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Obama Appoints Lobbyist/PR Flack As Ebola Czar

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Obama has appointed Ron Klain as the Ebola Czar.

Klain has no medical or healthcare background whatsoever.

Instead, he’s a high-powered lobbyist. He helped the corrupt Fannie Mae to overcome “regulatory issues” in 2004. Wikipedia notes:

Klain [helped in] convincing Congress and Fannie Mae’s regulators that Fannie Mae wasn’t doing anything dangerous, and wasn’t exposing taxpayers to risk. In other words, Ron Klain got paid to help fuel the housing bubble up until a couple of years before it popped.

Klain also:

Represented a company facing asbestos-exposure lawsuits, the embattled drugmaker ImClone and two companies trying to win support for large mergers.

What’s he going to do … lobby to convince Congress that Ebola is not that big a risk?

Klain is also a major Democratic operative, serving as Chief of Staff for Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden.  As such, it is not unlikely that he will be motivated to cover up for any missteps by Obama and CDC chair Tom Frieden.

Matt Stoller – who knows as much about Washington, D.C. politics as anyone – notes:

Ron Klain is a fixer who is well-connected and knows his way around the exec branch. His skill is fixing PR problems, not logistics.

 

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Sun, 10/19/2014 - 06:22 | 5351912 lakecity55
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The Tribe has obviously found  the perfect murderous psycho to exterminate Americans.

His name is Bath House Barry.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 10:05 | 5350132 atthelake
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So, either there is nothing to this and it's fake OR they're trying to kill us. 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 12:02 | 5350318 Otto Zitte
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If it's fake they're still trying to kill us. The human struggle for survival is the most intense contest on Earth. 

Sun, 10/19/2014 - 03:37 | 5351853 conscious being
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Tell that to the carrier pigeon. [They're extint.]

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 10:13 | 5350143 kchrisc
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"So, either there is nothing to this and it's fake OR they're trying to kill us."

It's both: They are always lying, and they are always trying to kill us. Act accordingly.

An American, not US subject.

 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 09:59 | 5350114 kchrisc
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"Obama Appoints Lobbyist/PR Flack As Ebola Czar"

And does anyone need anymore proof than that to realize that this whole Ebola thing is nothing more than another government and elite scam to enable them to seize more power over us?!

An American ,not US subject.

 

"Help! I've be FUDed, and I can't think anymore."

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 08:44 | 5350031 lucyvp
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how did those nurses get sick?  Im sure they followed some careful procedures?  They were probably wearing masks and gowns and gloves.   so if these nurses became infected how am in going to survive on the bus?

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 18:29 | 5351063 porph
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Sorry, Lucy. We're not supposed to survive......

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 09:05 | 5350020 Cloud9.5
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This last week I was having a conversation with an Air Force Colonel whose prior assignment was watching over ballistic missiles.  He said we here in the public cannot handle the truth. The truth is far too ugly.  Therefore it was the mission of central planners to placate and calm the public. If this was not done then  the system would fracture and become dysfunctional.  That is why Ron Klain was chosen to run this show instead of somebody like Michael Osterholm.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMKUa0sxBQ

 

It gets really interesting in the last bit of the clip where Osterholm talks about this strain being airborne.

 

Sun, 10/19/2014 - 06:27 | 5351913 lakecity55
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(Zionist)

"You cannot hope to disarm Americans, Bath House. However, what is in this test tube will solve the problem."

"I obey as always."

"Here is the antidote, Take it now. In two hours, this tube will be in Dallas."

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 12:17 | 5350340 pupdog1
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Wow.

Feynman clarity on a wildly complex scientific problem.

He would have been the perfect candidate for flounder's job.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 08:21 | 5350005 Ban KKiller
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 Bullish? What bank owns this clown?

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 13:30 | 5350519 daveO
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Drug industry. 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 12:18 | 5350343 pupdog1
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What bank doesn't own this clown.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 08:20 | 5350004 Reaper
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Put a robe on a sleazy lawyer and you have a judge. Put an official robe on a sleazy lawyer and you have an Obola czar. Venal filth is a mild description of these two Harvard Law Review editors running this ebola hustle. Watch who gets the cash dispensed.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 08:05 | 5349998 Whoa Dammit
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It's time to start looking at the economic costs of allowing travelers from Ebola countries into the U.S. vs. quarantines and travel bans.

 

So far just 1 Ebola tourist has cost:

Over $500K in direct hospital expenses

The effective loss for the foreseeable future of a 900 bed hospital

Loss of use of other hospital facilities during Ebola scare lock downs while attempting to identify possible Ebola patents 

Loss of 3 apartment units, if not the entire apartment buildings/complexes as no one will want to live there

Loss of revenue to the airline and cruise ship industries

Clean up costs associated with real and possible Ebola patents

Fire/ Police/ EMT/ Ambulance response costs for real and possible Ebola patients

 

I am sure there are many other costs that I have not thought of. But I don't think we can afford more of the same.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 07:25 | 5349981 The Alarmist
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Look at the good job lawyers have done organising government and the rest of society ... now, given how the medical professionals have handled ebola thus far, why not let the lawyers have a crack at it?

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 14:54 | 5350664 Lumberjack
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Kinda funny you asked. They consulted the board who consulted financial who consulted legal. Then they take the advice of financial based on legal and the medical goes out the window. You can see clearly how the unions are trying to cash in on this and financial can't wait for the bailouts. Yes it will ramp up the economy and make idiots (cronies) like those who fear mongered and cashed in on the airport scanners etc.. very well to do. 

 

 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 06:51 | 5349964 russwinter
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Ebola Ground Zero: the Kenema, Sierra Leone Bioweapons Lab:

http://winteractionables.com/?p=15725

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 06:44 | 5349952 TheGreatRecovery
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Darn!  I was hoping he would appoint Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden.

Also, I am tired of the word "czar".  Instead of Ebola Czar, how about Ebola Fairy?  Sounds nicer.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 13:28 | 5350513 daveO
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Czar was pre-Lenin. I think Commissar is most appropriate. At least, they got the country right. 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 06:33 | 5349945 overmedicatedun...
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CDC, NIH,FDA, what are they paid for again?

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 13:28 | 5350516 mjcOH1
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To provide jobs for the half-wit nephews of the representatives elected by the the majority/entitled.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 03:54 | 5349871 conscious being
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Wow, ISIS ebola sufferers can drive right up to the Pentagon?!

Maybe Obammy needs a rethink.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 03:13 | 5349852 f16hoser
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The Gay Prince is a Dumb Ass. If you voted for him; you are a dumb ass! Simple really.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 01:48 | 5349811 nathan1234
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Ebola Czar Ron Klain will be the Pied Piper to lure all Ebola to  ...maybe if we are lucky.. to Obola

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 01:10 | 5349790 goldsansstandard
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Czar Nicholas Ebola I?

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 00:55 | 5349778 rwe2late
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For the politicians,

Ebola is considered a public relations problem, not a medical one.

Klain's

"expertise" is PR

and manipulation of public opinion.

His stated how-to-do handbook recommends extensive use

of social media to shape opinion.

http://www.politico.com/playbook/0614/playbook14461.html

[There is an analogy with regard to warfare. The "lesson" of Vietnam to them was that the media should have been controlled much more and everything would have been just hunky-dory.]

 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 03:52 | 5349869 conscious being
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As far as banksters were concerned, things were hunky-dory. The gold window was shut and the move to unlimited fiat underway ... a bankster wet dream.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 00:51 | 5349768 Kassandra
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Well, that's it. We are on our own.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 03:49 | 5349865 conscious being
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Turns out we always have been. Just didn't know it when times were fat.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 00:48 | 5349767 pupdog1
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It is reported that Mexico has turned away an entire cruise ship because one of the Dallas health care workers was on board, and has been feelin' a might poorly lately.

This is the same shithole of a country that allowed, by design, 50,000 disease-ridden Central Americans to transit the entire length of Mexico and jump straight into "Jeh" Johnson's outstreched arms.

But no worries--instead of firing the CDC half-wit Frieden, Obama has put yet another filthy FUCKING Harvard scumbag shyster in charge.

If Kafka, Orwell, and Steven King got together they couldn't make this shit up.

 

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 09:07 | 5350053 nmewn
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Amazing isn't it?

I'm trying to work a joke into someone catching a disease on a cruise ship but this farce of a shit show is practically writing itself.

And squire catching the enterovirus because of Barry's "southern border immigration policy" of shipping these people to every state in the country to make room for still more is not fucking funny.

He has it, almost over it (been fighting it for over a week) and I'm pissed.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 22:20 | 5351554 g'kar
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"Barry's "southern border immigration policy" of shipping these people to every state in the country"

 

Very similar to implanting section 8 housing "folks" in many districts not under his control. Votes in the right district at the right time..

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 00:44 | 5349764 LeBooger
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He may be a hack but now can add 'patsy' to his pedigree. So far everything seems to be aimed at prolonging the period for the spread of the hot zones. By the time it gets too hot everyone will be in panic mode and the larger view will be lost in the haze churned up by the mob: everyone will be isolated by living their own personal disasters.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 06:00 | 5349925 Monty Burns
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Hang on, this guy must be brilliant. Two years after leaving law school he was Chief Council to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where, inter alia, he managed the Supreme Court appointment process.  So he must be brilliant.  Or maybe it was Tribal connections?  Naaw...

Sun, 10/19/2014 - 03:31 | 5351848 conscious being
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Thanks Monty.

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 03:47 | 5349864 conscious being
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Not a patsy in the way that Jack Ruby was not a patsy. He's doing his ideological job. Someone has to orchestrate the spread or they're not going to get the job done.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 23:09 | 5349640 jomama
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ZOMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE A BLOODY DEATH!!!!

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 23:14 | 5349639 limacon
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Not a problem.

He'll run afoul of L. Craig Venter .

Venter probaby already has vaccines for Ebola .
Notice the unprotected man with the checklist .

Check how many oil workers in West Africa have protective gear , or became sick .

Venter has the lab and production setup to create a vaccine and manufacture it (100 million doses) within a week .

See

http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2010/09/mexican-gulf-oil-spill.html
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2010/09/gulf-oil-spill-update.html

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 22:57 | 5349610 alexcojones
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Obama The Incompetent? Nope. Something more Sinister.

A taller tanner Bush but with more cunning and deceit.

An African Darth Cheney

Obama Tabs Zio Lib w/NO Health Experience As 'Ebola Czar'

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 22:53 | 5349604 alexcojones
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When is it time to Impeach Obama?

Answer: 2008, when the Kenyan took office illegally.

JFK and Obama--Profiles in Courage and Cowardice
Sat, 10/18/2014 - 00:06 | 5349599 news printer
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YOU’RE EITHER THE BUTCHER OR YOU’RE THE CATTLE

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/youre-either-butcher-youre-cattle...

Great post by JimQ

Welcome to NEW Terminus where a soylent green is long gone, there is only fresh ( moderate) liver left  ;)

http://youtu.be/61xq5Kja1Uo?t=45s 

edit: http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-cure-meme.jpg

 

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 22:41 | 5349575 RaceToTheBottom
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Yep, most scientists agree that Ebola is a PR problem.

 Poor guys that died because of a PR problem.

Too bad.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 23:33 | 5349683 disabledvet
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Hmmmmm. Security non existent at the white house. Sudden throngs of angry white folk appearing.

Hope they have a plan for protecting the valuables.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 22:21 | 5349540 worbsid
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The reason he was selected is: He's a doctor! A spin doctor. Doctors the truth. Will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Republicans and every other possible entity except Dems are responsible. 

 

Sun, 10/19/2014 - 09:55 | 5350154 rwe2late
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worbsid

exactly correct:

horrible outcome (for them)= 1 death, if they lose public support

much better outcome (for them) = 100,000 deaths, if they get to increase power, and blame political rivals, "terrorists", "foreigners", nurses, airlines etc.

 

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 22:31 | 5349564 conscious being
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Kind of looks like Flounder, doesn't he?

Animal House, Flounder

Sat, 10/18/2014 - 06:24 | 5349939 tom a taxpayer
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BREAKING NEWS: Onion magazine files for bankruptcy stating it cannot compete with real-life farces from White House. Onion's editor admits his staff cannot satirize what is already absurdist buffoonery, such as Obama appointing a political hack as Ebola Czar, or allowing a Liberian from Ebola-stricken county to visit his girlfriend in Dallas.

Fri, 10/17/2014 - 22:12 | 5349517 SMC
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"Optics" is all the current regime cares about, who better to control the message and focus hate elsewhere while they kill off a couple of hundred million in the US and billions around the globe.

This comedic tragedy is just getting started.

What did people expect would happen when they lost control of their government?

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