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Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 11-14 October 2013. ObamaCare kills children’s programs! Big time university layoffs! City taxes killing off grocery stores!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Savient Pharmaceuticals now bankrupt.  It’s being sold off to Sloan Holdings.

Alabama: What automotive industry recovery?  France based Michelin laying off 100 people at its BF Goodrich tire factory in Tuscaloosa.  Company officials said there was too much inventory sitting on shelves, due to the bad economy.

Arizona: In Tucson, 63 years old Arizona Mail Order shutdown.  59 jobs lost.  The Massachusetts based owner is moving ops to Pennsylvania.

California: What housing market recovery?  Across the Golden State JPMorgan Chase Mortgage shutdown offices and laid off at least 897 people!  It’s blamed on crashing demand for home loans. In San Diego, LPL Financial laid off 31 employees.

Delaware: What automotive industry recovery?  Evraz Claymont Steel shutting down their steel factory.  375 jobs lost!  Company officials blame declining sales and a steel market flooded with foreign products.  They made steel plate for other industries.  In Harrington, Georgia-Pacific shutdown its Color-Box packaging facility.  95 jobs lost.

Florida: A Kmart in Panama City Beach will shutdown. 54 jobs lost.

Illinois: The city of Galesburg warns it will have to layoff more than a dozen employees in 2014, to save $1-million to $2-million USD.  Dominick’s grocery store shutdown all 72 stores!  Dominick’s was owned by Safeway, which had warned they were “exiting” the Chicago market.  In Sterling, the Kmart will shutdown.

Maine: Electronic mapping company, DeLorme, laid off 10 employees.   Company officials said they were not in financial trouble, but “in transition”.

Maryland: In Frostburg, Acropolis Restaurant shutdown.  The owner blamed his health, the bad economy and the fact that the local fire marshall reduced his legal seating capacity to 49.   The dumb ass city of Baltimore jacked up its “bottle tax” in 2010, and now Santoni’s Supermarket is dead!  80 jobs lost.  The grocery store first opened in the 1930s.  “Since the beverage tax levy went into effect in July 2010, Santoni’s has realized total store sales loss in excess of $4 million….”-Robert Santoni Junior

Massachusetts: Home grown food maker, Joseph’s Gourmet Pasta and Sauces, laid off 73 employees.  The company was sold to Switzerland based Nestle in 2006.  In Somerset, a Wendy’s fast food joint was shutdown after customers complained and it failed a health inspection.

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? In Grand Rapids, Bentler Automotive shutdown, 200 jobs lost!  In Vassar, Metavation shutdown, 113 jobs lost! The company was taken over by Dayco Products.

Missouri: Paper products maker, RockTenn, shutdown their Saint Louis factory. 50 jobs lost. It’s blamed on the company’s purchase of Smurfit Stone Container in 2011.

New Jersey:  After 44 years of art education the Matawan Student Enrichment Program shutdown.  Student enrollment crashed.

New York: In Colonie, a Kmart is shutting down.  72 jobs lost.

North Carolina: Residential treatment facility The Children’s Home and Peek-A-Moo Child Development Center shutdown, 79 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on Obama Care funding cuts.

Ohio: The Dayton Daily News warned of more layoffs. At least 22 people this time.  It’s blamed on declining sales, which company officials blame on the internet.  In Cleveland, iconic Peabody’s and Rascal House live music clubs shutdown. It’s blamed on Cleveland State University, which annexed the properties.  In Solon, Park View Federal Savings Bank laid off 57 employees. In Columbus, what housing market recovery?  Too Big to Jail JPMorgan Chase Mortgage shutdown, 97 jobs lost!  In Springboro, tax sucker General Dynamics laid off 31 employees.

Texas: The University of Texas laying off 500 people!   University officials expect continued declines in taxpayer funding and student enrollment for the next ten years!  In Denton, Conn’s appliance and furniture store shutdown. Local news media say employees were given two weeks notice, but the company refused to explain the shutdown.  The company actually reported a profit to investors.   What housing market recovery?  In Coppell, Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase Mortgage shutdown, 52 jobs lost.  In Fort Worth, JPMorgan Chase Home Lending shutdown, 451 jobs lost!

Wisconsin: In Milwaukee, JPMorgan Chase shutdown, 94 jobs lost.

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

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Reactor 3 containment vessel leaking Strontium!

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Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company say they know where the mystery water leak in reactor Unit 3 is coming from; the containment vessel!

Yesterday TEPCo reported the water leak when a robot clearing radioactive rubble from the building discovered it.

TEPCo also adds that the water is contaminated with 24 million becquerels per liter of strontium-90, and 1.7 million becquerels per liter of cesium-137!

Idaho, Influenza

Influenza: H1N1 epidemic now official! More pregnant women going down! More evidence vaccines can make you sick!

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Alberta, Canada: Health Services reporting 10 deaths and 22-hundred confirmed influenza cases.  Don’t blame it on people not getting the flu shot, the province is now rationing their remaining flu shots for children who need a second dose, and for an even bigger outbreak.

New Brunswick, Canada: Health officials report four flu deaths, 300 confirmed flu cases, 50 hospitalizations.  Health officials admitted they do not know how many people have been vaccinated versus those who haven’t been.

Saskatchewan, Canada:  Health Ministry officials report 12 deaths, but they’re not 100% sure if they are flu related.  797 confirmed influenza cases since October. Vaccines are being rationed to children under five years of age, pregnant women and people in ‘high risk groups’.  100-thousand nasal vaccines are expected from the United States.

Mexico: Health Ministry reports 32 deaths from influenza, and 556 confirmed cases (468 confirmed H1N1).  30 of those who died did so from the H1N1 version of flu.  They died within six days of getting infected.  Officials say at least 800-thousand people have been vaccinated.

Spain: The number of H1N1 hospitalizations have jumped to 279, and 11 people have died.  Just a few days ago it was around 43 hospitalizations with two deaths.

The U.S. CDC has declared the influenza an epidemic in the United States.  Interested in becoming an influenza spy?  Apply now for the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS).      At least 20 children have died from H1N1 (the CDC does not track adult deaths from influenza).

Arkansas, U.S.A.:  A 29 years old Fort Smith woman is in critical condition with H1N1.  She went down fast, only a matter of days from first symptoms to a medically induced coma.  She was 20 weeks pregnant but lost the baby.  Family members say her body automatically delivered the baby, in response to the infection.

California, U.S.A.:  State health officials report spike in deaths.  Current deaths are almost at the number of all Golden State influenza deaths for all of the 2012-13 flu season.

Idaho, U.S.A.:  Department of Health and Welfare declared the influenza outbreak to be at “widespread” level.  H1N1 is the dominate strain.

Illinois, U.S.A.: McLean County reports two influenza deaths.  One of the men who died was confirmed infected with H1N1.

Iowa, U.S.A.: Department of Public Health reports a child died from H1N1.  They refuse to give the age or sex, or name of the victim.  They also said there were several adult deaths that could’ve been caused by influenza.

Louisiana, U.S.A.:  An 18 years old senior at Oak Hill High School, in Rapides Parish, died from H1N1.  His family says he was hit hard, laying still in his bed, then a few days later he died.

Michigan, U.S.A.: “This year what is concerning is the unusual number of young, previously healthy adults getting sick, needing to be put on life support, and dying from H1N1.”-Matthew Davis, Michigan Department of Community Health

Montana, U.S.A.:  Department of Health and Human Services reports 19-hundred influenza cases, 150 hospitalizations and three deaths since the start of the 2013-14 flu season in October.  Realize that Montana is a sparsely populated state, and you can see their number of cases are relatively high.

Ohio, U.S.A.:  Toledo-Lucas County health officials are warning that they could see record H1N1 deaths this flu season. Seven deaths in the Buckeye State so far.

Texas, U.S.A.: In Denton, a 46 years old mother of two is now in a coma with H1N1.  Doctors say they were forced to induce the coma, to try and save her.

Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that their study shows that giving children the flu shot along with the pneumococcal shot can make them sick: “Parents should be made aware that their child might develop a fever following simultaneous influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations…….For the small group of children who must avoid fever, these findings provide important information….”-Melissa Stockwell, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 11-14 January 2014: 4-thousand+ U.S. personnel heading to Afghanistan! Obama corrupted 2009 elections! Obama regime shutting down state militias, stealing their airborne firepower! Preps for U.S. civil war?

Badghis Province: Three employees of the government Rural Rehabilitation and Development Directorate were kidnapped.

Kabul Province: In Kabul City, a suicide bomber exploded near the police academy.  At least 3 people killed, 21 wounded.

Kandahar Province: In Maiwand District, reports say a man and woman were shot and killed as they walked past a U.S.-NATO-ISAF base.  Witnesses say the shots came from the base.  The members of 1st Battalion, 158th Field Artillery, Oklahoma Army National Guard, arrived for duty at the Kandahar Airfield.

Nangarhar Province: In Jalalabad City, three children died when a propane gas cylinder exploded. Two other children, along with the parents, were wounded.   In Khogyani District, a family of six were wounded when a mortar round landed on their house.

Sar-e Pol Province: In Balkhab District, the British empire controlled (London based) Afghan Gold and Minerals Company has been awarded a contract to develop a huge copper mine.  The copper vein was originally discovered by the Soviets during the Cold War.

Uruzgan Province: In Charchino District, three local cops were stabbed to death (see, you don’t need guns to kill, it’s called hand to hand combat).  Apparently the cops were stabbed by two other cops who joined the Mujahideen.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan is reporting skyrocketing incidents involving foreigners hunting rare animal species in Afghanistan.  It is illegal to hunt animals declared as rare in Afghanistan.  Ministry officials said most of the illegal hunters are from Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh.

Despite foreign tax funding and deals with mining companies, The New York Times is reporting that many Afghan cops have not been paid since November 2013!  The report says Obama regime and UN officials are not aware that many cops were not being paid.  So where’s the money?

In Halifax, Canada, people are asking government officials why their war memorial still does not reflect the Canadian involvement in the U.S. led occupation of Afghanistan?

Former chief of Afghanistan Independent Election Commission Secretariat, Daud Ali Najafi, revealed that in the 2009 Afghan elections, Obama regime officials Richard Hallbrooke and Peter Galbraith tried to oust Hamid Karzai by influencing Afghan voters.  Najafi also said the U.S. officials threatened him, saying he should not announce the election result because Karzai won with 55% of the votes. A second election was held at the insistence of the Obama regime.

More than 4-thousand members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force deploying to Afghanistan from California.

10 air-militiamen of the Air National Guard’s 282nd Combat Communications Squadron, from the U.S. state of Rhode island, returned home from Afghanistan and Qatar.

15 militiamen from the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 924th Engineer Facilities Detachment deployed to Romania.  The east European country is the new final landing point (Forward Operating Site Mihail Kogalniceanu) for planes carrying U.S. personnel bound for Afghanistan, since the Central Asian country Kazakhstan kicked out the U.S.

About 50 members of Alpha Battery 2-146th Field Artillery Regiment, Washington Army National Guard, returned home from Afghanistan.

The U.S. state of Oregon’s 186th Infantry 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Army National Guard is undergoing training for deployment to Afghanistan.

The Army National Guard’s 262nd Engineer Company, from the U.S. state of Maine, undergoing training for deployment to Afghanistan.

After returning from Afghanistan with their AH-64 Apache gunships, the Army National Guard’s 1-211th Attack Helicopter Battalion, in the U.S. state of Utah, were told they will probably lose their Apaches plus 100-200 jobs!  Supposedly it’s part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s plans to cut military spending.  Or is it really a conspiracy to deprive state militias of firepower when the 2nd U.S. civil war starts?

As they are just about to deploy to Afghanistan with their OH-58 Kiowa recon ‘copters (based on the Bell civilian JetRanger), the Army National Guard’s 1-230th Air Cavalry Squadron, in the U.S. state of Tennessee, were told they will probably be shut down by the Obama regime when they return home: “This will have a tremendously negative impact on the Tennessee Guard. If the Army follows this course of action, Tennessee will lose 30 helicopters and the 692 soldiers who support them. It will also eliminate 113 full-time jobs and possibly two of the three Army flight facilities across the state.”-Major General Max Haston, Tennessee National Guard

Tennessee National Guard was also told Obama will probably take their newly acquired German designed LUH-72 Lakotas! (the LUH-72 was originally built in the 1990s by Messerschmitt before that company was absorbed into the new Eurocopter)

After returning from another deployment to Afghanistan the Army National Guard’s 1st 104th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, revealed that the Obama regime is about to steal their Apaches, Chinooks, Kiowas and Lakota ‘copters!  It will affect at least 450 jobs, one officer says it’s a plan to destroy state militias’ airpower: “It’s a very bad deal for Pennsylvania and the entire National Guard……It leaves nothing in reserve in Army aviation. If they get shot up, there’s nowhere else to go to pull in….”-Major General Wesley Craig, Pennsylvania adjutant general

The official U.S. Army (aka Regular Army, RA) reason for stealing Apaches from state militias is that RA units will be replacing their lightweight recon birds with the anti-tank gunships. But that doesn’t explain why Obama is also ordering the RA to take Chinooks as well as the lightweight Kiowas and Lakotas.

It’s not just me, but members of the National Guard state militias suspect a coming civil war with the federales: “The Army chief of staff disparaged the Army National Guard last week by telling reporters in Washington DC, that, essentially, the Army National Guard just isn’t good enough to be relied upon more in the future.”-Major General Gus Hargett, National Guard Association of the United States

The U.S. state of Indiana’s Army National Guard gave several expensive MRAPs ($600-thousand USD each) to the West Lafayette Police Department.  The ‘gift’ will actually cost taxpayers another $4-thousand for modifications to demilitarize them.

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: ObamaCare layoffs 2013, part 2!

Incomplete list of publicized healthcare layoffs and closings from 26 February to 20 April 2013:

California: In Modesto, Memorial Medical Center laid off 39 office employees.

Connecticut: The New Milford Hospital closed its Family Birthing Center.

Delaware Hospice laid off 52 employees (after laying off 104 employees starting in January).

Florida: Rotech Healthcare now bankrupt after being accused of ripping off Meidcare-Medicaid.

Indiana: Orthopedics company, Medtronic, laid off 50 people in Warsaw.  Company officials blame the Obama/Romney Care medical device tax.

Kentucky:  Murray-Calloway County Hospital laid off 28 employees.  Hospital officials blame Obama/Romney Care and a huge decrease in customers ($7.5 million USD decrease)!

Maryland: Obama/Romney Care being blamed for layoffs at Frederick Memorial Hospital.  40 people let go: “What hospitals are doing nationwide, and in Maryland in particular, are to find ways to adjust the provision care models to adjust to the decreasing amount of Medicare reimbursements.”-Harry Grandinett, Frederick Memorial Hospital

Massachusetts: The Cape Cod Hospital closed its endoscopy center. At least 20 employees laid off.  You can blame Obama/Romney Care for reduced reimbursements for services rendered.  Quincy Medical laid off 30 nurses.  Tuell Nursing Home shut down after four decades of operations.  The operators blamed skyrocketing health care costs, and reduced Medicare payments under the Obama/Romney Care.

Michigan: Detroit Medical Center laid off 300 people!  Those still with jobs got pay cuts!  Blame Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Plan!

New York: Oswego Hospital closed its pediatric unit.

New Jersey: The Richard Hall Community Mental Health Center announced the ending of 15 positions and reduction in services due to reduced funding.

New Mexico: 57 UNM Hospital employees lost their jobs.  The hospital contracted out their jobs to try and save money under Obama Care.

North Carolina: Three Streams Family Health Center, which helps people without insurance, closed down.

Ohio: Maker of home healthcare products, Invacare, laid off 68 people.  Company officials are blaming the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Oregon: Easter Seals closed their Children’s Therapy Center in Salem.

Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle, owner of Reading Hospital, laid off 210 medical staff, plus eliminating another 181 jobs through attrition!  Officials blame the Obama/Romney Care (Affordable Care Act) cuts to Medicare/Medicaid!

Texas: In Houston, the DePelchin Children’s Center shut down its Elkins residential treatment center.  44 people unemployed. The owners blamed the closing on the changes being made to how federal and state governments reimburse for the treatment of children with severe mental, emotional and behavioral problems (Obama Care).

“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

 ObamaCare layoffs 2013, part 1:

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 10 October 2013. Major ObamaCare shutdown hits Virginia! White House bankrupt! Jewish drugs pusher laying off 5-thousand! More big bank layoffs!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Israeli based, U.S. traded, legal drugs pusher Teva laying off 5-thousand people around the world, including the United States.  “Teva improves health in the US every day, every minute, every second…….Teva is the world’s largest maker of generic pharmaceutical products. We have a global product portfolio of more than 1,000 molecules and a direct presence in about 60 countries.”-company statement

Internet news source, The Daily Beast, laid off 24 employees. It’s blamed on its short lived merger with Newsweek.

California: In Rancho Cordova, a Kmart will close, 97 jobs lost.

Florida: The PGA Tour Stop shop at World Golf Village shutdown.

Indiana: In Fort Wayne, it was announced a Kmart would close down. 70 jobs lost.

Louisiana: In Monroe, the University of Louisiana cut 35 jobs.  School officials blame it on continued declining revenues.

Massachusetts: In Saugus, the 52 years old Hilltop Steak House, with its 21.3 meters (70 feet) tall cactus sign, shutdown. The owners gave only a week long warning and blamed it on a “…dramatic change in the volume of our business.”

Michigan: In Petoskey, Glen’s grocery store shutdown.  It is consolidating with another store.

New Jersey: Cranford Paint and Hardware shutdown.

New York: In Rochester, Rich’s Products Manufacturing shutdown, 92 jobs lost.

Pennsylvania: MacOutfitters shutdown three stores. The company went bust.

Ohio:  Gallipolis Developmental Center eliminated 80 jobs.  The home for people with developmental disabilities blames it on crashing demand for their services.

Oregon:  The Portland Development Commission laid off 15 people.  The city is still trying to slash its budget.

Texas: What automotive industry recovery? Too Big to Jail OmniAmerican Bank laid off 24 employees, and announced they are cutting back on loans for buying cars.  Bank officials said the going interest rates on car loans are too small to make it worth their while. In Irving, Too Big to Jail Retreat Capital Management shutdown, 73 jobs lost.

Virginia: In Christiansburg, StellarOne bank warned of layoffs due to its merger with Union First Market Bank. In the Richmond area, Too Big to Jail Capital One laid off 200 people, despite claiming they have 470 open positions!  In King George County, three medical centers shutdown!!!  They are Gateway Medical Urgent Care, King George Pediatrics and King George Medical Center.  According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services the county is “medically underserved”. So much for the Affordable Health Care scam! Georgia-Pacific laid off 80 employees, and shutdown its Jarratt fiberboard plant.

Washington DC: The White House Gift Shop now bankrupt.  The store is located a couple of blocks from the real White House.

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

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Another record high radiation spike! Robot finds major leak in Reactor 3! USN personnel hit with metallic taste! Japan pushes for nuke weapons deal with Turkey?

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Tokyo Electric Power Company reports that a robot, being used to clear rubble from inside the exploded reactor Unit 3 building, discovered a major water leak pouring into a large floor drain.

TEPCo says they can’t see where the water is coming from (radiation levels inside the building are still so high humans will be immediately kilt[sic]).  They did admit that the basement of the building is still flooding with highly radioactive water (three years later).

Also, a water testing well next to reactor Unit 2 has spiked to a record high level of strontium-90.  More than 2.7 million becquerels per liter! The legal ‘safe’ limit in Japan is 30 becquerels per liter.

USN personnel involved in Operation Tomodachi reported a metallic taste in their mouths: “On that first day, we pretty much immediately started search and rescue. Next thing we know we’ve got this nasty, metallic taste in our mouth.”-Lindsay Cooper, former aviation bosun’s mate

This is exactly what Soviet rescuers at Chernobyl in 1986 reported, and most of them died from radiation contamination.  Now it’s also interesting that while the USN isn’t helping the personnel suffering from strange illnesses, all the ships that sailed into the Sea of Japan, after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear explosions, went through massive NBC decontamination procedures.  Yet it looks like it’ll take an act of Congress to get the affected military personnel any help.

Beef prices in Japan continue to escalate. It’s being blamed on the drop in cattle ranchers and supply, mostly due to the radiation contamination in Fukushima Prefecture, which was a major agricultural area before the March 2011 nuke disasters: “Prices are coming close to nationwide levels and are much higher than before the disaster.”-Maruyama Tsutomu, National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association

In classic hypocrisy, Japan (a member of the U.S.-British empire led Trilateral Commission) is about to finalize a nuclear fuel reprocessing deal with Turkey (a member of U.S. led NATO). Not only will Turkey be able to reprocess spent fuel rods, but according to Japanese news media reports, Turkey could also extract weapons grade plutonium! Now what’s all the hubbub about Iran?

International, U.S.

Norovirus: More cruise lines hit! Connection to Autism? More schools shut down! Gummy Bears making people sick?

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Ontario, Canada: The Sudbury and District Health Unit warned of increasing cases of Norwalk virus at day care centers.

United Kingdom: Multiple hospitals have wards closed due to vomiting bug.  They include Warwick (strange because on the same day there was a report saying restrictions had been lifted), Borders General Hospital, Dumfries Infirmary.

California, U.S.A.: Baywood Court Retirement Community reports an outbreak of severe gastrointestinal illness.  People are being told to stay in their rooms.  The dining hall is closed.

Florida, U.S.A: A Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked with at least 68 sick passengers and crew.

Louisiana, U.S.A.:  The U.S. FDA is warning that oysters from Copano Bay are giving people norovirus.  Remember the BP oil spill?

Oregon, U.S.A.: Rock Creek Elementary shut down after 100 kids and several staff got sick. Washington County Department of Health and Human Services suspects norovirus.  One parent lamented “I had them wash their hands. I don’t know of any realistic precautions you can take.”-Molly Brown

Virginia, U.S.A.:  Saint Francis Medical Center reports that at least 32 employees are sick. There are no reports that patients are sick, hospital officials blamed children without any proof.  The hospital is now using a ultra-violet light robot to sanitize rooms.

More and more studies concerning autism are making connections to gastrointestinal problems.  One study said 43% of their autistic subjects had GI problems. Researchers also made GI connections to families that have a history of anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders.

Germany’s Haribo sugarless gummy bears are making people sick, at least that’s what self proclaimed victims are reporting on Amazon’s Customer Review page.  People are reporting gastrointestinal problems after eating just a handful of the bears.  One man admitted he ate one pound worth in one sitting, then suffered “Gastrointestinal Armageddon”.  Anybody remember those fat free cookies and chips, that acted like intense laxatives if you ate just a handful? Stay away from junk food that’s made with fake sugar, or fat substitutes.

The U.S. CDC says norovirus accounts for as many as 800 deaths in the United States, every year.

Norovirus (aka Norwalk Virus), is a surface contact bug, meaning you pick it up by touching or eating it.  It is not influenza and there is still no vaccine for fast evolving RNA norovirus.  The only ‘treatment’ is to keep the sick person hydrated.

Exotic anti-biotic soaps can’t kill norovirus, or any other virus for that matter, because anti-biotics are only for bacteria.  Despite that, even hand ‘sanitizers’ made with alcohol can’t totally get rid of norovirus.   Guess what apparently works?  According to the U.S. CDC old fashioned hand soap is best.  Consumer Reports says to leave the soap on your hands for a minimum of 20 seconds.  Also, in public restrooms use a paper towel to turn off the faucet and to open the door, do not touch surfaces with your bare hands after washing them.

Wash household surfaces with bleach.

The worse thing is that you can be infected and not have any symptoms.  An infected person can spread norovirus, yet not feel sick themselves. If you think you might be infected do not cook food for other people. People recovering from traditional symptoms of norovirus can continue spreading the bug for days after feeling better (some reports say weeks).

U.S.

New Rotavirus vaccine could cause major intestinal problems!

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A seven years study by Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute warns that there is a risk of problems with Merck’s rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq.

Rotavirus causes norovirus like symptoms.  But the Merck vaccine could cause children to end up getting surgery on their intestines, as a result of intussusception (the intestines slide into each other like a telescoping telescope).

Similar results were found in a five years study on GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix.  That study was done by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The rotavirus vaccines require several doses, and apparently most of the risk of intussusception happens after the first dose, with little or no risk with the second and third doses.

International

Hepatitis vaccine kills more babies!

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An 11th baby has died after getting a Hep B vaccine.  The three month old boy died painfully 17 hours after being injected with Quinvaxem.

He is the 1tth baby to die in Vietnam since the beginning of 2013.  Since 2010 at least 33 babies have died in Vietnam after getting a Hep B shot.

China has shut down at least three Hep B vaccine makers, after 17 babies died there in 2013.

Vietnam did temporarily ban the vaccine, but UN World Health inspectors have told both Vietnam and China that there is nothing wrong with the vaccine.  Vietnam resumed vaccinations, and the baby deaths also resumed.