A DAY OF SHOCKERS! [FR research.]

CHINA OVERTAKES [President Ebola’s] USA AS WORLD’S LARGEST ECONOMY...
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-overtakes-us-as-worlds-largest-economy-2014-10

EU politicians using crisis to demand sharp curbs in immigration...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/world/european-leaders-scramble-to-upgrade-response-to-ebola-crisis.html?src=twr
[And we need to secure our own border in less than a year in case South/Central America possibly gets infected — the sooner the better. We can also use sonar and boat-drones to secure our coasts.]

Utah congressmen cry foul over yellow-billed cuckoo protections ( UN Agenda 21 )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213036/posts
“...a “sweeping” proposal to designate more than a half-million acres...” [Republican Reps. Jason Chaffetz and Chris Stewart are fighting back.] “...only 60 days of public comment with no public hearings...”

Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213006/posts
“Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.”

EPA Pulls An IRS And Admits To Losing Agency Text Messages
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212980/posts

NM MAYOR: ‘ALL OF A SUDDEN’ FEDS RELEASING ILLEGALS AT 4-TO-1 RATIO...
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/08/NM-Mayor-All-of-A-Sudden-Fed-Gov-Now-Releasing-Illegal-Immigrants-at-4-to-1-Ratio

Ebola Cases Surpass 8,000 [time.com]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213029/posts
“...new data from the World Health Organization (WHO).”

ATTKISSON: Outbreak of [quasi-polio] virus first idenfitied in cities with ‘significant number’ of relocated immigrants...
http://sharylattkisson.com/polio-like-outbreak-claims-fifth-life-in-u-s

HOMELAND: No Islamic State fighters coming from Mexico...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/10/08/242646/no-islamic-state-fighters-coming.html?sp=/99/200/
[After Senator Hunter said 10 were caught.]

Ebola outbreak: UK sending 750 troops to Sierra Leone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212988/posts

DALLAS PATIENT DEAD... Remains Still Infectious...
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/ebola-patients-remains-still-infectious

UPDATE: Sheriff’s Deputy ‘Exhibiting Symptoms’... Claims Had Contact...
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/frisco-patient-exhibiting-ebola-symptom

FURIOUS SPANISH MOB AFTER VICTIM’S PET DOG PUT DOWN
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2785036/Police-clash-protesters-angry-threat-Spanish-Ebola-dog-Excalibur-s-life-s-carted-away-authorities.html

PAPER: HEAT SCANNERS NOT EFFECTIVE...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/ebola-prevention-thermal-scanner-effective-placebo
[Duh — there’s no fever at first anyway. We need an auto-quarantine/solo isolation period for each passenger in ALL international airports if the VISA reveals recent visit to hot spots.]

WAR OF WORDS IN MADRID OVER FAILURES SURROUNDING [Ebola]...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ebola-outbreak-spanish-medics-and-union-blame-government-cuts-for-virus-escape-9783268.html
[government-funded healthcare.]

Poll: Majority of Blacks Believe There Would Be Ebola Cure if Outbreak Originated in US or Europe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3213050/posts
[President Ebola-care, the man to ‘end racism’, has a brother in an African hut. He has other relatives there who miss him, and STILL ...!!!!]

Thousands of children [in Europe] are still at risk from sexual exploitation [groups of mainly Asian men]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213054/posts
“...the Rotherham sex abuse scandal ... police and council bosses turned a blind eye to the exploitation for fear of being labelled racist...”

WIRE: Obama allies getting harder to find...
FEW_FRIENDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-08-17-05-20

CARTER: Obama Dropped Ball on ISIS...
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/jimmy-carter-barack-obama-isil-111692.html

Ebola Prep Came Late...
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/former-president-carter-u-s-slow-in-preparing-for-ebola

In Texas, a Fight Over Fracking...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/business/in-texas-a-fight-over-fracking.html

Landrieu [rat-senator] replaces campaign manager...
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/landrieu-replaces-campaign-manager-111716.html

POT-INFUSED SODA BOTTLES EXPLODE IN STORE...
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Exploding-pot-pop-removed-from-three-mariujana-shops-278467461.html

ISIKOFF: First Whitewater prosecutor says ‘serious crimes’ were uncovered in [Clinton] probe...
http://news.yahoo.com/first-whitewater-prosecutor-says—serious-crimes—were-uncovered-in-probe-220111087.html

STUDIES: Multitasking Damages Your Brain...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2014/10/08/multitasking-damages-your-brain-and-career-new-studies-suggest/
[Moderation in all things.]

Islamic State case: Bolingbrook teen’s hearing may be closed (Chicago)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213062/posts
“...teen accused of planning to join the Islamic State terrorism group...Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, was arrested at O’Hare International Airport...”

School Told to Call Kids ‘Purple Penguins’ Because ‘Boys and Girls’ Is Not Inclusive to Transgender
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3213058/posts
A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead. “Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training document given to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools. “Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug,” it advises. The document also warns against asking students to “line up as boys or girls,” and suggests asking... [snip]

More Banks Hacked
http://news.yahoo.com/several-us-banks-attacked-hackers-hit-chase-211237225.html

Putin Retaliating?
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/cyberattack-on-jpmorgan-raises-alarms-at-white-house-and-on-wall-street/

Prayer vigil held for American threatened with ISIS beheading...
http://www.wrbl.com/story/26738384/friends-aid-worker-captured-in-syria-knew-risks

MOSQUITOES SWARM ARIZONA?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/arizona-storms-bring-mosquito-infestation-26059560

Chris Matthews urges Obama to quit ‘pandering’ to ‘ethnic groups’...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/08/chris-matthews-says-obama-should-stop-pandering-to-ethnic-groups-video/

A Very Bad Year for Obamacare…and a Worse Year for the Victims of Obamacare (long article)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212984/posts

The Real Duncan: Why Ebola Transporter lied about contact
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213021/posts
“I knew Duncan well. As refugees in Bujumbura Camp we were there hustling to see how we could make it. We were at war back home, so we were like trying to do everything humanly possible to make sure we stay alive to come back home. So when the war ended we began to come home one by one and he came before me. I came in 2011. We met once and that was around the 72nd belt, somewhere around Boulevard Junction and we just waved to each other because I was in a taxi; that’s the last time I...” [snip]

Real estate broker: Detroit house for iPhone 6 Plus swap offer is for real (with video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3213022/posts
“...after repeatedly dropping the price on a property he’s trying to sell, is now willing to trade it for an iPhone 6. Really.”

IMF says economic growth may never return to pre-crisis levels
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213023/posts
“...cut its global growth forecasts for 2014 and 2015 and warned that the world economy may never return to the pace of expansion seen before the financial crisis.”
[That is assuming we never return to a true free market in the US.]

3D-Printed Machine Gun Folds and Shoots Endless Paper Airplanes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213027/posts

Doctors find potato growing inside Colombian woman, apparently used as a contraceptive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3213031/posts

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum ( Oct 2014)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3213032/posts
[So that means that the sea levels have lowered, right?/sarc]

Little Girl’s Playset Is in Her Own Backyard, City Wants It Destroyed Anyway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213041/posts
“... a gift to their handicapped 10-year-old daughter from the Make-A-Wish-Foundation—because it is a “public nuisance,” ...”

It Took Soldiers a Year to Make Kid’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ Wish Come True, But It Was Totally Worth It
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213043/posts
“...My wish was to be a World War II pilot stationed in Pearl Harbor that gets shot down and has to survive on a deserted island with the supplies that a World War II pilot would have...”

[Feel free to add other shockers you deem worthy.]

Do you feel the Holy Spirit FRiend? Good v Evil — I FEEL it! God bless you for caring so much to wade through all of this.

FRegards.

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