Libya Dangerously Divided

[From article]
Unlike Tunisia, its neighbor to the west, Libya has been unable to form a cohesive government after ridding itself of Gaddafi.
The Arab Spring caused chaos in numerous nations, many having their ruling governments overthrown. Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt lost their longtime leaders and all three, as well as others, have had to contend with various terrorist groups while transitioning to new governments.
Currently, there are two competing governments that claim to be the legal representative of the Libyan people.
The internationally recognized, Western-backed Libyan Parliament, also known as the Council of Deputies, is based in the eastern port city of Tobruk. The Libyan Parliament, led by President Aguila Saleh Issa, governs the entire eastern portion of the country, as well as the southern desert region and an enclave near the northwest border with Tunisia.
The Islamist General National Congress is based in the country’s official capital city, Tripoli. The General National Congress is dominated by the radical Sunni organization Muslim Brotherhood, the same organization that assumed power after the fall of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
It’s worth repeating that the Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization by Western and Arab governments. The General National Congress, led by its President Nouri Abusahmain, governs the majority of the northwest corner of the country.
The division has led to the establishment and expansion of the Islamic State in Libya, an offshoot of ISIS.
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Regardless, the Islamic State has boldly taken advantage of the disorder in Libya, recruiting foreign fighters from Chad, Mali, and Sudan, plotting and carrying out acts of terrorism, including an attack in Tunisia on March 7 that led to the deaths of 52 people.
The international community also fears that Libya’s vast oil reserves will fall into the hands of ISIS, as is the case in Iraq and other countries.
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Currently, several nations are taking part in operations in Libya to stem the expansion of the Islamic State. As of today, The United States, British, French, and Italians have special forces units in the country. The U.S. is carrying out airstrikes against ISIS targets and utilizing armed drones from bases in Sicily. As Matteo Renzi had alluded to, an international coalition of 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers has been discussed amongst the U.S., France, the U.K., Italy, Germany, and several Arab countries.
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On December 23, 2015, the United Nations Security Council voted to endorse an agreement between the two rival Libyan governments to form a united governing body.
Currently, the Unity Presidential Council is based in relatively safe Tunisia, but hopes to eventually place itself in Tripoli.
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The consequences of Libya being unable to unite and successfully combat the Islamic State would be far-reaching.
If the Islamic State is able to continue its growth in Libya, it would have a springboard to attack Europe with greater ease than conducting operations from Syria and Iraq. Currently, Libya is, for all intents and purposes, a failed state. That environment is extremely conducive for ISIS to strengthen and spread. One needs only to look at Syria and Iraq. In all three nations, the lack of a strong central government allows terrorism to operate more freely.
From Europe, ISIS operatives will be able to take advantage of the immigration system and enter the United States, as the Boston and San Bernardino bombers have.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/libya_a_nation_dangerously_divided.html

April 9, 2016
Libya: A Nation Dangerously Divided
By Derek DeLuca

Thomas Sowell Thinks White House Is Not Socialist, But More Dangerous

[From article]
It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a "socialist."
[. . .]
What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious: government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector.
Politically, it is heads-I-win when things go right, and tails-you-lose when things go wrong. This is far preferable, from Obama's point of view, since it gives him a variety of scapegoats for all his failed policies, without having to use President Bush as a scapegoat all the time.
[. . .]
One of the reasons why both pro-Obama and anti-Obama observers may be reluctant to see him as fascist is that both tend to accept the prevailing notion that fascism is on the political right, while it is obvious that Obama is on the political left.
Back in the 1920s, however, when fascism was a new political development, it was widely -- and correctly -- regarded as being on the political left. Jonah Goldberg's great book "Liberal Fascism" cites overwhelming evidence of the fascists' consistent pursuit of the goals of the left, and of the left's embrace of the fascists as one of their own during the 1920s.
Mussolini, the originator of fascism, was lionized by the left, both in Europe and in America, during the 1920s. Even Hitler, who adopted fascist ideas in the 1920s, was seen by some, including W.E.B. Du Bois, as a man of the left.
[. . .]
What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people -- like themselves -- need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.
The left's vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, "We the People..."
That is why the left has for more than a century been trying to get the Constitution's limitations on government loosened or evaded by judges' new interpretations, based on notions of "a living Constitution" that will take decisions out of the hands of "We the People," and transfer those decisions to our betters.
The self-flattery of the vision of the left also gives its true believers a huge ego stake in that vision, which means that mere facts are unlikely to make them reconsider, regardless of what evidence piles up against the vision of the left, and regardless of its disastrous consequences.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/06/12/socialist_or_fascist/page/full

Socialist or Fascist
Thomas Sowell
Jun 12, 2012

Inability To Recognize Reality Can be Dangerous

[From article]
To me, terrorism is a form of revolution, the killing of innocents by self-righteous fools. Do you think that the rabble who chopped off Marie Antoinette's head were productive, gentle people?
Juan Williams on Fox News said that he was afraid of Muslims on a plane, and he lost his job at PBS. It's a joke that PBS would fire liberal Juan. Juan is so liberal that a Muslim would hate him for his extreme licentiousness.
[. . .]



How can Muslims respect a president who wears mom jeans and encourages gay marriage and gay soldiers?
[. . .]
After everyone has called the slaughter in San Bernardino terrorism, he is still stumbling on about workplace violence.
He should stop his cowardly words. I am sixty-eight years old, and he'd probably last about ten seconds with me in the ring.



Obama has turned the world upside-down. He meant well. Or he didn't mean well and pretended that he meant well. Oh, well. He has failed as our commander and chief and our president.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/thinking_about_muslims_on_the_subway.html

December 15, 2015
Thinking about Muslims on the subway
By David Lawrence

Iran Nuclear Weapons Treaty Is Laughable, Except For Its Dangerousness

[From article]
Born out of the realization that the Iran deal similarly does little good and has countless lasting side-effects was Zucker’s latest ad, which mirrors most closely the commercials for erectile dysfunction pill Cialis and portrays President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton negotiating with Iran’s “death to America”-shouting Mullahs.
Thus was born this uproariously funny video that mirrors drug ads in tone and content:
The president's obsequiousness toward the Iranians, Kerry fumbling and bumbling, Hillary's apparent eagerness to please - good satire captures a germ of truth and exaggerates it to painful dimensions. And satire doesn't get any better than this.


Published on Sep 10, 2015
Hollywood comedy legend David Zucker (“Airplane,” “Scary Movie,” “Naked Gun” films among many others) has written and produced this hilarious spoof on the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal. In his trademark style, Zucker skewers the deal’s primary architects – President Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry warns of the possible “Side Effects” that may result from the absurd agreement.

https://youtu.be/qNvHAjcHAvs



http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/call_your_doctor_and_ask_about_side_effects_from_the_iran_deal.html

September 20, 2015
Call your doctor and ask about 'side effects' from the Iran deal
By Rick Moran

New Midtown IRT No. 7 Station, But Still Worst Subway Line

[From article]
The No. 7 train just opened its 22nd subway station this week in the Hudson Yards at West 34th Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan.
But while the station was hailed for its design and sweeping mosaics, the line’s 52nd Street station in Queens takes the cake for being the worst station in the entire system, with a whopping 79 percent of its structural components in bad shape, the study found.
“This is one of the most neglected stations in the area,” said straphanger Michelle Vasquez of Woodside, Queens.
[. . .]
By contrast, the No. 6 line received the best reviews, with only 15 percent of structural components across its 38 stations requiring attention.
The study also projected that, based on the MTA’s current spending, New York’s subway lines would not be up to snuff until 2067.
[. . .]
A recent report by the same group found that 24 percent of all structural elements across New York’s 467 subway stations are in disrepair.

http://nypost.com/2015/09/15/the-7-is-still-the-worst-subway-line-despite-new-34th-street-station/

The 7 is still the worst subway line despite new 34th Street station

By Emily Saul
New York Post
September 15, 2015 | 6:01pm

Iran Nuclear Weapons Deal Provisions Which Harm The United States

Building Collapses in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY

[From article]
The vacant four-story building at 1438 Fulton Street was undergoing a full demolition when its third floor pancaked onto the second floor at around 2:30 p.m., officials said.
“The top facade fell over first, then it imploded,” said Leslie Greene, 27, who works at a store across the street. “It was very loud, (and) there was lots of dust. The strongest coffee you could have made that’s how dark the smoke was.”
At least three people sustained non-life threatening injuries after they were struck by scattering debris, FDNY officials said.
[. . .]
On Sunday, a complaint was made against the building for a brick column being in danger of collapsing and damage to a construction fence and, according to the Department of Buildings website.
Locals said the property had once been occupied by squatters–but no longer.
“It had strippers, hoes, pimps and looters,” Greene said. “But this month they had nobody in there.”
http://nypost.com/2015/07/14/building-collapses-in-bed-stuy/

Building collapses in Bed-Stuy
By Shawn Cohen, Margo Levy, Dana Sauchelli and Chris Perez
New York Post
July 14, 2015 | 3:21pm

Warning! Adult language.

Sophisticated Vandals On NYC Subway

[From article]

The YouTube clips shows the vandals, who belong to a group they call the “subway conquestors,” repeatedly opening a B train car door– which transit sources say requires two different transit keys.
It appears the B train is laid up underground, possibly because of winter weather, sources added.
One of the keys the group has obtained can open a subway car door when it’s stopped inside a tunnel, and another can open a door into a train cab,
“The tools they have give them a lot of power,” said a transit source. “They seem to have enough knowledge to pull off something very dangerous. These kids have the tools and knowledge to open the doors of the train between stations, put trains into emergency braking, and even hijack a train with passengers on it.”
Transit workers suspect Keyshawn Brown, who was busted Tuesday for a small subway explosion in Brooklyn, may have stolen the keys, but this has not been substantiated. His mother is an MTA subway conductor.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/09/vandal-mashes-buttons-in-moving-subway-trains-cab/

Vandal mashes buttons in moving subway train’s cab
By Rebecca Harshbarger
New York Post
April 9, 2015 | 2:32pm

Published on Apr 9, 2015
These are NOT railfans. They are vandals. Railfans are not vandals, and do not damage the subway system. **NOTE: Nobody on this channel network was involved. This is a compilation of more videos and images sent to me of the "Conquestors" vandal group that steals rollsigns, damages transit property, and trespasses. I am not associated with these people. This has been posted to raise awareness of the issue. Note that these people have the tools required to operate train motors, brakes, and doors. Videos and pictures compiled and sent to me by openbve news and development group

Warning: Video contains graphic language

Some Popular Wines Have Dangerous Levels Of Arsenic

[From article]
"The lower the price of wine on a per-liter basis, the higher the amount of arsenic," he said.
They included Trader Joe's famed Two-Buck Chuck White Zinfandel, which came in at three times the limit, a bottle of Ménage à Trois Moscato was four times the limit and a Franzia White Grenache had five times the EPA limit for drinking water.
He took the test results to some of those wine companies.
"Most wine companies, when I mention arsenic and wine in the same sentence, literally almost hung up the phone on me," he said.
The next step, he said, was to supply the data to a law firm.
"He was trying to get their attention; he was trying to blow the whistle on them," attorney Brian Kabateck said.
[. . .]
The federal government doesn't regulate wine like it does water,
[. . .]
Trader Joe's, which sells Two Buck Chuck, said "the concerns raised in your inquiry are serious and are being treated as such. We are investigating the matter with several of our wine producing suppliers."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-claims-high-levels-arsenic-found-some-california-made-wines/

CBS NEWS

March 19, 2015, 7:39 AM
"Very high levels of arsenic" in top-selling wines

Maryland Corrections Officer Arrested For Shooting At NSA and Individuals

Prince George's Co police searching Beltsville home of Hong Young suspect in ICC shooting yesterday.

While collecting every phone call and email sent or made by Americans, the NSA was unable to identify this dangerous public official. Instead the massive resources of the US and state governments joined by crime families, target law abiding individuals, harassing, provoking, disturbing their sleep, tampering with their phones and computers. No need to stir up dangerous persons. Better to focus on harmless citizens. Isn't that what government is for?

[From article]

Hong Young, 35, of Beltsville, Maryland, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and other charges in the shootings in Anne Arundel, Prince George's and Howard counties. From 2012 until his resignation in May 2014, Young worked as a correctional officer at a Jessup facility, according to Maryland Secretary of Public Safety Stephen Moyer. Nothing significant was found in his file, Moyer said.

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About 6 p.m., shots were fired, striking a building near the headquarters of the National Security Association at Fort Meade. U.S. Park Police investigated a report of shots fired near the headquarters of the National Security Agency.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Shots-Fired-Near-NSA-Headquarters-294909111.html

Suspect in Shootings at NSA, ICC in Custody: FBI

Former Correctional Officer Charged in Shootings at NSA, ICC Charges pending against Hong Young of Beltsville: sources By Mila Mimica and Darcy Spencer
NBC News Washington DC
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015

Journalist Gets It Completely Wrong on Dangers From Ebola

[From article]
One week after the Washington Post called us nuts for believing that airborne transmission of Ebola might be possible, the Washington Post reports that airborne transmission of Ebola is “very likely.”
[. . .]
Achebach’s college degree is a 1982 baccalaureate in Politics, if we can believe the dystopian Wikipedia. That almost makes Bill Nye’s baccalaureate in mechanical engineering sound impressive. Not that anything’s wrong with not having a college degree in science, or not having any college degree at all. But something does seem a little off when guys like Achenbach (BA Politics), Nye (BS Mechanical Engineering) and Al Gore (BA Government) lecture real scientists like Richard Lindzen (BA Physics, PhD Applied Mathematics, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT) and William Happer (PhD Physics, Cyrus Fogg Brackett[3] Professor of Physics at Princeton University) on climate.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/is_there_anything_science_reporters_dont_know.html

February 24, 2015
Is There Anything Science Reporters Don't Know?
By Randall Hoven

Imperative For Netanyahu To Speak To US Congress

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyau Speaks About Iranian Nuclear Engery

[From article]

More than 70 years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to bomb the train tracks to Auschwitz, thereby failing to stop the mass slaughter of our people.
Now, Barack Obama seems equally disinclined to stop the ayatollahs' march toward building a nuclear Auschwitz, with all that might entail.
If the American president does agree to a feeble deal with Iran, he might as well sign his name at the bottom as "Barack H. Chamberlain."
But while his legacy will merely be tarnished, our future and that of America too will permanently be at risk. That is a message that the American people need to hear. And no one is better suited to deliver it than our premier.

http://www.michaelfreund.org/16033/obama-iran

Barack H. Chamberlain and Iran
by Michael Freund
Jerusalem Post
February 5, 2015

Students At Harvard University Claim USA More Dangerous Than Islamic State

Harvard Students: “America A Greater Threat To World Peace Than The Islamic State”
Harvard Students Claim America Is A Bigger Threat Than ISIS
CampusReform

Ebola Virus Can Remain Active on Surfaces For Almost 2 Months

[From article]
And while the disease typically dies on surfaces within hours, research has discovered it can survive for more than seven weeks under certain conditions.
During tests, the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) found that the Zaire strain will live on samples stored on glass at low temperatures for as long as 50 days.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2809803/Ebola-surfaces-TWO-months-Tests-reveal-certain-strains-survive-weeks-stored-low-temperatures.html

Ebola can survive on surfaces for almost TWO MONTHS: Tests reveal certain strains survive for weeks when stored at low temperatures
Research claims certain strains of Ebola can remain on surfaces for 50 days
It survived the longest on glass surfaces stored at 4° (39°F)
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention claims Ebola typically lives on a ‘dry’ surface for hours - including doorknobs and tables
But when stored in moist conditions such in mucus, this is extended
Survival time depends on the surface, and the room temperature
Virus can be killed using household bleach and people must come into direct contact with the sample to risk infection
By MARK PRIGG and VICTORIA WOOLLASTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:50 EST, 27 October 2014 | UPDATED: 15:14 EST, 27 October 2014

White House In Denial About Dangers From Muslims

[From article]
If our intelligence grandees have been naïve about the dangers of radical Islam, have we at least enjoyed competent Homeland Security directors? Again, there is reason to worry. Former director Janet Napolitano once urged that we move away from using the word “terrorism” and the supposedly accompanying “politics of fear” to prefer instead “man-caused disasters.” That gullibility reflected an ongoing administration campaign of euphemisms among copycat bureaucrats, from “workplace violence” to “overseas contingency operations.” We see this again in the administration’s fashionable collective denial that the Islamic State has anything to do with Islam — as if foreign tourists visited Mecca as freely as they do the Vatican; as if Muslim apostates picked and chose their new religions as easily and safely as do Protestants; as if beheadings and stonings were as frequent in Paris and Houston as they are in Riyadh and Teheran; as if Bibles were brought into Iran and Saudi Arabia as freely as Korans are into America; as if churches sprouted up in Turkey, Iran, and Gaza as do mosques in Britain and Michigan; and as if women and gays were as equal in the Middle East as they are in the West. Islam is not just different from the West, but different in a manner that means its own extreme versions manifest themselves in predictable ways.
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In the politically correct administration worldview the Islamic State is not Islamic. The Muslim Brotherhood is secular and to be welcomed into office. A caliphate is absurd. Terrorism is really just workplace violence and man-caused disasters, and it can be dealt with by overseas contingency operations. Right-wing videos and ad hoc demonstrations are the real dangers to our consulates. The Canadian border is as dangerously porous as the Mexican border. Right-wing terrorists are more likely than Islamists to commit another 9/11 terrorist attack.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388577/confederacy-dunces-victor-davis-hanson
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 4:00 AM
Confederacy of Dunces?
From the president on down, they are in resolute denial about radical Islam.
By Victor Davis Hanson

White House Downplays Ebola Threats For Political Purposes

[From article]
Why, precisely, must we attack Ebola in Africa? Research on a cure doesn't require cuddling victims in their huts. Scientists who discovered the AIDS cocktail didn't spend their nights at Studio 54 in order to "fight the disease at its source."
Until there's a treatment, we can't put out the disease there, or here. The only thing Americans will be doing in Liberia is changing the bedpans of victims, getting infected and bringing Ebola back to America. When there's a vaccine, we can mail it.
Naturally, Obama is sending troops from the 101st Airborne, the pride of our Army, to Liberia. Their general should resign in protest.
[. . .]
Quite obviously, the only way to protect Americans is to prevent Ebola from coming here in the first place. The problem isn't that Ebola will leap across oceans to infect Americans; it's that Obama doesn't want to protect Americans.

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-10-15.html

WE'LL TELL YOU HOW DANGEROUS EBOLA IS AFTER THE ELECTION
October 15, 2014
Ann Coulter

Political Hack In Charge of Ebola Control

CDC is denying airborne transmission of ebola. Why do the EMTs and caregivers dress as if it is possible to catch through the air?

[From article]

Facing renewed criticism of his handling of the Ebola risk, Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his point man on fighting Ebola at home and in West Africa. Klain will report to national security adviser Susan Rice and to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, the White House said. Klain does not have a medical or a health care background
[. . .]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Ebola isn’t contagious until symptoms appear. Ebola isn’t spread through the air like the flu; people catch it by direct contact with a sick person’s bodily fluids

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/10/17/obamas-new-ebola-czar-does-not-have-medical-health-care-background/

Obama’s New Ebola ‘Czar’ Does Not Have Medical, Health Care Background
October 17, 2014 2:00 PM



* * *

[From article]
“Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall,” the U.N. health agency said in a draft internal document obtained by the Associated Press. The response was marred by incompetency and ineffective bureaucracy, the document says, and experts should have realized that traditional containment methods wouldn’t work in an African region with porous borders and broken health systems.
[. . .]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Ebola isn’t contagious until symptoms appear. Ebola isn’t spread through the air like the flu; people catch it by direct contact with a sick person’s bodily fluids, such as blood or vomit.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/17/obama-naming-former-biden-staffer-ebola-czar/

Obama naming former Biden staffer Ebola ‘czar’
By Associated Press
New York Post
October 17, 2014 | 10:55am

White House Ignored CDC Recommendation To Establish Disease Detection Centers

[From article]
The Centers for Disease Control told the incoming Obama administration in 2008 that it should establish 18 regional disease detection centers around the world to adequately safeguard the U.S. from emerging health threats like Ebola, according to an agency memo.
But six years later, as the government struggles to contain the fallout from a deadly Ebola outbreak at home and abroad, the CDC still has only 10 centers — and none of them operates in the western Africa region hardest hit by the deadly virus.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/15/cdc-outbreak-prevention-advice-dismissed-by-obama-/

Obama administration failed to implement all of the CDC’s advice to prevent an Ebola outbreak
Added only 5 of 18 global health centers recommended
By Jim McElhatton

The Washington Times

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

No One In Charge While Incompetent CDC Bureaucrats Blame the Victim

 A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where a patient has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus on Sept. 30, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. 
Photo credit: Mike Stone/Getty Images)

No orderly or common sense recommendations to contain this deadly contagious disease. The CDC, US government agency with over sight of such threats to public health blamed a "breach of protocol." So wait, the superior intellects hired by Obama and Holder (who recommend ignoring inconvenient laws), blames a "breach of protocol." Not a law but a recommendation to prevent the spread of this deadly contagious disease.  If the CDC orders it, it will be obeyed? Huh? Do these geniuses in the government realize they are dealing with human beings? Are they conscious? Do they have any concept of reality beginning with their unreliable words? There are no protocols in place. They are ever changing according to these nurses at the very hospital where the Liberian man died. There are no safe protocols to contain waste from treatment and to dispose of it safely without infecting others. This is serious incompetence openly exhibited at the highest levels of the taxpayer funded government.



[From article]

A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and nurses treating him worked without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols, according to a statement released by the nation’s largest nurses’ union.
Among those nurses was Nina Pham, 26, who has been hospitalized since Friday after catching Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. He died last week.
[. . .]
The CDC has said some breach of protocol probably sickened Pham, but National Nurses United contends the protocols were either non-existent or changed constantly after Duncan arrived in the emergency room by ambulance on Sept. 28.
[. . .]
The nurses allege that his lab samples were allowed to travel through the hospital’s pneumatic tubes, possibly risking contaminating of the specimen-delivery system. They also said that hazardous waste was allowed to pile up to the ceiling[. . .]
Wendell Watson, a Presbyterian spokesman, [said] “Patient and employee safety is our greatest priority, and we take compliance very seriously,” he said in a statement. He said the hospital would “review and respond to any concerns raised by our nurses and all employees.”

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/nurses-union-ebola-patient-left-in-open-area-of-er-for-hours/

Nurses’ Union: Ebola Patient Left In Open Area Of ER For Hours
CBS News Houston TX
October 15, 2014 10:45 AM

Pentagon Admits US Troops Sent to Africa Will Have Contact With Ebola

[From article]
Specialized U.S. troops setting up mobile labs in Africa to test for Ebola are likely to come into contact with the deadly virus, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
U.S. troops already have set up three mobile labs, and there are plans to set up four more.
The Pentagon said the troops are highly trained and that those working in the laboratories will wear protective suits. They will also receive pre-deployment training and be constantly monitored, Army Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of U.S. Africa Command, said at a Pentagon briefing.
“I am confident that we can ensure our service members' safety and the safety of their families and the American people,” he said.
The labs were not initially a part of the Obama administration’s plan for fighting Ebola in Africa, however. The announcement illustrates the dangers for U.S. troops being sent to the front line to fight the outbreak,
[. . .]
President Obama has said as many as 4,000 troops could be sent to the region, and the Pentagon said the majority would not arrive until mid-November.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/220014-pentagon-us-troops-to-have-contact-with-ebola-virus

Pentagon: US troops to have contact with Ebola virus
By Kristina Wong and Sarah Ferris -
10/07/14 01:30 PM EDT