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International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front: Karzai says Afghanistan to be the Grave of the U.S. Empire!

23 April 2013/12 Jumada t-Tania 1434/03 Ordibehest 1391/14 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

In Logar Province, Mujahideen confirmed they captured several personnel from a downed Turkish-NATO helicopter.  They say their captives are in good health.  Provincial government officials say they are expecting ransom demands, and Afghan security forces have launched a search and rescue operation.

22 April 2013/11 Jumada t-Tania 1434/02 Ordibehest 1391/13 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

“We, as you said rightly, are known as the graveyard of empires, not because we wanted Afghanistan to be the graveyard for those empires but because of the way those empires behaved…..and the consequences were the collapse of those empires.”-Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, interview with Chinese media

Hamid Karzai also welcomed China as a new ally: “Afghanistan views China not only…..as a neighbor that has been doing good for the Afghan people for long but also as the second biggest economy in the world, as a rising superpower of the world….”

In Logar Province, local government officials say a Turkish NATO helicopter force landed. They say at least six Turkish personnel were captured by Mujahideen, as well two Uzbeks, one Afghan engineer and one Afghan National Army (ANA) officer/pilot.  Mujahideen originally claimed those captured were U.S. personnel.

In Faryab Province, Qisar District, Mujahideen launched a large scale offensive. Eight government checkpoints were captured, and government forces were flushed from several villages.  Six Afghan national security personnel killed, six wounded nine captured.  The offensive is ongoing.

21 April 2013/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

In Takhar Province, more than 60 girls were poisoned at two high schools. Officials don’t know the cause of the poisoning. Medical test were inconclusive, most of the girls have been released from the hospital.

In Herat Province, provincial officials report that two contracted cops (mercenaries/Arbaki) had a hand and foot cut off by Mujahideen.  Mujahideen say the U.S./NATO funded Arbaki were caught robbing people traveling along roads in the Rabat-e Sangi district.

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Economy has banned 130 nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and 10 foreign entities.  Ministry officials did not name the banned organizations, but said they all violated Afghan laws.

20 April 2013/09 Jumada t-Tania 1434/31 Farvardin 1391/11 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

In Herat Province, Mujahideen attacked the U.S./NATO oil depot near the Turkmenistan port.  Two storage tanks destroyed, two security guards killed.

In Balkh Province, U.S./NATO/ISAF/ANA forces claim to have killed several Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders.  However, locals say the U.S. led operation attacked a school which killed at least three students playing football (soccer). Local police say the U.S. did not co-ordinate the attack as required under new agreements.

In Paktika Province, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a bazaar, killing three people and wounding seven.

In Kapisa Province, Tagab District, locals say a U.S. led home invasion “horrifically” killed two people.  Protests broke out afterwards.

In Ghazni Province, A local cop joined the Mujahideen and helped kill off six other cops: “One of the police who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other police were sleeping. The Taliban were led to the post and killed six police.”-Fazul Ahmad Tolwak, Deh Yak district official

An Afghan Member of Parliament, Mahmoud Khan Soleiman Kheil, claims Pakistan has taken 50 kilometers (31 miles) of Afghan territory.

19 April 2013/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

In Kandahar Province, Karez area of Garmawok region, Maiwand District, locals say an armed drone (UAV) killed a man with a missile strike.

In Kunduz Province, Ali Abad District, U.S./NATO/ANA forces conducted home invasions.  Locals say they were threatened and some beat up.

In Helmand Province, Mujahideen claim to have killed 25 U.S. and ANA troops.  A suicide bomber rammed his car bomb into a military convoy in the town of Sangin.  Local provincial officials say only two civilians and five cops were killed.

In Maidan Wardak Province, Nerkh District, Mujahideen assassinated the leader of the Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party of Afghanistan) using a roadside bomb. Provincial officials say Mujahideen and Hezb-e-Islami began fighting each other after the assassination.

In Ghazni Province, Mujahideen claim to have killed 13 local cops while capturing a checkpoint in Andar district.  The provincial governor confirmed the claim.

In Badghis Province, a Spanish-NATO soldier was killed, another wounded after their armored vehicle was hit with a RPG.

In Khost Province, Sabri District, Mujahideen shot down a U.S./NATO recon drone (UAV) and collected the remains.

In Nangarhar Province, Chahar Deh District, 180 villagers say they were forced at gunpoint to construct a checkpoint for Afghan government security forces.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: North Korea is worth $9.7 trillion USD!!! Now you know why The U.S. is war mongering over the DPRK!

23 April 2013 (21:14 UTC-07 Tango 22 April 2013)/12 Jumada t-Tania 1434/03 Ordibehest 1391/14 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

“In my analysis North Korea could survive for the next hundred years just by exporting their underground resources….”-Yang Moo-jin, University for North Korean Studies

In August 2012, the South Korean based think tank,  North Korea Resource Institute, estimated that the DPRK is worth almost as much as $10 trillion USD, because of what lies underground.  This estimate is $4 trillion higher than the estimate given by Korea Resources Corporation back in 2010.

The estimate has gone way up because prices for mineral resources (like gold) have gone up.  Put in another way, North Korea is worth 21 times what South Korea is worth, mineral resource wise.

According to a 2011 article by EastAsiaForum, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has some of the World’s largest deposits of coal, iron ore, magnesite, gold ore, zinc ore, copper ore, limestone, molybdenite, and graphite.

Recently I heard that North Korea is third in the world for rare earth minerals (China is first and South Korea is second), you know, that stuff in the dirt that’s become worth a lot of money because it’s used in all you all’s cell phones.

China has invested big time in helping North Korea develop its mining industry, which would seem to dictate that China continue backing up North Korea against the United States.

The reason why North Korea is so poor is because of decades of U.S. led economic sanctions.  Those sanctions are part of the reasons why the DPRK’s mining industry operates at only 30% capacity.

So all that rhetoric from the U.S., Republic of Korea and Japan about not allowing North Korea be a nuclear power is just False Flag bullshit!  As usual it’s about controlling natural resources.

 

 

 

 

International

H7N9 update: 105 cases, 21 deaths!

22 April 2013 (09:45 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Jumada t-Tania 1434/02 Ordibehest 1391/13 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Three more cases of human H7N9 reported in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Shandong provinces, China. Another person has been released from hospital, making it 13 who’re considered recovered.  However, they are still being monitored.

In Zhejiang a 54 years old woman who works in an office, apparently no contact with birds, has been hospitalized.  In Jiangxi a 32 years old farmer is also hospitalized.

The first possible case is being reported in Shandong Province, they’re waiting for test results.  It is a 36 years old man.   If the test result is positive he’ll be the 105th human case.

After all the tens of thousands of poultry culling (killing) and testing of birds, the Ministry of Agriculture has managed to find one more bird with the new form of H7N9.  One pigeon at a pigeon farm in Jiangsu Province tested positive.  Researchers are becoming skeptical about the bird connection with this new ‘bird flu’, because of how relatively few birds are being found infected with it.

International, U.S.

Earthquake update: Chinese casualties skyrocketing, more 6+ quakes!

21 April 2013 (16:14 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

36 hours after a USGS magnitude 6.6 earthquake, and several 5+ quakes, China’s Sichuan Province has been hit with two more magnitude 5+ quakes.  Rescue efforts have revealed more than 186 people killed,  3000 injured and 40000 homeless!

Chinese media reporting more than 1700 aftershocks!

Yesterday I reported seven magnitude 6+ earthquakes for April 2013.  Today a 6.1 quake hit the Izu Islands, near Japan. That makes eight big quakes for the month so far.  During April 2012 there were ten big quakes, we still have a little more than a week and a half left for this April.

Also today, islands along the Aleutian Chain off Alaska got hit with a 5.7 quake.

International, U.S.

Dogs dying of H7N9 in Denver? Mystery deaths being investigated!

21 April 2013 (13:59 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

“There are many diseases or viruses or bacteria that might be involved, so we’re trying to pinpoint what exactly is causing the disease.”-Cathlin Craber, veterinarian

When H7N9 was first reported out of China, the only known symptom was unexplained pneumonia.  Now in Denver, Colorado U.S.A., veterinarians are racing to find out why dozens of dogs have developed unexplained pneumonia, five have died!

Just a couple of days ago Time published an article talking about the possibility of other animals carrying the new deadly ‘bird flu’.  This was being driven by the fact that at least 40% of infected humans had no contact with birds.

The Denver dog pneumonia outbreak is happening in a Humane Society Animal Shelter, which has been closed for the next 30 days.  Vets are concerned it was brought in from the surrounding community: “We’re still gathering information trying to figure that out. There’s a chance that it’s in our community somewhere and when an animal comes into our shelter it can get into our population.”-Cathlin Craber, veterinarian

There are 260 dogs in the shelter, which has been in operation since 1910.  It’s estimated that at least 25% of the dogs are sick.

International, U.S.

H7N9 update: More than 100 cases, 20 deaths! Minnesota on alert!

21 April 2013 (13:07 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

15 hours since my last update, now China reporting up to 102 cases and 20 deaths!

The majority of cases are in Shanghai City and Zhejiang Province, and involve elderly people.  Two people died in the Province, and five more people became sick (four in critical condition).

Jiangsu Province reporting a new case. 

Good news, health officials say a total of 12 people have recovered, so far.   However, doctors have been ordered to continue monitoring the health of those people considered recovered.

The U.S. state of Minnesota had placed their medical industry on alert, back on 05 April.  The StarTribune reports that already a “couple” of people have had blood work done because of symptoms matching H7N9.  So far no positive results.

International, U.S.

World War 3: China officially condemns the United States!

21 April 2013 (01:40 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

The following is just a sample of what’s in the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012, just published by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China.

In the U.S., citizens’ civil and political rights were further restricted by the government. The government expanded the scope of eavesdropping and censoring on personal telecommunications. The police often abused their power, resulting in increasing complaints and charges for infringement upon civil rights. The proportion of women in the U.S. who fell victims of domestic violence and sexual assault kept increasing.

The U.S. has become one of the developed countries with the greatest income gap. In 2011, the Gini index was 0.477 in the U.S. and about 9 million people were registered as unemployed; About 16.4 million children lived in poverty and, for the first time in history, public schools reported more than one million homeless children and youth.

There was serious sex, racial and religious discrimination in the U.S.    Indigenous people suffered serious racial discrimination and their poverty rate doubled the national average. A movie produced by a U.S. director and aired online was deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, sparking protests by the Muslims worldwide.

The U.S. seriously infringed upon human rights of other nations. In 2012, U.S. military operations in Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan caused massive civilian casualties. U.S. soldiers had also severely blasphemed against local residents’ religion by burning copies of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and insulting bodies of the dead. There was a huge rise in birth defects in Iraq since the war against Iraq with military actions in which American forces used metal contaminant-releasing white phosphorus shells and depleted uranium bombs.

The U.S. was not able to effectively participate in international cooperation on human rights. To date, the U.S. remains a country which has not participated in or ratified a series of core UN conventions on human rights, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

International

H7N9 update: 96 cases, 18 dead! UN now says it’s possible for human to human cases!

21 April 2013 (21:38 UTC-07 Tango 20 April 2013)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

The UN’s World Heath Organization admitted that several people who got sick were in close contact with other people who were sick, and not in contact with birds.  The UN official was careful with his words: “We’ve not seen easy and sustained person-to-person transmission so far.”-Michael O’Leary, UNWHO

There are now 96 human case of H7N9 in China, at least half have never been in contact with birds.  A 69 years old man died Friday night after emergency treatment failed in Zhejiang Province.

So far no pigs have become sick from H7N9, and of the tens of thousands of birds killed and tested, only about a couple of dozen were positive.

 

 

International, U.S.

Magnitude 5+ earthquakes increasing? Several 7+ quakes so far for April 2013!

20 April 2013 (02:02 UTC-07 Tango)/09 Jumada t-Tania 1434/31 Farvardin 1391/11 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

There has been several magnitude 7 earthquakes around the world in just the past three weeks.

The USGS uses a modified type of richter scale magnitude system.  They tried to clear up confusion a few years ago with a press release, but I think it just made things more confusing.

Most western media are using USGS magnitude readings when they report earthquakes, but, several countries have created their own magnitudes that do not match USGS magnitude reports.  I am presenting USGS magnitudes.

The following are the 6 to 7+ magnitude quakes for April, so far:

On 20 April 2013 Sichuan, China, was hit by a 6.6 quake, followed by four 5 quakes.  Reports say at least 152 killed, more than 3000 injured!  The Chinese are calling the initial quake a 7+ magnitude.

Russian Kuril Islands (on the Pacific Ring of Fire) were hit with a 6.1 magnitude quake, followed by a 5.3 quake.

On 19 April 2013, again the Russian Kuril Islands, hit with a 7.2, then a 5.7.  The Kuril Islands have been experiencing many magnitude 5 and 6+ quakes since the beginning of this Gregorian year.

For more example of how different quake reports are used by different countries, on 18 April 2013, Japanese officials reported a 7 magnitude quake off the coast of northern Japan. However, the USGS did not report such a quake.  It is possible that the Kuril Islands 7.2 quake reported on early 19 April by USGS is the same quake that Japan claimed on the 18th.  Japan and Russia both have claims to some of the Kuril Islands.

On 16 April 2013, a 7.8 quake hit along the Iran-Pakistan border.  At least 40 people killed, mainly on the Pakistani side.

Papua New Guinea (on the Pacific Ring of Fire) 6.6 quake.

On 14 April 2013, again Papua New Guinea hit with 6.6 quake.  The island country has also been experiencing many magnitude 5+ quakes.

06 April 2013, Indonesia (Pacific Ring of Fire) a 7 quake.

From 01 April to 20 April 2013 there have been at least seven magnitude 6+ quakes.  For all of April 2012 there were ten magnitude 6+ quakes (which included two 8+ quakes near Sumatra on the Pacific Ring of Fire).  We have a little under a week and a half left for April 2013, will mother Earth break last years April numbers?

By the way, officials in San Francisco, California, just passed new earthquake safety rules.  The new law forces owners of wooden framed multi-story buildings to reinforce the lower walls and to help distribute the weight of the building more evenly on the frame.  It’s estimated it will cost property owners $60000 to $130000 USD per building.  The law comes after years of study by seismologists.

Business/Economics, International

H7N9 update: 87 cases, all wild poultry businesses shut down!

18 April 2013 (17:50 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Jumada t-Tania 1434/29 Farvardin 1391/09 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Since my last update, five more case reported; one in Jiangsu Province and one in Henan Province, two in Zhejiang Province and one more in Shanghai.

The Chinese government has banned all live wild poultry markets throughout China.