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To be fair it is a two part problem and opening up the borders to anyone who wanted to come in this past summer and fall was a big part of the problem in my opinion.
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ABC News: A New York college student with measles boarded an Amtrak station from Penn Station earlier this week and may have exposed other passengers to the contagious virus.
"In order to prevent the spread of illness, DOH is advising individuals who may have been exposed and who have symptoms consistent with measles to call their health care providers or a local emergency room BEFORE going for care. This will help to prevent others at these facilities from being exposed to the illness," said a statement from the New York State Department of Health.
-- Measles is one of the most contagious viruses in existence and will infect an estimated 90 percent of people who not immune to the virus. The incubation period is on average 14 days, but an infected person can be contagious up to four days before they start to show symptoms.
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--- Just a day ago a niece went to a sewing class at a community center in the Denver area. A room next to the classroom had been darkened & there was a pile of coats or blankets in the center. Before entering that area, niece asked what was going on. One of her potential classmates had brought a child, a primary grade schooler with a "fever" to the center - so she said - and mother created a DIY sick room next to the class room for her precious pearl. The clothing/blankets were piled on the child to keep him/her warm.
---There were dozens of people of all ages at the center at this time. My niece was outraged by this lack of common sense & disrespect for public health, was extremely vocal about it. She left before going any further. Later she learned the mother & child in question also left the center before the class started.
This is what progressive leftism gets you: idiots.
not so much religious as it is a belief that "they raise their children in a natural, organic environment" and are suspicious of pharmaceutical companies and big business.
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The idiots will die and so will their children to be followed by innocent children who happen to come in sufficiently close contact with the new Generation of Idiots.
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"not so much religious as it is a belief that.." &c. The mental mechanism so described is exactly a religious belief, but is combined with a self-righteous pride in 'not being religious'.
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Had measles as a child. (Also, mumps, chicken pox, rubella, whooping cough, & others I probably forgot. People who won't vaccinate are IDIOTS.)
Hope I'm still immune.
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Kelly McMenimen of Marin County, Calif., said she decided not to vaccinate her son Tobias, saying she did not want “so many toxins” entering his body
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In part the problem is that governments and the medical establishment promote vaccines as protecting the vaccinated individual.
In reality, at least as important, is protecting everyone else, vaccinated or not.
Surprisingly, measles is still endemic in most of Europe, including the UK with about a thousand cases a year (UK). Doubtless concentrated in certain communities.
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"Surprisingly, measles is still endemic in most of Europe,"
In German speaking countries the ideas of Anthroposophy are hugely influential among the upper class. This goes far beyond the relatively small circle of dedicated followers.
Anthroposophic medicine rejects immunization and so institutions guided by anthroposophic ideas are reservoirs for diseases like measles.
This is an example of a strictly upper/educated class cultural pathology that has deleterious effects on society as a whole.
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I can still remember how sick i was with measles at about age 6 and being kept in the dark for a week. Having bacterial/ viral sepsis in 1997 was nowhere near as bad.
my wife and i are getting shots for everything going at a local Walgreens, and mmr was first priority. Next up, shingles. Its a whole new ball game.
BERBERA, Somalia(land) -- Somaliland's separatist administration in northwestern Somalia has denied UN Monitors access to Berbera seaport according to independent sources, Garowe Online reports.
UN experts along with Ethiopian consular officials were refused entry into the port after a ship allegedly carrying weapons docked a few days ago.High-ranking officials in Somaliland government reportedly issued the order to bar visiting UN monitors from the seaport.
Somaliland Interior Minister Ali Mohamed Waran Adde earlier last week told the media that MV Shakir was loaded by local businessmen from Port Sudan but later he confirmed the security officials found three armored vehicles, 10 AK47 rifles and ammunition inside the ship. Ever since in depth investigations have been underway and no findings were released to the media.
So is someone canoodling with the Shaboobs or is the Somaliland National Militia doing an upgrade...
UN Security Council imposed arms embargo on Somalia in 1992 following the ouster of long standing military government.
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Too bad they're not what I think of as Monitors. Then the shelling could commence
When the price of oil is down, you gotta find another way to finance that princely lifestyle (and jihad, of course).
[AnNahar] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... looked to have won a drawn-out bid to buy London's Canary Wharf on Wednesday after the owner of the landmark office quarter said its main shareholders favored a sale.
The board of Songbird, which controls 69 percent of Canary Wharf Group, appeared to concede defeat despite stressing that the offer worth £2.6 billion ($4.0 billion, 3.5 billion euros) remained undervalued.
"It is now the board's understanding that each of the major shareholders intends to accept the offer," Songbird said in a statement.
It added however that "the board... continues to believe that the offer does not reflect the full value of the business, its unique operating platform and its prospects".
Sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), in partnership with U.S. group Brookfield Property Partners, had in December proposed an improved "final offer" for Songbird.
The cash bid, pitched at 350 pence per share, compared with a previous 295-pence-per-share or £2.2-billion offer that was rejected last November.
QIA, which owns Harrods department store and the Shard skyscraper in London, already has a 28.6-percent stake in Songbird.
Brookfield owns 22 percent of Canary Wharf Group.
The former Docklands area of London where Canary Wharf is located was re-developed in the 1980s after having fallen into disrepair when the city's status as a trading hub declined. The area is now a magnet for huge building projects.
QIA owns also significant stakes in British supermarket chain Sainsbury's and the London Stock Exchange, as well as half of the Olympic Village apartments in the capital's Stratford district.
[Dhaka Tribune] BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... said she is stunned and she has lost her speech to react with the recent incidents.
The authorities have disconnected the power supply and snapped all kinds of voice and data connections to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office in an apparent bid to force her to call off a crippling anti-government transport blockade.
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By Chris Covert
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Rebel forces claim that they have 8,000 Ukrainian troops surrounded at the Donetsk town of Debaltsevo, and are currently strengthening the ring around the Ukrainian troops, according to Russian language news sources, and videos.
Donetsk military spokesman Lt. Colonel Eduard Basurin said Friday that the main route into the "cauldron" at Debaltsevo is now fully under rebel control, thereby shutting 8,000 Ukrainian troops off from supplies.
The current rebel offensive comes literally on the heels of a successful defensive operation after the Donetsk Airport fell to rebels less than three weeks ago. Subsequent Ukrainian counterattacks pressed just after the fall of the airport cost the Ukrainian Army dearly.
Despite that rebel victory, the two main goals of those operations, the cessation of Ukrainian artillery fire into residential zones, and forcing Ukrainian Army units out of two key towns near Donetsk city have failed.
The Debaltsevo operation began only a week ago as a number of attacks on the salient, formed last August when Ukrainian forces attempted a large encirclement battle, which failed when the southern pincher became bogged down in Ilovaisk. The resulting "cauldron" in Ilovaisk was liquidated over a number of days, some sources say, by a total of as many as 4,000 Ukrainian troops.
Only two days ago, rebel forces attacked and took two localities near the "mouth" of the salient at Krasny Pakhar and Тrоiske, and were awaiting Ukrainian counterattacks.
But the battle was actually several kilometers south of Krasny Pakhar and much closer to Debaltsevo, in fact on the town's very doorstep. The day before, battles raged at Uglegorsk, and on the eastern outskirts of Debaltsevo -- as well as at Krasny Pakhar -- but on Friday the fighting shifted to other localities nearer to Debaltsevo.
On Friday, rebel forces announced that they have achieved an "operational encirclement" of Ukrainian troops inside the Debaltsevo salient.
Reports among rebel media conflict with official versions, however, with such military journalists as Boris Rozhin saying that the "lid on the cauldron" has not been shut. A graphical map posted on Boris's Live Journal site shows the Debaltsevo salient essentially still open for resupply and reinforcement by the Ukrainians. In fact, even current graphics supplied by Russian military journalists show that the main route, M04, into Debaltsevo is not physically occupied by any rebel force.
According to Basruin, the "most intense fighting" has taken place in Debaltsevo itself, and in the Chernukhino and Kalinovka settlements. He also said that Kalinovka, west of Debaltsevo, has been taken by the rebels, as the Ukrainian Army presses counterattacks at Ugelogorsk.
According to Basurin, rebel forces are going to continue to reinforce the ring around Debaltsevo.
Basurin said the Ukrainians have lost five tanks, seven APCs (BMPs and BTRs), 12 artillery pieces, 97 killed or wounded. And since January 15th, Ukrainian forces have lost 129 tanks, 102 APCs, 71 artillery pieces, 40 automobiles and 1,439 dead. Additionally 28 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered to rebel forces.
It should be noted that even though the supply route into the city has not been physically occupied, rebel forces are within three kilometers from physically occupying the road near Debaltsevo.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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I think that once the Donbas rebels manage to physically seal off Ukrainian forces at Debaltsevo, they will begin a second phase of that operation, and start advancing on Artemovsk to the northwest.
[AnNahar] China's yuan has become the world's fifth most widely used payments currency, with the value of cross-border deals settled in it more than doubling in 2014, data from transactions organization SWIFT showed Wednesday.
The data comes as China looks to make the yuan used more internationally in line with its standing as the world's second-largest economy, while at the same time keeping its value tightly controlled.
The yuan, also known as the renminbi (RMB), overtook the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar to enter the top five of world payment currencies in November, according to a SWIFT statement.
It has climbed eight spots in fewer than two years, having been in 13th place in January 2013.
The yuan's share of global payments by value reached a new high of 2.17 percent in December, SWIFT said, closing in on the Japanese yen's 2.69 percent.
Total yuan payments rose 102 percent last year, the statement added, dwarfing the overall annual rise of 4.4 percent for all currencies.
Some analysts predict the yuan will one day rival the US dollar in international markets.
"It is a great testimony to the internationalisation of the RMB and confirms its transition from an 'emerging' to a 'business as usual' payment currency," Wim Raymaekers, head of banking markets at SWIFT, said in the statement.
The U.S. dollar remains the top payments currency with a share of 44.64 percent last month, followed by the euro (28.3 percent) and the British pound (7.92 percent), SWIFT data showed.
China has set up yuan clearing arrangements with 10 countries and regions and signed currency swap agreements with 28 central banks.
The commerce ministry said last week it will only issue figures for inward and outward investment in yuan, dropping the dollar statistic, a move that the agency acknowledged was partly an effort to push the local currency's greater international role.
Earlier this month, Customs only issued trade values in yuan at its quarterly briefing, with the official dollar amount made available later on its website.
[THEGUARDIAN] Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... has ruled out the prospect of Greece securing further debt cuts from its creditor nations, potentially putting the country's new leftist government on a collision course with Brussels. The German chancellor's uncompromising stance will not be welcomed in Athens, where the new ruling party, Syriza, insists that it will make good on its promises to halve the country's €320bn (£240bn) debt obligations and scrap a range of swingeing budget measures that were imposed in exchange for the loans.
Athens is refusing to cooperate with the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund ‐ the troika of institutions overseeing the loans, which total about 175% of Greece's gross domestic product. Instead its new government is looking to meet with individual creditor nations as it seeks concessions that it claims are vital if Greece is to emerge from years of austerity.
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[SPA.GOV.SA] A day after Greece appeared on a collision course with its creditors, new radical left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tamped down the rhetoric by vowing to pay off debts and not act unilaterally, according to AP. Watch the hands, not the lips. Or in this case the deposit slips.
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who had a tense meeting with Eurogroup leader Jeroen Dijsselbloem in Athens on Friday, has brought forward a trip to Gay Paree, London and Rome to meet his counterparts.
Tsipras says he never intended to act unilaterally and expressed his certainty that Greece and the creditors will reach an agreement.
He also pledged to pay back Greece's debt to the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which, along with the European Commission, form the 'troika' of Greece's creditors.
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Reminds me of a "MURPHY BROWN" episode where the Author of the famed, Vietnam-era counter-culture, Anti-Establishment Liberal-Hippie book
"Technicolor Highway" is discovered by Murph + Gang to be a wealth-centric/oriented,
"Conservative" [GOP-Right] major investor in Defense Industry = Wall Street stocks.
[AnNahar] India on Saturday succeeded for the first time in using a mobile launcher to test-fire a long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead deep inside rival China.
Although Saturday's launch was the third test of the Agni V missile, it was the first time the weapon had been fired from a so-called canister mounted on a truck rather than from a concrete launchpad used in previous trials.
The new delivery mechanism gives the armed forces increased operational flexibility.
"Successful test-firing of Agni V from a canister makes the missile a prized asset for our forces," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter after the test on an island off the eastern state of Orissa.
The Agni V -- developed by India's Defense Research and Development Organisation -- was first tested in April 2012.
Analysts say the Agni V has the range to strike any target on the Chinese mainland, including military installations in the far northeast.
India sees the rocket, which has a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), as a key boost to its regional power aspirations and one that narrows -- albeit slightly -- the huge gap with China's missile systems.
Agni, meaning "fire" in Sanskrit, is the name given to a series of rockets India developed as part of a guided missile development project launched in 1983.
While the shorter-range Agni I and II were mainly developed with traditional rival Pakistain in mind, analysts say later versions with a longer range reflect the shift in India's focus towards China.
India and China, each with a population of more than one billion, have prickly relations and a legacy of mistrust that stems from a brief but bloody border war in 1962.
India, the world's biggest arms importer, is in the midst of a $100-billion defense upgrade program.
The new right-wing government has cleared long-delayed projects worth over $16 billion since storming to power at elections in May.
Modi has pushed for greater indigenisation of its defense industry, saying India must build up its military might to the point that no other country "dare cast an evil eye" on the South Asian nation.
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I wonder if O-K were spending so much time over there recently in an effort to ally with('fund') this program. Got to be less expensive than upgrading and retargeting US ICBMs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[SPA.GOV.SA] A day after Greece appeared on a collision course with its creditors, new radical left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tamped down the rhetoric by vowing to pay off debts and not act unilaterally, according to AP.
