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More Fukushima Fallout: Japan to conduct nuke meltdown, on purpose! Overall radiation levels rising at Fukushima Daiichi, throwaway workers now in danger! 1400% radiation increase in California?

10 January 2014 (04:22 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/20 Dey 1392/10 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

Japan Times reporting that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency will conduct a full meltdown of nuclear fuel in March!  The crazy bastards at the JAEA want to observe the meltdown “….to figure out how meltdowns occurred at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011”!

The meltdown will take place at the Nuclear Safety Research Reactor in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture.  It will involve one fuel rod.  The test is being done because, still, nobody knows what’s really going on at Fukushima Daiichi, three years after at least three GE designed reactors melted down!

Remember, between reactors 1,2 & 3 there are at least 1500 fuel rods!  And don’t forget they’re still having problems with reactor Unit 4!

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) reporting that overall radiation levels at the boundaries of the Fukushima Daiichi radiation factory have risen to 8 millisieverts in December 2013!  In March 2013 it was at 1 millisievert.  Currently, Japanese nuke throwaway workers can be legally exposed to 1 millisievert per year, the latest reading is eight times that limit!

NRA officials blame the build up of beta ray contamination in the leaking water storage tanks.  They claim that the inflow of beta radiation contaminated water into the tanks is actually crowding out the other isotopes, pushing them right through the thick metal walls of the tanks!  Officials at the NRA are now holding meetings to figure out what to do!

The inflow of beta radiation into the storage tanks can be partly blamed on the failed Advanced Liquid Processing System.  Tokyo Electric Power Company, apparently, finally gave up on their failed ALPS filtration system.  ALPS was supposed to be used to filter the hotter isotopes from water before being stored into the tanks.  I’ve been following the implementation of ALPS, and it never worked right. TEPCo had so many problems with it that it seemed they couldn’t go three weeks without shutting down for repairs.

On 08 January 2014, TEPCo shut down all three ALPS filters.  This time they blame it on the 14 containers used to store the filtered material, saying they are packed full.  They also said it will be some time before they can get empty containers and re-start the filtration.  (Update: 10 January 2014, TEPCo re-starts ALPS.  Says the problem was the massive crane used to move the containers.  They fixed the crane, and moved new containers in place.  However TEPCo stated that ALPS is still officially in test run mode, since they’ve had so many problems it’s been difficult to asses its effectiveness.  Really?)

The Half Moon Bay Review interviewed an electrical engineer who’s worked with geiger counters for 40 years.  His own radiation checks of Surfer’s Beach, in California, showed a 1400% increase in radiation: “It’s not normal!  I’ve never seen 400 CPM [counts per minute] when I just wave my geiger around!  There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”-Steve Weiss, radiological analyst

The Half Moon Bay Review also reported increasing amounts of cesium-137, radium and thorium on California beaches.

After California officials denounced the independent radiation monitoring by residents (one video showed a 500% increase in radiation on California beaches), the alternative news source InfoWars deployed a squad of reporters to the U.S. west coast to take radiation samples for themselves.

For their first rad check, the InfoWars radiation squad reports they found high levels of radiation outside the famous Redwood Forest; more than 80 CPMs at some points leading up to the entrance of the famous Drive Thru Tree.

Despite the geiger counter evidence of increased radiation, University of Southern California professor Daniel Stram said “There’s no danger from Fukushima with the fish that we eat.”

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More Fukushima Fallout: Killer nuke waste incinerator to be re-started! Nuke control room computers hacked! 500% increase in radiation in California? Duct tape preferred tool at Fukushima! Support the resistance!

06 January 2014 (15:58 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/16 Dey 1392/06 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“I am violating the law! But I won’t obey what the government says, because we were betrayed! Our community was destroyed by the nuclear disaster. Instead of slaughtering them, these cattle should be used to study the long-term effects of radiation. Killing them is destroying evidence. I am a cowboy, and cowboys do not abandon their cows! I will stay with them until I die!”-Yoshizawa Masami, Fukushima Nuclear Resistance (for more read below)

A former nuclear waste incinerator is being allowed to go back into operation, even though it was shutdown for killing two employees and contaminating 600 others!

In 1999 JCO, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining, was shutdown after a disaster at its nuke incinerator in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture.  However, due to the overwhelming volume of accumulated nuclear waste, from the ongoing nuke disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, JCO is being allowed to re-start their low-level nuclear waste incinerator.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency discovered that one of its computers at the Monju fast-breeder reactor, on the coast off the Sea of Japan, was illegally accessed!

The JAEA says the computer was hacked at least 30 times.  Officials claim they traced the hack to U.S. puppet South Korea! The computer was used to store office emails and employee training records.  They discovered the hacks while updating the software.

Remember that California video I wrote about, at the end of December? Other people have been conducting their own radiation sampling, some saying their  record keeping shows a 500% increase in radiation levels on the California coast!

The video actually caught the attention of county officials, who promptly poo-pooed the claims: “It’s not something that we feel is an immediate public health concern…”-Dean Peterson, San Mateo County

The so called county ‘expert’ went on to say that what is really happening is an increase in ‘background’ radiation!   Hello, dummy, that still means radiation is increasing!

So what has Tokyo Electric Power Company slave wage throwaway workers been using to repair the leaking contaminated water storage tanks?  According to worker interviews published by Asahi Shimbun, duct tape and chicken wire!

TEPCo has announced it will begin its plan to freeze the ground around the GE designed disaster reactors. In late December TEPCo revealed that radiation leaks containing strontium 90 were increasing from Reactor Unit 1.  Radiation leaks from Reactor Unit 2 have been increasing since November 2013.  Whatever happened to TEPCo’s plan to build an iron wall around Fukushima Daiichi, announced back in September 2011?

The leader of the Fukushima Nuclear Resistance, Yoshizawa Masami, is fighting government orders to have his cattle slaughtered.  His adult cows are showing strange signs, like white spots/speckles developing on their brown skin.

Yoshizawa’s farm is only 14km (8.6 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi.  He insists the cows should live, to be studied by scientists and be an example of the evils of nuclear power.

Reports say scientists are beginning to descended upon Yoshizawa’s farm to study what is happening to his cows.  The cows are confirmed to be contaminated with cesium. The government also wants Yoshizawa to vacate his land. Is there something the government wants to hide?  See ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) report.

 

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Iran asks Trilateral Commission member (and failed nuke facility operator) Japan to build nuclear power plants in Iran!

06 January 2014 (15:06 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/16 Dey 1392/06 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“Japan has very advanced technology on nuclear power plants…..I see good prospects in the future that Iran and Japan can cooperate….”-Seyed Abbas Araqchi, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs

NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has interviewed Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araqchi, who said Iran very much would like Japan to build electricity generating nuke power plants in his country.

Iran is making such an offer their key issue with the Trilateral Commission (Pacific Asian Group) member known as Japan (Nippon).

Official Orwellian Double-Speak pro-war propaganda program has begun 

Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea!

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

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

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

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

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

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973.  The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Japan, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).

In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asian Group.

In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region.  The answer is very simple.  Today’s NATO is a new NATO.  It’s a NATO with a global perspective.  It’s a NATO with global partners.  And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club

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More Fukushima Fallout: Homeless people used as slave labor by Yakuza! Decontamination efforts are bogus? Don’t eat the fish! California getting hit with radiation! NSA coverup?

30 December 2013 (04:15 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Safar 1435/09 Dey 1392/28 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“The construction industry is 90% run by gangs.”-Hayashi Fuminori, construction employment manager who recently paid a $5-thousand USD fine for skimming wages

“Many homeless people are just put into dormitories, and the fees for lodging and food are automatically docked from their wages. Then at the end of the month, they’re left with no pay at all!”-Aoki Yasuhiro, Christian homeless advocate

An investigation by Reuters found massive contractor corruption and crime, regarding the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuke facility.  At least 56 subcontractors are suspicious as they have not been certified by the Ministry of Construction.  At least five companies have no public records!

The former advisor to ex-Prime Minister Kan Naoto has implied that the whole ‘decontamination’ effort at Fukushima Daiichi is bogus: “There are many unknown entities getting involved in decontamination projects. There needs to be a thorough check on what companies are working on what, and when. I think it’s probably completely lawless if the top contractors are not thoroughly checking.”-Igarashi Takayoshi, Hosei University

This is not the first time Yakuza were involved with Fukushima Daiichi.  Back in 2011 I wrote about Tokyo Electric Power Company blaming many of their problems on Yakuza supplied workers.

The Japanese government is now authorizing the “throwaway” workers to be kept inside No Go radiation zones 24 hours a day.  Government officials claim it’s the only way they can speed up so called decontamination efforts for towns and cities inside the radiation danger zones.

This doesn’t make sense because a person can be safely exposed to radiation for a specific amount of time, so keeping them locked down in a radiation area for 24 hours will only speed up their exposure rate.  It will only increase the demand for cheap (or even free) “throwaway” workers!

A man in San Francisco, California U.S.A., is using a hand held geiger counter to test for radiation at Pacifica State Beach.  His video shows the geiger counter going past the ‘alarm’ stage, the closer he gets to the water.

Most geiger counters read radiation that is ‘surface’ radiation.  They can’t detect what is called Hot Particles, or airborne contamination.

Reports showing that most fish caught by fishermen near Fukushima are indeed contaminated.  This after many official reports saying catches were not contaminated.  That’s because people are being bribed to shut up: “Most of the fish caught within the 30 kilometer radius is thrown into the garbage because it is radiated. And TEPCo is paying to local fishermen for it, so that they’re happy and keep silent on that. Some of it though makes it to stores, but only locally.”-Kurosaki Hirokai, whistleblower economist

The Washington Times accusing the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) of knowing U.S. military personnel were being irradiated while taking part in Operation Tomodachi, yet saying nothing to warn them.   NSA should have been privy to the massive amounts of phone calls from Tokyo Electric Power Company and Japanese government officials.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Companies who built Fukushima Daiichi will build new nuke plants for Bilderberger Britain! 1600 people die because of the melt downs! More mystery strontium leaks!

24 December 2013 (12:11 UTC-07 Tango)/20 Safar 1435/03 Dey 1392/22 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

A study reported to the October 2013 PICES meeting in British Columbia, Canada, says by 2016 all of Fukushima Daiichi’s cesium 137 will arrive in the United States and Canada!  The Arctic Ocean will also be contaminated.

What about the other isotopes?  The presentation to PICES concluded that “The inventory of Fukushima radioactivity will almost entirely shift….to the eastern North Pacific over the next 5 years.”   The presentation is available in PDF, it’s titled Radionuclide Transport from Fukushima to Eastern North Pacific

Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that at least two nuclear waste water storage tank farm liners/barriers have mysteriously lost most of their contained contaminated rain water.  TEPCo is calling it a “phenomenon”.

The liners/barriers, which are near the reactor Unit 4, are showing no visible signs of leaks.  One of the liners/barriers saw a water level drop of 11 centimeters (4 inches) since last Friday.  TECPo says the water in the tank farm liners/barriers contains 440 becquerels per liter of radioactive strontium!  They suspect the water is seeping into the ground through cracks they can not see.

Since last week contaminated water leaks in four tank farm liners/barriers were discovered (or at least reported).

Days ago the Japanese Mainichi newspaper reported that at least 16-hundred people have died as direct and indirect result of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuke disaster.

This includes deaths from radiation contamination and psychological stress due to becoming refugees within their own country, with no employment or permanent place to live.  Add to that the fact that the neo-imperialist government of Japan keeps changing the rules of how radiation refugees will be compensated.

A contractor who built the GE designed disaster reactors (units 3 and 5) of Fukushima Daiichi is now majority owner of a failing nuclear power company in United Kingdom.  Toshiba now owns 50% of NuGeneration.

According to press releases, Toshiba’s majority stake in NuGeneration will allow the construction of a new 3.6 gigawatt nuclear power generator in Sellafield, England, on the coast of the Irish Sea.

Hitachi built the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi reactor Unit 4 (which has proven to be causing the most trouble), and has also taken over a troubled British nuke power company.  In November 2012, Hitachi became sole owner of Horizon Nuclear Power in England.   According to the latest Japanese news reports, Hitachi-Horizon plans on building six new nuclear power generators in the United Kingdom.

GE built Fukushima Daiichi’s units 1, 2 and 6.  GE designed all the reactors units including the ones built by Hitachi and Toshiba.  Construction of the reactor unit buildings was done by Kajima.

According to The Japan Times, the exodus from Fukushima Prefecture continues.  Already grade schools have had to shut down due to lack of students, now local privately funded universities are reporting 18.7% fewer students.  Tax funded universities are not reporting declining enrollments, but that might be due to declining tuition and fees.  However, the Fukushima tax funded universities also say they have not seen an increase in enrollment, either.  This means that overall, college aged students are leaving the area.

The government of Fukushima Prefecture will allow experimental rice growing in radiation evac zones.  The rice will be tested for radiation contamination.

At the beginning of 2012, researchers from California and New York proved that tuna fish are contaminated: “We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean. We measured γ-emitting radionuclides in California-caught tunas and found 134Cs (4.0 ± 1.4 Bq kg−1) and elevated 137Cs (6.3 ± 1.5 Bq kg−1) in 15 Pacific bluefin tuna sampled in August 2011.”–Pacific bluefin tuna transport Fukushima-derived radionuclides from Japan to California

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More Fukushima Fallout: Record radiation levels, global radiation wave bigger than all nuke weapons testing combined!!! Surge in cancer rates!

22 December 2013 (15:18 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Safar 1435/01 Dey 1392/20 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“The rate at which children in Fukushima prefecture have developed thyroid cancer can be called frequent, because it is several times to several tens of times higher.”-Tsuda Toshihide, Okayama University

It has been revealed that 59 people living in Fukushima Prefecture have thyroid cancer.  They were all younger than 18 years of age when the nuke disaster began in 2011.  Compare that to medical records that show between 1975 to 2008 the average yearly thyroid cancer rate, for all of Japan, was 11 in every one million Japanese!

Children and young adults in their early 20s, and pregnant women, are Canaries In The Coal Mine when it comes to radiation contamination, because growing bodies absorb more radiation than people who are no longer growing: “It is known that radioactive iodine is linked to thyroid cancer. Through the intake of food, people may absorb and accumulate it inside glands.”-Choi Kin, former president of the Hong Kong Medical Association

Radiation caused cancer rates are probably much higher in Japan.  Arnold Gunderson, a former nuclear industry executive and engineer with more than 30 years of experience, told KBOO radio in Oregon, U.S.A., that Japanese doctors are being ordered not to declare any unusual illnesses as being related to radiation: “We’re seeing Japanese doctors not being able to tell their patients that the illnesses they’re experiencing are radiation induced….”  

Japan’s Environment Ministry has blasted Tokyo Electric Power Company for dragging out the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi, for three years now.  Specifically they are referring to the decontamination of contaminated areas and towns around the GE designed disaster reactors.  It was promised they would be cleaned up by March 2014, but it’s painfully clear that’s not going to happen.

The main problem remains the fact that Japan does not have sufficient nuclear waste storage sites, due to the fact that political and corporate officials in Japan thought anything like this couldn’t happen.  But, even the U.S. is not prepared for a similar situation: “Even for the U.S. nuclear industry, such a cleanup and decommissioning would be a great challenge.”-Akira Tokuhiro, Professor of nuke engineering with University of Idaho, U.S.A., at their Idaho Falls Center

Another problem is continued high level radiation emissions from  Fukushima Daiichi.

Within the past day, TEPCo workers recorded record levels of beta type radiation coming from Reactor 2; 1.9 million becquerels per liter!  Since November, Reactor 2 has been emitting higher and higher levels of deadly beta radiation.

On top of that, TEPCo admits radiation in the air is so high that when it rains it floods the ground with contamination.  Today they discovered that one of the concrete liners/barriers, under one of several nuke waste water storage tank farms, is leaking contaminated rain water.  They believe the joins in the concrete liner have eroded, the water pouring out is not from any of the tanks, but from rain water that gets contaminated as it falls and collects in the liner/barrier.  How contaminated?  Throwaway workers say they detected 93 becquerels per liter of strontium 90 in the rain water that is still in the barrier.

International researchers are now desperately warning of massive global radiation contamination, because of Fukushima Daiichi.

“Fukushima Daiichi has been allowed to get out of control……The amount of radiation that went into the Pacific from largely French [nuke weapons] tests, but also American tests, is smaller than what is going into the Pacific now from Fukushima Daiichi…….Fukushima Daiichi’s plume that’s heading towards the west coast of the United States is about 10 times more radiation in that wave, as it comes toward the west coast of the United States, than what we had already done from bomb testing.”-Arnold Gunderson, former nuclear industry executive and engineer interviewed on KBOO radio in Oregon, U.S.A., on 08 November 2013

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, U.S.A., has published a graphic which shows the radiation coming from Fukushima Daiichi is far higher than any of the man made radiation created by the nuke weapons testing in the 1960s, and the 1989 Chernobyl disaster combined!

The U.S. government conducted airborne radiation sampling off the west coast of the U.S., in 2012, but has refused to publish the results claiming national security issues!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remember, this disaster has been ongoing for three years!

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

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

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

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

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More Fukushima Fallout: New genus of Sus hybrids? More throwaway worker abuse! Fukushima Daini to remain shutdown!

12 December 2013 (11:22 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Safar 1435/21 Azar 1392/10 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

The prefectural Fukushima Labor Bureau is accusing Tokyo Electric Power Company contractor Toshiba, and at least 17 of its sub contractors, of forcing low paid and untrained employees to work more than 10 hours per day.  This violates Japanese law restricting hazardous work to no more than 10 hours per day.

Toshiba officials lied to NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and said they thought the time spent prepping for a job was excluded from the 10 hour limit.  They promised to correct themselves.

Officials with Tomioka Town are refusing to allow TEPCo to restart the Fukushima Daini nuke plant.  Daini is only 10km (6.2 miles) from Daiichi.

Fukushima Daini was shut down after the 11 March 2011 quake and tsunami, but also suffered overheating issues.  Town officials say it’s obvious they can’t trust TEPCo with nuclear operations.

Officials of Tomioka Town also reporting 17 cases where abandoned homes and barns have been assaulted by new Sus hybrids, who’re in search of food.

NHK reporting that the ongoing nuclear accident(?) at Fukushima Daiichi has resulted in a new type of Sus.  Officials from five abandoned cities and towns are reporting an invasion of pig-boar hybrids.

Domesticated pigs were left behind when residents were forced to evacuate their towns, because of the nuke melt downs.  The pigs survived to breed with wild boars.  The result, along with radiation contamination, is a new pig-boar that has a voracious appetite and breeds like rabbits (one sow can give birth to ten piglets per year).  Local officials are hiring hunters to get rid of the new Sus Fukushima Daiichius.

The Japanese Environment Ministry is calling for slacking off in nuke clean  up procedures.  Officials claim the decontamination of towns around Fukushima Daiichi is taking too long, so they’ve instructed town officials to skip roof top cleaning and top soil removal!

The main reason the clean up is taking so long is that there are limited nuke waste storage sites in Japan.

Recently it was proposed that several towns, too close to the damaged nuke plant to allow residents to return, could be turned into temporary waste sites.  By temporary they mean for at least 40 years!

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More Fukushima Fallout: New radiation leak, can kill you in 20 minutes! Too many illegal & incompetent employees! 65% of evacuees refuse to return home!

07 December 2013 (19:51 UTC-07 Tango 06 December 2013)/03 Safar 1435/16 Azar 1392/05 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“Yes, we did a shoddy job. The quality of what we did was low, but what else would you expect…”-unnamed illegally hired Fukushima Daiichi employee

A Reuters report says the numerous leaking water storage tanks around Fukushima Daiichi were built by illegal employees, most had no training.

According to the report, a third party contractor hired the nuke plant workers from the poorest parts of Japan.  It is supposedly illegal in Japan for a third party to hire your employees.  On top of that, the third (fourth?) party contractor is not even registered to do work in Japan.

Blame it on Japan’s corporate policy to sub contract all work.  Here’s how it went: Tokyo Electric Power Company hired Taisei to handle the construction of the massive contaminated water storage tank farms.  But Taisei sub contracted to Tokyo Engineering Corporation (TEC).  TEC then sub contracted the job of hiring employees to a Token Kogyo.

Those employees were told to keep quite about how they got their jobs, and not to complain: “Even if we didn’t agree with how things were being done, we had to keep quiet and work fast.”-Uechi Yoshitatsu, former bus driver hired to work at Fukushima Daiichi who blew the whistle on the illegal hiring operation

I’ve written before about how nuclear plant workers in Japan are considered the untouchable class, most of the workers are the least educated in a country that leads the World in test taking skills.   They’re called “throwaway workers”.

“I have seen many younger workers drop out of the clean-up after they had their wages skimmed or after facing dangers that were not explained to them. Without stronger labor protection, there’s no way the decommissioning project will succeed.”-Uechi Yoshitatsu, whistleblower

Uechi actually made an audio recording of his boss, who works for TEC, admitting they lie to government officials and the general public: “When it comes to our sub-contractors, we register them all as TEC. If you want to say that’s a forgery, then, yes, it’s a forgery.”-unnamed TEC supervisor at Fukushima Daiichi

Now realize that if those in charge of the never ending nuke disaster at Fukushima Daiichi knowingly lie, then we should expect the next revelation to be much worse than reported.  TEPCo is reporting a new radiation leak, from a vent pipe, that is emitting 25 sieverts per hour!  That will kill you after 20 minutes of exposure!

The pipe was originally installed after the nuclear explosions, to help vent radioactive gasses from damaged reactor buildings.

Remember when the Japanese government promised evacuees they’d be returned home within six months?  I do, I wrote about it (check my Fukushima archives).  Well, the majority of nuclear evacuees are now refusing to go home!

This involves the towns of Okuma and Futaba.  A survey showed about 65% of the evacuees now realize they can not return to their homes.  They blame the comedy of corporate errors led by TEPCo as the main reason.

Most evacuees are living in temporary mobile homes.

In the city of Minami-Soma, the Shoei High School finally closed down due to lack of students.  The 110 students have never returned to the school that is only 22km (13.6 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi.

Remember when I reported that British Bilderberger, Barbara Judge took over the ‘safety programs’ for TEPCo?  Now there are reports Japan is about to create a whole new nuclear agency based on United Kingdom’s National Decommissioning Authority.

Japanese officials told Reuters that it’s looking more and more like the national government will have to take direct charge in “decommissioning” Fukushima Daiichi, because TEPCo continues to prove its incompetence.

Japan currently has no government agency for oversight of nuke plant decommissioning!  Sometimes I just want to yell at the Japanese “Baka!”