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19 October 2014

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Mutant Ebola warning: Leading U.S. scientist warns deadly virus is already changing to become more contagious --The U.S. scientist says new strain of Ebola may burn 'hotter and quicker' 18 Oct 2014 The deadly Ebola virus could be mutating to become even more contagious, a leading U.S. scientist has warned. U.S. scientist Peter Jahrling of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease believes the current Ebola outbreak may be caused by an infection that spreads more easily than it did before. Dr Jahrling explained that his team, who are working in the epicentre of the crisis in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, are seeing that the viral loads in Ebola patients are much higher than they are used to seeing.

Virus 'returning to sender?' Ebola scare closes Pentagon entrance, keeps bus passengers quarantined for hours 17 Oct 2014 A woman who said she had recently returned from Africa vomited outside the Pentagon on Friday, prompting police to close a parking lot and entrance amid concerns about the spread of the Ebola virus. The incident occurred about 9:10 a.m., said Lt. Col. Tom Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman. The officers found the woman in the Pentagon's south parking lot, and the Arlington County Fire Department was notified...UPDATE, 3:25 p.m.: A source familiar with the investigation told Checkpoint that the woman does not own a passport and it is not believed she left the United States. The source acknowledged the contradiction between that and the Pentagon’s previous statement that the woman told police she had recently traveled in Africa, but it is not believed that is the case.

U.S. Marines conduct 'Vigilant Response' full-scale pandemic outbreak drill 8 Oct 2014 Marine Corps Air Station New River on Wednesday held a full-scale pandemic outbreak drill where health officials and Marines responded to a smallpox outbreak that "occurred" aboard the installation. According to Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Kotora, the public health emergency officer for Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, the Exercise Vigilant Response drill was the first of its kind at a military installation in North Carolina. "A drill this size has never been conducted, so this is the largest pandemic exercise to my knowledge," said Kotora. Officials decided to incorporate administering inoculations during the exercise so that it would more accurately portray an outbreak situation where medical personnel would be required to screen and administer vaccinations.

Obama authorizes National Guard call-up for Ebola - reports 16 Oct 2014 President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized the call-up of National Guard reserves to address the Ebola crisis if needed, The Associated Press and Reuters reported...Federal health officials also faced Congress over how the U.S. has handled the crisis, and another person in Connecticut is exhibiting symptoms of the virus and has received an Ebola test.

Ohio hospitals conduct Ebola drills; eight people under voluntary quarantine 16 Oct 2014 State health officials recommended Thursday that Ohio hospitals conduct drills this week to practice how they would interact with a potential Ebola patient and use protective equipment such as gloves, masks and suits. They also asked that hospitals evaluate whether they have adequate supplies of such gear and reach out to the Ohio Department of Health if they need help to ensure they do. The recommendations were announced after news that eight people in northeast Ohio are under voluntary quarantine and being monitored because they had contact with a Texas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola shortly after visiting the area last weekend.

Coast Guard picks up blood sample from cruise ship 19 Oct 2014 A blood sample taken from a Dallas health care worker who is aboard a cruise ship and being monitored for signs of Ebola was retrieved by the Coast Guard, officials said early Sunday. Petty Officer Andy Kendrick told The Associated Press that a Coast Guard crew flew in a helicopter Saturday to meet the Carnival Magic and lowered a basket of supplies. The woman provided a blood sample, which was taken to a state lab in Austin for processing.

1,000 being checked for Ebola virus in U.S. 17 Oct 2014 Whether by land, sea or air, the fear of Ebola has been spreading at a pace far faster than the growth in the number of people diagnosed with the disease. In recent days, the number of people who have been asked to monitor themselves for symptoms has been steadily growing, especially among health care workers who were involved in the original treatment of Thomas E. Duncan, the Liberian who died from Ebola on Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. As of Friday, a pool of about 1,000 people are being watched for symptoms, have been asked to monitor themselves or have been urged to check with a counselor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Female Virginia prisoner who recently traveled from West Africa becomes first inmate to be quarantined for Ebola symptoms --Ebola tests are pending on the unidentified inmate currently being held at Inova Loudon Hospital in Leesburg, Virginia 16 Oct 2014 A Virginia inmate is one several people isolated at hospitals across the country under suspicion for Ebola. The unidentified female inmate incarcerated at a Loundon County jail was taken to Inova Loudon Hospital after coming down with a fever. Public officials are testing the woman for Ebola out of precaution since she traveled to West Africa in recent weeks.

Staff in Texas Ebola Case Is Asked to Avoid Public Spaces 17 Oct 2014 No restaurants, grocery stores, movie theaters or other places where members of the public congregate. No travel by airplane, ship, long-distance bus, train or other modes of commercial transportation. Such are the restrictions that dozens of health care workers who treated the Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are being asked to follow for the 21-day maximum incubation period of the virus. The documents were drawn up by the Texas state health agency and Dallas County officials after an infected nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, took two flights between Dallas and Cleveland in the days before she developed symptoms of Ebola and was diagnosed with the disease.

National Nurses Union Calls on Obama to Protect Health Care Workers 15 Oct 2014 The largest professional association of registered nurses in the United States is "deeply concerned" by the spread of Ebola, and is calling on President Obama to invoke his authority to protect health care workers. "Without action at a very high level, how can we expect the nurses to do this on their own?" National Nurses United Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro told reporters on Wednesday, hours after a second nurse who treated the first Ebola patient in the U.S. tested positive for the virus..."We've been essentially ignored by the White House and the CDC," she said.

About 50 people a week referred to 'deradicalisation' programmes --218 terror-related arrests so far this year 16 Oct 2014 Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer has said that several plots this year to murder people on Britain's streets "directed by or inspired by terrorism overseas" have already been disrupted, with police activity to prevent extremist attacks at its highest level for years. Scotland Yard assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said Britain's counter-terrorism network was battling increasing radicalisation via the internet, with fears that young British people are being brainwashed by material including depictions of [CIA/MI6] beheadings, suicides, murder and torture. About 50 people a week are being referred to deradicalisation programmes, the Guardian has been told.

Senate's inquiry into CIA torture sidesteps blaming Bush, aides 16 Oct 2014 A soon-to-be released Senate report on the CIA doesn't assess the responsibility of former President [sic] George W. Bush or his top aides for any of the abuses of the agency's detention and interrogation program, avoiding a full public accounting of one of the darkest chapters of the war on of terror. "This report is not about the White House. It's not about the president. It's not about criminal liability. It's about the CIA's actions or inactions," said a person familiar with the document, who asked not to be further identified because the executive summary – the only part to that will be made public – still is in the final stages of declassification. The Senate Intelligence Committee report also didn't examine the responsibility of top Bush regime lawyers in crafting the [il]legal framework that permitted the CIA to use simulated drowning called waterboarding and other interrogation methods widely described as [and are] torture, McClatchy has learned.

Big Mossad false FLAG (pardon the pun) 'oops:' Gardeners discover bag of ISIS flags in northern Israel 10 Oct 2014 Gardeners in the Israeli city of Nazareth Illit discovered a bag containing about 25 ISIS flags. Israel Police have opened an investigation into the discovery of the flags on Tuesday in an industrial area of northern Israeli city. The possession of materials from the jihadist group was outlawed in Israel several weeks ago. [Right, only US, UK, Australian and Israeli intelligence services can produce and disseminate them.]

British police officers targeted by alleged Isil terrorists 18 Oct 2014 British 'Islamist terrorists' plotted to kill police officers or soldiers, possibly in a drive-by shooting on London streets, it was alleged. Four British men were said to have sworn allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State - also known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil). They had allegedly obtained a handgun with a silencer to carry out the shootings. The plot was believed to include the [classic CIA/MI6] use of a moped.

Yemeni man sues Germany over US drone attack that killed his relatives 16 Oct 2014 A Yemeni man is suing the German government after two of his relatives were killed by a US drone strike in 2012. He says Germany is liable as they allowed Washington to use the Ramstein airbase, believed to be the nerve center of the operation. Faisal bin Ali Jaber, who is a brother in law and uncle respectively to the two men killed in the attack, submitted the 43-page law suit against the German Ministry of Defense at the Cologne administrative court on Wednesday.

Moscow says U.S. working on military 'scenarios' at Russia's borders 16 Oct 2014 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu accused the United States on Thursday of working on military "scenarios" near Russia's borders that he said were a source of grave concern. Interfax news agency quoted Shoigu as expressing surprise at a speech on Wednesday in which U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said U.S. armed forces "must deal with a revisionist Russia - with its modern and capable Army - on NATO's doorstep". "Chuck Hagel's thesis on the necessity for the American army to 'deal' with 'modern and capable' Russian armed forces on NATO's doorstep is of grave concern," Shoigu said, according to Interfax. "This testifies to the fact that the Pentagon is working on scenarios for operations at the borders of our country."

UK to Fly Reaper Drones Over Iraq to Battle Islamic State 16 Oct 2014 Britain is to use Reaper drones over Iraq as part of the battle against Islamic State militants. The deployment, revealed by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon in a written ministerial statement, is to happen within weeks, according to Sky sources. It will be the first time British armed drones have been flown outside Afghanistan.

Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter (second publication) 16 Oct 2014 Today, Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter...The IP Chapter covers topics from pharmaceuticals, patent registrations and copyright issues to digital rights. Experts say it will affect freedom of information, civil liberties and access to medicines globally. The WikiLeaks release comes ahead of a Chief Negotiators' meeting in Canberra on 19 October 2014, which is followed by what is meant to be a decisive Ministerial meeting in Sydney on 25–27 October.

Filmmaker who directed new film about Edward Snowden avoids UK because she fears arrest under Official Secrets Act --Laura Poitras advised by lawyers to avoid UK premiere of her new film 18 Oct 2014 The maker of Edward Snowden documentary CITIZENFOUR refused to travel to the film's UK premiere last night because she fears arrest under the Official Secrets Act. Laura Poitras said she had been advised by lawyers to avoid travelling to Britain because her work with the fugitive former contractor with the National Security Agency. Snowden is living in Moscow after he was granted asylum by Russia to escape charges of espionage in the U.S.

Supreme Court Upholds Strict Texas Voter ID Law 18 Oct 2014 The Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to enforce its strict voter identification law in the November election. The law, enacted in 2011, requires voters seeking to cast their ballots at the polls to present photo identification like a Texas driver's or gun license, a military ID or a passport. Critics say the law is the most exacting in the nation and would disenfranchise 600,000 registered voters, a disproportionate number of them black and Hispanic [and poor].

GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Tom Foley, a Greenwich Millionaire, Paid Effective Tax Rate of Zero in 2013 --For third year in a row, Foley's effective tax rate was zero 18 Oct 2014 (CT) Republican gubernatorial nominee [and plagiarist] Tom Foley, the wealthy Greenwich investor who spent 11 million of his own fort-ne running against Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in 2010, had an effective federal tax rate of zero in 2013. The Foley campaign allowed reporters to view summaries of the candidate's 2013 federal income tax returns Friday -- after last month granting members of the press access to summaries of his 2010, 2011 and 2012 returns. The most recent returns reveal that Foley paid zero percent in federal taxes for the third year in a row...

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