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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (191859)	6/18/2016 9:38:48 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

The dangerous stupidity of the left: To stop terrorism we need to have gun control, 9/11 means we need box cutter control, Boston bombing means we need pressure cooker control, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole means we need small boat control, the attack on Pearl Harbor meant we need aviation control, and the stupidity goes on and on... GZ

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (191859)	6/18/2016 10:49:20 AM
From: tonto	7 Recommendations Recommended By FJB GROUND ZERO™ Investor Clouseau locogringo lorne and 2 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

Kenneth, the point of the article is it shows how long this massacre was considered... On another point... Clinton Email Scandal: Imminent Document Leak Enough To Indict Her "We've accumulated a lot of material about Hillary Clinton," Julian Assange says of his WikiLeaks group. "We could proceed to an indictment." (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock/Newscom) KERRY JACKSON6/17/2016 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not generally thought of as a friend of Republicans. But what he says is coming soon from his whistleblowing group could endear him to the GOP. Assange claims his "upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton" are enough to indict her, according to a recent interview with British ITV News. "We've accumulated a lot of material about Hillary Clinton. We could proceed to an indictment," he said. These emails are "pending publication." But no matter how damaging the emails are, Assange believes the FBI will give Clinton a pass. Rather than bring criminal charges, it will "push for concessions from the new Clinton government in exchange for its lack of indictment." If that happens, then the FBI will have committed a criminal offense. Letting a politician escape indictment simply because he or she has power and status is an outrage that every American should strongly condemn. But, as Assange points out, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, an Obama appointee, isn't likely to indict someone who once worked for her boss, and is a fellow Democrat. There is also the fact, admitted to by Clinton's campaign, that Clinton fixer attorney David Kendall has stayed in contact with the Justice Department throughout its investigation. Let's not be naïve and think this is merely a lawyer cooperating with an investigation on behalf of his client. This is more likely the case of an influential attorney representing a powerful person applying a heavy load of pressure on an already friendly attorney general, who is running a department filled with workers who already voted for Clinton with their political campaign contributions. While we won't be surprised with a decision not to indict, it would nevertheless be demoralizing. If the law doesn't apply to those with political power, then the law is a farce and our politicians are more like kings and queens than citizen lawmakers. Revolutions have started for less than that. RELATED: Email Scandal: Hillary Says It Will Die, State Dept. Says It Will Outlive Her Hillary Could Face A 10-Year Prison Stint If Her Server Was Hacked 5 More Lies Uncovered By Inspector General Report

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (191859)	6/23/2016 9:13:03 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224648

Earthquake omen: Land around San Andreas Fault rising, sinking Originally published June 22, 2016 at 3:04 pm Updated June 22, 2016 at 10:31 pm Photo shows a valley eroded along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain. The downstream segment of the channel on the west side (far side) of the fault has been displaced a kilometer or more from the upstream segment (left out of view). (USGS ) For the first time, a computer image shows huge sections of California rising and sinking around the San Andreas Fault from seismic strain that will be ultimately released in a large earthquake. Share story By Rong-Gong Lin II Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — For the first time, scientists have produced a computer image showing huge sections of California rising and sinking around the San Andreas Fault. The vertical movement is the result of seismic strain that will be ultimately released in a large earthquake. Seismic Neglect More from the series: Intro to The Seattle Times’ special report Part One: Buildings that kill 7 things you need to know How to prepare your home (PDF) What to do when it hits (PDF) The San Andreas Fault is California’s longest earthquake fault, and one of the state’s most dangerous. Scientists have long expected that parts of California are rising — and other parts sinking — around the fault in a way that is ongoing, very subtle and extremely slow. Such vertical movement makes a lot of sense. California sits on the border of two gigantic tectonic plates — the Pacific and North American — that are constantly grinding past each other. But actually observing how California’s landscape is rising and falling from seismic strain has been an elusive goal, until now. Prepare for an earthquake Earthquakes may be unpredictable — but they are also inevitable. Here are some tips to help you get ready before the next one hits. In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, scientists found that much of the Los Angeles Basin, Orange County, San Diego County and the Bakersfield area are sinking 2 to 3 millimeters a year — a couple of penny-widths annually. By contrast, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, and a large portion of San Bernardino County, are rising at the same rate. The areas closest to the San Andreas Fault, however, remain locked in place. When the next big earthquake strikes, the different parts of Southern California will lurch back to the same level. “Once there is a major event, all of that energy gets released,” said Sam Howell, a doctoral candidate in geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the lead author of the report. Besides Howell, the other co-authors of the study were Bridget Smith-Konter and Neil Frazer, also at the University of Hawaii; Xiaopeng Tong of the University of Washington; and David Sandwell, of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The region of the San Andreas Fault between Monterey County and Imperial County hasn’t moved in a significant way in more than 150 years, and other parts of the fault have been accumulating stress for more than 300 years. The last big earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault, a magnitude 7.9 temblor, ruptured from Monterey County through Los Angeles County in 1857. Further south, the section of the San Andreas between San Bernardino County and Imperial County hasn’t ruptured in a major way since about 1690. Howell said the time span for a large rupture on the southern San Andreas is, on average, once every 150 years or so. But the actual interval can vary over the centuries, and that’s why it’s hard to say exactly when the next big one will hit. Howell said a better understanding of how California is being warped as a result of this accumulating seismic strain is helping scientists “understand more about how the fault is behaving and the effect it’s going to have in the surrounding region.” The study, however, isn’t expected to help scientists suddenly predict the precise time and location of the next devastating quake. “It’s pretty much impossible to say when the next one will happen,” Howell said. GPS data provided the raw information of how the earth is moving subtly from seismic pressure. Howell said it has been easy for scientists to see how California was moving in north, south, east and west directions, but it was much harder to show how the state was moving vertically due to seismic forces. The big problem was that there are other factors that can influence whether land is rising and falling, such as changing groundwater levels. Some parts of California are sinking as groundwater is pumped out for irrigation. The breakthrough accomplished by Howell and his team involved writing a computer code that filtered out how the land was rising or falling from non-seismic factors. “We wrote a computer code that could try and find the broad, large-scale signal,” Howell said. “It’s trying to find the smooth trend.” The study received funding from the National Science Foundation.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (191859)	6/24/2016 8:25:48 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	2 Recommendations Recommended By Investor Clouseau TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

Secret Memo Stating Obama Admin ‘Support’ for ISIS WASHINGTON, DC — Hillary Clinton received a classified intelligence report stating that the Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State. The memo made clear that Al Qaeda in Iraq was speaking through Muhammad Al Adnani, who is now the senior spokesman for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Western and Gulf states were supporting the terrorist group to try to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, who was being propped up by the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese. In August 2012, a “SECRET” classified memo was sent to various top Obama administration officials and agencies, including to the State Department and to Clinton’s office personally. “The document is an IAR, an intelligence information report,” said Christopher J. Farrell, who serves on the board of directors of Judicial Watch, which obtained the document. “It is produced by somebody within the Defense intelligence agency (DIA). It is reporting from the field by an intelligence agent” who could be a U.S. government agent, a defense attaché, or a source. “It’s a report from the field back to headquarters with some intelligence that somebody is willing to bet their career on,” Farrell said. Farrell confirmed that the report was sent to Clinton’s office, based on the recipient marking “RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC.” The report identifies Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) as being one of the principal elements of the Syrian opposition, which the West was choosing to “support.” breitbart.com GZ