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President Obama Explains Why He Is Sending 10x More Troops To Fight Ebola Than ISIS - Live Feed

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As we discussed earlier, President Obama is sending 3,000 US combat troops into Ebola-fighting danger in West Africa (almost 10 times the number of non-combat troops being sent to Iraq and Syria to fight that other epidemic - ISIS). Speaking from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, we wonder if the President will stick to the line that the USA is "safe" (despite scientists predicting a 20% chance of infection here by year-end), that it is contained (despite scientists proclaiming this unprecedented and out of control), and why is the CDC telling US health-workers "now is the time to prepare."

One can only assume the reason to send "troops" is to monitor and mind 'stability' in these nations as The IMF steps up its bailout funding...

 

President Obama is due to speak at 1605ET - plan accordingly...

 

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Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:08 | 5224161 NoWayJose
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Let's see -

I've got Ebola and there is no more room at one of the overloaded clinics -- how about I stumble over to that new US troop compound and see if they will help me....  cough, cough, puke....

They have to open the gates at some point.... maybe I can jump on back of that truck full of soldiers...  Or hide in or even under that truck that just delivered supplies...  cough, cough, puke...

What can the US soldiers do to me?  If they hit me it will only make me bleed more, and they will get my blood on their weapons...  The US troops try to deliver supplies, but we are hungry and thirsty, so every truck is mobbed by people clawing and scratching to get food or medical supplies...  cough, cough, puke...

The soldiers are not dressed like the doctors.  They must come out into the community to help us, but they cannot know where Ebola victims have been.  Or even who has Ebola.  Some say that we can give them Ebola just by breathing on them, and they will never know...  cough, cough, puke...

When enough soldiers catch Ebola, will they leave us too?  Other villages say they are rounding up the people and putting them into camps.  No one wants to go, but the soldiers make them.  We know that Ebola waits for us there, in the camps...  cough, cough, puke...

My time is near...  I will charge the gate...  The soldiers cannot stop me - if they do I will die anyway...  cough, cou...

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:34 | 5224263 MsCreant
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Erambola: First Blood.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:13 | 5224183 talisman
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I have heard of the "criminal insanity" defense--
is there a parallel defense called "criminal stupidity"?

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:16 | 5224199 tony wilson
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not up on geopoliticks un alls.

geography not my forte

geogology or spelling eithers

rocks and minerals oi and gas

rare eaths minerals and sum.

der beachhead soldiers where day goin

what dare

have day good blood diamonds or silver uranium or sweet crude.

 

you would have to be dumber dan me a sayanim a hasbara troll or a rabbi to believes this brown cia mi6 jewish cock sucker obongo doin dis for humanity .big pharma laugh in big oil 2

hey obongo fuck you

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:17 | 5224200 Karl von Bahnhof
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Somebody calculated recently that by this rate of uptake we will be all sick by december 2015 and dead by march 2016

I call this as poorest fake yet (aside of isis-aq-cia) and ukraine democracy.

And also fake US dear leader, fake cumgress and fake money aside

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:23 | 5224221 loregnum
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I'm just waiting for when it does hit here how the government will most likely blame isis for it landing here. Surely I am not the only one who expects them to say that bullshit.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:29 | 5224244 Karl von Bahnhof
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On a positive note: no bloody taxes for these bastards since 2016.

(coz we will be all ded by then :)

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:31 | 5224251 SRVDisciple
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How appropriate that he's sending "corpse-men" to the ebola hot zones.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:44 | 5224292 paul steinert
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This is a Hail Mary from Obama to create some kind of positive legacy.  If the effort fails and ebola decimates the world's population, so what, "at least he tried".  If ebola mutates into a less virolent form, and turns into "only" a semi-deadly flu-type pandemic, he gets kudos from the MSM.  For him, there is no downside.  For the troops, there is.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 21:24 | 5224934 Kprime
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it's bush's fault, Obola just inherited the problem

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:42 | 5224294 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/-simandou-iron-ore-project-gui...

The Simandou iron ore mine is located in southeast Guinea, Africa. First production from the mine is expected in 2015. The mine has a projected life of at least 30 years.

The project is being developed by Rio Tinto in partnership with the Government of Guinea, Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Rio Tinto and Chinalco hold 46.57% and 41.3% stakes respectively in the project. The Republic of Guinea holds 7.5%, while International Financière Corporation (IFC) owns the remaining equity in the mine.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/rio-tinto-guinea-...

A LANDMARK agreement has brought an end to three years of contractual wrangling over how best to develop Africa’s biggest mining project, a $US20 billion iron-ore deposit nestled in the remote forests of Guinea.

For months, Rio Tinto and its partners Aluminum Corp of China, or Chalco, and the International Finance Corp, the private-sector arm of the World Bank, have been in talks with President Alpha Condé’s reformist government to figure out a way for the Simandou mine to be financed and executed.

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Part of the new plan is to create a new consortium to fund and manage the construction of a 650 kilometre railway from the mine to Guinea’s Atlantic coast, as well as building a deepwater port to ship the iron ore to China and Europe.

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Sovereign-wealth funds, private equity, iron-ore customers and export credit agencies are among those who have been approached, said the person, though they declined to specific which ones.

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By linking a publicly listed multinational with a Chinese state-owned company and a global development financing body, the deal breaks new ground in bringing together a disparate set of groups whose African interests don’t always converge.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:49 | 5224311 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://standardtimespress.org/?p=4633

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In Sierra Leone today, the Red Dragon (China) seems to be the new colonial power –exerting tremendous influence – from bilateral trade agreements to Agriculture, health care, infrastructure, fisheries, energy security and education. In 2010, bilateral trade reached $109 million, and total Chinese direct investment was $51.2 million. And, China has emerged as Sierra Leone’s second largest importer and exporter after the European Union (EU). China’s main exports to Sierra Leone include: mechanical and electrical products, textiles and other light industrial goods, cultural and educational materials, hardware and articles for daily use.

Presently, there are 30 Chinese companies operating in Sierra Leone. Their primary reason: a huge commercial interest to extract Sierra Leone’s mineral resources. While African Minerals and London Mining seems to be gaining grounds on this significant venture, the Chinese are on a “stand by” waiting to make a giant entry into Sierra Leone’s mineral fields. Chinese companies are playing the “silent storm” strategy to occupy and conquer many of these mining fields in the next decades to come. And many visionless politicians are working with some of them to realize this exploitative mission. China may be looking to expand its circle’s of influence by purchasing radio stations, building new television networks and even acquiring local newspapers in the near future.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-20/china-trade-with-sierra-leone-t...

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China will expand trade with Sierra Leone this year to a record $2 billion as the world’s largest user of iron ore seeks more of the material for steelmaking.

Trade will rise 33 percent from about $1.5 billion in 2013, Johnson Jiang, commercial secretary at the Chinese embassy, said in an interview in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. Trade in the first nine months of last year totaled $1.18 billion.

China, which imports about 60 percent of global iron-ore output, increased purchases to a record last year as demand for steel from the car and construction industries climbed. Rising consumption of the commodity benefits producing countries such as Sierra Leone, which expects its economy to expand more than twice as fast as the average in sub-Saharan Africa this year.

The West African country began shipping iron ore in 2011 following the development of the Tonkolili and Marampa mines. Its iron-ore riches have lured Chinese companies including Shandong Iron & Steel Group Co. (600022), which has a 25 percent stake in Sierra Leone’s biggest iron-ore producer, African Minerals Ltd.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 17:51 | 5224323 dot_bust
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So, what purpose would U.S. troops serve in an Ebola-afflicted nation?

I guess there are two possibilities:

  1. Our soldiers will try to aim M-16s at the microscopic Ebola virus.
  2. They'll shoot the infected.

Wouldn't it make more sense to send the nice folks from USAMRID? After all, they probably designed the new strains of Ebola.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:00 | 5224366 Laddie
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Transition to Black Rule? November 14, 2008

Perhaps it is because whites have brought diminished status upon themselves that we are expected to take pride in it rather than fight to reverse it. As Paul Krugman explained helpfully in the New York Times, “If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you.” This means there is something wrong with at least 55 percent of whites, but that has been the Times’s position for years.

Mr. Krugman’s joy in Mr. Obama’s victory is shared by whites all around the world. “We have great hopes that we are standing at the dawn of a new era,” wrote the Norwegian daily Aftenposten. “One Giant Step for Mankind” read the front page of England’s Sun newspaper. A headline on the London Telegraph website declared: “Barack Obama Victory Allows Britain to Love US Again.” The Times modestly headlined its election story, “The New World.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada spoke of Mr. Obama’s “tremendous, historic” victory, and the Toronto Sun called it “an historic milestone like no other.” Le Monde in Paris noted that “from Left to Right, [French] politicians have been competing for superlatives with which to praise the election of Barack Obama.” Milan’s Corriere della Sera wrote that Mr. Obama was “the man who can save America from utter breakdown.”

This chorus of rejoicing has eerie parallels to how the world’s whites welcomed black rule in South Africa. In 1993, Mr. Mandela and Mr. de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their new, “power-sharing” constitution. Mary McGrory of the Washington Post gushed only slightly more than most when she wrote in her May 12, 1994 column that “Nelson Mandela has won what the [Washington] Post calls ‘one of history’s sweetest victories over racial subjugation’ and he is going to keep it clean and beautiful so that newspaper readers will think they are reading scripture when they read dispatches from South Africa that cannot be read except through tears.”

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:05 | 5224377 yogibear
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Obama's way of spreading the African pain to the US.

 

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:29 | 5224437 Z_End
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So AFRICOM will have another reason to exist. Keeping Africa safe from the Chinese wasn't enough... unless of course the Ebola is part of it. ;-) Forward HQs coming soon...

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:41 | 5224464 worstideaever
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I am a physician and have followed the Ebola story with interest-and trepidation. I remember being on a trans-Pacific flight where we hit some turbulence. I was ok until I saw the flight attendants get nervous. I was moderately concerned-until I saw the epidemiologists and virologists get nervous-and they are. 

Ebola is genetically unstable-meaning it mutates frequently. The epidemiologists and virologists are afraid that there is going to be a mutation that will allow transmission via aerosilization-like sneezing and coughing. If this happens it will be like the Bubonic plague writ large.

When the smart people get nervous, so do I.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:49 | 5224483 tuttisaluti
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Obama is controlled by aliens. They need to get rid of all humans in order to take over the planet

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:56 | 5224505 worstideaever
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President Barack Ebola. Kinda rolls off the tongue.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 18:57 | 5224510 are we there yet
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Obama makes marines hold his umbrella, remove firing bolts from their rifles in parades near him, and now marines get to be hospital janitors and security guards in african slums. Obama is the worst commander in chief ever. He may not even be a legal US citizen.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 20:19 | 5224753 lotsoffun
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has obama REALLY proven that he is an american citizen?  i do not think so. i think he has proven there is no proof he is not.

and i don't really care.  except for the truth.  and we ain't getting that.

 

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 19:10 | 5224546 _SILENCER
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Prepare for dust off, we're going to need immediate evac.  I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 19:22 | 5224576 ajax
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"Out of the mouth of babes, my grandaughter said:

Its here, and they want the troops to know how to deal with it."

Yeah right Winston, and babes also gurgle nonsense.

Here in CH (Suisse) there's no Ebola anywhere and believe me brother there are thousands of West African men and women plying their various trades on the streets (fresh off the boat, "mon"). 

On the other hand Seattle-Tacoma Airport has a measles warning for the US public (also reported on Reuters):

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Health-officials-warn-of-Sea-Tac-meas...

This is real and measles kills.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 19:42 | 5224633 BrokusDickusMaximus
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The GI's will be ok. We got shots for everything under the planet back in '03. I think this is a Eugenics move to remove the trroublesome indigenous people from some very serious resources under ground. We have a shit load of oil guys in Nigeria. When it's quiet west of there..go get'em boys! I don't trust these bastards as far as I can throw them.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 20:04 | 5224704 MsCreant
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By your logic, they regret what they did with the Arabs and learned their lesson. Don't deal with them, just kill them and take their shit.

Kinda like we have done to Japan, China, Pakistan, India and Mexico. They love our effluence, pulsing through their waterways, chugging out of their smokestacks, radiating off their oceans. Give them bits of paper and pixels, reward and priviledge a few, who will then abuse the many on our behalf. "Our hands are clean, we didn't do it, they agreed to it. It's such a shame how their leaders abuse them." And keep them colored people wanting to "be like us." 

Fucking Arabs are supposed to just eat our shit, like everyone else. Shoulda killed them all instead of murking around in their politics, overthowing their governments. Same with the Iranians. We'll do it right with these Africans. 

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 20:46 | 5224805 royal
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They can't stop the virus.

All they can do is get infected and bring it back here.

And even if they could stop it, why take the risk over a bunch of ignorant savages?

The Liberians are idiots that shit on their own beaches, and when they're not doing this, they're eating the hearts of children and fighting in the nude alongside General Buck Naked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo

 

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 21:02 | 5224873 dizzyfingers
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True leaders say "LET'S GO", they do not say "YOU GO". Obama family first, all of them.

Meantime, hide your kids and grandkids.

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 21:17 | 5224916 surfer433
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Creating another crisis to take advantage of.

 

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 21:19 | 5224923 Lumberjack
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Ebola Outbreak in Africa Kills 144 Doctors: Russian Health Watchdog

MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Over 300 doctors have been infected by the Ebola virus, with 144 losing their lives to the Ebola virus disease, Russia's public human wellbeing agency Rospotrebnadzor informed on its website on Tuesday.

"Cases of infection of medical staff are registered as well – 301 doctors have been infected, 144 of the cases were fatal," Rospotrebnadzor wrote in a statement.

According to the agency, Liberia, and especially its capital, Monrovia, has been hardest hit by the Ebola virus outbreak.

In a separate outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 66 cases of Ebola infection have been registered, 37 of which had a fatal outcome. These cases are not connected with the larger outbreak in West Africa, Rospotrebnadzor wrote.

A team of Russian epidemiologists, virologists and bacteriologists is still stationed in Guinea, the agency stated.

"A Rospotrebnadzor anti-epidemic team continues its work in the capital of Guinea, where it conducts laboratory diagnoses and participates in anti-epidemic measures alongside the Guinean Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene."

 

Wed, 09/17/2014 - 04:27 | 5225494 unicorn
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AntiFlag Die For Your Government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkANvtxLoY

Wed, 09/17/2014 - 08:57 | 5225752 Ebanga Planti
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Where ever you find US military, it is either that they are there to protect their interest or to seize what they have an interest in. 

Wed, 09/17/2014 - 13:28 | 5226766 Solio
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Where will those 3,000 troops be flying to for R&R?

Wed, 09/17/2014 - 14:11 | 5226980 Vin
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What bunch of crap.  Our muslim president is simply doing what he's told by the banking families.  If they're going to control the world (NWO) they need to reduce global population significantly.  Send in the epidemics!

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