Positive Changes That Are Occurring

[Jeff]

The story that follows is so hilariously short. In that it’s forbidden from mentioning what’s driving the great increase of life, and from connecting that localized example with others around the globe:

Wildflower ‘super bloom’ visible from space

26 April 2017

An explosion of wildflowers has covered the deserts of California, surpassing previous blooms in its enormous scale.

Satellite imaging startup Planet Labs has captured shots of the bright spectacle from space.

That’s really it! That’s the entirety of the article. The title hedges, says “bloom visible”, but doesn’t mention it’s beyond anything anyone’s ever seen. They use a tight-lipped " surpassing previous blooms" to describe that.

Put a fork in them, these guys are done.

[Jeff]

"Now arrived Dunois from the city, and plunged through the battle on his foam-flecked horse and galloped up to Joan, saluting, and uttering handsome compliments as he came. He waved his hand toward the distant walls of the city, where a multitude of flags were flaunting gayly in the wind, and said the populace were up there observing her fortunate performance and rejoicing over it, and added that she and the forces would have a great reception now.

“Now? Hardly now, Bastard. Not yet!”

“Why not yet? Is there more to be done?”

“More, Bastard? We have but begun! We will take this fortress.”

“Ah, you can’t be serious! We can’t take this place; let me urge you not to make the attempt; it is too desperate. Let me order the forces back.”

Joan’s heart was overflowing with the joys and enthusiasms of war, and it made her impatient to hear such talk. She cried out—

“Bastard, Bastard, will ye play always with these English? Now verily I tell you we will not budge until this place is ours. We will carry it by storm. Sound the charge!”

“Ah, my General—”

“Waste no more time, man—let the bugles sound the assault!” and we saw that strange deep light in her eye which we named the battle-light, and learned to know so well in later fields.

The martial notes pealed out, the troops answered with a yell, and down they came against that formidable work, whose outlines were lost in its own cannon smoke, and whose sides were spouting flame and thunder.

We suffered repulse after repulse, but Joan was here and there and everywhere encouraging the men, and she kept them to their work. During three hours the tide ebbed and flowed, flowed and ebbed; but at last La Hire, who was now come, made a final and resistless charge, and the bastille St. Loup was ours. We gutted it, taking all its stores and artillery, and then destroyed it."

Mark Twain, from “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”

[Jeff]

It’s April, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that statement directly refutes our State Religion, which holds the " Poor Mother Gaia is Dying, Crushed by the Virus-Like Burden of Mankind ", I’ve appended multiple recent examples below to support it.

If " increased acreage and new varieties maturing " was part of why Washington State red raspberry growers grew a record crop this year, why does the Illuminist-shill talking head quoted in the article say " we were a little shocked by the numbers at the end of the year "? What’s particularly funny is that he’s hedging, even there, in that he’s “a little shocked.”

" Shocked " is, of course, a companion to the meme words " mystery ", " baffled " and " puzzled ", which are used, among numerous other similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. The Washington State Red Raspberry Commission Executive Director studies berries for a living, please recall, and would or should be well aware of record berry harvests of other sorts around the globe. Like these, which it took me seven seconds, or perhaps five, to locate:

Aug 2, 2016 - Michigan blueberries headed toward record harvest, grower says …

October 21, 2016 - Cranberry harvest could break record - Brownfield Ag News

You’ll notice in the red raspberry article that they print the numbers, but carefully withhold the percentage of the increase over the old record, as including it would have been much more impactful, and go seriously off-message re: Poor Mother Gaia dying, and all. So I had to do the math. It’s eight percent higher than the previous record, which was set just three years ago, within the three years covered by this thread.

The top Raspberry guy in the entire state would know, of course, that “planted area increased 8%, resulting in an 8% increase in production.” Only it didn’t, which is why he said it generally , to put you off the scent, vs. specifically, as an honest and straightforward Raspberry thought-leader would.

You’ve been tirelessly conditioned to think that Fight Club members would think, talk and act like Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films, and so you literally can’t see them when they are lying to you straight-up about the raspberries. It’s how the con WORKS - you have confidence in them, they have gained your confidence through subterfuge. To them, it’s a "confidence game ". And you are their rube, their sucker.

The tirelessly-asserted " increased acreage " canard cannot hold back the truth that the great artificial drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

Which is why “Morocco expects its ce­real harvest this year to hit 10.2 million tonnes, about triple the previous season and close to 2015’s record, thanks to abundant rainfall…”

Records in 2015, and 2017, records within the three years of great, epochal positive changes documented by this thread.

Do you think appending bitter hedging after good news is in any way an effective strategy, long-term? Here’s an example: “Western Washington’s red raspberry farmers grew a record crop this year, though the payoff may be no better than from last year’s drought-diminished harvest .”

You can tell it’s a Black magic spell by the use of may . It hasn’t happened, it may happen. They want it to happen, are conjuring it to happen. They’re casting a spell, at you, the reader.

You’ve been told since you were a child that the hedging is in that sentence is there because " bad news sells ." That’s a baldfaced lie, concocted by the people who control the Media, and who for this moment still control YOU. In addition to hedging, that italicized section also took care to use the word drought , as the entire article is part of a larger, er, public relations effort .

Propaganda, wordcraft, neurolinguistic programming, call it what you will, can only spin - it can’t change, it can’t transform . In this case it’s part of a feeble rearguard action which will soon turn to rout, as the public awakens to the positive changes, and figures out exactly why things weren’t doing so good on this globe, previously.

We’re leaving the old world behind - leaving behind forever the people who have ruled us through subterfuge, the people who, for literally Millenia, built and maintained and expanded their Death energy network, what they sometimes call their " Great Work of Ages ."

In the meantime, revel in the great positive changes that are underway at every level of our reality. And, if you haven’t already done so, please consider distributing simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices where you live and work today, or sponsor a gifter, perhaps even though a vehicle such as this forum.

November 10, 2016 -Washington red raspberry growers harvest record crop

Western Washington’s red raspberry farmers grew a record crop this year, though the payoff may be no better than from last year’s drought-diminished harvest.

Good weather , increased acreage and new varieties maturing helped boost production to 78.2 million pounds, Washington Red Raspberry Commission Executive Director Henry Bierlink said.

The yield surpassed the previous record of 72.4 million pounds set in 2014.

“ We were a little shocked by the numbers at the end of the year,” Bierlink said.

April 23, 2017 - Morocco - Meknes - Morocco expects its ce­real harvest to hit 10.2 million tonnes, about triple the previous season and close to 2015’s record, thanks to abundant rainfall, Moroccan Agriculture Min­ister Aziz Akhannouch said.

April 24, 2017 - Indiana - Record deer harvest for 2016 in Owen

Highest antlered deer season since 2009

Hunters harvested a record number of antlered deer from Owen County in 2016, surpassing 800 bucks for the first season since 2009.

[Jeff]

It’s April, 2017, and the great artificial drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

I’ve appended a current article below to support that assertion, which tells us about the most rain ever, in history, in Seattle this year. They tell you " the previous record was 44.5 inches (113 centimeters) of rain for the October 2015 to April 2016 period. The normal amount of rain during that period is usually 30.9 inches (79 centimeters). "

Can you see how they gave you the previous record, but then only a reference to “normal”, and no mention of rainfall total for the new record? That’s because they’re slicing it up, compartmentalizing it, making it harder to see. Usually, they give you the numbers, and make you do the math, but here, they took it a step even farther.

The article continues: " Seattle also set a record number for wet days from October through April. They are classified as days with at least 0.01 inches (0.3 centimeters) of precipitation. The city had 144 wet days from October through April and only five dry days so far this month. "

Did you notice how this time they told you what the new record was, but carefully didn’t mention the wet-day total for the old record was? Same technique, twice in succession! Nor in this case do they mention the percentage of the new record above the old. There’s also no mention of what’s driving the historically-unprecedented rainfall. Nor is there any mention of record rainfall being seen around the globe.

They’ve been doing this for so long and we are conditioned so thoroughly that we literally can’t see these omissions when we read these articles. We just see “normal news articles.”

Unless we study the matter for a day or two. Wouldn’t you agree that this isn’t the sort of curriculum it would take four years of schooling to get through? Or at least get the basic gist of?

“The few control the many via pyramidally-architected organizations in which many duped rubes lower down are fleeced by a few fair-seeming, two-faced sociopaths up at the top.”

Not a complex assertion. So our facing of these truths isn’t a matter of intellect, it’s rather a matter of the heart, nay, of the spirit , I would suppose.

April 25, 2017 - Seattle Crushes Rain Record, While Rival Portland Wet Too

Soggy Seattle has broken another rainfall record, and rival Portland has inched closer to smashing its own record.

In Seattle, the previous record was 44.5 inches (113 centimeters) of rain for the October 2015 to April 2016 period. The normal amount of rain during that period is usually 30.9 inches (79 centimeters).

In the Pacific Northwest, cold-weather systems move through the region with dry breaks in between. McFarland said “we’re missing those breaks.”

The winter storm season was notable for back-to-back weather systems that were slightly wetter and warmer than normal, he said.

Seattle also set a record number for wet days from October through April.

They are classified as days with at least 0.01 inches (0.3 centimeters) of precipitation. The city had 144 wet days from October through April and only five dry days so far this month.

Some parts of Washington state have had it much worse than Seattle.

Quillayute Airport near the town of Forks along the state’s northwestern Pacific coast has received 116.1 inches (294.9 centimeters) of rain since Oct. 1.

One resident of the Pacific Northwest, however, took a more practical attitude toward the never-ending wetness. Valerie Bass moved to Oregon 43 years ago for college from Southern California and stayed. Now, she’s so used to the rain she doesn’t use an umbrella.

“There has been quite a bit of rain,” she conceded. “As long as we don’t have to shovel it, right?”

[Jeff]

“…ont pû tromper quelques hommes, ou les tromper tous dans certains lieux & en certains tems, mais non pas tous les hommes, dans tous les lieux & dans tous les siècles.”

(One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages.)

“Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne” by Jacques Abbaye, 1684

It’s April, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that statement directly refutes our State Religion, which holds that " Poor Mother Gaia is Dying, Crushed by the Virus-Like Burden of Mankind" , I’ve appended a current example below to support it.

It’s from Maryland, and is headlined " DNR: Survey Shows Highest Number Of Female Spawning-Age Crabs In Reported History ."

With the highest praise, I note that they printed the percentage of the increase, year over year: “The spawning female stock increased 31 percent, from 194 million to 254 million, exceeding the healthy target level of 215 million for the first time since 2010.”

Increased by a third, basically - well, what drove this amazing increase, in which you can literally see the needle moving? “ This is testament to the state’s adaptive and effective management of the fishery. ”

So good fisheries management led to a population rise of almost a third. Can you see how the same local, plausible-deniability excuses are used continuously, in all of these articles, over a multi-year period? And can you see how the larger body of positive changes we’re documenting and discussing here are never mentioned in any of them?

Don’t forget, this thread is comprised of articles from all over the world. It is perhaps the clearest documentation to date of the “Some Big Conspiracy” that someone would notice that everyone agrees doesn’t exist.

Propaganda is deployed in an attempt to change the course of what’s going on. It’s an attempt to control the behavior of a large subset of the populace. They wish it would magically control ALL of the populace, all of the time.

This thread’s documentation of a global propaganda campaign of a certain slant at once unmasks the conspirators, and undoes whatever forward progress the campaign was enabling for them - in fact it pushes them back further than if they hadn’t attempted it. But I really do think that what goes around comes around.

When I was a kid, the Chesapeake was dying. I watched it. James Michener wrote all about it. Now, with my dad who took me to the Chesapeake still with us, there are crab records being set, most ever, in history.

It’s wondrous. It seems magical, but the transformation is being driven by a simple, ubiquitous technology. By simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices, distributed about the globe in a way that is transforming and undoing the global Death energy matrix so patiently built, architected and maintained by the folks who are about to no longer be in charge, all the way back to Babylon, and before.

They started thousands of years ago, with stone pillars set up at key points on the Earth’s energy grid. They’d all perform human sacrifices at the base of all those pillars at key times on certain days, to drive Death energy into the Earth grid, in a unified way. Their network has, er, gotten a lot bigger and more complex since then.

Arthur C. Clarke once said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Orgonite continuously transforms what Wilhelm Reich called Dead Orgone Radiation into “Positive Orgone Radiation”. And the great, epochal positive changes we’re in the midst of are a result of the larger environment’s return to the way it always was, before the Death energy network slowly and invisibly degraded it to near collapse. Now do you understand why it’s important for them to have you think “there’s no such thing as the Ether?”

But it’s over for them, now. The revelation of their role in this horrible gambit will be their undoing. Please consider sending them highest love energy as you read this.

And, if you haven’t already done so, please consider distributing simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices where you live and work today, or sponsoring a gifter, perhaps even through a vehicle such as this forum.

April 19, 2017 - DNR: Survey Shows Highest Number Of Female Spawning-Age Crabs In Reported History

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The 2017 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey shows that there has been a surge in spawning-age female crabs.

Their population has reached the highest level ever recorded in the 28-year history of the baywide survey. The spawning female stock increased 31 percent , from 194 million to 254 million, exceeding the healthy target level of 215 million for the first time since 2010.

The survey also indicates the total crab population has slightly decreased due to what the Department of Natural Resources calls, “lackluster recruitment.”

“Blue crab reproduction is naturally highly variable due to the complex life cycle of the animal,” the DNR survey summary says. “Tiny, larval blue crabs spend the first part of their lives in the Atlantic Ocean and rely heavily on favorable currents, temperatures and winds to bring them into the Chesapeake Bay, where they grow. Optimal conditions do not occur every year, so a decrease in the number of young crabs this year was neither unexpected nor unprecedented.”

However, “despite the modest number of young crabs, the total population remains stable and the number of spawning age females – a major scientific benchmark for the health of the species – rose,” fishing and boating services director David Blazer said. “This is testament to the state’s adaptive and effective management of the fishery.”

The overall population of crabs was estimated at 455 million, the 11th highest level recorded by the survey.

But while the adult female segment increased, the adult male stock decreased 16 percent.

“We will now discuss the survey results with the Blue Crab Industry Advisory Committee and Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission to determine next steps,” Blazer said. “Any adjustment, be it catch limit or season length, will only be considered after we receive input from all parties involved.”

In the annual survey, biologists use dredge equipment to capture, measure, record and release blue crabs at 1,500 sites throughout the bay from December through March. Crabs tend to bury in the mud in the winter, which makes it possible for scientists to develop accurate estimates.

[Jeff]

It seems my view that the few control the many via pyramidally-architected organizations in which many duped rubes lower down are fleeced by a few fair-seeming, two-faced sociopaths up at the top is quite mainstream:

May 14, 2010 - ‘People just don’t believe politicians anymore’ - Macleans.ca

May 15, 2013 - Dear politicians: we just don’t believe you any more - Telegraph

October 31, 2013 - Young People Don’t Care About Voting - Bloomberg

February 8, 2016 - Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything … “This, In Fact, Is A Revolution”

April 17, 2016 - Getting at the truth behind lying in politics | PBS NewsHour

May 24, 2017 - Why so many people believe in politicians? - Quora

June 30, 2016 - Why Young People Don’t Believe in Politics Anymore | Shout Out UK

A wave of xenophobia is spreading across Europe , leaving many young people more disenchanted with politics than ever before.

July 8, 2016 - The real reason that we don’t trust experts anymore | The Independent

[Jeff]

"“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”

George Orwell, from “1984”

April 14, 2017 - Last year’s total commercial catch of nearly 60 million pounds (of crabs from the Chesapeake Bay) represented a 20 percent jump over the previous year and the third increase in three years. Since 2014, the annual harvest has gone up 71 percent while overall crab abundance has risen 53 percent. There are more than 550 million blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay, an increase of more than a third over this time last year and one of the highest counts of the past two decades, according to state officials.

April 19, 2017 - Blue crab numbers dropped by nearly one-fifth this year in the Chesapeake Bay , according to a new survey that presents a mixed outlook for the key crustacean. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Virginia Institute of Marine Science have partnered since 1990 on annual winter surveys of the blue crab in the Chesapeake Bay. In all, they estimated this year’s population at 455 million, down 18 percent from 2016.

The two quotes immediately above document the fact that the folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including the number of crabs in the Chesapeake.

But don’t think I’m the only one who’s onto the con artists at the top of the control pyramid:

“Pat Reese, owner of Southern Connection Seafood in Crisfield…doesn’t put much faith in anything the government has to say. Regulations have ground down the industry into a handful of fishermen and seafood companies that can weather the whims of politics, Reese said. “They’ll make a regulation, and four years later, the species will come back and they’ll take all the credit for it,” he said. The annual survey often guides state fishery managers’ decisions — and that seems to be the case this year, too. The downturn in juveniles “appears to preclude” the reopening of the winter dredge season in Virginia, state officials said in a press release. Winter dredging has been closed since 2008 despite repeated calls from the seafood industry to reopen it."

And so you can see them lie baldfacedly about the booming, burgeoning crab numbers, say that Poor Mother Gaia is Dying , and keep the fisheries closed.

Booming, burgeoning crab numbers, read it again: “Since 2014, the annual harvest has gone up 71 percent while overall crab abundance has risen 53 percent.”

Yet, even with their lying baldfacedly about the numbers - by that I mean “taking a 30 percent increase and claiming it’s a 20 percent decrease” - this is what’s coming out the tailpipe for them: “Still, that total represented the 11th-highest amount in the history of the survey.”

Last night at dinner, I mentioned the great news about the highest-ever number of spawning female crabs in the Chesapeake. One of our dinner party, who is literally and actually addicted to National Public Radio, narrowed his eyes, and said “yeah, that’s the sort of boom you see right before a big crash - something’s out of balance!” I replied “well, time will tell…”, and moved the conversation to a different subject.

I watched the new Disney movie, “Moana” this weekend while babysitting a friend’s children. The " Poor Mother Gaia is Dying " theme is central to the film’s plot. I’m thinking to myself, we’re seeing record fish populations, all over the globe, and the propaganda film shows the islanders not catching any fish, and - poof - that’s reality for much or most of the cartoon-level populace.

But if you review the examples below, most of them from just this month, you’ll see that Nature is, in fact, booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime.

Egypt: " We used to export 40,000 tonnes of fish a year. Within the first thee months (of this year) we exported 120,000 tonnes… "

It’s an epochal increase, a transformation.

Norway: " Thanks to a strong start to the year for seafood exports, Turkish Airlines doubled its freighter capacity into Oslo Airport this month.
Avinor’s first-quarter international freight volumes are up 8.1 percent, so far, in 2017 ."

Think about that for a moment, please. DOUBLED its freighter capacity. Back to back years of record fish exports. Most ever, in history.

Pakistan: " Seafood exports from the country during first eight months of current financial year increased by 12.99 percent as compared the exports of the corresponding period of last year. "

The increases are going to continue, in a 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 kind of way. While the folks in charge are going to continue lying steadfastly about them, wherever possible, because it’s the only game they’ve got, anymore.

So we’re going to get to the “Emperor has no clothes” part of the story sooner or later, and probably sooner, given that awareness is rising in that same exponential way across the globe.

In the meantime, revel in the good news, the great news - Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime:

April 13, 2016 - Robust Maryland blue crab season expected as population increases | WTOP

According to Virginia officials, overall crab abundance in the Chesapeake Bay has increased by 53 percent since 2014 ,

April 6, 2017 - Pakistan - ISLAMABAD - Seafood exports from the country during first eight months of current financial year increased by 12.99 percent as compared the exports of the corresponding period of last year.

April 7, 2017 - Egypt - CAIRO - 7 April 2017: Egypt will impose a duty on exported fish in an attempt to curb a recent price spike , Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Abd El-Moneim El Banna said in a Tuesday statement.

The move comes after the price increase sparked boycotts by local consumers.

April 14, 2017 - Maryland DMR says Chesapeake blue crab population grew by 35 percent over the past year

Marylanders could have an easier time finding — and affording — local crabs this summer, a survey of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population suggests . There are more than 550 million blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay, an increase of more than a third over this time last year and one of the highest counts of the past two decades , according to state officials.

April 19, 2017 - Blue crab survey: Overall population slightly down , number of spawning females rises

Blue crab numbers dropped by nearly one-fifth this year in the Chesapeake Bay, according to a new survey that presents a mixed outlook for the key crustacean.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Virginia Institute of Marine Science have partnered since 1990 on annual winter surveys of the blue crab in the Chesapeake Bay. In all, they estimated this year’s population at 455 million, down 18 percent from 2016.

Still, that total represented the 11th-highest amount in the history of the survey.

As for the rest of the report, Pat Reese, owner of Southern Connection Seafood in Crisfield doesn’t put much faith in anything the government has to say . Regulations have ground down the industry into a handful of fishermen and seafood companies that can weather the whims of politics, Reese said.

“They’ll make a regulation, and four years later, the species will come back and they’ll take all the credit for it," he said.

The annual survey often guides state fishery managers’ decisions — and that seems to be the case this year, too.

The downturn in juveniles " appears to preclude" the reopening of the winter dredge season in Virginia, state officials said in a press release. Winter dredging has been closed since 2008 despite repeated calls from the seafood industry to reopen it.

April 19, 2017 - Last year’s total commercial catch of nearly 60 million pounds represented a 20 percent jump over the previous year and the third increase in three years. Since 2014, the annual harvest has gone up 71 percent while overall crab abundance has risen 53 percent , officials say.

April 19, 2017 - Turkish Cargo doubles freighter capacity into Oslo on strong seafood exports

Thanks to a strong start to the year for seafood exports, Turkish Airlines doubled its freighter capacity into Oslo Airport this month. Turkish Airlines’ cargo division launched flights to Oslo Airport on March 10, before upping capacity. The route will be serviced by an A330-200F. Ataturk

Martin Langaas, director of cargo at Avinor, the airport operator, said that, “Norwegian seafood exporters now have greater access to the world’s largest international network, which provides new opportunities for the Norwegian export industry.”

Avinor’s first-quarter international freight volumes are up 8.1 percent , so far, in 2017, with most of the export volumes flying out of Oslo.

Turkish Airlines said that the additional freighter was a bid to capture those additional seafood exports, noting that 2016’s exports were record-breaking. This year’s exports are on track to set yet another record.

April 21, 2017 - Female blue crab number in Chesapeake Bay reaches historical high …

April 26, 2017 - Egypt suspends fish exports to lower local prices

CAIRO, April 26 (Reuters) - Egypt has halted fish exports after a surge in sales to foreign markets following last November’s currency devaluation led to supply shortages locally and a spike in domestic prices, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said.

Sisi did not say how long the suspension would last but promised Egyptians, who have seen their purchasing power sharply eroded by the devaluation, that measures would be enforced to help the market adjust prices lower.

"We used to export 40,000 tonnes of fish a year. Within the first thee months (of this year) we exported 120,000 tonnes," Sisi told a youth conference aired on Egyptian television late on Tuesday. “(That’s why) we took a decision to halt exports of fish.”

[Jeff]

It’s May, 2017, and the great artificial drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

I’ve appended a current story below to support that assertion.

The article tells us “A RECORD MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 6.38 IINCHES WAS SET TODAY AT BUFFALO NY FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL. THIS BREAKS THE OLD APRIL RECORD RAINFALL OF 5.90 INCHES SET IN APRIL 1961.”

I was born in 1964. So it hasn’t rained that much in April in the Buffalo area since before I was born. Can you see that they gave you the numbers of the old and new records, but carefully withheld the percentage increase between them? Printing it would be much more impactful, so they hedged by omitting it. I had to do the math. It’s 8.3% higher than the previous record.

Such records are usually set by tiny margins. Why no mention of the fact that it is significantly higher than the old record?

The article continues: “As a matter of fact, for the date of April 30th, it was also a rainfall record!
A RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.07 INCHES WAS SET AT BUFFALO NY YESTERDAY.THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 0.84 SET IN 1909.”

My late stepdad was born in 1922. So it hasn’t rained that much on April 30th in Buffalo in over two generations.

Can you see that they gave you the numbers of the old and new records, but carefully withheld the percentage increase between them? Printing it would be much more impactful, so they hedged by omitting it. I had to do the math. It’s 27% higher than the previous record.

Such records are usually set by tiny margins. Why no mention of the fact that it blew away the old record?

You’ll notice that the article does not provide any suggestion as to the cause or the driver behind the record rainfall in Buffalo. Nor does it make any mention of the larger phenomenon, that record rainfall is being recorded all over the nation, nay, all over the globe. From a propaganda or intel perspective, they’re trying to “compartmentalize”, to at all costs keep down awareness of the larger phenomenon.

The positive changes are obviously not stopping. The formulaic, repetitive propaganda deployed to rebut the positive changes is also obviously not stopping.

Propaganda is an influencer, it is subtle, it works around the edges, as it were. I can easily believe it might slow rising awareness of these matters which we are discussing, but I cannot remotely believe it can stop that rising awareness.

So, if you’ve made it to this Obscure Internet Forum and are reading this, and are catching on to what’s going on earlier than most of the populace, rejoice!

This is going to be really fun to watch. It already is, right?

May 1, 2017 - Buffalo Sets Rainfall Record for April

April of 2017 will land in the weather history books for the Buffalo area. If your backyard is flooded or at the very least has some standing water, you are definitely not alone.Just before midnight on Sunday, April 30th, the National Weather Service office in Buffalo, New York posted the following weather information statement.

A RECORD MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 6.38 IINCHES WAS SET TODAY AT BUFFALO NY FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL. THIS BREAKS THE OLD APRIL RECORD RAINFALL OF 5.90 INCHES SET IN APRIL 1961.

As a matter of fact, for the date of April 30th, it was also a rainfall record!

A RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.07 INCHES WAS SET AT BUFFALO NY YESTERDAY.THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 0.84 SET IN 1909.

Severe weather has been forecast for the entire area to start the month of May as a sharp cold-front merge into Western New York late Monday. The major risk will be the damaging winds that will lead the storms our way.

Be prepared for power outages and the possibility of flash flooding.

[Jeff]

It just struck me - I’m here, doing this thing, saying these things, with a few other peers on this forum, in a thread that is, to my knowledge, unique on the globe.

I’ve said before, many people were very close, all at the same time, with heavier-than-air flight. German immigrant Gustave Whitehead got it done first, despite a fairly successful disinformation campaign to convince us all that it was the Wright brothers.

What I’m saying is, this has to mean that we’re moments from other people coming into this awareness, and talking about it. Because of the great connectedness of the internet, I and we will see them, find them, when they do.

When that happens, I know that I will personally reach out to them. If they are upright, we shall link arms, and stride forward. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16. Discussing these very basic theses, adding to the data base.

And if they are agents, I will throw them down, the field is mine .

We have to be very close, now. If you are on the fence, jump! This is our time.

In American football parlance, we’re turning the corner. It’s the most exciting play in the game.

[Jeff]

"Théoden King of the Mark had reached the road from the Gate to the River, and he turned towards the City that was now less than a mile distant. He slackened his speed a little, seeking new foes, and his knights came about him, and Dernhelm was with them. Southward beyond the road lay the main force of the Haradrim, and there their horsemen were gathered about the standard of their chieftain. And he looked out, and in the growing light he saw the banner of the king, and that it was far ahead of the battle with few men about it. Then he was filled with a red wrath and shouted aloud, and displaying his standard, black serpent upon scarlet, he came against the white horse and the green with great press of men; and the drawing of the scimitars of the Southrons was like a glitter of stars.

Then Théoden was aware of him, and would not wait for his onset, but crying to Snowmane he charged headlong to greet him. Great was the clash of their meeting. But the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears and bitter. Fewer were they but they clove through the Southrons like a fire-bolt in a forest. Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel’s son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down their chieftain. Out swept his sword, and he spurred to the standard, hewed staff and bearer; and the black serpent foundered. Then all that was left unslain of their cavalry turned and fled far away."

J.R.R. Tolkien, from “The Return of the King”

[Jeff]

It’s May, 2017, and crime has dropped to the lowest levels since they began keeping records.

In the story that follows, headlined " NYC’s low crime rate just got even lower ", you can see how the folks in charge are tortuously using every last trick in the book to try to pump up crime numbers:

" There was a bump in murders from from 18 to 20 last month but five of them took place in years past and had to be reclassified, including the death of Det. Steven McDonald. who passed away in the hospital this year but was shot in Central Park in 1986, cops said .

Reclassifying crimes from years past! Grabbing a single statistic from a crime from forty years ago! Amazeballs, I tell you. No matter, the overwhelming transition to a different world washes away those desperate, last-ditch tactics.

“ When we looked at shooting incidents in 1994, we were looking at 300-400 a month, sometimes close to 500 a month,” he recalled “We recorded 40 this February. That’s the lowest number of any month in those nearly 25 years that we’ve recorded in New York City .”

Shootings at a level one tenth of that seen twenty or so years ago! It’s a wholesale societal change, and it’s permanent.

People used to drink three martini’s at lunchtime and go back to work, where they would chain-smoke in their offices. Those behaviors don’t exist in our society anymore, because we’ve grown beyond them, have a greater understanding of them. A stroll down to the slave auction to purchase some new help used to be a thing to do - but no more. That, er, behavior is not going to be returned to, ever. Much to the consternation of a small, deviant subset of the populace, many or most of whom, you may notice, held and hold positions of power and authority in our society.

There’s a bunch of numbers in the article below, but no percentages were calculated or listed for any of them, as a general prohibition against printing impactful percentages exists in and around this subject. So I had to do the math:

"The other five major crime categories were down in February, including:

Rapes dropped from 108 to 85. (read: “rapes dropped 21%” - ed)
Robberies declined from 1,113 to 965. (read: “robberies declined 13%” - ed)
Felonious assaults were down from 1,400 to 1,287. (read: “felonious assaults down 8%” -ed)
Burglaries fell from 1,020 to 878. (read: “burglaries fell 18%” - ed)
Grand larcenies decreased from 3,246 to 2,973 (read: Grand larcenies decreased by 8%" - ed)

“Shootings fell from 62 to 40 in February…” (read: “Shootings fell 35% in February” - ed)

If people are changing for the better at such a basic level, do you think that such changes will sidestep a subject like “putting up with crap from deceptive politicians”?

I don’t. I think that someone who hears a politician say " crime in our cities is at an all time high! " and " we need to ban all the guns! " in an environment where shootings are at a level one tenth of what they were twenty years ago - and dropped 35% more last month! - is finally going to narrow their eyes, put their hand on their wallet (or their gun) and start backing away.

We’re already living in a transformed world - it’s just that there’s a fog of denial around the fact at the moment. So things are just going to keep getting better, every day.

Not to say that it’s time to sit back. If you haven’t already done so, please consider distributing simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices where you live and work today, or sponsor a gifter, perhaps even through a vehicle such as this forum.

March 1, 2017 - NYC’s low crime rate just got even lower

The month of February had the city’s lowest crime figures in any of the 25 years since the introduction of CompStat , police announced on Wednesday.

Overall major crime dropped 9.7 percent — by 709 crimes — this February over the same month last year, from 7,339 index crimes in 2016 to 6,630 in 2017.

So far this year crimes in the seven major crime categories fell 2.8 percent over last year.

There was a bump in murders from from 18 to 20 last month but five of them took place in years past and had to be reclassified, including the death of Det. Steven McDonald. who passed away in the hospital this year but was shot in Central Park in 1986 , cops said.

“In reality, it’s only a very small percentage of people who are driving the bulk of violent crime,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said at a press conference at the 114 Precinct Station House in Queens. “With precision policing , we’re identifying those people, those groups, small gangs and crews, and we’re taking them down.”

Shootings fell from 62 to 40 in February — with nine full days of no shootings last month, officials boasted.

“This is about the ability of the NYPD to deepen its relationship with neighborhood residents,” Mayor de Blasio said. “A lot more information is flowing to the NYPD, allowing our officers to be more effective. That is one of the X factors here and why the city gets safer.”

Deputy Commissioner of Operations Dermot Shea called the NYPD a ship that “is not easy to turn, but once it’s headed in a direction, we have a lot of momentum in our crime fighting efforts.”

He took a wider view of crime-fighting in the city.

“When we looked at shooting incidents in 1994, we were looking at 300-400 a month, sometimes close to 500 a month,” he recalled “We recorded 40 this February. That’s the lowest number of any month in those nearly 25 years that we’ve recorded in New York City.”

The other five major crime categories were down in February, including:

Rapes dropped from 108 to 85.
Robberies declined from 1,113 to 965.
Felonious assaults were down from 1,400 to 1,287.
Burglaries fell from 1,020 to 878.
Grand larcenies decreased from 3,246 to 2,973

[Jeff]

This thread contains many, many stories documenting recent record harvests around the globe. In many of them, the ruse of " increase in planted area " will be deployed to hedge against the great positive change that’s driving those record harvests. I of course allow that, in some small subset of those cases, an increase in planted area led directly to that record harvest.

Stories like the one that follows, documenting record yields - per acre, per hectare - are much harder to rebut.

I’ve subjectively concluded that the general distribution of Orgonite devices has drawn down and transformed the Death energy in the larger environment. Wilhelm Reich called that Death energy “Dead Orgone Radiation”, or DOR. As DOR is transformed to healthy life energy, or what Reich called, respectively, “Positive Orgone Radiation”, or POR, we’re seeing record crop yields, record overall harvests, record animal populations, record animals in terms of size, record precipitation, and of course, plummeting crime rates, smoking rates, drinking rates, drug use rates.

And that’s what this thread has been documenting for well over three years, now.

April 3, 2017 - New Zealand farmers harvest world record wheat crop

WELLINGTON, April 3 (Xinhua) – A New Zealand farming couple have taken the world record for the highest yielding crop of wheat , it was announced Monday.
Eric and Maxine Watson entered the Guinness World Records after producing 16.791 tons of wheat per hectare, beating the previous record of 16.519 tons set by a British farmer in 2015.

On average, irrigated wheat yields in New Zealand were around 12 tons per hectare, the couple said in a statement.

The crop was planted on April 9 last year at their farm in Ashburton, just south of Christchurch in the South Island, and harvested in February this year.

The record would bring recognition for New Zealand’s arable farming industry, Eric Watson said in the statement.

“It’s very small, but there are some good farmers out there and it’s good to have the record back in New Zealand again,” he said.

“It is an exceptional yield, but I could always do better and that’s my aim. There were things I saw when I was out there in the combine harvester and I thought, ‘Yeah, I could do this a whole lot better’.”

The Watsons bought their 490-hectare farm in 1992 and grow a wide range of crops for seed production, including cereals, grasses, vegetables and pulses.

[Jeff]

Behold, the mightily-hedging headline and subhead " McDonald’s just announced one of its biggest menu changes in years "

McDonald’s announced a major change to the Quarter Pounder today: By next year, it will contain fresh – rather than frozen – beef patties ."

It’s like poetry, isn’t it? No, it literally IS like poetry, only a Black magic version, that messes with your head.

The headline doesn’t tell you what the change is - it hedges.

The first segment of the subhead hedges again, not saying - again - what the change is. They only tell once you get to the third segment, after the colon: ‘By next year, it will contain fresh – rather than frozen – beef patties.’

By next YEAR, man, can these guys slow-play, or what?

That be as it may, they’re losing all the battles, all the time, anymore, don’t you think?

I won’t verbalize the rest of the witchcraft in the article, but with rather italicize what I presume to be witchcraft.

But after all that, in the last line, they have to cough up the magnitude of their losses - their knowledge that rising awareness has shattered their ability to sell deliberately-weaponized, high-Death-energy-level food.

" McDonald’s says only that it is “accelerat[ing] the pace of change around how we source and serve our food” – and that, cryptically, “we’re just getting started. ”

If they don’t get the pumps moving, they’re going to be gunwale under. They’re an exemplar of a Fascist stepchild, but not a taxpayer-supported Organ of the Party.

Can you see how rising awareness is going to put Those of Ill Intent out of business? Forever?

March 30, 2017 - McDonald’s just announced one of its biggest menu changes in years

McDonald’s announced a major change to the Quarter Pounder today: By next year , it will contain fresh – rather than frozen – beef patties.

The announcement comes after a year of pilot tests at locations in Dallas and Tulsa. The switch to fresh meat has been hyped as the chain’s “most drastic menu change in decades.” It comes in response to consumer demands for fresher ingredients – which has seen many turn to brands like Wendy’s and Five Guys, which advertise the fact that their burgers are never frozen.

But while “fresh” may appeal to consumers, it also carries risks – risks made apparent in the infamous E. coli outbreak at Chipotle. When the investment firm Nomura surveyed 27 franchisees representing 200 McDonald’s locations during fresh beef trials last summer, several expressed concerns (unverified hyperbole - ed) about increasing the risk of foodborne illness by switching from frozen to fresh.

"If we do not handle the meat perfectly there is the opportunity for bacterial invasion of our product,” one wrote. (unverified hyperbole - ed)

“An uncaring employee [could do] something that puts the entire system at risk,” said another . (unverified hyperbole, and third consecutive use, a ‘yes set’ - ed)

Chains like McDonald’s have traditionally minimized these risks through highly standardized, centralized systems that limit the number of people who can accidentally contaminate food or mishandle it in a way that leads to pathogen growth. Produce is chopped in central kitchens where it can be tested for microbes and – crucially for McDonald’s next big step – burgers arrive frozen, a state which retards E. Coli growth. They are stored in freezers until the moment they go on the grill, and those grill tops will not release until the patty has been on the heat for a certain period.

It is, as Donald Schaffner, an extension specialist in food science at Rutgers University, told the Post in January, a system that has “engineered human frailty out.”
By switching to fresh patties, however, McDonald’s is adding a small amount of human frailty back in. For safety reasons, fresh beef cannot contain even trace amounts of E. coli when it leaves the manufacturing facility, said Bill Marler, a food-safety lawyer who has been involved in litigation against McDonald’s and several other restaurants.

While freezing greatly slows E. coli growth, the bacteria multiply rapidly at room temperature. And at no point can the worker flipping your fresh burger leave it unrefrigerated.

“If I was them, I would ramp up the training for the people handling the food,” Marler said. “They’ve got to keep it in the fridge. If you stack 30 patties out while you’re cooking when it’s 70 or 80 degrees in the kitchen, you’re going to have bacteria growth. And that could be a problem.”

Marler cautions, however, that the risk is very small – so small, in fact, that he’s not worried. And that says a lot about the tremendous gains that chain restaurants and the beef industry have made when it comes to food safety.

The issue has been an industry priority since 1993, when a strain of E. coli found in Jack in the Box burgers killed six children and hospitalized more than 170, said Juelene Beck, a former vice president at Burger King, speaking to the Post in January. In the aftermath of that tragedy – which prompted a number of lawsuits and a national outcry – suppliers considerably beefed up their in-house testing practices, and chains like Donald’s ramped up oversight.

“The beef industry has done a remarkable job putting me out of business,” joked Marler, who has seen his burger-related cases dwindle to almost nothing .

As a result, E. coli contamination in restaurant-served beef is relatively rare today. Restaurants like Wendy’s have developed complex supply chains and audit procedures to accommodate fresh beef. That may explain why McDonald’s feels confident making the switch now, after several decades with frozen meat.

McDonald’s isn’t taking the plunge all at once. This switch applies only to the Quarter Pounder, meaning that the beef used in many of McDonald’s other burgers, including the Big Mac, will still come frozen. So will many of the chain’s other offerings, including fries and McNuggets.

When can we expect to see those products fried up fresh in stores?

McDonald’s says only that it is “accelerat[ing] the pace of change around how we source and serve our food” – and that, cryptically, “we’re just getting started.” (Making it look like it’s a considered decision, versus that they’ve been pressed to rout - ed)

[Jeff]

When I was a kid, it was pretty great. But then things started getting worse, and worse. I could feel it, see it getting worse every year. The Rolling Stones had an album, " Sucking in the 70’s ", which kind of summed it up for me, back then. It started getting droughty when I was in High School, early 1980’s. then never stopped, never got better. Snowed a lot when I was a kid. Then stopped snowing.

Culturally, musically, societally, it just seemed to me that things were also getting worse. It began to dimly dawn upon me that the folks in charge wanted it that way, obviously. But, oh, well, you can’t fight City Hall.

When I first read of Orgonite in the early 2000’s, a close friend and I said (sic) " wouldn’t it be great if they had something that could fix everything like that? " Neither of us could get our heads around it or believe it. Perhaps a better word would be accept it. In that I once said to my wife, not too many years after, “your belief has nothing to do with it, it’s purported to be a simple device, it works or it doesn’t. I’ll be shown to be a forward-thinker or a dupe soon enough.”

I understand that, if what Wilhelm Reich called Dead Orgone Radiation exists, and if Orgonite does in fact transmute it to what Reich called Positive Orgone Radiation, then the great positive changes that began to exemplify themselves in earnest in 2013 can be seen do be driven by our reaching (or more correctly returning to) of a certain critical level of Positive Orgone Radiation in the larger environment. Or rising back up past some critically high level of Dead Orgone Radiation in the environment.

As a kid who grew up in the 70’s, I can say I never thought I’d live to see the day. But, here we are, it’s March, 2017, and great, epochal positive changes are underway on every level of our reality:

" Klag: It’s remarkable when I think about when I started in medicine in the late 70s how the prevalence of smoking has dropped from above 30% to now less than 15%. In 2005 we were at 21% and now we’re at 15%. And we see this across all age, race, sex and ethnic groups. And across the country and in various levels of socioeconomic status ."

And those changes are increasing in speed and magnitude:

" The rate of smoking among adults in the U.S. fell to 15 percent last year thanks to the biggest one-year decline in more than 20 years, according to a new government report .

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. One of those variants is " unclear ".

That’s why an article below on historically-low smoking rates says " Why the smoking rate fell so much in 2015 — and whether it will fall as fast again — is not quite clear. "

And it’s why the same article goes on to list a whole bunch of other, less important reasons for the drop in smoking, and lastly says:

" The increased marketing of electronic cigarettes and their growing popularity has also likely played a role. But it is not yet clear whether this will help further propel the decline in smoking, or contribute to an increase in smoking in years to come ."

The folks in charge are lying to you about basically everything, including smoking rate drop knowledge and e-cigarrettes. “Has likely played a role in dropping smoking rates” and “contribute to an increase in smoking in years to come” are diametrically opposed. Weaving them together is twisted, diabolical.

They’re really mad that things are going so well for the general populace, because they’ve worshipped Death literally all the way back to Babylon, and before. That’s why the headline of the article hedges against the great news: “The nation seems to be kicking its smoking habit faster than ever before”

But these sorts of shenanigans are obviously not going stop or even remotely slow the positive changes, which are, by the way, permanent.

And they’re going on across " across all age, race, sex and ethnic groups. And across the country and in various levels of socioeconomic status ."

Just like the drastically dropping rates of crime, alcohol consumption and drug use. By the way, crime peaked in the early 1990’s, and has been dropping, since. Check this out: " The last time there was a drop nearly as big was from 1992 to 1993, when the smoking rate fell 1.5 percentage points, according to Brian King of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ."

So the great positive change, the great societal shift, the great global transformation was showing its colors, even then, with the crime rate peaking, and also the dropping smoking, right there. In response, the folks in charge pounded it into overdrive with the big Death-energy-tech push, going strong from the early/mid 1990’s to present, successful storm steering/augmentation with Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cell phones exploded around the globe literally overnight, 1998. Orgonite coming into play right around the same time, late 90’s. Gifting getting going pretty good mid 2000’s. By 2010 some pretty epic gifting going on. Positive confirmations all the way, gifter by gifter, documented in forums like this one.

Then we get to 2013, and pound the bottom turn, and rip back up the face. It’s global: booming and burgeoning wildlife populations, around the globe, pole to pole - birds, fish, land animals. Record harvests, record crop yields, in every nation.

And this just the first glimmer.

This is our time, press the advantage. If you haven’t done so already, please consider distributing simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices where you live and work today, or support a gifter, perhaps even through a vehicle such as this forum.

May 24, 2016 - New York - Kicking the habit: Adult smoking rate in US is falling fast

The nation seems to be kicking its smoking habit faster than ever before

The rate of smoking among adults in the U.S. fell to 15 percent last year thanks to the biggest one-year decline in more than 20 years , according to a new government report.

The rate fell 2 percentage points from 2014, when about 17 percent of adults in a large national survey said they had recently smoked.

The smoking rate has been falling for decades, but it usually drops only 1 point or less in a year.

The last time there was a drop nearly as big was from 1992 to 1993, when the smoking rate fell 1.5 percentage points , according to Brian King of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC reported the new statistic Tuesday. It’s based on a large national survey that is the government’s primary measuring stick for many health-related trends.

Smoking is the nation’s leading cause of preventable illness, causing more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, the CDC estimates.

Why the smoking rate fell so much in 2015 — and whether it will fall as fast again — is not quite clear.

About 50 years ago, roughly 42 percent of U.S. adults smoked. It was common nearly everywhere — in office buildings, restaurants, airplanes and even hospitals. The smoking rate’s gradual decline has coincided with an increased public understanding that smoking is a cause of cancer, heart disease and other lethal health problems.

Experts attribute recent declines decline to the mounting impact of anti-smoking advertising campaigns, cigarette taxes and smoking bans.

The increased marketing of electronic cigarettes and their growing popularity has also likely played a role. But it is not yet clear whether this will help further propel the decline in smoking, or contribute to an increase in smoking in years to come.

E-cigarettes heat liquid nicotine into a vapor, delivering the chemical that smokers crave without the harmful by-products generated from burning tobacco.

That makes them a potentially useful tool to help smokers quit, but experts fear it also creates a new way for people to get addicted to nicotine.

Some CDC surveys have shown a boom in e-cigarette use among teenagers, and health officials fear many of those kids will get hooked on nicotine and later become smokers.

As today’s teenage e-cigarette users become adults in the next few years, “we may see 18-, 19- and 20-year olds pick up the habit,” worried Dr. Jonathan Whiteson, a smoking cessation specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.

Still, he and others are optimistic in part because regulators are turning their attention to the potential dangers of e-cigarettes. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration announced sweeping new rules that will for the first time apply long-standing rules covering traditional cigarettes to e-cigarettes, hookah tobacco, pipe tobacco and nicotine gels. Minors would be banned from buying the products.

“We’d expect continued declines in smoking, as we’ve seen in the past 50 years. But it’s hard to say what future holds ,” King said.

January 17, 2017 - Klag: It’s remarkable when I think about when I started in medicine in the late 70s how the prevalence of smoking has dropped from above 30% to now less than 15%. In 2005 we were at 21% and now we’re at 15%. And we see this across all age, race, sex and ethnic groups. And across the country and in various levels of socioeconomic status.

[Jeff]

Both sides of the Atlantic

March 9, 2017 - U.K. - The kids are all right

Crime among youngsters may be dropping even faster than among their elders

That bodes well for Britain’s future

“YOU’VE got to pick a pocket or two, boys,” warbled Fagin to his band of youthful miscreants. The Artful Dodger and his gang happily followed these instructions. But the miserly gangmaster would be disappointed in the youth of today, who show markedly less interest in a life of crime.

Lawbreaking has fallen steadily and strikingly in England and Wales since its peak in the mid-1990s. The overall number of crimes has halved . Calculating how many offences young people in particular are committing is tricky. The best indicator of long-term trends, the Crime Survey for England and Wales, uses information drawn from victims, not perpetrators, so the age of offenders is not recorded. Nonetheless, some measures suggest that rates of delinquency among young people in England and Wales are falling even faster than those among adults.

The number of those aged between ten (the age of criminal responsibility) and 17 entering the criminal-justice system for the first time has fallen steeply, by 84% since 2006 , compared with 46% for adults. And they are getting older when they do: 15.2 years old in 2015 compared with 14.6 a decade before. That partly reflects changes in the way that the police deal with misbehaving youngsters, in particular the abandonment of performance targets that encouraged police to arrest children, who made easy pickings. But the decline is so astonishing that it must also reflect changes in behaviour, argues Mike Hough of Birkbeck College. And other measures point to a real fall. In the decade to 2016 the proportion of victims of violence who thought their attacker was aged 16 or under almost halved , from 14% to 8%. Children are behaving better at school; between 2011 and 2015 the proportion of secondary-school pupils temporarily suspended dropped from 8.3% to 7.5%.

The explanation lies partly in factors that have contributed to the overall drop in crime. Better security has made “debut crimes” such as burglary and vehicle theft harder, which means fewer young people start criminal careers. Youngsters’ particular decline in consumption of drugs and alcohol may be another reason. The proportion of children who said they had ever tried drugs halved between 2001 and 2014; among adults the rate barely changed. In 2014 just 38% of 11- to 15-year-olds said that they had tried alcohol, according to the National Health Service, the lowest rate since the survey began in 1988 (when it was 62%).

The impact on crime rates of this more abstemious lifestyle is threefold, suggests Tim Bateman of the University of Bedfordshire. First, declining drug consumption means less lawbreaking to fund purchases. Second, offences related to the possession and acquisition of drugs drop. Third, children are less likely to commit other crimes when they are sober. Less drug-taking also indicates less willingness to engage in risky behaviour, argues Mr Bateman, which might mean less lawbreaking. This argument applies particularly to young people, he says, since consuming drugs and alcohol is often a social activity and youth crime is more likely than adult offending to be a group enterprise.

Technology may also be at work. Hours spent online mean fewer opportunities to get bored and less loitering on street corners, potentially getting into trouble. British children are particularly keen on the internet. A study in 2012 by researchers at the London School of Economics on children in the EU found that on average they spent 88 minutes a day online; British youngsters lingered for 102 minutes. At eight years old, they also start using the internet a year sooner than the average.

The decline in crime among the young bodes well for the future. A Home Office study in 2013 found that those who committed their first crime aged between ten and 17 were nearly four times more likely to become chronic offenders than those who were aged 18-24, and 11 times more likely than those who were over 25. More PlayStation, less police station.

March 21, 2017 - Orillia, Canada - Drop in violent crime: report

Both violent and drug crime were down year-over-year in Orillia during the month of January.

Violent crime dropped 45.2% in the first month of the year, while drug crime dropped 63.6% . Assaults and sexual assaults were halved in January, while possession charges dropped by 60%, with no trafficking arrests made .

[Jeff]

March 30, 2017 - Los Angeles fisherman catches 50-pound carp in the middle of the city

On Monday, a fisherman in California caught a 50-pound carp in one of the unlikeliest places imaginable: the small, relatively shallow lake in the middle of Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park.

Eddie Salmeron, the 25-year-old angler who caught the fish, said he was leisurely chatting with his friend Sergio Talavera — or “Big Serg” — when his bait alarm started sounding.

"I set the hook, and that was when the whole fight began,” Salmeron told NPR. “My forearms started feeling it, my back started feeling it, my biceps felt everything. It was just — it was the longest 10 minutes of my life,” Salmeron told NPR.

During the fight, Salmeron also said he needed to reel his line away from a shopping cart that had been abandoned in the lake, lest the fish get snagged in its grates, reports LAist.

“We tried to net it and I started getting nervous,” Salmeron told the site. “I started sweating. I got wet, my watch got wet. I was almost in the water.”

Once Salmeron and Talavera saw the fish, though, they knew they had caught something special.

“Big Serg saw it and that’s when he screamed, ‘Ed, it’s huge! It’s a monster!’ and I started shaking,” said Salmeron.

" This fish was so massive , it was huggable," Salmeron says. “It looked like those big teddy bears that you get on the carnival rides when you win 'em, the big fat plumpy ones — that’s how fat that fish was .”

The catch was truly out of the ordinary for Salmeron and Talavera, who have been fishing at the lake in MacArthur Park and Magic Johnson Park for years. The two friends, together with their buddy Rafe, are founding members of the California Ghetto Carping club, which now boasts over a hundred members in the LA area.

Salmeron’s fish, however, was closer to the Calif. record than anyone from the CGC has ever gotten. According to Wide Open Spaces, he just barely missed title, which appears to be a 52-pound carp caught in San Luis Obispo in 1968.

Nevertheless, Salmeron is still super psyched about his record.

"All my family’s excited,” he told LAist. “I’m super excited that I caught that fish. Because most of all, I’m a fish hobbyist and I’ve been doing this since I was nine.”

MacArthur Park Lake is one of 17 remaining lakes in Los Angeles County that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife regularly stocks with fish.

[Jeff]

I man don’t
Eat up your fried chicken
Not licking
I man don’t
Eat up them frankfurters
Garbage
I man don’t eat down the hamburger

can’t Do that

I man don’t

Drink pink blue yellow green soda

'Cause I’m a man of the past
And I’m living in the present
And I’m walking in the future
Stepping in the future
Man of the past
And I’m living in the present
And I’m walking keep on walking

stepping in the Future
Just a mystic man
Got to be a mystic man

Peter Tosh, from " Mystic Man "

This just in from correspondent Carlos - thanks, Carlos. It’s about a court ordering a Nigerian bottling company to warn consumers that if you mix Fanta or Sprite with vitamin C it becomes poisonous. It’s just like these guys, the synergistic method of destruction.

You know what I’m saying is true because, when this synergistic-poison ‘mistake’ or ‘misfortune’ was discovered, they didn’t change the recipe, but rather just slapped a warning on the bottle - and that only after being forced to do so by law. So it looks like a big soda-poisoning confidence game got broken up by someone in the U.K., who tested the stuff. When the con collapsed, they went right on poisoning the Nigerians:

" which found the products to contain excessive levels of sunset yellow and benzoic acid, which are known to be carcinogenic ."

" In its amended statement of defense, filed before the court by Mr. T. O. Busari, NBC admitted supplying the products, but contended that they are meant for local distribution and consumption, as it does not produce for export ."

A very certain shade of yellow, required so that Nigerians will purchase the soda? Some certain level of benzoic acid, present lest the Nigerian consumer revolt, were it not present?

If there were Some Big Conspiracy, someone would notice, someone would speak up. You couldn’t keep it a secret. Yes!

I drank a lot of Sprite as a kid. Thought it was delicious. Didn’t know it was poisonous when mixed with Vitamin C. Thinking it through, I virtually never drink soda, anymore.

As Carlos noted to me, the fine and judgement are basically slaps on the wrist, and they’re still allowed to sell the stuff. But it’s a loss for them, and I’m cheered to report it here.

March 13, 2017 - Court Orders NAFDAC To Compel Nigerian Bottling Company To Warn Consumers Of Dangers Of Drinking Fanta, Sprite With Vitamin C

In the judgment given by Justice Adedayo Oyebanji, the court awarded a cost of N2 million against NAFDAC.

A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere has ordered the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to order the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc to put a written warning on Fanta and Sprite bottles stating that both soft drinks are poisonous when consumed along with Vitamin C.

The court also held that NAFDAC failed Nigerians by declaring, as fit for human consumption, products discovered by tests in the United Kingdom as turning poisonous when mixed with ascorbic acid (popularly known as Vitamin C).

In the judgment given by Justice Adedayo Oyebanji, the court awarded a cost of N2 million against NAFDAC. The judgment was the outcome of a suit filed by a Lagos-based businessman, Dr. Emmanuel Fijabi Adebo, and his company, Fijabi Adebo Holdings Limited, against NBC Plc and NAFDAC.

Mr. Adebo, in the suit, urged the court to declare that NBC was negligent to its consumers by bottling Fanta and Sprite with excessive levels of benzoic acid and sunset additives.

The businessman also urged the court to order NAFDAC to carry out routine laboratory tests on all the soft drinks and related products NBC bottles to ensure their safety for consumption.

In the amended statement of claims filed before the court by Mr. Abiodun Onidare on behalf of Mr. Adebo and his company, it was alleged that in March 2007, Fijabi Adebo Holdings Company bought large quantities of Coca-Cola, Fanta Orange, Sprite, Fanta Lemon, Fanta Pineapple and soda water from NBC for export to and subsequent retail in the United Kingdom.

But when the consignment arrived in the United Kingdom, health authorities in that country, precisely the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council’s Trading Standard, Department of Environment and Economy Directorate, raised fundamental health issues on the contents and composition of Fanta and Sprite.

Findings by the United Kingdom health authorities were also corroborated by other agencies in European Union countries, w hi ch found the products to contain excessive levels of sunset yellow and benzoic acid, which are known to be carcinogenic.

On account of the irregularities and carcinogenic substances present in the drinks, Mr. Adebo and his company could not sell the Fanta and Sprite. This caused huge losses for the company, as the products were seized and destroyed by the United Kingdom health authorities.

The claimants equally alleged that NAFDAC did not carry out requisite tests to determine the safety of the drinks for human consumption. They averred that being registered as exporters with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, they could legally export NBC products to any part of the world and that the bottling company was aware that the products purchased were meant for export.

In addition to other reliefs, Mr. Adebo and his company sought the sum of N15,119,619.37 as special damages and N1,622,000 being the money NBC admitted receiving from the claimants.

In its amended statement of defense, filed before the court by Mr. T. O. Busari, NBC admitted supplying the products, but contended that they are meant for local distribution and consumption, as it does not produce for export. It argued that Coca-Cola is manufactured and bottled by various Coca-Cola franchise holders in most countries of the world, including the United Kingdom.

The company denied that it was negligent, as it has stringent quality control procedures to ensure that its products are safe for end-user consumption.

NBC also rejected the allegation that the damages claimed by the businessman and his firm were caused by negligence or any fault on its part. It argued that the levels of the chemical components in its soft drinks are safe for consumption in Nigeria and that the claimants are not entitled to the recovery of damages arising from their illegal exportation of products meant for local distribution.

NBC further contended that the claims made by Mr. Adebo and his company were speculative, frivolous and vexatious and should be dismissed with substantial cost. NAFDAC did not file any defense.

To prove his case, Mr. Adebo personally testified. While being led in evidence by Mr. Onidare, he tendered 12 exhibits. NBC’s Sales Operation Manager, Mr. Micheal Nwosu China, and its Head of Central Laboratory, Mr. Abiodun Adeola Falana, both testified on the bottling company’s behalf and also tendered 12 exhibits.

In her judgment, Justice Oyebanji said: “It is imperative to state that the knowledge of the Nigeria Bottling Company that the products were to be exported is immaterial to its being fit for human consumption. The court is in absolute agreement with the learned counsel for the claimants that soft drinks manufactured by Nigeria bottling company ought to be fit for human consumption irrespective of color or creed.

“It is manifest that NAFDAC has been grossly irresponsible in its regulatory duties to the consumers of Fanta and Sprite manufactured by Nigeria Bottling Company. In my respective view, NAFDAC has failed the citizens of this great nation by its certification as satisfactory for human consumption products, which in the United Kingdom failed sample test for human consumption, and which become poisonous in the presence of Ascorbic Acid ordinarily known as Vitamin C, which can be freely taken by the unsuspecting public with the company’s Fanta or Sprite.

“As earlier stated, the court is in absolute agreement with the learned counsel for the claimants that consumable products ought to be fit for human consumption irrespective of race, colour or creed.”

Justice Oyebanji also held that by its certification as satisfactory, Fanta and Sprite, without any written warning on the products that it cannot be taken with Vitamin C, NAFDAC would have caused great harm to the health of unsuspecting Nigerians.

“The court, in the light of the damning evidence before it showing that NAFDAC has failed to live up to expectation, cannot close its eyes to the grievous implication of allowing the status quo to continue as it is.

“For the reasons herein adumbrated in this judgment, the court hereby orders as follows :

“That NAFDAC shall forthwith mandate Nigeria bottling company to, within 90 days hereof, include on all the bottles of Fanta and Sprite soft drinks manufactured by the company, a written warning that the content of the said bottles of Fanta and Sprite soft drinks cannot be taken with Vitamin C as same becomes poisonous if taken with Vitamin C.

“In consideration of the fact that this case was filed in 2008 and that it has been in court for nine years, costs of N2 million is awarded against NAFDAC. Interest shall be paid on the costs awarded at the rate of 10% per annum until liquidation of the said sum,” ruled Justice Oyebanji.

[Jeff]

(on Moriarty)

Irene Adler: Please don’t underestimate him. He’s just as brilliant as you are. And infinitely more devious.

Sherlock Holmes: We’ll see about that.

From “Sherlock Holmes”, 2009

It’s April, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that statement directly refutes our State Religion, which holds that " Poor Mother Gaia is Dying, Crushed by the Virus-Like Burden of Mankind ", I’ve appended multiple recent examples below to support it.

In a story below listing the amazing number of record fish landed last year, we get this:

" Why have there been so many records broken recently? Some experts believe it’s because of the warmer temperatures the past two or three years. The warmer weather makes the fish more active and eat more. Therefore, growing bigger ."

And so, thus, Global Warming Did It , back to schweepy.

Doesn’t sound very scientific, does it? It’s not.

We’re seeing a lot of records being broken lately, and they’re being broken by large margins. Rainfall records, snowfall records, record drops in crime. Such records are usually broken by tiny margins.

The fish-record article below gives you many of the numbers, but none of the percentages, so I’m going to have to do the math. They omit the percentages, as printing them would be much more impactful, and go badly off-message re: Poor Mother Gaia dying, and all.

Pennsylvania Yellow Perch Record - " 2 pounds 14 ounces. It beat the previous record by 3 ounces ." That’s 6.3% larger than the previous record.

Florida Catfish Record - " a giant 63.8-pound flathead catfish - the previous record flathead catfish weighed in at 55.05 pounds. " That’s 16% larger than the previous record.

Montana Smallmouth Bass Record - " a 21-inch, 7.4-pound smallie - beat the old record of 6.7 pounds ". That’s 10.4% larger than the previous record.

South Dakota Smallmouth Bass Record - 7.3 pound smallmouth, beat the old record by 3 ounces." That’s 2.6% larger than the previous record.

West Virginia Blue Catfish Record - " The blue catfish weighed in at nearly 60 pounds and was under 45 inches long. " The story does not list the size of the previous record, so I’m going to have to look it up.

Hey, look at that! Second consecutive story obfuscating the weight of the previous record: " Blauvelt caught the 44.88-inch, 59.74-pound fish from the Ohio River May 14, 2016, using cut bait. Blauvelt’s catch establishes a new West Virginia record for weight. The blue catfish length record of 47.75 inches held by Austin Hoffman since 2014 still stands ."

Third time’s the charm: " The old state record of nearly 53 pounds for a blue catfish was set in 2014 on the Ohio River near the Robert C. Byrd Lock and Dam. " That’s 12.7% larger than the previous record.

Hybrid Tiger Trout record - " Cooper Shaw has broke the Nebraska state record for tiger trout this March. It weighed in at 1 pound, 3 ounces and was 15 1/8 inches long. " Again, no mention of the previous record, so I’m going to have to look it up. It was one pound. That’s 6.25% larger than the previous record.

Missouri Buffalo Fish Record - " a 74-pound black buffalo record ", with no mention of the previous record’s weight. Ah, here it is, did it take three seconds for me to find it? Remarkable, the lack of research, here, isn’t it?

" The new black buffalo broke the previous alternative-method state-record of 59-pounds-8-ounces taken on the same body of water three days prior by David Burle of Bloomsdale. " That’s 23.7% larger than the previous record.

Georgia Walleye Record Fish - " West Carlton broke the the Georgia walleye record by almost 3 pounds this February . The 14.2-pound walleye beat the former record set in 1995 by Neal Watson. " Where “by almost three pounds” hedges inexactly. I’m going to have to look it up. Six seconds later:

" The new state-record walleye topped an 11-lb., 6-oz. Lake Russell walleye caught in 1995 by Neal Watson. The previous lake record from Rabun weighed 9-lbs., 6-ozs. and was caught in 2005. "

Same lake, 50% larger! This is science, by the way. It wouldn’t be hard to look at all the fish records, for all history, start compiling them, look at percentages of the new record above the old, all the way to today. And this sort of research will expand beyond one eccentric dude on an Obscure Internet Forum…and when it does, “Global Warming Did It” is not going to carry the day, from a scientific perspective, I can assure you.

May 26, 2016 - 2016 is shaping up to be a great year of fishing across the nation. Records have been getting broken left and right . Here’s a complied list of some new records that you might have missed in the amid of records being broken.

1. Pennsylvania Yellow Perch Record

Brian Clark caught this monster perch in Erie’s Presque Isle this May and was named by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission as the new state record the species. The catch measured 15 15/16 inches and weighed in at 2 pounds 14 ounces. It beat the previous record by 3 ounces.

2. Florida Catfish Record

13 year old, Charles Patchen set a new state record on May 15 with a giant 63.8-pound flathead catfish on Chattahoochee River in Jackson County. The previous record flathead catfish weighed in at 55.05 pounds and was set five years ago on the Yellow River.

3. Montana Smallmouth Bass Record

Jacob Fowler recently landed the new Montana smallmouth bass record with a 21-inch, 7.4-pound smallie. This giant small mouth beat the old record of 6.7 pounds and will likely be the record for a quite some time.

4. South Dakota Smallmouth Bass Record

Lyal Held of Minnesota caught the new South Dakota smallmouth record and caught the whole thing on footage. Held beat the three year old record by 3 ounces. The 7.3 pound smallmouth bass was caught in the first hour.

However, Held spent a lot of time of scouting the area and trying to locate the state record caliber fish. The record was set on April 23rd.

5. West Virginia Blue Catfish Record

Mike Blavelt of New Lebanon, Ohio has landed the new West Virginia blue catfish record. The giant cat was caught in the Ohio River during a fishing tournament. The blue catfish weighed in at nearly 60 pounds and was under 45 inches long.

6. Freshwater Record Drum Caught in Missouri

Joshua Cole of Reeds Spring, Missiuiru caught the record freshwater drum this spring bowfishing. It took two shoots to land securely land the giant fish.

The record fish weighed in at 30.15 pounds and measured to be 33 inches long. The Fish beat the old record by almost 4 pounds.

7. Hybrid Tiger Trout

Cooper Shaw has broke the Nebraska state record for tiger trout this March. It weighed in at 1 pound, 3 ounces and was 15 1/8 inches long. The youngster caught the fish on a Daredevle spoon.

8. North Carolina Blue Catfish Record

Zakk Royce broke the North Carolina blue catfish record twice in 24 hours with a 91 pound and 105 pound blue catfish. Both of these fish broke the former 89-pound North Carolina record.

9. Missouri Buffalo Fish Record

Travis Cardona brought in a 74-pound black buffalo record fish on March 13th, set a new record that was broken just three days before. Missouri has had 11 new records set this spring, because they have implemented a new type of method with each record.

10. Georgia Walleye Record Fish

West Carlton broke the the Georgia walleye record by almost 3 pounds this February . The 14.2-pound walleye beat the former record set in 1995 by Neal Watson. The record walleye bit 4 times before he was able to set the hook on the record fish.

Why have there been so many records broken recently? Some experts believe it’s because of the warmer temperatures the past two or three years. The warmer weather makes the fish more active and eat more. Therefore, growing bigger.

How many more records will be broken this year?

April 1, 2017 - Good catches of steelhead kicking off 2017 Michigan fishing season

Michigan springtime fishing is ramping up.

The steelhead are being caught in several areas of the state, and anglers are heading out in boats now that the weather conditions allow. For several fishermen, this is the beginning of their fishing season in Michigan.

And, for all anglers, it’s the official Department of Natural Resources start to the 2017 fishing season. All anglers 17 years old and older are required to have a 2017 fishing license for fish beginning today, April 1.

Based on the DNR’s weekly fishing report, the action is greatly improved for those fishing for steelhead. In West Michigan, the St. Joseph River, the Kalamazoo River at the Allegan Dam and the Grand and Muskegon rivers are all producing solid catches of steelhead. In Northeast Lower Michigan, the steelhead are also biting on the Au Sable and Au Gres rivers.

[Jeff]

December 27, 2016 - Newark sees greatest crime drop in nearly 50 years , officials say

April 3, 2017 - Arrest Totals Dropping in Minneapolis, California

Arrests are on the decline again in Minneapolis, with the city on pace to record its lowest arrest rate in 17 years , reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Arrests also are down in California, where police in 2015 recorded the lowest number of arrests in nearly 50 years , with about 1.1 million that year compared with 1.5 million in 2006, says the Los Angeles Times. In Minneapolis, the number of arrests fell nearly 9 percent through March 20, compared with the same period last year. If the trend holds true for the full year, it would be the fewest number of arrests since at least 2000.

[Jeff]

It’s April, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that statement directly refutes our State Religion, which holds that “Poor Mother Gaia is Dying, Crushed by the Virus-Like Burden of Mankind”, I’ve appended multiple recent examples below to support it.

If Tuna in the Pacific are doing so terribly, how did Exports of tuna from Vietnam to China increased by 69.2 percent last year? The article that dishes that statistic says “but exports to Japan went down by 6.9 percent. Japan’s tuna imports have been falling for some years as young Japanese people increasingly prefer meat, thereby reducing consumption of tuna sashimi and sushi, Hòe said. Last year, Japanese fresh and frozen tuna imports decreased by three percent, according to FAO, and in the long term this trend is expected to continue.”

I have close friends who are Japanese, and I’m going to check that fact with them. My surmise is that the Japanese loves them some Ahi, and that imports are falling simply because they’re catching more of their own. I’ll get back to you on that, because I also loves me some Ahi.

November 26, 2016 - Pakistan - Fish exports increase 14 per cent in four months

February 15, 2017 - Vietnam cashing in with tuna exports in 2017

Tuna exported from Vietnam is expected to earn USD 524 million (EUR 488 million) in 2017, a rise of eight percent compared with 2016, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Producers and Exporters (VASEP), as reported by Vietnam News. -

Exports of tuna from Vietnam to China increased by 69.2 percent last year , but exports to Japan went down by 6.9 percent.

Japan’s tuna imports have been falling for some years as young Japanese people increasingly prefer meat, thereby reducing consumption of tuna sashimi and sushi, Hòe said.

Last year, Japanese fresh and frozen tuna imports decreased by three percent, according to FAO, and in the long term this trend is expected to continue .

The depreciation in the value of the yen also affected Vietnam’s tuna exports to Japan, he added.

February 27, 2017 - Pakistan - EXPORTS of seafood are picking up now after falling for last two years. With the facility for exporting frozen seafood to China via land route to be in place from April, coupled with quality certification, the growth trend is expected to continue for some time.

However, key issues undermining the fisheries development, need to be resolved to sustain export growth as well as meet growing domestic market requirements.

In 1HFY17, fish exports and preparations fetched $183.5m, up (more than 10pc) from $166m in the same period of FY16.

April 3, 2017 - Spain’s seafood canning sector manufactured 335,517 tonnes of canned fish and shellfish in 2016, an increase of 0.7% from 333,091 tonnes that were produced in the previous year

April 5, 2017 - Norway seafood exports up 17 pct y/y in March