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

Bill Nye is right, Tokyo Electric now checking for Plutonium! NOW?

TEPCo has asked another company to check soil samples for plutonium. Plutonium is created when the uranium fuel rods are “jolted” during the fission process.  If reactor cores are breached, which many “experts” now believe, then plutonium should be detected outside the reactors.

Plutonium is bad. Depending on the type of plutonium isotope, the half life can range from 14 years to 80 million years!

As Bill Nye said in a CNN interview last week, all they can do now is dump concrete on the reactors.

Here’s more proof that corporations are idiots: TEPCo has not been able to detect plutonium, so they are contracting with another company to do the test.  The test will take several days, according to Japanese media reports.  Several days? When your dealing with plutonium you need to know yesterday!

TEPCo now says it will check soil twice a week for plutonium. NOW?  Why not from the beginning of the disaster you idiots! Plutonium is present in spent fuel rods, and three of the spent fuel pools blew up, remember?  That means plutonium was spread all over during the first week!

International

Mother Earth erased humans from her surface, Tsuanmi death toll will be much higher say Japanese Police

The official death toll from the March 11 tsunami went over 10,000 on March 26.  The number of missing is more than 16,000.  These numbers are misleading because they are based on “reported” cases.

The Japanese National Police are saying that actual numbers will be much higher, because those numbers being officially reported are only those bodies that have been identified by family members, or, reported missing by family members.  Police know that there are thousands of bodies not being identified, and even more people not being reported as missing. Why? Because, according to police, entire villages and towns were washed away, so there is no one, no relatives, alive to make the reports.  Also, official local records of residents were washed away as well.

It’s as if Mother Earth literally erased humans from her surface.

Fukushima

Tokyo Electric says ‘Ooops’, on radiation reading, it’s still bad!

TEPCo says it will conduct another test of the leaked water at Fukushima Daiichi, reactor 2’s turbine building.  The reading for iodine-134 (has a shorter half life than iodine-131) announced earlier was actually for another isotope that has a longer half-life.

TEPCo officials say the level of 10 million times more than normal is incorrect, but the radiation levels being emitted are still 1,000 millisieverts (1 million microsieverts) per hour!  If the radiation is from an isotope with a longer half life than iodine-134, that still makes it real bad.

Can’t these corporate buffoons get anything right?

Fukushima, Technology

Panasonic shipping batteries INTO Japan

Japanese company, Panasonic, is rushing to get batteries shipped into Japan.

Batteries for electronic items have run short after Japanese bought up all they could after the March 11 disasters.

Panasonic makes batteries in Japan, but even with increasing their production, they can’t meet domestic demand.  Usually batteries are shipped by boat, because of their weight, but Panasonic is using airfreight.

Current battery shipments are coming from Indonesia and Thailand. The April shipments will be coming from Belgium and Poland.

Fukushima

Japanese Police being sent in to evacuate more people, Radiation levels too high at Fukushima Daiichi!

Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yuki, announced that national police are being sent in to 20-30km evacuation/disaster zones.

Edano said that radiation levels are so high at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that work must be halted until the contamination can be removed. Soil samples around the area show rapidly increasing radiation contamination.

Japanese government will now evacuate those who want to voluntarily evacuate, but don’t have the means to do so. The national police will try to contact people who are still in the zones that have been designated “stay indoors” zones.  All options open.

Medical teams from around the world are now being sent into the zones.

Japanese government expects more “difficulties”.  Japanese government admitting that financing for any recovery from the nuclear disaster will be a problem.

 

 

Business/Economics, International

Iran declares “Year of Economic Jihad”

“I call this year the ‘Year of Economic Jihad’ and I expect the officials of the country and also our dear nation to work in a jihadi way in the economic areas.” -Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, announced on March 21 (the beginning of the new year in the Iranian calendar) a year of Economic Jihad.  This is the year 1390 under the Iranian calendar system.

His reasoning for declaring an Economic Jihad is the continued efforts by the “West” to place more economic sanctions against Iran.