“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others need no preparation and got none.”
― Mark Twain
The words " mystery ", " baffled " and " puzzled " are memes, used, among numerous similar 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 story that I’ve appended below is headlined “Pismo Beach’s monarch butterfly numbers doubled this winter — and experts don’t know why .”
In another article on the subject, Kyle Johnson, a moth and butterfly specialist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, says “This is an unusually high spike. ” The last couple of years had definitely been a low point ."
He’s used the repugnant meme " spike " to imply that numbers have shot up, but will shoot right back down again, forming a " spike " on the graph.
Here’s Kyle’s picture:
I’ve included it so you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist in a position of marginal influence looks like.
Later in that same article, ”Cora Lund Preston, a spokeswoman with the advocacy group the Monarch Joint Venture, says a survey of the monarchs’ wintering grounds in Michoacan, Mexico, found the highest population in more than a decade ."
Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime, lifted up by the Ether’s Orgonite-driven return to health and vitality.
The game is collapsing for the folks in charge. They’re resorting to violence:
“A second activist campaigning for the conservation of monarch butterflies and the woods in which they hibernate has been found dead in Mexico.”
" Officials initially said his body showed no signs of violence , but a post mortem examination revealed he had suffered a blow to the head before drowning in the well."
Did you notice how the unnamed " officials " who ordered both of the killings said initially that his body showed no signs of violence? Head wounds are not subtle things, unless one is a Coincidence theorist who requires them to be.
Saying “there was no head wound” when there was a head wound is not a strong defensive position.
Saying " experts don’t know why " there are twice as many Monarchs is not a strong defensive position.
Things don’t look good for them.
However the future looks bright for the butterflies, along with the rest of us.
Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, February 21, 2020
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August 18, 2019 - St. Paul, MN - Seeing more monarchs ? Butterfly numbers are up , but challenges persist
If you are seeing a lot of monarch butterflies this summer, you are not alone.
After a few seasons of startlingly low numbers, Minnesota’s monarch population has dramatically rebounded. The same goes for Wisconsin, Michigan and southern Canada.
“This is an unusually high spike ,” said Kyle Johnson, a moth and butterfly specialist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “The last couple of years had definitely been a low point.”
Scientists are relying on anecdotal observations at this point to judge the size of the monarch population. But there’s also hard evidence to back it up.
Cora Lund Preston, a spokeswoman with the advocacy group the Monarch Joint Venture, says a survey of the monarchs’ wintering grounds in Michoacan, Mexico, found the highest population in more than a decade .
January 23, 2020 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Monarch Butterfly Numbers Double In Annual Count
Fans of the Monarch Butterflies will be happy to know there were more Monarchs counted last year than 2018. According to a recent report twice as many butterflies were counted during the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count in 2019 as in 2018. Officials say the Monarch population is still extremely low.
January 23, 2020 - California’s monarch butterflies critically low for 2nd year
January 24, 2020 - Pismo Beach’s monarch butterfly numbers doubled this winter — and experts don’t know why
February 3, 2020 - Second Mexico monarch butterfly activist found dead
A second activist campaigning for the conservation of monarch butterflies and the woods in which they hibernate has been found dead in Mexico.
Raúl Hernández worked as a tour guide at a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán state.
His body, which bore signs of beatings and a head injury, was found two days after the funeral of Homero Gómez.
Mr Gómez managed a monarch butterfly sanctuary in the same state and had received threats, his family said.
What happened?
Raúl Hernández, 44, disappeared on Monday 27 January. He had left work as usual and was last seen at midday in a village called El Oyamel.
His body was found six days later at the top of a hill in the El Campanario monarch butterfly sanctuary. Forensic experts said his body was covered in bruises and he had a deep wound to his head. An investigation into his death is under way.
Conservationists fear his death may be linked to that of Homero Gómez, who disappeared in the same area on 13 January.
Mr Gómez’s body was found in a well on 29 January. His family said that prior to his disappearance, the activist had received threats warning him to stop his campaign against illegal logging.
He was a tireless campaigner for the conservation of the monarch butterfly and the pine and fir forests where it hibernates. The sanctuary he managed opened in November as part of a strategy to stop illegal logging in the area, which is a key habitat for the species.
Officials initially said his body showed no signs of violence, but a post mortem examination revealed he had suffered a blow to the head before drowning in the well.
Mexico’s murder rate has risen in recent years and official figures suggest 2019 had the highest rate ever recorded, with 34,582 recorded killings.
Many are believed to be carried out by criminal gangs who kill anyone who could interfere with their illegal activities , which range from drug and human trafficking to extortion, logging and mining.
