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WHO Warns Ebola Outbreak Out Of Control, "High Risk Of Spread To Other Countries"
Things just went to 11 on the Spinal-Tap amplifier of massive infectious disease outbreaks. As AP reports, the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than the efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned. Dr. Margaret Chan pulled no punches in her direct statement, "If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries." Time to panic?
Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said the meeting in Conakry "must be a turning point" in the battle against Ebola, which is now sickening people in three African capitals for the first time in history.
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At least 729 people in four countries — Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria — have died since cases first emerged back in March. Two American health workers in Liberia have been infected, and an American man of Liberian descent died in Nigeria from the disease, health authorities there say.
While health officials say the virus is transmitted only through direct contact with bodily fluids, many sick patients have refused to go to isolation centers and have infected family members and other caregivers.
The fatality rate has been about 60 percent, and the scenes of patients bleeding from the eyes, mouth and ears has led many relatives to keep their sick family members at home instead.
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"Constant mutation and adaptation are the survival mechanisms of viruses and other microbes," she said. "We must not give this virus opportunities to deliver more surprises."
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"I believe we're only seeing a small portion of the cases out there ... The virus is getting to large, dense, city areas. We're now getting samples (to test) from all over," he said Friday.
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Meanwhile, other countries are taking precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola.
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Interestingly, worries are spreading quickly as one Commonwealth Games competitor found:
a cyclist from Sierra Leone competed in the Commonwealth Games after being tested for Ebola. Moses Sesay, 32, was admitted to a Glasgow hospital last week after feeling unwell, and doctors tested him for various conditions including Ebola. Sesay was passed fit, and released from hospital in time to compete in the individual time trial on Thursday.
Yahoo has kindly provided this 'panic sheet' for where the nearest CDC quarantine stations are in the US...
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Melted Chocolate City
Those are the FEMA camps.
They should have a you-tube camera showing the effects of Ebola as it tears into a body, bleading out all orfices, in say two or three minuets. It would go viral and people would stop making jokes about this shit.
"What would be a catchy name for them?"
Why not stick with an up to date variation of the old Great Depression moniker "Hoovervilles?"
Call them Obama Centers. Tell the folks to head to their nearest Obama Center for assistance and watch who takes them up on it !!
Obamacribs
Bio-warfare red flag. (fixed)
If you like your hemorrhagic fever, you can keep your hemmorhagic fever...
Overuse of the "if you like your..." cliche has reached epidemic proportions.
Think I'll give up trying to quit smoking.
ahhh, don't give up!
take the easy way ... e-cigs.
<funny how they showed up just in time?>
Disclaimer: yes, I quit tobacco and am doing e-cigs
My first thought, too.
I don't wish ill of these two, but bringing a disease like Ebola to a country that doesn't already have it within their borders seems like a really dumb idea, unless there are other motives. Of course, the US governent never has any motives other than the well being of the people, so everything should be alright!!???
The crazy fucker at Emory that is heading this up seemed to be rather proud of the fact in his speech at the local news conference hat this is the first time Ebola will be here.
Not true. They have samples stored in the freezer in their level 4 containment facility, probably right next to small pox.
True, but freezers don't go walking about the place spreading shit, they just store it until some psychopath wants to spread it around.
No, that's not right. They store the small pox in cardboard boxes next to the dumpster.
My theory on why they are bringing them here is because they suspect that the virus has mutated and they need to study and test the patients to verify if the virus has become capable of airborne transmission. I find the article about the WHO trying to track down 30,000 potentially exposed people alarming. How would 30,000 people have been exposed to bodily fluids? I think they are concerned that if it has mutated and become an airborne virus everyone who was in the same airport, hotel, etc with the American man who died might have been exposed and is now a potential vector.
Prolly working on introducing this to the mosquito vector for shits & giggles.
Never underestimate these sick fucks.
The virus obviously exist in Africa.
Nothing against Africans, but it IS there.
Why move it around unneccessarily - study it in place.
Amazing how the MIC can move huge amounts of shit around real fast when they want to.
Putting the facilities where the disease already exists has to be a better bet than moving the disease to the existing facilities. The precautionary principle and all that.
...they need to study and test the patients to verify if the virus has become capable of airborne transmission.
It already is, according to this youtube report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE
Moved from pigs to chickens who's cages were not in contact.
Just sayin'.
And yes, The Flu infects ~3 million and kills ~2-3k every years. But it's mostly old and young who die. Ebola doesn't care -- everyone is at risk of infection followed by death.
"any chance we had at containing this went by the boards when Campion bought his first take-out hamburger".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAvR-N8Xl0g
Yep, like the swine flu that fizzled. Shipping the infected all over the planet should help contain the outbreak. Maybe house them with the latest wave of illegals would make an interesting brew.
makes me wonder if these news articles are just cover for a program of stealthy release which coincides. 'they' could spray it from planes, or release it from hidden cannisters in well-travelled areas, etc.; all timed to go along with these news stories.
Load up a few of the planes already doing the chemtrails over major metropolitan areas (nobody even gives them a second look anymore) and voila!
They do not realize that it is airborne. It has been transmitted from a pig to a monkey in seperate cages in the same room. It can survive in the water droplets one expels in a cough or sneeze which are light enough to float through the air.
Fucking idiots are not even remotely enacting the proper controls for an airborne contagion not realizing or blissfully ignorant to the fact that blood and direct contact is not the only way to spread it.
We're fucked y'all
sadly, in reading up on this last night [much to the dislike of my gf who already thinks I worry too much about the neocons and ww3] I think you're right - it's airborne and its mutated into a couple different strains.
I do doubt it - but you almost have to wonder, given decades of fuckery, if Obama's Masters scheme to spread these illegal central americans around had anything to do with creating multiple vectors for disease.
When dealin' with psychopaths - you have to consider the least likely but possible scenarios then work in.
p.s. Haven't heard much on fukushima, and that's not anything I have any expertise on at all - but, in a simple sense, radioactivity leaks into the ocean/food chain probably achieve, eventually some kind of tipping point for bottom feeding ocean life, krill, plankton, that sort of thing, and regardless... its cumulative... its a dripping faucet in a stopped up sink- not a problem until, suddenly it is.
Anyone near Seattle with a geiger counter? Do a before and after a rain storm
Duffy try this site for fukushima.
http://enenews.com/japan-doctor-tokyo-longer-be-inhabited-everyone-livin...
The Ebola genome is 19 kilobase-pairs long; about twice the size of the HIV genome (9 kbp), and Influenza (about 10 kbp), but far smaller than Smallpox (a relatively giant 190 kbp).
So, with a rough average 3% mutation rate, per kbp, per replication cycle (applies to all viruses), there is plenty of "space" for modification. Many of these mods. will be fatal, or reduce viability (for the virus), however some will inevitably confer extra advantages, and these will propagate in preference to the original "wild type", should host conditions / availability remain essentially constant.
So, maybe yes, and maybe there is more unsettling news yet to come. After all we actually know relatively little about Ebola (in comparison with other human / animal / plant pathogenic viruses), and the current outbreak is going to be quite a learning exercise.
if you look at radiationnetwork.com, it seems like california is usually hotter than washington state. also, the 4 corners states generally seem hotter, and there's a spot in pennsylvania that's been reading fairly hot for 3+ years at least. of course, it's tough to tell how well-calibrated any of the 'meters' are, but it might be an interesting look. anyway, denver and 'PA" have probably been the hottest spots on the map. it is always odd though; it seems washington state is consistenly lower than cali.
LOL. I particularly like the Bar Code and slogan, and the Respect & Obey at the bottom.
You're a treasure, William, although I doubt our tyrant class will see the humor or the truth in your work.
May all the gods bless.
Just more thoughts.
I'm pretty sure it's against all sensible protocols to import a disease into a country that doesn't already have it.
I wish the best for these two people, but i'm pretty sure they would both pass on the trip, if they had the choice.
This smells worse than month old squid guts.
I'd like to know who made the decision to make this happen.
this is just what the doctored ordered!! A complete global disaster to mask the complete global disaster.
Are you worried about you and your family's life or your 401(k)?
are you worried about your job or your health?
This will be on every TV station, dead bodies will be shown to deeply seat the fear. Then no one will really care about the collapse, why the collapse happened, the pension check and SSI being cut, 50% unemployment or why Lloyd Blankfein owns your city paid for with the 401(k)s everyone in that city used to have. Only staying alive and begging govt for help. The bankers will be there to help you too! they are our friends!!
GREED IS GOOD!!!
She's correct about mutation. The more it's allowed to get to an ever increasing amount of the population the more likely it will mutate into a worse form.
I loved this movie as a kid.
but couldn't we add robots? too much?
1995!!!
Damn... I'm getting old... 20 years already...
So I shouldn't get the kids a pet macaque?
pods
They make great pets. Kid throw feces. Monkey throw feces.
Feces.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/26170612/drill-in-new-york-city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNOrp_83RU
It always gives me such a warm and fuzzy feeling to hear about an exercise on the exact same subject at the exact same time as current events would suggest a non-exercise could potentially occur. That no results will be published "due to security concerns" is another little unpleasant tidbit.
Lets talk in 21 days.
Preferably not in NY.
My Mom, Mrs Bastard, is too cheap to by expensive masks, antibiotics, protective gear.... She just tied a string of garlic around my neck and told me that'll work just as well.
Who knows? So far, no contagious person has come near me.
FRED throws feces, I read.
After that little Bobo the rattlesnake incident at home, I only want to keep our dog as a pet.
It's just suprising how fast thing can go out of hand when your watching TV while the kids are playing peekaboo with a snake...
Reminds me of the hilarity that was caused by people selling actual piglets as Pot Bellied pigs during the craze.
Little piggy grew up, then kept on growing LOL
10 dollar piglet became 500 dollar pot bellied pig LOL
Nice investment actually :)
We had a 'potbellied' yorkshire for 14 years, great first pet for the kids.
He did weigh 600 lbs. in his heyday. Very smart critters, didn't build nuke plants.
Nice, until your investment corners you in the kitchen and won't let you leave until you feed it.
The movie I liked as a kid was Alien 2, with Ripley's "nuke the entire site from orbit" quote and all.
yeah, how did that work out?
James Cameron made a lot of money.
How many times was the world going to end these last 10 years?
Kind of lost count here...
hollywood invaded the newsroom. Now every incident is a potential Michael Bay script.
Man made disasters I would agree with you, but Nature doesn't fuck around. Laugh at epidemics at your own peril. If one new case develops in the CONUS, LOOK OUT, it's fucking go time.
Then it's go time, silky. I've come to grips with my mortality. In the end the feeble power to laugh at the inevitable is the only power we have.
keep pimpin' big fella.
Mrs. C said Paraguy is not out of the question.
Will you adopt me? I'll carry your bags.
Adopt me and Mrs K too, and we'll both carry 813kml, his luggage, your luggage and all y'all's colostomy bags.
"If one new case develops in the CONUS, LOOK OUT, it's fucking go time."
No no no...your line is "its GAME OVER MAN!"
42
I thought that was the meaninig of life..... Hmmm... must be a coincidence.
It's the answer to everything.
Add 4+2 = 6, subtract 4-2 = 2. So, now we now have the sequence 2,4,6, sequential even numbers! Wow, so profound, yet so trivial, like all numerology.
The meaning of life: temporary reduction in the entropy/disorder of the universe. But on a long enough time line... heat death is inevitable.
Discuss amongst yourselves. I'm verklempt.
Oh ye of little faith in mans ability to fuck things up..
Someone posted a site of pics of India's Gange's river nastyness.. piles of human excetement, and dead bodies everywhere, If this virus ever gets ahold in areas like that..it's over.
And everyone thought Fuku was bad..
A serious side note..
My daughter informs me that she knows a kid in school who is from Ghana, who has been there all summer and will be back at school in Sept. 4 weeks from now.. I am watching this very closely..
"What I caught on my summer vacation."
Boy, did we have fun with this chimp!
Do you have to fuck the chimp or cook it to get the virus or just play with it?
You see... So many question still surround this virus...
Start with a dutch date, SD. If there's any chemistry take it from there.
You really know about walking on the dark side....
We'd get along marvelously, I'm afraid.
I'm an asshole, knukles. It might work out, who knows. It could be wonderful. For a while. Until I slip back into my old ways. I always do. Heavy drinking. Religious fanatacism. Dirty monkey sex.
Aw Heck, let's give it a shot.
You know, the quickest way is just to go with her on her first day at school, grab that kid by the arm, and tap some blood with a needle while spraying her with alcohol and go to the clinic to test the sample.
It sounds like a lot of work, but do it like this:
Fill your mouth with tequilla
Take the kid and put your booth on his neck to hold him down
And tap the blood while spraying the tequilla over the kid to disinfect just in case.
Voila!!
You'll sleep better at night!
And oh yeah... Don't forget to wave your kid goodbye when she enters her classroom on her first day. Kids love that!
Ya da waving puppet arm SD ;)
Are you a writer by any chance or do you just like to silly riff with the kids like me?
I have pulled my kid from school for less than that. Just sayin...
Never does, which is why Benares may indeed be a holy city.
Having swum in the ghats, at dawn , on more than a few occaisions myself,
the odd body floating by, didn't detract from the experience.
I may also have been stoned out off my mind at the time, in my defence.
It now turns out that the "End of the World" was mistranslated, and should have read: "End of an Era".
Which makes total sense. Eras are like stories, songs, movies and lives: They have a Beginning, a Middle and an End.
Basically the same thing to the people living in those stories, songs, and movies. Everything that went into the meatgrinder called "the enlightenment" came out unrecognizable on the other side.
Fine with me. This financial/cultural ponzi has served its purpose. Now it's embarrassing and insulting.
The Mayan Calendar is depicted in the shape of a circle.
I always found it funny that people thought a circle could 'end'.
Absolutely Kirk, it is not the end of the world. The Mayans never said it was the end of the world only the beginning of the fifth world, a new sun. Of course they did not hive any guarntees on the end of man. The world will be around for a long time.
http://www.seri-worldwide.org/id435.html
How many times was the world going to end these last 10 years?
Kind of lost count here...
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My world ended back on June 25, 2009; Godspeed Michael, you were born into a world unworthy of your grace.
Sounds bullish, buy the fukk outa stokss right now!
I just bought some shares of CONX (thanks to whoever recommended them). They're right in my backyard, Broomfield, CO.
Let me guess. Some stranger on the internet said CONX was going to go to $10+? Get a second mortage on your house and load up! There's no way people are looking for bagholders. It's a sure thing!
You guessed wrong.
The ebola trade????
Fucking grim reaper Bastard you!!!!
(oh well yea I kinda bought 200 @ 0.31 LOLZ)
This time for sure!
My wife who runs a clinic thinks it is absolutely stupid to send these people to the USA. They need to send the medical boats to Freetown. Fucked.
I'll wager you could send them to Gaza, and it STILL wouldn't be a war crime.
But I should not give then any more ideas on waging war against fellow Semites, whom they consider to be an "inferior species".
Take this report as full blown confirmation that we have ( as ususal ) been lied to, and that way more than 700+ cases have been confirmed, and that this is now officially out of control. Fucking liars.
Maverick
We know that people who have it can go for 4-5 days or 21 days with no symptoms, but be infectious. That means that double or triple the infected sick must have ebola. We open our airports to flights from KNOWN infected cities, anyone of the people flying in could be infected and not show signs for days or weeks. How smart is our government?
Now where did I put my copy of "The Stand"....
By your CD of the "Road". If you haven't seen it, a story of apocalyeptic proportions, cannibalism and walking the road with a grocery cart.
To me 'The Road' is the most depressing and most likely realistic representation of how things would be in a full SHTF situation. It is the opposite of doomer porn. It will crush anyones Zombieland style fun apocolypse ideas.
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"We open our airports"
So you own airports? With some partners? That must be quite a business! Otherwise, I don't know what "we" and "our" you may be referring to.
Semantic sarcasm sucks. Go stand in the corner.
Are you really starting with the presumption that our government is smart?
The people we see who pretend to run government are idiots. Their owners on the other hand.....
Are you really starting with the presumption that the government doesn't want this to happen?
To quote Christopher Wallace:
"Whatch think all the guns is for?"
With a couple years and billion dollars Kathleen Sebelius couldn't build a fucking website.
What makes anyone think she could contain an ebola outbreak?
Or that the idiot who replaced her about a month ago is any more competent?
Sebelius also ran the CDC with Besser.
We're so fucked.
How smart is our government?
Answer:
http://www.infowars.com/obama-signs-executive-order-to-detain-americans-...
Take time to think this through.
Remember current event lies.
Real or not, planned or not, this will be used
Arrogant and reckless at best.
"Disease spread pattern indicates Ebola can be airborne--U.S. officials remain insistent that Ebola isn't a significant threat to Americans, and that it can only spread through bodily fluids. But what the public isn't being told is that Ebola can be airborne when micro-droplet fluids containing it are suspended in the air, such as when an infected person sneezes or coughs, and it can even be transmitted when someone sweats through clothing onto furniture or sweats through hands onto a door handle.This is why health officials attempted to check the passenger manifests for the ASKY Airlines flights that Sawyer was on, as well as the 15 people with whom he is believed to have come into contact while at the airport. All of these people could have been exposed to Ebola from airborne transmission, even though most of them probably didn't have any actual physical contact with Sawyer.
Further evidence of Ebola's airborne transmission potential was outlined in a 2012 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. Researchers discovered that Ebola had transferred from one cage of pigs to another cage of macaque monkeys without direct contact. Though the exact mode of transfer was not determined, airborne transmission via contaminated fluid vapor or micro-droplets is believed to be the most likely explanation."
http://m.naturalnews.com/news/046274_Ebola_world_health_officials_panic....
You would be ale to contact it through farts as well? Unless Ebola dosent stick to fecal matter?
There are lots of flies in Africa. Now tell me it isn't airborne.
Wasn't the famous plague spread by lice or fleas on rats and mice?
Gives me the willies.
Unless the decontamination unit is negatively pressurized at Emory, that have no
chance of containting an aerosol contagion.
Some arrogant doctor prick(redundant I know) was smugly saying how sure ,the best medical system in the world, would have no problems with the patients, although they had no treatment for them.
So what is the point exactly in bringing them here, makes some feel good, while risking everyone else?
So does that mean they are going to Switzerland now ?
How smart is our government?
Wash out your fuckin' headgear new guy! It's all intended - damn better wake up and get your rifle sighted damn soon.
Introduce you to my little friend?
All the people who stand to make a mint off of a few million unfortunate deaths....
Doctors, lawyers, bankers, insurance, pharma, and a whole list of support staff.
How smart is our government - easy enough to answer.
Not even a little bit.
Or the UN parasites want mo' yo' money
Give me a location of Bill and Melinda Gates and their bridge friend Warren Buffet.
Every person who catches Ebola should do a drive-by on the gates.
Draw and quarter their children with an ATV.
If I get it, I'll be loading some subsonic HP's.
The British national health service contracted a study to be done on the chances of a spread of Ebola to the UK. All the variables of immigration and travel, plus Ebola behavior was put into a mathematical model for computers to run. The answer was "Ebola will spread to the UK".
Now, you see how "open borders" advocates and their government stooges are working above all to maintain complete "open borders" despite Ebola and it's dangers. Not satisfied with that, they go out and seek Ebola carriers to fly to America. They say they will do all they can to prevent spread. Thanks, what if "all you can" isn't enough. Right now the ebola is isolated in a few African countries. Our EU and American governments are flying Ebola into Europe and the USA. And doing nothing to stop flights from infected cities and nations. All the while they tell us how careful they are. This is the last straw for me. Our government must be a criminal enterprise, there is no other way to explain their actions over the lsat 10-12 years.
The Mob Rules
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28578596
Agreed. This violates the rules of containment which is the only effective policy properly applied to such an agent. This is not rocket science. Watch Alien and see what happens when you do not follow this simple rule. Science Fiction meant for entertainment becomes reality. I am now beyond miffed.
Miffed;-)
A little odd that the health care people are heading to the disease. Screen passengers for flu like symptoms? We're actually bringing the infected people here?
Hey dude....you know what you're dealing with...stay right where youse at bro.
If people are exhibiting symptoms it is already too late for containment. Dear God I can't believe this is happening!! For Damn sake WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!! I think I should have remained in the Matrix. What is the point of being aware of anything today.
Miffed;-)
>>What is the point of being aware of anything today.
Well if you're so inclined it does give you a heads up to get right with your maker. That is for those that believe in one.
"Ebolean"? "Ebolite"? "Ebolese"?...
What do you call a person with Ebola?
Dead, most likely.
Beat me to it, damn you.
Just remember that the bars and gates are to keep you contained, not other people out.
When Thoreau was on his death bed, a visitor asked him if he had made his peace with his Creator, and Thoreau said, "I was not aware that we had ever quarreled."
When Thoreau was on his death bed, a visitor asked him if he had made his peace with his Creator, and Thoreau said, "I was not aware that we had ever quarreled."
So true WillyGroper
Tis what I am working on ... getting right with the maker
I was beyond miffed earlier in the week, when it became apparent that ebola has got ahead of them. This bug has taken the game to another level, God only knows what we're really dealing with now. The field-level researchers in the best position to know what the threat is ... are dying. Alarm bells right there for me.
I suspect now the wee beastie is at least partially air-borne and aerosolized. If so, putting someone with ebola on a commercial flight amounts to mass murder.
In a few weeks we'll have a handle on this. Just maybe, we'll have a complete news blackout as well.
This is going to become very interesting, and not in a good way either.
Conspiracy...to commit murder.
I would go soo far as to call that a terrorist action.
Something for you all to ruminate on...
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Those who serve Leviathan unknowingly still serve, and should be dealt with without mercy.
As 'painful' for the majority to understand your last line is ABSOLUTE TRUTH. We need to come to the reality that noone lives for ever and your time here on this rock is NOT that precious!!!! But this is the big hurdle for 'us' to overcome, as our emotions get in the way more often then not and our emotions while at time beneficial are alos humans greatest weakness.
We need to be a lot more Mr. Spock and a lot less Capt. Kirk
Just my 2c
Compartmentalization means people often DON'T know the evil their work can and will be used for.
I don't think you can write off large swathes of humanity just for being slightly gullible, naive, and believing their government is looking out for them (what can I say, people want to believe, they take the truth like someone telling their Grandma never loved them)
Your Grandma loved you?
Duly noted. I will defer to Spock when possible and appropriate. ;-)
Note self: This business of using sci-fi personas as metaphors is starting to get complicated. People are hard to please.
Note to self??? Shouldn't that be 'Captain's log . . . "
Air travel is one path, but a typical Atlantic crossing for a modern freighter is only 10 -12 days, well below the incubation period.
I don't know about today, but back when I was sailing immigration control for ship's crews was very lax. Typically one immigration officer came aboard and stamped everyone's passport in the captain's office without even looking at the crew. After that, you could go ashore, get blind drunk, get laid, get a tatoo... whatever struck your fancy. Then there's the coastal trade, which involves everything from tramp freighters to wooden sailing dhows. How are you going to control that? With what navy?
One of the major vectors for the spread of disease in Africa is truck routes. So, will ALL cross border traffic be banned, or will some trucks be allowed through? Likewise, will remote roads be closed, or will they just become the alternate route? Lots of money to be made by poor soldiers tasked with closing those points.
I don't even know why I'm writing this. At this point, what difference could it possibly make?
As Rahddam Hussein Emanuel might say... 'This will be the "Mother of all Crises" to not let go to waste'
Jack, as I said earlier today (5033057), I love the smell of Diversions* In The Morning, to take my mind off the war crimes in Gaza, E. Ukraine and Iraq.
The Spin-cycle (pun intended) of Argentina, Ebola, Ukraine... Something for everybody, until DWTS and the NFL comes back.
The Presstitutes must be all hard or moist, with pens dripping and keyboards banging.
* How many people are getting killed in East Ukraine**, Gaza, and Iraq? Or by shootings in inner cities, or basic stuff every day? Seriously! Perspective and Balance, please, you damn PRESStitutes. How many? [crickets]
** Kiev did use Ballistic Missiles in E. Ukraine, NATO source confirms to DW: http://rt.com/news/177376-kiev-nato-ballistic-missile/.
One of the more detailed posts by The Saker.
July 30th Combat SITREP by JuanInformation from very reliable sources. These sources are in Novorossiya, Russian Federation, EU and Ukraine:
29.07.2014 in afternoon Ukraine time 4 SS-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missiles were fired by Ukraine Armed Forces. At least two were clearly aimed at Saur Moglia with the idea of the Ukes trapped in The Cauldron having a sudden escape route opened for them. Moments before launch Russian Federation units surged toward the border at The Cauldron area and to the north of The Cauldron.
None of the 4 Tochka missiles reached their targets. I repeat, none of the 4 Tochka missiles reached their targets and none impacted with the ground anywhere that can be found in anything close to one piece. As you know this missile can carry a tactical nuke, chem/bio, cluster munition or HE in the weight of just under 500 kilos.
When the 4 missiles failed to reach their targets the Armed Forces of RF immediately halted their surge and held position. They are in the same positions 30.07.2014.
There has been a noticeable slow down of fighting activity since the launches and Strelkov has pointedly said again that Novorossiya is open to negotiations.
The 4 Tochka missiles were shot down over Novorossiya territory occupied by Ukraine Armed Forces before the missiles reached their programmed height. They were shot down from inside RF according to normally reliable sources. No visual evidence has been provided of RF shooting down the Tochka systems nor of the system used to shoot down the Tochka missiles.
Not sure if this was an attack on the separatists or a test of Russian border anti-missile tech.
So the panic has finally gone mainstream. Two months ago people just looked at ya funny if it was brought up. Follow the 'official' infection rate, but expect some serious undercounting along the way.
This thing got out of control almost five months ago when it reached a city with a population of over 2 million. But at that point it actually could still be contained, and for a hell of a lot less than the initial $100M they will now spend on minimizing the destruction.
As always, this should explode equity share prices higher in another burst off buying.
Illness and suffering are now commodities that a few people will get rich on. There are those that would view a plague as an "emerging market"; as depraived as that may sound.
The CDC is the medical equivalent of the SEC in this regard.
humans prey on each others weaknesses, we only help others if it can create jobs and generate money. We re animals, we re a virus.
The Goldman Sachs will be touting an awesome "Plague Fund" by the end of the day.
(if they aren't already)
I would rather fight than be taken to an isolation center. If I have it then dying in a gun battle is preferable. If I don't then going to an isolation center will ensure that I do. Either way I will not go volutarily.
I'm with you Buzz. If I'm going down, I'm walking into a bank a bleeding all over the mother fuckers.
I suggest the lobby of Goldman Sachs.