"Goldfinches", from "Positive Changes That Are Occurring, the Statistics, July 2013 to July 2017", by Jeff Miller

These master compilation articles are something I began in 2017, which is bearing fruit for me now, in a big way.

The reader gets an historical view of reportage on the subject, which shows population trends over time, and the propaganda surrounding the subject is also visible as it develops and changes.

Propaganda has a lifespan, so it’s always morphing and changing. For example, in 2013, goldfinches in the U.S. were said to showing up in record numbers because of “exhausted wild food sources”. And then, just two years later, because of “bountiful wild food sources”.

The method works, unless someone takes a higher, wider look at the situation, at which point the whole confidence game collapses.

Now, the key is wanting to take a higher, wider look. The people who are taken in by, variously, “exhausted wild food sources” and then “bountiful wild food sources” are taking great care not to notice that they’re being taken advantage of. “It takes two to tango”, as they say.

Which is why I currently have a mailing list of 30, out of billions.

What would happen if I set the cat among the pigeons, I mean goldfinches, and posted this account to some bird forum? Not a sudden turning on of the light of recognition, of that you may be sure.

But no ill will come of this effort, and I hope that it will be a catalyst to positive change, having all of this stuff documented for the record. You know, things like evidence of a Great Big Conspiracy.

GOLDFINCHES

Goldfinches increased 429% in Scotland from 1994 to 2016.

In 2007.fws.gov said “ Though there is no ‘ definitive ’ information on breeding numbers in past years, many longtime observers are convinced that the species has been undergoing ‘ a recent and dramatic range expansion and population increase ’ in Nevada.

Where “dramatic” and “increase” are general. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. The article makes no mention of what might be driving the increase in the goldfinch population in Nevada.

In April 2010, the U.K.’s Daily Mail said, with a straight face, “Goldfinch population flourishes ‘ after bird lovers put out new type of bird mix ’ “

“The number of goldfinches ‘increased by 78 per cent last year’ and is being put down to a new bird seed mix ‘ that includes nyjer seeds and sunflower hearts ’.”

78% is closing in on doubling in numbers, that doubling purported to be driven by the addition of a couple of new types of seed.

It doesn’t have to be in any way sane, or logical. The propagandist knows that the subconscious of many or most readers will grasp any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.

Two years later, in March 2012, the Guardian continued with the same propaganda meme, saying “Goldfinches ‘ wooed ’ from farmland to British gardens | Environment”. Like a child, you even get to say “woo!” as you read it.

In January 2013, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, chron.com shifts the spin slightly, to: “Goldfinches appear at feeders ‘ now that wild food sources are exhausted ’.”

To maintain current programming levels, stop reading immediately, breathe through your mouth and affirm that goldfinches in Britain are discerning diners, while, in the U.S., they are merely starving.

The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a BBC News story from November 2015 explains how “Garden bird survey aims to solve goldfinch ‘ mystery ’ ”.

The article says that “The number of goldfinches visiting our gardens has been increasing but ‘ no one really knows ’ what’s attracting them.”

Wait, what? In 2010, 2012, goldfinches in the U.K. were “wooed" to feeders by exciting new bird mix, and driven to feeders because of "exhausted wild food sources” in the U.S. in 2013.

Now, two years later, it’s simply “ a mystery ”.

People want to live in the Middle Ages, you see. And the propagandists give them what they want.

Goldfinches are booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in the lifetimes of those in the U.K, and the U.S. In response to this unprecedented resurgence of life and vitality, what we euphemistically refer to as “secret agents” are engaged in ongoing animal-killing operations, in an effort to prop up the failing and wholly-fraudulent “Poor Mother Gaia is Dying” confidence game on behalf of the barely-closeted Death worshippers they work for.

The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything.

All of that is why an allaboutbirds.com article from July 2013 said “Bird ‘ mystery ’ solved: ‘ Morphing chicken pathogens ’ behind house finch apocalypse.”

Oh, those chicken pathogens are ’ morphing ', all right, only they don’t tell you that it’s under the guidance of the same scientists who recently added four amino acids to a bat virus for increased transmissibility to humans.

I’m unemployed and under house arrest because of it, the great benefit of which is I get to compile this material for eight hours a day. “Payback is a bitch”, as Don Croft used to say.

In May 2016, the U.K.’s Independent hid teams of generational Satanist agents killing goldfinches in the U.K. behind this hilarious headline “Organised crime finds ‘ a new type of contraband’ ”.

They’ve excised “goldfinches” from the headline, so you won’t look with interest to see what the article says. Since 60-70% of readers only read headlines, tactics like this really winnow down who gets to the data. You have to get to the body text to learn that it’s goldfinches.

With the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty, the State propaganda outlet goes on to say that, “Since 1979, the capture or killing of goldfinches has been illegal throughout the European Union. Trapping for sale also happens in parts of Britain but goldfinch numbers in the UK are ‘ increasing ’.”

They’ve used the hedging generality “increasing”, so you don’t get a clearer idea of the magnitude of the positive change. They’ve also given up saying why goldfinch numbers are increasing, as you may have noticed.

I’m sorry to say that State animal-killing operations are not strictly a British affair. A “feederwatch” article from December 2016 is headlined, neutrally, “Eye disease in American Goldfinches”. Now, that snoresville headline is going to shake off at least half of those perusing the paper.

“Last season a number of FeederWatchers wrote to tell us they were seeing ‘ an ’ increase in eye disease in American Goldfinches. … and it ‘ appears ’ that there ‘ could’ be a ‘ beginning of ’ this ‘ horrible eye disease’.”

The same folks who cooked up the chicken pathogen virus for the goldfinches and the bat virus for the sheeple of all the nations produced another designer pathogen in 2016, the “horrible eye disease” for the goldfinches. The article takes care not to give any idea what sort of disease it might be, or where it might have come from.

In January 2017, the East Idaho News said “ SCHIESS : ‘ Dirty ’ birds ‘ invade ’ backyards.” Since the author used a hedging generality in the headline in place of goldfinches”, you can’t tell what the article’s about by reading the headline, and it makes the subject completely unsearchable.

“Schiess” means “shit” in German, for those who don’t know. Don Croft used to refer to the generational Satanists I’m taking to task here as “Schiessvogel”, or shit birds.

The folks who wrote the story omitted the name from the headline so that you wouldn’t read the exciting, attractive “goldfinches”, which, in journalistic parlance, they’ve “buried” in the copy below:

“Natural food for these birds are weed and thistle seeds and ‘ the clearing of large areas of forests ’ has helped the American Goldfinch to increase in numbers.”

So, let’s recap. In 2013, goldfinches in the U.S. were said to showing up at feeders in record numbers because of “exhausted wild food sources”. And then, just two years later, because of “bountiful wild food sources”. Three years after that, both premises were abandoned for “no one really knows what’s ’ attracting ’ them”.

The folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including the goldfinches. But this is not about truth, or logic, or reason, and never has been. The wholly-credulous-rube masses will believe literally anything, as long as they can go on with their self-interested, responsibility-free lives. The propagandist knows that the subconscious of many or most readers will grasp any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.

Perhaps most spectacularly, the NPR addict will profess to be a “nature lover”, and listen to all the shows and programs, and dutifully repeat whatever they were told to at that moment, whether it be “exhausted wild food sources” or “bountiful wild food sources”, down through the years.

"…to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”

From " 1984 ", by George Orwell, 1949

Propaganda is hysterical, and lurid. In 2017, southernliving.com said “ Goldfinch Gangs Terrorize Garden! Mutilated Flowers Cry for Help ”.

Where the triple Masonic “G” is a nice touch.

That’s why, in January 2017, allaboutbirds explained it all with “House Finch Eye Disease: Outbreak, Then ‘ Understanding ‘”.

The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything.

That’s why the article goes on to say “Then along came the ‘ mysterious ’ new eye disease epidemic."

It’s not remotely a mystery to the team at “All About Birds”. They know the pathogen was designed, and delivered, and released, which they’ve reworked as “Outbreak, then Understanding ”.

In February 2017 the Concord Monitor played the “ boom/bust cycles that accompany Climate Change ” meme with “FBird populations ‘ see ups and downs ’ “.

Are goldfinch numbers going up, or down, or both? I’m so confused and ensheepled!

“The American Goldfinch exhibits a peak every two to three years, as illustrated in 2015 and 2016 when the survey count was nearly 12,000 and more than 13,000, respectively. Compare that with 2014 when observers recorded just more than 5,000 goldfinches statewide. By all predictions and seasonal observations, this year’s tally will likely be back down around the 2014 numbers .”

They’re hoping to get traction with a new designer virus, to cull the population back down and keep up the charade that “Poor Mother Gaia is Dying, Crushed by the Virus-Like Burden of Mankind”. The Concord Monitor said hopefully that they thought goldfinch numbers would plunge back down soon enough.

While, just eight months later, in October 2017, Nature said, generally, “Goldfinches ’ flock to British gardens ’ in ’ record ’ numbers”.

Where “flock to British gardens” implies, but does not right out and state that it’s that delicious new feed variety that’s “wooing” the historically unprecedented number of birds.

Remember, please, that just eight months previously, the Concord Monitor said that 2017 goldfinch populations would be dropping by more than half.

The author of the Nature article used the general “record” numbers in the headline, and, in journalistic parlance, “buried” the statistic in the body text, hoping you’d be one of the 70% who wouldn’t move past the headline:

“The birds, whose adults have crimson faces and gold wing bars, are being reported in ‘ twice as many ’ gardens as normal.”

They used “twice as many” as a hedge, to avoid saying “Goldfinch number up 100% over last year.”

Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, July 31, 2020

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