THREAT MATRIX 2013 #1

Freepers Who Care | JANUARY 22, 2013 | TM CREW

[MestaMachine]

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[Hardraade]

Uh-oh. Something is cooking.

http://www.wbir.com/news/article/265845/2/Shots-fired-at-TVA-Watts-Bar-Nuclear-Plant

[caww]

Yep, saw that earlier and posted on a thread.... the fact shots were fired near a Nuke facility is troublesome to say the least....will see how they report on it as it proceeds.

[LucyT]

[LucyT]

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Italian police arrest four suspected Islamist militants

BARI, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police on Tuesday arrested four of six men they suspect are members of an Islamist militant cell which was planning attacks in the United States, Israel and Italy, though no specific targets were named by police.

The men aimed to train militants and send them abroad, para-military police said, and are suspected of conspiracy to commit international terrorism - and inciting racial hatred.

Read More:

http://news.yahoo.com/italian-police-arrest-four-suspected-islamist-militants-131630041.html

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[WildHighlander57]

The fox news article on this was published march/April of last year.

[LucyT]

Thank you miz know-it-all.

If you had clicked on the link [which a long time freeper sent this morning) you would have seen the article was posted six hours ago. I just checked again, and it now shows “posted ten hours ago.”

[WildHighlander57]

I clicked on the link and went two pages further in, until I found the fox news article.

That is the one that was written last year.

There are tons of entries on other websites between then and now; I was looking for the news story on which they based their topics.

LucyT wrote:
“ Thank you miz know-it-all.

If you had clicked on the link [which a long time freeper sent this morning) you would have seen the article was posted sixhours ago. I just checked again,and it now shows “posted ten hours ago.””

[WildHighlander57]

And i noticed that the further that one goes into the link results, the less one gets the full phrase; that fox news article I mentioned from last year is talking about an entirely different EO.

The one about the elections that was done Easter time frame I think was picked up by the New American.

I will look for the EO number.....

[LucyT]

Why don’t you take over the ping lists, since it is apparent you think you can do a better job.

[WildHighlander57]

Lucy, I am sorry it came across wrong :(

Please accept my apologies

I did not check enough and so I did more searching and found this one posted more recently :

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/29/Obama-Tries-to-Nationalize-Voting-for-Partisan-Gain-by-Signing-Executive-Order-Establishing-Election-Administration-Commission

[WildHighlander57]

Lucy, MestaMachine, Hardraade, all

Here’s that EO re the elections:

http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/28/executive-order-establishment-presidential-commission-election-administr

For Immediate Release March 28, 2013

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Executive Order —Establishment of the Presidential Commission of Election Administration

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON ELECTION ADMINISTRATION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote the efficient administration of Federal elections and to improve the experience of all voters, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment. There is established the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (Commission).

Sec. 2. Membership. (a) The Commission shall be composed of not more than nine members appointed by the President. The members shall be drawn from among distinguished individuals with knowledge about or experience in the administration of State or local elections, as well as representatives of successful customer service-oriented businesses, and any other individuals with knowledge or experience determined by the President to be of value to the Commission.

(b) The President shall designate two members of the Commission to serve as Co-Chairs.

Sec. 3. Mission. (a) The Commission shall identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to promote the efficient administration of elections in order to ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots without undue delay, and to improve the experience of voters facing other obstacles in casting their ballots, such as members of the military, overseas voters, voters with disabilities, and voters with limited English proficiency.

In doing so, the Commission shall consider as appropriate:

(i) the number, location, management, operation, and design of polling places;

(ii) the training, recruitment, and number of poll workers;

(iii) voting accessibility for uniformed and overseas voters;

(iv) the efficient management of voter rolls and poll books;

(v) voting machine capacity and technology;

(vi) ballot simplicity and voter education;

(vii) voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities, limited English proficiency, and other special needs;

(viii) management of issuing and processing provisional ballots in the polling place on Election Day;

(ix) the issues presented by the administration of absentee ballot programs;

(x) the adequacy of contingency plans for natural disasters and other emergencies that may disrupt elections; and

(xi) other issues related to the efficient administration of elections that the Co-Chairs agree are necessary and appropriate to the Commission’s work.

(b) The Commission shall be advisory in nature and shall submit a final report to the President within 6 months of the date of the Commission’s first public meeting.

Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The Commission shall hold public meetings and engage with Federal, State, and local officials, technical advisors, and nongovernmental organizations, as necessary to carry out its mission.

(b) In carrying out its mission, the Commission shall be informed by, and shall strive to avoid duplicating, the efforts of other governmental entities.

(c) The Commission shall have a staff, which shall provide support for the functions of the Commission.

Sec. 5. Termination. The Commission shall terminate 30 days after it presents its final report to the President.

Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) To the extent permitted by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations, the General Services Administration shall provide the Commission with such administrative services, funds, facilities, staff, equipment, and other support services as may be necessary to carry out its mission on a reimbursable basis.

(b) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.) (the “Act”), may apply to the Commission, any functions of the President under that Act, except for those in section 6 of the Act, shall be performed by the Administrator of General Services.

(c) Members of the Commission shall serve without any additional compensation for their work on the Commission, but shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, to the extent permitted by law for persons serving intermittently in the Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707).

(d) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to a department, agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(e) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA

[WildHighlander57]

This reply #185 ( below ) about foxnews was in response to post #179, the one about the Easter e.o.

Reply #185 was NOT to #184, the post about the Italian arrests.

Please forgive the mixup :0

#185 “WildHighlander57 wrote:

The foxnews article on this was published march/April of last year.

[Hardraade]

More coronavirus, now spreading to France:

NOVEL CORONAVIRUS - EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (22): FRANCE, SUSPECTED,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Two people who had contact with a Frenchman who is seriously ill with
the new SARS-like coronavirus have fallen sick and been admitted to
hospital, health officials in northern France said on Thursday [9 May
2013].

One is a patient who shared a ward with the 65-year-old man infected
with the virus when he was in a hospital in the town of Valenciennes,
northern France, at the end of April [2013], and the other is a doctor
who treated him there.

The 65-year-old carrier, who fell ill on his return from a trip to
Dubai, has since been transferred to an isolated intensive care wing
in a hospital in Douai, near the northern city of Lille, where he is
in a critical condition.

The ARS local health authority said the 2 other men were in individual
rooms in separate hospitals, one in Lille and the other in the nearby
town of Tourcoing and that tests had been carried out on both of
them.

“They show symptoms which require a special infectious diseases
consultation,” the ARS said in a statement. “The results of the tests
carried out on these 2 people will be known soon and will be made
public.”

As France reported the 65-year-old as its 1st case of the coronavirus
on Wednesday [8 May 2013], the World Health Organization said it would
send experts to visit a Saudi hospital from which the virus has
spread, killing 7 people so far.

The French case brought the total number of known infections worldwide
to 31, of which 18 resulted in death.

Coronavirus is from the same viral family that triggered the outbreak
of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that swept the world from
Asia in late 2003, killing 775 people.

Despite there being no evidence so far of sustained human-to-human
transmission, health experts’ concerns are growing over clusters of
new cases.

[Byline: Pierre Savary, Catherine Bremer, Michael Roddy]

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[Myrddin]

Thanks.

[Hardraade]

More Coronavirus. This isn’t going away.

MERS-COV - EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (19): RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY, REQUEST
FOR INFORMATION

MERS-CoV and N-linked sialic acid: a request for information

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The recent observation that upper respiratory tract (URT) swabs may
not contain MERS-CoV, while the lower respiratory tract (LRT) can
harbour the virus in the same patients, suggests an hypothesis that
infection by MERS-CoV may be dependent on the variety of
neuraminidase-linked sialic acid at receptor sites in respiratory
epithelium, as is widely recognized in avian influenza [AI] virus.
Successful airborne spread of AI appears to be more likely when the
virus has adapted to attachment with alpha 2,6, N-linked sialic acid
present throughout the human URT, from where the virus can be launched
with remarkable efficiency through sneezes. (This was the case in the
1981, 1957, and 1968 AI pandemics). A/H5N1 however, is thus far
adapted to alpha 2,3, sialic acid, (which can be found in human LRT,
and especially abundant in duck enteric epithelium). This probably
accounts for the absence of pandemic spread by H5N1 through coughs and
sneezes, while allowing contagion via close (saliva/mucous) contact.
Has any study been carried out thus far on the attachment preference
(if any) of MERS-CoV with regard to N-linked sialic acid in the
respiratory tract?

—
Tim Sly, PhD, MSc, CPHI(C), DPHI
Prof, Epidemiology and Risk Studies
School of Occ. & Public Health
& School of Graduate Studies
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St. Toronto, M5B 2K3
Canada

[The location in the respiratory tract of neuraminidase-linked sialic
acid receptor sites appears to be a critical determinant of
pathogenicity in influenza virus infections. The relative absence of
MERS-CoV in swabs from the upper respiratory tract may be a reflection
of a similar situation. Can any readers provide further information in
this regard? - Mod.CP]

[see also:
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (18): Italy, contact screening, RFI
20130603.1753321
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (17): Saudi Arabia, Italy ex Jordan,
WHO 20130602.1751356
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (16): Italy ex Jordan, contact cases,
WHO 20130602.1750425
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (15): Saudi Arabia, Italy ex Jordan,
WHO, RFI 20130601.1749096
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (14): Morocco ex UAE, RFI
20130530.1746026
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (13): Saudi Arabia, WHO
20130530.1745063
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (12): Saudi Arabia, France
20130528.1741836
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (11): Saudi Arabia, new death
20130527.1738597
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (10): animal reservoir, research
20130524.1735984
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (09): Saudi Arabia, WHO, Jordan
20130523.1733317
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (08): Saudi Arabia, new case, fatal,
RFI 20130522.1731245
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (07): Tunisia ex Saudi Arabia/Qatar,
fatal, WHO 20130522.1730663
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (06): Saudi Arabia, new fatality,
meeting 20130521.1726656
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (05): Tunisia ex Saudi Arabia/Qatar,
fatal, RFI 20130520.1725864
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (04): Saudi Arabia, WHO
20130520.1723626
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (03): animal reservoir, RFI
20130519.1723544
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean (02): WHO summary, ECDC risk
assessments 20130518.1721873
MERS-CoV - Eastern Mediterranean: Saudi Arabia, new case, RFI
20130518.1721601]
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[MWestMom]

Add me to the list as well. Thank you for your hard, hard work on this.

[Old Sarge]

Hey, folks, MWestMom wishes to come aboard!

[LucyT]

Thanks, Old Sarge. Appreciate the ping.

MWestMom is added to my TM list.

(Occasionally, I wander around the internet and post off-topic; Mesta usually stays on track, so if you’d rather not be on my list, please let me know! Thanks!)

[MestaMachine]

MWestMom has boarded and welcome aboard.

Wherever you see either of these links, it will take you to the index where all articles tagged threatmatrix are even if they are not posted here. If you see threatmatrix in the keywords, then just click the keyword because you know I've tagged it. Also, I have just started pinging the TM list to some of the more important articles. There is also a link on my profile page.

[MWestMom]

Thanks Old Sarge! Thanks LucyT!