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Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 20-23 July 2013.

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

In Hamilton, New Jersey, Leading Edge laid off 82 employees for “unknown” reasons.  Masco Bath also laid off employees, 69, for “unknown” reasons. Masco Bath is owned by Delta Faucets, and has been laying off employees for years now.

CACI International-TechniGraphics ended operations in Wooster, Ohio.  142 people unemployed!

In San Marcos, California, John Deere Water closed down, laying off 78 people.  What automotive industry recovery?  In Los Angeles, Coda Automotive laid off 53 employees.  The electric car maker has been laying off employees since last year.  In Vernon, RM (Reynaldo’s Mexican) Foods laid off 166 people!

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.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: More radiation pours into the Pacific, decontamination begins more than two years later!

01 October 2013 (12:31 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/09 Mehr 1392/27 Ren-Xu (8th month) 4711

Government agencies have finally begun decontamination of areas around Fukushima Daiichi, more than two years after the melt downs began!

Japanese government officials said radiation levels were too high to begin decontamination efforts sooner!  Some areas of seven municipalities have been hit with so much radiation that nobody can live there.  Radiation levels are reported, by government agencies, to be at least 50 millisieverts per hour!

However, the decontamination efforts beginning now are considered a test, as officials don’t really know if decontamination of plants, soil and buildings will be successful.  A district leader in the city of Namie does not think decontamination will be successful.  He said radiation levels have remained unchanged in the no-go areas since April 2011.  He has been taking his own radiation readings every month since the melt downs began.

Tokyo Electric Power Company revealed that in September at least four metric tons of contaminated rainwater spilled into the ocean.  TEPCo says workers were pumping the contaminated rainwater into a storage tank when it overflowed.  It turns out the tank was already full.

The rainwater contained 160 becquerels per liter of radiation, which is five times the Japanese government safe limits for dumping contaminated water into the ocean!  Keep in mind there is no possible way for TEPCo to catch and store all the rain that hits the radioactive Fukushima Daiichi nuke facility, and it runs off into the Pacific Ocean.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Japan accuses U.S. contractors of stealing hundreds of millions in cash! Scheme similar to what’s going on in Afghanistan!

01 October 2013 (02:08 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/09 Mehr 1391/27 Ren-Xu (8th month) 4711

Japan’s Board of Audit has discovered that U.S. military contractors have ripped off Japan’s Self Defense Forces (and thereby Japan’s taxpayers) to the tune of at least $520 million USD!

The investigation went all the way back to 1989 and involved the purchase of  aircraft, ships, missile equipment and required support from U.S. war mongering corporations.  At least 250 contracts are questionable because they have not been fulfilled even though the U.S. military contractors were paid in full in advance!

One official pointed out that some contracts were paid for ten years ago, with no oversight as to their completion.

By the way, U.S. contractors being paid in advance, and without oversight, is at the heart of the U.S. instigated corruption in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)!

The same thing happened in Iraq, according to the U.S. Special Investigator General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR).  In the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s the U.S. taxpayer who’s being ripped off.

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: U.S. companies stealing wages from employees! California called Golden State for a new reason!

01 October 2013 (01:22 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/09 Mehr 1391/27 Ren-Xu (8th month) 4711

“A phenomenon of the underground economy is the practice of employers who, when caught breaking the law, close down that business in name only and operate another phantom one under someone else’s name.  This practice is intended to avoid responsibilities to workers and undercuts honest employers.  We are conducting in-depth investigations to uncover and put a stop to these abusive practices.”-Julie Su, California Labor Commissioner

Think the wage theft war waged by employers upon their employees happens only in ‘developing’ countries?  It’s happening more and more in the United States despite increased court action against those companies.

The University of California Los Angeles (Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Center on Urban Economic Development) estimates that about 26% of employees are paid less than the legally required minimum wage, and 76% are cheated out of legally required overtime pay!

86% of employees are forced to work through legally required meal breaks!  The 2008 study was conducted in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.

In August 2013, the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DSLE) revealed that low income wage earners in the Golden State have been earning 462% less than what they should have under the law!  On top of that, people who worked overtime have been ripped off by 642%!!!

The DLSE bases the claims on “record-breaking results for labor law enforcement in California” since 2010.

In June 2013, Los Angeles garment maker, 5 Plus 2, was fined for ripping off at least 19 employees.  The company owner had told those employees they were actually working for a company called Bultina Fashion, which turns out is a false front operation owned by the same person.  No records of employee pay were maintained.

In April 2013, a Los Angeles garment maker, O & K Apparel, was fined for ripping off 110 employees.  The office of California Labor Commissioner, Julie Su, said the company basically falsified its pay statements for its employees, who’re paid by each piece of clothing they complete.  The employees got paid far less than what they should have.

In January 2012, wage theft by employers had become so rampant in California that a new Wage Theft Prevention law was passed.  Then in February 2012, a new Criminal Investigation Unit was created to investigate such crimes, specifically.

According to the latest data, consumer spending (by we the people) accounts for 71% of the U.S. economy.  Economies grow only because we the people have enough money to buy more of the very products we manufacture while employed by the unAmerican corporate America.  Companies that steal their employees wages are enemies of the state (the true state being we the people)!

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, South American Front: Venezuela kicks out U.S. diplomats, accuses them of False Flag sabotage!

01 October 2013 (00:34 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/09 Mehr 1391/27 Ren-Xu (8th month) 4711

“Yankees go home, get out of Venezuela!”-Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela

Three U.S. diplomats have 48 hours to “…get out of Venezuela!”

Maduro says the three ‘diplomats’ are directly involved with trying to bribe Venezuelan power companies to stage an “electrical coup” by shutting off electricity to much of the country.

For at least a month Venezuela has been hit with seemingly unexplained electricity blackouts.  Maduro says they now have damning evidence that it was a false flag conspiracy by the Obama regime.

The blackouts hit dozens of cities and shut down electrically run public transportation, among other things.  Maduro named top U.S. diplomat Kelly Keiderling, as well as Elizabeth Hunderland and David Mutt, as the lead false flag saboteurs.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 11-14 September 2013: 73% of U.S. casualties under Obama Regime! If you ride a motorcycle you are the enemy! Karzai asks for more support from Russia!

A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant from Fontana, California, died from non-combat wounds.  The incident happened back in April, the U.S. Army refused to explain what happened.  An Indiana Army National Guard Staff Sergeant died at Camp Phoenix, Kabul.  He died from an “illness”.

A report by CNSNews says 73% of U.S. military casualties in Afghanistan have happened under the regime of Barack Obama.

Kunduz Province, Chahar Darah District, reports that U.S. led government forces conducted night time Israeli style home invasions. 16 people kidnapped.  There are also reports that contracted government security personnel are confiscating motorcycles.  So far 150 ‘cycles have been stolen by government forces in the province.

Helmand Province, Marjah District, reports say that a man who had just loaded his motorcycle with a container of fuel for his farm operation, was killed by U.S. led drone strike.  Apparently U.S. led NATO-ISAF forces thought it was a bomb!  In Washir District, reports that U.S. led government forces conducted night time Israeli style home invasions. Six “white beard” elders kidnapped.  In Babaji District, at least three civilians kidnapped during U.S. led government forces night time Israeli style home invasions.

Nangarhar Province, Mujahideen claim a successful attack on Jalalabad airbase.  They say three rockets damaged the runway where drones (UAV) are parked.  Three rockets hit the helicopter park.  They say eight drones destroyed and two ‘copters destroyed.  Dozens of casualties.

Herat Province, suicide bombers attacked the U.S. consulate.  A local hospital official said two security guards were killed and 19 people wounded.  Mujahideen say casualties are closer to 100, because they used eight metric tons of explosives and eight suicide bombers (one suicide bomber was supposedly a doctor)!

Paktika Province, a suicide bomber hit an Afghan government military-police convoy.  21 people wounded, about half are civilians.

Kandahar Province, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy from the Kandahar airbase.  According to local police only civilians were hurt.  Three killed (not counting the bomber), six wounded.  However, Mujahideen say dozens of military personnel became casualties, and two armored vehicles destroyed.

Ghazni Province, local police confirmed a 15 year old boy was assassinated by Mujahideen.  Mujahideen say the boy was acting as a spy for local police.

Uruzgan Province, Dehrawod District, reports that U.S. led government forces conducted Israeli style home invasions. One child killed, two wounded.

Mujahideen report more than 50 cops from across Afghanistan, joined them to fight the U.S. backed government.

President Hamid Karzai asked Russian President, Vladimir Putin, for more military help.  The two government officials were attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (formerly known as Shanghai Five) summit.  Afghan news media claim Putin promised to provide the Afghan government with military equipment.

A Canadian veteran of Afghanistan has published a book, in which he states that U.S. led NATO troops deliberately used the bodies of dead Afghans to set traps for Mujahideen.  He admitted it didn’t work.

The U.S. Department of Defense revealed they are pushing wounded personnel back into the combat zone sooner than usual: “The Intra-Theater Care Program, which the Air Force has operated at an undisclosed location in South West Asia since 2008, is designed to return personnel who have been wounded or injured in Afghanistan to duty there within 30 days.”-Stars and Stripes

The UN Integrated Regional Information Networks reporting that ever since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, land is being stolen from rightful owners, and is the main cause of ongoing fighting: “In a 2008 survey by Oxfam, respondents said land issues were the leading cause of insecurity…..Higher-profile fights between government and international forces and anti-government militants were considered far less important.”

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 17-19 July 2013. California keeps getting hit!

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:

Georgia based medical transportation provider, LogistiCare, laid off 64 people at its Madison, Wisconsin, call center.  Company officials blame it on Obama Care, saying one of their biggest customers had to cut back because their Medicaid reimbursements were being cut.

California: In Santa Monica Norms Restaurants closed.  62 people out-o-work.  In Mountain View, Symantec laid off 62 employees.  In Bakersfield, Xerox laid off 150 people!  G4S Government Solutions laid of 13 people at the Oakland Airport.  Boeing laid off a total of 129 people in four cities!

In Oregon, CenturyLink closed its Hood River operations.  51 people unemployed.

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.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: IAEA implies Japan ignoring international nuclear safety standards!

27 September 2013 (21:56 UTC-07 Tango 26 September 2013)/22 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/05 Mehr 1392/23 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“It is not sufficient, even if Japan says ‘We have been monitoring levels of sea water radioactivity…..’ It’s crucial for Japan to conform to the international standards and cooperate with international bodies….”-Amano Yukiya, International Atomic Energy Agency, 26 September 2013

Inspectors from the IAEA will begin conducting their own radiation testing at the melting down Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant within a few weeks.

Also, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority gave the IAEA a report titled F1 Issues as of 24 September 2013.  Reports say it downplays any concerns about radiation contamination.

Obviously Amano’s statement above suggest the IAEA doesn’t trust official reports from the Japanese government or TEPCo.

International, U.S.

Martial Law Gun Control BS: Obama regime signs International Gun Control Law!

26 September 2013 (03:08 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/04 Mehr 1391/22 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans, the rights of American citizens to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our constitution.”-John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, after signing World’s first anti-gun law

“These are blatant attacks on the constitutional rights and liberties of every law abiding American! The NRA will continue to fight this assault on our fundamental freedom!”-Chris Cox, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: TEPCo admits radioactive silt barriers failed!

26 September 2013 (02:51 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/04 Mehr 1392/22 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted that one reason radiation is getting into the Pacific Ocean, is that their silt fence barriers keep failing.  Today, the radioactive silt barrier failed near Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactors 5 and 6.

This is not the first time, TEPCo revealed another barrier failed five months ago.

What TEPCo calls silt fences are underwater barriers meant to contain silt contaminated with radiation from spreading into the Pacific Ocean.

TEPCo officials blame strong waves for repeatedly breaching the barriers.

Silt fences are typical of construction sites that need to protect areas of water, sometimes called filter fences.  However, experiences with silt barriers show they do not last long and fail for a variety of reasons.   One source even pointed out that silt fences do not work well in strong currents.