DCR proposes more destruction on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA.

0. Overview.
1. “Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association” hosts environmental destroyer / heartless animal abuser from DCR.
2. Corsi’s presentation.
3. Analysis.
4. Machine analysis.
5. Meeting analysis.
6. Overall analysis.
7. What will happen?


0. Overview.

The key person in the outrage in the Magazine Beach area of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, gave his plans for the next step on January 30, 2013. He is the key manager of the Department of Conservation and Recreation for Magazine Beach, R. Corsi.

A key factor in the current outrage is years of lies by DCR including but not necessarily limited to R. Corsi that they had “no intention” to do “harm” to the Charles River White Geese.

Corsi wants to extend the last 13 years of outrage westerly from Magazine Beach to the area of the hill to the west of the playing fields and further. His plans would bring one step closer the destruction of hundreds of excellent trees between the Magazine Beach playing fields and the Longfellow Bridge, the third bridge (counting the BU Bridge) east of those playing fields.

Corsi wants to extend the routine dumping of poisons on the banks of the Charles River to at least that hill and, almost certainly, further. Corsi wants to destroy the little parking lot for little guys picnicing on that hill. This parking is at the foot of Magazine Street in Cambridge. Corsi wants to build a small vehicle highway connecting the small vehicle highway installed in Magazine Beach’s playing fields to the environmental outrage which are the plans for the three bridges west of the playing fields. This highway would extend to the east and destroy all those trees.

Corsi (omitting as much fine print as is feasible) calls these goals non negotiable.

The meeting started with the Cambridge Machine stating that it intended to ram through the meeting the meeting’s blessings of Corsi’s plans. Discussion of the situation resulted in action being deferred until the next meeting.

Given 38 years of experience with various fronts of the Cambridge Machine, I am highly skeptical of what will be done by the Cambridge Machine and its front organization on this matter.

1. “Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association” hosts environmental destroyer / heartless animal abuser from DCR.

Wednesday night, January 30, 2013, the “Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association” hosted R. Corsi of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Corsi is the one individual most personally responsible for the outrage inflicted on Magazine Beach and the Charles River White Geese over the past 13 years.

He was presented by the woman who has spent the last year or so claiming to be fighting for Magazine Beach. She and the rest of the organization does not want to know about the last 13 years. They do want to update a former bath house on the hill west of the playing field outrage.

She has commented that it is a waste of time fighting to undo the outrages of the last 13 years. My translation of her excuse is that the Cambridge City Council is too irresponsible to undo the terrible things they have done. Her approach is to praise people worthy of condemnation in the hope that praise for irresponsible behavior will somehow persuade belligerently irresponsible people to become decent human beings. This is a normal pitch from the Cambridge Machine.

Her explanation of the plans to destroy the parking area for the picnic area around the bath house (at the foot of Magazine Street) has been that they do not have the money yet, so do not worry about it. The normal translation is that they then get the money, destroy and say it is too late to undo the destruction, but they are so sorry.

She and the group have exactly fit the Cambridge Machine mold. They have stood for three things:

A. Improve the bathhouse on top of the hill west of the playing fields,

B. Ignore the plans to destroy the parking lot, and

C. Ignore 13 years of irresponsible behavior, all the time loudly proclaiming concern for everything.

In the meeting, a group associated with her gave the impression they do not want the parking lot destroyed because of its importance to the little guy.

She introduced Corsi saying that she intended to present a motion which sounded like it would bless his efforts.

2. Corsi’s presentation.

Corsi’s explanation for the bizarre wall of introduced bushes was that they got a little bigger than he expected.

Corsi in the past has repeatedly claimed “no intention” to harm the Charles River White Geese. He has bragged that the bizarre wall starves them. He defines “harm” such that harm does not include starving them. So in his irresponsible world, deliberately starving beautiful valuable animals does not mean harming them. These flat out lies were crucial in defusing very major public distress at the initial attacks on these beautiful and very popular animals. The continuation of these lies helped everything else.

Corsi sniffed at the grass at the top of the hill and proudly proclaimed he wants to “improve” that.

Corsi gave the impression that destroying the parking lot is a done deal.

Another done deal is the building of a small vehicle highway through the hill area and the area to the west of the hill and connect it to the small vehicle highway built as part of the outrage over the past 13 years.

He says that Cambridge has to take the DCR’s plans now or be placed at the end of the list.

3. Analysis.

The DCR and the City of Cambridge have proven to be beneath contempt over the past 13 years.

The DCR sanctified Master Plan called for a lawn to the river.

The following has been done, all in violation of or not promised in the sanctified master plan or in any other public discussions.

A. The Magazine Beach playing fields have been walled off from the Charles River with a bizarre wall of introduced bushes which have simply been allowed to grow and grow.

Corsi claims confusion. He does not know how to chop down bushes. He has bragged that this bizarre wall starves the Charles River White Geese.

There were two phases of destruction. Phase 1 left a hole through which the Charles River White Geese fed. Phase 2 filled that hole belligerently.

Corsi brags of gross incompetence. That is his excuse. He does not know how to chop down bushes. The DCR everyplace else knows how to chop down bushes.

Accepting such an excuse by the Cambridge Machine reemphasizes the organizational corruption of the Cambridge Machine.

B. They destroyed perfectly good grass which had survived the better part of a century and replaced it with sickly stuff that cannot survive without poisons.

Corsi’s claim of wishing to “improve” the grass in the rest of the Magazine Beach area in this latest phase translates into a determination to replace healthy grass with more of his beloved sickly stuff and with the DCR’s beloved poisons.

Accepting such environmental corruption by the Cambridge Machine reemphasizes the organizational corruption of the Cambridge Machine.

C. They have destroyed significant parts of the playing fields for a complicated drainage system to drain off poisons which are totally unnecessary.

The responsible thing to do is, instead of sewing poisons, sew seed for the grass they destroyed. Then they will be in a position to return the quality of the playing fields to what it was 13 years ago.

Instead, they are sewing more poisons and a need for more drainage.

Accepting such environmental corruption by the Cambridge Machine reemphasizes the organizational corruption of the Cambridge Machine.

D. They have destroyed the boat dock which had been at Magazine Beach for the better part of a century.

The boat dock is still there. It just cannot be accessed. I live in reality. It has been destroyed.

You undo the silly and unexplained barriers, and you have the boat dock.

Accepting such environmental corruption by the Cambridge Machine reemphasizes the organizational corruption of the Cambridge Machine.

E. They have heartless abused the Charles River White Geese.

Part of the sanctified Master Plan calls for killing off all resident animals. That is in their secret definition of parkland.

Pretty much every action done in the past 13 years which could be modified to add to the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese has been so modified.

Accepting such environmental corruption by the Cambridge Machine reemphasizes the organizational corruption of the Cambridge Machine.

F. The plans.

“Improving the grass” translates into more sickly grass, more poisons, and more drainage to drain off poisons which should not be dumped there in the first place.

The grass at the top of the hill is clearly and significantly superior to the sickly stuff which has been introduced by the DCR and Cambridge. It has survived in an environmentall responsible manner for the better part of a Century. The presence of that fine grass which does not need poisons puts the lie to the claim of the DCR, Cambridge and the Cambridge Machine that the behavior of the last 13 years is the behavior of a responsible government.

The lovely new highway is part of the DCR’s plans to destroy hundreds of trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge. No highway, no excuse to destroy the trees. This includes the decimation of a lovely 104 tree grove at the Memorial Drive split. Most of the rest of the targeted trees are larger than these excellent trees.

The DCR tried to get Obama money for the tree destruction.

They lied that all the trees they wanted to destroy are diseased. The papers they filed with Cambridge on the project proved that position to be yet another flat out lie.

No money came.

No comment was made by Corsi about extending the bizarre wall. No comment was made about extending expensive drainage to drain off poisons which, of course, were not mentioned.

No denials were made either.

None of this should be done. None of this should be extended. It is silly to think that this corrupt agency would behave in a responsible manner.

Accepting such environmental corruption and heartless abuse of valuable, beautiful animals in the past by the Cambridge Machine reemphasizes the organizational corruption of the Cambridge Machine.

The position of the Cambridge Machine has been that the last 13 years do not exist. Their sanctified friends at the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” wholeheartedly support and fight for the destruction.

G. Dirty tricks.

Normal. I have better things to do than give a blow by blow of the dirty tricks of the DCR, Cambridge and the Cambridge Machine. As I said, I have been fighting the Cambridge Machine and its various front organizations for 38 years.

4. Machine analysis.

They want to talk to the DCR and get the fine print straight. They could care less about the record of lying, destruction and heartless animal abuse. They want “improvements”.

The Cambridge Machine lives “compromise.” In Cambridge, MA, USA, “compromise” means that the bad guys get to do whatever the bad guys want to do, and the good guys get to declare victory.

After all isn’t that fair?

5. Meeting analysis.

Very skeptical.

The proposed praise and support which was announced at the beginning of the meeting was ignored. Watered down versions were proposed and not voted on.

Final decision was to postpone until next meeting.

Postponing allows the Machine to organize and to create a story to tell to people. It allows the Machine to stack the next meeting with true believers who will obey orders and be oh, so confused. It allows the Machine to wear down people who only wanted to attend one meeting.

6. Overall analysis.

There are major problems in Magazine Beach. Those problems are the irresponsible behavior of the last 13 years.

These problems are exacerbated by the presence of the Cambridge Machine and the very real and very bad record of the Cambridge Machine.

The Cambridge Machine ALWAYS sounds great. The Cambridge Machine routinely, not necessarily always, does the exact opposite.

The DCR proposes to extend 13 years of destruction at the playing fields to the area west of the playing fields.

But the area west of the playing fields, except for the really minor situation of the bath house IS BETTER NOW THAN IS THE PLAYING FIELDS.

It is outrageous to try to dot the I’s and cross the T’s to prevent a repetition of 13 years of destruction and animal abuse with an agency which is a proven liar, has proven to add changes without discussion, has a terrible record of dirty tricks, and which wants to keep 13 years of destruction in place.

The responsible thing to do is insist on undoing 13 years of outrages. It is silly to insist that this time an irresponsible agency will suddenly behave responsibly so that you have

A. Responsible new construction next to and in direct conflict with

B. 13 years of outrage.

Such a combination would be bizarre.

Actually, given the irresponsible record, such an option would be worse than bizarre. It would be outrageously silly.

Such an option, however, would fit the record of the Cambridge Machine on its less irresponsible days.

7. What will happen?

This is the Cambridge Machine. What do you think will happen?

Cambridge to Attack the Environment at the Massive Danehy Park?

1. Danehy Park under apparent attack.
2. Councilor Van Beuzekom’s Position (?).
3. Situation in Context. — The very terrible record of the Cambridge City Council


1. Danehy Park under apparent attack.

Seth Teller is organizing around Cambridge considering destruction of the grass in three playing fields at Danehy Park in the western part of Cambridge. His comments follow. There is a lot of automatically introduced characters in the email. I have attempted to edit out the chaff and return what, I hope, he was trying to say:

[Ed. The initial publication lost a lot of intended formatting. I have overkilled trying to make this readable.]

Subject: [ecfg] Save the grass fields at Danehy

Hi neighbors,

Sorry, I seem to be on an activism streak lately. Today's issue:

Cambridge plans to pave *all three grass playing fields* at Danehy with plastic turf. We might
be able to turn this around if we can kick up a big enough storm to get the city council's attention. Please *sign the petition* http://tinyurl.com/keepthegrass to help.


AND please send this email as widely as you can to everyone you know who might care about grass vs. plastic:


soccer/ultimate/field hockey players, dog walkers, whatever. Forget sports -- know anyone that likes to lie out in the sun on some soft grass rather than plastic? Know anyone that flies kites? Goes outside? Forward this to them. http://tinyurl.com/keepthegrass.


Please help fix this.


Thank you.


2. Councilor Van Beuzekom’s Position (?).


*Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:38 AM
*Subject:* Meeting Scheduled


Good Morning everyone -


A meeting has been scheduled by a committee of the City Council to discuss this further. I hope you will be able to attend so we can all hear what the exact city plans are, what the playing field demands are and what the maintenance on the grass fields has been to date.


February 6th from 4-6pm in City Hall, the Sullivan Chambers on the 2nd floor.

I realize this time is not ideal for working folk so please feel free to submit something in writing prior to the meeting. You can use Council@cambridgema.gov to send your message to all of us or Dlopez@cambridgema.gov to send it to City Clerk as part of the public record.

Thanks for trying to hold a balanced discussion electronically.


Minka vanBeuzekom
your Cambridge City Councillor
cell: 617-894-0370


3. Situation in Context. — The very terrible record of the Cambridge City Council.

The only thing which is consistent about environmental “planning” in and near the City of Cambridge, MA, USA is that the “planners” are as destructive to the environment as a very large and very controlled Cambridge Machine can fool people into suckering for.


I condemned Governor Patrick for assisting the many outrages and, in the process, condemned a really bad city council, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/patrick-administration-destructiveness.html.


They are so rotten that it is very hard to list everything. Danehy Park is one of the largest formal open space that I am aware of in the City of Cambridge. One outrage I did not mention in the Patrick report is ongoing environmental destruction at Fresh Pond, another very massive area which has been in the process of incremental environmental destruction for several years now. Danehy Park is maybe a block from Fresh Pond at the nearest point.


Danehy Park is perhaps half a mile from the Alewife reservation which Cambridge is aggressively destroying.


Councilor vanBeuzekom appeared in a recent post as an example of the corrupt environment situation. She was making a presentation at one of the typical fake groups bragging about environmental holiness at Fresh Pond. The massive destruction is total waste of trees and animal residents for “flood protection” that project cannot provide, with ample room in nearby properties to provide meaningful flood protection. One meaningful properties has disappeared for use and a second major property is on the verge. The Machine is stalling, telling people to look at a long shot fight on a private developement; how dare anybody stop an eminently stoppable project their friends are doing.


vanBeuzekom was bragging about air quality. She mentioned two key parcels needed for use to prevent the destruction and animal killing, but she did not want to know about reality and her city council’s fight for destruction.


Business as usual in the City of Cambridge, MA, USA.

Patrick Administration Destructiveness in Context

1. Letter to the Editor.
2. Women’s Rights.
3. Environmental Destruction.


1. Letter to the Editor.

I have submitted the following letter to the editor of the Cambridge Chronicle:

Editor
Cambridge Chronicle

Actions by the Patrick administration have dramatically communicated contempt for the environment by Governor Patrick.

Workers on the Commuter Rail bridge under the BU Bridge used for parking the last refuge of the Charles River White Geese to the east of the BU Bridge. If we had a responsible state government, they would have parked under Memorial Drive as did the BU Bridge workers.

This last undestroyed area has had severe past damage by the state’s agents destroying ground vegetation and by sporadic irresponsible parking by state workers.

This time it was five weeks parking by about ten privately owned vehicles starting in early December.

The governor’s response to our complaint was noncommital. In other words, “tough”.

Now the environmentally destructive Charles River “Conservancy” has put out the following report:

*****

Just before the end of 2012 Transportation Secretary Davey issued a change order to the Anderson Bridge and asked for a change to the design of the River St. and Western Av. bridges to clear the path for future underpasses.

*****

This group and friends in the Cambridge Machine have been fighting for destruction of the environment under and adjacent to both sides of these three bridges.

Massive destruction is related to these projects. It includes further heartless attacks on Magazine Beach and the Goose Meadow, plus destruction of the parking lot at the end of Magazine Street and devastation of the magnificent 105 tree grove at the Memorial Drive split.

These actions follow years of outrages at Magazine Beach: walling it off from the Charles River, starvation of the Charles River White Geese, dumping of poisons, decrease of size of the playing fields and destruction of the boat docks, plus the extension of destructive bushes to the Goose Meadow.

These actions follow a totally unnecessary mass animal kill as part of the destruction of acres of Alewife for “flood storage” that project cannot provide but which can be provided under nearby properties. The Machine is stalling enough that many of the nearby properties may be no longer available.

Then you have the mass tree destruction on the Cambridge Common and Flagstaff Park using state money.

There is no longer anything ambiguous about Governor Patrick’s environmental destructiveness. The nicest comparison I can give with regard to the Cambridge Government and the Cambridge Machine is that, at least, there is no reason to think that Governor Patrick has contempt for women’s rights.

2. Women’s Rights.

The corruption of the Cambridge city government is only exceeded by its hypocrisy.

These self proclaimed “holier than thou”’s got a very strong come uppance in the case of Malvina Monteiro v. Cambridge.

Judge, jury and appeals court panel condemned the Cambridge City Manager in no uncertain terms because he destroyed the life of department head Malvina Monteiro in retaliation for her filing a civil rights / women’s rights complaint.

The Cambridge City Council was unambiguous power to fire the Cambridge City Manager for malfeasance in office.

The Cambridge City Council has had exactly zero attempts to do so and exactly zero votes to implement the Court decisions by firing him.

3. Environmental Destruction.

The letter is excessively moderate.

The heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese has been supported by the Patrick administration by its clearly stated indifference to the parking outrage.

My letter was not able to detail the start of an environmental nightmare being increasingly forced on the Charles River White Geese. These 32 year residents of the Charles River have been starved by the bizarre wall of introduced bushes walling off the Magazine Beach playing fields. That bizarre wall is being duplicated in half the tiny area to which they have been heartlessly confined by the planting of such bushes occupying half the area.

The half that has not been under attack by this outrage has just been attacked by the parking of approximately ten privately owned vehicles for five weeks, when a responsible government would have parked those vehicles under the very close Memorial Drive overpass in a parking location used for BU Bridge repairs.

The basic issue is how low can you go that differences are irrelevant.

It is very nice of the Patrick administration not, apparently, joining the corruption of Cambridge in the field of women’s rights, but he really has not had a chance to join that level of corruption. The automatic assumption is that he would never stoop so low. But the outrages listed in my letter to the editor all fall under the “They would never stoop so low” category.

A really, really rotten situation.

Governor Patrick reaffirms contempt for the Charles River Environment

1. Background, nesting area destruction.
2. Falsely named "Conservancy" brags of further planned destruction.


1. Background, nesting area destruction.

We have several time reported on the outrage at the destroyed nesting area of the Charles River White Geese in which the last refuge of the Charles River White Geese was converted into a parking lot for Commuter Rail workers rather than parking under Memorial Drive where BU Bridge workers parked for years.

This outrage continued for five weeks and will resume whenever they are so irresponsible as to resume their contemptuous behavior.

Communication to the Governor received a “neutral” reply.

Translation: Tough, tough, tough.

We still have some photos which we will post.

2. Falsely named "Conservancy" brags of further planned destruction.

The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” in a bulk email sent at 5:30 pm on January 25, 2012, reported the following:

***********

Just before the end of 2012 Transportation Secretary Davey issued a change order to the Anderson Bridge and asked for a change to the design of the River St. and Western Av. bridges to clear the path for future underpasses.

***********

These destructive people were fighting for destruction of the environment on both sides of these bridges which are the next three bridges west of the BU Bridge.

It is ambiguous exactly the nature of the destruction. Are they destroying under both ends?

Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Evil in Cambridge, MA, USA

1. Cambridge Machine: There is no such a thing as bad guys. There are just differences of opinion.
2. Bad guy.
3. Response (also known as censored #1).
4. Summary.

1. Cambridge Machine: There is no such a thing as bad guys. There are just differences of opinion.

The Cambridge Machine is active again.

Now the Cambridge Machine claims to be defending Cambridge against a massive increase in development allowed in Central and Kendall Squares.

As part of this fight, members of the Cambridge Machine have been doing lovely analyses of morality.

The Cambridge Machine is reading from the script.

The Cambridge Machine is objecting to the use of the word "Bad Guys" with regard to the supposed opposition.

I really do not want to spend a lot of time writing yet another response, so here are a bad guy comment and the response (with correction of one type) I sent which was censored from their listserve.

I am only quoting the introductory paragraph.

If I quoted the rest, I would have to go on and on and on.

2. Bad guy.

It isn't a case of bad people vs good people. (Gosh, we are hearing enough of that now with the Newtown killings.) It is best to think of it as different viewpoints on how expansion should occur and on the research on urban growth. It seems that the goal of these postings is to offer the opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of upzoning and city planning in a rational, fact-based manner.

3. Response (also known as censored #1)

The people who tell me "It is just a matter of difference of opinion" tend to have striking problems in that their "opinions" deviate very far from the norm.

Excellent examples of deviating from the norm include

(1) fighting for achieving inexcusable destruction of acres of virgin woodlands at Alewife along with massive killing of their resident animals, and fighting through stalling to make it much worse and

(2) fighting for

(a) the dumping of poisons on the banks of the Charles River to feed sickly grass introduced in place of environmentally responsible grass,

(b) the continuation and worsening of large scale deliberate animal starvation of three decade resident animals on the Charles River and related and accelerating animal abuse targeted at achieving a goal of killing off all resident animals on the Charles River Basin,

(c) the continuation of the bizarre wall blocking access between the Charles River and the Magazine Beach playing fields

(d) the continuation of the destruction of the boat docks at the Magazine Beach playing fields,

(e) the continuation of smaller playing fields to drain off poisons which should not be there, and

(f) fighting for destruction of the parking lot at the foot of Magazine Street without giving any explanation except that they do not have the money yet (while "neglecting" to mention that the destruction will occur immediately after they get the money).

When you combine such behavior with loud proclamations of "concern" which give the impression that the speakers are on the opposite side from the side they are really on, I have very great difficulty calling these outrages "differences of opinion."

And when you look at the fact that the principal tool being used is stalling to allow, through inaction, the opposite to happen from what they claim to stand for, that definitely looks to me like the bad guys.

4. Summary.

The tactics used strike me as an excellent example of Evil.

This is Cambridge, MA, USA.

Cambridge, MA, proposed environmental destruction on its Common - v. 2. Destruction at Alewife

1. Introduction.
2. Final version of Cambridge Common Letter.
3. Addendum.


1. Introduction.

About a week ago, I posted a proposed letter to the editor of the Cambridge Chronicle concerning an article they printed in their January 10 edition about Cambridge’s proposal to destroy 22 to 100 excellent trees in the Cambridge Common and the adjacent Flagstaff Park.

I rewrote the letter with some major stylistic improvements while keeping the content consistent. It was published in the hard copy edition on January 17. It was printed on the oped page, the middle of three editorial pages. Final version is below.

I got in as much as much as was feasible about the outrages at Alewife and on the Charles. The big problem with the Charles is that the outrages are so massive and so major that mentioning the problem is very difficult to do in a few words.

The woman who has led the fight for Alewife destruction for 15 years submitted her own con game letter, as usual telling people concerned about Alewife to look at the other guy off in the periphery. As usual, her pitch is to ignore Cambridge / Department of Conservation and Recreation and the reality of probable total destruction. Her latest con game letter was printed on line but not in the hard copy.

2. Final version of Cambridge Common Letter.

Editor
Cambridge Chronicle

You report on Cambridge’s proposal for environmental destruction on Cambridge Common and in the adjacent Flagstaff Park.

You quote a city representative as saying that “some of the [20] trees [being destroyed] are diseased.”

A different reality exists in Cambridge’s Environmental Impact Statement.

The EIS in the second paragraph on the fourth page says: “To create this path and visual connection twenty-two trees will be removed.”

The short explanation of the “visual connection” being created is that the planners are disturbed that trees are blocking the monument view. So they destroy those trees.

NO MENTION OF DISEASED TREES appears in the ENF.

Responsible people consider trees to be the view. Contrary to this normal mentality is the attitude among Cambridge planners that trees block views. Such a position in the ENF is outrageous. Adding “diseased” allegations apparently out of whole cloth is even worse.

Apparently after funding the destruction , the city council passed a motion submitted by Councilor Kelley which stated “The Cambridge Common renovation project plans to remove close to one hundred significantly sized trees.” Perhaps the looksee you report corrected a misunderstanding. However, the Cambridge City Manager routinely keeps secret environmental destruction.

The highway proposal through Flagstaff Park goes through an area with very significant trees. That highway project is mentioned in the ENF.

This mention of the highway with no more could be the City Manager’s usual mention of destruction without mentioning the destruction. The City Manager claims it is the duty of responsible people to cross examine his proposals and to find what he has kept secret.

If Kelley were correct, destruction of those Flagstaff Park trees could help explain the difference between the 22 HEALTHY TREES which are admittedly being destroyed for blocking the view and the nearly 100 healthy trees Kelley mentioned being destroyed.

In any case, contrary to the diseased nonsense and at absolute minimum, 22 healthy trees are being destroyed because they block the view.

Cambridge’s bizarre priorities fit its destruction of acres of Alewife’s virgin woodlands and killing hundreds of animals for a “flood protection” project which will not protect against floods. Alewife flood protection can and should be done on nearby properties. Environmental destruction is unnecessary.

Cambridge’s bizarre priorities fit multiple outrages on the Charles River which are in the process of being made worse.

Business as usual in Cambridge, MA, USA.

3. Addendum.

This update as originally published erroneously omitted the final three paragraphs printed in the Cambridge Chronicle. On January 20, 2013, I have updated the report to make it correct.

For the record as well, the letter since its hard copy publishing on Thursday, January 17, has been added to the on line record as well on, I think, January 19.

Governor Leval Patrick talks “Infrastructure.” Photos of destructive reality.

1. Lovely Words From Governor Patrick.
2. Destroyed Nesting Area, December 14, 2012.
3. Boston Globe: Yet more puffery, passing on Cambridge / DCR’s lies of Responsible Behavior.
4. Alewife, February 16, 2012, Acres of Destruction and Animal Killing.
5. Magazine Beach, destroying by green, August 15, 2012.
6. Summary.
7. Contacts.


1. Lovely Words From Governor Patrick.

Last night, January 16, 2013, Governor Patrick gave his State of the State Address.

He made a lot of noise about infrastructure and money to create it.

Reality is a very destructive use of money destroying infrastructure on one hand and laziness abetting a very destructive state agency in its destructiveness on the other.

His lovely words did mirror the lovely words aimed toward him at the Senator Warren ceremonial swearing in.

[01-10, Walgr; 20-01, 01-05, Warren]

Sorry this photo is so dark. The other five did not come out at all. I was carrying my analog camera.

Please also see my report of January 6, 2013, the day after, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/day-403-patrick-administration-rotten.html.

My preliminary report and photos, including before and after may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html, and at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html. The latter were taken on December 12, 2012.

2. Destroyed Nesting Area, December 14, 2012.

[01-10, Walgr; 01-20, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 02-19, 12-14, DNA]

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The lower structure in the background is Memorial Drive. Responsible people would be parking under it.  The BU Bridge workers parked there for a period of years during that project.  But flat out lies work in the City of Cambridge.

[01-10, Walgr; 04-17, 12-14, DNA]

The structure in the background is the BU Bridge.  

[01-10, Walgr; 05-16, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 06-15, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 07-14, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 09-12, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 10-11, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 11-10, 12-14, DNA]

3. Boston Globe: Yet more puffery, passing on Cambridge / DCR’s lies of Responsible Behavior.

The basis of the following report was received while I was working on the current report:

THE DESTROYED NESTING AREA AND THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ARE BY THE BOSTON GLOBE SHOWN AS A MODEL OF WHY CAMBRIDGE IS HOLIER THAN THOU.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/boston-globe-uses-outrageous-falsity-in.html.

4. Alewife, February 16, 2012, Acres of Destruction and Animal Killing.

Please see my report with photos at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/cambridge-pols-destroy-alewife-photo.html.

5. Magazine Beach, destroying by green, August 15, 2012.

Please see my report with photos at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

6. Summary.

I had hoped for decency and honor from Governor Patrick. This was because he may have vetoed Obama moneys to destroy hundreds of excellent trees on Memorial Drive between Magazine Beach and the third bridge to the east, the Longfellow Bridge. In not at all surprising behavior, the application was based on key lies from the Department of Conservation and Recreation. They filed papers with Cambridge saying that all the trees were healthy. The public lies talked diseased trees.

The Boston Globe printed a report on it, quoting the lies from the DCR without question in the form of: How dare you disagree with these [flat out liars].

Patrick has been made aware of the latest laziness induced outrage at the Destroyed Nesting Area. His response was neutral, fitting the rottenness in Cambridge and from the DCR.

7. Contacts.

Governor Leval Patrick: 617-725-4005; http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

MBTA, manager of commuter rail: http://www.mbta.com/customer_support/feedback/.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation: http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation: http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Boston Globe uses outrageous falsity in Puffery about Cambridge

Thank you to Phil Barber for pointing out the following from the Boston Globe in December 2012:

The lies which Cambridge puts out about itself are multiplied by unknowing reporters repeating those lies.

It is silly to call the repeat of the lies by the Cambridge Machine “unknowing.”

Cambridge and the DCR are doing everything they can, in particular, to kill off the Charles River White Geese.

My current series of reports provides multiple photos about the latest outrage in this exact location.

It is the goal of Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to kill off all resident animals on the Charles River.

Cambridge and the DCR have indulged in October - November 2011 in a massive destruction of acres of Alewife including a pogrom of hundreds of resident animals.

I have done a series of reports on the latest outrage. I will follow shortly with a detailed update with new photos and links to old photos

Days 407 and 408. Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese looks bad

We conducted visibilities on Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15, days 407 and 408, at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese on the Charles River at the intersection of the BU Bridge and its on ramp to Memorial Drive in Cambridge, MA, USA.

It looks bad.

Both days we were there in early rush hour, after, apparently, the railroad’s workers left.

On Monday, the gaggle was huddled against the BU Bridge at the bottom of the slope and near the Charles River. They moved closer to the tree they have lived their life under since the Department of Conservation and Recreation and Cambridge started deliberately starving them by walling off Magazine Beach. They did not go all the way. They huddled against the Charles River in an area that was densely vegetated until the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” started destroying the environment for the DCR.

On Tuesday, they were in the second location when I came and moved up the artificially created undeveloped area by the BU Bridge when a couple of good people came, perhaps with needed food.

The ground which has been their main habitat since the start of starvation looks like a solid floor. It is hard to believe that the destruction which existed before could be made worse, but it has been made significantly worse, apparently unhabitable.

It is possible that these irresponsible people have finished their job and left to leave additional destruction to someone else.

The reality is that the BU Bridge workers, except for the plans from the DCR, functioned responsibly. The task was transferred to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation after most of the task was dictated by a really irresponsible agency. MassDOT did not implement the DCR’s goals of killing off all animals any more than was dictated by the DCR and Cambridge.

This latest phase from Commuter Rail with DCR blessing is inexcusable, downright rotten, behavior. This latest phase is consistent with the rotten situation in the City of Cambridge and with regard to Cambridge’s multiple irresponsible cohorts.

Days 405 and 406 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese: Corruption

1. Days 405 and 406 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
2. Types of destruction.
3. Corruption.

1. Days 405 and 406 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

On Saturday, January 12 and Sunday, January 13, I conducted visibilities at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

They were huddled almost in their favorite part of the world, under the big tree kitty corner from the entrance illegally built by Boston University at BU Bridge and the On Ramp to Memorial Drive.

This Saturday, there were no workers destroying their home. They rested between the formerly natural area which has irresponsibly been turned into a parking lot, to their north, and the Charles River to the south.

2. Types of destruction.

This outrage has clarified that there are two types of environmental destruction going on.

There is the deliberate type achieved by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.” Since they started destroy the environment for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, almost all ground vegetation has been destroyed between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse a block (2/10 mile?) to the east. In the nesting area, this has meant the deforestation of the ground under all trees, including the killing of vegetation used for nesting.

But the irresponsibility of the CRC has been accelerated by vehicles driving over larger, more organized areas including areas which have been coming back from destruction. Clearly, looking at these irresponsible workers, such rotten behavior has been a very major factor in destruction as well.

3. Corruption.

I had a pleasant conversation with a gentleman taking photographs.

He had very clear and very negative opinions about how Cambridge, MA, is run. He used the word “corruption.” I agreed with him but corrected him.

The City of Cambridge, I said, is too corrupt for the stereotypical municipal definition of corruption to apply. The situation is too corrupt to make payoffs have any sense.

The fake groups are white collar corruption. These subtly but very really controlled groups lie that they are independent and control well meaning people while stabbing them in the back.

The achieved destruction and massive animal killing at Alewife with the fake groups working to make the situation that much worse is one excellent example.

Locally the problem is the continued destruction on the Charles with its own fake group who lie about “concern” but

a. do not want to know about reality,

b. do not want to know about the ongoing and increasing heartless animal abuse and irresponsible environmental destruction

c. while fighting to make things worse

strikes very close to home as well.

If you are lying about which side you are on and fooling well meaning people to destroy the causes for which they stand, you are corrupt. In Cambridge, MA, USA, corruption is the norm.

Day 404, plus Environmental Destruction on the Cambridge Common

1. Day 404 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
2. Cambridge Chronicle notices Cambridge Common.


1. Day 404 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

On January 10, I conducted day 404 of our visibilities at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. I had good response including one gentleman who has been a regular.

The area turned into an irresponsible parking lot includes a very significant portion which is now a quagmire. We have had a freeze followed by a thaw.

The gaggle of the Charles River White Geese rested on the ground on the safe side of their favorite spot, now parking. When the workers left, the gaggle moved to the artificial emptiness next to the BU Bridge where they rested. Was the original spot a plea to decency from people with no ethics?

2. Cambridge Chronicle notices Cambridge Common.

The January 10, 2013 edition of the Cambridge Chronicle modestly front paged a report on the proposed destruction on the Cambridge Common.

I have submitted the following letter. I enclosed copies of the Environmental Notification Form and of the Kelley motion mentioned in the letter. Two typos corrected.

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RE: Cambridge Common Environmental Destruction: Cambridge words and reality.

You have reported on Cambridge’s latest foray into environmental destruction.

This time, it is on Cambridge Common and Flagstaff Park.

The report quotes a city representative as saying that 20 trees will be destroyed, “some of the [20] trees are diseased.”

Interestingly, as is very common with Cambridge environmental destruction, a different reality occurs when you look at the official documents.

The Environmental Impact Statement in the second paragraph on the fourth page says:

“To create this path and visual connection twenty-two trees will be removed.” The short version of “visual connection” is that the planners are disturbed that trees are blocking the view. NO MENTION OF DISEASED TREES AMONG THE 22 appears in the ENF. Contrary to this normal mentality among city planners, responsible people consider trees to be the view. Such a position by Cambridge “planners” is nothing less than outrageous, but is highly normal among these people.

The city council passed a motion on this matter submitted by Councilor Kelley on November 5, which stated: “The Cambridge Common renovation project plans to remove close to one hundred significantly sized trees.” Perhaps the looksee corrected a misunderstanding by the Cambridge City Council. However, the Cambridge City Manager has routinely kept secret as much environmental destruction as he can get away with.

The highway proposal through Flagstaff Park goes through an area with very significant trees. That highway project is mentioned in the ENF. This mention of the highway with no more could be the City Manager’s usual mention of destruction without mentioning the destruction. The City Manager thinks it is the duty of responsible people to cross examine the City Manager and to find what he has kept secret.

If Councilor Kelley was correct, those magnificent trees could explain the difference between the 22 HEALTHY TREES which are being destroyed for blocking the view and the 100 he mentioned.

In any case, contrary to the diseased nonsense and at absolute minimum, 22 healthy trees are being destroyed because they block the view.

This bizarre level of priorities fits Cambridge’s destruction of acres of Alewife and killing hundreds of animals for a “flood protection” project which will not protect against floods but which meaningfully could be done on nearby properties without any environmental destruction.

This bizarre level of priorities fits multiple outrages on the Charles River which are in the process of being made much worse.

Business as usual in the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge (MA) Chronicle assists mass animal killing, encourages more

I sent the following letter to the Cambridge Chronicle on December 22, 2012.

In general, they have been extremely good on publishing my letters.

To put it succinctly, the Chronicle devoted the first page of its second section to a photo report on The Machine's celebration of the environment at Alewife. The Machine has destroyed acres of Alewife along with mass animal killings of permanent residents. The Machine, through the usual distractions and telling people to look at everything except what counts is fighting for perhaps total destruction of Alewife.

The below letter addressed the Chronicle’s guilt and has not been published. It is possible that the editor may also have had problems with my accurate description of the corruption which is the norm in Cambridge government and the Cambridge Machine.

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RE: Chronicle Puffery assists Alewife Destruction

I see the Chronicle has devoted yet another first page of the second section to the falsely named Friends of Alewife lying about which side they are on.

The last time I remember this Cambridge Machine front being in the Chronicle, it was bragging in a letter about its friends destroying acres of the irreplaceable Alewife reservation and killing off its animals.

Never before that destruction did this falsely named group publicly mention its fight for destruction at Alewife. The group lives by the constant REAL slogan of the Cambridge Machine: “Don’t look at what we are destroying; look at how great we sound when we yell at the other guy.”

The Cambridge Machine / “Friends” of Alewife has had another victory in its fight for possibly total destruction of the irreplaceable Alewife reservation.

The Alewife area needs flood storage. The lie put out when they quietly fought for the first outright destruction was that they were providing flood storage. The “flood storage” provided by that destruction would protect against the worst possible rain storm in a two year period. Alewife has seen two fifty year storms in the last twenty years. Alewife should have protection against hundred year storms.

There has been readily available protection for the area without the destruction this fake group fights for. It could have gone under the massive parking lot across CambridgePark Drive which stretches to Alewife Brook Parkway.

This fake group has kept people looking at everything else while a major condo project has started construction where the most obvious flood storage should go.

There is still a site adjacent to the existing destruction which is slated for a condo project. The balance of the massive parking lot across CambridgePark Drive is still available.

If meaningful flood protection is not provided on these sites, the fake group will have achieved possibly total destruction of the Alewife reservation. Their stalling and misdirection would leave no other target for the flood protection.

I have previously offered the Chronicle photographs of the destruction this fake group has bragged about at Alewife, and of the parking lot where a lot of the flood storage should have gone.

I am still happy to provide those photographs. Reality at Alewife would be very nice on the first page of your second section.

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Ed: The mentioned photographs may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/cambridge-pols-destroy-alewife-photo.html.

Day 403, Patrick Administration: rotten at the Charles River, self praise at Warren Swear In

1. Day 403 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
2. Commuter Rail Gets Really Rotten.
3. Governor Deval Patrick praised.
4. Irresponsible Cambridge (MA) City Councilor present at Senator Warren celebration.


1. Day 403 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

I kept track of our visibilities at the Destroyed Nesting Area, reporting each by its number, and the real number (because of groupings of reports) is higher. It has been 17 months since I last reported a numbered visibility. I got sloppy and just stopped counting.

The corruption evident in the current attacks of Commuter Rail on the Charles River White Geese yesterday afternoon in the late afternoon, normal rush hour except it was a Saturday, was such that I got out my leaflets and leafleted. No sign, just leaflets. This will be the first visibility reported without a “Save the Geese” sign.

People were nice and concerned.

I use the word corruption accurately.

Government corruption is a matter of exceeding one’s authorized power for personal benefit or for the benefit of friends.

The situation described below exactly fits government corruption.

2. Commuter Rail Gets Really Rotten.

On Saturday, the same bureaucrat was posted just inside the entrance to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. He lied to people that the Destroyed Nesting Area is a work zone, hard hat only.

[2012/12-12, Walgreen’s; 08-18, DNA]

Here is a photo of the work zone, which is the railroad tracks.

The destroyed nesting area illegally turned into a parking lot is to the right of the trees which are to the right of the railroad track / construction area.

[2012/12-12, Walgreen’s; 20-06, DNA]

Here is a photo of the corrupt behavior he is trying to keep as secret as possible and abusing his office in order to hide the corruption.

This is a photo of that portion of the Nesting Area which was held sacred in the BU Bridge repairs.

The railroad tracks are to the right of the trees to the right which are the same trees shown in the previous photo.

[2012/07-22, Walgreen’s, reverse order; 02 24 07-22, DNA Terrace]

Here is a photo of where the bureaucrat defending corruption in public was standing, in the opening to the right of the fence.

The brick structure is Memorial Drive. Under that structure is where responsible people parked for the BU Bridge project, and under Memorial Drive to the left.

[2011/03-16, Clark; 01 02-13-11, Rotary from West]

Here is a photo of where responsible people would be parking private vehicles from the far end of the responsible parking area. Vehicles from workers on the BU Bridge project, to the right were required to park under Memorial Drive, the brick structure to the left. The entrance to the nesting area where the guardian of corruption was stationed is straight ahead and slightly to the right of the car in the middle which is preparing to go up the on ramp.

The guardian of corruption in public, as usual, prohibited photos of the publicly corrupt behavior. He then took a whole bunch of photos of me. His photos did not bother me. I am not trying to hide corruption. I am publicizing it.

3. Governor Deval Patrick praised.

I had just come from the second swearing in ceremony for newly elected Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Prominent in the meeting was Governor Deval Patrick. Also prominent in the meeting was praise for Governor Deval Patrick’s performance in office.

The celebration occurred at Roxbury Community College, perhaps three miles from this continuing outrage.

Governor Patrick’s office has received copies of prior reports on this continuing outrage. The responses were noncommital.

4. Irresponsible Cambridge (MA) City Councilor present at Senator Warren celebration.

I came within a foot of one of the rotten members of the Cambridge City Council at the Senator Warren swearing in. I do not associate with such people.

She is belligerent in her support for heartless animal abuse on the Charles River.

She is one member of a unanimous Cambridge City Council which has never voted for or taken a vote on whether the Cambridge City Manager should be fired for destroying the life of Melvina Monteiro. Jury, trial judge and appeals courts panel were quite united in public communication of their disgust at the Cambridge City Manager’s malfeasance in office.

This black Cape Verdean woman was fired because she filed one of several civil rights complaints complaining that she and other female employees of the City of Cambridge were discriminated against because they are women.

These strong judicial condemnations would easily support the firing of the Cambridge City Manager. The judicial condemnations were simply ignored. Ignoring reality is very much normal in the City of Cambridge. The pols then proceed to declare themselves holier than thou in spite of reality.

I think Senator Warren and others on the stage made very strong comments in favor of women’s rights.

Interesting.

Governmental Destructiveness persists at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese

In the BU Bridge project, the bureaucrats went through the form of responsibility.

They destroyed about half the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, bounded by the BU Bridge, the Charles River, the Grand Junction Railroad, and a Memorial Drive on ramp, when they only needed to destroy about a third.

Now they are destroying the rest and, through corrupt behavior, are trying to keep the destruction as secret as possible.

Since the beginning of December, Commuter Rail has been working on the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge under the BU Bridge.

If they, and Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation were responsible entities, private vehicles would be parked under the Memorial Drive overpass. That is where the cars of the BU Bridge workers were parked.

But no, they have been parking their private vehicles in the environmentally sensitive area that had been the last undestroyed part of the formerly mile long habitat of the Charles River White Geese. This environmentally sensitive area was protected during the BU Bridge repairs. But these poor dear construction workers are apparently abused by walking to work a shorter distance than did the BU Bridge workers. So they are destroying the tiny home of the Charles River White Geese.

And last Friday, the bureaucrats started ordering their environmentally corrupt destruction be kept secret, photos prohibited.

This fits the goals of Cambridge and the DCR. The DCR’s policies are to kill off all animals in the Charles River Basin. That is in their secret definition of “park.”

This fits the destruction at Alewife. In October and November 2011, Cambridge and the DCR conducted a pogrom of animals over acres of the Alewife reservation as part of their destruction of that irreplaceable treasure. They lied that they were providing meaningful flood protection and lied that the destruction was necessary. Now they seem to be on the way to apparently total destruction.

The bureaucrat who ordered “no photos” had an additional threat. They are going to “repair” the damage. What is the DCR and Cambridge’s idea of repair? As much as they can get away with toward killing off all animals.

The “repair” for the BU Bridge project was bushes. What does the DCR do with bushes, with the approval of Cambridge? Look no further than the walling off of Magazine Beach from the Charles River with massive bushes. These bushes have been allowed to grow and overwhelm things. They have starved the 30 year resident Charles River White Geese by keeping them away from their food of most of the last 30 years at Magazine Beach.

For photos of the current destruction, before and during, please see http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html and at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/nesting-are-of-charles-river-white.html.

Note that the outrageous personal parking is fully and clearly separated from the construction zone at the railroad tracks and is only a few hundred feet from the readily available parking area under Memorial Drive.

For photos of the outrage of the reality of the introduced bushes, please see http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

But they do love to claim environmental sainthood.

The Environmental Destroyers’ idea of “Improvement” on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA

I reported yesterday on Commuter Rail’s throwing me out of the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese because I had the nerve to photograph their vehicles parked in this environmentally sensitive area. Workers on the BU Bridge repairs were required to park under Memorial Drive in a location a few hundred feet from this latest outrage but the environmental destroyers find responsible behavior offensive. That report may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/commuter-rail-ups-ante-on-its.html.

My attacker threatened to “Improve” the area they are destroying after they leave.

Photos of the environmental destroyers’ idea of “improvement may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

Really rotten people.

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Email addresses for contacts are:

Governor Patrick:

http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (controls Commuter Rail):

http://www.mbta.com/customer_support/feedback/.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation:

http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/contactus.aspx.

The City of Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation are beneath contempt.

Commuter Rail Ups the Ante on its Environmental Destruction at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA

Commuter Rail Ups the Ante on its Environmental Destruction at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA.

I have just had a person with an MBTA marking on his chest prohibit me from photographing the private vehicles parked in the last refuge of the Charles River White Geese where they have been irresponsibly parking private vehicles for the last four weeks.

He ordered me out of this public park and its irresponsible parking lot.

The poor dear could not understand why his big burly workers should be required to park under Memorial Drive as so many workers were required to do during the BU Bridge work.

He threatened to impose efforts to supposedly correct the destruction, very clearly by extending the DCR’s outrageous bushes which have been planted in half the area already. A rapid sample of this kind of “improvement” may be seen in the wall of bushes blocking access between the Charles River and the Magazine Beach playing fields. This bizarre wall has been starving the Charles River White Geese by keeping their food from them.

The reprehensible state bureaucrats are ramping up their goal of killing of all animals on the Charles River Basin. Based on their secret definition of parks, free animals need not apply and anything and everything they can get away with will be inflicted.

Prior reports with photos include reports at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html and at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/nesting-are-of-charles-river-white.html. Note that the outrageous personal parking is fully and clearly separated from the construction zone and only a few hundred feet from readily available parking area under Memorial Drive.

The Cambridge Machine Questions Credibility

A few weeks ago, I reported on an exchange between two individuals concerning development in Cambridge, MA, USA.

One was a Machine type crying “too much development”. The other was a developer type blasting the Machine type for being unrealistic.

My evaluation was that the two were on the same side and that the developer type was helping the Machine type pull the usual con game on well meaning people by giving The Machine undeserved credibility.

We have had another such con game. This time the Machine type (different person) questioned the developer type’s (I do not have the slightest idea if this one was the same or another; they all sound the same. They all read from the same script.) credibility.

My response with some clean up:

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[Name omitted to protect the guilty] is correct.

There is a severe problem with credibility on development and environmental issues.

It starts with [Name omitted to protect the guilty].

A little over a year ago, I communicated the very real problems facing Alewife and for a long time, I have communicated the very real problems on the Charles River.

At Alewife, in a meeting of this group, when action was needed immediately, [Name omitted to protect the guilty] said nobody was destroying anything and he/she claimed he/she knows what he/she is talking about.

Since then, Cambridge and the DCR have destroyed acres of Alewife and conducted a massive pogrom of its animal residents. More destruction is imminent because the project will not provide the flood protection claimed. So it is a matter of building underground in a location where underground is disappearing or destroying the rest of Alewife. The Machine has a position, stall and blame the other guy.

The same thing is going on on the Charles. The problem on the Charles is 13 years of environmental destruction and heartless animal abuse by, once again, Cambridge and the DCR. The Machine claims to be concerned about the Charles River but denies the last 13 years exist. So The Machine says to help with an historical building but ignore plans to destroy its parking lot until it is too late to prevent that destruction. Ignore the poisons being dumped on Magazine Beach. Ignore the bizarre wall blocking off Magazine Beach from the Charles and starving the 30 plus year resident Charles River White Geese. Ignore the replacement of healthy grass with sickly stuff that needs the poisons. Ignore the ease to seed responsible grass instead of seeding poisons. Ignore the ease of chopping down that bizarre wall.

Ignore the destruction of playing fields to drain off poisons which should not even be there.

Ignore the use of the tiny area the Charles River White Geese have been confined to as a parking lot for Commuter Rail workers. Ignore the bizarre massive thicket of bushes being seeded there.

Ignore reality. Listen to The Machine.

Latest Outrage continues at Destroyed Nesting Area, Cambridge Machine Speaks

1. Report.
2. The Cambridge Machine speaks.
3. Prior Posts.
a. Before Photos.
b. After Photos.
4. Contacts.

1. Report.

Yesterday, December 21, 2012, was a very rainy day.

In spite of this, there were six vehicles parked on top of the environmentally sensitive core area of the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. An area which was filled with ground vegetation until the Charles River “Conservancy” started destroying the environment for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

One looked like a construction vehicle. The rest should have been parked at the top of the hill under Memorial Drive. But Massachusetts has a destructive government, lying about which side it is on.

The Charles River White Geese were huddled against the BU Bridge as far as they could get from this inexcusable attack.

More crushed stone has been dumped on top of the area which had been showing green.

One good sign: more destruction of the DCR’s introduced vegetation. The DCR likes gardeners. The DCR is aggressively working to kill off all animals on the Charles River Basis by whatever means it can find an excuse for. This is one such outrage.

But a little has backfired. The irresponsible workers, in addition to piling on more crushed rock, are wearing down the rock and wearing down some introduced vegetation which is intended to create another massive outrage like the wall blocking off the Charles River from Magazine Beach.

2. The Cambridge Machine speaks.

The poor dears from the Cambridge Machine are looking for money for their historical project.

They lie of their “concern” for the Charles River and the Magazine Beach area.

They do not want to know about the ongoing outrage at the Destroyed Nesting Area.

The last 13 years with its repeated and inexcusable destruction does not exist in their world.

They want suggestions as to how to “improve” the area as long as the improvements do not undo 13 years of environmental destruction and heartless animal abuse.

The claims of concern are silly to describe as other than flat out lies.

While yelling about their historical building, they keep equally silent about their plans to destroy its parking lot.

After all, they will not destroy the parking lot until they get the money. So don’t worry, until they get the money and then they will destroy without further notice, like the ongoing outrage at the Destroyed Nesting Area and the 13 years of outrages they do not include in their history.

3. Prior Posts.

a. Before Photos.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html.

b. After Photos.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/nesting-are-of-charles-river-white.html.

4. Contacts.

The Massachusetts Governor may be contacted at his on line form at http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.]

MassDOT may be contacted at their on line form at http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Harvard expansion destabilizing the Allston Brighton section of Boston?

1. Background.
2. Allston Brighton Community Corporation concerns.

1. Background.

Boston has two neighborhoods bordering on the Charles River which are far less exclusive than the much more renown Back Back and Beacon Hill neighborhoods. The Allston neighborhood is directly across the Charles River and slightly west of Magazine Beach. The Brighton neighborhood is adjacent to and west of Allston.

As far as connections to the Charles River go, they are pretty much indistinguishable. The borderline is Everett Street. Everett Street is the eastern boundary of the destroyed shopping center I reported on yesterday in my report on Harvard expansion, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/harvards-empire-in-allston-across.html.

The reality is that the distinction between the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods on the Charles River is more historical than realistic. The construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike / Interstate 90 has created a very real separation of the Charles River portion of the neighborhoods from the larger, more landlocked areas. There really are now three neighborhoods.

The Allston Brighton Community Corporation has been in existence for quite a bit of time now. It has organized around open space and housing.

The Allston Brighton Community Corporation has distributed an email letter of concern on housing impacts. This report of problems looks to me like possibly recognizing the impact of Harvard’s empire building.

The report does not distinguish exactly where in the neighborhoods they are talking about. The primary part of Allston is a very major and very dense student enclave based on Boston University. The primary part of Brighton shares with Brookline a rather significant student enclave based on Boston College, with its own dense areas. The Charles River portion has been sleepy with a significant but not overwhelming student presence. A very significant portion of Brighton north of the Boston College enclave has the appearance of residential rather than student housing. Its use is like the Charles River portion but much nicer.

I lived in the Charles River section during my first semester at Boston University School of Law and commuted to BU Law on bike using Memorial Drive and the BU Bridge. I performed in a movie shoot in November 2012 about two blocks from my former home. These locations are less than a mile from Harvard Square and are directly impacted by Harvard’s empire building.

My personal opinion is that I would much rather see housing expansion instead of Harvard expansion in the area targeted by Harvard for Harvard expansion. There is another, major area I consider much more appropriate for Harvard expansion.

2. Allston Brighton Community Corporation concerns.

The Allston Brighton Community Corporation report starts:

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Without swift action, we are at risk of losing our community.

The Allston Brighton real estate market favors cash-ready absentee investors over community-based owners.

In 2012, approximately 75% of all residential home sales in Allston Brighton were to absentee investors, not to people who will put down roots in our community. Half of all sales were 100% cash deals, transacted quickly and without warning.

Now that we’ve unearthed this data, the Allston Brighton CDC is devising solutions to increase neighborhood stability and we need your help to enact them.

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Details may be obtained at:

Allston Brighton CDC
20 Linden Street, Suite 288
Allston, MA 02134

T. 617-787-3874
F. 617-787-0425

info@AllstonBrightonCDC.org
www.AllstonBrightonCDC.org

Harvard’s empire in Allston, across the Charles River from Cambridge, takes another step with filing of zoning plans

1. Introduction.
2. Harvard Gazette. Details from press release.
3. Harvard Magazine. Extended background analysis.


1. Introduction.

Harvard University has filed zoning plans for the Charlesgate Housing site at North Harvard and Western in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, a couple of blocks or so from the Charles River and Harvard Square.

Charlesgate Housing is a 40 year old subsidized housing project which is being subjected to a forced move by Harvard University.

Harvard bought the rather good neighborhood shopping center two blocks from the project and turned almost all of it into a ghost town by failing to rent stores as the tenants vacated. To no great surprise, the owners of Charlesgate “voluntarily” agreed to sell and to move the housing to the site of 7 to 10 former stores. These stores formerly included a K mart, an OfficeMax, a package store, and other such facilities. They were the equivalent of an entire strip mall in the far, western end of the shopping center. These stores were emptied by Harvard.

A Shaw’s Market in the southern portion of the shopping center remains in a smaller building. It has been downsized into a Shaw’s related Star Market facility. A MacDonald’s on the northern / Western Avenue end has been rebuilt to fit into the new configuration. One other building containing, I believe, a pet store, on the nearest, northeast corner, also remains.

Construction in this part of Allston is of major importance to those concerned about the Charles River because the distance varies from a short one block distance to a distance equal to about two blocks.

The environmental problems and attacks on the Charles River White Geese seem to be directly related to plans for relocating Harvard Medical School to the Allston project area, to the Allston off ramps of the Massachusetts Turnpike and the Beacon Railroad Yards.

These facilities were purchased by Harvard months after a transit study determined that an off ramp to Cambridge could be built from the Massachusetts Turnpike over the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge which in turn leads to key areas next to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The future Harvard Medical School and related facilities is visible from the Magazine Beach playing fields. It is the eastern end of the possible Allston projects. It is about equal in size to Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

2. Harvard Gazette. Details from press release.

The Harvard Gazette, an official organ of the University reported on December 19, 2012, that Harvard’s agent had formally filed its plans with the Boston Redevelopment Agency, Boston’s equivalent of a zoning board.

This report, in turn, linked a press release dated December 17, 2012. This is Harvard’s version of the situation: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/12/barrys-corner-plan-filed/

The press release includes the following key paragraph:

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The Project consists of the construction of two buildings with residential uses on the upper floors, residential, amenity and retail uses on the ground floor, and parking in the basement. The north building ranges from seven to nine stories in height and is located along a newly created road within the project site. The south building is six stories tall and has frontage on Western Avenue, North Harvard Street, and a second new road within the project site and bordering Smith Field.

3. Harvard Magazine. Extended background analysis.

Harvard Magazine’s report, another house organ, posted about a week ago, has quite a bit of detail, plus a good map at http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/economic-realities-in-allston. This is their January - February 2013 issue.

The lead paragraph gives an apparently good description based on a document filed in October 2012:

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Harvard’s October filing of a new Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF), describing projects it hopes to build in Allston during the next decade, marked the formal withdrawal of the grandiose plans for a new campus described in a similar submission in January 2007. Gone are the reconfigured bridges over the Charles River, the new undergraduate Houses, the 10 million square feet of building space, and the performing-arts pavilion at Barry’s Corner. In the vicinity of the latter, a parking lot is now contemplated for the construction vehicles used to build the mix of housing, retail, and athletic facilities that administrators are proposing for the land Harvard began quietly acquiring in 1988, 25 years ago. Later, a mixed-use institutional building is slated to rise on the southernmost portion of the Charlesview apartments site. (Harvard planners, comparing the new IMPNF to the former one in meetings with the Allston community during the past 18 months, have characterized its proposals as practical, noting their greatly reduced scope, geography, and time frame—a decade, rather than the 50-year vision detailed in 2007.)

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[The report continues through a number of paragraphs.]

Environmental Con Game Accelerates in Cambridge, MA, USA

About a month ago I wrote a letter to the editor replying to Councilor vanBeuzekom’s nonsense at Alewife. She was defending the air and did not want to know about the acres of virgin woodland she and her friends are destroying. And she does not want to know about her plans to accelerate the destruction at Alewife to perhaps total destruction. And she does not want to know there is a readily available, responsible alternative. She does not want to know about the con game her friends are working to make the destruction that much more likely.

The letter was printed on this blog and in the Cambridge Chronicle.

The con game is accelerating.

I just received one email from the supposed group in front of which the councilor spoke. The email wildly claimed to be defending the environment.

Right after that email, I received an email from “another” group claiming the first group’s statistics are all wrong.

So what.

They are both on the same side.

The reply to the initial con game gives credibility to a group which has no right to credibility. Is the “reply” from an independent group or just another arm of The Machine helping a fake group from The Machine fool people?

This is how environmental destroyers keep up the destruction in Cambridge, MA, USA. They keep on piously claiming to be on a side strikingly different from the side they are on, and they have a massive organization spouting the lie to as many people they can get to.

And massive animal abuse and killing, and massive environmental destruction. All things that they very belligerently do not want to know about, but they love to lie that they are responsible people and environmentalists.

Latest Outrage Continues at Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese

Cambridge, MA, USA, formerly wild property managed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the north side of the Charles River. Managed so as to maximize heartless animal abuse while lying about being environmental saints.

Today, the Charles River White Geese remained huddled in the man made wasteland against the BU Bridge. They were kept from the tiny part of their world not really destroyed the them yet. The attackers were worker’s cars parked on top of their humble home. The workers are too lazy to park at the top of a not particular large hill under the adjacent Memorial Drive over pass.

There are not as many irresponsible workers' vehicles destroying this sensitive environmental area, but still too many.

The crushed stone which was dumped on top of the area which had been returning to nature has expanded and has been ground in by strikingly irresponsible people doing the dirty work for really rotten governments. Portions of the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s access highway have been deviated from to disrupt the DCR’s introduced vegetation. The crushed stone dumped on top of the DCR’s crushed stone creating that highway has been crushed in on top of what was too much before the Commuter Rail people started their totally inexcusable destruction.

Nesting area of Charles River White Geese Turned into a Parking Lot

All of these were taken on December 4, 2012, on Analog film which was returned on December 9.

The comments I have previously made are very good. Links are at the end. I will try to add a little analysis. Basically, my prior comments work very well. There is no need to overdue the analysis.

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 03-23, 12-04, DNA]

This photo is taken from the area next to the Charles a little west of the BU Bridge. It was untouched during the BU Bridge repairs although, like the rest of the area between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse perhaps half a mile to the east, has had major destruction of ground vegetation by the Charles River Conservancy. The view is up through the undeveloped swath next to the BU Bridge where the Commuter Rail outrage has forced the scared Charles River White Geese.

[12-12, Walgreen’s,04-22, 12-04, DNA]

To the right is the support for the Grand Junction Bridge. The vehicle is standing on the tracks. The area nearest the camera is the key part of the habitat.

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 05-21, 12-04, DNA]

The area nearest the camera is the far portion of the area in the photo shown a number of times in the prior reports. That photo showed nature healing itself as many spots of green. The gray nearest the camera is massive amounts of dumped crushed stone. The area away from the camera is the eastern highway created by the DCR’s destructive ‘improvements’. Major dumping of stone on that highway is shown in later photos.

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 06-20, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 07-19, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 08-18, 12-04, DNA]

The yellow vehicle is for work on the bridge. It almost certainly runs on rails and, along with the red vehicle at the far end of the bridge, was brought in from the Beacon Yards, straight ahead and to the right. These are the vehicles needed for the work. Almost all of the wheeled vehicles, with responsible entities, would have been left under Memorial Drive.

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 09-17, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 10-16, 12-04, DNA]

This is the opposite view from the first shot, taken up the emptied area next to the BU Bridge. The Charles River White Geese are huddled as near as they dare next to vegetation which has not been destroyed. The geese to their left would be the ones seen up close in the first shot.

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 11-15, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 12-14, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 13-13, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 14-12, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 15-11, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 16-10, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 17-09, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 18-08, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 19-07, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 20-06, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 21-05, 12-04, DNA]

At this point, the gaggle got up the nerve to move further from the river. The corner in the plastic wall is the separation between the area (nearest) which needed to be cleared for work on the BU Bridge and the area (further away) which was simply destructive. But note in the other pictures the crushed stone dumped on top of crushed stone on the new highway created in this eastern, totally unnecessary, leg.

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 22-04, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 23-03, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 24-02, 12-04, DNA]

[12-12, Walgreen’s, 25-01, 12-04, DNA]