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Certain leaders of the Western and US left are still die hard crypto-commies. They use non commie language to persuade other leftists to do what Russia wants done. Examples: demonstrating against LGN facilities on East Coast US to prevent shipment to Ukraine of LGN (sold as environmental damage); pro-Palestinian demos (to demonize Israel actions against Syria), and others.

Thanks for the follow up. There are definitely two wires attached to the water pipe with the whole house cut-off handle. These two wires go behind the dry wall in the direction of the nearby basement and first floor electric boxes, each of which is attached to an above ground meter. The water meter is several feet down in the ground surrounded by a round container with a metal lid on the surface of the earth.

Other emergencies have prevented me from following through with the suggestions already received. Once there is some forward movement I may post again.

Late enough to influence the Nov. elections, but early enough to avoid the scathing denunciation of Comey’s announcement in the week before the election.

Nice map. It will be interesting to see how the win by the Shia cleric in Iraq will play out in Iran, perhaps is already inspiring some of the revolt there or even part of planned action. What most people don’t realize is that there are significant Shia populations in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Syria, and Iraq. It is the main cause of the Yemen fighting. Kind of like Catholics vs. Protestants 400 years ago. Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Di Mueller say he cannot indict Trump, or did Juliani say he was told by Mueller he cannot be indicted? Slight difference there. I have been rather puzzled by some of Juliani’s statements. Wonder if he is building an appeal case for faulty representation by a lawyer?

The NORK situation is quite different from Libya. Libya had several very different tribal groups, only one of which was really favored by Khaddafi. When it looked like he would do serious damage to the people in Benghazi, it was not hard to make the excuse to start a serious rebellion and enlist the enemies he had made over the years with executions, etc. Leader Kim may not treat his people well, but they are all pretty much Koreans, and very well isolated and brainwashed, so the situation is very different.

Maybe they were testing the sharpness of another tool?? I remember seeing something similar from southern Africa dated at least 80,000 ya except that they were criss cross lines.

Any final word on the fly by?

science ping

Is waterboarding torture when you do it 183 times? Is it useful when the subject can figure out how many seconds it will happen and no longer fears it?

https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2011/05/bush-aide-ksm-counted-seconds-during-waterboarding-035890

If you have not read it already, by all means get the book Sunken Civ has frequently recommended: “The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes (Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization)” by Firestone et al. It’s main focus is about what stopped the warming from the Ice Age about 13,000 ya. A lot of scientific data there.

The coyotes are already in the suburbs.

I would advise developing fast running skills.

Given the suggested age of 130,000 years old, that would put it around the peak warm before the beginning of the last Ice Age. At that point, sea level would have been similar to ours which means hominids would be living at current altitudes. Certainly if as the ice began to “swallow” the oceans, then “civilization” would have moved closer to the shoreline and now have been drowned. This whole situation tends to confirm my theory (and that of others) that hominids may have reached relatively high levels of development that were then destroyed by the 100,000+ intervals of Ice Ages.

Regarding civilization in the Okavanga Delta region. The evidence is more than tantalizing, it is monstrous. An area between 300 miles and 400 miles square shows repeated patterns of extended “canals” about a mile apart and running for many miles. Some areas look more weathered that others, and what little data I could find suggest that some areas could be tens of thousands of years old. The nearest “civilization” is Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe to the east. The link below shows one photo that probably covers 40 or 50 miles width of land (given that the “furrows” are a mile apart. Check out the video, and then click the Google Earth site. I once spent several hours tracing the GE map throughout the region and it was indeed about 400 miles across. I am astonished that National Geographic or other suitable group has not made a significant effort to study this.

http://solarey.net/large-ancient-irrigation-system-found-south-africa/

At this site are a number of areal images of the irrigation mixed in with a lot of other African images.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Images,+ancient+irrigation+near+Okavango+delta&num=50&newwindow=1&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxm6ew8PfaAhXOc98KHXkiBPgQsAQIKA&biw=1600&bih=794#imgrc=0dqFWxlgqBnk-M:

Here is an interesting link describing and displaying in maps the developement of civilization in subsaharan Africa. The article differentiates among Christian, Islamic, and Traditional origins.

http://www.essential-humanities.net/world-history/sub-saharan-africa/

The other reason is that with birthright they could become President.

I decided to Google why people are fleeing Honduras. Found several articles of interest. Below is a link and a key paragraph in that article. It proposes that the biggest complaints are about loss of land and jobs to big developers, and corruption at the top destroying the people at the bottom. Gang trouble is down the list. I have seen it in US too, except here people have fled to the Trump vote.

https://rootcausesdelegation.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/walls-security-and-extraction-exploring-the-root-causes-of-honduran-migration/

The “Alliance for Prosperity Plan,” implemented as a response to the migration spike in 2014, reflects this flawed perspective. This four-country agreement between the United States and Central America’s Northern Triangle countries aims to curtail immigration from the regions largest immigrant-producing nations—Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Significantly, the $750 million budget approved by the US Congress for 2016 focused primarily on aid for “development assistance” and “security measures” (Iesue, 2016). Under this Plan, reducing incentives for immigration means cracking down on gang violence, drug trafficking, high levels of extortion and overall insecurity on the one hand, and alleviating poverty through increased development opportunities on the other.

This is a dangerously misdirected and incomplete analysis. This past December, I was part of a delegation to Honduras seeking to uncover the “root causes” of immigration. The delegation met directly with a variety of affected communities. Gang violence and economic underdevelopment did not feature in these communities’ analyses of why they and their loved ones fled the country. In fact, as we met with indigenous communities, farmers, maquila workers, church leaders, human rights activists, and returned deportees, few mentioned gangs or underdevelopment at all. Instead, the recurring themes were the rampant privatization and extraction of public resources, facilitated by political corruption at the highest levels of government, and enforced through the militarization of the country and the criminalization with impunity of all those who dissent.

Another possible law change. No automatic citizenship at birth if the mother entered the country illegally while already pregnant.

Here are some facts on our energy (petroleum) independence. Almost 1/2 our imports are from Canada, and around 10% from Mexico. Some good charts and graphs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_independence