Thursday
Oct162014

Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties & Privacy Rights 

The United Nations’ top official for counter-terrorism and human rights (known as the “Special Rapporteur”) issued a formal report to the U.N. General Assembly today that condemns mass electronic surveillance as a clear violation of core privacy rights guaranteed by multiple treaties and conventions. “The hard truth is that the use of mass surveillance technology effectively does away with the right to privacy of communications on the Internet altogether,” the report concluded.

Central to the Rapporteur’s findings is the distinction between “targeted surveillance” — which “depend[s] upon the existence of prior suspicion of the targeted individual or organization” — and “mass surveillance,” whereby “states with high levels of Internet penetration can gain access to the telephone and e-mail content of an effectively unlimited number of users and maintain an overview of Internet activity associated with particular websites.”

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Thursday
Oct162014

4 Ebola quotes that may come back to haunt CDC's Tom Frieden

LA TIMES

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is appearing before a House panel Thursday morning to meet congressional accusers who are prepared to use the public health official’s own words about Ebola against him. Here are some of the quotations that could come back to haunt Frieden during a politically charged grilling.

1) When Thomas Eric Duncan was first announced as having Ebola, Frieden took to airways to soothe an anxious public.

“I have no doubt that we’ll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.,” Frieden said at news conference on Sept. 30. “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation, or this case, of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country.”

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Thursday
Oct162014

EBOLA-STERIA or Maybe the New World Order Kooks Are Right After All? 

No one is more skeptical than me when it comes to the theories of those who claim a new world order is in progress. One of their beliefs is that part of the new plan is to eliminate a large number of people through a sort of human culling. A ravaging disease would be the choice method and now, following the news of the small but significant Ebola outbreak in the United States, one has to stop and wonder: is there something at the foundation of this outbreak that is purposeful and diabolical?

The reason I even consider this question is the activity going on in Dallas – and Atlanta at the Center for Disease Control. The number one question on the minds of Americans following these Ebola stories is why is there such a profound breach in cautionary protocol?

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Thursday
Oct162014

An Ebola outbreak would be advantageous for globalists

Regional or widespread war, terrorism, cyber attacks, etc., are all useful vehicles to conjure mass confusion, and can also be used as scapegoats for the eventual downfall of our economy. That said, a viral pandemic truly surpasses them all in effectiveness. All other tragedies could easily be tied to the first “domino” or “linchpin” (as Rand Corporation calls it) of Ebola transmission, but the strategy goes deeper than this.

This is an incredibly useful strategy when used on the ignorant. And as I pointed out last week in my column, “U.S. government fails to stop yet another invasion,”  it’s a sad fact that most of the people you meet in this life are fundamentally and functionally ignorant.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

Could Duncan have been saved with the right treatment?

The patient’s 103-degree fever might warrant “a little more investigation,” Adalja said. A chart showed he did not arrive with a fever but left with one.

By Duncan’s second ER visit, the care was “impeccable,” the doctor said. Dallas physicians immediately signaled concern about Ebola and “spared no measure to try to keep him alive.”

After it became clear that Duncan was suffering from Ebola, another option would have been to give him a transfusion from an Ebola survivor in the hopes that antibodies in the blood could help him fight the disease.

But Duncan did not receive a transfusion because the blood types did not match, the hospital said.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.

It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.

Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before.

He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

C.I.A. Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels

The Central Intelligence Agency has run guns to insurgencies across the world during its 67-year history — from Angola to Nicaragua to Cuba. The continuing C.I.A. effort to train Syrian rebels is just the latest example of an American president becoming enticed by the prospect of using the spy agency to covertly arm and train rebel groups.

An internal C.I.A. study has found that it rarely works.

The still-classified review, one of several C.I.A. studies commissioned in 2012 and 2013 in the midst of the Obama administration’s protracted debate about whether to wade into the Syrian civil war, concluded that many past attempts by the agency to arm foreign forces covertly had a minimal impact on the long-term outcome of a conflict.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

CDC: U.S. health worker with Ebola should not have flown on commercial jet

The second Dallas health care worker who was found to have the Ebola virus should not have boarded a commercial jet Monday, health officials say.

Because she had helped care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, and because another health worker who cared for Duncan had been diagnosed with Ebola, the worker was not allowed to travel on a commercial plane with other people, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The worker had a temperature of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius) before she boarded her flight, he added.

Health care workers who had been exposed to Duncan were undergoing self-monitoring.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

Airline Stocks Tumbling After News Hospital Worker With Ebola Flew On Commercial Flight

WASHINGTON — Airline stocks are tumbling after news that the second health worker to be diagnosed with Ebola flew on a commercial flight the night before reporting a fever.

Shares of the major U.S. airlines were down between 4 percent and 6 percent in midday trading Wednesday.

Frontier Airlines announced that public-health officials were notifying passengers on Monday night’s Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth. The airline’s crew reports that the woman showed no symptoms during the flight.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

Ebola Search Widens to Flight Taken by Infected Nurse

Federal officials are tracking down people who were on the same flight as a second health care worker diagnosed with Ebola virus in Dallas. The woman was isolated Tuesday after she developed a slight fever, but she’d flown to Dallas from Cleveland the day before her temperature rose.

Health officials stress that you cannot spread Ebola before you have symptoms, and that people need close contact with bodily fluids to catch it. But they’re nonetheless tracking everyone who was on the flight. “Because of the proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the following morning, CDC is reaching out to passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth Oct. 13,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.

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Wednesday
Oct152014

Texas dept.: 2nd person tests positive for Ebola

DALLAS (AP) — Officials in Dallas say the second health care worker who has tested positive for Ebola was in isolation within 90 minutes of taking her temperature.

They also said she lives alone with no pets and decontamination work has begun at her residence.

The Texas Department of State Health Services said early Wednesday that the second hospital worker who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. had tested positive for the disease.

Tuesday
Oct142014

Sixty Days To Beat Ebola, United Nations Warns

The United Nations made the stark warning as it warned that the disease "is running faster than us and it is winning the race".

Nearly 9,000 cases of ebola have been reported so far in West Africa, including 4,447 deaths.

"The WHO advises within 60 days we must ensure 70% of infected people are in a care facility and 70% of burials are done without causing further infection," said Anthony Banbury, the UN's deputy ebola coordinator.

"We need to do that within 60 days from 1 October. If we reach these targets then we can turn this epidemic around."

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Tuesday
Oct142014

Staff of 25 Treating Ebola Victim in Norway!

The Local

23 of these are specially trained nurses, while two of the team are doctors responsible for taking turns to treat the woman, reported Aftenposten.

The Norwegian woman, who was flown home from Sierra Leone last Tuesday, is being treated at a high risk infection unit at Ullevål Hospital.

Her condition was on Monday was described as stable, but she is said to be showing signs of improvement.

Following the news on Sunday that a woman at a hospital in Texas in the US who was treating an Ebola patient, was herself infected by the deadly virus. Ullevål Hospital stated they have full control of the situtaion and effective routines in place to prevent the virus from spreading.

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Tuesday
Oct142014

NORWAY TREATS EBOLA PATIENTS USING MANDATORY BIOSECURITY LEVEL 4 PROCEDURES

Editor's Note: Why did nurse Nina Pham wear a gown while treating Duncan? I think you know the answer! The picture above shows how she should have been protected.

These are pictures of health staff working in biosecurity level 4 gear in a special infectious disease isolation unit in Ullevål University where the Norwegian Ebola patient is being treated.

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Tuesday
Oct142014

GERMAN HEALTH STAFF USE BIOSECURITY LEVEL 4 SUITS FOR EBOLA PATIENT: WHY NOT TEXAS OR SPANISH HEALTH STAFF?

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AN EBOLA PATIENT IN LEIPZIG, GERMANY, HAS BEEN TREATED BY STAFF USING BIOSECURITY LEVEL 4 SUITS, ACCORDING TO BILD NEWSPAPER.

http://www.bild.de/regional/leipzig/ebola/leipziger-klinik-wird-verseuchten-muell-nicht-los-38122414.bild.html

A PICTURE OF HEALTH STAFF WEARING THE MANDATORY BIOSECURITY LEVEL 4 SUITS IN THE GERMAN MEDIA:

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Tuesday
Oct142014

10,000 new Ebola cases per week could be seen, WHO says

ABC15

GENEVA - A World Health Organization official says there could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week within two months.

WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward says if the response to the Ebola crisis isn't stepped up within 60 days, "a lot more people will die" and there will be a huge need on the ground to deal with the spiraling numbers of cases. He said WHO estimated there could up to 10,000 cases per week in two months.

Acknowledging that Ebola was "a high mortality disease," Aylward said the U.N. health agency was still focused on trying to get sick people isolated and provide treatment as early as possible.

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Monday
Oct132014

WTF: Texas nurse wore a flimsy gown

Editor's Note: The breach was that she wore a gown and skin was exposed! Are they kidding? The word flimsy(not impermeable) was used by the nurses! Did the other nurses wear gowns, too? This has to be deliberate. Don't let them fool you into thinking that it's such a mystery as to how Nina got Ebola!

(CNN) -- The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.

A nurse who had worn protective gear during her "extensive contact" at a Dallas hospital with an Ebola patient who died tested positive during a preliminary blood test, officials said Sunday.

The woman had on a gown, gloves, mask and a shield during her multiple visits with Thomas Eric Duncan, but there was a breach in protocol, health officials said.

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Monday
Oct132014

The inevitable rise of Ebola conspiracy theories

EDITOR'S NOTE: Chris Brown was so far off base. Why would he think the NWO would want to depopulate the world? He's so crazy!

There's another unsurprising front in the battle to contain the Ebola outbreak — the rash of conspiracy theories piling up as the deadly virus rages on. And they are bizarre.

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Monday
Oct132014

U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief

EDITOR'S NOTE: Duh!! This is getting ridiculous!

(Reuters) - Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a U.S. health official said on Monday, after a Dallas nurse contracted Ebola despite wearing protective gear while caring for a dying Liberian patient.

As an outbreak of the deadly virus spread beyond West Africa, hospitals and nursing associations across the United States were taking a closer look at how prepared they were to handle such infections.

"We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control. Even a single infection is unacceptable," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, told reporters.

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Monday
Oct132014

Hospital officials: Kansas City patient at risk for Ebola  

KCTV5

The University of Kansas Hospital said a Kansas City, KS, man called and then came into the hospital early Monday morning with a high fever and other serious symptoms. 

Because the man had recently worked on a medical boat off the west coast of Africa, he was immediately isolated on a special infectious disease unit and is undergoing tests. 

Hospital staff met the patient wearing personal protection equipment and followed the hospital's plan for this kind of illness.

Tests are underway to determine a diagnosis.

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