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News Updates from CLG
4 October 2014

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Previous edition: 'UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne,' which Yahoo *and* Google relegated to the sp*m bin. See: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.

Yahoo Relegating CLG Newsletters to the Spam Bin 4 Oct 2014 Yahoo has joined NSAssociate Google in relegating every CLG Newsletter to the spam bin. Yahoo CLG subscribers: Please 'white-list' clg_news @ legitgov.org. Please add clg_news @ legitgov.org to your 'approved senders' or 'contacts' if you want the CLG Newsletters to arrive in your inbox.

U.S. ramps up Ebola troop deployments, total may near 4,000 3 Oct 2014 The Pentagon said on Friday it may send nearly 4,000 troops to West Africa to support America's response to the Ebola crisis, almost 1,000 above its previous estimate, and cautioned its projections may change further. Rear Admiral John Kirby said American troops preparing to deploy to West Africa would take all the necessary precautions and added the Pentagon would disclose as much information as possible about the health of deployed forces...The Army said it has already committed 3,200 forces for troop deployments. [See: Ebola in Senegal - Interesting Oil and Gas Map 30 Aug 2014.]

Pentagon sending 1,400 troops to Liberia [See how this works? First, the US-patented disease arrives - then, US troops.] DOD: 1,400 troops to deploy to Liberia to fight Ebola, starting in October 1 Oct 2014 Deployments of U.S. troops to 'fight the Ebola outbreak' in West Africa will accelerate this month when 1,400 soldiers are dispatched to Liberia, the Pentagon announced. The troops are expected to arrive in late October, joining nearly 200 Department of Defense personnel on the ground there, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Tuesday. Half of the soldiers are from the headquarters element of the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., and will form the headquarters staff of a joint forces command led by Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky.

Hospital: Dallas Ebola Patient in Critical Condition 4 Oct 2014 The lone U.S. Ebola patient is in critical condition, the Dallas hospital that has been treating him reported Saturday. Candace White, a spokeswoman for Texas Health Resources, which operates Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where Thomas Eric Duncan is being treated, issued a six-word news release saying, "Mr. Duncan is in critical condition." Thomas Eric Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC News earlier on Saturday that Duncan "is now on a ventilator."

US Ebola patient's friends quarantined under armed guard 3 Oct 2014 Four members of a household with whom the US Ebola patient had been staying were confined to their Dallas apartment under armed guard on Thursday as authorities faced tough questions over a series of missteps in their handling of the case. Towels and sweat-ridden bedclothes remained for two days in the Dallas apartment where an undiagnosed Ebola sufferer – Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan – was staying because health officials in Texas struggled to find a waste management company willing to accept them.

Hazmat team finally arrive at Ebola victim's apartment FIVE DAYS after he was taken away by ambulance as his family remain quarantined under armed guard inside 3 Oct 2014 A hazmat team was finally on scene today to sanitize the contaminated apartment where the Ebola victim's family have been quarantined under police guard. Louise Troh, her son Timothy Wayne, 13, nephew Oliver Smallwood, 21, and his friend Jeffrey Cole, have been legally ordered to stay inside the Dallas apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Duncan fell desperately ill last weekend. The confinement order, which also bans visitors, was imposed after the quarantined individuals tried to leave.

U.S. Journalist Tests Positive for Ebola --Freelance Reporter Plans to Fly by Air Ambulance to the U.S. for Treatment 3 Oct 2014 An American freelance journalist said he has tested positive for Ebola and expects to return Sunday to the U.S. for treatment, yet another demonstration of the international repercussions of the epidemic sweeping West Africa. Ashoka Mukpo, 33 years old, checked into a tent hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia Thursday morning and registered a 101 degree fever, he said by telephone from the facility, which is run by Doctors Without Borders. He is the fifth American—and the first journalist—known to have contracted Ebola while working in West Africa.

Vomiting passenger cleared of Ebola after CDC investigation at Newark Airport 4 Oct 2014 A vomiting passenger prompted the quarantine of United Airlines Flight 998 over fears of the deadly Ebola virus after landing at Newark Liberty International Airport early Saturday afternoon. Two passengers -- a father and daughter -- believed to be from Liberia were removed from the flight of 255 passengers after flying seven hours from Brussels. The father was exhibiting symptoms believed to be associated with Ebola during the seven hour flight, but Port Authority officials confirm he was not infected with the virus.

Sarasota patient has Ebola-like symptoms 3 Oct 2014 Sarasota Memorial Hospital went on high alert Friday when a patient who recently arrived from West Africa came to the emergency department with symptoms similar to Ebola. The patient has been admitted for treatment and observation, according to the hospital...As a precaution, Sarasota Memorial activated infection control protocols, including placing the patient in isolation and reporting the case to Florida Department of Health officials.

11 children have mystery illness in Colorado 3 Oct 2014 Another child in Colorado has been hospitalized with partial paralysis, Children's Hospital Colorado announced Friday. Doctors don't know what is causing the mysterious neurological illness. They have identified 10 other children at the hospital with similar symptoms...Four children in Boston also match the criteria for this illness, doctors say.

Attack Helicopter Shot Down By IS Rocket Launcher 3 Oct 2014 Fighters from the Islamic State extremist group have used a rocket launcher to shoot down an Iraqi military helicopter, say officials. The pilot and co-pilot of the Mi-35 aircraft were reportedly killed in the attack which happened between the towns of Beiji and al Senniyah in northern Iraq. The shooting down of the helicopter showed the insurgents' ability to hit back against air operations by Iraqi authorities and the US-led coalition...Beiji, which is 130 miles north of Baghdad, is home to Iraq's biggest oil refinery.

Holy coincidence, Batman! Guantánamo Force-Feeding Torture Videos to Be Released, So a New I-CIA-SIS Beheading Video Conveniently Emerges Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 3 Oct 2014 Today we learn that a federal judge has ruled that videos depicting detainees' force-feeding torture at the Guantánamo Bay prison must be released, tapes that the U.S. military and the U.S. Department of 'Justice' have been keeping secret. See, from the Guardian: Judge orders Guantánamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released 3 Oct 2014 A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of videotapes that show the force-feeding of an inmate at Guantánamo Bay. Days before the first legal challenge to the force feeding is expected to begin, Judge Gladys Kessler of the Washington DC district court on Friday ordered the government to prepare public versions of 28 videos showing a Syrian detainee prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, forcibly removed from his Guantánamo Bay cell and fed through a tube inserted through his nose into his stomach. Immediately following the judge's ruling, ISIS aka I-CIA-SIS, suddenly (allegedly) beheads another captive!

Isis video purportedly shows murder of British hostage Alan Henning 3 Oct 2014 Islamic State militants have published a video that is said to depict the murder of a British aid convoy volunteer Alan Henning three weeks after warning that he would be the next to die. If the video is found to be authentic, Henning will be the fourth western hostage to have been killed by the group, following the (alleged) video-taped beheadings of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and Scottish aid worker David Haines. The latest crime comes after the UK launched air strikes against Isis, joining the US and its Arab allies - Jordan, [the biggest group of beheading sociopaths on God's green earth,] Saudi Arabia and the UAE - which had been targeting the group for several days.

Judge orders Guantánamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released 3 Oct 2014 A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of videotapes that show the force-feeding of an inmate at Guantánamo Bay. Days before the first legal challenge to the force feeding is expected to begin, Judge Gladys Kessler of the Washington DC district court on Friday ordered the government to prepare public versions of 28 videos showing a Syrian detainee prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, forcibly removed from his Guantánamo Bay cell and fed through a tube inserted through his nose into his stomach. Kessler's ruling came after a coalition of media organisations, including the Guardian, applied for disclosure of unclassified versions of tapes that the US has never made available. The Justice Department and the military only acknowledged the existence of the tapes last year in filings to Kessler.

Sweden to recognise Palestinian state 3 Oct 2014 Sweden is to "recognise the state of Palestine", Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has said, the first long-term EU member country to do so. "The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be solved with a two-state solution," he said during his inaugural address in parliament...Sweden last month voted out the centre-right Alliance coalition of Fredrik Reinfeldt after eight years.

Death threat e-mailed to hundreds of Harvard students 4 Oct 2014 A large number of students and others affiliated with Harvard University received an e-mailed death threat on Friday, prompting an increase in security around the Ivy League campus. In a written advisory to the campus community, Harvard police said that "hundreds of Harvard students and affiliates" received an e-mail at about 4:45 p.m. in which the author threatened to gun down recipients on campus on Saturday. "Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) immediately began investigating [the threat], and also notified other local law enforcement agencies as well as the FBI," the advisory said, adding that campus police would increase their presence on school grounds over the weekend.

Leaked U.S.-Europe trade document confirms chemical industry attack on health safeguards 3 Oct 2014 As the seventh round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership moves toward conclusion today in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Friends of the Earth is calling for a more transparent negotiating process, especially in light of a leaked secret TTIP text on toxic chemicals. The closed door talks opened Monday, September 29, under a veil of secrecy to all except "cleared advisors," most of whom represent large corporations and trade associations. Negotiating text is not released to the press after each round of talks as was the past practice -- for example in talks for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. This secrecy is alarming given that TTIP negotiating objectives would result in weaker public interest and environmental regulation.

Vice accused of bowing to big corporations, sacrificing journalism for business 2 Oct 2014 A former associate editor for [useless] Vice is making waves after releasing internal emails that he says suggests that "there's no wall between editorial and marketing" at the media company. On Wednesday this week, Los Angeles-based writer Charles Davis posted a series of screenshots...that he claims have come from emails sent by management at Vice, where he worked from December 2012 until last month. In one apparent exchange, Davis shows an email in which he's reminded that "basically any mention of a large entity that [Vice] might be marking some kind of business deal with...should get run up the flagpole" before being published.

Jobless Rate Falls Below 6% for First Time Since 2008 3 Oct 2014 The American economy is picking up steam, with employers hiring again at a healthy pace and the unemployment rate at its lowest since the summer of 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. For the first time since the middle of the recession, the jobless rate fell below 6 percent, dropping to 5.9 percent from 6.1 percent in August, continuing a decline from its recession peak of 10 percent.

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