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, Technology

New bogus emails stealing your digital info!

22 August 2013 (11:09 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1391/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Japan’s National Police Agency warning of new emails delivering viruses to your computer, viruses that grab all your digital info.

In Japan 210 incidents targeting 5-thousand companies involved in the defense, aerospace and nuclear power industries have been reported, so far this year.

Individuals are being targeted as well.  33 individual cases reported so far this year, compared to only two last year.   The bogus emails are disguised as online job applications or product questionnaires.

Police are once again telling individuals to not click on any links on emails you got from unknown sources.  Companies have been advised to keep computers that get emails from the general public separate from in-house computers.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Leaking tanks update, 100 millisieverts per hour leaking from seams!

22 August 2013 (09:45 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic. What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else, not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that. It is much worse than we have been led to believe, much worse!”-Mycle Schneider, nuclear analyst in BBC interview

Inspections of storage tanks in Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 4 tank farm show the bolted together tanks are leaking radiation, even if they’re not leaking water!  The inspections were ordered by Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) after the 19 August discovery of a massive water leak.

The 300 metric tons of highly contaminated water that is now suspected of pouring into the Pacific Ocean, came from just one of the 350 Reactor 4 storage tanks.

On another Reactor 4 storage tank they discovered that the seams of the bolted on panels are emitting 70 to 100 millisieverts per hour of radiation!  The safe limit for nuclear industry workers in Japan are set at 50 millisieverts per year!  And here’s the rub on this latest discovery; the exterior of the tank is dry, and has not leaked any water.  This means that deadly radiation is escaping from the tank seams, and when it rains it runs off into the Pacific Ocean.  Each tank holds 1-thousand metric tons of contaminated water, and many have no external way to gauge the water level.

And don’t forget the new leak they discovered yesterday, at a different tank farm!

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: 30 trillion becquerels of radiation floods Pacific Ocean! Could be worse, TEPCo admits they keep no records!

22 August 2013 (21:40 UTC-07 Tango 21 August 2013)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

After two and a half years of playing dumb, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has revealed that 10 trillion becquerels of deadly strontium, and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium, have flooded into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011!  The new report does not include March and April 2011!

Actually, anyone who’s been following my postings about Fukushima Daiichi (going all the way back to March 2011) should not be surprised.

The amount could be much higher as TEPCo officials admitted to Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, in an emergency meeting on 21 August, that they have not kept any official records of radiation emissions or contamination!!!  The NRA official responded by saying “So, you rely on the memory of your workers?”

Becquerel is an internationally accepted measurement for a unit of radioactivity, equal to one nuclear decay or other nuclear transformation per second.  Named after Antoine Henri Becquerel.

The becquerel (Bq) replaced the curie (Ci) measurement system.  Curie is a non-internationally accepted way to measure radiation, named after Marie and Pierre Curie.  One Ci equals 37-billion Bq (37 gigabecquerels GBq).

1-thousand Ci of a radioisotope can produce serious health effects after only a few minutes of exposure.  30 trillion Bq is the same as 30 terabecquerels (TBq).  30 TBq equals 810.810 Ci.

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Major U.S. employer slashes health insurance for 15000 people, blames Obama Romney Care!

21 August 2013 (16:58 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1391/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“This change is consistent with the way many large employers are responding to the costs associated with the Health Care Reform legislation.”-UPS memo to employees

United Parcel Service (UPS), a major employer in the United States, has canceled insurance policies for spouses of employees.   15-thousand spouses now have no health insurance!

UPS officials told Kaiser Health News that the Obama/Romney Care is actually causing health care/insurance costs to skyrocket, and they can not afford to provide insurance to so many people.

Another reason for the drop of 15-thousand people from the UPS provided insurance plan, is that UPS officials said the Obama/Romney Care law claims everyone will end up being covered anyway.  But, UPS said it will continue covering spouses who don’t work, or who work for companies that do not provide insurance.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: NRA holds emergency meeting, says TEPCo has failed! U.S. news media behind the 8 Ball on reporting severity!

21 August 2013 (16:35 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1392/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) held an emergency meeting, led by the NRA’s Fuketa Toyoshi.  In the meeting NRA officials blasted Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCo) failure to handle the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

Fuketa basically declared TEPCo’s efforts to be a failure, and that TEPCo’s latest plans to stop ongoing leaks will also fail!

I noticed that only now is the U.S. main streamer media reporting on the massive leaks, which were reported in the Japanese media on 19 August.  The U.S. media is also making it sound like this is a new leak, when in fact it has been ongoing since the beginning of the disaster two and a half years ago!!!  Oh, and don’t forget about the ‘new’ leak discovered today!

And have you heard anything from the U.S. main streamers about the Fukushima children suffering from radiation caused thyroid cancer?

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: IAEA says it will help Japan fight the losing battle at Fukushima Daiichi!

21 August 2013 (16:20 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1392/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has responded to Japan’s request for help regarding the expanding nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi!

The IAEA says it is ready to help.  The IAEA has offered help before, but it wasn’t until after the 19 August leak that Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority finally asked for help.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: New leak contaminating Pacific Ocean!!! TEPCo admits storage tank leaks have been ongoing, dosen’t know how much has escaped!

21 August 2013 (16:09 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1392/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“If a leak occurred in one tank, we should assume that the same thing could happen at other tanks as well.”-Tanaka Shunichi, Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA)

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has revealed yet another radiation leak pouring into the Pacific Ocean!  The new leak was found in a runoff ditch about 50 meters (164 feet) from a contaminated water storage tank farm (complex), located on a hillside.  This is not in connection to the discovery on 19 August of a massive leak coming from the Reactor 4 tank farm.  TEPCo admits that this new leak is draining into the Pacific Ocean.  The water tested at six millisieverts per hour of radiation.

In another example of corporate incompetence,  TEPCo admitted they have not been monitoring leaking contaminated water storage tanks at the Reactor 4 tank farm!  Awhile back they knew about 350 1-thousand metric tons capacity tanks were leaking, but they dealt with it by building a short retaining wall around the tank farm, and then they basically forgot about it!

That is until 19 August when underpaid and undertrained workers discovered a 300 metric tons leak outside of the retaining wall!   Now workers, under guidance of the NRA, have confirmed at least four of the 1-thousand metric tons capacity tanks are leaking!

“The water is believed to contain thousands of trillions of becquerels of radioactive substances.”-NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has now declared the leaking storage tanks near the GE designed Reactor 4 to be a Level Three Incident, which is considered a “Serious incident” on the zero to seven level international Nuclear Event Standard.  The NRA is now asking the International Atomic Energy Agency for help!

The contamination detected on 19 August was at 100 millisieverts per hour!  The safe limits for nuclear industry workers in Japan are set at 50 millisieverts per year!

Here’s some more examples of incompetence: Many of the water tanks have no way of gauging how much water is in them, which would make it easier to know if they were leaking, and by how much!  The tanks are not welded, they consist of steel panels that are bolted together! Realize that TEPCo simply built a retaining wall around the tank farm, because they knew the tanks were leaking, another question is how much of that leaked water held withing the retaining wall has seeped into the ground, and for how long?

In a bid to gain some confidence, TEPCo officials announced that their Vice President, Aizawa Zengo, will take direct command of the ongoing nuke disaster.  Aizawa’s office will be moved to Fukushima Daiichi.

International

Martial Law BS: New Zealand government passes law to spy on its own people!

21 August 2013 (03:29 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1391/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“It reduces our freedom to live free from state surveillance, and what we have seen around this debate is the government trying to actively confuse people!”-Russel Norman, Green Party

The British empire country of New Zealand has just passed a bill giving itself the authority to spy on its own citizens!  It empowers the Orwellian Government Communications Security Bureau to do the evil deed.

On 19 August, Prime Minister John Key got pissed at the news media questioning his rationale for spying on his fellow citizens.  Key swears it’s necessary for New Zealand’s national security!

Here’s what one reporter asked: “Prime Minister, numerous legal jurors have informed us publicly that they disagree with you wholeheartedly, that you are taking broad powers, which would allow you to invade privacy…and you are saying that all those people are wrong…”

News reports say Keys interrupted the reporter, then stated the reporter’s question contained the answer and cut the press conference short.  Do any U.S. main streamer news reporters have the balls to ask similar questions of ‘elected’ officials?

The bill must now be given Royal Assent to become law (remember, this is the British empire we’re talking about).  I don’t doubt the Queen of England will approve.

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 22-23 June 2013. BoA lays off 1320 people in New York! More school & health care cuts!

Designer of trade show and event exhibits, VisionStream, now bankrupt.  Company officials hope another company will merge with them, or buy them, so they can survive.

In Michigan, Genesys Health System laid off 100 employees: “….these initiatives were necessary due to reduced reimbursement brought about through the Accountable Care Act [aka Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Act] and Sequestration. For instance, it is estimated that for its fiscal year 2014 Genesys will have an $11 million reduction in reimbursement for the same amount of patient care it is delivering today.”   In Plainfield Township, Eastern Floral shut down.   The company is focusing on internet sales.

In Arizona, the Christian God couldn’t stop Carondelet Health Network (Southern Arizona Catholic/Ascension Health) from laying off 40 people: “The effects of sequestration, the increased cost of caring for the uninsured, and national trends toward fewer people seeking inpatient hospital care were all factors.”

In California, the approved Fresno City budget means 30 people will be unemployed.

The Oregonian newspaper laid off 95 employees.  The newspaper is switching to digital service.

In Pennsylvania, Aramark Educational Services lost its dining services contract with Duquesne University.   358 people out-o-work!

In New York, PJ’s Pub and Grill closed in Syracuse.  It was sold.  In  Westchester, Buffet de la Gare closed after 33 years of business.  The owner wants to retire, her co-owner husband (and the restaurant’s chief chef) died in 2011.  In Medina, the Worthington Industries BernzOmatic factory is shutting down.  174 people out-o-work!  Production being moved to Wisconsin. Too Big to Jail, Bank of America, closed its Getzville office.  1320 people laid off!!!!  The office was sold to M&T Bank, which might hire on some of the former BoA employees.

The Swank outlet store in Taunton, Massachusetts, closed.   The new owners say economic conditions don’t justify keeping the store open.  It sounds like the company will focus on distribution of products to customers like Macy’s and Kohl’s.  The company first started in 1897.

In Missouri, Milbourn’s Family Restaurant shut down.  It’s blamed on the property owner (Farris Truck Stop) who demanded the restaurant operator leave, and then terminated the lease.  There was no explanation by the property owner.

Bodytalk women’s clothing store in Westport, Connecticut, closed after 20 years of business.  The 81 years old owner said “We’re closing for a whole bunch of reasons.”

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

International

Martial Law BS: Strict anti-gun laws fail to stop mass shooting in Germany!

21 August 2013 (23:45 UTC-07 Tango 20 August 2013)/14 Shawwal 1434/30 Mordad 1391/15 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

According to German news sources, a man shot several people in a restaurant in Dossenheim.  At least three people dead including the shooter.  Five people wounded.

Police say it might have something to do with an argument involving a meeting of local property owners.

To own a gun in Germany you must become licensed by proving you have a need to own a gun, such as hunting, target shooting or collection. Believe it or not, needing a gun for personal protection is only accepted in exceptional circumstances!

You must go through criminal and mental background checks to get licensed.  A gun training course is required.

All personally owned guns must be registered with the government, your gun will be stamped with a government ID mark.  You must have a dealers license to sell your gun.  How you store your gun is dictated by federal and state rules.

Open carry of a gun requires a permit.  Fully automatic guns are illegal for personal possession. Ownership of semi-automatic assault type guns, and handguns, requires special government approval.  Armor-piercing, incendiary and expanding ammunition is illegal for personal use.  Breaking a gun law will get you 10 years in prison.

However, European Union rules also apply, so in reality Germans must deal with state, federal and EU anti-gun laws.

Between 1990 and 2009 Germany destroyed more than 2-million personal guns.

It’s reported that a semi-auto version of the low velocity AK-47 assault rifle sells for $1300 USD in Germany, which is outrageous for a gun that’s not that accurate (it’s main attributes are that it is incredibly easy to maintain and use)!

Despite Germany’s anti-gun laws, officials admit there are an estimated 17-million illegally owned guns in Deutschland!