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http://www.ksat.com/news/4005485/detail.html
Nuevo Laredo Shootout Leaves Cop, 2 Suspects Dead
4 Other People Wounded
POSTED: 9:00 am CST December 17, 2004
AP
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- Two armed assailants and a policeman were killed after a shootout Thursday in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Another policeman was wounded, as were one of the attackers and two men caught in the crossfire in the shootout that began as a routine traffic stop.
Nuevo Laredo police had stopped a sedan and were searching its two occupants when another vehicle pulled up and its occupants opened fire."
Chinese man attempts to open cabin door of 747 at 30,000 feet
Man scraps plan to name baby daughter "Jihad"
Off Topic: Update on Mt. St. Helens
Politician who won't say Pledge of Allegiance may be outsted
oh oh...Mount St. Helens...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303826/posts
"US labels Hezbollah TV station as "terrorist organization""
"Xinhuanet" ^ | Xinhuanet
Posted on 12/17/2004 4:15:38 PM PST by Tarpaulin
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States on Friday putthe Hezbollah television station al-Manar on its list of terroristorganizations.
The State Department announced that the Lebanon-based television station, which has been banned from broadcasting in France, had been added to its Terrorist Exclusion List.
"The fact is that Hezbollah is an active terrorist organization," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told a regular news briefing.
The United States has already designated Hizbollah as a foreignterrorist organization, and the State Department has been open in its criticism of al-Manar's satellite television programs."
Thanks for posting that update on the reaction to the Weldon comments.
Mount St. Helens (updates automatically)
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/index.shtml
LOL, no more coffee for you today.
Not as unthinkable as those of us in a western mindset would imagine. Remember a few weeks ago of the Palistinian mother who wanted more of her children to become suicide bombers. Rationality is not a part of the jihadi thought.
Just spoke to KylaStarr on the telephone.
The surgery is over, they did not have to open her shoulder they did the procedure including the Mumford through the arthroscope. All went very well.
She is so touched by everyone's prayers and wanted me to thank each and every one of you. She will be back here posting, I'm guessing by tomorrow or shortly thereafter. (can't keep a TM'er down for long.) ;-)
What the posting doesn't explain in detail here is that on Christmas eve of 2000 a series of bombings targeting Christian churches in Indonesia killed 19 persons and injured many more.
Following occurred Wednesday... Surry is a nuclear power station in VA.
sub6
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OFFSITE NOTIFICATION - MILITARY FLARE FOUND IN WATER
"At 10:06 hours, Surry Power Station requested outside assistance from the Commonwealth of Virginia, State Police to remove an unknown device which was found floating in the water near the Surry Power Station Circulating Water Intake facility. The unknown device measures 2 inches in diameter and is approximately 14 inches long. It was marked with the following information: 'white phosphorus - contact military or law enforcement.' It is believed this is not an explosive device but a military flare.
"In addition, notification was made to the Surry County Sheriff department at 10:10 hours.
"The Virginia State Police in turn have notified the Navy EOD at Little Creek for assistance. This is being reported in accordance with 10 CFR50.72, (b) (2) (xi)."
The licensee has notified the NRC Resident Inspector.
ALERT ! "Assault Weapons" & Magazine Ban filed by Florida Senator
DATE: December 17, 2004
TO: USF & NRA Members & Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
Unified Sportsmen of Florida Executive Director
NRA Past President
SUBJECT: SB-500
It has started !! The threat by the Brady Campaign/Million Mom Marchers to reenact the Clinton Gun Ban state by state has started with Florida. The first Gun Ban bill has been filed for the 2005 Florida Legislative Session which begins in March 2005. The bill has not been referred to committees yet. We will notify members when it has been referenced and will provide email addresses to legislators you need to contact to help fight this bill.
SB 500 - Assault Weapons/Detachable Magazine Ban by Gwen Margolis (D-Miami Beach); Would ban the manufacture, importation, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of any semi-automatic firearm defined as "assault weapons" and any detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds. It would require forfeiture and confiscation of any such firearm or magazine. Further, it would require the state to destroy any such firearm within 60 days after confiscation or forfeiture.
It provides immunity from prosecution if firearm is voluntarily surrendered. Otherwise, it makes a violation of the provisions of this bill a felony of the second degree (15 years in prison and $10,000 fine).
ExSoldier's note: SPREAD THE WORD ACROSS THE LAND: Your state is NEXT!
You're very welcome.
I thought your post was interesting, too.
Yes.
Thank you grizzfan.
"Jihad Falcon"
The one billion casualty figure is derived from the pattern of the three pandemics in the last hundred years and using the observed mortality rate of the avian flu.
I think the 1918 pandemic had a mortality rate of less than 5%.
When the North Koreans set off the latest nuclear crisis in the fall of 2002, they claimed to have weapons "more powerful" than nuclear bombs and then threatened "to destroy the world".
There are rumors UBL got his anthrax from the North Koreans.
Whether or not this particular strain will be this lethal, this is the future - - genetic weapons.
I doubt most understand how little time is left.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/10347278.htm
Smuggled birds had flu (snipped)
Deadly H5N1 brought into Brussels airport
BY M.A.J. MCKENNA
Cox News Service
ATLANTA — The small suitcase being carried through the Brussels airport by the traveler from Thailand looked unremarkable. But when customs officials opened it Oct. 18, they found a surprise: two rare small eagles, weak but healthy-looking, taped inside lengths of PVC pipe.
Their surprise turned to horror when tests on the eagles came back four days later: The smuggled birds were infected with avian influenza H5N1, the Southeast Asian virus that health authorities fear could blow up into a pandemic and kill millions. . .
The finding launched a frantic hunt for the man who carried the eagles, the officials who inspected them and the 135 passengers who shared the man's two flights. Twenty-three people were tested; 652 birds that had been in the airport, including the eagles, were destroyed. . .
The AMA meeting takes place amid sharply elevated concern over H5N1 flu. Last Monday, a World Health Organization official warned that if avian flu gains the genetic ability to move easily from person to person — something that no scientist knows how to stop — it could cause up to 100 million deaths around the world.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/hot/flu/news/nov1504mto.html
Avian flu may portend a 1918-like pandemic, says Osterholm
Robert Roos News Editor (snipped)
Nov 15, 2004 (CIDRAP News) – The nature of the widespread avian influenza outbreaks in Asia points to the threat of a human flu pandemic that could rival the disastrous pandemic of 1918-1920, infectious disease expert Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, warned in a public forum in Minneapolis last week.
There are disquieting signs that the H5N1 virus circulating in Asian poultry flocks could do as much damage to humanity as the "Spanish flu" virus of 1918, said Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), publisher of this Web site.
The H5N1 virus has already killed 32 people in Asia, and disease experts say it could trigger a pandemic if it acquired the ability to spread easily from person to person. If that happened, said Osterholm, it's unlikely that an effective vaccine could be made available quickly. . .
Osterholm said the 1918 pandemic caused "at least 40 million deaths, but probably closer to 100 million, if you talk to the historians." A disproportionate number of victims were healthy young adults, he added.
Given the lack of good defenses, Osterholm estimated that a 1918-like virus arising today could cause more than 1.7 million deaths in the United States and as many as 177 million worldwide. (Editor's note: The estimate of 264 million deaths that was originally published here was later recalculated to adjust for age.) The US death toll in 1918 was about 500,000. . .
Further, Osterholm said studies of the H5N1 virus isolated from recent human patients point to a gene that causes a "cytokine storm"—a flood of molecular messengers triggering inflammation—similar to what was seen in the 1918 victims. In effect, the body's immune system response to the infection, rather than the infection itself, is what makes the situation so dangerous. It also explains why healthy young adults, with their robust immune system, may be at particular risk.
http://www.omaha.com/toolbox/story_printer.php?u_id=1272073&u_brow=Internet+Explorer&u_ver=5
Published Tuesday
November 30, 2004
Researcher predicts millions of deaths if bird flu spreads
(snipped)
HONG KONG - A flu pandemic could kill 100 million people around the world in a worst case, according to a World Health Organization researcher.
The estimate was significantly higher than the agency's past predictions of the toll in such a catastrophe.
The WHO, a U.N. agency, has long been warning about the potential for the A(H5N1) strain of avian influenza virus - popularly known as bird flu - to mutate and cause the next human pandemic. The virus has spread widely among bird populations in Southeast Asia and has produced a few fatal bird-to-people infections.
Dr. Shigeru Omi, the WHO's director for Asia and the Pacific, issued the warning Monday.
He said that if a pandemic should strike - a possibility he called "very, very likely" - governments should be prepared to close schools, office buildings and factories to slow the rate of spread. They also should work out emergency staffing to prevent a breakdown in basic public services such as electricity and transportation, he said.
Such arrangements may be needed if the disease infects 25 percent to 30 percent of the world's population, Omi said. That is the WHO's estimate for what could happen if the disease, now found mainly in birds, developed the ability to spread easily from person to person.
No significant quantities of vaccine are likely to be available until five or six months after the virus becomes a pandemic, Omi said.
The agency previously had said the death toll would be from 2 million to 7 million people in such an outbreak, but Omi said the toll could be more, from 20 million to 100 million. . .
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/10/28/pandemic.shtml
Russian Expert Says Flu Epidemic May Kill Over One Billion This Year
Created: 28.10.2004 18:06 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:15 MSK
MosNews
The world is on the brink of a major flu epidemic — one that could claim more than a billion lives, the head of the Russian Virology Institute, Academician Dmitry Lvov said at a press conference organized by the RIA-Novosti news agency on Thursday.
“Up to one billion people could die around the whole world in six months,” Lvov said. The expert did not give a timeframe for the epidemic, but said that it is highly probable that it will start this year. “We are half a step away from a worldwide pandemic catastrophe,” the academic said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/29/news/flu.html
Tens of millions could die from flu
(snip)
. . .A few analysts have suggested that the death toll could be considerably higher. Dr. Henry Niman, a medical researcher in Pittsburgh who criticizes the World Health Organization as being too conservative, said that with more than 70 percent of the human victims of the disease dying so far, the death toll could exceed one billion if the disease were to spread rapidly among people..
But Omi and Peiris each pointed out that the high death rate recorded so far might be overstated, because people with less severe cases of the disease might not be diagnosed as having it..
Peiris also pointed out that one likely way for the disease to acquire the ability to pass easily from person to person - the acquisition of human influenza genetic material by the virus - could also reduce the death rate to the range described by Omi. "If the virus reassorts and picks up human influenza genes, then it's quite possible the severity could be limited," Peiris said..
The World Health Organization, a Geneva-based UN agency, has reported 44 confirmed human cases of A(H5N1), 32 of whom have died, a 72.7 percent rate. The organization has identified only one case of probable human-to-human transmission - a mother who cradled her dying daughter all night - while the rest of the cases appeared to have been acquired directly from animals...
Well good deal.
THANK YOU JESUS.
Amen.
Yep.
The jihadis have an evil hang-up when it comes to Christians and Jews.
Hmm, the closest military site to Surry is Ft. Eustis, and that's across the river and downstream. I can't think of a single good reason for a flare or any other piece of military hardware to be in that area.
Ping
Amen.
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