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Disaster 2024: Two weeks on, sudden deaths of survivors, food industry destroyed, quake standards failed!

This is a 14JAN2024 update to the 01JAN2024, 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7  Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake in Japan.

Deaths of people that happened during the quake are now at 221, at least 22 people are still missing.  Almost 5-hundred people in 15 communities across Ishikawa Prefecture remain cut off because of damaged roads.

NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reports at least 13 survivors of the quakes and tsunamis have died from “sudden or chronic illness” after being in an evacuation center! Survivors in evacuation centers are reporting lack of food, water, not being able to bathe, and conditions so cramped that they cannot stretch their legs.  389 evacuation sites still have no water or electrical power, those evacuation centers have a combined estimated 19-thousand-14 survivors!

As of 13JAN2024, “…142 people were infected with acute respiratory infections such as the coronavirus and influenza, and 24 people with gastrointestinal infections such as the norovirus. According to a survey by the JSIPC, flu patients were confirmed in 18 out of 460 evacuation centers.”

Nikkei Asia revealed that the quake “…destroyed homes that had been thought to meet stringent seismic standards…”, officials assume that decades of smaller quakes eventually weakened the once quake resistant buildings.

The fishing industry along the Noto Peninsula is shutdown due to the loss of many boats, and the harbors where boats docked are no longer usable because the earthquake thrust the land under the water upward, as well as shifting the coastline by more than 8-hundred feet.  The Japan News reports that “…more than 50 fishing ports were damaged by ground uplift among other factors, and at least 145 fishing boats were capsized, sunk or stranded by the tsunami. An assessment of the damage is ongoing, and the actual damage may be more extensive than currently reported.”

Local farmers say their land is no longer usable.  The United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service reported that across Ishikawa Prefecture the number of livestock farmers (ranchers) negatively affected by the quake will increase.

Science: Mysterious seismic swarm foreshadowed monster Japan earthquake.

The Japan Times warned that it has been three centuries since Mount Fuji erupted, and also revealed that most Japanese don’t think it will, even though the Kanagawa Prefectural government is preparing: “The sunlight would be blocked out, meaning there would be no visibility. You couldn’t use your car. Even if you walked, ash would get into your eyes and mouth. You might think that if you get to the hospital then you would be alright, but that assumption also breaks down. We want to avoid as much tragedy as possible in a situation where there is nothing much we can do.”-Hideaki Anan, Medical Crisis Countermeasures for Kanagawa Prefecture

Disaster 2024: ONE WEEK SINCE NOTO PENINSULA QUAKE, MORE QUAKES, SNOW, COVID!

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Disaster 2024: One week since Noto Peninsula Quake, more quakes, snow, CoViD!

The administrators of Japan’s Noto Peninsula and Ishikawa Prefecture gave an update to the 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7  Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake on 01JAN2024: The fire that resulted from that quake destroyed at least 2-hundred structures.

As many as 323 people are still missing, at least 168 people confirmed dead.

Aftershocks continue, including a 6-JMA magnitude quake in the town of Shika.  However, the JMA continues to doubt the accuracy of their seismographs due to so many quakes happening over a widespread area, they suspect many shockwaves are interfering with, or possibly amplifying, results on seismographs.

More than 1-thousand-5-hundred houses collapsed/damaged.

The weight of heavy snow could cause more buildings to collapse.

More than 29-thousand people now in evacuation centers.

Many local municipalities have already exhausted their stockpiles of disaster relief items, typically these items are only enough for three days of relief.

At least one evacuation center is reporting a CoViD-19 outbreak.  Other diseases are also being reported at all evacuation centers: “Sanitary conditions at shelters are seriously deteriorating. The number of people infected with COVID-19 and influenza is increasing.”-Shigeru Sakaguchi, Mayor of Wajima City

Noto Airport closed due to damaged runways, administrators hope to have the runways repaired by 25JAN2024.

The 01JAN2024 quake created 2-hundred meters of new coastline.

Disaster 2024: JAPAN HIT BY MASSIVE QUAKE, FIRES, LIQUEFACTION, TSUNAMIS!

PANDĒMUS TOTALITARIAN, 2024: ‘PANDEMIC MEDICAL RESPONSE’ NOW PART OF U.S. DOMESTIC COUNTER-TERRORISM UNIT!

Fukushima, International

Disaster 2024: Japan hit by massive quake, fires, liquefaction, tsunamis!

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Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is the epicenter of a 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7-Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake that struck at 16:10 Japan time. An earthquake warning was issued just before the quake.  Evacuations underway for Ishikawa Prefecture (located on the center of the west coast of Honshu). Ishikawa-Wajima (Wajima City) is on fire, the local fire department reports they are overwhelmed.

Buildings are collapsed, with people underneath. Small tsunamis are coming ashore in surrounding west-coast prefectures on Honshu and Hokkaido.

A live TV news reporter, in one city, said mud was pushing up into the streets.  At least 49 aftershocks on the Noto Peninsula.

In the affected prefectures, communication services (including fiber optics) are down, bank services down, some rail transport is down, airline services suspended, hospitals reporting many injured people showing up, police in Nanao City report at least two people confirmed dead, Nanao Ohta Thermal (coal fired) Power Station shutdown.  A nuclear power facility in the area reports no problems as it was already offline when the earthquake struck.

A second quake warning was issued.

March 2022: FUKUSHIMA REDUXE!!! 7+ QUAKE, TSUNAMIS, 6- QUAKE, NUKE PLANTS OFFLINE, TRAIN DERAILS!

Fukushima, International

Denton Program Failure 2023: USAID gave Guatemala nuclear ‘sources’?

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One of two Cobalt-60 ‘sources’ found in Guatemala. Defense Threat Reduction Agency photo by Andrea Chaney.

On 22MAY2023, United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) revealed that several months prior they had discovered that the Central American country of Guatemala had at least two ‘sources’ of Cobalt-60!

A Cobalt ‘source’ being loaded into a shipping container. DTRA photo by Andrea Chaney.

Apparently, the Cobalt-60 was part of a previous USAID-Denton Program ‘donation’ to the Liga Nacional Contra el Cáncer/Instituto de Cancerología (National League Against Cancer/Cancer Institute) in Guatemala City.

Containerized Cobalt-60. DTRA photo by Andrea Chaney.

Cobalt-60 is mainly used in medical applications, and some food irradiation, but has also been proposed for use in a ‘dirty’ nuclear bomb to enhance the radioactive fallout.

Palletizing the containerized Cobalt-60. DTRA photo by Andrea Chaney.

In April 2023, Guatemala’s Ministry of Energy and Mines, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Nuclear Security Administration, worked together to remove not one, but two ‘sources’ of Cobalt-60, and send it back to the U.S. of A.

Loading a containerized Cobalt-60 source onto a C-130J. DTRA photo by Andrea Chaney.

Through the U.S. Southern Command, the U.S. Air Force loaded two C-130J cargo planes (which had just dropped off ‘backlogged’ USAID-Denton Program giveaways) with the large containers of highly radioactive Cobalt-60.

DTRA photo by Andrea Chaney.

The Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program is not an independent charity but a taxpayer/’donation’ funded operation of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Agency for International Development (USAID). It is also known as Denton Cargo Program or Denton Program, and was started in 1987, after a 1985 change to Title 10 United States Code.  It allows private charities to use space-available on taxpayer funded U.S. military aircraft to deliver their humanitarian supplies, mainly to Central American countries, ostensibly to improve the quality of life in those countries so the people don’t try to move to the U.S.  Obviously it is a failure.

Denton Program Failure, 2021: CANADIAN FIRE TRUCKS, U.S. AIR FORCE, CENTRAL AMERICA

World War 3, 2021: IDAHO TRAINS KOREAN ANTI-NUCLEAR COMBAT TEAMS!

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Fukushima Reduxe!!! 7+ quake, tsunamis, 6- quake, nuke plants offline, train derails!

16 March 2022  (12:11-UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Esfand 1400/12 Sha’ban 1443/14 Gui Mao 4720

The first quake (at about 08:00 Mountain Time North America) maxed out Japan’s magnitude scale, which tops out at 7.  First quake was felt Fukushima Prefecture’s Sōma City, at a depth of 63km (USGS data). Second quake of less than 6 on the Japan mag-scale reported in other areas. Nuclear power plants in Fukushima now offline, sudden water loss in reactors and cooling pools for spent fuel rods.

Toshima ward in Tokyo, 16MAR2022.
Photo by Issei Kato.

Fukushima nuke plants that went offline supply power to Tokyo. So much for A-I/’smart’ homes/apartments, residence who live in those computer controlled residences say the doors automatically locked them inside the home due to the power outage!  One bullet-train traveling from Fukushima has derailed. Avalanche warning issued.

I checked recent earthquake records and it appears Miyagi Prefecture, which borders Fukushima Prefecture, has been experiencing mid-level magnitude quakes for past several weeks.

Video of this morning’s (North America time, during the night in Japan) earthquake showed what looks like transformers exploding in the distance.  At least one death in Sōma City reported.

Pacific Ring of Fire, 2018: JAPAN, MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Fukushima, Five Years Later, 2016: WIFI SPREADING RADIATION! BULLET PROOF VEST BLOCKS RADIATION? MORE MYSTERY RADIATION FROM FUKUSHIMA! TOMATOES BLOCK RADIATION?

HAWAIIAN COWS BOMBED BY FUKUSHIMA RADIATION! HIGHEST SKIN CANCER RATE & GOVERNMENT LIES CONNECTED TO IDAHO?

Fukushima, Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

World War 3: Idaho trains Korean anti-Nuclear Combat Teams!

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Idaho National Laboratory photo by Meghan Fujimoto, 22OCT2021.

The U.S. Army’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency has revealed that from October 18th through the 22nd, Republic of Korea (RoK, South Korea) anti-nuclear combat team conducted training on the U.S. Navy owned Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Learning how to use a collimator with a detector when finding a specific radiological source overwhelmed by other radiological sources. INL photo by Meghan Fujimoto.

It’s called the Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Characterization Course, and is taught mainly on the INL’s Idaho Falls campus.  This is, according to the U.S. Army, part of twice a year training of anti-nuclear units, this being the seventh time since 2018.

RoK NCT unit conducts decontamination of victims on INL’s Idaho Falls campus. INL photo by Meghan Fujimoto, 20OCT2021.

U.S. units are called Nuclear Disablement Teams (NDT), the RoK units are called Nuclear Characterization Teams (NCT), they have slightly different missions.

RoK NCT personnel train on how to detect a ‘suspected uranium conversion facility’ (covert uranium enrichment operation) on the INL’s Idaho Falls campus. INL photo by Meghan Fujimoto.

The U.S. NDT focus on finding and disabling nuclear facilities/weapons, while the RoK NCT include other CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) operations.

Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Disablement Course at the Idaho National Laboratory, 13-24SEP2021. Photo via INL.

Another U.S. Army NDT unit completed the Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Characterization Course (NIACC) in September 2021.

Searching for the location of a large radiological source during September’s NIACC training at the INL. Photo via U.S. Army’s 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command.

World War 3:  U.S. ARMY’S ‘NEW’ COUNTER THREAT FINANCE OPERATIONS! NO MORE SPECIAL FORCES?

Biden’s War: ‘REBELLIOUS’ SNAKE RIVER (FLORIDA, IDAHO, MONTANA, NEVADA, OREGON) DEPLOYS TO KUWAIT! POLITICIAN BEGS IDAHOANS TO RESIST THE WILL OF BIDEN!

WMD, August 2021: IDAHO’S ALL HAZARDS ENVIRONMENT TRAINING

Vehicle I-D: KOREAN 대한민국 K1

Fukushima FallOut, Five Years Later: I-N-L ADMITS ITS RADIATION DETECTORS DON’T WORK! MORE W-I-P-P PROBLEMS!

Fukushima FallOut, 2012: RADIATION MYSTERY AT IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY, CESIUM & COBALT

I-N-L History: 

HTRE-3, photo by Alexander Hutchins, April 2011

ANCIENT NUCLEAR POWERED JET ENGINE FOUND IN IDAHO DESERT, PROOF OF ANCIENT ALIEN VISITORS?

Lead-lined train in the Arco desert in Eastern Idaho. Photo by Alexander Hutchins, April 2011.

GHOSTLY NUKE TRAIN ROLLIN’ ‘CROSS IDAHO DESERT

Fukushima, Idaho

WMD: Idaho’s All Hazards Environment

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“Idaho National Lab has access to training aids for radiological scenarios, safety staff and training facilities for the scenarios we presented to the students. We worked in radiologically contaminated environments and in high radiation fields.”-Captain Daniel W. Arguello, 1st Area Medical Laboratory, 44th Medical Brigade, 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, U.S. Army

U.S. Army photo, 17AUG2021.

In the middle of the Arco Desert, in Eastern Idaho, lies the U.S. Department of Energy’s 890-square-mile Idaho National Laboratory (INL).  The INL has offices in the city of Idaho Falls (known as Idaho Falls Campus), but the actual 890 square mile site (known as Desert Site Facilities) is located in the Arco Desert, about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls. It’s interesting that Google Maps does not show the actual INL site, just the offices in Idaho Falls. Google Maps does show EBR-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor (and site of the world’s first deadly nuclear meltdown), which is part of the 890 square mile INL site.

Due to the decades of radiation contamination on the INL site, it has become the logical choice for training military personnel on how to deal with radiation contamination environments: “The focus of the training is to train Army and sister service personnel to respond to accidents and incidents involving radiation or radioactive materials, conduct radioactive source recovery operations and provide radiological site assessments of areas suspected to be contaminated with radioactive material.”-First Lieutenant Joshua D. Salazar, 1st Area Medical Laboratory, 44th Medical Brigade, 20th CBRNE Command, U.S. Army

In the middle of August, 2021, the annual Radiological Hazards Operations Course (known to FEMA as a HOT [Hands On Training] Course) was taught by the U.S. Army’s First Lieutenant Joshua D. Salazar and Captain Daniel W. Arguello.  They are with the 20th CBRNE Command, which is headquartered on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.  The training is a way of preparing for future warfare: “Through this course, these outstanding health physicists are helping to keep our military ready to fight and win in an all hazards environment.”-Colonel Matt Grieser, 1st Area Medical Laboratory, 44th Medical Brigade, 20th CBRNE Command, U.S. Army

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) used to be known as INEEL, before that INEL, before that ERDA and before that NRTS.  The name changes coincide with changes in government agencies and contractors who run the site.  You can actually take a tour of the historical and deadly site.

July 2021: More than 2-thousand drums of nuclear waste being sent from INL to WIPP

May 2021: INL meets agreement to store used naval nuclear fuel

INL to overhaul test reactor

2020: Sisters remember living on INL Arco desert site during World War Two 

2017: INL groundbreaking for new Spent Fuel Handling Facility

Radiation Fall-Out 2016: $1.6-billion estimated cost for new spent fuel handling facility

I-N-L ADMITS ITS RADIATION DETECTORS DON’T WORK!

Radiation Fall-Out 2015: I-N-L ADMITS “NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT’S GOING ON.”

Radiation Fall-Out 2014: I-N-L VIOLATES OWN RULES!

2011: ROBOT FROM I-N-L NOW WORKING AT FUKUSHIMA NUKE DISASTER SITE

I-N-L OFFICIAL STATEMENTS are OMINOUSLY SIMILAR TO STATEMENTS MADE BY JAPANESE NUCLEAR OFFICIALS

IDAHO MAN ESCAPES FUKUSHMIA DAIICHI NUCLEAR PLANT

Lead-lined train in the Arco desert in Eastern Idaho, photo by Alexander Hutchins, April 2011.

GHOSTLY NUKE TRAIN ROLLIN’ ‘CROSS IDAHO DESERT

HTRE-3, photo by Alexander Hutchins, April 2011.

ANCIENT NUCLEAR POWERED JET ENGINE FOUND IN IDAHO DESERT, PROOF OF ANCIENT ALIEN VISITORS?

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Pacific Ring of Fire: Japan, Modern Day Atlantis

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It’s been six years since I last wrote one of my Japan, Modern Day Atlantis articles, but its looks like 2018 is another big-bad-year for Japan.  The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance, arrogance, immorality and never ending wars.

The following is an incomplete list of main stream news articles from the first eight months of the Gregorian year 2018, concerning the Modern Day Atlantis of Japan.

FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER:

CNN: Japan finally recognizes first death related to Fukushima cleanup

Seatrade Cruise News: Cruise ships steer clear of Japan’s typhoon and quake-impacted areas

The Diplomat: Redundancy and Risk Management: Lessons from Japan’s Disasters

The Washington Post: First came its worst typhoon in 25 years, then deadly landslides

Automotive News Europe: Toyota halts production in Japan after deadly quake

S&P Global Platts: Refinery Shipments halted 

South China Morning Post: Stranded in Japan as typhoon and earthquake strike days apart

Nikkei Asian Review: Earthquake and typhoon expose Japan’s disaster risks

Channel NewsAsia: Singapore Airlines cancels Osaka flights as typhoon floods Kansai

The Japan Times: Hokkaido quake death toll climbs
Foreign workers have been underreported
The Economist: Japan is worried about its alliance with America

Anybody remember the Tower of Babel? Smithsonian: Japan Takes Tiny First Step Toward Space Elevator

AUGUST: 

Military.com: U.S. Marine accused of stealing donation money for Japan flood victims

United States Army: USAG Japan tests emergency preparedness with annual full-scale exercise

Wall Street Journal: Japan to Spend Billions on U.S. Missile-Defense System

Insurance Journal: Insured Losses from Japan Floods Could Reach US$4B

The Guardian: ‘Sick to my stomach’: dolphin and penguins abandoned to die in Japan

Japan’s bid to resume commercial whaling

victims of Tokyo medical school scandal 

Fukushima residents complain over statue of child in radiation suit

AccuWeather: Japan faces flooding in Autumn

Tropical Storm Leepi to persist over Japan

Shanshan to threaten Japan with flooding

The Weather Channel: Typhoon Cimaron Becomes Japan’s Second Typhoon Strike This Week

VolcanoDiscovery: Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake – Volcano Islands, Japan Region on Thursday, 16 August 2018

Aljazeera: Twin typhoons threaten Japan and South Korea

U.S. News & World Report: Japanese Emperor Tries to Make Amends for His Father’s War

Bangor Daily News: Attorney accused of stealing from Japan exchange program

Kyodo News Plus: Flood victims still living in despair 1 month after disaster

In total gun ban Japan, 1400 guns, 1200 swords found buried at Tokyo elementary school

 JULY:

Neowin: Apple is offering free repairs for devices damaged by floods

The Mainichi: Questions over lack of crisis response

Kyodo News Plus: Elderly account for 70% of storm victims

Over 250 schools damaged in rain disaster

Unsuccessful rescue effort

The Japan Times: After deadly heat wave, typhoon could hit Honshu 

Seven-Eleven store chain forced owner to work 50 hours with no sleep during Fukui blizzard

CNN:  Heat spikes to 41.1C near Tokyo 

‘Training thunderstorms’ made Japan’s floods even deadlier

JAPAN Forward: Death Toll Reaches 200 in Western Japan Floods, Dozens Still Missing

Aljazeera: Japan floods: Why is the country experiencing record rainfall?

The Weather Channel: Japan Flooding Forces More Than 1 Million to Flee

AccuWeather: Typhoon Prapiroon to unleash flooding

BBC: Typhoon Jongdari cuts power to thousands

Express:  11 dead and 45 missing as Typhoon Maria strikes

Eos: Two Active Volcanoes in Japan May Share a Magma Source

JUNE:

Kyodo News Plus: M4.6 earthquake hits Gunma

Deer found with paper dart lodged in neck in Nara

Shinkansen bullet train kills intruder on tracks

Japanese lawmaker heckles lung cancer patient

Mount Shimmoe volcano erupts again

KTLA: 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Osaka

AccuWeather: Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi to deliver glancing blow to Japan

The Japan Times: Cities face dramatically higher heat and flood risks by 2050

Shinkansen stabbing raises alarm over security in total gun ban Japan

Tornado in Shiga Prefecture

The Guardian: Why the naked hermit of Japan had to leave his island after 29 years

What was the fallout from Fukushima?

Express: Volcano eruption warning: After Kilauea Japan’s Mount Fuji could be NEXT

The Star Online: ‘Pregnancy rotas’ add to Japan working women’s woes

MAY:

Daily Mail: Japan is poised to FLOOD the Pacific with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear plant

Kyodo News Plus: Japan to welcome 500000 foreign workers to help plug labor shortage

Man arrested in connection with 7-year-old girl’s murder in total gun ban Japan

APRIL:

The Japan Times:  Mount Io in Kyushu erupts for second time in a week

Toys R Us in talks to sell majority stake in Asia unit, including Japan

Lockheed Martin to offer Japan stealthy hybrid of F-22 and F-35 

Chiyoda Ward issues false terror alert to 10000 residents in Tokyo

Boy band investigated for sex with grade school girl

Shikoku prison escapee stymies 6600 police

In total gun ban Japan, Man served second warrant over quintuple murder

Japan’s pet detectives

South China Morning Post: Japan landslide buries homes as people slept

Japan and China try to reset relations in shadow of U.S. trade war 

Firstpost: 5.6 quake hits Honshu

Channel NewsAsia: Japanese volcano erupts

Phys.Org: No-go warning as Japan volcano erupts for first time in 250 years

AccuWeather: Disruptive storm to lash Japan

Wall Street Journal: Japan Shakes Up Army 

The Guardian: Japan’s solar push actually threatens environment

MARCH:

Aljazeera: La Nina triggers extreme weather in Japan

The Japan Times: 30 years on, world’s longest undersea tunnel faces challenges

Giant storm surge could submerge a third of Tokyo

Man freezes to death in storm-battered north Japan

62 victims from 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake still unidentified

Express: Tokyo hit by 5.3 magnitude EARTHQUAKE

Reuters: Seven years after tsunami, Japanese live uneasily with seawalls

TEPCo’s ‘ice wall’ fails to freeze Fukushima’s toxic water

FEBRUARY:

South China Morning Post: U.S. Navy investigating sailors for drug dealing in Yokusuka

Asahi Shimbun: Record-high flu patient numbers exceed national ‘alert level’

The Independent: Giant lava dome discovered growing inside Japanese supervolcano

Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after Fukushima meltdown

Kyodo News Plus: Heavy snow in central Japan

The Japan Times: Massive snow strands 800 cars in Fukui for second day

Japan’s Lower House approves record ¥97.71 trillion budget 

Has Christel Takigawa cursed Japan

TEPCo’s compensation for Fukushima victims has made matters worse

Pictograms on Japanese electric toilets approved as global standard

Express: Was there an earthquake in Honshu

BBC: Japan’s Princess Mako postpones wedding to commoner

JANUARY:

Voice of America: Earthquakes, Volcanoes Shake Opposite Ends of Pacific

The Japan Times: Warning level raised on Mount Zao a week after fatal volcano eruption

Channel NewsAsia: UN warns Pacific Ring of Fire is ‘active’ as volcanoes erupt across Asia

Japan’s Tendai-Buddhist ‘wise monkeys’ morality code; “Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.”   Is it truly wise?

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 12: LAND CONTINUES TO SHIFT, SLOW MOVING LANDSLIDE DEVOURING HOUSES

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 2018: 11-THOUSAND QUAKES SINCE JULY, GET READY FOR A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER!

Business/Economics, Fukushima

No Ammo, no Guns, no Job! “unforeseeable significant downturn”: U.S. Mining/Industry/Logistics layoffs, March 2017

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in March 2017.

Iconic and at one time the largest U.S. moving company Graebel Van Lines “ceasing ongoing operations, effective immediately”!  At least 2-thousand jobs suddenly gone!  News reports say its the second major moving company to go bust since December 2016 (Kane Company)!  News media also discovered that some employees and creditors began lawsuits this year over unpaid wages and debts!  If the company is legally broke they’ll never get paid (happened to me in 2012).

 California:  In Riverside, SiftMill issued a shutdown WARN, for April.  Waste cleanup company Global Sulfur Systems shutting down its Cerritos ops by the end of April.  What construction industry recovery? Construction engineering company Mas Tec North America eliminating 74 jobs by May.

Colorado: Distributor Bartkus Oil shutting down after 71 years due to crashing demand from the farm industry.

Connecticut:  In Orange, Valley Tool eliminating 65 jobs by June.

Florida: JCPenney issued a shutdown WARN for its Lakeland Logistics Center, 119 jobs gone between May and October!  What construction industry recovery?  CTIS eliminating 70 jobs at its West Palm Beach location, by mid-May.  At Elgin AFB, federal tax sucker SURVICE Engineering eliminating 91 jobs by mid-April.  And federal tax sucker PAE Aviation and Technical Services laid off 133 people at Elgin AFB!

Idaho:   Ammo maker Federal Cartridge (Federal Premium Ammunition) suddenly furloughed 1-hundred employees at its Lewiston factory, blaming hunters and Donald Trump: “…we experienced a challenging retail environment due in part to a weak hunting season and the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

Illinois: Troubled United Airlines eliminating 3-hundred HQ jobs in Chicago!  School bus company First Student laying off 75 people in June due to loss of contract. Jackobson Warehouse shutting down its Romeoville location, 162 jobs lost by the end of May!  In Bolingbrook, Dedicated Logistics issued a shutdown WARN, 121 jobs lost by May due to loss of contract!  Also in Bolingbrook, logistics consultant Radial shutting down, 132 jobs lost by the end of June!  In Belvidere, Auto Releasing shutting down, 68 rail jobs lost by May due to loss of contract.  Also in Belvidere, Pierce Packaging shutting down, 46 jobs lost by the end of May due to loss of contract.  What automotive industry recovery? Tri-Dim Filter suddenly laid off 27 people in Belvidere. In Stockton, Dura Automotive Systems issued a layoff WARN, 171 jobs lost in May due to loss of contract!  In Romeoville, Stant USA shutting down, 69 jobs lost by January 2018.

Indiana: What automotive industry recovery?  Wisconsin based farm vehicle parts maker Rexnord shutting down its Indianapolis bearings factory and moving more than 3-hundred jobs to Mexico by the end of the year, despite threats by Donald Trump!  The layoffs started at the beginning of March.  Surface finisher Saran Industries eliminating 110 jobs by the end of June due to factory shutdown!

Iowa: What automotive industry recovery?  Caterpillar shutting down its Elkader factory, 75 jobs lost to Kansas.

Kentucky:  Gun maker Remington laid off about 16 people in Lexington.

Louisiana:  In Morgan, Petroleum Helicopters suddenly shutdown “…due to a very difficult economic environment and changes in our customers’ needs.”  The company transports workers to off-shore oil rigs.

Maryland: Georgia based Burris Logistics eliminating an undisclosed number of employees at its Elkton ops. Local news media discovered that Burris already eliminated about 50 jobs in neighboring Delaware, and speculated it might have something to due with Burris’ biggest customer BJ’s Wholesale Clubs.  Maker of store display units, Missouri based iDX Corporation, shutting down its Columbia factory, 68 jobs lost.  Local  news media reported that iDX wanted to expand but was not able to find a larger property at a price they could afford.

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Luxembourg based truck and farm vehicle parts maker SAF-Holland consolidating its U.S. operations, including shutting down their Holland factory, 97 Michigan jobs lost in October.  Auto parts maker Inteva Products furloughing 2-hundred employees for at least six months due to “the cancellation of our agreement with one of our largest customers”.  General Motors (GM) laying off 1-thousand-1-hundred people as it phases out GMC Acadia production at its factory in Lansing, by May!

Minnesota: Ammo maker Federal Cartridge (Federal Premium Ammunition) suddenly laid off 110 employees at its Anoka factory, blaming hunters and Donald Trump: “…we experienced a challenging retail environment due in part to a weak hunting season and the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

New Hampshire: Thompson Investment Casting suddenly laid off 53 gun foundry workers, blaming the election of Donald Trump for crashing gun sales. Clarke Distributors-White Mountain Distributors being sold-off, affecting at least 123 employees!

New Jersey:   In Logan-Swedesboro, drugs pusher Walgreens shutting down its 18 years old e-commerce distribution center, 133 jobs lost in June!  Walgreens is consolidating its internet operations.  Warren Distributing eliminating 128 jobs by the end of April! Local news media say no reason was given.  In Wall, NRG Energy issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by mid-June.  In Paulsboro, oil refiner AXEON issued a WARN, 115 jobs lost by May!  In Lawrenceville, Hub City Distributing issued a WARN, 101 jobs lost by the end of April!  Switzerland based ‘inspection’ company SGS issued a WARN for its Mawah location, 37 jobs gone by mid-May.

New York: Local news media reporting that General Electric (GE) will layoff a “small percentage” of people in Schenectady due to “current challenges in the power market and the integration of GE and legacy Alstom”.  Gun maker Remington laid off 122 people in Ilion blaming “poor economic policies pushed by Gov. Cuomo and Assembly Democrats as well as the SAFE Act. Make no mistake, there is a direct correlation.”  In Rotterdam, Railex issued a shutdown WARN, 138 rail jobs gone by the end of June, due to loss of contract!  Manufacturer Allenair issued a shutdown WARN for its Mineola location, 69 jobs lost by September.  The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center shutting down its research and development ops, 30 jobs lost by mid-June.  School bus company East End Bus Lines shutting down in Medford, 255 jobs lost due to loss of contract!

North Carolina:  North State Aviation shutting down operations at the Smith Reynolds Airport, 345 jobs lost due to “unforeseeable significant downturn in business”!

Ohio: Oneida Group laid off ten people at its Anchor-Hocking glass cookware operations near Lancaster.  The jobs were outsourced to a company based in India, in order to improve “profitability”.  3M shutting down its factory in Elyria, 136 jobs lost between May and August!  Rail company CSX laid off 34 people “as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to be more efficient and reduce operating costs”.  What coal industry recovery? Dayton Power & Light going ahead with plans to shutdown two co-op owned coal fired power plants in 2018.

Oklahoma:  Linde Engineering eliminating about 80 jobs in Tulsa; 30 with outright layoffs and about 50 jobs being transferred to Texas.  It’s blamed on the petroleum industry BS.  Industrial emission control system maker John Zink eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs blaming “changing market conditions”.

Ohio: Maumee based agribusiness and farm retailer Andersons shutdown its distribution center as part of plans to go-out-of-business (announced last month).  Standex International-Enginetics shutting down its Eastlake aerospace factory, 28 jobs lost by July, “due to the strategic consolidation”.

Oregon: What construction industry recovery? Maker of fireplaces Portland Willamette shutting down its factory near Portland International Airport, the remaining 62 jobs gone by mid-May.

Pennsylvania: Nippon (Japan) owned nuclear power plant company Westinghouse now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Parent company Toshiba has been losing money hand-over-fist ever since the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Westinghouse will probably be sold to raise cash.  220 jobs lost as chemical company Indspec shuts down its factory in Petrolia, at the end of July!   Classtex suddenly shutdown its 70 years old knitting mill in Orwigsburg, the remaining 15 employees lost their jobs due to “Offshore competition mainly. It’s difficult to compete with countries that are not even paying their people $1 an hour, and they don’t have to worry paying their people any kind of benefits.”  Despite investment by Bill Gates hi-tech battery maker Aquion Energy suddenly laid off 80% of employees and declared bankruptcy!  Administrators said that even with funding by Bill Gates “the company has been unable to raise the growth capital needed to continue operating”.  Blaschak Coal laid off 55 people blaming a warm winter for low sales.  In Steelton, ArcelorMittal laid off an additional 86 people as it reduces the number of shifts. In September 2016, ArcelorMittal laid off 27 people. In Carlise, CEVA Logistics issued a WARN, 101 jobs lost by May!  In York, heat exchanger maker Kelvion eliminating 72 jobs by the end of June. Injection mold maker DME eliminating 61 jobs in Youngwood, by June.

South Carolina: Local news media reporting that General Electric (GE) will layoff a “small percentage” of people due to “current challenges in the power market and the integration of GE and legacy Alstom”.  After more than 20 years plastic packaging maker Buckhorn shutting down its factory in Bluffton, 1-hundred jobs lost due to sudden consolidation of ops!  The mayor of Bluffton, Ted Ellis, said “When I asked management if there was something we could have done, or could do to keep them here, they said no. That was a decision made elsewhere and we’re just at their mercy.” What automotive industry recovery?  Vehicle parts maker Dayco shutting down its 43 years old Walterboro factory, more than 120 jobs lost over the next few months!

Tennessee: Mississippi hauler Ingram Barge suddenly laid off 47 people blaming it on a sudden drop in business.

Texas: Troubled (by corporate insider games) oil contractor Ethos Offshore now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.   Oil contractor Enbridge eliminating 1-thousand jobs in the U.S. and Canada!  It’s the result of Enbridge’s takeover of competitor Sprecta Energy.  Gulf Marine Fabricators killing another 19 jobs on top of the hundreds it killed in the past 22 months.

Virginia: Local news media reporting that General Electric (GE) will layoff a “small percentage” of people in Salem due to “current challenges in the power market and the integration of GE and legacy Alstom”.  In Fisherville, Wilson Trucking laid off about 1-hundred people due to its takeover by a Texas company.

Washington: Boeing issued yet another mass layoff WARN, 245 jobs lost starting mid-May!  Japan owned Nippon Paper suddenly laid off 151 Port Angeles workers!  In SeaTac, Menzie’s Aviation shutting down, 949 jobs gone by May!  What automotive industry recovery?  Car electronics parts maker Harman International Industries issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Cheney, 86 jobs gone by May.  At nuke disaster site Hanford, tax sucking contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation warned employees that 250 could lose their jobs because ‘key work’ at the disaster site was considered finished.  Also at Hanford, tax sucker Mission Support Alliance said it was laying off as many as 50 people.

West Virginia:  New York based Special Metals laid off 34 people in Huntington, in what local news media called “another round of layoffs”.  What construction industry recovery?  In Holden, hardwood floor maker Mohawk Industries laid off 111 people due to consolidation operations!

Wisconsin: Temp agency Manpower eliminating 150 HQ jobs in Milwaukee!  The administrative jobs are being replaced by robots/computers!

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, February 2017:  “INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION PROGRAM”

Retail/Banking/Service Sector Collapse, March 2017: “WE JUST DIDN’T WANT TO DO IT ANYMORE.”