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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!

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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!

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima-WIPP-Radiation Fallout: More proof nuke attack coming from America’s backyard? Proof Fracking uses radioactive material! Utah company denies ‘green’ cat litter caused explosion at WIPP, then fires 115 employees! Idaho’s Mike Simpson tries to take retirement money from nuke workers!

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“We are learning that the nuclear accident didn’t contaminate the entire ocean, but created spots that tend to have higher radioactive levels than others.”-Blair Thornton, University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science

“…the average concentration of cesium-137 was 90 becquerels. But of the locations charted 4 km offshore, 20 sites measured higher than 1,000 becquerels and some locations 6 km offshore registered levels as high as 2,000 becquerels.”-The Asahi Shimbum, Study shows muddy seabed off Fukushima coast has higher levels of contamination

In Japan, the Fukushima Medical University reporting thyroid problems in children are now 40 times what is considered normal. National government officials deny it.

In the backyard of the United States, Bahamian officials have asked for international help in conducting health screenings for people living around the Freeport Industrial Park.  Back in January it was revealed that some products being shipped from Japan, and arriving in Jamaican and Bahamian ports,  are radioactive.

The Bahamian government now admits there are higher than ‘normal’ cases of cancer, birth defects and other health problems among residents living in towns around Freeport Industrial Park.  The area is the industrial center of Bahamas, and is also a free trade zone.  For the past 25 years residents have been reporting massive amounts of pollutants from the Park.  Government officials now asking Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) to investigate.

U.S. taxpayers have been paying for radiation detection at Caribbean ports since 2009, under a U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) program.  That’s because your exalted nuclear industries are not as secure as you think.   In 2013, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed 146 “incidents” in which nuclear material was in some way compromised.  In other words, there’s a lot of nuclear material out there in the hands of who knows!  But wait, there’s more!  From 1993-2013 there have been 2477 “incidents involving unauthorized acquisition…..supply, possession, use, transfer or disposal…..of nuclear and other radioactive material” reported to IAEA, and that’s just from the countries that participate in the reporting!

A recent International Relations and Security Network (ISN) article gives a warning about how easy it is to get contraband, including weapons of mass destruction, through the ports of the Caribbean.  My own article, Will new 9-11 attack come from the new money magnet of Bahamas?, suggests that U.S. elected officials know of a coming 9-11 style attack.

In the U.S. state of Alaska, the lower Cook Inlet is being tested for radiation from Fukushima.  Non-profit Cook Inletkeeper is getting social media crowd funding to conduct the testing: “We recognize how important safe seafood and clean water are to Alaskans, not only for personal consumption, but also marketability….We’re sampling water, the FDA is sampling fish so it’s a complementary sampling regime.”-Bob Shavelson

In Ohio, a company called Austin Master Services has been given a license to store nuclear materials used by the petroleum industry.  Local residents were concerned about the whole thing, and company officials revealed that a lot of that nuclear material they’ll be storing/disposing of is used in the fracking process for natural gas.

Austin Master Services specializes in “site decommissioning”.  They use In Situ Object Counting Systems to determine if the radiation waste they collect from the oil industry is ‘safe’ to be dumped into your local landfill!

In Washington, the DoE is finally going to clean up the site of a major incident at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.  It happened in 1976, and one employee was so irradiated he was called The Atomic Man.

A hot reaction caused a sealed glove box to explode, exposing the operator to a massive dose of americium (500 times safe limits).  The victim was so hot that he had to be initially handled by remote control.  He spent five months in experimental treatments, including shots of zinc DTPA.  He continued to have radical medical problems until he died in 1987.  Government officials declared that he died of a heart attack!

The room where the explosion happened is now going to be cleaned up, as part of ongoing demolitions of the Plutonium Finishing Plant.

It’s been revealed that contractors at Hanford have spent at least $3.5 million USD in legal expenses, and a U.S. Senator discovered that taxpayers are actually paying for those legal fees: “The Department of Energy may be providing an incentive to contractors to engage in protracted litigation with whistleblowers by reimbursing the contractors’ legal expenses.”-Claire McCaskill, Senator from Missouri

A long time resident and real estate developer in Hanford has died at the age of 79.  He died of leukemia.

Utah based EnergySolutions, which packages waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), denies their ‘green’ cat litter caused the explosions in its nuke waste shipments to New Mexico‘s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).   DoE investigators suspect organic cat litter found in the mixed waste drums absorbed and concentrated certain chemicals, resulting in a chemical reaction explosion.

Miles Smith, of EnergySolutions, says they followed DoE packing instructions and that a hot reaction could not have occurred from inside the drums: “…we don’t think it has the ability to start burning on its own. It needs an outside source of ignition.”

Despite their denials, Energy Solutions has laid off 115 employees since the March WIPP explosions!  Some reports say it’s because their LANL contracted had ended, other reports say it’s because LANL has had to shift funds to the ongoing WIPP investigation.

The DoE has begun phase two of their WIPP investigation, which will include basically what they’ve been doing in phase one; a lot of observation.

It will include “restoring mine habitability”.  This implies the radiation levesl are too high for humans to remain long enough to conduct a proper investigation.  DoE admits they can’t even move the suspect mixed waste drums.

Meanwhile, U.S. Congressmen continue to screw around with funds for investigating the WIPP hot reactions.  This time employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) were seeing their  retirement funds whittled away.  Congress wants to take $120-million from the retirement fund to help pay for the WIPP fiasco.  Idaho’s dynastic Mike Simpson tried to lie to the NNSA employees: “It’s a high priority for me that WIPP is returned to full and safe operations as soon as possible. There are some misunderstandings regarding the funding source…concerns that it would adversely affect contributions made into the department’s contractor employee pension plans. I would like to assure members that this bill will meet all requirements for employees’ pensions, which are contractual obligations assumed by the department as part of its operations and maintenance contracts.”

Despite Simpson’s claims, an amendment was introduced to try and protect the NNSA retirement money, and it was adopted unanimously.

International, U.S.

America’s Back Yard: Will new 9-11 attack come from the new money magnet of Bahamas? Interesting things happening on the Caribbean islands, Mormon Jewish connection?

24 June 2014 (10:40 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Sha’ban 1435/03 Tir 1393/27 Geng Wu 4712

Your ‘elected’ officials know of coming massive 9-11 style attack!

The U.S. Department of State (DoS) claims violent crime in Bahamas is skyrocketing.  It’s so bad that in July 2013 the Bahamian government halted the publication of violent crime stats!  70% of the population are crammed into the capital city of Nassau, where most crimes take place.  Despite tough anti-gun laws (you must be approved by the government to own a gun) the U.S. DoS says the overwhelming increase in violent crimes involve the use of guns (as well as edged weapons).  Those violent crimes seem to be targeting the increase in U.S. citizens  going there for vacation, or to work for the budding oil industry.  Several U.S. citizens have been killed.  In Freeport the weapon of choice is the machete.

The growing incarceration of Bahamians has created a profitable prison industry, making the souvenirs that tourist from the U.S. buy.

Also, the U.S. DoS has just announced that Bahamas “…is a destination, source, and transit country for…..forced labor and sex trafficking…….some U.S. nationals…..had their movement restricted and passports taken, activities indicative of human trafficking…….passports were taken and movement restricted among some non-migrant Chinese workers……..The Government of The Bahamas does not comply fully with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking…”

Despite the skyrocketing violent crime, Bahamas has become a money magnet, attracting U.S. banks, U.S. oil companies, U.S. airlines and even the U.S. and Chinese governments.  (there are at least 110 U.S. corporations doing business on the tiny island country)

Tourism is officially the top industry, but the fastest growing industries in Bahamas are illegal drugs trafficking, the budding U.S. dominated oil/natural gas exploration/development (predominantly in the Old Bahama Channel), and maritime port services.  Just days ago China announced it will spend $39-million USD on building a port on Abaco island for its trading fleet.  This is the first business venture in Bahamas for China.

Apparently it’s U.S. citizens who’re involved in the illegal drug smuggling industry.  Recently several U.S. citizens were convicted in Bahamian court of smuggling drugs.

Despite the 2005 creation of the Bahamas Petroleum Company, the oil industry is employing mainly U.S. citizens, and, according to environmental watchdog reEarth, it’s also destroying the local fishing industry.

Illegal drugs and the promise of big oil have resulted in U.S. airlines deciding to begin direct flights to Nassau.  This is interesting because many U.S. airlines have cut routes within the United States, claiming they are losing money.

Just last week several airlines announced their new non-stop routes to Nassau, they are: JetBlue, Delta, SouthWest, Sun Country and United.  That’s a lot of flights to a tiny island country.

But wait, even Air Canada will soon be making stops in Bahamas.

These airlines will bring only more U.S. citizens for vacations and for employment in Bahamas.  The people of Bahamas are not benefitting at all, hence the skyrocketing crime, especially against U.S. citizens.

Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to get their hands on the big money in Bahamas, by demanding the government drastically raise taxes: “The IMF has estimated that The Bahamas collects only 40 per cent of its maximum attainable tax-to-GDP ratio as determined by the economic structure of the country, a metric on which it ranks 92nd out of 98 nations…..The Bahamas is not realising anywhere near its potential revenue on property taxes…….Reforms include the development of a new computerised system for the processing of transactions, training for staff in the implementation of the new trade agreements, the introduction of a new K9 unit, and the enhancement of the existing marine unit”-Compass Lexecon

How important is Bahamas to the elite 1% of Washington DC?

Edward Snowden revealed that for years the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been recording every cell phone call made in Bahamas!   According to NSA documents released by Snowden, the official reason for spying on every cell phone user in Bahamas is to monitor the illegal drugs trafficking (despite many drug traffickers being U.S. citizens).  The NSA operation is known as SOMALGET. Now the government of Bahamas has hired legal council to explore the possibility of suing the NSA.

At the beginning of 2014, Bahamian port officials revealed they were being trained up by U.S. Department of Energy to detect radiation, supposedly over concerns of products being shipped in from Japan.

On 19 June 2014, for the first time, Bahamas opened an Embassy Consular Annex in Washington DC.  Fred Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, stated “this office has good reason to be here.”

And now for the recent/former U.S. Ambassador to Bahamas, Ned Siegel.   Siegal is now on the board of directors for VeriTeq.  VeriTeq is the company involved in implantable RFID chips, and radiation dosimeters.

“Mr. Siegel has a close personal interest and is active in many Jewish causes where he served as a member of the national Board of Directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, D.C., as well as Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition of Florida. He also served on the Board of The American Jewish Committee, South Central Florida Chapter, and as Co-President of the board of the Jewish National Fund’s South Palm Beach County Region. He is active in the Israeli Bonds program, Temple B’nai Torah in Boca Raton, and Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton, where he served as Executive Chairman of the Executive Committee.”-U.S. Department of State

October 2007: President George W. Bush appoints Ned Siegel ambassador to Bahamas.

2006: President George W. Bush appoints Siegel as Representative of the United States to the United Nations.

2003: President George W. Bush appoints Siegel to the Board of Directors Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

June 2001:  Florida Governor Jeb Bush appoints Siegel to Enterprise Florida’s Board of Directors, and to the Board of Directors to the Space Research and Commerce Park Planning & Development Committee at John F. Kennedy Space Center.

1997: According to VeriTeq, Siegel expanded his Real Estate empire to “…energy, utilities, infrastructure, financial services, oil and gas, and cyber and security technologies, with its primary focus on the United States, Israel, the Caribbean and Latin America markets.” 

1977: Despite having a law degree, Siegel goes into Real Estate.  According to the DoS “By 1980, Ned Siegel had expanded the company into one of the largest residential developers in the nation…”  

2011: President Barack Obama appoints John W. “Dink” Dinkelman new U.S. Ambassador to Bahamas.  Described as an Army Brat, Dinkelman considers Provo, Utah, his adopted hometown.

2002-2007:  Dinkelman given credit for the training of more than 40% of all incoming Foreign Service Officers.

1984: Dinkelman graduates from Brigham Young University and goes straight to work for the U.S. State Department.  According to a BYU Magazine article, Mormons make up a large number of Foreign Service Officers. BYU is in the top 10 providers of State Department employees. BYU Magazine also implied that Mormons use their government jobs to proselytize: “In the truest sense, alumni in the diplomatic corps of the Foreign Service are representatives of their country—and their church….”  

There is a significant connection between the War on Terror, cyber spying, and Utah: Training National Guard to spy on you using LLVI,   Massive military intelligence wargames aimed at you,  Money laundering/drug running by Bank of Utah?,  Federal & state governments build World’s largest data collection spy center system in Utah!

 

 

Fukushima

Fukushima Radiation Fallout: Cancer treatment disfigures woman! Mystery disease hitting cows, as fish are shipped off to World Cup! Highly radioactive fish expected to hit Alaska in 2015? Canada ordering citizens to take Iodide?

24 June 2014 (00:51 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Sha’ban 1435/03 Tir 1393/27 Geng Wu 4712

“What if this started happening to people? We have to examine the cause of this and let people know what happened to these animals!”-Matsumura Naoto, Fukushima cattle rancher

“Our cows cannot be shipped as meat. They are evidence of lives affected by radiation…..The ministry told us they don’t know what is causing the spots. Well, they need to do more research and figure it out! They can’t just run away, saying they don’t know!”-Yoshizawa Masami, Fukushima cattle rancher

It’s been revealed that fish caught off the coast of Fukushima are being served at the World Cup in Brazil.  This is concerning after farmers from Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture brought a diseased bull to Tokyo to protest the government’s lies about the safety of food from that province.

Two farmers ignored evacuation orders and have remained on their farms, out of fear the government would cull their cattle if they left.  Now, after three years of nuclear disaster their cattle are getting sicker with an unknown disease.  The disease is affecting skin pigment, creating white spots.

One cattle ranch is only 14 km (9 miles) from the melted down Fukushima Daiichi.

The farmers also revealed that the government is actively hunting down abandoned farm animals and killing them.   If animal products from Fukushima are considered safe, why is the government spending so much money to kill free roaming animals?

If Fukushima radiation is not a threat to food sources, then why is the International Fish Oil Standards (IFOS) program going to start testing fish caught off Alaska, as well as Canada’s Pacific Coast, for Fukushima radiation starting in January 2015?

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is now recommending that Canadians who live within a ten kilometers (six miles) radius of nuclear power plants should stockpile potassium iodide pills (aka KI Pills)!  For some gott damned reason most news media still incorrectly call it potassium iodine.

Of course, the operators of Canada’s nuke plants are blowing off the concerns of the CNSC.  According to Canadian news reports mass distribution of KI Pills already took place in New Brunswick and in Quebec!  However, in 2013 and independent survey found that most Quebecois did not get the pills and didn’t even know about the distribution: “Almost none had obtained free pills that have been advertised in regional communications or pamphlets.”

In Kazakhstan, more proof medical radiation treatment for cancer is bad.  A woman got injured while watching a basketball game.  Her jaw was damaged, but for some reason the doctors claim a biopsy showed cancer.  They treated her with the standard radiation treatment for cancer.  However, she did not have cancer and the radiation treatment killed her jaw bone and skin around her mouth.  She was unable to eat and she dropped to 79 pounds!  Now doctors in the United States will attempt to reconstruct her jaw and mouth.

Fukushima, Idaho

Fukushima-WIPP-Radiation Fallout: Fukushima reporting intentionally dumbed down, police fail to stop massive looting, radiation is hitting the U.S.! Reactor 2 full blown China Syndrome? WIPP explosion could kill jobs in Idaho, South Carolina and New Mexico! Cell phones are False Flag birth control?

16 June 2014 (20:11 UTC-07 Tango 15 June 2014)/17 Sha’ban 1435/26 Khordad 1393/19 Geng Wu 4712

In Sudan, a Chinese oil company evacuated their employees when a radioactive oil exploration device was left exposed at the oil drilling site.  The device was supposed to be “secured” underground.  At least 70 employees are now under medical observation.  Sudanese news media broke the story, and also claim that the Chinese oil company, and the private hospital where the workers were taken, are trying to hush up the incident.

In the U.S. state of West Virginia, a shale oil drilling company has dumped radioactive sludge in a landfill. It was confirmed by the state Division of Water and Waste Management. The sludge was originally rejected by a Pennsylvania landfill.

“We’re still paying the mortgage on the Cold War.”-Scott Kovac, Nuclear Watch New Mexico

In the U.S. state of New Mexico, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) cost taxpayers $2.5-billion USD just to build.  Now it’s shutdown because of what looks to be carelessness on the part of the operator and National Laboratories (which caused a truck fire and a chemical reaction explosion spewing radiation from the site), and could result in job losses at three National Laboratory locations.

WIPP was created to deal with the growing military nuclear waste being generated at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Savanna River Site in South Carolina and the Idaho National Laboratory.   Since WIPP opened for business it has filled up 53% of its underground nuke waste storage, at a cost to taxpayers of $6-billion.   WIPP’s shutdown means those National Laboratories will be forced to cut back on operations, because there is nowhere to (legally) store the nuke waste they generate.

By the way, a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives is recommending a bill to spend $120-million to clean up the mess caused by the WIPP disaster, and that’s on top of WIPP’s $220-million operating budget for fiscal 2015.

The U.S. Department of Energy is now considering the possibility that highly acidic waste was inside six of the mixed waste drums that erupted in WIPP.   The acidic waste reacted with organic (‘green’) cat litter (absorbent) also inside the drums.  Los Alamos National Laboratory is the source of the six drums.  LANL nuke waste operations are now under investigation.

Speaking of Idaho National Laboratory, the contractor operating the controversial site Battelle Energy Alliance is being sued by former employees and their families for exposure to plutonium.   The latest lawsuit says the contractor withheld information or offered false information concerning a 2011 leak, and that leak led to the contamination of homes.

In the U.S. state of Oregon, Oregon State University confirms that radiation from Fukushima Daiichi is building on the Pacific coast of the North America.  Radiation levels in Albacore tuna, caught off the coast of Oregon, are now triple what they were before the nuke disaster: “A year of eating albacore with these cesium traces is about the same dose of radiation as you get from spending 23 seconds in a stuffy basement from radon gas……”-Delvin Neville, researcher

In Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, police have done a good job of keeping evacuated homeowners out of the radiation No-Go zones, but yet burglars are free to roam!  Prefectural officials have admitted that more than 1200 evacuated homes have been burgled since the disasters in 2011!   The failure of law enforcement was revealed by homeowners who were allowed to return home temporarily.   Police also admitted that in May of this year 90 burglaries took place!  One man has been arrested, and the big fail cops say they will now patrol the No-Go zones.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) discovered that the cooling water level in Fukushima Daiichi’s GE designed reactor Unit 2 is much lower than they thought. And gee where’s the melted nuclear fuel?  TEPCo officials found that the water level was only 30cm (11.8 inches) deep, and they could not see the melted fuel rods.  They said they didn’t know where the water was leaking out from.  Here’s my suggestion: China Syndrome.

There are reports saying that Fukushima Medical University claims that 48% of 375-thousand young people tested for contamination are now suffering from pre-cancerous thyroid problems!  Also, 120 types of childhood cancers have been found.  Normally they’d expect only three types!

A Korean journalism professor revealed why news about Fukushima Daiichi is so watered down: “NHK never showed graphic footage that could alarm the viewers, like the meltdown of the nuclear reactors. The broadcaster has a manual about reporting such accidents — they do not show explosions, or close-ups of the sites. They do not show dead bodies. They stick to these principles. NHK played a big role in assuring the Japanese people of their safety at such a difficult time for their country.”-Lee Yeon, Sun Moon University, who advocates such a misleading policy for news outlets

And Down Under, Radio Australia reported that the neo-imperialist Abe government of Japan has installed right wingers to run NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), which will further reduce NHK’s credibility: “I’m disgusted by this. There’s some kind of right-wing revolution happening in Japan and they want NHK to be part of it. It threatens the existence of NHK as a public broadcaster and it will become the same as the broadcaster in North Korea.”-Kawasaki Yushuki, former NHK reporter

Yet more studies say cell phones are radioactive. At least 19 separate studies concluded that men who keep their cell phones in their front pants pocket are killing off their sperm.   Another study says pregnant women are affecting their unborn child’s brain development by blabbing on cell phones.   And if you think it’s all BS, then why does C/NET keep track of Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) data off cell phones: “…a handset’s SAR is sometimes printed in phone’s user manual, but where it is in those manuals and how it is listed can vary widely. Other times, the SAR is available only online, which forces users to hunt it down, possibly through the FCC’s Web site (not a fun experience, trust me). …..By posting our charts, we’re just making it easier for our readers to find the information that they want.”

C/NET offers this advice: A phone’s SAR can vary during a call as you alternate between transmission bands and as you increase your distance from a tower.
Text instead of placing a voice call or use a speakerphone or headset when possible.
Carry your phone in a bag rather than in a pocket. If you’re pregnant, avoid carrying a phone next to your abdomen.
Children, who have smaller and thinner skulls, should take extra care.
People of any age should not sleep with an active phone under the pillow.
Accessories may help….cases, which are designed to refocus RF energy away from your head while not reducing signal strength….By all means avoid the shiny, gold-lined radiation “shields” that you can find online. They’re a scam.

Business/Economics, Technology

Mazda’s new 65+ MPG Diesel, but don’t expect to see it in the anti-Diesel car United States!

13 June 2014 (13:17 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Sha’ban 1435/23 Khordad 1393/16 Geng Wu 4712

Mazda claims it has a new 1.5 liter turbo diesel engine that got an impressive 28+ Kilometers Per Liter (about 65+ Miles Per U.S. Gallon) in their test car!  And Mazda says it will be the cleanest burning diesel engine available worldwide in 2015, claiming no NOx system is required!

Well, worldwide doesn’t mean anti-diesel car United States.   In fact the state of California is making it near impossible to even sell new diesel cars, due to their asinine and ever tightening state EPA rules.

Mazda says their main market for their new diesel powered cars will be the diesel loving European Union, as well as any other country that loves saving money and the environment.  Did you known that diesel exhaust soot can be captured (Diesel Particulate Filter) and then used as fertilizer for your plants?  It’s carbon!

The tiny new Mazda diesel engine reportedly produces 77 kW (105 hp) and 250 Nm (184 ft lb) of torque.  It will be available in the 2015 Mazda 2.  Look out Volkswagen!

clean burning Diesel powered CX-5 Crossover, better MPG than Hybrid SUVs