[Investor's Daily] Rush Limbaugh has even suggested that Obama, who in an effort to hold the Senate has reminded Democratic voters that he still gets to appoint Supreme Court justices, might be making Holder available for such an appointment should a vacancy occur. Most unlikely. Aside from his fund raising contacts with the wealthy elite, Champ's involvement with long-term political strategy and outcomes appears to be entirely notional.
Both may be true, but Kelly Terry-Willis, the sister of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, thinks a recent court defeat for the Department of Justice may be the real reason.
Her brother was murdered on Dec. 14, 2010, with weapons "walked" into Mexico under Fast and Furious. ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata was also a Fast and Furious casualty.
"I do not find it a coincidence that Eric Holder chose now to resign after Judge Bates denied the request from the DOJ to delay the release of the Fast and Furious documents," Terry-Willis told Katie Pavlich of Townhall.com. Yes, Holder has been making noises about wishing to resign for quite some time. My assessment is we may finally be coming to a revealing multi-agency crossroads with regard to operation Fast and Furious. A crossroads which will reveal guns going south, and human intelligence source reporting from the drug cartels coming north.
Notice how quickly DHS, CNN, and ABC labeled Rep. Duncan Hunter's reporting of ISIS border arrests as false? The false reporting stories came almost on queue.
Electronic record systems similar to the one that was briefly blamed when a Dallas hospital didn’t spot the nation’s first Ebola case have been repeatedly cited in delays in treatment, dosage mistakes and failures to detect fatal illnesses. You're thinking, Obamacare, like I was.
Frustrated medical professionals across the country said that the expensive systems — the technology used by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, part of a $200 million investment — are often unwieldy and problematic. Could just be Federal meddling, you know.
Researchers and experts in the health care IT field — known as informatics — say the Dallas Ebola case underscores concerns of pressing public interest: lax regulation of the systems and secrecy from hospitals and computer vendors. So we need more Givermint?
Many health IT experts want greater transparency about failures, especially given that hospitals such as Presbyterian have benefited from massive infusions of federal dollars to move from paper records to digital systems. Free money, or more accurately, somebody else's money!
In 2004, President George W. Bush set a target for making electronic health records available for most Americans within a decade. Policymakers saw the push as a way to improve care by enhancing communication among caregivers and streamlining billing processes. I tried to prepare you for the Bush Blame Game. The Obama administration and Congress created financial incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, pumping billions into electronic health record systems. And you wondered if any of that stimulus money did any good!
To get stimulus money, Texas Health and other medical providers had to meet certain requirements. These included things such as sharing test results needed for diagnoses, communicating with patients and measuring quality of care.
Since 2011, the federal government has paid out $25 billion to care providers nationwide for electronic record systems, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. We probably would have achieved e-records without the boodle, just not so quickly. And erratically.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch health care experts and investigators across the country were growing jittery about the federal push as reports of hospital system bugs kept surfacing in research papers and scattered media reports.
Electronic records offer great potential to improve patient care, the authors acknowledged. But they cautioned that “poor user-interface design, poor workflow and complex data interfaces are threats to patient safety.” Sounds like O'care. The institute urged Congress to create standards for safe design of medical record systems. It recommended that the federal government investigate deaths and other IT-related harm. It called for a public reporting system on patient-related harm. Obamacare didn't include electronic records? More federal involvement, More free money. More studies. More boodle. More regulation. More Federal workers. Think about the Post Office.
In a 2012 report dubbed “Deep Dive,” the ECRI Institute noted that of 260 reports to the Food and Drug Administration over a recent two-year period detailing IT-related “medical device malfunctions,” 44 involved injuries and six involved deaths. Six deaths? What about lightening strikes? Aren't they more deadly? Conclusion:
"What everyone needs to understand is that we’re proofing these systems, whether it’s a technological misfire or a clinical misfire, unfortunately, in real time, on real people.” Thanks to the Federal push with your tax dollars at work.
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....Considering that the state systems were probably designed/built by the same kind of people who did the Federal system - i.e.; the best-connected people with some vague connection to an IT outfit - this should be no surprise.
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FYI, the system in question, Epic, is a privately held company that has received tons of public money for development of the software, and billions more in public money by way of contracts with the hospitals.
And their CEO is a big-time Obama and Obamacare backer. There is a LOT of dirt here.
From Michelle Malkin:
Epic was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor whose company is the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health care market. Epic employees donated nearly $1 million to political parties and candidates between 1995 and 2012 — 82 percent of it to Democrats. The company's Top 10 PAC recipients are all Democratic or leftwing outfits, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (nearly $230,000) to the DNC Services Corporation (nearly $175,000) and the America’s Families First Action Fund super-PAC ($150,000).
Faulkner, an influential Obama campaign finance bundler, served as an adviser to David Blumenthal, the White House health information technology guru in charge of dispensing the federal electronic medical records subsidies that Faulkner pushed President Obama to adopt. Faulkner also served on the same committee Blumenthal chaired.
[gee any influence going on there?]
Epic and other large firms lobbied aggressively for nearly $30 billion in federal subsidies for their companies under the 2009 Obama stimulus package. The law penalizes medical providers who fail to comply with the one-size-fits-all mandate. Health care analysts at the RAND Corporation admitted last year that their cost-savings predictions of $81 billion a year were vastly inflated.
Epic has been the subject of rising industry and provider complaints about its antiquated closed-end system. So much so that when Texas Health released its first statement about the software glitch in the Ebola case, Jack Shaffer, a health care IT guru and top official at KRM Associates, immediately snarked on Twitter: "Guess Epic can't share data even with itself!"
Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia cited criticisms of Epic at a congressional hearing this summer and asked: "Is the government getting its money's worth? It may be time for the committee to take a closer look at the practices of vendor companies in this space, given the possibility that fraud may be perpetrated on the American taxpayer."
The president-elect of the American Medical Association, Dr. Steven Stack, told Modern Healthcare magazine earlier this month that Epic’s software architecture "often leaves out key information and corrupts data in transit."
More proof that Obamacare was a boondoggle - to enrich connected companies and connected executives -- not to improve healthcare at all.
The state health department may investigate a Dallas hospital’s handling of the nation’s first Ebola case as medical records released Friday raise more troubling questions about the Liberian patient’s initial treatment.
Thomas Eric Duncan had fever that hit as high as 103 degrees and Ebola-like symptoms, including abdominal pain, dizziness, a headache and reduced urination, when he arrived Sept. 25 at the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, according to hospital records the family gave to The Associated Press.
The records depict a man far sicker than hospital officials had initially indicated, with details that left some infectious disease experts aghast...Questions about the hospital’s handling of the case intensified Friday with the release of the records in North Carolina.
“It sounds like they did a whole battery of tests, but the problem is they didn’t get the most important piece of information, which is, ‘I came from West Africa,’” said Dr. Alexander Garza, associate dean of public health at St. Louis University College of Public Health. “There’s plenty of examples in history of medical people who got led down the wrong path because they didn’t ask the right questions. Sadly.”
Other experts were more critical.
“It’s just colossal incompetence,” said Dr. Joseph McCormick, regional dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Brownsville, who helped investigate the first recorded outbreak of Ebola in 1976. “How could you possibly be given this, with his travel history, and not have considered him to be a prime suspect for Ebola?”
...Dr. William Schaffner, chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said that, even without knowing the man had been in Africa, the symptoms reported in the medical records suggest the patient might have been too sick to be sent home.
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Guarantee one thing: if his fever was higher than 101.4, someones ass is fired, and license is at risk. Thats massive incompetence. Guarntee one other thing: The software, although contributory to the mess, will be exculpated - know why? Epic is owned by a big Obama money bundler and supporter, which makes her and her company "untouchable" by Fed authorities and anyone else vulnerable to political pressure.
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Sat through the CNN interview yesterday of Duncan's nephew by Erinn talking head;
his slant was 100% race based and she never, not once called him on it.
Then in an amazing 2-fer, her next story was about the latest St. Louis white cop shoots black kid and her interviewees were only the black kids family and not one, single representative from the police dept.
Race baiting for ratings, that is what I came away with.
h/t Jerry Pournelle
Two retired U.S. Army generals have blasted President Barack Obama's decision to send U.S. troops to West Africa to battle the Ebola virus epidemic, saying the military is to fight wars, not disease.
In exclusive interviews with WND, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin and retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely condemned Obama's decision, as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved up to 4,000 boots on the ground from a previous ceiling of 3,000.
The concern is that these soldiers, who will be exposed to the environment where the virus is prevalent, could bring it to the United States and potentially spread the disease as they rotate back to the United States and are assigned to other units.
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The Atomic Soldiers, Agent Orange, Gulf Fever. Doesn't matter who's in charge. You're considered expendable. Of course, you could probably end this by allowing SEIU to unionize the troops. Don't want to risk all those mandatory union piece of the action dues being lost to the union and party leadership.
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I have a little more faith in our military than this.
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I can understand the generals' concerns about public health and mission creep, especially given the present administration's track record. However, this really is a defense issue, because in fighting Ebola in the hot zone they protect our country. I also agree with Dr. Steve that we should not underestimate our military's ability to deal with the situation.They are especially good at supply logistics, for delivering medical supplies and food, getting hospitals set up. Get Ebola under control at the source, and it's less likely to spread worldwide.
Now, if we'd had a quarantine system for travelers in place back in July, that would have been a mercy to all concerned. Spending three weeks in quarantine would be a major nuisance, but somebody would spot symptoms and take care of you.
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So long as they are just doing infrastructure, behind barbed wire, they can safely do some good, if they do it themselves. Relying on local contractors isn't a good plan, as they quickly discovered.
There's some balancing required--they'll waste effort unless they get some advice about what is most needed, but some of the advice will tend to be of the "Where's mine" flavor, and some of what's needed we don't want them doing.
Doing transportation? They'll meet mothers begging them to take their sick babies to the hospital. How do you think that will turn out?
Infrastructure changes often mean displacing people. Unhappiness ensues, and people remember injuries better than benefits.
And "safely" is somewhat relative. Malaria comes to mind (been there, done that). You need some care with local foods (washed in contaminated water=dysentery).
Having troops there can work, and work to our security as mom points out, provided stupid people aren't commanding the mission.
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DALLAS -- Only after Dallas Deputy Michael Monnig showed up at a CareNow urgent care clinic feeling ill and rushed by ambulance to the hospital and isolated overnight did the Texas Department of State Health Services issue an official protocol for what to do in such a case.
The plan sent out to emergency personnel is dated Thursday, Oct. 9, a week after Thomas Duncan's Ebola case was confirmed.
"When a person who's under observation says, 'I'm developing symptoms, I feel feverish,' then they are to call Dallas County Health and Human Services," said Dr. Christopher Perkins.
Dr. Perkins is the county's official health authority. He said if the patient meets criteria, such as symptoms and risk factors for Ebola, they will be told to stay inside and call 9-1-1.
9-1-1 operators are supposed to be aware now of who is on the watch list and respond by alerting EMS. The protocol also says the county Epidemiologist can arrange transport of the patient if needed.
"What won't happen," said Dallas county Judge Clay Jenkins, "Is the people will not get in their own car and get into public and be around other people.
"A specially equipped private ambulance will pick them up with a team in full protocol," he continued. "They'll be taken to special rooms that are already prepared and handled under all the guidelines to make sure there's not a spread of the disease."
Jenkins says Children's Medical Center Dallas is designated for pediatric Ebola patients under the age of 14. Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas will take Ebola patients over 14.
Anyone else who is not considered to have close contact with an Ebola patient showing symptoms will be told to go to their own physician. That's what deputy Monnig was advised to do by Dr. Perkins. And what do the personal physicians of Texas think about this advice?
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And do we think any other county in the US is more ready?
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"Anyone else who is not considered to have close contact with an Ebola patient showing symptoms will be told to go to their own physician. That's what deputy Monnig was advised to do by Dr. Perkins."
And Monnig's case then scared the authorities sufficiently to start the entire outbreak protocol including suits for patient and personnel and isolation for those who came into contact with Monnig in the clinic.
If Monnig had been positive his visit to the clinic would have worsened the situation by at least an order of magnitude. If he'd been visited by EMS with protection equipment he could have been transported to a clinic without endangering anyone.
Since AFAIK a doctor can not rule out Ebola by performing a direct examination there was really no choice but to isolate Monnig preemptively.
If 'anyone else who is not considered to have close contact with an Ebola patient showing symptoms' shows unspecific symptoms of an infections they will have to do the same anyway.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Seven people accused of witchcraft have been burned alive in Tanzania, police said Friday, adding they have nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 23 people in connection with the crimes.
"They were attacked and burnt to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of engaging in witchcraft," the police chief for the western Kigoma region which borders Burundi, Jafari Mohammed, told AFP.
"Five of those killed were aged over 60, while the other two were aged over 40," he added.
Among those arrested on suspicion of carrying out the killings was the local traditional healer, or witch doctor.
Relatives of those killed described horrific scenes, with the bodies of family members hacked with machetes or burned almost beyond recognition.
"When I returned home in the evening, I found the body of my mother lying 10 metres away from our house, while the body of my father was burnt inside the house," said Josephat John, according to Tanzania's Mwananchi newspaper.
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Some posters do not recognize themselves when they are at the computer. Some posters escaped the confines of noted institutions.
Some countries are noted for raising truly insane people, who commit insane violence, murder and mayhem. Tanzania is one of the countries.
“Indeed, the sounds of animals marching to slaughter may be as disturbing to an ethical vegan as the incessant ringing of school bells and the cacophony of children playing on the playground is to a childless couple or the needless hourly ringing of church bells to an atheist,” Hanrahan wrote. “The animal noises are most aptly characterized as an annoyance, not a substantial threat to the public health or safety.”
A wistful vice president Josef Biden said he wished for someone to make a stab at killing the president so the government can get all medieval on gun owners. And you know someone on the left is seriously considering doing just that. Such a shame the only sacrifices that Biden-supporting fascists are willing to make are those that will f*ck over their fellow citizens.
Man, those NRA members sure do get around. A leftist news commentator at MSNBC blamed the ebola virus scare on the National Rifle Association. Enough of these kinds of accusations spewed forth against gun owners will make anti gunners' surrender on control more difficult for them.
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..among the ruling elite (who despises the masses). That would be the same ruling elite with a deep root of antisemitism. Strange how they treat one 'out' group to another. If you're constructive and productive, you're damned for hundreds of years. If you're intentionally destructive to the culture and suck at the welfare tit, you're protected. Strange, very strange these humans.
[BBC] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has told Moldova that it must take account of Russia's interests before developing closer trade ties with the EU.
Mr Putin was speaking at a summit in Belarus with leaders of ex-Soviet republics, including Moldova.
He said he wanted Moldova to postpone a free trade deal with the EU until 2016, as Ukraine had agreed to do recently.
Russia supports separatists in Trans-Dniester, a long strip of land that broke away from Moldova in 1992.
The pro-Russian separatists are heavily armed and the fighting in eastern Ukraine has raised concern that the frozen conflict in Moldova could similarly reignite.
The EU and US accuse Russia of sending troops and armour into eastern Ukraine to help the rebels there. Russia has repeatedly denied doing so.
Mr Putin warned that economic integration between some ex-Soviet republics and the EU could undermine their preferential trade ties with Russia. He is pushing for a Russian-led Eurasian economic union.
Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries and has particularly close economic and cultural ties with neighbouring Romania, an EU member.
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[CNBC] Sears said Friday that its Kmart stores were hit with a data breach that compromised some shoppers' debit and credit card information.
The company is working with federal authorities and security experts to investigate the matter. The Secret Service confirmed Friday evening that it is investigating the data breach.
The investigation indicates that the breach occurred in early September and did not affect kmart.com customers, the statement said.
"Based on the forensic investigation to date, no personal information, no debit card PIN numbers, no email addresses and no social security numbers were obtained by those criminally responsible," Sears said in a statement. "We are deploying further advanced software to protect our customers' information."
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A young woman residing in Malir district died of Naegleria fowleri on Thursday, taking the corpse count blamed on the 'brain-eating amoeba' to 12 in the province, officials said.
She was the second female to die of Naegleria fowleri this year. Officials said Humaira Bano, 25, was a resident of Taiser Town in Malir district. She had been admitted to a private hospital a day before she died.
"We have taken water samples supplied to the area where she lived and sent them for examination," said Dr Zafar Ijaz, director health, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... division.
Dr Ijaz said it was unclear how Ms Bano came into contact with the deadly amoeba. She mostly stayed at home and like other previous cases had no history of swimming -- one of the key causes behind primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) or Naegleria fowleri.
"We have launched further investigations to find out how she came into contact with the amoeba," he added.
A 32-year-old woman resident of Adamjee Nagar in Karachi-East was the last reported victim of Naegleria.
So far none of the 12 victims, 11 in Karachi alone and one in Hyderabad, had a history of swimming, said the official.
Victims of Naegleria include a 57-year-old man, the oldest so far, and a nine-month-old girl, the youngest until now. The first Naegleria-related fatality this year was reported on May 27 in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Last year, the disease claimed three lives and in 2012 ten died due to Naegleria.
According to experts this lethal amoeba can only be eliminated through proper chlorination of water.Naegleria fowleri travels through the nasal cavity and directly attacks the brain. The victim exhibits symptoms of headache, slight fever, three to seven days after exposure to contaminated water. In some cases victims also have a sore throat and stuffy nose.
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lets see now...add in some polio cases running wild and some ebola breakout and the whole population of Pakistain might just be wiped out. how terrible.
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Dr Ijaz said it was unclear how Ms Bano came into contact with the deadly amoeba. She mostly stayed at home and like other previous cases had no history of swimming
[DAWN] A young man and a minor boy were admitted to a private hospital in a precarious condition on Thursday as doctors suspected that they were suffering from Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) that has already caused two deaths this year in the city.
"Nine-year-old Sarfaraz Solangi belongs to Gadap Town and Mohammad Asif is a 20-year-old man from Landhi. They have been admitted to a private hospital," said a bigwig in the provincial health department.
Both the victims showed CCHF symptoms and doctors strongly suspected that they were latest victims of the disease that had a mortality ratio of up to 40 per cent -- much bigger than dengue though less than Naegleria fowleri and Ebola, he said.
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[Washington Post] The recent rash of cyberattacks on major U.S. companies has highlighted the scant options available to the victims, who often can do little more than hunker down, endure the bad publicity and harden their defenses in hopes of thwarting the next assault.
But behind the scenes, talk among company officials increasingly turns to an idea once considered so reckless that few would admit to even considering it: Going on the offensive. Or, in the parlance of cybersecurity consultants, "hacking back."
The mere mention of it within cybersecurity circles can prompt a lecture about the many risks, starting with the fact that most forms of hacking back are illegal and ending with warnings that retaliating could spark full-scale cyberwar, with collateral damage across the Internet.
Yet the idea of hacking back -- some prefer the more genteel-sounding "active defense" -- has gradually gained currency as frustration grows about the inability of the government to stem lawlessness in cyberspace, experts say. The list of possible countermeasures also has grown more refined, less about punishing attackers than keeping them from profiting from their crimes.
"Active defense is happening. It's not mainstream. It's very selective," said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer for Trend Micro and a former member of President B.O.'s commission on cybersecurity. Then Kellermann added, as if by reflex, that he and his company would never do it: "For you to hack back, you actually put at risk innocents."
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You wanna see just how many cyber attacks are occurring. In real time. go here -> http://map.ipviking.com/
leave it on for a while. it will amaze you.
...and YES there are hackers on our side causing them trouble. You can be sure of this.
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Mikey dear, would you be more comfortable if I deleted your link or the entire post, either now or at the end of the day? I am a moderator, I have the power. ;-)
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The Obama administration and Congress created financial incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, pumping billions into electronic health record systems.
The institute urged Congress to create standards for safe design of medical record systems. It recommended that the federal government investigate deaths and other IT-related harm. It called for a public reporting system on patient-related harm.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] KARACHI: A young woman residing in Malir district died of Naegleria fowleri on Thursday, taking the 
[DAWN] A young man and a minor boy were admitted to a private hospital in a precarious condition on Thursday as doctors suspected that they were suffering from Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) that has already caused two deaths this year in the city.
[Washington Post] The recent rash of cyberattacks on major U.S. companies has highlighted the scant options available to the victims, who often can do little more than hunker down, endure the bad publicity and harden their defenses in hopes of thwarting the next assault.
