News on Youtube Nov 28 2018

Welcome back strangers.

Sometimes when we are making a new video I get super creeped out thinking about what

are the chances that I will experience something like the topic we are covering.

Many of us are so fortunate that we will never be able to fully understand some of the horrendous

thing's others have gone through, but what are the chances it will happen to you.

What if someone is already stalking you, watching and learning your daily routine.

Preparing to sneak into your house when you aren't home and wait for you or maybe comeback

later through a window they unlocked so they can surprise you while you are sleeping at

night.

Today we are going to discuss the top 5 states in America where you are most likely to encounter

a serial killer based on serial killings per provided by the FBI.

The last is my favorite state I have visited, and I would have never expected to be number

one on this list.

Over 20% of the documented serial killers in the world have come from a 200-mile radius

around Seattle Washington.

Many large metropolitan areas have had at least one serial killer, but Seattle has had

dozens.

There has been a total of 277 serial killers in Washington with an average number of serial

killings of 7.44 per 1 million people in the charming northwestern state.

Notable killers include: Gary Ridgway, The Green River Killer who terrorized the state

for over 20 years mainly targeting women.

Gary was convicted of 48 murders and is currently serving life in a Washington State prison,

but he claims to have killed at least twice as many victims.

Ted Bundy was a former University of Washington student who confessed to murdering 30 young

women in Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, and Florida.

Ted reportedly began killing in 1971 in Seattle, but he also claimed he killed two women in

Atlantic City in 1969 before beginning his spree of murders, kidnappings, and rapes.

Finally, Westley Allan Dodd who is known as one of the evilest killers in history sexually

assaulted as many as 175 children along with killing a 10-year-old, 11-year-old, and a

4-year-old over the course of 15 years.

His last words were, "I was once asked by somebody, I don't remember who, if there

was any way sex offenders could be stopped.

I said no…..I was wrong."

In 1993, he was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965.

If that didn't make you rethink living the dream in Washington at least reconsider owning

a cat.

Since September of this year, there have been 13 cats murdered by a serial cat killer in

Washington State…

To many the idea of living in California makes them think of living a laid back, low stress

life in the sunshine and surf or maybe chasing dreams of stardom in Hollywood.

Yet, many of the country's most infamous serial killers have called the state home.

Over 1,500 California residents have been murdered by serial killers since 1900.

The killings peaked between the 1960's and 1980's and have finally slowed in recent

years.

Today, the average number of serial killings stands at roughly 7.81 deaths per 1 million

California residents.

During the 1980's California was responsible for over 20% of all serial killer murders,

and overall California has the second highest number of serial killers in the country.

Notable ones include: The notorious Golden State Killer, Stalker is believed to have

murdered 12 people, committed 45 sexual assaults, and robbed 120 residences from 1976 to 1986

before quietly ending his decade of terror.

He was fortunately arrested earlier this year and we covered it with Pink Spooky on our

weekly livestream podcast you should go check out.

During the 1980's, The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez raped and tortured at least 25 victims.

Thirteen of which he murdered when he was finished with them in Los Angeles and San

Francisco.

Richard was sentenced to death but died of lymphoma in prison in 2013.

The Zodiac Killer is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history that has

not been caught.

He terrorized northern California in the late 1960's and killed at least 5 victims and

injured 2 others.

He claimed to have killed at least 37 people in his letters to the police and press.

He typically targeted young couples that he would either shoot or stab to death.

The Zodiac's correspondences stopped in 1974, but some are still hopeful that his

identity will be discovered decades later similarly to the Golden State Killer case.

Recently in 2016 police arrested a suspect in the San Diego homeless killer case, and

currently there is the possibility of an active serial killer in North East Los Angeles.

Florida may be one of the best places to retire in the country, but it is also a hot bed for

serial predators with an average of 9.92 serial killings for every million residents.

The sunshine state also has the third highest number of confirmed serial killers.

Though the killings peaked in the 1980's there may be more truth behind the TV show

Dexter than many want to admit.

Notable killers include: Aileen Wuornos who murdered seven men in Florida between 1989

and 1990 by shooting them at point blank range.

She claimed her victims raped her while was working as a prostitute.

She was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection in 2002.

The Flat Tire Murderer killed five young women and teenage girls in South Florida between

February 1975 to July of that year.

It is believed the killer would deflate the victim's tires and gain there trust by offering

to help them.

The killer has never been identified or apprehended.

Gerard John Schaefer Jr. was dubbed the "Killer Cop," because he was convicted of committing

two murders while on patrol as a Sheriff's deputy in Martin County, Florida.

He is suspected to have committed many other murders, but no other victims have been confirmed.

The Killer Cop boasted that he killed over 30 women and girls during his time as a Sheriff's

deputy.

He was stabbed to death in prison by a fellow inmate in 1995.

On November 28, 2017 police arrested Howell Emanuel Donaldson III who is believed to be

the Seminole Heights serial killer who shot and murdered four people in Tampa Florida

between October and November of 2017.

The flashy neon lights and massive hotels in Las Vegas were originally built on blood

money provided by the mafia.

Before 1950, there were only two victims documented victims of serial killers in Nevada until

the gambling boom in Vegas and Reno.

Violent crime exploded in the desert state.

Currently Nevada has the second highest amount of violent crime in the country with an average

of 12.19 serial killings for every million residents.

The high number of tourists visiting Las Vegas, prostitutes, and desperate individuals down

on their luck create the ideal pool of victims for a serial killer waiting for another body

to leave behind in the Nevada desert.

Notable killers include: Neal Falls was who was shot and killed by an escort in Charleston,

West Virginia in 2015.

Police have linked him to at least 8 murders and potentially 4 more.

He has been linked to dismembered bodies found outside of Las Vegas and may have killed more

when he worked in Nevada at the Hoover Dam.

For years authorities have been trying to find links between the numerous bodies found

along side Interstate 80 that runs through Nevada.

Today, there is no definite proof that an I-80 killer exists, but bodies keep being

found along the highway.

There has also been a serial shooter that has been targeting homeless people in Las

Vegas with at least 4 confirmed victims this year.

In October, 68 year old Nathan Burke plead guilty to two murders from a killing spree

that took place over 40 years ago that killed at least 5 women in Sin City.

Alaska is often marketed to tourists as the final frontier on earth, but it is also one

of the most violent places in the country with an average of 15.65 serial killings for

every million residents.

The state's isolation and rugged wilderness make it easy to commit disturbing acts of

violence and murder without getting caught.

No one can save you if there is no one around to hear you scream.

Alaska is gorgeous and a popular tourist destination, but it also has a long history of attracting

wild men, degenerates, and criminals.

Notable serial killers include: Robert Hansen, the Butcher Baker, who was a loving father,

successful baker, businessman, and hunter.

Robert's hobbies included picking up prostitutes and exotic dancers in Anchorage.

He would take them in his private plane into the Alaskan wilderness where we would leave

them in the middle of nowhere only to comeback and hunt them down for sport.

He killed at least 17 women before 17-year-old Cindy Paulson managed to escape Robert before

she was forced on his plane.

She was able to tell her story to the police who were able to connect the missing women

in the area to Robert's activities.

He was sentenced to over 400 years in prison where he died in 2014.

Klutuk was the name given to an Eskimo who murdered fur trappers near the Kuskowim River

between 1919 and 1938.

He would kill anyone who encroached on his territory whether they were white or indigenous

people.

Klutuk would either shoot or kill his victims with an axe.

Those lucky enough to survive his attacks described him to be a small but fierce standing

around 5'4'' and weighing about 140 pounds.

In 1938, when the killings stopped, a body of an unknown hermit was found in a cabin

near the Kuskowin River that matched the description of Klutuk, but no one knows for certain if

that was truly him.

In 2007, Joshua Wade was arrested and confessed to murdering at least 5 people between 2000

and 2007 in Alaska.

In 2016, James Dale Ritchie shot and killed 5 people in Anchorage in less than a year,

before being killed by a police officer he shot at.

Alaska does sound like the wild west and the true last frontier on earth.

Would you still consider taking a trip to Alaska?

Thanks for watching strangers.

Which state surprised you the most?

Let us know in the comments below.

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Polio-like disease spreads to 31 states:116 cases illness which causes paralysis - Duration: 17:31.

Polio-like disease spreads to 31 states:116 cases illness which causes paralysis

The number of children struck down with the rare 'polio-like' acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in the US has risen to 116, officials have confirmed.

Thirty-one states have now reported cases of the poorly understood illness, which can cause paralysis and, in rare cases, prove deadly.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently investigating a further 170 cases of people with tell-tale symptoms of AFM.

There has already been more than three-and-a-half times as many cases as last year, but doctors remain baffled as to what is causing the illness.

Colorado, with 15 confirmed cases, has been the worst affected state so far this year, followed closely by Texas with 14 people diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis.

A total of 31 states have seen people – mostly children – struck down by the disease, with 19 so far unaffected.

The CDC put out its most recent figures on Tuesday, showing there have been 286 reports of people suffering from acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in 31 states, with 116 of those cases confirmed.

More than 90 percent of people affected by the illness are under 18 and the average age of patients is four.

It is believed to be caused by a combination of viruses and children usually first show signs of a fever and a cough for three to 10 days.

But after the flu-like illness, AFM can suddenly leave people paralysed for life or even end up fatal.

AFM has been called a polio-like illness because of its resemblance to the viral infection, which affected hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1900s.

It is thought to be unlikely the disease is contagious among people, but it could be caused by viruses which are spread easily.

The CDC last week set up a dedicated task force to try and tackle the illness by investigating its causes and working out how to treat it. Colorado has been the worst hit state, with 15 cases, followed by Texas with 14.

Following those are Washington, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with eight each, Illinois with seven, and New Jersey and Wisconsin with six.

There have been three confirmed cases per state in Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Maryland, and two each in Maine, New York City, the Carolinas, Kentucky and Iowa.

And Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia and Rhode Island have each had a single case. The remaining 19 states haven't reported any patients coming down with the disease.

There are likely to be more cases, experts say, and officials are unsure whether the risk is higher in states with more cases, or if they just have better reporting.

Doctors are encouraged to report cases of AFM but they are not required to do so. Most patients falling ill with the condition are struck down between August and October.

Though the condition remains very rare, CDC director Dr Robert Redfield, who took the job in March this year, said it is the agency's top priority. Scientists are investigating a number of causes, including viruses, environmental toxins and genetic disorders.

In previous outbreaks, a virus called EV-D68 was implicated in the development of AFM.

'We know that EV-D68 – as well as other enteroviruses – can cause limb weakness, but we don't know what's triggering AFM in these patients,' said the CDC's Dr Nancy Messonnier.

Dr Redfield said in a recent interview: 'CDC's been working very hard on this, since 2014, to try to understand causation and etiology. 'As we sit here today, we don't have understanding of the cause.

'We are, you know, continuing to strengthen our efforts, working in partnership with state and territorial health departments, and academic experts to try to figure this out.

AFM is a rare, but serious condition that affects the nervous system. Specifically it attacks the area of the spinal cord called gray matter, which causes the body's muscles and reflexes to weaken.

Symptoms often develop after a viral infection, such as enterovirus or West Nile virus, but often no clear cause is found.

Patients start off having flu-like symptoms including sneezing and coughing. This slowly turns into muscle weakness, difficulty moving the eyes and then polio-like symptoms including facial drooping and difficulty swallowing.

'If [AFM affects gray matter] lower in the spinal cord [paralysis will] be more in the legs and if it's higher up, it'll be more in the arms,' said Dr Fernando Acosta, a pediatric neurologist at Cook Children's Medical Center, in Fort Worth, Texas.

'Or if it's closer to the neck, they can't move head, neck and shoulders. We had one case of that and that was just awful.'. In the most severe cases, respiratory failure can occur when the muscles that support breathing become weak.

In rare cases, AFM can cause neurological complications that could lead to death. 'It's a pretty dramatic disease; children have a sudden onset of weakness,' said Dr Messonier of the CDC.

No specific treatment is available for AFM and interventions are generally recommended on a case-by-case basis. Children with weakness in their arms or legs may attend physical or occupational therapy.

However, physicians admit they are unaware of the long-term outcomes for those with AFM. WHO HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY AFM?.

The CDC does not track AFM in terms of its prevalence, but rather in outbreaks. The agency has confirmed 386 cases since an outbreak in Colorado in August 2014, almost all of them in children.

The CDC confirmed 33 AFM cases in 2017, 149 cases in 2016, 22 cases in 2015, and 120 cases in August to December 2014. While the pattern of AFM most resembles an infectious disease, much remains unknown about the condition.

Among the children infected is two-year-old Julia Payne from Chicago. She remained in the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children's Hospital for weeks on a respirator and using a feeding tube because she was unable to swallow.

She has since been discharged and transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a rehabilitation center where she will face several weeks of physical therapy to regain strength and movement.

In Minnesota, four-year-old Orville Young was likely the earliest confirmed case in the state, according to the Star Tribune.

Orville has been in physical therapy for the last month-and-a-half. His mobility and gait have not returned to normal, but his legs are mostly functional now. His right arm, thus far, is still paralyzed.

Fortunately many make a full or nearly full recovery of their movement, as did five-year-old Elizabeth Storrie of Willow Park, Texas.

She spent a month at Cook Children's Hospital, in Fort Worth, on IV fluids and a feeding tube until her condition improved. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POLIO?.

AFM has been called a polio-like illness due to its resemblance to the viral infection that impacted hundreds of thousands, particularly between the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The CDC says symptoms 'have been most similar to complications of infection with certain viruses, including poliovirus, non-polio enteroviruses, adenoviruses, and West Nile virus'.

Poliovirus is not the cause of any of the cases, but some cases have been linked to the enteroviruses EV-A71 and EV-D68, both of which are distant relatives of polio. Some cases have also been linked to rhinovirus.

'I'm not old enough to have seen a case of polio during my time in practice, but my colleagues who have say [AFM] is similar to what they saw back then,' Dr Acosta said.

'Is this a variant? Potentially, but we don't know. In 1957, the US government approved the polio vaccine.

After a nationwide campaign to get children immunized began, the numbers began falling drastically and, in 1979, polio was declared to be eradicated in the US.

This year, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries where cases of wild poliovirus have been confirmed – largely due to poor sanitation and low levels of vaccination coverage.

However, global eradication is now at risk due to vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in five countries in Africa this year. Health experts say this could result in silent transmission of both polio and AFM, because both can lead to paralysis if left undetected.

Anti-vaxxers have blamed childhood polio vaccines for the outbreak, despite physicians saying there is no evidence to suggest this is the case. 'There is no evidence vaccines are causing this,' said Dr Acosta.

'And if we identify the agent that is causing it, the next step would be to develop a vaccine.

'The reason why you see lower rates of polio, whooping cough and other diseases is because we have vaccines that have made them very rare. HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF?.

The CDC advises getting vaccinated against poliovirus and West Nile Virus due to both being potential causes of AFM. Health experts say this does not simply mean just staying up-to-date with vaccinations, but also minimizing exposure to mosquitoes.

Additionally, you can use warm water and soap to avoid getting sick and spreading germs. 'It's a one-in-million chance to get this so it's extremely unlikely your child will get this,' said Dr Acosta.

'Even if they have sudden onset of weakness, AFM is unlikely to have caused it. It's more likely to be a stroke. 'However, if your child develops it, bring them in and this gives them the best chance of survival.

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Human Experiments You'll Never Believe Happened | United States Germ Warfare Pre-1970 - Duration: 13:06.

Hey internet friends.

History is littered with tales of individuals devising new ways to kill each other.

Throughout the centuries, the deliberate use of bacteria, viruses, and toxins has been

proven as an effective means of neutralizing a targeted population—a practice that has

been dubbed "biological warfare". Fast forward to recent times--poisoning the

well with plague-ridden corpses just didn't quite cut it anymore, especially not for empires

whose culture is rooted in endless war.

After all, the war machine requires the latest and greatest—but while the bioterrorism

budget is booming, the pool of volunteers willing to test out the effectiveness of these

weapons is anything but.

That's why today we're going to blast back to the past and examine the lessons of

history, focusing on a handful of unethical human experiments (that we know about),

as well as the global government, organizations, and individuals who carried

out these barbaric experiments by means of deception— powerful entities still around

today, who demand the blind trust of the general populace, though the only established track

record they hold is one of total disregard for human life.

Today we're going to talk about a selection of horrific human experiments carried out

under the American flag… #1-The Filipino Prison Experiments

Found within the first book of Samuel in the Bible is the oldest account of what is speculated

to be the Bubonic Plague.

The story goes a little something like this: when the Philistines stole the Ark of the

Covenant from the Israelites, the Philistines were were afflicted by an epidemic of what

was later thought to be the plague—the symptoms affecting each town to which the ark of the

covenant was taken.

The link was established by mentions of what was later roughly translated to mean "rats"

and "buboes" or "tumors" and further established by the knowledge that humans can be infected

by fleas who have fed on infected rodents.

The Philistines returned the Ark of the Covenant in repentance, and offered five golden tumors

and five golden mice to end the plague, but that wouldn't be the last time that a disease,

thought to be naturally occurring, would be weaponized.

In the late 19th century, the United States military, along with universities, began medical

experiments on prisoners in the Philippines, which was, at the time, an American territory.

These experiments included injecting prisoners with the bubonic plague, beginning with five

select prisoners for the first round.

Later, Yale and Johns Hopkins University graduate, Professor Richard Strong, infected twenty-four

prisoners with what he reportedly thought to be cholera, but turned out to be somehow

contaminated with bubonic plague, killing thirteen of those prisoners—whoopsie daisy! Well,

to his credit, Dr. Strong argued that he was: "'thoroughly convinced' that man could withstand the

amount of plague organism as a guinea pig."

Dr. Strong was later found innocent of any criminal negligence, and he later had a thriving

career as professor of topical medicine at Harvard.

But his experiments on prisoners didn't end with accidental plague inoculations.

A few years later, he conducted another round of experiments dealing with Beriberi, a deficiency

disease resulting in paralysis and ultimately heart failure.

Although several prisoners died as a result, the remaining few were rewarded with cigars

and cigarettes—what a reward for narrowly escaping death, right?

So worth it.

(Sarcasm heavily implied.)

To make matters worse, its' not like these prisoners volunteered for these experiments

or even had the slightest clue as to what was going on, which begins our theme of non-existent

voluntary or informed consent—at least for this video.

#2- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Conducted by the public health service in partnership with

the Rockefeller-funded Tuskegee Institute in 1932, the clinical study of untreated syphilis

targeted 600 African-American men—Alabama sharecroppers who believed they were receiving

free health care from the United States government.

Of the 600, 399 of those men had reportedly already contracted syphilis, a sexually transmitted

disease, before the study began, and the remaining men were purposely infected with the bacterium,

told they were being treated for "bad blood".

The projected six-month clinical study spanned over the course of forty years, and for many

of those men, clinicians followed them until their eventual deaths.

Though pencillin became the treatment of choice for syphilis in 1945, measuring the effectiveness

of treatments wasn't the goal of this study.

No, the goal of this 40-year study was to observe the consequences of untreated syphilis.

And, spoiler alert: while syphilis often presents with a painless red sore at the infection

site, when untreated, syphilis can cause damage to the internal organs, like the brain or

the heart, and progresses through stages serious enough to result in death.

It wasn't until much later that the horrors of the Tuskegee study surfaced, and a legal

settlement included a lifetime of…wait for it… medical benefits to the study subjects,

their wives, and children.

#3 The Devil's Experiments in Guatemala Dubbed the "devil's experiment" by Guatemalans,

a series of venereal disease experiments took place in Guatemala between 1946-1948 and was

led by physician James Charles Cutler who was also involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis

experiments.

The Guatemalan experiments involved infecting an estimated 1308 unsuspecting victims with

an STD, but this time, instead of just targeting African American men, the pool of victims

opened up to children as young as ten, mental patients, prisoners, prostitutes, and soldiers.

There were eighty documented deaths as a result. These experiments were reportedly conducted so researchers

could look for ways to prevent STD's from spreading, with their focus on stopping the

spread of diseases amongst soldiers at war.

Guatemala was chosen so doctors could avoid the pesky ethical constraints of informed

consent.

Studies show that a number of patients were infected with syphilis and brought to the

brink of death, only to test the effectiveness of penicillin as treatment.

Once treated, patients were infected with another STD, and the process started over

again.

Dr. Cutler acknowledged his ethical violations in 1947, stating, "Unless the law winks occasionally,

you have no progress in medicine." Since the United States owned up to these experiments

in 2010, there have been several lawsuits against the United States government, the

Rockefeller-funded Johns Hopkins University, and the Rockefeller Foundation to the tune

of 1 billion dollars in damages, but the real damage has yet to come to fruition, given

that there's no telling how many infected Guatemalan children and grandchildren of these

victims are running around right now, the reverberations and consequences of these experiments

resulting in a generational effects, given that mothers can pass syphilis to an unborn

child, and when left untreated, there's a high risk of stillbirth or infant death.

Beyond the threat of lawsuits, those who conducted these experiments got nothing more than a

slap on the wrist, if that!

The Rockefeller Foundation is still just as influential as before, steering the medical

field as it deems fit, because deep pockets have sway and can even rewrite history.

If knowledge of unethical human experimentation was commonplace, and everyone knew that the

major pharmaceutical companies of today were the heads of the United States biological

warfare program of days past, like George Merck of Merck and Co—now a major vaccine

maker—if individuals held this knowledge, would they still accept inoculations without

asking their doctor or researching what they're putting into their bodies first?

When I see recent headlines about how syphilis cases are at an all-time high, it makes me

wonder how organic of an occurrence that is, and how much of the problem has been created

to strike fear and outrage in the masses so that a manufactured solution, like a vaccine,

can be introduced to create profit.

A solution with its own host of problems, a solution concocted by those with a sordid

history, unworthy of your blind trust, as they have a proven track record of disregard

for human life.

#4 Ohio Penitentiary Cancer ExperimentsA man who eventually became the Vice President of

the American Cancer Society began his reign of terror in an Ohio State Penitentiary in

1952.

Chester Southam, a Sloan-Kettering Researcher, which, unsurprisingly was also funded by the

Rockefeller Foundation (I know I sound like a broken record at this point)—anyway (!) Southam

sought to discover how healthy bodies fought the invasion of malignant cells, so he injected

live cancer cells into prisoners, as well as 300 healthy women at Sloan-Kettering, all

of whom were not informed of Southam's extracurricular research.

However, at that time, fellow doctors were fully aware that injection of live cancer

cells might cause cancer, even in healthy individuals.

Nearly a decade later, Southam set his sights on twenty-two elderly patients at a chronic

disease hospital in Brooklyn, injecting them with live cancer cells—all without their

consent.

Why?

Well he wanted to test his hypothesis of course!

His hypothesis that bodies "racked with serious but non-cancerous diseases would reject

live cancer cells as rapidly and completely as healthy bodies".

This time, a few whistle blower colleagues came forward, refusing to participate in Southam's

experiments and ultimately resigning.

Southam's unethical practices eventually made headlines and even saw the inside of

a courtroom.

And his punishment?

Brace yourselves for this one, it's a real doozy.

The New York medical licensing board put him on probation for…a year.

#5 Operation Sea Spray During the world wars, the funding of the United States biological

weapons programs increased and continued well into the Cold War.

In 1950, a secret experiment was conducted by the US Navy in an effort to test the vulnerability

of susceptible regions of the United States in the event of a biological attack.

The Navy sprayed clouds of Serratia bacterium from a giant hose for two miles along the

San Francisco Bay coastline, successfully dosing nearly eight hundred thousand residents

during the week of spraying, all unbeknownst to the general population.

Though the navy claimed the bacteria was harmless, the reality is that it can cause urinary tract

and wound infections in some, as well as gastrointestinal and respiratory issues in others.

In the week following operation sea spray, eleven adults checked into the hospital with

serious UTIs linked to the bacteria, and one man even died as a result.

Furthermore, An increase in pneumonia in the Bay Area was later speculated to have been

linked to Operation Sea Spray . The results of the experiment?

San Francisco Bay was identified as highly susceptible to biological attacks due to its

iconic fog.

Pentagon reports that were declassified decades later revealed that the military had performed

open-air testing of biowarfare agents an estimated 239 times across American cities like New

York City, Panama City and Key West from 1950 to 1966.

Other reports detailed the release of deadly nerve agents over Alaska and dousing Hawaii

with bacteria, and the experiments weren't limited to the United States populace, but

extended all the way to Canada and Great Britain.

After these reports were declassified, the Defense Department admitted that the tests

weren't exactly harmless, and due to the exposure to deadly chemicals and bacteria,

soldiers and civilians alike have suffered serious health ramifications.

It was in 1969 that President Richard Nixon issued an executive order to end all US offensive

biological weapons programs, and supposedly all US stockpiles were destroyed by 1972.

However, as you'l see in my upcoming videos, experimentation on human guinea pigs certainly

didn't end in 1969, nor was it limited to germ warfare.

Now, if you're someone who has watched this video all the way through and is hammering

away on your keyboard right now to make the argument that despite how unethical and brutal

these experiments in this video were, the results provided pharmaceutical companies,

physicians, and the military with information they needed—before you comment that, I'd

like to ask you something:Are you willing to volunteer yourself, your mother, your father,

or your children as test subjects for the next round of experiments?Thank you so much

for watching, internet friends.

You know I always enjoy reading your comments.

Thank you for subscribing and supporting my channel on Patreon.

I'll see you soon in my next video.

Bye!

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Top 10 Shortest Lived States in History - Duration: 10:09.

The goal of any state is to survive the test of time.

Some states have achieved this, forming great nations and even empires – providing their

people with security and stability.

Other states in history, for some reason or another, have barely lasted a day.

As a fledgling state you should know that something's gone awry when your entire history

can be summarized in a paragraph.

Below are 10 of the shortest-lived states in history.

10.

Italian Regency of Carnaro – 1 year, 109 days

The city of Fiume, now part of Croatia, was unsettled after the First World War, in 1919,

after Italy, Hungary and Croatia battled for the right to the land in the?Paris Peace Conference.

On September 11, 1919, Gabriele D?Annunzio, an Italian poet and patriot, angered by the

British, French and Americans for not giving Fiume to Italy, left to seize the city with

an?army of patriots.

The following day, Gabriele seized the city from the occupying British, French and American

force.

Declaring the city as the Italian Regency of Carnaro, an independent state, the new

state held a vote with the result favoring annexation to Italy by a vast majority.

Italy, pressured by its allies, forbid the annexation from taking place, instead placing

the Regency under blockade.

On September 8, 1920, Gabriele unveiled the state's constitution, establishing a corporate,

fascist state, similar to that which would be founded by Mussolini.

The downfall of the state came with the Treaty of Rapallo on November 12, when Italy and

Yugoslavia recognized Fiume as a free city, not an independent state.

Angered, D?Annunzio declared war with Italy on December 3, quickly losing by the 30th

of that month.

9.

Markovo Republic – ~243 Days

The first Russian Revolution lead to unrest and uncertainty across the?Russian Empire?from

1905 to 1907.

The village of Markovo, around 100 miles from Moscow, formed a political party, the Peasant

Union, after writer Sergei Semenov sent a list of demands to the?government in Moscow?that

went unanswered.?On October 31, 1905, they declared themselves the Republic of Markovo.

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Burshin, the village elder, was elected?President.

The new state refused to recognize the authority of the Imperial Russian Government and represented

a number of small villages through democratic councils – right on the?Tsar?s doorstep.

The Republic quickly grew in fame for resisting the Imperial Government and demanding democracy,

with a professor from Chicago arriving to lend assistance to the fledgling state.

In July 1906, once the revolution was all but defeated, Imperial forces marched on the

Republic.

Disbanding it?s Government, arresting leaders and bringing the Republic back into the Russian

Empire.

8.

Freistaat Schwenten – 218 Days

Emil Hegemann, the pastor of Schwenton, a small village with a majority German population,

formed the Independent State of Freistaat Schwenten when the village?came under threat.

After Greater Poland remained part of Germany in the armistice, an uprising of Poles broke

out on the doorstep of the?village in December, 1918.

After the pastor was unable to get the local German garrison to protect their German nationality,

he rallied the villagers and founded the independent and neutral state of Freistaat Schwenten on

January 6, 1919.

The landlocked states put together a plan to raise a navy to protect their lake and

had 120 soldiers, consisting mostly of German nationals fleeing the Polish Uprising.

Patore Hegemann, now President, was also the minister of foreign affairs.

The state even arrested the wife of the French ambassador in Berlin, on espionage charges.

On August 16, 1919, after getting onto the map,?Freistaat Schwenten?joined the state

of Germany.

7.

Republic of Ezo – 184 Days

After the defeat of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Boshin War, between the Shogun and

Imperial forces in 1868, the former Shogun?s navy, led by Admiral Enomoto Takeaki, fled

mainland Japan to the Northernmost island of?Ezo.

?Capturing the port of Hakodate and the surrounding areas, the Admiral founded the Republic of

Ezo on December 25, 1868, and was elected?President.

Although the new Republic had limited resources, they had the support of France.

This included an attempt to steal an Ironclad warship for the new Republic, being delivered

to Imperial Japan by the United States.

This mission ultimately failed, attracting the attention of the Imperial Navy.

On June 27, 1869, battles between the Imperial and Shogunate navies led to an imperial victory

over the?Republic of Ezo.

6.

Parthenopean Republic – 142 Days

In 1798, whilst Napoleon was attempting to conquer Egypt, King Ferdinand IV of Naples

joined the?anti-French coalition.

Troops from Naples and Revolutionary France clashed in French-occupied Rome, forcing?King

Ferdinand?to flee.

The French, in the process of executing their own monarchy, installed a Republic Government

in the former Kingdom of Naples on January 23, 1799.

The Parthenopean Republic was born.

Despite the leaders being unable to manage their finances, democratize the city or form

an efficient army, liberty and equality were seen throughout the new Republic.

A tree of liberty was raised and a newspaper published.

The Royal exiles, in Palermo, organized an uprising with the help of the British and

Admiral Nelson, who hated freedom just about as much as them.

On June 13, 1799, King Ferdinand?s hired sword, Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, entered the city

of Naples with his men and slaughtered Republican supporters.

Putting an end to the Republic and re-establishing the monarchy, by July 8, 1799, more than 200

people had been executed.

5.

Hungarian Soviet Republic – 134 Days

After World War I, the Hungarian Communist Party seized power from the Hungarian People?s

Republic.

The leader, Bela Kun, declared the reformation of Hungary as a new state, the Hungarian Soviet

Republic on March 21, 1919.

A temporary constitution granted freedom of speech and assembly, free education and cultural

rights not previously available under the monarchy.

However, at the heart of their popularity was their promise to restore Hungary?s borders

which had been reduced after the First World War.

On June 25, a dictatorship was announced and popularity of the new Government and state

amongst its people nose-dived quickly, with attempts to extort grain from peasants and

vast numbers of executions (around 590).

The new nation?s downfall came about when the Government decided to keep their word

on re-establishing their borders.

In late May, the Hungarian Red Army occupied parts of Slovakia.

After the French threatened to get involved, they backed off.

That is until July 30, 1919, when the Hungarian Red Army, unable to learn any lessons after

they?d burnt so many books, failed to break the Romanian Army during their attempted invasion.

Romania occupied Budapest, bringing an end to the Hungarian Soviet Republic on August

1, 1919.

4.

Crimean People?s Republic – ~34 Days

On December 13, 1917, in Bakhchisaray, Russian-Occupied Crimea, the local Tatar people declared independence

for the region of Crimea during the power vacuum of the?Russian civil war.

Forming the Crimean People?s Republic, Noman Celebicihan, founder and first President,

created one of the Islamic states that featured secularism and?female suffrage.

Historians also suggest that all people were equal in the CPR, with Jews facing none of

the prosecution that they did in the Christian world.

Non-Muslims were even allowed to live the same life as Muslims.

This strangely progressive Republic, although short-lived, allowed all peasants to be legally

free and girls to go to school.

From the 1st to the 15th of January, 1918, after winning the uprising at home, Russian

Bolsheviks fought the new Republic, attempting to?regain control.

The three regiments of the CPR eventually fell, with Crimea being reintegrated into

the USSR.

3.

Bavarian Soviet Republic – 27 Days

Bavaria, a powerful self-governing region of Germany, became ruled by the people after

a strike on November 7, 1918, overthrew the?Bavarian monarchy.

Kurt Eisner, a member of the Independent Socialist Party and the man behind the strike, was named

President of Bavaria.

Following his election loss, Eisner was shot dead on February 21, 1919, while on his way

to resign, by a right-wing?monarchist.

The Independent Socialist Party used the ensuing panic to seize full power, formally proclaiming

the region of Bavaria as the independent Bavarian Soviet Republic on April 6, 1919.

With the leader, Ernst Toller, doing little to restore order, the Communist Party of Germany

seized power on April 12.

With the Communist Party being about as popular as the last Government, loyal elements of

the German army defeated the new Red Army, returning Bavaria to Germany on May 3.

2.

Republic of Connacht – 12 Days

The Republic of Connacht, founded during the Irish rebellion of 1798, was an Irish Republic

founded by the French General?Jean Humbert.

The French, hoping to annoy the British who were fighting an Irish rebellion, and maybe

"liberate" the Irish in the process, sent Jean Humbert and 1100 men to?County Mayo?on

August 22, 1798.

On the day of his arrival, Humbert proclaimed that the French had arrived to deliver "liberty,

equality, fraternity, and union" to the Irish.

On the 27th, after taking the garrison of Castlebar from the British, along with Killala

and Ballina the previous day, Humbert founded the?Republic of Connacht?and declared Castlebar

as its capital, with John Moore, a local, being named President.

On September 8, Humbert marched his force to Longford, where his 850 French troops and

1000 Irish allies met an English force over five times as strong.

After a battle that lasted no more than 30 minutes, Jean Humbert surrendered along with

his Irish allies, bringing an end to the Republic of Connacht.

1.

Carpatho-Ukraine – Less than 24 Hours

Carpatho-Ukraine?was a region of Czechoslovakia which had the smart idea of declaring itself

an independent republic on the brink of World War II.

After the Nazi annexation of Western parts of Czechoslovakia in 1938, the Czech state

was weakened and the region of Transcarpathia demanded more autonomy from the Government.

After further areas of Czechoslovakia were annexed by Hungary, the state was thrown into

uncertainty, with Transcarpathia, now named Carpatho-Ukraine, declaring?independence?on

March 15.

After Avhustyn Voloshyn was declared president of the Republic, the inability to bring about

order led to border skirmishes taking place on the new state?s boundaries.

This gave Hungary sufficient reason to invade the region on the same day as it?s declaration

of independence.

The next day, coming across little military resistance, Hungary annexed Carpatho-Ukraine.

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The near-panic in oil markets last week and expectations of continued low crude prices are likely to spare key Gulf states balance sheets, regional analysts say.

While many of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries currencies will avoid devaluations, however, the modest economic recovery of the last year is set to falter, with weaker growth expected in the next few quarters. The big question as to the markets direction, meanwhile, depends in large part on the decision of OPEC and non-OPEC members on production cuts in the weeks ahead.

As prices hover around 2018 lows and struggle to stay above $60 a barrel, market watchers are reminded of the oil price collapse in 2014 that rocked the hydrocarbon-dependent economies of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. Both global benchmark Brent crude and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) are down more than 20 percent this month, and if monthly losses continue at the current pace, could see their biggest fall in more than ten years.

But according to Capital Economics, prices as low as $40 to $50 a barrel shouldnt put major strains on the larger economies balance sheets as long as tight fiscal policy is maintained. The fiscal policy reforms of the last few years — subsidy and spending cuts and the introduction of new taxes — will continue but at a more subdued rate than when first implemented, preventing potential currency devaluations and protecting dollar pegs, the consultancy said in a research note published Monday. This means that current accounts in the major Gulf economies — the balance of imports and exports — are likely to stay in surplus.

Global bank MUFG, meanwhile, is convinced that both Brent crude and WTI are "oversold" and "will rebound from their current bearish market mode," it said it a weekly report Monday. Goldman Sachs, similarly, anticipates a rebound for Brent as OPEC members implement production cuts.

But these economies are by no means in the clear, as many analysts point out. Dramatic moves in capital flows risk hurting dollar pegs, and these tend to happen in conjunction with political shocks, like the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar in 2017 or the fallout over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October. By the end of that month, $650 million in foreign funds were withdrawn from the Saudi stock market.

Meanwhile, economic growth is set to weaken as oil production increases remain off the table and local labor and property markets — for example in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, respectively — see continued slides. And Capital Economics predicts gross domestic product growth to hover around 2 percent in the coming years, lower than most analysts expectations.

In the long run, the report said, prices below $50 a barrel will only stay sustainable "if policy is kept tight and domestic demand stays subdued," meaning that demand for imports has to remain low to keep the trade balance under control. But in the current picture, "a return to the aggressive fiscal austerity imposed in 2015-16 seems highly unlikely."

The four largest Gulf economies — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar — are in fact well-positioned to withstand low oil prices. Capital Economics calculations found that even if prices dropped to $30 a barrel, "all else equal the Gulf countries could finance large current account deficits from their FX savings for at least a decade — the UAE could do so indefinitely."

But that leaves out Bahrain and Oman, who are in a less enviable position. The economically smaller Gulf states face greater risk of currency devaluation and run substantial current account deficits — Omans equates to more than 15 percent of its GDP. Economist calculations reveal that both countries would need oil at $80 a barrel to pull their current accounts back into surplus.

Still, support from the larger Gulf neighbors, like the recently agreed $10 billion bailout package for Bahrain and a similar arrangement expected for Oman, suggest that these countries will manage to stay afloat.

A number of economists foresee oil remaining between $55-60 a barrel for the next few years. But the market remains vulnerable to abrupt shocks, like the reaction to U.S. waivers for countries importing Iranian oil amid sanctions, or the geopolitical dynamics surrounding Khashoggis murder.

Meanwhile, its anyones guess whether Saudi Arabia will go through with previously proposed production cuts to offset global oversupply, given the kingdoms reluctance to displease President Donald Trump, who is adamant to keep a lid on oil prices.

Ehsan Khoman, head of MENA research at MUFG, sees Saudi going ahead with their own interests, despite Trumps demands and his support for the monarchy over the Khashoggi scandal.

"The kingdom remains cognizant that the U.S. may have geopolitical leverage over the country, but we view that the Saudi authorities will see through U.S. pressure to concentrate efforts on their Saudi First policy" — prioritizing its needs for oil prices to get to its fiscal breakeven price of $72 a barrel in 2019, he said in this weeks economic report.

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