[Atlas Shrugs] OAKLAND — In sweeping charges alleging public contract fraud, forged real estate deals and identity theft stretching from Alameda to Orange counties, authorities on Tuesday arrested a Black Muslim minister, his mother and five others, saying they ran a wide-ranging scam through a private security firm that falsely claimed its guards were retired Navy SEALs and its leader a former FBI agent. Any polling place contracts and work in jeopardy ?
Months after this newspaper first uncovered that BMT International Security Services submitted bogus bid documents to the Port of Oakland and other agencies while seeking — and sometimes winning — millions of dollars in public contracts, police made simultaneous early morning raids in Oakland and Contra Costa County, arresting the minister, Dahood Sharieff Bey, 42, his mother, Rory Parker, 63, and others on 44 felony counts. Bogus bids? Must have not had access to Sole Source forms.
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said Tuesday the group led “an organized and sophisticated criminal enterprise conducting an extraordinary variety of fraudulent activities.” "Extraordinary" to some possibly.
The charges, detailed in a 118-page affidavit, allege the firm faked insurance and state license documents and made fanciful claims of expertise it did not possess. Bey, a disciple of the late Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey, to whom he was not related, posed as a former FBI agent named David Johnson, claiming at various times to be a graduate of Harvard, Princeton and Golden Gate universities and a “military marshal.” He boasted in one bid to have supplied security services to Disneyland. Disciples Holder and Obama will not be pleased upon hearing of this.
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"Michelle never let him forget that it was she, not he, who had made all the sacrifices in the marriage. And that she’d had to accommodate to a life that was not what she had envisioned for herself."
Sacrifices??? She's the FLOTUS. She rents entire luxury hotels for her and her entourage. She has Air Force 1 fly her separately so she can spend one more day in Hawaii. Does she think she'd be living like this on her lawyer's salary?
I see him sans lettuce or cabbage.
I see him smoking and eating cheeseburgers.
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I see him smoking and eating cheeseburgers.
And having other people pay for them.
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I think Mooch and her hubby are assuming that they'll live like royalty forever off the proceeds of books and speeches, just like Bill and The Beast. But another possibility is that they'll both turn out to have the shelf life of lettuce.
"Hey Bob, for only $200,000 I'll give you guys a great speech about how I was prevented from knowing anything that was happening when I was president!"
"You are frickin' kidding me, aren't you, Champ? You really had me going, there."
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Sacrifices??? She's the FLOTUS.
In the old days she was the primary income earner of the family. important as a rainmaker. Granted, she was a rainmaker because she was married to a politician, but even so. Now people look at her body and her clothing, and she is failing in her make-work projects to make yuppified school lunches and exercise for school kids meaningful -- in fact her efforts are loudly and publicly mocked. The career women around her are uninterested in a mere First Lady, and she fancies she has absolutely nothing in common with the housewives of her daughters' school PTA.
It could be said that in the old days it was Barack who was the accessory on her arm most of the time; now it is very clear she is unhappy being the one on his... especially now that he is no longer the shiniest star in the firmament, the well-spoken blank slate of a wunderkind in which everyone drew their own fondest desires
[CNN] Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey, went on CNN on Sunday and criticized the "knee-jerk reaction by politicians" to Ebola, saying "to quarantine someone without a better plan in place, without more forethought, is just preposterous."
Hickox, an epidemiologist who was working to help treat Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, has tested negative twice for Ebola and does not have symptoms, she said.
"This is an extreme that is really unacceptable, and I feel like my basic human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. have been violated," Hickox told CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union."
She described herself as "physically strong" but "emotionally exhausted."
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That's because "basic human rights" argument been used too much and too inclusively, dear.
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"Hickox, an epidemiologist who was working to help treat Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, has tested negative twice for Ebola and does not have symptoms, she said."
Is the Ebola test currently in use actually able to detect RNA and/or viral proteins before the onset of symptoms?
Is there any reliable empirical data concerning the test's sensitivity during the incubation period?
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Is there any reliable empirical data concerning the test's sensitivity during the incubation period?
I don't know, but we already have good empirical evidence that those prone to develop Ebola are compelled to mingle with the public, take public transportation, break promises about self-imposed quarantines, etc., until they finally get sick.
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While I would agree the process is a typical knee jerk over reaction by an incompetent government... your basic human rights aren't being violated. Now take your 'emotionally exhausted' self and go the fuck away and leave the adults alone. Here... have some wine and Valium and shut the fuck up.
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Except all the other humans have a right NOT to be infected by a transmittable disease. (unless that disease gains its own politically correct standing - see HIV)
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I suspect they'll find laws governing quarantine are old and have been upheld by the courts.
Good God, what is wrong with these people? They want to treat peaceful people as criminals, criminals as saints, and ignore some of the most basic methods for controlling the spread of disease.
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she should not have been allowed back - just because she's a whiney bitch
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Her basic human responsibilities have also been violated. Take another 21 day time out and chill out, Ms. Narcissio.
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...My mom - an RN who was a floor nurse for 42 years and wore her whites and starched cap to the last - would have jacked this whiny little twerp up so hard and fast that her great grandchildren would have felt it.
Mike
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LOL - my Mom - 78 yrs old RN and still kicking hard would've done the same . STFU
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There doesn't seem to be a pre-symptomatic test. And I couldn't find any info on false negatives. Unsurprising with so little data.
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So she went to deepest, darkest Africa and worked to treat a deadly disease under primitive conditions and now she is whining about the hardship of having to stay in her room for 3 weeks? I'm going to concur with Dr. Frank's diagnosis in #11 - whiny-ass bitchery.
We have had it drummed into our medically-innocent little heads that an asymptomatic person cannot spread Ebola. The problem with this soothing mantra is a patient goes rather quickly from asymptomatic to spurting virus like a broken radiator hose. As phil_b says, we have little data. Quarantine would be an ideal time to collect some.
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It's simple, if they don't wish to be quarantined, they must sign an agreement stating that they agree to be summarily executed by flamethrower if they turn out to have the disease. Don't sign, sit in your box til we're sure you're not a plague carrier
[WAPO] One day after governors in New York, New Jersey and Illinois imposed a mandatory 21-day quarantine on medical workers returning from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa, public health officials in the District, Maryland and Virginia did not follow suit Saturday, intensifying a national debate over how to prevent the spread of the disease.
Health officials are working to develop a consistent approach for the area around the nation’s capital. Joxel Garcia, director of the D.C. Department of Health, said that a mandatory quarantine was not scientifically justified and could have a chilling effect on the medical personnel, many of them volunteers, needed to treat Ebola patients at home and overseas. So D.C. becomes an Ebola incubator? Actually, the tourist season is pretty much over. Thank you Joxel.
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Reuters: "I don't want to be directly criticizing the decision that was made but we have to be careful that there are unintended consequences," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said of the measures imposed by New York, New Jersey and Illinois.
"The best way to stop this epidemic is to help the people in West Africa, we do that by sending people over there, not only from the U.S.A. but from other places," Fauci told NBC's "Meet the Press," adding such quarantines were "a little bit draconian."
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But New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, asked to respond to Fauci’s comment that it is not good science to quarantine people when they’re not symptomatic, said, "I don’t believe that when you’re dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system.”
“This is government’s job. If anything else, the government’s job is to protect the safety and health of our citizens,” he told the "Fox News Sunday" program.
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Maybe Eric Holder can intervene and set all quarantined health care workers in NJ, NY and IL FREE AT LAST. That's what I would call 'leadership' /sarc
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Florida Governor Scott yesterday issued an executive order tightening surveillance &/or quarantine for inbound travelers from the Ebola Hot Zone. PDF here.
CBS Miami adds:
In statement released Saturday Scott said, “This executive order will give the Florida Department of Health the authority they need to conduct 21-day health monitoring and risk assessments for all those who have returned or will return to Florida from the CDC designated Ebola-affected areas of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. We have asked the CDC to identify the risk levels of all returning individuals from these areas, but they have not provided that information.”
Scott went onto say they are in the process of trying to make four people who returned to Florida be under the health evaluation.
“Therefore, we are moving quickly to require the four individuals who have returned to Florida already – and anyone in the future who will return to Florida from an Ebola area – to take part in twice daily 21-day health evaluations with DOH personnel,” said Scott.
Scott said the monitoring will help them prevent the spread of the deadly disease. While we do not have an Ebola case in Florida, Scott said the order is out of abundance of caution as well as the product of lack of action from the CDC.
“I want to be clear that we are taking this aggressive action at the state level out of an abundance of caution in the absence of much-needed Ebola risk classification information from the CDC. We are using what information is available to our Department of Health through the CDC’s Epi-X web-based system, which monitors individuals who travel to areas with infectious diseases, including Ebola. Using this system, we know that four individuals have already returned to Florida after traveling to Ebola-affected areas. Following the news of Dr. Craig Spencer testing positive for Ebola in New York, DOH began working to identify anyone who has already returned to Florida after traveling to an Ebola area and is aggressively investigating how much risk these individuals pose for contracting the disease,” said Scott.
The governor went on to say if they determine a traveler is at “high risk’ of contracting the disease.” The Florida Department of Health may put the person under mandatory quarantine.
[BBC] The authorities in Mali have confirmed the death of the country's first Ebola patient, a two-year-old girl.
The World Health Organisation said the toddler had travelled hundreds of kilometres by bus from Guinea through Mali showing symptoms of the disease.
More than 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined.
The girl was being treated in the western town of Kayes, after arriving at a hospital on Wednesday.
The child had travelled more than 1,000 km (600 miles) from Guinea through the capital, Bamako, to Kayes.
"The child's symptomatic state during the bus journey is especially concerning, as it presented multiple opportunities for exposures, including high-risk exposures, involving many people," the WHO said.
The girl's mother died in Guinea a few weeks ago and the child was then brought by relatives to Mali.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have seen most of the 4,800 Ebola deaths.
In the US, the governors of the states of New York and New Jersey have ordered a mandatory 21-day quarantine period for all doctors and other travellers who have had contact with Ebola victims in West Africa.
Anyone arriving from affected West African countries without having had confirmed contact with Ebola victims will be subject to monitoring by public health officials.
The moves go beyond anything so far announced at a national level by the Obama administration and come after a doctor, Craig Spencer, was diagnosed with Ebola following his return to New York from Guinea.
People in the city have expressed concern that Dr Spencer used public transport and restaurants before being diagnosed.
People are afraid in Mali's capital, Bamako, but life is carrying on as normal. A few people have stopped shaking hands but physically greeting people is an important part of life in Mali and for most this has not changed.
Some hotels have placed bottles of anti-bacterial gels at their entrances but for ordinary Malians, gel remains too expensive. The government has been running public information broadcasts telling people to wash their hands with soap. But though soap is not expensive, most still wash their hands with water alone.
Many Malians have friends and family in Guinea and several buses and taxis travel between the two countries each day.
With the support of the WHO, Mali's health system has been preparing for an outbreak of Ebola for several months. But there is a culture here of visiting people when they are sick to wish them a speedy recovery.
This will have to change if Ebola becomes more widespread. Good maps at original BBC story. It seems inevitable to be passed on. Toddlers are germ factories at the best of times. They put stuff in their mouths. They slobber. They touch everything in reach. If the poor little girl was sick on the bus then whoever it is that cleans the bus will have to have touched it... and how do they track that person?
Patients at the hospital show symptoms of Ebola. Suspecting a different sort of infection, doctors prescribe antibiotics. Then nurses fall sick.
It’s the beginning of an Ebola outbreak, and health experts are distressed by mistakes at the hospital that let the deadly disease spread.
But it’s not Dallas in 2014 — it’s Kikwit, a medium-size city in Congo, central Africa, in 1995.
The echoes from many outbreaks in Africa are strong: Doctors missed warning signs when the virus showed up in their country. Nurses said their training and gear were inadequate.
As will be the case in Dallas, better medical attention eventually snuffs out each outbreak. But over and over, caregivers have to relearn lessons from the past.
Those who have dealt with outbreaks in Africa say that passing on knowledge from one generation of doctors to the next is critical. Continual vigilance and training is mandatory. Research and documentation are vital. Otherwise, Ebola will win.
On recent events in Dallas:
“I’m persuaded that they didn’t have anybody there with an institutional memory, with specific experience, and there were assumptions all around of competence,” said Joseph McCormick, regional dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus. “Certainly with Ebola, that’s a recipe for disaster.”
U.S. hospitals need to pay attention to what has happened in Africa, Dallas and, now, New York City to stack the odds in their favor, experts say.
“I think if you really manage to analyze what happened in great detail, there are very valuable lessons to learn,” said Dr. Matthias Borchert, a German doctor now fighting Ebola in Liberia with the U.S.-based International Rescue Committee. It’s his fifth epidemic treating diseases like Ebola.
“Does that mean another provider will never make the same mistake again? You can never guarantee that,” he said. “Humans will make mistakes.”...“Misdiagnosis is absolutely typical of an Ebola epidemic,” said Dr. C.J. Peters, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston who helped during the Kikwit outbreak while working for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Several hundred thousand ebola vaccines to be ready by next June
I understand why they are rushing this out at each stage before it's proven to work and be safe, but if it doesn't work or isn't safe things will get very interesting indeed.
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If you do 't have a place I the ,one shaft by now, forget the vaccine. Get a carton of Kools a case of Miller a fine fishing pole and go wi the flow. And too hell with the limits.
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anon1, unless it's something that urgently needs to be shared immediately, articles posted after 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time will be published the next day. Urgent things include terror attacks on Canada's parliament building or jet airplanes flying into the Twin Towers on 9/11. If we have a large number of published articles that day, the cut off time is moved up to sometime in the morning. Hope that helps!
A Nigerian drug mule has died in a Spanish airport after cocaine bags inside his body split open – because airport staff refused to touch him fearing he had Ebola.
The man collapsed in the customs area of the Madrid-Barajas airport outside the capital after arriving on a flight from Istanbul.
Upon hearing that the man was from Nigeria, staff were too afraid to approach the man and left him in shivers on the airport floor.
The Nigerian drug smuggler was left to his death at Madrid’s main airport after several bags of cocaine burst in his stomach. He spent 50 minutes without any medical attention as he was deemed an Ebola risk after he started shaking on the floor.
The man had arrived at Madrid-Barajas airport Terminal 1 on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul when the bags of cocaine apparently burst in his stomach. He quickly succumbed to the symptoms of a cocaine overdose.
[VOA News] Tunisians are voting Sunday to elect their first full parliament under a new constitution. Two key parties are expected to score well: the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which won Tunisia's last election, and the new liberal Nidaa Tounes party.
Sunday's vote dominated Tunisia's airwaves as voters lined up early in the morning to cast their ballots. This is the second legislative vote the country has held since its landmark revolution three years ago - and the first under its new constitution.
Tunis resident Mariam Touati waited in line for her turn at a polling station in the old Medina area.
Touati said she supported programs targeting youth. She's tired of the old politicians who did't represent people's expectations. What's key, she said, were realistic political programs emphasizing education and economic development - and not just idle talk.
Voter Iheb Attia hoped the elections would achieve a national consensus so Tunisia could move forward to achieve prosperity.
Dozens of parties and hundreds of candidates are running for a place in the 217-seat parliament. With radical groups threatening to disrupt the vote, security was reinforced in many places. Hundreds of national and international monitors were at hand to ensure a free and fair vote.
The moderate Islamist Ennahda party is considered a front runner - although it's expected to score less strongly than three years ago, when it won the last legislative elections. Its main opponent is expected to be Nidaa Tounes - a new secular alliance that includes members of the former regime.
Tunisia is considered the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, and still a rare success story in a region where other uprisings have went kaboom! into violence.
But Tunisia analyst Anthony Dworkin, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the North African country remained more of a symbol than a model for the Arab world.
"I think it would be an illusion to think the Tunisia example is going to quickly bring other countries in the region along with it. I think Tunisia, at this point, looks like an exception for all sorts of reasons," he said.
Still, Tunisia's democracy remains fragile and its economy is struggling. Jobs, economic growth and security are top priorities for many voters. Election results are expected to be announced on Wednesday.
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[ARABNEWS] Members of the Presidency for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) across the Kingdom will undergo training in various aspects of public dealing, etiquette and attitude as part of a program to improve its performance.
As many as 425 trainee members of the Haia will be participating in the training in various branches across the country.
According to the organizer, the Management Development Department at Haia is implementing the training to raise the efficiency of its members and improve their performance in addition to their administrative work in accordance with the guidelines of Haia chief Abdullatif Al-Asheikh.
There are issues of misusing the social media and Internet by individuals with deviant ideology to disrupt society, while some use the technology for immoral practices, according to a Haia source.
As part of its plan to curb the spread of unapproved practices, Haia announced Saturday that with the cooperation of some hackers, it had managed to penetrate 1,254 pornographic and atheistic accounts on social networking sites in a month. In addition, it had shut down 54 porn accounts in three days.
According to the Haia, there are 17 training sessions in total designed for field members and administrators in several specialties and skills.
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[ARABNEWS] Women will not take to the streets on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of a nationwide campaign launched on Oct. 26, 2013 calling on the Saudi government to lift the driving ban.
The statement, made by a leading advocate, comes in the wake of a recent Interior Ministry warning against women driving.
Some 2,500 women had signed the online campaign to drive cars on the Kingdom's streets on Sunday.
"The ministry's warning will be heeded. What happened last year was not orchestrated," said Samia El-Moslimany, a Saudi woman and supporter of the Oct. 26 campaign.
The ministry described any such attempt by women to drive in public "an opportunity for predators to undermine social cohesion."
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Let's see...drive down to the market for figs and a chicken, and maybe be beheaded? Maybe not!
[Iran Press TV] Followers of Press TV's Facebook page have censured Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's ban on female driving as unfair, arguing that Islam has not introduced any such restrictions.
Comments posted on the channel's Facebook page in response to a question about Saudi Arabia's decades-old ban on women getting behind the wheel showed that the ban has no standing in Islam with respondents noting that Saudi Arabia should lift the ban on women's driving.
"Yes, it's a joke. Nowhere in the Koran is this referenced. They can't use that one," a comment read, while another respondent said, "I don't get this. Why they wouldn't allow women to drive. Islam is not forbidding anyone to drive. Saudi Arabia does."
Another comment read, "Where in the Koran does it say that a woman cannot drive a car? ... I respect every Moslem who lives according to the Koran and let others live. I despise each has a misogynistic view."
"Why should women not be allowed to drive a car in Saudi Arabia? This is a country that allows female singers to perform at weddings! Which one is more evil: driving a car or singing at parties? Saudi Arabia is drifting away from pristine Islam! Dangerous!" another respondent noted.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry warned in a statement released on October 23 against any move flouting the kingdom's controversial ban on female driving.
The warning came against the backdrop of a renewed right-to-drive campaign against the ban.
Several women took the wheel last year on October 26 in defiance of the driving ban in the kingdom.
More than 2,700 people have already signed an online petition to support women's driving rights in the Arab country.
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hmmm restriction of the rights of women seems to follow saudi funding of islamist fascism round the globe eg to somalia
'The news returns’ – that is the slogan for the Meduza Project, a new Russian-language independent media organisation based in Latvia launched this week.
Prior to its launch, the Meduza team had been reticent, even secretive, about the details of their project. Now, impatient onlookers can finally see what the first major journalistic response to the government’s recent media crackdown looks like.
Headed by Galina Timchenko, the former editor-in-chief of Russian news website Lenta.ru, Meduza is run by a team of around 20 journalists. They were among the nearly 70 Lenta.ru reporters who collectively resigned from their jobs in March following Timchenko’s unexpected removal from her post by the website’s owner and Vladimir Putin ally, the oligarch Alexander Mamut.
Timchenko’s sudden removal as editor, reportedly the consequence of a dispute between her and Mamut over coverage of the Ukraine crisis, marked a turning point for the Russian media landscape. The following months saw entire newspaper editorial teams resigning in protest against censorship, sudden reshuffles at the command of newspaper financiers, and a slew of laws introduced by the government to tighten its grip over the distribution of information.
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Now Putin has his causus belli for invading Latvia. There's ethnic Russians there, and furthermore, they're oppressed. (By Russia, but it's the thought that counts.)
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[PAGESIX] There is an explanation for 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... 's hurry to invade Ukraine -- it is rumored he has cancer. News outlets from Belarus to Poland have reported for months that the Russian strongman has cancer of the spinal cord. But my sources say it's pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal forms of the disease. Pancreatic cancer is the sort of disease you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy and Vlad's not quite at top of my list unless he invades Baltimore.
Putin is allegedly being treated by an elderly doctor from the old East Germany whom Putin met decades ago while serving in Dresden for the KGB. The doctor has been trying various treatments including steroid shots, which would explain Putin's puffy appearance. Normally competent docs use chemo and radiation. If the patient's healthy enough there's a "nanoknife" procedure to remove the tumor, of which I know nothing but the name.
The physician, who is 84 years old, quit recently, confiding that he hated coming to Russia and was always mistreated by Putin's security detail. Good idea. Kick the guy's dog and then ask him for help.
Crispin Black, the British army veteran who reports on terrorism and intelligence, reported earlier this year that recurring rumors about Putin's health "are back again with a vengeance." ... and his girlfriend's a contortionist, not that he's up to it anymore because he has pancreatic cancer...
Writing for The Week, Black said Putin's pardon and release of his former crony Mikhail Khodorkovsky, after 10 years in prison, was an ominous sign. "Some have suggested [Putin] is clearing his conscience," Black wrote. But then he couldn't resist the urge to kick Khodorkovsky's dog so he might as well not have bothered.
Others say Putin has three years to live and wants to leave a legacy of expanding the Russian borders just like Peter the Great or Stalin. Take your pick. I think Steve Jobs had pancreatic cancer. He seemed to last pretty long. I know of one guy (a doctor) who beat it. Nobody else lasted longer than a year. Jobs had a neuroendocrine pancreatic tumor, entirely different from your usual adenocarcinoma. Problem with the latter is that by the time you discover it the tumor has almost always metastasized, both to surrounding tissues and to the liver. At that point your choices are chemo and more chemo, and pancreatic adenocarcinoma is notoriously resistant to chemo.
So if Putin has pancreatic CA then it's very likely curtains within a year.
By the way, Jobs died of his tumor as well.
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An insidious killer which has touch and robbed all of us of loved ones. I will make a point to pray for him, even though he is a communist bastid.
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Was this supposed to make Putin seem 'more human'?
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Radiation treatment? Try the Polonium Sushi
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Iff the US' own FBI-CIA is any measure, it wouldn't surprise me one bit iff the KGB - you know, the Mafia - deliberately infected him wid cancer cells, widout his consent.
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Cancer of the spine? I could only wish that this was a threat that could affect a certain high handicap golfer - but I'm pretty sure that to get spinal cancer, you first need spine.....
[Bloomberg] A unit of Trinity Industries Inc. (TRN), which faces deepening government scrutiny over allegedly deadly changes it made to its highway guardrail systems, said it will stop shipping the product pending additional crash testing. No discussion of the number of people saved by guardrails. Yes, you leave the motorway and hit something, you may be injured or killed. Trinity stock booming, we'll use Lawfare to get a piece of the action through the court system.
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It's my understanding they quietly made unsanctioned changes to the thickness of the metal to save money, and now they buckle in a way that impales cars when someone his the guardrail end-on.
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In Texas they still teach that the correct way to stop a car with failed brakes is to rub along the guardrail.
This was current in the 1930's. Model T stuff.
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Guardrails are tested and accepted in a "system" method - current standard is Midwest Guardrail System (since this summer). ANY deviation (metal thickness, post spacing or embement depth) exposes the municipality or state to a lawsuit when it doesn't perform correct (i.e.: impalement as Gorb notes)
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This POS needs to be wrapped in a straitjacket, given a 20lb weight, loaded aboard a C-130, and flown 1000 miles off the coast of Caliphornia. There, he's given the choice of being dropped from a low altitude, or a high altitude. His last wish should be granted.
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[DAWN] With outstanding arrears against Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) piling up over Rs11billion, Pakistain State Oil has sought permission from the federal government to "immediately discontinue fuel supplies to the national flag carrier.
A letter to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources ‐ a copy of which is available with DawnNews ‐ disclosed on Saturday that PSO has sought permission to immediately discontinue fuel supplies to PIA.
Though arrears against PIA have built up to over Rs11bn, state-owned oil company PSO has been continuing fuel supply to PIA in compliance with directives of the petroleum ministry.
PSO has also informed the government in detail regarding the default on due payments by PIA.
The oil company in its letter further says that in view of its liquidity position, it has become hard for PSO to continue supplies unless outstanding receivables are paid by PIA.
Several meetings have been held with PIA management to resolve the issue, including a meeting between senior management of PIA and PSO on Sept 15 at PIA's offices followed by a meeting on Sept 25 at the PSO head office, states the letter.
"During these meetings, PIA expressed its inability to pay the outstanding dues because of its ongoing cash flow problems. PSO also pursued the matter through MPNR (Petroleum Ministry) but the situation could not improve despite the ministry's support. In process of pursuing the recovery, PSO management learnt that PIA has discontinued its receivables from profitable routes from the banks and any further credit facility is not an option for PIA for settlement of PSO dues," it says.
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[DAWN] India has opted to buy Israel's Spike anti-tank guided missile, a defence ministry source said on Saturday, rejecting a rival US offer of Javelin missiles that Washington had lobbied hard to win.
India will buy at least 8,000 Spike missiles and more than 300 launchers in a deal worth 32 billion rupees ($525 million), the source said after a meeting of India's Defence Acquisition Council.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five-month-old government wants to clear a backlog of defence orders and boost India's firepower, amid recent border tensions with China and heavy exchanges of fire with Pakistain across the Kashmiri frontier.
"National security is the paramount concern of the government," the source quoted Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who also holds the finance portfolio, as telling the procurement panel.
"All hurdles and bottlenecks in the procurement process should be addressed expeditiously so that the pace of acquisition is not stymied."
Among other business cleared by the panel, India will issue a request for proposals to supply six submarines, added the source, who was not authorised to comment on the record and did not elaborate.
Spike is a man-portable 'fire and forget' anti-tank missile that locks on to targets before shooting. It is produced by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, which declined to comment.
It beat out the rival US Javelin weapons system, built by Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co, that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had pitched during Modi's visit to Washington at the end of September.
Senior US officials had said they were still discussing the Javelin order as part of a broader push to deepen defence industry ties with India by increasing the share of production done in the country.
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[DAWN] Prayer leaders (Khateebs) of 73 worship places in the city were booked for violating the ban on the use of loudspeaker during the Friday prayers.
A police officer said the use of amplifier for any speech except Azan was banned in the capital city. After a bloody clash between two religious groups in Rawalpindi on Ashura last year, the capital police have decided to implement the ban strictly.
He said the clash outside a worship place located on the Ashura route in Raja Bazaar last year was caused by the misuse of the loudspeaker.
"Last Friday, police officials met the Khateebs of all mosques and imambargahs in the capital city and asked them not to violate the ban," he said. The Khateebs were further directed that their voice should remain confined to the premises of the worship places.
"In this regard, undertakings were also taken from them with the warning that legal action would be taken against them if the ban was violated."
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] World Health Organisation has hosted a lavish £1 million conference in Moscow, while complaining about the lack the funds to deal with the killer disease.
Last night one senior Conservative MP told how he would be asking parliament why senior British delegates were sent to the week-long Conference of the Parties (COP) in Moscow when both the US and Canada boycotted it after learning it would be hosted by 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... Delegates from 175 countries descended on the conference in Moscow as part of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The body, funded by the WHO, met to discuss tobacco control policies and the role of e-cigarettes.
Organisers of the Moscow conference spent more than £40,000 just to provide Wi-Fi access for attending journalists, wasted after a last-minute decision to ban all press from the event.
Of the five hotels assigned to delegates, two boast five-stars including the Government-owned Golden Ring Hotel, self-proclaimed as "one of the most luxurious" in Moscow, and the city's Crowne Plaza which commands a majestic £1,169-a-day for a suite, though the WHO has secured a small corporate discount.
The Sunday Express can reveal the dinner gala, held last Monday, offered delegates Salmon carpaccio with cucumber tartar, Salmon as the main course, Vitello Tonnato beef with tuna fish sauce, Red caviar, Scallop with white wine sauce, a fish late of smoked halibut, smoked sturgeon, eel mix; Smoked eel, and Salmon under white syrup with flying fish caviar.
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[CA Watchdog] The extraordinary anti-Israel bias in a federally funded program at UCLA isn’t just shocking. It may violate federal regulations.
Last month, an education watchdog group reported that the Center for Near East Studies (CNES) produced 28 events focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict from 2010-2013. Twenty-six of those 28 events, “or 93 percent, exhibited bias against Israel.”
That’s a violation of an agreement the university made with American taxpayers when it accepted funds from the Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Title VI requires groups that receive funding to “reflect diverse perspectives and a wide range of views.” UCLA as the willing host, CNES as the disease, the U.S. taxpayers as unwitting provider; few surprises here.
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.
[CNN] Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey, went on CNN on Sunday and criticized the "knee-jerk reaction by politicians" to Ebola, saying "to quarantine someone without a better plan in place, without more forethought, is just preposterous."
Free Ebola: Obama Demands End to State Ebola Quarantines. 
[BBC] The authorities in Mali have confirmed the death of the country's first Ebola patient, a two-year-old girl.
[VOA News] Tunisians are voting Sunday to elect their first full parliament under a new constitution. Two key parties are expected to score well: the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which won Tunisia's last election, and the new liberal Nidaa Tounes party.
...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...
...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...
