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Weaponized Ebola? ISIS Militants Said To Contract Deadly Virus

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Forget targeted US airstrikes, ISIS faces a new existential threat. Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital, Iraq's official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, said Ebola arrived in Mosul from "terrorists" who came "from several countries" and Africa. Mashable further confirms, three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at a hospital in Mosul. For now, it's unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus; but it would mark the first time the virus had been detected in an area controlled by ISIS, a group that doesn't embrace science and modern medicine.

 

As Mashable reports,

Reports that Islamic State militants in Mosul have contracted Ebola swirled though Iraqi media sources on Wednesday. World Health Organization officials said they haven't confirmed the cases, but the organization has reached out to offer assistance.

 

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"We have no official notification from [the Iraqi government] that it is Ebola," Christy Feig, WHO's director of communications told Mashable.

 

Feig added that WHO is in the process of reaching out to government officials in Iraq to see if they need help investigating the cases, a task that could be a challenge, given the restrictions that would come with operating in ISIS-controlled territory.

 

It's unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus. A Kurdish official, who was convinced the cases are Ebola, told the Kurdish media outlet Xendan that the militants' symptoms were similar to those of the Ebola virus.

 

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Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital, Iraq's official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, said the disease arrived in Mosul from "terrorists" who came "from several countries" and Africa.

 

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If the cases in Mosul turn out to be Ebola — a scenario that, at this point, seems highly unlikely — it would mark the first time the virus had been detected in an area controlled by ISIS, a group that doesn't embrace science and modern medicine.

 

Over the past few weeks, militants affiliated with ISIS have executed more than a dozen doctors in Mosul, according to Benjamin T. Decker, an intelligence analyst with the Levantine Group, a Middle East-based geopolitical risk and research consultancy.

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The question now is - will Nobel Peace Prize winning President Obama send his humanitarian non-boots-on-the-ground military advisors to help?

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However, as The International Business Times reports, officials are denying the reports...

Iraq's Ministry of Health also denied that anyone in Mosul had contracted the Ebola virus, which broke out in March in West Africa.

 

Spokesman Ahmed Rudaini told news site Al-Maalomah that Mosul doesn't even have the technological capability to diagnose Ebola cases -- only Baghdad does. Therefore, he said, the reports that Ebola has infected anyone in Mosul are "incorrect" and "unfounded."

But, perhaps most concerning,

In the event ISIS does have Ebola, the militants could use it as a biological terror technique, Forbes reported in October. Members could contract the virus on purpose and then go to foreign countries to infect others.

 

“The individual exposed to the Ebola virus would be the carrier,” national security professor Al Shimkus told Forbes. “In the context of terrorist activity, it doesn’t take much sophistication to go to that next step to use a human being as a carrier.”

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Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:22 | 5612839 Just Take It All
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Well that should be good for at least a ramp-job to 2100.  Bullish!

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:27 | 5612872 Publicus
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Biopreparat, a major biological warfare agency, is a vast, ostensibly civilian, network of secret laboratories, each of which focused on a different deadly bioagent. Its 30,000 employees is researching and producing pathogenic weapons for use in a major upcoming war.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:30 | 5612879 HowdyDoody
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The US has financed a number of bioweapon research labs in Ukraine, one in Odessa and another near Kharkov. There are others in other countries surrounding Russia.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:32 | 5612884 Publicus
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Giving the Ebola weapon to ISIS will be a very bad idea in hind sigh. Ebola jihad ...

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:33 | 5612890 McMolotov
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Durka durka ebola jihad!

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:35 | 5612893 kaiserhoff
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Well of course ISIS has Ebola.

  They fuck EVERYTHING!

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:38 | 5612905 Looney
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Just wondering… How long will it take for the banksters to leverage and re-hypothecate Ebola? ;-)

Looney

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:42 | 5612921 Ignatius
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The banksters will gather the bodies of Iinfected SIS that get tossed over the walls.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:48 | 5612941 BaBaBouy
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"" In the event ISIS does have Ebola, the militants could use it as a biological terror technique, Forbes reported in October. Members could contract the virus on purpose and then go to foreign countries To Infect Innocents""

If True Then Wipe Them Off The Face Of This Beautiful Planet...

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:54 | 5612952 Manthong
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This might not work out so well for the rabid ISIS jackals.

Even if they stole a lot of hospital stuff, they likely cannot use it effectively to protect their own evil asses.

Hell, we’ve been screwing up a much more disciplined medical protocol ourselves.

And I don’t believe that killing your doctors is a very good longevity regimen.

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:00 | 5613117 Silky Johnson
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I think they have the advantage of not giving a fuck. They can quarantine it amongst themselves much easier, in that if someone is even suspected of having it, their ass is torched and fed to dogs. The fear is that they dispatch carriers in all directions of the globe.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:09 | 5613145 chumbawamba
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OMG EBOLA!!

Um, you don't feed diseased meat to dogs, and dogs wouldn't eat human flesh torched to the extent necessary to kill off the ebola.

Anyway, fresh off the newswire: ISIS members have also contracted AIDS by fucking the dead corpse of Yassir Arafat.  They plan to weaponize the infected by sending them into Washington, D.C. for use as male prostitutes for the gays and liberals.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:28 | 5613211 Bad Attitude
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Maybe the Ebola virus will do the job nobody else seems able to do: eradicate ISIS from the face of the earth.

Forward (over the cliff)!

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 04:36 | 5614112 WTFRLY
Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:47 | 5613655 layman_please
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DC? these sociopaths only fuck children.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 23:05 | 5613772 andrewp111
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The easiest way to quarantine it is live burial of the infected. Those IS fuckers would have no problem with that.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 04:14 | 5614101 Parrotile
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Why would they want to "Quarantine" it?

Maybe the intention could be to use the infected as a "walking bioreactor" - especially if the (maybe deliberately) infected were not on "their" team.

Probably a relatively easy way of producing "bulk guaranteed humanised" agent.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:54 | 5612953 Ignatius
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"If True..."

That's a hypothetical, one million dead Iraqi's and 5,000+ US soldiers is a big fat reality.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:56 | 5612958 0b1knob
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< A catastrophe ensues. 

< Hilarity ensues.

 

What happens when ebola gets loose in an Arab county with very poor sanitation which does not believe in modern science or medicine. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:59 | 5612964 kaiserhoff
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and India, SE Asia, Bukakkistan...

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:00 | 5613113 0b1knob
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According to reports, ISIS has executed dozens of medical doctors in Mosul.   Maybe this was because they were suspected of doing something.  Or of not doing something.  Or maybe just for the laughs.

Since ISIS doesn't believe in modern medicine the don't realize that the only effective measure is CLIPBOARDS.  We need to get FLounder there stat to instruct them.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:08 | 5613441 Matt
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Muslims are fairly hygenic due to religious beliefs; there was a study that showed that a Muslim child in the poorest quintile had a better chance of making it to adulthood than a Hindu child in the richest quintile, in India.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:52 | 5613539 0b1knob
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Yes but according to intelligence from this guy ebola is spread by goats!

https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/3/3b/ISIS-goat.jpg

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 23:03 | 5613769 StychoKiller
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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind!

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:08 | 5613142 Miffed Microbio...
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Well, there goes my New Years wish and the day isn't even over. The logistics weaponizing Ebola to be effective on a mass scale may be out of their reach technologically but a small scale attack could have a desired psychological response.

The only way to cripple this country is to have numerous outbreaks here that drain our resources. Each case is expensive to treat and requires a lot of blood products. I remember one trauma I had required hundreds of units of blood, FFP and cryo. The San Diego blood bank was on the radio as I drove home calling for donors due to the critical shortage. I think people don't realize how tenuous this is and when the system reaches it's limit, people will be triaged.

Miffed

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:06 | 5613428 BigJim
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Look, I know ISIS are supposed to be evil, but we're expected to believe the jihadis would really send out hundreds of infected mujahadeen without clearing it with the US patent office first?

I mean, beheadings are one thing... but breaching IP law????

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:00 | 5613556 Miffed Microbio...
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Damn straight! Those mother f'ers won't know what hit them when a plattoon of patent lawyers slaps them with endless lawsuits. They'll be crawling off home whimpering for mercy. Al Capone found that out the hard way.

Feudal vassals must pay tribute to their overlords. That is always number one. Overlords could care less what the serfs do to one another.

Miffed

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:51 | 5613661 BigJim
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:-)

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 04:34 | 5614110 Parrotile
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If they are prepared to use humans (probably unwilling ones at that) as a means of "bulk production", they don't need that much "technology" over the animal slaughter experience they've had for centuries.

"Grow 'em up, then bleed 'em out" - maybe with the wind behind you to reduce aerosol risk (low tech works surprisingly well). Seperate out the red cells from plasma (gravity works just fine - we're not interested in asepsis here), and store the harvested, virion-rich plasma in an ordinary fridge. "Should" be able to get 3 litres ++ per cadaver.

In plasma Ebola and all the others are OK for months at 4C, and it really takes not that much effort or skill to produce "DIY" rough and ready isolators - again for some degree of operator safety.

Delivery system? Airports - via their Fast Food outlets. Those rotating helical mixer Slurpee machines would fit the bill just right - and so what if the "delivery system" was hazardous? Who says those "surreptitiously loading the machine" will be those who work in the joint?? It would be certainly capable of infecting many, and the infected will be asymptomatic for all their flight, and a few days beyond, so no chance of detection via routine incoming passenger screening (even rtPCR).

Then they start popping up like mushrooms, and all hell breaks loose.

The question is not "could they do it" - they certainly could, no question at all. Would they do it? Well, if they wish to get maximum "bang per buck" it would be sensible NOT to do this whilst the West was at a heightened state of panic - and it might take time to produce the necessary stockpile (they will be wanting LOTS of cases, not just one or two).  So, with the general public having almost completely forgotten, and Airport Surveillance  being ineffective against a very early-inoculation candidate (as has been shown), such an act would be very possible, and wuld certainly have the desired effect - that of effectively terrorising a large sector of the public.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 02:58 | 5614048 noben
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"Do you know the way to San Jose?"

Is the tune they might be humming, while on the plane.

If one of them carries a clipboard, it's a dead giveaway that it's their leader.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:41 | 5613068 Bossman1967
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If a terrorist is wiiling to blow himself up why wouldnt he be willing to get all hose virgins to pass on ebola. If they dont fear our anal rehydration ebola would be a breeze and very ffe tive terror tool

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:09 | 5613148 McCormick No. 9
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This is stupid fear porn.

How likely is this to happen?

Not so much. First, if an ISIS terorist were able to get into a western nation undetected, he is supposedly non-infective during the incubation period. He will have to stay somewhere until he's symptomatic, then go somewhere near people, and bleed out everywhere, maybe vomit on people- anything to get body fluids on them. Maybe he can stuff explosives up his butt, and then detonate them, in order to spray body gunk all over the place say, in a crowded mall or public place, like a baseball game.

But can he really do this? Wilpower is an amazing thing, but what if he got so sick he couldn't go anywhere, and just doed a messy death in a hotel room? I suppose this would be bad enough, and certainly plenty of people, maids, etc, could get infected this way, but the ability to multiply vectors does not reach the mass-panic critical mass needed for good terrorism.

So, to recap, the erstwhile ISIS Ebola-terrorist has to clear the floowing hurdles:

1. He has to get infected, for sure, ie, he must ingest ebola from a known ebola carrier. Maybe they can cut off the poor sick guy's head and douse themselves in the infected blood.

2. The terrorist has to get from the Islamic State into a western nation. Smuggling himself in is a long and complicated process, and he could get sick before he gets to his target. It would be better to get a visa (forged) and just fly in.

3. The terrorist has to wait until he's symptomatic, and then he has to execute a plan for mass contamination. The window between getting truly sick and becoming debilitated beyond any useful physical movement is very small. Everything wil have to be meticuously planned out in advance. All that advance planning requires communication, operational knowledge on the part of more than three people, including sleeper helpers in the target country. Keeping all this secret will be difficult, especially now that the ebola/ISIS cat is out of the bag.

Conclusion: This is more fear-porn, and we, the armed and vigilant citizens of the Republic, are the targets of a sophisticated psyop designed to sap our courage and moral health. Does anyone here think the original Tylers run this show? Can a website this popular really remain uncompromised by the NWO intelligence services?

No. 9 out.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:01 | 5613297 Paveway IV
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"...How likely is this to happen?..."

You're right - it's quite impossible. Drinking blood? Mass infection? Hah. We're perfectly safe as long as we wash our hands and keep out foreigners. That should be easy.

"...This is more fear-porn, and we, the armed and vigilant citizens of the Republic, are the targets of a sophisticated psyop designed to sap our courage and moral health..."

That's what those guys in Sierra Leone keep trying to tell everyone. Fucking Western psyop propaganda, that's all. Wake up!

"...Does anyone here think the original Tylers run this show?..."

Who gives a fuck? Were you dating one of them or something?

"...Can a website this popular really remain uncompromised by the NWO intelligence services?..."

Jesus... the psyops really ARE working. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:59 | 5613766 andrewp111
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That Duncan guy in Texas was able to walk into hospitals while he was symptomatic for days. An IS fighter who had severe symptoms, but wasn't yet too far gone, could don 100 pounds of high explosives, go to a major league baseball game, and blow himself up into red mist in the middle of the field. If there were 5 or 10 fighters all doing the same plan simultaneously in different cities, perhaps half of them would succeed.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:57 | 5613550 logicalman
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Black Death 2.0

Biowarfare that ran away in an uncontrollable manner.

There will be survivors.

Nature has a way of biting back.

 

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 23:47 | 5613861 buyingsterling
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It's now a simple matter for Isis to secure a biological sample of Ebola. After that, they'd just have a safe room where infected people provide them with an endless supply of BSL4 pathogen. Thanks to the careless fucks who 'run' this planet (into the ground) we will NEVER be free of Ebola.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:38 | 5612902 El Vaquero
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You don't billions of FRNs and 30k employees to get a deadly bio-agent.  You need access to a few flu viruses known to infect both pigs and humans and a large hog farm.  You then breed the virus by selecting for the strains that infect and kill the most pigs over successive generations. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:49 | 5612940 Publicus
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Sure, but Ebola takes a bit more work than flu. That's how you get promoted.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:00 | 5613554 logicalman
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Only governments can do this kind of stuff.

Only governments can start wars.

Governments steal from those they (falsely) claim to take care of.

I'm an anarchist.

 

By the way, how's the Holmegaard coming along?

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:57 | 5613669 effendi
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El Vaquero, do you think the ISIS whack jobs are willing to operate a large pig farm? It goes against everything they believe in and being around pigs would be a fate worse than death. None of the 72 virgins would go near someone who was covered in pig shit all day.

It also isn't that easy to naturally select an effective bioweapon worse than the typical range of seasonal flus; if it was there would be thousands created naturally every year from the million plus pig breedere in China.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:16 | 5613015 Mike in GA
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And how do you know this, if it so "vast" and "secret"?

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 01:08 | 5613964 drendebe10
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Natural selection 

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 03:24 | 5614059 noben
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This is not news.

ZH bloggers posted this concept months ago.

Maybe their masters who troll here picked up on it and are acting on it now.

Ah, the benefits of "Crowd-sourcing" for ideas and solutions on blog sites.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:22 | 5612842 90's Child
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Now just make your way to Israel.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:10 | 5613443 BigJim
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What? Infect their sponsors?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:22 | 5612843 saints51
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Well, Now they can enter the US through Mexico and have a big mac. Maybe take a tour at their favorite zoo. Never having to fire one bullet to destroy. Its like someone is planning this shit...very weird..s/

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:34 | 5612891 McMolotov
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We ebola'd some folks.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:43 | 5613075 saints51
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literally lol. When the CDC holds patents on viruses it is not for the people's protection, it is for someone to weaponize the virus and profit by providing the solution.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:40 | 5612917 BlindMonkey
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Oh man. What the hell are the .1% do when they can't trust the bio-security of their domestic help?

Long domestic robots...

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:45 | 5612930 Publicus
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Replace the .1% with robots and then they won't have to worry about Ebola.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:54 | 5613753 andrewp111
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Why would they attack Israel right now? ISIS operates according to a sophisticated strategic plan with superb tactics. Their ultimate goal is world conquest. Taking on Israel right now would be stupid. Whatever else ISIS is, they are certainly not stupid.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:26 | 5612857 lakecity55
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"Munchkins, are you responsible for the terrorists bringing Obola to the US?"
"Of course, Reggie. Anything to destroy America. Now, get back to muh dik."

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:25 | 5612866 Major Major Major
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Now that the buying season is over you fuckers better get scared again.  How about a double shot of ebola on isis?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:26 | 5612868 Rootin' for Putin
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I only have to wonder, what took so long?  I was expecting this months ago.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:09 | 5612915 Just Take It All
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Travel visas, logisitics, paperwork.  And of course the "market" is completely unable to comprehend any possible negative future developments, so everything has to be explained in bold-faced type one syllable at a time as it actually "officially" happens before the "market" reacts.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:15 | 5613456 BigJim
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It can take some time to negotiate these things.

Do ISIS owe ebola's patent holder (the US government) royalties for every jihadi infected with ebola, or for every person the jihadi infects? Are there bulk discounts? Do we determine the royalties per person, or based on viral load? Are there refunds if the jihadi survives the illness? If the virus mutates and is no longer covered bythe original patent, does the US government get first refusal on sequencing its DNA?

That kind of thing.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 23:57 | 5613870 buyingsterling
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Now every psychopathic leader in the west has a green light to spread Ebola anywhere they want to - 'Isis did it' . Just the rumor that Isis has Ebola is enough cover for them. Expect it to visit Russia through 'Chechneyan links to Isis'.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 01:09 | 5613968 TBT or not TBT
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And how wasn't there a breakout at the last hajj, eh conspiracy buyers?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:33 | 5612880 lolmao500
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In the event ISIS does have Ebola, the militants could use it as a biological terror technique, Forbes reported in October. Members could contract the virus on purpose and then go to foreign countries to infect others.

Which anyone with a brain has been thinking about for months now... Would be very easy to do... Hell the ``ebola screening`` in Canada is this : they ask you 2 questions : have you been in contact with anyone who had/has ebola? Have you been to Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea? They don't test anything, they just ask you... you say no, you're clear to enter the country...That's the level of ``screening`` they have... fucking ridiculous.

Hell, someone sick with ebola could go to NY, collect it's own sweat, put it in a bottle, give it to another ISIS nutjob, and for weeks on end put little drops of ebola-infected sweat in every taxi they can...

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:19 | 5613462 BigJim
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 Which anyone with a brain has been thinking about for months now... Would be very easy to do... Hell the ``ebola screening`` in Canada is this : they ask you 2 questions : have you been in contact with anyone who had/has ebola? Have you been to Sierra Leone, Liberia or Guinea? They don't test anything, they just ask you... you say no, you're clear to enter the country.

You're forgetting one critical factor: jihadis are men (and women!) of God, and therefore (physically!) incapable of lying.

It's like that old US entry question, Are you, or have you ever been, a communist? Got. Them. Every. Time.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:38 | 5612910 Stroke
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Subprime is contained, Greece is contained, Ebola is contained.....

Happy New Year

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:42 | 5612918 q99x2
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BTFED Buy the F'n Ebola Dip.

Haven't noticing anyone except the alcoholic men puking in Greenpoint.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:44 | 5612926 skbull44
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Did the Spanish Flu not get its legs during the trench warfare of WWI? The more things change...

http://olduvai.ca

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 01:29 | 5613989 TBT or not TBT
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The proto fascist Wilson administration spread it out of a domestic processing facility for war bound boys.   Nothing Spanish about it 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:48 | 5612942 Mi Naem
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So, is this bearish for oil due to dropping demand, bullish for oil due to dropping production,...?

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:52 | 5612950 Publicus
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Production can be automated, not demand. Not until after the AI takeover.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:30 | 5612974 rwe2late
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 The initial fear of many seems to be that ISIS will "attack" the USA with "Ebola".

 

That is, of course, despite the fact that for over a decade  the Pentagon has been researching how to weaponize Ebola (strictly for "defense" because it is, after all, the "Defense" Department).

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:11 | 5612996 dot_bust
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It didn't take long after the Sony Pictures-was-hacked hoax for the next hoax to be created: ISIS Ebola terrorists.

By now, the pattern of false flag scenarios is obvious. These scenarios are created by the Ivy League shitheads running the country. One way to stem this tide of bullshit is to chip away at the Ivy League power structure -- a class system in which only the rich are given access to positions of power.

Everyone is lead to believe that only Ivy League college graduates are qualified to ascend to the highest positions of power in the U.S. Government and in corporate America. It's time for that belief to end.

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:12 | 5612997 ebear
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More likely it's cholera, given the conditions, not to mention the influx of extremists from infected areas.  Also of note: many ISIS members are not local and have no natural resistance, which would tend to compound the problem.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:27 | 5613039 FieldingMellish
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Perhaps the newcomers are confusing their "toilet" hand from their "eating" hand.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:38 | 5613056 patb
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Cholera or Malaria.

 

With ISIS's poor resources, i doubt they will go anywhere with Bio-weapons.  

1) A bioweapon is far more likely to escape and kill it's creators.

 

2) it's hard to tell who has ebola and who has cholera.

 

3) Ebola is a big problem in poor africa, and could get transmitted in Iraq, it won't go far.  By the time you have the first symptoms,  it's only a few days to stage IV.  it's really hard to get people infectious and still get the disease moved around.

 

It's hard to get trained medical workers to work with Ebola patients,  it's even harder to get 'volunteers' to expose themselves.

 

people have an instinctive fear of plague.  

 

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:49 | 5613745 andrewp111
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Warriors who eagerly don suicide vests will do anything. They have no fear of Ebola.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 00:29 | 5613885 buyingsterling
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Asinine

RE1: "Crap in that bag, use that funnel to fill that bottle, cap the bottle, screw the lid down tight, and drop the bottle in that bucket of bleach. Or we'll mangle you some more". Bottled death, and the terrorists can do it all from a distance. Don't like that? Then how about infecting one of their own, perhaps a retard, as they are wont to do.

RE2: Time is on Isis side. Test kits will be widely available. And your point is irrelevant in the long run.

RE3: Ebola is not about the number of dead, it's about fear and paralysis of the medical infrastructure. It's because people have a logical fear of BSL4 pathogens that they should be tightly controlled. Ebola hasn't been, so now we may suffer the consequences. And the precise means of transmission are unknown - most of the western-educated doctors who have got it and died from it (scores of them) have no idea when or how they got it.

Let's stop minimizing it, shall we? And let's stop limiting our analysis of the potential dangers to the disease's natural progression and the actions of terrorists. With the spread of this disease, the powers that be, whoever they are, now have a blank check to spread this wherever they choose.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 17:42 | 5613071 roadhazard
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I love that ISIS is infected with Ebola and refuse any medical help ("take two virgins and call me in the morning"). We can "leave Iraq" again shortly.  Die mother fuckers.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:46 | 5613741 andrewp111
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There is no real treatment other than drinking lots of water anyway, so medical help doesn't matter. The fighters who survive will be immune, and they will be able to spread Ebola to populations with impunity while they laugh and drink the blood during beheadings. Ebola is more likely to make ISIS stronger rather than weaker.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:14 | 5613163 kchrisc
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Just more cartoonish Elmer FUD for the sheeple.

Translation: The Langley and Glilot Junction boys' false-state creation has contracted their hoax disease.

Should we be twice as scared, or scared2?

The banksters need to repay us.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:36 | 5613235 Son of Captain Nemo
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Like everything else the U.S. will foist this one on Russia!

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:09 | 5613311 Dragon HAwk
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Be a strange co-incidence if everyone inside the government bunkers didn't get Ebola but all us outside did..

 every new case of Ebola is like tossing nitro up in the air and catching it.. sure your not going to drop it, but each toss is one more chance at miscalculation on somebody's part..

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 00:34 | 5613919 buyingsterling
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In the aftermath, I expect the idea of DUMBs will quickly be tested. There will be a lot of idle drilling equipment around.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:14 | 5613330 smacker
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ISIS is where Ebola meets Obola.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:43 | 5613391 The Shape
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Mashable is a credible source now?

I'm all for disputing shit put out by the MSM, but you're now posting shit from "6 cute dog" sites? Give me a fucking break.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:50 | 5613401 Peter Pan
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Given enough evil intent and human persistence and ingenuity, Ebola will spread. Whether it is through ISIS or a government sponsored chem trail remains to be seen.

Evil always finds a way.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:56 | 5613407 VooDoo6Actual
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Risible & getting beyond Stupid. Let's fund & use reffugges & Illegals as vectors to deliver fomites to healthy populations & create more chaos.

The STUPID it BURNS....

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:55 | 5613410 Fuku Ben
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This post is so funny I couldn't stop laughing. Better than Wyle E. Coyote getting his ACME package bomb returned from Road Runner. Did anyone know that Tsarnaev (Tzar Naive) Brothers were direct descendants of Wyle E Coyote?

And Benjamin Nutty Yahoo is a direct descendant of Road Runner. Where do you think he got the picture of the almost ready to explode bomb he presented to the UN?

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-120927-benjam...

Socratic & Occasionally Kabbalistic ZH Post Review

1."Reports that Islamic State militants in Mosul have contracted Ebola swirled though Iraqi media sources on Wednesday."

Would that be swirled like a Vortex?

2."We have no official notification from [the Iraqi government] that it is Ebola," Christy Feig

Is that name pronounced the same was as Faeg? As in Faegola?

Is the name and pronunciation part of the homosexuality and bi-sexuality angle pushed from every possible by the usual cast of global criminals?

If it isn't confirmed why is it being reported and why are they offering assistance?

3. "It's unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus."

Has this ever stopped any foreign entities from sending in troops before under false pretenses?

4. "Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital, Iraq's official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, said the disease arrived in Mosul from "terrorists" who came "from several countries" and Africa."

Would that be the same terrorists that haven't been listed on certain State Department's terrorist lists and are funding, training and supplying them to multiple locations around the globe to instill terror, death and destruction?

5. "Over the past few weeks, militants affiliated with ISIS have executed more than a dozen doctors..."

You mean they stopped at the terrorist lucky # 13?

6. "Iraq's Ministry of Health also denied that anyone in Mosul had contracted the Ebola virus... Therefore, he said, the reports that Ebola has infected anyone in Mosul are "incorrect" and "unfounded."

Does this fit well as a part of Prescott Bushs' famous approach of "claim everything, explain nothing, deny everything"?

7. Attributed to Al Bupkis - "In the event ISIS does have Ebola, the militants could use it as a biological terror technique, Forbes reported in October. Members could contract the virus on purpose and then go to foreign countries to infect others. The individual exposed to the Ebola virus would be the carrier. In the context of terrorist activity, it doesn’t take much sophistication to go to that next step to use a human being as a carrier.”

Why is it that someone with a fancy title and established position within the hierarchy would claim these statements are sound and rational yet anyone outside the hierarchy would be imprisoned as a paranoid delusional conspiracy theorist for making similar claims?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:20 | 5613465 Richard Chesler
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Yes Mr. President, our analysts confirm two failed false flags put together may be the way to salvage our investment...


Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:12 | 5613574 Bemused Observer
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Ok, great. If ISIS has brought Ebola into Iraq, they're pretty much fucked. So just pull back and let nature take its course. Nothing in, nothing out, for the next month...

What? Oh, I didn't realize I was supposed to get all panicky over this, sorry...*yawn!*

And no, I wouldn't be interested in any kind of increased military response, but thanks for trying...

Now, about this economy that seems on the verge of collapse...what's the plan Stan?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:41 | 5613726 andrewp111
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Nah. They don't care if they lose a few thousand fighters. They have plenty. It will probably harm the population they are ruling more than the IS fighters.  In fact, they are likely to spread it deliberately, just to see what happens. And as IS fighters don't do "caregiving" for the sick, they are more likely to contract it during a beheading or while raping, pillaging, and plundering. They will probably treat Ebola patients by burying them alive anyway. To them, Ebola will be a convenient excuse to amp their killings up to 11.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:15 | 5613583 PR Guy
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There was an ambulance holdup in west Africa not long ago and all that was taken were Ebola infected blood samples.

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:20 | 5613591 Victory_Garden
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Farking trouble makers stole this idea.

Can't be giving them evil things any more bright ideas.

Evil is, as evil does!

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:04 | 5613678 man of Wool
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Time to send in CNN to investigate.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 00:03 | 5613879 bunnyswanson
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Interview the actors.  (Actors!)

https://cumberland.crimewatchpa.com/carlislepd/5632/cases/bank-robbery-pnc-bank

Source: 

Carlisle Police Department

"Carlisle police received a call  at 0856 for a bank robbery that had just occurred at the PNC on Noble Bv.   The actor was described as a B/M approx 5'7 wearing a hoodie and possibly had a mask on.  He was last seen on foot heading toward the CVS store on S West St.   The actor got away with an undetermined amount of cash.  No weapon was diplayed but the actor did imply he did posess a gun.  There were no injuries as a result of this incident."

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:31 | 5613711 andrewp111
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The Islamic State is so drenched in blood that if Ebola really is there, it should spread like wildfire. The IS could use Ebola to attack in the West, but the best way to do it probably isn't sending infected fighters over here. Traveling here probably involves a lot of time consuming smuggling and long layovers at airports and possible detention. A better plan is to ship frozen infected blood to their confederates in the USA. Pack it in dry ice and label it biological materials, and make it appear to be a legitimate lab shipment.  Then once infected, the fighters wait until the symptoms are almost unbearable, and then put on 100 pounds of explosives, climb out into the middle of a baseball field during a MLB game, and splatter themselves into red mist all over the audience. I say baseball instead of football because the length of the incubation period is very unpredictable, and baseball is the one sport that has games every day during its season.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 08:28 | 5614244 Buster Cherry
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Any men in black kicking in your door yet?

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 04:34 | 5614111 smacker
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From that article: " “It [Russian alternative to SWIFT] will be tested with eight large banks, including VTB bank (#2 in the country), and SMP and Rossiya banks (both sanctioned by the west). Komlev said the new system should be up and running by May 2015.” "

Doubtless, the new system will be subjected to hack-attacks from unknown Western sources.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 02:28 | 5614032 joego1
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Couldn't have happened to a better bunch of guys.

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