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Six members of the current nine member Cambridge City Council voted to destroy this excellent grove overhanging the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with exactly the opposite of public process.
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2. Truly vile vote by six of the nine current city council members.
3. Game is a shell game with money.
4. Even the supposed target has been obtained by fraud.
5. The project is so irresponsible that the leader of the fight for destruction keeps the destruction secret from her own fake neighborhood association.
6. The reality obscured by non stop smoke screens.
A. First of all the Starvation Wall, photos above.
B. Secondly, the poisons first introduced in the 2000's outrage.
C. Introduction of Invasives.
D. The Destruction of 3.4 acres of the Alewife Reservation / Silver Maple Forest.
E. The destruction of the magnificent grove at the Harvard Square end of the Cambridge Common.
F. The destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
7. The Cambridge City Council should give us honesty in government.
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Six members of the current nine member Cambridge City Council voted to destroy this magnificent willow overhanging the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with exactly the opposite of public process.
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1. Introduction.
Another shoe has dropped.
The Cambridge City Manager is being a loyal servant of a destructive city council which constantly lies about environmental sainthood..
Monday night, the budget for Cambridge’s next fiscal year is being voted on. After an extended review of a lot of money which did not include destruction funds, the City Manager is adding destruction money at the latest possible minute.
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Six members of the current nine member Cambridge City Council voted to destroy this magnificent park with exactly the opposite of public process.
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This $44,000 was not included in the extended budget presentation which the city council has undergone.
It is in addition to $25,000 sneaked into the budget for the current fiscal year under false colors.
This request is bad on, at many counts.
On April 24, 2017, a bunch of city councilors declared themselves environmental saints on the stairs of Cambridge City Hall. Then they stepped inside and as their first order of business went on record supporting destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area and related destruction. The City Council used the flat out lie “dead or dying” with regard to those trees.
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Seven magnificent trees, all admitted excellent in the skilled fraud of "tree evaluation" by the DCR, across from the MicroCenter parking lot. Voted to be destroyed by six members of the current nine member city council with exactly the opposite of public process.
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Commonly major actions are publicly debated in Cambridge. UNLESS THEY ARE DIRTY ACTIONS. Dirty actions are done as secretly as possible, with smoke and mirrors to lie about which side the City Council is on. And one of the “environmentalist” city councilors voting for this destruction with EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF PUBLIC PROCESS, is now running around bragging about the PUBLIC PROCESS SHE WILL CREATE WHICH DOES NOT PREVENT THIS SORT OF OUTRAGE AGAIN.
“Dead or dying” used in that motion was a totally unjustified expansion on skillful fraud by the Department of Conservation and Recreation for the DCR’s wish to destroy all these excellent trees.
I have debunked this flat out lie by multiple, detailed responses. The biggest and the most basic was our letter of June 6, 2017 which analyzed every tree in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.
That letter is posted in city records at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249.
3. Game is a shell game with money.
The funding of the fake “NEW” boat dock is the same stunt the DCR and the Cambridge City Council accomplished during the outrages of the 2000's.
One pot of money. The Cambridge City Council pays for the “clean” work. The DCR pays for the dirty work.
But it is all one pot of money. Without the “clean” part being paid by the Cambridge City Council, there is that much less to destroy trees with.
And the city council is being asked to add $44,000 to the destruction fund on Monday night.
“Dead or dying” used in that motion was a totally unjustified expansion on skillful fraud by the Department of Conservation and Recreation for the DCR’s wish to destroy all these excellent trees.
I have debunked this flat out lie by multiple, detailed responses. The biggest and the most basic was our letter of June 6, 2017 which analyzed every tree in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.
That letter is posted in city records at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249.
3. Game is a shell game with money.
The funding of the fake “NEW” boat dock is the same stunt the DCR and the Cambridge City Council accomplished during the outrages of the 2000's.
One pot of money. The Cambridge City Council pays for the “clean” work. The DCR pays for the dirty work.
But it is all one pot of money. Without the “clean” part being paid by the Cambridge City Council, there is that much less to destroy trees with.
And the city council is being asked to add $44,000 to the destruction fund on Monday night.
Throughout the “planning process,” the money has supposedly been for a “new dock”. The City Manager has admitted that it is not a new dock. It is a matter of undoing the obstacles installed to prevent use of the dock of the 20th Century. At the same time, it appears that it could be adding more obstacles to use.
Here is the apparently fraudulent plan on which the dock proposal was based. It is admitted to be a renovation, not the falsely advertised “new dock”.
There is no way this is a dock on a grassy knoll unless the DCR removes stubs created by fake environmental protectors by lowering part of the Starvation Wall which hides the Charles River from the playing fields.
If the DCR removes the stubs, the DCR will prove as lies its claims that it cannot clean up the ADMITTEDLY HATED Starvation Wall. The DCR has claimed it cannot undo the outrageous Starvation Wall created by it and the Cambridge City Council. The Starvation Wall has no meaningful use except the deliberate starvation of the 37 year resident Charles River White Geese.
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Lied as new. In reality a possible further blocking of the Charles River White Geese while closing obstacles created.
Actions taken so far indicate that the Starvation Wall in this area has been temporarily reduced to stubs which are still adequate to prevent feeding by the Charles River White Geese at their home of most of the last 37 years.
The destroyed boat dock is the brown area. PART of the STARVATION WALL on both sides has been reduced to stubs which continue the deliberate starvation of the Charles River White Geese. The blocking of view of the Charles River through this TINY PORTION will regrow in the 6 years which it took this outrage to grow.
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Last Thursday night, the woman who personally embodies this fight for massive destruction on Magazine Beach put on yet another lying presentation of “protecting trees.” This was a city councilor bragging about yet more process. The city council has been bragging about process non stop during the outrages accomplished by the City Council this millenium, and telling people not to look at the terrible things they are doing.
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Cambridge City Hall annex during propaganda show led by the same destructive person, and bragging of environmental destruction on the Charles. This brags of heartless animal abuse.
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SHE KNOWS THAT DECENT HUMAN BEINGS WILL NOT KNOWINGLY SUPPORT THIS OUTRAGE.
So she put on a City Councilor who voted for destruction to present a pitch about “concern” by bragging about process, YET AGAIN. When questioned about the April 24, 2017 vote, the City Councilor would not answer, and went back to the smoke screen. PROCESS, PROCESS, PROCESS. HOW DARE YOU LOOK AT REALITY!
The lead destroyer told me to look at publicly available records to determine what that says about the destruction she is fighting for.
She very clearly reaffirmed her intent to keep her planned outrages and the City Council’s as much out of the voters eye, and out of the eye of her fake “protective group” as she and the City Council can do while lying about supposedly responsible behavior.
A. First of all the Starvation Wall, photos above.
The DCR admits the 16 foot high starvation wall of introduced vegetation is hated by the public because it turns a playing field on the Charles River into a situation which might as well be ten miles from the Charles. The starvation wall has no value except as heartless animal abuse.
The Starvation Wall is being partially, and very partially, undone by the $69,000 being expended on a fake new boat dock which turns out to be a reversal of the part of the outrages in the 2000's which made the existing dock useless. PLUS apparently a new obstacle working toward the goal of starving the Charles River White Geese.
B. Secondly, the poisons first introduced in the 2000's outrage.
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Blockage Created December 2017 by the same fake protectors. Improved May 2018 by a related group.
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expensive drainage ditches. Half of the ditch drainage is now being rerouted to the Charles by
blocking the drainage ditches.
We previously complained to the Cambridge City Council. Here is initial algae accumulation created by this destruction.
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Phil Barber
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Demonstrating how much of a flat out lie “standing up to invasives” is, here is mint planted by a related allegedly protective group in May 2018.
Photo courtesy of Phil Barber, with blow up by me.
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Mint plants are as invasive and destructive as can be.
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The City Council non stop lied about “concern” for the Silver Maple forest by yelling at developers obeying zoning which is the City Council’s responsibility.
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Photo from City of Cambridge puff piece published on Robert Winters webpage.
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One of the fake groups which apparently fought for this outrage was present at the Thursday meeting.
The representative called his supposed protection group “Green Cambridge.” He bragged about his
work at Alewife. He neglected to mention the 3.4 acres destroyed by the Cambridge City Council.
Destruction was helped, once again, by Company Unions lying about protecting and telling responsible
people that their supposed protection groups were protecting and telling their victims not to look at what
the Cambridge City Council was directly destroying.
When I asked this alleged protector about the destruction by the Cambridge City Council, his silence
was as ominous as the silence of the City Councilor when, in the middle of her process smoke screen
pitch, I asked her about the April 24, 2017 Order 1 vote for destruction.
The development department bragged that the destruction would open up the view of a monument.
Since then more money has been spent to supposedly undo what should never have been done in the first place.
Is the winner the environment to replace magnificent trees with saplings? Of course not.
The only winners are contractors paid to destroy and paid to replace, plus city councilors who can run around lying about their great saplings. Plus, of course, city councilors bragging to constituents about saplings and NOT MENTIONING THE OUTRAGEOUS DESTRUCTION.
F. The destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
Our video may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o. The City Manager damned in this video is Rossi, who publicly bragged about the “improvements” coming on the Charles River.
The City Council, during the destruction yelled at circuses passing through Cambridge on the public roads for animal abuse. The City Council was deathly silent about the heartless animal abuse being achieved by Cambridge and the DCR on the Charles River.
Yet another skillful lie was involved in this outrage.
DCR / Cambridge turned a lot of the Charles River into a barren desert by failing to plant trees which should have been planted 10 years earlier. So in addition to replacing excellent trees which should not have been destroyed, trees were planted which should have been planted ten years earlier.
The “replacements” for the outrages were, of course far inferior to the excellent trees destroyed, and, in fact were far overwhelmed in quantity by the trees which should have been planted 10 years earlier.
So a false impression of responsible government was created by this lie.
An analysis of part of the “improvements” was made by an international expert at https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.
The reality is that the predecessor to the DCR was destroyed by the legislature in part to protect public property from its “planners.” So these irresponsible “planners” went to the DCR and, along with irresponsible Cambridge “planners” have inflicted a lot of wasteful destruction.
Stop lying that the City Council is pro environment, or change sides to the side it claims to be on.
To be specific, we request that, consistent with repeated expression of environmental concerns by THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL, the following actions be taken:
A Retract and rescind the City Council’s action on April 24, 2017, in order 1, supporting the destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees and related outrages in the Magazine Beach recreation area.
B. Trash the Department of Conservation and Recreation as manager of all properties under its jurisdiction in Cambridge in favor of replacement by the Department of Transportation.
C. End the environmental outrages planned by the DCR and Cambridge and reverse, insofar as feasible, the many outrages accomplished by the DCR, Cambridge and related entities from November 1, 1999, to the current date.
