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Fukushima

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: Renovations reveal U.S. park is nuke disaster area! Woods Hole confirms Fukushima radiation heading to North America!

22 October 2014 (14:22 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/30 Mehr 1393/29 Jia-Xu 4712

United States: What does a 1994 U.S. Department of Energy memo say is the best treatment for tritium exposure?  Water, lots and lots of water.  Is that the real reason the U.S. military suddenly (in the mid-1990s) adopted a policy of “Drink water!” for ground troops?

In Louisiana, a nuclear disaster drill was held (one of dozens that have been held across the U.S. this year) and it involved a nuke waste truck heading to New Mexico’s WIPP, and a school bus.  The area was chosen because WIPP waste trucks actually drive that route: “We actually transport radiation. It’s materials left over from the production of nuclear weapons. So it’s how to respond to radiation should it occur. And it’s different in the chemical aspect because you can’t see it taste it or smell it.”-Bobby St. John, Waste Isolation Pilot Project

In Seattle, Washington, residents near Magnuson Park are outraged after learning the popular park is actually contaminated with radiation left over from the Second World War.   Renovations of two buildings revealed radium contamination.  When some local news sources heard the rumor, and then went to the park, they found  Washington State Department of Ecology employees with geiger counters.  The state employees said the radiation levels were OK for a person to be in the area for two hours per day, five days per week.  One politician is pissed: “Totally unacceptable. It’s a gross injustice to say we’re going to call this safe and cleaned up when future children using the park will be at risk of getting cancer.

…..How many of you have children or high school students who use the park more than two hours a day?”-Gerry Pollet, state representative

Canada: U.S. based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is now warning that Fukushima radiation, still flooding into the Pacific Ocean, is about to come ashore on North America.

On 02 August 2014, a water sample taken off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, showed cesium-134 and 137 originating from the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  Woods Hole officials will reveal more at a public announcement in November: “There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now. It’s not on the beaches, but it’s offshore.”– Ken Buesseler

Japan: Continuos tropical storms and cyclones are flooding contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.  Phanfone and Vongfong have increased leaked cesium levels to 251-thousand becquerels per liter, tritium as high as 150-thousand bq, and strontium to 1.2-million bq!

And soon they’ll be even more, as Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun controlled demolition of reactor building 1.  The problem is TEPCo tried that last year with reactor building 3 and the result was massive contamination of rice fields due to radioactive dust being spread by the demolition.

This time TEPCo officials say before they remove the protective canopy from reactor 1 building they will spray down the interior with chemicals to try and reduce the amount of dust.

A former news anchor for Japanese state TV revealed he was fired for reporting the truth about Fukushima Daiichi: “I am a newscaster, but I couldn’t tell the true story on my news program.  I was on the ground in Fukushima, and a lot of people kept asking me, why didn’t you tell us earlier about what is happening? ….then my superiors said the NHK was getting complaints from politicians about what I was saying. They told me I had to stop.”-Hori Jun, former anchor-reporter for NHK

Russia: Studies aboard the International Space Station are showing that cosmic radiation is not as big a threat to astronauts as first thought: “This finding is crucial to the planning of protracted space flights. It means in practical terms we can fly longer and go further.”-Vyacheslav Shurshakov, Institute of Medical-Biological Problems

Why does Rudolph’s nose glow?

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: Why does Rudolph’s nose glow? Because Santa’s Reindeer are radioactive! Why is Japan getting hit with so many hurricanes + earthquakes? EPA confirms airborne radiation at the WIPP! Nuke waste shipments on hold for two more years, or more!

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United States: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed that some radiation escaped into the air around the failed Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico, but claims “The public doses were well below EPA’s standards.”

EPA also criticized the Department of Energy’s (DoE) air monitoring system: “EPA identified a number of areas needing improvement regarding DOE’s ambient environmental air sampling network, laboratory procedures and incident response protocols.”

More revelations out of WIPP.  DoE has revealed that one reason why the investigation and clean up is taking so long is that the main means of transportation down the 655 meter (2150 feet) shaft is broken!   DoE officials are trying to make it sound like it had nothing to do with the salt truck fire back on 05 February 2014, but that just happens to be the day the massive elevator stopped working.

DoE officials claim the hoist system stopped working because of soot accumulation on the electrical components.  Just more proof it was a massive fire.

WIPP is now affecting the state of South Carolina.  The Savannah River Site (SRS) has been told that nuclear waste shipments to the WIPP are on hold until at least 2016, or even longer: “Resumption of full scale operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant may not occur until 2019 and could cost up to $551 million, though initial operations are slated for resumption in early 2016 at a cost of about $242 million.”-DoE report

I assume this delay in nuke waste shipments also applies to LANL in New Mexico, INL in Idaho and other nuclear laboratories around the United States.

Japan:  I’ve written many times before about how heavy rain floods through the failed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy factory, getting contaminated and then flooding into the Pacific Ocean.  Anybody notice how many typhoons have hit Japan this year?  So far there have been 19 western Pacific typhoons, at least four hit Japan directly, and at least two came close enough to cause flooding in Japan.

Now, this years largest typhoon Vongfong (now rated category 6 supertyphoon) is heading to the big islands of Japan.  The current expected track of the supertyphoon will take it right over Fukushima Daiichi, it is expected to be downgraded by then.  On top of that, northeastern Japan was just hit by yet another 6.3 earthquake (followed by a 5.5 quake), in Amoroi Prefecture 400km (248.5 miles) north of Fukushima Daiichi!

About a week prior, Iwate Prefecture (also north of Fukushima Daiichi) got hit with a 5.3 quake.  About two weeks ago Fukushima Prefecture got hit with 5 and 5.1 quakes. About one month ago Iwate Prefecture got hit with a 5.1 quake.  That same month Fukushima Prefecture got hit with multiple 4 magnitude quakes.  About two months ago Fukushima and Iwate prefectures got hit with multiple 4 magnitude quakes.  Three months ago Fukushima Prefecture suffered a 6.5 quake and Iwate a 5.7 quake, on top of numerous 4 magnitude quakes.    There hasn’t been a month in 2014 when Fukushima or Iwate prefectures hadn’t experienced a single 4 to 6 magnitude earthquake.   In fact, the big island of Honshu has been racked by 4 to 6 magnitude quakes all year.

The German news source DW interviewed Michael Maqua, who works for pro-nuke GRS (Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit).  He gave typical assurances that nothing will happen at Fukushima Daiichi when Vanfong hits, but gave this warning: “Apart from physical damages to construction equipment, we could expect radioactive isotopes from contaminated surfaces being washed away and transported into the groundwater or the sea. Over the past days, the concentration of radioactive substances in the groundwater has increased significantly at some of the plant’s measuring points and, according to TEPCo, this was caused by the recent heavy rains.” 

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has run out its latest unsecured debt financing, and hasn’t paid it off.  No problem, the Japanese government convinced the three banks to simply refinance TEPCo for another six months.  Those Too Big to Jail banks are Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking.

It was revealed that not only has TEPCo failed to pay many of their throwaway workers promised hazard pay, but some of those that did get paid got a whopping $36 USD!  TEPCo had promised $180 per day in hazard pay.

Canada: The Canadian national government has ordered nuclear power plant operators to provide all residences, businesses and institutions living within 16km (10 miles) radius of nuke factories potassium iodide pills.   The decision was made by the Nuclear Safety Commission.  Back in June the NSC advised Canadians to stockpile iodide pills.

Norway: Scientists are alarmed over a sudden 5 times increase in radiation levels contaminating reindeer!

In September the reindeer had 82-hundred becquerels of celsium-137 per kilo.  Compare that to 2012 when they had 1500bq.

It’s not just reindeer but sheep as well, some have tested out at 4500bq!  600bq is the max limit considered safe to eat.  But Norway isn’t blaming Fukushima Daiichi, they’re blaming the 30 years old Chernobyl disaster.

Scientists claim that the gypsy mushroom is soaking up radiation contamination caused by Chernobyl after the 1986 meltdown: “This year, there has been extreme amounts of mushroom. In addition, the mushroom season has lasted for a long time. And the mushroom has grown very high up on the mountains.”-Lavrans Skuterud

Norway is 1686.5km (1048 miles) by air from Chernobyl.  This proves that nuclear accidents never go away!

“…you are killing us…!”

Fukushima

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: “…you are killing us…!” Incompetence & conspiracy at WIPP & LANL! National Security violations by LANL! EMP weapons revealed, to be used on you! Preps for war, or disaster? Japan doubles the number of radiation centers! They’re dropping like flies!

29 September 2014 (01:54 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/07 Mehr 1393/06 Gui-You (9th month) 4712

“It’s concerning that just a couple months ago, the scope of the problem was presented to us as one drum.  Now the scope being represented by the lab involves more high risk drums.”-Peter Wirth, state senator & chairman of New Mexico’s Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Committee

United States:  More strangeness taking place at New Mexico’s WIPP and LANL.  On  22 September 2014, a truck carrying 110 barrels of salt water to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) tipped over as it entered the south entrance, spilling “about a five and a half barrels” of salt water.  The driver claims the brakes failed.

But recently released reports and public hearings revealing more dangerous strangeness.  During a recent meeting of the New Mexico Legislature’s Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee it was revealed that the employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) might have been improperly packing mixed waste drums for some time now, in other words there’s more than one nuke waste drum out there with the potential to explode!

“There are two problematic drums, one of which they can’t even get at.  So if it were to explode, that’s a problem.”-Don Hancock, Southwest Research and Information Center

In February (after a salt truck fire), at least one mixed waste drum exploded.  So far investigations have shown it contained improperly packed items contaminated with radiation, which caused a chemical reaction explosion (it had reached internal temps of 340 and 870 degrees Celsius, 644 and 1598 degrees Fahrenheit).  The drum came from LANL.  The latest reports reveal that at least twelve drums in the WIPP are at risk of explosion!  And six potentially explosive drums are now at the Waste Control Specialists (WCS) site in Andrews, Texas.  They all came from LANL.

The state senators chairing the Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee told local news media that at their latest meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), federal officials admit there are serious safety problems at WIPP, but they still don’t have a clue as to why things got so bad.  At least 22 employees are contaminated with radiation.  WIPP is still shutdown.

“We need air, you are killing us down here!”-WIPP employees begging for their lives during the salt truck fire, from court documents

Now concerning the salt truck fire that took place before the explosion(s?).  A lawsuit revealed that for some unknown reason the WIPP managers shutdown the ventilation system after the fire started, and while employees were still underground battling the blaze!

The lawsuit is the one brought by the WIPP employee who has to make numerous trips to a treatment center in Colorado.  The lawsuit includes sworn affidavits from other WIPP employees, including the driver of the salt truck.  They swear that while they were fighting the underground fire WIPP management shutoff their supply of air.   This is why the one employee suffered massive lung damage, from inhaling toxic smoke.

Perhaps management thought by turning off the air they could starve out the fire, however they could have also suffocated all the employees underground!  The affidavit says management never turned the ventilation back on, despite the pleas of the employees.  Also the emergency lights, alarms and even the fire extinguishers failed to work!

And the new contractor in charge of WIPP records is causing an uproar.  Rumors spread that Technical and Field Engineering (TFE) was about to secretly move all WIPP-DoE documents out of the state.  The president of the Tennessee based company recently swore to the Carlsbad Department of Development that they were not moving WIPP records out of state.  TFE is being paid $24.5-million U.S. tax dollars to ‘manage’ all WIPP-DoE documentation/records over the next five years.   It also appears that TFE will layoff employees.

It’s been revealed by Weapons Complex Monitor that there’s been a shakeup of the management at LANL.  This is part of a change in DoE policy, and officials from New Mexico say it’s about time: “The New Mexico Environment Department had been pushing DoE to make this change for a long time.”

The watchdog group known as Los Alamos Study Group accuses LANL contractor Los Alamos National Security of violating Nuclear National Security laws: “The reason this change is happening is because Los Alamos National Security errors shutdown WIPP.
This event has shed a glaring light on dangerous violations of hazardous waste law…..has been clear for a long time….the problems at LANL go deeper than a few individuals.”-Greg Mello

Now for something different: The U.S. Navy has developed new electromagnetic weapons!

In the state of Washington the USN is about to use such weapons in a war game.  It involves 15 aircraft and three RV sized trucks housing the EMP weapons.  The testing will be conducted on the Olympic National Forest and on land controlled by the U.S. Department of Natural Resources.

Officials with the  Pacific Northwest Electronic Warfare Range revealed that the true objective of the EMP trucks is to test the effects of electromagnetic weapons on humans: “….identifies the distribution of children and locations of schools, childcare centers, and family housing areas in areas potentially affected by implementation of the Proposed Action.

Human tissue is directly susceptible to shock or burns when metallic objects, which have absorbed high electromagnetic radiation, are touched.  This type of burn would be similar to the type of burn produced inside a microwave oven.

There are no conclusive direct hazards to human tissue as a result of electromagnetic radiation.  Links to DNA fragmentation, leukemia, and cancer due to intermittent exposure to extremely high levels of electromagnetic radiation are speculative; study data are inconsistent and insufficient at this time.

Strong electromagnetic radiation can cause fire if a wave were to create a spark near explosives or ordnance. Strong waves can also induce an electric current capable of overloading or destroying electrical equipment while less strong radiation waves can interfere with electromagnetic signals, such as radio, television, and telephone.”-Pacific Northwest Electronic Warfare Range statement available in PDF on U.S. Forest Service website

The USN is also going to target animals.  You can find that info in the PDF titled APPENDIX A SUMMARY OF SPECIES ANALYZED, EFFECTS DETERMINATIONS, AND REASONING.  It should be noted that U.S. Forest Service officials deemed the EMP testing as safe!

And more evidence the U.S. is preparing for a nuclear attack coming from the Caribbean.  For years the U.S. Army sent Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) teams to Bahamas to train the Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF), officially to teach the art of bomb disposal.  This year the RBDF conducted their EOD training at Fort Irwin, California.  But the officer in charge of the Bahamian military police unit undergoing the training revealed it was really about weapons of mass destruction: “It is amazing how something as simple as water could be used to disrupt components within a weapon of mass destruction without totally destroying it, so that the possible weapon could be investigated.”-Lieutenant Andrew Bowe, RBDF military police

For years U.S. taxpayers have been funding a U.S. DoE program that has been training Caribbean Customs-Port officials in radiation contamination detection of cargo on commercial ships.

Japan:  Disturbing news out of Japan.  An investigation by Kyodo News reveals a more than doubling of hospitals that can be used to treat victims of radiation contamination!

Prior to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi explosions there were only 83 such hospitals, now the government is increasing that to 201.  The report says the push to increase the number of hospitals for radiation contamination treatment is being conducted at the local level, however, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) is also revamping medical procedures for treating exposure to radiation.

And there are more reports of the adverse effects of Fukushima Daiichi.  An ongoing study by Fukushima Medical University reports a huge jump in cancer cases, especially in children living near the failed GE designed nuclear reactors: “The study has been involving somewhat more than 400-thousand local children. And there have been results that have come in from about a quarter of million. We’ve had a 40 times the normal thyroid cancer death rate and a 40 times the normal or thereabout thyroid abnormality rate; cysts and tumors and other problems with the thyroid among children. And that number is going up, as you would expect, because the Iodine that came out of Fukushima affected people, but the effects continue to spread out over time and we expect the situation to get worse.”-Harvey Wasserman, U.S. journalist interviewed by Russian media

Another study, by University of the Ryukyus, is reporting that insects are dropping like flies around Fukushima Daiichi.  The study observed butterflies that ate radiation contaminated vegetation died early, and had mutations.  Biologist at the University of South Carolina called the study “groundbreaking”.

And at Fukushima Daiichi, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) continues to deal with their failed ALPS decontamination system that keeps leaking radioactive water into the ocean.  This is strange because awhile ago they announced they were not going to use it anymore.

Also, TEPCo throwaway employees continue to report they are not being paid the promised hazardous duty pay.

Cosmic rays to be used at Fukushima! Hows your underwear? 

Business/Economics

U.S. Housing & Construction Industry Implosion: 1st six months of 2014, high rents and home loan denials = Death Spiral!

Since the 1st quarter of 2014 real estate research company Zillow has been warning that the cost to rent a residence now exceeds the cost to buy one. However, couple that with the fact that the Too Big to Jail banks continue to deny potential home buyers mortgages and you’ve got the ingredients for a U.S. housing market Death Spiral!

Incomplete list of residential and commercial construction industry job destruction that took place, or were announced, from January to June 2014:

Alabama: The Associated General Contractors & Builders reports that 900 construction jobs ceased to exist between May and June! From May 2013 to May 2014 the state lost 1400 construction jobs!

Arizona:  Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Yuma County had the highest negative equity (homebuyers are paying way more than what the homes are really worth) in the state, 38%. Pima and Cochise counties are close behind. In Tucson, after 55 years Fruit Land Market shutdown. The property owners kicked out the Market owners, so they could sell the land to speculators.

California: Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Lassen County had the highest negative equity, 43%! Close behind is Imperial, Kern, Tulare, Lake, Merced, Madera, Yuba, Colusa and Del Norte counties, all with more than 30% of homeowners ‘underwater’!  In San Louis Obispo, after 15 years Cugini’s Pizzeria & Trattoria shutdown. The restaurant owner said the greedy property owner jacked up the rent by adding on a monthly service charge as well as demanding 6% of her restaurant’s profits! She tried complaining to the property management company but they blew her off, then suddenly she got evicted!  Also, the quirky store Kwirkworld shutdown. The manager blamed the landlord saying “…the rents are really high here.”  In San Jose, after only four years Elefante Blanco upscale thrift shop shutdown. The owner blames it on a rent increase.  And Diddams Party & Toy Store shutdown, the owners said they could no longer pay the rent.  In Simi Valley, after 50 years of selling residential steam showers ThermaSol warned state officials of a “closure” in August, at least 21 jobs will be lost.  Also in Simi Valley, real estate management company Genesis Acquisition Management laid off at least four employees.  In San Francisco, internet based real estate search site Trulia laid off 85 employees. Apparently four executives got demoted as well. Company officials said they are trying to eliminate redundant jobs.  San Francisco based Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo proves there is a coming housing market crash by killing 1073 mortgage industry jobs across the U.S., saying “We currently expect mortgage origination volumes to decline…”   Mortgage servicer CoreLogic killed at least 131 jobs throughout the Golden State!  In Irvine, Genpact Mortgage killed 81 jobs. They killed about 65 jobs last year as well.   North Carolina based Too Big to Jail Bank of America killed 400 mortgage service jobs in the Golden State!  In Sacramento, major provider of appraisal, title and closing services to mortgage lenders, ServiceLink, laid off 97 employees. ServiceLink provided service to the top 25 U.S. banks, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  In Chatsworth, Peerless Building Maintenance announced they will layoff 89 employees in August. In Truckee, after 13 years Dragonfly Restaurant shutdown. The owner said he was made an “offer he couldn’t refuse” by aggressive property developers.  In Orange County, after more than 30 years Anaheim Patio and Fireside shutting down two stores. The company’s attorney blames greedy property owners saying “The rent demands at those two locations are just too high for the business model right now.”  In Norwalk, Asplundh Construction laid off 83 employees.  In Del Mar, after 46 years Pannikin Coffee & Tea shutdown, the owner blames the landlord: “We’ve been here a long time and we just couldn’t come to an agreement with the mall management on a fair rent so we didn’t renew our lease.”-Shawn Holder

Colorado: In Denver, a longtime Kazoo Toys store shutdown. The owner blamed it on greedy landlords.

Connecticut: The city of Hartford warned it must jack up property taxes, and that’s after $18.1-million USD in spending cuts. That’s because Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) is causing an $18.6-million increase in retirement and health insurance costs for city employees!  In New Canaan, after 21 years Forest Street Deli shutdown. The deli owner blames the property owner, who sold the property out from under his feet!

Delaware: RealtyTrac reports the foreclosure rate jumped 94%, from March to April!

Florida: Brevard County is now the country’s leading area for home foreclosures. RealtyTrac says one in every 303 homes has been foreclosed by the Too Big to Jail banks!  In Pinellas Park, after 22 years non-profit Venue Theater shutdown. The owner blamed it on “A recent downturn of events” like the landlord jacking up the rent.  In Ocala, after 35 years Abio’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria shutdown by the landlord.   Mortgage risk analysis firm, Digital Risk, killed 745 jobs: “Due to substantial, abrupt and unforeseen residential mortgage events, including….improving credit quality, significant volume declines in refinance loan originations, etc., demand for Digital Risk services has materially decreased.”-Brandon Johnson, senior HR manager

Idaho: Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Elmore County had the highest negative equity in the Gem State, 42%! Bingham County came in second with 29%. It must be noted that realty data from many Idaho counties are not being made public, such as Bannock County (which is the hardest hit economically)!  In Pocatello, the short lived Marhaba restaurant was shutdown and the property auctioned off.  It’s now a ‘vapor bar’.

Illinois: In Chicago, troubled Armaclad Windows and Doors shutting down, 195 jobs lost! The company is being liquidated due to crashing sales and bad management. The company even got $10-million in local tax incentives, but it obviously isn’t enough to stop the construction market Death Spiral.   The Illinois Association of Realtors report home sales crashed 9.9% across nine counties from April 2013 to April 2014!  Civil engineering firm Lakeshore TolTest now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.  In Bensenville, maker of windows and doors Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope shutdown, 64 jobs lost.  In Franklin Park, Philips Lighting Company laid off 81 employees.

Indiana: After 56 years Oakbrook Homes shutdown. The owner said before the 2009 recession he was building 100 homes per year, since then he’s been lucky to build 25 homes per year!  Indiana Limestone shutdown, 166 jobs lost! The company supplied limestone for many iconic Washington DC buildings.  In Warsaw, PolyOne Designed Structures and Solutions shutdown, 110 jobs lost!

Iowa: RealtyTrac reports the foreclosure rate skyrocketed an incredible 237%, from March to April!  In Dubuque window and door maker Jeld-Wen shutdown a factory, 52 jobs lost.

Hawaii: In Maui, after more than 20 years Stella Blues Cafe shutdown. The restaurant owner stated that his landlord could no longer cut him a break on the rent.  In Waikiki, ice cream shop Cold Stone Creamery shutdown. The owner blamed it on the greedy landlord who jacked up the rent.

Kansas: In Leawood, after 25 years a Hy-Vee grocery store shutdown. Company officials said the store needed $4-million in reconstruction work but the city council actually passed a ruling that forces them to shutdown: “In light of the city of Leawood’s recently passed moratorium on new development along the 135th corridor, it is clear that the current business environment in Leawood is one in which Hy-Vee cannot be successful. Two attempts to find a solution acceptable to both parties –one that allows us to continue serving our customers with the products, services and amenities that they deserve and expect — have been resisted by city officials. The first was in May 2013, when we attempted to remodel the store at its current location, and now, our most recent application to build a new store at the corner of 135th Street and Roe Avenue. Because lack of city support prevents us from providing customers with the best shopping experience we have to offer, we will be closing….” 

Kentucky: In Louisville, the Heine Brothers’ Coffee shop shutdown. Company officials said the shop had good business, but not good enough to cover the outrageous rent.

Maryland: The Baltimore city Housing Authority warned it might have to layoff 24 employees. However, some reports say as many as 200 employees could become unemployed! It’s blamed on federal funding cuts, but it was revealed by one local news source that the public housing agency wants to sell off housing units to private developers under the recently created federal Rental Assistance Demonstration program.  In Washington County, Too Big to Jail Citi Group laying off at least 650 employees by the end of 2014! Citi is dumping approximately 64-thousand unpaid mortgages on other collections companies!  In Frederick, the Tuesday Morning closeout store closed out after only three years in business. Company officials implied the landlord kicked them out.

Massachusetts: Zillow reports that the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex, Plymouth, Norfolk and Essex have 78,873 homes with underwater mortgages (homebuyers are paying way more than what the homes are really worth), at the end of March.  Too Big to Jail mortgage/finance holding company State Street killed 400 U.S. jobs this year (145 just in the Bay State) despite $2.5-billion in revenues! Investors want even more revenues, so the jobs were killed!  State Street laid off 700 Bay Staters last year!

Michigan: After more than 40 years the Swartz Creek Bakery shutdown. The property owner sold off the building. Washtenaw County announced 259 properties to be bundled into 75 tax auctions! Compare that to 2013 when 186 properties were bundled for auction!  Only six years after moving mortgage operations to Pittsfield Township, Too Big to Jail CitiMortgage laid off 180 people! However, Citi has so much money that the affected employees will get 60 days of pay (and probably not be counted in the unemployment data as a result). In Clinton Township, after only six years Tin Fish 3 restaurant/nightclub shutdown. The owners hadn’t been able to pay half-a-million dollars in back due rent!   In Walker, after ten years Schuler Books & Music shutdown.  The owners said they could not afford the rent on the new lease.   In Grand Blanc Inalfa Roof Systems shutdown, 52 jobs lost. The Detroit Land Bank Authority began taking bids on dozens of abandoned houses. This round of auctions involve ‘new build’ homes and bidding starts at $1-thousand. There’s one catch, you have to pay in cash only, plus you must remodel the house (apparently these ‘new’ homes are damaged). Eaton County warned of a new round of home auctions on 06 August. The 47 properties were seized from the owners for failure to pay taxes. There is a second auction planned later in the month of August.  Wayne County approved drastic plans to try and get rid of $175-million in debt.  County officials admit their tax revenues are crashing because residents are up and leaving in droves.  To show you how bad the situation is, Wayne County also announced 557 properties to be auctioned off just in the month of June! These are properties that were seized for failure to pay taxes. In 2013 Wayne County put up for auction nearly 20-thousand properties, the most in the whole World! Not all sold, and the county came up short $182-million! In the failed state city of Detroit: “…118,000 properties owe more than $500 million in unpaid property taxes. These properties are in addition to the more than 84,000 Detroit properties to which various public entities already hold title as a result of tax foreclosure.”-Detroit Blight Removal Task Force

Mississippi: Chapter 11 bankrupt busted Senderson Plumbing Products laid off 100 employees! Another 130 employees threatened!

Missouri: In Saint Louis, Nationstar Mortgage killed 115 jobs blaming it on a decline in demand for mortgage services.  And a Schnuck Markets grocery store shutdown. Company officials said it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease.  After 53 years property speculators killed the Majestic Restaurant and Bar. And after at least 37 years Left Bank Books shutdown. The book store co-owner blames the property owner: “We gave it a good run, but it didn’t work out. If we could have negotiated a better lease, it would have been a different situation.”-Jarek Steele

Montana: In Butte, the Copper King Hotel and Convention Center shutdown, 50 jobs lost. The owner was trying to sell the operation for at least the past year, but nobody is interested in buying.

Nebraska: In Scottsbluff, Nationstar Mortgage quietly killed 105 jobs! The layoffs were made public by employees, and it was also revealed that back in November 2013 the mortgage company killed all their part time jobs! Several whistleblower former employees said the mortgage industry shutdown was planned at least one year ago!  In Omaha, after 60 years Eli Caniglia’s Venice Inn restaurant shutdown. Some reports say the family was forced to sell out to an evil property developer.

New Hampshire: In Manchester, lightbulb maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 139 jobs lost!

New Jersey: Mortgage company PHH Corporation killed 130 jobs at their Mount Laurel HQ! This is on top of hundreds of jobs killed in other states, and hundreds of job cuts made in 2013. Company officials cited Mortgage Bankers of America data which warns of an impending housing market crash!   U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics construction data shows The Garden State lost the most construction jobs of all the U.S. states, and that’s in spite of reconstruction from Hurricane Sandy. From March 2013 to March 2014 New Jersey lost 46-hundred construction jobs!  In Greensboro, after 79 years Ham’s Restaurant shutdown. It’s blamed on the greedy property owner.  In Jersey City, iconic Casa Dante restaurant shutdown without warning, they hadn’t paid rent since October 2013!  In Medford, Murphy’s Market shutdown a 17 years old grocery store. Company officials blamed the greedy property owner saying “After great expense and effort it comes with much heartache, we as a company, were unable to reach a reasonable agreement with the building’s landlord.” In Metuchen, To Be Continued bookstore shutdown. The store owners blame the property owner: “The landlords need a certain amount of money, and we just can’t afford it.”-Sergio Gonzalez, co-owner

New Mexico: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics construction data from April 2013 to April 2014 shows the Land of Enchantment lost 2-thousand construction jobs! Apparently half of those losses came just during the month of April 2014!  After more than 3 decades Albuquerque Lighting shutdown.  In Farmington, after only three years My Big Fat Greek Restaurant shutdown, 38 jobs lost. The restaurant owner blamed the greedy property owner.

New York: Poughkeepsie city officials warned of at least 25 job cuts. The city is struggling with 300 abandoned properties, crashing tax revenues, crashing property sales, all putting the city in $3.6-million of debt!  Home Furniture Gallery shutdown two stores and laid off employees at its HQ. According to company officials the greedy property owners “yanked” their leases!  RealtyTrac reports the foreclosure rate for the Empire State shot up by 142%, from March to April!  REIT Management & Research announced they are shutting down some ops across New York, 28 property management jobs lost.  In NYC, after 55 years The Famous Oyster Bar shutdown, the owners pasted a big sign on their door blaming “exorbitant rent prices”.   Once again the New York City Housing Authority made threats of shutting down 57 Community Centers! Since at least 2011 NYCHA has made alternating massive layoff threats, then suddenly canceling those threats. This is a sure sign of cooked books and political games being played with wasted tax dollars.  In Bohemia, construction materials maker Jasco Industries shutdown, 70 jobs lost.  In Staten Island, building maintenance supply company Total Maintenance Solution lost a contract and killed 164 jobs!  In Jackson Heights, La Villita Records shutdown. Reports say sales were so bad that the owner was unable to pay rent or insurance for several months.  In Syracuse, Too Big to Jail First Niagara shutdown a mortgage office, 14 jobs lost.  In Babylon, DE Capital Mortgage shutdown, 52 jobs lost.  In Orange County, Russin Lumber shutdown, 68 jobs lost. In Syracuse, Destiny USA – Pyramid Management Group shutdown, 44 jobs lost.  NYC based Too Big to Jail, JPMorgan Chase killing 6-thousand U.S. jobs relating to mortgage refinancing! The big bank says the market for home mortgages is crashing. The big bank is also killing 2-thousand jobs relating to credit card services! 8-thousand jobs lost by the end of 2014!

North Carolina: In Winston-Salem, after 16 years Ollie’s Bakery shutdown. The landlord is the suspect.  In Fort Mills, Too Big to Jail Citi Group shutdown their default mortgage service unit, killing at least 400 jobs!

Ohio:  A realtor association in Columbus reporting an 11.3% drop in home sales from May 2013 to May 2014. On top of that eight counties reported their April sales dropped by 12.5%, and this is with a reduction in the number of homes available!   In Kenwood, Sterling’s Cut Glass shutting down. The owners say they will focus on internet sales only. Production is also being moved, 75 jobs affected.  In Riverside, Ponderosa Steakhouse restaurant shutdown without notice. Company officials blamed the property owner for jacking up the rent.

Oregon: MulvannyG2 Architecture shutdown their Portland office. They’re consolidating operations.   RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures of homes is up in Oregon, by 91% from March to April! The number of homes scheduled to be auctioned off skyrocketed an unbelievable 229%!  In Eugene, after 36 years Fletcher’s for Children shutdown. The store owners blame the landlord for unreasonable rent.    In Hillsboro, after 33 years Skate World shutting down in June. Management suggested it was due to jacked up rent.   In Medford, after 37 years roller skate rink Roller Odyssey shutdown. The owners said the could not afford the new rent.  In Springfield, local farmer’s-crafts type store Eugenius Marketplace shutdown after only 18 months in business! They couldn’t afford the rent, despite tripling their sales.  Back to Portland, where the Wildwood shutdown. The restaurant owner says the property owner jacked up the rent.  And after 17 years Jackpot Records shutdown, the owners said “…the rents have gone up…”.

Pennsylvania: In Canonsburg, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Custom Fabrication Plant shutting down in October, 130 jobs lost! GE (General Electric) is the same company that designed the disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, and Hitachi helped build them.  In York, lightbulb maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 118 jobs lost!  Van Buren Homes declared bankruptcy, despite a supposedly recovered housing market!

Rhode Island: In Central Falls, lightbulb maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 88 jobs lost.  In Newport, 107 years old Potter and Company clothing store shutdown. The owner of the store said she never thought greedy landlords would do her in by jacking up the rent: “It’s very disappointing….I thought this place would survive. It’s just such a part of the community.”-Chafee Emory

South Carolina: In Greenville, after 20 years The Fashion Shack was forced to shutdown by aggressive property developers.

Texas: Zillow reports that at least 31% of homebuyers in Bell County are paying for homes that are worth much much less than what the mortagages will end up costing the homebuyer!  In Midland, Walter’s family restaurant shutdown. The restaurant owner blames the greedy property owner for jacking up the rent.  Too Big to Jail Bank of America killed 156 mortgage industry jobs in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties!  In Houston, after 37 years the Black Heritage Gallery shutdown, because the new property owner evicted the gallery owner!

Virginia: In Danville, modular home maker Commodore Homes shutdown, 100 jobs lost!  Capital Bagel Bakery store shutdown. The operators blame the property owners: “We were given one month notice to vacate….”

Washington: After 35 years Chamber’s Bay Realty shutdown.

Wisconsin:  In Montello, Glen Oak Lumber & Milling shutdown, 43 jobs lost.

“Next week marks 6 years since our economy suffered its worst setback since the Great Depression. Yet despite these shocks; through the pain we have felt and the grueling work required to bounce back – America is better positioned today to seize the future than any other nation on Earth.   Our technology companies and universities are unmatched; our manufacturing and auto industries are thriving. Energy independence is closer than it’s been in decades. For all the work that remains, our businesses are in the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our history. Despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day – and that makes me more confident than ever about our country’s future.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2014

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: WIPP employee lawsuit! France & Idaho connection to Fukushima & WIPP! Cosmic rays to be used at Fukushima! Hows your underwear?

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Customs/Port officials in Korea, south, have discovered a shipment of scrap metal from Japan is highly radioactive.  20 kilograms (44 pounds) of scrap metal was found to be contaminated with cesium-137.  They’ve ordered the ship to return to Japan.

Officials with the district of Hong Kong, China, are refusing to lift the ban on food from five Japanese prefectures affected by the ongoing nuke disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.

In Japan‘s Fukui Prefecture nuclear power plant inspectors have discovered a new danger; seawater pumps at Takahama Nuclear Power Plant could be destroyed by tornadoes.  Kansai Electric Power Company is now trying to protect the pumps with steel plates and steel nets.

A Virginia U.S.A. company (Decision Sciences International Corporation aka DSIC) has been hired by Japan’s Toshiba to use cosmic rays to scan the melted down GE designed reactor units at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

What most people don’t understand is that nobody has been able to see what’s happening in the reactors, because the contamination levels are so high that it will kill humans, and even the electronics in robots get fried if they’re in the buildings for too long!  This is why this disaster is ongoing more than three years later (and why I believe China Syndrome is now in play).

DSIC will use two muon detectors to scan the reactors.  The detectors will be placed in a reactor building,  on opposite sides of the containment vessel.  Muons are considered harmless, but they can pass through just about anything, however their direction of travel can be altered by dense objects.  The scanners will create a 3D image that will hopefully show exactly where the mass of molten fuel rods are.   By the way, Toshiba openly refuses to say how much they’re paying DSIC for the work.

The neo-imperialist government of Japan has announced it will spend  $3-billion USD to help Fukushima Prefecture recover from the ongoing nuclear disaster, but there’s a catch.  In order to get the money the municipalities within the prefecture must agree to become nuclear waste storage sites!

The bribe comes after three years of utter failure in filtering radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi, prompting Tokyo Electric Power Company to call it quits, almost.

The experimental and expensive (TEPCo openly refuses to say how much it cost!) filtration system was only able to operate for three months before being repeatedly shutdown for multiple problems, mainly leaks.   TEPCo says there is another problem, radiation contamination.

The filtration system is so radioactive that it has become like the melted down reactors onsite; too ‘hot’ to literally handle.  This is the true reason for the abandonment of the Areva designed filtration system, because throwaway employees cannot get near the system just to perform maintenance!  A new ‘treatment’ system is being tried, and of course all the water that goes through these systems end up in the ocean.

Areva is a French company, and this brings us to Idaho, U.S.A.

Areva is a contractor at the United States’ Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and has just ben awarded a $34-million contract to turn the INL  into a low level nuclear waste storage site.  It involves building 200 concrete nuke waste trash cans (vaults) underground.

INL and Department of Energy also held a health conference in Idaho Falls, regarding the Radiation and Worker Health Program’s scheme (Special Exposure Cohort) in determining health problems caused by radiation: “If a person who worked at INL gets cancer and feels like their cancer is due to radiation exposure they received on the job, they could file a claim in this program and our job at NIOSH is (to) attempt to reconstruct the dose, that person received while they were here. You know how much dose they could have received. Once we have done that, the Department of Labor takes that information and determines whether their cancer was more likely or not caused by the radiation exposure.”-Stuart Hinnefeld, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

It turns out that INL was chosen for the public forum because several hundreds of claims of radiation caused cancer have been filed!

A live reporter with local TV station(s) KIDK-KIFI reported that several DoE employees, and former employees, say their cancer caused by contamination claims have gone unanswered!   (It’s interesting that KIDK-KIFI did not put that info in their text version of the story, it was relayed by their live reporter)

The INL is also one of the major suppliers of nuclear waste to New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).  And speaking of WIPP, the first of what could be many lawsuits by employees has been filed.

It turns out the lawsuit was actually filed in May!  The waste handler claims he suffered several types of injuries during the salt truck fire, including inhalation of toxins.   He is one of at least a dozen people hurt during the February fire.  He is now having to travel to Colorado for undisclosed respiratory treatments.  The DoE has admitted that one worker is still undergoing treatments.  The employee stated that he’s constantly tired, and coughs and vomits “all the time”.

In United Kingdom, entrepreneur Richard Branson announced he would market radiation proof underwear.  They’re made with silver thread.  Scientist scoffed at the idea, after all if you could make radiation proof underwear then you’ve solved the problem for humans undertaking long distance space flight (with all that lethal cosmic radiation floating about).

“We’re preparing for the worst day in America.”

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 27 – 31 May 2014: “the end of an era” No more Super Chevy or Import Tuner? No more Taco Bell or Pizza Huts? More proof housing crash is here! Thousands of job losses announced in California! More ObamaCare job destruction!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

The second largest magazine distributor/publisher in the country, Source Interlink Distribution, laid off employees in California, Florida and Michigan.  This includes the editor of Automobile magazine.  The company also publishes Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Camaro Performers, GM Hi-Tech, Super Chevy, Import Tuner, Honda Tuning  and Super Street.   Word is, all these iconic magazines will be consolidated into just a couple of publications!   Operations in Michigan will be moved to California.  There are rumors the company is actually shutting down due to the loss of their contract with Time Inc.   Six thousand jobs across the country could be affected!

Arizona:  What housing market recovery? Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Yuma County had the highest negative equity (homebuyers are paying way more than what the homes are really worth) in the state, 38%.  Pima and Cochise counties are close behind.

California: Too Big to Jail Bank of American announced more layoffs, this time 50 employees in Brea will be laid of in July.  In Oakland, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center warned of massive 1584 layoffs by the end of July!   In Montebello, Beverly Hospital laying off 17 people in July.  In Sylmar, God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 274 jobs with Saint Jude Medical in July!   In Atwater, Mi Pueblo Foods shutting down in August, 279 jobs lost!  In San Francisco, Grand Cafe shutting down in July, 63 jobs lost.  CDIHS/OMI Head Start laying off 76 people in July.   In Sunnyvale, taxsucker Lockheed Martin warned of 62 layoffs to take place in July.   In Santa Anna, energy supplier AGR Group shutting down in August, 203 jobs lost!  The company is facing a lawsuit by employees over failure to pay for work performed.   In Mountain View, Symantec continues to kill jobs, this time 42 people will become unemployed in June.  In City of Jurupa Valley, QS Wholesale laying off 66 employees in July.  In West Covina, California Pizza Kitchen announced they are laying off 60 employees in August.  What housing market recovery? Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Lassen County had the highest negative equity, 43%!  Close behind is Imperial, Kern, Tulare, Lake, Merced, Madera, Yuba, Colusa and Del Norte counties, all with more than 30% of homeowners ‘underwater’!

Idaho:  What housing market recovery? Housing market research company Zillow reports that at the end of March Elmore County had the highest negative equity, 42%!  Bingham County came in second with 29%.   It must be noted that realty data from many Idaho counties are not being made public, such as Bannock County (which is the hardest hit economically)!

Illinois: Chicago based investor analyst company Morningstar announced it will no longer work for Sears Holdings.  Apparently the owner of Sears and Kmart stores is doing so bad that Morningstar is leaving the sinking ship now.

Kentucky: On of the largest advertising companies in Lexington, Meridian-Chiles, now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.

Massachusetts:   Zillow reports that the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex, Plymouth, Norfolk and Essex have 78,873 homes with underwater mortgages (homebuyers are paying way more than what the homes are really worth), at the end of March.

Michigan:  In Lansing, Cup of Dessert (aka Decker’s Coffee) shutdown.  What housing market recovery?  Wayne County announced 557 properties to be auctioned off just in the month of June!  These are properties that were seized for failure to pay taxes.  In 2013 Wayne County put up for auction nearly 20-thousand properties, the most in the whole World!  Not all sold, and the county came up short $182-million USD!  In the failed state city of Detroit: “…118,000 properties owe more than $500 million in unpaid property taxes. These properties are in addition to the more than 84,000 Detroit properties to which various public entities already hold title as a result of tax foreclosure.”-Detroit Blight Removal Task Force

Minnesota:  The epilepsy floor of the United Hospital was shutdown, due to cuts in payments and increased costs caused by Obama Care!  The operator of the hospital, Allina Health, revealed just how much Obama Care is killing the healthcare industry; in the 1st quarter of 2013 Allina Health had $22.3-million in operating income (profit after operating costs are subtracted, a little more specific than net profit).  For the 1st quarter 2014 operating income crashed to just $449-thousand!!! The owner of dozens of Minnesota Taco Bells and Pizza Huts is now chapter 11 bankrupt busted! 140 jobs threatened! Border Foods and Sky Ventures already sold off 54 Pizza Huts back in December.  They’ve already been sued for $8-million in back due rent!  The company is asking the bankruptcy court to allow them to sell off more restaurants.  Company officials cry ‘What economic recovery?’: “Sales have remained stagnant, costs have increased….The combination of the factors has led to a condition where the….margins have decreased and making additional capital investments….is not prudent.”-Barry Zelickson, VP   

Missouri: In Kansas City, after 83 years (and surviving the Great Depression) men’s clothing store Jack Henry shutdown, 25 jobs lost.  It’s blamed on “current trends” in clothing: “When the clothes are gone, the Jack Henry brand will be gone as well…the end of an era for a Kansas City icon.”-Spiro Arvanitakis, co-owner

Nevada: What housing market recovery? Zillow reports at least 30% of homeowners in Las Vegas have negative equity, in other words they’re paying way too much for their homes than what they’re worth.

North Carolina: High Point Regional UNC Health Care killed 115 jobs!  Hospital official, Greg Taylor, blames Obama Care for causing not just insurance reimbursement reductions, but “…admissions decrease….surgical procedures decrease, and we think that is part of where the market is headed. It’s been playing out all across the country.”

New York: In Buffalo, Main Court/Main Seneca announced they are shutting down in August, 82 jobs lost.  Canisius College warned it will layoff an undisclosed number of employees for the upcoming school year.   It’s blamed on decreasing students and increasing benefit costs caused by Obama Care.  In Farmingdale, environmental and disaster recovery consultant ProSource Technologies suddenly shutdown after losing their state contract, 366 jobs lost!  In Melville, employment staffing company Adecco Group announced it is shutting down in December, 154 jobs lost!  Who said internet companies are killing brick-n-mortar stores?  Once again an internet upscale clothing store killing jobs.  This time Fab will layoff 90 people, it’s the internet company’s third round of layoffs in the past ten months, and by the way all the layoffs are coming out of its New York operations only!

Ohio:  What economic recovery?  The new company created by the merger of Anchor Hocking and Oneida kitchen ware, EveryWare Global, is in big trouble.  Even with huge layoffs and factory shutdowns the company is reporting it lost $38.4-million in its first quarter of 2014!  In Beachwood, retail property owner/manager DDR revealed that the closure of 400 Office Depot stores will directly affect 50 of their properties.  However, DDR officials also revealed they’ve been cutting Office Depot a deal on rent (below-market value), and maybe they can jack up the rents once Office Depot vacates.  In Perrysburg Township, Ace Hardware announced they are killing 105 jobs in July!  They are shutting down their 40 years old Retail Support Center.  In Toledo, iconic The Blade newspaper announced they are killing 131 jobs!  The 179 years old newspaper is shutting down its Toledo production and mailing operations beginning in August.

Oregon: In Portland, MulvannyG2 Architecture shutdown.  They’re consolidating operations.  In Beaverton, Obama Care medical device tax forcing Greatbatch/Electrochem Solutions to move to Mexcio. 170 jobs lost by the end of 2015!

Pennsylvania: In Canonsburg, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Custom Fabrication Plant shutting down in October, 130 jobs lost!  GE (General Electric) is the same company that designed the disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, and Hitachi helped build them.

Tennessee: God can’t stop the all powerful Obama Care from killing 75 jobs at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare: “…the current healthcare environment is presenting financial challenges for hospitals across the country….As a result, we are examining ways to reduce costs from our system. We’re finding ways to save through measures such as standardizing medical devices and not filling open positions where it makes sense. But even after making those changes, we still need to find additional ways to reduce costs.”-Gary Shorb, CEO

Texas:  What housing market recovery?  Zillow reports that at least 31% of homebuyers in Bell County are paying for homes that are worth much much less than what the mortagages will end up costing the homebuyer!

20 – 26 May 2014: Massive education cuts!

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

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation Fallout: WIPP inspections never done! China Syndrome confirmed at Fukushima! Melt downs started 5 hours before originally thought! Pouring water directly on core made things worse!

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“We’re preparing for the worst day in America.”-Colonel Lawrence Terranova, U.S. Army NorthCom

Back in June I wrote how the GE designed reactor Unit 2, at Fukushima Daiichi, could very well be experiencing China Syndrome.  Now, Tokyo Electric Power Company confirms Chine Syndrome in reactor Unit 3!

TEPCo has now discovered that all the nuclear fuel rods in Unit 3 melted through the reactor core, and are working their way through the containment vessel!

It was also revealed that the melt downs at Fukushima Daiichi started at least five hours before an official government investigation stated.   Unit 3 actually began melting down at 05:30 hours on 13 March 2011 (The cooling system actually stopped six hours earlier than originally claimed.  You conspiracy theorist need to get busy with this one!).

TEPCo says melted fuel in the containment vessel halts their plan to decommission the reactors.   The ijits assumed the reactor cores were stable.  Another kink in their plans to decommission the reactors is the fact that all their attempts to filter radioactive isotopes out of the cooling water have officially failed.   So what now, you nuclear engineering geniuses?

TEPCo also discovered that pouring water directly on the reactor cores back in 2011 made things worse, by creating a chemical reaction that built up explosive hydrogen gas.

Japanese news media have revealed that TEPCo is fudging on its ice wall attempt.  They’re supposed to be using a giant frigeration system to freeze the ground around Fukushima Daiichi, in the hopes it will stop contaminated groundwater from getting into the ocean.  However, TEPCo now admits they’re dumping 15-tons of huge ice blocks, per day, into the trenches meant for the in-ground AC unit.   They claim they are only trying to “speed things up”.  Why can’t they just admit they don’t know what they’re doing and start dumping concrete on the whole thing?

And now for some more bad news:  Japan has been hit with massive amounts of rain, this means Fukushima Daiichi is flooding even more radioactive isotopes into the Pacific Ocean.

In the United States: “A study from 2012 reports that the plume of radiation made a serious impact on Southern and Central California, with Southern California’s seaweed testing at a 500 percent higher level of radiation than normal…..

…..Elevated levels of iodine-131, which is a product of nuclear fission and exceeds the levels of contaminant permitted in the water supply, have been reported by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)….

….radioactive elements that are present in California are Iodine, Cesium-134 and Cesium-137…..

…the Japanese government’s Meteorological Institute, found that levels of cesium 137 at the surface of the Pacific could potentially be 10,000 times higher that the contamination at Chernobyl….

….In 2012 the U.S. government ordered 14 million pills of Potassium Iodide….”–Adrianne Hill

In New Mexico, more confusion about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).  This time it was revealed that federal Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) wasn’t conducting mandatory quarterly inspections of WIPP!

MSHA officials claim they were confused as to just how much authority they had at the Department of Energy’s (DoE) WIPP.   The DoE and MSHA signed a vague agreement back in 1987, but MSHA didn’t begin inspections until 1995, and even then they were sporadic.

In my last Fukushima posting I wrote about the massive nuclear disaster training taking place all across the U.S.  One of those exercises is being conducted by the U.S. Army’s NorthCom in Indiana.  The first half of the “premier” Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) wargame was from 21-27 July.

An update on Vibrant Response 14 (VR 14) shows it has entered the second half (01-09 August), and involves 55-hundred personnel from FEMA, Homeland Security, National Technical Nuclear Forensics Ground Collections Task Force, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, FBI, DoE, USA (United States Army), USAF (United States Air Force), USN (United States Navy) and more than 28 states including Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio.

The Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC) is considered the best for simulating a nuclear disaster area: “This place is unreal! Considering how this whole place was once a functioning facility, this is probably the best place for my unit to get a feel for what we’d encounter during a real-life nuclear attack.”-1st Lieutenant Jeff Merritt, Indiana National Guard

The achilles heel of a nuclear disaster response is the same as for combat, logistics: “If the transportation mission wasn’t accomplished, Vibrant Response would not be possible.”-1st Lieutenant Mitchell Vaughan, Michigan Army Reserve

Massive False Flag exercise

 

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation update: WIPP explosion caused by glove? Massive False Flag exercise for nuclear attack on United States! Japanese monkeys contaminated!

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In Japan, the cute macaques known for taking hot tub baths are now contaminated with radiation from Fukushima Daiichi.  61 monkeys living 70km (44 miles) from the GE designed disaster reactors are contaminated with cesium, blood tests show.

Japanese living within 5km (3 miles) of the Sendai nuclear power factory were issued iodide pills.  This is because it’s likely the power plant will be allowed to re-start soon.  For some reason many news media continue to incorrectly call the pills “iodine”.

In United States, investigators trying to figure out what caused the explosions inside New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), now think it was caused by a contaminated glove.

Their new hypothesis is that the glove contained radioactive metal particles that heated up when it came into contact with chemicals.  Apparently this is not the first time this has happened: “Glove box gloves and nitric acid and lead have been implicated in other energetic events within the DOE complex.”-Nan Sauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

All across the U.S., massive emergency response exercises are taking place.  The scenario is a nuclear explosion.  Some exercises already underway are part of operation Vibrant Response, which is conducted by the U.S. Army’s NorthCom.

Other nuke disaster exercises involve federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.  On 29 July 2014, Idaho State University campus, in Pocatello, will be the site of such training: “This exercise is being conducted to evaluate the capability of local response agencies and other essential partners to effectively respond to and manage a simulated incident of significance on the ISU campus. In order to keep the drill as realistic as possible for the responders and other participants, we are not releasing a great amount of detail about the scenario.”-Stephen Hayward, Eastern Region for the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security

In August, Army National Guard units will converge in Kansas for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Enhanced (CBRNE) training.  Those units are from the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa.  The training is known as Vigilant Guard: “This is the first time that all levels have been operational.  It gives us a chance for the very first time to exercise the battle hand-off and participate as a member of a unified National Guard CBRNE response enterprise.”-Major Robert Cole, 73rd CST

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been advertising for free  (paid for by taxpayers) Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training.  The next CERT training is this September.

Secret nuke dumps…. 280-billion Bq per hour spewing

Fukushima

Fukushima – WIPP – Radiation update: U.S. RadNet system finally back on line? WIPP contractor gets $1.9-million taxpayer bonus! Secret nuke dumps revealed? TEPCo admits 280-billion Bq per hour spewing into environment! Chernobyl still contaminating Blueberries!

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Out of Belarus and Russia, reports that blueberries harvested near former radiation contamination zones of the former Soviet Chernobyl nuke plant are still contaminated with cesium, almost three decades after the nuclear disaster!

The former contamination zones had been declared safe after tests for surface radiation showed radiation levels were down.  However, after blueberries were still testing for high levels of cesium-137 (in 2013), a test of of the soil showed contamination was still high underground, at root level.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) admits that ongoing debris removal at Japan‘s GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is spreading trillions of becquerels (Bq) of radiation!   This is after a secret government investigation was revealed by Japanese media last week.

That hidden investigation revealed that rice fields outside radiation no go zones were being contaminated by cesium dust from the demolition of the building housing reactor Unit 3.  Today TEPCo is revealing it’s far far worse than that!

TEPCo officials now estimate that the demolition of the damaged reactor Unit 3 building, which started in 2013, has spread 1.1-trillion Bq of radiation, or 280-billion Bq per hour!  Now realize that’s from just one of at least four reactor buildings that are scheduled for demolition!

But wait, there’s more!  TEPCo admits that even without demolition of Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor Unit 3 building, the nuclear disaster reactors are still spewing 10-million Bq per hour of radiation!

People still living in Fukushima Prefecture are now panicking as TEPCo is about to start demolition of the top of the building housing reactor Unit 1.

If anybody was trying to use the United States RadNet system to monitor radiation, since the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster, they discovered the system was down.  Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced they’ve completed upgrades to the system, and it is supposedly up and running.

By coincidence, 20% of all RadNet monitors were off line when Fukushima Daiichi exploded.  One reason is that filters in RadNet had not been changed for months.  The EPA relies on unpaid volunteers to change the filters, which must be done twice per week!

The EPA says 92.9% of monitors are now operating, and they’ve added eight new monitors with plans to add eight more.  At this point South Carolina is the only state with no RadNet, but they are supposed to be getting one soon.   But don’t go cheering the EPA.

Reports say the EPA is also planning on increasing government limits on the amount of radiation exposure considered dangerous to humans!   A Forbes report said “…James Conca, senior scientist for the Institute for Energy and the Environment at New Mexico State University, believes the radiation emissions permitted by EPA ‘may increase more than tenfold.'” 

In New Mexico, to add insult to injury it’s been revealed that five days after a salt truck fire in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) the Department of Energy gave Nuclear Waste Partnership a $1.9-million USD bonus, for “excellence”!

It turns out no action has been taken against any management official at WIPP: “No federal or contractor official has lost their job, been transferred, been moved off the WIPP contract or otherwise held accountable. No leadership has changed at the federal level. No company has lost a contract.”-Martin Schneider, ExchangeMonitor Publications

Former Atomic Energy Commission employees testified in court that the remains of the radioactive compressor building for the Huntington Pilot Plant was buried without being ‘decontaminated’ in a now secret Piketon, Ohio, landfill!

One employee suffered incurable radiation damage to his hands during the process of burying the ‘hot’ building.  The site was leveled in 1978-79.  Other employees described the contamination in the compressor building as “green stuff”.

Employees also testified that when they showed up for work, everyday they would have to clear the work site of fresh dead animals.   Another employee stated “The entire INCO facility was a DOE facility in that it processed , under contract, nickel scrap from the various atomic facilities, such as Puducah, Fernald, Portsmouth and other places… making each and every employee at INCO subject to the radioactive pollution that occurred . [We also ] confirm that there were releases of poisonous gases daily at nighttime at that facility and they would completely destroy the vegetation…”

 

Fukushima

Fukushima-WIPP-Radiation update: Proof WIPP bigger than reported! More reasons to stay out of the sunlight! Terrorist attack in California! U.S. funding shutdown exposes 500-thousand people to radiation! Radioactive trucks on U.S. highways? More reasons to avoid Japanese cars!

16 July 2014 (00:22 UTC-07 Tango)/18 Ramadan 1435/25 Tir 1393/20 Xin-Wei 4712

Cars coming out of Japan are still radioactive, according to government officials in Russia and the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.

This year Kyrgyzstan has impounded at least 70 cars from Japan, for being radioactive.  Russia has impounded 132 Japanese cars at the port of Vladivostok, since January this year!

Officials in Kyrgyzstan say Japan has refused to take back the contaminated cars.

In Japan, it’s been revealed that in August 2013 the ongoing nuclear disaster at the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi contaminated at least 14 rice fields outside the 20km (12.4 miles) evacuation zone!

An investigation by the Agriculture Ministry discovered the unreported contamination.  It happened when Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) removed a large section of the building housing damaged reactor Unit 3.  The rice fields were hit with danger levels of cesium.  Not only did the action spread radiation to rice fields outside the evacuation zone, but to five other sites in Minami-Soma City.

But here’s the kicker, the government investigation report was finalized in March but kept secret from the public!  Only now is it being reported to the public, thanks to investigative reporters at the Asahi Shimbun.  This news has problematic implications for TEPCo, as it shows that the attempts to clear away damaged structures at Fukushima Daiichi is actually spreading more radiation contamination.

Researchers in the U.S. and Germany discovered the highest levels of UV radiation ever to hit the Earth!  The Liberty Voice reported “The UV fluxes were recorded 1,500 miles from the equator in the Bolivian Andes near small villages and towns. The radiation levels are far above the ones that are often considered dangerous for terrestrial and aquatic life.

…..In December of 2003, they found that ultraviolet radiation levels were indexed at 43.3……a UV index of eight or nine….is intense enough to authorize protection. A UV index of 11 is usually considered extreme.”

According to Space Weather, the United States Obama regime temporarily cut funding for NASA’s Nowcast of Atmospheric Ionizing Radiation System (NAIRAS), shutting it down in 2013.  NAIRAS warned of solar flares, which not only affect electronic equipment, but subject airline passengers and crew to high doses of radiation!   According to Space Weather the temp shutdown of NAIRAS resulted in 500-thousand people exposed to high levels of solar radiation, and will result in at least four cancer deaths.

 

In Colorado U.S.A., a dump truck driver pulled over and called for help when he was notified he was hauling a load of radioactive material!  His load consisted of old water pipes.  The North Metro Fire department responded and determined the radiation levels were   within safe limits.

In California U.S.A., a U.S. Navy investigation has confirmed radiation contamination under about 300 homes built on the former grounds of the Treasure Island naval base.   However, San Francisco officials are trying to claim the levels are still within safe limits.   A lot of property development and REIT money is tied up in the Treasure island housing project.  The USN is investigating radiation contamination that could affect 1100 homes!

In Berkeley, city officials are trying to do what San Francisco officials failed to do: Put cancer warning labels on cell phones.   The decision will be made in September.  Of course the cell phone industry has already sent a warning letter to the city officials.

At University of California Riverside somebody attacked other students with radioactive Phosphorous 32 (used in medical testing, fertilizers and glow in the dark stuff).  The attack happened in April, and was part of a series of massive vandalism that hit the genomics building.  A student discovered the radiation contamination while using a geiger counter during a routine check: “Based on all of the suspicious incidents in the lab, I believe someone was trying to deliberately sabotage the research of the lab. Furthermore, I believe that someone deliberately exposed lab employees to radiation with the intent to cause them serious physical harm.”-Tricia Harding, UC Riverside police

Engineers at Oregon State University claim they have developed a small hand held radiation detector, that can tell you what type of isotope you’re dealing with and the intensity.  They claim that once mass production begins you should be able to buy it for about $150 USD.

In New Mexico U.S.A., the U.S. Department of Energy is still trying to figure out how to get evidence of what happened inside the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.  That’s because radiation levels are too high to allow humans to remain long enough to get good photographic evidence and a decent amount of small samples!

They tried to use a 27.4 meters (90 feet) long boom, but it wasn’t enough.  The latest plan is to link scaffolding together.   Obviously what happened at WIPP was bigger than what we’ve been told!