The official news media report on the California earthquake warning seems to have upset some people but as with all things in the news, what is the hidden meaning? In this case, what is the hidden cause and meaning?
Could this have anything to do with the political presidential campaign underway? Let us face it, this is a campaign for the ages that has finished off the political process, the institutions of America, the news media of America, so why not California and the world?
The Book of Revelations may have the Four Horsemen but we have got Hillary, the Donald, throw in a Wild Billy for good measure, with the Fourth being none other than Barack Obama whose legacy rests in the hands and mouths of the other three.
This is a campaign for the ages so it might as well be heralding the End Times because what will be left when this finally ends, probably nothing of consequence.
So we can hardly fault California for being the starting point for the End of Time and it would only make sense a giant earthquake would swallow up the state being it is the last outpost for liberal purity.
Most fair minded Americans realize there is something dreadfully wrong with this presidential election. It is bad enough we have to pick the lesser of two evils, but add in the baggage of past presidents and the load is too great to absorb.
So get this for 2016 logic. We have a Republican president who was defeated by a Democratic governor of Arkansas because of an Independent - and we all know Independents have no status in America. Then we have the same Republican president who got whipped by the Democratic Arkansas governor now endorsing the wife and former First Lady of the Arkansas governor who whipped him because the Republican now running for president whipped the former Republican president's kid.
Bring on the End Times, it has to make more sense than the present. Did I mention the former First Lady of the Arkansas governor who whipped the former Republican president that now supports her got whipped by the present Democratic president who has now joined forces with the former Republican president to back the former First Lady who nearly beat him and whose husband whipped the former Republican president.
Please note all members of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Hillary, Donald, Billy, and Barack are all products of the venerable Ivy League that has controlled the presidency for 28 straight years and I am certain this information has something to do with the End Times.
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A cluster ofmore than 200 small earthquakesbeneath the Salton Sea in Southern
California earlier this week has scientists waiting to see if the slumbering
San Andreas fault nearby could be the next to move. The U.S. Geological Survey
estimates that following the quake swarm at the Salton Sea
on Monday and Tuesday, the likelihood of a magnitude-7 or greater earthquake
being triggered is as high as 1 in 100 over the next seven days, though the
odds will lower as time goes on.
But for now, local
seismologists might feel their hearts racing. "When there's significant
seismicity in this area of the fault, we kind of wonder if [the San Andreas] is
somehow going to go active," Caltech seismologist Egill Haukssontold theLos Angeles Times.
"So maybe one of those small earthquakes that's happening in the
neighborhood of the fault is going to trigger it, and set off the big
event."
And by big event, they meanbig:
A San Andreas earthquake
starting at the Salton Sea has long been a
major concern for scientists. In 2008, USGS researchers simulated what would
happen if a magnitude-7.8 earthquake started at the Salton Sea and then
barreled up the San Andreas fault, sending
shaking waves out in all directions.
By the time the San Andreas
fault becomes unhinged in San BernardinoCounty's CajonPass,
Interstate 15 and rail lines could be severed. Historic downtowns in the Inland Empire could be awash in fallen brick, crushing
people under the weight of collapsed buildings that had never been retrofitted.
Los Angeles could feel shaking for a
minute — a lifetime compared with the seven seconds felt during the 1994
Northridge earthquake. Shaking waves reach as far as Bakersfield,
Oxnard, and Santa Barbara. About 1,600 fires spread
across Southern California. And powerful
aftershocks larger than magnitude-7 pulverize the region, sending shaking into San DiegoCounty
and into the San GabrielValley. [Los Angeles Times]
Scientists say major
earthquakes happen in Southern California about once every 150 or 200 years;
the last big quake at the Salton Sea-tip of the San
Andreas fault was 330 years ago. Read the full chilling reportat theLos Angeles Times.Jeva Lange
Published: 09:38 EST, 27 September 2016 | Updated: 12:37 EST, 27 September 2016
A retired Michigan
man decided it wasn't enough to put a Donald Trump campaign sign in his front
yard to show his support for the controversial Republican candidate.
Instead, Almont
resident Wally Maslowsky, decided to mow 'TRUMP' in huge letters into the grass
of his 8-acre lawn in LapeerCounty.
Drone footage taken
from the air shows how expansive the sign spreads across the land.
Measured from the
front of the 'T' to the back of the 'P', is 330 feet, while the letters are
176-feet high, making the entire creation over 58,000 square feet, Maslowsky
told CBS Detroit.
Maslowsky worked at
General Motors before retiring, and came up with the idea during his spare time
gardening.
'I was cutting out
there one day and I said, well, it would be pretty neat to put a sign in here,'
he told CBS.
'Being that I've got
a design background I just kind of came in the house and laid it out and
plotted some points kinda like you're doing a survey when you're laying out a
basement for a house.'
Maslowsky says the
project took about four or five hours over the weekend to complete.
Maslowsky told the
station that there is a lot of support for Donald Trump in the area around
Almont.
Hillary Clinton still
leads Trump 38%-35% in Michigan,
according to the latest polls.
'I decided, well, I
could do this; so just for the heck of it I did it,' Maslowsky said.
'I mean, that's what
retired people do to keep busy, right? …Either that or sit in front of the TV
and get old.'
Maslowsky said he
didn't think the sign would become a big deal, until his daughter-in-law posted
pictures of what he had done to Twitter.
'And I said, well,
you know, I didn't do this for the news or anything, I'm not looking for any
kind of publicity, and she says, ''Well, why'd you do it?''
'I said, just for
fun, just to do it! Let the planes see it when they fly over.'
After three years of research, a Ph.D. student at the University of Melbourne may have discovered a way to
killsuperbugswithout
the use of antibiotics.
Shu Lam believes that she has found the key to averting a health
crisis so severe that the United Nations recently declared it a "fundamental threat"
to global health.
Antibiotic-resistantsuperbugs killabout 170,000 people a year and,
according to aBritish study, are
estimated to kill up to 10 million people a year by 2050 and cost the world
economy $100 trillion.
"If we fail to address this problem quickly and
comprehensively, antimicrobial resistance will make providing high-quality
universal healthcare coverage more difficult if not impossible," UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moontold The Guardian.
"It will undermine sustainablefoodproduction. And it will put the
sustainable developmentgoalsin
jeopardy."
In what is beinghailedby scientists in the field as "a
breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine," Lam and her
team developed a star-shaped peptide polymerthat
targets the resistant superbugs, rips apart their cell walls and kills them.
"These star polymers screw up the way bacteria
survives," Lamtold VICE. "Bacteria need to divide and
grow but when our star is attached to the membrane it interferes with these
processes. This puts a lot of stress on the bacteria and it initiates a process
to kill itself from stress."
A
bacterium cell before (left) and after being treated by the star-shaped
polymers.University
of Melbourne
Lamtold The Telegraphthe polymers have been effective in
treating mice infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria and are relatively
non-toxic to the healthy cells in the body. The reduction in toxicity is
because of the larger size of the polymers which make them too big to enter
healthy cells.
Lam's findings were recently published in theNature Microbiologyjournal
and while the results are promising in the lab and on mice, she said there is
still a long way to go.
"We still need to do a lot of studies and a lot of tests—for
example, to see whether these polymers have any side effects on our
bodies," she explained to Vice. "We need a lot of detailed
assessments like that, [but] they could hopefully be implemented in the near
future."
Professor Greg Qiao, her Ph.D. supervisor, told The Telegraph they
will need at least five more years to fully develop her project unless millions
of dollars are invested into speeding up the process.
However, "The really good news about this is that, at the
moment, if you have a superbug and you run out of antibiotics, there's not much
you can do. At least you can do something now," he said.
So what would the star polymer treatment look like in the future?
As Lam explained in aninterview with VICE:
"The quickest way to make this available to
the public is through topical application, simply because you go through less
procedures as opposed to ingesting these molecules into the body. So when you
have a wound or a bacterial infection on the wound then you [generally] apply
some sort of antibacterial cream.
"The star polymers could potentially become
one of the anti-bacterial ingredients in this cream. Ultimately, we hope that
what we're discovering here could replace antibiotics. In other words, we also
hope that we will be able to inject this into the body to treat serious
infections, or even to disperse it in the form of a pill which patients can
take, just like somebody would take an antibiotic."
Does
this 25 year-old hold the key to winning the war against superbugs?
Not
many 25-year-olds can claim to get up at 4am and work weekends to save the
world from an impending Armageddon that could cost tens of millions of lives.
But for
the past three years, Shu Lam, a Malaysian PhD student at the University of Melbourne,
has confined herself to a scientific laboratory to figure out how to kill
superbugs that can no longer be treated with antibiotics.
She
believes that she has found the key to averting a health crisis so severe that
last week the United Nations convened its first ever general assembly meeting
on drug-resistant bacteria.
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The
overuse and incorrect use of antibiotics has rendered some strains of
bacteria untreatable, allowing so-called “superbugs” to mutate. Last
Wednesday, the problem was described by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a
“fundamental threat” to global health and safety.
Superbugs
kill an estimated 700,000 people a year, among them 230,000 newborns. But,
according to a recent British study, this number will rise to a
staggering 10 million a year by 2050 – as many as cancer – if no
action is taken. It could cost the world economy $100 trillion.
Following
a UK-led drive to raise awareness of the potential impact of antimicrobial
resistance, UN members pledged to deliver an update on the superbug war by
2018, but in her small laboratory on the other side of the world, Lam is
already several steps ahead.
She
believes her method of killing bacteria using tiny star-shaped molecules, built
with chains of protein units called peptide polymers, is a ground-breaking
alternative to failing antibiotics.
On current trends, a common disease like
gonorrhoea may become untreatable.
“We’ve
discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in
multiple ways,” says Lam, who leads a half-a-dozen-strong research team. “One
method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the
bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start
killing itself.”
Her
research, published this month in the prestigious journal, Nature Microbiology,
has already been hailed by scientists as a breakthrough that could change the
face of modern medicine.
Lam
builds the star-shaped molecules at Melbourne’s
prestigious school of engineering. Each star has 16 or 32 “arms” made from
peptide polymers, a process she likens to putting together small blocks of
Lego.
When
unleashed, the polymers attack the superbugs directly, unlike antibiotics,
which create a toxic swamp that also destroys nearby healthy cells.
Lam successfully tested the polymer treatment on six
different superbugs in the laboratory, and against one strain of bacteria in
mice. Even after multiple generations of mutations, the superbugs have proven
incapable of fighting back.
“We found
the polymers to be really good at wiping out bacterial infections,” she says.
“They are actually effective in treating mice infected by antibiotic-resistant
bacteria. At the same time, they are quite non-toxic to the healthy cells in
the body.”
The
reduction in toxicity is because the larger size of the peptide polymers, about
10 nanometres in diameter, means they cannot enter healthy cells.
Her
scientific breakthrough has left Lam little time for socialising. Due to the
sensitivities of her biological experiments, even her weekends cannot be
regarded as her own. “For a time, I had to come in at 4am in the morning to
look after my mice and my cells,” she says.
But for the ambitious doctor’s daughter, the sacrifice has been worth it. “I wanted
to be involved in some kind of research that would help solve problems,” she
says.
“This
research is significant because everyone is worried about superbugs. Suddenly,
a lot of people have been telling me that either they themselves or their
relatives have been infected, that they have been in intensive care because of
a superbug, and that people they know have actually died,” added Lam.
“I really
hope that the polymers we are trying to develop here could eventually be a
solution.”
The
growing superbug crisis has been described by scientists as a “slow-motion
tsunami”.
The
world is slowly waking up to the nightmare threat of a post-antibiotic era that
could end modern medicine and create a situation where mundane problems such as
a sore throat or a grazed knee could prove fatal.
But it
was Alexander
Fleming, the Scot who in 1928 discovered penicillin, the world’s
first antibiotic, who first sounded a warning about the consequences of its
misuse. “There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself
and, by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug, make them
resistant,” he cautioned while accepting his Nobel Prize in 1945.
“On
current trends, a common disease like gonorrhoea may become untreatable,” Chan
said last week. “Doctors facing patients will have to say: ‘I’m sorry – there’s
nothing I can do for you.’”
An
outbreak of a tough strain of typhoid in Africa
and a form of tuberculosis found in 105 countries have already proven
impervious to antibiotics. Gram-negative bacteria, which cause diseases like
pneumonia and meningitis, and wound- or surgical-site infections, is also
proving resistant.
Meanwhile, only two new classes of antibiotics have entered the market in the last
half-century.
For
pharmaceutical companies, antibiotics have proven to be a poor investment,
because development costs are high, the resulting drugs rid the patient of the
target disease after a short period of time. By contrast, chronic illness such
as high blood pressure require treatments to be taken daily for the rest of a
patient’s life.
“Incentives
must be found to recreate the prolific era of antibiotic discovery that took
place from 1940 to 1960,” said Chan.
Lam hopes
her “innovative” research will encourage pharmaceutical companies to invest. “I
hope it will attract some interest, because what we have discovered is quite
different from antibiotics,” she says.
“Some
people have been telling me ‘Please work harder, so that we can have a solution
and put it out on the market.’ But with research, you need to have a lot of
patience because we still have quite a long way to go.”
Donald Trump,
Hillary Clinton debate at Hofstra is most-watched debate in history
Bulk of viewers
watched on the four major broadcast networks
Monday’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was seen by
81.4 million viewers across numerous broadcast and cable networks, according to
Nielsen, making it the most-watched debate in history. The 1980 encounter
between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter was seen by 80.6 million.
The bulk of viewers watched on the four major broadcast networks, with
43.8 million tuning in. An estimated 26.1 million watched the three cable news
networks with Fox News (11.359 million) attracting the most viewers.
The bulk of viewers watched on the network-owned stations, but other
networks simulcast the debate, including Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, PBS,
CNBC, MSNBC, Univision, Telemundo and C-SPAN. The networks’ websites also
simulcast the debate. Numerous other websites, from BuzzFeed to Yahoo, streamed
the debate, but those numbers are not counted by Nielsen.
There
are 115.6 million homes in the United
States with TVs; however, Nielsen doesn’t
count one person per viewing household, but — on average — over two.
Pundits in recent days had thrown around a figure of 100 million viewers
as the benchmark that could be possibly be achieved, or even exceeded.
If polls only included media
pundits, Hillary Clinton would have won Monday’s debate by a landslide, but
online surveys had Donald Trump as theyugewinner.
The
Drudge Report online vote had 80 percent of respondents giving the victory to
Trump, and a Time.com survey had the Republican nominee leading Clinton by 4 percentage
points – 52 percent to 48 percent – after more than 1,300,000 votes were cast.
CNBC and Breitbart votes also had Trump winning the event, at New
York’s HofstraUniversity.
A Fox
News online vote had Trump winning with 50 percent of respondents, Clinton at
35 percent and the other 15 percent declaring no one won.
The
online surveys are not scientific and, in many cases, supporters of either
candidate can cast multiple ballots. Still, the disconnect in judging Trump’s
performance was reminiscent of the Republican Party primary, when pundits often
said his competitors bested him while online polls put him on top.
Experts
say the online votes are a good gauge of enthusiasm, which could mean Trump’s
performance was enough to energize those who already backed him.
Experts
were near unanimous in finding Clinton was more disciplined and armed with
greater recall of facts, but Trump’s supporters believe his blunt style and
unconventional background are among his best attributes.
Trump’s
best moment, according to Stuart Tarlow, of American Thinker, came when he
distinguished himself from Clinton
based on their disparate backgrounds. Trump characterized his opponent as a
"typical politician," who knows how to make statements and promises
that sound good, but who never actually gets things done, Tarlow wrote.
Most
experts agree the winner and loser won’t be determined based on arcane rules of
debating. Hillary’s mission was to come off as well-versed on the facts and
warm, while Trump’s goal was to appear capable of filling the role of chief
executive.
The real
test of who won and who lost will likely come in the next wave of scientific
polling in what has become a dead-even race. If Trump continues to surge in key
battleground states, it will be taken as evidence he accomplished what he
needed to in the debate. If Clinton
stops or even reverses his momentum, she may be retroactively declared the
winner.
Edward
Panetta, professor of communication studies at the University of Georgia and
director of the Georgia Debate Union, said Trump got out of the gate fast, but
then struggled.
“While
Donald Trump was strong in the first 20 minutes of the debate he faltered badly
as the debate progressed,” Panetta said.
