Friday, March 27, 2015

Can the Olympics save the Charles River from Cambridge and its friends?

Can the Olympics save the Charles River from Cambridge and its friends?

1. Starvation Wall.
a. Plans.
b. Past experience.
c. Flat out lies to achieve.
2. Other impacts on the Magazine Beach playing fields by Cambridge / accomplices, possible results.
a. Introduction of invasive vegetation by Cambridge, etc.
b. Destruction of playing fields.
c. Will the bleachers need room taken up by the drainage system?
d. Fake group activities.
3. What other destruction?
a. Hostile to animals.
b. Company union fight for all destructive activities of Cambridge and its friends.
4. Lies, lies, lies.  This has to be Cambridge and its friends.
5. So what other lies are the Cambridge City Council / friends coming up with to yell at people who are not as vile as Cambridge and its friends?



1. Starvation Wall.

a. Plans.

The one thing which is clear about the Olympics planning on the Charles River is that they want to destroy the starvation wall.

Before:



After:






b. Past experience.

The one event in the past which compares to the Olympics was the Charles River Regatta.

The Charles River Regatta took over the Magazine Beach playing fields for a weekend each year.  It disrupted the Charles River White Geese in that they, for the weekend, could not get to their food and their resting place at the Magazine Beach playing fields, where they lived and were a loved tourist attraction most of the year for most of the last 34 years.  But they did often sleep in the Charles River off the playing fields.

There was no harm whatsoever to their back up residence east of the BU Bridge, where they are now confined without food.

Definitely better than Cambridge and its vile friends.

c. Flat out lies to achieve.

The Cambridge City Council has claimed lack of openness by the Olympics.

This bizarre claim is the typical rottenness of the Cambridge City Council.

There were three flat out lies, at minimum, in Cambridge/friends’ construction of that starvation wall.

(1) A lawn to the river.

That was the promise in the vile bureaucrats “Charles River Master Plan.”

So they modified the Master Plan after the destructive wall was built to turn a lie into a former lie.

(2) Repeated promises over many years to do “no harm.”

This came from the horribly lying key manager.

He repeatedly promised to do no harm to the Charles River White Geese.

When Cambridge / its friends started the starvation, the Boston Globe led one of its Sunday sections with a photo of a tiny white goose overwhelmed by a construction machine.  To the right of the massive photo was a quote from this massive liar, promising to do no harm.

Here is a photo of friends of the Charles River White Geese feeding them over the wall that these vile people put up.




(3) Cheerleader activity.

The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” conducted a swim in to celebrate the starvation attack.

All action, no matter how vile, is claimed to improve swimming.

This vile organization has yet to explain how walling off the Charles River from the playing fields aids swimming from the playing fields.

But then, when caught in lies, these vile groups just resume other lies or whatever else will work.

2. Other impacts on the Magazine Beach playing fields by Cambridge / accomplices, possible results.

a. Introduction of invasive vegetation by Cambridge, etc.

The Olympics organizers plan to put in temporary stands.

The temporary stands could be impacted by another part of the vileness of Cambridge and its friends.

Cambridge and its friends destroyed healthy grass on which the Charles River White Geese fed for most of the last 34 years and replaced it with sickly stuff which requires poisons to survive.

Introduced vegetation which requires poisons to survive is clearly destructive to the environment.  The only reasonable definition is that INVASIVE VEGETATION was introduced as part of the sick destruction on the Magazine Beach playing fields.

b. Destruction of playing fields.

To keep the bizarre poisons out of the Charles River, Cambridge, etc. created an expensive drainage system.

That expensive drainage system replaced playing fields.  One of the key lies in the outrage was “improvement” of playing fields.

c. Will the bleachers need room taken up by the drainage system?

I certainly hope so.  That would require stopping the poisons to keep alive the sickly invasive introduced grass.  The responsible thing to do would be to seed the responsible grasses destroyed by Cambridge, etc.  You know, the stuff that did not require poisons.

d. Fake group activities.

The fake group fighting for destruction of the Charles put their outrages up to a public meeting in January 2014.  They want to expand the invasive grasses and poisons to the top of the hill to the west of the playing fields and to the wetland west of that behind the swimming pool.

They want to destroy the little guys’ parking lot at the top of the hill, and at the end of Magazine Beach.




They also want a new highway which is related to the massive tree destruction.

And keep the outrages in place on the playing fields.

They did good publicity and got a good attendance.  The good attendance were normal human beings, hostile to the vile plans.

So the fake group deferred the vote until their February meeting which they conducted on April 23, this time with no publicity.

They deferred discussion of this topic, which took the entire January meeting, to the last ten minutes.  At that time, they introduced a horribly complicated motion and ordered that it be fully discussed in ten minutes.  And then voted on by folks who could care less.

They since replaced monthly meeting with bi-monthly meetings cancelled in the summer and cancelled twice since then.  They have severely abused the agenda to prevent meaningful discussion of the Charles River by splitting announcements.  Most announcements go at the beginning.  Charles River goes at the last ten minutes, and reality is censored by lack of time.  They have also introduced exercises in the middle of the meeting which helps reduce the time available for reality which, in reality, is censored by “lack of time”.

The only time they conducted this announcement in the middle of the meeting, they simply shouted down responsible discussion.

And the Cambridge City Council piously yells at the Olympics folks.

This kind of corruption is normal from the fake groups in the City of Cambridge.

And two of the worst destroyers in the fake group are being presented by Cambridge/its friends as defenders of the Charles River.

3. What other destruction?

a. Hostile to animals.

Well, of course, they now brag about hostility to the animals of our world.


This replaces more than a decade of lies of “no intent” to harm.

A sign from their propaganda piece in the second most important Cambridge public building.




b. Company union fight for all destructive activities of Cambridge and its friends.

The fake group lives by the company union tactic of lying of concern and then telling folks to ignore everything of value.

They are thus fighting for all vileness on the Charles River being sought by Cambridge and its friends.

That includes the destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges supported by the State House in the amount of $20 million last year.

Chapter 286 of the acts of 2014, “historical parkways”

Among other things, the Cambridge City Council, while lying of no involvement in the Charles, has destruction proposed for the Charles and its animals through new construction and construction of a fence splitting the animal area in two

And their friends have been busy on the Boston side seeking to extend their construction to that side of the river as part of the Mass. Pike (I90) reconstruction.



The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is not perfect, but this is another example of it standing up to Cambridge outrages.

So the Cambridge City Council authorized negotiations with Boston to work around this responsible bureaucracy.

4. Lies, lies, lies.  This has to be Cambridge and its friends.

Two of the most visible of the destroyers are now being presented as defenders of the Charles River by Cambridge and its frieds.

5. So what other lies are the Cambridge City Council / friends coming up with to yell at people who are not as vile as Cambridge and its friends?

Stay tuned.  They are very innovative.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Charles River, MA, USA: More Olympics hypocrisy: Cambridge City Council

1. Cambridge Day report.
2. Reality.
3. Cambridge’s development department is consulted on all environmental destruction.
4. A few examples.
a. The Longfellow Bridge project.
b. Use of fake groups.
c. Alewife.
d. Secret definitions.
e. Fresh Pond.
f. Cambridge Common.
g. Street trees.
3. Summary.

1. Cambridge Day report.

The on line Cambridge Day reported in its March 19, 2015 report on the March 18, 2015 gathering in Cambridge organized by the committee working to bring the Olympics to Boston / Cambridge in 2024:

Last month the City Council adopted a policy order denouncing the
      organization for acting “without meaningful public input or any real
      community engagement.”

2. Reality.



The poor dears from the Cambridge City Council, talking oh, so piously about “without meaningful public input or any real community engagement.”

The use of fake groups and other techniques to achieve environmental destruction is the norm in Cambridge.

Cambridge lives by the developer logo: “getting things done” by whatever technique “works” is the norm, combined with declaring to be holy than thou city councilors and pols in the middle of the destruction.

We had a very interesting “event” as people were going into the March 18, 2015, gathering.  I was leafleting folks, objecting to the environmental destructiveness of the Cambridge City Council and its accomplices, especially on the Charles River, the heart of the Olympics in Cambridge.

Nevertheless, every councilor I approached accepted a flier, with one exception.  She has been on the destructive side on the Charles River outrages from the very beginning

Fliers are a major part of the expenditures of Friends of the White Geese.  Our expenditures are very heavily targeted on communicating the destructiveness of Cambridge and its accomplices.  Please remember, there is a button on this blog to make contributions to Friends of the White Geese.  Contributions are badly needed, especially for the various modes of communication.  There is only one organization that I know of which is MEANINGFULLY defending the environment in the political arena, on the Charles River and elsewhere impacted by the very destructive City of Cambridge.  We accept PayPal which, as near as I can gather, translates into most any credit card or direct payment from a bank account.

We created the Charles River Urban Wild Initiative to have a separate, non political entity for feeding the deliberately starved animals.  CRUWI is very strongly non political.  Thus the existence of and very strong separation of the two entities keep funds for each purpose totally separate.

O.K., let’s go into part of the outrages.




3. Cambridge’s development department is consulted on all environmental destruction by the bureaucrats involved.

The agencies really hesitate to destroy
 without the Development Department's concurrence.

The City Council has a right to fire for cause the Cambridge City Manager.  The very terrible nature of the Cambridge Development Department is certainly not as strong a cause to fire as was the Monteiro outrage, but it is adequate.  The reality is the Cambridge City Manager really implements the wishes of the Cambridge City Council.

That motion I reported a couple of days ago to destroy on the Cambridge Common as fast as possible is an excellent example of reality in the City of Cambridge.

I will go into the Monteiro outrage at the end of the hit list, for the uninitiated, rather than drive people away with more words.

4. A few examples.

a. The Longfellow Bridge project.

Here are a few photos of that destruction from this blog.

Before:






After:



One of the nicest things during the Olympics leafleting was a gentleman who noticed this totally useless waste of excellent trees.  With more money, we could possibly save more things.  That grove and its neighboring trees were some of them.

Other threatened / destroyed trees:






Note the orange dot, the mark of death to come.

Caveat:  I in the past, I have confused the photos of tree destruction at the Longfellow Bridge with that on the Cambridge Common.  The Longfellow Bridge photos are from a very concerned friend who I know provided individual photos.  I think the last three photos are Longfellow Bridge.  Please advise if I am in error.

b. Use of fake groups.

This dates back to the return of Cambridge City Manager James Leo Sullivan in 1974.  He had been fired in the mid 60s by the Cambridge City Council and was not interested in it happening again.

One of his big goals was the creation of “neighborhood associations.”

I recall a discussion with a former Cantabridgian who told me he was creating a neighborhood association in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.  I told him we did not have to worry about that in Cambridge.  Friends of the Cambridge City Manager do that for us.

We shared a laugh at that.

The stench of these fake groups is outrageous.  Through various techniques over the 40 plus years since then, Sullivan and his two offspring, Healy and What’s-his-name, have developed a strangle hold on Cambridge politics.  That includes a strangle hold over the Cambridge City Council.  And a strangle hold on the environment of the Charles River and all else within the touch of this vile city government.

The fake groups are the reason why Cambridge is a threat to the environment of the entire area surrounding the City of Cambridge.  They keep a vile City Council in power, lying that that vile city government is holier than thou.

c. Alewife.

The fake group “defending” Alewife has been a fraud from the beginning.

Fighting private developers obeying zoning while

(1). Telling people to keep away from the Cambridge City Council and other municipal entities which control the zoning;

(2). Telling people to ignore the publicly owned properties which are the easy wins, if the Cambridge City Council’s “concerns” are other than flat out lies.

The Cambridge City Council has indulged in multiple frauds yelling at private developers obeying zoning while failing to place crucial and massive flood storage protections under all new area projects through takings or otherwise.  The fake group’s leader bragged about Cambridge’s destruction of 3.4 plus acres behind 165 CambridgePark Drive.  A least one fraudulent “environmental” group gave her a podium to brag about destruction that that group had claimed to oppose.


This is a City of Cambridge puff piece photo.  The trees in the background used to fill the entire area.

d. Secret definitions.

“Environmentalism” as used in the City of Cambridge by ALL visible groups except Friends of the White Geese translates as defending that part of the environment NOT being destroyed by Cambridge / its friends.

e. Fresh Pond.

A massive project beautifying animal habitat.

Animals are so inconsiderate of human tastes.  Animals want to live.  Humans who yell want gardens.

This is how humans are destroying our world.

f. Cambridge Common.

A minimum of 22 excellent trees being destroyed with state moneys.

The city council just yelled at the Cambridge City Manager to destroy, destroy, destroy.










g. Street trees.

One of the few parts of the vileness the Machine dignifies, because it cannot be hidden.

Excellent trees are routinely destroyed for replacement with saplings.

There are a few reasons.  One is that contractors get paid to destroy trees and contractors get paid to plant saplings.  Welfare for contractors.

A second is sick manipulation of the Tree City award.

Tree City rewards planting of trees.  Excellent, mature trees are in the way of saplings.

Cambridge, in its sick mentality, gets no political benefit from mature, excellent trees.  Cambridge gets plenty of benefit from planting saplings to replace excellent trees which should not be destroyed.

This destruction is from the Mid-Cambridge area, Chatham and Dana Streets.  My photos, notice by a concerned neighbor.











f. Charles River.

The principal purpose of this blog.  See so many reports.











g. More, more, more.

I have fought this outrage for 40 years.  I have many victories.

James Leo Sullivan, at his return, was clearly highly offended by the realities of the government of the City of Cambridge.

Robert Healy was fired along with James Leo Sullivan in the 60s.  By the time he retired with honor, he and James Leo had created and put into place a government which clearly proved the vileness which is the reality behind political control in the City of Cambridge.

h. Monteiro.

Malvina Monteiro is a black, Cape Verdean woman who was head of the Cambridge Police Review Board.

She made a very serious mistake, comparable to the mistake of the voters keeping a vile City Council in office.

She believed the lovely words from the folks keeping that vile City Council in office.

The voters have almost certainly removed one guilty city councilor and probably a second as a result of this outrage.

Monteiro filed a civil rights complaint alleging that women are discriminated against in their pay by the City of Cambridge based on their gender.

According to Superior Court Jury, Superior Court Judge and Appeals Court reviewing panel, the Cambridge City Manager destroyed her life in retaliation for her filing that complaint.

The cost of this outrage amounted to the following:

(a) Compensatory Damages:                                                                            $1,062,400.00
pre-judgment statutory interest of twelve percent (12%) per annum               $438,003.70                        from January 5, 2005 until June 12, 2008
post-judgment statutory interest of twelve percent (12%) per annum on the compensatory                        damages as well as the accumulated pre-judgment interest ($1,500,403.70)       $350,727.57                   from June 12, 2008 until May 24, 2010;
(b)  punitive damages                                                                                     $3,500,000.00
         post-judgment simple interest of twelve percent (12%) per annum                        $81,814.41  
                  June 12, 2008 until May 24, 2010
c reasonable attorneys' fees                                                                            $545,842.00
costs                                                                                                                $23,697.00
                                                                                                            $6,002,484.68
Payment

$8,300,000.00    Check.

Outside Council

1998 complaint to 2008 trial                                             $2,144,000.00  
        CM to Finance Committee, 6/12/12

        Appeals                                                                             $488,409.00  
        CM to Finance Committee, 6/12/12

Sum of payment to Monteiro, Plus Outside Council                     $10,932,409.00

Total paid in the five cases, Cambridge Day, 6/21/12.

City Solicitor letter, 6/12/12.                                            $14,569,558.00

Appellate fees and costs for plaintiff.  App Ct.,
        MLW 10/22/12, p. 20, App. Ct. Docket 2010-P-1260, 10/10/12 $298,349.33


Exactly zero members of the sitting City Council had any use for the repeated communications from jury, judge and appeals court panel which gave them full power to fire City Manager Robert Healy for malfeasance in office.

This action combined with the environmental outrages puts the lie to the holier than thou claims of those who really control the City of Cambridge, MA, USA.

3. Summary.

James Leo Sullivan, through his successors, has proven just how vile the situation in Cambridge, MA truly is.  He was not pleased with the 60s firing.  Cambridge’s destructive impact extends into regional / state bodies.

Friday, March 20, 2015

Charles River, Cambridge, MA: City Council rushes Cambridge Common destruction.

Charles River, Cambridge, MA: City Council rushes Cambridge Common destruction.


On February 23, 2015, the Cambridge City Council passed the following order on motion of Councilor Carlone:

WHEREAS: A number of months ago, the City of Cambridge fenced off portions of the area around Cambridge Common in anticipation of a major rehabilitation project; and

WHEREAS: Residents have expressed concern and frustration over that fact that much time has elapsed without many visible signs of work or progress on the project; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council on the status of the Cambridge Common renovation project along with an update on next steps and the projected date of completion.

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English translation: Why have you not destroyed those trees yet?

Here are photos of SOME OF the trees that the City Council is in a rush to destroy.

The ones with orange dots on them are doomed.

The lovely words are just so much destructive hypocrisy.