Another Palestinian Teenager [non-white] Killed by Israeli Soldiers [honorary whites]. How Will Palestinians React to White Supremacy? Will they buy Teddy bears, sing songs or register to vote?

"Unnecessary begging" will not stop white domination and control. How will the bears help produce justice? Will holding up signs against police brutality neutralize racism or white power? Who is pro-police brutality? [MORE] In photo, a Black man tends to a new teddy bear memorial in Ferguson on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014.

A State of Permanent Self Defense. From [HERE] A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of Beit Laqiya northwest of Ramallah on Thursday evening. Medical sources said Bahaa Samir Badir, 13, was shot in the chest after Israeli forces raided the village.

Badir was reportedly shot in the chest from close range, and suffered from severe bleeding shortly before dying at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah. Clashes broke out in the village of Beit Laqiya after news of Badir's death spread.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said that Israeli forces "encountered an illegal riot in Beit Laqiya," and "while they were exiting the village, rioters hurled Molotov cocktails at the forces."

"They responded to the threat with live fire," she said, adding: "Reports of a dead Palestinian are being reviewed. There will be military police investigation."

The death of Bahaa brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank so far this year to 42, in addition to the nearly 2,200 Palestinians slain during Israel's summer offensive across Gaza.

More than 4,300 Palestinians have also been injured by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank since the beginning of 2014, as well as more than 11,000 during the nearly two-month assault on Gaza.

The West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.

Punishment before Trial in System of White Domination: Court Rejects Arizona Law [approved by white voters] Denying Bail to [non-white] Immigrants

From [HERE] An appeals court on Wednesday struck down a voter-approved law that denies bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and have been charged with a range of felonies, including shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and murder. An 11-member panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled the law violates due-process rights by imposing punishment before trial. Proponents of the law said it prevents people who are not authorized to be in the country and who skip out on their bail from committing future offenses. Critics say the law’s real intent is to punish immigrants before they have been convicted of any crimes. The law was approved with 78 percent of the vote and was among four immigration proposals approved by Arizonans in 2006.

Oklahoma sued over "Barbaric" 'botched' execution of Black Man

From [HERE] The brother of Clayton Lockett, a Black man whose prolonged execution last April caused Oklahoma to suspend its death penalty to review procedures, filed a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma Monday. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma , contends that the execution, which lasted nearly 45 minutes, was a violation of Lockett's Eighth Amendment [text] rights:

The court-ordered killing of Clayton Lockett by the Defendants as punishment for his murder of Stephanie Neiman, was a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a violation of innumerable standards of international law, and a violation of elementary concepts of human decency. The barbaric spectacle was a disgrace to the People of the United States of America and brought shame to the State of Oklahoma.

The lawsuit refers to Lockett's death as "tortured" and seeks monetary damages as well as a declaration that Lockett's constitutional rights were violated.

Executions in Oklahoma remain on hold while authorities continue to review procedures. Last month racist suspect (in photo) Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin announced a series of new protocols [JURIST report] that are expected to take effect once executions resume in the state. Her announcement followed a report [text, PDF] issued by the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety detailing the findings of the investigation into Lockett's death. Also in September the state asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer seeking greater media access to the execution chamber.

No Experimental Drug for Black Man with Ebola in Dallas - CDC says ZMapp "is all gone” and is “not going to be available anytime soon.”

In photo, Dr. Kent Brantly, who was cured of Ebola met with the President in the White House on 9/16/14. [MORE]

From [HERE] The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital and is not receiving any of the new experimental drugs for the virus, which has killed over 3,400 people in Africa, media reports say.

Thomas Eric Duncan contracted the disease in Liberia and began to show symptoms after arriving in Texas two weeks ago, causing a panic that he could have infected another 10 individuals.

In photo, Nancy Writebol also cured of Ebola after using ZMap [MORE] and [MORE]

Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Duncan is in critical condition, adding that the patient is not receiving ZMapp – an experimental medicine – because it is “all gone” and is “not going to be available anytime soon.” The comments were made during a briefing with reporters on Sunday.

Above Dr. Rick Sacra, also cured of Ebola, talking about his recovery on 9/24/14. [MORE 

ZMapp, the experimental drug given to two American aid workers who contracted Ebola while serving in West Africa, is being manufactured as quickly as possible, but none will be available for six to eight weeks, says Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. Both aid workers were white men and made full recoveries. Duncan is Black. 

Fauci also said that a vaccine to prevent Ebola is in early testing and data on whether it is safe should be available by year's end.

Appearing Sunday on "Face the Nation," Fauci said it is possible that at least one of the people who came into close contact with Duncan, who recently entered the United States from Liberia, could also come down with the virus. [MORE]

Above, another white man cured of Ebola, William Pooley, the first Briton to contract Ebola who later fully recovered from the disease. He was given the drug ZMapp on 8/26/14. [MORE]

Researcher says Ebola Unlikely to Spread in US - 'This is a virus that does not easily spread from one human to another. It requires contact, direct contact with bodily fluids. We should be more worried for the people in West Africa.'

How worried should we be about this first case of Ebola in the U.S.?

We should not be worried for ourselves. We should be more worried for the people in West Africa. This is a virus that does not easily spread from one human to another. It requires contact, direct contact with bodily fluids. It can be stopped with good hospital conditions and barrier nursing, meaning masks, goggles, rubber gloves, etc. (In photo, Hazmat teams descended on apartments where Thomas Duncan had stayed on disinfect items including his car). 

There is only the slimmest likelihood that it can escape that containment in the U.S. There's a far greater chance that we'll die of influenza in the next year than that we'll die of Ebola virus. But we should still be very concerned for what's going on in West Africa.

I suppose the next question is: Why are people in West Africa touching bodies or getting bodily fluids on each other? How is it spreading there? And why?

The severity of this outbreak in West Africa reflects not only the transmissibility of the disease, but also the sad circumstances of poverty and the chronic lack of medical care, infrastructure, and supplies. That's really what this is telling us: that we need to try harder to imagine just what it's like to be poor in Africa. One of the consequences of being poor in Africa, especially in a country like Liberia or Sierra Leone, which have gone through a lot of political turmoil and have weak governance and a shortage of medical resources, is that the current outbreak could turn into an epidemic.

It's being spread because people are taking care of their loved ones at home. They're touching them, they're feeding them, they're washing them, they're cleaning up the vomit and the diarrhea that Ebola generates. That's a classic circumstance in which even health care workers are getting infected.

In addition, there are burial practices that involve washing the bodies and in some cases cleaning out the body cavities. In some cases, the funeral practices also involve a final touch or even a final kiss of the deceased person. And one of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus. So funeral practices can be a big factor in allowing it to be transmitted.

It's a combination of horrible circumstances. But the primary factor is poverty [which is caused by white supremacy/racism].

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White Folks & Black Jokes: Boston Herald Features Obama 'watermelon toothpaste' cartoon

From [HERE] The cartoon — "White House invader got farther than originally thought" — shows Obama brushing his teeth in a White House bathroom while an intruder bathes in the tub behind him. The man says: "Have you tried the new watermelon flavored toothpaste?" It depicts Obama with wide bug eyes and big ears like a monkey. The cartoon was created by Jerry Holbert and the Boston Herald is published by Patrick J. Purcell- both are racist suspects. [MORE] Obama racism is directed @ you [MORE]

'Neely Fuller explains that racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a universally operating "system" of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white people participate. The word "race," has little biological validity but is translated more correctly as "organization," the sole purpose of which is to maintain white domination and world control of non-whites'. [MORE]. The only purpose of "race" is to practice racism.

"There is no known code of White Supremacy that can be formally recognized as such in a single set of words or pictures. The basic code of white supremacy is the total pattern of everyday thought, speech and action of the individual white persons who practice it. All things that help to promote it are apart of the white code."  [more]

Wash Post Reports that White "Comedians" are Bringing Blackface " Back on YouTube [HERE] White people lack color and melanin and they dislike this difference. As stated by Dr. Welsing, 'always, in the presence of color whites will feel genetically inferior. Therefore they use make-up, tan their skin and exercise excessively to compensate for their perceived deficiency.'

According to Dr. Welsing, "the destructive and aggressive behavioral patterns being displayed by white peoples towards all non-white peoples is evidence of the inner hate, hostility and rejection they feel towards themselves and of the depth of self-alienation that has evolved from the genetic and psychological kernel of color inadequacy." Color defeciency along with numerical inadequacy (90% of the world is non-white and the white population is declining) cause some white people to be self alienated, narcissistic/self important, have anxiety, depression [MORE] and to function as psychopaths in their relations with non-whites. [MORE]

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Alleges that Whitten Inn Hotels Discriminates Against its Latino Workers

From [HERE] A hotel chain broke the law by subjecting minority employees in New Mexico, Texas and South Carolina to a hostile work environment and firing those who complained, a federal agency said.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that it had filed suit against four Whitten Inn hotels and is seeking back pay, lost benefits and damages for workers. According to federal officials, employees endured racial slurs and derogatory comments. The agency said several workers were let go as retaliation for complaining. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in New Mexico.

"Discriminatory policies and conduct have no place in a state as culturally rich as New Mexico or in any employment setting," said EEOC attorney Christina Vigil, who is litigating the lawsuit.

Businessman Larry Whitten created a firestorm in 2009 when workers at his Taos hotel in northern New Mexico say they were forbidden to speak Spanish and told to change their Spanish first names.

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Oklahoma's Response to Botched Execution: Hide the Next Lynching from the Public

From [HERE] It's a dark day for Oklahoma. That metaphor is particularly apt this week, as the Sooner State just redoubled its commitment to keeping capital punishment in the shadows by hiding its lethal injection process from public view and oversight.

Five months after Clayton Lockett's (Black man) horrifically botched execution and the state's promise to investigate and improve its execution process, the government responded yesterday with a brand-new "execution policy" that only makes it more difficult for the public to know anything about how the government is carrying out the ultimate punishment. No need to read between the lines – the state has listed explicit measures to deepen the mystery surrounding lethal injection and keep the public at bay.

The policy slashes the number of media witnesses allowed to attend an execution from 12 to 5, and it expressly reserves the right to regulate their access on the fly. Even crazier, the policy gives the state the power to close the execution viewing curtain on a whim, and to remove witnesses – as state officials see fit.

"The government took a process already corrupted by secrecy and made it even more difficult for the public to know anything about it," said my colleague Ryan Kiesel at the ACLU of Oklahoma. That's exactly right – and it's a shameful truth that gives the lie to the state's continual references to the ideals of transparency.

We remember how the state responded to Lockett's botched execution on April 29 – with more secrecy. The new execution policy, and its reduction of public oversight, will only increase the likelihood of more cruel and unusual deaths at the hands of the state.

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Black Man to Get $40,000 (thousand) after serving 16 Years in Prison for Wrongful Rape Conviction

From [HERE] Nathan Brown, 40, was released from a New Orleans prison in June after serving more than 16 years for a 1997 attempted rape of which he was innocent. On Tuesday, Judge Ray Steib of the 24th Judicial District Court apologized to Brown for the years that he lost while being locked away for a crime that he did not commit, and told Brown that he is entitled to $330,000 in wrongful conviction compensation from the state of Louisiana.
 
The Times-Picayune reports that Brown will receive the maximum amount that the state will pay to exonerees. According to Louisiana’s compensation law, exonerees are allowed up to $25,000 for up to 10 years in prison, regardless of how long the wrongfully convicted person was incarcerated, with a cap set at $250,000. Brown is entitled to request an additional $80,000 to compensate him for the opportunities he lost while imprisoned.
 
Brown was wrongly convicted in 1997 of attempting to rape a woman, then 40, who lived in his apartment complex. Though Brown had an alibi for the time of the crime, he was tried, convicted and sentenced in one day. His conviction was based entirely on the identification by the victim who claimed that she was positive that Brown was her assailant.
 
In December of last year the Innocence Project requested DNA testing of crime scene evidence. Results confirmed what Brown had insisted all along, that he was innocent. The DNA profile matched to a man who lived near the apartment building in 1997 and is now serving time in Mississippi for an unrelated crime.
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California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants for Police Drones

From [HERE] Despite widely clearing both the state’s Senate and Assembly, California Governor Jerry Brown shot down a bill on Sunday that would have imposed restrictions on when law enforcement agencies can use drones for surveillance.

Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement over the weekend that he was vetoing the drone accountability act that, had it been signed into law, would require police agencies to obtain a warrant before using an unmanned vehicle, or drone, for aerial surveillance.

“There are undoubtedly circumstances where a warrant is appropriate. The bill’s exceptions, however, appear to be too narrowand could impose requirements beyond what is required by either the Fourth Amendment or the privacy provisions in the California Constitution,” Brown said on Sunday.

One of the bill’s authors, Republican Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, said in a tweet on Sunday that “The era of govt. surveillance continues” after the governor’s veto was announced.

[file under the refinement of white supremacy] Are 95% of defendants guilty? Prosecutors Using their Powers to Compel Guilty Pleas with Snitches

From [HERE] A new article in the Economist examines how recent legal changes have placed, perhaps, an overabundance of power in the hands of American prosecutors. According to the article, the changes include “an explosion” of cases ending in guilty pleas and a high number of cases in which defendants become informants, speaking out against one another in exchange for deals that will lessen their charges or sentences.
 
The Economist reports: … American prosecutors are more powerful than ever before. Several legal changes have empowered them. The first is the explosion of plea bargaining, where a suspect agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge if the more serious charges against him are dropped. Plea bargains were unobtainable in the early years of American justice. But today more than 95% of cases end in such deals and thus are never brought to trial.

Jed Rakoff, a district judge in New York, thinks it unlikely that 95% of defendants are guilty. Of the 2.4m Americans behind bars, he thinks it possible that “thousands, perhaps tens of thousands” confessed despite being innocent. One reason they might do so is because of harsh, mandatory-minimum sentencing rules can make such a choice rational. Rather than risk a trial and a 30-year sentence, some cop a plea and accept a much shorter one.

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Do we really all breathe the same air? Pollution is segregated, too

From [HERE] Studies dating back to the 1970s have pointed to a consistent pattern in who lives near the kinds of hazards --  toxic waste sites, landfills, congested highways -- that few of us would willingly choose as neighbors. The invariable answer: poor people and communities of color.

This pattern of "environmental injustice" suggests that minorities may contend every day with disproportionate health risks from tailpipe exhaust or coal plant emissions. But these health risks are harder to quantify than, say, the number of power plants in a city. And most of the research that has tried to do this has been limited to a single metropolitan area, or to those few places that happen to have good monitoring data on pollution.

Now, however, researchers at the University of Minnesota, writing in the journal PLOS ONE, have created a sweeping picture of unequal exposure to one key pollutant -- nitrogen dioxide, produced by cars, construction equipment and industrial sources -- that's been linked to higher risks of asthma and heart attack. They've found, all over the country, in even the most rural states and the cleanest cities, that minorities are exposed to more of the pollution than whites.

"The biggest finding is that we have this national picture of environmental injustice and how it varies by state and by city," says Julian Marshall, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Minnesota and one of the authors of the study along with Lara P. Clark and Dylan B. Millet. "The levels of disparity that we see here are large and likely have health implications."

Specifically, they found that minorities are on average exposed to 38 percent higher levels of outdoor NO2 than whites in the communities where they live, based on demographic data from the 2000 census. That gap varies across the country, though, and it's substantially wider in the biggest cities. Nationwide, the difference in exposure is akin to approximately 7,000 deaths a year from heart disease.

"It’s a shockingly large number," Marshall says. "You’re taking what's a major killer of people [in heart disease] and increasing it slightly, by a few percent. But that’s a lot."

Regionally, the disparities are largest in the upper Midwest and the Northeast, but the model Marshall and his coauthors developed can drill down from there. These maps show the differences in average exposure to NO2 between low-income nonwhites and high-income whites: [MORE]

US to sell Saudi Arabia $1.75 Billion worth of Patriot air defenses: Lockheed Martin and Raytheon hit Jackpot with War

From [HERE] The US State Department has approved sales of Patriot PAC-3 missile complexes to Saudi Arabia, the US primary ally in the Arab world. At the moment Riyadh operates previous versions of the same air defense missile complexes.

Saudi Arabia will get a whole set of air defense systems, consisting of Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 missiles with containers and other associated equipment, including “2 PAC-3 Telemetry Kits, 6 Fire Solution Computers, 36 Launcher Station Modification Kits, 2 Missile Round Trainers, 2 PAC-3 Slings, 6 Patriot Automated Logistics Systems Kits, 6 Shorting Plugs, spare and repair part,” the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency reported.

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US Defense Contractors Getting Paid Off on so-called ISIS and al-Qaeda Offensive

From [HERE] Stock prices for Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman set all-time record highs last week as it became increasingly clear that President Obama was committed to a massive, sustained air war in Iraq and Syria.

It’s nothing short of a windfall for these and other huge defense contractors, who’ve been getting itchy about federal budget pressures that threatened to slow the rate of increase in military spending.

Now, with U.S. forces literally blowing through tens of millions of dollars of munitions a day, the industry is not just counting on vast spending to replenish inventory, but hoping for a new era of reliance on supremely expensive military hardware.

“To the extent we can shift away from relying on troops and rely more heavily on equipment — that could present an opportunity,” Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank, whose $66 billion portfolio includes Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co. shares, told Bloomberg.

Defense contractor stocks have far exceeded the performance of the broader market. A Bloomberg index of four of the largest Pentagon contractors rose 19 percent this year, compared to 2.2 percent for the S&P 500.

It’s the munition makers who “stand to reap the biggest windfall, especially in the short term,” says Fortune magazine, citing Raytheon’s long-range Tomahawk missiles, and Lockheed Martin’s Hellfires, among others. “Small diameter bombs could be a huge winner, since aircraft can carry more of them in a single sortie,” one analyst tells the magazine.

U.S. forces used 47 Tomahawk missiles on Monday alone, at $1.5 million apiece.

Smart “small-diameter bombs” cost about $250,000 each. [MORE]

Another Ebola Patient Found in Another Hood: Ebola Patient @ Trifling Howard University Hospital

[in photo: across the street from HU Hospital] From [HEREWashington, D.C. hospital that received big grant to study drugs that treat Ebola gets patient who may have virus --The hospital was recently awarded $11 million in federal grants to study drugs that treat Ebola. Officials at Howard University Hospital have confirmed they are monitoring a patient for possible Ebola infection. The patient had recently traveled to Nigeria, a country that confirmed 19 Ebola cases. "In an abundance of caution, we have activated the appropriate infection control protocols, including isolating the patient," said hospital spokesperson Kerry-Ann Hamilton in a statement.

HU Hospital is horrible, unkept and ghetto. A 2 star place to never go, an epicenter of negligence, a hood hospital. Don't believe BW? go see for yourself, take a tour of the emergency room. [MORE]. This could be dangerous. [MORE] In case you were wondering the Texas incident also appears to have occurred in an apartment bldg occupied mostly by non-white people in a Black & Brown neighborhood. 

Where's All that White Media Outrage? White Actor sued for assault, battery, sexual battery of Latino Woman [Woman Claims Charlie Sheen Assaulted Her]

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population? What is the sociopolitical function of alleged African American criminality and self-destructive behavior in American society? How does alleged Black American criminality sustain the American status quo? How is "criminal motivation" induced into the personalities and social relations of some African Americans and for what reasons? [MORE]

From [HERE] Charlie Sheen has been sued by a dental tech who claims the actor cursed at her, tried to pull off her bra and punched her in the chest during a dentist appointment.     

Dental technician Margarita Palestino sued Sheen in Superior Court on Friday in a complaint for assault, battery, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.     

According to her 7-page complaint, Sheen arrived at dentist George Bogen's clinic on North Larchmont Avenue on Sept. 25 for an appointment.     

By the time Sheen had left, Palestino claims, he had assaulted her, left spit all over the walls, sent dental instruments and expletives flying, and stabbed an examination chair repeatedly with a knife.     Bogen told Palestino after Sheen had left that the star was drunk and high on crack, cocaine and Theradol, according to her Oct. 3 lawsuit in Superior Court.     

Palestino claims that Sheen's personal assistant paid her off with $500 to make up for the actor's alleged behavior.     

Sheen denied that he was on drugs or had assaulted anyone, according to TMZ. Sheen's camp said that he had a bad reaction to the nitrous oxide he was given. The star's lawyer Martin Singer told TMZ on Oct. 2 that the tech had filed suit after she was fired.      

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White Georgia judge says Black Man Can't Prove he is Mentally Disabled Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - Execution to Proceed

From [HERE] and [HERE] A judge from Georgia's Towaliga Judicial Circuit ruled Monday that death row inmate Warren Lee Hill has failed to meet the state's requirement to prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt as a bar to execution. Hill's lawyers argued Georgia's high standard for proving intellectual disability is inadequate because psychiatric diagnoses are subject to a degree of uncertainty. Hill's lawyers based their argument on a set of US Supreme Court [official website] decisions. First in 2002 in the case of Atkins v. Virginia [opinion, PDF] the Court held "death is not a suitable punishment for a mentally retarded criminal," reasoning that their disability "places them at special risk of wrongful execution." Additionally in May the Supreme Court in Hall v. Florida [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] struck down a Florida law that held the death penalty for criminal defendants whose IQ is greater than 70 violates the Eighth Amendment [text] of the US Constitution, and the court found a defendant whose IQ is close to the 70-point cutoff has the right to present additional testimony of his or her mental disability. Georgia sets a high bar for defendants to prove intellectual disability for death row inmates beyond a reasonable doubt and the state court's interpretation of Georgia law is regarded as the toughest burden of proof in the nation [AP report]. The Georgia standard has repeatedly been upheld by state and federal courts. In Monday's ruling Judge Thomas Wilson declared the court is "procedurally barred" from considering Hill's latest challenge because he failed to present any new evidence to support his petition. [MORE]

Ebola is spreading at a "terrifying rate," with five people infected with the deadly virus every hour in Sierra Leone alone

From [HERE] Ebola is spreading at a "terrifying rate," with five people infected with the deadly virus every hour in Sierra Leone alone, according to data published Thursday by human rights organization Save the Children. [images of ebola [HERE] viewer discretion is advised.] 

The London-based group estimates the rate of infected persons in the West African country will increase to 10 every hour if nothing is done to curb Ebola’s spread.

"The scale of the Ebola epidemic is devastating and growing every day, with five people infected every hour in Sierra Leone last week," Justin Forsyth, chief executive of Save the Children, said in a statement. "We need a coordinated international response that ensures treatment centers are built and staffed immediately."

The organization’s infection-rate figures are based on both confirmed cases and an estimate of how many cases are not being reported.

Save the Children’s urgent plea for a more concerted effort to tackle the virus came as Britain hosted an international conference titled "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" in London on Thursday where officials announced plans to build up to 1,000 makeshift clinics in the African nation.

The new clinics will offer little, if any, treatment, but they will get sick people out of their homes, away from their families and hopefully slow the infection rate. Only a fraction of Ebola patients in Sierra Leone are now in treatment centers.

"If we don't do anything, we'll just be watching people die," said Dr. Margaret Harris, spokeswoman for the World Health Organization.

While Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, Sierra Leone is one of the hardest-hit countries. The virus has killed more than 3,300 people and infected at least twice as many in West Africa.

Experts say the virus will continue to spread rapidly unless authorities can reach and isolate at least 70 percent of infected persons. Dozens of Ebola treatment centers have been promised, but they could take weeks or even months to be constructed. [MORE]