No mystery:  The acorns have fled DC in the face of much larger nuts.

by Rafe Pilgrim (63 articles, 0 quicklinks, 19 diaries, 84 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:25:24 AM

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There are plenty of acorns in DC. It's funny but me and my daughters were walking to the store just yesterday and perched atop a parked motorcycle was a squirrel eating an acorn. It would have been a cute picture. They certainly are in DC, many places you have to be careful where you walk because they are falling out of the trees most people think that the squirrels are throwing them on peoples heads.

by Sharon Roach (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 184 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:28:02 AM

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my backyard is usually covered with acorns.  you scoop up the leaves, and the squirels will tear open the bags to get to the acorns you put inside.  they dig up holes everywhere putting them in the ground.  this year, my yard is intact, but i'm concerned about  the animals. 

the birds have not been doing well for years, they say migration is actually ending, because of global warming.  i think it's true--west nile killed off a lot of the crow and bird population, and the wood thursh we used to have migrates all the way from south america, and i haven't seen them in two years.

there were no acorns this year.  we have nothing but oaks in our backyard.  it seems about the same in many places around dc.

can't specualte too much cuz i'm no expert, but our trees have not been doing well for a while.  disease hit the oaks a few years back, and last year's drought killed a lot of trees.  it could be a disease we can't yet see, or that the drought from the year before hurt this year's crop.

by kenshin (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 35 comments) on Monday, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:54:17 PM

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.. is it Nature reacting to what we've done, or just a natural process? 

There is no doubt man has an effect on his environment, only the totally disconnected would not admit that, but one has to wonder just how much of this is caused by man's unintended consequence of his folly and how much is intentional?

With programs such as HAARP, with it's weather modification, Chem-trails, with their God knows what the hell they're doing, and continued Eugenics laboratories, and contamination of food supplies by Monsanto and CODEX, to name but a few, that are placing GMO into our Eco-system without testing their effect on other plant and animal life, one has to have some concern that beyond unintended consequences, that perhaps some of these anomalies aren't by design.

Of course this is all just speculation born of a great mistrust and cynicism, but one that is grounded in the fact that our government does indeed experiment indiscrimately with peoples lives and Nature. So much so that we may have, intentionally or not, turned this planet into one big Dr. Monroe's Island, and planted the seeds, intentionally or not, for our own extinction.

It is indeed something that could be more dangerous to our survival than any other of our insane practices we employ. As fragile as life and our Eco-system is, we don't need to knock-out many of the pegs that hold it all together to have it all fall down. And at the rate we're knocking them out we may be closer than we would like to believe of having it all fall down.

by Mr M (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2845 comments [654 recommended, 27 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:34:43 AM

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Just a short comment to put the stories about ACORN into perspective:

During the past election campaign, I was one of many canvassing door to door for the Democratic Party in my home town. We carried a list of people who we were supposed to ask questions regarding their choices and voting preferences. We were told by the local Obama campaign leaders to also register as many people as possible to vote, even if the person told us in advance that they would register as a Republican. In most of the homes we went to there were either registered Democrats or registered Republicans, but at one stop, a man in his fifties greeted us and when I asked to speak to the woman who's name was on our list as a registered Democrat, he said that his daughter worked the night shift and was still in bed. I asked if he was registered to vote and he said "no", so I offered him a voter registration application form. He said that if he registered, he would vote Republican. I told him that the word had come down from Barack Obama that we should register as many people as possible as long as they had the right to vote. He seemed to believe that I was pulling his leg, so he filled out the form with an obviously fictitious name.

What was I to do? Legally, I could not destroy the form, which is what he probably expected me to do, so I turned it in at the end of the day with the rest of my paperwork. It was flagged as a probable fake and I imagine that the local elections board disqualified it when the name/address on the form didn't agree with the Department of Motor Vehicle's records.

The difference between what happened in my case and the reported problems of ACORN is that the ACORN people being paid by the hour felt that they needed to falsify applications to meet a quota, while I was the victim of a prankster, but I doubt that in either case, anyone got to vote because of either situation.

The smoke screen regarding ACORN was just a way to keep the public's attention away from the blocking of legal voters from voting (by Republicans) to how the elections could be protected from the alleged illegal voting (for Democrats) and to set up a debate between the two possibilities as if those were the only realistic choices.

by Freddie Venezia (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 46 comments [9 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:03:58 AM

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by Munich (1 articles, 86 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 1125 comments [86 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:58:19 PM

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     As a biology student I know to keep an open mind about reports coming in.    Sharon R. reorted firsthand that there is not a collapse in her neighborhood within the general area where collapse was noted.   And the report of humid conditions during flowering seems logical to me having observed the same thing with mango flowering in Hawaii.   Sometimes plants give up alot of stored sugars in producing fruit and take a rest the next year, for example, lychee.   Drought impacts sugar availability because photosynthesis or sugar production relies on water, CO2, and sun.

     That said, I am a very strong advocate of what Mr. M and Munich are saying.  What I personally look at is the changes in biology of complex systems, man being the most complex.   We could also study changes in the largest and smallest life structures (trees and bacteria)  for clues, but studying the epidemiology of man as the most complex lifeform might shed the most light on collapse, which tends to manifest dramatically as complex systems are weakened through mutation at the level of mitochondria or endocrinal systems.

    The single most powerful mutagen known to science is ionizing radiation.  If you take the oldest cancer registries in the world, say Japan or Wales, it is clear that cancer has risen manyfold in an era of declining infectious diseases.    Statistical work by Jay Gould and Manzano indicates the cause is not organic chemicals primarily, although that effect can considerable as well.    The rising curve of cancer directly overlays the atomic age.

    I would expect less complex systems to be more resilient than complex ones, looking back at the formation of life in single celled organisms in a period of geohistory when ionizing radiation was greater than now as background environment.   

    For this to be relevent to the discussion about acorns, I would need to know how oaks are pollinated and whether bees are flagging in their efforts in this area and others.     Naturally I know about Varroa mite, as the island of Hawaii was until recently the last place uninvaded by Varroa, and was exporting queens worldwide to replace decimated colonies.   But as of a few months ago the Varroa have invaded Hawaii as well, and there is a last ditch effort going on to eradicate them in wild hives at the dispersal area.

      Anything which could mutate the bees' resistance to attack might be a culprit but so far it is all speculation.   I try to discourage overt speculation, but as I said, I do tend to take the views of Mr. M et al that we as an industrial culture have introduced a genie into the world that may have alot more impact on complex systems than was previously thought.    And yes, I do know of Haarp and chemtrails and the ozone hole.    So far my own data collection on my island shows the background levels of radiation coming off thousands of miles of ocean are not much elevated but downwind of military bases where DU has been fired we definitely are seeing spikes of radiation in aerosols (dustdevils resuspending contaminated soil) of five times natural background radiation.

    And the cancer cluster downwind of the range on my island, which they only admitted is contaminated with DU last year, is the highest in the state.   I am sure it is just a coincidence, of course, nothing to see here folks, keep moving right along into the blue light specials.

by io (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 100 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:35:00 PM

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I appreciate Mr. M, Munich and you for focusing on the direness of the situation we face with this (essentially) military-industrial-globalist-Haarp-chemtrail-codex-Monsanto/GM-et.al., crap. Critics may quibble with bits and pieces of the the Big Contamination Picture ... but enough is substantiated or strongly implicated that often enough when I wake in the middle of the night, it's not an unfinished report that panics me but the realization of just how really awful and 'scary' all this stuff is. And just how pissed I am that these folks muck the world to further their nightmare fantasies of control and domination.

by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [400 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:30:03 PM

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DEAR Mr.M & Munich!
I could just kiss you both!
Yes, this stuff is real, and it is easy for anyone who would, to ascertain with their own eyes by, besides simply looking up and seeing the abundant daily anamolies in the sky over the heads of us all, one can actually SEE the massive amount of particulate matter filling the air we breathe by little tricks of "catching it in the glare".  This can be done with a spotlight at night, or in daylight, catching the Sun at a point just behind and above the rooftop of your house, while standing near the wall on the "shade side" and looking up from a position in which the edge of the roof above you just barely blocks you from seeing the Sun.  This method also entails taking care not to "miss" and look directly at the Sun.  Anyone who has not yet seen how thickly abundant the particulate matter they are breathing into their lungs, will be in for a shock!  It has been confirmed to be as damaging to the lungs as asbestos. --And THAT is just the nano-particulate aspect of the aerosolized assortment of metals, barium, and a long list of other floating particulates and bioengineered fibers, pathgenic mycoplasmas and even "nano-bots", or miniscule  electromagnetically active chips that both transmit and receive. 

The particulates, naturally, and as confirmed by many test results nationwide, have all been absorbed by the soil, water, and plants of all kinds.  Even food grown with the most meticulous care to be truly "organic" is now saturated with these toxic ingredients, both from contact with the air, and from absorbing them from the now pervasively contaminated soil, drawing it up from the roots. 

It is much more than a good chance that they are "experimenting with weather control", they have been very aggressively manipulating "the weather".  The particulates and fiber are solar ionizing and this enhances electromagnetic conductivity.  The thick prevalence of particulates and enhancing fibers has transformed the air we breathe into a "plasma", which is an electromagnetically conductive gas.  This condition of our lower atmosphere has also greatly multiplied the potency of all electro magnetically radiating articles, such as cell phones, cell phone towers, HAARP towers (of course!),TV and Radio towers, microwave ovens, electrical transformers, all "wifi", wireless items, overhead power lines, etc....., while it also is the cause of the marked increase in electrostatic-ignited explosions occurring at the gas pumps.

From government pdf's, one can see the confirmation of the HAARP technology as planned for use in weather control, as well as weather used as a weapon in silent, secretly conducted, undeclared warfare. Reading government's paper, "Controlling the Weather by 2025", one must realize that this was written early on and has now far exceeded that paper's expressed plans and intents.  The bioengineered cationic polymer fibers are dumped by the tons into the eye of a hurricane in such a way that by the air current and centrifugal force they come to form a lining on the eyewall.  These fibers are highly conductive and heat up readily to extreme temperatures not previously achievable.  Heating up a hurricane causes it to gain in size and strength.  This is accomplished with an ionic beam projected from the HAARP facility in Alaska, or whatever other such facilities that have now been built equal to, or exceeding that one in size and power.  The beam is aimed in one or the other of at least two ways: to the outer "skin" of the ionosphere, heating it up and causing a section to swell into a "bubble" which has a reflective surface which acts like a mirror or lens to focus and bounce the ionic beam back down to earth where it hits whatever location programmed in.  The ionic beam aimed into a fiber-lined eye of a hurricane will heat up the hurricane and quickly raise its "category".  Heating the water ahead of the chosen course will both help to steer it and increase its size and water uptake.  Hurricanes can also be steered in some manner with the ionic beam.

A number of people have had sudden and very severe attacks that were assumed at first to be victims of some virulently fast progressing pneumonia, until lab results showed no bacterial or viral infection present. None-the-less, the condition then worsened, and to the point where a respirator was required for them to keep breathing, until that then also failed.  Later, during autopsy, the lungs were discovered to have become completely blocked by a fiber-lining.  These are the same cationic polymer fibers described above as used in hurricanes.  In our bodies, with their engineered semi-cyborg attributes, they are self replicating, they grow in size, and among other things, seek each other out to form up into "webs" within the layers of one's skin.  They emit a "silicon-gel" like substance, have various pathogenic mycoplasma embedded in them, and with their highly enhancing electromagnetic properties, they turn humans and animals alike into living antennaes that both transmit and receive.  They also can and do, along with all the nano metal and other particulates, freely cross the blood-brain barrier.  These wreak havoc on our brains and nervous systems terribly, as well as having detrimental effects upon all body systems.  They all stress the immune system and have significant effect on degrading the ability of the immune system to respond as needed.  The nano-barium particulate that is used in great abundance in the "toxic brew" that is sprayed by planes into our air daily, is particularly damaging to the immune system.

Additionally, there are HAARP broadcast towers located throughout the country at a minimum of every 250 miles as they broadcast radially in a 250 -- 300 mile range of coverage.  I have seen in videos that some towns and cities are literally bristling with HAARP towers!  They "disguise" them to blend in with trees, or to look like a church steeple and who knows what else.  ELFwave dissonant, brain-wave interfering and entraining Extremely Low Frequency sound is broadcast from these towers, the broadcast is electromagnetically enhanced by the plasma that was once our atmosphere, the air that we breathe in common.  They can also direct a focused, aimed, controlled beam broadcast at a specific target with more intense effects. 

I have now, just lately, beyond reading technically descriptive reports and watching videos, experienced this directly, including burns that left grayish-purple marks on one side of my forehead and on down, across the temple, and down to the cheekbone, burn-markings that were quite visible to others.  Just as they started to fade out, the burning sensation was incessantly repeated along with the coloration in the same area, which FELT like it was being burned.  There were many other awful effects, including the tightening of the bronchial tubes that further hampered the ability to breathe.  This attack began about the time the polls closed on election day and continued unabated for the next 2 weeks. 

I put together a pretty comprehensive "immersion course" collection of material for educating the DA then e mailed it to her.  She had spoken responsively with me on the phone about it Nov. 7, then did not follow up as she had volunteered she would do.  Still, I put together the extensive educational material and sent it over.  She did not bother to reply, so a few days later, I sent it to her again with a note up top asking that she let me know if and when she had received it.  That was on the 18th, the attack either was stopped or turned way down by the morning of the 19th.  This lasted for the next 3 days then resumed during late night hours for 3 nights in a row, awakening me with horrendously spastic coughing fits.  There have been "only" periodic short incidences of recognizably noticeable broadcast phenomena since then.  This ELFwave is also the cause, when broadcast from ships by the USN, of many whale and other sea mamal beachings and deaths.  It destroys their "sonar" and has also been found to have caused capillary hemorrhaging.

If Rob found it agreeable, I could post the "immersion course" I put together for the DA as a long, link-loaded diary.  I don't see how else I could make it available for all to see here other than as a diary, but it would make for a very long one.....

Meantime, there is much information on all these aspects of what is in the air and about the HAARP technology, with links to other credible and informatively LOADED websites, links for many important articles, reports, videos and documentaries............
at:
!!!OHBOY!!!

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by G Achin (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 110 comments [9 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:33:08 PM

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We're breathing it in, how F'n sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvv9TGS22fA

by Munich (1 articles, 86 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 1125 comments [86 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:39:19 PM

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Montana. Just today, I went outside to see the oddest but lovely cluster &*^k of clouds I have ever seen. It was remarkable, but frightening at the same time. First thought that came to me, was how can't ppl notice this crap? We have 25-50 flights a day, every day. Sometimes they start early and then they repeat later. Lately we have had such strong winds, that it blows their "atmospheric manipulations" (chemtrails) passed the city.

Ppl that do agree that the Big Sky country's skies are peculiar for sure, say their memories are failing and even young ppl seem to forget more than usual. It is DAMN scary.

Never forget when Rumsfeld said that "'they' soon could control the weather". "They" didn't do it, they used the Grays to teach them (see John Lear interviews).

But I do love Pilgrim's reasoning for the disappearance of Acorns!

by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 592 comments [98 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:19:37 PM

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Hey Shirley! I've been a fan of both John and Norman Lear for ages. Did you ever read the "Krill Report"? Norman had this vision of being able to walk into a phone booth, insert your token, and get teletransported from LA to NY and walk out of another phone booth. John is a true blue space cadet and advocate of interstellar communication. What the heck, it's all about starseed anyway! Meanwhile I just bought a compound bow and getting ready to hunt wild turkeys and pigs. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The rest are going to be left rootin' up the cabbage patch. It's back to basics. Better hone up on your survival skills while you still gotta chance.

by Cinderfella (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 248 comments [95 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:06:57 AM

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