frank Kenlon, recently retired senior DoD procurement official

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation revealed that U.S. military contractors have been authorized by the U.S. DoD to buy parts made in China, even parts for the super expensive (and total waste of tax dollars) F-35 Lightning II.  This violates current federal law!

More than a decade ago the F-35 was envisioned as a mutli-platform aircraft for all the branches of the U.S. military, and promoted as a way of saving the DoD money.  Ironically, it became so expensive that it became a multi-national project, in order to keep the already outrageous costs to taxpayers from going too much higher (and even that attempt was a fail).   Now it’s been shown that the DoD took it upon themselves to allow contractors to violate federal law and buy parts for the F-35 from China, in another move to keep costs from going higher.

The GAO will make the conclusions of their investigation public on 01 March 2014.  Reuters has already got hold of enough info to publish an article.

The GAO investigation was ordered by Congress, after U.S. metal suppliers complained they were being shut off from doing business with the DoD!

The F-35 is a prime metaphor for the exceptionally failing United States of America: It’s been dragging on for more than a decade, and more and more tax dollars are being spent with absolutely no end in sight, to the extent that public officials are willing to violate their own laws in the name of National Security!

(don’t blame China for the actions of your public officials, after all, the evil British empire is a major player in the F-35 program)

U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. citizens urged to join class action lawsuit against Obama regime!

04 January 2014 (11:32 UTC-07 Tango)/02 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/14 Dey 1392/04 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“The question here is whether or not, constitutionally, you can have a single warrant apply to millions of people…….what better way to illustrate the point than having hundreds of thousands of Americans sign up for a class action suit?”-Rand Paul, U.S. Senator from Kentucky

Sign up here: http://www.randpaul2016.com/