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Create, Embellish, Offer Solution
October 25, 2016 by Tom 2 Comments
If one was to consider the truth that, as referenced below, the "world dictatorship of the enlightened elite" causes and/or creates all the crises in the world. Once exposed and firmly labeled as a crisis, or terror attack, climate catastrophe, disease, epidemic, etc., the same group, i.e. the "world dictatorship of the enlightened elite," embellishes the event blowing it into the largest of false proportions as possible. This frightens the masses readying them for the final solution…if you will. After this, the "world dictatorship of the enlightened elite" rush in with a solution…perhaps a solution as so described below.
But, by all means,
DON'T GO LOOK!
"Isn't it interesting that no matter what the current global crisis is, according to leftists, the solution is always the same: a benevolent world dictatorship of the enlightened elite, and mass transfer of wealth from rich nations to poor nations.
That's what they want to do about global warming. It's what they wanted to do about overpopulation. It's what they wanted to do about endangered species."<<<Read More>>>
Filed Under: As in Days of Noah/Sodom, Politics in General Tagged With: dictatorship, leftism, one world government
Further Proof of the Totalitarian Dictatorship We Live In
Which will immediately be followed by responses of denial by the blinded masses!
If you have signed up for an account with "My Social Security," undoubtedly you received an email from the Social Security Administration informing you that you will no longer be allowed to access your account unless you provide them with a text-capable cell phone number – and by the way the email also says: "cell phone provider's text message and data rates may apply."
At the least, this is an attempt to make sure the SSA has a copy of your cell phone number for whatever reasons you might choose to think they would actually need that other than "another layer of security." (wink, wink)
At the meat of the issue is the lie that it has become necessary to "make sure you are the actual owner of your account." They call this "multifactor authentication" (wink, wink) and we are told it is being done per "Executive Order" from the dictator.
Not only may "cell phone provider's text message and data rates may apply" the dictator-in-chief is demanding that everyone has a cell phone. He must think everyone has one of his "Obamaphones" he has forced all other cell phone owners to pay for. This is simply another layer of forcing "free Americans" (wink, wink) into slavery – and you love it. Addicted to cell phones? Do you think that was simply happenstance?
So, what if you don't have or don't want to have or provide a cell phone number? Simple: "If you do not have a text-enabled cell phone or you do not wish to provide your cell phone number, you will not be able to access your my Social Security account." For some reason the lying bastards fail to tell you precisely what that means.
"Where's MY GOVERNMENT?"
Okay all you "Bread and Circus" monkeys! Give the crooks and criminals more of your personal information and bow down to the dictator's executive orders. The bastards stole your money and called it Social Security Insurance. THE NEW DEAL! Now they are doing everything they can to make sure you can't get any of it back.
BUT DON'T GO LOOK! JUST OBEY!
Filed Under: Politics in General, Rights Tagged With: dictatorship, executive orders, slavery, social security, totalitarianism
Gun Laws: Creeping Toward Fascist Rule
January 4, 2016 by Tom Leave a Comment
President Barack H. Obama is presently meeting with his legal advisers to examine how he can "legally" erode the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms, through Executive Action. Because of a listless society and a corrupt Congress, providing for presidents, current and past, to write laws via a method of bypassing Congress, we are headed toward dictatorial, fascist rule…inch by inch. Historically, this has happened before. We live in dangerous times, with many reasons to fear, such usurpation is on our doorstep.
While it may be already too late, a first step necessary to stop the bleeding is to recognize where the blood is coming from and how the injury happened.
Here is a brief examination of one example of how it happened and a comparative look at what's happening today. Perhaps it's time to stop denying truth and Wake Up, America!
There is real danger in America's bent to make everything politically correct. The term itself, political correctness, is representative of American culture today in that we find misleading or poor representative terms and phrases to give something title instead of calling it what it is. In this case, political correctness is nothing more than censorship. To the intelligent, censorship is a loss of our right to free speech.
Censorship, is a taking away of the rights of free men. All laws are, to some degree, the taking away of the rights of free men. We have been taught to believe that all laws are proper and necessary for the protection of a free society. This is an oxymoron of epic proportions – a disease with seemingly no cure. We see it in several parts of our political and societal existence – believing we are creating a cure for a problem only to discover the created cure exacerbates the problem.
Political Correctness has more far-reaching dangers than most realize. In a post-normal society, like that of the United States, history is being repeated, not only because it is not being taught, or not being taught honestly, but it cannot be taught accurately because history has been hijacked, the end result, some of which is, political correctness.
The censorship of free speech, i.e. political correctness, forces all of us to teach half-truths in history, while often failing to address the root causes of prominent social, economic and political issues. Therefore, there is no learning process because history is watered down, while sinister processes ensure no discussion of truthful matters perpetuates the valuable lessons that should be learned from historic events. Perhaps none is more evident than modern speech and censorship when attempting to discuss the results of fascist rule of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. The most prominent of political correctness can be seen whenever anyone attempts to make any kind of correlation with current events and those of Hitler. Even if some of us have learned from history, isn't the censorship a tool to cover up the horrors of fascist rule? Perhaps the censorship in this instance is a planned event. I happen to think it is. For those seeking ultimate power and control over all people and resources, nothing would be more detrimental to that agenda than bringing to review the actual historic accounts of repressive, murderous regimes like Hitler's.
Before Hitler gained power in Germany, certain events took place that laid the groundwork for, not only the elevation of the Hitler regime to political prominence, but what was to take place after that power was ceded away from the socialist-democratic government of Germany.
Nearly every American is willing to cede his/her rights because they have been bred to believe it is necessary for safety, the rule of law and national security, while at the same time willing to blindly follow their government, wishing never to believe their government would ever resort to Fascism and/or dictatorial reign. By giving away those rights, it places the control of that part of you into the hands of a centralized government. History should have taught us that the bigger and stronger a centralized government becomes, the smaller our freedoms and liberties become. Yet, we follow the wrong path.
As such, a majority of Americans are convinced that something called "reasonable gun control laws" are necessary for various reasons and something that fits into a progressive society. Such benign behavior has resulted in the murder of millions of people throughout the world.
We must, therefore, compare and correlate what led up to the takeover of the Hitler Regime in Germany and events taking place in America today. The comparisons are so similar, one would have to question whether or not the same evil that brought about the disarming of Germany and the Holocaust is in play in the United States today. In history we read such things that took place in Germany in the early 1900s that clearly set the stage for Hitler's fascist rule. These events read as current events in the U.S.
Prior to the Hitler Regime, Germany consisted of independent states, with the liberty to create their own laws, similar to the way the U.S. once was. History reveals that many of these states would begin campaigns to disarm feared political opponents and those who might threaten the existing governments. This fear was of a "communist" take over perpetuated by those with political influence. This eventually led to laws aimed at disarming the citizenry.
It seemed that in Germany, a country that once allowed for the private possession of weapons, not that much unlike those of the United States, a new regime of social democrats began an effort to limit the right to keep and bear arms, based on the fear that communists, who might be able to buy and possess arms, would become a threat to the ruling party. History should have taught us that a fearful society is a society ripe for the picking.
Even prior to the 1928 enactment of the Weimar Republic, the chaos that existed in Germany led to the passage of "the Verordnung des Rates der Volksbeauftragen über Waffenbesitz (Regulations of the Council of the People's Delegates on Weapons Possession). This gun control law demanded the immediate surrender to the central government of all weapons and ammunition. Failure to do so would lead to imprisonment.
This law passed because of the fear generated that another war might start if guns and ammunition were not controlled. This law was later repealed and replaced with different gun laws that, on the surface, appeared more benign, but would ultimately lead to the easy pickings by a fascist regime.
These draconian gun laws were responsible for the onset of semi-governmental groups of thugs and those who took it upon themselves to be the enforcers of new gun regulations. Unfortunately, at least one of these groups was the foundation of the move in Germany to National Socialism.
In 1920, the Law on the Disarmament of the People passed. This law gave a Reichskommissar the authority to decided which guns were "military" in style – perhaps better understood by Americans to define an "assault weapon," – and who could and could not buy or possess.
By 1928 and the rule of the Weimar Republic, it was decided to pass a "comprehensive" gun law – Law on Firearms and Ammunition. This law required a license for anyone interested in making, assembling or repairing guns and ammunition and the sale thereof. In addition, the same law prohibited any selling of arms and ammo at fairs, shooting competitions or related events.
Anyone wishing to own a weapon, now had to apply for a license. Those wishing to carry a firearm, had to obtain another license. All of these regulations certainly should be familiar to most Americans. If they don't already exist, totalitarians continue to demand exactly what the German national socialists were demanding.
But the laws didn't stop at licensing. Authority was given to the Reichskommissar to make sure that a license was given only to "persons whose reliability is not in doubt, and only after proving a need for them." (Background checks to show you are not listed on some fake "domestic terror watchlist," had psychiatric treatment or some other "condition" left up to the discretion of a man or panel of men.) In certain cases of undesirable classes of people, a right to own and/or carry a gun was automatically denied.
If you were legally licensed, there were limits as to how many guns and how much ammunition you could have on hand. These limitations varied depending upon what the "proving a need" involved. Hunting provided guns of certain types different than target shooters. Hunters had to buy a license to hunt and that license provided further gun and ammunition regulations that were strictly enforced. And remember, these licenses were issued to only those the government deemed completely trustworthy and were not known to be in opposition to the central government, later the Nazis.
Eventually, it became illegal to manufacture any weapon that could be, "rapid disassembly beyond the generally usual extent for hunting and sporting purposes." (more assault weapons to be banned)
Prison terms were established for violation of these laws, including laws that required immediate notification to authorities in the event that someone inherited a gun or ammunition.
The Reichskommissar at the time, Kuenzer, in an explanation of the need to implement the new gun regulations, explains: "The law necessitated long consultations in the Reichsrat [legislative assembly] because it interferes strongly with the police authority of the Länder [states]."
Included in this "comprehensive" gun law, was the prohibition of individual states to make any gun laws on their own. All states were now subject to the wishes and whims of gun control of the central government.
Reichskommissar Kuenzer explained the reason it was necessary to implement a "comprehensive" (reasonable) gun law: "The purpose and goal of the law at hand are to get firearms that have done so much damage from the hands of unauthorized persons and to do away with the instability and ambiguity of the law that previously existed in this area. The difficult task was to find the appropriate limits between this necessity of the state on the one hand and the important interests of the weapons industry that was employing a large number of workers and had been heavily damaged through the peace treaty, the interests of the legal sporting industry, and the personal freedom of the individual."
Now that gun manufacturing was completely controlled by the central government, all guns manufactured commercially had to be stamped with the name of the company that made it, or sold it; "in the interest of solving criminal acts committed with firearms."
All of these "reasonable" gun regulations should sound very familiar to Americans. We have listened to the demands of totalitarians for more gun control, while voicing all the same claims as those in Germany 100 years ago. Germans, after World War I, lived in fear and chaos, much because the government and other political factions, pounded the fear of communism into the people's brains. Eventually they believed that it was necessary to give up their rights if it would protect them from the communists.
In America today, we have our government pounding into our heads fear of terrorism from "radicalized Muslims," and other events like mass shootings. Now that terror attacks, by "radical Muslims" have occurred in this country, the centralized government is demanding more gun restrictions, convincing more and more people that with stricter laws, terrorists will not be able to inflict harm on the people. It seems that this was the same reasoning that Reichskommissar Kuenzer used in his explanation to the German people.
The above historic synopsis of German gun rights, all happened BEFORE the Hitler Regime took control. There is no doubt these actions set the stage for fascist rule.
We know some of what Hitler did. We know that he completed the gun grab, taking all guns away from anybody he did not want to have them. It should be noted that Hitler, shortly after taking power, basically suspended the German Constitution and gave himself the authority to write and implement laws, without the authority or approval of the Reichsrat.
Examination of the events in the United States reveals that the U.S. Constitution has, for the most part, been suspended. Many laws are written by Congress and signed by the president that do not conform to the constitution. In addition, all actions, whether legal or not, carried out without opposition, sets precedent and therefore becomes law by default. This same shameful act happens in the Courts. With each administration "policy" is established. Once again, history, unlearned, reveals that "policy" becomes the law of the land by unchallenged precedent.
When Hitler first came to office, he worked with his administration and departments, to implement his Third Reich ideology. As we have learned, eventually he was given the power to write any laws he wanted. In America today, we now see the growing, illegal act of presidents writing their own laws through "executive actions." The longer this goes unchallenged, the more Americans run the risk of dictatorial rule as we saw with Hitler.
Over 100 years ago, people didn't believe anyone or any government as dark and sinister as the Hitler Regime could attain power into any country. Even when Hitler was carrying out his genocide, Americans, and much of the rest of the world denied it was happening. Where did that denial lead us?
Today, we live with the same denials. We go about our business believing that any gun laws are mostly benign and that any "reasonable" gun laws are done for the safety of the people and to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists. History proves this never happens. History proves that disarming the people, leads to Fascism.
Political Correctness results in efforts to prohibit free speech about Hitler and the most effort goes into finding ways to block any discussions that make comparisons of Hitler with anyone or anything in America today. The denial and repression of truth will lead to death.
Filed Under: Featured Article, Guns/Gun Rights, history, National/World, Rights, Wake Up America Tagged With: censorship, dictatorship, executive action, executive orders, fascism, free speech, freedom, gun control, hitler, obama, political correctness, Reichskommissar, Reichsrat, second amendment, socialism, third reich, totalitarianism
Kneel Before Zod: Hillary Promises Vast Expansion of Executive Power Once Elected
October 9, 2015 by Tom Leave a Comment
*Editor's Note* – Americans should NOT believe for on instance that a republican or an "independent" president would do things differently. Dictatorship is here to stay.
President Obama has so vastly expanded the size and scope of executive power that the legislative branch has become a vestigial organ of government: Obama can move on his own to create treaties, rewrite laws, make appointments, and relieve criminals of their criminality. Americans vote for their dictator every four years, but that's about all they can do.
And now Hillary Clinton is here to expand the power of the dictatorship.
Source: Kneel Before Zod: Hillary Promises Vast Expansion of Executive Power Once Elected | Daily Wire
Filed Under: Politics in General, Rights Tagged With: dictatorship, hillary, obama
BLM Rescinds Idaho for Wildlife's Predator Derby Permit – Fascism Rules
November 25, 2014 by Tom 5 Comments
This should come as further substantiation that the country we live in is dictated by totalitarian environmentalists, who are doing exactly what the U.S. Government wants them to do. Actions like this, made to appear as though "Washington" forced BLM to rescind the permit, makes most believe there is innocents among the predator wolves of Washington and the fascist U.S. Government. Wake up people! We are not living in a free country any longer.
Press Release from Idaho for Wildlife:
IDAHO FOR WILDLIFE, INC.
PRESS RELEASE (11-25-14)
By Steve Alder, Pres.
The decision by the BLM to withdraw our permit will not stop the coyote and wolf hunt. We cannot dictate where people hunt. We will follow the same procedure as we did last year and require hunters during registration to sign a waiver stating that any wolf or coyote taken on BLM land will not qualify for the derby. The BLM at the DC level has become too politically influenced and motivated. The idea that they would require a full blown NEPA analysis including an Environmental assessment for only 100-150 hunters to cover over 3million acres is absurd and ridiculous.
We worked very hard with the local BLM to be granted the permit. After the BLM refused to grant us a permit last year, they advised us to start the permit process early and we jumped through every hoop they required. They issued us a permit and then the DC bureaucrats revoked it. There is no doubt that the local BLM spend a time and resources on this permitting process. The BLM policies need to be changed and we will push for more legislative oversight of this out of control agency that is now caving to the radical anti-hunters.
We will offer 2 cash prizes, one for the most coyotes and one for the most wolves. We will provide additional prizes for successful youth hunters.
100% of the excess cash contributions will be given back to the Salmon valley to various charities, such as a college scholarship, The local food bank, and to help a local rancher that was severely impacted by wolf depredation this past summer. This rancher is not one of the large ranchers and he lost the majority of his calf crop along with 13 adult cows to wolves this past Summer while they were grazing on Public land and this that has devastated him financially. He's hoping to get a job at the new ShopKo that they are building in Salmon as he doesn't think he can recover financially.
Steve Alder
Filed Under: Idaho Hunting News, National/World, Predators, Rights, The Absurd Tagged With: bureau of land management, dictatorship, environmentalists, fascism, idaho for wildlife, predator derby, totalitarianism, u.s. government
James Beers: Wolves – 2014
April 9, 2014 by Tom Leave a Comment
*Editor's Note* – The below writing perhaps reflects the greatest knowledge and understanding of the effects of forcing wild wolves into human-settled landscapes. Such a writing should give readers the opportunity to fully grasp the entire scope of how romance animal fantasy should never mix with the scientific realities of protecting a dangerous-in-so-many-ways creature where humans live.
However, while one must applaud Mr. Beer's effort at searching for a solution and his correct analysis of a top-down dictatorial control over everything plant and animal, his proposed solution, while should it actually come to fruition may possibly work and work well, this will not be accomplished solely at the ballot box, if there at all.
The top-down dictatorship of global powers has infiltrated so deeply into our lives for so many years, ballot boxes, while they shouldn't be eliminated, will not work alone until a miraculous return to self-determination and independence, through a strong foundation of moral principles and values and a return a fear and love of our Creator, has transformed this nation and globe.
Thank you to Jim Beers for caring enough to take the time and lay out the facts for all and for offering a solution.
Guest posting by James Beers:
As Americans and Europeans awaken to the ancient realities of cohabiting with wolves in settled landscapes from which they were extirpated 50 to hundreds of years ago, all manner of heated discussions, questions and coalitions are emerging.
While wolves have persisted for eons in undeveloped landscapes from the wilds of Canada and Alaska to the vast primitive-societal landscapes of Asia; the re-introduction, protection and spread of wolves in Europe and The Lower 48 States of the US in recent decades has precipitated disagreements and political chaos of enormous proportions. National politicians in Europe and the US have partnered with environmental and animal rights organizations representing mainly urban voters and environmental specialist-scientists to enact laws and regulations responsible for the current situation. Opponents of such laws and programs are mainly rural livestock producers, dog owners, hunters, parents, grandparents, the rural poor and an assortment of rural recreationists and rural amateur naturalists from mushroom and berry pickers to plant and rock collectors.
According to the IUCN, wolves currently inhabit 4 continents. They occur in contiguous populations from the uncounted hundreds of thousands (to millions?) in Asia to the Canada/Alaska population estimated to be approaching one hundred thousand. While these populations "spill" into Europe and The Lower 48 US states naturally and periodically; national (federal) US government laws and European (Union) government laws have been passed to forcibly reintroduce and protect wolves throughout their (the wolves) "original" range regardless of the adverse impacts. The rationale for this is that "native" species "belong" wherever they once existed. It is inconceivable to say with a straight face that wolves are "endangered". Until this very recent change in American and European governance and human/animal legal concepts, such a decision would have been based primarily on the interests of humans and been the sole concern of the governments of individual European Countries or individual American States. This is no longer the case: as wolves demonstrate the growing political construct that human interests are secondary to the animal/environmental statements and beliefs of those controlling increasingly powerful central governments. European Countries and US States have become subservient to Washington, Brussels and the UN. It goes without saying that this phenomenon is steadily incorporating more and more animal and plant species under the international/central government umbrellas and that this has, in turn, made the redress of problems (safety, livestock losses, loss of hunting opportunity, dog losses, property losses, human health, etc.) of rural people associated with mandated and protected species such as wolves, exponentially more difficult to obtain from far-away governments that are more beholden to far-away political factions, a multitude of hidden agendas, and financial support from environmental radicals than to the redress of the concerns of rural communities.
Wolves are members of an animal group called Canids. Canids include wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs, jackals and dingos. All of these animals can and do interbreed to produce viable (fully reproducing-capable) offspring the same as humans of different races, different physiology, and different social habits; or dogs of different breeds. Additionally, wolves, like other mammals, are larger in Northern latitudes; lighter-colored in desert habitats; omnivorous in that they eat any meat (wild or domestic); capable of very different behavior in uninhabited areas or settled landscapes, or when hunted, or even close to human habitations like outer suburbs near St. Petersburg or Moscow. In truth, wolf behaviors, wolf sizes and colors, wolf DNA and the many documented dangers and harms they present to humans are varied just like their fellow Canids as seen in smaller western US coyotes v. larger Eastern US coyotes or in the varieties of dog sizes, colors, and behavior differences (i.e. pit bull v. basset hound or Chinese hairless v. Irish Wolfhound) with which most people are familiar. Dingos and jackals tend to be far more uniform in size, color and behavior in large part due to their long-standing isolation from wolves, coyotes and free-roaming dogs. Within this group (Canids) of mammals, it is fair to ask and debate just what is a species, and what is it that is so unique or special that government intervention is called for or warranted for an animal that could be identified as a wolf or a coyote/wolf hybrid or a wolf/dog hybrid or a wolf/coyote/dog hybrid depending of the hubris of government law enforcers and the responsiveness of their DNA-Analyst contractors that make such determinations depending on who has specified the DNA Standards? The very real possibility that wolf protection and spread into settled landscapes where coyotes and especially dogs are abundant and ubiquitous may be resulting in the genetic extinction of wolves as we have known them and that we are witnessing the evolution of a sort-of semi-wild coyote/wolf wild dog that capitalizes on all the settled landscape' adaptive habits of the three to the even greater detriment to rural human society: this subject is never mentioned, broached or respected. What is a hybrid? What do hybrids portend?
Wolves have been and are a documented danger to humans, especially when they become habituated to human communities and particularly regarding children and the elderly. Written accounts of these dangers extend all the way back to Greek and Roman writers before the time of Christ. European and North American history have copious reports of deaths and injuries to humans despite poor record-keeping, spotty reporting and unsolved disappearances in sparsely-settled landscapes of early European and early American settlement and development periods. Russian current events still mention a steady stream of wolf attacks on humans causing deaths and serious injuries and infections of victims from rabid wolves (one such wolf just seriously injured six Indian villagers in the Panchmahal District as I am writing this) and recent attacks on old Russian lady shepherds; and even a Russian sawyer actually running his chainsaw and over 20 others bitten by one rabid wolf in recent years are typical!. An Alaskan report of a recent 32-year period regarding wolf attacks, called human/wolf interactions, described 80 such incidents in Alaska and Canada. In the past decade a healthy young man going for a walk near a rural mining community was killed by wolves in Saskatchewan, a young woman (teacher while jogging) was killed by wolves in Alaska and a young woman hiker was killed by several coyotes in an Eastern Canadian Park in just the past decade. Only last summer a young camper was attacked during the night by a wolf in a federal Minnesota campground only weeks after I was fishing right near that campground. When a wolf was killed, it was said to be the one that attacked but that he only attacked because he was "suffering from a deformed brain". Most likely it was primarily because public awareness and understanding of similar human dangers from wolves in bygone times that so much time, wealth and effort was diverted from other vital functions by Europeans in the last millennium and European settlers in North America to exterminate wolves in areas that were being settled or were intended to be settled by farmers, shepherds, ranchers and others interested primarily in safe and productive communities, and peaceful home environments for their families. When livestock losses, big game animal losses, dog losses and disease dangers were also considered; evidently no effort was considered too great by our forefathers and their families.
Wolves transmit diseases and infections that are deadly or debilitating to people, cattle, sheep, dogs and other wild and domestic animals. These include but are not limited to Rabies, Brucellosis, Encephalitis, Anthrax, Smallpox, Mad Cow Disease, Chronic Wasting Disease, Distemper, Neospora caninum (causes abortions), 2 types of Mange, GID (a disease of wild and domestic sheep), Foot-and-Mouth, Heartworm and Parvo. Wolves carry a wide range of Ticks and Fleas that they pick up as they wander far and wide encountering all manner of other animals with wide varieties of ticks and fleas. The Ticks they carry can transmit; Anemia, Dermatosis, Tick Paralysis, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Erlichia, E. Coast Fever, Relapsing Fever, Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever and Lyme Disease. The Fleas they carry can transmit; Plague, Bubonic Plague. Pneumonic Plague and Flea-Borne Typhus. Additionally, wolves carry and spread the infectious and dangerous eggs of Tapeworms (Echinococcus granulosis and multilocularis) that they deposit in the area around their feces in parks, campgrounds, rural yards, playgrounds, trails and other areas where the eggs remain viable for months to be picked up by grazing animals feeding on plants, curious dogs, and children and adults on fingers, paws, tongues dropped food and shoes to be brought into homes where they reside for small children to pick up from rugs and floors. The resulting cysts in vital organs can kill or debilitate humans while also debilitating other animals like moose, elk and livestock, thereby making them less agile and strong and thus even more vulnerable to wolf predation.
Wolves kill and eat coyotes and dogs (herding, hunting, watchdogs, pets; i.e. all dogs) routinely. They will also mate with or be mated by coyotes or dogs when estrus and opportunity present themselves, leaving the female to whelp the mixed litter either back at some barn or in a den at some remote location.
Wolves kill and eat calves, cows, steers, lambs, sheep, and other livestock. They harass the herds and flocks such that the livestock loses weight, fails to put on weight, reduces reproduction and behave in ways that increase problems, time investments and costs for owners and their employees as well as consumers. The results are evident in the US in herd reductions, grazing allotment closures, ranch sales and local community losses of taxes and economic activity. In Europe the losses of sheep and shepherding activity continues to grow while the loss of grazing land utilization and the costs to owners reportedly are not only economic but also include harms to their mental health and their families.
Wolves reduce big game herds and thereby hunting opportunity; and thereby hunting revenue for wildlife conservation and management; and thereby government management and protection of the fish and wildlife resources for people of growing areas of The Lower 48 States and European Countries where wolves are becoming more numerous and their populations more dense. World-famous elk and moose populations in Idaho and Montana have seen steep declines. Moose in Minnesota have declined as wolves have increased such that they are no longer numerous enough to be hunted. Elk, moose and deer all decline and often most precipitously in a few short years of the arrival of uncontrolled wolves. Fawns and calves of these species along with pregnant females are particularly vulnerable and highly preferred by wolves. Not only do wolves learn quickly how and where to find them, like pregnant cows and newborn young, wolves often disable the female only to eat out her rear-end to pull out and eat the highly-desired fawn or calf she is carrying, leaving her to die a lingering death. It does not take many years of this to notice severe declines in numbers of these animals just as any countries' human population that falls below replacement and necessary reproduction/morbidity numbers and ratios can attest. Unlike the various wildlife studies based on remote areas and uninhabited islands that infer a reputed balance between wolves and their prey such that wolves decrease after they reduce their prey animals and then plants like willows increase as wolf prey are reduced and then the prey species once again increase due to increased food and reduced wolf numbers to be followed by an increase in wolves as the prey increase in numbers and availability: the realities are that in a settled landscape when the prey (elk, deer, moose, etc.) decrease (and animal owners pen up smaller herds) the wolves adopt new techniques and determination to get at the livestock plus they shift to killing more pets and like North American coyotes learn to eat garbage and other items in yards and suburbs during the night. Confrontations between kids taking out garbage, moms walking the family pet dog or elderly folks walking to mailboxes will naturally increase and the probability of fateful encounters will increase accordingly. No one asks, discusses or defends a certain death or injury rate or numbers to humans that is "worth" living with wolves. Wolves, dogs (domestic and free-roaming) and coyotes are all smart and adaptive omnivores and the expectation that when they reduce their wild prey base they will quietly decline in numbers when other options are available, is foolish. Public comments about this particular phenomenon in recent years reveal a widespread reveling and exuberant celebrations by environmental/animal rights persons and their organization that the wolves are steadily eliminating hunting, grazing by domestic animals and rural economic health as goals to be applauded far more than the reputed shifts in wild animal presence and numbers associated with wolves. Some consider this the true or primary hidden agenda driving wolf spreading and protection by government fiats.
Wolves, more than free-roaming dogs or coyotes are notoriously hard to hunt. They quickly turn nocturnal and secretive when pressed. They do not come to bait or calls consistently. Historically, when severe controls were desired, guns, traps, snares, M-44's (scented ball that triggers a poison shell into the animal's mouth), poisons, denning (killing pups in the den), dogs, aerial gunning (especially on snow) and many more things were employed. When it was agreed that extermination was necessary, all of these were used and even possees (local militias of law-abiding citizens enlisted to hunt down and catch dangerous criminals and, yes, even wolves) were formed where men rode for weeks hunting down the last wolves over large areas or in the case of an island like Ireland, special, large and fierce dogs were bred and maintained to run down and kill remaining wolves.
Since wolves move stealthily over large areas in a non-routine, haphazard manner; consistent and accurate censuses year after year for comparisons or trend analyses are impossible. This fact combined with self-serving government agendas that quite often excuse game disappearances as climate change, behavioral anomalies or undiagnosed diseases often create year-to-year wolf population estimates apparently driven more by the political and public relations agendas of bureaucrats, lobbyists and politicians than reality.
Wolf supporters and bureaucrats are largely determined to oppose not only methods (trapping, snares, dogs, poisons, aerial gunning, denning, etc.) of wolf control: they are constantly seeking donations, suing and lobbying to prevent any controls. While initial hunting programs, at best, have taken no more than 10-15% of wolf populations annually, such annual takes have negligible effects on either wolf population growth or on wolf behavior. Ironically, it is actually the sort of game harvest percentages meant to spur production in both birds and mammals as fewer animals are sent into the winter to share available food and thus guaranteeing healthier and more numerous reaching spring more capable of raising more and larger litters. To reduce a dense wolf population usually requires a 45-70% or more per year reduction for 5-7 years or more and then a 30% reduction or more per year ever-after. This necessarily ignores the lessened impacts of such controls when conducted in a patchwork fashion considering CLOSED private property, restricted government enclaves and neighboring jurisdictions where controls are prohibited and are thus continually providing a constant inflow from burgeoning wolf populations in such nearby unmanaged (for wolves) areas. Effective control harvests are impossible today in both The Lower 48 US States and European wolf areas due to fierce opposition, government indifference and lack of an understood public rationale for such harvests because the inevitable public outcry for such controls is only beginning to grow and it must overcome decades of lies and propaganda. As public realization and understanding of the intolerable harms caused by wolves in settled landscapes grows, the same human/wolf incidents as were documented in our ancestors' communities caused by historic wolf problems and that spurred our forefathers to expend the scarce time and treasure to take drastic, long-term measures to the point of exterminating wolves are sure to result even in our modern technology-masters-all society as human casualties and damages mount and are no longer deniable..
All of the foregoing wolf reality is arrayed against:
-Scientists that claim that wolves do not reduce game populations or livestock and only reproduce slowly due to a reluctance to breed by submissive wolves, a phenomenon that curiously does not exist in either dogs or coyotes.
-School teachers repeatedly telling young students those wolves are necessary, good and of no danger to anyone who behaves correctly.
-Media agendas that ignore wolf harms, publish wolf public-relations articles as "science", and marginalize negative wolf reports and people that live with and are affected by wolves.
-Bureaucrats that promise ranchers and sheep herders compensation, then call depredation losses everything but wolf-caused and quickly run out of scarce dollars as the wolves get established and compensation for wolf damage is shown to have the priority and support of government research into plastic surgery for animals for governments awash in debt and crumbling infrastructure.
-Bureaucrats and politicians that tell the Countries and States under them that once the wolves are established be central government fiat, the Countries, States and Local Communities are responsible for maintaining certain numbers (despite their being difficult to accurately count) or else the higher government will step back in and be ruthless about reaching and maintaining those levels.
-A fantasy being presented worldwide as fact, that what plants and animals were once on this or that piece of ground 200, 500, 1,000, 2,000 years ago should or must be on that ground once again. No matter that human settlement, development and change of the landscape, weather, and present-day human activities in all their changing and beneficial complexity have made that piece of ground no more hospitable to or suitable for uncontrolled species like wolves than for free-ranging elephants or bison (wisent) or grizzly bears. NOTE, just this morning I read in The India Times that free-roaming bison (Asian Water Buffalo) have killed seven rural Indians in separate incidents in just the past 12 months; and only last week a lady In Montana asked me to provide her comments regarding a UWS federal/state proposal to establish free-roaming buffalo (bison) herds in the farmland/pasturelands of central Montana. A similar federal program to forcibly protect and spread grizzly bears that are killing livestock as well as killing and injuring people in the NW US is also underway as I write.
-A gaggle of hidden agendas from bureaucrats seeking more authority, budget, and personnel; and scientists seeking more grants, tenure, and recognition: to organizations working to eliminate hunting, eliminate grazing, and rural populations; and groups seeking rights for animals, significantly reduced human populations worldwide and an end to all animal utilization by humans.
The airwaves, newspapers and classrooms are crowded today with stories of:
-The importance of apex predators.
-The need to restore the rural environment.
-The need for and legitimacy of forcible clearance of rural precincts.
-The importance of the native ecosystem and native species.
-The harmful environmental effects of rural people, rural practices and excess humans.
-The need for Washington, Brussels and the UN to have more money and more authority.
– Hunters, grazers, loggers, and most rural residents being both ignorant and bent on destroying the environment, the ecosystem and life as we know it unless ruled minutely and ruthlessly.
All this goes on as:
– Wolves are having growing impacts on European sheep flocks, shepherds, rural areas and rural residents as wolf numbers and densities grow in Italy, Germany, France, and Spain.
– Expanding wolf populations in Finland, Sweden and Norway are decreasing big game numbers and creating all manner of livestock and human safety concerns.
– British and Scottish environmentalists, politicians and University biologists are working to introduce wolves into Scotland.
– Dense and uncontrolled wolf populations in Russia and many former Eastern Bloc Countries supply an endless flow of wolves into Eastern and Central European Countries from Lithuania and Finland to Hungary, Slovenia and Italy.
– European Union politicians, bureaucrats and environmental/animal rights' lobbyists resist authorizing any actions by shepherds, rural residents concerned about safety and health threats, hunters, dog owners and other rural Europeans to control wolves or to employ active protections for their families, livelihoods and property being killed and threatened by wolves.
– European Union administrators are basically opposed to authorizing any increased gun use by rural Europeans and use of devices like traps and snares.
– Likewise, EU administrators resist bear depredation controls in places like Finland where robust bear populations, supplemented by Russian bears that expand into Finland from uncontrolled and constantly expanding and scattering bear populations.
– All of the above are either ignored by or supported by urban Europeans that, like their urban American and Canadian cousins, are evolving to be indifferent to rural harms and problems.
– More federal kennel-raised wolves are being released in Arizona despite strong local objections.
– Minnesota wolves that have decimated the state's moose population (and hunting) and are currently decreasing the deer population are the subject of a lawsuit to bar any hunting or trapping of wolves (ironically, despite the stimulative effect of the small potential harvest on the very dense and robust wolf population.)
– Idaho is trying to fund a statewide initiative with tax dollars to reduce the wolves that have decimated moose and elk hunting (and numbers, license revenue and associated dollars generated by big game hunting). What the long-term controls and funding sources portend is anyone's guess.
– As Washington State and Oregon State have begun hosting resident wolf packs from neighboring Idaho, ranchers have been cajoled into accepting "compensation" for livestock losses to wolves that is underfunded and as likely to continue being available as is are liquor allowances for a legislature. Simultaneously the state bureaucrats tell the public wolf numbers are curiously steady in this new food-rich habitat and that decreasing elk and moose harvests and licenses are only temporary and due to everything imaginable Except Wolves.
– Wolves from Great Lakes States are scattering into Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Ohio where federal and state laws jeopardize any hunter or control agent that kills what he thought was a coyote or free-roaming dog and some post-facto government DNA Analyst declares is a wolf. Similarly in the West, Rocky Mountain States' Wolves from introduced stock are scattering into California, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, and the Dakotas to hospitable habitats.
– As Texas refused vigorously to accept federal wolves (like Wyoming did successfully), federal thugs have "worked with" (i.e. funded) wolf releases in N Mexico just S of the Rio Grande River across from Texas.
– US federal bureaucrats have made much of "Returning Management of (Restored) 'Endangered' Wolves to State Governments" in states like Minnesota, Idaho and Montana. First, wolves were never "endangered" other than under the Endangered Species Act's politically-driven agendas. Second, this fictional "Return" is in reality a move to make states finance all the wolf problems with both state wildlife funds (to divert them from hunting programs) and from state tax dollars where their future looks like the future of continued state funding for free barbershops for politicians. The kicker is that, if the state lets the wolf numbers go below some set level (how do you know, how to prove, especially in court?), the federal government will step back in and seize protection of the wolves. All the while those opposed to wolf control or hunting or trapping or snaring or aerial shooting, etc. of wolves go into federal courts and help federal bureaucrats modify regulations to obtain key federal court rulings to expand and solidify federal authorities and jurisdictions over the wolves "Under State Authority".
– US State fish and wildlife bureaucrats increasingly view themselves as extensions of federal bureaucrats, federal programs and federal funding while they increasingly disregard any responsibility to the state residents that employ them. This makes redress of rural complaints and problems more difficult as the federal bureaucrats set the rules for all actions by co-opting state bureaucrats and manipulating federal courts by working with select "partners and stakeholders" by designation of friendly federal courts and federal judges presented with jointly-designed (by bureaucrats and radicals) lawsuits. The flow of all federal US tax dollars makes many state politicians and big city politicians (and their employees) behave the same as the fish and wildlife bureaucrats, thus further marginalizing rural people and their concerns.
– Gun control is a large aspect of living with wolves that is exacerbating problems. European and Canadian laws and habits opposed to handguns make consistent availability of a gun for unexpected wolf confrontations from dog walkers encountering wolves and wolves encountered in close quarters like barns or fenced yards, to shepherds encountering wolves depredating at unexpected times and in unexpected places; difficult to say the least. European laws and customs extend to areas where, as in Russia, any gun possession or ammunition availability is only made by special and narrow government dispensation. US federal politicians, although they take an oath to uphold the US Constitution stating "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." are on an undisguised rampage to violate the Constitution in this regard and regulate and then ban over time handguns, military-looking rifles, all rifles, clips, magazines and shotguns to the cheers of urban politicians that blame all of the US' urban woes on guns. This, like wolf protection and spread is applauded by urban voters and political donors. The bottom line here is that real wolf control, real and consistent wolf management, control of wolf depredations, dealing with dangerous wolf habituations (homes, schools, bus stops, etc.), and protection in the case of wolf incidents from rabies to an outright attack is both disappearing and increasingly only done by government officials, if at all. This not only is after-the-fact and expensive, actual wolf control is made unachievable and impractical over time and the future of rural people doomed to live with wolves is steadily becoming neither pretty nor bright.
Scientific papers, lawsuit arguments, media propaganda and government pronouncements are rife with statements and questions like:
– When is a wolf a coyote? Who established DNA Standards?
– Is the wolf trapped far away and released by government THE actual wolf that once inhabited (fill-in-the-blank)?
– Any wolf attack on a human is "abnormal".
– People must learn to "live" with wolves.
– Maybe the cattle and/or sheep don't "belong" out there.
– Wolves were here first.
– Wolves control prey species while regulated hunting doesn't.
– Wolves are good and beneficial. Hunting is bad and harmful.
– Hunting should be outlawed just like grazing and logging.
– People should keep their pets and kids inside and watch them closely when they are outside.
– Rural areas are too heavily populated and their natural resource uses and demands are destroying the ecosystem.
– Wolf hunting destroys the wolves' social structure and their reproductive capabilities.
– Only alpha wolves mate.
– Wolves don't decimate big game populations and wolf depredations on livestock are vastly overrated by rural people looking for government handouts.
– Plant communities blossom, like semi-arid valleys after a thunderstorm, when wolves kill ungulates and also cause them to "behave" differently.
– Wolves are the "apex" predators that are leading the way to the total restoration of native species in a native ecosystem.
– Wolves should be maintained with hunting program funds but they should not be hunted, trapped or controlled.
– Those that do not understand "ecosystems", "trophic cascades" and "natural processes and cycles" are like climate change deniers and should be similarly marginalized and denied any part in things they do not grasp.
So what? It is the Law! What do you want to do, kill all the wolves? All these statements and more are constantly thrown at anyone addressing this issue. So here is what must be done.
First a word of caution. Speaking candidly about this is like talking to many of my relatives that have grown indifferent to or rabidly opposed to the religion of our forefathers, while I have not. I say this not to compare you to any of my relatives but to note that ANY discussion of any topic involving moral dimensions or basic values is quickly treated by such a relative as a disguised attempt on my part to "bring them back" or "convert them". As I describe the following solution, some will be hearing me trying to tell you how to vote or how to think. I apologize beforehand but YOU must think through that and consider what I am about to say if you are to have ANY hope of resolving the wolf issue before us.
THE BASIC PROBLEM is that very powerful central governments and international "Bodies" now control all wild plants and animals. Don't try to argue,"oh our state still manages fishing", or birds or oak trees. The facts are that what Brussels and Washington have done with wolves and what they plus Toronto have done with United Nations' Treaties and Conventions is to set precedents and a roadmap to seizing any and all wild plant and animal jurisdiction and authority when it suits their purposes. Conventions on Trade in Wildlife, Wetlands of International Significance, Marine Mammal Compacts, Endangered claims in courts, Native Species claims in courts, Invasive Species claims in courts, Animal Welfare claims in court and Central Government Legislation and UN Treaty Negotiations that would have been unbelievable 50 years ago have all been incremental moves giving these central authorities all of the jurisdiction and authority over the wolf debacle we are faced with today.
While we bemoan the injustice and perfidy of government wolf actions; as I write the US government is trying to similarly force free-roaming buffalo herds into Montana (where the federal wolves were first released) and into the Arizona/Utah borderlands N of the Grand Canyon on a mix of federal and Indian lands from which they would spread much like the federal wolf release on an Idaho Indian Reservation. This morning's news featured the arrest of a Nevada rancher for taking pictures from a state road of federal resource enforcers seizing his cattle herd while dressed as snipers with sniper scopes on their rifles and police dogs that attacked the rancher when he failed to get back in his legally parked vehicle. These are the "idealistic" "environmental workers" you deal with concerning wolves and will be dealing with when buffalo once again "roam, where the deer and the antelope play."
Now the following is all-US oriented, although I think I have a good grasp of Canadian and European governments I hesitate to write as if I do for the certainty that some innocent mistake on my part would create a world of misunderstanding. Therefore the following applies equally to Europeans and Canadians in large and small measure and are presented only as ideas about how to fix what we agree is wrong.
Whether you believe that all wild plants band animals were once under the authority of lesser levels of governments or if you believe that wild plants have never been under lesser levels of governments: JURISDICTION AND AUTHORITY OVER ALL WILD PLANTS AND ANIMALS, should always be, first and foremost and permanently if at all possible UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE LOWEST AND MOST RESPONSIVE (to human needs) LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT. This is called the principle of subsidiarity. It sets limits on state intervention. It aims at harmonizing the relationships between individuals and societies and tends toward the establishment of true international order. There is no argument that the current "top-down", "central government rules-all" system divides rural and urban societies and establishes an international order that is little more than a process whereby dictatorial (the proper word) governments issue orders to be obeyed by all at the behest of whatever faction controls such government or is financing it.
Think of all the "is it a hybrid", or "we really have two thousand, six hundred and seventy-two wolves", or "see the wolves REALLY DID kill all the moose", or the "video camera shows that the young boy caused the attack by his improper behavior in trying to run away" arguments in courts or in newspaper articles or in Letters and meetings with Legislators and Bureaucrats as simply blows back and forth during a boxing match wherein the judges are relatives of the guy you are up against. As long as the REAL POWER remains at the central or HIGHEST level of government, they can simply change the rules or the law and even when you feel you "won" something, the next time your opponents get "their" guys elected they can – and will – pass a new law or write a new regulation that either delegitimizes your "victory" or makes it worthless as they simply check it and move into other items like restoring "Pre-Roman" plants and animals or releasing lions or hyenas since they "once inhabited" (have YOUR archeologist fill-in this blank.)
In the US, this means positioning or re-positioning all authority and jurisdiction over wild plants and animals at the COUNTY (and not even the State) level. Certainly species like Marine Mammals and Certain Migratory Birds could be placed at the federal level for reasons of Interstate Commerce, Hunting and Management of movable stocks and flocks and legitimate common interests with foreign powers who share in the benefits and presence of such animals. Likewise, an effective federal authority should be established to prevent harmful plants and animals from being imported into the US as contrasted with the current system wherein the federal law enforcers are equipped and trained as military fighters to raid guitar stores and farmyards while ignoring the importation of Asian carp that destroy our rivers and pythons and boa constrictors that are only beginning to wreak untold havoc in southern states.
County politicians and County employees are closest to, neighbors of, and liable to voter wrath of ANY (State, City, and Federal) level of government. The US government was conceived to authorize a federal government with very specific powers to protect state governments that represented and protected the County governments THAT REPRESENTED AND PROTECTED THE COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES THAT MADE UP THE NATION. This lowest level, the County, and NOT the highest level, the federal, is where the rubber meets the road regarding whether some or how many wolves should prey on domestic animals or kill dogs or eliminate hunting or eliminate big game, or spread disease, or pay "compensation" for some or any of the property that wolves destroy. This is why what is perhaps our most important County official, OUR Sheriff, is most often the official on the citizen's side when federal snipers, attack dogs, numbers and lawlessness are employed to evict an old woman from her home that a Park bureaucrats wants, or when federal enforcers seize livestock and other property from those they want to intimidate or take from.
Many US States, like US Senators (2 from each state) have assumed this urban-preference/rural-dismissal bias as a result of powerful urban donors and numerous voters that keep them in office. Issues like wolves are simply "throw-away" crumbs to urban voters for continued or increased support. It is for reasons like that, that I recommend that state governments be re-oriented to protecting what Local (County) governments and their residents want for their own County. If they want more elk and moose, then state government works in that regards and if they want wolves and no hunting or livestock or dogs, so be it. If neighboring jurisdictions refuse to control wolves, let those that would have no wolves set the fate of any wolf seen anywhere in the County at any moment. Counties would be more cautious about spending money and therefore County Ordinances that employed landowners and residents with leeway to take action, orders to landowners refusing to control wolves on their land with charges and liens for the County to employ a contractor to take needed action. County governments with teeth would make these federal/state buffalo ventures a thing of the past in any settled-landscape County where residents agreed "not-in-my County." As part and parcel of this repositioning of jurisdiction and authority is a resurrection of the abandoned legal notion that somehow when federal agents with federal tax dollars buy or ease property IN ANY COUNTY, that somehow transforms the property into some fairyland as far from the County as the Falkland Islands. This pernicious notion has fostered the arrogance of federal land managers that they have NO responsibility toward local communities or local governments as well as their bureaucrat overseers in Washington in the regulations they write or the laws they help Congressional staff personnel write for their bosses to support the court cases they help the environmentalists to file in certain courts known to provide reliable (to them) decisions and precedents for the future.
So, what do I mean when I say "re-orient" government jurisdiction and authority?
– Elect strong and committed County officials.
– Support County officials in what they do.
– Choose strong County officials to support for State offices.
– Choose strong and proven State officials for federal offices.
– Return selection of US Senators to state legislatures.
– Elect Governors that think, act and make your state their foremost concern.
– Repeal and amend the federal laws that underpin wolf/grizzly bear/buffalo tyranny.
– Enact local animal control and management programs for local communities.
– Reduce federal and state tax rates (reflecting reduced responsibilities) and enact local tax structures to cover LOCAL actions approved by LOCAL taxpayers that can and will vote the likes of current state and federal politicians out of office when they abuse citizens by buying votes and oppressing rural residents as they are doing as I write this.
If this or something like it isn't adopted, there are only two choices I see ahead. Either we just suck it up and tell our kids and grandkids to move to the city and look for work because rural living is only going to get more inhospitable and less possible, or we change the government structure however we can. If wolves and all this environmental tyranny is really important, it is like Finland deciding to reject the overtures of a foreign power in the 1940's or Ukraine deciding that recently rejecting EU or NATO overtures was not where they wanted to go, or Americans deciding that Prohibition (of alcohol) was neither tolerable or American. This environmental animal tyranny is no different in the settled landscapes of Europe or Canada or The Lower 48 States. There is no solution for such an effort run by far-off, all-powerful governments beholden to political factions committed to the destruction of rural people, their culture, their traditions, their families, and their very ways of life: no solution but one, put the power to create these situations with THOSE AFFECTED by the actions.
Anything else is either a placebo or a sleeping pill meant to put you to sleep until it is all over.
Jim Beers is available to speak or for consulting. You can receive future articles by sending a request with your e-mail address to: jimbeers7@comcast.net
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Pipe Project March 2017. the pipe or culvert between the lake and canal was in need of repair. Fortunately for Cypress Point, the very expensive repair was covered by North Palm Beach County Improvement District and PGA National since it was part of their water leveling system. Here are some pics of the massive project.PipeType your paragraph here.
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As with most of my "Non- Canadian" hunts, my New Zealand Stag hunt was part of a planned group trip with 5 friends. Lindsay Fraser is the man behind Fraser Safaris; a meticulously run outfitting lodge near Christchurch New Zealand. Lindsay would be the one taking me on what turned out to be one of the most memorable hunts of my life.
Day one was spent sighting in our bows and getting used to the guns provided by the lodge. I was using Lindsay's 25-06 instead of my crossbow. I didn't think I would get a successful shot because of the steep, hilly terrain. Lindsay took us touring around the area, showing us hunting land options and looking for stag. We were spotting stag antlers without the use of binoculars and didn't take long for everyone's excitement to build!
After we got a feel for our surroundings, we headed back to the lodge to have supper and a good night's sleep.
The second morning we headed out along neatly manicured, but winding roads. Eventually we came to a vibrant green meadow that stretched out for miles until it reached the base of a very steep, towering hillside. (These are some of the same mountains that provided the setting for the "Lord of the Rings" movie.) Without even glassing the area, we could see the shine of two sets of antlers in the grass about 400+ yards up the hill. Lindsay and I watched them both through our binoculars and discussed their attributes. They were both nice stag, and would score well over 350. Lindsay told me that either stag would be a great option and that if I decided to try to hunt one, we could begin the hike to attempt to get close enough for a shot. After a bit more discussion, and the option of not one but two amazing animals it was decided there was no time like the present and we headed up the incline to the right of the stags.
I was focused on the stag on the left as he was a bit more unique. We made it about 150 yards in the direction of the stag when they both became aware that they had company and stood up. This gave us an even better view of what they had to offer. I still preferred the one on the left so we carried on; trying to move fast and stay low. Although I cannot say how long it took for us to get on a level spot within shooting range of the stags, I can say that it was a sweet relief to be able take my pack off and sit down! The stags were below us in a valley that spanned over 100 yards. The "right" stag was heading up the hill at the base of the valley, and the "left" stag was no longer visible.
I instantly felt discouraged, and thought I had lost my chance at the stag that I had my heart set on. Panning from the higher bull and back down trying to find the lower one, proved to be futile. My attention turned to the higher bull, he was a good size too, and would also be a great "first" stag. We had had a bit of a rest and caught our breath to get ready for more climbing. As we stood up, movement below us in the valley caught our attention. It was the stag I had been looking for! We crept low up a small hill to where there was an area of tree cover and glassed him again, he was close to the bottom of the valley heading straight for a draw that would bring him directly across from us if he stayed on course.
After a few minutes, the stag started running. If he made it over the next hill, we would have to hike all the way back down into the valley and up the other side. We would be lucky to even spot him again after all of that. Luckily for me, he paused on a ledge and looked around. I had the rifle ready with my crosshairs on him and decided that now had to be the time.. I pulled the trigger. The bull began to stagger. He tried to continue up the hill but fell a few steps later. After a huge sigh of relief, a series of hand shakes and high fives, it was time to go check out this beautiful beast. (It's funny how the backpack and rifle sling didn't seem to be as heavy as they were 20 minutes before! ) When we finally reached my stag, I was overwhelmed with how thick his horns were. He had really thick bases and no broken points. He was the perfect bull.
We moved him to a spot that wasn't so steep and set up for pictures before we started the big job of getting him out of there. I couldn't stop smiling the whole trip back to the lodge! The guides scored the stag for me. 383 was the final verdict. That night after supper I laid in bed exhausted and wore out from the day. I was excited for what was in store for the rest of the week. I still needed to climb those hills again to go after an Arapawa Ram! I would like to give a kudos to Rion White of Orion Taxidermy in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan for capturing the beauty of my 2013 New Zealand Stag in an awesome shoulder mount that I display with pride in my home.
About the Author Sheri Lynn - I originally started hunting to tag along with my Dad and my brother James. I was never a fan of being indoors much, I actually remember getting in trouble and the punishment was that I had to stay inside for the day! I would have definitely been classed as a tomboy. From sports card collecting, to getting a dirt bike, and even wearing his hand-me-downs, I guess you could say that I looked up to my big brother even though there were days when I wished I was an only child! Being able to be "with the boys" never struck me as an odd thing to do, it was just what I did. When I started going on the annual hunting trips with the guys, I was pretty much a glorified bush pusher. I didn't mind though because I will admit that there was a time when that gun I carried was more of a prop than a weapon. I always had pets growing up, and was an avid animal lover as a little girl. The thought of actually shooting a deer was more of just that, "a thought" more than it was a goal for me. The first time I was presented with an opportunity to shoot a deer, I was all by myself because the guys had gone to load up a deer that James had shot. I was wandering through brush openings looking for antler sheds when I looked up and standing 30 yards away, was a mule deer doe. I raised the .270 that my Dad was letting me use and aimed right behind her front leg just like Dad always said, I pulled the trigger and saw her jump into the air before I lost sight of her behind a bush. I walked in the direction where the doe had gone and I found her almost immediately. She looked just like she was sleeping, it was a clean shot and I had gotten my very first deer! Looking back, I think if I hadn't made a good shot and the doe had suffered, or been alive when I walked up to her, it would have impacted me very differently. I'm not saying that I've always had the best kill shots or that I've never wounded an animal. I'm saying that for a young girl to be on the fence about persuing a hobby; that day was probably the most influential day in my hunting life. Hunting has taught me SUCCESS – such as the story above, and many other great days that I remember because of hunting trips Hunting has taught me FAILURE – there are days that even when you think you made a good shot, you don't find your animal. Hunting has taught me PATIENCE – I've waited in hunting blinds for 12-16 hours at a time waiting for the right animal to come along. Hunting has taught me RESPECT – Not only for the animals I hunt, but for landowners and fellow hunters alike. Hunting has taught me PERSEVERANCE – If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Hunting has also taken me places that I never would have gone had it not been for a hunting excursion. Those experiences and memories cannot be replaced.


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Q: HTML5/ javascript barcode reader on mobile without manually switching resolution I am trying to do barcode reading in HTML5/ Javascript on mobile so I can extract the barcode and post to a Ruby on Rails web service.
I am using this code for barcode reading: code by manuels which works fine (You can try out the barcode reader code here) if camera on mobile is set to a very low resolution, not at high resolution though. This method using HTML Media Capture is not ideal as user would have to switch to low resolution manually. I know one can set resolution using GetUserMedia but it's not compatible with many browser/ versions.
I am trying to resize the captured photo using a canvas, based on the canvas code here (not written by myself). The resize works as expect. I then combine the barcode reading code mentioned above in the resize function as below but the barcode reading part doesn't work.

...    var interface = new Interface('./bardecode-worker.js');
         interface.on_stdout = function(x) {        document.getElementById('barcode').appendChild(document.createTextNode('result:
  '+x));  };    ...

interface.addData(tempCanvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg'), '/barcode.jpg').then
(
    function()
    {
        interface.run('/barcode.jpg').then
        (
            function() { console.log(arguments); }
        );
    }
)

This is manuels' original code below, and in the above code, I am trying to feed the resized image from the canvas into the interface.js instead of a FileReader:
document.getElementById('barcode_file').onchange = function(e) {
    var file = e.target.files[0];
    var reader = new FileReader();

    document.getElementById('barcode').appendChild(document.createTextNode('running...'));

    reader.onload = function(ev) {
        interface.addData(ev.target.result, '/barcode.jpg').then(function() {
             interface.run('/barcode.jpg').then(function() { console.log(arguments); });
        })
    };
    reader.readAsBinaryString(file);
};

Sorry, I am quite new to javascript. Any suggestions? Or is there a better solution?

A: You might be interested in looking at this program which specializes in providing easier access to hardware on mobile phones.
http://bridgeit.mobi/
It installs a native app on the phone and then lets you open the app from your webpage and then passes back the scan or photo or other item.
They use a javascript library they wrote to open the app and then pass the information back to your webpage.
The library will also open the store page of the program if it is not installed the first time it a user tries to use it.

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Euro stability being siphoned off?
As prices for most necessary commodities, such as fuel, rise and salaries fall, citizens of Europe's strongest economy resort to desperate measures. In Germany truck drivers are being attacked by fuel-stealing thieves.
A full tank of the cheapest gas in that country can often cost over a hundred euro, and when it comes to big trucks – filling them up with diesel could cost up to fifteen hundred euro.RT's Egor Piskunov, who is in Germany, reports that these trucks with huge and easily accessible fuel tanks are an easy target during pit stops.
He talked to a German truck driver who says that the situation has got so bad, that even drivers themselves are being attacked.
Fuel prices in Germany are literally changing before drivers' very eyes: at gas stations they leap and drop four or five times a day.The first four months of this year alone saw a 15 to 20 euro cent increase per liter.
Germany is also one of the few places in Europe where you can see very generous speed limits on roads, with sometimes none altogether. But as fuel prices rise, the liberties that many German drivers are so proud of could do serious damage to their pockets.
Gas prices depend on state taxes , which in Germany are among the steepest in Europe, and on the ratio of the euro to the US dollar, as contracts are signed in US currency. And, of course, oil prices themselves, which haven't been going through their most stable time.
Christoph Hoerstel of Government & Business Consulting told RT that the price is also affected by the situation in the Middle East and especially around Iran.
Many German drivers are already rearranging their schedules to fill up and beat the daily price blips. Even for a country that worships the wheel – it is time to "rein in" the horsepower.
Germany is not the only country that has seen safety on its streets deteriorate amid the ongoing economic crisis. The situation is not critical in Germany yet, but looking at impoverished Greece experts fear that even the most stable European countries are just one step away from a similar fate. No matter how deep in denial they are.
"For the moment, everyone says 'I'm not Greek, no, I am different, no, Greece must pay and then the rest will see.' And this isn't a good idea," political analyst Alessandro Politi told RT.
Debt-stricken Greece is seeing rising unemployment, a fast-growing crime rate and a surge in illegal immigration. Security has substantially worsened in the Greek capital in recent years, with previously safe and calm neighborhoods becoming off-limits after nightfall.
Athens City Council laments the "historic center and other major areas are suffering desertification, all manner of criminal activity and manifestations of violence, insecurity, lawlessness, the impoverishment of significant numbers of people – native inhabitants and foreign nationals, illegal prostitution and illegal drug trading."
Politi says that Greece has already hit the bottom, and very soon other countries will do the same.
"It's not just working class, it's really middle class that will be squeezed without any pity for the sake of financial interests," he said.
Youth unemployment in Greece is already soaring as high as 50 per cent, driving some to leave the country, others to protest, and a few to resort to breaking the law. Could attacks on truck drivers be the first signs of Germany going down the very same road?


Warm's Nomad maxi dress is composed of navy and multicolored floral cotton-silk voile. Featuring a mandarin collar and empire waist, the feminine style showcases the label's more streamlined approach to this season's collection.
Mandarin collar. Empire waist. Short sleeves. Self-tie sleeves. Mother-of-pearl buttons.


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Q: Thinktecture IdentityServer V3 - Data is not binding and resources are not loading I've recently created an Web API that I'd like secured by Thinktecture's IdentityServer V3. I imported the package from nuget, and was able to hit the token endpoints to create a token. However, I noticed that the bootstrap css would not load on IS's main page:
This is how it appears i.imgur.com/DftMQ7C.png vs https:/demo.getidentityserver.com
It didn't bother me until I started using the views (and not just the endpoints) where my pages would print the variable names and function incorrectly with the resources not loading properly. Like so.
Of course, I can not log in since it redirects me the literal "loginUrl" page. I've tried reverting to the previous version 1.2.1, but I still have the same issue. Alternatively, I've looked at samples and those don't have the same issue at all, so I'm wondering if there's a config in my API project that may be causing this.
Has anyone encountered this problem or know of a potential fix?

A: Be sure to read through the documentation thoroughly, guys. Lesson learned. I just needed to add RAMMFAR to my web.config "otherwise some of the embedded assets will not be loaded correctly by IIS"
<system.webServer>
  <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
</system.webServer>


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PC-BSD 10.1.2 Brings New PersonaCrypt Utility
Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 18 May 2015 at 09:35 AM EDT. 2 Comments
PC-BSD 10.1.2 was released today as the latest quarterly update to the FreeBSD-derived operating system.
The PC-BSD 10.1.2 release brings a new PersonaCrypt utility for moving user home directories to an encrypted USB drive while separately also supporting a stealth mode. PC-BSD 10.1.2 also has a Tor mode to run a transparent proxy routed through Tor, IPFW firewall integration, sound configuration support via the first-boot utility, support for encrypted iSCSI backups, a new HTML handbook, a new AppCafe interface, and much more.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 also features the newest version of the Lumina Desktop. They've also switched from NTPD to OpenNTPD and upgraded to pkg 1.5.2, Firefox 38, and the NVIDIA 346.47 graphics driver.
More details on PC-BSD 10.1.2 via this morning's announcement.

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Hi - there are only 2 spaces left on this trip, so there must be a fair few other crazy pedallers out there .......... ??!!
Would be interested to hear from any of you.
Im travelling from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire to & from Heathrow. If it suits to car share, either in my car or yours, please get in touch. willing to share fuel / car parking costs.
My Partner Simon and I are booked onto the trip, we live in London and so we're not sure how well our weekend cycles in Epping Forest will prepare us -too late now! Really looking forward to the trip and meeting everyone but due to our hecktic work schedules we haven't had time to check any of the details as yet (job for this weekend) and so we have no idea what to expect - for us it will all be a mystery!


Many of our customers ask this same question. Here is a sample of our recommendations to help you pick the perfect Aquamate for your application. Be sure to evaluate your usage and your watering personnel in making your size selection.
QUESTION: I have a small shop where I need to water 30-50 containers every day or two?
RECOMMENDATION: One of our AQM2 Aquamates sounds perfect. It can be stored in a corner taking up very little of your precious space. 9 gallons should suit small shops or departments like yours.
Q: Each of our technicians services 6-10 accounts in a day. Each account has between 50-200 plants. How many and what size tanks do I need?
R: Since your technicians travel between accounts, we recommend a AQM3 for each. It will optimize your water capacity at each account and be the easiest to load and unload. Each technician should have their own system in order to maximize their efficiency.
Q: We're a garden center with two greenhouses of plants. We need a watering method that's safe and efficient to use around our customers?
R: Aquamate mid to large size systems are ideal for this situation. We recommend a AQM4 or AQM5 which carry 20-28 gallons of water at a time. Without long hoses and spilled water from buckets, your safety concerns are eliminated with an Aquamate. This size system would also work well for in-house landscape maintenance departments in corporate offices, hotels and resorts.
Q: I'll be running the maintenance department in our new 1,000,000 sq ft mall opening soon. With so much area to cover and so many plants, I'll probably need a large machine. Am I right?
R: Yes, some of our larger systems should suit your needs best. How else can you move 30-40 gallons of water at a time. An AMQ5 or AQM6 for each wing or floor of the mall will maximize your watering capacity and minimize your time spent on maintenance.


I rolled down the road into Pitlochry from the campsite to be confronted by people lining the pavements and about 5000 cyclists crammed onto the main street. It was 6.20am. I made my way down the pavement looking for somewhere to wait until wave M was called to the line for our 6.54 start time. I was amazed by the sight of so many cyclists, both men and women, full of excitement and trepidation so early in the morning. Or maybe everyone was off their faces on caffeine and energy gels.
At the allotted time I beeped over the start mat and headed out of town in our 200 rider strong peloton back up towards the campsite. Families of various campsite based riders waved and cheered in their pajamas from the roadside. Lucky sods then probably went back to bed or to cook breakfast. The sky was grey but cracks in the clouds promised possible sunshine. We crossed over the River Garry to the sound of a huge cowbell and noisy crowd.
The narrow road started to climb through the Tay Forest Park with riders bunched together. I picked my line carefully weaving through slower riders to maintain a comfortable cadence, glancing over my shoulder for anyone faster coming behind. Over a bagpipe soundtracked summit we descended a steep hill to the edges of the Loch Tummel. The next few miles gently undulated along the valley floor. Climbing through the trees again, a crack in the clouds lit the bracken covered forest floor a golden brown. A fast descent into Kinloch Rannoch followed, where I stopped to grab some food from the feed station.
I filtered back into the flow of riders pushing a little harder on the pedals into the gentle headwind. Loch Rannoch appeared in front of me, reaching as far as the horizon, small waves rippling towards me, mountains rising on all sides. After a couple of miles I sensed someone on my back wheel. I thought about flicking my elbow but they came past offering to take the front for a while. For the next 20 miles we rode together, taking turns on the front, keeping the pace relatively high. At one point a large group of riders caught us and amassed around us. I started to feel a little tentative as I realised that this was a ramshackle group with mixed group riding skills. My fears were confirmed about a mile of so later as there was a touch of wheels ahead; a foot went down, brakes squealed. I swerved, almost crashing into someone, then the sound of clashing metal behind me. A swift look back and I could see a couple of people lying on the grass verge with other riders stopped around them. Myself and my riding companion (I still don't know his name!) regrouped with a couple of others joining us.
Turning around the end of the loch onto a narrowing section of road we found ourselves in a large clump of riders again. Quickly, but carefully, passing them we re-organised our small group on an empty stretch of road with a nice tailwind. Hugging the edge of the loch our pace increased again until we came up behind a few more riders cranking along at speed. We tagged onto the back of them but then bam! The front rider seemed to lose his front wheel and hit the tarmac hard, the guy behind him rode straight over his bike before also smashing onto the tarmac and skidding down the road. About four riders back I managed to hit the anchors and avoid the carnage with my heart pounding in my chest.
Again we regrouped and continued along the south bank of Loch Rannock, the road winding through the forest and large hills rising to our right. A few miles further along and as we turned a corner we came across an ambulance blocking the road. Time to hit the brakes again and find the narrow gap beside the grass verge. Not sure what had happened as no signs of a crash, and no other riders hanging around.
I skipped the second feed station just before the main climb of the day, up past Schiehallion. The climbing started up a short straight incline through dense woodland, before twisting and turning up through more open country, occasionally levelling slightly before ramping up again. I found a line on the right hand side of the road that allowed me to continually pass riders, sometimes having to let someone else past. Each time someone passed I jumped onto their wheel, dragging myself as hard as I could to the summit above the tree line, the triangular, snow flecked peak of Schiehallion rising on our right. I even managed a little sprint for the timing mat at the KOM finish…or I think I did.
A pass over a high moor, or bealach in Gaelic I found out later, stretched out in front, the road dropping slightly before a long slow incline over barren moorland towards what looked like maybe a ski station. I passed a couple stood by a campervan banging spoons on tin mugs, with the sound of cheering and clanking bells in the distance. As I reached the final summit, the highest point of the ride, a noisy crowd lined the edges of the road as I pulled into the feed station prior to the long descent.
It started to rain gently as I started my descent making the road slippery, so I found a gap to ride in and took the corners carefully. At the base of the hill the route turned back into the headwind for a flat section through farmland before turning into a narrow tree lined road along another river valley. A few miles on there was a chicane across a bridge onto a larger road along the open Tay River valley. The next ten miles or so were flat and not as scenic as the previous 60 odd miles so was a prime opportunity to get my head down and increase the pace. It had started to rain harder but a brisk tailwind meant I could crack on.
I started to think that what this ride needed was another big climb to make this last section since Schiehallion a little more interesting. As I thought this I could see a crowd of people ahead and a big arrow pointing to the left with the words 'steep climb' below it. After turning sharply left I hit a steep but short climb on a narrow lane lined with a supportive crowd. I dropped down onto the small chainring, got out of the saddle, climbing swiftly but got caught up behind a group of riders due to the narrowness of the lane. After this first climb the lane continued to rise and fall, but constantly upwards through fields and pine forest. I was starting to feel the mileage in my legs and decided that my idea of an extra big hill might have been a bit premature. I passed the 80 mile marker as the road started to drop down towards Pitlochry. Back in town the streets were lined with hundreds of people, 2 or 3 deep for the final few hundred yards up to the finish line for the final beep as I crossed the finishing mat.
Justin and Meabh in York who let me crash at theirs on the way north.
The unnamed rider who rode miles 20 to 45 with me sharing the work into the headwind.
Ross, Emma, Bethan and Anya at Tayport Links Caravan Park for their unbounded hospitality for the few days after the Etape, and for providing some post-ride Scottish ale, helping to maintain the tradition.


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Competition Commission of Singapore raises competition concerns on proposed merger between maritime products suppliers
2017 October 9 12:07
The Competition Commission of Singapore ("CCS") has completed its Phase 1 review of the proposed acquisition by Wilhelmsen Maritime Services AS ("WMS") of sole control over Drew Marine's technical solutions, fire, safety and rescue businesses. WMS and DMTS overlap in the supply of marine chemicals (cleaning chemicals, water treatment chemicals and fuel oil treatment chemicals), marine gases (welding gases and refrigerant gases) and marine welding equipment, CCS said in its press release.
On 10 August 2017, WMS applied for a decision by CCS on whether the Proposed Transaction would infringe the prohibition in the Competition Act (Cap. 50B) against anti-competitive mergers.
CCS has raised competition concerns with WMS on the Proposed Transaction, based on information furnished by WMS and DMTS, and third-party feedback from customers and other suppliers during the Phase 1 review. In particular, the Parties are two of the largest players that possess extensive global networks of end-to-end distribution and ancillary services for the provision of chemicals, gases and equipment to the marine sector, and appear to be each other's closest competitors.
Alternative suppliers may face difficulty achieving sufficient geographic scale to be viable alternative sources of supply and to exert sufficient competitive pressure on the merged entity post-merger, especially for customers that procure on a global basis. The Proposed Transaction may therefore substantially lessen competition in the supply of these products in Singapore, and may lead to price increases, deterioration in quality of products and/or service levels.
At this stage, the Parties may accordingly offer commitments to address the potential competition concerns that may arise as a result of the Proposed Transaction, or the merger will proceed to a detailed Phase 2 review upon CCS's receipt of the relevant documents from WMS. Commitments may also be offered at any time during a Phase 2 review.
A Phase 1 review entails a quick review and allows merger situations which do not raise competition concerns under the section 54 prohibition to proceed. CCS expects to complete a Phase 1 review within 30 business days. By the end of this period, CCS will determine whether to issue a favourable decision and allow the merger situation to proceed. If CCS is unable, at the end of the 30-day period, to conclude that the merger situation will not result in a substantial lessening of competition, CCS will inform the merger parties and the merger parties may file Form M2. Upon receipt of Form M2, CCS will proceed to a Phase 2 review.
A Phase 2 review entails a more detailed and extensive examination of the merger situation. While the principles of substantive assessment are the same, CCS will require access to more extensive and detailed information regarding the merger parties and the markets in question.
As the Phase 2 review is more complex, CCS will endeavour to complete a Phase 2 review within 120 business days.
Section 60A of the Act states that CCS may, at any time before making a decision as to whether the section 54 prohibition has been or will be infringed, accept commitments that remedy, mitigate or prevent the substantial lessening of competition or any adverse effect arising from the merger situation. Where CCS has accepted a commitment, CCS will make a favourable decision. Further details can be found in the CCS Guidelines on Merger Procedures 2012.