[An Nahar] Italia's former Prime Minister Sivlio Berlusconi did have sex with an exotic dancer nicknamed "Ruby the Heart Stealer", but did not know she was under-age at the time, an appeal court said Thursday.
The billionaire was found guilty in 2013 of having paid buxom, Moroccan-born Ruby -- whose real name is Karima El-Mahroug -- for sex when she was just 17 years old. That's old enough lots of places.
But in a surprise move in July, a Milan appeals court overturned Berlusconi's suspended seven-year prison sentence and lifelong ban from holding public office on the basis that his actions "did not constitute a crime". Silvio's too old most places.
In the summary of its decision, published within the three-month legal limit, the court said there was "certain proof... of prostitution at Arcore on the evenings when Karima El Mahroug was present," referring to parties held at the aging magnate's luxury villa near Milan.
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Personally, I'm more inclined to think the Milan Court let Berluscuni off because Italia may need him when the ISIS + aligned attack Sicily or the Appennines???
[NEWS.SKY] Italian police are investigating a nurse suspected of killing at least 38 of her patients because they or their relatives annoyed her.
Daniela Poggiali, 42, was initially charged with murder over the unexpected death of an elderly patient.
Rosa Calderoni had been admitted for a routine illness, but a post-mortem examination found high levels of potassium in her bloodstream.
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what a psychopath. it's statistically more uncommon in woman than men.
coldness, lack of empathy, behaviour that violates social norms, plus a dash of sadism.
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coldness, lack of empathy, behaviour that violates social norms, plus a dash of sadism.
Yes, and coincidently, all necessary elements for the murder of the unborn as well. A pathology shared by both sexes. No more new people, no more old people. Only us.
[FOXNEWS] Kansas authorities charged a Wichita man Wednesday in the sexual assault and burglary of a 100-year-old woman during a break-in at her home.
Kasey Nesbitt, 35, was charged with rape and aggravated burglary.
The woman, who lives alone, told police that intruders forced open the door of her home on Sept. 29. She says they were in her home for several hours. Police say forensic evidence linked Nesbitt to the rape.
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aaaaannnd I think we are done with this fellow.
h/t Belmont
A Texas health-care worker who "may have" handled lab specimens from Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has been isolated in a cabin on board a commercial cruise ship in the Caribbean, according to U.S. Department of State. And Belize Coast Guard won't let the vessel or any of its thousands of passengers into port.
[Fox] He [Frontier President] said one plane has been taken out of service, and the other has been cleaned nine times. The company has also taken the flight crew offline and put them on paid leave.
When asked about how the CDC is handling the situation, he said, "Obviously [...] we have a lot of questions about the situation, and we’ve learned a lot since the first notification 42 hours ago." I'm waiting for the first air pilot or crew who refuses to fly and bolts from the aircraft at the gate. In last evening news, a FA union representation would not openly support visa restrictions, but is demanding BIO Level-4 kits be put on aircraft for the crew. I'm not at all certain she's properly thought that one out.
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I'm waiting for the first air pilot or crew who refuses to fly
That is already the case for medical evacuations from the Hot Zone. Getting hard to find flight crews willing to go there.
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Son in Law, is a right seat Flt Officer for United, out of SFO. His routes are Northern CONUS and Canada They are not happy campers. The pilots can close the cabin door, but worry the Flt Attendants will strike, call in sick or just quit. No Stews no flts.
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I remember back during Desert Storm when the CRAF crews were issued "protective clothing" before heading downrange. Of course the loadmasters popped the seals to inspect them. Turns out they'd purchased clear painters overgarments with venilation holes at the armpits. Go team Evergreen! Needless to say the crews were not impressed. Still, they operated the trips with no more than the usual amount of complaining. of course they were freight dogs, not the delicate blossoms the operate commercial pax birds . . .
[BREITBART] The world may be facing two deadly Ebola outbreaks, now a new strain of the virus has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC), which so far has killed 71 percent of those infected.
The virus in the DRC, which is nearly 2,300 miles away from the most eastern extent of the much larger West-African outbreak has been studied by a joint French-Canadian team of virologists for the World Health Organisation who confirmed that it was distinct, sharing only 96.8 percent of genetic material: "The complete genome sequence of the virus responsible... confirms that it is a virus Ebola species but it shows that the Congolese strain is different from Africa West".
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Are Brantly and Writebol now immune to the Zaire strain of Ebola?
In general, patients who have recovered from Ebola virus infection do develop a very robust immunity to the virus. They develop antibodies against the virus and they also develop cell-mediated immunity—the lymphocytes important to form viral control of pathogens. In general, the finding is it’s basically like being immunized—it would be unusual to get infection with the same strain.
Will that immunity afford them protection against other strains of Ebola?
We are still evaluating that in our two patients. Cross-protection is not quite as robust. There are five strains of Ebola viruses. Even though that data is not great, the feeling is there is potential for being infected if you go to a different part of Africa and get exposed to a different strain.
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if it keeps spreading the way it is, half the world's population will be dead in 2 years. How come they can't isolate the antibodies in survivor's plasma and replicate?
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The disease is self-isolating A1. When elements of the cluster are too weak to travel, AND THERE IS NO INTERVENTION, the spread stops as the hosts die off.
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For about 2 decades there were 4 varieties of hemoragic fever, i.e. Marburg, and the three Ebola variants (read The Hot Zone, it's about the emergence of Ebola Reston).
The principal divides in strain run along levels of 'infectiousness', and mortality rate.
In the past, the highly infectious versions also had a lower mortality rate, which allowed them to spread. Higher mortality strains killed the host too quickly, which caused the outbreak to burn out.
This, however, was before the advent of rapid common-carrier transport. The emergence of these diseases from the African bush seems to coincide with the completion of the Kinshasa Highway, through equatorial Africa.
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hmmm interesting comments. The Kinshasa highway... people can flee to an airport then they can fly
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This is way out stuff, but they have actually studied fruit bats in India (different species from African fruit bats) as to whether or not they might have been infected with Ebola. This is part of worldwide Ebola studies & surveillance, which has been going on since 1976. They found anti-Ebola antibodies in some of the Indian fruit bats, suggesting either prior infection with Ebola, or prior infection with something in India that causes anti-Ebola antibody production (and maybe also immunity to actual Ebola). Indian fruit bats produce their own Vitamin C. African fruit bats don't. Primates like chimps & humans don't make their own vitamin C, either. Draw your own conclusions. Needs more research.
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Interesting comment from one of the Liberian ambulance drivers:
He takes many precautions at home. With his constant exposure to the virus, he sleeps in a separate house from his six children to prevent them from getting sick. In the past five months, he has seen them only a few times.
“It’s a very lonely virus,” Mr. Kamara said. “Not just for me, but for the entire country. We are all together, but all alone.”
Will similarly affected US health workers be doing the same thing in the near future?
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Back in the day, when I drove an ambulance, there were special procedures for scrub-down after a MRSA transport.
Once we transported a woman with Lupus. She smelled like she had been dead for awhile. My partner was driving and we went from Doctors Hospital in D.C. to University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore under lights and with the window open. We did a pretty thorough scrub-down after that one, too.
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Here is a video on an academic paper that presents network theory and how to use it for a contagious disease. Interesting to think about with Ebola. Especially now that a second hospital worker in Dallas has it-and many more (up to 70) were exposed. This video models outbreaks in regions with poor health infrastructure.
Because RandomJD was talking about models and Ebola recently, and because so many Rantburgers are hotshot amateur or professional programmers or otherwise analytical types who understand such things. Enjoy!
Lots of people are now working on vaccines, dear anon1, among them a group in Israel. In the meantime, get your flu shot, wash your hands every two hours with soap, and don't touch your face near your eyes, nose, and mouth (the T zone) to reduce your chance of all infections. Perhaps stock up on three weeks worth of food supplies, in case you need to be quarantined...
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The network models should properly account for the rate of survivors becoming immune vs the rate of transmission to new victims. When this is set properly, there is little chance this epidemic will infect more than a few million people.
Refer to my comments in September about ebola transmission. Here is one from the 20th.
#12 it shouldn't be too bad outside of west Africa, because if even one case turns up there, hundreds of people will respond to suppress transmission and trace contacts.
in west Africa though, there is no one left to respond. so it will spread until the proportion of the population immune to ebola is about the reciprocal of the retransmission rate, which is two. so two-thirds of the people will get this and half of those will become immune before it is done.
this sort of exponential phenomena is what did in fukashima. once it got too hot, there was no way to stop it. and in my opinion, Liberia is already too hot. some of these other countries are pretty hot but it is still too close to call.
[Ynet] The corpse count from the Ebola crisis will rise to more than 4,500 lives this week from among 9,000 people infected by the deadly disease, a top official with the UN health agency said Thursday.
Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, director of the World Health Organization's global capacities, alert and response, said new numbers show the outbreak is still hitting health workers hard, with 2,700 infected and 236 dead, mainly because Ebola victims are most contagious around the time they die.
[USATODAY] resident Obama has issued an executive order calling up ready reserve troops to combat the Ebola crisis in Africa. It doesn't have to make any sense to us. We're not the smartest man in the room.
Obama notified Congress of his order Thursday. It reads: "I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa."
The Pentagon said it had no immediate plans to send reservists or National Guard troops to Africa, saying that the order simply allows the military to begin planning for those forces in its overall response.
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See my earlier Post.
Whether one likes or agrees wid the Bammer or not, it broadly still makes better sense to deal wid the Ebola Crisis "Over There, Not Over Here".
I trust the USDOD to know how to best protect its troops from Ebola.
POTUS Franklin Roosevelt approved the post-Pearl Harbor/December 7th, 1941 internment of Japanese-AMericans not because he hated them, but because the needs of war + the still-ongoing, still-expanding, Post-Pearl "offensive" military campaign by Japan in the Pacific de-prioritized any legal resolution of their individual cases to the bottom of the stack. The internment camps were as much to protect the rights + lives of Japanese-Americans from the post-Pearl angry US mainstream as it was to protect the US war effort from alleged Japanese spies + espionage.
AFAIK the same principle is applicable wid Ebola save in Liberia.
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My point was that the military's not organized or trained for containing epidemics.
We can send medics, we can send logistics people, we can send MPs (assuming the military still has such a thing). Perhaps signals elements would be of peripheral assistance.
Tanks and artillery won't be much help. The military is always short of doctors. Tasking Fort Sam to support would seem to make more sense than calling up the Iowa National Guard.
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If/when guard or reserve units are deployed, anyone want to take bets on which states' units will be sent?
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Many of the more specialized Army units are in the National Guard or the Reserves. The active duty Army doesn't need a lot of military police or medical units (among others) on a day to day basis during peacetime. Whether or not sending US troops to Africa is a good idea, the units most needed and best trained for the role would probably have to come out of the National Guard or Reserve
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What they should be calling up is the 6000 uniformed members of the public health service. Slice out 1500 and send 500 of them downrange at a time for 90 day tours.
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As orderlies, send certain poor men
And ladies who have heretofore been
As useless as tits on
A boar hog that spits on
The public, our brave Urban Corpsmen!
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I live near Cleveland & wouldn't say many are 'gripped' by fear. Still no dead bodies in the streets. Anyone interested can follow the NE OH news by checking out www.ohio.com an www.cleveland.com (newspaper sites), along with www.fox8.com, www.wkyc.com, and www.newsnet5.com
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Summit County [Ohio] Public Health officials said Vinson was cautious during her time in Ohio, visiting only a select group of family and friends. Officials have so far determined that 12 people in Ohio had contact with Vinson, eight of whom are under self quarantine. Four are in frequent communication with public health staff. And the other eight? Contact tracing is important.
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News conference Thursday in Akron re: Amber Vinson. CDC official admits she did NOT have significant Ebola symptoms at the time she was diagnosed in Texas. All existing protocols seem to hinge on the exhibition of these symptoms.
Reuters) - A Texas health worker who may have had contact with specimens from the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States has been isolated on a cruise ship despite showing no symptoms of the disease, the Department of State said on Friday.
The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worker, who did not have direct contact with now deceased Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan but could have processed his bodily fluids 19 days ago, left on a cruise from Galveston on Sunday, department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement...The employee has been self-monitoring since last Monday and has yet to develop a fever or show any other symptom of Ebola, the statement said. The worker and a companion voluntarily isolated themselves in their cabin, and U.S. officials are arranging for the ship to return to the country.
"We are working with the cruise line to safely bring them back to the United States out of an abundance of caution," Psaki said in the statement.
The person left the country before being notified of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) updated requirement for active monitoring, the statement said.
The Government of Belize said in a statement hours earlier that it had denied a request by U.S. officials to use a Belizean airport to transport a cruise ship passenger considered to be a very low risk for Ebola.
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Agree with AH9418, gripped probably isn't the right word. I know that it didn't stop me from going out last nite two 2 Cleveland Beer Week events, the alcohol would kill anything, right? :-)
Oct 16 (Reuters) - The infection of two U.S. healthcare workers who cared for a dying Ebola patient in Dallas is challenging assumptions about how to protect Western medical workers who perform advanced, life-saving procedures that may increase their risk of exposure...Workers at the [Dallas] hospital also performed invasive procedures on Duncan such as inserting a breathing tube and filtering his blood through a dialysis machine, procedures that are unprecedented in the care of an Ebola patient in the last throes of the disease. But those same procedures make it more likely that a healthcare worker will come into contact with bodily fluids at their most infectious.
"The thing we don't know is, was it truly a breakdown in personal protective equipment or was it because we were instrumenting the patient by intubation or dialysis?" said Dr Peter Hotez, a tropical disease expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
In West Africa, where the worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 4,000 people, the use of advanced lifesaving measures is rarely an option. But in the United States, they are routine...In most places in Africa, Ebola patients are only able to get supportive care, said CDC spokeswoman Abbigail Tumpey.
"Now that we're treating patients with Ebola in the U.S., we are using modern Western medicine that has not ever been used in field studies in Africa," she said. Treatment approaches such as dialysis and intubation "certainly have not been happening." Never happened before?
Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University Medical Center said that despite the fact Ebola has been around for decades, it is "entirely new to Western healthcare," and it is important to not be overly reliant on what has worked in prior outbreaks, especially when the healthcare systems are so dissimilar.
Ebola is different [from AIDS] in some very important ways. It rapidly turns off the body's innate ability to fight viruses, multiplying unchecked as the disease progresses until patients' bodies are filled with billions of virus particles.
"Towards the last days of infection, that patient is basically a bag of virus," [Dr.] Hotez said.
When a patient with Ebola is reaching the stage in the disease where there is need for intubation or dialysis, the risk becomes greater to the healthcare worker than the benefit to the patient because they are "crashing" and near death...
Dr. Marc Napp, deputy chief medical officer and senior vice president for medical affairs at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, said that as a general rule "any patient that comes in, no matter what the condition, if they require certain medical therapy based upon clinical judgment and they want that therapy, we are obligated to provide it." Physicians are not obligated to provide useless therapy, e.g., a patient already on the verge of death from metastatic cancer probably won't be put on artificial ventilation even if they stop breathing altogether.
Dr. Napp is correct: we take risks every day. We're obligated to be there for patients. Intubation and dialysis are not "useless" therapies -- in a patient with Ebola these therapies may be life-saving.
Remember: in a devastating viral infection the name of the game is time: keep supporting the patient until said patient's humoral immunity kicks in and they start making antibodies. That may mean mechanical ventilation, dialysis, blood products and so on. They can't do that in Liberia; we can. And should.
Napp said in the case of Ebola, there has not been any discussion about withholding life-saving treatments such as intubation for fear of harming staff members. But he said healthcare workers take risks all of the time.
"I'm a general surgeon. I've stuck myself with a needle. I've cut my finger on a broken bone from a person with hepatitis. We're exposed to this regularly," he said. "What's different here is there is the panic factor. It's a highly lethal infection." Panic factor, or the risk/reward-benefit ratio?
Dallas County’s top public health epidemiologist confirmed Thursday that she spent time at Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan’s bedside and that she is among those potentially exposed to the virus.
Dr. Wendy Chung has remained on the front lines of the government’s response to the outbreak since Duncan’s diagnosis, working alongside federal, state and local health authorities as she undergoes monitoring for any signs of the potentially deadly disease...Dr. Barry Rosenthal, chairman of Emergency Medicine at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York, said that while he cannot speak to the situation in Dallas, it’s neither typical nor advised for an epidemiologist to enter an isolation room and interview a contagious patient. Their role in outbreaks, he said, is to track cases to find out who else might have been exposed, research that can be conducted by phone or video monitor to avoid potential contact.
In addition, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden has said that too many health workers had contact with Duncan, and he announced steps this week to minimize the number of people in the room with Ebola patients.
Chung was not immediately available for further comment.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who is responsible for the county’s disaster and emergency preparedness, said he and Chung have been working side by side throughout the outbreak. Jenkins said their pace has been so intense at a hospital command center that they’ve set up a room with cots where Chung and others can rest.
He said he has not heard she was being monitored in any way, “and it would be surprising if I wouldn’t know that.”
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The left is a culture of death. Too many people in the world. Abortion, end of life decisions made easier and easier. My long term opinion of the world health organization. Triage, had to kick in at some point anyway.
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Ebola: Top Federal Docs Dispute CDC
Breaking ranks with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Director Thomas Frieden, three federal doctors at two of the nation’s four biocontainment care facilities and a fourth physician at a military hospital said allowing community hospitals to care for patients with Ebola and similar pathogens is too risky.
They call for creating a new system of regional facilities fully equipped and staffed with workers trained to safely handle such cases
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They call for creating a new system of regional facilities fully equipped and staffed with workers trained to safely handle such cases
Which will require billions of $ and thousands of bureaucrats.......and since Ebola, et al are rare they'll be busy "treating" and "studying" those serious health threats obesity, climate change, GLTB anxieties, second hand smoke and Tea Party syndrome.
I thought that this would be in the remit of several existing orgs starting with the CDC.
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The CDC (AFAICT, IIRC) has never been charged with running patient care facilities. Hence, Emory University Hospital & the DC NIH facility were the places the 2 infected nurses have been transferred to.
A "system of facilities" can be organized using existing facilities. Those staffers will have to be paid to participate in all the trainings & may also have to be paid to 'stand by' in case of need.
CDC is presently offering 3-day introductory courses for US medical personnel intending to go into the Hot Zone to help out. They're booked up for the next 2 weeks. However, the CDC is NOT training any domestic medical personnel to work at home -- they leave that up to the local authorities.
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So we are talking kidney failure, due to dehydration? That's one way to get kidney failure, but there are many others. Ebola attacks blood vessels directly, &/or may be filtered by the kidneys to get into the urine & so may simply clog up the circulation into the kidneys to such an extent they stop working. There are other possibilities.
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I take it that thistle tea will not help a clogged kidney; time to go to the vodka and cranberry juice? Balvenie 12 is good for the kidneys as well, no?
I figure by the time if/when I (family) get Ebola, or Entero, or Bird, or Swine, or Chimney, or whatever, hospitals have become tombs and Camp FEMA is where people disappear.
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Yeah, a plane flight is cheaper than tricking out a hospital do to serious infection control. Besides, it's not like the patients were doing anything else...
[Ynet] A top Egyptian civil defense official says a massive fire has erupted at a power plant in northern Cairo, requiring 20 fire trucks to put it out.
Police Maj. Gen. Gamal Halawa said by telephone that Thursday's fire is now under control. The fire, he says, was caused by an kaboom at a generator unit.
Officials at the power station say the fire was caused by a "technical failure" and that an investigation into the incident was underway. They do not suspect foul play.
Inshallah maintenance or simply overaged, worn out equipment? Regardless, the Mamluks now running the country will keep popular approval only so long as they can deliver improved living conditions. This certainly won't help.
Freerown -- A battalion of 800 Sierra Leone soldiers awaiting deployment as peacekeepers in Somalia has been placed in quarantine after one of its members tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, military officials said on Tuesday.
The soldiers were due to relieve the West African nation's contingent already deployed with Somalia's African Union peacekeeping mission, known as AMISOM. They are now expected to be subject to a 21-day isolation period.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday blamed Washington for the slump in global oil prices.
Washington is "flooding" the market with cheaper shale oil to bring down prices and ultimately impact Russia and other oil-producing nations, Maduro said at a televised Cabinet meeting.
"The U.S. and its allies want to affect oil prices to harm Russia, which produces around 10 million barrels per day, and that is the vital income of their economy," said Maduro. I doubt Obean would do such a mean thing to an enemy on purpose. As a by-product of some other political necessity, however . . . .
Market analysts say a 20-percent dip in oil prices since June is driven by lower economic growth and weak demand for crude in Europe, along with signs that the core Gulf members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are in no hurry to cut production.
Maduro called for an extraordinary meeting of the group to explore ways to stabilize international oil prices. Boo hoo. Only $80/bbl. How much does it cost to get produce that barrel? $5? I don't know, but it isn't nearly as much as $80/bbl. So now you only get $70/bbl to fund your favorite dictator and/or terrorist groups.
However, point of order. Washington is not flooding the market with cheap oil. The Dakotas maybe and a couple of other states, but Washington has been working the paper as best they can to stop it.
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Venezuela has its governmental a$$ in a crack. They made a deal to have Chicoms buy the oil for loans and such. Basically they are selling it to keep the cash flowing. Now the price is down, they are getting the squeeze. The Maduroites are screwed.
/crocodile tears
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Exactly. Now there is a new player in the global market. Wait for it... KISS MY ASS Venezuela!
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Let's see you central plan your way out of this! Welcome to the world of market economies, bitchez.
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Steve, it ain't that simple. In 1993 Venuzuela's economy was centrally planned, but it worked a lot better. It was centrally planned for the benefit of Venezuelans rather than Russians, Chinese, and Saudis. Noone really knows who Maduro is really working for, just that it ain't Venezuela.
[Washington Post] Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that President B.O. was suffering from "some kind of mental aberration" for saying during a U.N. speech last month that Russia posed a global threat.
"It's sad to hear President B.O. say in an address at the U.N. that the threats and challenges facing humanity are, in this particular order: the Ebola virus, the Russian Federation, and only then the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ," Medvedev said during an interview that aired Wednesday on CNBC. "I don't want to dignify it with a response. It's sad. It's like some kind of mental aberration."
Medvedev offered his opinion of Obama's mental state in response to a question about whether it would be possible to "reset" the relationship between Washington and Moscow after a months-long standoff over Ukraine, during which the United States has sanctioned Russia's financial, defense, and oil and gas sectors, and Russia has banned all produce, meat, fish and dairy imports from the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The idea harks back to 2009, when Medvedev and the B.O. regime both expressed a desire to "press the reset button" on relations between Russia and the United States, which had grown tense during the administrations of George W. Bush and 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....
(The photo op didn't go so well.)
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[BBC] Turkey failed to win a seat on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... (UN) Security Council after member states voted on Thursday.
The five non-permanent seats were given to Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain, the latter two beating Turkey to represent the West.
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Hugo's baby girl is the Venezuealan alternate rep. I see fun times in beeeeg Apple soon.
[WashingtonPost] Voter-ID law is reinstated for election
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas's voter-identification law for the November election, which the Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.
The ruling by the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit temporarily blocks last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi, who said the law was unconstitutional and similar to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting.
The 5th Circuit did not rule on the merits of the law; instead, it determined it was too late to change the rules for the upcoming election. Early voting starts Oct. 20.
The law remains under appeal. For now, the ruling is a key victory for Republican-backed photo-ID measures that have swept across the United States in recent years. The Texas law, considered the toughest of its kind in the nation, requires an estimated 13.6 million registered voters to have one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.
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I believe the Supreme Court recently set a Wisconsin ruling support voter ID's aside creating chaos in the voting system. Will the highest court do it again in Texas ?
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday upheld the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy four years ago, as her lawyers vowed to appeal.
Asia Bibi, a mother of five, has been on death row since November 2010 after she was found guilty of making derogatory remarks about the Holy Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) during an argument with a Moslem woman.
"A two-judge bench of the Lahore High Court dismissed the appeal of Asia Bibi but we will file an appeal in the Supreme Court of Pakistain," her lawyer Shakir Chaudhry told AFP.
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[DAWN] A small girl kidnapped on Tuesday was recovered after a joint team of Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, Anti-Violent Crime Cell and Korangi police rubbed out two suspected kidnappers and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two others following an alleged encounter.
Three-year-old Yamna was kidnapped on Tuesday afternoon while she was returning home from her school with her father, according to a CPLC official.
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Man on Fire - one of my favorite Denzel Washington movies.
[NYPOST] A congressional hearing on how federal agencies have "gone wild" with government credit cards found that personal use of taxpayer-funded cards is significant despite tighter controls passed in 2012.
Auditors revealed more than half of the $153,000 in credit-card purchases sampled at the Environmental Protection Agency were prohibited under the guidelines.
They included multi-course meals at an employee award ceremony, gift cards and family gym memberships.
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We got it covered; just keep the Fed's printing presses going!
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Why should they treat the credit cards any different than the Treasury? Come on guys, issuing Treasury Bonds is basically a credit care scam without limits (which procedurally that reach now and then, panic, and then raise the limits anyway).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] 
[NEWS.SKY] Italian police are investigating a nurse suspected of killing at least 38 of her patients because they or their relatives annoyed her.
[FOXNEWS] Kansas authorities charged a Wichita man Wednesday in the sexual assault and burglary of a 100-year-old woman during a break-in at her home.
[BREITBART] The world may be facing two deadly Ebola outbreaks, now a new strain of the virus has been discovered in the 
[Ynet] The 
[USATODAY] resident Obama has issued an executive order calling up ready reserve troops to combat the Ebola crisis in Africa.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] 
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday blamed Washington for the slump in global oil prices.
[Washington Post] Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that 
...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] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday upheld the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy four years ago, as her lawyers vowed to appeal.
[NYPOST] A congressional hearing on how federal agencies have "gone wild" with government credit cards found that personal use of taxpayer-funded cards is significant despite tighter controls passed in 2012.
