NC Renegades

Australia on Monday issued a blanket ban on visas from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa to prevent the disease reaching the country, becoming the first rich nation to shut its doors to the region.

Australia has not recorded a case of Ebola despite a number of scares, and conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott has so far resisted repeated requests to send medical personnel to help battle the outbreak on the ground.

The decision to refuse entry for anyone from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, while touted by the government as a necessary safety precaution, was criticized by experts and advocates as politically motivated and shortsighted.

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This week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) admitted that Ebola can travel through the air in aerosols, but claims that it can never go more than 3 feet.

Let’s check their math …

CDC (like the World Health Organization) admits that Ebola can be spread through sneezing or coughing.

But the CDC itself admits that flu droplets can travel 6 feet.

Mythbusters demonstrated that sneezes can nail people some 17 feet away:

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When we approach Intelligence, it’s important to consider the full spectrum of relevant information.  Errors of omission are still errors.  Collecting some information is good; collecting as much relevant information as possible is better.

So when we consider Intelligence collection at the community or county level, we ought to be methodical and thorough in our generation of Intelligence Requirements and tasking/directing collection.  To do that, we use a the acronym, BETSTMAPS.  You must incorporate the BESTMAPS acronym in your Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield/Community.

We start with Biographical.  Biographical information includes names and identities, education and work history, familial relationships, and geographical and other associations.  It’s how we learn about the key human terrain in our Area of Operations (AO).  Remember, there’s physical terrain – things like mountains and rivers – and there’s the human terrain.  The human terrain includes the demographics, as well as those who influence and how they influence our AO.

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The graphic above came from an article on Zerohedge concerning the decreased buying power of the American middle class. But the reality is that Americans values “things” over freedom.

Americans will not give up their beer and television. Even if the price is their own Liberty. Apathy is a powerful drug but tyrants are merciless when their plans are enacted. What would happen if the entitlement checks did not come? What would happen if only taxpayers were allowed to vote in fair elections? What would happen if we had the same values and Sacred honor as our forefathers?

David DeGerolamo

U.S. troops returning from West Africa are being placed under isolation at a base in Italy, even though none of the soldiers has symptoms of Ebola, as a precaution to prevent the potential spread of the virus, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The U.S. Army has isolated a dozen soldiers returning from West Africa, including Major General Darryl Williams, who oversaw the military’s initial response to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, the Pentagon said.

​​Dozens more troops would be isolated in the coming days as they rotate out of Liberia and Senegal, where the U.S. military has been building infrastructure to help health authorities treat Ebola victims, the Pentagon said.

‘Out of an abundance of caution, the army directed a small number of personnel, about a dozen, that recently returned to Italy, to be monitored in a separate location at their home station of Vicenza,’ Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters.

“They’re not allowed to leave,” Warren said, describing the precautions as “enhanced monitoring.”

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