Solutions Before the Imminent :Preventing and Mitigating Animal Attacks in the U.S. as a Whole, Now. On the Frontburner: Mountain Lions, Bears, and Wild Boars in Texas

'Wild boar attacks elderly man in Pendang

Posted on November 27, 2011, Sunday

Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/11/27/wild-boar-attacks-elderly-man-in-pendang/#ixzz1fCpeaKF5

Lessons:

1 - "An elderly man has been hospitalised due to severe injuries he suffered from an attack by a wild boar behind his house at Kampung Pokok Tai Lama"

Members of the pig/boar family are smart enough to figure out, the elderly are vulnerable to the attacks, and are going to have a tougher time defending themselves, evident of their condition of old-age.

Applying to the 2-4 million wild boars that have been problematic, also known as feral pigs in Texas, Presidio County, and near the Mexican border. [q.v. previous blog post]

A few other things to be aware of; when millions of a certain animal are allowed the opportunity to spread in terms of a population number, certain aspects of the species can develop, such as, they get larger and larger; additionally, as they might have to compete against each other, they might also become fiercer and fiercer.  The ability to hide, and successfully prey on humans, might also develop.

The word feral, is indicative of the situation.  Feral is not really the name of the species, feral is a general word to mean they were once domesticated, then set back out, or returned to the wild. 

So, situation that occurred in a place that many Americans do not visit or hear about on the everyday news often, can foreseeably occur right here on American soil.  

From the Borneo attack story: "Nordi’s [the victim's] brother Jaafar Said, 37, who lived near his home, said he knew about the incident...[and] “When I tried to chase it out, it attacked me. When I ran, the boar turned around and attacked my brother. I fought it and finally it released my brother and ran into a nearby forest,” he said, describing the animal as huge.

He said the doctor informed him that his brother had suffered internal bleeding in the chest and that he was still unconscious in the emergency ward."

Lessons: 

• there is a forest or habitat not too far off, that the boar ran into, and for all intents and purposes, might be the same kind of environment that it emerged from.
• internal bleeding was one of the injuries from the boar attack
• the method of attack and injury, was biting

Where is Pendang, Borneo? The geographic area of the attack, and bear in mind, it is a different place than the U.S., different system, and recognized levels of civil development from their perspective, is in the Malaysia and Indonesia region.

Regarding mountain lions, also large predatory members of what is considered the cat family, including pumas, panthers, et. al.:

A story:

Officials face villagers' wrath over leopard attacks

Submitted by admin4 on 9 November 2011 - 1:27pm

• India News

By IANS,
Lucknow : Furious over continued leopard attacks on humans, villagers near the Katarniaghat forest reserve in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district roughed up forest officials and held them captive for several hours, an official said Wednesday.
A team of forest officials, including a deputy ranger, was roughed up by the locals of Azad Nagar village Tuesday after a leopard, which had killed a minor girl Oct 24, grievously mauled a youth Ramu in the village fields.
Accusing forest officials of not taking adequate steps to prevent wild animal attacks on humans, a large number of locals barged inside a forest outpost and manhandled the officials there.
... He confirmed that the same leopard had killed seven-year-old Kavita while she was sleeping outside her house in Sampatpurwa village."
http://twocircles.net/2011nov09/officials_face_villagers_wrath_over_leopard_attacks.html

And:
'Leopard attacks on rise, one more killed
Posted: Sat Oct 29 2011, 01:34 hrs Nagpur:
One more person was killed in a leopard attack in Samudrapur area of Wardha district on Thursday, suspected to have been caused by the same problem animal that has so far killed two persons in the neighbouring Chimur range of Chandrapur district.'
'The leopard was hiding near the electric pump switch...the leopard attacked him and killed him on the spot.'

 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/leopard-attacks-on-rise-one-more-killed/866915/

Lessons:
There can be what they call a 'problem' animal, that for instance, that villagers recognize, even though the animal may be on the endangered species list.
This might be one way a problem animal becomes a problem animal.  It recognizes wildlife officials, and gets on best behavior, when the official leaves, and then the animal sees vulnerable persons, they pounce, then revert back to best behavior and gain protection under no-hunt laws.


When dealing with very large, and/or extremely dangerous animals, the selection criteria, the discernment, when to remove an animal, from being in the prospect of a situation where it can attack humans, has to be decided upon with more careful scrutiny.


The analog is leopards to mountain lions et.al.; there is not much difference between a leopard and the mountain lions, pumas, and so forth, except for what color coat they have on the outside.


Recently in the U.S., as in, in 2011, there have been a number of sightings, and claims of sightings of the mountain lion animal.  Most of the sightings were in the upper Midwest area, such as Wisconsin,  Illinois, and Iowa.  The coat color can be yellowish to blend with the grassy areas, or very dark hue, even up to pitch black, making them equipped night-time predators.  Overall situation close enough, the warnings have come from abroad.

Lastly, where are large concentrations of bears, and where do they travel from and to?
Is it possible, that the seemingly nearly impossible is happening, which is, bears from large concentrated area, where they roam in the wild in numbers of hundreds or thousands, are traveling distances so extreme, such as thousands of miles, it shatters the notion of what the boundaries of a species of bears is respective to a habitat in a specific region.


For example, there are bears in the 'Far East', Bears in Europe, and bears in North America including continental U.S.; this is how we learned about them in terms of species groupings; is the reality that, to an extreme, all the groups are just one large group?

Ensuring a Balanced Future of Immigrants To and From the U.S.-Mexico Border; What are We Going to do About All Those Pigs?

There are two waves of stories unfolding simultaneously, which sheds exposure to the potential status of immigration from and to the border of the United States and Mexico.

Toward the forefront, has been crackdown on Latino immigrants, in southern U.S. towns of Alabama.
If I may, interject a few points; one, Latinos are not the only immigrants, that are making an increased presence in the big cities of Alabama.  Protesting by immigrants in Montgomery, Alabama, a place that houses critical U.S. historical data, has made headline news in recent weeks.  Two, if Latino immigrants are being cracked down, there is a call for commensurate crackdown on cheap labor, and abuse of minors, in context, especially Latino children, and those with not much to defend themselves, that are working in horrid environments that are everything shy of the black market.

There are numerous news stories about 'trafficked' Latino and Mexican women and children, being 'vanned' up and down the U.S., against their will, at the threat of violence, taken and shipped from the advertised occupation of maid, or indoor nurse assistant, under the guise of gambits.

Games on the prima fascia, both sides of the table cloth on the table need to be clean in order to bundle up the entire tablecloth and keep the table clean.

Now to the pigs.  Mexico is planning to exterminate some 50,000 boars, or feral pigs ASAP.  These pigs have evidently, been sneaking into Mexico at night to graze on farmland, then going back to the U.S. side during the day.

"The Ministry of Environment in Chihauha state said some 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) of farmland in the border town of Ojinaga have been affected by the large number of feral pigs that have come from Presidio County, Texas."
story here: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-cull-50-000-wild-boars-us-invasion-210824962.html

How many of us knew that there even were 50,000 feral pigs in wild, that clustered together, in that region of the U.S.?

Some questions arise, such as, those of us who do not advocate excessive populations of pigs, wouldn't killing these pigs help freshen the air in the area?

On the other hand, the big question is, if and once these pigs are gone, what will take their place, referring to what takes place on those areas of lands and corridors, such as illegal immigration?

What promises and agreements are going to be made, just like promises and agreements need making to balance crackdown on immigration, with mitigation of 'human trafficking', to ensure that another modal, another method of 'approved' trafficking can take place, which facilitates more human trafficking and abuse, does not take place?

In closing, there are probably, and based on experience, rest assured 100% positive, other dimensions to the effects of exterminating 50,000 pigs all at one shot.  For example, how are these pigs going to be exterminated?  Last time thousands of pigs were exterminated, a few years ago that made the news, they were burned, in a distasteful scene.  The cloud that resulted had some impact on the environment.  From a purely environmental air quality standpoint, if you burn that many pigs at one time, in conjunction that the air over Mexico in the city center is viewed by some as could improve in reduction in pollution levels, and, that these pigs area species that there has not been a great deal of experience slaughtering in mass levels, concerns are what kind of chemical mixtures are going to be in the atmosphere, air which can be immediately breathed by humans?  Some of these answers are unknown, until it is done.  This is not an area for experimentation.  This is not a save the pigs campaign.  This is an alert that certain amount of common sense and science know-how needs to coalesce and be integrated into the decision that might be about to happen.

The Ministry of Environment of Mexico being the authority who they are, not to step-out-of-line, but what say has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had in all this?  Not to stump the efforts of Mexico to keep their farms clean, it is that there are experienced officials in the EPA that might be able to point out factors and elements of the process and impact of what they are about to do, which could help benefit and prevent disastrous outcomes that effect both Mexico and the United States.

Supplemental background, added November 21, 2011.

As we speak, there are at least 2 methodologies in place that are being used by the U.S., markedly the State of Texas, to 'mitigate' the feral pig population.  One is the use of helicopters, and shoot at the pigs.  It is not an inexpensive operation, as one provider requisites a few hundred dollars just for the safety course, and over $400 an hour to use the helicopters for the shoot.  This also gives an idea, how much havoc the feral pigs are rendering on lands not just in Mexico, but also in the U.S., the monetary toll is huge.
There are other methods, such as the use of dogs, for control, moving the pigs away from valued areas.

Just as a matter of biological knowledge, the size of the boars, can be as large and heavy as a cow, small horse, or bear, in the ranges of 900 pounds plus.  Nevermind extreme cases, where you have the prized head of the community, that would not be shocking to find a male boar in excess of over 1000 pounds.  These animals are not to be taken as light contenders.

Another dynamic to the situation, is that there is reputed to be 2 million, or more pigs in the area; the 50,000 spoken of by Mexico, is just a fraction, of a growing population.
[factual information about the feral pigs, such as population and size, are referenced from a site for a company local to Texas that specializes in this animal species control.  For further details, e-mail us]

Economy Bell Curve 3D Dimensions; What the U.S. can Ascertain of European Crises

The Hajj that took place, in Saudi Arabia, conditions always get better.  This day of 11/11/11 let us try to make the U.S. better.
It looks like Italy has come up with solutions, that is what articles around the internet are saying.  To the degree of the headline, and the headlines are also talking about 'paving the way' for exit for Silvio Berlusconi.

The way to handle writing this article, is, instead of trying to be the savant sitting atop the clouds with the answers, to ask some questions, which standard historians and economic advisors know the answer to, such as a Senior professor at a top notch university.

The whole method, of we have a crisis, now we need a bailout, or the prospect of one --  okay, like, according to this excerpt directly below this paragraph, when investors see an economic downturn, and that is enough to get the ball rolling downhill for the economy.

"Italian bond yields are soaring to incredibly dangerous levels, and now the yield curve for Italian bonds is turning upside down.  So what does that mean?  Normally, government debt securities that have a longer maturity pay a higher interest rate.  There is typically more risk when you hold a bond for an extended period of time, so investors normally demand a higher return for holding debt over longer time periods.  But when investors feel as though a major economic downturn or a substantial financial crisis is coming, the yield on short-term bonds will often rise above the yield for long-term bonds.  This happened to Greece, to Ireland and to Portugal and all three of them ended up needing bailouts.  Now it is happening to Italy and Spain may follow shortly, but the EU cannot afford to bail out either of them.  An inverted yield curve is a major red flag. " [ http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/tag/italy ]

Question: Why did investors feel that the economy was on its way to a downturn?

Before yield returns, why do investors feel a downturn is coming?

Considering that in constructs like today's Italy, societal, and all the people there, there are many Italians that know a lot of information about keeping a prosperous economy, or making amounts of money that would make financial giants like MicroSoft, ABC television, Disney, to name a few, jealous, [but they don't actually do it, and start acting like that].  This given, and that Berlusconi probably does not act all by himself,

Question: Is Berlusconi, present or absent, or any gradation somewhere between, the crux of the economic woes, rise, or solution to the entire Italy economy?

Why?

Also, remember the banking houses and dynasties that have their histories in Italy stemming from what is with respect to World War One and Two.  Without going into detail, there were the Fascism regimes, banks that got overturned, banks that were critical to the economy, and these lines. 

At the end, as the solution, one bank, or another, provided enough that Italy could stand on its own feet without any else's help.  If Italy can find its own solution, why does it need a bailout from the 'Eurozone'?

So-- we reiterate a paragraph already stated, the whole method, of we have a crisis, now we need a bailout, or the prospect of one-- okay, like, according to this excerpt, when investors see an economic downturn, and that is enough to get the ball rolling downhill for the economy.

Is it just the style of the times?

Headlines around the internet for today, are that the Italian Senate approves the reform...; now how does that have anything to do with paving the way for Berlusconi exit?

Before stringing together the elements that 'pave this way', there is what begs the question, why 'pave a way', why not just have Berlusconi leave, or resign, which seems apparent, or move to a different seat and be on a panel of some kind?

A quote on the process of reform,
"The 156-12 vote took place after respected economist Mario Monti - widely expected to become the interim prime minister - was welcomed with applause in the Senate chamber, where he was officially designated senator for life.


Italy's president bestowed the title on Monti two days earlier to signal to roiling financial markets that he intended to ask the 68-year-old former European commissioner to try to form a transitional government after Berlusconi leaves office."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/11/italian-senate-approves-economic-reform-bill/

[waive-wave in one of the captions]

Monti was established as Senate for Life, anent [context choice of word] the reform for the economy, and that evidently is what paves the way for the exit.

11-11-11: This U.S. Blog Wants to Devote Commemoration of this Day Talking about the U.S., We are Forced to Take On Examination of Some European Countries' 'Economic Crisis'; What We can Learn to Maintain Ourselves; Bring up Italy

Now Italy, even Italy, is talking about an economic crisis.  Is there such a thing?  We must be in a world where any rule can be broken.  Isn't Italy the place where Rome is?

Article to be continued.

Snowballing Building in Size Slowly :Protests and their Level of Violence in the U.S.; Are we Headed Toward the Same Protesting Scene that the UK and Greece have Undergone this Past Year? Oakland, California and what Happens Next...

Oakland, California, the '5th largest port', was picked, as the site for protests.  Are these protests really limited to shortcomings in that region, or is it a statement to what is going on, on a nationwide level.

Is it a phase in a slowly building process of protests that become increasingly violent?

Re-cap on where these protests might be headed in terms of what they could look like [unless solutions occur]--

• There was a fiery protest in Greece

• The United Kingdom underwent protests in reply to what the protestors say was lack of jobs and so on.  Reference August 2011, one story: 'Britain Burns: Riots Spread Through UK Cities' http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/EU-Britain-Riot/2011/08/08/id/406581

Encapsulated, to some and their interpretations, the protests were release of tension about economic conditions.

Pro tempore, 'another' protest is planned for Oakland, the buzz word, Occupy Wall Street Movement.  People did get hurt in the last one.

Remember, Wall Street in New York was named after Mr. Wall, -- not it is a brick wall of economic decision making headed on a one way direction, so call it a street.
Rebut by some might be, that is not the point.  The underpinning and history, if you know it well, will show there are many other things going on outside of Wall Street which seep to adding to the confusion, which are the fugue of a saddening economic conditions.

AP has got the story. 'Oakland prepares to be Occupy movement epicenter'
Here are fact excerpts:

"Demonstrators in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia said they planned to hold solidarity actions Wednesday. The day's events in Oakland are expected to begin at 9 a.m., when the first of three rallies scheduled by strike organizers is supposed to kick off downtown. The activities are expected to culminate with a march to the Port of Oakland, where local protesters said the goal would be to stop work there in time for the 7 p.m. evening shift.
In between, other demonstrators, some affiliated with established community groups, said they planned to target banks that do not close for the day..."

"Occupy LA, a monthlong 475-tent encampment around Los Angeles City Hall, is planning a 5:30 p.m. march and rally through downtown LA's financial district to express solidarity with the Oakland general strike and to protest police brutality."
 
"In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed a resolution calling on Mayor Ed Lee to allow the Occupy Wall Street protesters to remain in a tent city near the historic ferry terminal, an area frequented by commuters and tourists."

Post-event comments
There were not very many tumultuous incidents, however, reflection, there was at least one episode 'unrelated unrelated'.