Massachusetts General Hospital is treating a patient suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus, Public Affairs Officer Noah Brown has confirmed to Boston.com.
Dr. Paul Biddinger, Director Of Emergency Preparedness at MGH, said the patient involved in the suspected Ebola case meets the CDC definition of a “person under investigation” to possibly have the ebola virus.
“This definition involves the possibility of travel to where Ebola is present, the possibility of exposure to that virus, and symptoms that are consistent with that virus,” Biddinger said at a press conference Tuesday evening.
The patient is in stable condition and good spirits, according to Biddinger. He declined to answer specific questions about the patient—including travel history, potential exposure to others, and location in the hospital—citing an inability to comment on individual patient details. Biddiger did say, though, that there is not a reason for panic.
Our Declaration of Independence says the Creator God endowed us with Rights, and that the purpose of government is to “secure” the RightsGod gave us.
What does this mean? How does a government go about “securing” God given rights?
I will show you.
The miracle of our federal Constitution was that it created a federal government which, by means of exercising the enumerated powers listed in the Constitution, was enabled to “secure” our God given Rights in specific ways.
It isn’t the federal government’s job to secure our God given Rights in all ways, just in the ways appropriate for the national government of a Federation. Our Rights are to be secured in other ways by State governments. 1
The federal government is supposed to secure our right to life by:
Military defense (Art. I, § 8, cl. 11-16);
Laws against piracy and other felonies on the high seas (Art. I, § 8, cl. 10);
Prosecuting traitors (Art III, § 3);
Protecting us from invasion (Art IV, § 4); &
Restricting immigration (Art. I, § 9, cl. 1).
It is supposed to secure our property rights by:
Establishing a money system based on gold & silver and by establishing uniform weights & measures (Art I, § 8, cl 5);
Punishing counterfeiters (Art I, § 8, cl 6);
Establishing bankruptcy courts (Art I, § 8, cl 4);
Issuing patents & copyrights (Art I, § 8, cl 8); and by
Regulating trade & commerce so we can produce, sell, & prosper (Art. I, § 8, cl.3). The original intent of the interstate commerce clause was to prohibit the States from imposing taxes & tariffs on articles of commerce as they were transported thru the States for purposes of buying & selling. Go HERE for the Proof.
And it is supposed to secure our right to liberty by:
Enlarge / Geographic distribution of victims, as determined by the global headquarters of the parent company or organization breached
Cylance
For more than two years, pro-Iranian hackers have penetrated some of the world’s most sensitive computer networks, including those operated by a US-based airline, auto maker, natural gas producer, defense contractor, and military installation, security researchers said.
In many cases, “Operation Cleaver,” as the sustained hacking campaign is being dubbed, has attained the highest levels of system access of targets located in 16 countries total, according to a report published Tuesday by security firm Cylance. Compromised systems in the ongoing attacks include Active Directory domain controllers that store employee login credentials, servers running Microsoft Windows and Linux, routers, switches, and virtual private networks. With more than 50 victims that include airports, hospitals, telecommunications providers, chemical companies, and governments, the Iranian-backed hackers are reported to have extraordinary control over much of the world’s critical infrastructure. Cylance researchers wrote:
Perhaps the most bone-chilling evidence we collected in this campaign was the targeting and compromise of transportation networks and systems such as airlines and airports in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The level of access seemed ubiquitous: Active Directory domains were fully compromised, along with entire Cisco Edge switches, routers, and internal networking infrastructure. Fully compromised VPN credentials meant their entire remote access infrastructure and supply chain was under the control of the Cleaver team, allowing permanent persistence under compromised credentials. They achieved complete access to airport gates and their security control systems, potentially allowing them to spoof gate credentials. They gained access to PayPal and Go Daddy credentials allowing them to make fraudulent purchases and allow[ing] unfettered access to the victim’s domains. We were witnessed [sic] a shocking amount of access into the deepest parts of these companies and the airports in which they operate.
Tuesday’s 86-page report relies on circumstantial evidence to arrive at the conclusion that the 20 or more hackers participating in Operation Cleaver are backed by Iran’s government. Members take Persian handles such as Salman Ghazikhani and Bahman Mohebbi; they work from numerous Internet domains, IP addresses, and autonomous system numbers registered in Iran; and many of the custom-configured hacking tools they use issue warnings when their external IP addresses trace back to the Middle Eastern country. The infrastructure supporting the vast campaign is too sprawling to be the work of a lone individual or small group; it could only have been sponsored by a nation state.
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Cylance researchers said they believe they detected only a fraction of the targets penetrated by Operation Cleaver. With more than two years it has been active, they warned time may be running out.
“We believe that if the operation is left to continue unabated, it is only a matter of time before the world’s physical safety is impacted by it,” they wrote.
The wisdom, facts, and tactics contained in this 20-page booklet are your surefire way to send Barack Obama and his supporters’ heads whirling like a gyroscope.
Why? Because liberals hate facts; liberalism is nothing more than a temper tantrum with a political label. No rational, sane American could ever look at the wasteland that is liberalism and conclude that it produces human flourishing (Detroit anyone?)
That’s why it is your moral duty to piss off liberals. More specifically, it is the calling of every conservative to upend the inane, idiotic policy drivel liberals spew by demolishing their illogic in the most satisfying of ways: by making liberals cry like little girls (transgendered or otherwise).
So sit back, relax, grab a Big Gulp, and learn the 7 Ways to Make a Liberal Cry Like a Little Girl!
Prepare to hear much more of the “retail spending slowed down because the economy is just too strong” excuses today, used most hilariously by the NRF on Sunday to explain the unprecedented 11% collapse in the 2014 4-day holiday weekend spend, when pundits “justify” why Cyber Monday sales were only the latest proof the US consumer – that 70% driver of US GDP – is being crushed day after day, pardon, basking in the warm glow of America’s centrally-planned golden age.
Here are the facts: Internet holiday shopping rose only 8.1% on Cyber Monday yesterday, usually the busiest day for Web shopping as people return to their desks after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend. This was a big miss to expectations, and is less than half then growth posted just last year, when online sales grew at 17.5%, according to IBM.
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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday night condemned a Missouri grand jury’s decision last week to not indict a white police officer for shooting unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
In a series of House floor speeches on the first day back in session since the Thanksgiving recess, lawmakers said the grand jury’s conclusion that there wasn’t enough evidence to indict Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson suggested African Americans didn’t receive the same treatment from the criminal justice system.
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), the CBC’s chairwoman, said it was an “embarrassment” the U.S. still has issues with race relations in 2014.
“The Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Wilson was another slap in our face,” Fudge said. “If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said the outrage over the shooting and the grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson was due to an apparent pattern of white police officers using lethal force against unarmed African American men.
For those who wrongly think that we live in a country governed by the rule of law, I have a section of the “law” as pertaining to immigration (highlights are by me). In our country, some men are created more equal than the rest of us. The rule of man now reigns supreme. When no one is willing to stand up, we get and deserve tyranny.
David DeGerolamo
h/t John P
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Criminal penalties
A)Any person who—
(i)knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;
(ii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
(iii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
(iv)encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or
(v)
(I)engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
(II)aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
