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Fukushima, International

Disaster 2024: Japan hit by massive quake, fires, liquefaction, tsunamis!

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01 January 2024 (06:31-UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Dey 1402/19 Jumada t-Tania 1445/20 Gui-Chou 4721/01 январь 2024 года

Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is the epicenter of a 7.6 magnitude Richter scale (7-Japan Meteorological Agency [JMA] scale) earthquake that struck at 16:10 Japan time. An earthquake warning was issued just before the quake.  Evacuations underway for Ishikawa Prefecture (located on the center of the west coast of Honshu). Ishikawa-Wajima (Wajima City) is on fire, the local fire department reports they are overwhelmed.

Buildings are collapsed, with people underneath. Small tsunamis are coming ashore in surrounding west-coast prefectures on Honshu and Hokkaido.

A live TV news reporter, in one city, said mud was pushing up into the streets.  At least 49 aftershocks on the Noto Peninsula.

In the affected prefectures, communication services (including fiber optics) are down, bank services down, some rail transport is down, airline services suspended, hospitals reporting many injured people showing up, police in Nanao City report at least two people confirmed dead, Nanao Ohta Thermal (coal fired) Power Station shutdown.  A nuclear power facility in the area reports no problems as it was already offline when the earthquake struck.

A second quake warning was issued.

March 2022: FUKUSHIMA REDUXE!!! 7+ QUAKE, TSUNAMIS, 6- QUAKE, NUKE PLANTS OFFLINE, TRAIN DERAILS!

Fukushima

Fukushima Reduxe!!! 7+ quake, tsunamis, 6- quake, nuke plants offline, train derails!

16 March 2022  (12:11-UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Esfand 1400/12 Sha’ban 1443/14 Gui Mao 4720

The first quake (at about 08:00 Mountain Time North America) maxed out Japan’s magnitude scale, which tops out at 7.  First quake was felt Fukushima Prefecture’s Sōma City, at a depth of 63km (USGS data). Second quake of less than 6 on the Japan mag-scale reported in other areas. Nuclear power plants in Fukushima now offline, sudden water loss in reactors and cooling pools for spent fuel rods.

Toshima ward in Tokyo, 16MAR2022.
Photo by Issei Kato.

Fukushima nuke plants that went offline supply power to Tokyo. So much for A-I/’smart’ homes/apartments, residence who live in those computer controlled residences say the doors automatically locked them inside the home due to the power outage!  One bullet-train traveling from Fukushima has derailed. Avalanche warning issued.

I checked recent earthquake records and it appears Miyagi Prefecture, which borders Fukushima Prefecture, has been experiencing mid-level magnitude quakes for past several weeks.

Video of this morning’s (North America time, during the night in Japan) earthquake showed what looks like transformers exploding in the distance.  At least one death in Sōma City reported.

Pacific Ring of Fire, 2018: JAPAN, MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Fukushima, Five Years Later, 2016: WIFI SPREADING RADIATION! BULLET PROOF VEST BLOCKS RADIATION? MORE MYSTERY RADIATION FROM FUKUSHIMA! TOMATOES BLOCK RADIATION?

HAWAIIAN COWS BOMBED BY FUKUSHIMA RADIATION! HIGHEST SKIN CANCER RATE & GOVERNMENT LIES CONNECTED TO IDAHO?

Business/Economics

Japan admits to slave labor treatment of foreign workers, hundreds die or disappear every year!

30 March 2019 (03:00 UTC-07 Tango 06) 10 Farvardin 1398/23 Rajab 1440/24 Ding-Mao 4717

Nippon’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo recently told investors that more foreign workers are needed to save Nippon’s economy, this is at the same time that Nipponese news media are revealing the hell that foreign workers have to endure.

For years now a population death spiral (what was that about the global population exploding out-of-control?) has Japan’s industries struggling to find workers (Japan’s migrant policies are far tougher that the United States, so it’s not like Japanese companies can just herd people across the border like here in the U.S.).  Japan has even relaxed its migrant policies, but now it’s being revealed that foreign workers in Japan are being worked like slaves, even worked to death!

2008 protest by foreign workers in Tokyo

Japan Today reports that a Justice Ministry survey discovered that last Gregorian year 9-thousand-52  foreign workers went missing.  The Ministry was somehow able to track down and ask 5-thousand-218 of them why they took-off.  759 blamed the working conditions.

The Justice Ministry also discovered that 171 workers died, from a combination of work accidents, suicides, disease or as a result of violent crime (yes, total-gun-ban Japan has violent crime).  And this is just the foreign workers who were brought to Japan through the government’s technical internship program!  There are hundreds of thousands of foreign workers in Nippon through other ‘programs’.

The Justice Ministry tried to survey employers, but many refused to cooperate.

The government survey concluded that many foreign workers are paid less than the minimum wage, have excessive deductions from their wages, or are forced to work overtime without compensation! In one case, a worker was averaging 60 hours of overtime every month and not being paid for it!   The Justice Ministry found that some employers are taking the workers’ passports and confining them to dorms when they are not working.  Many Japanese employers are using an old trick, telling the workers they’re in debt for the expenses of bringing them to Japan to work and therefore must work extra hours without pay.

One more thing, the Justice Ministry admitted it lied on earlier surveys, claiming missing foreign workers had left their jobs for better paying work!

Japan and Nepal sign government-to-government labor pact

Small Japanese firms fear foreign laborers will abandon them 

STUDENTS & TOURISTS USED AS SLAVE LABOR? MORE PROOF IMMIGRATION IS ABOUT DENYING YOU A JOB!

POPULATION DEATH SPIRAL BLAMED FOR SEARS-KMART DEATH SPIRAL, NOVEMBER 2018

“MARKET CONDITIONS” BLAMED ON POPULATION DEATH SPIRAL! 

MY IMMIGRANT IDAHO: THE “SPANISH SECTION” KEEPING IDAHO FARMS STRONG!

COVERT CIVIL WAR IN TEXAS CAUSES BULLIED IMMIGRANT TO SHOOT UP SCHOOL WITH SHOTGUN?

GERMANS PISSED AT THEIR GOVERNMENT’S IMMIGRANT POLICY!

International

Pacific Ring of Fire: “toasting 90% of life on the planet”, Dragon Eggs will save us?

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Volcano eruptions to be predicted by remarkable DRAGON EGGS?

Incomplete list of reports from 24AUG2018 through to 23SEP2018.

19 Quakes Rock Ring of Fire in 24 Hours

Last month 70 earthquake in 48 hours along Pacific Ring of Fire

AUSTRALIA:  an eruption in Melbourne? 

CANADA:

British Columbia; 3.3-magnitude earthquake felt by Victoria residents

Strong early-morning Oregon quake felt in Vancouver and Sidney

Receding glaciers make Pemberton-area Mount Meager volcano less stable than ever before

British Columbia’s 18 Sleeping Volcanoes

CHILE: Volcano lights up snowy sky in stunning photo

COLUMBIA: 

Mass casualty earthquake training as part of the multilateral exercise Angel de los Andes, 06SEP2018, at German Olano Air Base.

ECUADOR: Strong quake hits 

FIJI: Very strong deep quake

GUATEMALA: 

U.S. Marines work with the Guatemalan Army Corps of Engineers to build temporary shelters for people fleeing Volcan De Fuego, 11SEP2018.

INDONESIA: VIDEO: Indonesian volcano spews enormous fireballs

Deadly ‘Child of Krakatau’ Volcano Erupts 56 Times

JAPAN: MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Nearly 1,000 public school buildings in Japan still vulnerable to earthquakes

U.S. Marines, and their families, take part in disaster training at Iwakuni, 25AUG2018.

Video report, Iwakuni disaster prep: 

KOREA: Kim, Moon raise hands on North Korea’s sacred volcano

MEXICO: Popocatépetl volcano erupts twice – video

5.4 magnitude tremor hits near holiday hotspot

Earthquakes Continue in Oaxaca

 NEW CALEDONIA: 7.1M quake Southeast of the Loyalty Islands

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: volcano erupts, forcing villagers to flee

RUSSIA: Biggest mass extinction event caused by Siberian super volcano “Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet” (not human made pollution)

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; volcano restless again; scientists issue aviation advisory

California;

USMC Combat Logistics deployed vehicles and equipment to Los Angeles, as part of Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Village demonstration, 29AUG2018.

Strange and unpredicted behavior behind mysterious California earthquakes

6.5 magnitude quake off coast

‘Deep creep’ found near San Andreas fault

A Mysterious Hole Appeared on Mount Shasta!

88-thousand tons of nuke waste in path of future tsunami!

Fearing massive earthquake, California considers requiring lists of buildings that WILL collapse

In Quake-Prone California, Alarm at Scant Insurance Coverage

Hawaii; Will this summer’s limited collapse of Kilauea caldera eventually widen?

Oregon; Civil Air Patrol preps for ‘The Big One’ 

‘Get Ready Coos Bay’ emergency Cascadia prep event

From July; Cascadia Airlift Exercise 2018: “It’s a two-in-one exercise. The main objective is to be able to host airlift-centered planes during a humanitarian response to the Cascadia earthquake and identify limiting factors in being able to properly manage them. We also had the added benefit of being able to have the C-130s and F-15Cs fly together.”– Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard

Washington:

Olympic Ambulance, Bremerton Fire Department and Central Kitsap Fire Rescue stand by following a mock earthquake at Naval Hospital Bremerton, during the Citadel Rumble drill, the first week of September 2018.

Lessons learned from 2011 Japan tsunami could benefit Westport “I believe this is the first time any disaster recovery planners from Japan have visited the coast of Washington to share information about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck their country.”

Help after Cascadia earthquake could take weeks, ‘if not months’

Glacier Peak eruption: ‘HIGH THREAT’ volcano is more DANGEROUS than Yellowstone

Crustal inheritance and a top-down control on arc magmatism at Mount Saint Helens (a scientific explanation of why Mount Saint Helens shouldn’t be in Washington, but is)

The coming Cascadia subduction event

New maps project tsunamis hitting Port Angeles, Port Townsend

In August, the Washington Army National Guard/Washington Emergency Management Division and Malaysia Armed Forces/National Disaster Management Agency agreed to work together on Pacific Ring of Fire disasters: “We want to not only build stronger partnerships, military to military, but expand civilian partnerships as well. Part of the long-term success will include emergency management.”-Major General Bret Daugherty

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Wyoming; SCIENTISTS GROWING CONCERNED OVER YELLOWSTONE ACTIVITY

Ear Spring on Yellowstone’s Geyser Hill erupts for only the fourth time in 60 years

New thermal activity reported in Yellowstone

102 tremors STRIKE

“THE reawakening of Yellowstone volcano would be devastating for the United States as an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the U.S. would be destroyed. But can scientists predict when Yellowstone will erupt?”

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: 11-THOUSAND QUAKES SINCE JULY, GET READY FOR A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER!

April 2018: IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS!

Fukushima

Pacific Ring of Fire: Japan, Modern Day Atlantis

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08SEP2018 (00:35 UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Sharivar 1397/27 Dhu l-Hijja 1439/29 Xin-You 4716

It’s been six years since I last wrote one of my Japan, Modern Day Atlantis articles, but its looks like 2018 is another big-bad-year for Japan.  The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance, arrogance, immorality and never ending wars.

The following is an incomplete list of main stream news articles from the first eight months of the Gregorian year 2018, concerning the Modern Day Atlantis of Japan.

FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER:

CNN: Japan finally recognizes first death related to Fukushima cleanup

Seatrade Cruise News: Cruise ships steer clear of Japan’s typhoon and quake-impacted areas

The Diplomat: Redundancy and Risk Management: Lessons from Japan’s Disasters

The Washington Post: First came its worst typhoon in 25 years, then deadly landslides

Automotive News Europe: Toyota halts production in Japan after deadly quake

S&P Global Platts: Refinery Shipments halted 

South China Morning Post: Stranded in Japan as typhoon and earthquake strike days apart

Nikkei Asian Review: Earthquake and typhoon expose Japan’s disaster risks

Channel NewsAsia: Singapore Airlines cancels Osaka flights as typhoon floods Kansai

The Japan Times: Hokkaido quake death toll climbs
Foreign workers have been underreported
The Economist: Japan is worried about its alliance with America

Anybody remember the Tower of Babel? Smithsonian: Japan Takes Tiny First Step Toward Space Elevator

AUGUST: 

Military.com: U.S. Marine accused of stealing donation money for Japan flood victims

United States Army: USAG Japan tests emergency preparedness with annual full-scale exercise

Wall Street Journal: Japan to Spend Billions on U.S. Missile-Defense System

Insurance Journal: Insured Losses from Japan Floods Could Reach US$4B

The Guardian: ‘Sick to my stomach’: dolphin and penguins abandoned to die in Japan

Japan’s bid to resume commercial whaling

victims of Tokyo medical school scandal 

Fukushima residents complain over statue of child in radiation suit

AccuWeather: Japan faces flooding in Autumn

Tropical Storm Leepi to persist over Japan

Shanshan to threaten Japan with flooding

The Weather Channel: Typhoon Cimaron Becomes Japan’s Second Typhoon Strike This Week

VolcanoDiscovery: Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake – Volcano Islands, Japan Region on Thursday, 16 August 2018

Aljazeera: Twin typhoons threaten Japan and South Korea

U.S. News & World Report: Japanese Emperor Tries to Make Amends for His Father’s War

Bangor Daily News: Attorney accused of stealing from Japan exchange program

Kyodo News Plus: Flood victims still living in despair 1 month after disaster

In total gun ban Japan, 1400 guns, 1200 swords found buried at Tokyo elementary school

 JULY:

Neowin: Apple is offering free repairs for devices damaged by floods

The Mainichi: Questions over lack of crisis response

Kyodo News Plus: Elderly account for 70% of storm victims

Over 250 schools damaged in rain disaster

Unsuccessful rescue effort

The Japan Times: After deadly heat wave, typhoon could hit Honshu 

Seven-Eleven store chain forced owner to work 50 hours with no sleep during Fukui blizzard

CNN:  Heat spikes to 41.1C near Tokyo 

‘Training thunderstorms’ made Japan’s floods even deadlier

JAPAN Forward: Death Toll Reaches 200 in Western Japan Floods, Dozens Still Missing

Aljazeera: Japan floods: Why is the country experiencing record rainfall?

The Weather Channel: Japan Flooding Forces More Than 1 Million to Flee

AccuWeather: Typhoon Prapiroon to unleash flooding

BBC: Typhoon Jongdari cuts power to thousands

Express:  11 dead and 45 missing as Typhoon Maria strikes

Eos: Two Active Volcanoes in Japan May Share a Magma Source

JUNE:

Kyodo News Plus: M4.6 earthquake hits Gunma

Deer found with paper dart lodged in neck in Nara

Shinkansen bullet train kills intruder on tracks

Japanese lawmaker heckles lung cancer patient

Mount Shimmoe volcano erupts again

KTLA: 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Osaka

AccuWeather: Severe Tropical Storm Maliksi to deliver glancing blow to Japan

The Japan Times: Cities face dramatically higher heat and flood risks by 2050

Shinkansen stabbing raises alarm over security in total gun ban Japan

Tornado in Shiga Prefecture

The Guardian: Why the naked hermit of Japan had to leave his island after 29 years

What was the fallout from Fukushima?

Express: Volcano eruption warning: After Kilauea Japan’s Mount Fuji could be NEXT

The Star Online: ‘Pregnancy rotas’ add to Japan working women’s woes

MAY:

Daily Mail: Japan is poised to FLOOD the Pacific with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear plant

Kyodo News Plus: Japan to welcome 500000 foreign workers to help plug labor shortage

Man arrested in connection with 7-year-old girl’s murder in total gun ban Japan

APRIL:

The Japan Times:  Mount Io in Kyushu erupts for second time in a week

Toys R Us in talks to sell majority stake in Asia unit, including Japan

Lockheed Martin to offer Japan stealthy hybrid of F-22 and F-35 

Chiyoda Ward issues false terror alert to 10000 residents in Tokyo

Boy band investigated for sex with grade school girl

Shikoku prison escapee stymies 6600 police

In total gun ban Japan, Man served second warrant over quintuple murder

Japan’s pet detectives

South China Morning Post: Japan landslide buries homes as people slept

Japan and China try to reset relations in shadow of U.S. trade war 

Firstpost: 5.6 quake hits Honshu

Channel NewsAsia: Japanese volcano erupts

Phys.Org: No-go warning as Japan volcano erupts for first time in 250 years

AccuWeather: Disruptive storm to lash Japan

Wall Street Journal: Japan Shakes Up Army 

The Guardian: Japan’s solar push actually threatens environment

MARCH:

Aljazeera: La Nina triggers extreme weather in Japan

The Japan Times: 30 years on, world’s longest undersea tunnel faces challenges

Giant storm surge could submerge a third of Tokyo

Man freezes to death in storm-battered north Japan

62 victims from 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake still unidentified

Express: Tokyo hit by 5.3 magnitude EARTHQUAKE

Reuters: Seven years after tsunami, Japanese live uneasily with seawalls

TEPCo’s ‘ice wall’ fails to freeze Fukushima’s toxic water

FEBRUARY:

South China Morning Post: U.S. Navy investigating sailors for drug dealing in Yokusuka

Asahi Shimbun: Record-high flu patient numbers exceed national ‘alert level’

The Independent: Giant lava dome discovered growing inside Japanese supervolcano

Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak seven years after Fukushima meltdown

Kyodo News Plus: Heavy snow in central Japan

The Japan Times: Massive snow strands 800 cars in Fukui for second day

Japan’s Lower House approves record ¥97.71 trillion budget 

Has Christel Takigawa cursed Japan

TEPCo’s compensation for Fukushima victims has made matters worse

Pictograms on Japanese electric toilets approved as global standard

Express: Was there an earthquake in Honshu

BBC: Japan’s Princess Mako postpones wedding to commoner

JANUARY:

Voice of America: Earthquakes, Volcanoes Shake Opposite Ends of Pacific

The Japan Times: Warning level raised on Mount Zao a week after fatal volcano eruption

Channel NewsAsia: UN warns Pacific Ring of Fire is ‘active’ as volcanoes erupt across Asia

Japan’s Tendai-Buddhist ‘wise monkeys’ morality code; “Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil.”   Is it truly wise?

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 12: LAND CONTINUES TO SHIFT, SLOW MOVING LANDSLIDE DEVOURING HOUSES

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 2018: 11-THOUSAND QUAKES SINCE JULY, GET READY FOR A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER!

International

Food Crisis Japan: Overnight, the eels have disappeared? Good news for the U.S.A.

23JAN2018 (01:18 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Bahman 1396/06 Jumada l-Ula 1439/07 Xin-Chou (12th month) 4715

“A series of unfortunate events.”-Shingo Kimura, Professor of the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Frontier Sciences

Elvers caught off Maine, U.S.A.

In Nippon (Japan) baby eels, known as Glass Eels  or Elvers, are captured in the wild and then raised in fish farms.  It’s such big business in Japan that even Republic of China (Taiwan) is involved.  But this year there are almost no baby eels to catch, either around Japan or Taiwan!

It’s actually been like that since last year, a measly 0.2 metric tons were caught in December!   One eel catcher was followed by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on his hunting trip.  He worked for hours and caught 11 eels, his normal catch is in the hundreds!

2013 was considered a record low year for eel catches (5.2 tons), but this year is about to set a new record low.  1963 was the best year for eel catches, hitting 232 tons!

The disappearing eels are driving up prices, currently the equivalent of $32-thousand-650-hundred USD per kilogram (2.2 pounds)!

Professor Shingo Kimura blames it on a combination of overfishing and climate change.

What appears to be a sudden near-extinction of eels around Japan and Taiwan could bring a boost to eel catchers working off the coastline of Maine, in the United States.  The state of Maine has just increased the number of glass eel/elver fishing licenses, to 425.  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is also considering increasing the allowed catch beyond its current 4399.8 kilograms (9,700 pounds), in response to not only disappearing eels in Asia, but in Europe as well.

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, DECEMBER 2017:  “WE GAVE IT A SHOT, IT JUST DIDN’T WORK.” “WE’RE LITERALLY WORKING FOR NOTHING.”

JAPAN FOOD CRISIS: WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?

FOOD CRISIS JAPAN: BLACK SWAN DEATHS REVEAL BIRD FLU EPIDEMIC

FOOD CRISIS: NO MORE MCDONALD’S, JAPAN STYLE? 131 RESTAURANTS SHUTTING DOWN DUE TO LACK OF FOOD?

FUKUSHIMA – WIPP – RADIATION FALLOUT:  WILD FOOD CROPS CONTAMINATED, BANNED FROM SALE!

Business/Economics, Fukushima

No Ammo, no Guns, no Job! “unforeseeable significant downturn”: U.S. Mining/Industry/Logistics layoffs, March 2017

Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in March 2017.

Iconic and at one time the largest U.S. moving company Graebel Van Lines “ceasing ongoing operations, effective immediately”!  At least 2-thousand jobs suddenly gone!  News reports say its the second major moving company to go bust since December 2016 (Kane Company)!  News media also discovered that some employees and creditors began lawsuits this year over unpaid wages and debts!  If the company is legally broke they’ll never get paid (happened to me in 2012).

 California:  In Riverside, SiftMill issued a shutdown WARN, for April.  Waste cleanup company Global Sulfur Systems shutting down its Cerritos ops by the end of April.  What construction industry recovery? Construction engineering company Mas Tec North America eliminating 74 jobs by May.

Colorado: Distributor Bartkus Oil shutting down after 71 years due to crashing demand from the farm industry.

Connecticut:  In Orange, Valley Tool eliminating 65 jobs by June.

Florida: JCPenney issued a shutdown WARN for its Lakeland Logistics Center, 119 jobs gone between May and October!  What construction industry recovery?  CTIS eliminating 70 jobs at its West Palm Beach location, by mid-May.  At Elgin AFB, federal tax sucker SURVICE Engineering eliminating 91 jobs by mid-April.  And federal tax sucker PAE Aviation and Technical Services laid off 133 people at Elgin AFB!

Idaho:   Ammo maker Federal Cartridge (Federal Premium Ammunition) suddenly furloughed 1-hundred employees at its Lewiston factory, blaming hunters and Donald Trump: “…we experienced a challenging retail environment due in part to a weak hunting season and the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

Illinois: Troubled United Airlines eliminating 3-hundred HQ jobs in Chicago!  School bus company First Student laying off 75 people in June due to loss of contract. Jackobson Warehouse shutting down its Romeoville location, 162 jobs lost by the end of May!  In Bolingbrook, Dedicated Logistics issued a shutdown WARN, 121 jobs lost by May due to loss of contract!  Also in Bolingbrook, logistics consultant Radial shutting down, 132 jobs lost by the end of June!  In Belvidere, Auto Releasing shutting down, 68 rail jobs lost by May due to loss of contract.  Also in Belvidere, Pierce Packaging shutting down, 46 jobs lost by the end of May due to loss of contract.  What automotive industry recovery? Tri-Dim Filter suddenly laid off 27 people in Belvidere. In Stockton, Dura Automotive Systems issued a layoff WARN, 171 jobs lost in May due to loss of contract!  In Romeoville, Stant USA shutting down, 69 jobs lost by January 2018.

Indiana: What automotive industry recovery?  Wisconsin based farm vehicle parts maker Rexnord shutting down its Indianapolis bearings factory and moving more than 3-hundred jobs to Mexico by the end of the year, despite threats by Donald Trump!  The layoffs started at the beginning of March.  Surface finisher Saran Industries eliminating 110 jobs by the end of June due to factory shutdown!

Iowa: What automotive industry recovery?  Caterpillar shutting down its Elkader factory, 75 jobs lost to Kansas.

Kentucky:  Gun maker Remington laid off about 16 people in Lexington.

Louisiana:  In Morgan, Petroleum Helicopters suddenly shutdown “…due to a very difficult economic environment and changes in our customers’ needs.”  The company transports workers to off-shore oil rigs.

Maryland: Georgia based Burris Logistics eliminating an undisclosed number of employees at its Elkton ops. Local news media discovered that Burris already eliminated about 50 jobs in neighboring Delaware, and speculated it might have something to due with Burris’ biggest customer BJ’s Wholesale Clubs.  Maker of store display units, Missouri based iDX Corporation, shutting down its Columbia factory, 68 jobs lost.  Local  news media reported that iDX wanted to expand but was not able to find a larger property at a price they could afford.

Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Luxembourg based truck and farm vehicle parts maker SAF-Holland consolidating its U.S. operations, including shutting down their Holland factory, 97 Michigan jobs lost in October.  Auto parts maker Inteva Products furloughing 2-hundred employees for at least six months due to “the cancellation of our agreement with one of our largest customers”.  General Motors (GM) laying off 1-thousand-1-hundred people as it phases out GMC Acadia production at its factory in Lansing, by May!

Minnesota: Ammo maker Federal Cartridge (Federal Premium Ammunition) suddenly laid off 110 employees at its Anoka factory, blaming hunters and Donald Trump: “…we experienced a challenging retail environment due in part to a weak hunting season and the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

New Hampshire: Thompson Investment Casting suddenly laid off 53 gun foundry workers, blaming the election of Donald Trump for crashing gun sales. Clarke Distributors-White Mountain Distributors being sold-off, affecting at least 123 employees!

New Jersey:   In Logan-Swedesboro, drugs pusher Walgreens shutting down its 18 years old e-commerce distribution center, 133 jobs lost in June!  Walgreens is consolidating its internet operations.  Warren Distributing eliminating 128 jobs by the end of April! Local news media say no reason was given.  In Wall, NRG Energy issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by mid-June.  In Paulsboro, oil refiner AXEON issued a WARN, 115 jobs lost by May!  In Lawrenceville, Hub City Distributing issued a WARN, 101 jobs lost by the end of April!  Switzerland based ‘inspection’ company SGS issued a WARN for its Mawah location, 37 jobs gone by mid-May.

New York: Local news media reporting that General Electric (GE) will layoff a “small percentage” of people in Schenectady due to “current challenges in the power market and the integration of GE and legacy Alstom”.  Gun maker Remington laid off 122 people in Ilion blaming “poor economic policies pushed by Gov. Cuomo and Assembly Democrats as well as the SAFE Act. Make no mistake, there is a direct correlation.”  In Rotterdam, Railex issued a shutdown WARN, 138 rail jobs gone by the end of June, due to loss of contract!  Manufacturer Allenair issued a shutdown WARN for its Mineola location, 69 jobs lost by September.  The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center shutting down its research and development ops, 30 jobs lost by mid-June.  School bus company East End Bus Lines shutting down in Medford, 255 jobs lost due to loss of contract!

North Carolina:  North State Aviation shutting down operations at the Smith Reynolds Airport, 345 jobs lost due to “unforeseeable significant downturn in business”!

Ohio: Oneida Group laid off ten people at its Anchor-Hocking glass cookware operations near Lancaster.  The jobs were outsourced to a company based in India, in order to improve “profitability”.  3M shutting down its factory in Elyria, 136 jobs lost between May and August!  Rail company CSX laid off 34 people “as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to be more efficient and reduce operating costs”.  What coal industry recovery? Dayton Power & Light going ahead with plans to shutdown two co-op owned coal fired power plants in 2018.

Oklahoma:  Linde Engineering eliminating about 80 jobs in Tulsa; 30 with outright layoffs and about 50 jobs being transferred to Texas.  It’s blamed on the petroleum industry BS.  Industrial emission control system maker John Zink eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs blaming “changing market conditions”.

Ohio: Maumee based agribusiness and farm retailer Andersons shutdown its distribution center as part of plans to go-out-of-business (announced last month).  Standex International-Enginetics shutting down its Eastlake aerospace factory, 28 jobs lost by July, “due to the strategic consolidation”.

Oregon: What construction industry recovery? Maker of fireplaces Portland Willamette shutting down its factory near Portland International Airport, the remaining 62 jobs gone by mid-May.

Pennsylvania: Nippon (Japan) owned nuclear power plant company Westinghouse now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.  Parent company Toshiba has been losing money hand-over-fist ever since the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Westinghouse will probably be sold to raise cash.  220 jobs lost as chemical company Indspec shuts down its factory in Petrolia, at the end of July!   Classtex suddenly shutdown its 70 years old knitting mill in Orwigsburg, the remaining 15 employees lost their jobs due to “Offshore competition mainly. It’s difficult to compete with countries that are not even paying their people $1 an hour, and they don’t have to worry paying their people any kind of benefits.”  Despite investment by Bill Gates hi-tech battery maker Aquion Energy suddenly laid off 80% of employees and declared bankruptcy!  Administrators said that even with funding by Bill Gates “the company has been unable to raise the growth capital needed to continue operating”.  Blaschak Coal laid off 55 people blaming a warm winter for low sales.  In Steelton, ArcelorMittal laid off an additional 86 people as it reduces the number of shifts. In September 2016, ArcelorMittal laid off 27 people. In Carlise, CEVA Logistics issued a WARN, 101 jobs lost by May!  In York, heat exchanger maker Kelvion eliminating 72 jobs by the end of June. Injection mold maker DME eliminating 61 jobs in Youngwood, by June.

South Carolina: Local news media reporting that General Electric (GE) will layoff a “small percentage” of people due to “current challenges in the power market and the integration of GE and legacy Alstom”.  After more than 20 years plastic packaging maker Buckhorn shutting down its factory in Bluffton, 1-hundred jobs lost due to sudden consolidation of ops!  The mayor of Bluffton, Ted Ellis, said “When I asked management if there was something we could have done, or could do to keep them here, they said no. That was a decision made elsewhere and we’re just at their mercy.” What automotive industry recovery?  Vehicle parts maker Dayco shutting down its 43 years old Walterboro factory, more than 120 jobs lost over the next few months!

Tennessee: Mississippi hauler Ingram Barge suddenly laid off 47 people blaming it on a sudden drop in business.

Texas: Troubled (by corporate insider games) oil contractor Ethos Offshore now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.   Oil contractor Enbridge eliminating 1-thousand jobs in the U.S. and Canada!  It’s the result of Enbridge’s takeover of competitor Sprecta Energy.  Gulf Marine Fabricators killing another 19 jobs on top of the hundreds it killed in the past 22 months.

Virginia: Local news media reporting that General Electric (GE) will layoff a “small percentage” of people in Salem due to “current challenges in the power market and the integration of GE and legacy Alstom”.  In Fisherville, Wilson Trucking laid off about 1-hundred people due to its takeover by a Texas company.

Washington: Boeing issued yet another mass layoff WARN, 245 jobs lost starting mid-May!  Japan owned Nippon Paper suddenly laid off 151 Port Angeles workers!  In SeaTac, Menzie’s Aviation shutting down, 949 jobs gone by May!  What automotive industry recovery?  Car electronics parts maker Harman International Industries issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Cheney, 86 jobs gone by May.  At nuke disaster site Hanford, tax sucking contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation warned employees that 250 could lose their jobs because ‘key work’ at the disaster site was considered finished.  Also at Hanford, tax sucker Mission Support Alliance said it was laying off as many as 50 people.

West Virginia:  New York based Special Metals laid off 34 people in Huntington, in what local news media called “another round of layoffs”.  What construction industry recovery?  In Holden, hardwood floor maker Mohawk Industries laid off 111 people due to consolidation operations!

Wisconsin: Temp agency Manpower eliminating 150 HQ jobs in Milwaukee!  The administrative jobs are being replaced by robots/computers!

Mining/Industrial/Logistics layoffs, February 2017:  “INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION PROGRAM”

Retail/Banking/Service Sector Collapse, March 2017: “WE JUST DIDN’T WANT TO DO IT ANYMORE.”

Fukushima

Hawaiian cows bombed by Fukushima radiation! Highest skin cancer rate & government lies connected to Idaho?

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Belgium: Yet more problems with troubled Tihanga 2 nuke plant (which was supposed to be shutdown in 2015): “An electrical motor that turns a steam turbine in a non-nuclear part of the site broke down.”-Serge Dauby

Canada: Reports say the Canadian government has reversed course on shutting down the Whiteshell/Pinawa nuclear site in Manatoba. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has frozen the decommissioning and has apparently decided to leave underground reactors in place and simply pour concrete over everything: “Essentially, it has become too difficult and expensive to dismantle and dig up the radioactive waste at the Pinawa site, and the result is the province will wind up with a de facto nuclear waste facility.”

Finland: In 2020 the northern country will begin burying nuke waste for the first time.  They plan to bury 5-thousand tons of nuke waste for at least 100-thousand years.  The initial cost to taxpayers to build The Hollow is $4-billion USD!  Imagine the cost to maintain it, they must expect their economy to boom in order to provide the tax revenues to support The Hollow.

India: The U.S. Obama regime is supporting India’s plan to join the international Nuclear Suppliers Group: “In practical terms, there is nothing extra that the NSG will give India other than a seat at the nuclear high table.”-Rakesh Sood

Italy: The prime minister of the the U.S. led NATO member revealed plans for Italy to abandon its anti-nuclear weapons policy, and will allow the U.S. Obama regime to maintaining a nuclear arsenal in the Latin country (despite Obama’s promise seven years ago that the U.S. would stop exporting nukes), all in the ironic name of nuclear security: “Thank you President Obama. Italy is fully determined to follow through with its commitment for nuclear security.”-Matteo Renzi, Italian prime minister commenting on the basing of new U.S. B-61-12 nuclear bombs in Italy

Japan:  Five years later several people are breaking the news media silence on cancers caused by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster. A 21 years old woman with thyroid cancer is begging the rest of her neighbors to get screened for cancer. She’s one of 173 young people to reveal they have cancer that according to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation says can only be caused by a nuclear disaster.  News reports say the 21 years old woman is hiding her identity because victims of Fukushima Daiichi who go public are actually attacked by supporters of the nuke industry!  In the nuclear disaster areas skyrocketing cases of children with thyroid cancer are making local news, however, the neo-imperialist ‘hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil’ government of Japan blames the increased child cancer rates on increased cancer screenings, not radiation! Even the Fukushima Medical Association flat denies the increased cases of thyroid cancer in children could be caused by radiation contamination!   News media revealed that the government is actually dragging its feet on cancer screenings, at least 38% of the victims of Fukushima Daiichi have yet to be tested for radiation contamination!

Micronesia: 70 years after the U.S. nuked the shit out of Bikini Atoll its still too radioactive for people to return: “People dream of going back to Bikini Island, but there’s an ugly history of people returning too early and getting sick. I couldn’t get clear answers, even in scientific literature, on whether these islands were, in fact, radioactive or not.”–Emlyn Hughes, Columbia University

Sweden: Government administrators have voted to build ten new nuclear power plants. At least four will be built to replace four of Sweden’s nine older nuke factories: “This is a traditional Swedish compromise.”-Ibrahim Baylan, Ministry of Energy

United States: A shipment of plutonium and weapons grade uranium from Japan was delivered to Savannah River Site in South Carolina and weapons lab Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee.  So far nobody has explained why Japan had been storing massive quantities of weapons grade material in violation of its own laws and international laws.  It was revealed that Japan was convinced to hand it over due to its lax security of nuclear facilities: “The removal of the material from Japan represents a significant accomplishment in our broader global nuclear security efforts to secure highly enriched uranium and plutonium worldwide.”-Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, U.S. Department of Energy

In California “There is 89 times the amount of radiation at San Onofre as was released at Chernobyl, [Southern California Edison] spends millions of dollars each year distorting the truth. It’s a smoke-and-mirrors show they put on for the public while they cut costs to increase their profits.”-Rita Conn of Secure Nuclear Waste commenting on spent nuclear fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

Reports out of The Aloha State reveal that only one week after Fukushima Daiichi blew up radiation was detected in the air over Hawaii.  That same year the University of Hawaii at Manoa began collecting water samples to establish a baseline cesium level.  Researchers say since then elevated cesium levels have been detected around Midway Island and the west coast of North America.  But what’s more worrisome is that cesium is showing up in the milk of dairy cows on Hawaii: “The Department of Health monitored precipitation and the atmosphere and also milk. They found positive hits in all of these.”–Henrietta Dulai, University of Hawaii researcher who admitted her own cesium testing conflicts with the state Department of Health’s test results

The Idaho state Attorney General Lawrence Wasden claims he will defend the 1995 nuclear waste agreement between The Gem State and Washington DC, despite the fact that ‘elected’ state and federal lawmakers are pushing to bring more nuke waste into Idaho. The Idaho Statesman revealed that the federal government repeatedly violates the 1995 agreement. This comes as it’s been revealed that since November 2015 clean up crews from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have been investigating why a Snake River Plain Aquifer monitoring well, near Highway 20, is contaminated with tetrachloroethylene. Efforts are now underway to clean up the contamination. And of course that news arrived as news that between 2001 and 2005 Idaho had the most people die from skin cancer than any other U.S. state!
Idaho’s neighbor The Evergreen State had the highest rate of skin cancer in 2008! Both Idaho and Washington are home to huge nuclear laboratories.

“About 700,000 people drink water from the Kentucky River, which runs through the city of Irvine. Last year, Irvine received 4 million to 10 million pounds of concentrated, radioactive fracking residue from Advanced TENORM Services LLC, which further concentrated waste from Virginia-based Fairmont Brine Processing.”-Leslie Bruner

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rates Massachusetts’ Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station as one of the three worst in the U.S. (all three are operated by the same company, Entergy).   Pilgrim is supposed to be decommissioned starting in 2019, however local news media revealed “Entergy does not have enough money to decommission now. Entergy has about $900 million in Pilgrim’s Decommissioning Trust Fund (DTF). Entergy estimated that the total cost (if the work started in 2014) to clean-up Vermont Yankee, a smaller reactor than Pilgrim, would be about 1.243 billion dollars. Pilgrim’s DTF is about 350 million dollars short, even if work started today. By the time that the work is actually done, the shortfall likely will be in the billions.”

The fat-ass Christie regime in New Jersey is allowing the aged Artificial Island nuclear power plant to continue operations for another five years, and interestingly is not requiring the construction of cooling towers.  It’s all about the politics of global warming and taxpayer funded (socialist) job creation: “Nuclear plays a key role today and also in the future in meeting New Jersey and America’s clean air goals. These goals can’t be achieved without carbon free nuclear power. Just as important is the economic impact of the 1,800 jobs we supply and the millions of dollars we spend each year on goods and services right here in New Jersey.”-Joe Delmar, PSEG Nuclear

The Department of Energy (DoE) gave the green light to restart ‘cold operations’ at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico,  more than two years after the mixed-nuke waste explosion.  The DoE is paying the Land of Enchantment $74-million USD compensation for the WIPP disaster.

In Washington DC “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly issued proposals …to allow radioactive contamination in drinking water ….equivalent to 250 chest X-rays a year.” Yet another study saying cell phones cause brain cancer, this time it’s the federal government.  After spending $25-million taxpayer dollars funding the study through the National Toxicology Program it was concluded that “radiofrequency radiation (RFR) at frequencies and modulations used in the US telecommunications industry” was connected to “…RFR exposure and the neoplastic lesions…”

Fukushima

Five Years Later: WiFi spreading radiation! Bullet proof vest blocks radiation? More mystery radiation from Fukushima! Tomatoes block radiation?

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Iran: The Ministry of Defense is now using octagen as a bomb.  Octagen is also used as rocket fuel and, in countries that have nuclear weapons, it is used as the detonator for nukes.

The government revealed a new nuclear site called Pasman Gor.  Government administrators claim they will reveal numerous nuclear industry developments that until now were “currently under the monopoly of a handful of nations.” 

Japan: News reports that Tokyo Electric Power Company is concerned over a massive radiation spike coming from a near empty wastewater storage tank.  At TEPCo’s Fukushima Daiichi a three years old wastewater tank is now emitting 8-thousand 1-hundred becquerels (bq) of radiation, last week it was only 87bq!  TEPCo administrators are trying to find out why.

Japan’s Board of Audit says this year’s decontamination efforts around Fukushima Daiichi will cost at least $27-billion USD! Now extrapolate that to $27-billion every year for the next 40 years, that’s how long they think decontamination efforts are to last (right, tell that to the people of Chernobyl).

Switzerland:  Researchers say they’ve come up with a product to greatly speed up wireless (WiFi) computer communications by blocking exposure to radiation that’s actually created by computer electronics. It’s called Graphene.  Radiation created by WiFi electronics themselves is one reason microchips can’t currently be made to operate any faster.   Graphene acts like polarized sunglasses for microchips, filtering out radiation.

United States: The U.S. is being turned into the world’s nuclear waste dumpsite.  Last month Japan shipped off tonnes of weapons grade plutonium to the U.S., now it’s being revealed that United Kingdom is shipping 7-hundred kg (1,543 pounds) of uranium to the U.S.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reminded people of a forgotten radiation contamination event that took place at Bethlehem Steel in New York.  It happened in the 1940s and 50s.  Workers were exposed to uranium while making fuel rods for nuclear plants.  It wasn’t until the year 2000 that the U.S. Congress finally decided to pay for medical costs for those who were still alive!

North Carolina State University’s Afsaneh Rabiei claims to have created a bullet proof metallic foam that can also block radiation. Rabiei swears the secret for Composite Metal Foam’s ability to stop armor piercing bullets is the air bubbles, not the metal.  However, when it comes to blocking radiation CMF must use exotic metals like tungsten and vanadium.

United Kingdom:  Researchers at University of Manchester claim that the chemical that turns tomatoes red can block radiation contamination, under certain conditions.  They hope that one day lycopene can be used to help people undergoing radiation treatment for cancer.  Earlier studies suggested that lycopene can protect cigarette smokers from cancer causing nitrogen dioxide radical and peroxynitrite.

Five Years Later: Contamination of Japanese rivers skyrocket! INL admits its radiation detectors don’t work! 

Fukushima, Idaho

Five Years Later: Contamination of Japanese rivers skyrocket! INL admits its radiation detectors don’t work! More WIPP problems!

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Idaho: The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently revealed their onsite radiation detectors don’t work!  They discovered this a month after an ‘incident’ contaminated several employees!

INL glove box

Local eastern Idaho newspapers got copy of a 43 page internal document detailing what happened.  The INL report was actually completed in December 2015, and concerns an accident that happened in August 2014.  In the Fuel Manufacturing Facility (under management of contractor Battelle Energy Alliance) the seal on a ‘glove box’ failed causing radiation to leak out, however, the radiation detectors never sounded the alarm.  The leak was accidentally discovered a month later during a routine test of the detectors.  Nine of 15 employees in the room suffered internal radiation contamination.  It should be noted that it wasn’t until January this year that the specific room where the incident took place was deemed OK to resume work!  The internal report suggested better safety procedures must be undertaken by contractor Battelle Energy Alliance.

Newspaper Post Register suggested the incident would never have been made public if it weren’t for their first reporting the incident back in September 2015, a year after the incident.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) only alluded to the INL incident in random postings on its website starting in October 2014, but failed to mention that employees had been exposed!

New Mexico: It’s been revealed that work at the failed Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP, with direct connections to INL) was halted for a month when detection devices picked up  carbon monoxide and ‘volatile organic compounds’ in the underground air.

Work is ongoing to install new ventilation systems as a result of the 2014 explosion of a mixed waste drum from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Despite the ongoing problems at WIPP, the U.S. DoE has decided to ship six tonnes of ‘surplus’ nuclear bomb making plutonium to WIPP, under the guise of reducing any chance that terrorists might get their hands on it.   All that weapons grade plutonium is supposedly coming from South Carolina’s Savannah River Site.

Japan: The prefecture of Fukushima concluded testing on the 72 rivers flowing through the area and was shocked at the results.

After five years of supposed effort to contain and clean up the ongoing meltdowns at the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi, radiation contamination levels have skyrocketed!

The worst offenders are:  Maeda River in Futaba Town (location of Fukushima Daiichi)=54-thousand 5-hundred becquerels per kilogram of radioactive substances

Hiru River in Fukushima City=39-thousand 6-hundred becquerels

Five other rivers=more than 10-thousand bq

When prefectural administrators approached the national government about the situation the Ministry of Environment said under current Japanese nuclear regulations “decontamination is not required for areas outside of residential zones”!

It should be noted that Japan recently shipped several tonnes worth of weapons grade plutonium to the United States and United Kingdom, under the guise of reducing any chance that terrorists might get their hands on it.  Here’s the thing; according to signed agreements Japan is not supposed to have weapons grade plutonium to begin with.  These shipments back up claims by China that Japan is hoarding plutonium for the secret purpose of making nuclear weapons.  What was that about Donald Trump wanting Japan to make it’s own nukes?

Imperialist Japan to make 6,000 nuclear bombs! Blind Bat News revealed in 2013, new damning evidence!

False Flag: Belgian nuke plant security guard assassinated, ID stolen!

Five Years Later: Myth busted, nuke plants shutting down, they cost too much to operate!

INL admits “nobody really knows what’s going on.”

INL VIOLATES OWN RULES!