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Posted on 12/01/2007 8:47:13 PM PST by nwctwx
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“Warden Message: Polish Avian Influenza Outbreak”
CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS
Europe - Poland
14 Dec 2007
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Sat Dec 15 2007 02:58:37 GMT-0800 (PST).
Worldwide Caution
October 09, 2007
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
http://www.bentoncourier.com/content/view/98161/
“Man, 41, charged with Internet stalking”
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec07/counterproliferation121307.html
“PLAYING KEEP AWAY
From Spies and Terrorists”
12/13/07
Thanks Cindy. That old Avian Flu just keeps popping up in birds everywhere.
Hoping it doesn’t make the jump to people...
placemark
Regarding Iran:
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=672.0
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=1296.0
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/4067.htm
Iran Builds Supercomputer from AMD Parts
Despite a ban on U.S. PC hardware, Iranian technicians have built an enormously powerful supercomputer from 216 AMD processors.
The Linux-cluster machine has a “theoretical peak performance of 860 gig-flops.”
The disclosure, from an undated posting on the University of Amirkabir’s website, brought an immediate response December 10 from AMD, which said it had never authorized shipments of products either directly or indirectly to Iran or to any other embargoed country.
Source: FARS, Iran, December 12, 2007
Posted at: 2007-12-12
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/rocket_threat_e.htm
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
December 2007
“Rocket threat from the Gaza Strip, 2000-2007”
SNIPPET: “The examination of the data and the analysis of the terrorist organizations’ policies was carried out by the researchers of the ITIC. Therefore, the opinions and conclusions presented in this study represent only the ITIC.
The full English translation of the study will be issued in the coming days”
Thanks to darnright for the ping to this thread:
ADDING to post no. 675:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1939957/posts
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2773
“These Boots Are Gonna Walk All Over You”
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2007-12-13 21:00
An analysis by Prof. Anthony Coughlan
SNIPPETS: “Today the European Union leaders signed the Lisbon Treaty. This treaty gives the EU the constitutional form of a state. These are the ten most important things the Lisbon Treaty does:
1. It establishes a legally new European Union in the constitutional form of a supranational European State.
2. It empowers this new European Union to act as a State vis-a-vis other States and its own citizens.
3. It makes us all citizens of this new European Union.
4. To hide the enormity of the change, the same name – European Union – will be kept while the Lisbon Treaty changes fundamentally the legal and constitutional nature of the Union.
5. It creates a Union Parliament for the Union’s new citizens.
6. It creates a Cabinet Government of the new Union.
7. It creates a new Union political President.
8. It creates a civil rights code for the new Union’s citizens.
9. It makes national Parliaments subordinate to the new Union.
10. It gives the new Union self-empowerment powers.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rashidrauf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rauf
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940076/posts
Terror Suspect Escapes in Pakistan
Associated Press with CBS News ^ | December 15, 2007
Posted on 12/15/2007 3:12:25 PM PST by yorkie
Rashid Rauf, a British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, escaped from police custody in Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
Rauf escaped after appearing before a judge at a court in the capital, Islamabad, said Khalid Pervez, a city police official.
Pervez said Rauf managed to open his handcuffs and evade two police guards who were taking him back to jail in the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
“We do not know how he escaped. But we do know he has escaped and the two policemen have been taken into custody for negligence,” Pervez told The Associated Press.
Federal Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said he had been informed of the escape, but said he had no details.
The British government this week denied media reports that Rauf was to be extradited from Pakistan as part of a secret deal involving the arrest in Britain of two suspects wanted by Pakistan.
“I don’t know anything - I’m shocked,” Rauf’s father, Abdul Rauf, told The Associated Press by telephone from Birmingham, 200 miles (321 kilometers) north of London.
Rauf, who also has a Pakistani passport, was arrested by Pakistani intelligence agents in August on a tip from their British counterparts.
He has been described as a key suspect in a purported plot to blow up jetliners flying from Britain to the United States, which prompted a major security alert at airports worldwide and increased restrictions on carry-on items.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Thanks Cindy. What I liked about it is that it covers prior years as well as the current one.
Brouwer and health officials divulged little information about the infected student, saying they wanted to protect privacy. They did say the individual is doing relatively well and will stay out of school until no longer considered contagious.
“As far as I know, the student will return as a student,” Brouwer said.
Local hospital worker tests positive for TB
The Waco hospital mailed out 782 letters Friday morning to past patients, notifying them that they could have been exposed to tuberculosis through contact with the employee. Due to federal privacy laws, no information is being released about the infected employee, including which part of the hospital he or she worked in, said Dr. Farley Verner, health authority for the Waco-McLennan County Public Health District.
250 tested for TB - Smith College
College officials say 24 people who underwent skin exams tested positive for a latent form of TB. None had symptoms and all were given follow-up X-rays that showed no sign of the disease in their lungs.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940115/posts
MS-13 gangster caught on ranch near Laredo [South Texas]
LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 12/15/2007 | ZACHARY FRANZ
Posted on 12/15/2007 5:59:56 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Border Patrol agents arrested a member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang early Wednesday morning, said Greg Salinas, a Border Patrol spokesman.The gang member, a 37-year-old Salvadoran man, has a long criminal history in the U.S. and has been deported twice before, Salinas said.
Agents from the Laredo North station caught the man, whose name was not immediately available, on a ranch near Mines Road at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, Salinas said. He was with several other people who were also illegally entering the country.
The man had tattoos identifying him as a member of the gang. Agents confirmed his identity through fingerprints, and found that he has served time in prison in the U.S. for burglary, Salinas said. The man was last deported in 2003, Salinas said.
A third conviction for illegally entering the country is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The Mara Salvatrucha gang, commonly known as MS-13, originated in El Salvador and consists primarily of natives of that country. Most of the gang members caught by Border Patrol belong to that group, Salinas said.
In the 2007 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2006, and ended Sept. 30, 2007, Border Patrol Agents arrested 65 people who were identified as gang members, Salinas said. Of those, 35 were believed to be members of the MS-13 gang, he said.
Since Sept. 30, there have been 30 suspected gang members arrested in this sector, with 20 of those thought to belong to the MS-13 gang.
“We consider them a criminal organization – that’s how big they are,” he said.
(Contact reporter Zachary Franz at 728-2582 or by e-mail at zfranz@lmtonline.com)
Ping to MamaDearest’s TB post no. 694:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1933472/posts?page=694#694
The Ogilvie Crescent site was evacuated early on Friday morning.
The Fire Service cleared the site after it was found that the inner packaging was intact and no radioactive material had leaked.
Four staff members who were exposed to the package were cleared after a medical assessment by Saint John ambulance officers.
The airline says its security staff and occupational health and safety specialists are investigating.
Mixup with oxygen on Australian airline
A mix up with gas tanks resulted in Australia's flagcarrier, Qantas, having to check 51 planes to ensure all had emergency oxygen on board. The mistake was reported to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau several months ago after nitrogen was pumped into emergency oxygen tanks at Melbourne Airport.
A spokesman for the bureau says the mix up was rectified immediately and no planes left the ground with toxic gas on board.
Qantas is carrying out its own investigation into the matter.
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said that the bomb attack on her homecoming procession was carried out by a man who was holding up a baby who was rigged up with explosives and whom he wanted her to hold.
Stolen law enforcement guns recovered - one arrested
Two assault rifles that were stolen in January from Orlando police officers' cars, which were parked at their homes, were recovered from a house Moore had walked out of minutes before his arrest. They also found a shotgun that had been stolen the same night from an Orange County sheriff's deputy's car.
Had she just at that moment not bent to loosen her shoes because of her swollen feet, she would have been dead, Benazir told the Washington Times.
Sorry everyone. My error. The above line goes to the top link concerning Bhutto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940119/posts
“Bigotry, terror masked as faith”
Toronto Sun ^ | 2007-12-15 | Salim Mansur
Posted on 12/15/2007 6:19:53 PM PST by Clive
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