Ebola Outbreak : Teenager In Australia Being Tested For Disease After Developing Fever

Should this case be confirmed Indonesia needs to implement quarantine procedures for all incoming flights from AU; an outbreak here would be catastrophic and unstoppable  

THE INDEPENDENT
By Natasha Culzac
10/26/2014

An 18-year-old woman in Australia is reportedly being tested for Ebola after she arrived from Guinea – one of the worst countries areas in Africa – and developed a fever.

Indonesia must be be vigilant, proactive

She is now under surveillance at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) 11 days after touching down in Queensland and after being in home isolation for that entire time.

The woman alerted authorities of her fever on Saturday and was taken to hospital today, while eight members of her family who also travelled to Australia with her remain in home quarantine.

It is understood that the family has emigrated to Australia from West Africa, where Ebola has killed almost 5,000 people since the beginning of this outbreak, but are not thought to have come into contact with an Ebola patient.

The family had been monitored on arrival due to Guinea “being an area that had a reasonably large numbers of cases”, an Australian health official said.

In a press conference today, Queensland's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Jeanette Young, said: “[The woman] has been in home quarantine since the time she arrived in Queensland”.

According to SBS, Dr Young added: “We'd been notified ... a few days prior to their arrival in the country, so we had processes in place to meet them at the airport.”

The other members of the family – two further adults and six children – are understood to be doing well, while the teenager is apparently not showing any other signs other than fever.

She was not a health worker in her previous home country and the family had emigrated as part of the Federal Government’s humanitarian refugee program, Perth Now reports.

Nobody on her flight to Australia was in danger, health authorities said, because she had not been displaying any symptoms. The results of the test should come back tomorrow.

Meanwhile, an Australian man living in Thailand is being monitored after reportedly travelling home from the Democratic Republic of Congo - where a number of people have died from the disease. He was found to have a high temperature at Bangkok airport and was ordered to stay at home.

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Beheading Carried Out By ISIL Or By The SAS?

IF this is found out to be true and is ever confirmed it will bring down the British government    

NEW EASTERN OUTLOOK
By Christof Lehmann
10/25/2014

Friday, October 3, 2014 ISIL published the fourth video of its kind, showing the alleged beheading of the British citizen Alan Henning. The executioner in all four videos spoke English with a distinct British accent. In June 2012 a senior Whitehall official told The Daily Star that UK special forces and the UK’s foreign intelligence service MI6 are operating in Syria.

The authenticity of the video featuring the beheading of the British aid worker and cab driver Alan Henning could not be independently verified. 

The British Foreign Ministry stated the following Friday evening that it is working at it. US officials could not yet verify the authenticity either. 

The alleged killing of Alan Henning was, however, condemned by officials from all member states of the alliance against ISIL and by the UN Security Council.

Investigating the authenticity and the veracity of the latest video has become virtually impossible for independent media since western nations declared a war against ISIL’s Internet propaganda. The videos, which allegedly have been produced by the terrorist organization ISIL, are edited so as to fade to black before the actual beheading begins. This editing feature may be consistent with the BBC’s and generally accepted European media ethics, but it defeats the very purpose of terrorism. That is, instilling intense emotions of fear and helplessness.

This contradiction and the fact that the executioners, who were dressed in black and masked, spoke English with a distinct British accent led many independent journalists to raise red flags. 

A British linguist who is specialized in researching the acquisition of English as second language said on condition of anonymity that:

“In my opinion, this bloke has been born and raised in the UK. He learned English as first language, and there is no way that he is a first second or third generation immigrant to the UK."

Arguably, it was not the fact that ISIL spreads propaganda, but the fact that independent investigative journalists could come dangerously close to revealing a possible SAS and MI6 operation, could have been the primary reason for banning ISIL propaganda from the Internet.

The beheading of the British aid worker and cab driver Alan Henning coincided with growing public opposition against the UK’s involvement in air raids against alleged ISIL targets in Syria. It is unlikely that Cameron would want to risk a repetition of the defeat he suffered one year ago.

September 29, 2013, the UK parliament voted against the UK’s participation in military strikes against ”the Assad regime”. The Cameron government’s motion to use force against Syria, if necessary, was rejected by 272 votes to 285, a 13 vote majority. 

Several Tory ”rebels” had joined Labour and defeated Cameron’s push for war. A new vote on the same issue was out of the question. The UK’s rejection of strikes against Syria forced the hand of war hawks within the Obama administration to cancel long-planned military strikes against Syria. 

The development could have turned into a serious political quagmire for Obama; had it not been for the fact that Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered a helping hand by convincing Syria that it would be advantageous to accede the OPCW’s Chemical Weapons Convention.

Timing is Everything

In June 2012 a senior Whitehall official admitted that British, French, Turkish, and probably also US and other special forces are operating in Syria. In June and July 2012, some 20,000 mercenaries of the so-called Libyan Brigade launched an attack against Syria across the Jordanian – Syrian border from an area near the town of AL-Mafraq. US special forces, the CIA, DIA, and the intelligence services of numerous other nations belonging to the anti-Syrian alliance are represented in Al-Mafraq and in part at the Ramtha air base.

It is part of the very nature of special operations that as little as possible becomes known to the public and the enemy. 

What is certain, however, is that UK, US and Turkish special forces are present in Syria and more recently and overtly in Iraq. The presence of Turkish special forces was confirmed by eyewitnesses in March 2014, before and during the attack of the predominantly Armenian – Syrian town of Kessab and the province of Lattakia. 

After Turkey downed a Syrian jet over Syrian territory, only days before thousands of mercenaries swarmed across the border into Syria, one eyewitness reported:

“The jet did not approach the region from the direction of the Turkish border and it was not headed toward the Turkish border when it was struck and burst into flames. It looked like a missile was fired at the plane from the direction of the border”.

A second eyewitness confirmed the presence of Turkish special forces who are fighting alongside the mercenaries who launched the attack against the town of Kessab and Lattakia province, saying:

“We have seen Turkish special forces alongside the terrorists in Kessab area two days ago and others have seen them too. The Turkish military has fired heavy and medium caliber artillery rounds and tank shells at our army positions over the last days, I think the special forces are directing their fire”.

UN Security Council Resolution 2118 contains a provision that would allow the use of force under the UN Charter’s Chapter VII is Syria fails to comply with its obligations under the OPCW’s Chemical Weapons Convention. It would, however, require a new vote at the Security Council which could be vetoed by Russia and China.

Establishing a no fly zone to protect the predominantly Kurdish – Syrian population in eastern Syria without UN Security Council approval is much more simple. Seen from a psychological perspective, the death of one British volunteer aid worker at the hands of ISIL has a significantly greater impact on the British population’s willingness to accept the illegal bombing of targets in Syria than the death or displacement of thousands of Syrians.

ISIL has Served Multiple Purposes

It delivered a pretext for regime change in Iraq and the installation of a more pro-Western government. It weakened the position of Iran. It served as a pretext for the deployment of additional special forces and air raids in Iraq. Most importantly, ISIL and the alleged beheading of Alan Henning served as pretext for bombing targets in Syria without the need to remind the British public about the fact that the UK parliament already voted against it one year ago. Funding ISIL is, indeed, money that is well spent.

ISIL exports stolen Syrian oil, earning an estimated $3 million per day. In April 2013, the EU Foreign Ministers agreed to lift the EU’s ban on the import of Syrian oil from “rebel-held territories”. The ability to launch air strikes in Syria’s oil-rich province of Deir Ez Zour translates into two advantages. The advantage to implement an illegal no-fly-zone without bothering about international law and the UN Security Council. The advantage to decimate mercenary units which are non-compliant with Western ambitions.

The alleged beheading of Alan Henning could not have come at a more convenient time for the government of David Cameron. Whether the ISIL terrorist with British accent is a genuine ISIL mercenary, a member of the SAS, or an MI6 agent is a minor detail. What counts is the emotional impact on the British population which is being railroaded into demanding that the UK gets involved in an illegal war on Syria without remembering that parliament voted against it one year ago.

Double Standards and Achieved Objectives

Were the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom genuinely concerned about the death of journalists and aid workers, one could argue, that they would be as concerned about the assassination of journalists like Maya Nasr, Yara Abbas, and Serena Shim. Maya Nasr was shot and killed by a sniper in Damascus in September 2012. Nasr, who reported for Al-Alam and PRESS TV was investigating the release of terrorism convicts from Turkish prisons to fight in Syria when he was murdered.

In May 2013 Yara Abbas, who reported for the privately owned Syrian TV channel Al-Ikhbariya, was murdered en route to a meeting with senior associate fellow at Oxford University’s St. Anthony College, Sharmine Narwani. Abbas had been embedded with the Syrian Arab Army for nine days and could have reported about the transgressions committed by the foreign-backed “opposition”.

In October 2013, the U.S.-American correspondent for PRESS TV in Turkey, Serena Shim, died in a car crash after reporting about the situation at the Syrian – Turkish border and the U.S. and UK air strikes on Ayn Al-Arab a.k.a. Kobane. Colleagues of Serena Shim would report that Turkey’s intelligence service MIT had accused her of spying and that she was very worried before she died in the car crash.

None of these deaths were debated by the UK parliament, the U.S. Senate or by the US or UK administrations. Media coverage in Western mainstream media was non-existent or negligible, while the beheading of Scottloff, Foley and Henning made the headlines.

These beheadings, whether they were real or not, have successfully vilified and demonized ISIS while it, for all intends and purposes still receives covert support from Saudi Arabia, the USA and the UK or rogue networks embedded in these countries political systems and in their intelligence services. The use of this demonization and propaganda campaign served as justification for bombing raids in Syria, in violation of international law and Syrian sovereignty. The U.S. and UK had jointly carried out some 80 air raids which have proven largely ineffective. Two air drops of weapons to the PKK associated Syrian Kurdish YPG ended up in the hands of ISIS groups who were attacking Ayn Al-Arab. Such “mistakes” don’t only arm ISIS. They also served as a pretext for calls on expanding the UK’s involvement in the illegal air raids in Syria and they were used for renewed calls for boots on the ground in Syria.

Considering all of the above as circumstantial evidence that could be brought before a court of law, or a public inquiry, there is reason to call for full and transparent investigations into the beheading of Allan Henning, Steven Scotloff, James Foley. The most plausible utility of the murders, whether real or unreal, is the justification of illegal acts of aggression against Syria. Considering that as premise for an investigation or prosecution, the prime suspects would have to be found within the MI6, the CIA, the Turkish MIT, or any NATO members special forces.

Dr. Christof Lehmann an independent political consultant on conflict and conflict resolution and the founder and editor in chief of nsnbc, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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White House Fake Emergency Alert Causes Panic In U.S.

"Mainstream media" frauds CNN and Fox "News" now playing the fake terror game for all it is worth to keep ratings maxed out, hyping fear and panic to new levels and then backing off when it begins to effect the bottom line of their corporate masters by causing real panic  

PRESS TV
10/25/2014

Fake emergency alert messages on US TV and radio stations have sparked fear of an imminent threat possibly from Ebola or the ISIL terrorists, a report says.

The fake emergency alert announcement appeared across televisions in Michigan, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, and possibly other states, on Friday, claiming to come from the White House, the Hill reported on Saturday.

The message read: "This station has interrupted its regular programming at the request of the White House to participate in the Emergency Alert System." 

However, no real alert message followed.

The radio and TV stations do not have the power to interrupt or dismiss the Emergency Alert signal as it is automatically sent by the federal government.

Later, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) blamed the matter on a radio broadcast that set off the alerts due to a glitch in the system.

“There was an inappropriate playing of the national emergency alert notification tones on a syndicated radio broadcast,” said FEMA spokesman Rafael Lemaitre. “Certain alerts, like the one broadcast today, are designed to be automatically picked up and rebroadcasted by other radio and TV station. 

FEMA and the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) are currently working with broadcasters to determine the full scope of the situation.”

Frothing at the mouth, illiterate Fox "News" propagandist Leland Vittert hypes bogus "ISIS chemical attack" to keep ratings jacked to the max; will the public take seriously a "news" organisation that can't even hire literate copy editors?  (Copy error caught by a non-native English speaker in INDONESIA)

In December 2011, an unannounced test of emergency alert system caused panic in New Jersey after some were told they had to “take shelter” as a “civil emergency” was underway.

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Obama Insists : No U.S. Ground Combat Troops In Iraq

THIS was one month ago, and now we have our first dead Marine in yet another bogus "war" against a CIA created and financed enemy armed with AMERICAN WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS: Obama, Hagel, Dempsey, JCS will ALL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE BY MARINES    

USA TODAY
By David Jackson
09/17/2014

President Obama doubled down Wednesday on an increasingly questioned pledge: There will be no U.S. ground combat troops back in Iraq.

"I will not commit you, and the rest of our armed forces, to fighting another ground war in Iraq," Obama told troops at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla.

After a briefing with military leaders at CENTCOM, Obama said forces in Iraq and Syria must fight ground battles against the Islamic State, a jihadist group also known as ISIL and ISIS.

Obama also said the United States — which is conducting airstrikes in Iraq and planning them in Syria — will be joined by a coalition of other nations under threat by the Islamic State.

"This is not and will not be America's fight alone," Obama said.

The renewed pledge of no U.S. combat troops came amid some skepticism over whether the United States can follow through on a plan that relies on Iraqi and Syrian forces to roll back the Islamic State.

Lance Corporal Sean P. Neal of Riverside California killed in Iraq on Thursaday; Fox "News" murdering cowards have been continually screeching for "boots on the ground" in Iraq and Syria and are RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THIS MARINE

Robert Gates, former Defense secretary for Obama and predecessor George W. Bush, has questioned whether the president can achieve his goal of defeating the Islamic State without U.S. ground forces.

"They're not gonna be able to be successful against ISIS strictly from the air, or strictly depending on the Iraqi forces, or the Peshmerga, or the Sunni tribes acting on their own," Gates told CBS This Morning. "So there will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy."

Fox "News" war shill, coward Shep Smith

Gates also told CBS that Obama is doing himself a disservice by echoing his pledge against combat troops.

"I think that by continuing to repeat that, the president in effect traps himself," Gates said.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in congressional testimony Tuesday: "To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the president."

Dempsey and administration officials stressed that Dempsey supports the plan as-is and was answering hypothetical questions from lawmakers. His comments referred to U.S. advisers who will work with Iraqi forces, not U.S. ground combat units.

Tamping down questions about a mission expansion, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama would not even "review or consider" options that include U.S. combat troops.

Fox war whore Gretchen Carlson

Obama campaigned for the White House — twice — on pledges to wind down and end wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The administration's plan against the Islamic State, unveiled last week, relies on training Iraqi and Syrian forces to take the ground fight to the Islamic State. The United States is focusing on airstrikes against IS positions, starting last month in August and perhaps extending to Syria later.

"After a decade of massive ground deployments, it is more effective to use our unique capabilities in support of partners on the ground so they can secure their own countries' futures," Obama told the troops in Tampa. "We'll use our air power ... We will train and equip our partners."

He also said: "The American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. They will support Iraqi forces on the ground as they fight for their own country against these terrorists."

Fox war propagandist, coward Bill O'Reilly

Some lawmakers, particularly Republicans, have questioned whether the plan will be enough, especially without more troops.

"We have made this decision not to have ground troops," said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. "We do not need another half-pregnant war in the Middle East. If it is important enough to fight, it's important enough to win."

Iraq's new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, backed Obama's no-combat position, telling the Associated Press that foreign ground troops are not necessary or wanted in the fight against the Islamic State.

While the Islamic State does not pose an immediate threat to the United States, Obama told the troops at Central Command that "its leaders have repeatedly threatened America and its allies."

The president has deployed some 1,600 advisers to Iraq in advisory and assistance roles, including defense of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the U.S. consulate in Irbil.

Moving forward, the anti-Islamic State plan could involve the covert use of special forces, but that is not something Obama and aides will discuss in public.

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