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Fukushima, U.S.

More Fukushima Fallout: Strontium reaches deep aquifer! USN personnel suffering radiation poisoning! Government to sell off TEPCo to pay for decontamination! Still no nuke evac plan!

20 December 2013 (12:53 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Safar 1435/29 Azar 1392/18 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“I get so angry. They said as long as the plume was avoided we would be fine!”-Jamie Plym, USN

U.S. sailors who served aboard the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Essex, during efforts to help the Japanese at the beginning of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, are reporting illness linked to radiation contamination.  At least 51 sailors are attempting to sue Tokyo Electric Power Company (they should also sue GE, Hitachi and Toshiba).  The U.S. military personnel are suffering from strange growths on their bodies, thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia, bronchitis and even unexplained and uncontrollable bleeding.  They claim medical testing confirm the symptoms are radiation poisoning.

For the first time, TEPCo is reporting that cesium and strontium is contaminating the aquifer under Fukushima Daiichi, 25 meters (82 feet) underground!  The contamination is coming from the GE designed, Hitachi built Reactor 4.  6.7 becquerels per liter of cesium 137, and 89 becquerels per liter of strontium were detected.

The Japanese government announced it will sell its shares of TEPCo stocks to raise cash to pay for decontamination efforts.  Lack of capitalist funding is the main reason for why the decontamination is being held up.   However, who wants to buy into a company that’s proven to be incompetent?

But wait, there’s more! The Japanese government is also increasing interest free loans to TEPCo.  About $87-billion USD worth!

TEPCo has agreed to decommission reactors 5 and 6 at Fukushima Daiichi.  Supposedly they suffered only cooling problems, and were shut down, but the Japanese government insisted they needed to be decommissioned before tackling the decommissioning of reactors 1 through 4.

The Japanese government says it will increase its paltry financial help for residents forced to leave the radiation contamination area.   The money is not coming from taxpayers, but supposedly from TEPCo.  Money will be used to rebuild homes.  People suffering mental stress have one year after evac orders are lifted to apply for a lump sum payment.  (lump?)

Remember, this disaster has been ongoing for three years!

And three years later, 60% of Japanese cities located within 30km (18.6 miles) of a nuclear power plant still have no evacuation plans in case of nuke disaster!  Local government officials within 30km of nuke plants are blaming local governments outside the 30km zone.  Officials within the 30km zones say they need places to evacuate to, outside of the evac zones, and that cities outside the zones are not set up to handle mass evacuees or casualties pouring in from other areas.  Yet another reason to dump nuke power!

Here’s another reason:  Researchers have been studying the forests around Fukushima Daiichi.  They’ve found high levels radiation at the root level of trees, about 1.8 microsieverts per hour.  Also, 50-thousand becquerels of radiation per kilogram is being found in the leaf fall and soil!  When it rains the radiation is washed downhill into streams and water supply for people. Currently there are no official efforts to clean up radiation contamination in the forests.

International, U.S.

The New Great Opium War Game: Myanmar now second largest producer of opium! Interesting correlations between opium production in Afghanistan and Myanmar (called the United States)!

19 December 2013 (22:56 UTC-07 Tango 18 December 2013)/15 Safar 1435/28 Azar 1392/17 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

In May 2012 the Obama regime lifted all economic sanctions against Myanmar.  The now ‘open for business’ south Asian country has become the World’s second largest producer of illegal opium.  Realize that back in 1999 the government of Myanmar said they would be opium free by 2014!

The evil British empire, as well as the U.S. government, still calls Myanmar, Burma.

The U.S. government supported Myanmar/Burma from the end of the second World War to 1997.  U.S. taxpayers sent lots-o-money and even military equipment to Myanmar/Burma in the name of fighting opium production.  By 1990 Myanmar/Burma had become the largest opium producer in the World, despite all the anti-drugs war help from the United States.

Then the government of Myanmar really cracked down hard on opium production.  In 1997 the United States began imposing sanctions against Myanmar on the grounds the government was undemocratic and repressing its own people.  By 1998, opium production in the Golden Triangle, which includes Myanmar, was cut down by 33%.  In 1999 the Myanmar government declared they would eradicate opium by 2014.

As opium production decreased in Myanmar, the U.S. government increased sanctions.

Now enter Afghanistan.  Opium production in Afghanistan did not become a problem until the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.  But it wasn’t the Soviets who were behind it.  The Russians continue to say they have evidence that the U.S. CIA instigated opium production in Afghanistan to help pay for a covert war against the Soviet Union (and don’t forget the Iran Contra scandal led by the U.S. ‘hero’ Oliver North).

However, opium production in Afghanistan did not explode until the 1990s, that just happens to be the time Myanmar was cracking down on opium production.  By 1999 Afghanistan produced a record crop of opium, the same year Myanmar officials said their country would be free of opium by 2014.

Between 1990 and 1996 Afghanistan was under the control of U.S. backed warlords.

In comes Taliban.  The Taliban took over Afghanistan in 1996.  The U.S. government, under George Bush Jr, misled the people of the United States, saying the Taliban were behind the record opium production.  Fact: From 2000 to 2002, under the Taliban government opium production in Afghanistan was cut down by an incredible 99%, in less than two years!  That stat is backed up by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In 2002 the United States invaded Afghanistan, and now under U.S. occupation Afghanistan is the World’s top producer of opium, producing more opium than they ever did in the 1990s.

But wait, what about Myanmar?  The U.S. government actually returned to funding Myanmar/Burma in 2000, under the Bush Jr regime.  It was done under the guise of the evil U.S. AID.  In 2008 U.S. AID funding was increased.

By 2012, under the Obama regime, the U.S. AID mission to Myanmar became official, and Obama pledged $170-million in taxpayer funding to the country formerly known as Burma.  The Obama regime claimed it was because Myanmar had become democratic, despite outright open genocide against Muslims living in Myanmar.

Also in 2012, opium production in Myanmar had not only returned to record levels, but actually surpassed the production levels of the 1980s.  Now, in 2013 U.S./British empire controlled Myanmar is considered the second largest opium producer, after U.S./British empire controlled Afghanistan.

Russia claims most of the opium being produced in Afghanistan is being smuggled into Russia.  Iran claims to have lost thousands of border cops fighting illegal drugs smugglers from U.S./British empire controlled Afghanistan.  Iran even says some of those smugglers they’ve captured had U.S. issued documents on them.  China reports that most of the opium being produced in U.S./British empire controlled Myanmar is ending up in their country.

Now go study the history of the Opium Wars against China, and the history of The Great Game against Russia.  They’re still happening more than two hundred years later!

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 21-24 November 2013: U.S. troops allowed to commit crimes under new Article 13! Praying in your religious establishment will get you accused of being a suicide bomber? National Guard deploying to Kuwait!

Baghlan Province: In Dand-e-Ghori District, a man and woman in their 20s were executed for having sex outside of marriage.   Western Christians shouldn’t be too shocked, unless they are ignorant of their own history.  There was a time in the Christian West when people who had sex outside marriage could be killed.

Kandahar Province: In Shorabak District, an Afghan border cop turned his gun on fellow cops, killing two of them.  The shooter escaped.

Khost Province: In Khost City two explosions killed Afghan National Army and Police personnel. The first explosion killed one ANA soldier and wounded three others. The second explosion occurred when ANP forces were investigating the first explosion.  Three cops and seven civilians were wounded in the second explosion.

Nangarhar Province: In Shirzad District, seven people were killed inside a Mosque when a bomb exploded.  Interior Ministry officials claim they were all suicide bombers! Government officials implied that religious establishments are being used to make bombs.   In Jalalabad City, an explosion killed two civilians and wounded one cop.

Takhar Province: A provincial government official was assassinated by explosion.  A remote controlled bomb was planted in his car.

Uruzgan Province:  Two health care workers were hanged after they took part in a vaccination program in Khush Qadeer village.  No clue as to who did it.

According to local news reports, The national grand council (Loya Jirga) has agreed to give U.S. troops, stationed in Afghanistan after the supposed 2014 pullout, legal immunity from any crimes they commit!   It is known as Article 13 of the Obama regime’s bilateral security agreement.  The Loya Jirga also wants the ‘peace’ deal with the Obama regime signed before the end of the Gregorian year 2013.

What was that about farmers can’t make money unless they grow opium?  A new business just started up in Afghanistan, called FINEST (aka The Finest Group).  It promotes agricultural products grown in Afghanistan.   Company officials claim they will mobilize food crop production from 100-thousand Afghan farmers.

Army National Guard 878th Engineer Battalion, from the U.S. state of Georgia, returned home from Afghanistan.

Army National Guard 833rd Engineer Company, from the U.S. state of Iowa, returned home from Afghanistan.  According to local news reports they are the last Iowa Guard unit to return from the Central Asian country.  The father of one returning militia man says he feels betrayed by the Obama regime’s bilateral security agreement, which keeps U.S. forces in Afghanistan past the 2014 pullout: “I was just blown away that they would actually do that after basically promising that after 2014 that nobody would be there in Afghanistan.”-Justin Enderson Senior

Army National Guard 129th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, from the U.S. state of South Dakota, returned from Afghanistan.

Army National Guard 3-238th General Support Aviation Battalion, from the U.S. state of Delaware, deployed to Kuwait.  Their primary job will be transporting military personnel to and from areas of the Middle East and Afghanistan.  The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded Exelis Systems $463.1 million USD contract for base security in Kuwait (on top of the $1.27 billion the contractor has already received from U.S. taxpayers).  It’s part of the U.S. build up in the Persian Gulf country.

Several Guard units from other U.S. states are deployed to Kuwait.  The Kuwaiti government has been helping to fund the U.S. backed civil war in Syria.

Influenza

Influenza: H5N1 now at 59% kill rate? Health officials caught using H5N1 scare to steal lots-o-money!

18 December 2013 (09:59 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Safar 1435/27 Azar 1392/16 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

According to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), there have been 648 reported Influenza A-H5N1 cases.  384 people have died, that’s a 59% kill rate!

The countries being hardest hit are Indonesia, Egypt and Cambodia.  But wait!  I checked on these misleading news media reports; the 648 cases being reported are from 2003 to 2013!

However, that 59% kill rate still applies.  Example: So far this year, Cambodia reported 26 people infected, 14 of them died.

UNWHO officials did point out that a change in the subtype of H5N1 is being observed in Cambodia.

In the United States, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has approved a H5N1 vaccine.  But seeing as how the virus is already evolving subtypes, the new vaccine probably won’t be that effective.

Government health officials say the new vaccine is only for use if the H5N1 begins spreading from human to human: “This vaccine could be used in the event that the H5N1 avian influenza virus develops the capability to spread efficiently from human to human, resulting in the rapid spread of disease across the globe.”-Karen Midthun, U.S. FDA

Vietnam’s Health Ministry reports they’ve created their own H5N1 vaccine, as well as a H1N1 vaccine.  Their research was funded by the UNWHO.

Back to Indonesia; employees with the Health Ministry have been charged with political corruption (graft).  Police say the health officials used the 2007 H5N1 outbreak to rip off the government by overcharging taxpayers for medical equipment.    Those officials kept the difference between the actual costs of the equipment, and the inflated costs they reported to the Supreme Audit Agency  and the State Finance Development Comptroller.

One health ministry director has been convicted and sent to prison.  But she insists she was following orders, orders that came from the very top of the Health Ministry.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Unpaid contractor is winning bidder for abandoned Hoku Materials factory, again! 1-thousand jobs on the way, by a company with questionable history?

18 December 2013 (18:12 UTC-07 Tango 17 December 2013)/14 Safar 1435/27 Azar 1392/16 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

After a federal court judge ruled the November auction of the massive, and unused, Hoku Materials factory in Pocatello, Idaho, illegal, JH Kelly wins again.

This time JH Kelly bid $8.3 million, which is still a paltry sum when you realize the polysilicon factory is said to be worth about $700-million (but then again, JH Kelly is the one owed the money for building it). Reports say this time the federal bankruptcy court approved the auction.  However, JH Kelly has 72 hours to pay up.

There are reports by a local east Idaho TV news program (KIFI) that a local silica mining operation has made a deal to operate the factory.  Officials with Idaho based Arco Hills Silica Company (AHSC), and Nevada based JCF Funding, claim as many as one thousand jobs will be created!

However, back in August JH Kelly’s attorney said this about AHSC and JCF Funding: “It just seems difficult to conceive these people are serious if they haven’t made a written offer and haven’t engaged capable counsel.  The first thing a bankruptcy judge asks is: ‘Show me the money.’”-Ford Elsaesser

JH Kelly is also the biggest creditor to the bankrupt Hoku Materials factory, and they want their money.

There are some scandals with Arco Hills Silica Company; back in June a former CEO pled guilty to wire fraud, involving the theft of $5-million.

Also, there is court documents showing AHSC was sued by Beco Construction Company.  A “Judgment By Default” for more than $30-thousand was levied against Arco Hills Silica Company in 2004, and renewed in 2009.

“Arco Hills Silica Company is the exclusive mining and manufacturing Company for one of the world’s largest and most pure silica deposits in the world. It is presently in the early stages of development of these assets with anticipation that production will begin during 2011. This company is also actively in beginning construction on a major silicon processing plant, solar panel manufacturing and research facility and various polysilicon plants all to be located in Southeastern Idaho.”-AHSC company statement

Technology, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: Federal judge says NSA data collection violates Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens! Calls data collection “Orewellian”.

17 December 2013 (11:43 UTC-07 Tango )/13 Safar 1435/26 Azar 1392/15 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary’ invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely, such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.”-Richard Leon, Federal District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. Federal District Judge, Richard Leon, has stated that the government data collection of its own citizens is unconstitutional, but is withholding official judgement in the case he’s presiding over.  Leon cited “…significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues…” for withholding judgement.

This is the first time a federal judge, who was not part of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, spoke against data collection.  In previous data collection cases the judges were members of the evil FISC.

If you study NAZI Germany, you’ll find they created a similar court of convenience, which ruled all the government’s evil doings, including gas chambers and death camps, to be legal!

International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Neo-Imperialist Trilateral Commission member Japan preps for War! Official Orwellian Double-Speak pro-war propaganda program has begun, military forces increasing!

17 December 2013 (11:13 UTC-07 Tango )/13 Safar 1435/26 Azar 1392/15 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“The strategy calls for the need to nurture among citizens the love for their country and hometown to raise public awareness about national security.”-NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Japan now has an official pro-war propaganda policy.  The propaganda will be aimed at its own people, in order to increase public support for coming war with China/North Korea.  Officially it’s called the National Security Strategy.

Japanese government officials are already using classic Orwellian Double-Speak, calling their war build up “proactive pacifism”!!!

Japan has been sending military ‘peacekeeping’ GSDF to Afghanistan, Iraq and MSDF off the Horn of Africa.  Up ’till now Japan Ground Self Defense Force have not been involved in combat ops, the Maritime forces have been involved in fighting ‘pirates’.  There are plans to allow GSDF to take part in combat.

Japan is now using the excuse of ever increasing U.S. instigated international ‘peacekeeping’ ops, and ‘threats’ from China and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to expand their military.  Over the next five years Japan shall unify their Air, Ground and Maritime Self Defense Forces.  They shall also create, for the first time since World War 2, an amphibious assault brigade.

The offensive unit shall consist of destroyers, fixed wing attack aircraft, 17 U.S. made tilt rotor V-22 Osprey and at least 52 amphibious assault vehicles.

For several years now, Japan has been taking part in U.S. hosted military island capturing war games, the most recent being held this past summer off the coast of southern California.

Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea!

Japanese news media is reporting that Hagel is planning to officially ask Japan to prepare to take over some U.S. military ops

Trilateral Commission member, Japan, to create new Homeland Security office!

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

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

TriLateral Imperialism as the U.S. mulls allowing Japan to invade Korea!!!

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 Asian 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, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 16-17 September 2013. More companies unable to pay their federal taxes! Christian petroleum company fires their own preachers! More mom & pops say ‘get out now’!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Assisted living service provider, Chatsworth PGA, now bankrupt.  The company is in debt by as much as $500-million USD!

Video game maker, Red 5 Studios, announced they will layoff 10% of their employees.

Arizona: In Tucson, Dee’s Shoes shut down after 60 years of business.  The owners said they need to retire.  The oldest shoe store in Tucson offered custom shoe making and was the first to sell wide width shoes.

California: In San Francisco, maker of charging stations for electric cars, Ecotality, now bankrupt.  The company is now being sold off.  In San Bernardino, Herrick (aka San Bernardino Steel) laid off 140 steel workers!  In El Segundo, Raytheon laid off 54 employees.

Florida: Even the sex industry going down because of the bad economy.  FriendFinder internet dating site (which is also the owner of Penthouse adult magazine) now bankrupt. Company officials blame seven straight years of revenue losses!

Idaho: In Wallace, U.S. Silver & Gold mine laid off 130 people!  The company calls itself “…the second largest primary silver producer in the United States.”  Company officials blamed the layoffs on falling silver prices.

Illinois: In Chicago, Vulpes (the owner of gourmet food store Fox & Obel) now bankrupt.  It’s blamed on increased competition resulting in massive debts to food suppliers and unpaid federal taxes.  Anti-violence non-profit, CeaseFire, shut down due to lack of donations.  What automotive industry recovery? In Fairfield maker of fuel pumps for cars, Airtex Products, laid off 240 employees, with little notice!  The unionized workers had just approved a new one year contract.  In Niles, Grainger Industrial Supply shut down, 94 people unemployed.  It’s part of the 2011 announcement of the closing of at least 25 locations across the United States, which is blamed on crashing sales.

Indiana: Community Howard Regional Health laid off at least 50 employees.  It’s blamed on decreased hospital customers, and an expected decrease in federal government payments as a result of Obama Care.

Iowa: In Mason City, River City Bagel store closed down. The owner said his research shows that the economy is not going to recover: “We looked at it long term, whether it was going to work out or not. We decided now is a good time to get out!”-Marcus Lunning

Kentucky: Another coal miner going down.  James River Coal shut down, laying off 525 people!

New Jersey: In Montclair, Aunt Jean’s Toys & Treats shut down. The owner wants to move onto new “…re-inventions of Aunt Jean.”

New York: Israeli based computer graphics and special effects maker, Gravity International Group, now bankrupt.  Gravity has offices in Canada, Connecticut, New York and California.  The U.S. bankruptcy was filed to stop the company from being evicted from its New York office.  They have not been paying their rent.   Patricia Lynch Associates (PLA) laid off at least two employees. PLA is a crony state government lobbying company.

Minnesota: In Kenyon, legal drugs pusher Bergh Pharmacy closed down.  They were bought out by Walgreens.

North Carolina: What housing market recovery? Construction contractor Dutch Barns bankrupt and out-o-business.  A total of 40 jobs lost. An attorney representing the company blames the bad economy.

Oklahoma: The Christian God can’t stop the ‘christian’ natural gas company, Chesapeake Energy, from firing their chaplains and one bee keeper.  The arrogant ‘christian’ company apparently thought of itself as a church and provided chaplains to marry employees!  The firing of their in-house preachers comes a few days after announcing that 2-thousand employees will become unemployed!

Oregon: What automotive industry recovery? In Clackamas, Indiana based Dutchmen Manufacturing shut down their travel trailer and camper factory.  163 people unemployed!  Since 2011, Oregon has lost almost one thousand Recreational Vehicle manufacturing jobs!

Texas: Private police state contractor, U.S. Security Associates, laid off 352 employees throughout the Lone Star State!  It’s blamed on the loss of a major contract.  The Walmart-Laredo Distribution Center shut down. 53 people out-o-work.

Washington: In Seattle, internet music service Rhapsody International cut 15% of its employees.  It’s blamed on declining revenues and a management change.

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.

“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, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 17-20 November 2013: Police state contractors assassinated! Beheadings increase! UN makes big unproven claims againt Mujahideen! Another report says War on Terror a Cluster F–k!

Baghlan Province:  In Burka District, a provincial official for Kunduz Province was assassinated.  The Kunduz official actually lived in Baghlan Province.  He was kidnapped, and there were reports from his family that a ransom was demanded, but nobody ever made a public claim regarding the official’s disappearance.

Balkh Province: In Mazar-e-Sharif City, a suicide bomber tried to kill the deputy governor.  The deputy governor was not hurt, but at least one person was killed and four others wounded.

Ghazni Province: A suicide car bomber tried to attack an Afghan National Army convoy.  His car blew up before reaching the target.

Helmand Province: In Marja District, the local police chief was assassinated when Mujahideen ambushed his vehicle.  His bodyguard was wounded.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, two cops killed by “remote controlled improvised explosive device”.  Police say it was a set up because the cops were on their way to investigate a claim about a bomb, when they were hit with the homemade remote bomb.

Kandahar Province: A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (E6) from Texas was killed by Mujahideen. ISAF officials say he was killed by a “improvised explosive device attack”.  Also, construction workers involved in building police state checkpoints are being assassinated.  The bodies of at least six contractors were found, minus their heads.  In Arghistan District, two children killed when the vehicle they were in ran over a landmine.  Local police did not give any details about the adult passengers.  In Kandahar City, a restaurant was bombed.  At least three people killed, 22 wounded.  Local cops say it was done by a suicide bomber.

Paktika Province: In Khair Kot District, this time it was government forces that planted explosives which killed children.  Several days prior Mujahideen forced government forces to retreat from their police state checkpoints.  During the retreat the government forces booby trapped their checkpoint with explosives. Days later seven children were killed and two wounded when they  entered the checkpoint compound to scavenge scrap metal.   Initially the Afghan government blamed the explosions on Mujahideen.

Zabul Province: Provincial police report that several cops were beheaded by unknown assailants.  Zabul officials say at first the dead cops were thought to be civilians, because they were in their civis (old U.S. military slang for civilian clothes, which comes from the Latin word for civilian).  Zabul officials also suspect that some of the beheaded victims found in Kandahar are Zabul cops, who are still missing.  Provincial officials also reported that an explosion killed two children, and wounded two adults.

The Afghan government claims to have killed at least 40 Mujahideen over this four day period.  That’s actually a big drop from past battle reports.

The United Nations is claiming that so far this year as many as 12-thousand Mujahideen have been killed or captured.  Mmmm, yet attacks by Mujahideen are only increasing.  UN officials admitted that their number of killed or captured was only an “estimate”.

A study by the Chatham House, in United Kingdom, concluded that the British empire’s role in the invasions and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq “….was of disorder and incoherence, informality and individuality.”  In U.S. military slang it is a “cluster fuck”!

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 13-15 September 2013. Even more Obama Care layoffs! Social Security shut downs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

National Public Radio laid off more employees.  This time 80 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on lack of funding.

California:  Japan based Sony laid off 70 people at their Online Entertainment HQ in San Diego.  Also in San Diego, Novatel Wireless laid off 80 people in California, Texas and Canada.  In Elk Grove, Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries shut down.  Company officials said the bakery was not competitive.  In Mountain View, Google laid off 80 employees.  In Milpitas, Lifescan laid off 76 people.  In Modesto, Memorial Medical Center laid off two people.

Connecticut: Government tax sucker Sikorsky laid off 200 people!  Company officials blamed increased competition and decreased government spending.  Too Big to Jail Webster Bank closed 30 offices across four states!  It’s part of their 20 year restructuring plan.

Florida: In Miami, Royal Caribbean cruise line laid off 100 people!  Company officials said they needed to restructure.

Georgia: Emmery Healthcare lays off 101 employees!  Local TV news interviewed an unnamed former employee who blamed Obamacare: “The saddest part is when during the announcement we were told our job loss is due to the new Affordable Care Act!”

Kansas: In Pittsburg, the federal Social Security office shut down!  It affects six counties.  It’s blamed on reduced operational funding.

Maine: In Bangor, 99 Restaurant shut down.  The owner said the age and location of the building his restaurant was in was not worth the rent.

Massachusetts: In Salem, after 80 years in business Bernard’s Jewelers shut down.  The owners said they need to retire.  In Amherst, Annie’s Garden & Gift Store closed down.  The owner blamed the bad economy.  In Hudson, computer chip maker Intel announced they will kill 700 jobs by the end of 2014!

New Jersey: The second largest private employer in the state, Barnabas Health, warned of huge layoffs due to Obama Care.  Company officials said Obama Care will cost hospitals $4.5 billion USD just through reduced Medicare funding.

New York: In New York City, law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel laying off employees through voluntary buyouts.  In Waterville the only grocery store in town, Food King, shut down.  The manager told local news media that they just couldn’t stay ahead of their rising operating costs.

Ohio: In Delphos, Reser’s Fine Foods closed down, 104 people out-o-work!

Oregon: In Tigard, Too Big to Jail Capital One laid off 66 call center employees.

Pennsylvania: In Allentown, the Pennsylvania School of Business shut down!  It’s blamed on loss of grants and other reduced funding.

Tennessee: What automotive industry recovery? In Loudon, after 30 years in operation car muffler maker Maremont shut down, laying off 150 workers!  In Adamsville, Masco Bath shut down.  216 jobs lost!

Utah: The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 19 employees.

Washington: Taiwan based smart phone maker, HTC, laid off at least 30 employees.

Washington DC: Law firm and lobby group, Arent Fox, laid off 20 people.

Wisconsin: In Milwaukee, the maker of large mining equipment, Joy Global, laid off 200 employees!  Company officials blame it on crashing international demand.

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.

“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