Tag Archives: war

International, U.S.

Government Incompetence & World War 3: More blowback, man who helped the West assasinate Gaddafi is tortured to death!

26 September 2012, almost one year after Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was captured then tortured to death live via cell phone video, one of the men (supported by the United States and European countries) responsible has himself been tortured to death!

The man, known as Omran Sha’aban, was captured by Gaddafi loyalists in July 2012, along with 22 other people.  He was tortured, then shot in the stomach and neck (similar to what happened to Gaddafi).  He was then released still alive.  U.S. puppet leaders then sent him to a hospital in France, where he died.

This is proof the U.S. and Europe have not succeed in taking over Libya, the war is still on!

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Mitt Romney’s Staples to close 75 stores! Downsize 30 more!

26 September 2012, Staples, considered an example of success for vulture capitalist Bain Capital (Mitt Romney sat on Staples’ board of directors for more than a decade), is in big trouble.

On 25 September, officials with Staples announced they will close down 75 stores worldwide (at least 30 in the United States with 15 of those being accelerated closings, 45 stores and delivery businesses in Europe).  Staples will also downsize/relocate another 30 stores in the U.S.

Will the Pocatello, Idaho, Staples make the new closings hit list?

Common sense tells you that means more job losses, even though company officials are claiming that won’t happen.

Sales at Staples are crashing, especially for computers.  Company officials say they are shifting to more internet based business.

For the quarter ended July 2012 Staples reported an overall 6% decrease in sales, compared to the same time in 2011: “Our second quarter results fell short of our expectations due to softer than expected sales trends in North America and ongoing weakness in Europe and Australia.”-Ron Sargent, CEO

In North America sales decreased 3%, but around the world Staples saw a 10% decrease!

Staples has also revised its future sales outlook downward, and is expecting hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in costs just to close down all those stores!

Mitt Romney, and others with Bain Capital, once called Staples their prime example of success.  Here’s just a sampling of other companies that Bain Capital is involved with: AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino’s Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin’ Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Toys “R” Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel.

Once you start investigating all the companies that Bain Capital is involved with, or affiliated with, it becomes clear that it is unAmerican Corporate America’s vulture (venture) capitalist investment companies that are killing our economy.

And Mitt Romney says as President of the United States he’ll do for the country what he did for Corporate America!

International, U.S.

Fluoride Update, 24 September 2012: Portland officials ignore what the voters want! EPA and HHS admit too much fluoride is bad! Argentina says it causes diabetes! Japan says it causes cancer! China (and Harvard) says it reduces intelligence!

“Even if fluoridation reduced cavities, is tooth health more important than brain health? It’s time to put politics aside and stop artificial fluoridation everywhere!”-Paul Beeber, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation

By the year 2014, Portland, Oregon, will cease being the last major U.S. city without fluoridated water. On 12 September 2012, and in a unanimous decision that seemed to go against voter sentiment, the Portland city council approved fluoridation of the water supply.

Supporters of the plan claim that residents of Portland has a higher number of dental problems than other parts of Oregon.  However, a state study proved the reverse!

Most all of Oregon’s water supply already has naturally occurring fluoride.

To top that, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have come out and admitted that too much fluoride can be bad for you!  Not only that, past fluoridation levels in the United States were too high!!!

But guess what? Those admissions came out at the beginning of 2011!  Where was the main stream media coverage?

HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, said fluoride levels should be no more than 0.7 parts per million (ppm) per liter of water (this is the level the city of Portland, Oregon, says it will use).  Up ’till 2011 municipalities were being told to use as much as 1.2 ppm per liter!

“The new EPA assessments of fluoride were undertaken in response to findings of the National Academies of Science (NAS).  At EPA’s request, in 2006 NAS reviewed new data on fluoride and issued a report recommending that EPA update its health and exposure assessments to take into account bone and dental effects and to consider all sources of fluoride.”-joint EPA/HHS statement, 07 January 2011

Fluoride is claimed to protect your teeth, but according to HHS, too much fluoride actually does the reverse, causing tooth decay, as well as bone fractures,  and skeletal fluorosis.  Is this why the state study in Oregon showed higher dental problems in areas with fluoridated water?

But wait, there’s more!  The EPA actually said stop using sulfuryl fluoride. Sulfuryl fluoride is used as an insecticide (’cause it’s a fumigant neurotoxin), and cities have been using it to fluoridate their water!

Portland, Oregon, isn’t the only U.S. state obviously in the pockets of the fluoride industry.  Right now in Pinellas County, Florida, the issue of fluoridation has got a local dentist threatening to run for public office, to force fluoridation of the water.  One of his campaign billboards reads: “Want Fluoride…..?”

A in the pockets of the fluoride industry Florida newspaper (The Daytona Beach Journal) published an opinion piece on 20 September, applauding cities that add fluoride to their water.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is even giving out awards to cities, it’s called Water Fluoridation Quality Award.

But wait, there’s more!

A study in Argentina (done at the Rosario National University in Santa Fe, Rosario) concluded that ‘artificial’ fluoride use causes insulin resistance, leading to type 2 diabetes!  Gee, isn’t the United States suffering from a high rate of diabetes?

What’s really significant, relating to the new fluoride levels issued by HHS, is that the Argentine study shows that the onset of type 2 diabetes occurrs regardless of the amount of fluoride. Even at a fraction of a ppm, after 60 days insulin resistance is the result!

A study out of Japan (by the University of Tokyo) shows that fluoride use increases the rate of cancers of the “….oral cavity and pharynx, colon and rectum, hepato-biliary and urinary organs.”  Gee, doesn’t the United States have a problem with increased cancers?

The Japanese researchers looked at cancer rates in the United States in comparison with fluoridated water supplies, from 1978 to 1992.  They found that two thirds of the people with cancer lived in areas with lots of fluoridated water.  In the majority of the sites studied, they concluded that 64% of them had a direct connection between cancer and fluoride!

Another study from the Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua, China, backs up a Harvard study released earlier this year.  Fluoride makes ‘mericans dumber than a stump!  Gee, isn’t the United States suffering from too much of that!!!

The Chinese study found that the higher the dose rate of fluoride, the dumber you get.  Back in July, 2012, Harvard University published the results of their study, it not good: “Fluoride readily crosses the placenta. Fluoride exposure to the developing brain, which is much more susceptible to injury caused by toxicants than is the mature brain, may possibly lead to damage of a permanent nature.”

But this info was known before these latest studies.  I’ve posted how a study in India blamed idiocy on fluoride, and that was based on naturally occurring fluoride.  But here’s what the National Research Council (NRC) stated in 2006, about ‘artificial’ fluoride: “It’s apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain.”

 

 

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: U.S. occupation of Afghanistan; 21 – 23 September 2012. China will take over from United States! Roadside bomb turns out to be infant! Red Coat gives birth, never knowing she was pregnant! Last of surge troops leave, mission accomplished!?

23 September 2012

In a secretly planned trip to Afghanistan, top Chinese leaders paid a visit to President Hamid Karzai.  The purpose is to increase business ties, and to create a Chinese military presence in Afghanistan (I guess Karzai has found a new puppet master): “It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.”-Zhou Yongkang, Chinese Communist Party

China already has copper and oil mining operations in Afghanistan.  Karzai and Yongkang signed a deal in which China will provide $700,000 USD worth of police equipment, and train up Afghan cops for the next three years.  This comes after the United States halted the training of Afghan cops because of the increased Green on Blue attacks.

In Helmand Province, at least seven people killed by U.S. ordered airstrikes.

In Nangarhar Province, a peaceful protest blocked the main highway for hours.  They are still protesting the U.S. made anti-Islam movie, and newly published anti-Islam comic in a French newspaper.

22 September 2012

ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan today.”

So far 258 U.S. personnel have died this year, 81 for all other allied occupying troops.

Karzai said he will continue to replace provincial governors, as part of his anti-corruption crusade.

The Afghan Interior Ministry has banned all Pakistani publications.

In Ghazni Province, Polish troop thought they were disarming a roadside bomb, it turned out to be a two day old infant.  They named her Pola.  They announced their find on 22 September, but said it actually took place on 19 September.  They will turn the infant over to the Afghan government, but the chances that an abandoned female baby will find a home in Afghanistan are slim to none.

(on 18 September a British Royal Army woman gave birth at Camp Bastion.  The woman swears she did not know she was pregnant.   It’s magic, Prince Harry Potter?)

The U.S. based International Justice Network accused Obama of running a torture camp at Bagram: “The administrative detention regime that the U.S. government now uses at Bagram is not only illegal under international law, but contravenes the Afghan Constitution in a number of respects…..We know that hundreds of people have been tortured in the U.S. prisons and we also know that some of the prisoners in Bagram have lost their lives as a result of tortures.”

In Herat Province, Mujahideen ambushed a U.S./NATO food and fuel convoy, destroying one fueler.

21 September 2012

In Helmand Province, two Red Coats were killed, one at Camp Bastion the other at FOB Shawqat.  Interestingly the British Ministry of Defence is still trying to figure out if the deaths are the result of “hostile action”.

In Herat Province, a local government official was arrested and charged with being a spy for Iran.

In Uruzgan Province, five people were killed when they drove over a mine.

In Paktia Province, an illegal U.S. night raid resulted in a wedding being destroyed.  Witnesses say several people were arrested, and even the brides dowry was stolen by U.S. forces.  The raid is illegal because under the recent agreement Afghan forces must be involved.  Local Afghan government officials say they were never notified.

U.S. officials announced that the last of Obama’s 33,000 surge troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan.  There are still 68,000 U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.  In classic Bush Jr style, numb nuts Leon Panetta called it mission accomplished: “As we reflect on this moment, it is an opportunity to recognize that the surge accomplished its objectives of reversing Taliban momentum on the battlefield…….At the same time, we have struck enormous blows against al Qaeda’s leadership…”

Business/Economics, Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Hewlett Packard spending millions to save money in Idaho? Announces even more layoffs! Refuses to pay fair share in taxes! Hoping to save itself by making a deal with the devil: Israel!

“Just think of all the value that they have destroyed. It has been a case of just horrible management.”-Brian Marshall, ISI Group

23 September 2012, the past month has been a busy month of announcements from struggling computer maker, Hewlett Packard (HP).

At the end of August, HP reported a quarterly loss of $8.9 billion USD! (Dell computer maker also reported a big loss)  Then at the beginning of September, HP officials announced they will layoff 29,000 employees by 2014, that’s an increase of 2,000 from their layoff announcement in May of this year.

HP blamed the quarterly loss on down sales, and the cost of downsizing the company!

According to an Idaho Statesmen report, HP spent $50 million, over the past few years, downsizing its operations at the huge Boise HP campus.

The report also pointed out that HP is refusing to publish just how many people have lost their jobs at the Boise campus.  The Idaho Statesmen estimates it to be in the hundreds (at least 320).

HP also isn’t mentioning the fact that they’ve spent more than $40 billion on buying up worthless companies!

Just days ago a U.S. Senate investigation revealed that HP is one of thousands of unAmerican Corporations (including Microsoft) that are working hard to avoid paying taxes.

“The bottom line of our investigation is that some multinationals use our current tax system to engage in shams and gimmicks to avoid paying the taxes they owe.”-Carl Levin, Senator from Michigan

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations discovered that HP avoided paying $4.5 billion in taxes, from 2009 to 2011, by using complicated offshore loan deals  (you see it’s not just Mitt Romney, everyone in unAmerican Corporate America does it).

Of course HP officials deny it: “I can assure the committee that HP takes seriously its obligations to accurately follow accounting principle and to pay taxes that it owes.”-Lester D. Ezrati, HP

HP also has operations in Israel, and today it was announced that HP is in the running for a huge military contract worth half a billion USD!  (IBM, Dell and Lockheed Martin have also bid)

The contract will be for a new huge Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) computer server farm based in the Negev desert.  It will be the main server farm for electronic logistics, communication and military intelligence operations being run by other newly built bases in the Negev.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Hoku pulls stocks from NASDAQ, deregisters with SEC.

Hawaii based Hoku Corporation is no longer selling stocks, through NASDAQ anyway.  At the beginning of September 2012, Hoku filed a Form 15 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), asking for their existing shares to be deregistered.

This means Hoku will not have to make any reports to the SEC for the next 90 days.

Back in July Hoku delisted from NASDAQ.  Hoku Corp. is blaming their fall on the crashing price of polysilicon.  Hoku Corp. shut down their Hoku Materials polysilicon operation in Idaho, back in May.

Hoku Corp. is looking for a buyer for its Hoku Solar division.

Hoku Corp. stocks are now being traded Over The Counter (OTC). As of  17 September 2012, they were selling for only .07 cents per share.

HOKU CONTINUES DOWNWARD SPIRAL. POCATELLO PLANT MOTHBALLED! 

International, U.S.

World War 3: U.S. occupation of Afghanistan; 17 – 20 September 2012. The war ain’t going away! Steps towards war with Pakistan! Governors chosen by Karzai, not elected! 1,000 Mujahideen launch major offensive! Wives who runaway go to prison!

20 September 2012

ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan today.”

Afghan foreign ministry officials announced they will file a complain against Pakistan, with the UN Security Council.

President Hamid Karzai announced the appointment of 10 new provincial governors.  This comes as a report suggested that seven governorships had already been altered from election results  (this is a fine example of the United States’ spreading of democracy).

In Bamyan and Kabul provinces, thousands of people protested the U.S. made anti-Islam movie.

The government of Afghanistan is about to issue electronic ID cards, for the upcoming elections.  The system is costing $120 million USD, and you can easily guess where that money came from.

19 September 2012

In Nangarhar Province, about 1,000 people protested the U.S. made anti-Islam movie.

In Kandahar Province, a suicide bomber killed two cops and one civilian, and wounded five cops, after he blew up his motorcycle.

In Helmand Province, two cops and a civilian were shot dead.  The shooter escaped.

In Kunar Province, at least 1,000 Mujahideen launched a major offensive.  The assault on Afghan police began at 04:30 hours.  Local police officials say the battles are ongoing, but they managed to kill a “leader”.  They think the Mujahideen are being supported by Pakistan.

Mujahideen claim they destroyed another U.S./NATO supply convoy.  The ambush came on a highway that links Herat, Kandahar and Farah provinces.

ISAF said: “As the security force approached the IMU [Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan] leader’s location, he and one other insurgent maneuvered from the compound and displayed hostile intent towards the Afghan and coalition troops. The security force positively identified the insurgent threat and engaged. The insurgent was killed and the IMU leader was arrested without injury.”

In Herat Province, a police academy was bombed. Two cops killed five wounded. The United States has personnel operating in the police academy.

18 September 2012

ISAF said: “In Nad ‘Ali district, Helmand Province, today, an Afghan and coalition security force arrested one of the Taliban leaders behind Friday’s Camp Bastion attack.”

In Kabul Province, a female suicide bomber killed 12 people, including nine foreigners.  It’s believed the target was U.S. personnel, however the foreigners killed were from South Africa.  The Islamic Party of Afghanistan said the attack was in response to the U.S. made anti-Islam movie.

Also in Kabul, a bus was rammed by another vehicle packed with explosives. The explosion killed 12 people,.

In Zabul Province, Mujahideen ambushed a U.S./NATO supply convoy, destroying 13 fuelers, wounding one person.

In Kunar Province, an explosion killed one civilian, and three U.S. personnel.  One civilian wounded.  According to ISAF the U.S. personnel were repairing a bridge at the time.

In Parwan Province, hundreds of protestors tried to enter U.S. controlled Bagram airbase.  Police kept them back.  The protestors are upset over the U.S. made anti-Islam movie.

ISAF/NATO says they are limiting military operations involving U.S./NATO and Afghan  government forces: “This will likely lead to adjustments in exactly how, when and where ISAF troops operate, especially during the current period of heightened tension.”-unnamed U.S. military official

17 September 2012

In Helmand Province, an Afghan soldier fired on U.S./NATO vehicles. One U.S./NATO personnel wounded.

In Kabul Province, an attack on a prison was foiled. Local police say they arrested the plotters.  They say one of the plotters is from Pakistan.

Also in Kabul, 50 Afghan cops were wounded protecting the very same infamous prison from people protesting the U.S. made anti-Islam movie. A police check point and police vehicle were burned.

The Afghan government’s own human rights commission has discovered that 70% of imprisoned women are there for the crime of running away from home!!!

“This is a major issue and women are jailed over adultery after escaping from their home. If the government does not have a specific law in this regard then it should be referred to us in order to modify a regulation in a bid to clarify the rules and prevent misunderstanding and misuse by Afghan attorney and police regarding the Afghan women.”-Fawzia Koufi, Parliamentarian Commission for Human Rights, Civil Society and Women’s Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Idaho’s Coldwater Creek loses $17 million! Store closings will continue!

On 29 August 2012, Coldwater Creek reported a 2nd quarter loss of $17 million USD.  It’s the third quarter in a row for the women’s apparel retailer.

The Sandpoint, Idaho, based company blames it on falling sales (again).

Direct catalog sales dropped $5 million, retail/outlet stores and spas dropped $12.3 million, compared to the same time last year.  Some of the sales loses were blamed on the closing of 24 Coldwater Creek stores across the United States, since 2011 (four closed during the 2nd quarter of 2012).

Company officials say one of their plans to improve financial performance is to move existing stores into smaller locations, as well as closing another 20+ stores by 2013.

NASDAQ is threatening to delist Coldwater Creek from its stock exchange, because the price of one share is still below $1.00.

Also at the end of August, a former Coldwater Creek official was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and more than $246,000 in restitution, after pleading guilty to embezzling the company.  The judge rejected a plea agreement which called for a sentence of only 90 days in jail.

International, U.S.

DNA evidence proves sex crimes charges against Assange false!

17 September 2012, a condom given to Swedish police, in relation to the sex crimes charges against Julian Assange, has tested negative for his DNA!

Two laboratories were used, and both concluded the DNA did not belong to Assange!

The revelation came in a 100 page police report.  A condom from another alleged victim did have his DNA, however, the police report says the woman did not mind having sex with him.