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Source Code Access Denied in Disputed Race
MrMetlHed writes "A judge ruled Friday that congressional aspirant Christine Jennings has no right to examine the source code that runs the electronic voting machines at the center of a disputed Southwest Florida congressional race. From the article: 'The ruling Friday from Judge Gary prevents for now the Jennings camp from being able to use the programming code to try to show voting machines used in Sarasota County malfunctioned. Jennings claims that an unusually large number of undervotes (ballots that didn't show a vote) recorded in the race implies the machines lost the votes.'"
Really? There's only one fact, which is easily verifiable just by looking at the many video footage sources available, that you need to know to deduce the most likely explanation for the destruction of the WTC. That fact is that the towers came down at nearly free-fall speed.
Physics takes care of the rest. For a building to come down at nearly free-fall speed, there has to be almost no functioning structure left in the building. Why? Because any remaining functioning structure, even if that structure's strength has been compromised, will absorb some of the energy of the collapse and thus serve to increase the amount of time it takes for the collapse to occur.
Therefore, simply weakening the support structure beyond the point that collapse is possible isn't sufficient. If the structure were weakened just beyond the point that collapse is possible, the building would collapse but would do so slowly, as the energy of the collapse is absorbed by the remaining strength of the structure. The weaker the remaining structure, the less energy the structure can absorb. The weaker the structure, the closer to free-fall speed the building will collapse at. Conversely, the stronger the structure, the further away from free-fall speed the collapse will occur.
And so, for the building to collapse at nearly free-fall speed, the strength of the internal structure of the building must be almost completely removed. Not just compromised to the point of making collapse possible, but removed. And not just in certain sections of the building, but everywhere in the building, for if there are any reasonably large sections of the building that have any reasonable percentage of their strength left, they will absorb some of the energy of the collapse and thus increase the amount of time of the collapse.
Even if the heat from the aircraft collisions and subsequent office fires were sufficient to weaken the entire structure of the building to the point that it could no longer keep the building standing, there's not nearly enough power (energy expended in a given period of time) there to weaken the entire structure enough to cause it to lose all its strength, even temporarily.
There are other facts that are relevant, too: the collision and subsequent fires took place primarily towards the top of the buildings. The further towards the top of the building the sources of energy are, the harder it is to compromise the structure towards the bottom of the building. The structure at the bottom is the structure that needs to be compromised the most.
If the collisions from the aircraft and the subsequent fire aren't enough to remove almost all the strength from the entire structure of the building, that means something else did. And for that, the most reasonable, plausible explanation I've ever heard is some sort of manual intervention. In other words, controlled demolition.
The rest is a matter of details (that is, determining the specific methods used to remove the structural strength from the building). But physics alone is enough to get you to the point where it becomes clear that the collisions and subsequent fires are not sufficient to explain the collapse.
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(1) Six months prior to that Italian premier election, the one which Berlisconi (the special Bushie buddy and anti-freedom of the press guy) narrowly lost (by the official electronic ballot machine count he only lost by 25,000 - by the exit polls, by well over 1 million - sound familiar??) old anti-press porn king Berlisconi had imported the firm Accenture to set up and program said electronic ballot machines.
(2)The pathetic mainstream media failed to properly report that in the last national elections of November, there was widespread ballot tampering (of an electronic nature) reported throughout the country, as well as record number of voter turnout (which was necessary to overcome said tampering) during an off-year election.
As something of an old fart, I wake up almost everyday with a headache from listening to the misinformation and disinformation which those mainstream media claim to be the news (e.g., the next day after former (selected, not voted in, as was also Bush that first time) president Gerald Ford died, he was incorrectly (fictionally??) cited as being a World War II veteran (wrong!!) and also cited as being the best athlete to hold the presidency (Huh? How about Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, that Gipper fellow, what's-his-name, and a number of others). There is simply no end to all the disinformation out there - which is why honest and aboveboard elections are sooooo crucial.....