Positive Changes That Are Occurring

[Jeff]

It’s just above 80 degrees here in Pittsburgh, PA, early August, 2014. Wait I just checked, it’s actually seventy seven degrees . Absolutely gorgeous weather, and the coolest summer in my memory. I’m documenting the coolest summer on record in the U.S. here, yet again, because I found another news story, in italics, below, which is telling me I only think it’s cool.

It’s amazing that we live in a culture where you can tell someone to disregard their basic senses and they will actually obey , but so it is! Where I work, despite temperatures barely above 80 all summer long (where 90’s are the norm), when people are asked ‘how is it outside?’, I will hear ‘it’s hot !’, ‘it’s brutal !’

And it’s not just my basic senses I’m supposed to disregard, but the actual recorded temperatures . I’ve bracketed the ‘Coolest Summer Ever’ documentation with the ‘What To Think’ prediction, from April, that ‘ this summer will be miserable ’, an ‘ oppressive summer of stifling heat and humidity .’ That’s called, most generously, ‘wishful thinking’, but also, variously, ‘neurolinguistic programming’, or ‘baldfaced lying’, or ‘catapulting the propaganda’ (thanks to George W. Bush for the latter).

April 14, 2014 – This summer will be miserable , Farmer’s Almanac says. New Yorkers who have been praying for relief from this year’s brutal winter will soon be getting exactly what they wished for — in the form of an oppressive summer of stifling heat and humidity .

July 10, 21014 – Unseasonably chilly air is headed for parts of the northern and northeastern U.S at the height of summer early next week. Highs may struggle to reach 80 in D.C. next Tuesday and Wednesday with widespread lows in the 50s (even 40s in the mountains).

July 14, 2014 – Record Cool in July: 10 Cities On Track For A Cool Summer As Cold Blast Approaches

July 26, 2014 – Coolest Summer On Record In The US

The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has been plummeting for 80 years, and 2014 has had the lowest frequency of 90 degree days through July 23 on record . The only other year which came close was 1992, and that was due to dust in the atmosphere from Mt Pinatubo.

Jul 29, 2014 – The cool temps are causing people who live east of the Rockies to wonder if 2014 will go down as the year without a summer .

August 3, 2014 – Is It A Cool Summer? We’ve actually had an ‘average’ summer, which now feels cool considering how many hot summers have scorched the U.S. in recent years.

[Jeff]

More Sockeye on the Columbia River than ever in history . And next year’s run will be bigger .

This is called ‘hard hitting journalism’.

In the original ‘Rocky’ movie, Rocky Balboa is training in the meat locker, and Paulie, who works there and let him in, says ‘you’re breaking the ribs’.

That’s what I’m going for, here.

http://www.critfc.org/2014-col……ts-record/

2014 Columbia River Sockeye Run Sets a Record

July 24, 2014

The 2014 sockeye run in the Columbia River is the largest since fish-counting began at the dam in 1938.

By July 21, 605,860 fish had passed the dam on their way to spawn in British Columbia, north-central Washington, and Idaho. The previous record was 516,000 in 2012. Next year’s run could be even bigger , based on the number of jacks in this year’s return. Jacks are a predictor of the next season’s run size.

[Jeff]

You know how I just told you how there are more salmon on the Columbia River than ever, in history? Well, the Cormorants on the Columbia are doing great too.

So the Feds want to kill the Cormorants to protect the poor, struggling salmon . In the article that follows you’ll note that there are three non-bird-killing plans, and the folks in charge, who have our best interests at heart, have selected the lone, fourth plan that ensures they get to kill birds.

There are 14,000 breeding pairs, so 28,000 Cormorants. And the Feds want to kill sixteen thousand of them .

The people in charge worship Death, you see, and have all the way back to Babylon. It’s why their fancy fraternity is nicknamed ‘the Brotherhood of Death’.

The fact that the largest salmon run in recorded history is not mentioned in the article is your daily proof of a wholly controlled and coopted mainstream press.

To preserve Cognitive Dissonance, tell self it’s a ‘management dilemma’ as noted in the headline.

http://www.oregonlive.com/paci……ll_bi.html

Burgeoning cormorant population on Columbia River means new management dilemma: Kill the birds to save fish?

August 1, 2014

ASTORIA — Dredging decades ago to aid Columbia River shippers also helped seabirds known as double-crested cormorants by creating a flat, sandy island ideal for nesting and feeding on young salmon and steelhead headed for the Pacific Ocean.

Now, the population of the cormorants on East Sand Island has burgeoned from about 100 breeding pairs to 14,900 of the pairs, and a federal agency wants to have thousands of the seabirds shot to protect the fish, including some that are protected and deemed endangered.

At a recent open house held by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the proposal, Tommy Huntington of Cannon Beach acknowledged that anglers feel strongly about fish runs being depleted but expressed consternation at the plan to shoot the birds.

"I can’t believe in this day and age we can’t come up with an alternative solution to killing things," he said. "You have to kill one to save the other one? It doesn’t make any sense."

The birds eat lots of endangered wild fish, as well as hatchery stocks — an estimated 11 million a year — mainly in May as the young fish head for their years in the ocean.

In June the engineers released its plan to kill 16,000 of the birds . A public comment period has been extended to Aug. 19.

The agency manages hydropower dams and dredges the Columbia River. It is required by the Endangered Species Act to come up with a management plan to control the seabird population. The corps presented four options — three that didn’t call for killing any birds and the one it calls the preferred option.

“We feel it’s the one that gives us the most certainty of achieving the requirements that have been put upon us,” said Joyce Casey, chief of the agency’s environmental resources branch in Portland. “It’s the most cost effective and it’s the one that has the best likelihood of not moving the problem somewhere else.”

She said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would issue permits for the shooting, which would be carried out by the Wildlife Services agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The proposed plan also includes land- and boat-based hazing and taking a limited amount of eggs.

[Jeff]

You know how I just showed you how the Feds want to ‘kill the Cormorants to save the salmon’, who’ve never been more numerous? Below, check out how there’s a push on to kill the seals to ‘save the fish’. Only – so sorry – the seals don’t happen to eat commercial fish.

Fortunately, unlike the more advanced Cormorant killing programme on the Columbia, here the evil news article is more of a trial balloon, where they say the increase in seals ‘prompts some to call for hunt’. That 'residents are ’ frustrated ', that the hunt will be ’ controlled '. That the seals ‘foul beaches’ . It goes on and on.

That’s called ‘dissembling’. Synonyms: pretend, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff, poster, hide one’s feelings, put on a false front.

Notice how the article earnestly states that ‘many fishermen say’ , but won’t quote any? And that the person who is quoted is a ‘local resident and recreational fisherman’ - who somehow gets to be in a national news story and become a driver in Seal Death?

The Secret Handshake Club is not enormous. It is comprised of actual individuals. And they conspire .

Speak out against them, stop them when you see them where you live and work.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/201……-for-hunt/

Booming New England Gray Seal Population Prompts Some To Call For Hunt

July 20, 2014

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) – Decades after gray seals were all but wiped out in New England waters, the population has rebounded so much that some frustrated residents are calling for a controlled hunt .

The once-thriving New England gray seal population was decimated by the mid-20th century because of hunting, with Massachusetts keeping a seal bounty on the books until the 1960s. But scientists say conservation efforts, an abundance of food and migration from Canada combined to revive the population.

Environmentalists cheer the resurgence, saying the gray seal boost is good for biodiversity and a boon for popular seal watch tours in coastal New England. But many fishermen say the seals interfere with fishing charters and steal catch. Beachgoers bemoan the 600-plus-pound seals taking over large stretches of shore, befouling beaches and attracting sharks, which feed on seals.

Some residents of Nantucket are so fed up over the huge seal population that now calls the affluent island home that they have suggested a controlled hunt, similar to the way states manage deer.

Nantucket resident and recreational fisherman Peter Krogh, whose Seal Abatement Coalition has collected 2,000 signatures asking federal officials to amend laws that prevent dispersion of gray seals, said gray seals are a threat to fishing and tourism on the island.

Asked if he supports a seal cull, Krogh said “all options” should be on the table for managing the population.

“This is a real threat to the traditional way of life on this island ,” Krogh said.

Conservationists scoff at the idea of providing amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which protects seals. They say culling the herd would undo the results of the act, which allowed the species to recover in New England.

The seals’ burgeoning population is a blessing for at least one industry.

Business is booming for Keith Lincoln, who operates a seal watch ferry to Monomoy Island off Cape Cod. Seal sightings have skyrocketed from about 50 per trip in 1989 to about 2,000 per trip now, he said. The curious seals frequently come close to the boats, a thrill for gawking tourists, he said.

“Once the word spread out, the word spread quick,” Lincoln said. “The cuteness of them is what draws everybody.”

Some also believe the seals’ negative impact on fishing is overstated. Brian Sharp, the manager of marine mammal rescue for the Cape Cod-based International Fund for Animal Welfare, said gray seals feed mostly on fish species of little commercial value, like sand lance.

Others in the commercial fishing industry don’t see seals as a threat. Lobstermen off Rockland, Maine, where gray seals are often spotted, say the seals and fishery coexist with little strife.

“Culls of gray seals have not been shown to increase fish populations. It’s not that simple,” Sharp said. “What we’re seeing is a normal growth curve of seals repopulating an area.”

The gray seals, also called horsehead seals, can grow to more than 10 feet long and inhabit both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean. They are sometimes found in the same areas as their smaller cousins, harbor seals.

Encounters with humans frequently don’t end well for the seals, Sharp said. They sometimes become entangled in fishing gear, and six of them were illegally shot and killed on the southern ridge of Cape Cod in 2011, he said.

For now, the seal population is flourishing, and its ability to sustain seal watch businesses off Massachusetts and Maine is evidence that it can have an economic benefit, said Gordon Waring, fishery research biologist at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

“Seals are just another large marine predator, and they are part of the diversity of the marine environment,” he said. “And they are able to thrive and recover.”

[Jeff]

This article is cool in that it involves the reappearance of what I intuit to be a fragile life form in the Adriatic Sea after an interim of seventy years . Click the link if you have time, the picture is beautiful.

The article is also funny, in that it takes pains to note that ‘marine biologists’ are not “sure whether the species’ sudden re-emergence in the Adriatic is linked to the effects of global warming.” That’s to reinforce what is called a ‘meme’.

Meme: “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”

Please notice how they don’t specifically quote any actual ‘marine biologists’ in regard to those ‘warming seas’, but rather just say it , as if it came down from heaven, or something. That’s called ‘talking out one’s ass’.

The marine biologist who is quoted gives a grade school level Jellyfish primer, but does not even mention the warming meme. They probably asked him a bunch of leading questions, and when they didn’t get him to bite, had to run with what they had – which was nothing but lies and fabrication. This is called ‘dishonest journalism’.

The Secret Handshake Club is not enormous. It is comprised of actual individuals. And they conspire .

Speak out against them, stop them when you see them where you live and work.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new……d-War.html

Giant, fuchsia-pink jellyfish has been spotted in the Adriatic Sea for the first time in 70 years.

August 7, 2014
The Drymonema dalmatinum, which can grow to more than three feet in diameter, was photographed by amateur divers off the northern coast of Italy.

It is one of the rarest jellyfish to occur in the Mediterranean and had not been documented in the Adriatic since 1945.

The bizarre but beautiful creature derives its Latin name from the fact that it was first discovered off the coast of Dalmatia in the 1880s by a German naturalist, Ernst Haeckel. It was observed on a few occasions after that but sightings dried up at the end of the Second World War, only for the species to emerge again now.

Little is known about the jellyfish – marine biologists do not even know how powerful its sting is. Nor are they sure whether the species’ sudden re-emergence in the Adriatic is linked to the effects of global warming.
Experts say that jellyfish such as Drymonema dalmatinum have two distinct phases in their lives – an early phase when they are bottom-dwelling polyps, and a secondary phase in which they coalesce into floating jellyfish.

It may be that this particular species spends decades living at the bottom of the sea before evolving into a fully-formed jellyfish and that its reappearance has nothing to do with warmer seas.

“The polips are normally small and can live for a long time,” said Ferdinando Boero, from Salento University in Puglia, one of Italy’s foremost experts on jellyfish.

“Every now and then they produce jellyfish. Some species remain small, others become much bigger,” he told La Stampa newspaper.

[Jeff]

Remember how in the last post the author was ‘talking out his ass’, vs. quoting an actual person, as reporters are supposed to do? They use that technique to give the reader the feeling that information is coming down from Heaven, or something…that the author is an Authority, and you’d be better off not inquiring any further. It’s kind of like that nasty little green doorwarden in the Wizard of Oz.

Right out of the gate in the article that follows - just after you learn that the prawns are doing great - ‘ climate change has been suggested as one explanation ’ is floated. Really, it has been? Suggested by whom, please? And when? And in what way was it suggested ? Shouldn’t something be proven, vs. suggested ?

Later in the article, the header " Vulnerable to Climate Changes ’ is used, which is declamatory, an implied statement of truth. But, wait, didn’t the author earlier say – and in an unsubstantiated way, mind you – that it was merely suggested ? This header is what is known as a fait accompli , “a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept.”

The wholly-immoral author then dutifully says ‘ Earlier research shows that prawns or shrimp are generally vulnerable to climate changes .’ Really? What earlier research, precisely? Research by whom? And when? And what did the research elucidate?’ Crickets are chirping, because the author is a serially-lying con artist.

Despite scientific evidence earlier in the article that the prawns are recovering, the author says “the stock in Skagerrak seems to be recovering now.” Seems ? The prawns either are recovering, or they are they not. What does the data say? Here, ’ seems ’ is the used to create a seed of doubt, to spin the news, to weaken the message of good news. It’s a technique within the larger genre of neurolinguistic programming.

The Secret Handshake Club author is catapulting the propaganda , all right, and unfortunately for them I’m offering withering return fire, here, and now.

Merrily, the scientist that the scoundrel reporter interviewed tells us a veritable host of things about prawn stocks, but strongly rebuts the ‘Global Warming Lie’ thesis. Saying (politely): "we should be careful about using climate change as an explanation of the weak stock in the Skagerrak in recent years.”

That quote was probably uttered after the on-the-take-reporter-with-an-obvious-agenda asked the scientist six or ten leading questions about how global warming was impacting the situation.

And you may be certain that, if they did have a pro-Global-Warming-Lie quote to use from the scientist, they’d use it . And it would be positioned high in the article, not deliberately buried deep down near the bottom, as the honest, non-serial-liar marine scientist’s rebuttal was, here.

Also true to formula, you’ll note the WWF trying to restrict prawn catches, under the guise of being pro-prawn , albeit in an environment where the prawns are actually doing great. That is of course because they’re not pro-prawn, as they allege, but are rather anti-human . This simply just another of the multitudinous pyramidal control organizations that the barely-closeted Death worshippers who rule us use to try to take their black agenda forward upon humanity. How they must laugh as the checks roll in for ‘Save the Prawns!’ sweatshirts.

In lock-step, the large grocery store chains - headed by fellow Secret Handshake Club members - agree to not sell the ‘red listed’ prawns, which are actually not in short supply, at all, as professed. And so the anti-human agenda may be forwarded, under the hand-wringing guise of ‘concern for prawns’ .

I think the great thing about this thread is that it documents, again and again and again, the same tactics, put in play by the same people. My hope is that someone who had previously bought into the con will wake up when they see the larger pattern over time, and become immune to it going forward.

“Teach a man to fish”, smirk.

http://sciencenordic.com/skage……ks-rebound

Skagerrak prawn stocks on the rebound

July 21, 2014

Stocks of prawns in the Skagerrak have been insubstantial for years. Climate change has been suggested as one explanation. But the stock now appears to be making headway. A surge in offspring in 2013 gives hope that numbers will continue to rise in years to come , according to Norway’s Institute of Marine Research.

Prawns have short lives, a maximum of three to five years, in the Skagerrak – the Atlantic Ocean area between southern Norway, south-western Sweden and Denmark’s Jutland – and the Norwegian Sea (the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland, Svalbard and Norway). So strong stocks depend on regular recruitments.

On a voyage in 2013 oceanographers found plenty of year-old prawns, which should promise solid recruitment this year.

Two seas, one stock

As the stocks of prawns in the Skagerrak and the Norwegian Sea have not risen and fallen in synchrony, marine biologists have speculated as to whether they might be different stocks.

Norwegian, Swedish and Danish researchers have now compared the prawns’ DNA in both parts of the Atlantic.

“Our genetic analyses did not differentiate between the prawns from the two ocean areas, showing that a single stock apparently migrates around,” says Halvor Knutsen at the Marine Research Institute’s Flødevigen Research Station near Arendal, Norway.

Separate stocks in the fjords

While prawns in these portions of the open sea share the same DNA, certain fjords have been found to have distinct stocks. “When the ocean stocks rise and fall from year to year, the fjords can increase their stability to a certain extent,” asserts Knutsen. Genetic analyses show there is little contact between the prawns out in the open ocean and those in the ocean fjords and inlets.

Halvor Knutsen has led a project to give both researchers and prawn fishermen enhanced knowledge about prawn [shrimp] stocks. “Prawn fishermen net some in the fjords and some out in the ocean. It’s good for them to know whether or not they are fishing from their own stock or not. If the stocks in a fjord decline, they can only count on limited ‘help’ from outside. So reduced exploitation in the fjord will be needed to help replenish the fjord stocks,” says Knutsen.

He says that even though the fjord stocks have little commercial value, they help maintain a viable coastal culture. After the find that the prawns in the Skagerrak and the Norwegian Sea are likely to comprise a single stock, their counterparts in fjords can be regulated and managed by fisheries authorities independently. This is already being done in some sounds and inlets in Sweden.

Cooperation with fishermen

In addition to acquiring information for a better management of sustainable prawn catches in the Skagerrak, the research project has aimed at improving communication between fishermen, local authorities and researchers in the three Scandinavian countries. “The fishermen have a well of knowledge and it’s been interesting linking it to what we researchers know about the prawn stock,” says Knutsen. “We have much to learn from each other. Fishermen have a lot of local knowledge about how isolated a fjord can be, about fishing spots and catching methods,” says Knutsen.

Vulnerable to climate changes

Earlier research shows that prawns or shrimp are generally vulnerable to climate changes. The prawns caught in Norway are a deep-water variety, Pandalus borealis. This is a northern species in the Eastern Atlantic which has a habitat from Norway’s Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard all the way down to the Skagerrak.

The Skagerrak is the prawn’s southern frontier. This makes it likely that warmer seas will put the crunch on the crustaceans and force them to move northwards.

“But we should be careful about using climate change as an explanation of the weak stock in the Skagerrak in recent years,” says Guldborg Søvik, another researcher at the Marine Research Institute.

“The low recruitment might be attributed to changes involving plankton, the food of the prawns. No research has been conducted on a prospective link,” says Søvik.

Many prawn trawlers have encountered lean years. But the stock in Skagerrak seems to be recovering now.

The researchers are now working with a model for studying how the prawn larvae drift with the sea currents. Prawn larvae float freely in the upper layers of the ocean. Søvik thinks that if the models accurately depict how they drift this could provide key information about how annual recruitments rise and fall.

WWF wants to reduce catches

In February the World Wildlife Fund in Sweden red-listed prawns on the Swedish West Coast. As a result, many supermarket chains in Sweden will stop buying Swedish prawns. In Norway, the WWF warns against fishing any more than international quota advisories recommend.

However, Søvik would not characterise the Skagerrak prawns as being endangered. The stock has been poor earlier and then made rebounds.

But one thing researchers do agree on is that the Skagerrak is an important cradle for replenishments of the entire stock trawled for by Scandinavian fishermen.

“As far back as our data goes, the Skagerrak has always been the area with the most one-year-old prawns,” she says.

“West of Lindesnes [in the North Sea] the recruitment has always been very low, while in the Skagerrak we’ve seen oscillations between good and bad years. So if small prawns are overfished in the Skagerrak it can have an impact on the entire region.”

[Jeff]

Since it’s unlikely to be repeated in the mainstream media, I’ll remind readers that the MS Akademik Shokalskiy is a polar research vessel that was on its way to Antarctica last year full of folks bent on proving how much Global Warming had changed everything, down there…but ended up getting caught in the largest mass of Antarctic ice ever, in history. They had to be evacuated…by the Chinese! Wait, I’m laughing so hard I can’t type.

What makes this story so amazingly awesome is the fact that I’m being asked, with a straight face, to believe that Warming is causing the increase in ice .

That might ring a bell, in that, in Orwell’s ‘1984’, one of the slogans of the Party is “War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.”

I can only suppose there’s some sort of deep, witchy, black-magic-spell thing going on with the use of this sort of tactic, but I can say with confidence that it is frightfully easy to rebut, and truth trumps lies, every time.

I think the only reason it ever works at all is that many have been duped, by either ignorance or innocence, and will grasp any straw to avoid allowing themselves that realization, because they’re embarrassed, ashamed, angry at themselves. It’s human nature. And the social engineers who rule us with barely hidden ill-intent know it , it’s an actual science for them.

But rejoice, as awareness is rising, and the duped are awakening, never to sleep again.

And the fact that our adversaries are being pressed to actually say the words ’ warming is causing the increase in ice’ ? That’s a ‘going out of business metric’. It’s game over for these people.

http://notrickszone.com/2014/0……-more-ice/

The recent fate of the MS Akademik Shokalskiy has prompted arguments from the CAGW crowd that the global warming is causing more ice around Antarctica. The problem with this argument is that there has been no warming around Antarctica.

All the trends show cooling, especially in the area where the ship is trapped. The southern ocean is cooling, and has been for a long time, especially since 1996. The latitudes in the vicinity of Commonwealth Bay have been cooling since 1980. There is more ice because Mother Nature is freezing more ice.

If we look at a annual temperature trend map of the globe covering the last eight years, we see cooling especially at latitudes north and south of 45°, and at the equator. Of course, the southern ice has responded to this decreased temperature by increasing, slowly since the low of 1980, but then much faster in the last three years following the local temperatures.

But for whatever peculiar reason, despite all the observations, global warming scientists insist it’s more logical to blame the extra ice on warming! The warmists never seem to realize that Antarctica can melt only if the temperature rises above freezing there. For all practical purposes, it almost never does rise above freezing. The summer ice only reduces because the wind breaks it up and blows it away into latitudes where the sea is warm enough to melt it. The air temperatures blowing off the continent rise high enough (to just freezing) so that the ice blowing away is not immediately replaced as it is in the Antarctic winter. Ice flows off the continent not because it is melting, but because the pressure of two-mile-thick ice behind the edges is forcing it to flow. Average air temperatures at bases on the edge of the continent rise to just freezing in January despite 24 hours of daylight. This is why it can snow off-shore at the position of the trapped ship in late December. Rain is an extremely rare event anywhere in Antarctica except the peninsula.

No global warming – it’s over As one can see from Figure 3, there is no global warming. It’s over. Both poles are now cooling, the tropics are cooling. Ice is increasing at both ends of the earth. Over the last eight years, there were a few isolated pockets of warming, a spot in the North Pacific, the Middle East, north-eastern North America, and off the west coast of Australia. Those spots are constantly shifting, and will soon go away.

[Jeff]

Last post I mentioned ‘going out of business metrics’. Here’s another one: ‘McDonald’s monthly sales worst in more than 10 years.’ And it’s ‘at risk to be reduced further.’

One of my favorite aspects of ‘the Adventures of Don and Carol Croft’ is the sudden segues from dramatic etheric reportage over to witty, honest food commentary re: places they ate along the way, and I’m emulating that style, here.

I love cheeseburgers, and it makes me so mad that McDonald’s, which was probably awesome back when they got started, has slowly and steadily weaponized their food, then to now. I think it was last year when the celebrity chef got on them for the ‘pink slime’ they used in their burgers, and public outcry caused them to remove it. That’s a Positive Change That Occurred, and I think I may even have featured it in this thread, back then.

The article blows smoke and throws chaff about how this or that brought down sales. But, so sorry, globally, people are waking up to the fact that if you eat bad food, it’s going to have a negative effect on your health. That’s a big deal. It’s taboo to say that out loud, of course, which is why all the fake reasons are put forth in the article.

There’s a lot of new-school chains making burgers out of just actual beef, these days, and In-and-Out burger’s been doing it without cease since they opened in the late 1940’s. I had a White Castle burger for the first time, recently, in Cincinatti, Ohio, it was crazy good. I got the feeling it was virtually unchanged from when they opened, in 1921. Yocco’s hot dogs, in my hometown, has been using the same suppliers and ingredients since 1922.

I just read that the first McDonald’s was in San Bernadino, CA, opening in 1948. The Hell’s Angels were founded in San Bernadino in…wait for it…1948.

I once read ‘San Berdoo’ has a higher ratio of Satanists per capita than anywhere else in the nation. I visited there, once, and I believe it. The energy was terrible.

Ray Croc came right out and said he was a Satanist on the Phil Donohue show in May of 1977, an event which has been largely memory-holed, and is now referred to as an ‘Urban Legend’.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/……story.html

McDonald’s monthly sales worst in more than 10 years

August 8, 2014

McDonald’s Corp. served up a disappointing July, largely due to food-safety concerns in Asia as well as widespread problems in the United States, the world’s largest restaurant company said on Friday.

For the second time this week, McDonald’s said that this year’s sales forecast “is now at risk” to be reduced further.

Sales at longstanding McDonald’s restaurants around the globe fell 2.5 percent last month, the company said. Same-store sales, or sales at restaurants open at least 13 months, fell 3.2 percent in the United States and fell 7.3 percent in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa region, or what the company calls APMEA.

Analysts had anticipated a 1.1 percent decline overall, with a 2.6 percent drop in the United States and a 0.5 percent decline in APMEA, according to Consensus Metrix.

July’s 2.5 percent decline in global comparable sales matched McDonald’s performance in June. Those are the worst comparable sales McDonald’s posted since March 2003, when its global comparable sales plunged 3.7 percent.

Shares of Oak Brook-based McDonald’s fell 21 cents to $93.10 in trading on Friday.

McDonald’s had already warned on Monday that its full-year sales forecast may have to come down because of a variety of factors that had worsened from when it reported quarterly results on July 22. On Friday, the company again said that its 2014 same-store sales forecast – which called for relatively flat same-store sale – “is now at risk.”

McDonald’s Corp. warned Monday that its full-year sales forecast may have to come down due to a variety of factors that have worsened from when it reported quarterly results less than two weeks ago.

McDonald’s Corp. warned Monday that its full-year sales forecast may have to come down due to a variety of factors that have worsened from when it reported quarterly results less than two weeks ago. ( Jessica Wohl )

Janney analyst Mark Kalinowski said he now expects McDonald’s annual global comparable sales to decline by 0.3 percent. If such sales fall, 2014 would mark the company’s weakest annual sales performance since 2002 , Kalinowski said.

In the United States, McDonald’s said it struggled in part because it had a big Monopoly event running in July 2013 . At the same time, this year the chain was promoting premium beef and chicken options, which may have turned off some value-conscious diners . Currently, McDonald’s is promoting fare such as a $2 Jalapeno Double burger on its “Dollar Menu & More” board.

McDonald’s U.S. same-store sales have now fallen in eight of the past nine months.

On July 20, a Shanghai Husi Food plant in China was shut down after a Chinese TV report showed workers picking up meat from a factory floor, as well as mixing meat beyond its expiration date. The plant, owned by Aurora-based OSI Group, had been a supplier to some of McDonald’s restaurants in China and to other major chains there, including Yum Brands.

McDonald’s said its performance in China, Japan and certain other markets fell significantly after the food safety issue. The markets affected represent about 10 percent of the company’s global systemwide sales. Government and internal investigations at the supplier are proceeding.

Earlier this week, OSI said that withdrawing products produced at the plant was proceeding smoothly and that six Shanghai Husi employees had been detained by the Shanghai branch of the Public Security Bureau.

[Jeff]

Today I didn’t have to search for good news, it was right there, mainstream: whales in New York harbor! And the story fesses up, in the subhead, that cleaner waters are believed to be the driver. Usually you’d see something like ‘Global Warming-driven boom-bust cycles cause whale populations to flee collapsing areas and take refuge in New York Harbor!’, or ‘Scientists Baffled by Whale Appearance!’, or something like that.

The headline should actually be ‘Dude, there are whales in New York freaking harbor!’, but they have to throw Great White Sharks in there to create fear, you see. Great Whites are booming, and that’s great, of course, but you can see the wholly controlled and coopted mainstream media taking any opportunity to spin the story in the wrong, and worst direction. A not-on-the-take reporter would have written ‘the increase in whales has also been seen in Cape Cod, where numbers have also boomed, from X to Y’, et al. But here they focus momentarily on the whales and then spin it away to shark fear .

“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported a surge in (Great White shark) numbers on the east coast but has yet to record detailed data.” But, wait, isn’t recording detailed data their job? This thread has copiously documented the ongoing omission, wherever possible, of data from 2013 and 2014, because it’s so explosive and so paradigm-breaking. Aside: they use the word surge a lot in connection with things like ‘enemy combatants’.

And, funny, they don’t mention Stanford’s 2011 west coast shark research that said ‘only 200 Great White left!’, the repudication of which was documented previously in this thread. That was a major University’s brave but feeble attempt at keeping the ‘Poor Mother Gaia is Dying’ meme alive. What’s really great is they said ‘200’, and now, just three years later, stories referring to that same research are saying ’ 500 ', because what Stanford had said previously was so embarrassingly and obviously a lie. It’s like why the Most Important and Truthful Movie Ever Made, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, is never shown on TV, nor in schools.

Speaking of doing their jobs, you can see how, just last month, the Feds opened up the entire East Coast of the U.S. to sonic cannon surveying, which has a side function looking for oil and gas but whose primary purpose is doing as much harm as possible to whales and dolphins. You can’t expect them to take the burgeoning whale population thing sitting down, after all. This is a real and actual war, and The Brotherhood of Death is not at all happy that they are losing it, on every front.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor……ork-waters

Cleaner New York waters see surge in whale and shark numbers

• Humpbacks and great whites abundant off NY and NJ coast
• Cleaner waters believed responsible for rise in ocean giants

Humpback whales and great white sharks are surging in numbers in the waters around New York City this summer, in a wildlife bonanza that is delighting naturalists, environmentalists and fishermen – if not necessarily bathers.

Off New York and New Jersey, some of the largest creatures in the ocean are being spotted in greater abundance than has been the case for decades. Paul Sieswerda, head of the Gotham Whale volunteer marine wildlife tracking group, believes the increasing abundance of whales around the Big Apple is largely prompted by cleaner waters that have encouraged huge rises in the populations of fish which the whales eat.

Sieswerda takes boat tours to locations where giant humpback whales can be seen feeding – with the iconic Manhattan skyline in the background.

“I would say it’s only about four miles from the Statue of Liberty,” he told the Guardian.

Gotham Whale counted 29 whales, all humpbacks, in New York waters from the start of the feeding season in the spring to the end of July 2014, compared with 43 for the whole 2013 season, 25 in 2012 and five in 2011.

Sieswerda, a former curator at both the New York aquarium and the New England aquarium in Boston, keeps records of whale sightings with a team of trained volunteers, identifying individual whales by their unique tail markings. His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.

Sieswerda praised the gradual cleaning up of the Hudson river, which flows into New York harbour, for bringing to the sea nutrients which feed the plankton that feed the fish the whales eat. “The river used to bring nothing but pollution but in the last five years or so there is cleaner water, more nutrients and less garbage,” he said, adding that other conservation and protection measures elsewhere in the region have also improved the ocean waters considerably.

“My boat captain says New York is the new Cape Cod,” Sieswerda said. Gotham Whale runs research and tourist trips from Breezy Point, Queens. The surge in whale numbers can also lead to problems – in May, after a sei whale was hit by a cruise ship and dragged up the Hudson River, increased numbers of collisions between whales and ships were reported in the New York and New Jersey area. Last month, the US government’s decision to open the Atlantic seaboard from Florida to Delaware, south of New Jersey, for oil prospecting using sonic cannons also caused concern.

Whales and great white sharks are most commonly spotted off the Massachusetts and Maine coasts in summer and have been increasing there in recent years. But improved food supplies in the waters around New York and New Jersey appear to be attracting more sharks and whales to linger , instead of heading north for the summer feeding season.

[Jeff]

Best fishing summer in 10-15 years in Southern California. “You usually have to travel to Mexico to experience this kind of fishing,

You’ll notice that, since it’s a local report, the piece is devoid of neurolinguistic programming witchery and simply reports the news truthfully, something not seen in news outlets farther up the food chain, where Secret Handshake Club membership is required.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/spo……is-booming

Offshore fishing is booming

08/06/14

The 2014 offshore fishing season continued red hot this week with excellent catches of yellowfin and bluefin tuna, yellowtail, some dorado and even a few striped marlin. The Freedom from 22nd St. Landing in San Pedro reported 105 yellowfin tuna, 8 bluefin tuna, 1 yellowtail and two dorado on Wednesday fishing about 60 miles from port. “Great fishing for our anglers today,” said Captain Jeff Jessop.

The Ultra, also from 22nd St. had a similar days fishing on Tuesday. Captain Jacob Moreno saw some birds picking baitfish off the surface of the ocean and headed over there in a hurry. Captains know that when they see birds feasting on bait on the surface, its because there are bigger fish below.

“The Captain told us to cast our lines out and as soon as we did, we were hooking up with yellowfin tuna,” said Scott Buchert from Corona del Mar. “It really got crazy for everyone on board.” Recommended tackle for the offshore trips has been 25-pound test with a 2-O size hook and a quarter-ounce egg sinker. Most of the tuna have been from 15-25 pounds while the yellowtail have been 5-12 pounds.

The wild card here is that there have been occasions when bigger bluefin tuna to over 100 pounds have shown up. That’s when a 50 pound test and a two speed reel come in very handy. Catalina Island has also been producing some excellent fishing for 3/4 day boats from LA/OC-based landings. The Pursuit from 22nd St. Landing had 140 yellowtail for 47 anglers on Monday.

“We have been catching our yellowtail on sardines and the iron (lures),” said Captain John Woodrum. “This is one of the best summers we have had in years, maybe a decade.”

Don Ashley from Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach agrees.

“This is and has been the best fishing we have seen in 10-15 years , and I don’t think it’s over by a longshot,” he said.

The overnight boat Toronado has been catching lots of yellowfin tuna on a regualr basis, most of them within 60 miles from home.

“You usually have to travel to Mexico to experience this kind of fishing,” Ashley said. “It’s got everyone excited.”

Big barehanded catch

How about Malibu resident Diana Armstrong’s barehanded catch of a 37-pound bluefin tuna on the beach in front of her house? The Malibu Times reported that Armstrong saw birds diving and heard a fish flapping on the beach, so she went down, and what do you know: a sashimi party ensued. Armstrong got the fish up to her house, where it was carved up for an unexpected feast.

[Jeff]

Check out how the Haddock are not collapsing, as tirelessly stated in the media, but rather doing fine…and how Canadians are managing to catch plenty, while in the U.S. “the fisheries disaster keeps unfolding.”

“This year, the US will land far less than 10% of the 26,000 ton quota of Haddock on Georges Bank, while the Canadians fishing the same stock will catch 70% to 80% of their quota.”

In the article, you’ll see how each successful Canadian method and technique has a purpose-built, hostile response on the U.S. side. Perhaps the most blatantly obvious example of the U.S. government’s hostility to it’s own people being the fact that, in Canada, the fishery is 100% observed by independent observers , whereas, in the U.S., the observers must be on the Secret Handshake Club payroll, and cost exponentially more – both tactics working as desired and designed, to hurt the fishermen.

Just another series of examples of the anti-human programme being ceaselessly taken forward, in this case under the hand-wringing guise of ‘concern for Haddock.’

‘Yankee Ingenuity’ used to be world famous. Perhaps we will again return to a place where we are able to recognize an obvious threat and stand up against it.

Canadian haddock booming, New England haddock is a bust – yet fishing the same stock

February 18, 2014

Why can’t US fisheries managers accept solutions that fall into their lap? The haddock stock on George’s Bank is a glaring example of US government failure to address easily solvable fisheries problems.

We have been struck by the success of the recent Canadian winter haddock season. In January, in just a few ports in Nova Scotia, Canadian boats landed more than 2,000 tons of haddock (nearly 4.5 million pounds). The newspapers were filled with stories of overloaded harbors, full processing plants, and higher revenue based on great market prices.

Meanwhile, the fisheries disaster in New England keeps unfolding. According to a recent letter from the chair of the New England council to the head of the Dept. of Commerce, 2013 groundfish landings in New England will be around 43.4 million lbs, with revenue of only $55.8 million. This represents a 38% reduction in revenue since 2011. No wonder New England fishing businesses outside of the scallop industry are facing extinction.

In this context, there are some booming stocks. US Haddock quotas for 2013 on Georges Bank were over 26,000 tons (or nearly 60 million lbs.) If just 50% of this quota had been landed, New England groundfish landings would have exceeded 2011. Instead, with only a little of the fishing year left, only 1680 tons (3.7 million lbs) of haddock has been landed and the landings for the year will be around 10% of the quota.

The fishing disaster in New England is not just a matter of biology and low cod stocks; it is a failure of NMFS and the dept. of commerce to manage for economic success. Jim Odlin, a former member of the NE council and trawler owner in Maine, says in all his years of fishery management, “I’ve never gone into a meeting room where some one said how can we catch more fish.”

For the US side, the situation is even worse – as the industry has sacrificed for years to rebuild stocks, and now is prevented from harvesting those stocks that have been rebuilt.

Alain De’ Entremont, who operates several vessels in the Canadian haddock fishery, pointed out some of the factors allowing them to catch higher levels of their quotas.
First, the Canadians use a smaller mesh. This year a pilot project allowing vessels to try a 5.7 inch mesh in a diamond configuration, which scientific studies showed did not change the catch composition from their previous 5.1 inch mesh in a square configuration. Observer coverage was added to monitor the catch composition to ensure that the catch composition was not vastly changed and did not increase the catch of sensitive cod and yellowtail bycatch.

Second they use a trawl separator. The bottom meter of the trawl is left open – allowing cod to escape. In Nova Scotia, the ratio of cod by-catch to haddock this winter was around 78 to 1 with some variation depending on the vessels, meaning that they catch 78 pounds of haddock for each pound of cod. This allows haddock to be caught in volume, even when there are severe constraints on cod. The mobile gear’s ratio this season based on the current quotas is 70 to 1.

Third, they all use a system of ITQ’s and the boats with extra cod quotas trade with boats that need it to maximize haddock volumes.
Fourth, their fishery is 100% observed by independent observers who measure the bycatch rates and size composition of the haddock catch. These observers are paid by the industry at a cost of approximately $400 per day.

Even with these positive benefits, the trawl sector will likely only catch about 70% or so of their total allocation. In some years they have caught 90% or 95%.
The US harvesters are well aware of this success, and have consistently pointed out the NMFS rules holding back a similar approach on the US side. One of the key issues is the closed areas. These were closed 20 years ago on the US side as a conservation measure; but now with hard TAC’s that rationale no longer exists. At some times of the year the Canadians fish on the nose of Georges Bank, right next to the US closed area.

On the US side, haddock vessels have to use 6.5 inch mesh; they have no access to closed areas without paying 100% of observer cost, and they must pay observer cost of $700 to $1000 per day if they are to use a separator trawl with a 6 inch mesh. For a haddock trip to Georges, this would add $7000 to $10,000 in expense.

The New England council voted to open the closed areas, but was attacked for doing so despite the fact that the rationale for the closures no longer existed. As a result the openings were subject to a range of restrictions. The council did vote to allow a smaller mesh (6 inches rather than 6.5 inches) with separator trawls. NMFS came back with a requirement for 100% industry funded observer coverage, that made these changes uneconomical for an experimental fishery.

The Council had asked the closed areas be open for traditional haddock fishing areas, fully respecting all sensitive habitat areas. NMFS got 20,000 letters generated by environmental organizations opposing any opening of the closed areas, despite the fact that the rationale for closure – to manage effort – no longer exists under the IFQ sector scheme with hard TAC’s.

The council had also warned NMFS that given the current reduction in revenue, the industry could not support an industry-funded observer requirement, and if that was included in the rule, it would kill the proposal.

Instead of working with the council, NMFS came back with requirements for 100% observer coverage, no allowance for experimental fishing or finding where the most appropriate haddock fishing areas might be, and no flexibility. Trawler owners said okay, if we can’t agree on observer payments, why don’t you let us try to fish haddock in the new area on the 30% of the trips we are assigned an observer. NMFS refused.

Many of them already use and have separator trawls, and those that have fished haddock report getting 50 to 1 ratios between haddock and cod. They are convinced they could go much higher – up to 100 to 1 or more, with a smaller mesh gear. Today, on the 2010 year class that Canada is feasting on, New England trawlers release 80% of the legal size fish that come into their nets. A health target for this ratio should be 50% – which could be achieved with a smaller mesh size.

The fastest way to bring New England’s Fisheries back to health are to address the obstacles that prevent trawlers from accessing healthy stocks. Given the fisheries disaster, and the fact that money will be allocated to the states, one of the most effective uses of funds would be for NMFS to guarantee paid observer coverage for all efforts to increase landings of abundant stocks, like haddock and redfish. It is unconscionable that NMFS is not focusing on the single most cost effective ways of raising fishing income, but instead is perpetuating the fisheries disaster.

Secondly, NMFS must excersize some leadership – all the extensive data supports the use of separator trawls and smaller mesh, and the opening of some of the closed areas. Yet NMFS is swayed by the campaign that says any relaxation of a closed area is a slippary slope back to overfishing. It is simply not true, and NMFS has an advocacy responsibility here, when public comments are not based on science.

This year, the US will land far less than 10% of the 26,000 ton quota of Haddock on Georges Bank, while the Canadians fishing the same stock will catch 70% to 80% of their quota.

NMFS needs a tiger team to tackle all the regulations that are preventing access to New England’s largest healthy stock – and set a goal of landing 50% of the quota. This would go a long way towards nursing the industry outside of scallops back to health.

It is time to have meetings where the only question on the table is how can US fishermen catch more haddock.

[Jeff]

Sardine numbers are said to be ‘plummeting’, and the Feds have cut the harvest back 100%, because, you know, they care so much about Sardines .

But, hey, wait, check out how the government’s acoustical surveys don’t include the ocean’s surface, where the species actually resides . Industry surveys double the Feds’ estimate…can you see the exact same pattern as in the previous post? On-the-take, Secret Handshake Club observers, taking it to the people who fish for a living? Same exact tactic.

Anchovies are off the charts booming, with people who’ve observed fish their whole lives saying they’ve never seen so many. What do the Feds have to say? “So far there is no empirical evidence of an anchovy resurgence in California."

Lying, hostile, anti-human . And deadly-consistent, story after story, case after case.

The dumbfounding ‘slick’ of anchovies off Southern California is documented earlier in this thread. Isn’t it amazing that people can lie so brazenly? “No empirical evidence”? That’s because “and do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” is the motto that this crowd lives by.

The article documents that Anchovies do better in cooler water, and that the Pacific’s been cooling. So the deviant Greenboot talking head says, with a straight face: “a warmer world – one with elevated levels of CO2 in the ocean’s surface – favors anchovies over sardines.”

The article says he’s ‘adding a wrinkle’. I say he’s a lying deviant with an agenda.

http://www.montereycountyweekl……0f31a.html

Tiny Sardines, Mighty Lessons

The modest little fish – and Monterey icon – contains grand teachings on how to manage fish populations.

Whale spouts shoot up from the left, right and center, lighting up in the setting sun. Off the starboard side of the boat, juvenile sea lions number in the hundreds, roiling the water’s surface into whitecaps. Then, two humpbacks break the surface just 50 feet from the boat, rolling massive, majestic bodies forward on their way back under. The last part of the whales to touch air are the tailfins, flipping up against the horizon, stopping, and then slowly sinking back to the deep.

There’s so much poetry in motion that it’s hard to resist the idea that you are witnessing something historic, that these humpback whales – nearly all of whom normally migrate to Mexico some time in the fall – are trying to tell us something. And they are, if we listen.

There’s a simple explanation why this fall’s whale watching season was so unusually epic on Monterey Bay: anchovies. Thousands of tons of oily, wriggling anchovies, far more than whale watch operators are accustomed to seeing this time of year, or ever.

Nancy Black, a marine biologist and owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch, has been leading bay trips for 26 years.

“We’ve never seen so many whales,” she says, “and never this many anchovies.”

CWPA’s Pleschner-Steele is more specific with her criticism of the cuts, saying that government acoustical surveys don’t include the ocean’s surface, where the species resides. “They’re missing the top 30-odd feet,” she says, “which is where most of the sardines are.”

Industry surveys – using aerial spotting – put the number of sardines at 900,000 metric tons, more than double NOAA’s estimate.

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Like sardines, anchovies are schooling fish that provide important food for mammals and bigger fish. Like us, they mostly gather close the coast because they’re smaller than sardines and not big enough to migrate.

That was the case this fall, when millions of them schooled in Monterey Bay, fueling the frenzy of humpback whale and sea lion feeding so incredible it had to be seen to be believed.

Only a dearth of scientific attention accompanies the societal ignorance, making it hard for research fishery biologists like NOAA’s Kevin Hill – who authored the agency’s sardine stock assessment – to announce the anchovy is on the rise.

“At the moment, we know a lot more about the status of sardine than we do anchovy,” he writes in an email. “So far there is no empirical evidence of an anchovy resurgence in California … I’ve heard reports of the anchovy fishery picking up in Monterey, but we’ve seen similar [even larger] upticks in the catch over the past 15 years.”

But the locals who live and breathe the Monterey Bay fishery know a boom when they see one.

“We’re seeing a lot of them,” says Pleschner-Steele. “A lot a lot a lot.”

“It’s never been like this with sardines,” says Monterey Bay Whale Watch’s Nancy Black.

In his quarter-century of fishing, Crabbe knows how abundant anchovies can become.

“I saw mountains of anchovies,” he says. “Under the right conditions, there’s an amazing amount of fish. It wasn’t uncommon to have massive amounts in the Moss Landing channel, well over 100,000 tons… continual for a square mile.”

MBARI’s Chavez adds a wrinkle, saying that a warmer world – one with elevated levels of CO2 in the ocean’s surface – favors anchovies over sardines.

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[Jeff]

I’m leading with Chicago because it’s the drum that the media beats to underscore how things are so violent and how we need to ban guns.

L.A.'s crime has dropped each year for eleven straight years . Tracking pretty accurately against the onset of orgonite gifting, by Don Bradley, Don and Carol Croft, and many others, in that reptilian hotbed.

‘Los Angeles’ is a reference to demons, by the way. Hollywood from the ‘Holy Wood’ of the murderous Druids.

In Chicago, IL, the first three months of 2014 saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013 – a 9 percent drop – and 55 fewer murders than 2012. There were 90 fewer shootings and 119 fewer shooting victims, drops of 26 and 29 percent respectively. Compared to the first quarter of 2012, there have been 222 fewer shootings and 292 fewer shooting victims. Overall crime is down 25 percent from last year.

Crime statistics for Los Angeles, CA for 2013 show the lowest number of homicides since 1966 and the lowest number of Part I crimes since 1956 – with the lowest per capita Part I crime rate since 1949 , the year before the Korean War. Every LAPD bureau experienced a reduction in crime last year.

7/9/2014 – Dayton, Ohio has had 222 gun crimes so far this year compared to 266 at this time last year, a more than 16 percent reduction. Gun injuries have also dropped from 71 to 52, a 27 percent reduction.

7/17/2014 – Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings.

7/24/2014 – In San Francisco, CA, violent crime, including rape, murder and aggravated assault dropped from the first half of 2013 to the first half of 2014 by 27 percent.

7/29/2014 – South Minneapolis, MN – The stats from the first half of 2014 are startling. Robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, vandalism and motor vehicle theft reports in Southwest’s Fifth Precinct are the lowest since at least 2000. Homicide, rape, larceny and narcotics reports are all down from 2013. The previous record-low January through June —2011 — saw about 4,200 reports of so-called “Part I” and “Part II” crimes. This year, it’s about 3,600. As recently as 2006, it was 6,300.

8/1/2014 – South Miami reports steep drop in crime. Crime in South Miami was down 29 percent for the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2013.

8/2/2014 – The Escambia County, Florida Sheriff’s Office reported Friday morning the crime rate from January to June of this year has decreased 11 percent compared to the first six months of 2013.

[Jeff]

Check out how rising awareness is scuttling yet another Bad Guy plan to do harm: in the 70’s and 80’s, ‘researchers’ argued that we should kill whales, you know, to save the krill . Actually, their ostensible reason was to save the krill so that other more commercially-valuable fish could eat them, instead. Notice how they just say ‘researchers’ and don’t actually name them?

The rising awareness is seen in the fact that we now know, concretely, that krill populations go down when whale populations go down, cutting off that scurrilous line of attack on the whales – which you’ll notice was hidden behind another reason, plausible to at least some: ‘we’re, um, trying to make more money fishing !’. As opposed to the actual truth: ‘We worship Death and love killing whales.’

That’s a technique called ‘plausible deniability’ – the subconscious is given a straw to grasp - vs. the terrible truth - and almost always chooses the former over the latter.

You’ll see how the article says “some say” and “some argue”…that’s because what is being said, and argued, is so repellant and repugnant that they cannot and will not name whom, exactly would say or argue such a thing. Rather, they keep the argument going, just the same, and imply that whoever said it or argued it was so important they didn’t need to identify themselves. You know, like the Great and Powerful Oz? That’s why it’s called the ‘lapdog’ media.

The article states, with a straight face, that ‘fisheries face multiple threats’ (wring hands), when in fact they are booming to a level not seen, literally, in our lifetimes. The author says that to plant a subtle seed that they hope will make you more amenable to whale killing. That’s called ‘neurolinguistic programming’ or ‘spin’.

One of the reasons that the krill populations drop concurrent with whale populations is the absence of the whales’ gigantic ‘fecal plumes’. And with that I blow a gigantic, nutritious fecal plume toward the barely-closeted, malefic parasites who rule us under the guise of serving in our best interests.

Malefic: "causing or capable of causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means. Astology: “relating to the planets Saturn and Mars, traditionally considered to have an unfavorable influence.”

That’s why the big shoe company’s logo is an outline of Saturn’s rings, why the big car company just happened to pick ‘Saturn’, why the Pope wears a snazzy ‘Saturno’ hat.

http://news.sciencemag.org/env……ecosystems

Rebounding whale populations are good for ocean ecosystems

July 3, 2013

Far from depleting the resources of ocean ecosystems, growing numbers of large whales may be critical to keeping these environments healthy. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that rebounding populations of baleen and sperm whales may be boosting marine food webs around the world . The work is the latest volley in a long-running debate about the ecological role of whales and how their return to the oceans may affect global fisheries that face myriad threats.

Scientists have noted the gradual global recovery of various species of large whales. But many disagree about the impact this is having on ocean ecosystems. Some have cast whales as potential competitors to fishing fleets , because they vacuum up tons of invertebrates and small fish that might otherwise be available to commercially valuable species. Under that line of reasoning, some have argued in favor of the continuation of commercial whaling . In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

But the new study notes that krill populations remained constant or even declined after great whales experienced big declines. How so? The authors reason that the whales helped provide nutrients critical to krill and other species low on the food web. For instance, the mammals release massive “fecal plumes” and urine streams that fertilize surface waters with nitrogen and iron, the authors note, and help enhance productivity by mixing up the top layers of the ocean when diving.

Whales also move nutrients horizontally around the ocean. Humpback whales, for example, are a species of baleen whale known for grand migrations from the upper latitudes—like Pacific waters near Alaska—to the subtropics where nutrients are more scarce, near Hawaii and Mexico. Using historic and current population data, the study’s authors calculate that rebounded populations of whales could increase the productivity of phytoplankton in some subtropical waters by as much as 15% above current levels.

Another underappreciated contribution to marine ecosystems, the authors report online today in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment , is the bounty of organic material the animals provide to deep-sea ecosystems when they die. A so-called whale fall of a 40-ton gray whale provides a boost of carbon to the seafloor community equivalent to more than 2000 years of normal detritus and nutrient cycling.

“The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human-caused extinctions in the ocean,” writes the study’s first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail. “More than 60 species have been discovered that are found only on whale falls in recent decades. By removing this habitat through hunting, we may well have lost many species before we even knew they existed.”

Such new understandings, Roman and his colleagues write, “warrants a shift in view from whales being positively valued as exploitable goods … to one that recognizes that these animals play key roles in healthy marine ecosystems.”

The new study is a useful addition to the debate on the role of whales in global ecosystems, writes marine ecologist Lisa Ballance of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in San Diego, California, in an e-mail. “As [whales] recover, we can indeed expect their influence on marine ecosystems to change the structure and function of those systems relative to the past 100 years.”

[Jeff]

The following story, which is wonderfully positive, comes from an online college newspaper. You’ll notice it doesn’t contain a steady stream of witchery and poison, like that which I painstakingly chronicled in the previous mainstream media account.

No shaking of the ‘Global Warming’ voodoo doll. No ’ some say Ospreys will attack babies in cradles’. No ‘Scientists puzzled about surge in Osprey population, warn they may be fleeing other collapsing Osprey hatcheries’. Nothing.

That’s because you don’t graduate to that sort of malign stuff until you get a job at one of the big Secret Handshake Club media organs, where you have to go along to get along. The first rule about Fight Club is: you don’t talk about Fight Club.

Malign: “evil in nature or effect; malevolent.”

Ten years ago there were no Ospreys around Ithaca, NY. Five years ago there were six nests. As of this year there are thirty eight nests. “We are having an osprey population explosion around the lake.”

Positive Changes are Occurring.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/st……ear-campus

Rebounding ospreys nest for first time near campus

July 8, 2014

In the last five years, the number of observed osprey – fish-eating birds of prey – in the Cayuga Lake basin have increased sevenfold , including a new nest this year near Game Farm Road on university athletic fields near Cornell’s campus.

Ten years ago, osprey nests did not exist around Ithaca , and five years ago, there were only six known active local nests, said Candace Cornell, a biologist, osprey enthusiast and retired Cornell Lab of Ornithology staff member who has been tracking ospreys in the Cayuga Lake area. But this year, Cornell and others have identified at least 38 active breeding nests.

The sole nest on Cornell property houses a breeding pair and their two chicks and sits on top of a light pole next to the soccer field. One of the two chicks was born June 16 and the other two days later. The male has been seen fishing in Beebe Lake, Six-Mile Creek and Cayuga Lake, all within a few miles of the nest.

“The 38 active nests I observed are all visible from public roads, and I am sure there are far more unreported nests on private property,” Cornell said. She hopes to find more nests in the Cayuga basin in a fall survey of the area by boat and helicopter.

Currently, active nests are found along Cayuga Lake, Game Farm Road, Cass Park’s Union Fields and the Robert Treman Marina in Ithaca. Lansing also hosts two active nests at Salt and Portland points. More nests have been sighted along the I-90 Corridor and at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, among other areas.

“Ospreys like to nest in the open on tall strong structures, like utility poles and light poles,” Cornell said. That way, they can see the chicks’ mortal enemies, primarily eagles during the day and Great-horned Owls at night.

Failed nests this year were probably started too late and will be used for breeding next year, Cornell said.

The pair at Union Field got a late start nesting and probably won’t brood this year, said Cornell. After building on a hazardous athletic field light, New York State Electric and Gas Corp. moved the nest to a safe riser, which further disrupted the pair. Even though they may not breed, they are working on their nest. They will probably have a brood next spring, Cornell said.

“We are having an osprey population explosion around the lake,” she said. “We need to identify target areas and put up more platforms to meet the growing demand.”

Ospreys nearly went extinct from the 1940s to the 1970s due to DDT spraying, but since such contaminants have been banned, these highly adaptable birds have rebounded across the Northeast U.S. and elsewhere.

The rise in local populations are likely a result of a number of factors, including a high breeding success rate, long-lived adults capable of reproducing into their 20s, excellent fishing in Cayuga Lake, clean water replete with shallow fishing areas, and ample artificial nest sites such as utility poles and athletic field lights, Cornell said.

Also, surrounding populations in the Great Lakes and along the Eastern Seaboard have done very well, creating a spillover effect around the Finger Lakes, said osprey expert Alan Poole, editor of Birds of North America Online and a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Hacking programs, where young pairs have been relocated to sparsely populated locales, have also played a role in rebounding populations, Poole said.

[Jeff]

The North Sea is teeming with fish…there has been a dramatic recovery of fish species across the North East Atlantic which is “nothing short of remarkable”.

http://www.marinet.org.uk/nffo……-more.html

NFFO claims the the “North Sea is teeming” with fish once more

August 18, 2013

In a Press Release dated 22nd July 2013, and titled “ New Data Reveals North Sea Is Teeming ”, the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) says that there has been a dramatic recovery of fish species across the North East Atlantic which is “nothing short of remarkable”.

We provide here the full text of the NFFP Press Release:

“The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) – the country’s most influential body representing the UK fishing industry – has cited revolutionary partnership work between the fishing industry and scientists as helping bring about recovery levels in North East Atlantic fish stocks which are ‘nothing short of remarkable’. The findings which cover species including haddock, sole and herring follow recent reports that cod stocks in the North Sea are reaching sustainable levels.

“The fall in fishing mortality levels is being seen as significant as it applies to all of the three main species groups; pelagicLiving in the mid or surface water levels of the sea (including herring and mackerel), demersalLiving on the seabed (including cod, haddock and whiting) and benthicnoun: Benthosnoun: Benthos, the plants and animals which live on the seabed., the plants and animals which live on the seabed. (flat fish including sole and plaice). The ICES statistics also show the trend applies right across the North East Atlantic, with white fish stocks – including those in the North Sea – rebuilding rapidly.

“Barrie Deas, Chief Executive of the NFFO, said: “ The most recent ICES statistics are nothing short of remarkable and paint a long awaited, positive picture for both the UK’s fishing industry, as well as those of us who look to fish as a sustainable, traceable and healthy food source. Over the last decade, the relationship between fishermen and scientists has blossomed into a highly respected multi-project research programme, which has contributed greatly to corresponding decline in mortality across the main commercial fish stocks. Sustainability is now at the heart of the way the fishing industry operates and these figures are a major endorsement of the way practices have changed over the last ten years. There are some stocks yet to respond but the dominant downward trend is too well established, too wide in geographical terms and across too many fisheries to be dismissed as a blip.”

[Jeff]

Many people still presume that the weather warfare apparatus that sprang up suddenly around the globe in the early 2000’s simply carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data. To be fair, at least a subset of that diabolical machinery does actually carry telephone traffic, but the system’s creators neglect to mention the Death energy it carries and distributes as its primary purpose. Death energy that Western science assures us absolutely does not exist.

Diabolical: “belonging to or so evil as to recall the Devil.”

Most fortunately for us all, the widespread distribution of simple, tactical orgonite has transformed – and is continuing to transform – that Death energy, which Wilhelm Reich called ‘Dead Orgone Radiation’, into what he called “Positive Orgone Radiation’. And, more and more, we’re seeing how the folks who built that system to play havoc with the weather and the citizenry at large are losing the weather war they started, and losing it badly.

Steady drops in tornado and hurricane activity, the return to regular, plentiful rainfall, cooling temperatures, record harvests, highest-ever crop yields. They’re the sorts of things people noticed and talked about before thinking for one’s self was outsourced a generation or two ago. Wait, did I mention dropping crime rates, and dropping divorce rates?

In the article that follows you can check out how, in July, 2014, 75% of the corn crop was in “good” or “excellent” condition, a rating that was the second best of the past 20 years for the time of year, beaten only by the 1999 figure.

1999, which was just before the bristling forest of energy weaponry (disguised loosely as ‘telephone infrastructure’) was installed with nightmarish speed around the globe in the early 2000’s.

By the way, Soybeans were also rated best in 20 years for the time of year. And “Northern spring wheat is flourishing in a cool, rainy summer,” And those record harvests are coming to fruition, right now.

http://www.agrimoney.com/news/……-7242.html

Weather underpins hopes for huge US corn crop

July 8, 2014

Weather forecasts maintained hope for US corn production prospects as crops entered the key pollination period in historically strong condition, with soybeans and spring wheat seen thriving too.

An outlook for temperatures to remain below average throughout the Midwest over the next 10 days “sets the stage for excellent pollination conditions”, said Paul Georgy, president of Chicago broker Allendale.

"If the forecast comes true it would make it the fourth coolest pollination period since 1980.

“This would put this year in the category with 2004 and 2009 when record yields were set in corn.”

US farmers achieved a corn yield of 160.3 bushels per acre in 2004, beating by a margin the previous record of 142.2 bushels per acre set the previous year, while in 2009 setting the current all-time high of 164.7 bushels per acre.

Cool conditions are beneficial to pollination, with heat and dryness hampering the process, as seen in 2012, when the yield fell to 123.4 bushels per acre, the lowest since 1995.

‘Bumper yield prospects’

At RJ O’ Brien, Richard Feltes also highlighted that the two-week outlook for Midwest temperatures was “not only cooler than last week’s models, but normal-to-below average through the peak of corn pollination in mid-July”.

He added: "US farmers, grown accustomed to sub-160 bushels per acre US corn yields in eight of the last 10 years, are unexpectedly faced with the prospect of a 170 bushels-per- acre 2014 US corn yield."

The comments followed the release of data overnight showing that as of Sunday 15% of corn was silking, part of the pollination process, at a time when 75% of the crop was in “good” or “excellent” condition.

While unchanged on the week, that rating was the second best of the past 20 years for the time of year , beaten only by the 1999 figure.

‘High humidity was beneficial’

The increase reflected largely an improvement in southern growing states, such as Texas, where USDA scouts reports that " corn experienced rapid growth as a result of recent rainfall ", with 66% rated good or excellent, up 2 points week on week.

In Kansas, where " cooler temperatures prevailed and rain fell " last week in southern parts of the state last week, the proportion of corn rated good or excellent increased by 3 points to 58%.

“High humidity was beneficial for row crops,” scouts said.

Such improvements more than offset a 3-point decline to 76% in the proportion of crop in Iowa, the top corn and soybean growing state, viewed as in good or excellent health, with excessive rains impairing crop condition.

“Weed control and nitrogen side-dressing were behind due to wet conditions and the inability to get equipment through fields,” Iowa scouts said.

“Many producers reported yellowing corn and stress on soybeans due to excessive moisture.”

’Spring wheat is flourishing’

Indeed, the proportion of Iowa soybeans rated good or excellent fell too, by 2 points to 73%, although this was, again, insufficient to offset improvements in other states, such as Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska.

The rating of the national crop, steady at 72% good or excellent, is the best in 20 years for the time of year.

For spring wheat, the proportion seen as in good or excellent condition held at 70%, including 83% of the crop in North Dakota, the top growing state.

"Northern spring wheat is flourishing in a cool, rainy summer," said Gail Martell at Martell Crop Projections.

“A favourable wheat harvest in North Dakota, if it occurs, would help offset losses in hard red winter wheat production, pegged down 25% below average.”

In fact, the condition rating of winter wheat improved 1 point to 31%.

However, with 57% of the crop now harvested – up 14 points week on week, but remaining 3 points behind the average –condition ratings for the crop are of decreasing importance.

[Jeff]

The punchline of this article is right in the headline: “Augusta city officials who initially opposed the removal of the dam now say it’s been good for the city.”

The ostensible reason for the city’s opposition to the dam’s removal was the $250,000 in revenue it generated per year. Just so we’re clear, that’s not profit, it’s revenue . A whopping $685 per day . I could park a taco truck in Augusta and produce more revenue per day. And, yes, they think you are so stupid that you would buy that excuse.

But, fortunately, one of the Positive Changes That Are Occurring is that the dam was removed over their objections, and now they’re copping “ it’s been good for the city ”. This is either because, A: the wholly-ill-intended, lying, obstructionist officials have actually changed on a deep level, or, B, are acting as if they have because they know public opinion has turned against them, and they’d better play along.

I think it’s a microcosm of the larger future we are going to see and live in. Huge, irreversible positive changes are underway all around us, and the secretive psychopaths who rule us only by keeping a mask of sanity in place are going to have to come along, smiling stiffly, and sit at the party as if they enjoy it.

But who knows? Perhaps they’re changing, along with everything else, and will come to enjoy the party, themselves, upon a time. Like the Grinch, whose heart grew three sizes, that day.

“it’s dramatically different now,” “The river is full of fish.” “It’s an amazing spectacle if you are in the right place, at the right time.”

"we now know that nature will restore itself dramatically if we give it a chance.”

http://www.centralmaine.com/20……-kennebec/

Without Edwards Dam, fish and birds thrive on the Kennebec

Augusta city officials who initially opposed the removal of the dam now say it’s been good for the city.

June 30, 2014

AUGUSTA — The first water to flow through when Edwards Dam was breached 15 years ago was brown and thick with mud from the earthen cofferdam built for the occasion.

Environmental and fisheries advocates say the Kennebec River has been looking better and getting healthier ever since the 917-foot-long dam was removed on July 1, 1999, returning 17 miles of upstream water to free-flowing after they were blocked by the dam for the previous 172 years.

Mike Lehman of Windsor tosses a stick into the Kennebec River Monday for his dog at the site of the former Edwards Dam in Augusta.

With the removal of Fort Halifax Dam in Winslow in 2008, the Kennebec now has the largest run of alewives and river herring on the eastern seaboard, according to the Natural Resources Council of Maine.

More shad have also been seen, and caught, on the river north of Augusta since the dam removal, too.

While some other species of fish haven’t enjoyed the same strong comeback on the Kennebec — smelt fishermen reported this past season to be among their worst ever, striped bass populations remain low compared to previous years, and the rare Atlantic salmon remain rare — the healthier river, the alewives and other species are breathing new life into the river.

Edwards Dam was the first, and so far only, hydro-electric dam ordered removed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against the wishes of its owner, and the ground-breaking event made worldwide news when it occurred.

It was controversial too, with the city of Augusta initially opposing removal.

In April 1998, Augusta City Manager William Bridgeo hosted then Gov. Angus King at an Augusta City Council meeting at which the governor urged the city to drop its opposition to the dam’s removal. The city opposed the removal of the dam but later joined the state, the dam’s owners Edwards Manufacturing, and environmental and fisheries groups to negotiate a complex deal that headed off an anticipated court battle.

FERC then ordered it removed, denying the request for it to be relicensed.

The city initially opposed removal in part because it meant lost revenue for the city, about $250,000 a year, between property taxes and royalties from the sale of the electricity it produced as a co-licensee of the dam.

Environmentalists say the removal of the dam that produced relatively little electricity has been a boon to wildlife.

Nick Bennett, staff scientist for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, said Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife officials counted 58 bald eagles on a single day, June 6, along the five-mile stretch of the Sebasticook River from where it enters the Kennebec to the Benton Falls fish lift.

“That’s the largest congregation of eagles, in such a small area, likely the largest congregation on the East Coast,” Bennett said. “They’re feasting on the alewives. And we know that alewives are critical food for cod, seals and the entire marine food chain.”

Jeff Reardon, Maine Brook Trout Project director for Trout Unlimited, described the river as “dramatically different” since the dam’s removal.

“The key question is did we get what we wanted?” he said. “And, from the sections of the river with 100 percent restored access, we have seen the recovery of all the species we’d expect to see.”

Reardon said in May and June, when alewives are returning from the sea to swim up the Kennebec and its tributaries to spawn, the waters will be, literally, full of fish.

“As somebody who spends a fair amount of time on the river, it’s dramatically different now,” Reardon said. “The river is full of fish. It’s an amazing spectacle if you are in the right place, at the right time. You can tell when they’re here, because you’ll see the ospreys,” feeding on them.

As of June 22, state Department of Marine Resources workers had counted 2.37 million alewives at Benton Falls and 90,300 at Lockwood Dam in Waterville. Bennett noted that doesn’t include numerous alewives harvested below the Benton Falls fish lift, or fish that swim into freshwater ponds below Waterville on tributaries without being counted.

Bennett said both Edwards and Fort Halifax dams generated very small amounts of electricity, “about the amount that one, maybe two, wind turbines would generate. FERC had to weigh the value of the electricity produced versus the value of the fishery you’re destroying. In the case of Edwards, they decided the fishery was of greater value than the electricity from the dam.”

The negotiated agreement included state grant money to help restore Mill Park at the former dam site, creation of a riverfront improvement district, and payments from the state to help fund the restoration of the former city hall into senior housing.

Bridgeo said the biggest benefit to the city, however, was an improvement of previously contentious relations with state government. And to the river itself.

“It has been good for the health of the river and, I think when you look at it from a macro perspective, it has been good for the health of Maine,” Bridgeo said.

Sea-run fish returned to spawn above Edwards Dam shortly after it was removed.

Reardon and Bennett said an active and growing shad fishery has developed, as the stretch of previously blocked river has proven to be excellent shad habitat.

“There is now a very strong recreational shad fishery in Waterville, attracting people that didn’t know what a shad fishery was 15 years ago,” Reardon said.

Reardon and Bennett noted shad numbers above Lockwood Dam are disappointing, and suggested fish need better access than is provided at the dam, where fish are trapped, counted and trucked upstream.

Bennett noted the water quality has improved between Waterville and Augusta since the dam was removed. The flowing water, he said, contains more oxygen which allows fish, insects, and other aquatic life, to thrive.

“For more than 160 years, fish coming up the Kennebec could not get past the Edwards Dam, where they were dozens of miles away from their prime spawning habitat,” Natural Resources Council of Maine Executive Director Lisa Pohlman said in a news release. “But now alewives and other fish can swim from the sea to freshwater lakes in the Sebasticook watershed, and the results have been astounding. While there is still important work to do to further improve the fisheries of the river, we now know that nature will restore itself dramatically if we give it a chance.”

[Jeff]

I just read a story, on National Petroleum Radio, about how “more than half of U.S. Bird species are threatened by climate change.” I’ve posted it below, balanced against serial reports about booming bird populations, so that the reader can use their personal discernment in regard to how the birds are actually doing.

My favorite quote features a seasoned birder saying (sic) “I couldn’t believe my eyes”, in regard to the huge numbers they were seeing.

I’ve subjectively concluded that the Mouthpiece of the State’s propaganda was deployed as a cover for what is in actuality threatening the birds, namely the Neonicotinoid pesticide that was developed specifically to kill said birds (and also of course the bees). There’s a note on how that poison kills birds below, also.

Those foul chemicals have been banned across the entire European continent because they are so obviously causing ruin, but here in U.S. it’s sprayed from tanker trucks while NPR says " birds threatened by climate change !"

It’s a device that makes a Punch and Judy puppet show seem complex. I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t want to live in the stupidest country in the history of mankind. Yet even sheepus americanus is awakening, or should I say reawakening. “Yankee ingenuity” used to be famous around the world, you know.

More Than Half Of U.S. Bird Species Threatened By Climate Change

September 09, 2014

A seven-year study published Tuesday by the National Audubon Society warns that the migratory routes and habitats of more than half of the birds in North America are now or soon will be threatened by climate change.

January 13, 2014 – Brant thriving along Connecticut’s coast. I was filling out my Christmas Bird Count Captain’s Statistic Sheet (finally) and I had to question for a second my own numbers. Did I really see more than 1,000 Brant that day?

July 2, 2014 – Experts say bald eagles thriving in Kansas / LJWorld.com

Jul 3, 2014 – Duck Numbers at Record High . According to surveys, up eight percent from 2013.

July 9, 2014 – Neonicotinoids linked to recent fall in farmland bird numbers …

July 13, 2014 – Connecticut ‘citizen science’ helps monitor thriving osprey population

[Jeff]

The article that follows shows that all of the Great Lakes’ water levels are at or above normal for first time in 14 years. I think that’s interesting in that it was 14 years ago, in the early 2000’s, that the weather weaponry that many still mistakenly presume only carries phone traffic and weather radar data was thrown up suddenly around the globe.

The great news is that, in the years since that system came on line, the slow, steady dispersion of simple orgonite devices in the proximity of said weather weaponry has transformed the Death energy that unperpins the system into what Wilhelm Reich called “Positive Orgone Radiation”.

And we’ve seen a slow, steady return to regular, plentiful rainfall, and a decrease in extreme weather events. That horrific system was designed to, among other things, create drought, and also to steer and augment storms. Can you hear me now? Good!

The story also shows the numbingly repeating pattern of the folks in charge actively trying to cause harm, and then blaming it on ‘the climate’. You could insert ‘the boogeyman’ and the sentence would still work just as well.

It’s exactly like the last story I posted: create poison to kill birds, blame ‘the climate’ for killing the birds.

Climate change was, indeed, damaging the great lakes. The folks deliberately doing the damage just took care not to mention the change was being brought about artificially by the technology they designed and deployed for that specific purpose.

Too bad for them their system isn’t really working anymore and Lake Michigan/Huron is up 18″ in the last year.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201……-14-years/

All Great Lakes water level is at or above normal for first time in 14 years

September 9, 2014

Remember this alarmist whining from Joe Romm’s Climate Progress last year?

“How Climate Change Is Damaging The Great Lakes , With Implications For The Environment And The Economy

Great Lakes Michigan and Huron set a new record low water level for the month of December, and in the coming weeks they could experience their lowest water levels ever. It’s becoming certain that, like the rest of the country, the Great Lakes are feeling the effects of climate change.

Last year was officially the warmest year on record for the lower-48 states. The hot summer air has been causing the surface water of the Great Lakes to increase in temperature. One might think this causes more precipitation around the lakes, but the warmer winter air is causing a shorter duration of ice cover. In fact, the amount of ice covering the lakes has declined about 71 percent over the past 40 years. Last year, only 5 percent of the lakes froze over –- compared to 1979 when ice coverage was as much as 94 percent.”

What a difference a year makes.

Current data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows that for the first time in 14 years, all five Great Lakes are at or above average water levels. Lake Michigan/Huron is up 18″ in the last year.

From a July 07, 2014 Chicago Tribune article:

“In January 2013, the average water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron dipped to 576 feet, the lowest point since modern record-keeping began in 1918.

The all-time high of 582.3 feet was set in October 1986, representing a sizable range of about 6 feet.

The lakes tend to follow yearly cycles, swelling in the spring and summer and shrinking in the fall and winter, but they have never in 95 years of recordings remained below average for so long.

The last two years of relatively heavy winter and spring precipitation, however, have led to this year’s stronger-than-usual seasonal rise , according to Keith Kompoltowicz, chief of watershed hydrology for the Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District.

“We saw a tremendous amount of snow,” Kompoltowicz said of this winter. “We haven’t seen snow like that in a long time.”

In fact, the snowpack around the Michigan basin this year was 30 percent higher than at any time in the past decade. The past two months have also supplied above-average amounts of rain, quenching parched harbors and popular fishing holes like the Lincoln Park Lagoon.

So much for climate change effects, water is back to normal levels for now.