It's ALI SONBOLY, not DAVID S.

It's astonishing how many news outlets are actively and intentionally white-washing the Munich teenage "Ali Sonboly" by instead calling him "David S" (German press especially). It's a deliberate attempt to minimise what might otherwise be considered natural, if somewhat reflexive, assumptions about the boy based on his Arabic sounding name.

It's also an astonishing example of actual racism, of dehumanising, or perhaps de-culturalising the boy - a disavowal of his true name and cultural identity/roots, a kind of posthumous bullying similar to what he appears to have suffered at the hands of contemporaries when alive (the DailyMail suggest he was bullied by similarly ethnic individuals).

If ever there were a need to example the so-called progressive media caring more for narrative and issues rather than facts (individuals), this would be it.

Zika virus & Guillain-Barre syndrome

Abstract 
Zika fever, considered as an emerging disease of arboviral origin, because of its expanding geographic area, is known as a benign infection usually presenting as an influenza-like illness with cutaneous rash. So far, Zika virus infection has never led to hospitalisation. We describe the first case of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) occurring immediately after a Zika virus infection, during the current Zika and type 1 and 3 dengue fever co-epidemics in French Polynesia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=24626205&dopt=Abstract

[EDIT] Some discussion has occurred in relation to this finding between the authors and a number of commentators, some of which can be found here in The Lancet - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30773-5/fulltext

Trump will never be President

With the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton openly admitting her running a private email server to conduct Public Office affairs was "grossly negligent" and "criminal" were it done by anyone else, her no being convicted of those crimes (and they are crimes), it means she's gotten off Scott-free.

Because of this, Trump will never be President.

Think about it.

If Trump were to be elected President what would he do first? Call for the criminal prosecution of everyone linked to things like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, 9/11, the dodgy Trade Deal with China, the list goes on. The Clinton's, and other Interests, wouldn't want that. So Headshot to Trump at or before his inauguration.

Alternatively, he does get elected, and he does call for prosecutions. Which results in a 'putsch' of sorts, a clearing of all the people whose actions and inactions caused all the troubles endemic to America today. If that happens Clinton, or someone else, may rise to power under the rationale of their being involved in a democratic counter-coup of the people, one press and media would be only too happy to get behind, resulting ultimately in Trump being removed from office, one way or the other.

Either outcome reveals the US political system being no better than a banana republic.

Free medical abortions for pregnant women with Zika

When Zika was first discovered it was considered to be no more of a risk than flu. Now, fears of Zika are reaching fever-pitch in South America and elsewhere as the demand for abortions in stricken Countries rises dramatically. Is it possible Women on the Web are adding to the fear and cashing in on the controversy by offering, ostensibly poor and uneducated women, free medical abortions.

Zika Virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity

Per previous post, no 'patent' data is attributed to Zika, only information pertaining to it's discovery and initial isolation (link may be a bit temperamental). 'Outbreaks' had been rare, and infections insignificant, until recent decades where it's rapid spread has been attributed to living conditions in effected areas promoting increases in the primary vector, mosquitoes, although Zika has also been recorded suspected to have been transmitted through sexual contact.

Unclassified Summary of Information Handling and Sharing Prior to the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings

Came across the following researching for a comment on another site. Interesting enough to post here even though it's not directly related to previous topic focus (but may shed light on the way communications failure inform the broader public discussion on such incidents).

Unclassified Summary of Information Handling and Sharing Prior to the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings - https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2014/s1404.pdf

"A decade earlier, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immigrated to the United States from Kyrgyzstan with their parents Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva. Anzor Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, his wife Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, and their son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived in the United States from Kyrgyzstan in 2002. They applied for and received an immigration benefit. The elder son, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his sisters, Bella and Ailina Tsarnaeva, arrived in the United States in 2003 and also received an immigration benefit. In the years that followed, all six family members became Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States."

"In March 2011, the FBI received information from the FSB alleging that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva were adherents of radical Islam and that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was preparing to travel to Russia to join unspecified underground groups in Dagestan and Chechnya. The FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston (Boston JTTF) conducted an assessment of Tamerlan Tsarnaev to determine whether he posed a threat to national security and closed the assessment three months later having found no link or “nexus” to terrorism."

"In September 2011, the FSB provided the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev that was substantively identical to the information the FSB had provided to the FBI in March 2011. In October 2011, the CIA provided information obtained from the FSB to the the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) for watchlisting purposes, and to the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of State for their information. Upon NCTC’s receipt of the information, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was added to the terrorist watchlist."

Zika Virus Patent

The Zika Virus is a relative of Dengue (Dengue Fever) "Flavivirus" family of viral infections typically prevalent in the African and South American sub-continents (tropics, equatorial, sub-equatorial climates). Patents for the treatment of related viral infections include Zika (Google Patent search oldest entry dates to 1987/88), however there appears to be no Patent application or assignment for the Zika Virus itself, only an original depository of Zika with the ATCC (American Type Culture Collection).

Zika Virus information

• Name of Depositor: J. Casals, Rockefeller Foundation
• Source: Blood from experimental forest sentinel rhesus monkey, Uganda, 1947
• Year of Origin: 1947
• References: Dick GW, Kitchen SF, and Haddow AJ. Zika Virus. I. Isolations and Serological Specificity. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 46: 509-520, 1952. PubMed: 12995440