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World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 10 July 2013.

In Vermont, North County Hospital laid off 19 employees and cut hours for three others.  Hospital officials blame it on declining government Medicare/Medicaid payments, and declining customers.

The Christian God can’t stop the Baptist Health System from cutting 40 jobs in Texas.  Hospital officials blame “drastic” government cuts in Medicaid payments.

425 mining jobs lost in Alabama!  Officials with Drummond blame it on a  drop in demand for coal.

Blackberry fired its U.S. sales boss, and warned that layoffs were coming.  The company already laid off 5-thousand people last year!

Pall Life Sciences closed in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  55 jobs lost.

Sears announced they were closing their Presque Isle store, in Maine.  58 jobs lost.

Sears announced they are closing their Auto Center in Gautier, Mississippi.  71 jobs lost.

In Pennsylvania, 74 years old Pat’s Music closed.  The owner is shifting to internet sales only.

Boss Man Burgers closed in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  Local news media said no reason was given.

In Missouri, Regal Beloit Corporation laying off 330 employees!  Operations being moved to other U.S. locations, and to Mexico.

The prison labor Bay City Work Camp shut down in Florida.  The prisoners are being moved “…to brand new camps with lower operating costs…”  (probably for profit corporate run prisons)

In Colorado, Ace Hardware shut down their Ralston store.  It’s blamed on the property owner, who is rebuilding the site as part of an urban renewal operation.

Top Food & Drug closed in Tacoma, Washington.   64 jobs lost.

In California, Spencer’s Fresh Market closed in Atascadero.  Company officials are looking for a new location that has cheaper rent.  In Monterey, Vinyl Revolution shut down.  It has something to do with a property developer.  In San Fransisco, Bigfoot Lodge closed.  It was sold to new owners, who are planning on opening a new business.  In Rancho Cordova, Pennysaverusa.Com laid off 72 employees.

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.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Tritium levels continue their almost daily doubling!!!

14 September 2013 (02:59 UTC-07 Tango)/09 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/23 Shahrivar 1392/10 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that the same test well continues to show rapidly increasing levels of tritium.  The well is 20 meters (65 feet) north of the water storage tank that leaked at least 300 metric tons of contaminated water back in August.

Earlier this week TEPCo reported 32-thousand becquerels per liter of contamination at the well, measured on 09 September.  TEPCo reported that the same well was contaminated with 64-thousand becquerels per liter of tritium on 10 September.  Then on 13 September TEPCo reported tritium levels rose to 97-thousand becquerels on 11 September, and then to 130-thousand on 12 September!

 130-thousand becquerels is more than twice the level the Japanese government has set as the amount allowed to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Situation out of control! TEPCo & government of Japan in denial!

13 September 2013 (15:01 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/22 Shahrivar 1392/09 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“Let me assure you the situation is under control…”-Abe Shinzo, Prime Minister of Japan comments made to IOC on 07 September 2013

“I’m sorry, but we consider the situation is not under control.”-Yamashita Kazuhiko, TEPCo official’s statement made at meeting held by anti-imperialst Democratic Party of Japan on 13 September 2013

A Tokyo Electric Power Company official, Yamashita Kazuhiko, criticized neo-imperialist Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s comments to the International Olympic Committee.  On 07 September, Abe told the IOC that the situation at Fukushima Daiichi was “under control”.

Today, Yamashita stated the situation was “not under control” and added that the situation is now beyond TEPCo’s knowledge!

Hours later TEPCo and Abe’s regime issued statements to try and snuff out Yamashita’s truths.

TEPCo issued a press release saying that what Prime Minister Abe was referring to in his IOC statement, was that the area outside of Fukushiima Daiichi is under control.  The TEPCo press release also referred to Yamashita as an “employee”.

Abe’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Suga Yoshihide, even tried to claim that Yamashita made his statement under duress, saying he was repeatedly asked questions about the situation at Fukushima Daiichi.  Suga also said the government considers each discovery of a new leak as an “independent” situation, and not part of the whole disaster resulting from ongoing slow burn China Syndrome melt downs of the GE designed reactors!

Today, another ‘independent’ incident:  Radioactive steam was seen rising from the damaged top floors of Reactor 3 building (again).  This has been ongoing since March 2011, but has suddenly increased in occurrence beginning in July 2013.  Radiation levels are too high for humans to enter the building.  One theory is that the steam results when rain water collects on the upper floors.  This is proof that nuclear reaction is taking place in the reactor, overheating the whole building causing the rain water to turn to steam!

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More Fukushima Fallout: U.S. nuclear expert criticizes “lax” response by TEPCo! Thousands of tons of radioactive water to be dumped into ocean, anyway!

12 September 2013 (15:37 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/21 Shahrivar 1392/08 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“…the challenge is huge! It makes Three Mile Island look very simple, what you have is much more complex….”-Lake Barrett, former official with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in discussion with Tokyo Electric Power Company officials

The former U.S. NRC official, who oversaw the Three Mile Island cleanup, has criticized TEPCo for its lax attitude towards the handling of ongoing radioactive water leaks.

Lake Barrett spent the day inspecting the damaged area around the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  He explained that Three Mile Island did not have the problem of contaminated water pouring out of reactors, and that there was no groundwater involved.

Barrett noted that TEPCo’s leak barriers around the contaminated water storage tank farms are pathetically inadequate.  However, he also warned that the volume of contaminated water is so large, and ongoing, that eventually all the highly radioactive water might have to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean anyway, because there is no safe or practical way to store it!

Barrett will meet with more officials in Tokyo on Friday.

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World War 3, West Asian Front: Russia issues reality check warning to Obama regime’s arrogance!

12 September 2013 (13:55 UTC-07 Tango)/07 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/21 Shahrivar 1391/08 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“…..I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is ‘what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.’ It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”-Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, statement published in The New York Times

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More Fukushima Fallout: Radiation contamination levels double in just one day!!!

11 September 2013 (17:23 UTC-07 Tango)/06 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/20 Shahrivar 1392/07 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that radiation levels at a monitoring well, near the slowly melting down GE designed reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, has doubled since yesterday!

On 10 September, TEPCo reported 32-thousand becquerels per liter of contamination at a well 20 meters (65 feet) north of a leaking water storage tank (the reading was taken on 09 September).  Today, TEPCo says that same well is contaminated with 64-thousand becquerels per liter of tritium (from reading taken on 10 September)!

Also, soil samples around the well are emitting 0.1 millisieverts per hour of radiation.  This is significant because TEPCo claims they already removed contaminated soil from that area!

TEPCo also points out that the water test well is not located near any known groundwater source!

Another concern is that new testing of groundwater is revealing that the water is already contaminated before it reaches the failed nuke plant.  This negates TEPCo’s plans to build an underground dyke to block what they thought was clean groundwater.  (I’ve already written about independent testing that shows there is airborne contamination ongoing, which is ending up in lakes, rivers and canals, and eventually the groundwater)

More and more independent nuclear experts in Japan are concluding that massive radiation contamination of the environment has been ongoing since March 2011.  They are specifically concerned with spiking radiation levels in soil and test wells near Reactor 2.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Radiation contamination levels skyrocket! 80-thousand becquerels of Tritium!

10 September 2013 (22:45 UTC-07 Tango 09 September 2013)/05 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/19 Shahrivar 1392/06 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

A week after reporting spikes in radiation contamination in test wells, a different groundwater test well shows beta ray contamination, including strontium, skyrocketing.

Tokyo Electric Power Company revealed that on 05 September 2013 they detected 80-thousand becquerels per liter of tritium in a well on the Pacific Coast side of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 1.  The well is not a new test well, but has been there before the 11 March 2011 disasters.  TEPCo also admitted the radiation levels have increased from levels detected in the same well last year.

TEPCo also detected 32-hundred becquerels per liter of contamination at a well 20 meters (65 feet) north of a leaking water storage tank!  The week prior 650 becquerels per liter of beta contamination was found at a well 10 meters (32.8 feet) to the south of the same leaking storage tank.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Japan misleads with latest radiation report! TEPCo so incompetent it must be ‘taught’ how to measure radiation!!!

06 September 2013 (12:40 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/15 Shahrivar 1392/02 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“Technical advisors employed by the NRA have been working on teaching TEPCo the way of radiation monitoring and advising TEPCo to map an on-site radiation distribution.”-Nuclear Regulation Authority report, 05 September 2013

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced that it has finally begun to take part in regular safety inspections at Fukushima Daiichi, on 04 September 2013, more than two years after the nuke melt downs began!

The NRA has also released Pacific Ocean contamination data, collected by Tokyo Electric Power Company over the past six months.  However, when you realize how the two major North Pacific Ocean currents work, you’ll realize the collection points are fallacious.

TEPCo collects ocean water samples at two dubious points; along the coastline north of Fukushima Daiichi, and along the coastline south of Fukushima Daiichi.

Collection point north data shows cesium 137 (Cs-137) hit 3.3 becquerels per liter in June, and tritium (H-3) hit 8.6 becquerels per liter, also in June.  Collection point south data is considered “under limit of detection”, which does not mean there is no radiation, it means it’s at a level officials believe is safe.

Collection point north is 30 meters (98 feet) from the cooling water outlet for Reactors 5 and 6.  Back in 2011 the public was told those reactors were OK, but, they were suffering cooling problems as well.

Collection point south is 1.3 kilometers (0.8 mile) from the cooling outlet for Reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4.  Reactors that are in slow burn melt down.

These reported radiation levels are perplexing to me because it seems the groundwater under Fukushima Daiichi is reported to have much higher levels of contamination, and it’s pouring right into the Pacific Ocean.  This brings me to my point: TEPCo’s collection points are bogus.

The collection points are north and south of the reactors, but, the contaminated groundwater flows out northward at first, then eastward to Canada and the United States.   This is due to the convergence of the North Pacific Ocean’s main current called Kuroshio (Black Current or Black Tide) coming up from the south, and the Oyashio (Parental Current or Parental Tide, aka Kurile Current) coming from the north.  They converge, conveniently, at Hokkaido and the north eastern end of Honshu (where Fukushima Daiichi is).

This northward then eastward flow of water, from Fukushima Daiichi, could explain why radiation levels at the southern collection point are lower than the northern collection point.  Also, collection point south is too far away from the disaster site to affected by the contaminated groundwater anyway!

Collection point north, while almost 100 feet from the site, could still be far enough away from where the aquifer is entering into the ocean.  Both northern and southern collection points are outside the man made breakwaters along Fukushima Daiichi’s Pacific front.  The northern collection area is actually blocked by the northern breakwater.

Independent testing done by individuals and NGOs, at places like the mouths of rivers flowing into the ocean, and further out to sea, shows radiation levels are much higher than what TEPCo has been reporting.   Now that the NRA is in charge will we get more accurate reports?

 

 

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More Fukushima Fallout: Korea enacts Japanese fish ban! Demands testing on other food products!

06 September 2013 (02:06 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/15 Shahrivar 1392/02 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“The measure comes as our people’s concerns are growing over the fact that hundreds of tonnes [metric tons] of radiation contaminated water leak every day from the site of Japan’s nuclear accident in Fukushima. The government has concluded that the information provided by Japan so far has failed to make it clear how the incident will develop in the future. Under the new measure, all fisheries products from this region will be banned regardless of whether they are contaminated or not!”-South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries

Republic of Korea has banned fish from eight of Japan’s Pacific coast prefectures: Fukushima, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Iwate, Tochigi, Chiba and Aomori.

Korea is also asking for radiation test certificates on not just fish products, but dairy and other food products from Japan.

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More Fukushima Fallout: More confirmation groundwater pouring into Pacific Ocean is radioactive!

05 September 2013 (10:16 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Shawwal 1434/14 Shahrivar 1392/01 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company says a monitoring well dug 10 meters (32.8 feet) from a contaminated water tank farm, is contaminated with deadly beta rays.

A water sample was taken at 7 meters (22.9 feet) depth, which means it is at the level of the aquifer that flows under Fukushima Daiichi (amazing; they built a nuke plant over such an aquifer).  The sample contained 650 becquerels per liter of beta contamination, including strontium.  The aquifer flows into the Pacific Ocean at a rate of at least 300 to 1-thousand metric tons per day.

The Black Tide (Kuroshio) of the Pacific Ocean flows from Northern Japan across to British Columbia/Washington/Oregon.  As I warned in April 2011.