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Would FBI agents ever use the Ebola Virus against Americans?
Nah!

couple of biological weapon musings about police, government employees and infecting voters and taxpayers


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Ebola's heavy toll on study authors
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The ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak is taking an appalling toll on health workers in West Africa. More than 240 have been infected and more than 120 have died. At Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) in Sierra Leone, where the country’s first case was diagnosed, more than 2 dozen nurses, doctors, and support staff have died of Ebola. KGH is where many of the samples were collected for a paper published online today in Science that analyzes the genetics of the virus responsible for the disease. Highlighting the danger to those caring for infected people, five of the paper’s co-authors—all experienced members of the hospital’s Lassa fever team—died of Ebola before its publication. (A sixth co-author, uninfected, also recently died as well.)



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Tuskegee syphilis experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Tuskegee syphilis experiment 1] was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural ...
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yep Rhodesia used Anthrax against it's own people

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History of biological warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Biological Warfare in Rhodesia During the 1970s - Peter Baxter Africa
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Apr 15, 2012 - On the battlefield, meanwhile, the intensity of reprisal and counter-reprisal grew, and as manpower shortages in the armed services became ...
Interviews - Dr. Timothy Stamps | Plague War | FRONTLINE | PBS
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Stamps is the Minister of Health, Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) ... Why have you ordered an investigation into the use of biological warfare against Rhodesia?
Anthrax in Rhodesia During the Front War (1978-82): A Suspected ...
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Jan 11, 2012 - Ultimately, they lost but not before South African-supported Selous Scouts engaged in biological and chemical weapons development.
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AAAHHHH! Preparing for the running of the bulls!

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2. reads about senior citizens

1. st read
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Seniortalk: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church talk on Identity theft for seniors featuring Special Agent Tanya Evanina, FBI Pittsburgh Division, Sept. 12, noon, St. Nicholas Hall, 604 E. Lackawanna St., free lunch; Father Vladmir Fetcho, 570-489-3891.


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The Del Charro - Viewzone
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As you probably guessed, the Del Charro was no ordinary hotel. ... figures like J. Edgar Hoover (Director of the FBI), Carlos Mossello (New Orleans Mafia head), ...
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Jan 5, 2011 - How two Texas oilmen ran Del Mar and national politicians from a La Jolla hotel. ... a reported $1 million on a fabulous hostelry dubbed the Hotel del Charro. ... and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover spent two weeks each summer.
Deep in the Heart: The Texas Tendency in American Politics
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James McEnteer - 2004 - ‎Political Science
Hoover stayed in his favorite Del Charro bungalow sometimes for weeks, and ... Murchison tried to persuade Hoover to retire from the FBI and oversee a string of ...
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
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David E. Scheim - 1988 - ‎History
168 FBI personnel who probed the Mob found their work thwarted, their careers ... and Hoover's own FBI.181 Hoover's free vacations at the Del Charro, during ...
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Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant
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Cartha D. Deloach - 1997 - ‎Political Science
The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant Cartha D. Deloach ... or rather, he and Tolson stayed free at a resort Murchison owned — the Hotel Del Charro.
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
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Curt Gentry - 2001 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
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[WML]JFK Assassination Stories Here---50 years Ago---Nov 22, 1963 ...
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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott
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Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination ...
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FBI Agent Jailed in Stock Fraud Case
May 31, 2002 |
A former FBI agent accused of helping stock trader Amr I. "Anthony" Elgindy manipulate shares by giving him secret information was jailed Thursday by a federal judge for allegedly contacting a witness in the case. U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie ordered Jeffrey A. Royer, a former FBI agent in Oklahoma and New Mexico, to jail after authorities accused him of improperly contacting and coaching a witness in the case against him.

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Barbara Boxer re-election run looking unlikely
Phillip Matier And Andrew Ross
Updated 3:02 am, Sunday, September 7, 2014

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Feds to Spend $500,000 for New Art at Customs and Border Protection Facility in San Diego
8:34 AM, Sep 8, 2014
BY JERYL BIER


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The "busiest land port of entry in the Western Hemisphere" is getting an upgrade, and according to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), about a half a million dollars worth of new artwork will be part of the package. The San Ysidro Land Port of Entry, the border crossing facility for the San Diego-Tijuana region, has been undergoing a $735 million modernization project spanning more than a decade. Since phase three of the project is included in President Obama's fiscal 2015 budget, the GSA has begun soliciting contractors, and that includes artists who will be commissioned to provided approximately $500,000 in new artwork for the new buildings.

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Rockies' pines, firs lose majority of habitat on current climate path.
The Daily Climate

Rocky Mountain forests won’t look anything like they do now if the region’s temperature and water levels continue their path toward hotter and drier. Ravalli Republic
Brazil says rate of Amazon deforestation up for first time in years.

The deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil increased by 29 percent in the last recorded year, according to the country's National Institute for Space Research. The report comes as environmental issues move to the center of Brazil's October presidential election. Los Angeles Times
Kenya conundrum: Kick out Maasai herders to develop geothermal energy?

In East Africa, a clash of two virtues: ancient homelands and clean energy. Kenya has incredible geothermal potential, but much of it sits below indigenous people's land near volcanic Mt. Suswa. Christian Science Monitor
Pacific Power seeks balanced energy future.

Thanks to a proliferation of emerging technologies from wave power to fracking, Americans have more energy options than ever before. But they all come with their own sets of tradeoffs, says Scott Bolton, and balancing the benefits with the drawbacks is a major challenge for utility companies. Corvallis Gazette-Times
West Nile infections slam California.

West Nile virus infections are soaring in California, fueled by a drought that experts say has helped make the state the country's hot spot for the potentially fatal disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Wall Street Journal
As wind power surges, opposition grows.

In many areas, wind turbines have been welcomed as an economic boon to landowners who receive lucrative payments for leasing acreage. But as wind power has grown, so, too, has the opposition. Seattle Times
Anger swells over slow flood relief in Kashmir.

Residents of Jammu and Kashmir are hopping mad that government authorities haven’t done enough to rescue thousands of people left stranded by one of the worst floods in the region in decades. Wall Street Journal
Climate change making Plymouth beaches more dangerous, experts warn.

Dramatic changes to the coastline caused by climate change are making Plymouth's beaches more dangerous, experts have warned. Plymouth Herald
Blue and red states going green on energy policy.

Politically "red" and "blue" states are increasingly turning green as they push energy efficiency and renewable power to save money and protect the planet, says a report today with prominent bi-partisan support. USA Today

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Proof: CIA Uses Hollywood to Feed You Its Propaganda

05 October 2014 10:00

I watched the movie WALL-E with my nephew a few days ago. It is a cute piece of animated science fiction and packs in numerous environmental messages. I almost forget that it comes from the ruthless mega corporation Disney who is to blame for dodging lawsuits for water pollution.

Moreover, the CIA and Disney have had a cozy relationship for a number of years. Robert Carey Broughton, Disney’s effects wizard, worked for the OSS in WWII. Disney makeup specialist John Chambers worked for the agency in the 60’s and the CIA is proud to say so.

Walt was so keen on the OSS he apparently designed an insignia for their special operations branch. It recently came out that high-level ex-CIA execs helped Disney amass a fortune of land in Florida.

Obviously, the CIA’s involvement in the entertainment industry goes back to WWII under the aforementioned OSS. The relationship became more formalized under Mockingbird, which began almost immediately after the CIA’s establishment in 1947 (not in the early 50s as stated in official documents).

The CIA began promoting UFOs as alien vehicles by April 1952 in the mainstream press via assets like Henry Luce. However, there is evidence the agency and its lower level media assets were dabbling in and around Kenneth Arnold’s sighting. Good conduits for CIA disinformation appear to have been hucksters like Ray Palmer and those in the science fiction publishing fraternity. (5) (6)


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Mon, 2014-11-03 15:41CHRIS ROSE

“Citizen Interventions” Have Cost Canada’s Tar Sands Industry $17B, New Report Shows



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Oil companies and fossil fuel investors seeking further developments in the Alberta tar sands have been dealt another setback with the publication of a report showing producers lost $17.1 billion USD between 2010-2013 due to successful public protest campaigns.

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Utah rally against political repression, and for Rasmea Odeh
By Ian Decker | November 6, 2014

Solidarity with Rasmea Odeh in Salt Lake City, Utah (Fight Back! News/Staff)
Salt Lake City, UT – Fifteen anti-war activists gathered in front of the William F Bennet Federal Building on Nov. 4 to stand in solidarity with Rasmea Odeh. Rasmea Odeh is an Arab American and women's rights activist being targeted by the FBI for her political activism. The U.S. government is attempting to weaken the Palestinian solidarity and anti-war movements. People protested across the country on the opening day of Rasmea Odeh’s trial in Detroit, including in Salt Lake City.

Protestors Chanted Slogans like “DOJ, lets be clear! Rasmea is welcome here!” to show their solidarity. Alyssa Ferris of the Revolutionary Students Union spoke at the rally, “It is vital that activists have solidarity with each other. An injury to one is an injury to all. Rasmea is being targeted because of her activism, and they could do the same to us at any time.”

Sammah Safiullah, a local student activist, explained why she attended the protest, “I believe that it’s incredibly important for people to understand the injustice behind erasing the stories of immigrants, Palestinians, and women. ” Safiullah explained that Judge Drain ruled Rasmea Odeh is not allowed to testify about her experience of torture, rape, and abuse in Israeli military prisons. “Rasmea worked for the justice of immigrants and women, and deserves for her voice to be heard, she is being silenced. What happened to her is terrifying and both Israel and the US need to be held accountable for their actions and for the havoc they wreaked on her body and mind.”

The next speaker, Muna Omar, is Jordanian born, but grew up in the U.S. She spoke about the FBI raiding her father on flimsy charges of supporting terrorism. The media frenzy drove the family from their home. The local news printed misidentified photos of family members, making false claims about Muslim women. Speaking of her experiences, Omar said, “You may think you're American, but to the FBI and this system, you are not.”

Gregory Lucero of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spoke against war and repression, “These bankers, bosses, and investors always need more. These vampires will try and sink their fangs where ever they can, from Colombia to Palestine.” He explained that the people's resistance in these places made it difficult for the system to continue. Moreover, people in the U.S. are growing tired of this system. The U.S. government response is to increase political repression. Lucero stated, “They're scared that people are rising up, so they're trying to use political repression to keep us scared, but we're not going to take it.” He closed the rally by leading the crowd in chanting, “When Rasmea Odeh is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”

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Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:57
Landmark Study Finds Pesticides Linked To Depression In Farmers


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Off the World News Desk:

Landmark Study Finds Pesticides Linked To Depression In Farmers

“Earlier this fall, researchers from the National Institute of Health finished up a landmark 20-year study, a study that hasn’t received the amount of coverage it deserves. About 84,000 farmers and spouses of farmers were interviewed since the mid-1990s to investigate the connection between pesticides and depression, a connection that had been suggested through anecdotal evidence for far longer. We called up Dr. Freya Kamel, the lead researcher on the study, to find out what the team learned and what it all means. Spoiler: nothing good.

“There had been scattered reports in the literature that pesticides were associated with depression,” says Kamel. “We wanted to do a new study because we had more detailed data than most people have access to.” That excessive amount of data includes tens of thousands of farmers, with specific information about which pesticides they were using and whether they had sought treatment for a variety of health problems, from pesticide poisoning to depression. Farmers were surveyed multiple times throughout the 20-year period, which gives the researchers an insight into their health over time that no other study has.

Because the data is so excessive, the researchers have mined it three times so far, the most recent time in a study published just this fall. The first one was concerned with suicide, the second with depression amongst the spouses of farmers (Kamel says “pesticide applicators,” but most of the people applying pesticides are farmers), and the most recent with depression amongst the farmers themselves.

There’s a significant correlation between pesticide use and depression, that much is very clear, but not

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Bernard von NotHaus, “Architect” of the Liberty Dollar to be Sentenced

Liberty Dollar creator and self proclaimed “monetary architect” Bernard von NotHaus, who was found guilty in US federal court in North Carolina on March 2011 of Counterfeiting and Fraud, is scheduled to appear on December 2nd before U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Voorhees. The now 70 year old von NotHaus has been awaiting sentencing for over 3 1/2 years.

NotHaus liberty dollars sm Bernard von NotHaus, Architect of the Liberty Dollar to be Sentenced The Justice Department asserted that von NotHaus was placing gold, and silver coins, along with precious metals currency into circulation with the purpose of mixing them “into the current money of the United States.”. In short, the government accused von NotHaus of counterfeiting.

Von NotHaus did appeal his conviction stating….[1]

“…if anything is clear from the evidence presented at trial, it is that the last thing Mr. von NotHaus wanted was for Liberty Dollars [to] be confused with coins issued by the United States government…His intention – to protest the Federal Reserve system – has always been plain. The jury’s verdict conflates a program created to function as an alternative to the Federal Reserve system with one designed to [deceive] people into believing it was the very thing Mr. von NotHaus was protesting in the first place…the Liberty Dollars was not a counterfeit and was not intended to function as such. The verdict is a perversion of the counterfeiting statutes and should be set aside.”
030416 Voorhees Bernard von NotHaus, Architect of the Liberty Dollar to be Sentenced
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Judge Voorhees rejected von NotHaus’s appeal.

Mr. von NotHaus developed the Liberty Dollar in 1998. as an “inflation-proof” alternative currency to the U.S. Dollar, which he has claimed has devalued since the Federal Reserve was established in 1913. The silver and gold “coins” were produced by the Sunshine mint in Idaho on behalf of the Evansville, Illinois-based Liberty Services, which also issued paper notes which the group says are backed by silver reserves.

In November of 2007, federal officials raided the group’s headquarters, located in a strip mall and seized all documents and the gold and silver that backed up the paper certificates and digital currency being distributed thought Liberty Services website. In addition all coins, bullion

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What Warming Means for Lake Effect Snow


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November 21st, 2014


The plight of Buffalo, socked in under feet upon feet of snow, has entranced the country. Social media lit up with mind-boggling pictures of the snow-buried landscape, from hundreds of cars trapped on the highway to doorways blocked by walls of snow.





While Buffalonians are no strangers to large amounts of snow that the lake effect (so called because the lake provides the moisture that fuels the snow) can bring, but even this was a little much for them.

“This is definitely one of the strongest lake bands that we’ve experienced,” Judy Levan, the warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Buffalo, said. “It’s definitely in the top five.”

And it’s something Buffalo could face more often in a warming world. Rising global temperatures are also warming the Great Lakes and keeping them ice-free longer during the cold season.

Snowy Surplus

Snow was still falling in the Buffalo area on Friday morning, the tail end of the second bout of lake effect snow for the area in a week. The first storm on Tuesday left the worst-hit areas, all just south of the city proper, with up to 65 inches of snow.

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After a brief reprieve in which emergency workers were able to dig out those stranded in cars, a second band of snow swept in late Wednesday night and hit some of the same areas already literally up to their necks — or higher — in snow. As of Friday morning, a small area around the town of Hamburg had 70 inches or more. Even in a snowy place like Buffalo, that’s a full year’s snowfall in a matter of days.

Lake effect snow is notorious for being able to dump large snow totals in a short amount of time. The phenomenon is a product of temperature differences, specifically between the cold air and the relatively warm lake waters over which that air blows. As winds blow over the lake, the water evaporates into the cold air, warming it in the layer above the lake. The warm air rises, cooling as it does so, and if it cools enough, the water freezes and falls as snow.

Part of the reason some places got so much this week was because the temperature difference during this event was so strong, with unusually bitter temperatures for November, and water in Lake Erie that still retained much of summer’s warmth.

The trend in lake effect snow across the Great Lakes.
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Another reason for the surplus of snow? The swath of snow stayed in the same place pretty much all day, continuously dumping 4-5 inches an hour on the worst-hit places. Also, the winds were optimally (depending on how you look at it) oriented, blowing in from the southwest and traveling the entire length of the lake, Levan said. This enabled the air to soak up more moisture.

Warming Lakes

In general, this is the time of year that Buffalo sees its major snows. That’s because this is the time of year when the air-lake water temperature contrast is likely to be highest, before winter gradually cools the lakes and eventually causes them to freeze over, cutting off the moisture supply.

But as the world warms, the period where cold late fall and early winter air overlaps with warm waters could grow longer because waters in Erie and the other Great Lakes are warming. That’s keeping them ice-free for longer in the season, which means the air has more opportunity to blow over and create lake effect snow.

“We’re looking at a lot more of it to fall in the wintertime,” Levan said.

Adam Burnett, of Colgate University, has looked at the issue of how warming might impact lake effect snow around the Great Lakes. In a 2003 study, he and his co-authors found that there should be an increase in such events. But in the decade since, “things have changed a little bit,” he said.

The trend in ice cover across the Great Lakes.
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While the warming of the lakes could indeed mean more potential for lake effect snow, it all depends on how and where the winds blow. For example, the wind direction in this event meant that the areas to the south of Buffalo bore the brunt of the storm, but in other events where the wind is blowing differently, the city of Syracuse can be the one seeing all the snow, Burnett said. Predicting how the circulation of the atmosphere might change with warming has been a much-debated topic, and one that hasn’t produced any clear signals for the future.

Looking at records going back to 1950, “there are places where lake effect snow has increased and other” places where it hasn’t, Burnett said. But the potential for more is still there.

Another complication is that climate models show that the trend for more snow may not last long. Those models show that eventually “the atmosphere gets too warm to support the snow,” Burnett said. The Upper Midwest, in fact, is the fastest warming region of the U.S. in the winter months.

But, “in the short run, we could potentially be getting things like this,” Burnett said, referring to snowbound Buffalo.

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