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Spanish authorities kill dog 'suspected of carrying Ebola' - UK sending troops to West Africa - U.S. authorities begin screening air passengers

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Excalibur, now dead, howling for his masters, who are quarantined in a Spanish hospital
Health authorities in Spain have put to death the dog of a nurse infected with the Ebola virus in Madrid, sparking protests from animal rights groups.

Activists scuffled with police outside her home as the dog was taken away.

The nurse, Teresa Romero, is the first person known to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa.

She had treated two missionaries who later died from Ebola. The virus has killed 3,879 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

A court order to euthanise Ms Romero's dog was issued on Tuesday despite uncertainty over whether the animal was also infected or risked spreading the disease.

On Wednesday about 50 animal rights activists held a protest outside the nurse's home in Madrid, shouting "assassins".

Two protesters were hurt when they tried to stop the van in which the animal was being transported, El Pais newspaper reported.

The fate of the dog, named Excalibur, sparked huge interest on social networks, after Ms Romero's husband, who like her is being kept in isolation in a hospital, alerted animal protection groups via social networks.

Propaganda

Propaganda alert! Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Don't believe the Putin lie, Canada

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© MICHAEL KLIMENTYEV / GETTY Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with Government members in his country residence of Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow on October 3, 2014. Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels clashed on October 3, 2014 around the flashpoint city of Donetsk, while trading blame over the death of a Swiss aid worker, four weeks into their shaky truce.
It's frightening that some Canadians support President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine rather than Canada's values of national sovereignty and territorial integrity, be it in the media or in public demonstrations like the one planned for Parliament Hill on Saturday.


Comment: One sentence, so many lies. 1) Russia didn't invade Ukraine. However, the U.S. did stage a coup there. 2) Canada's alleged 'values'? Hepburn is either an idiot or a liar: the Canadian government is a close 'friend' of Israel (violating the territorial integrity of Palestine for generations, the U.S. (world leader in staging coups in foreign countries, invading them, bombing them, and funding 'opposition' movements against democratically elected governments). We're sure support for Putin is frightening for some, i.e., the war whores, oligarchic psychopaths, and megalomaniacs desperately clinging to their fast-crumbling unipolar global hegemony.


Russia's war of terror - Crimea annexation, ethnic cleansing, abduction, torture and murder, downing of the Malaysian plane - are abominations. The criminal is Putin not the Ukrainian freedom fighters who have a right to defend their country. He needs censuring for violating international law while lying that Russia is not "involved." His "humanitarian" convoys and phoney referendums in Ukraine are a freak show. His criminality belies Russia's greatness and throws it back to its nefarious past and into company of despicable despots.

Comment: Hepburn, the author of the bile you can read above, is apparently a former "senior policy adviser" for the Canadian government, a founding member of the "Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine", and daughter of a survivor of Auschwitz. Unfortunately, she appears to be living in a fantasy world of her own creation, resembling the early '90s. It's been 20+ years, and still she sees the shadow of the Soviets under every bed, apparently. Speaking of the "Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine", check out their press release from 2013 of last year:
The Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine is seeking the support of the Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group (CUPFG) in reminding Canada's Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the need to address the release of Yulia Tymoshenko. Her freedom will declare Ukraine's commitment to democratic values and, most importantly, remove the key obstacle to the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement to be signed at the Vilnius Partnership Summit, November 28-29.
They have got to be kidding... Well, no, actually. They've just got to be crazy.


Eye 1

Big Brother in space: UK academics start world's first air & space 'detective agency'

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© Reuters/NASAThe pan-aurora borealis is visible over Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington at night.
As parties to various conflicts increasingly resort to satellite and drone images as court evidence, two British experts have decided to become founding fathers of a one-of-a-kind specialist agency - claiming to be unique "space detectives".

Ray Harris, an emeritus professor of Geography, and Ray Purdy, a visiting senior research fellow at the Faculty of Laws, both from the University College London, have launched "Air & Space Evidence" - the first space detective agency in the world.

The academics' team-work on interdisciplinary projects on Earth observation data during the last few years revealed that most people, even lawyers, insurance investigators and legal enforcement officials lack experience and knowledge in the developing field.

Their potential clients could be both from public and private sectors, as the pair have some background in tackling a variety of legal cases, ranging from investigating fraud to environmental assaults, and from border and boundary disputes to human rights investigations.

According to the company's directors, it's not always easy to use such sources of information as Google Earth as satellite data has some pitfalls. "Trials have been collapsing because courts cannot be convinced of the authenticity of image data," Purdy told New Scientist.

Vader

US using destabilization to manipulate energy markets

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The US is doing its best to estrange the EU from Russia to get the upper hand in a free trade deal, and also, to manipulate European countries into buying America's relatively more expensive natural gas.

TTIP and Ukraine

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a Euro-Atlantic free trade agreement that is the subject of ongoing negotiations between the US and the EU. The deadline for finalizing the TTIP free trade agreement is in 2015. Its goal is to create what is referred to as the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) and to cement the European Union with the United States as one supranational trading bloc.

These trade negations have been passing under the public's radar, because they have been taking place very discreetly behind closed doors. The very TTIP's name is designed to conceal, and was selected by policy and trade mandarins, because of their fears a public backlash could erupt against the negotiations, as it did in the case of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) talks in 2001. Like the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which was signed in Ottawa between Canada and the EU on September 26, wordsmiths calculatingly picked the name TTIP to try to hide the fact that it is a free trade agreement.

Comment: See also:

Behind the anti-terror campaign: Gas war and plans for remodeling of the Middle East

Video: The geopolitics of World War III or the real reason Russia and Syria are being targeted right now


Attention

The FBI's plan to destroy privacy

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You've probably heard privacy advocates talk about how it isn't just one set of data, or one surveillance technology, that we need to worry about, but rather the combination of them. When corporations and the government figure out how to seamlessly integrate our license plate records, cell phone location histories, education and health data, and biometric identifiers into one easily mapped dossier, the surveillance state will have reached its apotheosis - and privacy will be a relic of the pre-digital age.

The real-world application of a fully integrated surveillance state isn't hard to conjure. If you think of the data we leave behind and that is created about us as a 3D puzzle with thousands of pieces of different shapes and materials, the integration of all of that data would be a 3D recreation of our lives. The result is a digital hologram of our person, mapping out everything we do, everywhere we go, and everything we are from the moment we are born until the moment we die.

That sounds awfully futuristic and maybe even paranoid, but the basic puzzle pieces are already here, and many of them are already being assembled. The FBI isn't afraid to publicly admit that "data aggregation" is a central goal at the bureau's IT department. They have so much data, and they are daily acquiring more and more kinds, but they don't yet know exactly how to process it. Enter "identity resolution" and "record linkage."

Light Saber

Czech Republic: EU should consider easing sanctions on Russia if gas negotiations succeed

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said that EU should consider easing its economic sanctions against Russia if it succeeds to negotiate natural gas deliveries with Ukraine
The European Union should consider easing its economic sanctions against Russia if it succeeds to negotiate natural gas deliveries with Ukraine, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said in an interview published Wednesday by the Mlada fronta Dnes daily.

"In my opinion, it is absolutely legitimate - if Russia continues to show its good will, and the tension [in Ukraine] subsides, and both parties deliver on their promises - that the European Union should consider easing or winding down sanctions," Bohuslav Sobotka said.

He added that the restart of Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine ahead of the winter season was a crucial aspect of the plan.

"Russia could also show its good will in the handling of this issue. And if it does, this could be a good opportunity for a certain gesture of good will on the part of the EU," the Czech prime minister added.

Comment: The Prime Ministers' suggestion is a good idea, but since the Ukraine is being rather hardheaded in its negotiations with Gazprom, and is also disregarding the cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine, this may be a long process, unless a very cold winter brings the EU and Ukraine governments to their senses.


Red Flag

China has the largest economy on the planet, and surpasses the USA in at least 26 other ways

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In terms of purchasing power, China now has the largest economy on the entire planet, but that is not the only area where China has surpassed the United States. China also accounts for more total global trade than the U.S. does,

China consumes more energy than the U.S. does, and China now manufactures more goods than the U.S. does. In other words, the era of American economic dominance is rapidly ending. Global economic power is making a dramatic shift to the east, and that is going to have huge implications for our future.

We already owe the Chinese well over a trillion dollars, and as our economic infrastructure crumbles we are feverishly borrowing even more money in a desperate attempt to prop up our falling standard of living. We can't seem to match the work ethic, inventiveness and determination of China and other Asian nations and it is showing. If we continue down this path, what will the future look like for future generations of Americans?

Comment: China is increasingly cementing relationships with other BRICS countries, and even Germany, while the US is spending billions to destroy the Middle East and the global economy by forcing sanctions on Russia. The pathocrats in charge of the US have nothing but words for the US economy or infrastructure, so their only response is to foment rebellion in Hong Kong as part of an ongoing campaign to contain and co-opt China.

US-sponsored terrorism and subversion in China, 'The battle for Chinese sovereignty'

Continuing without interruption: China, Russia to Strengthen Ties with 30 New Agreements

China and India: Dragon and Elephant tiptoe a tango, iron out critical agreements


USA

Dirty wars: al-CIA-da detonates series of bombs against both government and opposition in Yemen

Bomber targets checkpoint operated by Shia Houthi rebels in centre of capital Sana'a, near where rally was about to be held
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Members of the Iran-backed Houthi movement, who recently took control of Sana'a, Yemen's capital, link arms to barricade the crimescene.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 42 people, including several children, in the Yemeni capital Sana'a, medics and witnesses said.

A Reuters witness in Sana'a counted at least 20 bodies immediately after the attack on a checkpoint held by the Houthis, whose forces seized the capital last month following weeks of anti-government demonstrations. The Shia movement had planned to hold a rally near the checkpoint later on Thursday.

Medical sources later said the death toll had risen to at least 42, including several children. The death toll was expected to climb further, with many of those wounded in serious or critical condition, they said.

In a separate incident, at least 20 government soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing and gun attack in the east of the country, the state news agency Saba reported.


Comment: See that? They simultaneously hit both rebels and government troops, then hope all they have to do is stand back and watch them tear each other apart.


Airplane

Dutch FM lets slip more evidence MH17 not downed by missile - Reveals passenger found wearing oxygen mask

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The latest finding questions the earlier theory that the 298 victims on board the tragic flight had been killed instantly

One of those killed in the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine had an oxygen mask on when the body was recovered, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said on Thursday.

The latest finding questions the earlier theory that the 298 victims on board the tragic flight had been killed instantly and indicates that they may have remained conscious after the Boeing aircraft was shot down.

"People hardly had time to notice the missile coming, but do you know that one of the victims was found with an oxygen mask over the mouth?" the HOC TV channel quoted the minister as saying. "This means that someone had time to do that. At least, we cannot rule out this possibility," Timmermans said.


Comment: The obvious conclusion is that MH17 was not downed by a missile.


Comment: Well, well, well. Yet more evidence that MH17 was not blown up by a 'BUK missile' from/via Russia.

Can there be any doubt where the real Evil Empire lies?


Quenelle - Golden

SOTT Exclusive: Novorossian Commander Givi shows why the U.S. could never take Russia on directly

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'This is how much your proxy army frightens me'
As Kiev's fascist forces continue routinely flouting the 'cease-fire' in eastern Ukraine, heavy shelling has become the norm, judging by the reaction of this Novorossian commander being bombarded by Kiev forces as it attempts to take control of Donetsk airport.

He stands by completely unfazed, smoking a cigarette, as heavy shelling starts nearby. He doesn't move, even when fighters around him run for cover.

He then goes on to show pieces of shrapnel which have landed just feet away from him.

"Here are fragments ... still hot fragments."

Clearly sick of Kiev's bullshit, Commander Givi dismisses and mocks media claims that Kiev forces have control of Donetsk airport saying, "[if] it was their territory, would they shell it?"