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Observers of Wednesday morning's total lunar eclipse might be able to catch sight of an extremely rare cosmic sight.
On Oct. 8, Interested skywatchers should attempt to see the total eclipse of the moon
and the rising sun simultaneously. The little-used name for this effect
is called a "selenelion," a phenomenon that celestial geometry says
cannot happen.
And indeed, during a lunar eclipse, the sun and
moon are exactly 180 degrees apart in the sky. In a perfect alignment
like this (called a "syzygy"), such an observation would seem
impossible. But thanks to Earth's atmosphere, the images of both the sun
and moon are apparently lifted above the horizon by atmospheric
refraction. This allows people on Earth to see the sun for several extra
minutes before it actually has risen and the moon for several extra
minutes after it has actually set. [How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse (Visibility Maps)]
As
a consequence of this atmospheric trick, for many localities east of
the Mississippi River, watchers will have a chance to observe this
unusual sight firsthand. Weather permitting, you could have a short
window of roughly 2 to 9 minutes (depending on your location) with the
possibility of simultaneously seeing the sun rising in the east while
the eclipsed full moon is setting in the west. Regions of visibility
From Newfoundland, the start of the partial stages of the total eclipse begins about 30 to 45 minutes before moonset.
A
growing scallop of darkness will appear on the upper left part of the
moon when it sets as the sun is coming up. Across eastern Nova Scotia,
only the lowermost portion of the moon will be in view as it drops below
the western horizon. Farther to the west and south along the Atlantic
seaboard, the moon will rise completely immersed in the Earth's shadow.
The
map shows the visibility regions for the Oct. 8, 2014 total lunar
eclipse, which is the second of four consecutive total eclipses of the
moon between 2014 and 2015. Sky & Telescope Magazine released this
viewing map.
Sky & Telescope Magazine
Now you see it ... now you don't?
Then
again, sighting a selenelion might be problematic feat. Twenty-five
years ago, in the August 1989 issue of Sky & Telescope, Bradley
Schaefer, an astronomer who extensively studied the visibility of the
moon when it was low in the sky, noted that the full moon only becomes
visible when it is about 2 degrees up and the sun is about 2 degrees
below the horizon.
So, depending on the clarity of your sky, you
might have up to roughly 10 to 15 minutes before sunrise for the sky to
still be dark enough, and the moon to be high enough above any horizon
haze for it to be clearly visible. And keep in mind that this holds only
for the uneclipsed portion of the moon. You might, however, be able to mitigate the effects of a brightening sky somewhat by using binoculars or a telescope.
If the moon is totally eclipsed
prior to sunrise, you probably are going to have to scan the western
horizon with binoculars as the twilight brightens in order to still
detect some semblance of the Moon, which will somewhat resemble a very
dim and eerily illuminated mottled softball.
This chart shows the times of the end-stages of a total lunar eclipse taking place on Oct. 8, 2014.
A peculiar moonset
People
who live in those portions of the United States and Canada that are a
few hundred miles inland from the Eastern Seaboard should have a good
view of the Moon's emergence from the umbra somewhat later. The low,
partially eclipsed Moon in deep-blue twilight should offer a wide
variety of interesting scenic possibilities for both artists and
astrophotographers. From Toronto and points south through the eastern
Ohio Valley and into the Piedmont to the Florida Gulf Coast, a
peculiar-looking, waxing crescent moon with its cusps pointing downward
will appear to set beyond the western horizon.
Farther west,
across the western Great Lakes and down through the Deep South to the
Gulf of Mexico, the moon will appear to be notched on its lower right
side by the shadow.
Going still farther west, the Moon will go
down "full," but if the western horizon is haze-free, assiduous
observers from much of Minnesota, western Iowa, eastern portions of
Nebraska and Kansas as well as central sections of Oklahoma and Texas
might still be able to detect a faint penumbral stain on the moon's
lower right limb. Editor's Note: If you snap an
amazing picture of the Oct. 8 total lunar eclipse, you can send photos,
comments and your name and location to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com. Joe
Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden
Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the
Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera
meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, N.Y.Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookand Google+. Original article on Space.com.
MOORE, Okla. – Before the deadly attack at Vaughan Foods on Thursday,
officials say the alleged suspect had a long, violent past.
Authorities say 30-year-old Alton Nolen is recovering from gunshot wounds following the brutal attack.
Sgt. Jeremy Lewis, with the Moore Police Department, says Nolen was
fired from his job at the distribution center before the violence
erupted.
Nolen is accused of stabbing 54-year-old Colleen Hufford multiple times and severing her head.
After that, officials say Nolen began attacking 43-year-old Traci Johnson.
At that point, Nolen was shot by Oklahoma County Reserve Deputy Sheriff Mark Vaughan, who used to own the business.
Now, investigators are looking into what sparked the deadly attack.
During a news conference on Thursday, Sgt. Lewis says the FBI has been called in to investigate Nolen’s background.
He says that after conducting interviews with co-workers, authorities
learned Nolen was trying to “convert coworkers to the Muslim religion.”
An online search showed Nolen created a Facebook page, using the name Jah’Kemm Yisreal.
The page includes images of the alleged suspect praying, mixed with what appears to be armed radicals and even Osama Bin Ladin.
However, religious leaders in the state say investigators should look
at Nolen’s past to find out how he could allegedly commit such terrible
crimes.
“What this man did in Moore was barbaric, but it is not
representative of what our faith teaches,” said Adam Soltani, the
executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations for
Oklahoma. “We condemn any act of violence, especially those perpetrated
in the name of our faith.”
A search of court records shows Nolen also has a criminal past, beginning with drug charges in 2006 and in 2009.
In 2010, Nolen sparked a manhunt after being pulled over near Langston and assaulting a state trooper.
He served two years in prison for that crime before being released early last year.
However, authorities say a bulk of his sentence had been suspended.
“It seems there are some other things that I hope investigators will
look at as far as his termination and his criminal background. I mean,
he obviously has a criminal past and what he did was a crime but our
religion of Islam in no way, shape or form promotes violence, promotes
crime and definitely does not promote the taking of innocent lives,”
said Soltani.
Lt. Betsy Randolph, with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, says she will
never forget Nolen because she was injured while trying to arrest him.
“I was working Logan County trooper that night, working an evening
shift and stopped this individual because he drove past me. I was on the
shoulder of Hwy 33 and it looked like he had a fake paper tag, so I
stopped him for that,” said Lt. Randolph. “In the course of our, he was
in the car with me, I had him come back because he didn’t have a
license or any insurance. And when I ran his information, he had two
warrants out of Oklahoma County, one for possession of CDCs and intent
to distribute. So, he was also driving on suspension. So,I was
already going to take him to jail. I was able to get one handcuff on him
before he assaulted me and broke my finger as he yanked the handcuffs
out of my hand.”
In fact, Randolph’s injuries were more extensive than just a broken finger.
Her skin was actually ripped from her finger, exposing muscles and the bone.
At that point, Nolen ran into a wooded area along the highway.
“We called to have additional units come. We actually had a couple of
helicopters, some dogs, TACT team, a lot of people out there that
night. And 12 hours later, after our manhunt, we were able to catch him
and take him back into custody,” she said.
Randolph says she was caught off guard by how quickly he became enraged.
“One minute we’re talking, the next he’s assaulting me,” she
remembered. “I had one handcuff on his right wrist and he hit me in the
chest, pushed me back and yanked the handcuff out of my hand. But one
minute we’re talking and the next he’s assaulting me. It happened very
quickly.”
Randolph says she wishes she would have taken extra precautions when dealing with him because he was a felon.
“He tried to bargain with me not to go to jail. He had a girlfriend
and a baby with him, so I wasn’t as alert, as on guard, as I should have
been. And I was a lot more nice than I probably should have been with
him,” she said.
“I knew when I had my interaction with him in 2010 that he was a
menace to society,” said Randolph. “He was allowed to get out early on
my case and that’s a travesty of justice.”
Randolph says she had no idea the man who had assaulted her was the
one involved in this beheading until NewsChannel 4 contacted her Friday
morning.
“When Chuck called me this morning and told me that, I got goosebumps
over all of my body,” Randolph said. “And I’ll admit, I’ve cried a few
tears today too.”
“I praise God for taking care of me that night and watching over me. I
just wish that we would have been able to prevent this from happening
for this lady and her family and this other lady and her family in
Moore,” she added.
Oklahoma Muslims receive special praise from White House officials
Posted 3:26 pm, October 4, 2014, by Andrew Donley, Updated at 07:31pm, October 6, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Muslims marked the end of the yearly
pilgrimage to mecca with communal prayer and celebration called Eid
Ul-Adha on Saturday.
Leaders of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City say it’s been
a tough month for Muslims here in Oklahoma after being associated with
the beheading at Vaughan foods in Moore.
Leaders of the faith here in the state say vicious messages are being
left for Oklahoma Muslims, telling them to get out of Oklahoma and
threatening to behead them all because the man behind the beheading
claimed to be Muslim. Click here to read more about the threats.
But the Muslim community received the highest form of praise from the
White House for their hard work in helping rebuild the Moore community
after a destructive tornado tore through the city in 2013.
Today, an official from Washington D.C. flew in to Oklahoma to present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation.
He read a message from President Barrack Obama, extending warm greetings from the American people during the Muslim holiday.
“Your service is a powerful example of
the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can
come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice,”
President Barack Obama said.
The Imam, the leader of the prayer service, stated during his sermon
that the Muslim faith has been called a “cancer that needs to be cut off
from the American society.”
Now, with the recent praise, Oklahoma Muslims have been reassured that they are a part of the American society.
In the wake of a horrific example of Islamic terrorism in the United
States, Barack Obama expressed no sympathy towards the victim of this
horrific crime or her family… but instead chose to thank the mosque that
helped create the terrorist himself. You can’t make this stuff up.
David Myers, the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s
Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke at the
Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City for their festival celebrating
the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. He delivered a message from Obama thanking the mosque for their service in the wake of a tornado that hit the area last year.
The full message read:
“Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the
Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared
peace with dignity and a sense of justice.”
Apparently, all the negative attention the mosque has received since
the attack warranted a personal visit from an Obama administration
official to make sure that Muslims preaching an ideology of violence
feel welcome in America.
Lest we forget what we’ve found out about the activities of this
mosque in the aftermath of the Oklahoma beheading, here’s a quick
reminder: The mosque was the same one attended by the “20th hijacker” on 9/11. The mosque has ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a known Hamas front group. A man
who attended the mosque confirmed that its teachings were consistent
with radical Islam, including waging jihad against non-believers. The
mosque had been under the direction of Imam Suhaib Webb, who has ties
to former Al Qaeda leader al-Awlaki and now leads the mosque that had
been attended by the Boston bombers.
Listen to a former member of the mosque describe his chilling experiences in the video below:
Here’s what we know:
1. The Obama administration has yet to acknowledge the attack as an act of Islamic terrorism.
2. Obama has not expressed his sympathies to the family of the victim.
3. Obama has sent his own personal messenger to this radical
mosque after the attack to thank them for a completely unrelated
occurrence that happened last year.
It’s obvious this was a PR move on the part of Obama to give positive
press to this mosque after they were outed by conservative media as
serving as a breeding ground for jihadists. The timing was not
coincidental. The activities that Obama was “thanking” the Islamic
Society of Greater Oklahoma City for occurred after a tornado that
occurred in 2013. He had no reason to send this message now… other than
wanting to make sure Oklahoma Muslims’ feelings weren’t hurt because
they got exposed for helping breed the perpetrator of a terrorist
attack. Add
this to the fact that Obama recently used his UN speech to praise a
radical Muslim cleric who called for the killing of US soldiers.
Why is our president going out of his way to ignore the victim of a
vicious terrorist attack while thanking those who helped produce the
terrorist? The answer might make you a little uncomfortable.
Please share this article on Facebook and Twitter if you agree that
Obama is openly siding with radical Muslims against the victim of a
terrorist attack.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi
submitted the names of 130 Iraqi military officers for investigation in
connection with the surrender of the city of Mosul to the so called
organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria without a fight last
June.
On Monday a source close to al-Abadi said “The decisions will be
issued after the Eid al-Adha. Three senior officers of the ranks of
generals will be forwarded to retirement on the background of the
military events that accompanied the seizure of the cities of Mosul,
Tikrit, and parts of the western regions by the organization ISIS.”
The source added that “among the decisions to be taken by Abadi is
the referral of 130 officers to retirement and investigation.”
A federal judge has declined a House committee's bid to have Attorney General Eric Holder held in contempt of court — and perhaps even jailed — for failing to turn over documents related to the Justice Department' s response to Operation Fast and Furious.
However, in a ruling Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman
Jackson also denied Holder's request for an indefinite stay of her prior
order that the attorney general must turn over any "non-privileged"
documents the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed
as part of an investigation into the botched gunrunning investigation.
The judge previously ruled that Holder must give the panel any documents
that are not both predecisional and deliberative in nature.
Jackson called the House contempt motion "entirely unnecessary" and
said it was evident that she was considering the government's motion to
lift her prior order. "Under those circumstances, the Court finds no
basis to hold defendant in contempt," she wrote.
But the judge also said she saw no reason to allow the Justice
Department to withhold unprivileged documents until the case was
complete. She ordered those records turned over to the committee by Nov.
3, along with a log of the records claimed to be privileged.
"Though the Court has the discretion to grant a stay in the interests
of judicial economy and efficiency, pending appeal or otherwise, there
is no pending appeal here and the Court has already ruled that defendant
has no legal basis to withhold non-deliberative documents. The
'possibility' of an appeal and piecemeal litigation does not satisfy
defendant’s burden to demonstrative a 'clear case of hardship or
inequity' without a stay," she wrote in her decision (posted here).
A Justice Department spokesman welcomed the decision, at least the
part rebuffing the motion to hold Holder in contempt. "We are pleased
that the court rejected the committee's latest stunt," spokesman Brian
Fallon said.
A spokesperson for the House committee said the judge's ruling is a
step towards the panel receiving documents it should have been given
years ago. "The Oversight Committee is pleased that the Judge in the
case has rejected the Department's request to continue illegally
withholding documents and its attempt to unnecessarily prolong the
proceeding. This court ruling affirms that Attorney General Holder
broke the law in withholding subpoenaed documents, which led the House
of Representatives to vote him in criminal contempt," said the
spokesperson. UPDATE (Monday, 4:35 P.M.): This post has been updated with
reaction from the Justice Department and the House Oversight Committee.
Read more about:
Eric Holder,
Congress,
Darrell Issa,
Executive Privilege,
Operation Fast & Furious,
House Oversight And Government Reform Committee,
Deliberative Process Privilege
So let me get this straight: After a Muslim beheads a woman on
American soil in the name of Islam, the Obama Administration not only
remains silent on the entire deal, but instead decides to reach out to
the Oklahoma Mosque that the killer attended to present them with a
THANK YOU letter.
There was no kind words that were offered to the family of the
victim, no investigation into the mosque to investigate possible ties to
the leadership, no statement condemning the act of terror; Obama just
wanted to make sure that during this time that the Muslims
were reassured that they are still a part of American society.
On Saturday, an official from the Obama administration flew to
Oklahoma in order to present a special thank you to the Muslim
community. The official read a special message straight from Obama,
which extended “warm greetings” from the American people:
“Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots
of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with
shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice,” President Barack
Obama said.
Apparently, after the beheading in Oklahoma, the Muslims in that area
are feeling sorry for themselves after receiving a lot of flack. Well…
yeah… that’s to be expected when a person who attends your mosque under
YOUR teachings beheads someone in the name of your psychotic religion.
This recent praise from Obama gives Oklahoma Muslims reassurance that
he feels they are an important part of American society. This should
come as no surprise considering some of Obama’s statements on Islam:
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
“We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which
has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my
own country.”
“Islam has always been part of America.”
“I made it clear that America is not – and will never be – at war with Islam.”
The Imam — who is the ring-leader of the beheader’s cult — stated
during his sermon that the Muslim faith has been called a “cancer that
needs to be cut off from the American society.”
I couldn’t agree more. Islam IS a cancer… and it should be eradicated
from the planet. And for our president to continually pander to this
sick psychotic religion truly makes my stomach turn.
At
least five children infected with the respiratory illness known
enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) have died in the U.S. in the past month.
(Above image: a non-polio enterovirus as seen using an immunoelectron microscopic technique. Courtesy: CDC) The
lastest confirmed victim was a four-year-old New Jersey boy, Eli
Waller. He died at home on September 25. The Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) confirmed the cause of death Friday night. But health officials
say they have no idea how he contracted the virus. A health official
says Eli was “asymptomatic and fine” when he went to bed but died
overnight. He had no known preexisting immune weakness. CDC Overview of EV-D68
A
10-year girl Rhode Island girl infected with EV-D68, Emily Otrando,
died less than 24 hours after being rushed to the hospital with
breathing problems. Three other patients with EV-D68 also died in
September.
The CDC reports that in the past month and a half, at
least 538 people in 43 states and the District of Columbia have become
ill with EV-D68. Most of them are children and some developed limb
paralysis. Polio, which can cause paralysis and death, is a type of
enterovirus. EV-D68 is one of more than a hundred “non-polio”
enteroviruses.
The actual number of EV-D68 infections is likely
significantly higher than reported since some state health officials are
not testing every suspected case. Link to Illegal Immigrant Children?
Enteroviruses
commonly circulate in the U.S. during summer and fall. EV-D68 was first
identified in California in 1962. Over the past thirty years, only
small numbers were reported in the U.S.
The CDC hasn’t suggested
reasons for the current uptick or its origin. Without that answer, some
question whether the disease is being spread by the presence of tens of
thousands of illegal immigrant children from Central America admitted to
the U.S. in the past year.
The origin could be entirely unrelated.
However, a study published in Virology Journal,
found EV-D68 among some of the 3,375 young, ill people tested in eight
Latin American countries, including the Central American nations of El
Salvador and Nicaragua, in 2013. (See Fig. 3)
Though
the U.S. government is keeping secret the locations of the illegal
immigrant children, there are significant numbers of them in both cities
in which the current outbreak was first identified, Kansas City,
Missouri and Chicago, Illinois, according to local advocates and press
reports. CDC list of states with confirmed EV-D68 cases The EV-D68 outbreak was first recognized
after Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri notified CDC
on August 19 of an increase in severe respiratory illnesses. Four days
later, on August 23, the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s
Hospital notified CDC of a similar increase. What is an enterovirus?
An
enterovirus is a positive-sense (“plus-strand”) RNA (ribonucleic acid)
virus. Other diseases caused by RNA viruses include Ebola, SARS, polio
and measles.
According to CDC, there are no available vaccines, antiviral medications or specific treatments for EV-D68. Most cases are mild. Hand, foot and mouth disease: another enterovirus In March of 2012, CDC reported
emergence of a new strain of another non-polio enterovirus in the U.S.
responsible for what’s known as hand, foot and mouth disease. The
patients’ age range and the severity of the illness were considered
unusual in the U.S. and resulted in a more severe and extensive rash. It
had been previously seen in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Finland. Hand,
foot and mouth disease is typically not considered a serious illness
and usually resolves itself.
Recently, schools reported an uptick in the enterovirus hand, foot and mouth disease in Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin with cases also reported in Oregon. Additional reports in southwest Virginia Accidental Release of Live Polio Virus into Water in Belgium
A lab technician studies an enterovirus.
In
other enterovirus news: The European Centre for Disease Control and
Prevention (ECDC) recently reported the “accidental release” by
pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline of more than 11 gallons of
concentrated live polio virus solution into the environment in Belgium.
Authorities
say the release, due to “human error,” happened in Rixensart city and
the liquid “was conducted directly to a water-treatment plant (Rosieres)
and released after treatment in river Lasne affluent of river Dyle
which is affluent of the Escaut/Scheldt river.”
Belgium’s High
Council of Public Health stated the risk of infection for those exposed
to the contaminated water is “extremely low due to the high level of
dilution and the high vaccination coverage (95%) in Belgium.” A statement from ECDC said,
“ECDC’s assessment is that the accidental release in the environment of
large amounts of live polio virus represents a risk to public health if
susceptible populations, such as areas with low polio vaccine coverage,
are exposed to contaminated waters or mud. Particularly since the Lasne
and Dyle rivers are joining the Escaut/Scheldt river which flows in the
southwestern part of the Netherlands where various orthodox protestant
communities present a lower polio vaccination coverage, before reaching
the North Sea.”
In
March of this year, Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi missed his exit near
San Diego. The Marine appeared to think little of his mistake, even
informing the checkpoint that he intended to merely turn around and that
he had firearms in his car.
Having crossed
just feet into Mexico with these firearms has cost the veteran nearly
eight months of his life as he has lingered in a Mexican jail cell as
his combat-induced PTSD has worsened while President Obama has done
nothing to secure the release of the Marine.
Now, it seems that finally, America might be receiving their hero soon.
According
to a source within the House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, Sgt.
Tahmooressi is expected to be released sometime this week.
The information reportedly comes directly from the office of Mexico’s Attorney General.
The
Tahmooressi family has been incredibly outspoken about raising
awareness for the Marine Corps veteran who served his country honorably
in Afghanistan but that has been left to the mercy of the Mexican legal
system.
Arizona Republican Matt Salmon, who has worked to secure the release of Sgt. Tahmooressi, told TPNN last month,
“It
baffles me that [Obama] would trade five terrorists for a soldier of
questionable reputation and do nothing to help an American hero,” Salmon
stated, alluding to Obama’s illegal trade of five terrorists from
Guantanamo Bay for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
“Obama
said time and time again that as president, when he got Bergdahl out,
‘I’m the president and I will leave no man on the field.’ Well, that’s
right up there with, ‘If you like your health insurance, you can keep
it,’ and ‘There will be no ground troops in Syria.’ As we all know,
they’re all lies.”
Hopefully, Sgt. Tahmooressi will soon be back on American soil and his ordeal will be behind once and for all.
Please share on Facebook and Twitter if you are outraged that our veteran has been forced to linger in Mexico for this long.
One of the co-discoverers of the Ebola virus has called the current situation a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Dr. Peter Piot, who discovered Ebola in 1976 when a pilot gave him a
blood sample from a sick Belgian nun in Zaire, also told Der Spiegel how
the name ‘Ebola’ came to be. The interview was later translated and republished in The Guardian.
Piot, who is the Executive Director of UNAIDS and an
Undersecretary-General of the United Nations, said the reason the World
Health Organization (WHO) reacted so late is the African regional office
doesn’t have very capable people and is filled with political
appointees. He believes that although it is good that the United States
and other countries are getting involved, others must do more.
“I have always been an optimist and I think that we now
have no other choice than to try everything, really everything. It’s
good that the United States and some other countries are finally
beginning to help. But Germany or even Belgium, for example, must do a
lot more.
“And it should be clear to all of us: This isn’t an
epidemic anymore. This is a humanitarian catastrophe. We don’t just need
care personnel, but also logistics experts, trucks, keeps and
foodstuffs. Such an epidemic can destabilize entire regions. I can only
hope that we will be able to get it under control. I really never
thought that it could get this bad.”
The co-discoverer of the Ebola virus acknowledged an outbreak in
North America or Europe could be controlled quickly, but is more worried
about many from India who travel to west Africa for work.
“It would only take one of them to become infected,
travel to India to visit relatives during the virus’s incubation period,
and then, once he becomes sick, go to a public hospital there. Doctors
and nurses in India, too, often don’t wear protective gloves. They would
immediately become infected and spread the virus.”
He also tells the German outlet how he remembers ‘exactly’ the
details of how he and the research team he was with came to discovering
Ebola when a pilot brought a blood sample of a sick Belgian nun and
requested that it be tested for yellow fever.
“One day in September [1976], a pilot from Sabena
Airlines brought us a shiny blue Thermos and a letter from a doctor in
Kinshasa in what was then Zaire. In the Thermos, he wrote, there was a
blood sample from a Belgian nun who had recently fallen ill from a
mysterious sickness in Yambuku, a remote village in the northern part of
the country. He asked us to test the sample for yellow fever.
“We had no idea how dangerous the virus was. And there were no
high-security labs in Belgium. We just wore our white lab coats and
protective gloves. When we opened the Thermos, the ice inside had
largely melted and one of the vials had broken. Blood and glass shards
were floating in the ice water. We fished the other, intact, test tube
out of the slop and began examining the blood for pathogens, using the
methods that were standard at the time.
Piot explains when the team was able to create an image of the Ebola
virus with an electron microscope, their first thought was, “What the
hell is that?”, and that it was nothing like yellow fever.
“The virus that we had spent so much time searching for
was very big, very long, and worm-like. It had no similarities with
yellow fever. Rather, it looked like the extremely dangerous Marburg
virus which, like Ebola, causes a hemorrhagic fever. In the 1960s, the
virus killed several laboratory workers in Marburg, Germany.”
The world renown doctor tells Der Spiegel when he and his colleagues
treated Ebola patients early on, they wore protective suits and latex
gloves to shield themselves from those infected. He adds that he
borrowed a pair of motorcycle goggles for eye protection, and managed to
avoid infection, though did become sick.
“At some point I did actually develop a high fever, a
headache, and diarrhea… I immediately thought ‘Damn, this is it!’ But
then I tried to keep my cool. I knew the symptoms I had could be from
something completely different and harmless. And it really would have
been stupid to spend two weeks in the horrible isolation tent that had
been set up for us scientists for the worst case. So I just stayed alone
in my room and waited.
“I
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office
of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Which of those solemn promises has Barack H. Obama not betrayed? I can’t think of a single one. If
Obama is different from other presidents, it’s not for the color of his
skin, which is just a PR hustle to blackmail suckers into proving they
aren’t racists. No: Obama will be historic for his fanatical leftism,
which has no precedent in American history. The biggest headline is
Obama’s ideology, not his race. The
left is a revolutionary cult, one that has no compunctions about
violations of laws or human rights – for what they imagine to be a
utopian cause, of course. But every single power cult in history is all
for love and peace – once it takes over. Head-chopping Muslims sing
the song of love and peace just as well as the left. Just consider two quotes. Karl
Marx, 1848: “… there is only one means to shorten, simplify and
concentrate the murderous death throes of the old society and the bloody
birth pangs of the new, only one means – revolutionary terrorism." Vladimir Lenin, 1918: “the fundamental feature of the concept of dictatorship of the proletariat is revolutionary violence.” Terrorist
killings of innocent civilians are exactly the same as deliberate
murder under domestic criminal law. But the left has legitimized
terrorism when it is directed against bourgeois society. That is the
key to their moral perversion. That is also why Obama does not object
to terrorism “as such.” If he cared about Islamist terrorism in Syria,
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and all the rest, he would also have to reject the
Mau Mau terrorism that brought his dreamed-of father to power in Kenya.
(Jomo Kenyatta quickly kicked him out of the post-colonial government.)
In any case, Obama and the indoctrinated network that now controls the
United States government consider terrorism “in a good cause”
justifiable – which is why they do not mind 9/11/01 and the whole rise
of jihad terrorism in the last forty years. If anything, the hard left
wing of our foreign policy establishment is full of excuses for clear
crimes against humanity. So
far, Obama has shown utter contempt for the U.S. Constitution, for our
military, and for the crucial duties of the Department of Justice, the
Border Patrol, and the IRS. The hard left at the core of the Democratic
Party is essentially Obamanist, as expressed by Rep. Joe Garcia. The
real problem is therefore not a single human being called Obama, but an
entire political apparatus that turns out Obamas like robots. Hillary
is an Alinsky acolyte, and Alinsky was simply another revolutionary
agitator – now called “community organizer” by our party-line press.
Alinsky’s biggest innovation was to make common cause with organized
crime in Chicago. Starting
with the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, radical Muslims joined the
Alinsky axis to make the toxic triangle of revolution, criminal mafias,
and reactionary Islamism. The historian Bat Ye’or wrote in her book, Eurabia:
[Beginning
in 1973,] the combination of a powerful Eurabian lobby with ...
European political, media, and educational systems produced throughout
the EU that uniform political thinking known as “political
correctness”... Dissenters were harshly censured in universities,
books, and the media.
Exactly
the same media-political fear regime was implemented in the United
States. These events were not coincidental. In many cases, we know
exactly which politicians and media empires were bought by Gulf oil
dollars. Starting with the Clintons, we have seen state mafias gain
national power – first the Dixie Mafia, and now the Chicago Machine.
Obama is simply the logical outcome of forty years of indoctrination in
our politics, education, and media. We
can now see these toxic forces converging in the purposeful sabotage of
our southern border. The Sinaloa cartel is the biggest drug cartel in
Chicago, and it received weapons from our DOJ during the “Fast and
Furious” smuggling program. Valerie Jarrett met with “immigration
activists” (like La Raza) in the weeks before the assault on our border.
Iran’s terrorist arm Hezb'allah has agents colluding with drug mafias
and people smuggling all over South America. Breaking down our southern
borders serves all three. It’s
impossible to know where Obama has done the most damage – at home or
abroad. The Middle East is now breaking down into that much-feared
regional war, with Russia, Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Iraq converging on
the Saudi- and Qatar-supported murder gangs of ISIS and ISIL, which now
number in the tens of thousands. To add to the turmoil, the United
States has helped to supply and train AQ barbarians in Jordan and
Turkey, to join their bloodstained brothers wherever they decide to
strike next. All
these bloody disasters can be attributed to U.S. and European policies
in support of Islamofascist radicals. Jimmy Carter allowed Ayatollah
Khomeini to take power in Iran, which is now within weeks of possessing a
nuclear bomb. Western politicians like Jacques Chirac enabled Saddam
Hussein in Europe and the U.N., leading directly to suicidal immigration
flows of millions of Muslims from the badlands of Pakistan to all the
capitals of Europe. The EU supported the Turkish Islamofascist party of
Recip Erdoğan, now fighting the Turkish Salafist party. The Clintons
failed to pursue Osama bin Laden after the first World Trade Center
bombing in New York in 1993. Major money flows have been going from the
ultra-radical Muslim Brotherhood to the Carter and Clinton centers. But
it took Obama to betray Egypt’s Mubarak, the single greatest pillar of
peace in the Middle East for four decades. It was Obama who overthrew
Gaddafi, and dissolved Libya into a bloody civil war that still
continues. It was Obama who directed Ambassador Stevens to smuggle vast
quantities of Libyan arms to the Syrian rebels, including the worst of
the worst, the Al Nusrah gang, which killed children in the Christian
village of Ma’aloula. It was Obama who supported the rise of the MBs in
Egypt – the very people who assassinated Anwar Sadat forty years ago
for making peace with Israel. Today, it is Obama who is preparing to
surrender Afghanistan to the woman-hating Taliban, and who is refusing
to help our U.S.-promoted Baghdad government to ward off the latest
assault by primitive savages. (Baghdad
is now getting jet planes from Russia and an invading army from Iran
and Syria, whose loyalties nobody knows. But they sure don’t like us.) In sum, Obama has presided over the most malignant foreign policy in U.S. history. This
is not an accident. This policy was planned and executed by radical
leftists like Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett, corrupt media barons like
the New York Times, and Islamofascists like John Brennan. They
include the same Big Media corporations that control our “mainstream”
media. They also include famous Silicon Valley high-tech companies like
Apple and Google, who support Obama’s Progressive Policy Institute, and
George Soros, who supports the anti-Israel front group J Street.
Google’s vice president for North African sales was indeed directly
involved in agitating for the Arab Spring, which our media
simultaneously discovered and headlined, only to lead to Muslim
Brotherhood despotism in Egypt. It
is very hard to know if we will come out of this mad state of affairs
intact. America has teetered on the edge of Marxist disaster once
before in its history, during the FDR and Truman years, when the fruits
of the Manhattan Project were instantly transmitted to Stalin in Moscow,
who was able to explode his own copycat bomb as early as 1949. Leftist
betrayal is not new, nor is it unusual. If
you believe delusionally that the “bourgeois” nation-state is the enemy
of all that is good and decent, and that destroying it will bring about
utopia, smuggling nuclear secrets to Jozef Stalin becomes a great gift
to humanity. Once you accept delusional cult beliefs, the end simply
justifies the means. And delusional cults are a dime a dozen in human
history. As the Wall Street Journal wrote this week:
The
American image has been tarnished by the progressives who took control
of the U.S. government in 2009. They set about to expand the state's
power, which was exactly what had destroyed the productive drive and
creative skills of the post-World War II Russians and Chinese. They made
a hash of health insurance, grossly distorted finance and destroyed
personal savings by manipulation of the credit markets. They conducted a
war on fossil fuels, handing a victory to Russia, which uses its
hydrocarbon exports to exercise political influence in Europe. They
weakened the dollar by running up huge national debts and wasted the
nation's substance on silly projects like "fighting global warming."
Obama’s
mentors shared a bitter hatred for middle-class values, starting with
his mother and father, followed by his Muslim madrassa teachers in
Jakarta, then Frank Marshall Davis in Hawaii, on and on, culminating in
Jerry Wright, who calls our culture of freedom and productive work
“middleclassness” – a direct translation of Marx’s “bourgeoisie,” the
enemy that must be destroyed. What
is different about the Obama left is not the basic doctrine of
revolutionary destruction. What’s different is the new alliance between
the radical left and jihadist Islam. According to Bat Ye’or, that
alliance goes back to the 1970s, after the Arab oil embargo, when
Wahhabi and Khomeinist Muslims started to buy politicians by the barrel
in Europe and America. Obama is the culmination of decades of Muslim
influence-buying, which now controls much of our media, politics, and
educational system. Today,
we are seeing that alliance emerge in the Muslim world, where the
Western left has consistently supported murderous jihadist movements and
regimes. Obama
has supported mass-killing regimes in the Middle East against more
moderate, stabilizing rulers: Mubarak, Gaddafi (much better than today’s
civil war in Libya), Maliki (ditto for Iraq), Karzai (ditto for
Afghanistan). Instead, Obama consistently favors al-Qaeda-linked killer
gangs in Syria and the biggest sponsor of terrorism, Iran. His
treatment of our longtime allies has been atrocious. Betrayal is his
middle name. The
hokey “spontaneous” immigrant wave of children and criminals is just
another example of hard-left agitprop – in this case culminating in
massive, deliberate child endangerment and probable abuse. Obama’s
self-appointed mission in life is to destroy the most productive and
beneficial culture in history. Obama personally taught Alinsky’s Rules
to his ACORN followers, and Alinsky called us “the enemy.” That word
is used in war, and radicals like Obama and Malcolm X are bitter warlike
agitators. (The old word for “community organizer” was “communist
agitator”). Radicals like Obama read their revolutionary heroes
literally, just like any Bible-quoting fundamentalist preacher. The
civilized world has a great ability to recover from disaster, as it
showed three times in the last century. But each time the resistance
has had to be led by those who tell the truth. Sane and sensible people
today cannot rely on our twisted media, and we cannot believe our
broken politicians. We have new web technologies at our fingertips that
allow us to throw out the bums – be they RINOs, leftist radicals, or
Islamofascists. Eventually our confused voters will figure it out – but
don’t expect other people to make it happen. Everything
depends on telling the truth, and you and I must take full
responsibility for doing so. Nobody else will do it for us.
A
fire and explosion at a military explosives facility near the Iranian
capital Tehran has left at least two people dead, reports say.
The semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (Isna) said the fire was in an "explosive materials production unit".
A pro-opposition website reported a huge blast near the
Parchin military site, south-east of the capital, but this was not
confirmed.
Parchin has been linked to Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not been given access to the complex since 2005.
Analysts say the IAEA suspects Iran of experimenting with explosives capable of triggering a nuclear weapon at Parchin. Windows shattered
The pro-reform website Sahamnews said the explosion on Sunday
evening was so intense that windows of buildings 15km (nine miles) away
were shattered.
The glare from the blast could also be seen from a great distance, the report added.
Isna, quoting Iran's defence industries organisation, said:
"Unfortunately, due to the incident, two workers of this production unit
lost their lives."
It gave no further details.
Last month, the IAEA said more activity had been conducted at the Parchin military base.
It said Iran had also missed a deadline to answer further questions about its nuclear programme.
Iran is in negotiations with six world powers on a permanent agreement over its nuclear industry.
The West suspects Iran of trying to develop a nuclear weapon but Iranian leaders insist they only want atomic energy.
Talks are focused on lifting Western sanctions in exchange
for a scaling-back of Iran's uranium enrichment programme, and a
deadline for the agreement has been set for 24 November.
Wayne was born President Barack Obama?What is the truth about his birth certificate?Does
the world will discover a great trick carried out by Obama?! .. All
these questions preoccupy the American people, especially the most
stringent in the current conservative right!To
uncover the truth, the American billionaire, Donald Trump, to send an
investigation team to the state of Hawaii, the task of a single, a
knowledge of the fact that the issue of the birth of President Barack
Obama in which, and the presence of a birth certificate official
confirms that, in the latest step of a wealthy controversial, who has
made no secret that he thinks to go to the next presidential election.
Obama only knows the truth Hey Donald
The issue of birth certificate Obama a key point in the matters raised
by the current most stringent in the conservative right, as the American
Constitution is required to be the country's president has been born on
the land of America, has already been stabbed a number of figures
presence of a birth certificate for Obama, trying to bring him down this
way.
Trump said in an interview with the network, "NBC," The investigation
team, which is based in Hawaii: "may reveal the biggest hoax in the
history of American political life," pointing out that the team members
"are shocked by what they found even an hour."
He accused Trump American President during the interview that he
"shared in the process of wide to hide the facts," and added: "I've
spent (Obama) more than two million dollars as he tries to evade the
legal proceedings in this file, and I ask, if there is not anything
wrong, why does not resolving the matter? "
He said Trump, known for wacky hair, exotic, and reality TV programs
sponsored by: "We may be in front of the biggest scam in history .. One
can not be president of the United States that was not born on its
territory, and now I have many doubts about the fact that the birth
place of Obama. "
Many doubts about where you were born, my Obama
The American president has faced doubts in his birth in Hawaii since
the beginning of the election campaign in 2008, and the order by
presenting a document proving his birth city of Honolulu, the state of
Hawaii, has been confirmed by the local government health, also
presented copies of newspapers, old back to 1961, where a congratulatory
his birth. Also made the local governor of Hawaii testimony in which he said that he knew Obama's family and the little day of his birth.
However, this file remained open after that, and the incident was
months in the summer of 2010, when he announced to the officer Terence
I, rebellion against his decisions to go to Afghanistan because of
skepticism in Obama's entitlement to his position and his birth in
America.
And had I had not defended himself currently logged on the website
"YouTube", in which he said that there is no choice but to reject it and
thus undergo military trial. I added: "If the President is legit, all decisions are therefore illegal."
And I have the record for a military supervisor in the American army,
as has previously served in Afghanistan, Korea, Bosnia, Germany,
Honduras and El Salvador, which is winning many medals and decorations,
including the Bronze Star. I have embarked on a campaign to discredit Obama's birth in the United States since October / October, 2008.
Acknowledged President Barack Obama that American intelligence
underestimated the rise of guerrillas of the Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria, where he warned the leader of a branch of al-Qaeda that militants
would attack the West in response to the air strikes led by the United
States.
Turkish tanks and taken positions on the Syrian border in exchange
besieged border town where increased density of organizing the bombing
of an Islamic state and a stray bullet landed in the territory of
Turkey.
He said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a watchdog group said
the air strikes hit a natural gas plant controlled by organizing an
Islamic state in eastern Syria in the framework of a campaign against
what seems to disable one of the main sources of income for the
fighters.
The Observatory said the planes also struck a silo for grain in northern Syria, which has caused the deaths of civilians. Could not be sure of that immediately.
The air strikes have failed so far to stop the advance of the fighters
in the north of Syria towards Kobanî Kurdish town on the border with
Turkey, where battles have caused last week in the fastest process
exodus of refugees in the Syrian civil war has been going on for more
than three years.
And 15 tanks were stationed on the Turkish least on the front face of each Vohath toward the Syrian territory. And moved more tanks and armored vehicles towards the border after shells landed inside Turkey on Sunday and Monday.
The United States bombed the Islamic state and other groups in Syria
for nearly a week with the help of Arab allies and strike targets in
Iraq since last month.
And European countries to have joined the campaign in Iraq, but did not participate in strikes in Syria so far.
State regulation has rung alarm bells in the Islamic West and the Middle East Bajtiaha northern Iraq in June.
The organization is fighting the governments of Iraq and Syria, which
supports them as Shiites fighting other Sunni groups in Syria and
Kurdish groups in the two countries.
Said Abu Mohammed Joulani victory Branch Front leader of al Qaeda in
Syria-a rival group, the Islamic State and the American strikes also
targeted the Islamists would launch attacks on the West in response to
the campaign.
He said in an audio message posted on the forums in favor of the front
"will not stand Muslims as audience sees his sons are bombing and
killing in their country and you are safe in your country Vdharabh war
will not be paid by your leaders alone, but you will pay the bulk of
them."
He also called on his supporters not to seize the opportunity to attack the U.S. strikes organizing the Islamic state.
And caused the American air strikes in the pressure on the front of the
victory to come to terms with the Islamic state, which could lead to
the formation of a single Islamic force in Syria and expands the
territory under their control.
Obama is working since August to build an international coalition to
fight the militants, whom he described last week in a speech before the
United Nations as "the death of the network."
He admitted in an interview aired Sunday that the CIA had
underestimated the group the Islamic State, which offers explanation of
what appeared as if Washington took a surprise when the fighters swept
through the organization of northern Iraq in June.
Obama said the militants hid when crushed United States Marine Corps
al-Qaeda in Iraq with the help of Iraqi tribes during the war which
ended in 2011.
"But over the past two years and in the midst of the chaos of civil
war, the Syrian where you have large areas of land are not subject to
the rule of one were able to regroup and exploit the chaos."
And sought some opponents of the American president on the inside to
take advantage of a statement he made in January, using an expression
for the athletes would trivialize the Sunni fighters in Iraq and Syria. The team then compared them Obama novice teachers of basketball that he pretends to have a professional team.
"If the team wore uniforms Novice Team (Los Angeles) Lakers will not make them so Kobe Bryant (star of the team)."
* Battle on the Border
Did not stop the progress of the Islamic state in Syria as fighting
Kurdish forces near the town of Kobani fled the border where 140
thousand refugees a week ago.
Echoed shooting across the border and the plume of smoke rising above
the Kobanî with continued sporadic shelling by the guerrillas of the
Islamic State of town.
He said the Kurds are pursuing the fighting from the Turkish side of
the border that the group units protect the people, the largest Kurdish
armed groups in Syria defends solidly town.
He said a Turkish Kurd named Ayhan spoke over the phone with a friend
of his fight with the group "killed many of the fighters of the Islamic
State. Bodies do not take them."
He added that the Kurdish forces recovered the bodies of eight fighters from the Islamic state.
When crossing near Morctbenar had dozens of youths returning to Syria, saying they will join the battle. More refugees fled in the opposite direction.
Khalil said an engineer in the thirty-ninth-old escaped from Kobanî on
Monday, "everyone fleeing because of the bombs. Heard that the people
who were killed." "The units protect the people have small arms, but the Islamic state has big guns and tanks."
A local official said from inside the Kobanî The Islamic State
continued the siege of the town from the east, west and south, but
militant fighters at a distance of ten kilometers from the outskirts of
the town.
Idris said Nassan official in the administration of local Kurdish over
the phone "since the morning drop shells on Kobanî ... maybe about 20
rockets." He added that the missiles killed at least three people in the town.
Turkey did not allow its citizens to cross the Kurds to join the battle.
He said a Turkish official at the border, where they were tightening
security measures "if the identity card with them or Turkish passports,
they can go. Syrians, not only the Turks."
* Obama is still seeking the fall of Assad
Turkey is a member of NATO and has the strongest army in the region,
but have so far remained outside the alliance led by the United States,
which angered a lot of Turkish Kurds who regarded this policy is an
abdication of their cousins in Syria.
Obama said that the decline in the last moments before about a year for
air strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
that he is aware of the apparent contradiction in opposing Assad at the
time of the bombing of his opponents. Obama still wants to leave power, but the lion is the Islamic state's most pressing threat.
Obama said, "to stay united Syria is not possible that the whole process is headed by Assad."
"And on the other side with respect to the direct threats to the United
States regulation is an Islamic state and a group of Khorasan these
humans could kill Americans." The group Khorasan separate cell belonging to the base targeted last week.
And threw Arabia, which participated in the air strikes led by the
United States blamed the other countries in support of the Islamic state
although it did not mention countries by name. The Qatar Riyadh criticized in the past for its support of Islamic movements.
He said Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, "We know
that al-Daash (Islamic state) were not made randomly, but under the
auspices of states and organizations to its full potential and bad
intentions and resolutely face of this organization and others."
He said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the
conflict aided by a network of sources on the ground that the strikes
led by the United States hit a gas station for Conoco controlled by the
Islamic State outside the city of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria, which
led to the injury of a number of fighters.
The Observatory said that the gas station feeds a power plant in Homs
extend several provinces with electricity and running generators
operating in the oil fields.
He added that the planes involved in the campaign led by the United
States also bombed mills and grain storage areas in the town Manbej
northern Syria, killing one civilian workers. Were not immediately sure of the information was no immediate comment from Washington.
The aircraft also attacked areas in the city of Al-Hasakah in
northeastern Syria and the outskirts of the city of Raqqa in the north, a
stronghold of the Islamic state.
The agency said the Syrian Arab News Agency also said that the forces
led by the United States carried out strikes in the province of Raqqa.
It is feared that some opponents of Assad's shelling, which helps the
US-led Syrian president to stay in power through damage to the strongest
enemies.
The Syrian army has stepped up its bombing campaign in the west of the
country, although the Washington launched attacks in the east. The Syrian Observatory said that the Syrian army carried out air strikes overnight in the province of Aleppo and in Hama.
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