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IMHO it's better to be covered doubly, than not at all! Wonder what was up with that - please post if you find any follow-up on it!
8 infected with rare form of typhus near US Los Angeles
Snips: Eight people near Los Angeles have been infected with a rare form of typhus that is spread by fleas, authorities announced on Saturday.
"The vast majority of the population is not going to come in contact with this disease or come down with it."
"It's treatable with antibiotics, and most people recover," Calvet said.
It can result in severe illness and hospitalization, but rarely causes death. It is not spread person-to-person.
He said that every single person should have a spare set of sturdy running shoes in a desk drawer at their place of work.
The spare set of running shoes MUST be where they are easy to reach instantly, and definitely not packed away in some locker on a different floor. You must have immediate access to this pair of sturdy shoes - they may save your life.
He explained that most of the footwear worn to work is absolutely inappropriate to attempt to run half a mile or more away from a catastrophe, that is, if the high heels still exist after walking down twenty flights of stairs.
Now, of course, some of us wear plain sensible running shoes almost all the time, but he is totally -- most of the work world dress code demands the fancy fashionable non-running version of foot covering. And this could have deadly results if there is something that you have to seriously ESCAPE.
When I was working in the city, I kept a 3 day survival pack in the trunk of my car. Food, water, weapons & ammo, maps, compass, cloths, sleeping bag & pad.
I’m so glad I live and work in the country now.
Good advice pennie!
It really reads like something I'm certain was discussed here years ago on TM, as a possible vector for bioterror.
Of course I could be mistaken, perhaps I read about it elsewhere online, I wonder what the LEOs are thinking about these incidents.
Jerseygirl frequently posted about a Fruit Vendor outside of Penn Station, and how he suddenly disappeared.
I've tried to find her original postings about this, but it's obviously going to take me some time to track them down, LOL.
YOU wrote:
...and to think, for me, it all started with curiosity over the "fruit vendor".
Probably attributed as just another disease brought in by those "doing the work Americans just won't do."
Obama administration accused of failing to address bioterror threat?
One of the major criticisms raised in the report is that President Obama's National Security Council is lacking the presence of a single senior political appointee with any sort of biodefense background.
Snips:
........According to a South Korean defense ministry report issued yesterday, the North Korean regime is capable of unleashing 13 types of lethal biological agents.
n one of the most detailed assessments of the dictatorship`s biological weapons arsenal, the report said that North Korea has the ability to launch as many as 13 kinds of viral and bacterial attacks. In a submission to the South Korean National Assembly, the defense minister also said that the North has 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, believed to include mustard gas, phosgene and sarin. Among its biological agents are anthrax, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, typhoid fever and dysentery.
/ sarcasm.
Texas terror suspect pleads not guilty
UPDATED: 01:20 PM EDT 10.26.09
Dallas, Texas (CNN)
A terrorist suspect accused of two counts of plotting to bomb a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas, pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court.
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian, entered the United States illegally and lived in Texas, where he tried to set off an explosive attached to a vehicle at the base of the 60-story Fountain Place office tower, federal officials contend.
Smadi initially drew authorities' scrutiny because of his violent posts on an extremist chat site, court papers say. He was arrested last month in a sting operation.
"Smadi was discovered by the FBI within an online group of extremists," the affidavit says. "Among many others in the group who espoused and endorsed violence, Smadi stood out based on his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States."
Undercover officers posing as members of an al Qaeda sleeper cell contacted Smadi and, after months of conversations, considered him to be a legitimate threat, according to the affidavit.
Smadi picked several potential targets, including the Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport, before deciding on the skyscraper, which houses Wells Fargo Bank, the affidavit says.......
If I'm not mistaken, plenty of people considered his claim to be very odd. There was a technical term for it, but I don't remember it, it started with the letters, "s-t-e-" and I think ended with "____ography"
So look at this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367887/posts
Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids
The Times ^ | October 17, 2008 |
Richard Kerbaj and Dominic Kennedy
Posted on 10/21/2009 3:16:14 PM PDT by george76
Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists.
A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain.
Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.
British security services are also aware of the trend and believe that it requires further investigation to improve understanding of terrorists' methods and mindsets.
Officers have noted that child sex abuse images have been found during investigations into some of the most advanced suspected plots. However, it is understood that the proposed research project was never implemented because the AntiTerrorism Branch was overwhelmed by the sheer number of cases it was having to deal with.
It is not clear whether the terrorists were more interested in the material for personal gratification or were drawn to child porn networks as a secure means of sending messages. In one case fewer than a dozen images were found; in another, 40,000.
British security sources confirmed that such a link had been discovered in several cases. They noted the contradiction between people supposedly devoted to theocracy and Islamic fundamentalism and their use of child pornography. "It shows that these people are very confused," a source said. "Here they are hating Western decadence but actually making use of it and finding that they enjoy this stuff....."
IBD Editorials ^ | October 26, 2009 |
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
Posted on 10/26/2009 5:35:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
Homeland Security: A suspect Islamist group is gloating that a cash settlement in the so-called Flying Imams case is a "victory for civil rights." If it's a victory, it's one for future hijackers.
Three years ago, six Islamic clerics sued US Airways and Minneapolis airport police for discrimination and false arrest after they were bounced from a Phoenix-bound flight for behaving much like the 9/11 hijackers.
Some yelled "Allah, Allah, Allah," and changed their seats while asking for seat belt extensions they never used.....
I only see discussions at online forums, there is no one outside of my closest family members who ever mentions any such possibility -- indeed, if most Americans are like the people I run into in daily life, then most Americans do not stay current with even the most rudimentary news, much less so, then with geopolitics or the potential political fracturing of our nation.
I think I'm more concerned about an attack from without - of the nuclear variety. No accompanying invasion, and it would likely be somewhat disguised under the rubric of "terrorists," with the emphasis on 'STATE SPONSORED' and less on terrorism, if you get my gist.
Perhaps I've been watching too many movies, or reading too many books with elaborate terror plots.
Anyway, there is an old book that I read decades ago, which I advise you to find a copy of and read. It seems right up your alley.
The author was a state official in Utah, and he wrote a book about how to survive a nuclear attack.
One thing that he insisted upon and explained in detail, which I've not seen mentioned anywhere online, but perhaps you have, is that everyone should keep ALL their emergency food & miscellaneous disaster supplies INSIDE of black plastic trash bags.
Really, he was quite firm about this, and was amazed that not everyone in America knew this.
So why should disaster supplies, particularly one's emergency food stash be kept inside of black plastic trash bags?
He claimed, that in the event of a nuclear accident or a nuclear attack, that ANYTHING inside the trash bag would NOT get any radioactive fallout on it.
It's extremely important to NOT eat food covered with radioactive fallout.
Anyway, after the coast was clear, then you'd carefully remove the plastic bag and dispose of it, it has to be destroyed -- and all the cans & boxes of food would be 'CLEAN,' but one has to be careful because the trash bag will be coated with radioactive fallout.
You don't want to be opening tins of food where the outside of the can is coated with nuclear fallout - it's extremely unsafe...
Anyway, I thought you might want to look into this -- there must be someone online who has a copy of this long out-of-print title and can give the specifics.
The Reluctant Survivors
by: Wayne D. Le Baron
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22the+reluctant+survivors%22
Unfortunately, I have NO idea if the color BLACK is important, or if maybe way back then, that that was the only color available, and that it was just a common adjective. I have NO idea if there were white trash bags, or even clear trash bags, and have no idea if either would provide the same protection.
Do you have a fireplace? If not, it sounds like it's time for you to start researching wood heaters and/or wood stoves.
I've been told that if one loses power during extreme cold weather to immediately fill the tub with water, as well as any buckets, jars, etc., and then to make sure that all your indoor faucets are left open a tiny bit, and finally to turn off the main water valve into your home... let all the water in the pipes empty down the drains.
Water damage from broken pipes can be sever, absolutely horrendous.
From what little I remember, I believe that most people in the horrendous ICE STORM which hit Montreal in the 1990s survived via fireplaces -- anyone without a fireplace stayed for many weeks in community shelters. I think that it took them THREE MONTHS to finally recuperate in Montreal.
Staying warm in a winter emergency power outage, usually means keeping ONE small room of the house above freezing, and utilizing blankets, quilts, sleeping bags to cordon off & "insulate" that one room from the rest of the house... Short of burning wood, I've no idea what to advise you, as I sure wouldn't want to rely on deliveries of fuel...
Let me know if you find out anything more about advice from people who lived through the urban disaster in Montreal -- it's COLD up north!!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=50&ie=ISO-8859-1&sa=2&q=%22ice+storm%22+montreal
Perhaps this is a publicity stunt?
Or do that game companies think it's just fine to market violence in the form of terrorism?
Here's one tiny mention I found about it at google, I'm sure that people at online gaming forums are discussing it all over the Internet.
"...So in the new Call of Duty game your first task is to wade into a crowded civilian airport and kill s___ relentlessly. Every last mom, pop and 2 kids on their way to Sochi (I think the massacre takes place in Russia? I can't be sure) is supposed to get it within the first five minutes. That barrel can't go cold. Get 'em....."
"....You are never supposed to question what it is you're actually doing, you are supposed to kill anything you're told to kill, reload, find the key and move on. And if you have trouble doing that then it's your fault for not being able to fit into the violent and absurd straitjacket of the 'modern' FPS."
I know nothing more, I found out about it on the news early this morning, I know nothing about gaming.
Click here for Google Mobile Version of complete article
Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the yet-to-be released video game can shoot civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack.
The first-person shooter game, which comes with an 'M' rating -- meaning it's for mature audiences -- is set for release on Nov. 10.
It may actually be one of the most lucrative launches in the history of the entertainment industry, as some believe opening sales could eclipse other video games, movies and music releases.
In a statement to the media made yesterday, the game's publisher rebutted that footage was taken illegally and in general is not representative of the game's overall experience. Blizzard Inc., said the scene is to show the atrocities of terrorism and war. The point of the game is to take the player on an armed adventure as you try to take down a terrorist ring. One chapter of the adventure is to go undercover as a member of the terrorist group, leading to the controversial scene....
baw mark :)
Snippets: "Americans see it as a potential bioterrorism weapon that's why (the department of) Homeland Security are funding research into viruses in bats," Dr Reid said.
"There is no effective treatment or vaccine for Hendra or Nipah and the mortality rate is high. "Bats are quite accessible and in the wrong hands it can pose quite a threat. Bats are the host of both viruses, with the Nipah virus being the deadlier of the two, having killed hundreds in Malaysia, Bangladesh and India.
The virus was originally known to transfer from bats to pigs and from pigs to humans but there have also been bat to human transmissions and human to human transmissions, with a 70 to 75 per cent mortality rate.
Iraqi Supreme Court - 460 foreign companies sold chemical weapons to Saddam
To this day, people from Halabja still suffer the aftereffects of the gas attack.
Four-hundred and sixty foreign companies sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein's ousted Iraqi regime, yet the current Iraqi government-despite vowing to pursue those companies has filed no lawsuits in court against them, says Goran Adham, chief prosecutor in Iraq's Supreme Criminal Court.
Waiting on Administration input, lawmakers delay vote on biosecurity bill
Snippets: The Homeland Security and Government Affairs put off for at least a week the mark-up of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Preparedness Act of 2009 to allow the Obama administration additional time to comment on the bill, said panel Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.).
Committee member Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said yesterday it would be a "mistake" to take up the bill because several agencies -- including the Homeland Security and Defense departments and the National Security Council -- had not weighed in on the proposals.
Thank you MamaDearest for the ping.
I appreciate it.
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