Monthly Archives: October 2014

Jeffrey Tucker: Must Government Have the Power to Quarantine?

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“It’s true that quarantine powers have been around since the ancient world and have been invoked through U.S. history from Colonial times to the present. They are hardly questioned.  On the other hand, abuse of such powers are even more frequent. The problem is the low threshold concerning risk. Once government has the power, it can use it any way it wants. In World War I, prostitutes were routinely arrested and quarantined in the name of preventing the spread of diseases. In the 1892 typhus outbreak, it became common to arrest and quarantine any immigrant from Russia, Italy, or Ireland even without any evidence of disease.”

http://tucker.liberty.me/2014/10/15/must-government-have-the-power-to-quarantine/

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How the World’s Top Health Body Allowed Ebola to Spiral Out of Control

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“In one instance, medics weren’t deployed because they weren’t issued visas. In another, bureaucratic hurdles delayed the spending of $500,000 intended to support the disease response. Meanwhile, fresh information on the outbreak from experts in the field was slow to reach headquarters, while contact-tracers refused to work on concern they wouldn’t get paid.  The account of the WHO’s missteps, based on interviews with five people familiar with the agency who asked not to be identified, lifts the veil on the workings of an agency designed as the world’s health warden yet burdened by politics and bureaucracy.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-16/who-response-to-ebola-outbreak-foundered-on-bureaucracy.html

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Obama’s New Ebola ‘Czar’ Has No Medical, Health Care Background

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“President Barack Obama on Friday turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation’s Ebola response as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a cruise ship at sea and multiple airline flights.  Facing renewed criticism of his handling of the Ebola risk, Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his point man on fighting Ebola at home and in West Africa. Klain will report to national security adviser Susan Rice and to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, the White House said.  Klain does not have a medical or a health care background.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/10/17/obamas-new-ebola-czar-does-not-have-medical-health-care-background/

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Despite fever, CDC cleared Ebola-infected nurse for airline flight

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“A federal health official says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cleared a nurse who has Ebola to fly from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas.  CDC spokesman David Daigle says now-infected Amber Joy Vinson spoke with the CDC official responsible for monitoring her health before she boarded the flight Monday.  CBS News reported that Vinson called the CDC several times before flying, saying that she did have a fever with a temperature of 99.5 degrees.  One health official told CBS News that ‘somebody dropped the ball.’  Vinson is the second Dallas nurse to become infected after treating a Liberian man who died of Ebola last week.”

http://www.wbtw.com/story/26799067/cdc-cleared-now-ebola-infected-nurse-for-air-travel-with-a-fever

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Robert Parry: Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?

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“The mainstream news media’s reaction to ‘Kill the Messenger’ has been tepid, perhaps not surprising given that the MSM comes across as the film’s most unsympathetic villain as it crushes journalist Gary Webb for digging up the Contra-cocaine scandal in the mid-1990s after the major newspapers thought they had buried it in the 1980s.  The drug lords show some humanity and even honesty as they describe how they smuggled drugs and shared the proceeds with the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, Reagan’s beloved ‘freedom fighters.’  By contrast, the news executives for the big newspapers come across as soulless careerists determined to maintain their cozy relations with the CIA’s press office.”

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/11/can-msm-handle-the-contra-cocaine-truth/

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Billions set aside for post-Saddam Iraq turned up in Lebanese bunker

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“More than $1bn earmarked for the reconstruction of Iraq was stolen and spirited to a bunker in Lebanon as the American and Iraqi governments ignored appeals to recover the money, it has been claimed.  Stuart Bowen, a former special inspector general who investigated corruption and waste in Iraq, said the stash accounted for a significant chunk of the huge sums which vanished during the chaotic months following the 2003 US-led invasion.  Bowen’s team discovered that $1.2bn to $1.6bn was moved to a bunker in rural Lebanon for safe keeping – and then pleaded in vain for Baghdad and Washington to act, according to James Risen, a journalist who interviewed Bowen.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/iraq-bilions-iraq-lebanese-bunker

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Who’s Funding ISIS? Wealthy Gulf ‘Angel Investors,’ Officials Say

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“A small but steady flow of money to ISIS from rich individuals in the Gulf continues, say current and former U.S. officials, with Qataris the biggest suppliers. These rich individuals have long served as ‘angel investors,’ as one expert put it, for the most violent militants in the region, providing the ‘seed money’ that helped launch ISIS and other jihadi groups. The U.S. believes ISIS is taking in about $1 million a day from all sources. The largest source of cash now, say U.S. officials, is oil smuggling along the Turkish border, with ISIS leaders willing to sell oil from conquered Syrian and Iraqi fields for as little as $25 a barrel, a quarter of the going world price.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/whos-funding-isis-wealthy-gulf-angel-investors-officials-say-n208006

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Jim Rogers says Korea to unify within 5 years

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“I wanted to go to Rason because that is where the Russians just rebuilt the railroad across Siberia into Rason and that is where they are rebuilding the port. Rason is going to become the most important port in Asia in the next decade or two. If you put goods on the train in Rason, they get to Berlin two weeks earlier [than the current alternative]. Putin knows this, the Koreans know this, the Chinese just put in a railroad across China and Kazakhstan to get things to Europe much faster so geography is changing as we speak. You wouldn’t know it if you watch (American TV).  I went to the market, you could get anything. Stuff that I don’t even have myself.”

http://www.futuresmag.com/2014/10/10/rogers-says-korea-to-unify-within-5-years

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Go East, Canadian Crude

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“Canada’s west coast should be the point of departure for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and crude oil destined for Asia. But given the ongoing political clown show in British Columbia, Alberta-based producers are starting to look east as well.  Earlier this week Canadian oil major Suncor Energy Inc transported 700,000 barrels of Western Canada Select (WCS) crude by rail to a port near Montreal. From there, it will be shipped to Italy, via the Saint Lawrence River, which ultimately connects with the Atlantic Ocean. Next month, Enbridge Inc is expected to complete the reversal of its Line 9B pipeline, bringing up to 300,000 more barrels a day to the Saint Lawrence.”

http://www.investingdaily.com/21240/go-east-canadian-crude-2/

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China’s Footprint in U.S. Oil: A State-by-State List [2012]

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“China is gathering oil and gas assets across the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reports today. State-run giants Cnooc and Sinopec are scooping up minority stakes and signing joint-ventures, to the tune of $17 billion in U.S. and Canadian deals since 2010, to feed the energy thirsty nation. Here’s a list of the assets, by state, that China’s energy giants have bought.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/06/chinas-footprint-in-us-oil-a-state-by-state-list/

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