Illinois officials have confirmed another death from Legionnaires’ disease in the same town where seven elderly veterans have died.
The Illinois Department of Public Health says the latest victim was elderly with other health issues like the seven veterans who died from the disease. However, this woman was not in the care of the facility, just in the same town as the veteran’s home, Quincy.
Four other people are now confirmed to have been infected with Legionnaires’ who are not connected to the veteran’s home.
Illinois state public health director Dr. Nirav Shah said it’s possible more deaths will take place because of the two week incubation period of the disease.
The Centers for Disease Control rushed to the veteran’s home to help local officials deal with the outbreak and remain on site to assist the state in finding the source of the outbreak.
“[State officials] do not believe there is an increased risk of Legionnaires’ disease to the Quincy community,” Dr. Shah told reporters despite the new death and illnesses away from the veteran’s home.
Officials have also told residents of the area who are elderly or sick to avoid the veteran’s home.
The murder rates in the United States are rising, with at lest 30 cities reporting violence on the rise.
Three cities, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Baltimore, are showing an increase of over 50% in the number of murders with Milwaukee leading the list with a 76% increase.
One woman had to flee Milwaukee after two of her five children were killed in shootings in a six month span. Her 20-year-old daughter was shot and killed during a robbery at a birthday party being held at a Days Inn. Then six months later her only son was shot and killed while sitting in a car.
She persuaded her family to flee the city but her remaining teen daughters only left after the 17-year-old daughter was shot while riding in a car.
“The violence was nothing like this before,” Holmes, 38, who grew up in Milwaukee, told the New York Times. “What’s changed is the streets and the laws and the parents. It’s become a mess and a struggle.”
The BBC said that some senior police officials say with media outlets and activist groups watching every move police make they are withdrawing more from situations and leaving criminals feeling they have more space to commit violent acts.
New Orleans police superintendent Michael Harrison told the New York Times that much of the increase is coming not from gang violence but rather killings involving people who know each other.
“That is not a situation that can be solved by policing,” Superintendent Harrison said. “It speaks to a culture of violence deeply ingrained into a community — a segment of the population where people are resolving their problems in a violent way.”
Scientists have built the case that heat waves and droughts are now more likely to mix in the United States than at any point in the nation’s history.
“Despite an apparent hiatus in rising temperature and no significant trend in droughts, we show a substantial increase in concurrent droughts and heatwaves across most parts of the United States,” Omid Mazdiyasni and Amir AghaKouchak, who study climate and hydrology trends at UC Irvine, wrote in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study shows that in the 20 years between 1990 and 2010, heat waves and droughts took place simultaneously more frequently than between 1960 and 1980. In most cases, the two overlapped more than 50% more during the latter period of time.
States along the southern portion of the nation faced the most occurrences of the combined factors.
The study also examined damage to society and overall health from the combination of the heat waves and drought. They cited a situation in 2003 where Europe was struck with the combo and it lead directly or indirectly to 15,000 deaths in France.
Five Chinese naval vessels have been spotted operating in the Bering Sea off the Alaskan coast for the first time.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed Pentagon officials saying they haven’t seen the Chinese navy act in this manner until now.
“The officials said they have been aware in recent days that three Chinese combat ships, a replenishment vessel and an amphibious ship were in the vicinity after observing them moving toward the Aleutian Islands, which are split between U.S. and Russian control,” the Journal stated the officials confirmed.
“They said the Chinese ships were still in the area, but declined to specify when the vessels were first spotted or how far they were from the coast of Alaska, where President Barack Obama is winding up a three-day visit.”
“This would be a first in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands. I don’t think we’d characterize anything they’re doing as threatening,” an unnamed defense official told the Washington Free Beacon.
Analysts speculate this is another attempt by China to assert their influence beyond their region. China’s leader will be in Washington this month to meet with President Obama and the action could be an attempt to show strength before the meetings.
The stock markets ended one of the worst months in three years by starting September in a nose dive.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost 470 points and ended at 16,058. The drop of just over 2.8% was the single worst opening day for a month in the market since March 2009. The Dow has fallen 12.5% from the all-time high in May.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 also had their worst first day of trading since March 2009, falling almost 3 percent to 1,913. Only three stocks in the index showed gains on the day: Cablevision, American Airlines and a chemical company, Sigma-Aldrich.
The NASDAQ had its worst opening day of a month trading since October 2011. It’s now 2% lower for the year.
Most analysts attributed the stock fall to continuing fears about the Chinese economy and volatility in the Chinese stock market. Two major reports from China today showed significant slowing in the country’s manufacturing.
Many of the American stocks that took heavy hits in today’s trading have strong connections to China such as Apple and Qualcomm.
However, the U.S. gauge for manufacturing also turned in a dismal result Tuesday. The ISM manufacturing index fell to its lowest level since May 2013.
U.S. officials are looking at imposing sanctions against Russia and China for cyberattacks on the government’s servers.
The officials, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, said no final decision has been made because the sanctions could cause strain in relations between the countries. The Chinese president is scheduled to visit the U.S. this month.
Chinese and Russian hackers have accessed secure databases to steal information about military members and intelligence personnel and Russian hackers monitored the emails of state department officials for several months last fall.
Chinese hackers are believed to have caused the breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) earlier this year.
“Frustration has been growing for years about cyber economic espionage and then the scale of the OPM attack was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said a former senior administration official.
Chinese officials responded to the anonymous claims by saying they are firmly against cybercrime.
“The Chinese government staunchly upholds cyber security, firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyber attacks in accordance with law,” Chinese Embassy spokesman Zhu Haiquan said in a statement.
Zhu added he doesn’t want U.S. officials to engage in “groundless speculation.”
ISIS has announced the creation of their own “gold dinar” with an aim to take down the American economy.
The move is being called the “second blow” to the U.S. in a newly released video. The first blow was the 9/11 attacks.
The video, titled “The Rise of the Khilafah and the Return of the Gold Dinar”, was released Saturday. The video says the goal is to end “the capitalist financial system of enslavement, underpinned by a piece of paper called the Federal Reserve dollar note” along with installing the monetary system “intended by Allah.”
“One of the great forms of corruption that the world came to witness was the dark rise of banknotes borne out of the satanic conception of banks which mutated into a fraudulent … financial system of enslavement orchestrated by the Federal Reserve in America, a private corporation and system that would, through the use of deceit and force, deprive people of their due by imposing on them the usage of the piece of paper that came to be known as the dollar bill,” the narrator states.
The video shows minting of gold, silver and copper coins and then terrorists handing them out to people in the streets.
“We are witnessing the return of days, like those during the time of the prophet,” says one shop keeper who hugs and kisses the terrorist.
The terrorist group is considered one of the richest in history because of oil fields they control and their smuggling of oil. U.S. official say the group generates as much as $3 million U.S. dollars per day.
On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 588 points. It was the 8th worst single day stock market crash in U.S. history, and it was the first time that the Dow has ever fallen by more than 500 points on two consecutive days. But the amazing thing is that the Dow actually performed better than almost every other major global stock market on Monday. In the U.S., the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both did worse than the Dow. In Europe, almost every major index performed significantly worse than the Dow. Over in Asia, Japanese stocks were down 895 points, and Chinese stocks experienced the biggest decline of all (a whopping 8.46 percent). On June 25th, I was not kidding around when I issued a “red alert” for the last six months of 2015. I had never issued a formal alert for any other period of time, and I specifically stated that “a major financial collapse is imminent“. But you know what? As the weeks and months roll along, things will eventually be even worse than what any of the experts (including myself) have been projecting. The global financial system is now unraveling, and you better pack a lunch because this is going to be one very long horror show.
Our world has not seen a day quite like Monday in a very, very long time. Let’s start our discussion where the carnage began…
The Economic Collapse Blog – The Economic Collapse Blog: BLACK MONDAY: The First Time EVER The Dow Has Dropped By More Than 500 Points On Two Consecutive Days
You may have seen headlines to describe the market carnage like a trillion dollar’s worth of wealth wiped away in a single day. But it’s worth noting just how much is held by Americans in the stock market in the first place.
MarketWatch took a look at the Federal Reserve’s financial accounts of the United States report for answers — and did some back-of-the-envelope math.
As of March 31, households and nonprofits held $24.1 trillion in stocks. That’s both directly, and through mutual funds, pension funds and the like. That also includes the holdings of U.S.-based hedge funds, though you’d have to think that most hedge funds are held by households.
MarketWatch – MarketWatch: Households just saw $1.8 trillion in wealth vanish as stocks fall
Two individuals connected to the release of users of the adultery website Ashley Madison have taken their own lives.
Police in Toronto would not release the names of the individuals and would not release information other than their connection to the release of Ashley Madison info.
“This hack is one of the largest data breaches in the world,” Toronto Police acting staff-Supt. Bryce Evans said. “This is affecting all of us. The social impact behind this leak, we’re talking about families, we’re talking about children, we’re talking about wives, their male partners.”
The shocking news was actually predicted last week by a security analyst that first reported the hacking of Ashley Madison and the release of the names of those who paid to try and have an affair.
“There’s a very real chance that people are going to overreact. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw people taking their lives because of this, and obviously piling on with ridicule and trying to out people is not gonna help the situation,” analyst Brian Krebs said on Wednesday.
Another suicide has been potentially linked to the breach. An employee of the city of San Antonio committed suicide Thursday, but officials would not confirm it was because of the leak.
The company that owns Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 reward to anyone who will turn in the hackers that revealed their adultery seeking clientele.