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U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 14-17 May 2014, 3 dead 21 wounded!

18 May 2014 (13:37 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Rajab 1435/28 Ordibehesht 1393/20 Ji-Si 4712

5100 block of West Concord Place: 38 years old man bashed in the head and killed.  Police call it “homicide”.

3400 block of West Madison Street: 30 years old man killed by an unknown man who walked up to him and shot him.

200 and 300 blocks of North Pine Street: A man was killed after being shot multiple times and then he tried to drive away but crashed.  Witnesses say the shooters pulled along side his car and started blasting away.

4700 block of North Bernard Avenue: 22 years old woman shot in the stomach, she’s in critical condition.

2500 block of East 98th Street: Two people shot by a man dressed in black.

13200 block of South Saint Lawrence Avenue: Two 16 years old boys shot.  They say the shooter was dressed in black.

Logan Square neighborhood:  15 years old boy shot in the leg and hip.

1600 block of West 70th Street: Three people shot while playing basketball.

7700 block of South Peoria Street:  30 years old man shot in the chest.

7000 block of South Vernon Avenue: 19 years old man shot in the back.

2200 block of South Wolcott Avenue: 21 years old man sitting on a porch was shot in the stomach by drive by shooters.

2500 block of South St. Louis Avenue: 26 years old man shot in the arm and head, after a man approached him and shot him.

7100 block of South May Street: 50 years old man shot after first being robbed.  At last report he was in the hospital.

7200 block of South Artesian Avenue: 24 years old man shot in the neck.  He took himself to the hospital and is in critical condition.

8700 block of South Escanaba Avenue: 18 years old man shot.  He’s in hospital in stable condition, police gave no other details.

8600 block of South Exchange Avenue: 18 years old man shot in the leg.

7000 block of South Vernon Avenue:  17 years old boy shot in the leg while he was standing on the sidewalk.

2500 block of South Damen Avenue: Two men shot, one in the hand one in the leg.  They both walked themselves to a hospital.

4700 block of South Lake Park Avenue: 37 years old man’s head grazed by a bullet.

Police have made no arrests.

“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, calls Chicagoland his homie town

Chicago update 09-13 May 2014

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

Proof the A-10 Thunderbolt was to remain a USAF mainstay until 2040: Taxpayers spent more than $2-billion on upgrades!

16 May 2014 (13:31 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Rajab 1435/26 Ordibehesht 1393/18 Ji-Si 4712

In February 2014, USAF officials suddenly announced they wanted to kill off the venerable A-10 Thunderbolt 2 (unofficially called Warthog).  Since then many politicians, veterans, current personnel of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, and even state National Guard units (who operate the majority of A-10s) have criticized the decision as foolhardy to say the least.

U.S. Air Force weenie head bean counters claim it will save taxpayers money to get rid of the cost effective aircraft, but wait, isn’t that what they said about keeping the Tank Buster when they pushed for more than $1.1-billion USD of upgrades for the A-10, back in 2007?

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, Pocatello Airport, September 2012.

In June 2007, Boeing was awarded a contract to build 233 new wings for the American Stuka (unAmerican Boeing then outsourced some of the work to Korean companies).  According to USAF officials back then, the upgrade would allow the A-10 to fly on until 2040, and save taxpayers about $1.3-billion in maintenance costs.

It took until February 2012 for Boeing to actually begin replacing the wings.  In September 2013, the USAF paid for another 56 wings, for a grand total of $1.2-billion (some news sources say it was $2-billion).  So why at the beginning of 2014 did the USAF decide to get rid of the A-10 after spending $1.2 to 2-billion to keep it airworthy until 2040?

But wait there’s more!  In September 2009, Boeing was paid another $4.2-million under the Thunderbolt Life-cycle Program Support (TLPS) contracts.  There are other upgrade programs being handled by Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, and other contractors.

All these upgrade programs are supposed to be ongoing at least until 2018.

Arizona Daily Star, March 2014: Retiring the Air Force’s A-10C is a mistake

OBAMA REGIME TO STEAL ALL OF IDAHO AIR NATIONAL GUARD’S AIR ASSETS!

IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD A-10C THUNDERBOLT 2

Fukushima, Technology, U.S.

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation fallout: ‘Green’ cat litter caused WIPP explosion? Idaho involved? Is new False Flag Japan nuke op in the works? Wild food crops contaminated, banned from sale!

15 May 2014 (02:49 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Rajab 1435/25 Ordibehesht 1393/17 Ji-Si 4712

“I’m just dying to know why this happened and who approved it, because it was a dumb idea!”-Jim Conca, former WIPP employee

Investigators have discovered what might have created the chemical reaction explosion that “disturbed” one ton ballast/containment bags in New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): organic kitty litter.   This is one time that going ‘green’ was the wrong thing to do.   However, it also reveals violations of federal laws!

According to a former WIPP scientist, Jim Conca, it looks like sometime after 2010 the inert clay type cat litter (absorbent) normally used was switched to organic cat litter.  The problem is that the ‘organic’ cat litter is made from things like wheat, corn, paper, sawdust, and reacted with fumes coming from the 55 gallon mixed waste drums.

It turns out that kitty litter was being used to absorb and cover-up any liquid waste, because it is illegal for any liquid waste to be stored at WIPP!!!  This also suggests officials knew the drums contained liquid waste.  The fumes from the liquid waste escaped and mixed with the active organic kitty litter, possibly causing the “chemical reaction”.

Investigators also found melted metal and rubber in the Panel 7 area.  Plutonium is one of the isotopes that was leaked into the air.   WIPP accepts nuke waste from three sources: Los Alamos, Idaho National Laboratory and Savannah River.  Investigators said they think they know who sent the illegal waste, but refused to name names.

Researchers in the United States claim they’ve discovered a drug that could prevent radiation poisoning.   It involves a drug being tested for treatment of blood aliments.  Doctors hope to use the drug on people undergoing radiation treatments.  But wait, don’t get too excited.  Turns out the drug only seems to prevent radiation absorption within the first 24 hours of exposure.

Speaking of drugs to prevent radiation contamination.  In Japan the national government suddenly became concerned about the stockpile of iodide pills in Niigata Prefecture.  Please note that news media continue to incorrectly call them iodine pills.

Niigata Prefecture is home to Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, which is run by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo, yep the same ones who run Fukushima Daiichi).  Inspectors discovered that prefectural officials still haven’t stockpiled the required 1.3 million iodide pills, that were part of a national government order back in January of this Gregorian year!

It’s not just Niigata, 23 other prefectures are being investigated for compliance with the January iodide order!

Fukushima Prefecture has banned seven wild food crops from being harvested or sold, due to high levels of contamination!  A total of 16 varieties of wild crops are contaminated!

Many wild plants are regular food sources in Japan, but now, three years after the Fukushima nuke disasters, at least three types of wild crops are totally soaked in radiation: 700 becquerels in fiddleheads, 430 becquerels in bracken and 460 becquerels in Japanese spikenard!

The official Japanese government safe limit is only 100 Bq per kilogram of radiation.

Fukushima government officials say most of the radiation contamination is in the forests to the west of Fukushima Daiichi.  This is a dilemma, because the predominant winds are to the east or north, into the Pacific Ocean.  So why do high levels of radiation continue to show up to the west of the melted out nuke plant?

Also, independent testing shows that the groundwater that flows under Fukushima Daiichi, from the west, is already contaminated despite what TEPCo says.  I’ve postulated before that whatever is contaminating the mountains is contaminating the groundwater, before it hits the nuke plant.

Japan’s Environment Ministry says 16 municipalities have failed to meet decontamination deadlines.  The main reason is that radiation contamination was much worse than originally reported!

New Mexico compromised! 

Japan told people to take Iodide back on March 16

U.S.

U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 09-13 May 2014, 4 dead at least 30 wounded! Obama regime launches new offensive!

14 May 2014 (14:09 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Rajab 1435/24 Ordibehesht 1393/16 Ji-Si 4712

200 block of West 116th Street: A 15 years old boy was shot at least twice, and killed.

4100 block of West 28th Street: A man was found shot dead, less than a block from his home.

4100 block of West Adams Street:  A man was shot to death by a group of men who got out of a car and confronted him.

11400 block of South Aberdeen Street: A woman was shot dead as she sat in her front yard.

South South Shore Drive: A 25 years old man shot in the hand.  He walked himself to a hospital.

300 block of East 136th Street:  Two men shot.  One was shot in the leg, the other in the chest.  They are both in the hospital.

4500 block of South Wabash Avenue:  24 years old man shot in the butt, he’s in stable condition.

4700 block of South Wabash Avenue: A man was shot and didn’t even know it. Police claim the man walked for a couple of blocks before realizing he had been shot. It was a grazing wound on his back. The shooting happened as the man passed a funeral being held at a neighborhood church.

100 block of South Pulaski Road:  25 years old man shot by drive by shooter.  He was hit in the arm and chest and is in serious condition.

9500 block of South Woodlawn Avenue:  Three males shot and wounded by drive by shooters.  They were taken to hospitals by friends.

1200 block of West Touhy Avenue:  Two men in their 30s were eating BBQ in a city park when drive by shooters shot them.  They are both in hospitals.

10400 block of South Wentworth Avenue: A male and female were shot and wounded, no other details.

11500 block of South Eggleston Avenue:  A man reported to police that he’d been shot in the hand by a drive by shooter.

8200 block of South Coles Avenue:  A man reported he’d been shot in the leg by a drive by shooter.  Hospital officials said he’s in good condition.

0-100 block of East 100th Place:  A 56 years old woman shot in the foot.

0-100 block of East 121st Street:  Passengers in a car, a man and woman, both shot.  The man is in critical condition.

400 block of West 126th Place:  31 years old man shot in the hip by drive by shooter.

5700 block of South Racine Avenue:  After an argument on a Chicago Transit Authority bus, a 17 years old boy got shot in the leg.  For some reason police originally said it was an adult in his 30s who got shot.

1400 block of South Keeler Avenue:  A 28 years old man shot in the face and chest, now in serious condition.  A 16 years old boy shot in the butt.

3300 block of West Maypole Avenue:  A 16 years old boy brought into hospital with gunshot to the leg.

1400 block of South Kostner Avenue:  Two men shot and wounded.  Both in stable condition.

4800 block of South Loomis Boulevard: A 15 years old girl shot in the foot.

3400 block of West 24th Street: Four men attending a family cookout were shot by a single gunman.  They are in stable condition.  Chicago Tribune reports that one of the witnesses said the shootings “Ain’t nothing new.”

I did not list all shooting reports, because the details of shooting victims sound suspiciously similar, even though street locations are different.

The latest local news reports say police have made no arrests.  Police say there is a gang war going on.  Apparently the police aren’t going to take action, possibly hoping the gang bangers kill each other off, but a lot of unarmed people are getting shot.

Obama regime lackey and Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, announced the start of a new offensive called operation Put the Guns Down.  Emanuel didn’t quite explain how it was supposed to work: “We do policing. We do prevention. We do penalties. We also need parenting. We’re going to add a fifth P today; pop culture.”

Apparently Put the Guns Down is a propaganda operation requiring Chicago radio show hosts to demand the population relinquish their guns.  Please note that all the shooting victims were unarmed!

“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, calls Chicagoland his homie town

Chicago update 07-08 May 2014

Fukushima, Technology, U.S.

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation fallout: New Mexico compromised! More lies revealed at Fukushima! Increasing cancer rates in Massachusetts?

11 May 2014 (00:47 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Rajab 1435/21 Ordibehesht 1393/13 Ji-Si 4712
“The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial.  The health risks – particularly the development of solid cancers in organs, rise proportionally with exposure.  At low doses of radiation, the risk of inducing solid cancers is very small.  As the overall lifetime exposure increases, so does the risk.”-Richard R. Monson, Harvard School of Public Health

“A preponderance of scientific evidence shows that even low doses of ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are likely to pose some risk of adverse health effects….”-National Academy of Sciences, 2005 press release

In Massachusetts, U.S.A., near the Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station the Massachusetts Cancer Registry confirms dense levels of cancer. Between 2002 and 2009 there was a 95% chance of developing leukemia, if you lived in the towns of Carver, Duxbury, Kingston, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, and Plympton.

The Registry also revealed the majority of cancer cases in the Bay State can be found in the above mentioned seven towns, which reside in the shadow of the Pilgrim Nuclear facility.  Contamination has been a problem for awhile now. A 1982 survey showed cesium-137 levels in local milk was 1-million times higher than expected!  The nuclear power plant operator blamed it on Chinese nuclear bomb tests on the other side of the world.

The Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station was designed by GE (General Electric) and built by Bechtel.  It uses boiling water reactors (BWR) similar to those used at Fukushima Daiichi.

In Missouri, U.S.A., after residents paid for their own radiological testing of soil around a landfill containing nuclear waste, the U.S. EPA is now going to conduct their own testing.

The Boston Chemical Data Group says soil samples showed the Bridgeton Athletic Complex, and a nearby ditch, are highly contaminated.  The laboratory also warned that nobody should use the park until the EPA gets involved.  The EPA and the nut-less city of Bridgeton (which has repeatedly told concerned residents to blow off) will conduct testing on 19 May.

In New Mexico, U.S.A., the state’s Environment Department Secretary, Ryan Flynn, is calling for the total shutdown of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).  Flynn made the statement after Jim Blankenhorn, the Nuclear Waste Partnership Recovery Manager, said WIPP will be closed for at least three years.  Flynn says so far the federal investigators are making their claims based on pure guess work, kind of like what’s been happening in Japan: “We need to know what happened. We absolutely need to know. But we need to make decisions based on facts!”

In Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, yet another study that says Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) is flat lying about radiation contamination levels!  Fukushima University’s Institute of Environmental Radioactivity reporting that actual cesium-137 levels are at least 50% higher than what TEPCo has reported!

Last week the TEPCo’s manager of the clean up at Fukushima Daiichi, Ono Akira, revealed that all efforts to stop ongoing contaminated water leaks have failed: “It’s embarrassing to admit, but there are certain parts of the site where we don’t have full control.”

3-thousand people dead & dying

Fukushima evacuations false flag op to destroy families?

FUKUSHIMA “MELT-OUTS”, IT ONLY GETS WORSE!

U.S.

U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 07-08 May 2014, 2 dead 22 wounded! Obama regime ripped off by one of their own?

Campbell Avenue: A woman was shot in the back as she was driving her car.   She drove away before calling for help.

43rd and Honore streets:  A 22 years old man shot and wounded.

North Lamon Avenue:  A 24 years old man grazed in the side.  Police report he refused medical treatment and is being “uncooperative” with cops.

North Racine Avenue: A 20 years old man was shot multiple times.  Now in stable condition.

West Evergreen Avenue:  A decomposed body was found in a car parked in a garage.

East 136th Street: Police reported two people shot, and rifle casings found at the scene.  Police gave no other details.

South Vincennes Avenue: A couple of armed men entered a restaurant and shot two men.  One man died, the other is in the hospital.

South Puaski Road:  24 years old man shot multiple times.  Now in hospital in serious condition.

South Prairie Avenue: A 16 years old boy shot in the hand.

South Cottage Grove Avenue: A 26 years old man shot in the foot by drive by shooter.

South Wabash Avenue: 24 years old man shot in his butt.

South Woodlawn Avenue:  Three people shot.  A 16 years old boy and a 27 years old man both shot in the legs.  Another man was shot in the back and legs, and was driven to a hospital by a resident.

Touhy Avenue: Two people shot by drive by shooters.  A 37 years old man was hit multiple times and is in serious condition.   A 36 years old man was shot in the leg.

South Wentworth Avenue: A man was shot in the butt, and walked himself to the hospital.  A 35 years old woman was shot in the back.  She apparently refused to be taken to the hospital, but was treated at the scene.

South Eggleston Avenue: A 31 years old man shot in the hand.

South Coles Avenue:  20 years old man shot by drive by shooters.

East 100th Place:  A 56 years old woman sitting on her porch was shot in the foot.  She said a group of people on the other side of the street started shooting at a passing car, that’s when she was hit.   Also, a 36 years old woman was shot in the leg by a walk by shooter.

Police in the city of Evanston now reporting that the Chicago civil war has spread into their territory.  They now believe weekend shootings in Evanston are the actions of Chicago gangs.

Note: There was a report of a woman being shot and killed, but it sounded too much like a shooting that actually happened this past weekend.

Local news reports indicated that police did not have any suspects or made any arrests, and that police are refusing to give details of shootings!

The federal government is already investigating massive corruption by city officials, and now more complaints about the failed covert gun confiscation program known as Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.  There are accusations that the program’s executive director, Toni Irving, is intentionally “delaying” grant money to true non-profits groups.  One of the groups who was affected by Irving’s delaying of funding was the Obama regime’s own BAM (Becoming a Man) program!  Irving was given a raise for taking over Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, she reportedly makes $250-thousand per year for sitting on grant money!

“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, calls Chicagoland his homie town

Chicago war update 05-06 May 2014

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State, and don’t blame China! More proof the U.S. Middle Class is the Tool of the British empire! It all started with President Reagan & his BS trickle down economics!

08 May 2014 (18:28 UTC-07 Tango 07 May 2014)/08 Rajab 1435/16 Ordibehesht 1393/10 Ji-Si 4712

The New York Times has published detailed research that proves the evil corporate elitist 1% have been ripping off what was once the most wealthy Middle Class in the world, the U.S. Middle Class.  And it all started with the Reagan regime in 1981!

One of the tricks Ronald Reagan used to steal money from the Middle Class was to convince everybody that gambling your retirement income on the world’s largest slot machines, the stock markets, was a good idea.  During the 1980s millions of workers shifted their retirement money into what’s known as 401K, and they still do it today!

The research by New York Times Upshot shows that the crash of the U.S. Middle Class begins in the 1980s (by the way, the federal tax collector Internal Revenue Service has been saying this for years now).  So don’t blame 9/11 or even the 2007/08 “recession”.  In fact you could blame the “recession” on the decades of financial rape of the Middle Class, and the rapists are still getting away with it!

There’s something else that the Reagan regime began, they began a destructive relationship by cozying up to the mortal enemy of the United States: The British empire.

I’ve already explained in past postings that the British empire is the one controlling unAmerican Corporate America, through FDI, and this Foreign Direct Investment by the true “evil empire” can be traced back to the Reagan regime.  The new New York Times Upshot research indicates that the crash of the U.S. Middle Class coincides with the skyrocketing Middle Class in the United Kingdom.  Yes, despite all those subjects of the Queen of England constantly whining about their economic condition, the numbers show the Middle Class of the United Kingdom is now the world’s richest Middle Class!

The coinciding crash of U.S. Middle Class, and skyrocketing U.K. Middle Class indicates a shift in wealth, away from the U.S. and into the empire, accomplished by takeovers of U.S. companies.  The British empire is actually a type of corporation known as a “commonwealth”.

I’ve even written about how the British empire has taken over school textbook publishers in the U.S., which could explain the shift from the use of U.S. grammar to Queen’s English grammar.  In fact, in one of my Job Losses articles I wrote how New Jersey govna Christie gave a British empire company a massive tax deal to move their textbook publishing operation to his state, only to have the company close its doors and move to New York after they took the tax deal money!  The British empire has also taken over many U.S. news media outlets.

 New York Times Upshot looked at Median Middle Class after tax income, and even threw in those who were getting things like Social Security, and of course they adjusted for inflation.  In 1981 the U.S. Middle Class led the world, but since then has grown only by 19.1%.  Who leads the world in the growth of their Middle Class?  The United Kingdom (aka Britain, the capitol of the British empire) with 83.3% growth!  In fact Norway, Sweden and Canada all beat out the United States, and it’s interesting that they are all indirect or direct members of the British Commonwealth!

But wait, it gets worse!  If you look at data just from 2000 to present, the U.S. Middle Class is losing its ass!  The United Kingdom’s Median Middle Class grew by 19.7%, as did the empire’s realm known as Canada.  Ireland, who recently made it public that they are officially re-joined the empire (heresy!) grew at 16.2%.  Since 2000 the U.S. Median Middle Class is stagnating at 0.3%!!!

The very detailed and complex to read New York Times Upshot report points out that this is a snapshot of the demise of the U.S. Middle Class.  They admit that overall income growth in the U.S. is doing just as good as the British empire, but it’s all going to the 1% (who’ve made evil backroom alliances with the British empire, Bilderberg anyone?).

Hey all you ‘mericans, I’ve written this before: Stop blaming China for your economic demise!

U.S.

U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 05-06 May 2014

Lawdale neighborhood:  One woman shot in the back and killed, one man shot in the hip and in critical condition.  Both were driven to hospitals by local residents.  Police have no details of the shootings, and no suspects.

West Woodlawn neighborhood: A man was shot in the foot by people driving by in a car.

Morgan Street & West 59th Street: A man was shot and killed less than a mile from his home.  He was in a car with another man who was shot and wounded.  The wounded man claims a white car pulled alongside and the occupants started shooting at them.

Englewood neighborhood:  A man was grazed by a bullet, in the head.  He said the shooter was demanding money from him, and even though he gave the robber the money he was still shot.

Humboldt Park neighborhood:  A man and woman were sitting in a van when all of a sudden they were being shot at.  They were both wounded in the legs.  Apparently they never saw who was doing the shooting.

Belmont Cragin neighborhood: A man who got shot in the chest drove himself to the hospital!  He is in serious condition.

400 block of South Pulaski Road: A 19 years old man was shot in the knee as he sat in his car.

8900 block of South Brandon Avenue: A 17 years old boy shot in the foot.

None of the local news reports indicated that police had any suspects or made any arrests!

“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, calls Chicagoland his homie town

elected officials of Chicago are the Crime Bosses

Obama regime creates combat task force!

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 04-06 May 2014: Cops shoot at starving landslide victims!

Badakhshan Province: In Argo District, starving survivors of the massive landslide, that killed more than 2-thousand people, are being deprived of food aid by government officials! Dirty cops started shooting as hundreds of hungry survivors rushed food trucks. Mujahideen heard the shooting, rushed to the scene and started shooting at the cops. As a result food aid is being halted by the government!

Farah Province: In Posht-e-Rud District, in Chardara village battles between Mujahideen and government forces left at least five people dead, eight wounded.

Faryab Province: In Balcharagh  District,  Mujahideen assassinated a government intelligence official (NDS).  His body was found on a local highway.  In Garzewan District, Mujahideen killed six cops and two pro-government tribal elders.  One cop was wounded.  Local officials say the Mujahideen also captured weapons and ammo.

Ghazni Province: In Gilan District, fierce battles between Mujahideen and government forces resulted in at least 50 people killed, 36 wounded.

Helmand Province:  In Sangin District, Mujahideen shot a U.S./NATO helicopter forcing it to make an emergency landing.  Witnesses say it was repaired and flew back to its base, however, U.S./NATO officials have not commented.

Herat Province:  In Obe district, a magnetic bomb stuck on a police vehicle exploded, killing three cops and wounding two.

Kabul Province: At the Kabul airport another smuggler was captured.   This time it was gold that was being smuggled out, almost four pounds worth.

Kandahar Province:  Government officials claim 10 Mujahideen were killed by their own bomb.

Kunduz Province: A magnetic mine placed on a Afghan National Army vehicle exploded, killing one person and wounding three others.

Logar Province: In Pul-e-Alam City, government officials claim three people were blown up by their own bomb. At least two of those killed were Pakistani.

Nimroz Province: In Delaram District, cops claim five suicide bombers attacked a government compound.  Four were shot and killed, but a fifth exploded killing himself and one cop.  One cop wounded.  However, Mujahideen say only four suicide bombers were sent, so the cops must have shot and killed an innocent bystander!

Takhar Province: In Cha Aab District, battles between Mujahideen and government forces resulted in at least three people killed, 13 wounded.

Pakistan is claiming that Afghan National Army or Border Police shot and killed a Pakistani soldier in Pakistan.  Despite this, Pakistan is allowing aircraft carrying military equipment for the Afghan military to fly through Pakistani airspace.  The flights are known as Commercial Multi-Model Operation.

The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries reports a 33% increase in exports during the Gregorian year 2013.  Mainly because the European Union opened its doors to Afghan produce!

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Office Depot joins shutdown gang, 400 stores going down!

06 May 2014 (10:50 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Rajab 1435/14 Ordibehesht 1393/08 Ji-Si 4712

When Office Depot and Office Max merged analyst knew job losses were coming.  But Office Depot has out done Mitt Romney’s wunderkind (Staples) in the amount of stores that will close.

400 Office Depot/Max stores will be shutdown by 2016.  Staples announced the shutdown of 225 stores this year (who knows how many next year).

It still doesn’t come close to Radio Shack’s shutdown of 1100 stores!  Then there’s Sears/Kmart which some analysts say could hit 500 stores shutdown this year!

And don’t forget all the dozens of other retail “giants” who’re closing dozens of their stores this year!  What economic recovery?

“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