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International, U.S.

World War 3, West Asian Front: Syria allows UN inspectors to investigate latest gas attack! Has massive evidence it was Flase Flag Op by U.S. backed insurgents!

24 August 2013 (12:47 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Shawwal 1434/02 Shahrivar 1391/18 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“An army unit is surrounding a sector of Jobar where terrorists used chemical weapons…..the army found barrels marked ’made in Saudi Arabia’  and gas masks.”-Syrian news media report

Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Al-Muallem, says the United Nations inspection team is welcome to inspect the recent gas attack in Damascus.

In the Damascus suburb of Jobar, Syrian Arab Army (SAA, government) troops have found a tunnel being used by U.S. backed insurgents for making massive amounts of chemical bombs.  The SAA says the discovery was made by troops who then suffered chemical inhalation, some are in critical condition.

The SAA also reported that there have been major battles between government forces and U.S. insurgents in that area for several days.  It’s possible that the latest gas attack was the result of government conventional artillery strikes hitting an insurgent chemical weapon making operation.

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 26 June 2013. Big Bird fired? Home Depot kills small eateries!

The non-profit Sesame Workshop, producer of PBS’s Sesame Street, laid off 30 employees. It’s blamed on reduced funding due to the bad economy.

Cactus Grill in Twin Falls, Idaho, closed despite seven years of booming business.  The eatery operation located on the property of Home Depot was shut down by the very same Home Depot corporation (the Home Depot manager was unaware of the corporate decision).  It was part of Home Depot’s plan to end eatery operations just outside their store exits.  Cactus Grill owner, Billy Elser said “It was a blow, cut us off at the knees. That’s how I make a living!”  Now, Elser is looking for backing to open a full blown restaurant.

In Oregon, the C&K Market closed in Waldport: “Due to the continued decline in the economic climate, which has negatively affected the tourist business along the coast, the difficult decision to close the doors of the Waldport C&K Market location was made earlier this month.”-Company statement

The largest manufacturer of roofing materials in North America, GAF, laying off at least 57 employees in California, by October.  They’re closing their Fresno operation.  Local news sources were not able to get a reason why.

After 80 years of business the B&B Sporting Goods shut down in Minnesota.  The owners tried to sell the iconic store for the past three years, because they wanted to retire, but the economy is so bad in Minnesota there were no takers.

In Arkansas, Pinky Punky in Little Rock closed.  The owners of the 40 years old “fun” women’s clothing store retired.  Hastings books, video games, music and trendy stuff stores shut down in Springdale and in Fayetteville.  Company officials said the stores weren’t making a big enough profit!  At least 60 people unemployed.

There were reports that the Jenny Craig’s weight loss center in Westborough, Massachusetts, shut down.

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: TEPCo tries to tarnish image of dead hero Fukushima manager, proof of False Flag Op? TEPCo now blames understaffing for mistakes!

23 August 2013 (15:51 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01 Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“We want officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company to have the courage to admit the limits of their efforts, instead of simply repeating ‘they are doing their best’.”-Fuketa Toyoshi, Nuclear Regulation Authority

NRA Commissioner, Fuketa Toyoshi, took an inspection tour of Fukushima Daiichi.  He blasted TEPCo officials for covering up the severity of the two and half years old nuclear disaster.  He also blasted TEPCo for not keeping records of ongoing radiation contamination!

Tokyo Electric officials whined back at Fuketa, saying they need at least four times their current number of subcontracted workers to properly deal with the disaster!  Keep in mind that TEPCo has been getting big bucks from the Japanese government to deal with this, and now they say they don’t have enough employees?

TEPCo is now removing soil from around the contaminated water tank farms.  It’s because they now realize that the contaminated water not only ran off into the Pacific Ocean, but soaked into the ground (before ending up in the ocean, as well).

More than 1-thousand people attended the funeral for hero Yoshida Masao.  He was in charge of Fukushima Daiichi when the 9 quake and tsunami hit on 11 March 2011.  He stayed on trying to fight what was later admitted to be melt downs in several GE designed reactors.  He died last month from esophageal cancer.

TEPCo tried to tarnish the hero’s image, blaming him for lack of tsunami protection.  TEPCo also downplayed his sudden case of throat cancer after fighting the nuke melt downs, saying it was not related!

It’s now been revealed that it was Yoshida Masao who made the emergency decision to use ocean water to cool the reactors.  This is because he knew they were melting down!  It’s also been revealed that TEPCo ordered him to stop cooling the reactors with ocean water!  This can mean only one of two things: TEPCo officials are totally incompetent, or they wanted the melt downs to occur!

Idaho, International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 10-11 August 2013: More corruption with taxpayer money! Prostitutes kill Chinese?

The Afghan Ministry of Education says at least 100 teachers/education officials have been killed since the beginning of the Afghan year!

In Paktiya Province, three U.S. personnel were killed as the outpost they were based at came under artillery attack.  Several U.S. soldiers were wounded.  The three killed were from Arkansas, Idaho and Texas.  They were members of the U.S. Army’s 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment.  Also, a senior Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) official, and his two bodyguards, were wounded by a roadside bomb.

In Kabul Province, another 22 people were killed by flash floods.  In Kabul city, cops say the recent deaths and disappearance of several Chinese could be connected to human trafficking.  One of the missing men was found dead.  There are reports that the Chinese were pimps!

In Farah Province, at least five family members were killed when their Toyota Corolla ran over a landmine.

In Faryab Province, Dawlat Abad District, four cops were killed when they drove over a landmine.

In Ghazni Province, the female representative of Kandahar Province, in the lower house of parliament, was kidnapped as she drove through Ghazni.  Her four children were also kidnapped.

In Uruzgan Province, Mujahideen liberated 22 prisoners from Tarinkot prison.

In Nangarhar Province, Brigadier Raz Muhammad, who claims to be a trainer for Afghan National Army special forces, joined the Mujahideen.

The Australian Department of Defence is crying about Afghanistan’s exit tax!  Afghanistan is charging the Diggers $3545 per container, that leaves Afghanistan by road.  Australia says it might be cheaper to fly the military equipment out.

The Afghan government has agreed to hold peace talks with Mujahideen in Turkey or Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reports that an Afghan trucking contractor working for the U.S. military has stolen $77 million USD!  It took three years of investigating to find where the money went.

According to German news media reports, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says U.S. taxpayers are paying for 24 brand new C-130 transport aircraft for the Afghan National Air Force, on top of the 20 Super Tucano COIN birds!

 

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 24-25 June 2013. Gold prices too low??? Again, school & health care cuts!

Evil mortgage foreclosure company EC Closing/Cal-Western Reconveyance now bankrupt.  No tears shed!

In Tennessee, a judge has ruled that the state government can proceed with axing 200 jobs!  The Tennessee State Employees Association said the state failed to give proper notice.

The Germany based JK Products & Services factory in Arkansas is closing.  123 employees affected, at least 85 to be laid off.  Production is being moved to Germany.  In Conway, Starstruck Video and Wonderland Flea Market closed after 21 years in business.  A recent legal ‘incident’ was the final straw.

After 40 years, the Christian God can’t stop the Chesnutt Furniture store from closing in Alabama.  The owner blamed the bad economy.  The building is actually owned by the First Baptist Church, and they’re tearing it down to make room for a parking lot.

In Pennsylvania, Stacy’s of York now bankrupt.  The supplier of plants to retail markets is being sold.

The Christian God can’t stop Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, in New York, from eliminating 50 jobs and closing a medical/surgical unit.  Officials blame reduced Medicaid/Medicare payments.

In West Virginia, Putnam County Health Department laid off 13 employees.  The department is in such debt that it hasn’t paid its rent!

Pocketful of Rye jewelry and local art collectibles store shut down in New Hampshire. The owner said she had to focus on her real job with corporate America.

In Indiana, the Indianapolis Public Schools laid off 109 people!  More could be on the way.  Officials blame lack of students: “We are not going to be able to eliminate the $30 million budget deficit and maintain the current buildings that we have. Because we just don’t have the students to support that.”-John Althardt

In Illinois, Jean’s Hallmark in Lemont closed.  It’s part of Hallmark’s plan to close stores across the U.S.

Too Big to Jail Bank of America laying off 411 people in Texas!  In Longview, CDs and More closed down. The owner is pissed at the digital generation: “It’s sad. It’s bittersweet. I’m fed up with it, and I’m sad to see it go….everybody’s downloading their stuff. They’re putting the small guy out of business.”-Tom Shomaker

Another mega law firm lays off 60 people.  Weil, Gotshal & Manges basically said there is no economic recovery: “We must now make the adjustments we avoided over the last few years to position the firm to continue to thrive.”

In Arizona, the oldest dance club in Scottsdale closed down.  Axis-Radius is being turned into a beer/concert hall.

The World’s largest gold miner, Canada based Barrick Gold, laid off 55 employees in Utah and Nevada.  They claim gold prices are too low!!!

After 45 years in business the Continental Greek Restaurant & Pastry Shop closed in Washington.  It’s the third Greek restaurant to close in the past 12 months.  The owners wanted to retire.

In California, the 44 years old Sea D Sea dive shop closed in Redondo Beach.  The owner said the bad economy and his poor health forced him to retire.  Evil Verizon Corporate Resources Group laid off 57 people in Irvine.  And non-profit Dignity Health laid off 464 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

Food Crisis: Think Tuna prices are high now? Red Sea Tuna now extinct!

23 August 2013 (00:07 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01  Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“We are currently experiencing some of the most severe supply shortages that the tuna industry has ever faced.”-Unnamed fish supplier in a memo to a Rhode Island restaurant in 2012, trying to explain why prices are going up

On 22 August 2013, Japan’s Fisheries Agency warned they will order a reduction in allowed bluefin tuna catches by their fishing industry.  In March 2013, there were reports that the Japanese news media almost ignored a study by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the Northern Pacific that said not only have tuna populations been falling for decades, the population decline has snowballed towards extinction!

The latest survey estimates that today’s Pacific bluefin tuna population has crashed by 96.4% over the past few decades, and current catches could guarantee extinction: “Over 90% of the catch is juveniles, caught in nursery and spawning areas. Literally, the zero to three year age class, so they’re being caught on their spawning grounds before they can reproduce, with no catch limit, and gee whiz, we’re at 3.6% of the original population. I wonder why?”-Amanda Nickson, Pew Environment Group

In fact, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Ministry of Fisheries Affairs has reported a loss of 70% in its Red Sea fishing industry. Fishermen say it’s partly due to the extinction of Red Sea tuna caused by pollution: “The entire expanse of sea lying between Jeddah and Qunfuda is polluted and has resulted in the depletion of the fish resources and the total disappearance of tuna.”-Abdullah Al-Sayed, a fisherman in Jeddah.

Even the cheap generic brand of canned tuna could become unaffordable. Tuna packed in veggie oil has already gone way up because veggie oil prices have skyrocketed!

Even the cheap generic brand of canned tuna could become unaffordable. Tuna packed in veggie oil has already gone way up because veggie oil prices have skyrocketed!

It should matter to Japanese because tuna is king of sushi.  It’s estimated that the Japanese eat 80% of the tuna caught around the World!  Japanese have been hearing about this for awhile, but maybe they haven’t noticed that since 2007 some tuna sushi has been replaced with different fish (some reports mentioned deer meat).

But Japanese fish mongers have seen for years a decline in available tuna in the fish markets, resulting in higher prices every year.  In January 2013, a 489 pounds bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million USD in Japan!

(don’t forget to add the incredible amount of deadly radiation that’s been pouring into the northern Pacific from Fukushima Daiichi, since 2011:  Pacific bluefin tuna transport Fukushima-derived radionuclides from Japan to California)

It’s not just bluefin that’s disappearing, it’s other tuna as well.  Today, the latest global tuna catch records show that only 18-thousands metric tons of tuna were caught last year, it hasn’t been that low since the 1980s.

Vietnam just reported that its fishing industry is having a hard time catching tuna, their exports are down as result.

An official with New Zealand’s Secretariat of the Pacific Community recently blamed lack of government management and monitoring of fishing industries: “…this is done country by country, different countries are doing different things and taking different approaches to their management and data collection. Some are focusing more on the tuna fishery….that’s being lost to the countries because the fishery wasn’t managed sustainably. We know that many of the main centers around the Pacific, the main urban centers, there is a shortage of fish and people are needing to go further to catch fish, or in some countries they are trying to bring in fish from other locations in the country, so we know there is over fishing occurring…..management is to include the monitoring so that you actually have an idea of what’s happening in the fishery…”-Lindsay Chapman

India has just lifted its trawling fishing ban, many people in India hope it will bring fish prices down, because the industrial fish farms just could not produce enough fish to offset the lack of wild caught fish due to the trawling fishing ban.  Not only are tuna prices way up in India, so are sardine prices.

What was that about “teach a man to fish”?

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Gross incompetence! TEPCo finally trying to stop 15-thousand tons of leaks, that it knew about more than 2 years ago!

23 August 2013 (20:35 UTC-07 Tango 22 August 2013)/16 Shawwal 1434/01  Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Two and a half years ago I wrote about radioactive water flooding into tunnels under the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  I wrote about it because Tokyo Electric Power Company officials publicized it.   Turns out they haven’t done a gott damn thing about it, until today!!!!

Today TEPCo officials announced they are finally going to try and stop the estimated 210 metric tons per day of contaminated water flowing through a tunnel under Reactor 2, from getting to the Pacific Ocean.  TEPCo says that the reason they waited so long is because they didn’t think the water was pouring into the Pacific Ocean, well, it turns out it is!

So add that 21o tons per day to the previously announced 300 tons per day, then add that to the newly discovered storage tank leaks and you’re talking about more than 1-thousand tons per day of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean for the past two and a half years!   But it’s probably more, read on!

By the way, when I first wrote about radioactive water pouring into tunnels under the reactors more than two years ago, coupled with the fact that independent sources had discovered strontium contamination, I said that was a sign of melt down.  A year later TEPCo admitted melt downs had occurred.  These guys are supposed to be experts trained by General Electric???

But wait there’s more!  TEPCo says in all the tunnels under Fukushima Daiichi there’s at least 15-thousand tons of highly contaminated water, possibly pouring into the Pacific Ocean!!!

International, Technology

New bogus emails stealing your digital info!

22 August 2013 (11:09 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1391/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Japan’s National Police Agency warning of new emails delivering viruses to your computer, viruses that grab all your digital info.

In Japan 210 incidents targeting 5-thousand companies involved in the defense, aerospace and nuclear power industries have been reported, so far this year.

Individuals are being targeted as well.  33 individual cases reported so far this year, compared to only two last year.   The bogus emails are disguised as online job applications or product questionnaires.

Police are once again telling individuals to not click on any links on emails you got from unknown sources.  Companies have been advised to keep computers that get emails from the general public separate from in-house computers.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Leaking tanks update, 100 millisieverts per hour leaking from seams!

22 August 2013 (09:45 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic. What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else, not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that. It is much worse than we have been led to believe, much worse!”-Mycle Schneider, nuclear analyst in BBC interview

Inspections of storage tanks in Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 4 tank farm show the bolted together tanks are leaking radiation, even if they’re not leaking water!  The inspections were ordered by Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) after the 19 August discovery of a massive water leak.

The 300 metric tons of highly contaminated water that is now suspected of pouring into the Pacific Ocean, came from just one of the 350 Reactor 4 storage tanks.

On another Reactor 4 storage tank they discovered that the seams of the bolted on panels are emitting 70 to 100 millisieverts per hour of radiation!  The safe limit for nuclear industry workers in Japan are set at 50 millisieverts per year!  And here’s the rub on this latest discovery; the exterior of the tank is dry, and has not leaked any water.  This means that deadly radiation is escaping from the tank seams, and when it rains it runs off into the Pacific Ocean.  Each tank holds 1-thousand metric tons of contaminated water, and many have no external way to gauge the water level.

And don’t forget the new leak they discovered yesterday, at a different tank farm!

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: 30 trillion becquerels of radiation floods Pacific Ocean! Could be worse, TEPCo admits they keep no records!

22 August 2013 (21:40 UTC-07 Tango 21 August 2013)/15 Shawwal 1434/31 Mordad 1392/16 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

After two and a half years of playing dumb, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) has revealed that 10 trillion becquerels of deadly strontium, and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium, have flooded into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011!  The new report does not include March and April 2011!

Actually, anyone who’s been following my postings about Fukushima Daiichi (going all the way back to March 2011) should not be surprised.

The amount could be much higher as TEPCo officials admitted to Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, in an emergency meeting on 21 August, that they have not kept any official records of radiation emissions or contamination!!!  The NRA official responded by saying “So, you rely on the memory of your workers?”

Becquerel is an internationally accepted measurement for a unit of radioactivity, equal to one nuclear decay or other nuclear transformation per second.  Named after Antoine Henri Becquerel.

The becquerel (Bq) replaced the curie (Ci) measurement system.  Curie is a non-internationally accepted way to measure radiation, named after Marie and Pierre Curie.  One Ci equals 37-billion Bq (37 gigabecquerels GBq).

1-thousand Ci of a radioisotope can produce serious health effects after only a few minutes of exposure.  30 trillion Bq is the same as 30 terabecquerels (TBq).  30 TBq equals 810.810 Ci.