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25 Vials of E. Coli Found in Arkansas Apartment

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The media and the government are being coy about this but it looks like it’s terrorism related. From MSNBC:

A maintenance man cleaning out a newly vacant apartment in Jonesboro, Arkansas found 25 vials of E. coli bacteria in the refrigerator, according to reports.

The vials marked “E. coli” were in a foam box in the fridge at a Willow Creek Apartments unit, The Associated Press reported. After the facilities manager alerted authorities, an Arkansas National Guard hazardous material crew removed the bacteria.

The bacteria were determined to be medical grade, Fire Battalion Chief Marty Hamrick told the Jonesboro Sun.

While E. coli can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections and pneumonia, officials determined there was not enough of a safety danger to evacuate the apartment complex, the AP reported.

The FBI is reportedly getting involved. KAIT8 spoke with a Arkansas State University assistant professor named Bill Payne who talked about the legitimate research uses for E. Coli which include testing antibiotics and using modified versions to clean heavy metals from contaminated water sources. However all these things need to be in controlled environments:

However, Payne said, there are few uses for the bacterium outside of a controlled environment.

“For a private citizen to have it, I can’t think of any reason why he would have it, and why you would keep it in the refrigerator is even more baffling because you just don’t keep bacteria in your refrigerator with your food. It’s a good way of getting your food contaminated.”

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“A private citizen would find it very difficult to get that, and that’s mainly because of the problem that we have now with security bioterrorism agents.”

Funny he should mention that because these E. Coli farmers were not citizens:

A tenant recently moved out and apparently left the vials in the fridge.  Dunn said from what they understand the people that lived in the apartment were from outside the United States.

The authorities are floating some story about the E.Coli being used to treat heavy metal poisoning in the body. In an apartment. By people from outside the United States who they won’t identify. Sounds reasonable.

Don’t drink the water in Arkansas.

Losing Our Community

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This video is a couple of years old but needs to be widely circulated. It is produced by Americans for Peace and Prosperity and the Tennessee Freedom Coalition and deals with the radicalization of the Muslim community in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s a scary video that includes an interview with the father of Carloes Bledsoe – a promising young man who converted to Islam and went on to murder a soldier in a terror attack on a Little Rock, Arkansas military recruitment center. The father believes the local Muslim organizations brainwashed him, sent him to Yemen and had him set up:

Illegal Immigration to Blame for Longmont High School TB Outbreak?

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Looks that way. First some background – Longmont high school has made the national news because of “unusual” rates of tuberculosis. From TimesCall.com:

LONGMONT — About 40 percent of Longmont High School students and staff tested for tuberculosis have had positive results, a Denver Public Health official said Wednesday.

Dr. Randall Reves, director of the Denver Metro Tuberculosis Control Program, said that rate is unusual, but not unheard of.

“It just reflects that (the student’s) particular case of TB was more infectious than average,” Reves said.

Some types of sputum carry more bacteria than others, making those patients more contagious, he said.

Latent TB, unlike active TB, is not contagious. So far, the original case — which was made public in early January — is the only active case found in the school, Reves said.

TB cannot be transmitted unless a patient is actively ill, he said.

“They cough the bacteria into the air,” Reves said. “It takes a lot of bacteria being coughed into the air to cause infection.”

Because the rate of latent TB being found at the school has been higher than expected in the first two groups of students and staff tested, Reves has decided to test everyone at the school.

Beginning next week, public health officials will start testing ninth- and 10th-graders. To speed up the testing, skin tests will be given to most people, he said.

The following week, officials will test the 11th- and 12th-graders who have not yet been tested, he said.

This sort of TB develops into the active, fatal type in 5% of cases. It is treated with four months of antibiotics.

What’s this got to do with illegal immigration? Well, remember that one of the problems with illegal immigration is that the illegals don’t go through the medical screening and treatment of legal immigrants. In the late 90s, for example, I was working as a part time tutor at the college I graduated from when there was a TB scare caused by a Haitian immigrant who for some unknown reason had not been screened when entering the country. The college wouldn’t release the girls identity and instead just asked everyone who had contact with a Haitian to be screened for TB. That was what Liberals thought was more politically correct.

Telemundo covered the testing and you may have caught a glimpse of a rougeish fellow with a highly decorated motorcycle jacket and quite dashing knee high leather boots getting the ‘ol skin prick.

Anyway this was my “aha!” moment when I realized there was a very good reason to have a good, organized immigration system.

Longmont is home to a large illegal population blending in with a quickly growing Latino population. In 2010 Longmont had a Hispanic population of 17%, which was an increase of 10%. Currently that population is over 25%. In a close knit, family oriented culture (all positive things by the way) undiagnosed communicable diseases are a real danger to both the insular and the outside population.

There needs to be some sort of outreach to the illegal community that makes them understand how important this issue is. No matter where you fall on immigration we can all agree on that.

2,500 Ciudad Juárez Cops Driven from Homes by Cartels

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The break down of law and order in Mexico has reached the point where Cartels are not only challenging governmental authority, but pushing governmental institutions out of areas they control. Juarez is now a feral city sitting within view of El Paso, Texas. The security implications of this are frightening.

From Fox Latino:

The entire police force in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez was ordered to leave their homes and stay in a hotel for their safety after the recent killing of five officers by a local drug cartel.

The gang threatened a week ago to kill one policeman a day unless Police Chief Julian Leyzaola resigns.

Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía said Wednesday that the attacks carried out since the warning are a response to toughening police action against drug cartels in the city across from El Paso, Texas.

The mayor said there is no way Leyzaola is stepping down. He said most of the officers are “angry because of the attacks,” but are deeply committed to fighting crime.

Police spokesman Adrian Sánchez said officers were ordered to stay away from their houses after Monday’s shootout between assailants and policemen. That assault and previous attacks happened as officers were going to or from home.

The city’s government said it has secured 26 million pesos ($2 million) to house officers in hotels but did not specify how long that would last.

A policewoman who moved to a hotel in downtown Juárez said Wednesday that officers feel “more like soldiers, living in barracks than police officers.” Still, she said, “I don’t want my family to become collateral damage if I become a target.”

The officer, a single mother of two, agreed to discuss the matter only if not quoted by name because she was violating department rules that bar her from talking to journalists.

Sánchez said the police department will assess the results of the measure after a month and then decide whether to continue.

“So far it’s been successful,” Murguía said.

At least 10 banners bearing threats to Juárez’s police chief appeared around the city last week. The messages were signed by the New Juárez Cartel, an offshoot of the La Linea or Juárez Cartel, a major target of law enforcement actions in recent months.

In other news the Cartels are said to have their own air-force of ultralights designed to drop payloads. It’s only a matter of time before they’re dropping bombs on U.S. soil after taking off from a Juarez based air based