“In attempting to combat crimes attributed to terrorists, countless further crimes have been committed in the course of the U.S.-led ‘global war on terror’. Many of those crimes have been carefully and deliberately covered up.”-Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe’s Rights Commissioner
Europe’s Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg, said Europe is “deeply complicit” in Washington’s counter terrorism methods, which include torture and other human rights violations.
“But we have seen instances in which employers are explicitly saying we don’t want to take a look at folks who’ve been unemployed. Well, that makes absolutely no sense, and I know there’s legislation that I’m supportive of that says you cannot discriminate against folks because they’ve been unemployed, particularly when you’ve seen so many folks who, through no fault of their own, ended up being laid off because of the difficulty of this recession.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
What irony, Corporate America are deliberately discriminating against unemployed people. Many want adds state “Must be currently employed”!
How’s that going to turn around the economy? More proof the economic depression/recession is the fault of Corporate America!
A couple of months ago the National Employment Law Project found 150 online job adds that specifically discriminated against unemployed people. Those discriminatory employers included Universities!
Some states, like New Jersey, are fighting back by making it illegal to require job applicants to be already employed. The U.S. Congress is considering a bill that would do the same: Fair Employment Opportunity Act 2011, HR 2501.
Even Monster.com is being sued for posting help wanted adds that require current employment. Monster.com says they’re just the messenger.
“If there is drastic plate movement, there is no guarantee that the scale of the quake will be in line with the government’s prediction of up to magnitude 7.3.”-Hirata Naoshi, Earthquake Research Committee
The University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute believes that major earthquakes are in the near future for Tokyo city, and Ibaraki Prefecture, no thanks to the 11 March 2011 9.0 quake.
Even though the 11 March earthquake was at least a hundred miles north of Tokyo, it was so powerful that the tectonic plate under Tokyo has changed so dramatically, that scientists think a massive quake caused by action on two or more areas of the plate is highly likely. Since 11 March, the number of Tokyo quakes of magnitude 3 or greater has increased by fourfold.
Tokyo is subject to earthquakes that are located along plate boundaries, as well as quakes that happen along fault lines within a single plate.
Ibaraki Prefecture, just south of Fukushima Prefecture, is even worse off. Since 11 March, quakes of magnitude 3 or greater have increased by 20 times!
The high tectonic activity is on the coastline, inland quake activity has not increased, but it has changed.
Japanese scientists say that recent inland quakes are much more shallower that past earthquakes.
14 fault lines in Japan, which were thought to be ‘safe’ are now considered dangerous, potentially producing a 7.6 earthquake.
The other problem is that they all run near nuclear power plants.
A survey of the fault lines were undertaken by nuclear power plant operators, like Tokyo Electric Power Company. They concluded that the fault lines are a real threat.
Nine fault lines are near Japan Atomic Power Company’s Tokai Number 2 power plant, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Tokai reprocessing plant in Ibaraki Prefecture.
The other five faults are near Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Number 1 (Daiichi) and Number 2 (Daini) nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture.
Six towns in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, have soil that is contaminated with Cesium levels far higher than those at Chernobyl. The levels exceed that which forced mandatory evacuations around Chernobyl back in the 1980s. Some areas around Chernobyl are still off limits.
Japan’s Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry put together a soil contamination map. Six municipalities recorded more than 1.48 million becquerels per square meter of Cesium 137.
The Cesium hot spots are in no-entry and expanded evacuation zones around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was damaged by the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
“Having made considerable efforts in Japan, we have concluded we cannot build a sufficiently scaleable business. We have decided to sell our operations there and focus on our larger businesses in the region.”-Philip Clarke, TESCO
After eight years and 250 million pounds (U.S.$404.9 million), British retailer TESCO is quitting Japan.
The Japanese retail market proved to be too tough o’nut to crack. TESCO has been successful almost everywhere else, especially other Asian countries.
Retail analysts say Japan’s retail culture is radically different than the U.S. or Europe: “The retail market is fragmented and there are many strong regional players, often family-owned. Convenience stores dominate, particularly in the city centers, and a culture of ‘immediacy’ supports large numbers of vending machines.”-Gavin Rothwell, retail analysts IGD
Another factor against foreign companies doing business in Japan is extremely high operating costs, and extremely demanding consumers.
However, TESCO is also losing money, big time, through its U.S. venture, Fresh & Easy. The U.S. start up is based in Los Angeles, California.
TESCO’s Fresh & Easy operation has 176 stores in California, Nevada and Arizona. Last year they lost $301 million, far more than what TESCO lost in Japan.
They’re spending even more money to remodel their Fresh & Easy stores, but if sales don’t pick up within the next two years, TESCO will pull out of the United States as well.
The New York Police have constantly denied being involved with any spy programs based on a person’s ethnicity. Yet here’s more proof: The Associated Press got their hands on a document attesting to a 16 man “Demographics Unit” that investigates people with “ancestries of interest”.
The NYDP Demographics Unit didn’t limit themselves to New York, they also took action in Connecticut, New Jersey and Philadelphia. The Demographics Unit was led by a former CIA agent (I wonder if he’ll turn out to be a fraud, like that Hiller guy?).
The latest documents show that the NYPD targeted 28 ethnic groups, including those of Somalian, Albanian and Turkish descent, as well as the “American Black Muslim.” Remember people, officially the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia (15), Egypt (1), Lebanon (1) and United Arab Emirates (2), and as far as I know none of them were black. So why are we always targeting people who did not come from those countries?
“…a State party can be held responsible for violations of rights under the Covenant where the violations are perpetrated by authorized agents of the State on foreign territory…”-2006 UN memo to Secretary of State Rice, concerning execution of Iraqi children
A 2006 United Nations memo to then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has been made public by Wikileaks.
In the memo the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, demands an explanation as to why, on 15 March 2006, an entire Iraqi family was handcuffed and executed by U.S. forces. That included two children aged five years, two children aged three years and one five month old baby!
After the executions the house was bombed, Iraqi TV has video of the aftermath.
The memo suspects that it was done in retaliation for two U.S. multi-national forces (MNF) troops being killed the week before.
Officially the U.S. claims the family was killed in a gunbattle. The U.S. led MNF were attempting to arrest one suspect.
The problem is that autopsies showed all the family members had been handcuffed and shot in the head.
The United Nations asked Secretary of State Rice four questions: 1; “On what basis was it decided to kill, rather than capture, members of the Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee’s family.” 2; “What rules of international law does your Excellency’s Government consider to govern these incidents?” 3; “What procedural safeguards, if any, were employed to ensure that these killings complied with international law?” 4; “Does your Excellency’s Government intend to provide compensation…”
The UN memo mentions that this isn’t the only case of summary executions at the hands of U.S. forces.
Secretary Rice was also reminded of UN resolution 59/191: “States must ensure that any measure to combat terrorism complies with their obligation under international law, in particular international human right, refugee and humanitarian law.”
After all, the United States is a shining example of the Rule of Law, is it not?
“To fill the gap by mid-2014, three years from now, 400,000 jobs would need to be created each month.”-EPI study titled: Sustained, high joblessness causes lasting damage to wages, benefits, income, and wealth
The latest Economic Policy Insitute study shows there are 6.8 million fewer jobs now, than when the recession officially started in 2008.
The study also indicated that it was a pipe dream to some how create 400,000 new jobs every month. So far, evil Corporate America has been hiring a paltry average of 144,000 jobs each month. The EPI authors say at that rate it’ll take 15 more years to get the United States back to its pre-2008 glory. And this study doesn’t take into account all those federal and state government jobs that will be lost due to budget cutting.
Another aspect of the study showed that Corporate America’s claim that there are no qualified workers to hire, is a lie! That type of unemployment is called Structural Unemployment.
The study found that the ratio of job openings, to job seekers, is one opening for every four applicants. It’s been that way for at least two years now. With an average of four unemployed people applying for one job, how can Corporate America say they can’t find any qualified workers?
Here’s another reason: The unemployed include people from every education group, including college graduates with Masters degrees. This means Corporate America has a vast pool of trained and educated people to pick from, yet Corporate America isn’t hiring!
In less than two weeks, four contractors working at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, have been contaminated with radiation.
All four were contaminated by water from the defective water decontamination system.
Two workers were contaminated when they replaced defective parts, the other two were contaminated when water surged out of a valve that was mistakenly left open.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been constantly criticized for how it handles its contracted employees. Many former employees claim TEPCo provides no training, and even no protective gear. One government agency backed up those claims a couple of months ago.
The Japanese government is still waiting for health screenings for hundreds of TEPCo employees, as well as the whereabouts of 200 missing employees. In one public meeting, Tokyo Electric officials said the missing 200 employees were probably terrorists!