Category Archives: Technology

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Economic Decline: Pocatello’s Hoku factory bought by construction contractor, to be parted out?

05 November 2013 (05:20 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Muharram 1434/14 Aban 1391/03 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

The $700-million USD white elephant known as Hoku Materials in Pocatello, Idaho U.S.A., just sold for a paltry $5.273-mill!

The construction contractor responsible for building the white elephant, JH Kelly, made the offer.  This after a bulk auction brought in a high bid of only $3.7-million, and a piecemeal auction resulted in a high bid under $5-mill.

JH Kelly then made an offer of $5.273-million, which will be reviewed in bankruptcy court on 12 November.  JH Kelly stands to lose a lot because Hoku failed to fully pay the contractor for the work (as well as failing to pay a lot of other companies).

JH Kelly will probably dismantle the factory as the parts can used in oil industry construction, which is JH Kelly’s forte.   Because of the current state of the polysilicon market it is not feasible to find a new polysilicon operator, and the parts are obviously worth more than the whole.

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Idaho & other states beat out Obama Care, have been collecting & giving away your medical data for years!

04 November 2013 (14:56 UTC-07 Tango)/30 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/13 Aban 1391/02 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“I was just really angry that that right had been taken away from me, to decide that I wanted information shared. Everything was being uploaded to this database.”-Karen Helms, filed complaint with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights

The supposed Red State conservative leaders of Idaho have been doing something that Obama Care opponents have been warning about; giving away your personal medical data!

It’s called the Idaho Health Data Exchange.  Exchange officials admitted they accessed patient records, unbeknownst to the patients, more than 343-thousand times in September alone.  Officials also admit they get weekly complaints from patients who find out about the data access.

The false republican governor, Butch Otter, supports the Idaho Health Data Exchange.  It began in 2008, and got a $5.9 million USD federal government grant in 2010.  Many states operate similar data programs.

“I understand it’s scary, but it’s a really good thing.”-Matt McGraw, Idaho Health Data Exchange

“What we’re really talking about here is patient autonomy, and they’re taking that away. I can’t believe this is happening, and I don’t agree with it.”-Karen Helms

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Fluoride is poison! Insecticide companies say so! EPA & HHS say so! First use of Fluoride was as a bug killer!

01 November 2013 (01:14 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/10 Aban 1391/28 Gui-Hai (9th month) 4711

“…a growing consensus that Americans are exposed to too much fluoride. It raises the concern that, for many decades now, the public has been overexposed.”-Jane Houlihan, Environmental Working Group, January 2011

“The compounds of fluorine which I employ for the purpose of destroying insects, are certain soluble ones, viz.: sodium fluoride, ferric fluoride, the silico-fluorides of the same bases, hydro-fluo-silicic acid, and the boro-fluo-silicates.”-from the first patent on the use of fluoride in 1896

“Investigations by the United States Bureau of Entomology with sodium fluoride have demonstrated that lice infesting poultry may be readily destroyed by the application of a small quantity of this powder.”–Parasites and parasitosis of the domestic animals

“It is used in the manufacture of effervescing steel, and the smelting and refining of light metals. It is also used in fluorination of drinking water, as a wood preservative, an adhesive preservative. An insecticide, a protective coating for metals, a pickle for steels and other metals, a flux for soldering and welding, as well as a flux and pacifier for ceramic, glass and porcelain enamel.”–Fluoride Chemicals (Yunnan) of China describing the many wonderful uses of their fluoride product

“U.S. EPA today proposed to start gradually banning a pesticide often used on cocoa beans and dried fruits that degrades to fluoride, a move closely linked to the Obama administration’s decision last week to curb the maximum levels of fluoride in drinking water out of concern for children’s health…………..The Department of Health and Human Services and EPA announced Friday that fluoride, long considered a beneficial tap-water additive that helps prevent cavities, should be restricted to 0.7 milligrams per liter, or the low end of previous legal ranges.”–The New York Times, 11 January 2011

“Fluoride, the primary toxin, interferes with the metabolism of stored fats and carbohydrates that the insect needs to maintain a sufficient source of energy (disrupts glycolysis and the citric acid cycle). The insect then uses protein and amino acids as an alternative source of energy; however, the metabolic rate does not increase sufficiently, and the insect dies. Mortality may not occur for several days…………The following effects were observed at 100 and 300 ppm: decreased body weights, mottled teeth, and injury to the brain, nervous system, liver, kidney, lung, and nasal tissues. In another study, animals died when exposed to concentrations of 600 ppm………At 200 ppm (5.0 mg/kg/day) dogs showed decreased body weight and body weight gain, nervous system effects and changes in the brain………Data is not available from work-related exposures, accidental poisonings, or epidemiological studies to indicate whether sulfuryl fluoride is likely to cause cancer in humans…….Animal studies show that fluoride binds to teeth and bones following long term exposures, resulting in mottled teeth……Sulfuryl fluoride is broken down by hydrolysis into fluoride……”-National Pesticide Information Center Technical Fact Sheet

“The false idea that ingesting fluoride is somehow good for your teeth. At best, fluoride is a topical treatment which should be swished around your mouth and then spat out.“-NaturalNews.com

Fluoride Wars, primary ingredient in Sarin Gas!

Fluoride Wars, people accused of being terrorists when they question water quality! Proof it’s a class warfare thing!

…..none of the drinking water buckets and pans for the dogs and cats were infected, even though they’ve been sitting for a few days.  The animal’s water buckets were filled with city water, which is treated with chlorine and contains fluoride. 

EPA and HHS admit too much fluoride is bad! Argentina says it causes diabetes! Japan says it causes cancer! China (and Harvard) says it reduces intelligence! 

Study contradicts pro-fluoride claims!

Even the ADA now suggests fluoride is bad!

Fluoridated water blamed for Dumbing Down Americans and causing chronic unexplained pain…..

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: More lies from the Obama regime! More revelations from Europe & Latin America!

29 October 2013 (05:29 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/07 Aban 1391/25 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“We have a great respect for our partners and allies who cooperate with us……..That’s all I have to say.”-Chuck Hagel, U.S. Secretary of Defense

“Google becomes the devil…”-Monica Rosina, Fundacao Getulio Vargas Law School in Brazil

Brazil: Google is accused of directly helping the U.S. NSA to steal millions of Brazilians’ personal data, including President Dilma Rousseff.  The Brazilian government has stopped all other debates and is working to create new laws that will block or penalize IT companies from passing personal data to other countries.  Google officials are whining that such new laws will restrict their plans to expand in Brazil.  The Brazilian government told Bilderberger Microsoft that its contract will not be renewed.

“These TAO accesses into several Mexican government agencies are just the beginning — we intend to go much further against this important target.”-leaked NSA Tailored Access Operations document

Mexico: U.S. government spied on Mexican government for at least a decade, under operations Flatliquid and Whitetamale.  They can be traced back to the beginning of Mexico’s so called Drug War.  The U.S. spying on the Mexican government suggest that the Bush Jr and Obama regimes actually considered the Mexican government the enemy, not the drug lords. (remember when the U.S. government was caught selling guns to drug lords?)

At the recent Organization of American States (OAS) meeting, U.S. officials failed to explain the NSA spying fiasco.  They blamed the False Flag government shut down (only 18% of government spending was stopped during the supposed shutdown): “With the government closed and most of its employees furloughed, we lost the time essential for us to engage our inter-agency colleagues and prepare for this hearing.”-Lawrence Gumbiner, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to OAS

Italy: 46 million phone calls recorded by U.S. NSA in just one month.

Spain: 61 million phone calls recorded by U.S. NSA (some reports say it was done in conjunction with United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters) in just one month.

France: 70 million phone calls recorded by U.S. NSA (some sources say it was for Israel) in just one month.

Germany: 361 million phone calls recorded by U.S. NSA (including the Chancellor’s, some reports say for the British empire/United Kingdom) in just one month.

European Union: Parliament members are debating new laws that would directly affect Google, Apple and Facebook.

“Is Angela Merkel a terrorist? Are sixty or seventy million Spanish or French citizens terrorists? Are there terrorists at Petrobras? This is clearly about political power and economic espionage, and the claim that this is all about terrorism is seen around the world as what it is, which is pure deceit.”-Glenn Greenwald, journalist who revealed the NSA scandal

Other reports say most of the info gathered by the U.S. government was actually used for U.S. corporate/investment espionage, not true security issues.  That is a violation of international laws.

“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.

China & United Nations uses U.S. NSA spying ops as False Flag to control the internet!

28 October 2013 (13:28 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/06 Aban 1391/24 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“New cybersecurity threats and revelations of widespread Internet surveillance are only two of emerging issues that the multi-stakeholder community must address.”-Elia Armstrong, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

China is now using the U.S. NSA spying scandal to demand the United Nations create international laws to control the internet/cyberspace.

The government of China made the comment several days after the 8th UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) concluded.

At the four day IGF government spying through the internet was called “the elephant in the room”.

 

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

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

28 October 2013 (11:42 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/06 Aban 1391/24 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Japanese tech company, NTT Communications, announced they are taking over two U.S. companies in Colorado and California.

Virtela Technology Services, based in Colorado, provides corporations with computer networking service.

California’s RagingWire collects, processes and stores your personal data.

NTT Communications’ take over will be complete by January 2014.

Japan is part of the Trilateral Commission alliance.

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 Asia 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, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 10-12 August 2013. Veteran run military contractor stealing bombs from National Guard? Idaho loses 1500 jobs in one day? More health care cuts blamed on the Federales!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs.

AOL (American On [Off ?] Line) announced they are selling off 400 Patch sites!  This after announcing they will layoff as many as 500 Patch Editors!

California: In Alameda County, the Almeda Health System laid off at least 57 employees at two hospitals, this as AHS is actually adding two more hospitals to its inventory. One of those hospitals was donated by a non-profit health care group (probably done in by Obama Care).  Hospital officials say the layoffs are their attempt to comply with Obama Care!  In Long Beach, the Christian Saint Mary Medical Center laid off 86 employees.  In Redwood City, Perseid Therapeutics ended operations.  59 people unemployed. It’s the result of a takeover by Astellas.  In San Jose, IBM laid off 203 people!  The layoffs were part of IBM’s elimination of 3-thousand jobs World wide!

Florida: In Tampa, Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase lays off another 208 people!  That’s on top of the 435 cuts announced in June. The evil bank officials admitted that the home mortgage disaster has reached a point where it’s not worth it for banks to continue stealing people’s homes, so they’re now going after their own employees!

Georgia: In Tucker, Park Pet Retreat shut down. The owner of the doggie daycare center blames a suck ass investor:“I am so very sorry to tell you that the Investor that was brought to me and led me on for a month has backed away from the deal.”   But, apparently some good news; it seems Rita MacCallon has such loyal customers that she’s opened a new doggie daycare under the title Rita’s Pet Retreat.

Idaho: In Boise, Micron Technologies (the World’s 2nd largest DRAM maker) announced it will fire 1500 employees!  It’s the result of Micron taking over Japanese competitor Elpida.  Micron officials say the layoffs will be spread around the World, but a Boise financial consultant, Dave Pesto, said “It appears to be pretty heavy here.”  Micron laid off 2-thousand people in Boise back in 2009!

Illinois: In Chicago, Career Education Corporation laid off another 480 people!  That’s on top of the 900 people laid off since last November!  The company has lost more than a hundred million dollars since last year!

Kansas: Wichita City warned of layoffs.  If city revenues are down, as is expected, they want to layoff 13 employees.

Louisiana: Explo Systems bankrupt, company officials in prison.  They are $3 million in debt, and were even served with an eviction notice by the Army National Guard.  The company was supposed to be disarming and destroying out of date munitions for the Louisiana National Guard.   At least six employees were charged with unlawful storage of explosives, reckless storage of explosives, failure to obtain magazine license, failure to properly mark explosive material,  failure to keep accurate inventory and conspiracy.

New York: In Buffalo, yet another non-profit health care provider, Phoenix Frontier, bankrupt because of the federal government.  The IRS claims the disabilities and mental health service provider failed to pay taxes.  In Levittown, magic Shop closed (the store sign actually has magic spelled with lower case m).

North Carolina: The Agricultural and Technical State University laid off at least 50 employees.  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro laid off an undisclosed amount of employees.  In both cases it’s blamed on state funding cuts, and declining student enrollment.  In Greensboro, Cafe Carolina closed down. The owner blames the suck ass economy: “We really wished, we had the ability to keep it going, but under the current conditions we just can’t.”-Ron Hines

Texas: In Waco, Southern Foods Group ended operations.  150 employees let go!

Vermont: Wood burning stove maker, Vermont Castings, laid off 100 employees! Other layoffs took place in Kentucky and Mexico. The company was taken over by its own management, who decided to slash and burn in the name of consolidation.

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.

Business/Economics, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: More proof Obama Care website is False Flag op to steal your data & money! “Navigator” has warrant for her arrest!

21 October 2013 (13:56 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/29 Mehr 1391/17 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“Don’t believe all the status and error messages that you see on the screen.”–Ben Simo, software tester quoted by Consumer Reports

In Kansas, it turns out that one of the Obama Care navigators (person who’s supposed to help people get through the healthcare.gov mess) is a wanted woman, by police!  The Obama Care navigator is wanted for arrest over an unpaid $5-thousand plus hospital bill (this also proves that in some states you can go to prison for not paying your debts).  She also has a past civil charge for using bad checks. State health care officials said her arrest warrant never showed up on the background check.

Kansas State Senator, Mary Pilcher-Cook, has also accused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of making your medical and financial data available to anybody: “…..has failed to protect the security and privacy of Kansas citizens in the consumer outreach programs that use navigators or assisters. This work involves access to sensitive financial and health information and it is critical Kansas citizens be protected from fraud and identity theft.”  

“You’ve just told everybody where the gold is and you’ve left it unsecured. So it will come as no shock that this will be stolen.”-Morgan Wright, security analyst

“You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system.”–hidden script on Terms & Conditions page of healthcare.gov

In Minnesota, an Obama Care employee ‘accidentally’ sent the personal data of more than 2-thousand people to an insurance agent.  The honest insurance agent reported it: “The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was. What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It’s scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?”-Jim Koester

Technology, U.S.

World War 3, Martial Law U.S. Front: ebay, Dell, HP, federal & state governments build World’s largest data collection spy center system in Utah! Real time data stream monitoring!

16 October 2013 (11:39 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/24 Mehr 1391/12 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

The United States government and ebay have things in common: They both partner to collect your personal data, and their major collection centers are based in the Mormon dominated state of Utah.  But ebay has built the World’s first energy independent collection center, according to ebay itself and Bloom Energy.

Don’t forget ebay has a data center in Arizona called Project Mercury.  In Las Vegas, Nevada, there is what’s being called the largest privately run data collection center in the World.  It’s operated by a company called Switch.  It’s users are “ebay, Google, Sony, Zappos, HP, Cisco, Activision, Intuit, University of Phoenix, Yahoo, MySpace, eHarmony, Sony or Disney, or any of those guys who have games on the internet.”-Rob Roy, Switch

Switch continues to expand its Las Vegas operations and will eventually have 2.2 million square feet (670560 square meters) of data center space (currently they’re just over 400-thousand square feet)!  The state of Nevada was influenced to give the green light to data collection centers by a report from Brookings Mountain West.  A former executive of Switch has started his own data collection company called Cobalt.

ebay’s Topaz data stealing center (created with help from Dell and Hewlett Packard) in Utah is located in South Jordan (just south of Salt Lake City).  It’s not new, but the fact that it is now independent of the power grid is.  It’s powered by Bloom Energy’s fuel cells, solar panels, and a heat waste recovery system is also being built for the center, to insure 100% power grid independence.  ebay’s own video presentation about the collection center states the center was built in partnership with federal and state governments!

ebay has also innovated a way that company (government?) officials can watch your data stream in real time.  It’s called Digital Service Efficiency (DSE).  According to Network Computing it appears to the user as “….a dashboard that displays power load, number of users, energy supplied and other measures of IT effectiveness along with the amount of revenue generated per user, cost of employing that user, carbon footprint and other measures of business activity.”

(note that in the above quote, as a “user” of ebay you are considered an ’employee’, not a client)

According to ebay officials, this real time data dashboard (DSE) is intended to increase the number of transactions per kilowatt hour.  ebay also claims that they save millions of dollars in electrical power usage every time they increase the efficiency of their data collection process.

ebay says it will share any non-specific company DSE techologies with other companies, that are part of a consortium known as The Green Grid.  The current board members of The Green Grid are AMD, Cisco, Dell, EMC2, Emerson, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Schneider.

By the way, ebay’s new massive data collection center is just north of the federal government’s massive data collection center, located on the Utah Army National Guard’s Camp Williams.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported that ebay got a $38.2 million tax break from Utah, for its new customer service center in Draper!   (as a ebay user I say Utah taxpayers got ripped!)

According to ebay, their motivation to build massive data storage centers is to reduce “environmental impacts”!  Hey, if you weren’t collecting individual’s data you wouldn’t need data centers at all!  Why don’t you try that for saving the environment?

(the correct official new spelling for ebay is all lower case.  why can’t you mainstreamer newsies get it right?)

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? 700 million+ dollar white elephant for sale in Idaho! I’ve been warning you!

11 October 2013 (16:48 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/19 Mehr 1391/07 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

It’s now official; Idaho’s Hoku Materials polysilicon factory is now up for auction, in whole or in part, without ever making one production run.

The “bulk or piecemeal” auction runs for 24 hours, beginning on 23 October 2013.  Visit www.hgpauction.com for more info (under In Progress and Upcoming Sales) .

I’ve been following this disaster for years, here’s more on the demise of Hoku Materials:

Idaho Falls company needs your support…

Idaho Electric rates going up, blame the demise of Pocatello’s Hoku silicone factory!

Capitalist Commodity Markets to blame for Pocatello’s Hoku Polysilicon near abandonment!