Following in the Footsteps of Stanley Meyer and then blazing on to new ground… Breakthrough in “Free Energy” Tech
–Azti
And this story doesn’t touch the last two years, when we’ve really seen wildlife numbers increase to eye-popping levels…
[http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/earth/st]
10/28/2013
Steller Sea Lions Rebound Off Endangered List
A five year plan to shore up dwindling populations of eastern Steller sea lions, the threatened species that roams from Alaska to California, has succeeded. NOAA Fisheries announced last week it will be delisting the animal as a threatened species, having exceeded its goal for annual population growth by more than thirty percent.
As marine predators that forage on a variety of fish, squid, and other species, Steller sea lions are a vital component of North Pacific Ocean ecosystems. Their recovery is a testament to the value and success of the Endangered Species Act in ensuring the health of marine ecosystems for future generations.
After completing a five-year status review that found the eastern segment had increased from an estimated 18,313 animals in 1979 to an estimated 70,174 in 2010 – an annual growth rate of 4.18%, well above its goal of 3%) – NOAA proposed delisting in April 2012. The animal is the first to achieve recovery and delisting since the North Pacific gray whale was taken off NOAA’s endangered list in 1994.
Not having it all their own way, by any means. I guess the “it’s, um, for your safety” ruse is growing a bit thin even with more sleepy sections of the populace. And each of these attempts to draw the noose a little tighter makes more and more folks wake up. These are, indeed, the good old days. I tell those who are just awakening to what’s going on that I’ve never been more optimistic, and it’s true.
http://www.sott.net/topic/9-Fight-the-Power)
Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.
Last week, Seattle’s The Stranger published an in-depth look at a little known new initiative taking place within the city that involved the installation of dozens of devices that would create a digital mesh network for law enforcement officers. The devices – small white-boxes equipped with antennas and adorned on utility poles – would broadcast data wirelessly between nodes so police officers could have their own private network to more easily share large amounts of data. As The Stranger pointed out, however, those same contraptions were able to collect data on internet-ready devices of anyone within reach, essentially allowing the Seattle Police Department to see where cell phones, laptops and any other smart devices operating within reach were located.
The SPD said they had no bad intentions with installing the mesh network, but The Stranger article and the subsequent media coverage it spawned quickly caused the system to receive the type of attention that wasn’t very welcomed. Now only days after citizens began calling for the dismantling of the mesh network, The Stranger has confirmed that the SPD are disabling the devices until a proper policy could be adopted by the city.
" The wireless mesh network will be deactivated until city council approves a draft policy and until there’s an opportunity for vigorous public debate ," Police Chief Jim Pugel told The Stranger for an article published late Tuesday.
“Our position is that the technology is the technology,” Whitcomb said, “but we want to make sure that we have safeguards and policies in place so people with legitimate privacy concerns aren’t worried about how it’s being used.”
The few control the many with a wholly controlled and coopted media, one arm of which is Television. In the article that follows you’ll see that the populace is rejecting it, just as they are rejecting High Fructose Corn Syrup, Aspartame, and a host of other intentionally-harmful vehicles foisted upon them by the barely-closeted Death worshippers who presume to rule us.
For some years, now, I’ve been telling people “you are going to see the return of quilting bees”, and “you are going to see horses tied up to hitching posts downtown”. The general reaction has been mirth, but less so of late, I deem.
[http://www.businessinsider.com/cord-cut]
The TV business is having its worst year ever.
Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011 , according to Citi Research.
Media stock analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson recently noted, " The pay-TV industry has reported its worst 12-month stretch ever." All the major TV providers lost a collective 113,000 subscribers in Q3 2013. That doesn’t sound like a huge deal — but it includes internet subscribers, too.
Broadband internet was supposed to benefit from the end of cable TV, but it hasn’t. In all, about 5 million people ended their cable and broadband subs between the beginning of 2010 and the end of this year.
People are unplugging.
Time Warner Cable, for instance, lost 306,000 TV subscribers in Q3, and 24,000 broadband web subscribers, too.
And Tom Rutledge, CEO of Charter Communications, told Wall Street analysts he was “surprised” that 1.3 million of his 5.5 million customers don’t want TV — just broadband internet. “Our broadband-only growth has been greater than I thought it would be,” he said.
The following charts show the evidence that cable TV is dying, and that people are also unplugging from broadband internet service.
Cable TV ratings are sinking.
Cable TV ratings are in an historic slump. Note that the “growth” line, as charted by Citi analysts Jason B. Bazinet and Joshua P. Carlson, is persistently below zero.
At my family’s Thanksgiving gathering, one of the attendees earnestly recounted to me how National Geographic had posted a map of where sea levels would be after ALL the polar ice had melted. He related how, as he’s currently looking for a new house, he would check the altitude of the new houses, to make sure they were above the new sea level proclaimed by National Geographic, 200-some feet higher than current. Not wanting to ruin the mood, I did not discourse on the subject. Amazing, isn’t it? When this is, in fact, the reality:
Gobal Sea Ice Area Highest in 25 years, 6th Highest on Record
It has been 25 years since Hansen predicted the demise of polar sea ice. Gaia has celebrated the date by producing the most polar sea ice in the last 25 years.
My wife grew up in Hilo on the Big Island, so this is especially poignant to me.
Note, below, how the ‘opponents’ are not named by the ever-helpful lapdog media, but yet are given a place in the debate. Note also the grass-roots-level Kauai County Council defeating the Beast within by overriding its veto – with no mention of exactly who did the veto-ing by the ever-helpful lapdog media. The media’s duplicitous non-mentioning is cheering, actually, in that is shows the awareness that a ride out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered, may not be far off for their barely-closeted Death-worshipper/parasite masters. See their stranglehold slipping, slipping…I defy and expose them here. Parasites fear exposure above all else.
And each victory like this will inspire others…
Big Island mayor signs GMO crop bill
Kenoi: “We all understand we must protect our island and preserve our precious natural resources”
HILO, Hawaii —Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi signed Bill 113, which restricts the expansion of transgenic crops grown on the Big Island.
“Our community has a deep connection and respect for our land, and we all understand we must protect our island and preserve our precious natural resources. We are determined to do what is right for the land because this place is unlike any other in the world,” wrote Kenoi in a message to the Hawaii County Council. “With this new ordinance we are conveying that instead of global agribusiness corporations, we want to encourage and support community-based farming and ranching.”
Mayor Kenoi continues in the letter, “The debate over this bill has at times been divisive and hurtful, and some of our hard-working farmers who produce food for our community have been treated disrespectfully. We are determined to protect every farmer and rancher. Agriculture on Hawai’i Island will continue to grow with county assistance, investment and support.”
The measure limits most use to enclosed structures such as greenhouses.
Opponents say the law will give growers elsewhere a competitive advantage. They also say discussion among council members was not significant before the meeting.
Farmers already growing genetically modified crops, including papaya growers, would be exempt from the new ban.
Last month, the Kauai County Council voted to override a veto of a bill requiring large farms to disclose use of genetically modified crops.
Thanks for sharing that one, Jeff. It IS encouraging. Can I go off topic for a sec and just share a video of Billy Kenoi, so people can see him?
I don’t know Billy Kenoi much, but for a politician he seems pretty genuine the times I have encountered him. He has charisma and a magnetic presence that really commands someone’s attention when he enters a room. He’s always been nice to me when we’ve spoken. I usually see him at Okinawa club events.
I know a ton of people in this video, and I’m in here too. Skip to 1:18 to see Billy Kenoi speaking, and seeing what he is like:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/alZRMfMhyOY?feature=oembed
It’s true that lot of the papayas on Big Island are already GMO, so try to never buy the “Solo” variety at the market, and usually get the Rainbow or any other kind of variety that I can…
I’m as disgusted with the Greenboots as anyone is. I hate dogma and mind control programs.
That said, if we’re going to undermine that agenda we need to keep clear of giving the impression that we want to replace the existing popular dogma with another one. For instance, I first learned about conspiracy authors by listening to Christian radio shows in the mid-1980s. The reason authors and books were featured on these programs was to promote bornagain chumpism and some pretty good authors even presented material with that ojective. A good example of the latter is a fine expose on the origins of the Mormon Church, written by a former Mormon bishop who became a bornagain chump. I forgot the title. When the internet came along censorship disappeared. It was a few more years before the NSA and other $#!+rat agencies filled the internet to the brim with their own liars, unheard of ‘experts,’ and charmers and featured all of that in the search engines. Getting to the truth is no less easy than it was before the internet but I think it’s more likely to happen, now, as long as we’re willing to steer clear of distractions and look at data dispassionately. If we let the NSA lead us by the nose we’ll be no real threat to them or to their stinky corporate masters, for instance.
I urged Carlos in Portugal to post an article he shared with me about the Nazi origin of the green movement and it certainly relates to some of the subject matter in Jeff’s thread. I hadn’t seen information like this in twenty years so it’s refreshing to know that someone is exposing that, again. Thirty years ago I found a couple of books that tied the greenboots to East Germany’s STASI, too, who were sponsoring some of the European terrorist groups at the time that had environmentalism as part of their preaching. The German legislature is heavily controlled by the Green Party, I gather.
Reading books is essential to discovering hidden reality, still. The internet can guide us to the proper books in some cases but in my experience there are some subjects that nobody on the internet (except us, haha) will discuss. A lot of important out-of-print books are available as free PDF downloads, too. I’m very thankful to the people who are uploading those books to the web.
I think the ongoing collapse of the global warming scam has made it possible for more people to publish empowering material again. I’m constantly amazed by how thoroughly most people are programmed to assume that the greenboots are somehow heroic. What each of us are doing to heal the environment is a lot more impressive than the entire lot of them have accomplished. For me, all it took to know that the green movement was a scam was to learn that the Rockefeller foundations are paying the salaries of all their officials and all of these environmentalist organizations. This all originated in academia, by the way.
A casual glance at academia shows us that the Nazis in the 1930s would be green with envy to see the lockstep denial and mythology that characterizes the present Church of Settled Science, which casts out anyone who has a genuinely independent outlook.
On the face of it, we might be tempted to assume that higher education is ‘evil,’ but in fact people who have science degrees are often better equipped, on account of it, to make solid contributions to our species once the church programming has been overcome and once that person has come to recognize the significance of the ether in physics, biology, chemistry, etc. I think we just need to get rid of the parasite that finances and controls these institutions and some (including me) believe that this process is well underway, regardless of what we do or think.
Regarding rising sea level, anyone who has spent time at the coast over the past forty years or so can probably see that the sea level is rising. To me, this easily explains the increased flooding of some areas of the East Coast and the Florida Keys. Before, it took bigger storms to cause such flooding. The polar ice caps grow and shrink in a cyclic way and it’s got nothing at all to do with cow farts or the use of freon. It ought to be obvious, too, that the rotational axis has shifted a great distance over the past ten years, too. So I take statements about record high levels with ice and put it alongside photos of enormous, azure blue pools of melted ice at the north pole, which are said to be unheard of, and I keep it all in my ‘wait and see’ vault until more corroborative evidence is available. It’s axiomatic that popular assumptions are never entirely accurate until some obscure truth has finally made its way into ‘common knowledge.’ We saw this happen in regard to racial prejudice in America over the past 40 years or so, for instance, and now nobody’s genuflecting at ‘global warming,’ any more, as far as I can tell. I think we’re partly responsible for that on account of our collective gifting successes around the globe, which have been making it rain so much that the ancient parasite is no longer able to claim that those places are in a drought. Around here, they’re not even lowering the level of the water reservoirs, any more. Years ago, some greenboot maven was claiming that ‘the current reversal of the Kalahari Desert is evidence of global cooling.’ The Kalahari began reversing suddenly after Georg and Trevor flipped all of the ‘upwind’ coastal death towers and weather weaponry from Mozambique to Cape Town, though the 20 orgonite cloudbusters that were placed strategically throughout the Kalahari before that may have also been a crucial factor. An African pilot we know who flies over the Kalahari a lot assured me that it’s still green, by the way–almost ten years after the fact.
Southern Africa was in the most severe drought in history before Georg got busy there in 2002 and the South African government was warning people to prepare for famine, then.
When Carol and I arrived in Florida in September, 2005, the Weather Channel was constantly yammering about more and worse hurricanes to come in the following years but the very last hurricane in N America came directly at us a month later, before we got started with our work, there, and it was the last one. Nobody has refuted any of this but if we stepped over the line and dogmatized what we do, the NSA would send a swarm of challengers and our readers would be confused by it all. That’s why I think it’s good to let the reports speak for themselves. People on EW are genuinely reputable and our readers respond to this and can easily see the consistency of the reported results. We can’t hope to persuade someone to believe in what we’re doing. I learned this over the years in the zapper trade, before orgonite came along. A genuinely progressive movement, like this one, grows by direct referral, more than by advertising, powerful argument or theater. Our target audience (accountable people) is quite small but thanks to the internet we’re reaching them.
Meanwhile, I still do what I can to expose the foundational brainwashing dogmas: theosophy/masonry (I think the greenboot agenda dovetails with this) and religious fundamentalism. Exposing this crap seems to pay off because it encourages our readers to start looking at reality more independently. When we cross the line and attempt to present ourselves as authorities it has the opposite effect and in fact attracts sycophants, who are about as useful as remoras or anal warts.
It’s okay if dogmatic people hate us, I feel, and it’s potentially good advertising. I bet the NSA and the rest of the $#!+rats are very frustrated that they can’t impune us, sully us by association, openly challenge us or just suicide us all; Snowden X 1,000 
Gentlemen, thanks for the feedback. Re: Nazi Greenboots, British-agent Adolf Hitler passed legislation banning smoking. I think smoking must do something to make one resistant to mind-control programming, because you can see how important an agenda it is for our purported rulers, nowadays, who claim they are doing it because they care so much about us.
When Hurricane Katrina was artificially strengthened and steered straight into New Orleans (before the widespread distribution of simple orgonite caused the collapse/significant disabling of that gee-whiz weather weaponry not long after), I heard that the black-suited ‘Homeland Security’ troops were carrying changes of clothes in their cars, and ditching their uniforms as they knew/felt that the populace had turned upon them. ‘New World Order, who’s going to staff it?’ is something I’ve been saying for years. The Ponzi scheme in which the few at the top of pyramid control the many below via lies and subterfuge is collapsing, because the people at the bottom are saying ‘no, not going to do your dirty work, sorry.’
Great times…
Earlier this week in Thailand, a shocking turn of events took place. Ordered to harass and block protesters, policemen instead yielded to the peaceful riot by laying down their barricades and helmets as a sign of solidarity. The gathering protesters explained that their goal is to destroy the political machine of former Prime Minister Thakskin Shinawatra, who is accused of widespread corruption and abuse of power.
The present Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is Thakskin’s sister and is seen as a puppet of her brother. In a move to topple the Shinawatra government, protesters planned on storming the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau. This act was devised and led by protest leader, Suthep Thaugsuban.
But what police did instead surprised many. Their lowering of arms and joining with protesters marks a turning point in the protests and a potential shift in power.
The following video shares the triumphant merging of both sides.
It an inspirational act for law enforcement workers to take initiative and stand up for what is right. Who knows what changes could take place if other countries followed suit.
Here’s a fine example of how the internet can help people share their empirical experiences in order to build a clearer picture:
It’s in Portuguese but the gist of it is: after almost 20 years of assuming there were no more Bonelli’s Eagles in the Serra da Estrela mountain range, a couple of these birds and their nest were spotted and photographed. Knowing of this was possible because of an online information-sharing site where people who visit the mountain range can share their observations about the fauna, flora, etc.
This information gathering platform was created and is being run by an association of local people who are undeniably interested in the area – I believe this project is working much better than any government sponsored effort would
Carlos
Thanks, Carlos. I’d opine that the Government are the folks deliberately underreporting the good news (the non-extinct Eagles they just couldn’t manage to find), as shown throughout this thread with virtually every bird and animal described. And the involvement of non-serially-lying locals aligning with the reach of the internet to spread the actual truth, the actual good news.
Rising awareness, continued – people are ditching the deadly food that their rulers continue to assure them are non-deadly. You’ll see their helpful lapdog media earnestly declare, below, that Aspartame just ‘seems’ bad to us. Notice how the big corporation has had to diversify into less-deadly and downright non-deadly products? If we do not feed the parasite, it will either adapt, or wither, in this case adapting by selling the public the better products that they are demanding. Someone will launch a line of beverage cans with little orgonite buttons on them before we know it:
http://business.time.com/2013/12/10/why-diet-soda-sales-have-crashed/)
Diet soda is not as popular as it once was. Sales of low calorie soda fell by nearly 7 percent over the last year , while sales of regular soda dropped just over 2 percent, according to a Wells Fargo analysis of Nielsen data.
Though soda is still the most consumed beverage in the United States overall, consumption has been declining for several years. “It used to be carbonated soft drinks were it,” says Gary Hemphill, Managing Director of Research for the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a consulting and research firm. “If you were thirsty, and you wanted something fun and refreshing, that is what you would drink. In the 80’s, you saw it broadening, that’s carried on at an accelerated pace.” But while the industry once hoped that diet soda would be its salvation, but the artificially sweetened soda has begun to contract more quickly than its full-sugar counterpart.
The explanation, experts say, is a combination of consumer’s concerns about health and the rapid proliferation of alternatives. Contemporary consumers are particularly concerned about the safety of artificial sweeteners. According to a report on health and wellness from the Hartman Group, a research and consulting firm that specializes in consumer behavior, as compared to 2007, more consumers in 2013 were concerned about avoiding sweeteners like Saccharine, Aspartame (in Diet Coke and Pepsi), and Sucralose, while those concerned about avoiding salt and refined sugar, dropped.
The report also showed a rise in the number of people concerned with genetically modified ingredients—evidence that concern about soda could be part of a larger trend away from processed foods. “The biggest trend in food, really, is a desire for consumers to move away from things that are very processed,” Hartman Group’s CEO, Laurie Demerit “The drumbeat of trend is increasing and there’s now some other ingredients to fill the gap.”
The proliferation of alternative beverages that have hurt the entire soda industry may have a particular impact on diet soda because so many of the popular options on the market, like vitamin water or coconut water, are low calorie. Other sweeteners like Stevia, a South American herb, seem healthier to consumers because it is natural. Consumers may not have abandoned diet soda all together, they just may be drinking less of it as they sample many different products. This is especially true of Millennials, who like to experiment, says Demerit.
Conversely, the desire to be healthy may have driven people back to regular soda. Demerit says they’ve seen some consumers switch back from diet soda to regular soda because they realize if all soda is bad for them, they might as well drink the one that tastes better when they want to indulge.
This doesn’t necessarily mean the end of major beverage companies, especially as they diversify their holdings—Coke recently took an ownership stake in ZICO coconut water—and work to innovate with natural sweeteners. A spokesperson from the American Beverage Association wrote in an email: “Our industry believes in the soft drink business and sees opportunity for continued innovation and growth.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8305836/ns/world_news-africa/t/ethiopian-girl-reportedly-guarded-lions)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors , a policeman said Tuesday.
The girl, missing for a week, had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them, said Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo, speaking by telephone from the provincial capital of Bita Genet, about 350 miles southwest of Addis Ababa. She was beaten repeatedly before she was found June 9 by police and relatives on the outskirts of Bita Genet, Wondimu said. She had been guarded by the lions for about half a day, he said.
“They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest,” Wondimu said.
“If the lions had not come to her rescue, then it could have been much worse. Often these young girls are raped and severely beaten to force them to accept the marriage,” he said.
‘Some kind of miracle’
Tilahun Kassa, a local government official who corroborated Wondimu’s version of the events, said one of the men had wanted to marry the girl against her wishes.
“Everyone thinks this is some kind of miracle, because normally the lions would attack people,” Wondimu said.
Stuart Williams, a wildlife expert with the rural development ministry, said the girl may have survived because she was crying from the trauma of her attack.
“A young girl whimpering could be mistaken for the mewing sound from a lion cub, which in turn could explain why they didn’t eat her,” Williams said.
Ethiopia’s lions, famous for their large black manes, are the country’s national symbol and adorn statues and the local currency. Despite a recent crackdown, hunters kill the animals for their skins, which can fetch $1,000. Williams estimates that only 1,000 Ethiopian lions remain in the wild.
The girl, the youngest of four siblings, was “shocked and terrified” after her abduction and had to be treated for the cuts from her beatings, Wondimu said.
He said police had caught four of the abductors and three were still at large.
Kidnapping young girls has long been part of the marriage custom in Ethiopia. The United Nations estimates that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practiced in rural areas where most of the country’s 71 million people live.
I feel like we may, as a species, be recovering our wits – here, see how people get together and stop the robber. A lot of effort has been expended, literally for milennia, to breed this response out of people, but it’s coming back. The same thing is happening on a political level, I think:
Newly released surveillance video shows the terrifying moments an armed robber boarded a Seattle bus and how passengers took him down.
The incident began Nov. 25 when a masked man got on the bus at a stop in downtown Seattle and, at first, sat down like a fellow passenger.
"We noticed that his face was kind of covered and he was wearing a hoodie, too, so you couldn’t quite tell what was going on ," passenger Chris Briggs told local ABC affiliate KOMO.
The gunman, identified by Seattle police as 19-year-old Trevonnte Brown, then pulled out a handgun and demanded that two passengers hand him their cellphones.
“He came up to me … stuck the gun at me and took my phone,” said Briggs, one of the two passengers robbed. “He jabbed me a little harder and said, ‘Don’t make this any harder than it has to be.’”
As Brown made his way to the front of the bus, a seated passenger lunged at him and his gun, even as Brown pointed it in the passenger’s face, according to KOMO.
Other passengers, including Briggs, then jumped into the fray and pinned Brown down to the ground.
"People were kind of committed at that point," Briggs said. "It was just kinda one of those things that no one gave any thought to once things started happening."
Brown was arrested and charged with three counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery, according to KOMO. He pleaded guilty to all counts, reports KOMO.
Brown is being held on $350,000 bail. The next hearing in his case is scheduled for Dec. 30.
‘The reefs are all dying!’ another rotting plank in the Greenboot platform…add ‘recovering reef fauna’ to the wildly burgeoning marine life populations documented in this thread:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=damaged-reefs-show-resiliency-in-ca)
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – A 13-year study of coral reefs spontaneously recovering in the Cayman Islands offers hope of refuting often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat.
Scientists monitoring the Cayman reefs noted a 40 percent decline in live coral cover between 1999 and 2004 during a period of warmer seas in the Caribbean.
However, seven years later, the amount, size and density of the live coral had returned to 1999 levels as sea temperatures eased, according to Tom Frazer, professor of aquatic ecology at the University of Florida and part of the research team.
“People have said these systems don’t have a chance,” Frazer told Reuters. “What we are saying is: ‘Hey, this is evidence they do have a chance.’”
These days it takes larger and larger acts of concerted will to not notice that the people in charge do not actually have our best interests at heart. The good news is that more and more people are awakening to that fact, as exemplified here by individuals and groups bringing suit to stop the deliberate destruction of our bee population. Did you know that the way the poison is most often delivered to the bees is through high fructose corn syrup that is placed in the hives after the honey is removed? The deadly toxin is used on the corn, which is then fed to the bees.
It’s also great news that, if the metaphorical boot is lifted from nature’s neck, she responds vibrantly, as exemplified again and again in this thread, so when this horrible stuff is finally banned, the bees will recover, I believe.
And meanwhile the Bad Guys are actually helping wake up the sleeping populace more quickly by being so brazenly, well, evil. I mean, the entire European Union has banned the stuff. These clowns can only hold out for so long, and it won’t be long, now.
As scientists race to pinpoint the cause of the global collapse of honey bee populations that pollinate a third of the world’s crops, environmental groups have indentified one culprit: US authorities who continue to approve pesticides implicated in the apian apocalypse.
Case in point: The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) conditional approval in May of Sulfoxalor, a type of agricultural pesticide known as a neonicotinoid. The European Union has banned neonicotinoids for two years in response to scientific studies linking tehir use to the sudden death of entire beehives, a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Over the past six years, CCD has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives worth $2 billion. Bee colonies in the US are so decimated that it takes 60% of the nation’s bee population to pollinate a single crop, California almonds. And that’s not just a local problem; California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds.
Now environmental and food safety groups are seeking to overturn the EPA’s green-lighting of neonicotinoids in a series of lawsuits that for the first time invoke the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) to protect the bees. “EPA inadequately considered, or ignored entirely, sulfoxaflor’s harm to pollinators and the significant costs that harm will impose on the agricultural economy, food security, and natural ecosystems,” attorneys for the nonprofit Center for Food Safety and other groups argued in a legal brief filed in December in litigation aiming to revoke the approval of sulfoxaflor.
Another lawsuit filed in March in federal court in northern California by the Center for Food Safety asks a federal judge to overturn the EPA’s approval of two widely-used neonicotonioid pesticides called clothianidin and thiamethoexam.
Both cases argue that the EPA violated the ESA by failing to adequately consider the impact of the pesticides not just on honey bees but on a host of imperiled wildlife listed as threatened or endangered under federal law—from the Ohlone tiger beetle to the Quino checkerspot butterfly.
The ESA could prove a powerful weapon to wield on behalf of the bees. The law prohibits government agencies from taking any actions that could harm a protected species, requiring them to first consult with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). In the bee cases, environmental groups cite government records to show that the EPA did neither. “For at least one neonicotinoid insecticide, FWS scientists are on record stating ‘EPA is ignoring their duties with respect to consulting with FWS,’ ” the lawsuit states.
If the courts agree, approval of the pesticides could be at least temporarily revoked while the EPA consults with the wildlife agency and conducts a scientific study of the pesticides’ potential impact on protected species. The EPA maintains it properly approved the pesticides. But in August, the agency acknowledged the potentially deleterious impact of the pesticides when it said it would restrict the use of some neonicotinoids around bees.
The litigation also puts a human face on the bee story. Several of the plaintiffs are longtime beekeepers who have seen their decades-old businesses collapse alongside their beehives.
Colorado beekeeper Tom Theobald, for instance, is losing as much as 60% of his bee colonies annually to CCD, while a Florida beekeeper, Bill Rhodes, lost 80% his 9,000 beehives one year.
I have subjectively concluded that the drop in forest fires is from plentiful precipitation induced in large part by the distribution of simple orgonite devices, which has short-circuited the purposefully-drought-inducing weather weaponry many benightedly call ‘cell phone towers’ and ‘weather balls’. I have also concluded that tornadoes and hurricanes, which the aforementioned system was designed to augment, are also decreasing via the same widespread distribution of simple orgonite.
As ‘us vs. them’ programming continued to break down throughout the 20th Century, the last-ditch control/con effort by the folks who are about to become our former rulers was cooked up as: ‘we’ll make Nature the enemy.’ Unforatunately for them, that last swindle is unravelling, and there’s no con left for them to hide behind.
‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is a story that has resonance for us, and for good reason. I believe we are on the brink of great good things as a species.
Much to the chagrin of man-made global warming activists who want to tie every weather event to so called ‘global weirding’, 2013 has turned out to be one of the “least extreme” weather years in U.S. history.
‘Whether you’re talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.’
Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may ‘turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records’
Hurricanes: ‘We are currently in the longest period (8 years) since the Civil War Era without a major hurricane strike in the US (i.e., category 3, 4 or 5)’ ( last major hurricane to strike the US was Hurricane Wilma in 2005)
The latest data show both tornadoes and now wildfires in dramatic decline.
It has been said before here, I think, how many lapdogs of the parasites – including all kinds of big business – are scrambling to find ways to give the public what they want since they noticed people just aren’t buying their bullshit in droves like before.
I think this applies to a surprising news piece from fox, who seem to be starting to understand how it’s real, informative news that sells:
I think the “not-buying-bullshit anymore” also applies to how the people of Josephine County, Oregon decided not to be subject to further taxation. Their response to a non-functioning “law enforcement” department was to get together and organise their own protection and safety – this seems to me like a positive development as well.
Carlos
Fukushima Fear-Porn exposed and obliterated:
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/)
Gentlemen, thank you. Azti, I can’t link to that from where I am, perhaps a sentence or two from the article? Carlos, I can access yours, but a sentence or two lifted from the article will keep the piece ‘alive’ in the future even if the link is no longer active. Not to give you guys to-do’s – I really appreciate the support and feedback.
Carlos’ post outlines that "When budget woes reduced the sheriff’s department in one rural Oregon county to a bare-bones force, residents decided to take matters into their own hands – creating armed patrol groups in defiance of local officials."
I often speak of how, in the ‘old days’, con-men, crooked politicians, criminals and miscreants were coated with tar, then feathers, then lashed to a wooden rail by their wrists and ankles and carried out of town by upright citizens. Can’t you just see the crowds pointing, and laughing happily? Children learning the simple lesson? I heard yesterday that a Gallup poll told that President Obama was ‘the most admired person in America’. Do you believe that? I personally don’t. Not that I think he’s any different than the two-faced, sociopathic career criminal that preceded him , and so on, back into history.
The positive changes that are occurring are so large and readily apparent that even wilful denial is becoming impossible. The article that follows bravely dissembles that the drop in police fatalities is due to, um, 'increased bulletproof vest wearing !’, but I for one clearly see the dropping violence in our society. Dissemble: pretend, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2013-fewest-police-deaths-firearms-1887-0)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of law-enforcement officers killed by firearms in 2013 fell to levels not seen since the 19th century , according to a report released Monday.
The annual report from the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund also found that deaths in the line of duty generally fell by 8 percent and were the fewest since 1959.
According to the report, 111 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers were killed in the line of duty nationwide this past year, compared to 121 in 2012. Forty-six officers were killed in traffic related accidents, and 33 were killed by firearms. The number of firearms deaths fell 33 percent in 2013 and was the lowest since 1887.
Thanks Jeff but I think you will find this and many portions of the net to “remain alive” at archive.org well after the original is gone. Here are snapshots of the pages in question:
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/
There are more groups making copies of the net. Google for instance is one such company with their “google cache”.
With that out of the way I hope we can keep our different “editing styles” in use
Carlos
