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TSA to Require 'Real ID' with Background Checks for Domestic Flights
Real ID: gold star for good behavior; no report on the scarlet
letter they'll use to ID troublemakers.
Activist Post Sunday, February 1, 2015
The TSA recently announced they will require a special driver's license to board domestic flights by 2016.
These 'Real IDs' will have already performed extensive background checks on everyone who receives them and will feature stars and other markings to indicate good behavior. No word on markings for troublemakers.
It seems similar to how a scarlet letter was used to indicate adulterers in Puritan societies, or how the Jews in Nazi Germany were forced to wear yellow badges in public so they could be immediately recognized by authorities.
Real IDs are referred to as enhanced IDs and they also reportedly contain biometric security features and RFID chips. Since its inception, civil liberties advocates have had concerns that those without these intrusive new IDs will be excluded from basic human rights like working or traveling.
The news report below appears to confirm this agenda.
"It's a choice," says a Nevada DMV official in the video below, "you don't have to get a Real ID card, but if you want to get on an airplane after 2016, you're going to have to have a Real ID card."
Video Source: KTVN
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/02/tsa-to-require-real-id-with-background.html
Folks Mike McLaren is on LinkedIn, I suggest you file a complaint with LinkedIn state what ever you want but stay to the facts. This will not get your money back but may make it harder for him to rip others off.
You will not be able to sell. Your shares will be on hold by your broker. Only a few will be able to dump. All of you will be stuck for 7 to 10 days until they clear.
Told you Mike is a fraud.
The crooks are in the news again
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_27268854/look-at-new-members-congress-from-california
Anyway you look at it, this brings about change in people that ends badly for all.
Black Protesters Storm NYC Restaurants to Target and Harrass White Customers
by Brian Hayes | Top Right News
Black protesters targeted White people eating brunch today at multiple New York City restaurants in a sickening, coordinated racist action they called #BlackBrunch.
On the same day that the NYPD buried two of its officers who were executed by anti-police protester Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, his former brethren joined hands and screamed racial epithets at White customers, even bringing one woman to tears.
continued here http://toprightnews.com/?p=7866
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live news feed from Sidney
Hostage situation reportedly unfolding in Sydney chocolate shop
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/14/hostage-situation-reportedly-unfolding-in-sydney-chocolate-shop/
An armed gunman is holding up to 13 people hostage inside a chocolate shop in Sydney with their hands pressed up against the windows, Sky News Australia reports.
Australian special forces have been called in to the city’s financial district and New South Wales police are advising people to stay out of the area.
Television footage shot through the store's windows showed several people with their arms in the air and hands pressed against the glass. The footage showed two people inside the Lindt chocolate shop holding up what appeared to be a black flag with white Arabic writing on it. It was not immediately clear what the flag said.
New South Wales state police would not say what was happening inside the shop or whether hostages were being held, The Associated Press reports.
But Lindt Australia CEO Steve Loane told News.com.au he believes there are 40 to 50 people inside the cafe, including customers and staff.
A police spokeswoman said no injuries had been reported from the incident.
The shop is located in the heart of the city's financial district and streets in the area were closed. Police officers were lined up outside the shop.
“A police operation is underway in Martin Place, Sydney's CBD. People are advised to avoid the area,” New South Wales police posted on their Twitter account.
Australian police told The Telegraph that they are also responding to an "incident" at the Sydney Opera House. Local television reports say the facility was evacuated after a suspicious package was found.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the National Security Committee of Cabinet met to be briefed on the situation.
"This is obviously a deeply concerning incident but all Australians should be reassured that our law enforcement and security agencies are well trained and equipped and are responding in a thorough and professional manner," Abbott said in a statement.
Earlier Monday, a man in Sydney was taken into custody on suspected terrorism-related offenses during a raid by counter-terror units from the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales police, News.com.au reports. The allegations relate to financing to send people to fight in the ongoing war in Syria.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Mike recently tried to get me to connect with him on Linked-In. Long ago I inquired about the steam ray, asked for spec'ed since I had an app for it he could never produce them. They have nothing to offer. So now he's out trying to look like he is in the know by connecting to people that are producers.
She got the sound bite she needed. It will be used by the main stream media to show she is fighting for the little people.
She has been distancing herself from Obama, with other actions. This is all part of a well planned ground laying run for a challenge to Hillary.
Showing she is for the people, so once again the people will line up like trained zombies to vote for her.
Congress Passes Bill Giving Police Unlimited Access To Citizens’ December 11th, 2014
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2014/12/11/congress-passes-bill-giving-police-unlimited-access-to-citizens%E2%80%99-private-communications/
This article was written by Jay Syrmopoulos and originally published at The Free Thought Project
In a sneak attack on the civil liberties of all Americans, the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015 was rushed to the House floor with virtually no debate.
The legislation was scheduled for only a “voice vote,” which means that it is simply declared “passed” with voice votes and no record.
This is considered the simplest and quickest voting method, not what one would expect from such an important piece of legislation. For most pieces of major legislation, a roll call vote would be the standard operating procedure.
Thankfully, Representative Justin Amash, when catching wind of what was transpiring, went to the House floor to demand a roll call vote so that everyone would have to have their vote recorded.
The fact that this important piece of legislation was handled in this way indicates that this was done intentionally to sneak it past the public eye. It becomes even more suspicious when you realize that it was done concurrently with the CIA torture report being released and the Gruber hearing.
It seems clear there was an effort made to slip the vote by without having to answer to the American people, as Congress is well aware that Americans do not want to be spied upon by their government after the revelations by Edward Snowden.
Congressman Justin Amash stated that when he learned this bill was “being rushed to the floor for a vote… I asked my legislative staff to quickly review the bill for unusual language.”
What he says next should raise red flags for every American citizen.
He claims what his staff discovered was:
“One of the most egregious sections of law I’ve encountered during my time as a representative: It grants the executive branch virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American.”
The bill in question is H.R. 4681.
Rep. Amash wrote a last minute letter to all of his colleagues in Congress to implore them to vote “NO” on H.R. 4681.
Here is the text of that letter:
Dear Colleague:
The intelligence reauthorization bill, which the House will vote on today, contains a troubling new provision that for the first time statutorily authorizes spying on U.S. citizens without legal process.
Last night, the Senate passed an amended version of the intelligence reauthorization bill with a new Sec. 309—one the House never has considered. Sec. 309 authorizes “the acquisition, retention, and dissemination” of nonpublic communications, including those to and from U.S. persons. The section contemplates that those private communications of Americans, obtained without a court order, may be transferred to domestic law enforcement for criminal investigations.
To be clear, Sec. 309 provides the first statutory authority for the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of U.S. persons’ private communications obtained without legal process such as a court order or a subpoena. The administration currently may conduct such surveillance under a claim of executive authority, such as E.O. 12333. However, Congress never has approved of using executive authority in that way to capture and use Americans’ private telephone records, electronic communications, or cloud data.
Supporters of Sec. 309 claim that the provision actually reins in the executive branch’s power to retain Americans’ private communications. It is true that Sec. 309 includes exceedingly weak limits on the executive’s retention of Americans’ communications. With many exceptions, the provision requires the executive to dispose of Americans’ communications within five years of acquiring them—although, as HPSCI admits, the executive branch already follows procedures along these lines.
In exchange for the data retention requirements that the executive already follows, Sec. 309 provides a novel statutory basis for the executive branch’s capture and use of Americans’ private communications. The Senate inserted the provision into the intelligence reauthorization bill late last night. That is no way for Congress to address the sensitive, private information of our constituents—especially when we are asked to expand our government’s surveillance powers.
I urge you to join me in voting “no” on H.R. 4681, the intelligence reauthorization bill, when it comes before the House today.
Justin Amash
Member of Congress
This bill will allow information gained from domestic spying by the feds, in the name of “terrorism,” to be transferred to local law enforcement for criminal investigations without any type of court order, subpoena or warrant.
This is one of the most drastic changes in U.S. law in our lifetimes and has the potential to turn the U.S. into a true police state.
When the feds take what is claimed to be a means of fighting “terrorism” and use it as means of forwarding criminal prosecutions against American citizens, without any court order or warrant, we are on the brink of total tyranny.
We urge everyone to call their Representative and let them know that you do not support H.R. 4681… tell them NO new domestic spying powers!!
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“No Bugs, More Food?” Missouri Mother Shocked to Find GMO Propaganda in Children’s Science Book
By Nick Meyer On December 3, 2014 · Add Comment
http://althealthworks.com/4596/no-bugs-more-food-concerned-mother-raises-red-flag-over-pro-gmo-propaganda-in-6th-graders-textbook-with-pictures/
The Biotech and GMO food industries have long spent big bucks on lobbying to influence public opinion, but it’s not just the hearts and minds of our Congresspeople that Monsanto and others are after: they also have a long history of going after children as well.
Perhaps the most glaring recent example of corporate pro-GMO propaganda for kids came in the form of a Monsanto-funded coloring book titled “Look Closer at Biotechnology,” which was not widely distributed thanks to the work of online activists.
Next came a heavily-biased activity book that listed alleged “pros” of GMOs but said nothing about the cons, which activists caught wind of last year and were also able to stop.
The textbook company behind the activity books, Evan-Moor, was deluged by letters and calls from activists, leading to the removal of the pro-GMO exercise and a public apology from its CEO.
“We do not allow GMO foods in our home, and we would certainly never do anything to promote them in our publications,” he said, before removing the controversial parts.
Now, one parent in Monsanto’s home state is sounding the alarm about another children’s textbook that contains blatantly biased, pro-GMO information as shown in the picture below.
Sixth Graders’ Science Exercise: Pro-GMO to the Core
The 6th grade core curriculum textbook in question, ‘Science: A Closer Look’ includes a section on genetically modified (engineered) crops that is blatantly pro-GMO with no balance and no counter-points, including four bullet points touting their alleged, and highly disputed, “benefits.”
In this case, a parent in Monsanto’s home state of Missouri named Dawn Jordan noticed the section after her 6th grade niece brought the book to her.
The book includes the following statements about genetically engineered crops:
1. They can produce more food
2. They have more nutrients
3. They fight disease and insects
4. They need fewer chemical pesticides
According to Jordan, her teacher even got in on the act, writing in “no bugs, more food” in an answers section below where kids are asked to “list three ways genetically engineered crops could be helpful to humans.”
A photo from the 6th grade textbook 'A Closer Look at Science.'
A photo from the nationally-distributed 6th grade textbook ‘A Closer Look at Science.’
“A Closer Look” at Pro-GMO Propaganda
According to the textbook’s publisher McGraw-Hill education, the book in question (seen this link and the picture below) is distributed to schools across the country.
While two different McGraw-Hill reps did not know how to how many schools this particular book, ‘Science: A Closer Look,’ is distributed to, Jordan said that her niece, who attends Hillsboro Junior High in Hillsboro, Missouri (not too far from Monsanto’s St. Louis area headquarters) noticed that her peers from nearby schools also use the same book.
Jordan was surprised not only by the content but also the teacher’s comment.
“When my niece sent me her homework, I noticed her teacher wrote, ‘no bugs, more food’ as a suggestion to her as to what to write about…which disgusts me that a teacher in a public school system has no knowledge whatsoever on the actual truth about GMOS and is merely doing what she is told, without proper research first,” she said.
“When your child’s own teacher is uneducated, how are they supposed to educate your child?”
'Science: A Closer Look:' the book which contains a pro-GMO assignment.
‘Science: A Closer Look:’ the book which contains a pro-GMO assignment. Does your child use this textbook? Let us know in the comments section or on Facebook.
How to Contact the Publishers
If you’d like to contact the publishers of the book, McGraw-Hill, to let them know how you feel about the biased pro-GMO information in these children’s textbooks, you can click here to visit their customer support page.
The McGraw-Hill number for PreK-12 educational materials is 800-334-7344 (the call center is open til 6 p.m. ET), and their email address for general customer service inquiries is as follows: SEG_CustomerService@mheducation.com
The company is based in Columbus, Ohio.
Evidence Against Textbook’s Pro-GMO Claims
While the above assertions are stated as facts, the counter-arguments to these points are strong, yet completely ignored in the textbook:
1. There are plenty of studies showing lesser yields from GMOs compared to organic and natural crops, including this one from the University of Nebraska and this one from Iowa State University. Not only that, but a 2013 UN Report said that the task of “feeding the world” should be carried out through small-scale organic farming, not GMOs.
Do we need GMOs to "feed the world?" This 2013 UN Report disagrees; click here for more info.
Do we need GMOs to “feed the world?” This 2013 UN Report says the answer is actually small-scale organic farming; click here for more info.
2. Considering that these crops are sprayed with massive amounts of chemicals that harm the soil over time, especially in comparison to organic food, it’s no surprise that they are inferior nutritionally. Here’s a study showing that organic soybeans showed a “more healthy nutritional profile than all other types” including GMO soybeans, which also contained high levels of the toxic herbicide glyphosate.
3. While Bt corn includes toxins inside the plant to kill insects, some other insects including the corn rootworm have developed resistance to Bt toxin-producing corn, as the EPA noted in 2012. The textbook also makes no mention of the ongoing problem of herbicide-resistant “super weeds” which led to a request in Texas to use a banned chemical on over three million acres of GMO cotton this past summer. There are also at least 31 glyphosate-resistant weeds; many of them likely caused by the overuse of GMOs and accompanying herbicides, that have been cataloged so far.
The main solution offered to this growing resistance so far by Biotech has been to use more and stronger chemicals that find their way into our environment including our air, food and drinking water.
4. According to a report by Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University, GMOs actually led to an increase in overall pesticide use by an estimated 404 million pounds, or about 7% between 1996 and 2011, as GMO adoption has dramatically increased.
(P.S. In regards to the teacher’s “no bugs, more food” comment, chemical resistant “superbugs” are now actually proliferating due to GMOs).
While the kids’ textbook in question portrays GMOs as 100% beneficial, these and other studies and examples clearly show that the textbook in question is far from balanced at best, and blatantly wrong at worst.
So, what do you think about pro-GMO propaganda showing up in kids’ textbooks? Let us know in the comments section (and be sure to let the book publishers know, too).
Thanks for reading! P.S. You can subscribe to our email list for more updates like these by clicking here; and don’t forget you can also contact the textbook publishers here.
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Blood-sucking ‘kissing bug’ sees 300k Americans infected with deadly disease
Published time: November 10, 2014 22:12
Edited time: November 11, 2014 07:13
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The United States is being infected by Chagas, a deadly disease spread by the feces of a parasite nicknamed the 'kissing bug'. It bites sleeping victims, ingests the blood and defecates on them; patients then unknowingly rub the feces into open membranes.
Chagas disease is seen as a “silent killer” by those who study and treat it, as it can often lurk in people’s bloodstreams for up to two decades before causing their organs to fail. The initial stage of the tropical illness ? the acute phase ? is mostly symptom-free and lasts for the first few weeks or months, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If a patient does exhibit symptoms, they can easily be mistaken for another disease.
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What We Should Know About Our Lymphatic System
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Obama AG Nominee Lynch: Voter ID Laws were Passed by Racist Southerners, Must be Stopped
by Aurelius • November 8, 2014
In a speech given at Long Beach earlier this year, President Obama’s new nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, specifically called out voter ID laws as racist. The video was uncovered by Pundit Press.
The remarks came at the end of a long speech, explaining the examples that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela set for people.
Ms. Lynch then began talking about the inequities that she sees in the United States.
“There’s still more work to do,” Ms. Lynch explained. “People tell us the Dream is not realized because dreams never are. Mandela and King knew we had to continue working, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell you, that under this President and under this Attorney General, that the Department of Justice is committed to following through with those dreams.”
Ms. Lynch
Ms. Lynch
She continued, “50 years after the march on Washington, 50 years after the civil rights movement, we stand in this country at a time when we see people trying to take back so much of what Dr. King fought for. We stand in this country. People try and take over the State House and reverse the goals that have been made in voting in this country.
“But I’m proud to tell you that the Department of Justice has looked at these laws and looked at what’s happening in the Deep South, and in my home state of North Carolina has brought lawsuits against those voting rights changes that seek to limit out ability to stand up and exercise our rights as citizens. And those lawsuits will continue.”
Ms. Lynch was no doubt talking about the Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina to stop their voter ID laws. Eric Holder even used the same kind of language as Lynch: “Allowing limits on voting rights that disproportionately exclude minority voters would be inconsistent with our ideals as a nation,” he explained.
It is plain to see that Ms. Lynch is arguing that people in the “Deep South” have passed these laws so that minority voters would be disenfranchised.
You can see the remarks in the video below. They start around the 30 minute mark:
I would add marine VHF radios. They range from 2-25 watts and offer some nice new calling features for direct contact to others.
Ebola in the United States: The Probability of Fraud
By Prof Jason Kissner
Global Research, October 16, 2014
Region: sub-Saharan Africa, USA
Theme: Science and Medicine
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ebola-in-the-united-states-the-probability-of-fraud/5408066?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ebola-in-the-united-states-the-probability-of-fraud
A recent series of contributions to Global Research by this author (e.g., here) contends that the U.S. government is lying about certain core aspects of the current Ebola outbreak. One core aspect consists in the idea that the current, never-before encountered strain of Ebola we are now dealing with is more likely to be aerosolized than has been acknowledged by the U.S. government. Another core aspect consists in the proposition that the current outbreak is attributable to U.S. sponsored bioterror.
Now, additional Ebola information has come to light—or, at least, Ebola information that we are given to believe is true has come to light. This article discusses why careful analysis of certain new information suggests that while we should continue to maintain the view that the Ebola phenomenon is U.S. sponsored bioterror, we should now view the “aerosolized” issue against a background of potential fraud. If what we have been told is true about recent, alleged U.S. Ebola cases is in fact very unlikely to be true, we are justified in suspecting that fraud is in play.
While we cannot be sure, there are now compelling, and formal, probabilistic reasons to believe that at least certain features of the U.S. Government/MSM Axis Ebola narrative are fraudulent. Two such features are discussed herein.
The first feature concerns the apparent fact that Dr, Kent Brantly shares the same blood type, for purposes of plasma transfusion, with three U.S. citizens purportedly stricken with Ebola who are tightly connected with U.S. soil: Dr. Nick Sacra, NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, and nurse Nina Pham. Dr. Angela Hewitt remarked upon the Brantly’s second successive match, which was with Mukpo: “it’s not a likely scenario that he would again have the same blood type,” said Hewlett. “We are incredibly grateful that Dr. Brantly would take the time to do this, not once, but twice.” To the two matches mentioned by Hewitt we must now add, as mentioned just now, the Pham match.
On this first feature, we are going to do something that innumerate, propagandist Axis MSM mouthpieces unwilling and in most cases unable to do, which is compute the probability that Brantly’s blood type matched, for plasma transfusion purposes, the blood type of Sacra, Mukpo, and Pham. That probability, it turns out, is very low indeed.
The second suspect feature of the MSM Ebola narrative surrounds the Pham Ebola case in particular. While it may sound bombastic, the brute fact is that right now—again on formal probabilistic grounds but this time together with contextual evidence—there is very little reason to believe that Pham in fact contracted Ebola. As you will see, this is very easily demonstrated.
Let us first address the probability of the three Brantly matches. First, view the plasma compatibility chart here. While for some reason we are not told what Brantly’s blood type, for plasma transfusion purposes, is, we are told that Brantly did not match Thomas Eric Duncan. As the chart indicates, that rules out blood type AB for Brantly, since the AB type can donate to any blood type. And, if Brantly were O, he would have matched Duncan if Duncan were an O—but in that event, all four cases would have been a match, since O donors match with O patient groups and Brantly is said to have matched the other three cases (O donors only match with O recipients). Since all four cases were not a match, Brantly is not an O, and since Brantly could not have been AB, Brantly’s blood type for plasma transfusion purposes is, in view of the foregoing, necessarily either A or B.
We can now use, together with data regarding the ethnic distribution of blood types, the binomial distribution together with the product rule to derive the probability that Brantly matched the three latest, purportedly Ebola infected U.S. persons tightly connected with U.S. soil. The binomial distribution formula is:
Where: P(x) is the probability of x matches (in this instance x=2, referring to the two U.S. White matches, which share the same probability); N is the number of trials (here, two, since there were two U.S. White cases); and p=the probability of a U.S. White match, which, as the above-linked ethnic distribution of blood types table shows, is equal to .4 if the two U.S. White blood type matches to Brantly are A, and .11 if the two U.S. White blood type matches to Brantly are B (we are going to do the process twice, once for the A blood type and once for the B blood type.)
To get the final 3 match result with respect to the A blood type, we will use the product rule and multiply the 2 case U.S. White result by the relevant Vietnamese heritage (Pham) type A probability, which is .22. In the case of the B blood type, we will multiply the 2 case U.S. White result by .3, which is the relevant Vietnamese heritage type B probability. We use the product rule to account for Pham’s case because her probability of a match is different than the two U.S. White cases; nevertheless, the probability of her matching blood type is presumably independent, just as the probabilities of matches for the other cases are—so we can use the product rule to finalize the probability of the three matches (we should add that if the probabilities of the three matches to Brantly are not independent, some form of fraud is almost certainly afoot).
If Brantly’s blood type is A, application of the above procedure yields a probability (keeping in mind that 0!=1) that Brantly matched the three cases of: .16 * .22, which equals .0352—a very low probability indeed. If Brantly’s blood type is B, the procedure yields a probability of three matches of .0121* .3, which gives .00363—a very, very low probability indeed.
So, in sum, in the best case scenario (the Brantly Type A case) for the U.S. Government/MSM Axis, there is, on current information, a 96.48% chance that the Axis is lying when it says Brantly matched the three cases. If, under the narrative, Brantly is type B, there is, on current information, a 99.64% chance that the Axis is lying about the three matches (we could combine these two probabilities by weighting, but with probabilities so low in either case, what, in the words of Fascist Hillary Clinton, difference does it make?)
Now to the specific Pham scenario. The CDC asserts that Pham has been infected, and that she was infected due to a breach of protocol. Formal probabilistic considerations together with contextual evidence, however, suggest that there is very little reason, at present, to believe that Pham has in fact been infected. By its own admission, the CDC cannot say what that breach of protocol was. Here we must add that, just after the evidently miraculous blood transfusion by the bearded, Christ-like Brantly, Pham’s condition has now been upgraded to “good.” We might also add that as of this writing none of Duncan’s Dallas contacts in the apartment seem to have been infected, and what’s become of them anyway? They seem to have vanished, and the Axis MSM is, of course, uninterested.
But these contextual observations are hardly the only reason to question whether Pham in fact contracted Ebola. In fact, formal probabilistic reasons pertaining to Bayes’ theorem counsel pronounced skepticism.
From a formal standpoint, the only evidence we have been given that Pham is in fact infected with Ebola is that a positive test result was returned. Without more, however, the positive test result is meaningless. To see this, consider that there is a very easy way to design a test that captures all cases that are really positive: just have the test report a positive result in every instance, whether the subject is in fact positive or negative. The more important point, though, is that even if the probability that Pham would test positive if she was not positive (that is, the false positive probability) is very low, without information about the prior probability that Pham was even in a position to, with a meaningful probability, contract the disease, the test result can be extremely misleading—so much so that it can be far more likely to be wrong than right.
This sounds very counterintuitive to many people, and so a brief explanation is in order. Suppose that in a population of 10,000 people only 10 have Ebola. If only 1% of cases produce a false positive under this supposition, 100 cases will test positive that do not in fact have the disease. So, even if the Ebola test used on Pham correctly identifies 100% of the true positive cases, the 10 positive cases correctly identified would be overwhelmed by the 100 false positives, such that a positive test result would yield only a 10/100, or 10% chance of Ebola infection. In short, a great deal depends on just what the relevant “prior” population and associated probability is.
This is precisely why the limited information on just how Pham is supposed to have been infected is so disconcerting; it goes to how small or large the prior probability is, and hence to the number of potential false positives in cases like hers. And, obviously, if Pham had no exposure whatsoever to Duncan, the positive test result would mean precisely: zilch, or right next to it.
True, via the New York Times, we have this from a “college friend” of Pham’s:
“Ms. Mitchell, Ms. Pham’s college friend, said the two spoke only fleetingly about her work at what has become the center of Ebola in the United States. Mr. Duncan was treated on Ms. Pham’s unit, Ms. Mitchell said in a brief telephone interview on Sunday, but Ms. Pham had said that only “at one point in time did she have him.””
So, at one point in time Pham is asserted, by way of hearsay evidence, to have had contact with Duncan? It has been asserted that Pham had contact with Duncan “from the day he was admitted to the hospital”, but why should we believe this, especially since many MSM people (e.g., the Daily Mail) assert Brantly had miracle matches that are cast into grave doubt by the preceding analyses? And, if what these folks say about Pham’s repeated Duncan contacts is correct, why doesn’t Mitchell echo them? And, so far, no attendees of Duncan other than Pham have been reported as infected; we shall of course see what the future brings in this regard.
Also in connection with the prior probability issue, interested readers may want to examine an academic article entitled “Incubation Period of Ebola Hemorrhagic Virus Subtype Zaire.” There, we find evidence that even strong contacts with the Ebola-infected can leave substantial probabilities that infection will be avoided—even over time periods as long as a week. True, that might help explain why Dallas apartment Duncan contacts have not contracted Ebola, and yet, with at least 70 health care workers supposedly exposed and no additional Ebola diagnoses as of now, plentiful questions remain.
In view of all of the above, is it beyond all reason to suppose that Pham, and conceivably even Brantly, have been duped—along with much of the rest of the “bioterrorized” world—at least with respect to purported U.S. citizen, U.S. soil Ebola cases?
Dr. Jason Kissner is Associate Professor of Criminology at California State University. Dr. Kissner’s research on gangs and self-control has appeared in academic journals. His current empirical research interests include active shootings. You can reach him at crimprof2010[at]hotmail.com
trading has been "halted" for some reason.
A company that makes products to be sold outside of the County , but is listed as not exporting,,Hum,,,and one guy runs it all?
Year Established:
Company Profile:
W2 Energy Inc. is a North American green technology company, committed to developing systems that provide real practical solutions to today's energy needs.
Address:
155 Turnbull Crt, Unit B
Cambridge, Ontario N1T 1J2
Telephone:
(519) 800-7556
Website:
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Contact:
Mr. Mike McLaren , President, CEO, Director
Employees:
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No
Have not heard much about the NY State going after people that did not register guns or mags as they required. Any word on this issue?
5 Questions About the Ebola Scare
Aaron Dykes & Melissa Melton
Activist Post
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/08/5-questions-about-ebola-scare.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20ActivistPost%20%28Activist%20Post%29#!bvlgSn
Now that the Ebola situation has hit the 24/7 mainstream media zoo, serious questions are being raised as to why now.
After all, people were dying of Ebola in the hundreds in West Africa before this week. Aid workers and doctors were getting infected before. These things are not new, but the sudden media focus raises lots of questions.
To start…
Why are they shipping Ebola-infected patients onto American soil for the first time?
As many have pointed out, this move seems particularly…ill-advised. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautioned people not to fly to the affected areas, but our State Department is going to go out of its way to put together heavily publicized, special containment tents inside planes to fly two Americans here while the media in lockstep makes a huge play-by-play deal?
It isn’t exactly level 4 containment all the way, either, as Underground Medic's Lizzie Bennett pointed out yesterday: the one guy arrived at the hospital and just got out of the ambulance and walked on in.
Why is Obama amending executive orders about quarantining people infected with Ebola when he already had that power?
The president just amended a G.W. Bush-era executive order 13295 which allows “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.”
Section 1, subjection b has now been replaced with the following:
(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled. This subsection does not apply to influenza.
Sure sounds like Ebola, doesn’t it?
But in reality, those quarantine powers were already in place. It even says so on this CDC map of U.S. quarantine stations fact sheet the agency released in August 2013.
Ebola definitely counts under the category “viral hemorrhagic fevers”.
So why make a big deal amending an executive order when the power to detain people who have, or are suspected to have Ebola, already exists?
The CDC also just released a brand new, timely webpage “Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals” as if it just completely slipped the agency’s mind to disseminate information to medical professionals on how to deal with Ebola before now. Come on. The page does, however, mention guidance for exposure to “contaminated air,” which is odd considering the CDC director has gone out of his way to say that there’s no way an Ebola outbreak could ever happen in the U.S.
What exactly have Ft. Detrick biowarfare researchers been doing in the Ebola hot zone in West Africa all this time?
Independent investigative reporter Jon Rappoport asked this very same question the day before yesterday, but it seems like a good one. He had several other questions, and they are all good ones:
What exactly have they been doing?
Exactly what diagnostic tests have they been performing on citizens of Sierra Leone?
Why do we have reports that the government of Sierra Leone has recently told Tulane researchers to stop this testing?
Have Tulane researchers and their associates attempted any experimental treatments (e.g., injecting monoclonal antibodies) using citizens of the region? If so, what adverse events have occurred?
The research program, occurring in Sierra Leone, the Republic of Guinea, and Liberia—said to be the epicenter of the 2014 Ebola outbreak—has the announced purpose, among others, of detecting the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons.
Is this purely defensive research? Or as we have seen in the past, is this research being covertly used to develop offensive bioweapons?
The same day, Navy Times published an article talking about how U.S. biowarfare scientists have been highly interested in Ebola since at least the late 1970s for engineering bioweapons: “mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates…and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.”
But the article goes on to say that scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) have been working on a vaccine since then, a purely defensive measure. Of course, they can’t come out and say they’re working on offensive weapons. The Biological Weapons Convention went into effect in 1975, supposedly putting an end to the government’s biological weapons program.
Why does the U.S. government own a patent on a novel strain of Ebola that those same Ft. Detrick researchers quietly admitted in a CDC journal article last month may actually be the cause of the current Sierra Leone outbreak, not Ebola Zaire as widely reported?
This one gets tricky.
There are five types of Ebola virus and the newest strain is named Bundibugyo, or Ebobun for short. The U.S. government actually holds a patent on this strain — US 20120251502 A1, for “Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof” related to the Bundibugyo version of the virus.
Last month, the same Ft. Detrick researchers who have been over in the Ebola hot zone published an article in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases where they discuss the human testing that has been going on over there and down near the bottom of the article, they quietly admit,“Ebolavirus infections in Sierra Leone might be the result of Bundibugyo virus or an ebolavirus genetic variant and not EBOV.”
The kicker?
The Ebobun version of Ebola, which is apparently been found to be “genetically distinct,” as it differs by more than 30% at the genome level from all other known ebolavirus species, apparently has a much lower death rate than the Zaire version the media keeps talking about.
Not that Ebola in any form isn’t dangerous. It’s deadly, period. But Ebobun had a 36% mortality rate at the initial outbreak in 2007, versus 70-90% on average for Zaire.
Additionally, because it is much more unique, researchers have suggested that if a vaccine or treatment is created for Ebola and the Ebobun strain is not taken into account, the resulting treatment or vaccine obviously might not work on it.
Regardless, all the mainstream media seems interested in driving home on repeat these days is that this outbreak is the Zaire strain which has a 90% mortality rate and no cure. Well…even that isn’t entirely true…
A NOVA presentation from 1995 clearly shows survivors and discusses how a nurse named Nicole was given blood transfusions from an infected patient who survived, to build up antibodies. A review sums it up:
After one week, Nicole began to recover. Spurred by this result, the Zairian doctors transfused an additional eight patients. Seven of the eight patients survived, but the Western doctors remain unconvinced. Because the experiment was completely uncontrolled, they argue that we will never know that the transfusion saved the lives of those patients.
That was 20 years ago. Current news stories even discuss how the doctor who was flown here infected with Ebola was given a unit of blood from a 14-year-old who survived Ebola. The female patient flown in was also reportedly given an experimental serum no one seems to elaborate much on.
On top of that, articles from 2008 show a vaccine was highly effective in monkeys and even used experimentally in a human patient with success. Where did those vaccines go? Why aren’t they widely available six years later?
And finally, as with any crisis, who stands to gain from this, and what is it they are ultimately after?
Just asking.
One company Tekmira, who has been performing Phase I clinical trials for an Ebola drug it has been working on in otherwise healthy adult patients has seen its stock skyrocket over the last two weeks, even though its experiments in humans have now been halted due to safety concerns.
Tekmira apparently has a $140 million contract with none other than the USAMRIID to work on this drug, along with a multi-million contract with biotech giant Monsanto for the same technology. The drug was granted FDA fast track status back in March. As the company’s site says, however, the drug is apparently for the Zaire strain of the virus.
So has Tekmira taken the Ebobun strain into account?
In addition, now Reuters is reporting that Ebola vaccines have been fast tracked as well, with human experiments starting as early as next month. Wow, that was fast. Will those vaccines take Ebobun into account?
The last time a vaccine was fast tracked in such a manner, it was for the purposefully overblown swine flu “pandemic” — a created “campaign of panic” basically designed to sell vaccines and grant more emergency powers.
As Aaron Dykes reported in 2010:
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claims that the threshold for alert was deliberately lowered at the WHO, allowing a “pandemic” to be declared despite the mildness of the ‘swine flu.’ That designation would force a demand for the vaccine, which was subsequently purchased by governments or health facilities and pushed on the public through a full-scale fear campaign in the media…
Wodarg is focusing on the motives for profit, as well as the ties between the World Health Organization (WHO), the pharmaceutical-industrial complex and research scientists, a nexus which Canada Free Press points out is eerily similar to the Climategate revelations that CRU research scientists fudged data to “hide the decline” in proxy temperatures in order to support global warming claims.
Wodarg made several disconcerting statements to the media, including:
“Never before the search for traces of a virus was carried out so broadly and intensively, besides, many cases of death that happen to coincide with seropositive H1N1 lab-findings were simply attributed to “swine-flu” and used to foster fear.”
“A group of people in the WHO is associated very closely with the pharmaceutical industry.”
“The great campaign of panic we have seen provided a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared.”
In fact, that’s what CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson was set to expose, but her bosses refused to air her story. The mainstream media completely shut her down. Fear sells. The truth, by contrast, doesn’t.
“With the CDC keeping the true Swine Flu stats secret, it meant that many in the public took and gave their children an experimental vaccine that may not have been necessary,” Attkisson said. Read this piece on her 2009 interview with Jon Rappoport for more on how the CDC stopped counting cases of swine flu altogether and hyped the public into a panic that ultimately led to millions of people receiving potentially dangerous, fast-tracked vaccinations.
That’s right. Countries the world over reported many deaths and disabilities suffered in the wake of the fast-tracked H1N1 vaccine, a vaccine people scrambled to get after the hysteria over swine flu was over hyped everywhere, from government agencies to the mainstream media.
But hey, a lot of people in the military-medical-media industrial complex made a lot of money.
Much worse than mere greed, though, is the possibility of martial law and a forced mass vaccination scenario — a scenario where the military is “forced” to step in to contain “bio-threats” (regardless of whether or not those threats are real or made up). For more on that, see DARPA’s “Blue Angel” project.
Talking about something scary isn’t automatically scaremongering — but if the powers that shouldn’t be are scaremongering, we should talk about it.
(Meanwhile, headlines about ‘Ebola fear going viral’ are already screaming at people to be afraid…very very afraid.)
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton created TruthstreamMedia.com, where this article first appeared, as an outlet to examine the news, uncover the deceptions, pierce through the fabric of illusions, know the real enemy, unshackle from the system, and begin to imagine the path towards taking back our lives, one step at a time, so that one day we might truly be free...
The government has your baby's DNA
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/
Some States have opt out or destroy forms
http://www.cchfreedom.org/issue.php/14
Hillary for President? Humor
http://teamcoco.com/video/hillary-clinton-brain-damage
Bundy Ranch - What You're Not Being Told
you could also look into gasification using wood products. I'm not up on this but is is very interesting process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent
propane is less BTU but can be stored indefinitely. Gas is good for 1 or 2 years at best with additives and temperature dependent.
Not 100% positive, but I think Michigan closed this loop hole.
mandating you off the roads?
2014-01-26 05:24:48 - SNOW STORM - USA
EDIS Code: SS-20140126-42452-USA
Date&Time: 2014-01-26 05:24:48 [UTC]
Continent: North-America
Country: USA
State/Prov.: State of Ohio,
Location: Paulding County,
City:
Description:
Paulding County Emergency Management has issued a Level 2 snow emergency. A county sheriff may, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code sections 311.07 and 311.08, declare a snow emergency and temporarily close the state roads and municipal streets within his/her jurisdiction when such action is reasonably necessary for the preservation of the public peace. Ohio Attorney General's Opinion 97-015, issued April 1, 1997, concluded that this authority includes state roads, county and township roads and municipal streets. Any person who knowingly hampers or fails to obey a lawful order of the sheriff declaring a snow emergency and temporarily closing highways, roads and/or streets within his/her jurisdiction may be subject to criminal prosecution under Ohio Revised Code Section 2917.13, "Misconduct at an emergency" or other applicable law or ordinance. A violation under that section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, punishable by a jail sentence not to exceed 30 days and/or a fine not to exceed $250. If the misconduct creates a risk of physical harm to persons or property, it is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable by a jail sentence not to exceed 180 days and/or a fine not to exceed $1,000.
Posted:2014-01-26 05:24:48 [UTC]
Yes the dare to prepare board. Sometime last year, there was lots of talk regarding solar.
OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (O.U.R.)
O.U.R. Children | O.U.R. Responsibility
https://www.operationundergroundrailroad.org/about/
The original Underground Railroad was a network that existed in nineteenth century America to liberate African slaves. It consisted of secret routes, safe houses, and undercover operatives who would infiltrate the plantation, often pretending to be slaves themselves, then stealthily conduct the captives out of bondage. We often congratulate ourselves for having eradicated nineteenth century slavery. But it has not been eradicated. It is uglier than ever. Its victims today include nearly two million precious children in the world*. They are sex slaves. That is why we have resurrected the Underground Railroad and we have employed many of the original clandestine techniques.
These poor children are abused daily, thousands of them being imported every year into developed countries like the United States and Canada. These children range from toddlers to teenagers. People have been talking about this problem for some time. But these children don't need more talk. They need action. They need to be extracted from the hell they are living in. We know how to extract them. This is what we do. We rescue them and place them into safe havens where they can be rehabilitated. Then we go after the bad guys and break their organizations. Help us do this. Help us help the children.
We have gathered the world's experts in extraction operations and in anti-child trafficking efforts. They are former CIA, U.S. Special Agents, Navy SEALs, and Green Berets. They make up what we call the Underground Jump Team. While the United States government is leading the world in such operations, it is largely hindered by bureaucracy and jurisdictional limitations. If there is no U.S. statute being violated, then no U.S. action can be taken. Because most of these suffering children fall outside of U.S. jurisdiction and often find themselves kidnapped and abused in regions where the resources to save them are scarce, it is time for private citizens and organizations to rise up and help. It is our duty as a free and blessed people. If not us, who?
We have partnered with private software and data mining companies who have developed cutting edge tools to locate and detain international child trafficking organizations. Over the last decade these tools have led to the rescue of thousands of children and to the apprehension of thousands of pedophile captors. (Note: These tools do not violate privacy rights, as they only mine data that has been publically disseminated by those seeking to sell children.) Sadly, these tools have only been utilized in developed countries, leaving those infected nations with the most enslaved children to fend for themselves. Our Underground Jump Team will end this. Partnering with government jurisdictions throughout the world, we will provide these tools free of charge, and we will work side by side with our foreign partners until the children on the other end of that dark Internet line are liberated.
But it doesn't end there. Tapping into vast human intelligence resources developed over many years, our Jump Team will also locate the most active child sex rings in the world. Our Team will then rapidly deploy and, through a series of undercover sting operations, find and rescue these innocent children. Working hand in hand with our government partners, we will ensure that the perpetrators are held responsible and taken to a place where they can never hurt children again. The children will then be placed with the best shelters and institutions in the world to begin their rehabilitation. We stay with them through the entire process.
Our mission is straightforward: Using cutting-edge computer technology and human intelligence, we contract undercover teams of former CIA and Special Ops personnel to go into the darkest corners of the world to help local law enforcement liberate enslaved children and dismantle the criminal networks.
two likely criminals off the street.
Probably a stolen gun, and they were both probably close to brain dead to start with.
Chicago Man Brain Dead After Being Shot By Sister
SOUTH SHORE, CHICAGO - A woman was arrested after she accidentally shot a male relative in the face after an argument over whether or not the gun would fire.
Joeann told officers that arrived that she and her brother Willie had been drinking King Cobra beer and Seagrams Gin. While they were drinking, they began to play with a Rosco .22 caliber revolver. The gun was loaded, and they were at first going to try testing it off the back porch.
Joeann Smith reportedly began arguing with Willie Smith over whether the weapon would actually fire. Joeann then pointed the gun at Willie’s face, pulled the trigger and shot him in the eye.
Willie has been announced brain dead at the Northwestern Memorial hospital and Joeann was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and is being held on a $250K bond.
Who Need Accuracy When You Have Technology?
A new hi-tech bullet has been invented by Advanced Ballistics Concepts which expands in midair. The Mi-bullet expands into several different interconnected pieces after being fired. The design was engineered in order to improve accuracy of people who are in high-pressure situations and may not be able to aim properly.
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/new-hi-tech-bullet-grows-midair-video/
Local police refuse to participate in 'voluntary' traffic checkpoints
Published time: January 08, 2014 21:08
http://rt.com/usa/police-refuse-traffic-checkpoints-328/
The US government’s use of traffic checkpoints to gather drunk and drugged driving information from motorists has come under fire recently, so much so that some police agencies are withdrawing their participation.
These checkpoints, established by a subcontractor for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, are co-manned by off-duty, uniformed officers and intended to ask people about their driving habits. Although participation is voluntary, the presence of uniformed officers has pushed many Americans to complain they feel compelled to comply with requests.
Fueled by mistrust of the government due to the burgeoning National Security Agency surveillance scandal, the fact that some checkpoint workers collect blood, saliva, and breath samples has only amplified concerns.
As RT reported in mid-2013, police in Ohio were criticized for setting up fake checkpoints in order to randomly stop cars and search them for drugs. Since it’s illegal for police to stop and search vehicles without probable cause, the sham checkpoint system has been criticized as unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union is investigating the issue and considering taking legal actions.
Meanwhile, police and checkpoint workers in Reading, Pennsylvania raised eyebrows in December when reports began surfacing that they were asking drivers to provide DNA samples as part of the NHTSA survey. One resident said he was never told what the sample would be used for and had to refuse to hand one over multiple times before he was finally allowed to go.
In the past, the NHTSA has said it does not collect DNA samples, but numerous reports have indicated police offer between $10 - $50 for cheek swabs and blood samples.
Already, law enforcement agencies near St. Louis, Missouri and Fort Worth, Texas have stated their intent to limit participation in future surveys of this kind due to backlash and fear of losing the public’s trust. Meanwhile, Alabama residents have also complained about the presence of uniformed officers at checkpoints, though they did not claim they were pressured to participate.
According to Mary Catherine Roper of the Pennsylvania chapter of the ACLU, the simple fact that uniformed police officers are pulling over pedestrians makes Americans think their participation is required.
"We have a whole bunch of rules about when police can pull you over," she told USA Today. "It looks like an exercise of official authority when a cop pulls you over. People assume it's mandatory, and of course you're going to stop. That's a constitutional problem right there."
Instead of pulling drivers over, Roper suggested various other venues for survey workers to request and collect data, such as highway rest stops or toll booths.
Despite the complaints, however, the NHTSA has defended its actions, citing the large number of Americans – nearly 10,000 – who are killed in drunk driving crashes every year.
"The survey provides useful data about alcohol and drug use by drivers, and participation is completely voluntary and anonymous,” read a statement by the agency to USA Today. “More than 60 communities across the country will participate this year, many of which participated in the previous survey in 2007. NHTSA always works closely with state and local safety officials and local law enforcement to conduct these surveys as we work to better inform our efforts to reduce drunk and drugged driving."
Car manufacturers store driving habits, location data for unknown amount of time - report
Reuters / Lucy Nicholson
Reuters / Lucy Nicholson
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US automakers are using the navigation systems installed in millions’ of drivers cars to track their whereabouts and the duration they stay in one place, and there’s no way for an individual to erase this data, a new government investigation has found.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report this week examining Detroit’s Big Three automakers -- Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler -- as well as Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. Investigators found that when it comes to a car company tracking a driver’s data – in order to locate a nearby gas station or help with direction, for instance – each business has a widely different policy.
What was consistent, though, is that “if companies, retained data, they did not allow consumers to request that their data be deleted, which is a recommended practice.”
The report did not identify the specific policies employed by each of the automakers, although it did also study the tracking policies of global positioning options including Garmin, TomTom, Google Maps, and Telenav.
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, first requested the report and said that auto companies have taken steps to protect their customers, although more needs to be done to make them aware of the current policies.
“Modern technology now allows drivers to get turn-by-turn directions in a matter of seconds, but our privacy laws haven’t kept pace with these enormous advances,” Franken said in a statement Monday. “Companies providing in-car location services are taking their customers’ privacy seriously – but this report shows that Minnesotans and people across the country need much more information about how data are being collected, what they’re being used for, and how they’re being shared with third parties.”
Franken also said that he plans to introduce legislation regarding vehicle-specific privacy within the year.
Cars track customers in a number of ways that many customers are likely unaware of. Along with navigation systems, some parents want their cars tracked in order to keep an eye on teenagers behind the wheel. Many models are sold with data recorders, similar to the “black boxes” used in airplanes that record pilots’ conversations and actions, that are used to piece together information in the event of a crash.
Other commuters use transponders like EZ-PASS to avoid waiting in tollbooth lanes. Such devices are used as evidence when police are investigating someone who may have used their car to commit a crime, but how long that data is kept is unknown.
The GAO report noted “companies should safeguard location data, in part, by de-identifying them; that companies should not keep location data longer that needed; and that such data should be deleted after a specific amount of time.”
GM spokeswoman Heather Rosenker told the Detroit News that the company does not keep records of customers’ turn-by-turn navigation and that “OnStar takes seriously matters that affect our customers’ privacy and operates its services with strong privacy protections and practices.”
http://rt.com/usa/car-companies-tracking-drivers-habits-334/
There are other factors in play that could be part of the problem. Every large city are them draws water, the Chicago canal, dredging many years ago of the St. Clair river. Recently the levels are rising again due to heavy rains this fall.