Positive Changes That Are Occurring

[Don_Croft]

On September 8, 2016 at 6:15 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

“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 ”

November 2, 2015 - New England Cod Stock In Decline Due To Warming Waters

October 28, 2015 - Cod Could Recover in Warming Waters

October 27, 2015 – Northern cod population making strong comeback

August 24, 2016 - Ocean acidification threatens cod recruitment in the Atlantic

March 15, 2016 - Low coho numbers could shut down coastal salmon fisheries …

September 6, 2016 - For the third year in a row , a record high number of coho salmon have been caught in the lower Yukon commercial fishery.

Fish and Game’s preseason forecast for coho called for an average to below-average run in 2016.

It’s September, 2016, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that statement directly contradicts 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.

One always hears “if there were Some Big Conspiracy, someone would notice, someone would speak up – you couldn’t keep it a secret.” Well, it’s not even a secret – they’re right up front about it, and that’s why it works. Back in the 1980’s, Donald Trump said (sic) “ if I were ever to run for President, it would be as a Republican, because those people will believe anything .”

And if you took control of the Audio Visual equipment at one of his current political rallies (he’s the Republican nominee in the current Presidential election), and ran that video, everyone in the crowd would probably laugh, and slap each other on the back – versus rushing the podium in outrage, or walking out in disgust, as they should.

In March of this year, just six months or so ago, the folks in charge called for an average to below-average run of coho salmon on the west coast of North America, and a supportive press wrung their hands, furrowed their brows and wailed “ low coho salmon numbers could shut down coastal salmon fisheries .” The only problem with that being we’re now in the third…straight…year of record-high coho salmon numbers. Most ever, in history. Including this year, the supposedly “ shut down the fisheries, they’re doing so bad ” year.

Funny, we’ve still got no one rushing the Donald’s podium over it, or, Hillary’s. That’s because it’s about PROGRAMMING. Or perhaps more accurately, it’s about ensheepling . If you open the door to a sheep pen, the sheep will remain in the pen.

But the great news is that the fair-seeming, two-faced, sociopathic, literally-blood-drinking cabal of genetically-related miscreants who have been running things on this globe all the way back to Babylon and before sowed the seeds of their own demise when they whipped up and encultured the “ Save Poor Mother Gaia ” con.

In that con, that gigantic “ confidence game ”, the public, in every nation, finally had something truly, actually moral they could get behind, vs., you know, the standard divide-and-conquer pablum like “ get the Commies ” or “ get the Towelheads ” or “ get the godless Westerners .” The “ Save Poor Mother Gaia ” con would have worked, had their Death-energy-based network of infrastructure that many still mistakenly believe only serves the purposes of communication and weather reporting not been scuttled by the advent and widespread distribution of simple, inexpensive orgonite devices around the globe.

[The massive weather warfare network proliferated in the 1970s with the apparent intention of turning the planet into a desert and charging everyone a fortune for drinking water, as is being done in Bolivia. They were making good progress until 2002. Notice that nobody else has taken credit except us (collectively) for destroying that agenda. I think the media whores are forbidden to even draw attention to it, which might be why the Las Vegas TV reporter who took a crew to Death Valley in 2005 to report about the greening of that formerly dead desert died in a car crash on the way back to the city. ~D]

The cover stories, such as “ global warming did it ” and “ ocean acidification did it ” and “ El Nino did it ”, ad nauseum, would have worked in perpetuity, had Nature continued to reel, and expire under the secret, hidden assault. Occult means “hidden.” Successful cons, and magic tricks, employ MISDIRECTION.

You know, occult, hidden, as in “the covert release of a ‘designer virus’ custom-created to destroy all the starfish on the west coast.” It decimated about eighty percent of them.

[Their annual, global bioweaponry programs against people, conducted by the pharma cartel, continue to fail and backfire, fortunately. ~D]

For the “ but they wouldn’t, they couldn’t ” crowd, I’d note that 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. Which is why a headline below says “ Starfish Baby Boom Surprises Biologists ”, and why the body of the article reaffirms “ Scientists in Oregon and BC still can’t say for sure if their numbers are coming back .”

The starfish are coming back, stupendously – much to the chagrin of the secret, conspiring teams who worked so hard to decimate them, and obfuscate that heinous act in the press. Yes, the starfish are booming, and burgeoning, just like every other marine life form in the exhaustive list below. And no amount of hemming, hawing, hedging, tap dancing and smoke-blowing on the part of our wholly-controlled-and-coopted Media and Scientific establishments is going to change that fact.

The great positive changes are not going away, but are rather increasing in speed and magnitude. Press the advantage! For those on the fence, please consider distributing simple, inexpensive orgonite devices where you live and work today, or perhaps sponsoring a gifter, even through a vehicle like this forum.

Jeff Miller, September 8, 2016

August 31, 2015 – Key West, FL - Lobster season starts with record harvest , low prices

October 27, 2015 – Northern cod population making strong comeback after years of decline

The latest numbers suggest the fish species’ stock is once again nearing historical averages of several hundred thousand tons.

October 28, 2015 - Cod Could Recover in Warming Waters - Scientific American

November 2, 2015 - New England Cod Stock In Decline Due To Warming Waters

December 25, 2015 – Connecticut - Salmon Found Spawning In Farmington River Watershed For First Time in Centuries

January 14, 2016 – Maine - Penobscot’s 2015 salmon run the highest since 2011

March 15, 2016 - Low coho numbers could shut down coastal salmon fisheries …

Mar 25, 2016 - Alaska’s 2016 salmon harvest will be down by 40 percent of last year’s catch if the fish show up as predicted

April 12, 2016 – Puget Sound Pink Scallops Return to Seattle Restaurants After 20-Year Absence

[We made several trips to Puget Sound in past years to distribute orgonite from our boat–covered it all, including one trip with Georg Ritschl in 2010 to earthpipe the underwater base near Bremerton that DB had told us was the northern terminus for the underwater cable along the entire US West Coast which had been used for weather warfare against this continent. The US Navy does more than just slaughter whales and dolphins . ~D]

April 12, 2016 – The total population of blue crabs in the Chesapeake bay rose 35% , the fourth highest level in two decades since 1996 and builds on last year’s 38% increase in population.

The spawning female stock almost doubled , while the adult male stock more than doubled .

May 23, 2016 – World octopus and squid populations are booming

Climate change, overfishing could be behind the rise in numbers

[Western (Europoid) Democratic Liberals are just as gullible as the reactionary chumps who believe Trump is their savior. I don’t think anything will shake their blind faith in the Rockefeller-funded Greenboots. ~D}

May 24, 2016 – Starfish Baby Boom Surprises Biologists - National Geographic News

Scientists in Oregon and BC still can’t say for sure if their numbers are coming back .

June 1, 2016 – Lobster season off Nova Scotia closes with high prices , good catches …

“It looks like it will be another banner season and could be close to record catches or beyond ,”

June 30, 2016 – Minnesota Duck Populations Booming

July 6, 2016 – Crystal River, FL - Scallop season off to brisk start

“It’s been a great year , so far ,” Stoney said.

July 14, 2016 – Sea turtles nest in record numbers during ‘insane’ season on Georgia beaches

August 22, 2016 – U.K. - Rare species of crab spotted in Devon for the first time in 30 years …

August 24, 2016 - Ocean acidification threatens cod recruitment in the Atlantic - Phys.org

September 2, 2016 - South Carolina - “We’re seeing really good numbers in terms of our sampling, and we had a very good roe season in the spring,” he said. “There should be a lot of shrimp available.”

September 6, 2016 – Another record high harvest of Yukon coho

For the third year in a row, a record high number of coho salmon have been caught in the lower Yukon commercial fishery.

As of September 1, 141,000 coho were caught and sold in Yukon River Districts 1 and 2. That tops the previous record of about 130,000 set last year. And all of those coho were essentially by-catch in the fall chum commercial fishery – which sent over 415,000 fish to market this year.

Fish and Game’s preseason forecast for coho called for an average to below-average run in 2016. But as Fish and Game’s Yukon Fall Season Manager Jeff Estensen explained, the coho run appears to be coming back stronger than that.

September 6, 2016 - Yakima Valley hop growers expect record-setting harvest this season.

September 7, 2016 – This fall, the Columbia River featured the strongest fall Chinook salmon run since 1938, when counting began at Bonneville Dam.

[Don_Croft]

On September 9, 2016 at 7:10 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

The Church of Mean-spirited Western Rationalism holds that animals, fish, humans are simply carbon-based robots, which run on chemical nutrients. While I, and many others, have subjectively concluded that there is a significant, vital component of those life forms that is etheric, vs. physical.

If we all run on chemical nutrients, then how come we can’t live just on vitamin pills and supplements, feed just that to our livestock? That’s because there’s a life-energy component to our food, the “mana” that it carries, in Hawaiian parlance – and that Life energy is key.

Over the last decade or so, the widespread distribution of simple, inexpensive orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly believe only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data has transformed the Death energy carried, concentrated and distributed by that malefic network into Life energy, or what Wilhelm Reich called “Positive Orgone Radiation.”

I suggest that the resultant drawdown of Death energy/increase in Life energy in the larger environment is leading to the reappearance of many species not seen in decades, as documented below, and I suggest further that their initial diminution/disappearance was primarily the result of an increase in Death energy in their environments, versus brute physical causes such as pollution or habitat degradation. While those latter physical stressors existed, and certainly weakened those organisms, it was the etheric blow that “killed” them, as it were. They were, in retrospect, the “canaries in the coal mine”, the organisms most sensitive to their energetic environment.

And the best part is, you can accept my thesis, or create one of your own, or go with one proffered by the folks in charge:

“ Rare Jellyfish With 25-Foot Long Tentacles Appears in California - A breed not seen since 1920 reemerges, scientists link it to global warming .”

It’s a matter of personal discernment.

From my perspective, the folks who are still for this moment in charge of things on this globe have been building and expanding their Death energy-based network for literally thousands of years. First it was just Ba’al pillars up in “the high places”, energetically-important mountaintop locations where they would perform human sacrifices on stone slabs at the base of the aforementioned pillars, driving that Death energy into the earth grid. Fast forward to two thousand years later, and you can get a clearer picture as to why there’s a forest of antennae and dishes up on those mountain peaks.

It’s why St. Peter’s in Rome sits on top of a more-ancient stone church, and that atop an even-more- ancient one, until you get to the original stone altar, way, way down underneath the current one. The structure is a great, big, carefully-constructed etheric-energy-concentration MACHINE, sitting atop a coopted, pirated node on the earth grid. It’s why folks called The Masons were and are so particular about how, precisely, those buildings were built.

[A pope in the late middle ages arranged to have an Egyptian obelisk, replete with hieroglyphics, moved to St Peters. During the procession, which the populace were required to ‘celebrate,’ anyone who made noise was severely punished. The huge obelisk had been a spoil of war from pagan days. Under the steps of St Peters is the cave where the ‘pontiff’ of Mithraism, which was the short-lived transitional ‘religion’ which bridged paganism to churchianity, conducted rituals. History is fun . ~D]

As an aside, I’d suggest that a tell that my buildings-as-etheric-machinery thesis is correct may be found in the Feds wanting to force the Amish to put wiring in their new-construction homes, under the false guise of “we’re, er, concerned about those homes not holding their value on the resale market”.

When the literal forest of towers that most presume simply carry phone traffic were thrown up around the globe seemingly overnight in the early 2000’s, the folks in charge thought they had humanity in a rear naked chokehold. The mass of Humanity, educated for generation upon generation to believe “ there’s no such thing as the Ether ”, fell easy prey to earnest suggestions that the Virus-Like Plague of Mankind was to blame for the rapidly-collapsing natural environment, whose demise was actually being driven by higher and higher levels of Death energy in the larger environment.

If you are struggling to assimilate all this, I’d invite you to remember that occult means “hidden”. And successful cons, and magic tricks, rely on MISDIRECTION.

Most fortunately for us all, simple orgonite came into being right around the same time, and I’m here, fifteen years later, writing about the collapse of the dark empire. Because great, epochal positive changes are underway at every level of our reality, and those changes are increasing in speed and magnitude.

Jeff Miller, September 9, 2016

October 21, 2005 – Two single specimens of the rare opisthobranch, Melanochlamys lorrainae, which has not seen since the 1960’s , have been found recently in New Zealand.

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

September 22, 2010 – The three animals that have been rediscovered so far include a Mexican salamander not seen since it was discovered in 1941

February 28, 2011 – Rare Snow in San Fernando Valley Not Seen Since 1940s

September 27, 2011 – Mallacca - M’sian fisherman catches rare crab not seen since 1960s in Malacca …

October 7, 2011 – Rare Mediterranean seahorse found in Thames

This is a really good sign that seahorse populations are not only increasing but spreading to locations where they haven’t been seen before . We routinely survey the Thames at this time of year and this is a really exciting discovery."

The last sighting of seahorses in the Thames was much further down the river in Dagenham in 2008. They have not seen since.

July 10, 2013 - Rare Jellyfish With 25-Foot Long Tentacles Appears in California

A breed not seen since 1920 reemerges, scientists link it to global warming

September 28, 2015 – Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher re-discovered in the Solomon Islands

A spectacular forest kingfisher not seen since the 1950s has been rediscovered and photographed in the highlands of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

April 16, 2015 – A monkey of a species scientists hadn’t seen since the 1970s , and which was assumed extinct by many experts, has been photographed in the Republic of Congo, researchers say.

December 8, 2015 – Endangered fish not seen since 2005 spotted in Arizona

“It’s rare to have a native fish species re-appear and occupy its former habitat …”

February 25, 2016 – Rare ‘superbloom’ blankets Death Valley in millions of yellow wildflowers

Heavy autumn rains have transformed the California park from salt flats and sand dunes to a colorful floral landscape not seen to this extent since 2005

[Carol and I finished our 3-year Death Valley work in 2004. ~D]

April 2, 2016 – Rare birds over Malta not seen since 19th century . Rare species of birds which have not been recorded in Malta since the 19th century have been seen over the Maltese Islands during March.

April 18, 2016 – Rare luminous moss found on Danish island

‘Goblin gold’ not seen since 1980.

May 10, 2016 – Siberian city hit by rare snowfall on May 9

This level of snowcover is not seen since 1936

[I wonder how the various Josef Goebbels of Global Warming would spin this one, haha. ~D]

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

"It’s the rarest bird that’s turned up in the state in a very long time."

June 9, 2016 – Loing River, a tributary of the Seine, rose to levels not seen since 1982

August 15, 2016 – Last year near New Guinea, Ward and his team spotted a rare nautilus species for the first time in 30 years.

“What a surprise,” said Ward. "We had set up baited traps to attract nautiluses, and of course they came. But we also saw this rare species, which we had not seen since the early 1980s!"

[Don_Croft]

On September 9, 2016 at 10:39 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

It’s often difficult for me to get my head around the fact that all of what we are discussing is going on in plain view, of everyone, yet the general populace is so conditioned that a headline can accurately state: “Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware.”

On my ride in to work today, the person whom I was riding in with and I were talking about driving etiquette. Within that context, she volunteered that her sister saved all her phone calls up and then made them all while she was driving , and that she worried about her sister being “ distracted ” by making those calls.

I said (sic) “Distracted? Tests showed that hand’s-free, in-car phone use created accident levels greater than if the drivers were legally drunk, yet you and I can have this conversation and experience no such drastic impact - why?”

I think I may even have adjusted the knobs on my thirty year old Pioneer Supertuner for emphasis as I spoke. I know I looked over at her. I would have taken my hands off the wheel and twirled my moustache, if I’d had one.

Her instantaneous reply? “Well, that’s because of having to push buttons, and stuff.”

Instantaneous. The programmed subconscious twisting fast as a snake. And did you notice that she used the meme word “ distracted ”, the one tirelessly repeated by the Programmers?

But that’s not going to stop me from breaking down the programming.

Jeff Miller, September 9, 2016

December 20, 2011 – Study Suggests Low Hard Drug Prices Behind Crime Drop

May 7, 2013 – Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak ; Public Unaware …

July 24, 2013 – Fox News’ Sudden Obsession With Crime Doesn’t Add Up

April 21, 2014 – Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime? - BBC News

February 2, 2015 – America’s Recently Heralded Urban “Crime Wave” May Already Have Peaked

Toward the end of last summer, two reporters at the New York Times chimed in on the existence of an uptick, at least in homicide: “Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities.”

The most heinous kinds of crime—murder, assault with a gun—appeared to rise in 2014 in American cities. But the long-term trend has been strongly downward, violent crime’s recent small uptick has plateaued at worst but more likely declined , and property crime has continued to fall. The upticks are not large by historical standards and appear to have peaked. The increase in heinous crime should not be taken lightly. But suggestions of a crime wave look premature.

September 17, 2015 – U.K. - The Salford Viewpoint: Crime is down but are we safer?

Since the early to mid-1990s, several Western nations have recorded year-on-year declines for various types of criminal activity.

Governments and criminologists have been left puzzling over this apparent decline . What has been even more surprising is that the downward trend has continued during the onset of the global financial crisis; a period when it was anticipated by some that crime would actually increase.

For some time now, scholars such as Steven Pinker have been telling us that – contrary to the picture of disorder, chaos and threat regularly presented in the popular press – we have actually become progressively more “civilised” and less violent, aggressive and harmful towards one another.

The BBC’s Mark Easton has explained falls in the numbers of reported violent crimes in similar terms. He tells us not to panic, because crime is actually decreasing. In a similar vein to Pinker, Easton suggests that the reductions could be attributable to the emergence of a new morality that is less tolerant of aggressive behaviour.

The fall in crime rates certainly offers some potentially comforting reading. But we must not lose sight of the limitations of the surveys that produce them. Nor can we ignore the fact that they mask a complex picture of unreported crimes, mutating criminality, and harmful activities that can escape detection.

February 23, 2016 – Nova Scotia, Canada - Halifax’s crime rate dropped nearly 8 percent last year

April 1, 2016 – Police Costs Continue To Soar Despite Falling Crime Rates

April 20, 2016 – Surrey, U.K. - Crime plummeting in Surrey, latest police statistics show

Crime is nosediving in Surrey – according to statistics just released by the RCMP.

On Wednesday morning, Surrey RCMP made its first-quarter statistics public, and they show crimes dropping in almost every category for the first three months of this year when compared to the same time last year.

Violent crime is down two per cent and property crime is down 11 per cent. Murders have decreased 33 per cent.

July 19, 2016 – New York, NY - Crime Down 40% In Brooklyn’s 60 Precinct

July 21, 2016 – Warwickshire, U.K. - Crime Commissioner welcomes six per cent drop in crime nationwide …

August 9, 2016 – Pensacola, FL - Crime is down in Pensacola city limits for the first half of 2016. … The number of property crimes has dropped 31.5 percent, and the number of violent crimes has dipped 14.3 percent.

September 6, 2016 – Violent school crime has declined by 82%, so why are police still in schools?

September 7, 2016 – Southport, U.K. - Falling crime figures in Southport welcomed

Latest crime stats show falls in anti social behaviour, violent offences, burglaries and drugs

September 9, 2016 - The Guyana Police Force said it has recorded an 18% decrease in serious crimes at the end of August this year

September 9, 2016 - According to the NYPD, New York City experienced its safest summer – in overall crimes reported – in the entire Compstat-era that began in 1994 . There were 1,610 fewer crimes reported during the months of June, July and August 2016, or a 5 percent decrease , compared with the same period in 2015.

This also marks a 73 percent decrease , or 73,463 fewer crimes across New York City, compared with the same period in 1994 – the initial year Compstat was implemented, the NYPD said.

[Don_Croft]

On September 9, 2016 at 12:22 PM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

“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 ”

April 13, 2015 – Lake sturgeon making a comeback in Northwest Georgia rivers …

September 13, 2015 – Sturgeon make a fragile comeback in the James, York rivers

February 17, 2016 – The Sturgeon Makes a Decades-Long Comeback in the Tennessee …

April 28, 2016 – Sturgeon Making A Comeback In The St. Louis River - News - 710 …

June 23, 2016 – Sturgeon comeback in the North Saskatchewan river - CBC Player

February 4, 2016 – Riverkeeper skeptical of NY state report that sturgeon are making a comeback on the Hudson…

April 13, 2015 – Lake sturgeon making a comeback in Northwest Georgia rivers …

June 11, 2015 – Alaska - The good news is the Anchor River seems to be on the comeback . As of Sunday, 3,119 kings were tallied by the weir. On the same date in 2014 there were 1,859 easing up stream. 2013 reeked like a dead seal with serious decomposition issues when barely 306 pushed through by June 7.

August 7, 2015 – 5 wild animals making a comeback in Indiana: White-tailed deer, wild turkeys, peregrine falcons, river otters and bobcats join bald eagles

September 13, 2015 – Sturgeon make a fragile comeback in the James, York rivers

September 27, 2015 – Arctic grayling making a comeback on Montana’s Ruby River - KPAX …

December 4, 2015 – California - Heavy rains this winter may help native fish in the LA River make a comeback

January 6, 2016 – Portland, OR - Threatened chum salmon make Columbia River comeback

Biologists believe the Columbia River might see its largest run of chum salmon in more than a decade .

February 4, 2016 – Riverkeeper skeptical of NY state report that sturgeon are making a comeback on the Hudson…

February 9, 2016 – The Improbable Comeback of River Otter in Northwest Colorado …

February 17, 2016 – The Sturgeon Makes a Decades-Long Comeback in the Tennessee …

March 11, 2016 - River Otters Stage a Comeback in Bay Area

April 28, 2016 – Sturgeon Making A Comeback In The St. Louis River - News - 710 …

May 3, 2016 – Chesapeake Bay Grasses Making A Comeback - WBOC-TV 16 …

May 4, 2016 - After shocking die-off , Oregon sea stars stage an epic comeback

May 13, 2016 – Red Lake, MN, walleye make comeback, but not without pain

May 23, 2016 – Ancient LAMPREYS with razor-sharp teeth make a comeback in U.K.

May 27, 2016 – Roanoke, VA - Herring on the comeback?

June 23, 2016 – Sturgeon comeback in the North Saskatchewan river - CBC Player

July 19, 2016 – Sockeye Salmon Makes a Comeback in Bristol Bay - The Fish Site

August 01, 2016 … 7 local animals making a comeback thanks to clean water and conservation

If you haven’t heard the news, the Potomac River is the healthiest its been in decades

[ Lots of us have tossed orgonite into those waters. ~D]

August 3, 2016 – Manatees to make a comeback in Guadeloupe for the first time in over one hundred years …

September 3, 2016 – Not everyone pleased by river otters’ comeback in Illinois | Local News …

Jeff Miller, September 9, 2016

[Carlos_Silva]

Another great story from India. There isn’t enough wringing of hands that can undo these changes.

http://undergroundreporter.org/organic-rice-yields-debunk-myth-gmos-needed-feed-world/

ORGANIC RICE CROP YIELDS DEBUNK MYTH GMOS ARE NEEDED TO FEED THE WORLD

Christina Sarich

( UR ) Bihar, India — In India’s poorest state, farmers are setting world-breaking records growing rice and other staple foods, without the help of genetically modified organisms, and none of Monsanto’s billion-dollar herbicides.

With the biotech industry claiming that the world can only be fed with heavily-doused herbicidal crops coming from genetically modified seed, it’s astonishing to see a region responsible for providing food for so many people, churning out some of the biggest yields ever — 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land, to be exact.

The crop yields being realized by Indian farmers are simply phenomenal and have been achieved by employing age-old, yet simple, growing techniques like using farmyard manure and forgoing herbicides.

Farmers in India are beating long-held records with these organic growing techniques, too. One Chinese agricultural scientist, Yuan Longping, previously grew 19.4 tonnes of rice, but Indian farmers still out performed him with their 22.4-tonne yield. Even World Bank-funded scientists at the Philippines based International Rice Research Institute’s record has been broken, along with all multi-national companies’ genetically modified seed crops in both the U.S. and Europe.

Sumant Kumar and many of his friends in neighboring villages in Bihar, known as India’s poorest state, had to prove their astonishing results to University experts, who accused them of cheating the system.

Kumar’s success is due to SRI, an approach to crop development which evolved in France in the 1960s to deal with seed scarcity. The SRI system (System of Rice Intensification) aims to produce more from less — and so it has. Kumar put the following elements into practice to get rice grains so large, they shocked local agriculturalists and experts:

1. Seedlings were transplanted at a young age, in single seeds, instead of clumps.
2. Wider spacing of plants was implemented, using a square pattern.
3. The soil used was moist, but not flooded, as in traditional rice farming.
4. Only organic fertilizers are used.
5. Rotary weeding is practiced.

These techniques allow farmers to plant more on less acreage and gain higher yields, all without resorting to over-priced, royalty-driven GM seeds or the use of herbicides like glyphosate-based RoundUp.

The SRI technique also drastically reduces farmers’ dependency on outside, industrial inputs, while also allowing them to adapt to their local climates and specific agricultural challenges.

Kumar’s success isn’t a one-time wonder, either, or limited to a single farmer. His friends in Darveshpura village have all recorded over 17 tonnes of rice, and many others in the villages around have doubled their usual yields in recent years.

With record-breaking yields Kumar and his peers are breaking cycles of poverty, dependence upon biotech companies, and providing organic, healthy food for thousands.

Inspired by Kumar’s success, the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has visited the Nalanda district and recognized the potential of this method of organic farming, telling the villagers they were “better than scientists.”

I’d add, “very much better than biotech scientists,” who have sold the world a lie that, “you can’t feed the masses without Monsanto’s, patented seed, and best-selling chemicals.”

Kumar just proved that the world can feed itself very well, thank you — organically.

[Don_Croft]

On September 12, 2016 at 6:33 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

September 16, 2015 – New World Record Set for Most Species of Birds Seen in One Year …

February 25, 2016 – Florida - Record-breaking number of manatees counted during annual winter survey.

6,250 - that’s slightly more than last year’s record of 6,063.

“Today’s survey results make it even more clear that we all have cause to celebrate that conservation efforts have succeeded and the manatee is no longer endangered,”

March 4, 2016 – Maine - Lobster fishery hits record value , but industry wary of future …

May 26, 2016 – New Hampshire - Herring are returning to Merrimack River in record numbers this year

The numbers this year are huge. As of Monday, more than 336,000 herring (including the species known as alewife) had been counted as coming up the river from the Atlantic Ocean at the Essex Dam in Lawrence, Mass., the first dam on the Merrimack River. That’s five times as many as were counted at Essex Dam all of last year , which saw the most herring since 1994, and the season still has weeks to go.

June 24, 2016 – Florida – “And I’m even more excited now that I’ve read the annual scallop abundance survey – it appears to be a good season .”

(the article that quote comes from featured this link, where the guy read the annual scallop abundance survey) http://myfwc.com/research/salt…ps/season/

Jeff says, at this link, they show the average number of scallops observed per station over the last five years within the four study sites that are located in the open harvest area. In the Taylor/Dixie survey area, they counted 28 scallops in 2012. In 2013, they counted 36, up 28% from the previous year. In 2014, they counted 18, down 50% from the previous year. In 2015, they counted 52, up 188% from the previous year. In 2016, they counted 189, up 263% from the previous year.

Appears to be a good season, I see. In just two years, the numbers went from 18 to 189, a 950% increase. I had to do the math – they present the numbers, but won’t give you the percentages, as that would be more impactful - I had to do the math.

This maps against the huge jumps in stone crab numbers and the horseshoe crab numbers and salmon numbers that have been documented previously in this thread, also from official-counting-station websites.

Also of particular interest – here’s what they give you re: official manatee numbers:

http://myfwc.com/research/mana…onitoring/

“Synoptic Survey Conditions for Winter 2013 - Due to warmer than average weather, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission did not conduct the annual statewide manatee synoptic survey this winter.

Synoptic Survey Conditions for Winter 2012 - Due to warmer than average weather, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission did not conduct the annual statewide manatee synoptic survey this winter.

Synoptic Survey Conditions for Winter 2008 - Due to warmer than average weather, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will not conduct the annual statewide manatee synoptic survey this winter.”

Go to the website and you’ll see there’s no “how many manatees are there” data. At all. Not for ’08, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15 or ’16. So you can see how they get to say “global warming did it!” while simultaneously hiding the stats.

That’s because it’s really going bad for them, re: the “ Poor Mother Gaia is Dying!” ruse, as you saw in the previous headline above from February of this year, noting that in 2015 there were more manatees than ever, in history, and in 2016, the number was higher, still.

I’m proud to be able to call them on their obfuscation, because it’s proof of a conspiracy , in which a group of individuals conspires .

“Conspiracy – a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.”

July 5, 2016 – Near record pelican numbers , Chase Lake

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says American white pelicans are nesting at a central North Dakota refuge in near-record numbers.

Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge Manager Neil Shook says an aerial count shows 33,694 breeding adults. That’s up from about 27,000 birds last year.

(a 24% increase, note they won’t tell you the percentage, as it’s more impactful – they made me do the math – ed)

September 1, 2016 – Florida - Sea Turtles Thriving at Archie Carr

We’ve got good news to report! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has counted a record number of loggerhead sea turtle nests at Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Florida this year! An impressive 20,376 nests as of August 27th. That number crushes the previous record set at the refuge of 18,809 nests in 2012.

(Beating the old record by 8%, note they won’t tell you the percentage, as it’s more impactful – they made me do the math)

September 5, 2016 – Texas - Teal numbers mean a good start to year

Conditions since the May survey have greatly improved across their breeding grounds which will have resulted in excellent nesting conditions for this late nesting species let alone fantastic brood rearing conditions later in summer resulting in very high brood survival thus leading to a much above average fall flight,” Kraai said.

[Edward]

In the '70’s and early '80’s when i was a kid there were absolutely no brown pelicans on the coast. DDT killed them all off because it caused the eggs to be too soft so they all died out because no new pelicans were being born. I always used to see old paintings with pelicans in them but never saw any pelicans. So I asked my dad about it when we were fishing once, he explained it to me. Anyway, They were reintroduced to the area i think in the early nineties, and now today they are pretty much a nuisance when you go fishing there are so many of them. When you drive down the coastal highway you can see huge flocks of them everywhere, hundreds and hundreds in 1 flock, maybe thousands. i never really counted them.

I know this isn’t scientific data, just my personal observation, but i figured it was as good as scientific data, considering. From none to tens of thousands across the coast, in less than 30 years. I’d say that is remarkable.

[Don_Croft]

On September 12, 2016 at 8:54 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

“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 ”

January 24, 2016 - McDonald’s Now Having a Long-Awaited Resurgence

February 20, 2015 - McDonald’s sales rapidly decline as Americans reject fake food …

September 11, 2016 - How McDonald’s in US is rebranding to stay on top

[Is Josef Goebbels now writing McDonalds’ propaganda? Should we expect to read about mass McDonalds executive suicides in some bunker pretty soon? A couple of CIA psychiatrists wrote their management protocols back in the 70s. ~D]

September 5, 2016 - McDonalds To Close 700 Locations After Major Profit Losses

It’s September, 2016, and the current plight of the McDonald’s Corporation is to me a wonderful microcosm of the great positive changes that are underway at every level of our reality. For one thing, it provides a clear example of a pyramidally-constructed control mechanism, called a Corporation, in which fair-seeming, nattily-dressed sociopaths at the top of the pyramid fleece wholly-credulous rubes down in the pyramid’s lower levels.

Or I should say “ fleeced ”, as, once the rubes get wise to the fact that they’ve been conned, have been the victims of a “ confidence game ”, they’re no longer “ easy marks ”. Ergo “ McDonalds To Close 700 Locations After Major Profit Losses ”, a headline from a week or so ago.

That’s because the control pyramids we’re discussing are all voluntary. Press gangs aren’t roving around town, making people buy McDonald’s franchises, or eat McDonald’s burgers.

The mean-spirited, two-faced, charismatic few can control the many only through subterfuge. And once the rubes get wise, it’s over. That’s why con artists always kept their bags packed under their beds, ready to flee town on a moment’s notice, once the mob gathered the tar, the feathers, and the rail.

I’m sure that most if not all McDonald’s franchise owners grasp the simple concept that people are paying Five Guys and In and Out Burger as much – or make that twice as much - for a burger because that burger is made out of actual meat. Embarrassingly, In and Out has been doing it every day since 1948. That’s just about seventy years, for those who are counting.

But the franchise owner sits lower in the control pyramid, and has to unload the trucks filled with weaponized burgers that, once prepared, can sit unrefrigerated on a plate for six months with no apparent change. And the customers, sitting lower still in the control pyramid, has to eat them. Oh, wait, I forgot! The customer can eat whatever burger they want.

The McDonald’s example has it all: famously-proud-Satanist founder, spectacular, baldfaced lies, the support of a wholly-controlled-and-coopted Media establishment, and an absolutely megalomaniacal refusal to back down from their unholy agenda.

But even that’s melting away, a la “ McDonald’s nixing some unpalatable ingredients ” and “ McDonald’s testing fresh, never-frozen beef patties. ”

The McDonald’s example is supreme in that it lays bare the black agenda of the folks in charge. All your life, you’ve been told “oh, it’s because of profit margin , it’s just all about the money .” No. McDonald’s could flip a switch, do things like In and Out does, like they, McDonald’s USED to do, and make scads more, tons more, wheelbarrows more money.

It’s just that their founder was an unrepentant Death worshipper. Just like the person at the top of the McDonald’s control pyramid is at this moment an unrepentant Death worshipper. Like the all the rest of the bloodline-connected, “one percenter”, Fight Club member folks in charge, all the way back to Babylon, and before.

But now that the rubes are wising up, the only thing these folks can do is adapt, or wither and blow away. As the new president of McDeath well understands:

“ Why go to the position of trying to defend them, if the consumer is saying, I prefer not to have that particular ingredient in my food?” said Mike Andres, president of McDonald’s U.S.”

It’s game over, Bad Guys. We’ve always had the power, we’re just taking it rightfully back.

February 20, 2015 - McDonald’s sales rapidly decline as Americans reject fake food …

May 15, 2015 - The 8 Craziest Ways McDonald’s Has Tried to Boost Sales

October 22, 2015 – McDonald’s Testing Sales of Monster Energy Drink, Looking for Boost …

January 24, 2016 - New McDonald’s menu expected to create huge profits - BABW News

January 24, 2016 - McDonald’s Now Having a Long-Awaited Resurgence

February 9, 2016 – How ‘Create Your Taste’ Kiosks Will Change The McDonalds Experience

May 16, 2016 – McDonald’s testing fresh, never-frozen beef patties | Fox News

May 19, 2016 - McDonald’s 2016 Revenues To Decline YoY Despite Improvement

May 26, 2016 – Low-wage income gains should boost McDonald’s sales

June 24, 2016 – Not Lovin’ It: McDonald’s To Close Over 500 Restaurants Worldwide …

July 13, 2016 – Forget McDonald’s , Invest in These Restaurant Stocks Instead - July …

July 26, 2016 – McDonald’s Warns On Brexit As Stock Dives On Weak U.S. Sales …

July 27, 2016 – McDonald’s sales disappoint in US despite all-day breakfast

August 1, 2016 – McDonald’s nixing some unpalatable ingredients

McDonald’s, which is trying to shake its image for serving processed junk food , said Monday it’s eliminating some unpalatable ingredients from its most popular menu items.

That includes making Chicken McNuggets and other items without artificial preservatives, and removing high-fructose corn syrup from its burger buns. McDonald’s did not immediately respond when asked about which specific preservatives are being removed.

The changes come as the world’s biggest burger chain fights to win back customers after three straight years of declining guest counts at its established U.S. locations. Major restaurant chains are scrambling to step up the image of their food as they face more competition from smaller rivals promising wholesome alternatives.

“Why go to the position of trying to defend them, if the consumer is saying, I prefer not to have that particular ingredient in my food?” said Mike Andres, president of McDonald’s U.S., during an event at the company’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, about its “food journey.”

September 5, 2016 - McDonalds To Close 700 Locations After Major Profit Losses

September 11, 2016 - How McDonald’s in US is rebranding to stay on top | BusinessMirror

[Don_Croft]

On September 12, 2016 at 12:12 PM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

It’s September, 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 towers, nodes, panels, repeater arrays and dishes of the weather weaponry network that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

And we’re seeing the revival and recovery of rivers all over the globe.

The great positive changes that are currently underway at this time also include changing attitudes about lakes, rivers, streams, the environment, and more and more people are getting involved in an active way to secure and improve their health. Most cheeringly of all, this even includes the folks in charge:

“It is the first time in sixteen years that the Colorado River, which flows 1,450 miles (2,334 kilometers) from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) in northwestern Mexico, will have reached its final, natural destination. This reunion between river and sea is due to an agreement between Mexico and the United States.” “Two years after dams’ removal, Penobscot River flourishes.”

[Read: it’s been raining so much in the desert that farmers are relying less and less, each year, on irrigation in that region. Irrigation is what channeled all of the water out of the Colorado River before it reached Mexico and the Gulf of California. I think the journalism whores ‘forgot’ to mention that essential fact. ~Don]

It’s an amazing time to be alive:

“River Thames ‘back from the dead’ with seals, whales and dolphins.”

Revel in it:

Police officer Des Hansson could not contain his excitement when water began to flow through the dry bed of the McKinlay River. ‘Come on down … Come to papa!’ he can be heard yelling in the video. ‘Here she comes… wow, I can’t believe how lucky I am!’ “

July 4, 2014 – Ancient Egyptian river could be revived for farming

May 14, 2014 – Negev river’s rebirth caught on film

May 15, 2014 – A river reunited: When The Colorado River reached the sea

After coursing through its delta for nearly eight weeks, the fresh waters of the Colorado River have touched the high tides of the salty sea.

It is the first time in sixteen years that the Colorado River, which flows 1,450 miles (2,334 kilometers) from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) in northwestern Mexico, will have reached its final, natural destination.

This reunion between river and sea is due to an agreement between Mexico and the United States , known as Minute 319, to advance the restoration of the Colorado Delta by releasing a pulse flow and sustaining base flows in a five-year experiment.

February 2, 2015 – Klamath Dam Removal Plan Revived By States And Feds . News | OPB

April 8, 2015 – ‘Water Man of India’ Makes Rivers Flow Again - Truthdig

August 20, 2015 – River Thames ‘back from the dead’ with seals, whales and dolphins …

September 27, 2015 – Two years after dams’ removal, Penobscot River flourishes

January 7, 2016 - Officer films glee as dry Australia river starts to flow

Police officer Des Hansson could not contain his excitement when water began to flow through the dry bed of the McKinlay River.

Suspecting water would begin to flow on 18 December, Senior Constable Hansson drove to the riverbank and started filming when the water began to cut through the dust.

“Come on down … Come to papa!” he can be heard yelling in the video.

"Here she comes… wow, I can’t believe how lucky I am!"

He said he was so excited on the video because he had not seen the river flow since moving to the area four years earlier.

“I patrol the area anyway so I just pulled up for a minute to see if the river would start. I just couldn’t believe it,” he said.

January 30, 2016 – Winter storms get South Yuba River roaring back to life (video) : Sierra …

February 2, 2016 – Feds Announce New Klamath Accord to Remove Dams by 2020 …

February 7, 2016 - Rains Restore Flows to the San Joaquin River, Benefiting Fish …

February 23, 2016 – Wild Atlantic Salmon Return to Connecticut River

May 5, 2016 – Water is life, and life is beginning to thrive once again in the Kern River Valley.

“This year is phenomenal, to put it in perspective we have more snow up on Mt. Whitney than the last three years combined , so we are really excited, the buzz is really good and it is like an old friend that has come back.”

May 10, 2016 – In dry Latur, villagers revive a dead river - Times of India

May 11, 2016 – Can India’s Sacred But ‘Dead’ Yamuna River Be Saved? : NPR

May 19, 2016 – Northern Minn.'s St. Louis River comes back to life , but it’s still not in the clear

May 26, 2016 - Return of the shad: Anglers target Penobscot after 150-year hiatus

June 9, 2016 – Australia - Swimming may be returning to Melbourne’s polluted Yarra River …

July 5, 2016 - The Grand Calumet River – Fighting its Way Back to Life

July 14, 2016 – Back to life: Sac River Revenant project restores local waterway

July 22, 2016 – ‘Lost’ River Saraswati Could Be Brought Back To Life … - Indiatimes.com

March 18, 2016 – Texas water will keep Red River high - The Daily Advertiser

March 29, 2016 – Record shad return rate for Merrimack in 2015 bodes well for river’s health

The Merrimack shad returns were 86,857 in 2015. This is a significant increase over historic levels of returning shad; in fact, 2015 is the highest number of returning fish since records began in 1983.

September 10, 2016 – Video: Watch the Elwha River Roar Back to Life in Time-Lapse Dam …

[Don_Croft]

On September 13, 2016 at 6:49 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

“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 ”

July 2, 2015 – Indian seafood exports at all time high, up 11% over previous year

December 7, 2015 – Spanish canned seafood exports hit record high

May 5, 2016 – Norway’s seafood exports booming

May 6, 2016 – New Zealand - Seafood exports reach record high

June 15, 2016 – Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health : Nature News …

Don, thanks for your reminder re: the Colorado reaching the sea – I naively believed the folks in charge, who’d said that they’d gotten together to make things better. Last night as I thought it over, I realized “it’s like all the other examples of where they say ‘conservation measures pay off!’ to take the credit for the amazing positive changes we’re seeing around the globe. I now surmise that they realized that the river was coming back to life, and needed to take credit for it.

[They take credit for it without specifically saying what they allegedly did in the form of ‘conservation measures.’ The rest of the time they’re just ‘baffled,’ and their ‘conservation measures’ are typically irrational, increase the power of central governments and sabotage the economy. ~D]

Not that conservation measures don’t have a positive impact – they do. It’s just they’re micro-level explanations tabled within the context of an assiduously-avoided discussion of the larger pattern of positive change that is underway at every level of our reality.

[I think there was a time when conservation measures made sense–in the 1930s a National Socialist program in America convinced farmers to stop plowing their fields on hills from top to bottom, which was speeding erosion, and to plow side to side instead. Hitler and Mussolini were being praised for similarly rational programs at the time. Shutting off irrigation to masses of farmers in the San Joaquin and Klamath Valleys in the 90s was simply a savage act by the same National Socialist regime, though, and there are hundreds or thousands of examples of these nazis preventing prosperity across the continent. The arbitrary power of the Greenboots is something that few people are willing to draw attention to. The funny thing, to me, is that the corporations who pay the Greenboot cadre’s salaries also commit the most heinous pollution and other environmental woes but that’s one of the characteristics of a fascist regime, after all. ~D]

Below, you can see how soybeans just hit a record not only for volume, but also for bushels-per-acre. That’s one of the key metrics where one can see what a buildup of Life energy and a drawdown of Death energy in the environment does. You can see it again here, with Oregon blueberries: “we’re seeing higher and higher yields."

For those keeping up with this thread, this information may become boring, or commonplace, given the daily repetition. But I’m always striving to get as much new data as I can find, to add to the data set, and prove the thesis down through time.

[It took the enemy a long time to set up this scam–a couple of generations of mind control for the ‘Gaia Hypothesis’ to take root, for instance–and it got a running start right after the end of the Vietnam invasion–millions of young, manic hippies/Marxists among the college-indoctrinated Europoids with suddenly nothing to protest and the Rockefellers and other ‘foundation’ giants had already packaged and were distributing this brand new, quasi-religious propaganda. I remember when it happened. They even promoted a ‘new American flag,’ with green and white stripes and the Greek letter, omega, where the stars had been. I see that this is never mentioned, any more . It’s sort of like the way these nazi propagandists can turn on their heels and rename ‘global warming’ as ‘global cooling.’

The reason the Gaia crap jives so well with theosophy, which is a multi-purpose mind control platform, is that it’s the same crap, simply repackaged and relabeled. As some substantial (not institutionalized) historians have pointed out, intelligence agencies and sorcery/alchemy have always been inseparable and mind control is highly refined uchawi (sorcery), after all. In the face of all that, it makes sense for Jeff to patiently and cosistently chop at the root of this infernal tree and he’s still the only one doing it in a systematic way. This is superior magic and nobody’s reading this who hasn’t chosen to open the thread. Google/NSA and WiCIApedia are sure not stuffing it down people’s throats. ~D]

July 2, 2015 – Indian seafood exports at all-time high , up 11% over previous year

[When the British East India Company were enforcing the starvation of India for the sake of opium production in the late 1700s the news alarmed the Brit citizenry, which put a lot of unexpected pressure on this megacorporation. So they hired Rev. Thomas Malthus to create propaganda to convince the populace that ‘the earth is running out of resources on account of overpopulation.’ That’s still the basis of environmentalism, which these old corporate families are overseeing. See how environmentalism ties intimately into the corporate/parasite/fascist hierarchy? The fact that India is now exporting food is especially significant, I think. ~D]

December 7, 2015 – Spanish canned seafood exports hit record high | IntraFish

Canned tuna exports alone reach 76000 tons through September.

February 5, 2016 – Ecuador 2015 shrimp output at record level

May 5, 2016 – Norway’s seafood exports booming – Eye on the Arctic

May 6, 2016 – New Zealand - Seafood exports reach record high

May 17, 2016 - Chile’s Record Toxic Tides May Have Roots in Dirty Fish Farming

May 19, 2016 – U.S. organic sales post new record of $43.3 billion in 2015 | OTA

June 15, 2016 – Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health : Nature News …

July 26, 2016 – Research report: - Organic farming not more environmentally friendly

August 1, 2016 – U.S. Organic Produce Leads to Record High Sales of Organic Products

With more people opting for healthier lifestyles , sales in the U.S. organic products industry was at a record high in 2015. The industry was able to amass $43.3 billion in sales revenue which is 11% higher than the previous year according to the survey conducted by the Organic Trade Association.

September 1, 2016 – Many a record was broken this summer. Here’s one that didn’t win a gold medal or much fanfare: It was for extreme birdwatching — and two people surpassed it . Just over halfway through the year, a man named John Weigel spotted a Buller’s shearwater in California on July 16, making him the holder of the record for most bird species seen in North America in a calendar year: 750.

But two days later, Olaf Danielson of South Dakota saw his 750th bird of 2016, a red-faced cormorant in Alaska. Now the men are in a fierce competition — such that exists in this normally genteel pastime — to see how high the record can go in a year when strange El Nino weather patterns , as well as some recent taxonomic splits that “created” more species to spot , may have made their oddball adventure feasible.

August 9, 2016 – New Zealand - Total goods exports for June were up $109 million just 2.6% to a total of $4.3 billion, Statistics NZ said in its latest trade data release.

Exports of fruit and in particular kiwifruit, can take most of the credit for the rise. Total fruit exports were up $110m (up 30%) from June 2015, but kiwifruit was up $105m (up 47%) and up 32% in volumes .

August 11, 2016 - Organic food is great business, but a bad investment : Bjorn Lomborg

September 6, 2016 - Norwegian Salmon Exports Continue Record-Setting Pace :

September 6, 2016 – Another record high harvest of Yukon coho | Alaska Public Media

For the third year in a row , a record high number of coho salmon have been caught in the lower Yukon commercial fishery.

September 12, 2016 – Iowa - Larger soybean, smaller corn harvest expected; still records

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has boosted the expected soybean crop to a new record.

The agency’s monthly crop update, released Monday, says farmers are expected to produce 4.2 billion bushels of soybeans, an increase of 3 percent from last month’s estimate. It’s also a record for average bushels per acre at 50.6 and acres harvested at 83 million.

The estimated corn crop was reduced to 15.1 billion bushels as compared to last month’s estimate of 15.2 billion. But that still beats the previous high of 14.2 billion bushels in 2014.

That represents a 20% increase over 2014 , according to provincial and federal ministries of agriculture.

September 12, 2016 – B.C. farmers, growers, food processors and wineries set a record in 2015, selling $3.5 billion worth of exports outside of Canada.

September 11, 2016 – Oregon has record wine grape harvest in 2015

The Capital Press reports that the latest Oregon Vineyard Winery Census Report showed a record harvest of nearly 85,000 tons. Yield jumped 8 percent statewide in 2015 over the previous year.

September 12, 2016 – Oregon blueberry yield topples records, expands overseas.

As local farmers, field hands and migrant workers toiled in the fields this summer picking blueberries, several recounted a "berry glut.” Blueberry supply seemed to outpace demand, in a competitive market where farmers vie for U-pick stand attention and both domestic and international markets.

Early this September, the Oregon Blueberry Commission added weight to first-hand recounts: The council estimates more than 100 million pounds of commercial blueberries have been harvested across this Oregon this summer, a figure higher than any prior yields.

“Generally there has been a steady progression for the last 20 years,” said Brian Ostlund, with the commission. “Light pollination, plants reaching maturity – we’re seeing higher and higher yields .”

[Don_Croft]

On September 15, 2016 at 6:56 AM Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote:

Don, good morning - get this! I cannot copy from a Word document and post to a new Hotmail email. Whereas I can copy and past from Word to Outlook. Blatant hacking. Now I’m going to try to attach a doc…

Which I have done successfully.

“Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon, she came upon a house. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked right in. At the table in the kitchen, there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry. She tasted the porridge from the first bowl.

‘This porridge is too hot!’ she exclaimed. So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl.

‘This porridge is too cold,’ she said. So, she tasted the last bowl of porridge.

‘Ahhh, this porridge is just right,’ she said happily and she ate it all up.”

From “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”

August 15, 2010 – Zoo attendance, revenues decline as temperatures rise

2014 – Winter weather may have hurt Toledo Zoo attendance

The folks in charge are not your friends. Nor are they friends of gorillas, elephants, chimps, orcas, pandas, or any other animals on earth not mentioned in this post. And I can prove that in two sentences:

“September 1, 2016 – Zoo asks public to help name its gorilla and the people want ‘Harambe’ “

September 1, 2016 – The Philadelphia Zoo Won’t Name a New Baby Gorilla ‘Harambe’ “

You used to be able to go watch bears being forced to ride tiny bicycles. That might have been either just before or just after you wandered by the slave auction on your way to the dogfight. And the folks in charge were steamed, pissed, fuming, when all of those things were made illegal.

That’s because they’ve literally worshipped Death, all the way back to Babylon, and before. The same exact folks are still in charge, then to now, and they’re still mad as hell, as these accounts from their wholly-controlled-and-coopted Media establishment clearly show:

August 23, 2016 – Zoo ‘not amused’ by memes of dead gorilla Harambe - The Telegraph

August 24, 2016 – The Complicated Appeal of the Harambe Meme - The New York Times

But their foul, parasitic rule is very close to its end, now:

March 18, 2016 – After gorilla shooting, are zoos becoming ‘obsolete’? - CNN.com

July 1, 2016 – circus attendance is down 30 to 50 percent

August 4, 2016 – SeaWorld stock hits all-time low - CNN Money

Because great, epochal positive changes are underway at every level of our reality. And those changes are increasing in speed and magnitude.

August 15, 2010 – Zoo attendance, revenues decline as temperatures rise

2014 – Winter weather may have hurt Toledo Zoo attendance

The Toledo Zoo saw 75 percent fewer visitors in January 2014 as compared to the same month in 2013.

September 16, 2014 – BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Attendance at the Buffalo Zoo is down 16 percent from last year at this time.

Zoo officials say last year saw larger admission numbers partly because of a spike in interest when Luna, the polar bear cub, was a focus of attention.

September 27, 2014 – Layoffs loom at Minnesota Zoo amid dropping attendance - Star Tribune

November 9, 2015 – SeaWorld to phase out killer whale shows in 2016 | abc7.com

January 6, 2016 – SeaWorld Orlando simplifies pricing for 2016 - Mashable

March 17, 2016 – SeaWorld to phase out killer whale shows, captivity - USA Today

March 17, 2016 – As SeaWorld stops breeding orcas, what are the impacts for research …

March 18, 2016 – After gorilla shooting, are zoos becoming ‘obsolete’? - CNN.com

March 19, 2016 – After SeaWorld, a ‘Blackfish Effect’ on Circuses and Zoos? | FOX40

April 14, 2016 – Chimp flees Japan zoo , caught after falling from power pole

May 5, 2016 – SeaWorld Reports Staggering Net Loss in 1Q 2016 Results | Ric O …

March 8, 2016 – Toronto Zoo attendance down despite panda excitement - CBC.ca

May 6, 2016 – Ringling Bros. elephants settle into retirement - USA Today

May 31, 2016 – Video shows boy reaching for Harambe’s arm, and they briefly held hands

June 6, 2016 – Heartbreaking Video Shows SeaWorld Orca Beaching Itself During Performance

The footage, posted by Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project, shows an orca named Morgan lying on a concrete slab, which she launched herself on following a performance at the park. According to Huffington Post, the animal stayed still and despondent for over 10 minutes .

Visitors and staff at Loro Parque, which has five SeaWorld-owned orcas, don’t appear to show much concern over Morgan’s unnatural behavior .

Online viewers reacted differently, expressing concern that Morgan was attempting to kill herself and that she should be released by the park into an ocean sanctuary.

June 22, 2016 – Zoo Knoxville Unleashes a New Branding Campaign and an Ambitious Expansion Plan to Double Attendance

June 29, 2016 – Ontario Zoo to Close Doors After Attendance Drops "Catastrophically”

July 1, 2016 – Big Financial Trouble Under the Big Top | | Observer

David Lewis Hammarstrom, author of Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American Circus, estimated circus attendance is down 30 to 50 percent

August 3, 2016 - African Lion Cubs expected to spike Buffalo Zoo’s attendance - Buffalo …

August 4, 2016 – SeaWorld stock hits all-time low - CNN Money

August 4, 2016 - SeaWorld Entertainment reported dismal attendance numbers for the first half of 2016, and the stock took a nosedive .

August 17, 2016 – Pandas would boost Prague zoo’s prestige and attendance

August 22, 2016 – Harambe lives : Killed zoo gorilla gets a second life online …

August 23, 2016 – Cincinnati Zoo takes down Twitter account amid Harambe meme onslaught

August 23, 2016 – Zoo ‘not amused’ by memes of dead gorilla Harambe - The Telegraph

August 24, 2016 – The Complicated Appeal of the Harambe Meme - The New York Times

September 1, 2016 – Zoo asks public to help name its gorilla and the people want ‘Harambe’

September 1, 2016 – The Philadelphia Zoo Won’t Name a New Baby Gorilla ‘Harambe’ | TIME

September 14, 2016 - Why SeaWorld’s Stock Could Stop Sinking – Fortune

September 14, 2016 – Gov. Brown signs bill banning SeaWorld orca shows

[Jeff]

Many thanks, Gare. In fact I read about it yesterday, myself, and was close to posting it. Weaponized food is a hugely important asset in our hidden overlords’ war against humanity, alongside energy and etheric weaponry hidden as an underlayer within our telephone and radar systems.

All their scams and cons are falling apart, because rising awareness is causing the mark to not have confidence in the con artist. Confidence being where the ‘con’ name comes from. An con artists fear, above all, the crowd turning on them, for the tarring, and the feathering, and the ride out of town on a rail.

You and me thinking about that same subject at the same time yesterday…how many others, around the globe, thinking the same thing, at the same moment? It’s what Don said about the trim tab on the huge rudder of a vast ship. I also see it as the birds in the flock up at the front who lead that big ball of flying birds that seem to move as one. It’s like with fish in a school, too.

Putin just another Secret Handshake Club member, to be sure, but his talking points, his agenda, must serve the will of the people, you see? The Secret Handshake Club is fighting a rearguard action, in every nation. Rising awareness is drying up and withering the parasite, and the rate of that process will only increase in speed.

http://www.collective-evolutio……bans-gmos/

It’s Official – Russia Completely Bans GMOs

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently announced that Russia will no longer import GMO products , stating that the nation has enough space, and enough resources to produce organic food.

If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don’t need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food.” – Medvedev

Russia has been considering joining the long list (and continually growing) of anti-GMO countries for quite some time now. It does so after a group of Russian scientists urged the government to consider at least a 10-year moratorium on GMOs to thoroughly study their influence on human health.

“It is necessary to ban GMOs, to impose moratorium (on) it for 10 years. While GMOs will be prohibited, we can plan experiments, tests, or maybe even new methods of research could be developed. It has been proven that not only in Russia, but also in many other countries in the world, GMOs are dangerous. Methods of obtaining the GMOs are not perfect, therefore, at this stage, all GMOs are dangerous. Consumption and use of GMOs obtained in such way can lead to tumors, cancers and obesity among animals. Bio-technologies certainly should be developed, but GMOs should be stopped. We should stop it from spreading. ” – Irina Ermakova, VP of Russia’s National Association for Genetic Safety

Within the past few years, awareness regarding GMOs has skyrocketed . Activism has played a large role in waking up a large portion of Earths population with regards to GMOs. People are starting to ask questions and seek answers. In doing so, we are all coming to the same conclusion as Russia recently came to. In February, the State Duma introduced a bill banning the cultivation of GMO food products. President Putin ordered that Russian citizens be protected from GMOs. The States Agricultural Committee has supported the ban recommendation from the Russian parliament, and the resolution will come into full effect in July 2014.

This just goes to show what we can do when we come together and demand change and share information on a global scale. Change is happening, and we are waking up to new concepts of our reality every day . GMOs are only the beginning, we have many things to rid our planet of that do not resonate with us and are clearly unnecessary . We are all starting to see through the false justifications for the necessity of GMOs, no longer are we so easily persuaded, no longer do we believe everything we hear and everything we’re presented with. Lets keep it going!

[Jeff]

I like the post that follows because it demonstrates how large an impact just one, or a mere few people can have on things. In this case one person caring for the bluebird boxes over a twenty year period, as the bird’s numbers dwindled literally to the single digits in areas.

It reminded me of the animated feature ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’, which documents a man name Elzeard Bouffier’s singlehanded reforesting and transformation of a remote, treeless, desolate valley in France near the turn of the last Century. The authorities, of course, dubbed that edenic metamorphosis a ‘bizarre natural phenomenon’, and gave him absolutely no credit at all. I’m sure news accounts at the time used the phrases ‘scientists baffled’ and ‘experts puzzled’.

Funny how ‘the Man Who Planted Trees’ is absolutely never shown in TV, nor in schools, non ?

The story itself is yet another exemplification of how a very small number of individuals can change things in the hugest ways – the trim tab on the rudder of the gigantic ship that is humanity.

And citizens followed the work of the first pioneer bluebird-savers, and repeated it. See how it expands in an organic way, like the orgonite gifting movement has?

And check out, below, how the authorities bend over backwards to not help their own official state bird. They also complained about the bluebird boxes at the airport, and ‘some were vandalized’. You can bet those vandals were stooges on the Secret Handshake Club payroll, much like the folks who set most of the wildfires we see every year.

Oh, by the way, the airport trail that the government said was so dangerous to the citizenry has produced almost half the fledges.

You were taught ‘can’t fight City Hall’ so that the trim tab on the rudder would no longer operate. Too bad for the lying charlatans who profess to have our best interests at heart no one believes them, anymore.

http://easthamptonstar.com/Outdoors/2014226/Nature-Notes-Bluebird-Comeback

Nature Notes: A Bluebird Comeback

2/26/2014

In the early 1980s there were only about seven active osprey nests on the South Fork. The osprey was still on the New York State’s endangered list. But there were even fewer eastern bluebirds on the South Fork and just a pair or two on the North Fork. The state correctly made a big hullabaloo about the sparse osprey population, but did very little to encourage the recovery of the bluebird, which, ironically, at that time had already had the distinction of being New York’s official bird for decades and decades.

Several volunteer bluebird groups sprung up around the state , one of which was formed by the the South Fork Natural History Society. It had been in existence for less than a year when the late Kim Hicks of Montauk advised the club that he was building bluebird boxes of a special design developed in the Midwest, ones with a removable roof so that the box could be periodically cleaned.

Karilyn Jones of SoFo led the effort to bring back the bluebirds locally beginning in 1987 using Kim Hicks’s homemade boxes. At that time we had located two pairs of breeding bluebirds, one in Hither Woods and another in Springs near the Green River Cemetery. Don Ferris had noticed a pair there year after year.

Bluebirds prefer open country, and so under Ms. Jones’ direction we set about starting bluebird trails — one in Hither Woods, one at East Hampton Airport where a bluebird had been spotted, and one on the Sag Harbor Golf Course at Barcelona and, a year or two later, another one at the horse farm in Northwest owned by the Freemans, who own Home Sweet Home Moving and Storage on the highway in Wainscott.

The boxes were mounted on steel stakes about four or five feet above the ground along the edges of open areas and set at about 100 yards apart. The design was a good one because in the first year at least three bluebird pairs found them and nested in them. That’s the kind of encouragement we needed and more boxes and more trails were added in ensuing years. There were several volunteers tending to the boxes and keeping track of the baby bluebirds and their fledging success. Several boxes were occupied by tree swallows, a bonus, a few by house wrens, and even one or two by white-footed mice.

The boxes had to be cleaned and repaired every year and Karilyn handled that responsibility well for almost 20 years. The trails became so promising under her tutelage that early on CBS sent a videographer and a TV journalist out to record the growing population. The segment aired nationally on the weekly Sunday morning news program.

At some point, the ranks of the monitors thinned and the trails began to overwhelm the few that remained to count the young and clean the boxes.  ***The United States Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for animals at Federal Aviation Administration-sanctioned airports, complained about the boxes at the airport. Some others were vandalized.***  But reports from locals who had bluebirds coming to their birdbaths regularly made the time well spent. Raccoons, however, were beginning to raid the nests and there were more and more nest failures in the latter part of the century.

The local population peaked and then began to fall. Enter Joe Guinta, a bird trip guide for New York Audubon early in the 21st century. He picked up on the raccoon problem right away and began installing raccoon guides on each nest pole. Nest failures diminished and the local bluebird population made a second comeback.  **In 2005, 38 baby bluebirds fledged, in 2006, 45, and the population grew and grew until 2012 when a record 143 bluebird babies joined their parents in flight. The airport trail produced almost half the fledges, 67.**

By the same token,  **more and more bluebirds showed up here and there on Long Island during the winter bird surveys. Meanwhile, while the South Fork bluebird populations was prospering** ,  **John Potente, a dentist from the central Suffolk area, also started trails in his neck of the woods, as did many others on Long Island. Soon eastern bluebirds were no longer a thing of fantasy. They were again the official state bird with a capital B.**

In 2013, notwithstanding a drop of bluebird fledges from a record 143 to 67, 29 of which were at the airport, the 15 bluebird trails and the 160 boxes serving them also produced 249 tree swallows, down from 318, 169 house wrens, up from 91 and, for the first time, two crested flycatchers. This last species is famous for including a molted snakeskin in its nest cavity, at times hanging down from the entry hole, not always easy to come up with. No snakeskin, but Jon did find a strip of plastic that apparently served as a snakeskin mimic.

It is no easy job tending to all those boxes on all those trails year after year. But the rewards are great:  **two or three pairs in 1987 more than a 100 last year.**     Tree swallows count mosquitoes among their prey. In the early fall when migrating through, they can often be seen 100 or more at a time, adults and young, perched near salt marshes or hunting over them.

I’m sure Joe and SoFo would be happy to accommodate a few more dedicated volunteers in 2014. If you are interested call the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton.

[Jeff]

There’s a war on, in case you didn’t notice. Check out the Feds deliberately ruining the livelihoods of recreational fish operations under the guise of ‘protecting the fish’…amidst booming fish numbers well documented in this thread.

Fascism features a seamless melding of government and business, which is why the Commercial fishing interests within our own Fascist dictatorship were placed ahead of those of the populace in this case.

The good news is that you can see the States stepping up to protect themselves as best they can. I think that State secession is going to be the next big blow against the hidden parasitic few who for this moment control the many.

http://www.foxnews.com/science……latestnews

Gulf Coast charter captains say the feds are ruining their businesses by needlessly cutting their fishing season in response to complaints from commercial fishermen , and now their state lawmakers are stepping up to tackle the issue.

This year’s federal fishing season for red snapper was initially set at 40 days long, but then regulators slashed it to just 9 days. Recreational fishing captains say the federal policy is destroying their business for the year and has forced them to cancel hundreds of already-scheduled trips with customers who want to fish.

“I already had the boats sold out for the season and then I had to cancel those trips because I couldn’t provide the service,” Capt. Mark Hubbard, a recreational fishing captain out of Madeira Beach, Fla., told FoxNews.com.

Hubbard and other fishermen point out that the number of red snapper this year is the highest in decades, and say the regulation is purely bureaucratic and not really about protecting fish . The recreational fishing industry employs an estimated 150,000 people along the Gulf and pumps some $7 billion into the local economies, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. In 2012, more than 3.1 million recreational anglers took 23 million fishing trips in the Gulf of Mexico region.

“I already had the boats sold out for the season and then I had to cancel those trips because I couldn’t provide the service,” Capt. Mark Hubbard, a recreational fishing captain out of Madeira Beach
– Mark Hubbard, recreational fishing captain

Those figures could fall dramatically, thanks to a federal policy that Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., called “reckless” and one that “ severely hurts our fishermen and the Gulf economy … the old system governing recreational fishing for red snapper is unquestionably broken.”

Now, the gulf states are counteracting federal regulations by setting longer fishing seasons in their own state-controlled waters that extend 3 miles off the coast. Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas all have set longer seasons, and last week Mississippi also did.

Some state and federal laws actually conflict, as Mississippi claims control over water going out 9 miles from the shore rather than the 3 miles recognized by the federal government.

Federal regulators told FoxNews.com that they slashed the fishing season because recreational fishermen had routinely fished more than their allowed quota of fish, according to the agency’s estimates. Additionally, commercial fishermen complained about that, since they compete to catch the same fish, and sued in court to force the agency to crack down. The commercial fishermen won the lawsuit.

“The judge said we had to take more effective action,” Roy Crabtree, the administrator of NOAA’s Southeast Region National Marine Fisheries, told FoxNews.com.

Crabtree also noted that red snapper are doing very well and are now relatively plentiful despite being fished nearly to depletion in the 1990s.

“We have made remarkable progress in rebuilding the stock,” Crabtree said. “We have the healthiest population in 30 years.”

Given that, recreational fishermen say there’s no good reason to drastically limit their fishing season at the last minute.

“This agency is completely incompetent to manage fisheries,” said recreational fishing captain Bob Zales, who operates in the Florida panhandle.

Zales is happy with the recent state actions and said he made out well this year by fishing entirely in state waters instead of federal waters. But not all fishermen can do that – Hubbard says that in his part of Florida, near Tampa, almost all of the red snapper are in federal waters and so the regulations have hit him hard.

Environmental groups support the restricted fishing window.

“For many years, there were too many fish being caught – for five of the past six years, the recreational red snapper quota has been exceeded, at times by almost 100 percent. We need to fully rebuild red snapper populations, in order to have greater fishing opportunities,” Ellen Bolen, director of Ocean Conservancy’s Fish Conservation Program, told FoxNews.com.

She added that the fish are currently relatively young and need to be protected until they are old enough to reproduce.

“Right now we have young snapper, but need a mix of the old and young. Just like a town. Right now we have a town full of teenagers. In order to have a functioning town, we need a healthy mix of adults, teenagers and babies,” she said.

Fishermen say they support policies that will lead to more fish, but say there is a healthy balance that regulators fail to strike . I want a healthy fishery as much as anyone. My business depends on that,” Hubbard said.

Fishermen question the accuracy of the government estimates that show fishing over the quota.

“But let’s assume it’s real – tell me what damage it did to the fishery? We have the highest mass of fish we’ve ever seen,” Zales said, adding that some people simply don’t like the idea of recreational fishing and want to stop it.

“Environmental organizations, who have infiltrated our federal government – they are hell-bent on reducing the fleet of fisherman,” Zales said.

[Jeff]

Wow! Worth clicking the link to see the utterly massive schools of Anchovies in Southern Cal.

Encouragingly, the mainstream media article is unable to even mouth the words “um, global warming caused it!”, rather having to stick with the standard " scientists baffled ." Notice also, please, how they scrupulously avoid even estimating the number of fish…you know, perhaps using a term like ‘untold millions upon millions’? But I guess that would represent ‘going off message’.

You’ll see the term ‘swarms’ is used in the headline to deliberately create unease. For the record, insects swarm, whereas fish gather, mass, school, swim.

And there’s a link near the story telling about thousands of dead fish nearby – I’ve subjectively concluded that it’s just another one of the inside-job fish kills that are all over the media lately. Have you noticed them? Since they can’t stop the unprecedented explosion of life, they’re creating mayhem and attempting to use it to manipulate public opinion back to ‘poor mother Gaia is dying.’

Too bad for them I’m calling them out.

http://www.latimes.com/local/l……story.html

Massive school of anchovies swarms off La Jolla

July 8, 2014

A massive school of Northern anchovies could be seen migrating off the coast of La Jolla on Tuesday afternoon, baffling scientists who said they haven’t seen anything like it in more than 30 years.

A large crowd formed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego pier around mid-morning to watch the anchovies , said Robert Monroe, a communications officer with Scripps. Monroe ran down to the pier with a GoPro camera, initially thinking it was a red tide.

“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,” he said. “It’s like watching the motion of a lava lamp.” Once he got down to the pier, he threw the camera to three grad students already in the water with the fish.

[Jeff]

Worldwide distribution of simple tactical orgonite has broken the back of the weather modification and control system that clandestinely underpins the cell phone networks and weather radar systems around the globe. The orgonite transforms the death energy that the systems utilize into life energy (Wilhelm Reich called it ‘Dead Orgone Radiation’ and ‘Positive Orgone Radiation’, respectively).

As a result, rainfall is up, way up, and the baldfacedly-lying media would have you believe that ‘global warming caused it’ .

That increase in rainfall is making things wonderful in nature, as you can see below - check out the most abundant Sand Eel population the charter captain below has ever seen.

I’ve also seen a number of stories of late saying that global warming is also causing boom bust cycles in marine populations. It’s a lame cover story, part of the rearguard action our hidden, parasitic masters are fighting to cover for the amazing, unprecedented health and vitality we’re seeing everywhere in oceans around the world, as patiently documented in this thread.

‘Global Warming is Causing It!’, ah, mirth. Even the establishment’s own numbers, generated wherever possible by thermometers placed in the middle of swaths of concrete, or next to heat vents, shows almost 20 years of cooling underway. To maintain Cognitive Dissonance, tell self ‘that is merely a pause , and the extra heat is in fact hiding in the deep ocean .’

See how the same thin lies are used, time after time? It’s going to be like in ‘the Boy Who Cried Wolf’ when the bust cycle doesn’t come, and people like me get to point it out.

http://www.corkwhalewatch.com/……west-cork/

Unprecedented sand eel numbers great news for whale watching in West Cork

June 13, 2014

As predicted in my previous log, we now have an intense bloom of plankton in full swing, and the sea is green, far more than blue, with rich phytoplankton. Not predicted, is the incredible amount of lesser sand eels that have assembled to feed on the bloom in West Cork waters. I have never seen them so abundant at any time in the past 40 years.

Having looked at several samples of them, it is very clear that the vast majority of them are two year old fish, showing that the wet summer of 2012 must have suited their spawning activity very well, in some unexplained way. All fish species spawn annually, but very often there is no regeneration, and all the larval fish perish, with no survivors at all. Then, every now and again, all works according to plan, and there are millions of new recruits to add to the stock, such as there is this year.

All this abundance has not gone unnoticed and a good number of minke whales, and a lot of sea birds have been gorging themselves on sand eels, as well as all the predatory fish in the area. It’s a tough life, being a sand eel. There seems to be more minkes about than is usual, with a good showing of calf size animals, as there was last year. It is good to see plenty of young whales about, proving they are still breeding successfully. It is these youngsters that have a preponderance for visiting boats, and will spend up to half an hour, circling the boat and passing under the hull, sometimes upside down, showing off their swimming skills. An absolute delight for whale watchers and the only time you get to see the exquisite, streamlined shape of a minke whale’s tail.

A good showing of basking sharks over the last few weeks, in spite of poor conditions for bringing them to the surface. A combination of strong sunshine and warm, balmy air is the ideal for them, and such weather is forecast for the week ahead. A lot of the sharks are young , relatively small for their species, but here and there you find a whopper……

[Jeff]

The last three posts, feature the following quotes:

“I have never seen (Sand Eels) so abundant at any time in the past 40 years.”

“they haven’t seen anything like (the massive Anchovy school) in more than 30 years.”

"We have the healthiest (Red Snapper) population in 30 years.”

Not going back to the largest salmon catch ever, last year, etc., etc.

Juxtapose those quotes against the story that follows:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/……d-of-fish/

The End of Fish

The oceans are stretched, and certain fish species are approaching depletion. Leading scientists project that if we continue to fish this way, without allowing our oceans time to recover, our oceans could become virtual deserts by 2050 . That’s just 36 years from now. Given that demand for seafood – along with the world’s population – is rising, don’t be surprised if this window closes even faster. Make your peace with fish, because it may not last much longer.

We’re not biologists and we’re not scientists, but in 2010 – aboard the TED Prize Mission Blue voyage to the Galapagos – we joined 100 of the world’s leading ocean scholars and advocates. The expedition, led by National Geographic explorer and that year’s TED Prize winner, Dr. Sylvia Earle, made us acutely aware of the overfishing crisis. If this sounds alarmist, look at the data. The Census of Marine Life concluded in 2010 that 90 percent of the large fish are gone, primarily because of overfishing. This includes many of the fish we love to eat, like Atlantic salmon, tuna, halibut, swordfish, Atlantic cod. If we don’t allow for proper recovery, these fish risk total extinction.

The recent experience of Ivan Macfadyen, a famous yachtsman, confirms these findings. In 2013 he sailed from Melbourne to Osaka – the exact path he had taken in 2003. What he noted this time around was the silence of the ocean. “What was missing,” he said, “were the cries of the seabirds, which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat. The birds were missing because the fish were missing.”

[Jeff]

So I thought I’d take a quick look at how we’re doing on our road to “Ocean desertification” described in the post immediately preceding. The Washington Post, who I’m told are truthful and have my best interests at heart, told me about 'The ‘End of Fish.’

I thought I’d check and see how the fish populations they mentioned were doing on the way to our oceans becoming “virtual deserts”. Poor Mother Gaia is dying, crushed by the virus-like burden of mankind, you see!

But, wait, wow, below you can see how scientists are ‘surprised’ at the ‘amazing bluefin recovery’. You may have noted that, contrary to what you might imagine would take place with someone of that mindset and livelihood, scientists are often either baffled, puzzled, or surprised.

So let’s check out how far along Atlantic salmon, tuna, halibut, swordfish and Atlantic cod are on their road toward “total extinction”:

Atlantic Salmon: are being chowed down by the booming Striped Bass population. January 26, 2014: “Researchers Exploring High Salmon Mortality Rate During Early Migration.”

Re: Salmon, our truthseeking friends at the major news organization somehow ignored what was literally the largest Pacific Salmon harvest in history, last year, but I digress.

Atlantic Bluefin: Sept 26, 2012: “ Scientists surprised at bluefin tuna recovery – All the models used by the group show a clear recovery of the reproducer tuna biomass.”

May 30, 2014 – Amazing bluefin tuna recovery’ detected - the six authorized Spanish vessels exhausted their quota for bluefin tuna in less than 24 hours, an unprecedented event. Overall, they captured nearly 2,300 tonnes in one day, three times what they had fished in 2011 (800 tonnes) for more than three weeks, MAGRAMA reported.”

Atlantic Halibut – This dense report shows their numbers steadily climbing: http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/docs/FSR……alibut.pdf . And on Aug 18, 2013 – “German fisherman catches world-record 515-pound Atlantic halibut.”

Atlantic Swordfish: 2/6/2014: “Overfished in the 1980s and ’90s, the swordfish stock has since been fully rebuilt.”

Atlantic Cod: July 27, 2011: “Atlantic cod stocks recovering: Study – A 2010 report by the the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization showed that the cod numbers in Newfoundland’s Grand Banks grew 69% since 2007.”

June 30, 2012 – Biologically, ecologically we’re seeing a major shift back to a system that will eventually become dominated by capelin (a staple of the cod diet) and cod. … I think we are seeing the beginnings of a recovery now ."

March 13, 2014: “ Atlantic Cod Showing Signs of Recovery in Newfoundland

[Jeff]

Check out how the Japanese fisherman, who’d never caught a single giant squid in his entire career, caught two this year and is ‘puzzled’.

June 29, 2012 – There are so many Spanish Mackerel on the Atlantic Coast between Fort Pierce and Palm Beach that commercial cast-netters are able to catch them by the tons. Mackerel have increased in size as well as number. Twenty years ago, a 5-pound Spanish was a rarity. Today tons of fish reach that size and larger. It takes a 7-pounder to turn any heads, and a 7-pound Spanish is every bit a match for a king mackerel of similar size.

July 30, 2013 – Fish numbers are in and they are amazing. The real bonus this summer has been the presence of Coho Salmon for the first time in 20 years and the creel survey tells the story. The running five-year average of retained hatchery origin Coho for Area 13 in June is 86 fish – in 2013 the assessed total is 5,186! In addition over 17,000 wild coho were released, compared to the previous five-year average of 263, an astonishing change. I’ve caught twice as many halibut in Campbell River this year compared to all the previous years combined that I’ve fished here.

August 1, 2013 – Cardigan fishermen enjoying unprecedented sea bass numbers. Many people in the Cardigan area are enjoying the taste of sea bass after an unprecedented number of the fish entered the tidal region of the River Teifi. The fish have been so plentiful in recent weeks that anglers from various parts of West Wales have been fishing between the bypass bridge and Netpool. In one week there were reports of more than 200 bass caught, many of the fish weighing up to five pounds and a whopper landed from a boat near Cardigan Island weighed in at 10 ½ lbs.

Feb 20, 2014 – Increase in number of giant squid catches seen as omen by puzzled fishermen . Shigenori Goto, a 44-year-old fisherman, caught two squids off Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture. “I had seen no giant squid before in my 15-year fishing career,” he told The Japan Times.“I wonder whether it may be some kind of omen.”

May 2, 2014 – Idaho Expects Strong Spring Chinook Fishing Season; Already More Fish For Harvest Than Last Year . The forecast predicted the 6th highest return in the last 20 years – fishery managers are now fairly certain the run will come in at, or above the pre-season forecast. The Wednesday count at Bonneville – 17,409 adult chinook – is the 17th highest single-day count on record, and the third highest since 2002.

July 1, 2014 – “At Black Butte Lake, the water level is high, and they’re catching a lot of catfish out there, and bass is doing well ,” “They’ve been catching a lot of stripers and trout, and one guy I talked to just caught a 33-pound salmon he had to let go,” Dewberry said.

[Jeff]

http://seattletimes.com/html/outdoors/2023287489_razorclammingwashingtonxml.html

In a boom year for razor clams , here’s a guide for new diggers

4/2/2014

It might be the worst-kept secret in the Northwest this spring: Razor clamming is going to be epic in 2014.

“We’ve seen three good waves of successful spawning events this winter,” says state Coastal Shellfish manager Dan Ayres.

“Clamming is strong now and should remain strong over the next couple of years. The ocean is very healthy and there is a lot of food for razor clams.”