Positive Changes That Are Occurring

[Jeff]

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

George Orwell

It’s November, 2016, 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.

One of them is entitled “ Field reports point to possibility of quail boom ”

They couldn’t just come right out and say “Quail Boom in Okalahoma”, because that would go off message, re: Poor Mother Gaia dying, and all. So instead, it’s a possibility of a quail boom. Possibility hedges.

But, wait…it’s not the possibility of a quail boom, but rather that field reports point to the possibility of a quail boom. And it’s not that field reports document the possibility of a quail boom, but rather merely that the field reports point to the possibility of a quail boom.

As if that were not enough, the subhead contains more tortuous hedging:

“ Could this be the boom year for bobwhites in Oklahoma? There are signs it could happen – at least in the western half of the state .”

Could this be the year?” Could hedges. The question mark is a meme, hedging. There are signs it could happen. Signs? The word ‘ signs is also superstitious, vague, ambiguous - in addition to hedging. The data shows it is a boom year, or it does not. So, the boom year is not happening, rather there are signs it is happening. Wait, I mean there are signs it could be happening.

“Jane will say yes when I ask her to the prom.” “There are signs Jane will say yes when I ask her to the prom.” “There are signs Jane could say yes when I ask her to the prom.”

This is tiresome, I know.

And then - because there hasn’t been enough hedging - “ At least in the western half of the state ” hedges…even…further.

The article goes on to say that it’s “ the third consecutive year in Oklahoma in which habitat, rainfall and temperatures have been favorable for quail .”

Those three years are the same exact three years that I’ve been writing this thread. So it’s a mapping data point. You’ll note that they refuse to say “plentiful” rainfall, but rather just infer it. They say the temperatures were favorable, but don’t note the way in which they were favorable. That’s because “cooler, milder temperatures” goes off message, re: “ planet broils in hottest summer in 11,000 years .”

The Fight Club talking head goes on:

" Spring and summer were textbook for producing lots of quail ," said Wade Free, assistant director of operations for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and avid quail hunter. The ideal conditions often allow quail to nest several times during summer, which adds even more to the population.

So he fills us in about the “t extbook, ideal conditions ” – but again gives no expansion on what, exactly, that means.

Can you see how breaking down the woven-in Programming, above, took pages, paragraphs? Now watch how easy the truth is to write:

“For the third straight year, plentiful rainfall and cooler temperatures drive quail boom in Oklahama.”

November 4, 2016 – Organic farms help Thailand welcome cranes lost for 50 years - The …

BURIRAM, Thailand (AP) — A fuzzy-headed baby sarus crane hatched on a rural farm this fall offers a glimmer of hope for wildlife conservationists, organic farming advocates and a nation grieving after the death of their beloved king. That’s because this chubby chick named Rice is the first of its auspicious species to survive after hatching in the wild in Thailand in 50 years.

November 7, 2016 – Cranes are at their highest numbers in Britain since the Elizabethan era

November 9, 2016 - Golden eagle numbers have RISEN in remarkable Scottish recovery …

Numbers of the huge birds of prey have risen 15 per cent since the last survey in 2003

November 13, 2016 – Field reports point to possibility of quail boom

Could this be the boom year for bobwhites in Oklahoma? There are signs it could happen – at least in the western half of the state.

Research has shown that two or three consecutive years of favorable weather and habitat conditions are necessary to produce a respectable crop of quail. And 2016 proved to be the third consecutive year in Oklahoma in which habitat, rainfall and temperatures have been favorable for quail.

"Spring and summer were textbook for producing lots of quail," said Wade Free, assistant director of operations for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and avid quail hunter. The ideal conditions often allow quail to nest several times during summer, which adds even more to the population.

[Jeff]

“Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The keyword here is BLACKWHITE. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to BELIEVE that black is white, and more, to KNOW that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.”

George Orwell, from “1984 “

April 1, 2016 – Storms drop record rain, funnel clouds; NW Arkansas anticipates freeze.

July 24, 2016 – Record rainfall, flooding in Arkansas forces drainage work …

August 16, 2016 – Record rainfall in Little Rock today

November 12, 2016 - Region’s drought hits 86% of state - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It’s November, 2016, 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.

In response, the folks in charge are making continuous fake drought claims, which I’m taking to task and shredding here on this thread whenever I find them.

Today I learned that the average precipitation in Little Rock Arkansas, January through October is 39.33 inches. And that the actual precipitation in Little Rock, Arkansas, January through October, 2016 was 52.04 inches. That’s 12.7 inches above average, and 32% above average, year to date.

Well, if that’s true, then why does a story from just a couple of days ago in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette say “ Region’s drought hits 86% of state ”?

That’s because the Propaganda special of the week is the fake drought scam.

It took me over an hour to get those totals, by the way. They have all the websites cut up and compartmentalized so that you can’t easily see the broader trends, unless you take the time, like I have.

Same tactics, back in this thread, re: Stone Crabs, and salmon, and anything else the folks in charge are responsible for counting.

December 1, 2015 – Arkansas: Record Rain Strands Last Soybeans, Delays Final Wheat …

March 8, 2016 – Over 26 Inches of Rain Triggers Record Flooding in the South …

March 9, 2016 – Flash flood warning issued for 34 Arkansas counties

April 1, 2016 – Storms drop record rain , funnel clouds; NW Arkansas anticipates freeze.

July 24, 2016 – Record rainfall , flooding in Arkansas forces drainage work …

August 15, 2016 – The threat of flash flooding will continue across parts of Texas and Arkansas through Wednesday, following catastrophic rainfall in Louisiana.

August 16, 2016 – Record rainfall in Little Rock today

September 12, 2016 – Rainfall Costs Farmers in Arkansas - Story | Northwest Arkansas

November 12, 2016 - Region’s drought hits 86% of state - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

[Jeff]

Average rainfall in New Jersey, January through August, is 28.32 inches. Actual rainfall, New Jersey, January through August, 2016: 31.46 inches, which is 11% above average, and 3.14 inches above average.

Oct 20, 2016 - N.J. faces worst drought conditions in 14 years | NJ.com

[Jeff]

It’s November, 2016, 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 examples below to support it.

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.

Those two preceding paragraphs are why an article below says “ Massive school of anchovies swimming off California coast baffles boffins ”, and immediately goes on to say “ Giant shoal of anchovies in California waters puzzle marine scientists ”. One of those variants is “ unknown ”. That’s why the same article goes on to say “” why the shoal would come so near the coast is unknown .”

The controlled establishments of every nation are fighting a furious rearguard action, in this case against booming Anchovy populations. I’ve attached a couple of photos of historically-unprecedented Anchovy schools.

“ In fact, leading scientists from California’s Farallon Institute tell us it’s a mirage .”

That particular Fight Club talking head goes on to earnestly allege that “ what we’re seeing close to shore in places such as Monterey Bay is the vestige of a population that has declined precipitously in recent years. Anchovies have been driven close to shore by unusually high ocean temperature ”.

Same game, different country, this from Peru:

“ Despite El Nino Threat , Peru Says New Stock Estimate allows for second anchovy fishing season.”

You’ll see below how the folks in charge in Peru estimated 3.3 million tons of biomass, and saying “ shut down the fishery!” While honest folks doing actual surveying recorded “over 8 million” and “fire up a second anchovy season.” The folks in charge pretended to check their figures again, then came back with “ well, okay, it’s six million .” They doubled it, to avoid having to TRIPLE IT. By the way, please note that " over 8 million " is inexact, and hedges.

Same game, different country, this from the U.K.:

" It is thought that milder winters and warmer summers, amongst other factors, are supporting the anchovy population growth .”

Same game, different country, this from British Columbia, where the Fight Club talking head says “ It sounds like they are super abundant ” (where ‘ sounds ’ hedges). He goes on to say that anchovies being seen in “phenomenal numbers” in Howe Sound is “likely as a result of El Nino’s warming impact on West Coast waters .”

Do you want to be ruled by pathologically-lying sociopaths? I personally don’t.

But the way I see it, the door is about to hit them on the ass, on their way out. The anchovy aren’t going to stop booming, and the Boy Who Cried Wolf has only one story, which is well past its sell-by date.

But that’s just one man’s opinion, I encourage you to review the data and the photos and use your personal discernment to come to your own conclusions on just how the anchovies are doing.

And not everybody is lying, including the former Mayor of Bowe Island, B.C.:

“The more I talk to people in the know, the more I conclude that anchovy have been a major factor in the recent remarkable abundance of salmon, whales and sea lions around Bowen and in Howe Sound. So anchovies rule my life right now!”

Mine, too, dude…mine, too.

July 11, 2014 – Massive school of anchovies swimming off California coast baffles boffins

Giant shoal of anchovies in California waters puzzle marine scientists . Size of school, estimated as high as hundreds of millions of fish, bigger than anything seen for decades , they say.

Scientists say the size of a massive school of anchovies seen migrating along the Southern California coastline is something they haven’t seen for at least more than 30 years .

The giant shoal of Northern Anchovies seen darkening the ocean waters off of La Jolla north of San Diego was 45 feet wide and stretched for more than 320 feet, they say.

“It was remarkable. From a distance it looked like an oil slick and you think ‘What happened?’ and then you get up close and it’s amazing,” said Robert Monroe of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s like watching the motion of a lava lamp.”

Anchovies normally live far out at sea, and why the shoal would come so near the coast is unknown, experts said.

July 26, 2014 – Mediterranean anchovies caught in North Sea at Walton Pier - BBC.com

Angler Richard Holgate, who has fished off Walton-on-the Naze pier for decades, said it was the first time he had been able to catch anchovies.

"In 40 years fishing from the pier I have never seen them before," he said.

Over the past few weeks the water has been unusually clear and we noticed the fish in good numbers in the shade below the pier," said Mr Holgate.

It is thought that milder winters and warmer summers, amongst other factors, are supporting the anchovy population growth .

November 10, 2015 – Despite El Nino Threat , Peru Says New Stock Estimate allows for second anchovy fishing season

According to GOED, IMAPRE, the Peruvian Government agency charged with researching the fishery, has

issued a primary estimate of 3.3 million tons of anchovy biomass in the fishery this year, which is generally considered to be too low to harvest . That estimate is based on an acoustical sampling cruise through the fishing areas. But another measure, called the Population Balance study, came up with a much higher estimate of the biomass, 8 million tons or more.

The two estimates don’t always agree, but usually don’t disagree by this much , leading IMAPRE to conduct additional research that came up with a new estimate of about six million tons of biomass.

November 12, 2015 – No Whale Tale: Anchovy Feeding Frenzy Is a Mirage

Over the past few months, onlookers have flocked to California’s Monterey Bay to watch humpback whales gorge on thick schools of anchovies. Dolphins, seabirds, and bigger fish also congregated in the bay to feed on the large concentration of anchovies clustering near shore.

It seems to be the very picture of a healthy ocean, right?

In fact, leading scientists from California’s Farallon Institute tell us it’s a mirage. Farallon Institute senior scientist Bill Sydeman, one of the authors of new research on the state of California’s anchovy population, contends that what we’re seeing close to shore in places such as Monterey Bay is the vestige of a population that has declined precipitously in recent years. Anchovies have been driven close to shore by unusually high ocean temperatures, Sydeman says, and the fish tend to bunch together when their overall numbers are low.

June 25, 2016 – Anchovies return to Howe Sound, BC: ‘phenomenal numbers’ reported …

Anchovies are being seen in “phenomenal numbers” in Howe Sound , likely as a result of El Nino’s warming impact on West Coast waters, a Vancouver Aquarium biologist says.

“Anchovies are a southern species centred in California around Catalina Island,” said Dr. Jeff Marliave, vice-president of marine science at the Vancouver Aquarium. “They are here from time to time but it tends to be in the warm El Nino years.”

As well as recording many sightings of the fish, the aquarium’s Howe Sound Research and Conservation Group, established in 1996 to monitor the sound , has had multiple reports from many local residents who have spotted large schools of anchovies , Marliave said.

“It’s not a one-off observation. They are being observed everywhere in Howe Sound from Burrard Inlet to Horseshoe Bay and Gibsons,” he said. “These are phenomenal numbers. It sounds like they are super abundant.”

He said the first person to report anchovies off the B.C. coast in recent years was former Bowen Island Mayor Bob Turner, who has posted videos online of anchovy schools.

In a post dated June 30, Turner writes: “The more I talk to people in the know, the more I conclude that anchovy have been a major factor in the recent remarkable abundance of salmon, whales and sea lions around Bowen and in Howe Sound. So anchovies rule my life right now!”

Megan Sewell, director of Sewell’s Marina in Horseshoe Bay, said she first noticed anchovies last year when she saw a big school of larvae. She was curious about what they were so sent a photo to Marliave, who identified them. A day later, she said, her brother spotted a school of adult anchovies that was so large it covered one-eighth of the basin of Horseshoe Bay.

September 4, 2016 – Anchovy return in huge numbers to Howe Sound - North Shore News

[Gare]

The entire area off the west coast of BC has had so many thousands of tb’s tossed into it over the last dozen years or so that I couldn’t even imagine how many? Say 10,000 plus that We have made and tossed in then add from that how many Other unknown Gifters have done and thats just off one area!

Remember a Gifting trip 10 or 11 years ago We had the perfect spot parked next to the ferriess railing so We just sat in the back of the pick up and tossed a tb every few seconds from horseshoe bay vancouver all the way to victoria, then spent a few days flipping TOWERS on vancouver island. On the way back there was a huge wait for the ferry because it was claimed the ferry had broken so We had to board a completely different type of ferry that didn’t have any open decks to park on. We found that quite hilarious but still managed to toss the remaining tbs in from the upper decks. This brings another Gifting trip to mind on the same route from another year where going over was smooth but on the way back the car deck We were on was swarming with RCMP in uniform and plainclothes. Could have been a coincidence but it only forced Us to be more clandestine in getting the ammo overboard.

All the oceans are interconnected and We all know how much more powerful Orgonite tossed into water is so I’m sure We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of future benefits from all this massive ocean Gifting.

Really like they way Jeff points out certain key words that are used when the wholly corrupted MEDIA wants to lie. This latest one "mirage’ is particularly of interest to Me as Ive seen that used by a TV weatherman this year to try and explain away something but that doesn’t belong in this thread but obviously just another way to lie. Thank You for the great reporting Jeff!

[Jeff]

Gare, thanks very much, both for your kind words, and, more importantly, for making and distributing massive, massive quantities of Orgonite devices.

I’d ask readers who are sitting on the fence, wondering how to get involved, to consider seeking out one of the many orgonite vendors on this forum and throw some TB’s, yourself. Don’t miss this moment in history! Strike the root.

It’s November, 2016, and the great artificial drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of those aforementioned simple, inexpensive orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare intrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

Since that violates one of the tenets of our State Religion, which holds “ thou shalt have drought ”, I have appended numerous recent examples below to support it.

You’ll see that one of the stories is headlined “ Unique situation delivers record rainfall ”. It goes on to tortuously document how a, well, “perfect storm” of storms made something completely unique happen. That’s a plausible-deniability trial-balloon, floated in an attempt to keep your eyes off the larger pattern, which I’ve documented below.

Another article bravely tries to keep the drought meme alive, saying “ we had a prolonged period of dry weather in the middle part of the month .” Only problem is, it was the second wettest month in the city’s history.

There’s not much they can do, but hedge, and whine: “ Vancouver just had the dreariest October on record. ”

It started getting droughty in my junior year of High School - that would have been 1981. And it never really let up, after. That is, until three years ago.

It’s kind of like my salmon research – the numbers are out there, and, if I have enough time, I’ll track rainfall in my hometown, from when they started to keep records until now.

Back when, you could see the rocks on the river bottoms on all the major rivers and streams in my region. The Lehigh, the Schuylkill, the Delware, the Little Lehigh. As I drove up along the Delaware from Philadelphia to Allentown, PA yesterday, it was so wonderfully full, and a beautiful clear, blue-green color.

So I noticed when it started. And I noticed when it stopped. The great artificial drought, that is.

By 1998, 2000, the skies were flat white. There were no cumulus clouds, any more, just a smeary, greasy deck of chemtrail-adulterated scum. When it did finally rain, it would rain incredibly hard, and for a very short time.

The movie “Finding Forrester” came out right at that time, and numerous scenes featured a sky that was digitally overlayed onto the film, the first time that had ever been done, if I’m recalling correctly. They had to, because the ‘natural’ skies were so unnatural that even the comatose might begin to notice. The digitized skies were a crazy bright blue, with stupidly-obvious fake white puffy clouds.

I’ve appended three images, one a promotional picture with a smeary-sky painted background, and the other two being stills from the film, featuring the flat-white sky I mentioned. Couldn’t find any examples of the sickly-sweet digital sky. Maybe they’ve been scrubbed from the web, as looking at them now would awaken one from one’s trance? That’s the reason they never show “ An Inconvenient Truth ” on Television, despite it being The Most Important Film Ever Made.

I’m going to see if I can find it, watch it again. It would be truly stunning if we find that they edited the ridiculous blue skies with the obviously-fake clouds out of current versions of the film.

Well, anyway, now 16 years later, the skies are as beautiful as I’ve ever seen, since I was young. The furious aerosol campaigns continue unabated, but it seems like the DOR areas, the drought areas they are able to maintain are growing smaller and smaller. As amply demonstrated by the statistics below.

August 16, 2016 – Indiana - Historic rainfall shatters South Bend records - WNDU

August 31, 2016 – August 2016 ties 1914 record for wettest August in Texas | Weather …

September 2, 2016 – August Was Record Month For Rainfall In Illinois « CBS Chicago

September 21, 2016 – Hampton Roads, VA - Unique situation delivers record rainfall

September 23, 2016 – Minneapolis, MN - 2016: Wettest start to the year on record . More rain this weekend

September 29, 2016 – Metro Detroit breaks record for rainfall by over an inch

October 1, 2016 – Richmond, Va. — September 2016 started off with some wet days , but we had a prolonged period of dry weather in the middle part of the month. That ended by the final two weeks as two different storm systems dumped bouts of heavy rain across the area. The first was from the remnants of what was Tropical Storm Julia, and the second one was from a stagnant area of low pressure located to our west.

The total for the month exceeded 11 inches, which was more than seven inches above normal. We set a new record rainfall on September 28 of 4.74″. Other portions of Virginia saw even higher rain totals. During the final week of September, some areas south and east of Richmond received over ten inches of rain.

Some rain fall on just over half of the month (53% of the days). The month ended up being the second wettest September on record, and the 11th wettest month ever in Richmond weather history. Rainfall records for Richmond date back to 1872.

October 2, 2016 – Record Rainfall in Cape May September 2016 - Cape May Times

There was water, water everywhere in the last half of this very wet September. Cape May got a whopping 11.06 inches of rain last month. That’s the wettest September here since the National Weather Service started keeping records in the 1800′s.

October 18, 2016 – Intense snowstorm, record-breaking rainfall hit East Idaho , US

October 21, 2016 – Syracuse breaks rainfall record ; flash flood watches extended

October 26, 2016 – Montana - October breaks 102-year rainfall record

“We’re not seeing any real drying indicators.”

This October is officially the wettest on record in the Flathead Valley, toppling the previous record that’s held for more than 100 years , according to the National Weather Service in Missoula.

October 31, 2016 – Vancouver, Canada - It’s official - Vancouver just had the dreariest October on record

October 31, 2016 – Seattle, WA - Wettest October on record : Seattle got 10″ — two months of rain in one!

October 31, 2016 – October in Oregon brings record rainfall | KGW.com

October 31, 2016 – October breaks monthly, daily rainfall records in Spokane

[Jeff]

At times, we wish we could witness miracles, or have lives that go like Hollywood movies, with amazing positive turns of fate when all seems darkest.

How is that not happening right now?

Later, people may say “oh, you lived THEN, when the Great Miracle occurred…what was it like?”

It’s November, 2016, 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.

If you have not already done so, please consider helping us press the advantage by distributing Orgonite devices where you live and work today, or sponsor a gifter through a vehicle like this forum.

November 4, 2010 – Australia - Might Snowy River flowing strong again - biggest flow in 40 years …

November 19, 2012 – Yosemite National Park Waterfalls Flowing Again - National Park Service

April 1, 2013 – India - Mythological Saraswati river to start flowing again

January 8, 2014 – U.K. - River Wandle source flows for the first time in 15 years

Carshalton man John Brightman said: “I’ve been here 33 years and only seen the water flow twice. The last time was at least 15 years ago - it’s a very rare occurrence.”

The Wandle’s original source was in Croydon but this became contaminated in the 19th century and was culverted to prevent the spread of disease.

March 17, 2014 – River Zin is REBORN in Israeli desert to the delight of locals | Daily …

May 20, 2014 – How the Colorado River Finally Reached the Sea Again for the first time in 60 years

March 2, 2015 – Australia - Leichhardt River flowing again after rain brings welcome relief | The …

September 19, 2015 – India - Watch The Amazing Moment When A River Starts Flowing After 20 years

September 21, 2015 – The Santa Cruz River flowing again with help from today’s rain.

October 28, 2015 – California’s Owens Valley water once again flowing to Los Angeles …

December 7, 2015 – Storm Desmond: Malham Cove waterfall flows again amid heavy rain …

Heavy rain and flooding caused water to tumble down the most famous cliff in the Yorkshire Dales for “the first time in living memory”.

December 21, 2015 – Flowing again , Russian River’s creeks open for spawning coho salmon

A three-day storm has pumped up drought-stricken creeks throughout the Russian River.

January 6, 2016 – California - Calaveras river is flowing again

The Calaveras River headed to Hogan Reservoir, which has risen 10 feet since late December.

January 7, 2016 – Tucson, AZ - Rillito River flowing – Again! | Video | tucson.com

January 20, 2016 – South Africa’s big river arteries are flowing again …

The Orange River, Limpopo River and Olifants River have all received huge amounts of rain and are now flowing again.

February 21, 2016 – Rio Grande to flow again near Las Cruces in late March

April 15, 2016 – The Truckee River has begun flowing again for the first time in 18 months after Lake Tahoe’s water level passed its natural rim.

May 9, 2016 – Flood watch lifted but Todd River flows again after downpours in Alice …

July 9, 2016 – Australia - Wimmera River flows for first time in four years

August 6, 2016 – Australia - After a year of no water, spectacularly flows the Darling

August 14, 2016 – New South Wales, Australia - A flow down the Darling River has reached the town of Pooncarie in far west New South Wales, after more than six months of no water .

October 22, 2016 – Even with drought , a California river will begin flowing year-round for the first time in 60 years

A major milestone is expected by the end of the month, when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says the stretch of the San Joaquin River will be flowing year-round for the first time in more than 60 years.

But the goal of restoring native salmon remains far out of reach.

November 7, 2016 – Ipswich, MA - The drought during the summer months had left the Ipswich River bone-dry. Now, water is flowing again but the river has a long way to go to before the river makes up for the lack of rainfall over the past few months.

[Jeff]

It’s November, 2016, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that 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 examples below to support it.

That’s really bad news for the folks in charge, who’ve been busily killing Poor Mother Gaia on the down-low, while blaming it on you, and your car, and farting cows, and all manner of other fantastical perpetrators.

It’s really, really bad news for them, because they can’t stop it.

They can only hedge, and try to spin it. Check out the aggro, mil-speak language: “ Anglers In Frenzy Over Exotic Fish Invasion ”…” Cod, haddock moving north in Barents Sea ‘take-over’…“Unbelievable hordes” of fish near California coast’."

That lameass " cod takeover! " article somehow trying to imply that the cod and haddock - which have expanded four-fold - are balmy-water tropical fish which have, er, gone north as the Barents Sea became more bathtub-like. If your programming is causing you to extend your tongue and nod your head, I’d recommend researching " the Mysterious North Atlantic Cold Blob ”, the meme used to try to defray the truth of a rapidly-cooling north Atlantic.

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 Political establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “ unclear ”.

That’s why a Fight Club shill in that lameass article says “ it’s unclear why the Atlantic species are doing so much better than their northern counterparts .”

Oh, p.s., saw 13 guests viewing this thread last time I posted to it, biggest number, ever.

May 13, 2010 – Longest fish in the world, not seen since 1879 , washes up in Sweden …

December 30, 2010 – Britain’s rivers come back to life | The Independent

October 20, 2012 – Rediscovery of Sillem’s Mountain Finch | The Wilderness Alternative

May 1, 2014 – SF Chronicle: “Unbelievable hordes” of fish near California coast; Most …

January 13, 2015 - Wolf in Oregon confirms return of the species not seen since the 1940s …

May 27, 2015 – Cod, haddock moving north in Barents Sea “take-over”

But it’s not only the fish species that are changing – the sheer number of fish has also increased dramatically.

“What we found in the northern Barents Sea is that the total abundance has increased by four times ,” Fossheim said. “So that’s a very big increase.”

And it’s the Atlantic fish – cod and haddock, for example – that are becoming more abundant. Meanwhile, some Arctic species are dwindling in numbers as they’re pushed further north.

Fossheim said it’s unclear why the Atlantic species are doing so much better than their northern counterparts. Large predators, like cod, may be feeding directly on smaller Arctic fish and outcompeting Arctic predators.

Dec 8, 2015 - Endangered fish not seen since 2005 spotted in Arizona

An endangered fish that hadn’t been seen in Arizona in a decade has been spotted in the Santa Cruz River

March 5, 2016 – Myanmar – ‘Extinct’ Bird Not Seen Since 1941 Suddenly Reappears

April 2, 2016 - Rare birds over Malta not seen since 19th century - TVM News

May 23, 2016 – White-winged tern — last seen in Wisconsin in 1873 — spotted in Manitowoc

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June 20, 2016 – Columbia River sockeye continue on a record pace not seen since 1938 , and is on pace to surpass the preseason forecast.

September 30, 2016 – Anglers In Frenzy Over Exotic Fish Invasion

Needless to say Californians are taking advantage of the excellent fishing not seen since 1997

[Jeff]

The story that follows is hugely positive. Its headline reads: “Divorce in U.S. Plunges to 35-Year Low.”

Then why does the subhead read “ What’s going on? ”, as if something were amiss? That’s because the folks in charge are not your friends, nor are they the friends of your spouse.

“The U.S. divorce rate has fallen for the third consecutive year, to its lowest level in more than 35 years.”

That’s hugely positive, and interesting, in that it involves “three years” - you know, the last three years, during which we’ve been seeing epochal positive changes of all sorts. There’s a post way back in this thread about divorce, the dropping divorce rate, documenting the fact that the “ fifty percent of marriages end in divorce ” rap was a lie, a hoax, a meme, a wild exaggeration. Oh, wait, you can see them holding onto it and attempting to keep it propped up, right here in this article about plummeting divorce rates:

“ Many sociologists believe the typical marriage today still has about a 50/50 probability of lasting, the same chance it had decades ago .”

“ Many sociologists.” " Many ", meaning: “All of the tenured sociologists who know that the first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club.”

How do I know? Because 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 Political establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. And because the article below tells us “ It’s hard to know exactly why divorce is in decline .”

“We’ve seen a decline of divorce among people who are younger and an increase among people who are older,”

This shows aging Programmee’s holding on to “the old ways”, much in the same way we see everyone on the globe drinking less except this same exact age group of Americans. While the younger ones are drinking less, staying married. Oh, and the marriage rate is increasing, too! “Meanwhile, marriage is up a bit, at 32.3 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women age 15 or older last year, from 31.9 in 2014.” That’s bitter, thin-lipped hedging, marriage is up " a bit ”.

The Fight Club talking head quoted in the article says “ The decline has stopped .” While that’s technically true – it HAS stopped – can you see how she is, again, hedging, not noting that the trend has reversed? And check out this Black Magic spell: “ And unfortunately, the decline in year-to-year divorce statistics doesn’t necessarily mean any particular marriage is more likely to last .”

But the good news keeps coming, and the only thing that I can see standing in its way is bitter, thin-lipped hedging, lying, and half-truths. Oh, and Black Magic spells. None of which are very compelling to me, nor do I suspect are they to most people.

Here’s a White Magic spell for you: “The U.S. divorce rate has fallen for the third consecutive year, to its lowest level in more than 35 years."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/…5-year-low

Divorce in U.S. Plunges to 35-Year Low

What’s going on?

The U.S. divorce rate has fallen for the third consecutive year, to its lowest level in more than 35 years , according to data released Thursday.

Meanwhile, marriage is up a bit , at 32.3 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women age 15 or older last year, from 31.9 in 2014. It was the highest since 2009, suggesting that, after a plunge of several decades, matrimony could be stabilizing.

“The decline has stopped,” said Wendy Manning, co-director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University.

Every year, the center uses census data to calculate the previous year’s marriage and divorce trends. This year’s calculations show that divorce has been dropping quickly , to a rate of 16.9, down from 17.6 in 2014 and a peak of almost 23 in 1980. It’s hard to know exactly why divorce is in decline . Factors could include the aging of the U.S. population, changing gender roles, and the fact that there are fewer marriages to break up in the first place.

And unfortunately, the decline in year-to-year divorce statistics doesn’t necessarily mean any particular marriage is more likely to last.

Baby boomers, for example, married young and have continued marrying and divorcing even at older ages, while it isn’t clear yet whether millennials and Generation X will follow suit. Look at the marriage rate. One reason it has fallen so steeply over the decades is that these younger generations have pushed getting married further into adulthood. Many sociologists believe the typical marriage today still has about a 50/50 probability of lasting, the same chance it had decades ago.

“We’ve seen a decline of divorce among people who are younger and an increase among people who are older,” Manning said.

[Jeff]

When I logged on to EW today from my work computer, the “web page blocked!” picture has reappeared. It’s not normal. Usually, when you go to a blocked web page, that whole screen appears – you don’t see the site you tried to visit. But in this lone case, it appears where the picture of Don and Carol is when you first log in.

Which to me is obviously hacking. I’m calling their bluff, and continuing to post from work. If the folks where I work say “hey, stop looking at that weird website!”, I’ll take evasive action. But I’m going to out the tactic here and maintain flank speed.

“The whale appears to be a humpback.”

Paul Sieswerda, of Gotham Whale

“We have no confirmation on what type of whale it is.”

Coast Guard Spokesman

The two quotes immediately above show that the folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including the whales.

The story featured below is headlined “Whale seen near Statue of Liberty, prompting Coast Guard warning.” Right out of the gate, you can see how the positive news is deliberately juxtaposed against a hedge, “ prompting Coast Guard warning. ”

It’s really amazing news - something unique, or close to it, in my lifetime.

“ But the sightseeing whale hasn’t been seen since, a Coast Guard spokesman said .” (italics, underscore mine)

You can see how he implies that the whale wasn’t in its natural habitat, by saying it was “ sightseeing ”, tra, la-la. It makes it appear like a one-off.

While the local, honest whale guy says “We’ve saw lots and lots of whales all summer long and have even seen them recently along Rockaway Beach and the Jersey Shore…”, and “It was probably chasing fish inside the harbor and ended up staying there because that’s where the fish are.”

The Fight Club coast guard shill says “ We have no confirmation on what type of whale it is ”, which is more hedging, in that the local, honest whale guy says “The whale appears to be a humpback.”

My personal thoughts are that using tight-lipped, defensive hedging doesn’t do anything but make someone look suspicious.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/…cid=HPCDHP

Whale seen near Statue of Liberty , prompting Coast Guard warning

Thar she blows!

The Coast Guard blasted out a warning to boaters Wednesday morning to be wary when sailing around Liberty Island after a whale was seen in the area, officials said.

The broadcast went out to the seafaring public around 8 a.m. after the whale was seen near the Statue of Liberty.

The whale appears to be a humpback, according to Paul Sieswerda of Gotham Whale, which tracks marine life in the New York area.

“ We’ve saw lots and lots of whales all summer long and have even seen them recently along Rockaway Beach and the Jersey Shore ,” he said. “But it’s rare to have them inside of New York Harbor.”

Sieswerda speculated the whales have moved closer to the city as they are lured by an abundance of fish to feed on.

“It was probably chasing fish inside the harbor and ended up staying there because that’s where the fish are ,” he said.

But the sightseeing whale hasn’t been seen since, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

“We have no confirmation on what type of whale it is and we don’t know where the whale is currently,” the spokesman said.

Authorities asked boaters to maintain slow speeds and be cautious in case the whale resurfaces.

Whale sightings near Liberty Island were “rare,” the spokesman said.

[Jeff]

An article about grassroots organizations that try to make roads safer for bikers and how even local government seems to be catching up and making some of those “illegal” changes legal and permanent, as happened recently.

http://99percentinvisible.org/…permanent/

When two cyclists were tragically killed in hit-and-run collisions this past summer, a group of anonymous urban activists known as the San Francisco Transformation Agency erected a set of protected bike lanes using traffic cones. Usually such guerrilla interventions are temporary. They raise awareness but ultimately get taken down by municipal authorities. But when the same group recently (and illegally) installed a set of soft-hit posts alongside Golden Gate Park, the city reacted by making the change official.

Image by Nicasio Nakamine

The SFMTrA, a play on the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), “is a collective organization of men and women committed tomaking streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians, and doing it quickly.” According to the organization, their members use tactical urbanism to accomplish a range of objectives, including:

• Provide a real safety increase for cyclists and pedestrians.
• Draw attention to areas of the city that are unsafe for vulnerable pedestrians and cyclists.
• Put pressure on the SFMTA and public officials to make proactive, rapid and substantive improvements in street safety.

Many of their interventions involve orange traffic cones, which do grab visual attention but are also impermanent and easily damaged. Adding more robust traffic delineators (also known as soft or safe hit posts) may have helped persuade the city to retain this particular recent installation along John F. Kennedy Drive.

Image via the SFMTrA

“Generally, we have no choice but to remove cones and posts that do not go through an official process,” wrote the city agency in astatement, “because it’s a code violation to place objects in the roadway, and they could create conflicts for various types of traffic.” But in this case, they plan to install official safe hit posts and leave the temporary ones in place until their review process is complete.

Image via the Reasonably Polite Seattleites

Guerrilla activists in other cities have tried similar things with mixed results. When the group Reasonably Polite Seattleites installed a similar set of delineators along a stretch of road in Seattle, the city initially took them down. Subsequently, though, officials wrote the activists an exceedingly nice response and eventually agreed to reinstall the posts.

Image via the Reasonably Polite Seattleites

City traffic engineer Dongho Chang of the Seattle Department of Transportation explained that a combination of issues (including the height of the posts and state control of the street) forced the removal at first. At the same time, he acknowledged the “time, money and risk” invested by the group and even offered to give the posts back. He later followed up with a letter indicating the city and Washington State Department of Transportation would put the delineators back in place.

[Jeff]

Before I dig in, let me note that the “webpage blocked” sign is gone from where Don and Carol’s picture usually is when I log into EW. I presumed it was hacking, stated it here for the record, and now it’s gone again. Can you see how the folks who are supposedly in charge have very little actual power, and the power that they do have is on the order of that fat little turd behind the curtain at the end of The Wizard of Oz? That big green scary projected Wizard face was terrifying to me as a child, as it was terrifying to Dorothy and crew before they saw the turd-man behind the curtain. It just occurred to me, the Wizard was a clearly-depicted, actual con man, a snake-oil salesman.

Carlos, thanks for this great addition. I’ve been an avid cyclist for over thirty years, now, and it all started with Mountain Biking in San Francisco in the mid-80’s. My buddy, Steve, and I would ride in city traffic side by side like a pair of motorcycle cops, taking up the space of a car. No bike lanes, no soft barriers! Our rule was we’d stay in the street if we could maintain pace with traffic, and head for the sidewalks if not.

I thought the fact that the city said “no…wait, I mean, er, yes!” was really significant. Most people, 99.9% of people, want to do right. I think that, more and more, people are awakening to the fact that the talking head way up above them in the control pyramid they inhabit is saying one thing and doing exactly the other, and are also awakening to the fact that their decision to take action in a positive way has a real impact.

It’s November, 2016, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime.

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.

Those two preceding paragraphs are why an article below about how “Anglers have been catching enormous pink salmon in the Kenai River this season” says “ The reason for the larger size isn’t really clear .”

One of those variants is “ uncertain ”. That’s why the Illuminist-shill acting area management biologist for the Division of Sportfish quoted in the same article goes on to say: “ it’s still uncertain how large the run is .”

In response to this great revival of life, what we euphemistically call “ secret agents ” are engaging in ongoing animal killing operations, in an attempt to prop up the failing and wholly-fraudulent “ Poor Mother Gaia is Dying ” confidence game on behalf of the barely-closeted Death worshippers they work for.

That’s why the same article goes on to say “ Low pink salmon runs have been a mystery in Prince William Sound, Kodiak and Southeast Alaska this year — managers have suggested ocean temperatures as a possible cause .”

Same “ mystery, baffled ” meme word, same “ Global Warming Did It! ” shit, different day. But even limited fish-killing ops can’t sweep back the, well, ocean:

“Kantowicz said the largest catch ever recorded in a Johnstone Strait chum salmon fishery took place Oct. 17 when one fleet pulled in 800,000 fish in a day. Commercial fishers also report that sockeye runs were strong on Vancouver Island north of Port Hardy, near Bamfield, Ucluelet, Port Renfrew and Tofino.”

What’s left for them, but deny, deny, deny?

“ Federal fisheries officials are still tabulating and could not verify this yet .”

Not that it’s going to do them any good - the game is over for them, now:

“Fraser River chum salmon return is estimated to be two million, the largest return on record,”

August 16, 2016 – Iceland - Eric Clapton might be known for making records, but he recently caught a fish so big that he shattered one in Iceland (sorry). While on vacation in the small nation that has turned out to be surprisingly good at soccer, Clapton reeled in the biggest salmon caught there this year . It took him two and a half hours.

August 26, 2016 – Alaska’s pink salmon record broken twice in 2-day span on Kenai River

After 42 years , the Alaska state record for a sport-caught pink salmon was broken this week. Twice.

Thomas Salas hauled a monster pink salmon out of the Kenai River near Big Eddy in Soldotna on Monday night. The California resident, who said he visits the Kenai every other year or so, was originally going to throw it back when a friend told him to hang on to it.

"(He) said, ‘You gotta keep it, that might be a record,’ " Salas said.

Anglers have been catching enormous pink salmon in the Kenai River this season , said Jason Pawluk, the acting area management biologist for the Division of Sportfish in Soldotna.

"I have lost track of how many pinks have been brought in this year for our trophy program , and that’s a pink over 8 pounds," Pawluk said.

Commercial fishermen began reporting early in the season that the pink salmon were large, but the average has been consistently increasing throughout the season. The Kenai River experiences high even-year pink salmon runs, but these are some of the largest anglers recall seeing.

The reason for the larger size isn’t really clear. Low pink salmon runs have been a mystery in Prince William Sound, Kodiak and Southeast Alaska this year — managers have suggested ocean temperatures as a possible cause. The pink salmon have been larger than usual in Kodiak as well.

Pawluk said it’s still uncertain how large the run is , but the trend of larger fish is clear.

November 4, 2016 – Alaska - ‘Largest’ recorded chum salmon run: 2 million fish overload nets, burden boats

’I knew guys that were having nets starting to sink there were so many extra fish’

Record numbers of chum salmon — two million fish — returned to B.C’s West Coast this year, bringing good news for fishermen fatigued by word of record lows of Fraser River sockeye.

“We’ve had significant abundances … it’s all good news,” said Jennifer Nener, Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s regional salmon director, earlier this week.

That news got even better with the Johnstone Strait haul hitting 1.3 million fish.

“Fraser River chum salmon return is estimated to be two million, the largest return on record ,” said Lara Sloan of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in an email to CBC Friday.

“Catches in Johnstone Strait were some of the strongest on record . There have also been very strong returns of chum to the Nanaimo River.”

" Although Fraser River sockeye numbers have hit a record low , other salmon species returning to the Fraser are doing extremely well," wrote the company’s general manager, Chris Kantowicz.

“Commercial, Aboriginal, and recreational fisheries targeting these runs in the Johnstone Strait and near the Fraser River are fishing the strongest returns in many years.” (That would be “in history” – ed)

Kantowicz said the largest catch ever recorded in a Johnstone Strait chum salmon fishery took place Oct. 17 when one fleet pulled in 800,000 fish in a day.

Commercial fishers also report that sockeye runs were strong on Vancouver Island north of Port Hardy, near Bamfield, Ucluelet, Port Renfrew and Tofino.

Federal fisheries officials are still tabulating and could not verify this yet.

[Jeff]

It’s November 2016, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. In response, what we euphemistically call “ secret agents ” are engaged in ongoing animal-killing operations, in an attempt to prop up the failing and wholly-fraudulent “ Poor Mother Gaia is Dying ” confidence game on behalf of the barely-closeted Death worshippers they work for.

The words “ mystery ”, “ baffled ” and “ puzzled ” are memes, used, among numerous 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 ”.

Those two preceding paragraphs are why a story from a week ago says “ Cause Of Massive Fish Kill In Shinnecock Canal Not Clear .” And why another story below says “ It’s not clear what is killing so many fish in so many different parts of the globe .”

I’ve appended a bunch more examples below for the coincidence theorists in the readership.

The most recent one, in Florida, you can see how the folks in charge say “ red tide did it! ”. The honest local fisherman replies ““This is really something because they are such a hardy little fish…for them to be affected must be something really strong in the water that killed them.”

The brave, tireless Illuminist-shill author of the article rebuts one last time:

“ There could be other factors at play like temperature or water quality, but FWC hasn’t said yet .”

Now compare that sentence to this one, from just this week:

“ Low pink salmon runs have been a mystery in Prince William Sound, Kodiak and Southeast Alaska this year — managers have suggested ocean temperatures as a possible cause .”

If you find this as upsetting as I do, please consider what actions you might take to move this situation in a positive direction.

http://www.27east.com/news/art…-Fish-Kill

Cause Of Massive Fish Kill In Shinnecock Canal Not Clear

November 14, 2016

Dr. Chris Gobler, a professor in Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, said that in the 20 years he has lived in the area, he has never seen a fish kill in the canal.

Dr. Gobler said some people, like Mr. Pell, are hypothesizing that the large number of bunker along the ocean-facing beaches that were being preyed upon by whales, dolphins, bluefish and striped bass were pushed up into the bays and tried to swim north, trapping themselves after running into the canal locks.

Populations of bunker are up this year in general , mainly because of fishing regulations imposed south of Long Island in places like Virginia , according to Dr. Gobler.

September 24 ,2012 – Canadian Authorities Investigate Mystery Fish Kill in Lake Erie …

June 12, 2014 – Millions of fish around the world are mysteriously dying … but why?

It’s not clear what is killing so many fish in so many different parts of the globe

September 29, 2016 – California - Still no word on what caused Marsh Creek fish kill – East Bay Times

September 30, 2015 – Northern Ireland - Conservationists said the cause of the fish kill was not clear at this stage.

December 11, 2015 – Alabama - Fish kill on Mobile Bay a mystery - FOX10 News | WALA

December 23, 2015 – Lacrosse, WI - Whitewater fish kill investigation concludes with no clear cause

July 5, 2016 – Northampton, VA – Northampton fish kill cause uncertain | 13NEWSNOW.com

March 12, 2016 – Video: Mystery after over a tonne of dead fish wash up on shores of a lake in Bolivia

March 29, 2016 – Mystery fish kill in the Indian River Lagoon in Florida - Strange Sounds

May 6, 2016 – Mysterious fish die-off in Lake Toba, the largest volcanic lake in the world, terrifies residents

July 27, 2016 – Mystery as THOUSANDS of fish wash up DEAD from UK river for second time in 12 months

September 10, 2016 – Andrew, IA - Two more fish kills are reported in Iowa - DNR is investigating a fish kill in Upper Brush Creek, a trout stream about 3.5 miles north of Andrew in Jackson County. The pollutant and its source are not yet known.

September 10, 2016 – Mystery disease killing thousands of fish in Nepal – Earth Changes …

November 4, 2016 – Lake Kokanee - A mysterious fish kill in Okanagan Lake could be solved after scientists analyze the organs of two nearly-dead kokanee plucked from the lake Tuesday.

“We don’t know if it’s getting worse. Fish are still dying. It’s hard to say what’s happening . We don’t know if we’re over the peak yet or not,” he said.

November 18, 2016 – Florida - Massive fish kill a mystery in Matlacha

The Florida Fish and Wildlife report for Lee County shows up to medium amounts of red tide in 11 samples.

But some believe the red tide is just a scapegoat.

“Usually if it’s red tide, it will kill pretty much everything,” said Jim Frock, who owns the Seven Seas Bait and Tackle shop. “So who knows [if it’s red tide], but I don’t think so.”

Regardless of the cause , this dead fish have left some boaters and fishermen astounded.

“This is really something because they are such a hardy little fish,” said Patrick Borich. " For them to be affected must be something really strong in the water that killed them."

There could be other factors at play like temperature or water quality, but FWC hasn’t said yet.

[Jeff]

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

George Orwell, from “1984”

February 16, 2016 – Epidemics, warming oceans rock lobster, sea star populations …

June 1, 2016 – Maine is facing a surplus of lobsters. The numbers are irrefutable: The state has more lobsters than it can handle.

August 1, 2016 - New England lobster fishermen face restrictions as numbers fall

November 15, 2016 – Australia - A tagging study by Fisheries scientists has indicated the highest numbers of western rock lobsters along the west coast in decades.

It’s November, 2016, 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.

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 “ surprised ”.

Those two preceding paragraphs are why a story below about three straight years of record lobster catches in Maine says “ The record catch in 2012 caught the industry by surprise .”

You can see how Global Warming Did It , here: “ Explanations for the population boom range from climate change to the overfishing of cod, the crustacean’s natural predator .”

Well, that and all the cod being gone. Oh, wait…I’ve got another story below showing how the Cod population is booming, like every other population is booming.

Cheeringly, they’ve mostly been forced to back off on actually saying the words “ Global Warming ”, because it’s well past it’s sell-by date, from a Propaganda perspective. And it’s too specific – it can be easily rebutted by Inconvenient Truths such as “North Atlantic Heat Content Plunges”, below.

So they go with the broader “ Climate Change ”, which is less specific, and a meme, which they believe they can hang any lie that they want onto with impunity.

Would you be confident if that’s all you had in your offense? Lies and word-trickery? I think they’re shitting bricks, and I think their house of cards is about to collapse on them in a rush. As houses of cards inevitably do.

Now, read this headline from today’s newspaper and tell me which team you think is going to win this thing:

“there is no doubt that the remarkable number of Siberian birds arriving here this autumn was beyond the experience of any birdwatcher alive.”

February 16, 2016 – Epidemics, warming oceans rock lobster, sea star populations …

March 14, 2016 – Endangered right whales return to Cape Cod in 'mindblowing’ numbers

May 1, 2016 – North Atlantic Heat Content Plunges

June 1, 2016 – Maine - Lobster population boom meets more demand from Chinese consumers

For the first time in decades, Maine is facing a surplus of lobsters. When Fernald’s father was working these waters, Maine’s lobstermen pulled in roughly 20 million pounds a year. But since 2012, they have brought in more than 120 million pounds. Explanations for the population boom range from climate change to the overfishing of cod , the crustacean’s natural predator, but the numbers are irrefutable: The state has more lobsters than it can handle.

The record catch in 2012 caught the industry by surprise , sending prices falling to the lowest level in almost 20 years. Lobstermen averaged just $2.69 per pound of lobster, barely covering the cost of going out on the water for many fishermen. The businesses that buy and sell the crustaceans say they did not fare much better.

July 26, 2016 – Food Forecast: The Secret to Maine’s Thriving Lobsters - ABC News

August 1, 2016 - New England lobster fishermen face restrictions as numbers fall

August 6, 2016 – After years of decline, cod and a community rebound in Newfoundland …

November 7, 2016 – South Carolina - Record Number of Birds sighted by SIB at Bear Island WMA

What a fabulous day! Below is the full list of 81 species with counts submitted to eBird. Some of the highlights included: Wood Storks, Roseate Spoonbills, American White Pelicans, Greater & Lesser Yellowlegs and a special treat was identifying the four Stilt Sandpipers. David also heard a brown-headed nuthatch but I did not record it as no one else heard the bird.

November 7, 2016 – Record Number of Common Cranes in UK - Endangered Species News

November 15, 2016 – Australia - Rock lobsters bounce back

A tagging study by Fisheries scientists has indicated the highest numbers of western rock lobsters along the west coast in decades.

During the past two years, researchers have tagged 15,000 lobsters along the coastline and, by using data such as the numbers, date and location of tagged lobsters caught by commercial fishers, have estimated a healthy increase in the lobster population – possibly back to the levels of the 1960s.

November 21, 2016 - 2016 set to be a record-breaking year for birds in Britain and Ireland

Birder statistician Lee Evans reported this week that 457 different species have been recorded in Britain and Ireland since the start of January.

Although the way he counts “species” is slightly different to the official record (which records Britain and Ireland separately), there is no doubt that the remarkable number of Siberian birds arriving here this autumn was beyond the experience of any birdwatcher alive.

[Jeff]

"Next day we mounted and faced toward Chinon. Orleans was at our back now, and close by, lying in the strangling grip of the English; soon, please God, we would face about and go to their relief. From Gien the news had spread to Orleans that the peasant Maid of Vaucouleurs was on her way, divinely commissioned to raise the siege. The news made a great excitement and raised a great hope—the first breath of hope those poor souls had breathed in five months. They sent commissioners at once to the King to beg him to consider this matter, and not throw this help lightly away. These commissioners were already at Chinon by this time.

When we were half-way to Chinon we happened upon yet one more squad of enemies. They burst suddenly out of the woods, and in considerable force, too; but we were not the apprentices we were ten or twelve days before; no, we were seasoned to this kind of adventure now; our hearts did not jump into our throats and our weapons tremble in our hands. We had learned to be always in battle array, always alert, and always ready to deal with any emergency that might turn up. We were no more dismayed by the sight of those people than our commander was. Before they could form, Joan had delivered the order, “Forward!” and we were down upon them with a rush. They stood no chance; they turned tail and scattered, we ploughing through them as if they had been men of straw. That was our last ambuscade, and it was probably laid for us by that treacherous rascal the King’s own minister and favorite, De la Tremouille."

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

[Jeff]

2008 – John Kerry Blames Tornado Outbreak on Global Warming

July 8, 2011 – An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds

August 5, 2014 – Tornado Outbreaks Could Have a Climate Change Assist

February 7, 2015 - Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes

April 15, 2015 – Why Ethics Requires Acknowledging Links Between Tornadoes and Climate Change

March 9, 2016 - Severe tornado outbreaks are increasing over time

May 19, 2016 – Global warming may Increase incidences and Intensity of Tornadoes …

November 14, 2016 – 2016 Likely to Top 2015 as Hottest Year on Record, Scientists Say …

November 16, 2016 – US tornadoes in 2016 fewest since record-keeping began in 1954

[Jeff]

Remember when they were selling the idea that water would become a scarce resource?

Well, this is from the last few days in Morocco(1) and Algeria(2):

There aren’t enough minutes in the day for a single person to keep up with all the good news but today I noticed there was an alert for heavy raining in Portugal and thought to have a look at ventusky.com - some funny stuff was going on where the rain is coming in here from Spain! Very unusual how it seems to go around the Portuguese coast and come in from the East, possibly indicating need of some large scale gifting on the sea, there.
Things looked good in the patch of North Africa nearby and the two videos above illustrate that. The rain is certainly encouraging. It’s a pity if some of the produce on that flooded market street gets spoiled but that’s what you get with poor drainage systems (we get that over here as well, occasionally). I’m guessing farmers will be taking heart from it, though.

[Jeff]

“Doublethink is the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.”

George Orwell, from “1984”

October 12, 2016 – Soybean, Corn Prices Fall as Record Harvest Looms

October 22, 2016 – How Did Grain Prices Rally Amid Record Harvest?

The two quotes immediately above show you that the folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including grain prices. You can see how they say the record harvest looms , which is the most negative spin they could manage, meaning: “ to appear in a large, strange, or frightening form often in a sudden way .”

In Maine, you’ll see how the best scallop season in over a decade is said to “end on a high note ”, which implies is was bad through the whole season, and went up just at the end. “The 2014-2015 scallop season that ended earlier this month was most likely the best in more than a decade, but fishermen and regulators are worried about the future of the scallop fishery .”

“ Most likely ” is used to hedge, right before the good news. Then, right after the good news, more hedging: “ but fishermen and regulators are worried about the future of the scallop fishery.”

It’s formulaic, it’s repetitive, it’s programming .

It’s October, 2016, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. That’s why an article I’ve appended below says “Record Number of Bald Eagles Nested in Vermont in 2016.” And why another says “We are living in unprecedented times with record duck and goose populations.”

If you’ve made it all the way to this thread, housed within an obscure internet forum, you may already be free of programming that would allow you to think that record wildlife populations would be a clear sign of a collapsing environment.

One great thing about this thread, it’s full of data. Someday, sometime, someone can go back and find the other examples of survey-rigging, where they do the annual surveys on the worst possible days, at the totally wrong times, to sway them as far to the negative as possible. There’s a current example below, headlined “Bird Numbers Good on Pheasant Opener Despite Early Survey .”

One of the keys to the great transformation we’re witnessing is the breaking of the great artificial drought by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive orgonite devices in the vicinity of the infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

That’s why a story below says “July and August were the second wettest summer months in more than a century” and “These conditions during the growing season created the perfect scenario for wetlands across the state to produce a bumper crop of annual moist-soil seeds.”

People used to be programmed to think “Diet soda…it will help me get thin, and is not bad for me in any way.”

Now, some years later, many people, most people would say “ Diet soda…it’s really bad for you, and actually makes you fatter .”

Propaganda can influence thought and actions for awhile. But the great positive changes, the booming and burgeoning of life across the globe, is going to remain after the ineffective and ultimately counterproductive propaganda denying it has been withdrawn.

April 22, 2015 – Maine - Scallop season ends on high note

The 2014-2015 scallop season that ended earlier this month was most likely the best in more than a decade , but fishermen and regulators are worried about the future of the scallop fishery.

October 2, 2016 – Santa Barbara, CA - Great Whale Numbers in the Santa Barbara Channel Today

The northeastern Santa Barbara Channel was teeming with cetaceans today.

On a gorgeous, sunny and very calm/glassy day, the Condor Express encountered a total of 7 humpback whales, 2 Minke whales and at least 750 common dolphins. Among the humpbacks we had visits by Rope, Chomper, and the mom with the split-dorsal calf. Many of the 7 humpbacks were feeding on anchovies on the surface which created an additional thrill to behold.

October 12, 2016 – Soybean, Corn Prices Fall as Record Harvest Looms - WSJ

October 16, 2016 – Pierre, S.D. - Bird Numbers Good on Pheasant Opener Despite Early Survey

October 22, 2016 – How Did Grain Prices Rally Amid Record Harvest? - Corn - News …

October 25, 2016 - Record Number of Bald Eagles Nested in Vermont in 2016

Bald eagles produced 34 successful young in Vermont in 2016, smashing the most recent record of 26 in 2013 according to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. The birds remain on the list of species protected under Vermont’s state endangered species law, but this strong year has conservationists hopeful for their continued recovery.

This year also saw record nesting success for several other bird species monitored by biologists and volunteers in Vermont. Peregrine falcons successfully raised at least 81 young birds in 2016, breaking the previous state record of 67, according to Audubon Vermont who monitors nesting peregrine falcons in partnership with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.

Vermont also welcomed 80 new birds to the state’s loon population, breaking the previous record of 69. The Vermont Center for Ecostudies monitors the state’s nesting loons.

October 26, 2016 – Missouri Waterfowl and Habitat Survey

We are living in unprecedented times with record duck and goose populations , a string of 20 years of 60-day duck seasons, and goose seasons lasting longer and later than we have ever seen.

This summer was unseasonably wet with scattered dry spells in between. After a wet May, June was the 15th driest in 122 years. After that, July and August were the second wettest summer months in more than a century. September continued to flip-flop by starting out wet and ending rather dry. These conditions during the growing season created the perfect scenario for wetlands across the state to produce a bumper crop of annual moist-soil seeds . Many wetlands will likely produce more than 2,000 pounds of seeds per acre, providing food for many species of waterfowl and habitat for a variety of other wetland dependent species.

[Jeff]

I recently had a makeup mirror of my wife’s repaired, by the guy who fixes my vintage Hi-Fi equipment. It was a progressive thing to do, which will seem amazing to people in the future, like a lot of other stuff in our current culture will, I guess. The mirror needed a switch – my guy didn’t even charge me, it was that incidental.

My bike’s a 1986. My car’s a 1965. You can see it’s gorgeous original headliner in the attached photo, smirk.

I got a flat tire on the way to work one morning. Threw on the spare, went to work, a bit late. My boss said “ you’ve got to get rid of that car!” I didn’t rebut, and say “but, it’s a flat tire .” Knowing that one shouldn’t try to teach a pig to dance - because it won’t work, and it will piss off the pig.

I told someone at work I was having a (fifty year old) wheel bearing replaced on the Buick. They reacted as if the very basic, twenty dollar part were the Flux Capacitor on the Delorean from the movie " Back to the Future ."

My repair guy did what my all of my fifty (and sixty!) year old audio equipment needed, and now it’s ready to run for another, well, fifty or sixty years, like it did the first time around. Same thing with the Buick.

How many centuries of social engineering did it take to get humanity to the point where the “throwaway culture” became accepted, acceptable?

Well, I don’t personally care, because a story from this week says “ Sweden is paying people to fix their belongings instead of throwing them away .”

You’ll see how, in the article below, the word “ scheme ” is used repetitively to describe the initiative. It’s a devious bit of neurolinguistic programming, as it is, technically, a scheme:

Scheme - Noun: “large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect.”

However, that’s not where it sits in my mind, which is the plan, the play.

Scheme – Verb: “make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong. synonyms: plot, hatch a plot, conspire, intrigue, connive, maneuver, plan”

As tiresome as it is to be told something you already know, I must state for the record that it’s an example of “negative spin.”

“The scheme is expected to cost the state some $54 million in lost taxes, which will be more than outweighed by income from a new tax on harmful chemicals in white goods. Moreover, Sweden’s economy is growing strongly and the government has an $800 million budget surplus.”

The paragraph leads with the negative (will cost the state X million). Then gives you the good news. It could just as easily have been written “The strength of Sweden’s economy, an $800 million budget surplus and a significant new tax on white goods makes the $54 million in lost taxes almost unnoticeable”, or something along those lines.

But careful, neurotic monkeying with someone’s subconscious mind only goes so far, and I don’t think it’s going to stop the success of the new program in Sweden. Oh, wait, I mean “ scheme .”

Can you see how the positive changes are rolling forward, and the only defensive mechanism that the Powers that Are About to Not Be have is not really going to change anything?

Having barely-closeted Fight Club cells in every city in every nation on Earth, while an impressive achievement on some levels, cannot rig the first Tuna auction of the year in Tokyo. Nor can it stop people from choosing to fix their bike vs. buying a new one, ESPECIALLY if programs I mean schemes are in place to ‘nudge’ citizens in the right direction, as the article below notes.

We’re waking up, taking our world back, don’t you think?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/sweden-is-tackling-its-throwaway-culture-with-tax-breaks-on-repairs-will-it-work

October 27, 2016 - Sweden is paying people to fix their belongings instead of throwing them away.

To combat its ‘throwaway consumer culture’ , Sweden has announced tax breaks on repairs to clothes, bicycles, fridges and washing machines. On bikes and clothes, VAT has been reduced from 25% to 12% and on white goods consumers can claim back income tax due on the person doing the work.

The incentives are intended to reduce the environmental impact of the things Swedes buy. The country has ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but has found that the impact of consumer choices is actually increasing.

The scheme is expected to cost the state some $54 million in lost taxes, which will be more than outweighed by income from a new tax on harmful chemicals in white goods . Moreover, Sweden’s economy is growing strongly and the government has an $800 million budget surplus.

I interviewed the man behind the scheme , deputy finance minister Per Bolund, a member of the Green party and a biologist by training. He spoke about nudging people towards better choices ; creating jobs for skilled manual workers; and Sweden’s six-hour working day.

Will these tax breaks be big enough to change people’s habits?

I think many of us have had a bike standing around broken and we don’t fix it and then start using other modes of transportation. This will expand the number of companies giving these kinds of services, so it’ll be easier for consumers to have things repaired.

And sometimes you can be surprised by how a small change in fees can really change behaviour. We’ve seen that in the congestion charging here in Stockholm, how a fee of only 10 or 20 krona ($1-2) can really change the patterns.

And in white goods, the tax break is actually quite substantial since most of the cost of repair is actually labour, so it can really make a quite big difference.

Is that part of that an increased tax on new fridges, washing machines and so on?

It’s actually a tax on chemicals. So if the appliance has harmful chemicals in the production process or incorporated in it there will be a levy, but if, on the other hand, you decrease the amount you can actually get a much lower levy, or even a zero increase. So that will give an incentive to producers to decrease the use of harmful chemicals, and we know that appliances are a major contributor to the amount of them in the everyday environment.

Does that mean you’re using ‘nudges’, that is, behavioural economics?

Yes, we’ve just increased resources to expand our knowledge and expertise of nudging. The idea is to help the private and municipal sectors use nudges to make it easier for consumers to act responsibly and reduce their environmental impact with everyday choices.Can you give an example of a nudge you’re using?

When choosing your pension scheme, we have an opt-out alternative, a fund where you have quite high standards of environmental and social sustainability, so even if you don’t make a deliberate decision to use a green fund, you actually get a good result from the big part of the population that does not invest the time and energy to make an active choice.

Won’t it hurt the economy if people buy less?

We don’t anticipate that this will make people avoid buying things overall, but hopefully it will be easier for people to buy high-quality products because they know it’s affordable to have them fixed if something breaks . So it’s a lessened incentive to buy as cheap as possible and then scrap something .

And we also know that repairs are more labour-intense than production, which has been largely automised, so expanding repairs could actually contribute to an expanding labour market and a decrease in unemployment. Especially because repair services often require high skills but not very high education, so we believe there’s a currently unemployed part of the labour force that could benefit.

And these jobs would be in Sweden rather than abroad?

Of course it is a boost for the local labour market because repairs are by their nature done near where you live. So hopefully this will contribute to the growth of jobs locally all over the country. Whereas large-scale manufacturing is very centralised and can only happen in a few locations around the nation and internationally.

[Jeff]

I read the first story below this morning – to me it shows someone trying to break up a Fight Club cell. Her predecessor having quit over the same issue. The protective, hedging article says he " quit in a public huff ", posturing that he acted like an emotional teenager. It piles on by saying he was complaining .

Speaking of teenagers, the second article mentions a 2011 exposé of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the amazingly hilarious title: “ The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert .”

I think those stories, and others below show that many people other beside myself have noticed that the folks in charge are not their friends, and are lying to them about basically everything.

Ironically, the orange-skinned, troll-haired Scary-Clown vaudeville actor Donald Trump has convinced multiple millions of people to follow and vote for him based upon pushing that very button . After which he deliberately does and says the most repellant, aberrant things possible to associate the whole matter with Unsavoryness.

He’s the “ Bad Cop ” in the Confidence Game, driving dim-bulb, wholly-credulous rubes to “ lesser of two evils ”, “ I grin a lot!” Hillary. Whom I maintain he talks to every night on a secret phone, that sits under a lucite cake cover, like on the old Batman TV show. While a bunch of rubes eat the whole ruse up, imagining hopefully that what button they push in the voting booth maps in any way whatsoever against who repapers the Lincoln bedroom.

Whoops, there I go, talking about politics again. Lets get back to SCIENCE.

“ Only 12 percent of respondents said they had a lot of trust in journalists to get the facts right in their stories about scientific studies .”

12%! That’s not a whole lot of duped rubes. I think it may be a similar percentage to that which would be found when investigating the types of people who fall for African-royalty money-scam emails.

Having a wholly-controlled-and-coopted Establishment of any sort isn’t very helpful if no one believes a word you say, don’t you think? The word " Con " is short for " Confidence Game "…the rube must have confidence in the person working the game on them, or the Con will collapse, in short order.

Last night, watching the Punch and Judy show on the Tee Vee, I said to my wife “they’re getting more extreme – they’re being pushed to the edges to try to steer the mob. They’re close to the end, now.”

Which, I have subjectively concluded, is one of the great positive changes underway in our world at this time.

December 21, 2013 – Americans Have Little Faith In Scientists, Science Journalists: Poll

How much faith do Americans have in scientists and science journalists? Not a whole lot, a new survey finds.

In a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, only 36 percent of Americans reported having “a lot” of trust that information they get from scientists is accurate and reliable. Fifty-one percent said they trust that information only a little, and another 6 percent said they don’t trust it at all.

Science journalists fared even worse in the poll . Only 12 percent of respondents said they had a lot of trust in journalists to get the facts right in their stories about scientific studies. Fifty-seven percent said they have a little bit of trust, while 26 percent said they don’t trust journalists at all to accurately report on scientific studies.

What’s more, many Americans worry that the results of scientific studies are sometimes tainted by political ideology — or by pressure from the studies’ corporate sponsors.

A whopping 78 percent of Americans think that information reported in scientific studies is often (34 percent) or sometimes (44 percent) influenced by political ideology, compared to only 18 percent who said that happens rarely (15 percent) or never (3 percent).

Similarly, 82 percent said that they think that scientific findings are often (43 percent) or sometimes (39 percent) influenced by the companies or organizations sponsoring them.

January 30, 2015 – Americans’ increasing distrust of science — and not just on climate …

March, 2015 – Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? - National Geographic

August 5, 2015 – One of the reasons why I don’t trust science or NASA, at all . - YouTube

August 13, 2015 – 6 Reasons You Can’t Trust Science Anymore

August 24, 2016 - New leader of NIH’s research watchdog faces staff revolt | Sciencemag.org

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in Rockville, Maryland, which guards against misconduct in biomedical research, usually attracts attention with its findings, not its internal workings. But 2 years ago, its director, David Wright, quit in a public huff , complaining that ORI was hobbled by a dysfunctional federal bureaucracy . Now, his successor is encountering her own rough waters, Science has learned.

Kathryn Partin, who took the helm of ORI in December 2015, has launched a top-to-bottom review of the office , which has been criticized for moving too slowly and meting out sanctions that lack teeth . She has also brought in an investigator from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as her acting deputy director, a possible sign that she wishes to expand ORI’s powers to mirror those of the research integrity division within NSF’s Office of Inspector General, which can issue subpoenas, for example (see table, below). But in one of several letters of protest to Partin’s superiors at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), many of ORI’s investigative staff recently expressed “profound concern about the tone and direction” she has taken. They contend that Partin does not fully understand ORI’s regulatory constraints and is unjustifiably seeking to replace ORI’s two division directors, whose departure, they write, would be a "disaster." John Dahlberg, who before retiring last year was ORI’s deputy director, says that his former office “seems to be falling apart.”

October 4, 2016 – Pew: Most Americans Don’t Believe in ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change …

October 31, 2016 – Science Is In Deep Trouble, New Paper Shows

“Fraudulent research makes it past gatekeepers at even the most prestigious journals,” says Donna Laframboise, the study’s author and the investigative journalist behind the 2011 exposé of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) entitled: The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert.

The report, entitled Peer Review: Why Skepticism is Essential, describes the peer-review process as “haphazard and byzantine”, raising serious questions about the state of modern science and casting doubt on policies that claim to be ‘evidence-based’.