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International

Is your insurance data safe? 3rd biggest insurance company loses data for 40-thousand customers!

13 March 2014 (11:14 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Jumada l-Ula 1435/22 Esfand 1392/13 Ding-Mao 4712

After buying up several smaller competitors, and becoming a dominant insurance seller on the internet, the third largest life insurance company (by revenue) has discovered they’ve lost data for 40-thousand customers.

Japan’s number 3, Dai-ichi Life, discovered that two data tapes went missing last month.  Only now are they telling the public.  The tapes contain names, addresses and medical histories of customers.

Last month Dai-ichi Life took over Sompo Japan insurance company, as well as Dai-ichi Frontier Life (which was originally affiliated with Sompo).

Dai-ichi Life also expanded operations into Vietnam.  Vietnam’s state-run Vietnam Television is running commercials for Dai-ichi Life, that have the slogan “Bringing the bond of reassurance to countries and regions around the world”.

Don’t think the company is making its money off insurance customers.  Dai-ichi Life has about $39-billion USD invested in government bonds, and they’re focusing on the failed economies of Spain and Italy with the hope of a big turnaround, soon!

 

Business/Economics

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 04 December 2013. 2-thousand teachers will be laid off, in one state! YMCA turns to the Devil? More health care cuts!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

What housing market recovery?  Too big to Jail Ocwen Financial, laid off more than 800 employees across the U.S.!  It’s blamed on their take over of GMAC Mortgage.

California:  Hewlett Packard announced they will kill 1124 jobs in European Union!  It’s part of the Californian company’s plan to kill 29-thousand jobs around the world by October 2014!

Connecticut: In Orange, a Stop & Shop shutdown, 123 jobs affected!

Delaware: In Greenwood, long time Yoder’s Country Store shutdown.  The family owners blame it on Walmart and dollar stores.

Florida: White Springs Agriculture Chemicals shutdown.  350 jobs lost! Company officials say the phosphate industry is becoming more competitive.

Kentucky:  In Lexington, Kentucky Proud Market shutdown.  The store manager said it was not for economic reasons, but she was not allowed to disclose the reason. The state Board of Education warned of massive layoffs throughout the taxpayer funded public school system.  2-thousand educators and staff could be laid off by spring 2014: “With sequestration, district bailout of the Kentucky School Board Insurance Trust, and budget cuts, we are headed for the ‘perfect storm’. By next March or April, we predict 10-12 districts will fail to meet their basic financial commitment and we will see pink slips like we’ve never seen before.“-Terry Holliday, Commissioner.    Compare that to 1800 who lost their jobs over the past three years.

Maryland:  MedStar laid off 74 hospital workers.

Michigan: In Dexter, ReCellular shutdown their distribution facility.  120 jobs lost!  It’s blamed on the loss of a major contract.

New Jersey:  Optimer Pharmaceuticals killed 177 jobs!  The company was sold to a competitor.

New York: Computer chip maker, GlobalFoundries, laid off 30 people as part of its plan to be more competitive.  In Forrest Hills, Perfume Globe shutdown.

Pennsylvania: In Philadelphia, Atlantic Express school bus service laid off 518 employees!  The company is bankrupt.

Ohio: Three Friendly’s restaurants shutdown.  Company officials said they were “underperforming”.

Texas: In Longview, Joy Global announced more layoffs, but refused to give numbers.  The company says demand for its products continues to crash.  This is the third round of layoffs in 2013.

Wisconsin: In Dane County, the Christian god couldn’t stop his YMCA from laying off 13 employees. The YMCA turned to the Devil, unAmerican Corporate America, and conducted a typical Wall Street survey that said even though they had not lost members, they weren’t gaining any either, so cuts had to be made.  The YMCA made drastic changes to its youth programs, as well.  Member Lisa Pierobon Mays, says the YMCA has lost its way: “It’s a real bait-and-switch they’ve done. Shows how out of touch they are.”

01-03 December 2013:  Property tax increase can’t stop city layoffs! 

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

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Ashley Furniture shuts down liquidation center in Pocatello! So much for their “investment”!

12 March 2014 (15:54 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Jumada l-Ula 1435/21 Esfand 1392/12 Ding-Mao 4712

A local southeast Idaho TV station reported that Coldwell Banker realtor, Don Zebe, claims Ashley Furniture is simply selling off an “investment”, and has no plans to leave Pocatello, Idaho.   Yet he is the agent selling off both their Pocatello properties!

Ashley Furniture dumping their Oak Street "investment". Sales got so bad they started selling used cars in 2013!

Ashley Furniture Liquidation dumping their Oak Street “investment”. Sales got so bad they started selling used cars in 2013!

Ashley Furniture's Hurley Drive "investment", now up for sale. It sits on property that used to be residential, until the city forced the home owners out, so they could bring in the California based furniture seller.

Ashley Furniture HomeStore’s Hurley Drive “investment”, now up for sale. It sits on property that used to be residential, until the city forced the home owners out, so they could bring in the “independently” owned furniture store.

Zebe has the Ashley Furniture HomeStore listed for sale at $3.2-million USD, and the Ashley Furniture Liquidation store listed at $647,600.

Ashley Furniture recently announced they had more than $3-billion in furniture sales in 2013.  They also opened their 500th store, in Texas.  They claim they’re going to open 50 new stores across the U.S. in 2014.

But wait, it turns out that Ashley Furniture HomeStore, and Ashley Furniture Liquidation stores are independently owned.   These so called independently owned stores sell furniture made by Ashley Furniture Industries.

So, are the independent owners of Pocatello’s Ashley Furniture HomeStore and Liquidation stores just cashing in on their “investments”, or is there a plan in the works for new locations in Pocatello, or maybe Chubbuck?

Idaho, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: More prison corruption news out of Idaho!

12 March 2014 (14:05 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Jumada l-Ula 1435/21 Esfand 1392/12 Ding-Mao 4712

Ada County: A 29 years old County Jail prisoner died.  Officials say he ODed on drugs.  So how’d he get the drugs mister prison officials?  Prison guards claim they got an anonymous note about the illegal drugs.  The prisoner was found sweating and shaking, but no drugs were found.  He was taken to a hospital where he suffered and died of a heart attack.

CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) is asking a judge to temporarily suspend a lawsuit until the FBI’s investigation into the Gladiator School is finished.

Idaho’s Department of Correction boss, Brent Reinke, is taking time off because his grandson (Bradley Frank James) is being tried for murder.   His grandson has been charged with shooting a man in the face, and then stabbing him 25 times.

Bannock County: It’s been revealed a prison guard at the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center was fired on 05 March 2014, for threaten his wife by holding a knife against her neck (so much for gun control laws).  He has been arrested.

Crimes in Idaho prisons connected to other cases

Idaho, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: Obama regime super pac CREDO tries to scam Idahoans with fake(?) cell phone service offer!

10 March 2014 (11:47 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712

Barack Obama is in his last term as president of the United States.  Then why is his super pac, CREDO, hitting Idahoans hard with anti-Tea Party propaganda, including offers of cell phone service that funds the Obama regime?

click pics to make bigger and read the CREDO propaganda

“The CREDO Super PAC was created by CREDO Mobile to leverage the company’s list of nearly 3 million activists and CREDO Action’s high-impact team of professional organizers. CREDO Mobile is the nation’s only progressive phone company and has raised more than $72 million for social change since its founding in 1985.”-CREDO super pac statement

“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

False Flag MH370 update: Missing airliner reveals new Global terrorism base in Thailand! Officials blame Iran! Five passengers never got on plane!

10 March 2014 (09:52 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712

“Thailand has been used by some international terrorist groups as a zone of operation, to raise funds or to plan attacks.”-Rommel Banlaoi, terrorism analyst

“Thailand is a destination for international crime organizations who use it to secure travel documents, financial documents. It’s not just linked to terrorism but to other crimes. It’s a complex network, connected to other networks.”-Unnamed Thai intelligence official

“A police team combined with local police and immigration are working to track down a passport ring.”-Panya Mamen, Thai police commander

“If Malaysia Airlines and all airlines worldwide were able to check the passport details of prospective passengers against our database, then we would not have to speculate whether stolen passports were used by terrorists to board MH370.”-Ronald Noble, International Criminal Police Organization (aka ICPO, aka Interpol)

Surprisingly many countries do not check Interpol’s data base of stolen passports!

Thai police announced they are focusing their crack down on passport theft operations to the island of Phuket.   Both the ‘fake’ MH370 passengers who bought consecutive tickets used faked passports that were made using stolen passports on the island resort.

In Thailand people who engage in making and selling fake passports can be jailed for up to 20 years, but here’s the problem; officials admit many Thai police are actually involved in the fake passport operations!

China Southern Airlines, which works with Malaysian Airlines, revealed that the two ‘fake’ passengers with consecutive tickets had also bought tickets to fly from China to Europe.  The tickets were bought in Thailand.

The Thai travel agent who sold the tickets said the purchase of the tickets was actually arraigned over the phone by a man who claimed to be Iranian.  She had also sold tickets to the ‘fake’ passengers for an earlier flight, on 06 March, but the tickets expired.  She said the “Iranian” gave his name as Ali, only.   She said she did regular business with this “Ali”, and he always paid in cash.

“We have stopped men with false or stolen passports and carrying explosives, who have tried to get past KLIA security and get on to a plane. There have been two or three incidents, but I will not divulge the details.”-Unnamed senior Malaysian police official to Reuters

There were reports that Malaysian police identified one of the two ‘fake’ passengers.  No further details.

Vietnam reports their search planes have lost sight of what they thought might be wreckage of the Boeing 777.  Oil slicks on the ocean turned out not to be from an aircraft, according to lab tests of oil samples.

Airline officials have revealed that five passengers who checked in, never got on the plane.  Their luggage was also removed from the plane before takeoff.

Chinese officials have been criticizing the lax security in Malaysia.  The majority of passengers on MH370 were Chinese.

passengers “were very important people”

entire passenger list looks fake

“passengers” on flight stole their ID

 

International, U.S.

Norovirus / Gastroenteritis: More deaths! Military veterans hit! U.S. judge says ‘stop blaming cruise ship passengers’! Scientist who discovered virus dies!

10 March 2014 (21:52 UTC-07 Tango 09 March 2014)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712

Australia:  In Victoria State, people are being warned of rising  gastroenteritis cases.  The majority are being blamed on eggs contaminated with salmonella.  In the past 20 years salmonella cases have increased 80% in the Land Down Under!  Campylobactera is up 20%.  Overall food related gastroenteritis cases up 75% from 2001 to 2011!  So much for advanced health care and food production systems.

Canada: In Nanaimo, British Columbia, reports that one hospital and at least six old folks homes hit with norovirus.  In Burlington, Ontario, a retirement home hit with norovirus.  Six people died, but officials don’t think norovirus was the direct cause: “The deaths were reported. We don’t have the cause of death. They all had underlying illnesses.”-Dimitra Kasimos, Halton Region Health Department

European Union:  A study confirms what I reported more than a  year ago; frozen strawberries contained norovirus!  Those strawberries came from China and hit Germany hard in the gut.  Read the Eurosurveillance report here.  In United Kingdom, P&O’s Oriana cruise ship is reported to have suffered a norovirus outbreak.  At least 57 passengers sick. Wards at three hospitals in Gloucestershire have been closed to visitors. These are the second outbreaks in the past month for two of those hospitals.  In Spain, health officials are calling for mass vaccinations against some of the causes of gastroenteritis.  This comes as Finnish scientist warn of rotavirus outbreaks.  There is no vaccine for norovirus.

Guyana: The people of Barima-Waini continue to deal with outbreaks of gastroenteritis.  It’s being blamed on the E coli bacteria.

Pakistan: Army health workers have reached the village of Mithi in Tharparkar District.  A long drought is being blamed on cases of gastroenteritis in the children.  Unfortunately 137 people have died in Tharparkar District, mostly children.

Florida U.S.A.:  The Department of Health Lee County reporting a nursing home hit by norovirus.  59 cases, the first for the county this year.

Georgia U.S.A.: 110 students sick at Cartersville High School.  Cartersville Elementary School also seeing increased student absences.

Massachusetts U.S.A.:  Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital officials reveal they’ve been dealing with a gastrointestinal outbreak for the past six days! At least 22 patients and three employees sick.

Minnesota U.S.A.:  130 kids sick over a three day period at Glyndon-Felton Elementary.  Other schools in the district reported absences as well.

Missouri U.S.A.: Half the Saint Charles Chill hockey team out sick, after eating at a charity event.

Nebraska U.S.A.:  The Department of Health and Human Services reports widespread cases of tummy bug.  Health officials are suggesting people go on the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast).

New Jersey U.S.A.:  Princeton University reports an outbreak of gastroenteritis.  So far 65 students sick.

New York U.S.A.: A state supreme court judge, Thomas A. Dickerson, has written a long critic of hotels, cruise ships and other locations that see increased infections.  He concludes that the customers/passengers can not be blamed for the outbreaks, but cleaning standards by service industries are too lax. He cites many reports.

North Carolina U.S.A.:  143 students at Isaac Dickson Elementary School out sick, for at least two days!  Other schools in the district are on alert.  Mecklenburg County reports that at least six long term care facilities have been hit with outbreaks.

Ohio U.S.A.: The Hamilton County Public Health Department reports at least 62 people sick at a long term care facility.  Two people hospitalized.

Oregon U.S.A.: 125 veterans and 25 VA employees sick at the White City Veterans Affairs rehab center.  Police were called in to warn people as they entered the facility.

Texas U.S.A.: The Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services Department reports at least 12 outbreaks at long term care facilities.  The Bell County Health District reports increased ER visits due to norovirus, and at least three outbreaks at long term facilities.

Albert Z. Kapikian, the National Institutes of Health virologist who discovered norovirus in 1972, died on 24 February 2014.

International

False Flag Ukraine: Video shows Jewish politician with M4 in trunk of car, apparently after he shot at police & protestors!

10 March 2014 (20:18 UTC-07 Tango 09 March 2014)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712

A video posted to the internet on 19 February 2014 is finally getting attention.  It purports to show Jewish Ukrainian Sergey Pashinsky, of the Fatherland Party.

The video clearly shows a soft guncase containing an M4 (M16/AR-15 family) in the trunk of the man’s car.  He’s allowed to leave with the gun.  The original YouTube posting says the M4 had a silencer, and that Pashinsky shot both a “Berkut” and a “Maidan” .

I’ve already written about ‘former’ Israeli Defense Force soldiers admitting they are leading Jewish rebel groups in Ukraine.

Japan leans towards Russia

International

False Flag MH370 update: Techie passengers “were very important people”! Interpol screw up? More fake passengers! Don’t rent motorcycles with your passport!

10 March 2014 (18:25 UTC-07 Tango 09 March 2014)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712

The 20 employees reported as working for IBM work specifically for Texas based FreescaleSemiconductor.  At least one MH370 passenger did work directly for IBM.

In 2007 FreescaleSemiconductor announced they were working with IBM on data gathering “semiconductor research and development”.  It’s known that at least one IBM employee on the flight was a Technical Storage Executive for IBM in Malaysia.

Mitch Haws, of FreescaleSemiconductor, described the company’s employees, on MH370, as “….people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people. It’s definitely a loss for the company.”  Haws also stated the employees were involved in “sophisticated work”.

Chinese officials are reporting that the family of one of the MH370 passengers tried calling their cell phone, after the crash, and it worked!  However, nobody answered and the signal eventually cut off.

Chinese officials are now reporting that one of the Chinese passengers was using a fake ID.  The man who belongs to the ID was found alive and well in Fujian Province.  The man says he’s never lost his identification documents, so Chinese officials are concerned about how the fake passenger got the man’s ID!

Security camera footage of the two fake passengers who bought consecutive numbered tickets has been turned over to police.

The International Criminal Police Organization (aka ICPO, aka Interpol) is concerned about the fake passports, because their own databases have that info, which is available to airlines and governments.  They also backed up the Malaysian Defense Minister’s claim that the passenger list showed numerous other ‘fake’ passengers.  So how did the users of the fake passports get away with it?

“Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol’s databases.”-Ronald Noble, Interpol Secretary General

Interpol officials said they are also “…interviewing immigration officials who let the imposters through. Early indications show some sort of a security lapse….”

Malaysian Defence Minister (and acting Transportation Minister), Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, stated that the entire passenger list is suspect: “We will investigate the whole manifest. We will not only target the four people mentioned in the media but all those in the manifest.”

Vietnamese search planes reported what looks to be a door and a section of tail from the missing flight MH370.  Indian news sources say the plane might have broken up in flight.

Turns out the Italian who reported his passport stolen in Thailand, which was then used by a fake passenger, was found to be still in Thailand.  He was found by reporters from a Thai newspaper, and was picked up by Thai police for questioning.

The Italian says his passport was stolen when he rented a motorcycle in Thailand.  The rental shop owners demanded he give his passport as collateral, but when he returned the motorcycle they told him they gave his passport to somebody else by mistake.  He says he returned to Italy to get temporary documents then went back to Thailand.

China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Indonesia are now involved in the investigation and search.

Technology, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A. 2014: U.S. company builds mini-drone UAV that can attack you, & they’re proud of it!

09 March 2014 (16:50 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Jumada l-Ula 1435/18 Esfand 1392/09 Ding-Mao 4712

A company called Chaotic Moon Studios has created a small easily portable UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) which can taze you.

It’s called Project Cupid, and the UAV itself is called Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone.

It’s interesting that the public demonstration was reported in the “business” section of news agencies.  Also, they zapped a real person with the drone, and despite police and the companies that make ‘tazerz’ claiming they’re safe, a paramedic team gave the victim the once over after he got zapped, something cops never allow in real life (which could explain why so many victims of cop tazingz die).

The creators of the Personal Intercept Drone said the purpose of their demonstration was to show the real potential of such small unmanned aerial vehicles.