The CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) have confirmed a diagnosis of Lassa fever in a person returning to the United States from West Africa. The patient was admitted to a hospital in Minnesota on March 31 with symptoms of fever and confusion. Blood samples submitted to CDC tested positive for Lassa fever on April 3. The patient is recovering and is in stable condition.
"This imported case is a reminder that we are all connected by international travel. A disease anywhere can appear anywhere else in the world within hours," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.
Lassa fever is a severe viral disease that is common in West Africa but rarely seen in the United States. Seven other Lassa fever cases, all travel related, have been identified in the United States, with the last one reported in Pennsylvania in 2010. Although Lassa fever can produce hemorrhagic symptoms in infected persons, the disease is not related to Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which is responsible for the current outbreak in West Africa.
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Not too big of a deal in Kansas, except the two locations mentioned are major travel hubs. Wyandotte is Wichita whichis I-35 which is STL/KC/OKC/TX. Obviously that route also includes Kansas City Kansas which affect STL/KC/Denver I-70.
I also default on let locals do local things, except this is a US Constitution Bill of Rights deal, so good.
Third, looking at the five states mentioned who do allow locality to trump state regulations, I'm convinced this is a good measure.
Like I said yesterday, if we can desebelius the courts and start attracting some business.
One could argue that Kansas is not New Jersey, and New Jersey is not Kansas, don't necessarily agree but get the arguement, but allowed rights should be uniform within said state. It would be absurd to mandate that travelers deflate their spare tires before driving around Wichita, or that in Wichita people are not allowed to use public access internet for social media.
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Don't give the gummint bastards any ideas, swksvolFF.
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Yeah, no kidding there. Gar-un-tee though those two have been discussed, dismissed as not yet. As for absurdities becomeing realities, a year ago a remake of Blazing Saddles was outlandish, today White Chicks is out of the question, a movie about as edgy as a plastic cup of warm milk.
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We'll put it in place, work the bugs, and then hopefully have a model where other states where something like this is not overwhelmingly approved (check out the vote numbers) could say, hey this program is already working.
And it should garnish the support of any group which spends a lot of time on the road and/or responsible people. Truckers, retired LEOs and military, traveling disaster related electrical repair crews, special delivery couriers, perhaps even quietly a number of other groups.
Imagine running a freight route from the Chicago docks to Kansas City hub. There are many no good neighborhoods and also lots of remote road. Driver wants to be able to protect themself, does a person abide by the most restrictive law of the route or have a constant county-by-county travel guide hoping some local didn't change the law in between publishing and the travel?
[AnNahar] Police have sent reinforcements to Egypt's southern province of Aswan after at least 23 people were killed in tribal festivities there, officials said on Saturday.
Does anyone know if there was more or less of this kind of thing before the excitements of the Arab Spring?
Long-standing tensions between Bani Hilal rustics and the Nubian Dabudiya family erupted after a woman was accosted on Thursday, the interior ministry said.
Tribal vendettas are common in Egypt's poor, rural south, but police called the outbreak of violence the worst in recent memory.
The health ministry said 20 people were killed in renewed fighting on Saturday, a day after a failed reconciliation meeting between the two sides ended in a gunbattle that killed three.
It said more than 50 people were maimed.
The interior ministry, in a statement, said the three dead all belonged to the Bani Hilal tribe.
Police said the violence had subsided by Saturday afternoon after they sent in reinforcements.
Because of the scale of the fighting, interim prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab and his interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim both arrived in Aswan on Saturday afternoon.
The army also said it had intervened, and accused the Moslem BrĂĽderbund of deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... of involvement in the violence.
Since the army ousted Morsi last July, the military-installed authorities have blamed the Brotherhood -- now designated a "terrorist" organization -- for violence that has rocked Egypt daily for the past nine months.
Police began to reassert themselves across the country only recently, after a breakdown in law and order following a 2011 uprising that overthrew strongman Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011....
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Death in the streets, rationing by fingerprints and a general on the run: how oil-rich Venezuela has descended into chaos
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IF we had a President who didn't secretly love the Cuban Oppressive System™, we could do quite a bit to stop their manipulation of Venezuela
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IF we had a President who didn't secretly love the Cuban Oppressive System™, we could do quite a bit to stop their manipulation of Venezuela
FIFY, Frank
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Agree SAM & Ship sbout leaving them alone...BUT...what is the proper response when the Russians, Chinese and/or Iranians set up bases and ports in the country?
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan on April 7, a statement published on the official website of Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence said. It is scheduled that during the visit the guest will have a meeting at the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
Delivering a message...
The visit will last till April 8.
Next couple of days after that the Azeri big honcho will announce that they're okay with the Russian annexation of the Crimea. After that he'll talk about the flow of oil will proceed from his country no matter who owns the pipelines next door in Georgia...
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[AnNahar] Ukraine's security service said on Saturday it had locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! 15 men for allegedly plotting to stage an armed revolt in an eastern region neighboring Russia.
It added it had also seized 300 machineguns, a rocket launcher and numerous grenades from the suspected coup plotter.
The Ukrainian Security Service said the men planned to seize the administration building in the Lugansk region on Thursday, "frighten the local population, and use arms and explosives".
The security agency provided no other details and did not reveal any political affiliation of the suspects.
The heavily Russified eastern regions of Ukraine have been hit by protests since last month's overthrow in Kiev of a pro-Kremlin regime by leaders who are seeking a closer alliance with the West.
Some eastern regions have also sought to stage their own independence referendums similar to the one that resulted in Crimea recently being annexed by Russia.
President Obama isn't the only one with a phone and a pen... though Prime Minister Erdogan's have curly toes.
[DAWN] YouTube will remain blocked in Turkey, despite the end to a similar controversial ban on Twitter, after a court backtracked on an earlier ruling to grant access to the video-sharing site.
The court in the capital Ankara on Friday lifted a March 27 government decision blocking access to YouTube, saying the blanket ban violated human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... , and instead restricting 15 videos.
But the court later reversed the decision, saying the block would remain in place until the audio recordings allegedly showing top-level security talks on Syria are removed, Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper reported.
The change of heart comes after Turkey's government complied with a Constitutional Court ruling on Thursday and scrapped a similar ban on San-Francisco-based Twitter.
The microblogging site was blocked by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... on March 20 after it was used to spread a spate of anonymous leaks implicating his inner circle in corruption.
YouTube was banned in Turkey after the site was used to spread audio recordings in which the voices of senior government, military and spy officials can be heard weighing possible military action inside war-torn Syria.
Both restrictions, the latest steps in Ankara's crackdown on the Internet, have sparked protests from Turkey's Western allies and human rights groups, which have deplored it as curbing the right to free expression.
Washington Friday hailed the court's decision to lift the ban on US-based Twitter and urged the government to "open all social media space in Turkey".
Erdogan, however, slammed ruling, saying he has no "respect" for the court's decision and that "insults to a country's prime minister and ministers are all around".
A damaging corruption scandal fuelled by online leaks -- which Erdogan has blamed on supporters of influential US-based Islamic holy man Fetullah Gulen -- has posed the biggest challenge to Erdogan's 11 years in power.
Despite street protests, crackdowns and graft scandals, Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored sweeping wins in the nationwide municipal polls last Sunday.
The vote has led to a tense standoff in the capital, where the opposition claims the AKP rigged the vote to deliver its candidate a narrow victory.
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Erdogan, comparing Obama's
And his own dictatorial dramas:
"Hussein, while we're sharing,
Umm, what are you wearing?"
"Red curly-toed one-piece pajamas!"
If you like your mental health provider, you can keep your mental health provider.... unless you are PCS'd [transferred] to a different installation. Nothing is too good for the enlisted soldier, and that's what he usually gets.
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Insert old lefty media narrative of crazed Vietnam Vet here and need to assert old stereotypes of all vets (see - Homeland Security classification of 'threats'). Ingest with caution.
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FNG to Fort Hood with recent death in the family. Who was his sponsor? Where was the [so called] enlisted chain of command? What did the squad leader, platoon sergeant, first sergeant, or Sergeant Major know or do ?
Medical records? Prescriptions? Patient referral? Notifications to chain-of-command ?
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Topkick should be standing tall before the man - troop welfare like this is part of his duty. Squad leader and sponsor should have been on this and altered the 1SG. That they weren't tells me this 1SG was not keeping his NCO leadership trained and in touch.
Doesn't happen in combat arms units very often, andshitbirds get filtered fast. This was a blanket folding unit. Draw your own conclusions.
Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said in an interview with the BBC that Pakistan was making efforts to sell small arms and fighter jets to Saudi Arabia while also maintaining a balance between its ties with Iran and Saudi Arabia.
When asked if Pakistan would supply arms to Syria, Aziz said at this point in time there was no Syria-specific agreement, adding that Pakistan was making efforts to sell small arms and fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. The prime minister's adviser said that like any country which with a flourishing arms industry, Pakistan was trying to sell its arms and there was nothing dubious about Saudi Arabia's interest in purchase weapons from Pakistan.
He further reiterated the government's claim of Pakistan's neutral stance on the Syria issue. On Iran and Saudi Arabia, Aziz said Pakistan wanted to restore the balance of relations with the two countries which he said had been disturbed during the past five years.
Speculation had been rife in Pakistan after a joint Pakistan-Saudi declaration in February called for the "formation of a transitional governing body" with full executive powers as part of a solution to the bloody Syrian civil war. The move was criticised by the opposition in the National Assembly and even though the government dispelled the impression, it failed to convince the opposition.
The un-official revelation of $1.5bn aid from Saudi Arabia, following a climb in the Rupee value against the dollar, raised further questions, regarding Pakistan's stance. The opposition rejected the government's claim that the donation was only 'a gift from friends' and not a loan nor given in return of any services.
[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A local court sentenced on Friday a Christian couple to death for blasphemy and fined them Rs100,000 each.
Shafqat Maseeh, watchman of Gojra's Saint Cathedral School, and his wife Shagufta Maseeh were jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! on July 25 last year under Section 295C on the charge of sending blasphemous text messages to the complainants, shopkeeper Malik Mohammad Hussain and Gojra tehsil bar's former president Anwar Mansoor Goraya.
The verdict was announced by additional district and sessions judge Amer Habib.
The case was heard in the district jail.
The couple confessed to have sent the messages.
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A local court sentenced on Friday a Christian couple to death for blasphemy
Here, they just fire them, or force them to take pictures at weddings or bake a wedding cake. Thus they consider it being 'tolerant'.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Millat Park police claim to have placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a man and his four family members on Friday who allegedly set their 14-year-old maid on fire after subjecting her to severe torture three days ago.
The house owner was formally arrested, while his wife, daughter and son-in-law were taken into custody for questioning.
Jamshaid and his family were also booked in an attempted murder case lodged by girl Aqsa's father, Abdur Razzaq, of Gulshan-e-Ravi.
A police investigator told Dawn the girl had suffered 30pc burns and was still admitted to the burns unit of Mayo Hospital. He claimed the girl had received burns accidentally when she caught fire while preparing tea.
But, the girl's parents told police Aqsa was initially subjected to torture by the entire family, who also cut her hair, and later set her ablaze over domestic issues.
Aqsa had started working at Jamshaid's house four months ago.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken notice of torture and burning of the maid and sought a report from the IGP.
He directed that the accused involved in the tragic incident be apprehended immediately and the injured girl be provided best treatment.
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[Egypt Independent] A Chinese patrol ship searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 detected a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5 kHz per second in the south Indian Ocean on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported.
37.5 kHz per second is currently the international standard frequency for the underwater locator beacon on a plane's "black box".
A black box detector deployed by the vessel Haixun 01 picked up the signal at around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, Xinhua said. It has yet to be established whether it is related to the missing jet.
Xinhua also said a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area.
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And so it is, being based, as it is, on the Book of Enoch, included only in the holy books of the Ethiopian Copts, who now call themselves something else entirely, some of it in Amharic.
[AnNahar] Malaysia has joined other Islamic countries in banning the Hollywood biblical epic "Noah" starring Russell Crowe, decrying it as irreligious and saying it violates Islamic law against depicting prophets.
A home ministry official Saturday confirmed that Paramount's latest big budget film, which has sparked an outcry among Moslem groups worldwide, will not be screened in predominantly Moslem Malaysia.
The film has already angered some Christian institutions in the United States over Crowe's reportedly unconventional portrayal of Noah, who is regarded as an important figure in both Christianity and Islam.
Malaysia's home ministry's Film Censorship Board unit chairman Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid said a decision to ban the Noah film was made about two weeks ago.
"Yes, I can confirm that it has been banned by the board, the movie can cause quite a lot of anger and distress if it is shown in Malaysia," he was quoted as saying by The Malay Mail Online.
Abdul Halim said the main reason for the ban was the portrayal of Noah by Crowe, since Islam forbids visual depictions of any prophet.
Moslems make up 60 percent of multi-ethnic Malaysia's 30 million population, while Christians account for about nine percent.
Neighboring Indonesia, Egypt and United Arab Emirates have banned the film because of scenes they say contradict Islam.
Malaysia has censored other movies on religious grounds in the past, including Brokeback Mountain and The Passion of the Christ.
It has also occasionally pulled the plug on shows by foreign -- usually Western -- artists out of fear of angering conservative Moslems.
Conservatives cry foul over concerts by Western artists whom they accuse of promoting promiscuity, corrupting young people or offending religious sensitivities.
In January, a senior admiral of the Iranian navy announced he was sending two warships "to the United States' maritime borders" in order to send "a message" to Washington.
Adm. Afshin Rezayee Haddad was bluffing. Tehran did indeed dispatch a task force of two rather aged warships—only one of them meaningfully armed.
But the Iranian navy's 29th Flotilla never went anywhere near the U.S. It barely even left Iran's territorial waters. And instead of sending a message to Washington, the flotilla merely skirmished with African pirates before quietly returning home. The 29th Flotilla's rather pathetic deployment continues a long, less-than-proud tradition of Iranian naval posturing.
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When asked for a comment, the Iranian DNO (Director of Naval Operations) said "Blue water ops are hard, let's go shopping." (Spoken in a barbiedoll/valleygirl voice)
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.
The CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) have confirmed a diagnosis of Lassa fever in a person returning to the United States from West Africa. The patient was admitted to a hospital in Minnesota on March 31 with symptoms of fever and confusion. Blood samples submitted to CDC tested positive for Lassa fever on April 3. The patient is recovering and is in stable condition.
[AnNahar] Police have sent reinforcements to Egypt's southern province of Aswan after at least 23 people were killed in tribal 
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan on April 7, a statement published on the official website of Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence said. It is scheduled that during the visit the guest will have a meeting at the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
[AnNahar] Ukraine's security service said on Saturday it had 
Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said in an interview with the BBC that Pakistan was making efforts to sell small arms and fighter jets to Saudi Arabia while also maintaining a balance between its ties with Iran and Saudi Arabia.
[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A local court sentenced on Friday a Christian couple to death for blasphemy and fined them Rs100,000 each.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Millat Park police claim to have 
In January, a senior admiral of the Iranian navy announced he was sending two warships "to the United States' maritime borders" in order to send "a message" to Washington.
