Sunday, July 20, 2014

Operation Wisconsin Dawn: Bomb Camp Randall at UW-Madison to handle 'unlikely event' bird flu virus escapes or is stolen from lab

 

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Operation Wisconsin Dawn: Bomb Camp Randall at UW-Madison to handle 'unlikely event' bird flu virus escapes or is stolen from lab 16 Jul 2014 The University of Wisconsin-Madison will simulate a terrorist bombing at Camp Randall Stadium early Thursday -- complete with explosive sound effects, billowing smoke and pretend victims -- to test its emergency preparedness plan involving everyone from police and fire squads to hospital emergency departments and the FBI. Another hard-to-imagine health threat at UW-Madison that wasn't on the general public's radar until recently also has an elaborate preparedness plan: the unlikely event that a potentially deadly virus accidentally escapes or is stolen from a UW research lab. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- considered the gold standard of biosafety -- is under fire for recently revealed safety lapses at a half-dozen federal health agency labs involving deadly anthrax and smallpox, and a dangerous strain of bird flu.
 
Operation Wisconsin Dawn 02 Jul 2014 The Emergency Management Unit of the UW-Madison Police Department, along with support from university, city, county, state, and federal agencies will hold a full-scale exercise on Thursday, July 17th. Some of the participating agencies include the Madison Fire and Police Departments, Dane County Sheriff Office and Emergency Management, Department of Justice, FBI, US Attorney's Office, UW Hospital, and Meriter Hospital. More than 400 people are expected to participate in this real-life simulation of an emergency at Camp Randall Stadium. Planning began over a year ago, and it's the first time the University's emergency response capacity will be tested at this level.
 
Malaysia MH17 crash: 10 questions Russia wants Ukraine to answer 18 Jul 2014 Some Western states and Kiev rushed to find Russian involvement in the MH17 crash having no evidence to back their claims, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister told RT. He invited Ukraine to answer 10 questions to prove their commitment to an impartial probe. Speaking to RT, Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov has criticized Western countries for jumping to conclusions just "24 hours after the crash" while there is no evidence.
 
Kiev deployed powerful anti-air systems to E. Ukraine ahead of plane crash 18 Jul 2014 The Ukrainian military has several batteries of Buk surface-to-air missile systems with at least 27 launchers, capable of bringing down high-flying jets, in the Donetsk region where the Malaysian passenger plane crashed, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to the Russian Defense Ministry information, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located in the crash-site are equipped with anti-aircraft missile systems of "Buk-M1"...These complexes in their tactical and technical characteristics are capable of detecting air targets at ranges of up to 160 kilometers and hit them at full altitude range at a distance of over 30 kilometers," the ministry's statement reads, as cited by Ria.
 
100 Scientists Added to 'Dead Scientists' List After MH17 Is Shot Down 18 Jul 2014 As one hundred 100 leading international AIDS scientists were on board the doomed flight MH17, one hundred new names have been added to a rapidlygrowing list of now dead scientists, chemists, astronomers and engineers as the MH17 mystery takes a new turn... [See also: Top AIDS researcher and other scientists perished on MH17 18 Jul 2014.]
 
Top AIDS researcher and other scientists perished on MH17 18 Jul 2014 Members of the international HIV research community were in a state of shock after the death of world-renowned scientist Joep Lange and at least several other activists who perished when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down Thursdayover eastern Ukraine. In an address to the nation Friday at noon, President Obama said "nearly 100" of those killed -- one third of the 298 people on board -- may have been en route to the 2014 International Aids Conference in Melbourne, which is scheduled to begin this weekend. The White House said the figure came from remarks made by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
 
Witnesses Testify Against Ex-Blackwater Colleagues in Case of 2007 Iraq Killings 15 Jul 2014 ...For years, Iraqis have described running for cover, praying and watching family members die in the Nisour Square shooting. Now, in court testimony that continues this week, former Blackwater employees have offered the first public accounts of what it was like inside the security company's trucks that day. In a courtroom at a federal courthouse here, the men confronted their onetime colleagues standing trial for a shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead.
 
Egyptian military blocks activist aid convoy to Gaza 19 Jul 2014 Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said. An army officer at the Balloza checkpoint, one of many along the desert highway to Rafah, told an AFP correspondent that the security situation in the restive peninsula was too unstable to allow the convoy of 11 buses and 500 activists to pass.
 
1 in 5 of Gaza dead are children 19 Jul 2014 Sobbing and shaking, Ismail Abu Musallam leaned against the wall of a hospital on Friday, waiting for three of his children to be prepared for burial. They were killed as they slept when an Israeli tank shell hit their home, burying 11-year-old Ahmed, 14-year-old Walaa and 16-year-old Mohammed under debris in their beds. His personal tragedy is not unique: the UN says minors make up one-fifth of the 299 Palestinians killed in 11 days of intense Israeli bombardment of the densely populated Gaza Strip, where half the 1.7 million people are under age 18.
 
20 killed as Israeli troops push into Gaza 17 Jul 2014 Nearly 20 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed as troops clashed with militants in Gaza on Friday after Israel launched a ground operation...Israel intensified its 11-day campaign against Hamas by sending in tanks and troops late Thursday after becoming increasingly exasperated with unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza on its cities, especially following Hamas' rejection of an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week. The Israeli military announced its first casualty since the start of the ground operation, saying one soldier was killed in the northern Gaza Strip.
 
Gingrich calls for Arturo the polar bear's transfer 17 Jul 2014 Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R) joined the calls to save Arturo, the polar bear protesters say is languishing in the heat and cramped conditions at a zoo in Argentina. "If you love animals the way I do, you're going to want to sign the petition to save the Argentinean polar bear Arturo. This is very sad, and he should be saved, so sign the petition," Gingrich said in a video posted Wednesday on Fb. [Thank you, Speaker Gingrich, for taking action for Arturo!]
 
Millions in corporate welfare on the way: U.S. Senate votes to extend terrorism insurance backstop 17 Jul 2014 The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reauthorize a federal terrorism risk insurance program that was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Senators voted 93-4 in favor of a bill that gives the federal insurance backstop seven more years. Businesses, owners of sports stadiums and other groups that insure against the risk of terrorist acts have urged lawmakers to renew the program before it expires at the end of the year.
 
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