Outrage on the Cambridge, MA, USA, Common now on YouTube.

Outrage on the Cambridge, MA, USA, Common now on YouTube.

Now posted on YouTube:

Cambridge, MA, USA

Cambridge’s

Planned Destruction

on the

Cambridge Common

June 1, 2014

Is now posted at:  http://youtu.be/FgQ9ojVuMxM.

This is a limited edit from my show, The Cambridge Environment, on June 1, 2014.

I expanded on the past reports slightly.

I presented the Cambridge City Clerk’s presentation of my report to the Cambridge City Council on the Cambridge City Council’s ongoing destruction on the Cambridge Common.

This is an excellent example of “They would never stoop so low” being proven wrong yet again.  The City of Cambridge is constantly beating its own record of unbelievable misbehavior.

I found it interesting that a Cambridge Machine op represented the Sierra Club in a prior letter on the Cambridge City Council's Communications list.

The endorsement by the Boston Sierra Club of environmental destroyers on the Cambridge City Council is a major part of the outrage in Cambridge, MA, USA.

The Cambridge Machine, to this extent, has turned the Boston Sierra Club into another of its fake groups.

Mass. Senate Passes Budget. Bad News for the Environment of the Charles River?

Mass. Senate Passes Budget.  Bad News for the Environment of the Charles River?

1. Does the Senate Budget include Cambridge and the DCR’s massive destruction?
2. Links to latest reports of outrages.
3. Contacts: Protect against destruction.
4. Tip.


1. Does the Senate Budget include Cambridge and the DCR’s massive destruction?

I would love to get word from whomever.

I am informed that the Massachusetts Senate passed a budget after two days of debate, and that it ran $36.2 billion.

The destructive people in the City of Cambridge and their friends in the Department of Conservation and Recreation are sneaking in the destruction of hundreds of trees and animal habitat on the Charles River.

Their behavior is so rotten that they keep this outrage as secret as they can.

I do not know if the Senate Budget includes the equivalent of H4009, Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

We are dealing with heartless environmental destroyed, heartless animals abusers, who run around lying they are the opposite of reality, and they have these fraudulent groups backing up their lies.

If anybody can tell me if this destruction was accomplished by the Senate, I would appreciate it.

The language from H4009 reads (including line numbers 812, 813, 814, 815).:

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that $32,000,000 shall be expended to complete the planning, design and
812 construction of Phase II of the Historic Parkways Initiative along the section of the Memorial
813 Drive between the Longfellow Bridge and the Boston University Bridge, also known as the BU
814 Bridge, in the city of Cambridge, to construct and make improvements to pedestrian pathways,
815 bike and paths, and to make betterments to landscaping

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Lying euphemisms all over the place.

One excellent grove is shown as follows.  Cambridge and the DCR want to destroy more than 80 trees in this excellent grove, and these trees are smaller than most of the ones they want their friends to be paid to destroy.

The last time Cambridge and the DCR fought for this destruction, the DCR lied to the press they were destroying diseased trees.

Contact: boblat@yahoo.com.

Thank you.

2. Links to latest reports of outrages.

The plans for destruction under House Bill H4009 are at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

These are the official plans posted when they sought Obama moneys, lying of disease to the public.  They have been fighting to destroy these trees for 10 years.  Do not be conned.  Any deviation from these plans will be minor.

The exact citation is House Bill H4009 is Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

The photos of trees marked for destruction on the Cambridge Common are posted in two parts:

1. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.
2. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

My letter of objection to the Cambridge City Council is posted at:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  The letter includes smaller reproductions of the actual photos.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

3. Contacts: Protect against destruction.

I have repeatedly reported on the outrages being inflicted on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

I included in the letter to the Cambridge City Council objecting to its imminent outrages on the Cambridge Common my objections to House Bill H4009 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  As part of your email, ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4009 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning in which I list the local State Representative who was recently elected.

4. Tip.

The key with the Cambridge City Council is that their weakness is a very distressing and continued lie that they are pro-environment.

It is a very major weakness.

There are four out of nine newcomers.  One might be subject to persuasion.  The balance could be possibly be embarrassed into decency.  I have major zoning victories as an environmental technique in Cambridge.  It was common to get approvals from the “conservatives.”  The “liberals” were then embarrassed into compliance with their claimed positions.

Of major importance with legislators is a widespread contempt for the Department of Conservation and Recreation and its destructiveness.  Cambridge, MA, is a distinctive entity which is in sync with the problems that the DCR embodies.

Cambridge, MA, USA City Clerk - Good Posting. Please protect against destruction.

Cambridge, MA, USA City Clerk - Good Posting.  Please protect against destruction.


1. Protect against Destruction.
2. Cambridge City Clerk: Good Posting.
3. Links to latest reports of outrages.
4. Protect against destruction.
5. Tip.



1. Protect against Destruction.

Cambridge and the state legislature are both far on their way to irresponsible destruction, both on the Cambridge Common and, much more importantly, hundreds of trees and habitat (House Bill H4009) between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River.  H4009 originates in the closely related Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Please see concise summary in the 3d section, contact information in the 4th section, and the tip in the 5th section.


2. Cambridge City Clerk: Good Posting.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

The letter gives a number of excellent photos of the impending outrageous destruction on the Cambridge Common next to Harvard Square.

It commences with the immediate problem and goes into the ongoing outrages including the Charles River and Alewife.

The use of fake / controlled groups is analyzed, including the Cambridge Machine’s infiltration of the Boston Sierra Club with the rather clearly related endorsement of environmental destroyers by the Boston Sierra Club.

3. Links to latest reports of outrages.

The plans for destruction under House Bill H4009 are at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

These are the official plans posted when they sought Obama moneys, lying of disease to the public.  They have been fighting to destroy these trees for 10 years.  Do not be conned.  Any deviation from these plans will be minor.

The exact citation is House Bill H4009 is Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

The photos of trees marked for destruction on the Cambridge Common are posted in two parts:

1. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.
2. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

My letter of objection to the Cambridge City Council is posted at:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  The letter includes smaller reproductions of the actual photos.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

4. Protect against destruction.

I have repeatedly reported on the outrages being inflicted on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

I included in the letter to the Cambridge City Council objecting to its imminent outrages on the Cambridge Common my objections to House Bill H4009 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  As part of your email, ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4009 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning in which I list the local State Representative who was recently elected.

Things can be destroyed very quickly.

5.  Tip.

The key with the Cambridge City Council is that their weakness is a very distressing and continued lie that they are pro-environment.

It is a very major weakness.

There are four out of nine newcomers.  One might be subject to persuasion.  The balance could be possibly be embarrassed into decency.  I have major zoning victories as an environmental technique in Cambridge.  It was common to get approvals from the "conservatives."  The “liberals” were then embarrassed into compliance with their claimed positions.

Of major importance with legislators is a widespread contempt for the Department of Conservation and Recreation and its destructiveness.  Cambridge is an unusual entity which is in sync with the problems that the DCR embodies.

Clarification on Cambridge, MA, USA Machine Admission. Please protect against destruction.

Clarification on Cambridge, MA, USA Machine Admission.  Please protect against destruction.

1. Protect against Destruction.
2. Clarification on Cambridge Machine Admission quoted in our last report.
A. Introduction and Explanation of terms.
B. My Report.
C. The relevant part of the Machine operative’s email.
D. My analysis.
3. Protect against destruction.
4. Links to latest reports of outrages.

1. Protect against Destruction.

Please see email addresses in final section.


2. Clarification on Cambridge Machine Admission quoted in our last report.

A. Introduction and Explanation of terms.

This clarification is presented solely on my own initiative.

“MassDOT” is short for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

B. My Report.

(1) On the Blog:

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C. Cambridge Machine admits City Control. [ed: This “C is the section from the original report.]

Among the missing [ed: At the 5/1/14 meeting, in comparison to the 4/10/14 meeting] were the head of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” and a law school graduate who has a long record of yelling about the meaningless and having contempt for meaningful protections.

She made a very big thing about demanding voting representation for the fake neighborhood association on the MassDOT advisory committee [ed: at the 4/10/14 meeting].

MassDOT has a long experience with the destructiveness of these fake protectors and refused to give the fake group voting membership.

The woman has crowed that “we” now have representation.

Their “representation” is the Cambridge Development Department.  Thus MassDOT can talk to their controllers instead of intermediaries.

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(2) On the facebook and email reports:

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Our report goes into additional cons from the Cambridge Machine.

One interesting point is that a Cambridge Machine activist seems to admit that the Cambridge Machine is controlled by the Cambridge Development Department.

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C. The relevant part of the Machine operative’s email.

As a result of our elected representatives efforts*, Cambridge now has a representative on the Dept. of Transportation’s Community Task Force of residents, institutions, businesses.  It’s Bill Deignan , Transportation Program Manager at our Community Develoment Dept.  Bill attended DOT’s May 1 presentation/Q&A session at City Hall and the Task Force meeting in early May.  Bill’s contact info:  (617) 349-4632, wdeignan@cambridgema.gov.
*Rep./City Councillor Toomey and Reps. Livingstone and DiDomenico pressed for this.

D. My analysis.

(1) General.

The writer made a very major stink that her fake neighborhood association should be given voting membership on the MassDOT advisory committee in the April 10, 2014 meeting.

Her language is very much the equivalent of calling the appointment some sort of achievement, and of satisfying her demands.

To me, her language is an acknowledge that there is no meaningful difference between the appointment of a formal city employee and the appointment of a representative of her fake neighborhood association.

Frankly, if her fake neighborhood association has any meaning whatsoever, and her presentation in the 4/10/14 meeting had any substance, the appointment of a city representative is a well deserved slap in the face.

I would be amazed if, given this location, MassDOT did not appoint a representative of the City of Cambridge.

I would also be amazed if MassDOT gave her fake neighborhood association a voting representative.  MassDOT is not stupid.  MassDOT has seen too much of the Cambridge Machine.

Additionally, however, the position of her fake neighborhood association concerning the Charles River is that it is anti Charles River to Defend the Charles River.  Her fake neighborhood association is very insistent on its demands that any politically correct person has a duty to ignore any and all matters concerning the Charles River except for those matters dictated by the fake neighborhood association.

English translation: A belligerently destructive company union.

Standard tactic by the City of Cambridge in its ongoing attacks on the City of Cambridge.  These fake groups date back to the reappointment of James Leo Sullivan in 1974.  He stated at that time that he wanted to create neighborhood associations.  He and his two successors have done that with a vengeance, a lot of cheerleading groups.

I recall one of Cambridge’s “neighborhood associations” which was receiving funding from the City of Cambridge see its money decrease when the group strayed from the straight and narrow.  This particular entity is one of the entities fighting for the destruction of the Alewife reservation.

(2) Correction.

I am sorry about using quotations when my report presented my honest rewording of her comments.  I wrote my report from the top of my head.


3. Protect against destruction.

I have repeatedly reported on the outrages being inflicted on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

I included in the letter to the Cambridge City Council objecting to its imminent outrages on the Cambridge Common my objections to House Bill H4009 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  As part of your email, ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4009 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning in which I list the local State Representative who was recently elected.

4. Links to latest reports of outrages.

The plans for destruction under House Bill H4009 are at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

These are the official plans posted when they sought Obama moneys, lying of disease to the public.  They have been fighting to destroy these trees for 10 years.  Do not be conned.  Any deviation from these plans will be minor.

The exact citation is House Bill H4009 is Section 2C, line item 2890-7020.

The photos of trees marked for destruction on the Cambridge Common are posted in two parts:

1. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.
2. http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

My letter of objection to the Cambridge City Council is posted at:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  The letter includes smaller reproductions of the actual photos.

The Cambridge City Clerk's Printing of my letter and the attachments far surpasses in quality my records.  It is posted at:  http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/140602%20latremouille%20com_1.PDF.

Mass. Pike: Victory for the good guys; Cambridge Machine Ramps Up the Con; Please write to defend the trees and animals.

Mass. Pike: Victory for the good guys; Cambridge Machine Ramps Up the Con; Please write to defend the trees and animals.

1. Protection against destruction
2. Mass. Pike: Victory for the Good Guys; Cambridge Machine Admits Control?  Yet another con.

A. Victory for the Good Guys.

B. Mass. Pike Relocation History.

3. Protect against destruction.

1. Protection against destruction.

Please look at the end for information on contacts if you have not contacted yet.  Concerning Cambridge, the Department of Conservation and Recreation and Governor Patrick's outrageous pending destruction on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

2. Mass. Pike: Victory for the Good Guys; Cambridge Machine Admits Control?  Yet another con.

A. Victory for the Good Guys.

The plans for the relocated Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) shows a train station between the relocated highway and the Allston Neighborhood.

The Cambridge Machine through the usual lies of “protection” fought for passenger service through Cambridge on the Grand Junction Railroad, connecting to North Station.  The lie was “You can’t win.  You can’t win.  But have we go a deal for you.”

MassDOT saw the characters and saw the lack of value in their fake “compromise”.  MassDOT rejected the passenger route.

What is surprising reading yesterday’s report in the Boston Globe is that the Cambridge Machine had sneaked in a Grand Junction route for that station.  All that was publicly communicated was that the passenger station would be on the main line from South Station to Worcester.  It comes as an incredible surprise to see Grand Junction service.

The station was killed as an “economy”.

The reality, however, is that this change bodes very well for the Green Line A route to Commonwealth Avenue Green Line B and then to Kenmore and the Harvard / Longwood Medical Center.

It is a cheap solution and does the job.

And we are dealing with a responsible agency, not the City of Cambridge, and not the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

B. Mass. Pike Relocation History.

There was a clear pattern in the April 10, 2014 and May 1, 2014 Massachusetts Department of Transporation presentations on the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) work. 

On April 10, 2014, the meeting was in Boston’s Allston neighborhood.

A batch of the usual pious and demanding Cambridge Machine folks with Massachusetts Institute of Technology connections showed up and mouthed pious, demanding destruction and overload.  

I publicized their connections in these reports, and these “Cambridge” activists did not show up for the May 1, 2014 meeting in Cambridge City Hall.

C. Cambridge Machine admits City Control.

Among the missing were the head of the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” and a law school graduate who has a long record of yelling about the meaningless and having contempt for meaningful protections.

She made a very big thing about demanding voting representation for the fake neighborhood association on the MassDOT advisory committee.

MassDOT has a long experience with the destructiveness of these fake protectors and refused to give the fake group voting membership.

The woman has crowed that “we” now have representation.

Their “representation” is the Cambridge Development Department.  Thus MassDOT can talk to their controllers instead of intermediaries.

D. “Environmental” Protection?

Noise from the Massachusetts Turnpike has been highly obvious on the Cambridge side of the Charles River, especially toward the river’s edge.  I90 is close to and is raised above the Charles River.  The traffic noise creates a constant but not overly loud background noise.

The plans would, in all aspects, either keep things unchanged or drastically reduce noise.  The off ramps to Brighton and Cambridge would be drastically reduced.  That portion of the highway would be moved toward the Allston neighborhood and lowered to ground level rather than raised way up.

The portion near the BU Bridge would be lowered to the ground insofar as possible.  Smart construction would rebuild it all on the ground, and raise the Grand Junction above it along with Green Line A.

And this Cambridge Machine activist is complaining there would still be “too much” noise?

She has long had contempt for meaningful protection of the Charles.  She yells about building design lying that she is an environmental protector.

Here, the Cambridge Machine is fighting for massive destruction of trees, expansion of the outrage at Magazine Beach’s playing fields, heartless animal abuse, destruction of the little guy’s parking lot at the foot of Magazine Street, and two bike highways on the Charles, destroying, destroying, destroying.

So she is yelling that 40 years of background noise is not reduced enough.

Just another con game.  Do not look at the destruction we are fighting for.  Look at how pious we are on next to meaningless items.

3. Protect against destruction.

I have repeatedly reported on the outrages being inflicted on the Charles River and the Cambridge Common.

I included in the letter to the Cambridge City Council objecting to its imminent outrages on the Cambridge Common my objections to House Bill H4009 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  As part of your email, ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4006 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning in which I list the local State Representative who was recently elected.

Charles River, Cambridge / Harvard Square Common: Save a Lot of Excellent Trees; Cambridge, MA, USA,

Charles River, Cambridge / Harvard Square Common: Save a Lot of Excellent Trees; Cambridge, MA, USA

Yesterday, May 28, 2014, I delivered my letter with photographs to the Cambridge, MA, USA City Clerk for inclusion in the Cambridge City Council’s “Communications” list at the coming meeting, Monday night.

This is the one I reported at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/destruction-of-cambridge-common-3.html.  It includes the partial photographs of their intended outrageous destruction of so many excellent trees on the Cambridge Common.

Full sized copies of the photos of the imminent outrage are posted at

• Cambridge Common 1:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.

• Cambridge Common 2:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html

I included in the letter my objections to House Bill H4006 initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  This will destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and ALL such destruction is coordinated with the City of Cambridge.  Passage could be imminent.

I summarized many other ongoing and recently accomplished environmental outrages for the City Council of the City of Cambridge has filthy hands.

The imminent target of destruction is the excellent common just north of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, USA.

If you would like to be recorded opposing to these outrages, please send an email to dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  That will get your email to Donna Lopez, the City Clerk.  Ask that your email be forwarded to the Cambridge City Council and included in their Communications for the next meeting.

Support of my letter opposing the destruction on the Cambridge Common and the destruction in H4006 concerning multiple destruction of trees and animals on the Charles River would be helpful.

Of greater value in opposing the outrages on the Charles River would be communications to state officials as follows:

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

The list of legislators’ emails is set up so that you can copy and paste them into addresses on your email, either original addressees or, better, blind copies.  Please do not miss the addendum at the beginning of the local State Representative who was recently elected.

At the top is a photo of the entrance of the Cambridge Common facing Harvard Square. This view is slated to be decimated.  Also provided is a photo of an excellent grove of more than 100 trees on Memorial Drive, of which more than 80 trees would be destroyed.  These trees are among the smaller of the trees threatened by H4006.

PS: The City Clerk and her office are extremely efficient.  I followed up my delivery with my own email to her praising her office’s function including improvements she has made.  Those improvements include her giving the Cambridge City Council INDIVIDUAL hard copies of all emails sent to her for inclusion in the Communications list on the City Council agenda.  A brief note as stated above would be extremely helpful in defending the environment a truly outrageous and hypocritical City Council.

Destruction of the Cambridge Common 3: A letter to a reprehensible City Council.

1. Introduction.
2. City Council Letter - scanning.
3. Text before photos in City Council Letter.
4. Text after photos in City Council Letter.


1. Introduction.

I am in the process of sending a letter to the Cambridge City Council following up the last two reports on their outrageous imminent destruction on the Cambridge Common.

Normally, when reporting a letter, I would give the text with graphics, as appropriate, interspersed.

The photos included in the letter have all been published in the last two reports.  Those photos, however, have a very distinctive presentation in this letter.  So I am scanning the letter and reproducing it below, followed by the text before and after the photos.

The Cambridge City Council has four new City Councilors.  Given the real reprehensibleness of the destruction they are inflicting on the Cambridge Common, ordinarily, I would expect one of the new councilors to question the destruction.

But Cambridge has a highly reprehensible Machine running around lying about the City Council.  Reality is irrelevant to these folks.  The big issue is how much lying can they get away with.

This letter will be hand delivered to the City Clerk Tuesday morning, tomorrow morning.  My normal distribution includes an abbreviated email copy to the members of the Cambridge City Council.  If there is honor on the Cambridge City Council, I should think there will be a motion in front of the Cambridge City Council on this outrage.

But then, the City of Cambridge is destroying hundreds of trees on the Charles River working through the Department of Conservation and Recreation in House Bill H4006, along with massive increase in the heartless animal abuse, and the irresponsible southern part of their Grand Junction bicycle highway proposal, and so many other outrages.

The explanation will always be what the voter will swallow.

The explanation on the massive Charles River destruction is fully predictable: how dare you blame the actions on us with regard to an entity which clears everything with the City of Cambridge!!

The Grand Junction is still pending, but highly ominous.

The extremely lying machine, the Cambridge Machine, is a major factor.

Prior reports are posted at:

• Cambridge Common 1:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.

• Cambridge Common 2:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/cambridge-ma-usa-prepares-to-destroy.html.

Ok, here are the scanned copies.  I will follow with the text before and after the photos.

2. City Council Letter - scanning.

3. Text before photos in City Council Letter.

City Council
City of Cambridge
City Hall
795 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139

RE: Environment Destruction Ongoing in Cambridge, Photos of the Outrages at the Cambridge Common.

To the Honorable, The Cambridge City Council:

Following are photos I took on Saturday, May 25, 2014, of your ongoing environmental outrage on the Cambridge Common:

You are destroying excellent trees, many with the explanation on your ENF that they are in the way of the view.

The first two photos are combined shots.  Your are destroying these excellent views by savaging excellent trees included in these shots with trees you are not destroying YET.

The first two photos are general photos, including both threatened and not.

The third photo is of a tree which was erroneously marked with an orange circle.  The error is blacked out and a comment added to refrain from destroying THIS one.  This clearly communicates what the orange circle means.

The balance of the photos are of trees marked for destruction with an orange circle.  Some of these had to be photographed so closely to catch the circle that their excellent crowns are not visible.  Rest assured, you are destroying excellent trees. I was just only able to photograph the lower portions where the limbs have been pruned.

I did a detailed photo analysis of your outrageous plans.  It is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/impending-destruction-cambridge-ma-usa.html.

This destruction is the precursor to your planned destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge.  Your agent/accomplice, the DCR, seems to obtaining with no fanfare $34 million for this destruction through House Bill H4009.  The last time you tried to destroy these, the DCR flatly lied that the targeted trees were diseased.  Your destruction plans for these are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

You have taken one more step toward environmental destruction associated with H4009 in that portion of the Grand Junction Bike Highway concept which destroys the environment with more heartless animal abuse south of Memorial Drive.  You are helping the DCR implement that portion of their policies which call for killing off or driving away as many resident animals as they can get away with.  This action, of course, follows on your multiple outrages at the Magazine Beach playing fields.  Multiple lies there, of course.  The most visible was the 10 plus year lie by the key manager that he (and you) had no intention to harm the 33 year resident Charles River White Geese.  He has since bragged that he is starving them.  Claims of improving the athletic fields were a fully predictable lie.  The playing fields have seen a destruction in size to accommodate drainage to drain off poisons being dumped there to keep alive sickly introduced grasses which replaced responsible grasses that you destroyed.  The responsible, now destroyed, grasses survived in an environmentally responsible manner for the better part of a Century.

This follows your joint destruction with the DCR of acres of irreplaceable woodlands at Alewife, along with mass killings of resident animals.  You had the nerve to spout pious objecting to developers obeying your zoning laws and doing less reprehensible destruction on their nearby properties.

I could keep on going.  I will not.

So here are the photos, and I am confident that members of the City Council and their friends / agents will continue with the outrageous lie that the members of the City Council doing these terrible things  are environmentalists.


4. Text after photos in City Council Letter.

I am fully aware that members of the Cambridge Machine are very visible in Boston Sierra Club which has repeatedly misinformed the public that members of the Cambridge City Council are pro environment.  With one glaring exception, it is not fully possible to question recently elected members, but the silence / participation in outrages definitely makes it more and more possible to question the environmental qualifications of any member of the Cambridge City Council.

Very normal were the lovely words against private destroyers at Alewife who were obeying zoning, without mentioning your zoning of the area and your own outrages.

I am confident that the Cambridge City Council will not stand up to any of the ongoing outrages or attempt to undo the City Council’s own outrageous past misbehavior.  And that includes FORMALLY objecting to the city council destruction on the Cambridge Common.

It is still possible to undo the Cambridge City Council’s outrageous vote concerning the Cambridge Common.

It is still possible to undo the outrages included in House Bill H4009.  The specific line item is 2890-7020 in section 2C.

Those trees on the Cambridge Common have not YET been destroyed.

Those trees and animals on the Charles River have not YET been destroyed.

You defend South America.  You defend Africa.

Cambridge is most definitely within your jurisdiction.

The outrageous destruction, intensified heartless animal abuse and the needless expense in the southern end of the Grand Junction Bike Proposal can be avoided.  The responsible southern end would connect the Bike Highway to the bend of Vassar Street where Vassar Street comes extremely close, then proceed one property lot to Memorial Drive and the Paul Dudley White Bike Highway.

You have yet to take control of Magazine Beach which was part of the deal associated with so much achieved but never publicized destruction.  You have a right to insist that promises be kept, including the wording of the Charles River Master Plan before it was modified to comport with outrages in violation of the very clear wording of the Charles River Master Plan.  You have a right to expect a lawn to the Charles River, not a walled off Magazine Beach Playing Fields.

The City Council was promised improved fields at Magazine Beach.  You have a right to expect Magazine Beach to have better playing fields than they were when the City Council voted for the changes, not the smaller fields you were given, in order to drain off poisons which should not be dumped and which were never publicly announced.  The poisons are “necessary” to keep alive sickly introduced grasses which were installed to replace healthy, responsible grasses which survived the better part of a Century in a responsible manner.

And to the extent that corrupt actions by a fake group is claimed to bless expansion of the outrages, you certainly have a right to expect honorable behavior, not an encouragement and rewarding of corrupt behavior.  The tactics which are normally used to fight for destruction on the Charles River are the same tactics which achieved the first stage of governmental destruction of the Alewife reservation.  Yell you are the good guy and tell people to do everything except the right thing.  On the Charles, they looked like they might lose a destructive vote, so they simply stole it.

I am uncomfortably concerned that you will continue the destructive hypocrisy which has been the norm in the achievement of so much irresponsible destruction in the City of Cambridge.

Sincerely,



Robert J. La Trémouille

Cambridge, MA, USA, prepares to destroy the heart of the Cambridge Common, part 2, the mark of planned death.

It is absolutely horrible to see the accelerating environmental destruction by the City of Cambridge, MA, USA, and its friends.

The real horror is the nonstop lies of
• “holier than thou” and
• claims that they do not control their destructive friends running around Cambridge lying of the City’s holiness and
• claims that they are not controlling the Department of Conservation and Recreation doing Cambridge’s dirtiwork at the state level.

This is the second report on the imminent destruction of the heart of the Cambridge Common.  This report is based on photos I took yesterday, May 24, 2014.  The first report is posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-cambridge-common-another-target-of.html.

Yesterday’s report includes a lot of links to reports of destruction by this reprehensible city government, and my analysis of whom the destruction is intended to benefit.

My prior tree by tree photo analysis of planned destruction on the Cambridge Common is included in the links.

This is the balance of the photos from yesterday.  I did not publish these yesterday because I accidentally saved them as movies.  I have obtained stills from the movies.  The stills follow.

The purpose of these depictions was to record trees I saw marked for TOTALLY WASTEFUL destruction.  These are the precursors on the coming much larger outrage coming on the Charles River in House Bill H4009.

The next to the last photo translates the mark of death.  This is a tree which was incorrectly marked.  The marker covered up the marking and wrote that this one should not be destroyed.

Cambridge, MA, USA, has a truly reprehensible city government.

The Cambridge Common: Another Target of Cambridge Environmental Destruction, part 1

1. Introduction.
2. Photos preceding an outrage.
3. Who benefits?


1. Introduction.

I have, in recent days, publicized the imminent outrage of hundreds of trees slated for destruction on Memorial Drive as a result of House Bill H4009.

The running feature of defense of the City of Cambridge and its friends is “They would never stoop so low.”  But this is blatantly false.

The outrages at Magazine Beach were justified by the same nonsense, plus flat out lies and omissions.

Our report on that was published at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

We have reported on the outrages at Alewife.  Photos of that destruction are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/cambridge-pols-destroy-alewife-photo.html.

One prior group of photos of the destruction in H4009 was posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/massive-tree-destruction.html.

The destruction plans are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

This afternoon, I stopped by the Cambridge Common.  Nine city councilors voted to destroy 28 excellent trees there and, to my surprise, they have not yet been destroyed.  Four of the guilty have departed, all well deserved, but unfortunately, one was a promotion.

Five remain.  Four of the incumbents hands are only starting to get filthy.

I say starting to get filthy because those trees are still there, as are the hundreds of trees on the Charles River, and any city councilor or other pol who says “It’s too late” is flat out lying.

There is a lot of lying behind the engine of environmental destruction which is the City of Cambridge, MA, USA and its friends.  And, any pol who has been elected has no business claiming stupidity.

One prior report on the outrage at the Cambridge Common is at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/impending-destruction-cambridge-ma-usa.html.

Remember most of the targeted trees are being destroyed because they block the view.

2. Photos preceding an outrage.

This is a preliminary report.  I see that I accidentally shot a bunch of movies.  So you are getting seven photos with stills from movies to come.

In the next report, the first photo will says everything once I get turned into a still.

An organize spot was placed on the tree.  It was blocked out with a comment not to destroy.

I will not do a detailed analysis.  There is one in the prior report.  The first three photos are of trees in the area threatened.  These photos were taken before I was certain what the orange dot means.  The prior report goes into detail as to which are threatened.  More than one of these excellent trees are threatened.

The final four photos are of many trees clearly under attack by Cambridge and its friends.  These photos were photographed because of the orange dot marking them for destruction.  This will be explained by the first still in the follow on report.

I see a severe defect in photographing to get the spot.  I had to get so close that excellent trees with excellent limbs way up look bare because, if I photographed the top, I would not be able to photograph the spot.  A photo from a further distance which included the line of trees which contains the second and fourth tree in this group is the third photo in the above group of photos I took.  And there are others in the first three photos.

The real purpose of those first three photos was that I saw a lot of threatened trees and photographed the bunch without trying to pick out individually threatened trees.

Realizing this problem, I may or may not edit the movies to get out stills.

3. Who benefits?

Contractors get paid for destroying trees.

Contractors get paid for planting saplings and other grossly inferior replacements.

“Planners” get paid to plan destruction.  Fire a bunch of “planners” and there will be much less destruction.

And a lot of folks in the fake “protective” groups protecting the outrages fall into these categories of beneficiaries, directly or indirectly.

And a whole bunch of office holders lying that they are environmentalists benefit because the Cambridge Machine will very aggressively agree with their lie.  Remember the secret definition of “environmentalism” among these people.  “Environmentalism” in Cambridge, MA, among the Cambridge Machine, is protecting that part of the environment which is NOT being destroyed by Cambridge / its friends this week.

Folks who earn their living destroying our world have a black ball policy.  If any of them MEANINGFULLY stands up to outrages, no matter how irresponsible, they are blackballed.  If they lie, claim there are “defending” and con good people into doing the opposite of what those folks want to do, these are people who are “getting things done.”  Instead of a special place in Hell, to their accomplices, these are folks to look up to

Mass. Legislature: Destruction on Memorial Drive goes from Bond Authorization to Actual Expenditure. Killing off of the Charles River White Geese? Plus hundreds of trees.

1. The rotten reality.
2. Contacts.


1. The rotten reality.

I have been reporting on the ongoing attempts of the DCR and Cambridge to destroy hundreds of trees between the BU Bridge.  The replacement of the prior bill with H4009 makes things much worse.

Including authorization of direct attacks on the abused Charles River White Geese.

Massachusetts House bill H4009 which is late in approvals specifically funds massive destruction on Memorial Drive as follows:

Section 2C

line item 2890-7020, as relevant:

$32,000,000 shall be expended to complete the planning, design and construction of Phase II of the Historic Parkways Initiative along the section of the Memorial Drive between the Longfellow Bridge and the Boston University Bridge, also known as the BU Bridge, in the city of Cambridge, to construct and make improvements to pedestrian pathways, bike and paths, and to make betterments to landscaping; and in accordance with the MassDOT’s Healthy Transportation Directive;

Prior wording was just for bond authorization.  This is expenditure.

Prior wording was vague.

This is extremely specific.

English translation of “construct and make improvements to pedestrian pathways, bike and paths, and to make betterments to landscaping” is “DESTROY, DESTROY, DESTROY”

AND IT SPECIFICALLY INCLUDES THE GHETTO TO WHICH THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ARE CONFINED.

Heartless abuse could readily turn into outright killing or greater abuse consistent with the destruction.

The Cambridge City Council is moving forward on a bike highway proposal which includes irresponsible destruction in the undestroyed part of the goose area.  Cambridge’s plans call for two bike highways and a fence blocking access between the main goose area and the adjacent hillside.

The tree destruction plans are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

The Memorial Drive project has been kept as secret as possible.  When the DCR sought to destroy these trees in 2009, they simply lied to the public that they were diseased.

This has been kept below the radar except for chortling by the destructive Charles River “Conservancy”.

Until last week when the Cambridge City Council directed the City Manager for a funding proposal.

And this outrageous rewriting.

2. Contacts.

Massachusetts Governor’s Office email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

All Massachusetts Legislators’ emails: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.

Cambridge, MA, USA city councilors: Council@cambridgema.gov.

Email Letter: DCR Hides Wasteful Destruction in Gov’s Bond Bill; “Support” obtained by Fraud

Email Letter:  DCR Hides Wasteful Destruction in Gov’s Bond Bill; “Support” obtained by Fraud.

I am in the process of sending the following letter to members of the Massachusetts legislature.  This analysis includes typo corrections.

Please note that tree destruction plans are posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html.

Folks who would like to join me may find legislators’ emails at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html.




I object to the bonding authorization of $24 million to destroy hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive on the Charles River in Cambridge between the BU and Longfellow Bridges included in H4009 (formerly H3332), as part of “Historical Parkways.”

I object to the bonding of $4 million in the same bill for environmental destruction under the next three bridges over the Charles River under the euphemism of “underpasses.

These projects would include other environmental destruction and massive heartless animal abuse.  There is a lot to destroy in the area.  DCR projects always hurt as many animals as possible ancillary to their goal of killing off or driving away as many animals as they can on the Charles River Basin.  DCR and Cambridge recently started a comparable mass tree destruction and animal pogrom in the Alewife reservation near Alewife station.  They destroyed acres of irreplaceable woodlands and much more looks like it is coming.

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I see a pious letter of support by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”  This entity has a strikingly bad record on environmental destruction.  They function as a cheerleader for the reprehensible Department of Conservation and Recreation and the City of Cambridge.

DCR has a policy of killing off or driving away all resident animals on this part of the Charles River.  DCR has been very vicious and cruel in actions supported by this fake “conservancy.”  DCR has indulged in massive destruction supported by a repeated pattern of outrageous lies.

One example of lies is a swim in the CRC did to celebrate destruction at Magazine Beach.  The project walled off Magazine Beach from the Charles River.  It replaced healthy grass with sickly stuff and it started dumping poisons in a previously sacrosanct area.  Athletic fields were destroyed to drain off poisons which should not even be there.

The 33 year resident Charles River White Geese have been deliberately starved and worse since them.

The CRC destroyed most of the ground vegetation between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse.  They replaced healthy ground vegetation with dirt.  The DCR has worked with irresponsible railroad workers to make the situation worse.  When the Cambridge Conservation Commission’s executive director objected, the DCR told the railroad workers to keep up the destruction, just to move beyond the very small CCC jurisdiction.

They are heartlessly abusing the local animal residents, most visibly the highly valued 33 year resident Charles River White Geese..

I was shocked just now to review the CRC official position on the destruction in the governor’s bond bill, in a letter to the legislature.  I was shocked by how little the CRC letter meaningfully said about this very destructive bill which it supports.

Separate from this letter, the CRC bragged in a widely distributed email communication of the initial filing of the governor’s bond bill.  Translating the euphemisms, the CRC bragged of $24 million for destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridge with associated attacks on resident animals.

This $24 million bond authorization in the governor’s bond bill was described by the CRC as “incidental” to $4 million for underpasses under the next three bridges west of the BU Bridge.  This “underpasses” project has been condemned as environmentally destructive by a responsible agency, MassDOT.

CRC ran around getting “approvals” for the $4 million in “underpasses” environmental destruction.  They now call the $24 million in massive tree destruction “ancillary” to the $4 million in “underpasses.”  I call such a comparison flat out fraud.  There is no question in my mind that support, albeit misguided, for the $4 million “underpasses” project has been warped into support for the combination of $28 million destruction.  In the sick world which is Cambridge, MA, $24 million is incidental to $4 million.

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In response to CRC’s self congratulations, my record is a lot better and my record is on the side I claim to be on.

I am writing individually and as Chair of Friends of the White Geese, a non profit recognized by the Attorney General’s Office.

I have defended the Charles River since 2000 individually and as Chair of Friends of the White Geese.  One of our first achievements was to discredit the predecessor organization to the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”  The predecessor “disappeared” and the CRC announced itself a few months later.

The then local State Representative called for an animal pogrom aimed at the Charles River White Geese in the Cambridge Chronicle.  He and his accomplices would have succeed if it were not for Friends of the White Geese, politically, and if it were not for, functionally, the Charles River Urban Wilds Initiative who have been forced to neutralize the deliberate starvation with feedings.

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I am a former railroader (2 years).  I was involved in Red Line Extension planning.  Since 1985, I have been involved in Urban Ring planning.  In 1986, I proposed the Kenmore Charles River Crossing.  It was adopted as one of two alternatives by the MBTA in 1991.  Since 1991, the City of Cambridge has consistently lied, denying that the Kenmore Crossing exists.  Zoning has been changed in Cambridgeport based on this lie.

I have recently proposed a Green Line A spur creation to support Harvard’s relocation of its Medical School to the Mass. Pike off ramps / railroad yard area in Allston.

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Starting in 1978, I have written more of the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance than any other person not employed by the City of Cambridge.  My achievements have emphasized environmental protection and housing creation at a responsible scale.  I have downzoned about 85% of the Massachusetts Avenue corridor between Harvard and Central Squares.

The former Inn at Harvard in East Harvard Square was forced on Harvard University by the Cambridge City Council in response to one of my achievements.  The former Inn at Harvard in East Harvard Square was forced on Harvard University by the Cambridge City Council in response to one of my zoning initiatives.   Harvard wanted it 72% larger and built to the lotline.

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I have been part of the only meaningful achievement by environmental activists in the Alewife reservation.  I wrote the zoning proposal which resulted in the conversion of a massive, DCR owned private parking lot back to nature.

A comparable group to the CRC ran around fighting for the ongoing and increasing DCR / Cambridge destruction of the Alewife reservation woodlands at Alewife by telling people to look at everything other than the real problem, the highly destructive DCR and Cambridge.

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Cambridge has very destructive politics disguising itself as sainthood.

Cambridge and the DCR work very closely together.


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The $24 million and $4 million buried in this bill are excellent examples of the problem with Cambridge, the DCR, the falsely named CRC, and so many other influenced groups maneuvering public opinion without disclosing their records and their connections.