Positive Changes That Are Occurring

[fran]

Thanks Jeff! your posts keep getting better and better.

fran

[Jeff]

Wow, Fran, thanks for the wonderful compliment!

Sometimes, or most times, I feel like I’m writing for myself, to say “I did something, I took action, I spoke up.” I’m trying to live up to the Thomas Paine quote in my footer, “O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!”

To know that someone else likes what I’m writing is really fulfilling to me.

One of my favorite movies is “Animal House”. There’s a scene near the end where John Belushi’s character, Bluto, draws the line about the mistreatment his friend, Otter has received at the hands of the rival Omega fraternity, and it really captures the spirit I’m after:

Bluto: “This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this.” At the end of the scene, all of the Deltas stand up and run out with Bluto.

And so, among many other things, this thread records that my idols include Joan of Arc, Thomas Paine and John Blutarsky.

Fran, again, thank you.

It’s my pleasure to announce that the Positive Changes That Are Occurring at this time include the Trump corporation’s gambling arm declaring bankruptcy . Boom! (As the latest irritating social convention goes.)

I guess “The Donald” is going to have to look in a mirror and yell “you’re fired!” at himself.

If you’ve been following the thread, you’ll know that gambling revenues are plummeting not only across the nation, but around the globe, as well…and that the exact same false excuses are being used in all the articles on the subject. You’ll see that the one that I’ve posted below tries to paint Trump Casinos’ bankruptcy as a ‘blow’ to the ‘ struggling resort town ’ (wring hands) that is Atlantic City.

Well, I don’t personally know anyone who sees the arrival of gambling houses and strip clubs as signaling the improvement of a neighborhood - other than politicians and Secret Handshake Club newswriters.

When I was a child, we went to Atlantic City, and it was nice, had a great feeling. I watched it go downhill, and fast, when gambling arrived, and I’m not the only person who remembers.

I’ve been chronicling the steady drop in crime rates, divorce rates, and gambling revenues in this thread, along with the, well, boom (rimshot) occurring in nature all over the globe.

People are turning away from unwholesome pursuits, eating better, getting involved more when they see wrongdoing…

The collapse of the gambling industry feels like ‘don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out!’ moment, to me.

And something better is already forming – yes, forming out of the ether – to take the place of the foul parasite that is withering and dying in A.C.

Trump Casinos Bankruptcy Plan a New Blow to Atlantic City

Sep 9, 2014

Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., the company founded by Donald Trump, will file for bankruptcy again this week , people with knowledge of the situation said, putting a fifth Atlantic City casino in danger of closing.

The company owns two properties in the struggling New Jersey resort town . Trump Plaza is set to cease operations on Sept. 16, and the Trump Taj Mahal may also shut in November , the people said. Three other casinos have closed in the city this year, including Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s Showboat and the Revel Casino Hotel last week.

A Taj Mahal shutdown would put another 2,800 employees out of work in a city already losing 5,200 casino jobs this month. Moody’s Investors Service cut the municipality’s bond rating by two steps on July 23 to Ba1, the highest speculative standing. Governor Chris Christie and other local leaders held a summit yesterday to discuss Atlantic City’s future after an expansion of gambling in neighboring states ate into what was once the only legal market on the East Coast.

“What happened to Atlantic City, there’s a lot of competition from a lot of other locations ,” Trump said in a telephone interview yesterday. “It’s happening all over.”

Trump has no active role managing the company. Robert Griffin, chief executive officer of Atlantic City-based Trump Entertainment, declined to comment.

[Jeff]

Awareness is rising unstoppably around the globe. And, happily, that includes where I was born and raised, in the United States.

In 2003, the punk band Green Day released their album “American Idiot”. A few posts ago I talked about how I didn’t want to live in the stupidest country in the history of mankind, and how “Yankee ingenuity” used to be talked about around the world. Well, after a long, terrible descent, I believe we may be pulling out of the nosedive. Because the headline of the article that follows is ‘Most think Congress is worst in their lifetime.’

That’s the public waking up to the realization that both political parties are employed by the same vile, psychopathic folks up at the top of the control pyramid, who play both ends against the middle while wearing natty suits, kissing babies, and telling people what they want to hear, then doing the exact opposite. Forever .

It’s not a matter of low I.Q., of course, but rather of conditioning, programming.

I’ve cut the reams of drivel that begin, and end, the article, in which it is laboriously discussed which sections of the country favor which wholly-controlled-and-coopted, fox-in-the-henhouse political party.

You have to go deep in the article to find the really salient information, in a single, two-sentence paragraph: “worst Congress of their lifetime”.

The great news is that, when people wake up to the fact that they’ve been conned, they get angry. And they ‘get wise’ to the con, and can never be tricked in the same way again.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/……?hpt=hp_t2

CNN/ORC poll: Most think Congress is worst in their lifetime

September 10, 2014

Overall, Americans are angry with Capitol Hill, as a whole, with a whopping 83% saying they disapprove of how Congress is handling its job , while 65% describe it as the “worst Congress of their lifetime.” The current approval rating for Congress is 14%, just four points higher than the all-time low of 10% in a September 2013 CNN/ORC Poll.

[Jeff]

The article that follows – which is absolutely exhausting in its non-stop duplicity – is what is called in the newspaper industry a ‘hit piece’. Hit piece: an attempt to turn public opinion against someone/something through the appearance of objective reporting or editorializing.

In an environment where a majority of birds are increasing in numbers, check out this sentence from the article about birds that aren’t doing as well (bolds and italics mine): “Losing those birds will rip gaping holes in the mosaic of bird life in Massachusetts.”

That’s some florid language! Can you feel the squirt of fear and adrenaline? Creating fear is one of the mainstream media’s primary purposes.

Well, just why aren’t some birds doing as well? Whenever foul play is afoot, writers within the wholly-coopted Mainstream media use the words ‘ baffled ’, ‘ puzzled ’, ‘ mystery ’ and ‘ unclear ’ – among others – to cover for the career criminals they work for:

“Remedies remain mysterious for other birds, such as the American kestrel, whose decline was noted by many of the volunteers whose work is chronicled in the atlas. The cause of the decline is unclear , but chemicals and the loss of nesting sites have probably played a role.”

“ chemicals probably played a role ”. Just a few posts ago I featured a bunch of stories about generally booming bird life, and about how Neonicotinoid pesticides were still mowing down birds (and bees) wherever they were sprayed. That’s what those chemicals were designed precisely to do, by the way – vs. “ keep your crops safe from bugs !”, as alleged.

To protect the deliberately-bird-killing poison manufacturers they work for, the reporter uses this sentence is used to create fear in the ensheepled reader: “ Can consumers support small farmers who don’t use pesticides ?” Read: “we will turn the screws to you financially if you try to ban pesticides.”

The duplicitous author says “Loss of nesting sites played a role”, I see. But, Mr. Expert, sir, later in the article it says that New England as a whole is back to 80 percent forest or woods, can you comment?

The formula they are using is: deploy deadly chemical deliberately designed to kill birds, say ‘ the cause of the bird decline is unclear ’, then shift the focus to ‘ loss of nesting sites’ – when in fact nesting sites are increasing. Is this too complicated for anyone to follow?

Also notice how “the State of the Birds 2013” report featured in the article uses data that is, at its most recent, from 2011. That helps them keep the great news about 2012 and 2013 off the books, and paint as bleak a picture as they can. That’s called ‘slanting’, and also ‘spinning’.

“ the studies tell a story that calls for simultaneous celebration and concern .” That’s what’s called a “bewildered herd” tactic. What a deviant thing to say!

They do what they can to sow the seeds of negativity wherever possible: “ Some proliferating birds have become annoying ”. What a deviant thing to say! I suppose we should machine-gun them to lower annoyance levels?

This sentence is used to create anger and fear in the ensheepled reader: “ A Cooper’s hawk had just blown apart a pigeon that was at my feeder.” What a deviant thing to say!

It’s really kind of exhausting keeping up with the tireless spell spinning.

“ Birds that increasingly like Massachusetts and its recent milder winters. ” In the face of it getting colder and colder, and snowier and snowier. What a deviant thing to say!

One you understand a stage magician’s trick, you can no longer be fooled, taken in. That’s why I’m laboriously writing all this out, and repeating it day after day. It is my hope that some subset of readers will recognize the patterns and tactics I’m pointing out and become immune to them, going forward.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opi……story.html

A wing and a prayer

Many bird species are flourishing in Massachusetts — but the news isn’t all good

November 30, 2013

Now that Joan Walsh has mapped out the bird species in Massachusetts, the question is what to make of the aviary she’s revealed. She is the director of bird monitoring at Mass Audubon, which this month released “The State of the Birds 2013” and the “Massachusetts Bird Breeding Atlas 2.” Taken together, the studies tell a story that calls for simultaneous celebration and concern.

On the positive side, 60 percent of Massachusetts bir species have increased their numbers in the last three decades , benefiting from a century’s regrowth of rural forests and suburban tree canopies, and from wetlands and clean water conservation efforts inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1960s “Silent Spring.” But the more recent dicing up of grasslands and woods for new suburban developments has 40 percent of species on the decline.

“This is not a story of doom and gloom,” Walsh said. “We are doing a lot right in this state. . . The big message is resilience. If we give the birds a chance, they will do well.” But she urged that while most declining birds are “not yet on life support,” they still need “immediate supervision.”

Colorful birds doing well include red-bellied and pileated woodpeckers, pine warblers, and Eastern bluebirds. Bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and osprey have reappeared in the skies. Great blue herons, once hunted for plumes to the point of near extinction, line inland rivers and coastal marshes. Ruby-throated hummingbirds swarm feeders. Some proliferating birds have become annoying , from park-pooping Canada geese to Brookline’s brazen wild turkeys.

The gorgeous birds that are fading away include the American bittern, Eastern meadowlark, American kestrel, ring-necked pheasant, cliff swallow, Northern bobwhite, and roseate tern. Losing those birds will rip gaping holes in the mosaic of bird life in Massachusetts.

The State of the Birds 2013” and the “Massachusetts Bird Breeding Atlas 2” are the result of tens of thousands of hours of observations in 10-square-mile blocks by more than 700 volunteers from 2007 to 2011. “Atlas 2” compares bird life in the Commonwealth to that depicted in an earlier atlas completed in 1979.

The changes in bird life poignantly overlap with another major study this year from the Harvard Forest and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. That study found that New England as a whole is back to 80 percent forest or woods. But David Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, said there were warning signs for Massachusetts, in particular. Development has reduced forest cover from nearly 70 percent four decades ago to closer to 60 percent today.

“You don’t want to bask in the glory of environmental accomplishment,” Foster said. “We are seeing patterns of forest fragmentation and perforation that may make many birds reject habitat that might look perfectly suitable to us, but for the birds is not large enough, thick enough, or missing critical shrubs underneath.”

Birds that increasingly like Massachusetts and its recent milder winters include more southerly warbler species and the Carolina wren. The wren, which bred almost exclusively in Southeastern Massachusetts in the 1970s, today breeds over the entire state.

Cooper’s hawks, which had been killed by pesticides and farmers angry over the birds’ pilfering of poultry, have exploded in numbers. One blizzard day, as I wrote in my home in Central Square, Cambridge, I felt a concussive “whoomp!” through the living-room window. A Cooper’s hawk had just blown apart a pigeon that was at my feeder.

Conversely, the Eastern meadowlark, which once bred over 4,500 square miles of land in Massachusetts, now breeds in only 1,000 square miles. Much of the land that was vacated is in the Interstate 495 crescent. This golden-breasted bird was afflicted by pesticides , loss of farmland, livestock grazing, and hayfield cutting on the farms that remain, which destroyed nests on the ground.

“It’s a bird that will likely require complex human interventions to thrive again,” Walsh said. “Can we get farms to cut their hay out of breeding season? Can consumers support small farmers who don’t use pesticides? Can we promote any expansion of grassland when opportunities arise?”

The meadowlark is a reminder that maintaining a full mosaic of breeding birds in Massachusetts requires a variety of management solutions. Brown thrashers might need more shrubland. Cliff swallows might need more artificial nest ledges. American bitterns may need even cleaner water and more cattail wetlands free of invasive species. Many birds would do better if people kept cats inside. The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute this year found that home-owned, stray, and feral felines kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year.

Remedies remain mysterious for other birds , such as the American kestrel, whose decline was noted by many of the volunteers whose work is chronicled in the atlas. The cause of the decline is unclear , but chemicals and the loss of nesting sites have probably played a role.

“The birds, whether they are doing well or not so well, are sending us a strong signal as to how we are managing our environment,” Walsh said. “People have to decide what kind of landscape they want.” If we want the song of the meadowlark to join the screech of the eagle, and the bittern to wade alongside the blue heron, we will have to wade deeply into the issue ourselves to secure the best environment for the most birds.

[Jeff]

See below how ‘favorable nesting weather’ is bringing back the Pheasants in South Dakota. A 76% increase in the past year! I think “Pheasants have close to doubled in population in the past year, up 76%” is stronger, but then weakening the good news is the job of any Mainstream news shill.

The shill who takes care to note “ but survey numbers still are well below 10-year averages ”.

And the populations are up everywhere, not just in traditional strongholds of the birds. The shill has made sure you have to dig further down in the article to find the even better news, a 147 percent increase in the aforementioned stronghold areas.

So the shill’s as-conservative-as-possible headline reads: “Pheasant numbers rebound 76 percent”, when it should read “Pheasant numbers rebound 76% overall, up 147% in some areas.”

But nature is booming, rejoice, revel in it:

“We’re seeing some birds, and some big broods,” he said. “There seem to be 10 or 12 in a brood. Conditions were great for nesting. May and June were perfect .”

http://www.argusleader.com/sto……/14635203/

Pheasant numbers rebound 76 percent

August 26, 2014

PIERRE, South Dakota – An annual pheasant count shows a big recovery for the birds in South Dakota following a population nose dive brought on by habitat loss and years of unfavorable nesting weather.

The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks’s annual pheasant brood survey turned up a 76 percent increase in pheasants per mile statewide compared to last year.

The rebound was helped by great nesting conditions, but the survey numbers still are well below 10-year averages, suggesting habitat challenges remain.

On 109 routes walked statewide, Game, Fish and Parks personnel counted an average of 2.68 birds per mile, up from only 1.52 birds per mile last year.

Moreover, the pheasant population is up everywhere , not just pheasant factories such as Lyman County, according to Tony Leif, the GF&P’s wildlife director.

" We have a really good distribution of birds across the pheasant range in the eastern half of the state ," Leif said.

While the 10 routes in the Chamberlain area, which includes Lyman County, averaged 6.55 birds per mile this year, a 147 percent increase , even the 11 routes counted near Brookings pheasant numbers improved to 1.16 birds per mile from 0.77 last year, a healthy 50 percent hike.

This works in hunters’ favor. When the majority of a pheasant population is concentrated in a handful of counties and largely on private land, a limited number of hunters see most of the birds.

“Opportunity does not follow in a linear relationship to the number of birds,” Leif said.

The brood survey is eagerly anticipated by hunters across the country who are considering hunting in South Dakota, and communities that bank on a pheasant hunting economic bonanza are due for some good news after a slow year.

In South Dakota’s pheasant universe, 2007 was a high-water mark. The state had 1.56 million acres enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, and 180,836 resident and out-of-state hunters bagged 2.1 million birds. Pheasant hunting had an estimated economic impact of $219 million.

Conservation acreage — vital for pheasant nesting, brooding and winter cover — has since fallen to 930,000 acres. The loss of habitat, coupled with several years of unfavorable weather during nesting, sent the pheasant population into a nose dive last year. Statewide, the average pheasants per mile was 1.52, down from 4.19 in 2012.

The number of hunters fell to 132,060 last year, and they killed only 930,012 birds. The estimated economic impact of pheasant hunting last year was only $140.8 million.

Kuip’s Corner Hardware in Platte sells hunting licenses, shotguns and gear during pheasant season. Last fall, business was down 70 percent, owner Mark Kuipers estimated.

This year’s brood survey “is going to help. No doubt about that,” Kuipers said.

“People see that, and they are optimistic. It definitely makes a difference.”

A member of Platte’s Pheasant Forever chapter, Kuipers pays close attention to pheasants in the Platte area.

“We’re seeing some birds, and some big broods,” he said. “There seem to be 10 or 12 in a brood. Conditions were great for nesting. May and June were perfect.”

The brood survey highlights the astonishing ability of pheasant hens to take advantage of favorable nesting conditions.

“They are very tenacious nesters,” Leif said. “That’s why they are such a prolific game bird. They are so dedicated to producing young, and when conditions are right they are capable of producing bumper crops of birds.”

Dave Nomsen, Pheasants Forever’s vice president of governmental affairs, called the brood survey “a bit of a tribute to the birds’ reproductive potential. They can just explode.”

That said, and even with the 76 percent statewide increase this year, the brood survey still shows the pheasant population 53 percent below the 10-year statewide average of 5.75 birds per mile. Loss of habitat is the biggest driver of the decline.

“The most substantial increases are where we have the best cover,” Leif said. “We had a lot of good years that started in the early 2000s. Weather and habitat lined up, and it took off.”

Pheasants Forever focuses intensely on habitat improvement, according to Nomsen, and he thinks pheasant hunters, in the main, understand the importance of good habitat.

"Something has happened to pheasant hunters in the last 30 years. The message has sunk in. They are more knowledgeable about pheasant biology and habitat needs," he said. A hopeful brood survey report can fire up the resolve of hunters, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts to do even more to improve habitat.

“We are going to be looking for new opportunities for new chapters and new events all across the pheasant range,” Nomsen said. “We are trying to support our existing 50 chapters” in South Dakota “to do even more.”

Gov. Dennis Daugaard late last year appointed a task force to develop recommendations for improving pheasant habitat, and the group is close to issuing a final report.

“We are anxious to see the recommendations and how they are acted upon,” Nomsen said. “That will be the key.”

He anticipates the hopeful news embodied in the brood survey will amplify efforts to increase wildlife habitat to ensure pheasants thrive.

“Can this bring more people to the table to help us?” he said. “We sure hope so.”

[Jeff]

If you haven’t seen the lying Mainstream media articles saying that bird numbers are declining due to Climate Change (shake voodoo doll, dance about), they’re in this thread. You’ll also see ‘habitat loss’ and a wide variety of other excuses used in an attempt to cover up the fact that Neoniotinoid pesticides are what in actuality is killing the birds.

They currently constitute 40% of the world pesticide market - a mighty, albeit temporary triumph for the two-faced, barely-closeted Death worshippers who rule us. Those chemicals were designed specifically to kill both the birds and the bees, under the false guise of “ keeping your crops safe from bugs !”

Rising awareness has led to them being banned in Europe, but the are still distributed by the tanker truck here in Americuh. You know, you have to work hard over time to merit other nations naming your country “the Great Satan.”

The article tries its best to blunt the message wherever it can, like saying that Neonicotinoids hurt bees. The word ‘hurt’ implies something you come back from, heal from. No, they kill bees. They kill birds, too.

Instead of saying ‘kills birds’, the worm-tongued article instead says that the poison ‘indirectly affects other creatures’ …and that the bird populations ‘tended to decline’ . Can you discern how they are always harrying, always dissembling on behalf of their loathsome masters?

Harry: To disturb or distress by or as if by repeated attacks; harass

Dissemble: To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance

Loathesome: disgusting; revolting; repulsive

The article is long, and queasy, and bloated. Feel free to click the link and read the rest of it. The manufacturer’s ‘it’s perfectly harmless!’ rebuttal is there, but, curiously, no mention of the entirety of Europe banning the foul chemicals. Go figure!

And, even more tellingly, no asking of the very reasonable question, ‘if it kills birds and bees, what happens to me when I eat an ear of that poisoned, Genetically-modified corn?

That’s because the person writing the article has a very serious agenda, and they are following it to the letter.

http://news.nationalgeographic……nt-spring/

Second Silent Spring? Bird Declines Linked to Popular Pesticides

July 9, 2014

Neonicotinoids are aimed at insects, but they’re affecting other animals too, study says.

Pesticides don’t just kill pests. New research out of the Netherlands provides compelling evidence linking a widely used class of insecticides to population declines across 14 species of birds.

Those insecticides, called neonicotinoids, have been in the news lately due to the way they hurt bees and other pollinators. (Related: “The Plight of the Honeybee.”)

This new paper, published online Wednesday in Nature, gets at another angle of the story—the way these chemicals can indirectly affect other creatures in the ecosystem.

Scientists from Radboud University in Nijmegen and the Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology and Birdlife Netherlands (SOVON) compared long-term data sets for both farmland bird populations and chemical concentrations in surface water. They found that in areas where water contained high concentrations of imidacloprid—a common neonicotinoid pesticide—bird populations tended to decline by an average of 3.5 percent annually.

"I think we are the first to show that this insecticide may have wide-scale, significant effects on our environment," said Hans de Kroon, an expert on population dynamics at Radboud University and one of the authors of the paper.

[Jeff]

The headline of the article that follows is “Showbiz, Music Industry Jobs Drop 19% in Two Years.” Wow, needles moving, all the needles moving.

The public is obviously refusing to consume, at last, the generally-nightmarish product those industries produce, with every genre now loaded to the gills with violence, death, Illuminist symbolism that they don’t even take the trouble to veil anymore, and every other negative thing you can possibly think of.

It was neatly summed up for me recently when Beyonce was dancing around a stripper pole in front of a giant sign saying ‘Feminism’. Black is White, Ignorance is Strength, and, yes, they think you really are that stupid.

Hollywood takes it’s name from Holy-wood, a reference to the Oak groves the ‘peaceful, loving’ Druids used for their human sacrifices.

The drop in show business and music industry jobs maps directly against drops in television viewership, which I’ve mentioned previously in this thread.

Can you feel the energy level rising, in every quarter, on every level?

http://variety.com/2014/artisa……201303222/

Showbiz, Music Industry Jobs Drop 19% in Two Years

The U.S. economy has seen a steady erosion of jobs in the motion picture and sound industries , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Preliminary statistics from the BLS show that employment in those two industries has dropped to 298,000 in August — marking the first time in the past decade that the number has dropped below 300,000, and representing an 8% decline from 324,600 jobs in August 2013, and a 19% slide from 366,300 jobs in August 2012.

The monthly numbers began edging down in the latter half of 2013 to under 350,000, then slid to 329,900 in December. The figure slid to under 320,000 in February and plunged in May to 302,900.

The BLS report has been issued at a time of uncertainty in Hollywood . On Sept. 4, Warner Bros. Entertainment CEO Kevin Tsujihara told the studio’s 8,000 employees that layoffs were coming at every level.

The industry has been hit by a sharp decline in domestic box office , with summer business generating the poorest total in eight years. Additionally, production incentives outside the U.S. have continue to lure producers to use international locations.

[Jeff]

The deviant few control the many via pyramidal control systems and organizations, where the folks at the top falsely profess that they have the best interests of those below them at heart. Really nice suits and the most emotionally-manipulative speeches possible are also part of this program, which has been going on possibly since before the Great Flood, and definitely since Babylon.

Slowly, dimly, yet inexorably, this truth has dawned on the human family, and whole nations are now putting their hands on their wallets and backing slowly toward the door in the form of state and national secessions.

David Cameron, prime minister of Britain, said Scotland voting for independence would leave him “heartbroken.” (wring hands). He’s probably telling the truth, though, because he’ll be in such trouble with his Secret Handshake Club bosses.

The leveraged pyramid scheme model will be the key to their undoing, because if you don’t have central control, you’ll need more employees, and the secretive, parasitic few don’t have the ability to expand their business that way.

I’ve steeled myself for a stolen-Bush-election-esque ‘Scotland votes 51% no, 49% yes!’ con job, but there are supercomputers trained on these matters, and they know, to a gnat’s eyelash, just how far they can push things. But, who knows, the critical mass may already have been reached?

They’ll only harm themselves and speed up their demise even more if they pull such a stunt, of course.

In Peter Gabriel’s ‘Biko’, he says “you can blow out a candle, but you can’t blow out a fire, once the flames begins to catch, the wind will blow it higher.’ I think that’s where we are.

From Kurdistan to Texas, Scots Spur Separatists

September 10, 2014

STEENOKKERZEEL, Belgium — For Kurt Ryon, the mayor of Steenokkerzeel, a Flemish village 10 miles northeast of Brussels, watching the Scottish independence campaign in the final days before the referendum is like watching a good soccer match . “They were losing for the first half and most of the second half,” he said, “but now we’re in the 85th minute and they could be winning.”

Mr. Ryon, who wants his native Flanders to split from Belgium, is rooting for Scotland to do the same from Britain, and like a faithful soccer fan he has all the gear: a T-shirt from the Scottish pro-independence “yes” campaign, a collection of “yes” pins on his denim jacket and copious amounts of a beer specially brewed by Flemish nationalists to express their solidarity. The label says “Ja!” next to a Scottish flag, Flemish for yes.

A sign in Selkirk, Scotland, advocates voting against independence. David Cameron, prime minister of Britain, said such a break would leave him “heartbroken.”

From Catalonia to Kurdistan to Quebec, nationalist and separatist movements in Europe and beyond are watching the Scottish independence referendum closely — sometimes more so than Britons themselves, who seem to have only just woken up to the possibility that Scotland might vote next Thursday to bring to an end a 307-year union. A curious collection of left and right, rich and poor, marginal and mainstream, these movements are united in the hope that their shared ambition for more self-determination will get a lift from an independent Scotland.

http://news.yahoo.com/catalan-……QAbTrQtDMD

September 11, 2014

Drawn up in lines of red and yellow to form stripes with the Catalan colours, hundreds of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators of all ages massed in the sunshine to mark Catalonia’s national day, the Diada.

The commemoration, which marks the Spanish conquest of Catalonia in 1714, was more sensitive than ever this year, coming amid calls for a November 9 vote on Catalan independence.

An official from Barcelona’s nationalist-led city hall told reporters it estimated turnout for the demonstration at 1.8 million , but central government officials put the figure much lower.

[Jeff]

Check it out! The fact that greenhouse-gas-driven Global Warming heat has mysteriously burrowed or tunneled into the deep ocean – despite heat’s well known tendency to rise – has led to the earliest snowfall in Rapid City, South Dakota since 1888!

You can see the Fed meteorologist do his best to stonewall, defer, dissemble and defray, but it’s almost funny to read, anymore. He’s going to get in trouble for saying “it’s a little on the high side, though.”

http://www.argusleader.com/sto……/15434275/

Rapid City sees earliest snowfall since 1888

An early September winter storm in the Black Hills has dumped up to 8 inches of snow in the area , while Rapid City received its earliest snowfall in more than 120 years.

Jon Chamberlain, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Rapid City, said almost 1 inch of snow had fallen in downtown Rapid City by 8:30 a.m. while 2 inches was measured in higher elevations in town.

The snowfall in downtown Rapid City is the earliest in the city since 1888 , the NWS said. The previous early snowfall mark was seven-tenths of an inch on Sept. 13, 1970.

Chamberlain said while it is unusual for Rapid City to see snowfall this early , it isn’t for the Black Hills.

"It’s a little on the high side, though," he said.

Downtown Custer reported 8 inches of snow, while 7 inches was reported at Mount Rushmore. Other snowfall totals: 6 inches five miles south of Hill City; 4,5 inches in HIll City and 4 inches in Sundance, yo.

[Jeff]

Incredibly, despite El Nino not occurring, it’s being shaken like a voodoo doll and credited for our upcoming cold winter. This from about a week ago: “El Nino will have a big impact going into the 2014-2015 winter season.”

The only problem is it’s not happening, not occurring, has not begun. From a story posted literally today, you can see that it ‘was expected to have begun’ (italics mine), but ‘ the defining characteristics have not yet been established .’ That’s mil-speak for ‘it’s not happening’. They use the pining, hopeful term ‘ yet ’ to try to keep the withering black spell alive.

The “ El Nino – the Lazarus of 2014 ?” More pining. The great hope, the cherished dream! I guess you’ll get fired if you work for these people and stray from the party line, regardless of how off track things have gotten.

El Nino - Dragging it’s heels, but ” still on the way! ” (bitterly shakes fist).

" Is the El Nino Dying ?" (wring hands) - you see this sort of language a lot with Hurricane reporting…or you did, back when there where Hurricanes to speak of.

April 30, 2014 – The data are trickling in, and with each passing day it seems more certain : 2014 is going to be an El Niño year, and probably a big one. “ I think there’s no doubt that there’s an El Niño underway ,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research recently told Wired.

May 8, 2014 – El Nino – Historic?

Jun 23, 2014 - 2014 just might be the year when El Nino kicks in again

June 23, 2014 – Is the El Nino Dying?

July 6, 2014 – The 2014 El Niño is looking more and more like a bust

July 22, 2014 – Climate Change Clouds Future of El Niño Forecasting …

July 30, 2014 – The Chance of El Nino Drops to 50%

August 7, 2014 – El Nino dragging its heels but still on way

August 30, 2014 – A Change in the Wind: El Nino – the Lazarus of 2014?

September 7, 2014- Winter Outlook 2014-2015 U.S. Winter Forecast - After a record year in the Midwest & the East Coast, El Nino will have a big impact going into the 2014-2015 winter season . Here in August we see a 73% chance of El Nino at this point and we feel this is GAME ON in a month or so!

September 11, 2014 - The National Weather Service, in its monthly El Niño report, again downgraded the chances of the influential weather pattern occurring in the fall or winter . The odds were 80 percent in May, but were placed between 60 and 65 percent this week.

September 15, 2014 – El Niño and its impact on Winter 2014/15 : Pattern resembles last winter

September 17, 2014 - But while an El Niño event was expected to have begun by this time, the defining oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Pacific have not yet been established , Amis said. Nonetheless, the probability of seeing El Niño conditions by November is above 60 percent, though the event is likely to be a weak one ,” said Amis, a multilateral agency which is led by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization.

[Jeff]

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the Ukrainian politician who was thrown head first into a dumpster by an angry mob. In Pakistan, another angry mob threw another politician off an airplane for holding up their flight for two hours, something that politicians and bureaucrats do with regularity in Pakistan. Or did, until the public woke up and realized they didn’t have to take that sort of treatment, from anyone.

Kind of like the mob in the Ukraine. ‘Mob’ being an emotionally-loaded word for ‘critical mass of angry, like-minded citizens.’

The lapdog media account does it’s best to cover for the scoundrel politician, saying he’s best known for “colorful ties and erratic pronoucements .” The charade is that he does and says ill things merely based upon emotional whimsy, vs. coldly-calculated Machiavellian action, as is actually the case.

And the quote of the day is ““You should be ashamed of yourself! Even if you are a minister, we don’t care. We don’t care anymore. How long will we put up with this nonsense in the country?” Or maybe it should be “Shame, shame!”, or “Beat him with shoes!” There are so many to choose from.

Scotland votes on its independence today, with the stolen-election setup firmly in place in the media, “ too close to call ”.

1:57 p.m. Eastern time edit: stolen election plausible-deniability setup still firmly in place “A final Ipsos MORI poll released Thursday put support for the No side at 53 percent and Yes at 47 percent” .

3:40 p.m. Eastern time edit: fix firmly in, now, "Scottish independence referendum: with no exit polls, isn’t there a democratic deficit? The absence of an exit poll means we’ll be robbed of a post-vote analysis of how this momentous referendum was decided. " neither the BBC nor any other media outlet has bothered to pay to get one done."

Angry passengers throw Pakistani politician off plane after getting stuck on tarmac waiting for him for two hours

9/17/2014

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Flight delays are nothing unusual at Pakistan’s ailing state carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, long hobbled by political interference, a bloated staff and epic financial losses.

But the delayed departure of one flight on Monday caused several enraged passengers to mount a virtual mutiny and eject one politician and block another from the plane before it could even take off.

The incident occurred at the Karachi airport when Rehman Malik, a former interior minister best known for his colorful ties and erratic pronouncements , turned up two hours late for a flight to Islamabad.

The state airline often delays flights to accommodate tardy politicians and senior bureaucrats , which is seen as one reason for its patchy operational performance.

Jeering passengers stood at the entrance to the airplane, blocking Malik’s way, witnesses said. The parliamentarian turned back and did not board the flight, and videos of the protesting passengers went viral on social media Monday evening.

Malik later denied that he was responsible for the drama, and blamed his political opponents. “I felt the drama was created by some passengers who were PTI folks,” he said in an interview on Tuesday, referring to members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party led by the opposition politician Imran Khan.

Khan and his supporters have been camped out in central Islamabad for the past month, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Malik said he had gone to airport late because Pakistan International Airlines staff members told him the flight would be delayed.

“The delay was not due to me,” Malik said. “I myself suffered because of the airline’s mismanagement.”

A spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines appeared to corroborate Malik’s account, saying the flight had been delayed by at least 90 minutes because of technical problems, and then an additional half-hour for unknown reasons.

“We are investigating the cause of the delay,” said Mashhood Tajwar, the spokesman, adding that two managers at the airport had been suspended pending the outcome of an inquiry.

You should be ashamed of yourself!

In the widely distributed videos of the fracas, a lawmaker from the governing party who was also on the flight, Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, could also be seen being booed and heckled by passengers as he walked onto the plane.

Passengers surrounded Vankwani’s window seat and, after confirming that he was a member of parliament, shouted “Shame, shame!”

In the videos, Vankwani pleads with his fellow passengers that the delay was not his fault. But the protesters ignore him and push him from the aircraft. “Beat him with shoes!” one person cries.

Shortly after, Malik could be seen approaching the plane on a jetway, but stopping after hearing the commotion.

“You should be ashamed of yourself!” shouted one passenger, who appeared to be leading the charge. “Even if you are a minister, we don’t care. We don’t care anymore,” he said before adding, “How long will we put up with this nonsense in the country?”

Malik, who was interior minister until last year, waved at the protesters and returned to the departures lounge. In the interview on Tuesday, he called the protesters “miscreants indulged in terrorism” and said he was considering legal action against Pakistan Airlines for failing to provide him and Vankwani with security.

[Jeff]

The momentus positive changes that are underway are occurring worldwide, and they include dropping crime rates, as documented throughout this thread.

Highlights from the September, 2014 collection, below, include an anomalous increase in arsons in California, within a larger decrease in crimes of all categories. I’ve subjectively concluded that arson is one of the ways that ‘secret agents’ spend their time, these days – vs. the romantic depiction of them gambling at fancy casinos presented in the media. Maybe they still get dressed up and do that after they set the fires their bosses told them to set. Executing mass fish kills are also a big one for them, recently, also. One of them, from Roanoke, VA, continuously monitors this forum, as you can see if you check the real time visit tracker on the forum’s front page.

Below, check out how, in Venezuela, the politician (former intelligence services head!) won’t even release the crime numbers from 2014. He’s keeping them secret, you see, because “ they could be used in the media to increase a feeling of insecurity that would not coincide with reality .”

I think that’s priceless, because he’s coming out and stating the actual purpose of the media, while lying to you and flipping the situation on its head. That’s actual Black Magic, for those interested. He also says ‘ government programs ’ are what’s causing crime to drop.

Venezuela’s seen an 18% drop followed by a 4 to 7% drop, which he calls ‘ modest ’ and ‘ circumstantial ’. He also picks a too-aggressive goal for crime reduction going forward out of the air while ignoring previous drops in crime to – again – flip the situation on its head, and then say ‘ not enough progress being made! ’ More Black Magic. Which I transmute and neutralize via exposure here.

September 5, 2014 – Sydney, Australia. Bureau report shows crime rate drop. Sydney, Australia. The latest report from the Bureau of Crime Statistics (BOCSAR) shows a decrease in 7 of the 17 major offence categories in the two years to June 2014.

September 12, 2014 - Carlsbad notes mid-year crime rate drop in Sept. 9 report

Carlsbad officials are noting decreases in overall crime in the city based on the Sept. 9 release of mid-year statistics from the San Diego Association of Governments. Carlsbad’s specific trends match an overall countywide drop in crime , according to SANDAG’s breakdown and a follow-up statement from the Carlsbad Police Department.

Although arsons increased 21 percent in the county in the first half of this year , property crime dropped by 13 percent and violent crime decreased by 1 percent compared with the same period last year. SANDAG noted that Del Mar saw a 37 percent drop in property crime. Overall, 16 of the 19 jurisdictions covered in the report saw decreases in property crime, SANDAG stated.

Sept. 10, 2014 – 2014 Crime Rate Drops In Venezuela.

The internal affairs minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, former head of intelligence services for 10 years , acknowledged that “ modest progresses [have been made] in fighting crime,” but reaffirmed his office’s efforts “not only for the people’s security but also to improve the attention provided to people.” “We are not proud of the figures of homicides, but they have reduced.”

In the interview, the minister explained that this improvement was due to governmental programs , in addition to cooperative opposition mayors and governors of the coun t ry. Yet the improvement is still “circumstantial” - it relates only to 2014, and should be converted into a structural one, with a goal of 40 percent reduction of crime over the four next years, he said.

The minister didn´t provide details on the crime figures, arguing they could be used in the media to increase a feeling of insecurity that would not coincide with reality. Nevertheless, he said that in 2012, the homicide rate reached 57 per 100,000 inhabitants (roughly coinciding with the UN records of 53), and this figure has continuously decreased , according to his available data, to 39 at the end of 2013, and to an expected 32 to 35 by the end of this year –while an acceptable goal would be 10 homicides for 100,000 inhabitants, he added.

September 25, 2014 – Crimes Against Tourists Drop. Tobago – Tourist-related crime in Tobago fell by 76% in 2013

[Jeff]

In a recent post, Don mentioned how ritual Black Magic required constant repetition and reinforcement. A good example of that may be found in the first three items I’ve posted below, which are part of the ‘ fish are disappearing !’ meme that is being constantly repeated in the media, despite ongoing, concrete evidence to the contrary. It’s literally a Black Magic spell, and I’m refuting it with the White Magic of Truth via the rest of the items I’ve included.

When I discovered the headline “ How the world’s oceans could be running out of fish ” came from an organ called “ SmartPlanet ”, I wanted to puke, but decided to steady myself and write this rebuttal, instead.

I invite the reader to juxtapose “ Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear by 2050 ” against “the Baltic Salmon may be more numerous than any time since the Second World War” and use their personal discernment as to which statement is correct and which is not. That particular historically-unprecedented Salmon run was in Sweden. With another one occurring at the same time all the way across the globe on the Columbia river - which saw the largest, single-day return of Chinook salmon since counting began. That means, like, more than ever in history.

I haven’t seen any other stories from the charlatan who said he’d revived the Pacific Salmon population with a special nutritive dust he developed. Perhaps he’s been busy travelling to Sweden and feeding the fish, there, too, and I’ll have to post a retraction. We shall see!

Also of interest to me is the fact that Dogfish numbers have increased over 500% since 2002. The author takes care to say that they increased ‘ five fold’ , because that’s less impactful than saying ‘increased by over 500%’. Careful readers will note that I’ve documented that tactic previously in this thread.

The author of the Dogfish piece also quotes a Secret Handshake Club buddy, who slips in a Mason-riffic “ Dogfish exceed their target level by 33 percent ” in there as a wink to his fellows. It’s like the author I quoted in a previous post about ice fishing who said " they were fishing in 32 feet of water ." Calling out the tactics of these scoundrels helps those not yet aware to become aware, you see.

In Alaska, we’ve just seen the largest summer Dungeness crab season harvest since 2002, and it’s 142% larger than the same harvest just last year. 2002 is significant, as that was right about the time that the bristling forest of Death-energy-based weather weaponry that many still presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data was thrown up suddenly around the globe.

There were 500% less Dogfish in 2004 than currently, which also maps against my thesis.

Fortunately for us all, the slow, steady, and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive orgonite devices has transmuted the Death energy underpinning the network to what Wilhelm Reich called “Positive Orgone Radiation”, or POR, which is driving the massive positive changes currently underway around the globe.

Or so I have subjectively concluded.

May 17, 2010 – Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear by 2050 : Discovery News

September 21, 2012 – “SmartPlanet” – How the world’s oceans could be running out of fish .

July 11, 2014 – Are the Oceans Running Out of Fish? | One Green Planet

August 14, 2014 –The Southeastern Alaska summer commercial Dungeness crab season closes August 15, and it was among the most successful in recent history . While the information is still preliminary, total summer season harvest is likely to be around 4-million pounds which is the largest summer season harvest since 2002 and is a 142% increase from the 2013 summer season catch.

September 3-6, 2014 – Cape Cod, MA

Acres of albies have invaded the south coast of Cape Cod from Nobska Light all the way to Monomoy. Nearly every day last week had reports of blitzing fish within a few miles of the coast.

September 8, 2014 – Record Numbers for Swedish Wild Salmon. Salmon are surging up Sweden’s rivers in record numbers. In the biggest river, Tornea älv in Norrbotte, over 100,000 salmon have swum past the counters. Swedish Radio reports the Baltic salmon may be more numerous than any time since the Second World War.

September 12, 2014 – Chinook returns shatter last year’s record . Since Sunday, more than 180,354 adult fall chinook have climbed the fish ladders at Bonneville Lock and Dam on their annual migration into the Columbia River Basin, according to a new release by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bonneville Power Administration. Sunday’s count of 67,024 chinook was soon surpassed by Monday’s return of 67,520, marking the largest, single-day return since counting began with the construction of the dam in 1938 . The previous record of 63,870 chinook was set less than a year ago on Sept. 9, 2013. On Tuesday, the numbers held strong with 45,809 chinook swimming past the fish counting windows at the dam, officials said. The fish are among the 359,258 fall chinook seen thus far at Bonneville Dam. Officials said these numbers are only a fraction of the 1.5 million adult fall chinook run expected to return by the end of the year.

September 20, 2014 – Fremantle, Australia

“Squid have been active for most of the week and during the evening around Wilson Head anglers have been taking some beauties. They are big so when they are around they are cannibalising any bait in the water including squid strips. There are plenty of herring around the beaches and rocks of the bay, a float and some plastic tube for a lure and you are on to them. There’s been some smaller samsonfish off the rocks this week and there are still some salmon around. Ocean Beach and Salmon Holes have been producing salmon, along with tarwhine at night along the beach.

September 28, 2014 – Portland, ME

Federal regulators say the fishes (Dogfish) are actually growing in abundance. James Armstrong, who manages the species for the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, said they are estimated to exceed their target level by 33 percent . And James Sulikowski, a biologist with the University of New England who studies the species, said there are about 230,000 metric tons of spawning dogfish in the Gulf of Maine, a nearly five-fold increase from ten years ago . “The guys are seeing a lot of dogfish out there,” said Bert Jongerden, general manager of the Portland Fish Exchange. “ There’s no problem .”

[Jeff]

Below, you’ll see that Oklahoma’s on the brink of having the least number of tornadoes in recorded history. It reminds me of the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch:

“E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E’s expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed 'im to the perch 'e’d be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E’s off the twig! 'E’s kicked the bucket, 'e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!”

I think it’s interesting to note that the most active tornado season in history was 1999, right as the literal forest of weather weaponry that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell traffic and weather radar data was suddenly thrown up around the globe.

The second article, ever helpful, takes pains to describe “least number of tornadoes in recorded history” as “ well below average ”. And I love the fist-shaking warning at the end: “ Things could change dramatically between now and New Year’s 2015 ”…

I guess they keep hoping that their Death tech’s going to somehow leap forward and get ahead of the distribution of the three dollar hunks of scrap metal, resin and crystal that are eliminating the fabulously expensive system’s ability to do harm.

The first article, from earlier in September, trumpets the arrival of the “Second Season” for tornadoes…I guess they have to do what they can to try keep the Great and Powerful Oz in power. Despite the lowest-in-history tornado numbers, the long range forcast still says ‘ might be an active fall tornado season in the Deep South’ .

What’s laugh-out-loud funny is that Don just gifted there for the precise purpose of stopping the tornado agenda in that region - building on the massive and ongoing efforts of Louis L’Onder and others.

Here’s a link to it: “Finishing Tornado Alley’s USAF Mass-Murder Infrastructure” http://www.ethericwarriors.com…Z6j5u.dpuf

Sept. 8, 2014 - Labor Day tornadoes signal start of 'Second Season’ - “Second Season” for tornadoes is underway in Kansas. In their own way, the tornadoes signaled the arrival of what local meteorologists call “Second Season” – a small surge in the number of tornadoes that occurs as the seasons transition from summer to fall.

The past two years have offered unusually quiet Second Seasons , with just one tornado in Kansas between September and December . But there were nine in 2008, for example.

Labor Day’s tornado activity could well serve as a preamble to what Second Season is like , if long-range forecasts prove accurate.

Paul Pastelok, a long-range forecaster for AccuWeather, said computer models indicate it could be an active fall tornado season in the Deep South , given where the southern jet stream is setting up.

September 29, 2014 - The annual tornado season is reaching its end and the overall tornado touchdowns is well below normal for this time of year.

During a normal tornado season in “Tornado Alley” of Oklahoma sees an average of 54 tornadoes according to Forrest Mitchell of the Norma, OK National Weather Service (NWS). During the year 2014 (as of September 29) there have been six tornadoes. If this trend continues or if no more tornadoes touch down in the Sooner State, this will go down in the record books as the year with the least number of actual tornadoes. The old record is 17 tornadoes in 1988 according to Mitchell.

The most active tornado season on record was in 1999 when there were 145 tornadoes and a majority of those touched down on May 3rd. That day 66 tornadoes touched down comprising 45% of all the tornadoes that touched down in '99.

It’s important to understand that there are still 93 days left in the year and we are just now going into the small severe weather season for Texoma that occurs each year from late September through October to early November. Things could change dramatically between now and New Year’s 2015.

[Jeff]

Large and growing protests are underway in Hong Kong, the crux of which are a populace pushing back against being forced to pick merely between Party-approved candidates. The only difference between there and here in the U.S. is that the public actually grasps that the fox is in the henhouse, and that the Party-picked candidates don’t have the public’s best interest at heart, as they profess.

Of particular note is how, when the police used tear gas to disperse the crowds, the crowds grew larger, not smaller. The non-aggressive tone of the chief spokesman for the police is also noteworthy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10…html?_r=0

Told to End Protests, Organizers in Hong Kong Vow to Expand Them

September 30, 2014

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday called for the pro-democracy demonstrators who have blocked major roads in the city to return home immediately, but protest leaders responded with defiance, threatening to expand the demonstrations and to occupy government buildings .

In his first public remarks on the protests since the Hong Kong police used tear gas against demonstrators on Sunday, Leung Chun-ying, the Beijing-selected chief executive of the semiautonomous Chinese territory, called on one of the two main groups organizing the protests, Occupy Central With Love and Peace, to end the demonstrations.

He gave no sign that he was prepared to meet with protest organizers or compromise on their demands for open elections to choose his successor .

The crowds outside the local government headquarters swelled even larger on Tuesday night as people of all ages came to join the demonstration before public holidays on Wednesday, China’s National Day, and Thursday, which is a local holiday. A government observation of National Day on Wednesday morning proceeded relatively smoothly, despite chants by protesters outside calling for Mr. Leung’s resignation.

The protesters want Beijing and the Hong Kong government to scrap a decision by China to limit who can run in the 2017 election to choose the next chief executive. China’s plan for that election would let the public vote, but the candidates would be vetted by a committee friendly to Beijing .

The police, whose use of tear gas on Sunday seemed only to motivate more people to join the protests , gave no indication Tuesday that they were preparing to disperse the demonstrators. Hui Chun-tak, the chief spokesman for the police, acknowledged that “the majority of protesters have expressed their views in a legal way” and praised organizers for being willing to discuss opening some lanes of the blocked roads in the city center for use by emergency vehicles.

[Jeff]

Check out how ‘El Nino-like conditions’ are being credited for the historically-low Hurricane activity – when El Nino is not, in fact, occurring. And check out how they’re saying ‘ we’re going to declare one by the end of the year’ , even though it’s not occurring.

Of particular interest is the fact that, for the first time since 2000, the Atlantic Hurricane season peaked with no named storms. The year 2000 is right about the time that the weather weaponry network that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data was suddenly thrown up around the globe.

August 24, 2014 – Atlantic hurricane season showing signs of heating up …

September 11, 2014 – Atlantic Hurricane Season Peaks with No Named Storms. The statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season has arrived and for the first time since 2000 there isn’t a named storm in the basin.

Sept. 23, 2014 – What Happened to the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season …

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/…oming.html

Sept. 30, 2014 – Slow hurricane season, upcoming wet winter due to El Niño-like conditions , forecasters say. The unfavorable wind shear and convergence conditions in the Atlantic hurricane basin are the result of warmer than normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific off Peru.

Normally, those warm conditions would signal a cyclical meteorological condition called El Niño. But the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center says the warmer temperatures required in other parts of the Pacific aren’t there yet to declare the start of El Niño this year. They still expect to declare an official El Niño by the end of the year.

http://www.wunderground.com/bl…rynum=2815

Quietest Atlantic Hurricane Season Since 1986

October 1, 2014

The traditional busiest month of the Atlantic hurricane season, September, is now over, and we are on the home stretch. Just three weeks remain of the peak danger portion of the season. September 2014 ended up with just two named storms forming–Dolly and Edouard. Since the active hurricane period we are in began in 1995, only one season has seen fewer named storms form in September --1997, with Category 3 Hurricane Erika being the only September storm. Between 1995 - 2014, an average of 4.3 named storms formed in September.

With only five named storms so far in 2014, this is the quietest Atlantic hurricane season since 1986 , when we also had just five named storms by the beginning of October. In terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), activity in the Atlantic up until October 1 has been only about 43% of the 1981 - 2010 average.

[Jeff]

The massive positive change that underway is global, and it’s not stoppable. And it’s increasing in speed and magnitude. This is great news, for everyone except Death-worshipping Secret Handshake Club members, who are seeing all their plans, strategies and goals come undone.

Crime rates are dropping, and dropping, around the globe. Hilarious excuses for the ongoing and massive drop in crime such as “ lead was removed from paint, and society became less violent ” and “ all the criminals have turned instead to playing violent video games and surfing porn ” have been tabled by the wholly-controlled-and-coopted mainstream media, which is also highlighted for its lying in the first account, below.

What’s great about that is that the Malaysian police commissioner is calling out the lying journalists.

“California’s 2013 violent-crime rate dropped to lowest level in 50 years.”

“(Hartford, CT has) not seen crime numbers this low in more than 40 years and we have a population that is 20 percent larger today than it was 40 years ago.”

October 1, 2014 – Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak - Drop in crime index not rhetoric, says Sarawak police commissioner. The drop in crime index is not rhetoric but statistics based on reports received, said Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Wira Muhammad Sabtu Osman. He said, for example, concern about snatch thefts had also been blown out of proportion in the papers when actually the number of cases was low if divided by districts.

"Actually we have 28 districts, this year a total of 125 snatch theft cases have been reported, if the number of reports received is divided by the number of districts its only four to five cases in a district.

"For the record, until Sept 29 a total of 6,371 crime reports have been received, a decrease of 6.84% or 468 cases compared with 6,838 cases for the same period last year," he said.

October 1, 2014 – Tairawhiti, New Zealand - A strong focus on preventing crime and community partnerships has resulted in a 7.8 per cent drop in Tairawhiti crime, police say.

October 2, 2014 – California’s 2013 violent-crime rate dropped to lowest level in 50 years. Californians today are less likely to be murdered or fall victim to violent crime than during any other time since the 1960s , according to new figures from the California Department of Justice. The murder rate last year was 4.6 killings per 100,000 California residents, an 8 percent decline from 2012 and a 64 percent decline from 1993 , when cities throughout the state struggled to stop gang killings. The violent-crime rate last year was 397 per 100,000 Californians, down 7 percent from 2012 and a 64 percent decline from 1992.

October 3, 2014 – Bessemer, Alabama, USA - City’s crime rate continues drop. Burglaries down 35 percent, homicides down 50 percent, Vehicle Thefts down 30 percent, Felony Assaults down 17 percent.

October 7, 2014 – Hartford, CT, USA - CT crime drops to 40-year low , Malloy touts state money for local police. Violent crime dropped by 10.8 percent (during 2013) and property crime has declined by 7.6 percent. “We have not seen crime numbers this low in more than 40 years and we have a population that is 20 percent larger today than it was 40 years ago”

October 8, 2014 - RALEIGH: NC sees drop in crime for 6th year

[Jeff]

A record number of at least 45,800 Pink-footed Geese has just arrived at Lancashire in the U.K. And the number of Pink-footed geese arriving in Lancashire is not yet at maximum –more are continuing to arrive.

The article takes pains not to say ‘shatters the previous record by a wide margin.’ Nope, just ‘beats record.’

And please notice the scrupulous absence of any mention of why the geese are doing so well, why they are doing better than they ever have, in history.

Cheeringly, they can’t manage to say 'climate change causing boom/bust cycles in geese population! ’ or ‘global warming providing toastier nesting environment’ , but rather just tight-lipped, terse reportage of what is a remarkable, miraculous, inspiring occurrence.

The fact that these geese are coming from the arctic , which is supposedly a collapsing quagmire, full of starving polar bears and stranded walruses and whatnot, is I’m sure particularly painful and embarrassing for these charlatans.

http://www.birdguides.com/webz…asp?a=4653

WWT Record numbers of Pink-feet at Lancashire WWT reserve

October 11, 2014

A record number of at least 45,800 Pink-footed Geese has arrived at Lancashire’s Martin Mere WWT (Wildfowl and Wetland Trust) , counts have revealed.

This beats the previous record number of 36,000 in 2010. Over the next couple of weeks, numbers will continue to increase as more of these birds make the 500-mile journey from Iceland to spend the start of winter in Lancashire. The geese will ultimately spend the winter to the south and east, particularly in Northumberland and Norfolk, after using the North-West as a ‘service station’ to rest and re-fuel for up to three weeks, before continuing their journey.

Martin Mere Reserve Manager, Tom Clare, said: " This has been one of my most memorable moments at Martin Mere . As I looked out this morning, the two marshes were completely covered in geese. I waited to see them take off which is one of the greatest sights in nature. October is one of the best times of the year to visit the reserve, as it is amazing to see the geese fly in to roost during the afternoon."

The arrival of Pink-footed Geese is an incredible journey that is one of the highlights of migration. Britain provides perfect sheltered conditions for birds to find a winter sanctuary, so over the next few months, Wetland Centres like Martin Mere WWT will become ‘avian airports’, welcoming tens of thousands of migratory birds, mainly from the Arctic. Birds that arrived in spring to raise their young are already heading south to overwinter in insect-rich Africa.

Double figures of Whooper Swans have also already arrived at the reserve, and more are expected on a daily basis through October. WWT reserves are well known for their wildfowl spectacles and accommodate early morning visits to see thousands of Pink-footed Geese flying overhead to and from their roosts and feeding areas and watch thousands of Whooper and Bewick’s Swans fly in to roost, too, particularly at Martin Mere, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, and Welney, Norfolk*.

[Jeff]

Awareness is rising, and that includes the fact that, around the world, people are waking up to the fact that what you eat has a profound effect on your health. And, in response, many or most food purveyors are raising their games, their quality levels.

But not McDonald’s . And we’re seeing McDonald’s numbers falling…and falling…and falling. The following article lays it out…along with a volume of tireless, desperate, unwholesome spin that makes an environmental science article seem tame in comparison. Fasten your seat belt for it.

“McDonald’s has been trying to upgrade the quality of its food, realizing that fast casual chains that offer higher-end fare with the convenience of quick-service restaurants are growing at its expense. Unfortunately, its reputation for having crummy food even within its own category isn’t going away.”

Wait…they’re trying to upgrade the quality of their food? As Yoda once said, “do, or do not, there is no try.”

Wait…“it’s reputation for having crummy food isn’t going away”? “Reputation” implies that it somehow isn’t merited. Versus the truth, which is that they won’t stop serving crummy food and people won’t stop calling them to task for it.

And that reputation “ Unfortunately isn’t going away”? No, their reputation for serving crappy food isn’t going away because that reputation is deserved.

Later in the article, we have “McDonald’s is being cast as "the bad guy ". They’re not actually bad, you see, they’ve just been cast as such. Ratcheting up the spin from implying that the reputation’s not deserved to boldly stating it in a baldfaced lie.

We’re told that sales “slipped 2.8% for the month…”. They use the word slipped because it has a softer, more blunted impact than ‘ dropped ’ or ‘ fell ’.

To cover for locations shut down for serving poisonous food, we have “ Russian regulators shut down several locations on food safety concerns that may or may not have had political motivations .” May or may not, I see. That’s a ‘bewildered herd’ tactic, there.

Yet, despite the tireless support of a protective, apologetic lapdog press, the bad guys’ favorite fast food Death engine is going down. “comps have fallen in 9 of the past 10 months.” “McDonald’s stock hit a new 52-week low on the news.”

And their own quasi-enslaved workers are turning on them, and getting angry – the article notes: “a growing number of customer complaints about employee unfriendliness.”

But, because the folks at the top of the corporation’s controly pyramid worship Death, they have a really hard time turning from the dark path. Their dark faith forbids them from simply going back to serving fresh burgers made from actual meat again. You know, like In-and-Out burger has since they opened in 1948? Or butt-kicking new player Five Guys, who are also kicking McDonald’s butt?

Nope, sorry. The lapdog media article faithfully pants: “it would lose more customers than it would gain by going back to basics.”

Can you see how these people would rather die, than yield?

If McDonald’s went back to doing it like they did in 1940 when they opened, I know I’d go buy their food.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/…/15908697/

5 reasons McDonald’s is falling apart

September 20, 2014

Another month, another wave of customer defections at your local Mickey D’s. McDonald’s (MCD) posted another disappointing showing in terms of store-level sales for the month of August. U.S. comparable sales slipped 2.8% for the month, falling by an even harder 3.7% worldwide. McDonald’s stock hit a new 52-week low on the news.

These are lean times for the world’s largest burger flipper, especially closer to hme, where comps have fallen in 9 of the past 10 months . Let’s explore some of the reasons for the rut that the fast food giant finds itself in at the moment.

1. Quality is a problem

McDonald’s has been trying to upgrade the quality of its food, realizing that fast casual chains that offer higher-end fare with the convenience of quick-service restaurants are growing at its expense. Unfortunately, its reputation for having crummy food even within its own category isn’t going away .

A Consumer Reports survey of more than 32,000 fast food fans ranked McDonald’s dead last among 21 leading burger chains based on taste. When’s the last time an entrenched consumer brand dramatically reshaped consumer perception of the quality of its grub? It won’t be easy for McDonald’s.

2. The growing menu is causing delays and prep mistakes

McDonald’s is no longer just about burgers and fries, but giving customers more choices also has its drawbacks. McDonald’s hosted a webcast with its franchisees last year, alerting them on growing number of customer complaints about employee unfriendliness.

What’s making customers so unhappy? Industry trade mag QSR puts out its Drive-Thru Performance Study every year, tracking transaction speeds. Last year, it found that the average McDonald’s customer’s wait increased to more than three minutes after placing an order to receive it. That’s worse than the industry average, and a personal worst for McDonald’s.

Connect the dots, and it’s easy to see why the more complicated menu at McDonald’s is doing more harm than good.

3. The world is no longer its oyster

It’s been a rough go for McDonald’s domestically, but it was holding up relatively better overseas until this summer. August has offered a double whammy of international setbacks as a supplier scare has decimated its traffic in China, while Russian regulators shut down several locations on food safety concerns that may or may not have had political motivations.

In short, the same world that was once there for the taking is starting to turn on McDonald’s.

4. McDonald’s is being cast as "the bad guy"

It’s been a year since the Service Employees International Union launched the Fight for 15 protests, trying to get fast food chains to boost their minimum wage to $15. As the country’s largest burger chain, McDonald’s has become the poster child for the campaign .

The end result is that a lot of people think it’s not just the food that’s cheap at McDonald’s. It’s not entirely fair. As big as McDonald’s itself may be, 80% of the restaurants are owned by independent franchisees working on leaner markups. However, those siding with the union’s push to roughly double wages at McDonald’s may be avoiding the chain on principle, even as most of its burger peers are holding up better in terms of comps.

5. Going back to basics may not be on the table

A common argument is that McDonald’s just needs to return to its simple roots and the Dollar Menu emphasis that served it so well in its heyday. The problem is that it isn’t likely to work. If McDonald’s scrapped the fancy coffee drinks, premium chicken sandwiches, and gourmet burgers off of its menu, do you really think sales would increase? Outside of a likely improvement in speed of service , it would lose more customers than it would gain by going back to basics.

Yes, a place like Five Guys can thrive without adding shakes, desserts, or fancy sandwiches. The challenge is being able to retain popularity once you start to scale back an expanded menu. This is where McDonald’s finds itself today, seemingly in a winless situation.

[Jeff]

Here in the U.S., we had the greatest rail system in the world for a long period of time. Successful social engineering efforts by a mean-spirited, criminal few have decimated that system, and it’s a shadow of its former self. Since I was young, I’ve been talking to everyone about how we’re going to see a comeback in rail travel.

Below, check out the 51% increase in ridership from 2001 to 2013 on Amtrak rail lines alone. With 31.6 million passengers in 2012-2013, the largest annual total in its history. Wow, that’s an eye-opener.

The Mouthpiece-of-the-State article describes the comeback as ‘ surprising ’. The talking heads in the article say the comeback is driven because of people ‘ avoiding congestion’ , but that’s a half-truth, I think. The number of people driving has been dropping, and dropping over the past few years.

I think the fact that more people are moving back to train travel shows a populace that is, in general, slowly recovering its wits, realizing it’s been sold a bill of goods about a lot of things.

If you open the door to a sheep pen, the sheep will stay right there inside. That’s where conditioning has led us, over literally millennia. But the populace is slowly, inexorably, and with every-increasing speed…unsheepifying.

If you turn to organic food, vs. weaponized corporate food, no one can stop you. If you’d like to hop on a train, go for it.

Later in the article, it’s noted that “freedom is a rare commodity in today’s travel culture…We let airlines treat us really badly.” So people are getting back on trains. See how people are figuring it out, and simply sidestepping the charging Totalitarian bull?

To me the return to rail echoes the rising tide of state’s rights, State Secessions. As a species, we’re dimly coming to the awareness that we can take control of things, and hold on to that control – vs. farm it out to some centralized Big Brother government who doesn’t have our best interest at heart as they profess.

“There is something incredibly liberating and thought-inducing about being on a train,"

“It’s hard to have a train ride across the country and leave that and not be a patriot.”

The surprising comeback of train travel

October 16, 2014

(CNN) – It’s been 21 years, and John Moore still eagerly leans against his passenger window to watch the landscape pass by as the train he commutes on every day roars over the Moodna Viaduct in Cornwall, New York.

The green hills and vibrant leaves just below the elevated track make the trestle one of the prettiest scenes on the 57-year-old’s trip. For more than two decades, the senior business analyst has been traveling about 67 miles for work from his home in Cornwall to lower Manhattan. His total commute time is 2½ hours each way.

It may seem like a lengthy commute, but Moore says he prefers this mode of travel.

"Compared to a bus or a car, it’s much more spacious and comfortable," he says. As soon as Moore boards, he can start work, or socialize with the friends he’s made on the train over the years, or even stretch out his legs and spend a few hours reading a novel.

Moore is not the only one dedicated to passenger rail . There has been a 51% increase in ridership from 2001 to 2013 on Amtrak rail lines alone , according to Jim Mathews, the president of National Association of Railroad Passengers. More business travelers, students and people from the Northeast, Midwest and Western United States are turning to trains for their work and vacation travels.

Matt Hardison, a spokesman for Amtrak, the national rail operator, says the longstanding rumors from the 1980s that passenger rail is dying have changed. In the past 10 to 15 years, rail travel has seen a significant rise in ridership. “Rail has seen a real renaissance in the last decade,” he says. “It’s been a great time to be here. People are turning to rail for inter-city travel.”

From October 2012 to September 2013, "Amtrak welcomed aboard nearly 31.6 million passengers, the largest annual total in its history," according to its website. Some rail stations are brimming at capacity, Hardison says. For example, Pennsylvania Station in New York sees 650,000 passengers a day buzzing through. The Northeast Corridor, Amtrak’s busiest railroad, has more than 2,200 trains operating on the Washington-Boston route each day.

Hardison attributes the shift toward train ridership to the increase in traffic throughout many metropolitan cities in the United States. “In the Northeast, there’s congestion on the streets because of cars and buses and there’s even congestion at airports.” He says people in many of America’s busiest cities are looking for alternative ways to travel more efficiently.

For Moore, traveling via train not only reduces commuting stress, but it also allows him and his wife, Maureen, to live in a more serene environment that is far away from the fast-paced city lifestyle. “We moved to Cornwall specifically because I could take a train to work. It allowed us to live more than 50 miles outside the city and still commute comfortably to work every day,” he says.

Rediscovering freedom in travel

The portrayal of trains as an old-fashioned mode of transportation isn’t a realistic reflection of the hundreds of thousands of people who use them daily , according to Mathews, NARP’s president. "The community that travels on trains travel for many reasons. One is just for nostalgia. But there are a lot of people who travel from D.C. to New York and you won’t find a lot of those people traveling for nostalgia," he says. “They are in suits and ties, where time is money, and they can work for 2½ hours.”

One of those in a suit and tie was Vice President Joe Biden, who for decades traveled by train between Washington and his home in Wilmington, Delaware, while he served on the Senate.

Although a growing number of people are commuting daily by train like Biden once did, there are also those who prefer to ride trains for leisurely travel to see more of the landscape and to relax.

Jack Donachy says he and his wife, Barbra, are among those people. Donachy says they’re restless souls always seeking a new adventure. Recently, they moved to Mongolia to teach English. But throughout their lives they have had an affinity for trains, riding the Skunk Train in Northern California and traveling via rail throughout Japan and Europe.

Donachy, 55, fondly remembers a train ride he took in Japan during spring 1981. He had just been honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after serving out his enlistment. He was traveling by train from Yokosuka, where he was stationed onboard the USS Blue Ridge, to Narita International Airport.

“I had a window seat and was allowing my mind to wander with the rhythm of the train. Suddenly, a switch flipped inside my head and I realized that even though I’d spent the last two years in Japan, I was seeing – really seeing – the country for the first time,” he says.

Zooming past the newly planted rice fields, schoolchildren in uniform, and homes tucked away against hillsides, he was inspired to come back to explore the country.

"I don’t think I would have had that experience, that sudden ‘connected-ness’ with the country, had I been riding any other mode of transportation. There is something incredibly liberating and thought-inducing about being on a train," he says.

In fact, Donachy went back to school to receive a degree in creative writing and headed back to Japan, where he lived for seven years, immersing himself in the country’s beauty and culture.

Donachy says the draw for him and his wife to travel by train is independence. “The true luxury is freedom,” he says. “There are no seat belts and for most of the journey you are free to walk around, or have a glass of this or that, or read, or go to the dining car for something to eat, or simply stare out the window and allow thoughts to wander.”

That freedom is a rare commodity in today’s travel culture, Mathews says. “We let airlines treat us really badly. Whether you have to sleep curled up in a ball because you got bumped from your flight or they lost your luggage along the way, we roll with it. But we don’t let trains do that to us,” he says.

Mathews says because trains are not readily incorporated in aggregated discount travel sites like Kayak and Priceline.com, the average traveler does not realize trains are a transportation option that can be cheaper and more accommodating than taking a flight.

“I think if people stop flying over our country and start seeing our country and how large it is and how beautiful it is, they’ll get it,” he says. "It’s hard to have a train ride across the country and leave that and not be a patriot."