. Hunter's Moon 2019 This will occur on the evening of Sunday, October 13th. With the literal time occurring at 2:08 PST and 5:08 PM EST, this makes it a bit of a tweener, therefore Saturday evening will be a virtual full moon.
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Small eco-crimes Back in the spring, the city here drained a natural watering hole formed by runoff from the nearby hills. It takes particular geological factors to be in place as well. For example, there must be a particular sediment that develops over time to form a permanent natural pond or what I call a watering hole for a smaller one. This is something very different than stagnant water, as pond water is alive with organisms that feed and filter out the water. When they drained it, they eliminated one of the few sources of summer water for small animals, and completely destroy an environment for frogs and other amphibian creatures. We go six month without rain here, and these creatures rely on these sources. Frustrating. Where I live we unfortunately have a serial pyromaniac who has likely been the culprit of many destructive fires going back decades. He struck again yesterday; probably exited by all of the fire talk in California. What is also bad is that if someone likes to occasionally hike by themselves, even in the evening, there's an eerie aura of paranoia as fire and police authorities are looking for someone alone in the area. Hiking is the one outdoor activity that anyone can engage in for free. About five years ago, I was hiking in a nearby location and ran into a fire that had just been set. It had nowhere to go as it was set in a particular strip of dry grass, and set by probably that same individual. Very frustrating.
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TV roundup Of course, October is the month for horror films, and I like to catch both old and new ones. TCM has quite a few of the oldies, and many which are not exactly classics.. but different. As far as horror films, I'm more into paranormal thrillers than slasher flicks. However, I've been watching 'AHS: 1984', airing Wednesdays on FX. It's a type of "imaginative reality" based on the year 1984. Also interesting is the music, all from that time period. 1984 was the last year that there was truly dozens and dozens of great and very iconic songs from just a single year. Aired Sundays (staring last Sunday) on Travel channel is a reality-drama-documentary entitled 'Witches of Salem'. Apparently it follows the true events from Salem as they really occurred, which is interesting as filmmakers virtually always alter history for the sake of their films. I watched 'Wrong Turn 2' on Syfy a couple of nights ago, and ended up taping the rest of the series (parts 3, 4, 5, and 6) which I had never seen. A pretty weird and scary film franchise, probably coming up just short of slander on real people who live in the back woods of West Virginia! There's a greater ratio of bizarre people and dangerous cults in big cities. Travel channel has become the channel for paranormal and mystery programs. Lately they have been airing a series from 2014 called 'Amish Haunting'. Apparently the Amish have quite a history of hauntings and eerie folklore. I've noticed that some of it stems from their old Swiss Anabaptist beliefs. In other words, I'm beginning to think that much of it is actually poltergeist activity created from the power of their own deep beliefs! If something is brought into their homes which they truly believe is demonic, they can actually manifest that into reality.
'Ancient Aliens' and 'In Search of' are two interesting programs airing Fridays on the History channel. I feel like both of these programs go back a long time with me, as I recall the original 'Chariots of the Gods' documentary and reading through one of Erich von Däniken's books that my father had when I was a kid. Also, the original 'In Search of' was a groundbreaking series way back when, leading to all of the similar programing today. I left the following comment on YouTube, under a video from 'In Search of... Bigfoot': "My parents owned a cabin up in Lake County northern California, and I remember watching this as a kid during the warm late Saturday afternoon heat amid the shadows of the tree cover.. and it was truly frightening... especially since it was close to "Bigfoot country" up there." "The combination of the script read by Leonard Nimoy and the others in the series plus the strange music accomplished its intended effect." -- Brian Haskins, YouTube user
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An old transitional symbol: When Christianity replaced Asatru Replica of Norwegian stave church at the Hjemkomst Center; Moorhead, Minnesota. Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN are part of the same metro.
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How American Indian Land Is Still Being Stolen For Mining - Kierán Suckling TheLipTV2 Published on Jul 27, 2015 American Indian land is being stolen from them for valuable mining rights, and we look at how the Congress’ secret giving away of Apache sacred sites is awakening outrage over a pattern of theft and environmental exploitation with Kierán Suckling. Racism against Native Americans, the catastrophic mining practices being used, Oak Flat Apache protests, and the actions that can be taken against government land grabs for corporations is all discussed in this Antidote interview, hosted by Michael Parker. GUEST BIO: Kierán Suckling is a founder and executive director at the Center for Biological Diversity. In addition to overseeing its conservation and financial programs, he created and maintains the country's most comprehensive endangered species database. Kierán acts as liaison between the Center and other environmental groups, negotiates with government agencies, and writes and lectures; he has authored scientific articles and critical essays on biodiversity issues. He holds a master's in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stonybrook and a bachelor's from Holy Cross. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:01 Welcoming Kierán Suckling to Antidote. 00:55 San Carlos Apache and protecting the sacred sites. 04:16 Congress and foreign mining companies. 05:30 NDAA Act, John McCain, Paul Gosar and the Oak Flat Territory. 09:27 Oak Flat land swap and NDAA rider deals. 12:44 Jobs and copper. 14:24 New York Times coverage and racism against Native Americans. 17:30 Block caving method vs traditional mining practices. 23:10 National Environment and Policy Survey. 24:40 The unethical way to pass a bill. 27:53 Reversal, repeal and the partnership with southern Baptists. 31:36 Where and ways to help. 33:20 Thank you and goodbye. *************************
'Defense Bill Passes, Giving Sacred Native American Sites To Mining Company' Michael McAuliff - Huffington Post - December 12, 2014 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate passed a measure authorizing the nation’s defense programs Friday, and along with it managed to give lands sacred to Native Americans to a foreign company that owns a uranium mine with Iran. The $585 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 is one of the must-pass pieces of legislation that Congress moves every year. But like they did in attaching extraneous riders to the must-pass government funding bill, lawmakers used the defense bill as a vehicle to pass a massive public lands package. The bill sailed through on a vote of 89 to 11. Many of the land measures were popular. But one, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, had twice failed to win support in the House of Representatives, blocked both by conservationists and conservatives. The deal gives a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining firm Rio Tinto 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest in exchange for several other parcels so it can mine a massive copper deposit. The deal gives a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining firm Rio Tinto 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest in exchange for several other parcels so it can mine a massive copper deposit. con't.. *************************
This issue is far more of an infringement than the laying of a pipe. The politic of the day, administered by the CFR media membership, is simple: If a person or entity is a Globalist and tied to Globalist political unions, then this type of story is downplayed to an extreme degree; if not, then it becomes a major issue. All one would have to do is notice that former President Obama, who was the one who finally signed NDAA into law, was obviously downplayed in this Huffington Post article... and naturally also by the mainstream media. In any case, this is a very real and ongoing issue. Additionally, Obama's executive orders establishing "national monuments" on Navajo lands was not a "victory for the Navajos"as the mainstream press reported. Now they can't even use their own holy sites anymore! In effect, the government has stolen those holy sites--millions of acres!--away from the tribe. The term "Fascism" usually refers to the collusion between corporations and the state, and that's really what this is all about.... especially when the mainstream media is controlled by a mere six corporations.... all tied to the Council on Foreign Relations, a Globalist think tank.
There are so many dirty tricks that can be played, such as big corporate interests first establishing a controlled opposition environmental group which will serve as the strawman. In this manner, arguments of lessor importance can be used as a vanguard; while the stronger arguments can be downplayed. If they stand to make billions, then spending a few million on a legal/unethical project like this would be nothing to them. All that would be required is financing and a few key administrators to overrule the honest people involved in the decision making process.
What ever happened to the Anti-Globalization Movement anyway? How about the Peace Movement? They were eliminated by controlled opposition projects. Now we have people supposedly from the left who are outraged because the Wall Street War Machine didn't get their candidate in, and obviously didn't care about issues like this, endless wars, the genocidal bombing of the water project in Libya, the massive defrauding of starving Haitians, etc. Why didn't they protest the wars? Travel ban? How about the "medicine ban" during the embargo on Iraq which directly caused the death of over a million Iraqis... mostly children?... which was cheerleaded by bought-and-paid-for-CNN, which is owned by Time-Warner a CFR member along with all the bankers and war profiteers.
Betty Jones, an elderly Navajo medicine woman, grew up among the red rock canyons, mesas, and ancient cliff dwellings of Southeastern Utah. Now, a proposed national monument may prevent her from collecting traditional herbal medicines she’s gathered all her life.
Her family believes Jones is in her mid-nineties, since her birth certificate was issued after her actual birth. The proposed 1.9-million-acre Bears Ears National Monument would potentially limit her access to sacred sites and impact herb collection. She also says that she is entitled to grazing rights on the land under an agreement with the federal government dating to the 1940s.
“My late husband was promised access to the land for sheep grazing and it’s wrong for Washington to go back on its word,“ she says. Nearby, her daughter unrolled maps and opened old letters to prove the claim. con't..
Peter Fimrite - San Francisco Chronicle - April 27, 2013
Gray wolves are no longer endangered and should be stripped of federal protection, argued a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service draft regulation released to the Chronicle on Friday.
The document, which proposes removing all but a small group of Mexican wolves in the lower 48 states from the U.S. Endangered Species list, led to howls of protest from wildlife advocates. Delisting wolves, they say, would have a profound effect on California, Oregon and Washington, where the peripatetic predators are just beginning to gain a foothold. The first wolf in California in almost 90 years crossed the border from Oregon in December 2011, creating a sensation.
The solo lobo, named OR7, traveled thousands of miles through some of California’s most scenic wilderness in search of a mate. He went back to Oregon on March 13. Read more about the proposed regulation here.The document, which proposes removing all but a small group of Mexican wolves in the lower 48 states from the U.S. Endangered Species list, led to howls of protest from wildlife advocates. Delisting wolves, they say, would have a profound effect on California, Oregon and Washington, where the peripatetic predators are just beginning to gain a foothold. The first wolf in California in almost 90 years crossed the border from Oregon in December 2011, creating a sensation.
The solo lobo, named OR7, traveled thousands of miles through some of California’s most scenic wilderness in search of a mate. He went back to Oregon on March 13. Read more about the proposed regulation here.
SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — Federal wildlife managers are releasing two pairs of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico in hopes of bolstering the population of the endangered predators.
The first pair was transported this week from a captive breeding facility in New Mexico to a holding pen in the Apache National Forest in southeastern Arizona. The male and female will be released once they acclimate to the area.
The other pair is being released at a remote site within the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico. The wolves were crated and packed into the backcountry Saturday on the backs of specially trained mules.
Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the wolves would be placed in a temporary enclosure at a release site about a dozen miles from the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. The wolves will be able to chew their way out of the enclosure.
"We continue to be committed to strategic releases that improve genetic diversity, increase the number of breeding wolves and offset illegal mortalities in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area," Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle said in a statement.
Tuggle said he expects the releases to help the agency reach its goal of a self-sustaining wild wolf population.
Environmentalists said the releases were a positive step. They have long criticized the agency for not releasing more wolves. Still, distain for the animals continues to pulse through rural communities, where ranchers feel their livelihoods are at risk.
A subspecies of the gray wolf found in the Northern Rockies, the Mexican wolf was added to the federal endangered species list in 1976. The 15-year effort to reintroduce them in New Mexico and Arizona has stumbled due to legal battles, illegal shootings, politics and other problems.
Officials with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arizona Game and Fish Department said much consideration went into choosing which wolves would be released and where they would be let go. Factors included their genetics and whether they had formed a breeding bond as well as the absence of livestock, the distance from homes and whether there were enough elk and other prey.
Members of the wolf recovery team plan on putting out supplemental feed for the wolves while they learn to catch and kill native prey. Officials say that will also help anchor the wolves to the area. .
Cougar policy in Calif. under review Peter Fimrite - San Francisco Chronicle - March 1, 2013 [This article appeared as 'When cougars and humans meet' in the San Francisco Chonicle on March 2nd; see above link for images] A new state mountain lion policy that would give California wardens more options besides killing the animals was proposed Friday under pressure from legislators and residents who were outraged by several lethal encounters last year, including the shooting of two cubs. The draft policy by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is the first state document focusing specifically on cougars. It creates a category for the lions, called "potential human conflict response," which gives wardens more discretion to use nonlethal methods. It also establishes a team of experts from around the state for wardens to consult when dealing with the predators. "We have seen an increase in mountain lion encounters or sightings, and we expect to see future increases in mountain lion/human encounters," said Jordan Traverso, spokeswoman for the Department Fish and Wildlife, who blamed the increase primarily on human encroachment and habitat destruction. "This is more of a comprehensive policy that gives us more options and more access to expertise in these encounters." Game wardens shot and killed two 13-pound cubs found under a deck in Half Moon Bay on Dec. 1, creating widespread outrage. It was the most controversial of several mountain lion shootings in which many people and conservation organizations felt the wayward pumas could have been relocated instead of killed. State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, introduced a bill on Jan. 25 that would require wardens to tranquilize and relocate mountain lions that wander into backyards or other human-populated areas unless they are an imminent threat. The widespread anger and threat of legislation prompted Fish and Wildlife director Charlton "Chuck" Bonham to order a re-evaluation of the department's puma policies. The new policy establishes a "response guidance team" of experts to assist wardens with encounters. It also increases training and directs staff to look into how rehabilitation and relocation programs might work. There are an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 cougars in the state, and they are protected under the 1990 California Wildlife Protection Act, which also limits the ability of wardens to tranquilize, relocate and rehabilitate the felines, Traverso said. Experts say the shy, elusive cats usually avoid people. Since 1890, mountain lions have killed 21 people in North America. That's compared with an average of 16 people a year killed by pet dogs, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published in 2000. Still, the muscular felines do occasionally wander into civilization, which can be a terrifying experience for the person who encounters one. A handful of cougars are killed every year by state game wardens and local law enforcement officers. Ranchers kill 100 to 200 a year using depredation permits, which allow the killing of predators that harass livestock. Traverso said the new policy will allow only one puma to be killed per depredation permit. She said trappers killed four lions using a single permit on two occasions last year, infuriating wildlife advocates and generating even more criticism of the department. .
