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Injured pitchers provide risk/reward options for the second half
Joe Pytleski
With the number of players gracing the new 10-day disabled list this season, it's been difficult for fantasy managers to keep a full active roster week in and week out.
Pitching staffs seem especially prone to health issues, and there are a number of hurlers on the DL who might have fallen through the cracks but still carry fantasy relevance. In fact, we've found nearly a whole fantasy staff of pitchers on the DL but slated to come back in the second half of the season.
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That said, each of the following pitchers carries risk, so it is not a given that any can contribute meaningful innings moving forward. However, given their pre-injury skill set and track record, they could represent bargain investments that could pay big dividends once they make it back to the mound.
Each pitcher has an estimated time of arrival (ETA), along with a risk assessment (low, medium, high) based on his current injury, that will help you determine whom to keep an eye on and whom might be best left for someone else.
SP1 — Noah Syndergaard, New York Mets
ETA: Early August
Risk: High
Syndergaard suffered a lat tear in his pitching shoulder in late April after he declined to have an MRI on a hurting biceps. Owners were hoping for more this season, as the 24-year-old was coming off of a career year that included 14 wins and 218 strikeouts in 2016.
While his strikeout rate in 2017 remained intact before the injury, his control had taken a significant step forward; he had only walked two batters in 27 innings. He was getting ground balls at a career-high 58% clip as well.
Despite his skill set, there is considerable risk in counting on Syndergaard moving forward, as lat tears are significant injuries for pitchers that require a long healing process. There is no guarantee that he'll be effective upon his return, so it would be wise to invest elsewhere if the price to acquire him is too high.
SP2 — Garrett Richards, Los Angeles Angels
ETA: Mid-to-late August
Risk: Very High
Richards is still feeling nerve irritation in his biceps, which has only allowed him to pitch 40 innings in the last two seasons. He's hoping for an August return, but the Angels might shut him down if they fall out of the wild-card race.
Before the injury, Richards was throwing 97-mph heat, generating lots of grounders and limiting the long ball. However, it would be surprising to see that version of Richards anytime soon. The veteran hasn't been a top-tier pitcher since 2014, so expecting any meaningful contribution at this point is wishful thinking. He remains a strong pass.
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SP3 — Aaron Sanchez, Toronto Blue Jays
ETA: Early July
A middle finger blister is the culprit for Sanchez this time, though this latest setback is his third DL stint this season.
The young right-hander was coming off his most impressive season in 2016, when he tossed nearly 200 innings, struck out 161 batters and was one of the best ground-ball artists.
He hasn't pitched as well this season, but with the Blue Jays playing better of late, Sanchez will be called upon to keep them in the wild-card hunt. With a career 2.90 ERA in the AL East, Sanchez is a middle-of-the-rotation fantasy asset when healthy. Unfortunately, as Rich Hill owners have realized, blister issues tend to linger, and three DL stints this season raise the risk a bit for Sanchez being productive in the second half.
SP4 — Drew Smyly, Seattle Mariners
Risk: Medium-High
(ED. NOTE: This article that also appeared in the June 28 issue of USA TODAY Sports Weekly went to press before the Mariners announced on Wednesday that Smyly would undergo season-ending elbow surgery.)
Smyly's biggest contribution in 2017 was a brilliant outing against Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic in which he struck out eight batters (including Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and Rougned Odor) in just under five innings.
Unfortunately, he landed on the DL with an elbow injury shortly thereafter and has stayed there. The veteran southpaw was coming off a disastrous 2016, and his WBC performance gave a faint glimmer of hope that he was about to turn the page to begin the season.
While the Mariners brass is hoping Smyly will provide meaningful innings down the stretch, it is unlikely to think the WBC version of Smyly will surface and log effective innings for a fantasy rotation moving forward.
SP5 — Carlos Rodon, Chicago White Sox
ETA: Late June
Rodon's return to the mound is imminent. Incremental gains in strikeout and walk rates in 2016 mean that the 24-year-old can still take the next step forward in his development with a good second half.
There's a strikeout per inning potential here, and if he can curb the long ball, his electric fastball/slider combination should be an effective weapon down the stretch. However, Rodon has spent 2017 dealing with bursitis, which is inflammation and irritation of the lubricating sac (bursa) around the shoulder or elbow joint.
The risk of further injury comes from repetitive arm motions that can exacerbate the problem, and Rodon's extensive usage in college didn't help matters. Despite the considerable upside of the hard-throwing lefty, the risk is palpable.
RP1 — Zach Britton, Baltimore Orioles
Risk: Low
Britton has been one of the best closers in the game since 2014, punctuated by a 47-save (0.54 ERA) season in 2016. Unfortunately, a strained left forearm has kept him sidelined since early in the season.
His velocity was down a tick from last year before he went on the DL, so it's reasonable to expect the strikeouts to be more "above average" than "elite," but good control and a ton of ground balls (over 75% since 2014) make Britton an effective closer. In his last rehab outing, Britton was throwing 94-95 mph, but there have been no reported setbacks with the forearm. Expect Britton to return to top-tier closer status after the All-Star break.
RP2 — Nate Jones, Chicago White Sox
Jones is scheduled to return soon from nerve inflammation in his elbow. Before he was sidelined, Jones had 15 strikeouts in 12 innings with a career high 54% ground-ball rate.
Many thought that the veteran setup man could naturally fill in should incumbent closer David Robertson depart. That said, Jones is still a good, albeit fragile, pitcher in his own right. He has spent more than 300 days on the disabled list in the last three years, so he remains a high-risk save candidate moving forward.
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Queensland Rental Market Faces Tightest Conditions Since GFC
11 Aug 2020 · 5 min read
"Every Queenslander should have access to a safe, secure and affordable home that meets their needs and supports them to participate in the social and economic life of a vibrant and prosperous State." That's the message from Antonia Mercorella, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) as around 70% of the State's rental market currently faces extremely tight conditions – in fact, the tightest conditions seen in Queensland since the Global Financial Crisis according to the Association's latest quarterly rental vacancy data released today.
"The rental sector plays a critical role in Queensland's housing system and the role and size of our investor market has never been so important," explains Ms. Mercorella. "Any further tightening in rental availability levels will only place additional undue pressures on our housing sector which is why more needs to be done to better support both increased and ongoing property investor activity in the Queensland property market and the contributions they make to the State economy."
With over 36%[1] of Queensland's population renting their home (approximately 1.2 million[2]), the State's regional areas are currently out-performing major metropolitan areas when it comes to rental demand. With 18% of Queensland regions experiencing less than 1% vacancy at present, you'll be hard pressed finding rental accommodation in the likes of Maryborough (0.4%) on the Fraser Coast or Mount Isa (0.5%) in the Gulf Country region – the State's lowest recorded vacancies for the quarter. Other areas under 1% also include Gympie (0.9%) and Rockhampton (0.7%).
With more than two thirds of Queensland experiencing tight rental vacancies, it's also 'slim pickings' across many popular regions including Caboolture (1.2%), Fraser Coast (1.2%), Mackay (1.3%), Sunshine Coast (1.9%) and Townsville (1.7%) while only marginally higher in Cairns (2.4%), Gladstone (2.0%) and Noosa (2.4%).
"It's no surprise that we've seen a shift in our State's rental composition to more affordable rental supplies in outer urban and regional areas during COVID-19. On the plus side it helps break up their mono-tenure and supports more local economies to withstand the pressures of the pandemic we're witnessing in our larger cities," says Ms. Mercorella. "However, such limited rental supplies have the potential to result in poorly matched housing preferences and impact the urban spatial structure and functioning of these same regions – such as transport costs, labour markets and access to services and amenities. It also shows that there's a decline in government investment in social housing with more low-income renters in the market."
A lack of investment over the prior two decades means social housing is available mostly to those with the most complex and urgent needs. Furthermore, the State Government's current 2017-2027 housing strategy envisages greater movement of lower income households from social housing into the Queensland rental market.
"While there's evidence of longer term renting of 10 or more years and some households facing the prospect of a lifelong tenure in this sector, what this suggests is that our rental market has changed from its historical role as a transitional housing sector for people moving into home ownership or social housing to a long-term housing sector for a significant number of Queensland households. It's for these reasons rental vacancies can actually act as a barometer that measures the health of our property market," further explains Ms. Mercorella.
Vacancy rates also can and do vary widely on a suburb level too. For example, as the outer regions of our capital city currently highlight tight rental stock at a mean of 1.7%, fluctuations are more pronounced from region to region – Ipswich (1.9%), Logan (2.2%), Moreton Bay (1.4%) and Redland City (1.3%). Meanwhile, inside Brisbane's 5km city circle the mean vacancy is 3.9% – the State's only 'weak' rental market for the quarter. However, when you drill down a little further into individual suburbs, postcode 4000 shows significantly higher vacancy levels (13%) versus surrounding postcodes including 4005 (New Farm, Teneriffe – 2.6%), 4006 (Bowen Hills, Fortitude Valley, Herston, Newstead – 7.9%), 4059 (Kelvin Grove, Red Hill – 4.9%), 4064 (Milton, Paddington – 3.3%) and 4101 (South Brisbane, Highgate Hill, West End – 9.2%).
"You're not buying into a city, you're buying into a suburb, so you need to understand that particular suburb's vacancy rate now and in the future," explains Ms. Mercorella. "For example, in Brisbane CBD we know the rental market has been hit harder due to the high number of renters facing financial stress due to change or loss of employment, a reduction in international tertiary students as well as permanent and temporary migrants, and a significant shift in short-term lets over to the longer-term rental market. It's therefore likely we'll see rents drop in the inner Brisbane areas which in turn will result in tenants eventually returning to the city. However, much of it will also depend on the commercial and retail sector's ability to rebound. It's very much a 'watch this space' situation unlike anything we've ever experienced."
About The REIQ: The Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is the state's peak professional association for real estate practitioners across the state. The Association's purpose is to make important contributions to government policy direction, industry research and development, tailored educational programs and training, and the promotion of industry standards.
*The REIQ calculates the vacancy rates for the largest governmental areas and regions in Queensland. The calculation is based upon all residential rentals as at the end of each quarter period, as submitted by real estate agents. The REIQ classes rental markets into three categories: weak, healthy, and tight. These rental markets are classified according to their vacancy rates: 0-2.5% = tight; 2.5-3.5% = healthy; and, 3.5% and above = weak.
Media enquiries: Olivier Björksäter-Bleylock T: 0417 623 723 E: objorksater@reiq.com.au
[1] ABS: Survey of Income & Housing (June 2018)
[2] ABS: 3101.0 – Australian Demographic Statistics (Dec 2019)
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African Leaders Come to Connect
Bishop Catherine Mutua and Stanley Gitari from the Kenyan Methodist Church and Maua Methodist Hospital will be in Oregon to participate in jurisdictional Volunteer in Mission (VIM) training and meet with past and future VIM team members.
Teams from the Oregon-Idaho Conference have been partnering with the Kenya Methodist Church since 2006 to work with Maua Methodist Hospital, build homes for AIDS/HIV orphan families, build school classrooms, provide computers, and support other medical and educational programs. In 2018 the Annual Conference Session dedicated the offering from the commissioning worship service to Maua Methodist Hospital.
Both Kenyans will be at the Alton L. Collins Retreat Center as part of a Volunteer in Mission Training event on Monday, Oct. 8. An evening program focusing on volunteer work in Kenya begins at 7:00 p.m. No advance registration is required. Directions are available on the retreat center website.
Bishop Catherine will be sharing about her work in the Meru area of Kenya on Saturday, October 6 at Albany UMC from 10 to 12 p.m. The time to anyone interested in connecting with Bishop Catherine or learning more about Kenya. Light refreshments will be available. Albany UMC is located at 1115 28th Ave SW, in Albany, Oregon (541-928-3505).
Bishop Catherine will be preaching at Christ UMC in Cedar Mills, on Sunday, October 7 at 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. The church is located at 12755 NW Dogwood St., Portland Oregon.
In addition, an open reception will be held at the home of Karen and Greg Nelson Sunday afternoon, October 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. for Bishop Catherine. For more details about Sunday afternoon, contact Karen Nelson at pastorkaren@gknelson.net.
Stanley Gitari will be sharing about the work of Maua Methodist Hospital at two locations.
On Wednesday, October 10 Gitari will be at Rose City Park UMC at 11:00 a.m., followed by a salad pot luck lunch. Rose City Park is located at 5830 NE Alameda St., Portland, OR. Contact Chris Dole at justmechriss@yahoo.com for more information.
On Thursday, October 11, the Newberg UMC United Methodist Women will host Gitari at an open program at 1:00 p.m. Newberg UMC is located at1205 Deborah Rd, Newberg, OR.
Bishop Catherine Kagwiria Mutua is the Bishop of the Kaaga Synod of the Methodist Church in Kenya. She is the first Kenyan woman bishop in all mainstream churches in Kenya. She is a graduate of Kenya Methodist University (KEMU) with degrees in Theology, Education and Counseling. She has pastored churches in Kenya since 1997. She is married to the Reverend Jason Mutua and they have three children.
Kaaga Synod is in Meru County and has 27 circuits under it and a Mission in Central Kenya.
Stanley Gitari and his wife Mary have worked at Maua Methodist Hospital for 27 years. In 1985, they graduated from the Maua Methodist Hospital School of Nursing. They traveled to Oklahoma for further schooling, earning master's degrees. After their return from Oklahoma, they went back to MMH where Stanley became the director of community health. Stanley works with the palliative care program, AIDS orphan's program, numerous community outreach efforts and the Volunteer in Mission teams from the U.S. He is dedicated to empowerment programs which bring wholeness to communities.
His devotion to community health has given rise to a wide array of mission opportunities for volunteer teams over the years. Through his guidance, water wells have been rescued, schools have been built, and medical clinics have been developed.


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Leahy, Murray And Welch Reintroduce Legislation To Curtail Warrantless Vehicle Checkpoint Stops And Property Searches Away From The Border
. . . Amends The So-Called 100-Mile "Border Zone" To Limit DHS Vehicle Stops And Warrantless Searches Of People And Property
WASHINGTON (FRIDAY, July 19, 2019) – U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) late Thursday reintroduced their legislation to strengthen privacy protections in the United States by limiting the unreasonably large "border zone." Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced an identical version of the bill in the House of Representatives.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers currently have broad legal authority to stop vehicles without a warrant or even reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing within 100 miles of the border, and to search private land within 25 miles of the border. The 100-mile "border zone" covers a geographic area that includes nearly two-thirds of the population of the United States, including all or virtually all of Florida, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware, along with non-border cities such as Portland, Ore., Spokane, Wash., and even Richmond, Va.
Recently, CBP agents in Vermont set up a checkpoint in South Hero, Vt., miles from the Canadian border. Border Patrol has set up checkpoints along roads in other parts of New England, but this was the first time since 2009 that a checkpoint had been established inland from the international border in Vermont. That checkpoint led to no arrests or property seizures. A second checkpoint in the same location last month resulted in nearly 900 vehicles being stopped and only one arrest, for a visa overstay. Last year, CBP agents asked Amtrak train passengers about their citizenship in White River Junction, Vt., and on separate occasions have boarded Greyhound buses in Spokane, Wash., and at the Burlington, Vt., airport to ask passengers about their citizenship.
The lawmakers note that such an expansive "border zone" raises grave constitutional concerns. And they point out that at a time when CBP is struggling to handle a humanitarian crisis along the Southern border, these ineffective checkpoints are a "terrible" use of resources.
This legislation would reduce the "border zone" from 100 miles to 25 miles in which DHS may make vehicle stops and searches, and from 25 miles to 10 miles for DHS access to private property.
This bill is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Leahy said: "'Show me your papers' are words that you should never hear once inside the United States. Unless a government agent has a legitimate reason to stop and search you — a reasonable suspicion or probable cause — Americans should not be subject to questioning and detention for merely going about their daily lives. The Trump administration cannot be trusted to use its finite resources in a way that protects our civil liberties and reflects our values. Conducting aggressive and far-reaching 'border zone' searches of Americans while there is a humanitarian crisis at our southern border is the wrong choice. This commonsense legislation would require that the Trump administration do better."
Murray said: "No person deserves to be hassled or detained simply because they live or travel near our borders — not in Washington State, or any state in our country. This bill would protect the rights of families and communities who happen to live or travel near our national borders, while still allowing federal law enforcement to do their jobs and keep our borders safe."
Welch said: "We must strike a better balance between protecting our national security and preserving our constitutional rights. A 100-mile unfettered enforcement zone is overly broad and unduly restricts the constitutional rights to privacy and protection against warrantless searches of millions of Americans living in this zone. This commonsense legislation will enable authorities to conduct the important work of protecting our borders while protecting our civil liberties."
The full text of the legislation is available here. A fact sheet on the legislation is available here.


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As a aftereffect of the changes in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recalculated the indexing of HSA amounts for 2018. This re-calculation resulted in a lower HSA addition akin for those with ancestors advantage for 2018. A ample cardinal of HSA beneficiaries absolutely adjourned their accounts at the alpha of the year, alone to acquisition they had over-contributed through no accountability of their own. The rules to aish balance contributions and balance are complicated, and anniversary banned and per paycheck amounts bare to be afflicted for millions of participants.
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AstraZeneca divests rights to Seroquel and Seroquel XR in Europe and Russia
30 October 2019 07:00 GMT
Sale to Cheplapharm supports AstraZeneca's focus on main therapy areas
AstraZeneca has agreed the sale and licence of the commercial rights to Seroquel (quetiapine fumarate immediate release) and Seroquel XR (quetiapine fumarate extended release) in Europe and Russia to Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH (Cheplapharm). Seroquel and Seroquel XR, used primarily to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, have lost their compound patent protection in Europe and Russia.
Ruud Dobber, Executive Vice President, Biopharmaceuticals, said: "Seroquel is an important established medicine and this agreement with Cheplapharm will help ensure continued patient access. It forms part of our strategy of reducing the portfolio of mature medicines to enable reinvestment in our main therapy areas."
AstraZeneca will continue to manufacture and supply Seroquel and Seroquel XR to Cheplapharm during a transition period.
Pursuant to Listing Rule 10.4.1R (notification of class 2 transactions), the gross book value of assets subject to the divestment as at 31 December 2018 was nil. In the year to 31 December 2018, the aggregate pre-tax profits attributable to Seroquel and Seroquel XR in the relevant territories were $86m. The consideration will be paid in cash and the proceeds used for general corporate purposes.
Cheplapharm will make an upfront payment of $178m to AstraZeneca and may also make future sales-contingent payments of up to $61m. Income arising from the upfront and future payments will be reported in AstraZeneca's financial statements within Other Operating Income & Expense. In 2018, Seroquel generated annual product sales of $47m in the markets covered by this agreement, while Seroquel XR generated $61m. The agreement does not impact the Company's financial guidance for 2019. The transaction is expected to complete in the fourth quarter of 2019, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory clearances.
About Seroquel
Seroquel and Seroquel XR are atypical anti-psychotic medicines with antidepressant properties. The main indications for Seroquel are the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Seroquel XR is also approved in some markets for major depressive disorder and generalised anxiety disorder.
AstraZeneca has previously disposed of the rights to Seroquel and Seroquel XR in the UK, Japan and other major international markets.
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas - Oncology, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, and Respiratory. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. Please visit astrazeneca.com and follow the Company on Twitter @AstraZeneca.
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Tag Archives: ZMapp Ebola
September 7, 2014 by craftymcclever
How to Stop Ebola, NATO and the E.U. Try to Deter Russia As Ukraine Signs Ceasefire Deal, NATO Allies Join Forces to Fight Militants as Militants Vow Revenge and the Impact of NO Net Neutrality on the World
The United Nations on Wednesday, said $600 million in supplies were needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,900 people and entered new territory within Guinea, Reuters reports, U.N. says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola as deaths top 1,900. The pace of the infection has accelerated with 400 deaths in the past week, officials reported Wednesday. The current outbreak was first identified in March in Guinea and spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, and Senegal, and has killed more people than all outbreaks since Ebola was first uncovered in 1976. Though there are no approved Ebola vaccines or treatments, Ottawa on Aug. 12 said it would donate 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine being held at Canada's National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg for use in Africa. In a statement, Health Canada spokesman Sean Upton said: "We are now working with the WHO to address complex regulatory, logistical and ethical issues so that the vaccine can be safely and ethically deployed as rapidly as possible. For example, the logistics surrounding the safe delivery of the vaccine are complicated." Human safety trials will begin this week on a vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline Plc and later this year on one from NewLink Genetics Corp. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday said a federal contract worth up to $42.3 million will help accelerate testing for an experimental Ebola treatment being developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. Senior U.N. Coordinator for Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, said the cost for supplies needed by West Africa to control the crisis will cost $600 million which is higher than the $490 million estimated by the WHO last week. Nabarro explained, "We are working intensively with those governments to encourage them to commit to the movement of people and planes and at the same time deal with anxieties about the possibility of infection." Ivory Coast, which closed its borders with Liberia and Guinea last month, said on Tuesday it would open humanitarian and economic corridors to its two western neighbors. With more than 3,500 cases across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) told a press conference in Washington, "This Ebola epidemic is the longest, the most severe and the most complex we've ever seen." While a shortage of equipment and trained staff plague West Africa and the virus has claimed more than 120 healthcare workers, the Liberian government now offers $1,000 bonus to any healthcare workers who will agree to work in Ebola treatment facilities. Meanwhile in Guinea, Aboubacar Sikidi Diakité, head of Guinea's Ebola task force, said: "There has been a new outbreak in Kerouane, but we have sent in a team to contain it." Guinea has recorded 489 deaths and 749 Ebola cases as of Sept.1, and the epicenter has shifted to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. In a television broadcast, Guinean President Alpha Conde said: "Even for a simple malaria (case), you have to protect yourselves before consulting any sick person until the end of this epidemic. We had started to succeed, but you dropped the ball and here we go again." Nigeria, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo , though not linked to the West African cases, have all reported cases of Ebola. Since Ebola was first detected in Congo in 1976, WHO reports more than 20 outbreaks in Africa and 1,590 victims. The WHO warned last week the Ebola epidemic could spread to 10 countries and infect more than 20,0000 people. Dr. Thomas Kenyon, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Centre for Global Health, said on Wednesday: "Guinea did show that with action, they brought it partially under control. But unfortunately it is back on the increase now. It's not under control anywhere." He warns that the longer the disease goes uncontained, the greater the possibility it will mutate with suspected cases of airborne infection already being reported in monkeys in laboratories. In a conference call, Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council, said: "I don't think at this point deploying biological incident response teams is exactly what's needed." Regarding a rapid increase in Ebola treatment centers in affected countries and other required staff and equipment, Smith added: "We will see a considerable ramp-up in the coming days and weeks. If we find it is still moving out of control, we will look at other options." Margery A. Beck reports, US doctor infected with Ebola arrives in Nebraska, the third American aid worker to become sickened with the disease, Dr. Rick Sacra, arrived Friday at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and officials said he will be treated at the hospital's 10 bed special isolation unit on the seventh floor which is the largest of four in the U.S. Sacra delivered babies but was not involved in treating Ebola patients, so how he contracted the disease is unclear. Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Omaha unit, said a team of 35 doctors, nurses and other medical staffers will provide Sacra with basic care, including ensuring he is hydrated and keeping his vital signs stable. He added, "We've been trying to collect as much information on possible treatments as we can." Sacra was in stable condition in Liberia ans was able to board the plane to the U.S. under his own power.
While West Africa fights a microscopic enemy, the U.S., E.U. and other NATO allies try to ensure Ukraine's ceasefire between pro-Russian rebels and the Kiev government remains in place with no inference from Russia. Nataliya Vasilyeva and Peter Leonard report, Ukraine signs cease-fire with pro-Russian rebels, the Ukrainian president declared the ceasefire Friday to end the five month long war in the eastern Ukraine after representatives reached a deal with the Russian backed rebels at peace talks in Minsk. President Petro Proshenko said he ordered government forced to stop fighting at 11 am EDT following a protocol signed by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the rebels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In a statement, Poroshenko said: "Human life is of the highest value. And we need to do everything that is possible and impossible to stop bloodshed and end people's suffering." Heidi Tagliavini of the OSCE told reporters the deal focused on 12 separate points, while Poroshenko said a prisoner exchange would begin Saturday and international monitors would keep watch over the ceasefire. Since April, Moscow backed separatists and government forces have been fighting in eastern Ukraine that has killed nearly 2,600 people, according to U.N> estimates. The rebel leader, Alexander Zakharchenko, said from Donetsk: "The cease-fire will allow us to save not only civilians lives, but also the lives of the people who took up arms in order to defend their land and ideals." However, Igor Plotnitsky, leader of the separatist Luhansk region, told reporters "this doesn't mean that our course for secession is over." A plan approved Friday in Wales by NATO leaders will create a rapid response force with a headquarters in Eastern Europe that could quickly mobilize if an alliance country is attacked. Even though Ukraine is not a member, the entire alliance has been alarmed by Russia's actions in Ukraine causing U.S. and E.U. sanctions to go into effect due to Russia's backing of the rebels. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday from Wales at the NATO summit: "We have to see whether this cease-fire is being applied. Do Russian troops withdraw, so far as they're there? Are there buffer zones and things like that – a lot of things will have to be sorted out. These sanctions certainly could be put into force – this is all in flux – but with the proviso that they can be suspended again if we see that this process really yields results." As of late Friday, Associate Press reporters heard heavy shelling north and east of the key southeastern port of Mariupol suggesting the rebels had partially surrounded the area. Tatyana Chronovil, a Ukrainian activist at a mustering point for the volunteer Azov Battalion on the eastern edge of the city, said, "Mariupol is a strategic point. If we lose it then we could lose the entire coastline, the whole south of Ukraine." Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's national security council in Kiev, said seven servicemen had been killed over the past day, bringing the Ukrainian forces' death toll to 846. As of Saturday, the Associate Press reports Cease-fire in Ukraine appears to hold, National Guard Commander Stepan Poltorak was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying that some shooting took place 45 miniutes after the cease-fire, "as of this morning there haven't been any violations, either from our side, of course, or from the terrorists." Alexander Zakharchenko, top separatist leader from Donetsk, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the ceasefire had been violated by two rounds of shelling in Amvrosiivka, 50 miles southeast of Donetsk. Earlier Saturday, the mayor's office in Donetsk said there were no reports of shooting or shelling with some shelling late Friday afternoon.
While battle may be over, the United States and other world leaders are taking on the Islamic State. Reuters reports, Obama To Meet Congressional Leaders On ISIS: Source, U.S. president Barack Obama will meet with four leaders of U.S. Congress Tuesday to discuss rising concerns over the advancement of the Islamic State, a senior congressional source said Friday. Lawmakers return Monday after their five week August recess. The meeting will include Harry Reid, the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, and Mitch McConnell, the chamber's top Republican, as well as John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives and Nancy Pelosi, the House's top Democrat. Julie Pace reports, US and UK seeks partners to go after Islamic State, President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday asked NATO leaders to confront the Islamic State militants who have taken large parts of Syria and Iraq, urging regional partners like Jordan and Turkey to join the effort. IN a joint editorial published as the meeting began, they wrote: "Those who want to adopt an isolationist approach misunderstand the nature of security in the 21st century. Developments in other parts of the world, particularly in Iraq and Syria, threaten our security at home." NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he believed the broader international community "has an obligation to stop the Islamic State from advancing further" and would seriously consider requests for assistance, particularly from the Iraqi government. The Islamic State became an international priority after taking large parts of Syria and Iraq to create a caliphate and is considered more merciless than al-Qaida with intelligence officials warning that the violence could spread beyond its declared borders as hundreds of Westerners join. The U.S. launched airstrikes against militant targets in Iraq last month with Britain joining American forces in humanitarian airdrops to minority populations. The militants' killing of two American journalists inside Syria has raised questions about targeting the group there as well. Beyond direct military action, the White House said it was also seeking commitments from allies to send weapons, ammunition and other assistance to Western-backed Syrian rebels and to Iraqi forces. Pace reports: "Germany moved in that direction Thursday, with the government announcing that it had sent a first planeload of military equipment to the Kurds in Iraq's north, including helmets, protective vests, field glasses and mine-searching devices. The German government also said it had decided to send assault rifles, ammunition, anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles to the Kurdish forces, but it hadn't yet set a date for the arms deliveries." In between sessions on Afghanistan and Ukraine, Obama and Cameron met with Jordan's King Abdullah II Thursday, and both plan to meet Friday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who are both with Obama in Wales, plan to travel to the Middle East next week to rally more support from regional partners. Cameron told the British network ITV: "We need to show real resolve and determination; we need to use every power and everything in our armory with our allies – with those on the ground – to make sure we do everything we can to squeeze this dreadful organization out of existence." Lolita C. Baldor reports, NATO allies agree to take on Islamic State threat, on Friday the U.S. and 10 of its allies agreed that the Islamic State group posed a significant threat to NATO countries and they will take them on by squeezing their financial resources and going after them with military might. Obama said the new NATO coalition will mount a sustained effort to push back the militants.At the summit conclusion, Obama said: "I did not get any resistance or push back to the basic notion that we have a critical role to play in rolling back this savage organization that is causing so much chaos in the region and is harming so many people and poses a long-term threat to the safety and security of NATO members. So there's great conviction that we have to act, as part of the international community, to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL, and that was extremely encouraging. I think it is absolutely critical that we have Arab states and specifically Sunni-majority states that are rejecting the kind of extremist nihilism that we're seeing out of ISIL, that say that is not what Islam is about and are prepared to join us actively in the fight. What we can accomplish is to dismantle this network, this force that has claimed to control this much territory, so that they can't do us harm. They have been, to some degree, outgunned and outmanned. And that's why it's important for us to work with our friends and allies to support them more effectively." In a meeting with the foreign and defense ministers from the coalition countries, Secretary of State John Kerry said: "We very much hope that people will be as declarative as some of our friends around the table have been in order to be clear about what they're willing to commit, because we must be able to have a plan together by the time we come to (the United Nations General Assembly). We need to have this coalesce." Along with the United States, the coalition comprises the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Denmark. One prong of a Western coalition approach would be for nations' law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to go after the group's financing in banks and more informal funding networks; however, U.S. intelligence officials say oil revenue will keep them well funded. NATO agreed to increase cooperation among nations on sharing information about foreign fighters. Denmark's Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said the effort against the militants "is not only about a military effort, it is also about stopping the financial contributions to ISIS, to coordinate intelligence, it is about stopping foreign fighters, young people from our own societies. It is decisive that we get more countries along."
While a solid plan seems to be forming for dealing with ISIS, Somalian government is warning terrorists could strike back after the death of an Islamic Insurgent group who was killed in a U.S. air strike Monday in southern Somalia, the Associated Press reports, Somalia warns of attacks to revenge Godane death. In televised speech Friday night, Gen. Khalif Ahmed Ereg, Somalia's national security minister, said based on credible intelligence that militants plan to attack key targets including medical and educational institutions following the death of Ahmed Abdi Godane. Godane had publicly claimed al-Shabab was responsible for the deadly Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya almost a year ago that left 67 people dead. President Barrack Obama confirmed Friday that Godane was killed by the U.S. airstrike. Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldar report, Al Shabab Leader Ahmed Godane Killed In U.S. Strike: Pentagon, it took the Pentagon four days to conclusively determine that Godane had not survived Monday's strike, according to Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon's press secretary, via written statement. Al-Shabab has not publicly confirmed Godane's death. In a statement Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said, "While an extreme hardcore may fight over the leadership of al-Shabab, this is a chance for the majority of members of al-Shabab to change course and reject Godane's decision to make them the pawns of an international terror campaign." The Somali president said the U.S. operation was carried out "with the full knowledge and agreement of" his government and that Somalis "greatly value the support of our international allies" in the fight against al-Shabab. The Associated Press reports: "Obama, speaking at the conclusion of a NATO summit in Newport, Wales, told reporters the success against al-Shabab should leave no doubt about his determination to degrade and eventually destroy the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. military announced later Friday that a mix of fighter jets, drones, attack planes and bombers launched four airstrikes Thursday and Friday in northern Iraq, destroying a host of Islamic State targets including an observation post, an armed vehicle and three mortar positions." Army Col, Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said, "The individual who takes his place will live in fear." Matt Bryden, the head of Sahan Research in Nairobi, Kenya, said due to Godane weakening and effectively dismantling the al-Shabab council of leaders known as shura, a meeting of regional commanders will have to take place to pick his successor which will be difficult and dangerous to organize. Terrorism analyst J.M. Berger predicted a significant splintering between al-Shabab's domestically focused insurgents and internationally aspiring terrorists. Abdi Aynte, a Somali analyst who runs a Mogadishu-based think tank called the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, predicted that Godane's death "will almost certainly be the beginning of the end of the organization."
While biological and man made wars are continually fought through out the world, the war over who owns the internet has just begun and may lead to catastrophic consequences for internet users. Ryan Gorman reports, The 'Battle for the Net': Companies fighting to save free and open Internet access, several brand name websites are banding together to protest the end of net neutrality which allows equal access to the net. Net neutrality is what keeps the internet free and open from corporate interest, however recent deals by Netflix to secure bandwidth from cable companies are bringing that to an end. Activist group Battle for the Net is organizing a September 10 Internet protest and has been joined by the likes of Etsy, Foursquare, General Assembly Imgur, Kickstarter, Namecheap, Reddit, Vimeo, WordPress and others. The sites are will use animations to simulate the slower loads times on their websites and sevices in a way similar to how activists and experts believe cable companies will if net neutrality ends. "Cable companies want to slow down (and break!) your favorite sites, for profit," Battle for the Net claims on its website. The group is urging people to put these GIFs on websites as well as email regulators and politicians protesting what it says is the end of open and free Internet. The Federal Communications Commission first introduced net neutrality rules in 2010. They require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide fair and equal "lanes" for all web traffic regardless of content. Earlier this year, a U.S. appeals court tossed out this rule that could change the world forever as the court ruled that ISPs are not utilities like phone and electric companies and are free to charge for their services how they see fit. This brought a wave of deals between bandwidth-hungry Netflix and Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and others. Experts claimed immediately after the ruling in a Wall Street Journal report that tiered web access, in which sites who pony up the most money are afforded the fastest loading times, would soon become the norm. The fear is the cost will be passed to the web surfers leading to a barrier to entry for less prosperous people. In a Wired op-ed announcing Etsy's participation in the September 10 protest, site founder and CEO Chad Dickerson wrote that "the FCC has proposed an end to the open Internet… If internet users find it too difficult to load our websites and see our products, it will be impossible for us to grow or succeed. Companies would succeed because of deals struck with cable companies, not because of superior products." That sentiment is being echoed not only in forums and article comments, but also in the more than one million comments sent to the FCC in response to a recent proposal basically bringing an end to net neutrality. The Washington Post reports less than one percent of the comments received support the end of net neutrality with 500,000 coming from individuals concerned about internet access and the rest from foundations, law firms, companies and other organizations.
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Losing the War Against Ebola, ISIS Threat Cast A Heavy Shadow Over NATO Summit and Ukraine Ceasefire Deal Met With Skepticism
On Tuesday, Doctors without Borders said the world is losing the battle against Ebola and is saddened by the fact most people who enter the West African treatment centers go there to die alone. In separate remarks following a United Nations meeting on the matter, the World Health Organization chief said everyone underestimated the crisis that has killed 1,500 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. U.N. officials implored governments worldwide to send medical workers and material contributions. In Liberia, a missionary organization reported that another American doctor has been infected. Doctors without Borders whose treated 1,00 Ebola patients in West Africa since March is overwhelmed, according to the organization's president, Joanne Liu. She called on other countries to contribute civilian and military personnel familiar with biological disasters, AOL reports. At a U.N. forum, Liu explains, "Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered." In Sierra Leone infectious bodies rot on the street, while Liberia had to build a new crematorium instead of Ebola care center, Liu reported. As for countries already involved in the fight, WHO Director Margaret Chan acknowledged and thanks them at the U.N. meeting: "We need more from you. And we also need those countries that have not come on board." President Obama urged West Africans on Tuesday to wear gloves and masks when caring for Ebola patients or burying those who died as this has been one of the ways the virus has spread through the populations. In a brief video message, Obama explained, "You can respect your traditions and honor your loved ones without risking the lives of the living." Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the situation is now the world's first Ebola epidemic, given how widely it is spreading. The latest missionary to contract the disease, a male obstetrician, was not immediately identified by the group Serving in Mission and did not work in the Ebola ward. A Liberian doctor on the treatment team said it was too soon to tell whether he will be evacuated. U.S. offcials on Tuesday announced a $24.9 million 18 month contract with Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. to speed development of ZMapp which will allow a small amount to be used for early stage safety testing while the Department of Health and Human Services works on speeding up production. The outbreak has taken a heavy toll on health care workers and nurses in Liberia and Sierra Leone have gone on strike to demand hazard pay and better protective gear. However, as of Tuesday, the governments report the disputes have been resolved and nurses are back at work. In addition, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warn that food in countries hit by Ebola has become more expensive and will become scarcer due to farmers who can't reach their fields. AOL reports: "Authorities have cordoned off entire towns in an effort to halt the virus' spread. Surrounding countries have closed land borders, and airlines have suspended flights to and from the affected countries. Seaports are losing traffic, restricting food imports to the hardest-hit countries. Those countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – all rely on grain from abroad to feed their people, according to the U.N. food agency. For instance, the price of cassava root, a staple in many West African diets, has gone up 150 percent in one market in Liberia's capital, Monrovia." Vincent Martin, coordinator for the food agency's response to the crisis, said, "Even prior to the Ebola outbreak, households in some of the affected areas were spending up to 80 percent of their incomes on food. Now these latest price spikes are effectively putting food completely out of their reach."
While Ebola ravages West Africa and continues to spread, another kind of disease has continued to spread its message of hate across the Middle East raising international concern and garnering international condemnation from the political arena. Sinan Salaheddin and Diaa Hadid report, Group accuses extremists of war crimes in Iraq, Amnesty International accused the Islamic State extremists on Tuesday of systematic "ethnic cleansing" in northern Iraq. In a new 26 page report, Amnesty said miltants abducted hundreds maybe thousands of women and girls of the Yazidi faith, killed hundreds of Yazidi men and boys and in one incident rounded them up on trucks, took them to the edge of their village and shot them. On Monday, the United Nations' top human rights body approved a request by Iraq to open an investigation into crimes committed by the Islamic State group against civilians, aiming to provide evidence of atrocities in Iraq that could be used in international war crimes prosecution of the group. In Amnesty's report, the advancement of the group has expelled 830,000 people mostly Shiites and tiny religious minorities including Aramaic-speaking Christians, Yazidis, a faith that traces to ancient Mesopotamia, the Shabak, an offshoot of Islam, and Mandeans, a gnostic faith. Thousands of Christians live in schools and churches in northern Iraq, Shiites mostly drifted to southern Iraq and Yazidis crowd into displaced persons camps and half finished building. Donatella Rovera of Amnesty International, said, "Minorities in Iraq have been targeted at different points in the past, but the Islamic State (group) has managed, in the space of a few weeks, to completely wipe off of the map of Iraq, the religious and ethnic minorities from the area under their control." Yazidi lawmaker, Mahma Khalil, said, "They have been trying hard to force us to abandon our religion. We reject that because we are the oldest faith in Iraq, that has roots in Mesopotamia." Meanwhile, CNN reports, Leaders hold pivotal NATO summit as threats of ISIS, Russian aggression loom, the spread of ISIS across Syria and Iraq and hundreds of deaths in Ukraine's struggle to remain independent from Russia mark a pivotal moment for the NATO alliance, leaders on Thursday said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said, "We meet at a crucial time in the history of our alliance. The world faces many dangerous and evolving threats, and it is absolutely clear that NATO is as vital to our future as it has been in our past." Cameron spoke at the beginning of the two day NATO summit to discuss the alliance's response to threats int he Middle East and Ukraine as well as Afghanistan's future. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, "We will take important decisions to keep our nations safe, to keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong and to help build stability in a dangerous world." The discussion happened amid a peace plan discussed by Ukraine and Russia expected to be implemented Friday, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's Twitter account Thursday. The day before, Poroshenko's office via phone said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had reached an agreement on the process toward peace between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels. Putin presents a seven point road map to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine even though Russia denies involvement. Rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk said in joint statements Thursday they would order a ceasefire at 3p.m. Friday if "if agreements are achieved and Ukrainian officials sign a plan for a political settlement of the conflict." Rebel leaders will also take part in talks in Belarus on Friday, the statement said, where they will present proposals on ensuring compliance with the plan. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk along with NATO and United States have greeted Russia's plan with skepticism seeing it as a disguised rescue plan for pro-Russian rebels. Meanwhile in a statement Thursday, Dutch Safety Board said a preliminary report will be released next Tuesday on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over rebel controlled eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 people on board on July 17. The report, according to the statement, "will present factual information based on sources available" to its investigators including satellite imagery, radar details and data from the plane's "black box" recorders. Tuesday's report will set out what investigators believe happened, but will not apportion blame. Back at the summit, Rasmussen calls on Russia to end the annexation of Crimea and withdraw from Ukraine: "We call on Russia to step back from confrontation and take the path of peace. Russia's aggression against Ukraine has been a wake-up call. It has … reminded all of us that our freedom, security and prosperity cannot be taken for granted, that some are trying to redraw dividing lines in Europe with force and in blood. We will adopt a readiness action plan that will make our forces faster, fitter and more flexible, ready to address any challenges whenever they come and from wherever they come." NATO members will be urged to prioritize defense as some member states are not pulling their weight. U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Wales for the summit after a visit to Estonia aimed at reassuring nervous Eastern European nations that NATO's support for its member states is unwavering. In a joint opinion piece in the Times of London Thursday, Obama and Cameron warn against isolationism: "To the east, Russia has ripped up the rulebook with its illegal, self-declared annexation of Crimea and its troops on Ukrainian soil threatening a sovereign nation state. To the south, there is an arc of instability from north Africa and the Sahel to the Middle East…the problems we face today threaten the security of British and American people, and the wider world." Cameron told CNN ahead of the summit that NATO leaders would discuss the poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism and members should agree on how to help Middle Eastern nations tackle the threat. Also on the agenda, Afghanistan, NATO's biggest overseas commitment of troops, where votes in the contested presidential election are being audited and Rasmussen said the Afghan government needs to finalize a Status of Forces Agreement to protect NATO forces there as they switch to an advisory and training role. But he did say he was "encouraged" that both candidates in the runoff vote, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have agreed on the need for a new agreement.
Prior to these discussion of the dire situations across the Middle East and Russia on Thursday, President Barack Obama authorized the State Department request for 350 additional troops in Iraq " "to protect our diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad," according to a Tuesday statement from the office of the White House Press Secretary, reports Ashley Alman, Obama Authorizes Sending Additional Troops To Iraq. According to the White House statement regarding the request: "This action was taken at the recommendation of the Department of Defense after an extensive interagency review, and is part of the President's commitment to protect our personnel and facilities in Iraq as we continue to support the Government of Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant." In addition, the statement said, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and President Obama's counterterrorism advisor will soon travel to Iraq "to build a stronger regional partnership." Earlier Tuesday, the Islamic State group released a video claiming it depicts the beading of captured American Steven Sotloff, which is the second one in two weeks following the video release in August of James Foley's execution, another American Journalist killed by ISIS.
While the United States tries to take steps to protect its interests in the Middle East after the execution of two of its citizens, India and Israel are both concerned about possibly confronting the group that is now on their doorstep. Daniel Estrin reports, Israelis worry with Syrian al-Qaida on doorstep, fir the first time in the Syrian civil war, al-Qaida fighters are now hunkered down on Israel's doorstep as Israelis in Golan Height could be their next targets. The push by Nusra Front, a well-known branch of al-Qaida, comes two weeks after Israel ended its 50 day war with Hamas on its southern border with Gaza causing concern in the conflict weary nation. Last weeks seizure of strategic Quneitra border crossing by Nusra fighters who expelled Assad's forces from eh area plus abducted 45 U.N. peacekeepers in the process has brought the extremists within a few yards of Israeli positions in Golan Heights. For the past three years, Israelis in the Golan have had a relatively safe front seat view of the civil war as Syrian government forces battled rebels attempting to wrest control of the strategic area between Israel and Syria. Some Israelis are convinced it's a matter of time before the Islamic radicals target them due to their ideology and the fact Israel is a Jewish state. According to Estrin: "Israel captured the Golan, a strategic plateau overlooking northern Israel, in the 1967 Mideast war from Syria. It later annexed the area, a move that has never been recognized internationally. Since the aftermath of the subsequent 1973 war, U.N. monitors have helped to enforce a stable truce and the area has been tense but generally quiet. That started to change when the Syrian conflict erupted in March 2011. Israel has largely stayed on the sidelines of the war next door, quietly content to watch Assad's forces battle to a stalemate against the various rebel groups trying to oust him. However, Israel has occasionally responded to mortar fire that spilled over the border, usually unintentionally, and is believed to have carried out several airstrikes on weapons shipments thought to be bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. As the Nusra Front took over the border area last Wednesday, the Israeli army ordered Kuniel's 200 farmhands out of the fields for three days, forcing them to leave behind freshly picked fruit in vats to rot." However, Israeli officials believe Syrian rebels are focused on battles in Syria not Israel, but do pose a threat to Israel. Oviv Oreg, former head of the al-Qaida desk on the Israeli National Security Council, said the Nusra Front sees Israel as a "legitimate target" as its fighters now "have direct access." Israeli defense officials estimate that a few thousand Syrian rebels are now positioned along the border in the Golan, with a few hundred in the Quneitra area, including the Nusra fighters. After taking control of the crossing, Nusra Front captured 45 Fijian U.N. peacekeepers and trapped 8o others from the Philippines who later fled to safety. The Philippines announced it would withdraw its troops front the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNDOF due to this situation. Stephane Cohen, former Israeli military liaison to UNDOF, said the peacekeeping force is collapsing and can no longer serve its purpose to enforce a truce between Israel and Syria leaving Israel alone in front of al-Qaida. Meanwhile, more countries are pulling out of the force and others will not contribute forces in such an uncertain security environment. In addition, the collapse will undermine regional stability as the force provides an important outlet for Israel and Syria to air their grievances. As Uzi Dayan, former deputy military chief of stat, puts it: "In Syria there are no good guys and bad guys. There are bad guys, very bad guys and extremely bad guys." Meanwhile, al-Qaida has expanded into India, according to a video released by al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri on Thursday, vowing that its militants would bring Islamic law to the entire subcontinent and wage jihad against its enemies," AOL reports, Al-Qaida says it has expanded into India. Three Indian states with large Muslim populations are on alert following the video's release, local TV stations report, though no indications of an increased security are present. Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri said in the video seen online by the SITE monitoring group that the new group "is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than two years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian subcontinent into a single entity." Al-Zawahri message seems largely directed at his own rivals in the international jihad movement and with raising the group's profile in the wake of repeated success by the Islamic State group. Ajai Sahni, a top Indian security analyst with the New Delhi based Institute for Conflict Management, said: "Al-Qaida is struggling for its legitimacy in the eyes of the radicalized Muslim world. Osama bin Laden has been killed and (al-Qaida's) entire top leadership, apart from Zawahri and a few others, one by one have been decimated by the American drone attacks." Al-Zawahri said the group, Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian subcontinent, would fight for an Islamic state and laws across the region, "which was part of the Muslims' territories before it was occupied by the infidel enemy." The leader of the new group, Essam Omar, said in an audio recording released with the video, that Jews and Hindus – who he referred to as "apostates of India" – "will watch your destruction by your own eyes." Fighters will "storm your barricades with cars packed with gunpowder," Omar said, decrying what he called the region's "injustice toward Muslims." In the past few months, the Islamic State has grown in India. Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh met Thursday morning with top security and intelligence officials to discuss the threat. India, however, has suffered from underfunded and ill trained security infrastructure that has allowed Pakistani militants in 2008 to attack Mumbai, a financial hub, that shut down the city for days killing 166 people and New Delhi has fought an insurgency in Kashmir, a majority Muslim state, with militants wanting to bring independence to the Himalayan region or join it to Pakistan leaving thousands dead.
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August 21, 2014 by craftymcclever
Liberia Ebola Crisis Worsens, Ukraine Faces New Challenges, Gaza Talks Collaspe into Chaos and Islamic State Militants Up the Pressure
On Wednesday, acting on their president's orders, riot police and soldiers used scrap wood and barbed wire to quarantine 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum in order to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa, according to Jonathon Paye-Layleh and Wade Williams, Liberia Seals Off Slum To Control Ebola, Angry Residents Clash With Troops. The World Health Organization said the death toll has risen quickly in Liberia accounting for 576 of the fatalities, while 2,473 people have been sickened across West Africa making this outbreak larger than the caseloads of all the previous two dozen combined. The U.N. health agency warned of food shortages, water shortages, and other essential supplies in West Africa's population centers. In West Point, a densely populated slum surrounded by floating sewage, suffers from government neglect in the best of times and mistrust of authorities with open defecation being a major problem. Drinking water is carried in wheelbarrows and people need the market for their food. Mohamed Fahnbulleh, a resident, said: "Why are you ill-treating people like this? How can we take this kind of government to be peaceful? It is not fair — We are human." Days earlier, residents ransacked a screening center where people in contact with Ebola victims were being monitored causing dozens of potential carriers to be taken somewhere else in the city. In a national address late Tuesday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf imposed a nighttime curfew and ordered the quarantine of West Point and Dolo Town adding: "There will be no movements in and out of those areas. We have been unable to control the spread due to continued denials, cultural burying practices, disregard for the advice of health workers and disrespect for the warnings by the government. Fellow citizens, these measures are meant to save lives … May God bless us all and save the State." Via telephone, Deputy Police Chief Abraham Kromah said, "Please remain law-abiding; throwing stones at police officers and security officers is not the best way out." While counties and districts have been sealed off in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Guinea has imposed internal travel restrictions. The agency responded to shortages of food, fuel and basic supplies, by saying: "WHO is working with the U.N. World Food Program to ensure adequate food and supplies, but calls on companies to make business decisions based on scientific evidence." Nigeria's heath minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said Tuesday that a fifth person has died of Ebola, but all reported cases have been people in direct contact with a Liberian American man who arrived already infected. On Monday, Jonathan Paye-Layleh reported, 17 who fled Liberia Ebola clinic still missing, authorities were looking for the dozen or so patients who abandoned the Ebola quarantine center in Liberia's capital during looting last weekend, even though several were still being tested and under observation. During the raid, 37 patients left possibly to return to their own communities, according to Information Minister Lewis Brown, however, 20 have been brought back to two hospitals. Meanwhile, the experimental drug from California based pharmaceutical company, ZMapp, was given to three Liberian health workers who contracted the virus are showing signs of recovery, officials reported Tuesday, Jonathon Paye-Layleh and John Heilprin report, Liberia: 3 receiving untested Ebola drug improving. In addition, two infected American received the treatment and are improving, while a Spaniard who also received the treatment died.
Turning our attention to a different kind of war, on Thursday, Nataliya Vasilyeva reports, 5 Ukrainian troops killed; fierce battles reported, five troops and two civilians were killed in the past 24 hours in rebel held areas of eastern Ukraine as government forces try to regain territory from pro-Russian separatists. So far, the conflict has claimed 2,000 lives and displaced 340,000 people from their homes. Ukraine celebrates Independence Day on Sunday, while government forces aim to achieve a breakthrough by that date. On Monday Ukraine accused rebels of killing dozens of civilians in an attack ear on a convoy fleeing a besieged rebel held city, according to Vasilyeva, Refugee Convoy In Ukraine Hit By Rocket Fire, Dozens Reportedly Killed. The rebels denied any attack, while the U.S. confirmed the shelling of the convoy but did not know who was responsible. Col. Andriy Lysenko, Ukraine's National Security Council spokesman, told reports: "Many people were killed, among them women and children" between the towns of Khryashchuvate and Novosvitlivka adding: "We are not able to count the death toll at this point." Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky, a Ukrainian government's military operation spokesman, told the Associated Press 15 bodies had been recovered from the smoldering vehicles and servicemen were collecting the body parts of at least 10 more people. Donetsk rebel chief Alexander Zakharchenko said no attack took place and Andrei Purgin, his deputy, said he had no information either: "If someone was killed, it wasn't us but the Ukrainian military." The U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told report in Washington: "We strongly condemn the shelling and rocketing of a convoy that was bearing internally displaced persons in Luhansk and express our condolences to the families of the victims. All sides must take every precaution to protect innocent lives. We are unable to confirm reports of who was responsible for the shelling and rocketing." Residents of Luhansk have had no running water, electricity or phone connections for 16 days as fighting continues around the city and food is short in supply making it harder to secure food. Tensions have increased as Russia over the past week said it plans to send a massive aid convoy to help rebel held eastern Ukraine. A Red Cross spokeswoman in the region told the Associated Press that they are still waiting for security guarantees as 200 Russian aid trucks.
In the Middle East on Tuesday, Egyptian attempts to make a deal to end the month long conflict between Israel and Hamas has collapsed into heavy fighting Tuesday as Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets and Israeli responded with airstrikes across Gaza killing two people, Ibrahim Barzak reports, Egyptian cease-fire efforts collapse. The violence erupted hours before the temporary truce ended as Israel withdrew its delegation from Cairo Tuesday afternoon and quickly resumed its airstrikes following rocket fire. The two fatalities were the first since a temporary truce last Wednesday started. An Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said, "The Cairo talks were based on an agreed premise of a total cessation of hostilities. When Hamas breaks the cease-fire, they also break the premise for the Cairo talks. Accordingly, the Israeli team has been called back as a result of today's rocket fire." No one knows if the team will return to Cairo or whether Israel will continue to talk as Egyptian security officials are still pressing the two sided to agree to a ceasefire. So far, more than 2,000 Palestinians mostly civilians have been killed, according to Palestinian and U.N. officials, with tens of thousands displaced compared to 64 Israeli solider, two Israeli citizens and a guest workers dying.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, U.S. officials said military planners were weighing the possibility of sending a small number of additional U.S. troops into Baghdad as insurgents threaten to kill a second American captive in retribution for airstrikes that have pounded Islamic state militants, Lolita C. Baldor and Lara Jakes reports, Military Considering Sending Additional Troops To Iraq, Officials Say. The strike came hours after militants released a gruesome video Tuesday showing U.S. journalist James Foley being beheaded and underscored President Barack Obama's promise Wednesday to continue attacks against the group. According to senior U.S. officials the number would be fewer than 300 additional troops. The militants threatened to kill Steven Sotloff, an American journalist who is being held captive, if the U.S. continues to conduct airstrikes. According to Baldor and Jakes: "Currently there are about 748 U.S. forces in Iraq, in addition to the approximately 100 troops that have routinely been assigned to the Office of Security Cooperation in Baghdad. Under the current war powers resolutions sent to Congress, Obama authorized up to 775 U.S. troops for security assistance, assessment teams, and advisers at two joint operations centers in Baghdad and Irbil." Foley, a 40 year old journalist from Rochester, New Hampshire, went missing in northern Syria while freelancing for Agence France-Presse and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. Sotloff was kidnapped near the Syrian-Turkish border in August 2013 and freelanced for Time, the National Interest and MediaLine. Larak Jakes reports, Obama: US won't stop confronting Islamic State, while the execution of journalist James Foley drew international condemnation as western nations stepped up their efforts to counter the militants, in capitals across the Middle East, Foley's death was met with silence even in Syria and Iraq. On social media, people condemned Foley's killing, but stressed the Islamic State has been committing atrocities against Iraqis and Syrians for years. On Wednesday, outside their home in Rochester, New Hampshire, Diane and John Foley addressed reporters: "We are just very proud of Jimmy and we are praying for the strength to love like he did and keep courageous and keep fighting for all the people he was fighting for. We pray for all the remaining Americans." Obama, from Martha's Vineyard, said: "Today, the American people will all say a prayer for those who loved Jim," Obama said. "All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us mourn his loss." Since August 8, 84 airstrikes have been carried out in Iraq on Islamic State targets including security checkpoints, vehicles and weapons caches. The New York based Committee to Protect Journalist said more than 80 journalist have been abducted in Syria and estimates 20 are still missing. On Monday, Pope Francis endorsed the use of force to stop Islamic militants from attacking religious minorities in Iraq but said the international community not one country should decide how to intervene, Nicole Winfield reports, Pope Francis Endorses Use Of Force In Iraq To Stop Persecution Of Religious Minorities. Francis responded as follows to whether or not he approved of U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State militants: "In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor. I underscore the verb 'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated." However he said, in history, such excuses to stop an unjust aggressors has been used by world powers to justify a war of conquest in which entire people have been taken over. He added, "One nation alone cannot judge how you stop this, how you stop an unjust aggressor. After World War II, the idea of the United Nations came about: It's there that you must discuss 'Is there an unjust aggression? It seems so. How should we stop it?' Just this. Nothing more." The Associated Press reported Wednesday, US mission to rescue hostages in Syria failed, that the administration disclosed that President Barack Obama sent special operations troops to Syria this summer on a secret mission to rescue American hostages, including journalist James Foley, held by Islamic State extremists, but they did not find them. Lisa Monaco, Obama's top counterterrorism advisor, said in a statement: "The U.S. government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the president authorized the Department of Defense to move aggressively to recover our citizens. Unfortunately, that mission was ultimately not successful because the hostages were not present."
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Rappers Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, and more to perform at San Angelo River Stage
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SAN ANGELO — Musical rap artist Ice Cube will perform in San Angelo as the headliner for the Kings of the West tour in March 2022, according to a social media post from Sidney Walker, the city's Civic Events Manager.
Ice Cube will be joined by co-headliners Cypress Hill and Too Short.
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