The US White House stated, "I didn't see it happen in front of me,..."
Excuse me. The words that follow that statement is, "...therefore, it didn't happen."
I am not surprised such attitudes exist among the Trump White House, what is intolerable is the fact this is an ongoing saga of the abuse of women and girls. This is still another piece to the puzzle of the level of abuse against women this White House seems to believe they are entitled to. YES, entitled to.
There is no degree of abuse of women, men or children tolerated in this country and to think this is being touted as 'status quo' for men in the White House that believe beating women is part of the package is outrageous. This is a continuous exposure of a White House that conducts itself above the law.
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
There are now at least three large residential or hotels leaning in Taiwan.
This is the last Pacific warning from the Tsunami Warning Center. It is some time ago and there are no current warnings. No tsunami warning was issue for Taiwan. Do they have buoys?
It looks as though Taiwan needs quake proof buildings as well.
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WEPA40 PHEB 231108
TSUPAC
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
1102 UTC TUE JAN 23 2018
...PTWC FINAL TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE...
There is the observation this is an unusal occurrence. I strongly suggest building standards and tsunami warnings carry brevity in future regulations for Taiwan. Please minimize the death and missing threats. The Pacific rim has become very active over the past decade and there is no estimation that will abate. The people living in the region of the Pacific, that includes Alaska, the USA West Coast and Hawaii should be as prepared for increasing threats. Taiwan's people need to be just as safe as anyone else.
February 7, 2018
By TAIJING WU
Hualien, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers worked Wednesday (click here) to free people trapped after a strong earthquake near Taiwan’s east coast caused several buildings to cave in and tilt dangerously. At least six people were killed and 76 could not be contacted following the quake.
Videos and photos showed several midsized buildings in worst-hit Hualien county leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, glass, iron and other debris. Firefighters climbed ladders hoisted against windows to reach residents inside apartments.
The shallow, magnitude 6.4 quake late Tuesday night caused at least four buildings to cave in and shift on their foundations. That was likely caused by soil liquefaction, when the ground beneath a building loses its solidity under stress such as that caused by an earthquake.
A maintenance worker who was rescued after being trapped in the basement of the Marshal Hotel said the force of the earthquake was unusual even for a region used to temblors.
“At first it wasn’t that big … we get this sort of thing all the time and it’s really nothing. But then it got really terrifying,” the worker, Chen Ming-hui, told Taiwan’s official Central News Agency after he was reunited with his son and grandson following the quake. “It was really scary.”...
The focus in California has been more than San Andreas. As scientists have stated the San Andreas is overdue, the people are also looking more closely at the Elsinora Fault Zone. There was a 4.0 there in January and it surprised the people.
I am a firm believer that long time residents of these areas are reliable when they make observations of new events and surprises. People can be counted on to be alert to change in their safety.
It dissolves "The Sequester."
The Republicans can no longer be the party of obstruction due to concerns for the national debt.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has a moral issue regarding the deadline of March 5th to protect some of the precious generations' most productive Americans. They are Americans through and through and it is time the DACA generation take their seats at the table.
US House Speaker should seek a veto proof edition of the Senate bill and then meet in the middle under reconciliation. GET IT DONE, RYAN!
February 7. 2018
By Erica Werner
...The move came (click here) amid rising fury from House liberals and immigration activists as congressional leaders appeared on the cusp of announcing a massive two-year budget deal without a fix for “dreamers.” Although it was not immediately clear how many Democrats would follow Pelosi’s lead, her announcement raised new uncertainty about whether congressional leaders would be able to finalize the deal as planned Wednesday.
Without congressional action, the government will begin to shut down Thursday at midnight....
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has a moral issue regarding the deadline of March 5th to protect some of the precious generations' most productive Americans. They are Americans through and through and it is time the DACA generation take their seats at the table.
US House Speaker should seek a veto proof edition of the Senate bill and then meet in the middle under reconciliation. GET IT DONE, RYAN!
February 7. 2018
By Erica Werner
...The move came (click here) amid rising fury from House liberals and immigration activists as congressional leaders appeared on the cusp of announcing a massive two-year budget deal without a fix for “dreamers.” Although it was not immediately clear how many Democrats would follow Pelosi’s lead, her announcement raised new uncertainty about whether congressional leaders would be able to finalize the deal as planned Wednesday.
The rumored budget deal to bust spending caps for the military and domestic programs and pile hundreds of billions of dollars onto the debt already faced a threatened rebellion from the right, as House conservatives fumed about the increased spending.
Donald Trump is using his office for politics and not conducting the country's business.
To begin with Adma Schiff is not a little person. He is an adult something Donny Trump still hasn't mastered. And one other thing; the so called comedians that mimic Trump's hand expressions when he speaks are NOT nearly effeminate enough. Please get it right.
Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!
I believe Trump makes decisions and demands loyalty for the reason of his own political career while in office. I also believe that was an underlying motivation for first asking for and not receiving a loyalty pledge from Comey. Trump asked for loyalty because he saw the FBI Director's power work to his advantage against Hillary Clinton. The fact Comey's statement to the press altered the Clinton lead into the 2016 election is now fact in a book.
That fact is also why then Attorney General Lynch stated Comey was not to interfere with the election with the meaningless announcement he made. As soon as he made it, I knew it was an attack on Clinton and not necessary. The emails on Weiner's laptop would demonstrate the same character of Hillary Clinton no matter where they were found. Hillary Clinton has conducted herself in the same way since she was the daughter of Hugh Rodham. She is rock solid and there would be no additional surprises about the woman about to be elected President. THAT reality is what the FBI and Justice Department could honor in their policy of non-interference. The same character was a dependable fact. The emails would prove nothing new. And nothing new was proven. I want to know what drove Comey to do it. I am confident he has reflected on his conscience by now.
I think Trump makes many decisions for his own personal reasons and not the business of the country. Comey was a double threat. He was powerful enough to displace Hillary Clinton's victory AND conduct an investigation into Russia's influence in promoting Trump into office. Comey scared Trump. Trump never realized that any FBI Director is afforded those powers for very real reasons and firing Comey would not dilute those powers. Trump does not discern power into CONTEXT so much as personal attributes. That is not a person able to lead so much as compete.
That is the fatal flaw of the Plutocracy that believes running the USA as a business that can produce profits and end taxes. It is nonsense. Government is about the people and NOT eliminating people that are not profitable.
Reagan was convinced the Space Shuttle could produce profits and demanded launches every two weeks, causing the deaths of our astronauts.
Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!
I believe Trump makes decisions and demands loyalty for the reason of his own political career while in office. I also believe that was an underlying motivation for first asking for and not receiving a loyalty pledge from Comey. Trump asked for loyalty because he saw the FBI Director's power work to his advantage against Hillary Clinton. The fact Comey's statement to the press altered the Clinton lead into the 2016 election is now fact in a book.
That fact is also why then Attorney General Lynch stated Comey was not to interfere with the election with the meaningless announcement he made. As soon as he made it, I knew it was an attack on Clinton and not necessary. The emails on Weiner's laptop would demonstrate the same character of Hillary Clinton no matter where they were found. Hillary Clinton has conducted herself in the same way since she was the daughter of Hugh Rodham. She is rock solid and there would be no additional surprises about the woman about to be elected President. THAT reality is what the FBI and Justice Department could honor in their policy of non-interference. The same character was a dependable fact. The emails would prove nothing new. And nothing new was proven. I want to know what drove Comey to do it. I am confident he has reflected on his conscience by now.
I think Trump makes many decisions for his own personal reasons and not the business of the country. Comey was a double threat. He was powerful enough to displace Hillary Clinton's victory AND conduct an investigation into Russia's influence in promoting Trump into office. Comey scared Trump. Trump never realized that any FBI Director is afforded those powers for very real reasons and firing Comey would not dilute those powers. Trump does not discern power into CONTEXT so much as personal attributes. That is not a person able to lead so much as compete.
That is the fatal flaw of the Plutocracy that believes running the USA as a business that can produce profits and end taxes. It is nonsense. Government is about the people and NOT eliminating people that are not profitable.
Reagan was convinced the Space Shuttle could produce profits and demanded launches every two weeks, causing the deaths of our astronauts.
Zika has to be defeated globally to protect Americans.
A new study, (click here) led in part by the University of Washington, raises new concerns over the threat of the Zika virus for pregnant women and their babies.
It found that children who appear normal at birth may show signs of the debilitating disease years down the road.
“Our research team is showing now, for the first time, that Zika virus damage to the fetal brain can be incredibly subtle and difficult to detect during pregnancy,” says Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf....
Zika is a virus and has no genetic footprint when amniocentesis is performed. It will only show up in ultrasounds as the fetus grows and brain development is hindered. In the case of the University of Washington study, the virus can effect what is viewed as a healthy and normal sized brain, too. Such problems will result in brain damage on a longer scale.
...But Waldorf's research looked at changes in the brains of primates and found that even when a baby is born with a normal-sized head, possible severe brain damage may have occurred and might not be diagnosed until years later....
Basically, what the University of Washington is saying is that it isn't just the number of cells of brain tissue that exists, it is the future of the integrity of functioning cells that can ultimately be effected.
...Researchers say Alzheimer's and dementia could also appear in toddlers and even teens years after they were infected because their brains contain similar neural stem cells....
Virus, by nature, are not self-replicating, they use the DNA of their victims to multiply. So, when Zika seeks out the brain cells, it is injecting it's own RNA and changing the STEM CELLS that are the basis of brain cell growth in order to form a brain.
Advising women to avoid countries where Zika exists is an interesting emergency measure, but, as we have seen in the USA with a highly mobile society the virus arrives anyway. Additionally, the mosquitoes that carry the virus are native to the USA. To continue to advocate women need to take care of themselves is not a long term permanent solution.
We have increasing seen diseases arrive in the USA that normally would not manifest naturally. They are arriving by vectors. Those vectors now have new land to infest because of the climate crisis and the increasing temperatures that would normally defeat them. This is a permanent posture for the USA now.
There are vectors that will now carry disease they never have before because Earth is becoming hotter. The hottest days of American history have been in the last decade and it is a trend that will continue until there is enough mitigation on Earth to end high Greenhouse Gas levels.
“Our research team is showing now, for the first time, that Zika virus damage to the fetal brain can be incredibly subtle and difficult to detect during pregnancy,” says Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf....
Zika is a virus and has no genetic footprint when amniocentesis is performed. It will only show up in ultrasounds as the fetus grows and brain development is hindered. In the case of the University of Washington study, the virus can effect what is viewed as a healthy and normal sized brain, too. Such problems will result in brain damage on a longer scale.
...But Waldorf's research looked at changes in the brains of primates and found that even when a baby is born with a normal-sized head, possible severe brain damage may have occurred and might not be diagnosed until years later....
Basically, what the University of Washington is saying is that it isn't just the number of cells of brain tissue that exists, it is the future of the integrity of functioning cells that can ultimately be effected.
...Researchers say Alzheimer's and dementia could also appear in toddlers and even teens years after they were infected because their brains contain similar neural stem cells....
Virus, by nature, are not self-replicating, they use the DNA of their victims to multiply. So, when Zika seeks out the brain cells, it is injecting it's own RNA and changing the STEM CELLS that are the basis of brain cell growth in order to form a brain.
Advising women to avoid countries where Zika exists is an interesting emergency measure, but, as we have seen in the USA with a highly mobile society the virus arrives anyway. Additionally, the mosquitoes that carry the virus are native to the USA. To continue to advocate women need to take care of themselves is not a long term permanent solution.
We have increasing seen diseases arrive in the USA that normally would not manifest naturally. They are arriving by vectors. Those vectors now have new land to infest because of the climate crisis and the increasing temperatures that would normally defeat them. This is a permanent posture for the USA now.
There are vectors that will now carry disease they never have before because Earth is becoming hotter. The hottest days of American history have been in the last decade and it is a trend that will continue until there is enough mitigation on Earth to end high Greenhouse Gas levels.
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