Pestilence: A new Ebola outbreak is confirmed in a remote Congo province, with 65 deaths recorded

A new Ebola outbreak is confirmed in a remote Congo province, with 65 deaths recorded

Associated Press

Africa’s top public health body on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far.

Neighboring Uganda later confirmed one death in an Ebola case it said was imported from Congo.

The deaths and suspected cases have been recorded mainly in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement. The agency said 65 deaths have been attributed to the outbreak and that four of those have so far been confirmed in a laboratory.

Ebola is highly contagious and can be contracted through bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is rare, but severe and often fatal.

Scientists were trying to determine exactly what virus was driving the current outbreak in Congo. The Ebola virus — also known as the Ebola Zaire strain — has been prominent in Congo’s past outbreaks. Results so far suggest some variant other than the Ebola Zaire strain, with sequencing continuing to give more clarity, the Africa CDC said.

The World Health Organization says the Ebola disease is caused by a group of viruses, and that three of them are known to cause large outbreaks: Ebola virus, Sudan virus and Bundibugyo virus.

Uganda on Friday reported one Ebola case involving a Congolese man admitted to a hospital in Kampala three days before he died. Officials said the case was “imported” from Congo, and that Uganda has not yet confirmed any local cases.

Uganda’s Health Ministry said the patient was tested posthumously on Friday after neighboring Congo confirmed its Ebola outbreak. All contacts linked to the man have been quarantined, the agency said. The deceased’s body has been taken back to Congo.

The ministry said the person was infected with the Bundibugyo virus, a variant of the illness that has been endemic in Uganda.

The WHO said last year that Congo has a stockpile of treatments and some 2,000 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine. The Ervedo vaccine is effective against the Ebola Zaire strain — considered the most severe one — but not against the Sudan virus or Bundibugyo virus, according to health authorities.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization director-general, told reporters Friday that the WHO last week sent a team to help Congo investigate the outbreak and collect samples. While initial results did not confirm Ebola, a new analysis on Thursday did, he said.

Congo has “a strong track record in Ebola response and control,” Tedros said, adding that the WHO is releasing $500,000 to aid Congo’s response.

Affected areas are close to Uganda, South Sudan borders

The latest outbreak comes around five months after Congo’s last Ebola outbreak was declared over after 43 deaths.

Ituri is in a remote eastern part of Congo characterized by poor road networks, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the nation’s capital of Kinshasa.

Africa CDC said it is concerned about the risk of further spread due to intense population movement, mining-related mobility in Mongwalu, insecurity in affected areas, gaps in contact listing and control challenges.

The proximity of affected areas to Uganda and South Sudan also raises concerns, it said.

The agency said it was convening an urgent coordination meeting Friday with health authorities from Congo, Uganda and South Sudan, together with key partners including U.N. agencies and other countries.

The acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jay Bhattacharya, said Friday that U.S. health officials are in contact with officials in Congo and Uganda and are “going to provide whatever they need and that we are capable of providing them.”

Great Nations Aren’t Destroyed by Enemies. They’re Destroyed by Debt

Great Nations Aren’t Destroyed by Enemies. They’re Destroyed by Debt.

DOUGLAS CARSWELL

Imagine your family spent more this year than you earned. Uncomfortable, but manageable. Now imagine your family had spent more than it earned every single year since 2001. By now, you would be destitute.

That is what the federal government has been doing.

For the past 25 years — ever since Bill Clinton left the White House — Washington has spent more than it has taken in. Every single year. The national debt now stands at $39 trillion. (RELATED: Why Does Congress Keep Kicking the Fiscal Can?)

In 2001, the United States owed less than $6 trillion. Today, we owe nearly $39 trillion. The federal debt has grown by $33 trillion in just 25 years. (RELATED: How Did We Reach a $38 Trillion Debt During a ‘Shutdown’?)

Here is the worrying part. In the entire 212 years from George Washington’s first inauguration through Bill Clinton’s last day in office — through the Civil War, the Great Depression, two World Wars, and the Cold War — the United States accumulated $5.8 trillion in debt. In the 25 years since, we have added $33 trillion more. More than four-fifths of the total debt the country carries today has been borrowed in the past quarter-century.

Our brains are not wired to grasp numbers this large. So consider it another way.

A million seconds ago was about 11 days ago — late April. A billion seconds ago was 32 years ago, in 1994, when the World Wide Web was just getting started. A trillion seconds ago was about 32,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths still roamed Europe. Farming had not yet been invented. No one, so far as we know, had yet reached North America.

That is what a trillion looks like. And the United States owes almost 40 of them.

The pace is accelerating. Of that $39 trillion, $2.7 trillion was added in the past year alone. Ten trillion — more than 27 percent of every dollar America has ever borrowed — has been piled on in just the past five years. The federal government now adds roughly $8 billion in new debt every single day.

Great nations are rarely destroyed by external enemies. They are more often destroyed by debt. The historian Niall Ferguson has warned that when the cost of servicing old debts crowds out the essential investments that sustain national strength — especially defense — decline becomes almost inevitable.

History is littered with cautionary tales. Habsburg Spain. Bourbon France. The Ottoman Empire. Each was once the greatest power on earth. Each was overstretched by debt.

Ferguson identifies a critical threshold — what some now call the Ferguson limit — beyond which a great power cannot long survive: the moment a nation spends more on debt interest than on defense. At that point, fiscal arithmetic begins to dismantle geopolitical power. The United States is now flirting with that threshold.

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Things To Come: Deception Signs

Deception Signs

John Rodrigues

Many believers, understandably, see these parallel developments as (more than) noteworthy. Scripture teaches that Israel would play a central role in end-times events, and today we are watching not only the continued preservation of Israel, but also a dramatic worldwide rise in antisemitism, as prophesied in Scripture. Across Europe, American universities, social media, and political movements, hostility toward the Jewish people has sharply increased.

Scripture warned long ago that Jerusalem would become a burdensome stone to the nations: “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it” (Zech 12:3).

At the same time, the world is becoming increasingly fascinated with the supernatural. Interest in UFOs, aliens, paranormal encounters, mysticism, psychedelic drugs, witchcraft, and the occult (even in the church) has exploded in mainstream culture. What was once fringe is now openly discussed in entertainment, academia, and even government circles.

One important observation made by both secular researchers and Christians is the repeated connection between UFO encounters and occult involvement. Many researchers have noted that those deeply involved in spiritism, channeling, occult practices, and paranormal experimentation are those who frequently report UFO-related experiences. Academic studies examining UFO belief systems have also found overlap with mystical and paranormal beliefs.

Many non-Christian UFO researchers have acknowledged that many encounters seem more spiritual than scientific. Reports often involve fear, paralysis, telepathic communication, altered consciousness, and deceptive experiences that resemble occult phenomena more than contact with physical beings from another planet—the same experiences people report with demonic experiences! Some individuals have also testified that frightening encounters ceased when they called upon the name of Jesus Christ. Such testimonies are consistent with the biblical understanding that spiritual deception is real.

Ephesians 6:12 reminds us that our struggle is against unseen spiritual forces. 2 Thessalonians 2 warns that deceptive signs and wonders will characterize the last days. Jesus Himself repeatedly warned against deception preceding His return.

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Between 3,000-3,500 new AI data centers are planned or under construction globally.

Between 3,000-3,500 new AI data centers are planned or under construction globally

Between 3,000-3,500 new AI data centers are planned or under construction globally. They’ll use a staggering 190 gigawatts of power. For perspective, that’s more electricity than many countries use. But they’re not just using power. They’re devouring water — as much as 449 million gallons. Every. Single. Day.

As AI systems rapidly expand, communities across America are seeing massive data centers suddenly appear near their neighborhoods. These facilities consume enormous amounts of electricity, water, land, and infrastructure resources, driving up utility costs, straining local\

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California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

WHAT THE FLOCK!!!

Wall Street Apes

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this

California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I’ve served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I’ve designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I’m not speculating on how this technology works. I’ve read their patents and I know how it works.

Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.

They’re AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company’s servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn’t add up

The city council should also understand who they’re doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.

Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who’s behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock’s primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.

Palantir’s own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that’s the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.

We’re not anti-police at all. We’re against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We’re asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock’s database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”

I looked more into this and he is 100% right

Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries

Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.

This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure.

If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to.