Got That "Summer of Shark" Feeling Yet?

[elfismiles]

Summer of the Shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Summer of the Shark refers to the coverage of shark attacks by American newsmedia in the summer of 2001. The sensationalist coverage of shark attacks ...
http://.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark


TIME.com - Summer of the Shark
Does news of shark attacks deter you from going to the beach? ... Then there's the sneak attack. The shark is in the right place to find its prey, it is the ...
http://www.time.com/time/2001/sharks/cover.html

I really liked Jeff's theme of how our memories and emotions work with dates and time. Remembering the impact of Seinfeld, or things around the time of 9/11 rather than the event itself. And how our sense of time and memory work as a child to dogear certain time periods. I'd say the memory smell induces as well is quite pronounced, as well as the triggering of the smallest things. With me, when I think of 9/11, I think "summer of shark attacks"

New blog post Sept 3: 'Hey Hey We're the Monkeys'
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 0&p=284071

Scary things happen when a president is on vacation for *too long*

If "shark attack" paranoia grips the nation, I'm gonna be really concerned.

Fuck Obama
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 5&p=390225

This circle in time is exactly what I was mentioning a year, two years ago to people when I felt it was the eerie calm before the storm. Especially in 2008 when everyone was distracted with the Presidential race theater, there was just this 'summer of shark' feeling. Not entirely a slow news day, but that kind of ominous calm.

2012 – Doom - the rest of the story.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 9&p=390341

... where the wind was blowing in that summer of shark/gary condit chandra levy pool?

OSAMA BIN LADEN ANNOUNCED DEAD BY OBAMA (renamed thread)
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 9&p=399811

... in 2013 National Geographic and Discovery will hype up a co-production with James Cameron on a special 3D presentation of the horrific attack on xxxxxxxx xx in xxxxxxx 201x. Followed of course, by shark week..presented in holographic 4d!

Though, I'm sure the video of Anwar al-Awlaki taking credit for said attack will still be in lo-res video tape quality.

Newly released footage of the World Trade Center attacks
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 6&p=388185

Not until the fish start falling from the sky.

FACT CHECK: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly

Modern day shark attacks?

I remember that. 2001 was an unusually quiet news cycle, made notable only by the 'summer of sharks' hoopla and gary condit missing intern event; until september 11th of course.

More than 1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Ark.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 2&p=375645

Remember when Obama said it's "silly season" during the 08 Presidential campaign? Well folks, it's silly season alright...and it feels extremely ripe for a dangerous time period. As in, shark attack/missing intern dangerous.

This "Birther" Thing Has Gone To Far
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 4&p=277398

i also caught this story on the news this morning and immediately thought, 'shark-attack summer of 2001', followed by . . . well, you get the picture. a giant squid summer of 2009 would make me slightly uneasy when the change of seasons comes. if it goes hand in hand with a missing intern drama, then i'm outta here.

Well, if the Israeli youth crowding malls near you with flim flam kiosks start taking pictures of government installations, and an unusual amount of Saudi and Pakistani officials start hobnobbing with Washington elites...

Yeah, I'd say take cover. As I have a feeling, planes won't be the globalists new du jour this time around.



B movies come to life: 'invasion' of giant carnivorous squid
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 5&p=275627

Police: Pack Of 18-Foot Sharks Comes Dangerously Close To Long Island Shore
Species Remains Unknown; Beach Near West Hampton Dunes Stays Closed (VIDEO)
June 1, 2011 5:51 PM


Sign posted at Cupsogue Beach, a public beach in Suffolk County in the Village of Westhampton Dunes (credit: Kathleen Maloney/1010 WINS)

WEST HAMPTON DUNES, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Long Island beach remained closed to swimmers Wednesday following shark sightings off the coast.

A section of West Hampton Dunes was originally closed Tuesday afternoon after several sharks were spotted near the shore. Authorities were forced to keep the area closed until further notice after the sharks were spotted again Wednesday.

Authorities are also investigating the possibility of a connection between the sharks and a dead seal found on the beach.

West Hampton Dunes police Sgt. Tim Turner said reports of sharks in the water came in around 3 p.m. Tuesday. There were about 50 people on the beach at the time.

“It took me about three years to go swimming after seeing ‘Jaws.’ This could be another 30 years before I go back in,” beachgoer Steve Schachner told CBS 2’s Katie Fehlinger.

The dorsal fins of six to eight sharks floating on the water’s surface at Cupsogue Beach brought mixed reaction.

“It’s awesome because they’re so close to the beach, but I’m pretty happy I wasn’t in the water at that time,” beachgoer Arnold Perlman said.

“It’s something to see, definitely! It’s pretty exciting!” added Lisa Scholl.

Turner said there were several sharks within 15 feet of the shore line. They looked to be about 18 feet long. Some onlookers thought they were thresher sharks, but officials have yet to determine the breed.

“It is usual to see those types of sharks this time of year because the warmer weather brings in plankton. It’s a little closer to the shoreline and the big fish come in and swallow it,” West Hampton Dunes Mayor Gray Vegliante said.

Vegliante said while the county doesn’t know their breed, these sharks were definitely not acting like predators.

“You’ll see them coming in, turning the water white, thrashing around, throwing fish up, moving the bay fish right onto the beach,” Vegliante said.

Turner said it’s not unusual to see sharks, but not so many at one time.

Local resident Richard Anderson said you have to keep this scare in perspective.

“More people are killed crossing the streets, I suspect, than are killed with sharks,” Anderson told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs.

He said the ocean is where sharks live, it’s their home, and you have to expect to see them every now and then.

The beach will remain closed for swimming until further notice.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/01/ ... and-shore/

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Boy dies after shark attack - CNN
Sep 2, 2001 ... Beaches were open Sunday just hours after a 10-year-old boy died from injuries suffered when a shark attacked him in water 4 feet deep ...
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-02/us/s ... s?_s=PM:US

Three men bitten by sharks in Florida - CNN
Aug 19, 2001 ... August 20, 2001. Possible 10th shark bite at Fla. beach ...
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-08-19/us/s ... a?_s=PM:US

Man killed in N.C. shark attack; woman hurt - CNN
Sep 3, 2001 ... A shark attacked a couple in waters off Cape Hatteras on ...
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-03/us/s ... r?_s=PM:US

CNN.com - Boy dies after shark attack - September 2, 2001
Sep 2, 2001 ... Beaches were open Sunday just hours after a 10-year-old boy ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/02/sh ... index.html

Labor Day shark attack survivor hanging on - CNN
Sep 4, 2001 ... Investigators were still trying to determine Tuesday what ...
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-04/us/s ... a?_s=PM:US

Survey: 'Shark summer' bred fear, not facts - CNN
Mar 14, 2003 ... The same year, four human deaths were linked to shark bites ...
http://articles.cnn.com/2003-03-13/tech ... _s=PM:TECH

CNN.com - Expert: More people, more shark attacks - July 17, 2001
Jul 17, 2001 ... The mauling of an 8-year-old boy off the Florida coast and ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/07/17/wh ... ks.attack/

Falling Coconuts Kill More People Than Shark Attacks (and Terrorism... ?)
Burgess explained that the prevailing perception was that 2001 was a record year for shark attacks. In fact, the number of unprovoked shark attacks in the ...
http://www.unisci.com/stories/20022/0523024.htm

Deadly 2001 OBX Shark Attack
A shark attack on Labor Day, September 3, 2001 brought international attention to the beaches of Hatteras Island, located on the Outer Banks of North ...
http://www.sharktimes.com/deadly2001obxsharkattack.html

Shark Attack Statistics. Shark Attack Statistics by Region, Shark ...
Maps detailing shark attack statistics grouped by region, also a list of facts of just how many shark attacks there are each ... Shark Attacks 1670-2001 ...
http://www.sharkattackphotos.com/Shark_ ... istics.htm

2001 Worldwide Shark Attack Summary - Florida Museum of Natural ...
The International Shark Attack File (ISAF) investigated 91 alleged incidents of shark-human interaction occurring worldwide in 2001. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/st ... ummary.htm

Shark Attacks Helicopter! - Urban Legends
The anonymous cut-and-paste job first began circulating in August 2001, when sharks and shark attacks were very much in the news because of the widely ...
http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/libra ... attack.htm

[8bitagent]

It is strange to see how the drive to Vessey and Church began with quite a slowburn summer of non-stories and cryptic statements(Gary Hart seemed almost too giddy in some of his Macneil Lehr/Hardball appearances)

Now that we have finally arrived at the threshold of "Weinergate"...perhaps nothing is off the table. Though it was definitely THIS moment on my television screen when I realized we had long
crossed Malkuth and Kether and had drunkenly fell down the Bloomingdale's dressing room of the abyss



Perhaps historians will look back, and notice that like the pivotal point in Thomas Harris' 1999 opus "Hannibal", the beginning of the end happened with violence in a Safeway grocery store parking lot.

[8bitagent]

today:

woman attacked by shark in Texas
http://www.examiner.com/surfing-in-hous ... n-by-shark

Florida divers have close encounter with hammerhead
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/192 ... with-shark

[justdrew]

Dozens of sharks washing up dead in California
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) An otherwise highly-resilient species of shark, the leopard shark, is turning up dead all over the northern California coast, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to reports, dozens of leopard sharks have either washed ashore dead since April, or have been found so badly injured and in pain that the creatures were literally pounding their heads into the sand in what some locals said appeared to be suicide attempts.

A report in The Oakland Tribune explains that a California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) necropsy has pinned the deaths on "inflammation, bleeding, and lesions in the brain, and hemorrhaging from the skin near vents," as well as bleeding around internal organs. Based on findings, it appears as though the creatures died a slow and painful death, but experts do not know why the sharks are suffering this awful fate.

Catherine Greer, a resident of Redwood City, was one of the first people to notice some of the dead sharks. She and her 13-year-old son allegedly tried to help push some of the beached, alive sharks back into the water, but "they'd swim right back, thrashing their heads against the shore ... as if they were trying to commit suicide," she said.

Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation, a Santa Cruz-based group that has been tasked with investigating the die-offs, says that when his group first began getting alerts about the sharks, many of them were still alive. But as time went on, the gravely-ill creatures began to wash ashore dead, and since that time there have been hundreds of others that have turned up dead.

"We're only seeing a tiny fraction of what's going on," Sommeran said to reporters, implying that many other creatures further out in ocean waters are likely suffering and dying as well. Considering that leopard sharks are a stronger species than most, there is no telling the extent of animal deaths that is likely taking place.

Initial tests conducted on water samples taken from the Redwood Shores lagoon, one of the areas where sharks were found, revealed nothing out of the ordinary. But Redwood City spokesman Malcolm Smith said the city is paying for additional tests.

Others say the deaths may have been caused by environmental pollution from agricultural runoff, or even from Fukushima radiation.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032440_sharks_dead_animals.html

[wintler2]

Dozens of sharks washing up dead in California

.. Others say the deaths may have been caused by environmental pollution from agricultural runoff, or even from Fukushima radiation.

Fukushima isotopes are definately coming across Pacific, but since Leopard sharks are coastal they're not the first you'd expect to be affected. Running a geiger counter over the deceased sharks is pointless if i understand correctly, cos it wont give any info on particles of isotopes lodged within the body or their cumulative impact. Autopsy then..


Re 'summer of sharks': Just so we're clear on who should be scared, the IUCN's red book lists 200 endangered shark species.

Maybe somebody is pushing the Scary Shark theme to keep people out of the (now toxic) sea. A case for virtuous psyops? Just kidding.

[elfismiles]

Re 'summer of sharks': Just so we're clear on who should be scared, the IUCN's red book lists 200 endangered shark species.

Maybe somebody is pushing the Scary Shark theme to keep people out of the (now toxic) sea. A case for virtuous psyops? Just kidding.

Yes, sharks and snakes get a hella-lotta bad press and over-reaction from hue-mons.

RE: Virtuous PsyOps...

You Can’t Handle the Truth: Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream.
By Sharon Weinberger / Posted Monday, Sept. 19, 2005.

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here
http://media2.washingtonpost.com/media/ ... 092001.mp3

[Image: A live "ops center" in a country SCL won't identify]

http://www.slate.com/id/2126479/

[elfismiles]

Tornadoes are possibly to summer 2011 as sharks were to summer 2001.

Re: legitimacy, returns, coercion, etc see here:

http://Www.cnbc.com/id/43056225

Which was reposted on washington's blog a few weeks ago. Dude has been absolutely killing it the last several weeks.

mayhem is coming
viewtopic.php?p=406094#p406094

[justdrew]

Dozens of sharks washing up dead in California

.. Others say the deaths may have been caused by environmental pollution from agricultural runoff, or even from Fukushima radiation.

Fukushima isotopes are definately coming across Pacific, but since Leopard sharks are coastal they're not the first you'd expect to be affected. Running a geiger counter over the deceased sharks is pointless if i understand correctly, cos it wont give any info on particles of isotopes lodged within the body or their cumulative impact. Autopsy then..


Re 'summer of sharks': Just so we're clear on who should be scared, the IUCN's red book lists 200 endangered shark species.

Maybe somebody is pushing the Scary Shark theme to keep people out of the (now toxic) sea. A case for virtuous psyops? Just kidding.

heh. sharks actually make a very typical american 'enemy'

[barracuda]

Elfismiles, are you conjecturing a psyopian relationship between the publication and publicity of shark attacks and certain aspects of covert or overt military engagements as a diversionary or foreshadowing tactic? Or are you pointing out a more Fortean connection here?

[annie aronburg]

[hanshan]

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Elfismiles, are you conjecturing a psyopian relationship between the publication and publicity of shark attacks and certain aspects of covert or overt military engagements as a diversionary or foreshadowing tactic? Or are you pointing out a more Fortean connection here?

Choices. Choices. (meh)





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[elfismiles]

Elfismiles, are you conjecturing a psyopian relationship between the publication and publicity of shark attacks and certain aspects of covert or overt military engagements as a diversionary or foreshadowing tactic? Or are you pointing out a more Fortean connection here?

Hi Cuda.

Neither really... it was more an exercise is seeing, (1) - how many times 8bit had made the Shark/2001 connections on the board, and (2) - what msm links I could find alluding to the Summer of the Shark, sparked by my noticing the "shark pack off the coast" OP.

I do suspect certain "Fortean" news stories may be seeded or at the very least played-up as part of various possible psyops but I'm not necessarily suggesting that here; though the thought had occurred to me and I figured if I threw the data on the wall some of it might stick or form a pattern.

As far as past examples ... "don't feed the manatee"

Actually, I think we've speculated on this board about those stories of talking fish and dolphins off the israeli coast ... can't think of the specifics right now.

This is where I agree with PART of "The Manatee's Lament" ... that weird news stories are sometimes created or at least manipulated for some psywar effect or another.

[8bitagent]

Elfismiles, are you conjecturing a psyopian relationship between the publication and publicity of shark attacks and certain aspects of covert or overt military engagements as a diversionary or foreshadowing tactic? Or are you pointing out a more Fortean connection here?

Hi Cuda.

Neither really... it was more an exercise is seeing, (1) - how many times 8bit had made the Shark/2001 connections on the board, and (2) - what msm links I could find alluding to the Summer of the Shark, sparked by my noticing the "shark pack off the coast" OP.

I do suspect certain "Fortean" news stories may be seeded or at the very least played-up as part of various possible psyops but I'm not necessarily suggesting that here; though the thought had occurred to me and I figured if I threw the data on the wall some of it might stick or form a pattern.

As far as past examples ... "don't feed the manatee"

Actually, I think we've speculated on this board about those stories of talking fish and dolphins off the israeli coast ... can't think of the specifics right now.

This is where I agree with PART of "The Manatee's Lament" ... that weird news stories are sometimes created or at least manipulated for some psywar effect or another.

I think it's all great food for thought. HMW's take, everyone's take on things.

I remember a bevy of reports of mermaids off the coast of Israel, as well as that bizarre report of an apocalyptic talking fish in a New York kosher deli in the runup to the Iraq war.
After careful examination of the Mothman era in Virginia, it seems like perhaps some people genuinely seem to be conduits for harbingers of untold fates.
I didn't realize how many times I had alluded to the summer of 2001, other than it left a strong impression of me...since I felt very very depressed, more than ever. And it just felt like a very dead summer in my life and in the world weaved around us by the media.

[Laodicean]

Great White Sharks Apparently Enjoy Songs by AC/DC
by Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil on 06. 1.11

Conventional wisdom would suggest that the best way to lure great white sharks is to bait the water with chum, but one Australian ocean tour operator says he's found something that works even better: hard rock. It's been known for a while now that some music has the power to repel sharks, though evidently particular tunes can have the opposite effect -- specifically hits from the band AC/DC. While it may seem a bit far-fetched that the ocean predators would have a soft spot for hit-making Aussie rockers, the logic is actually, well, sound.

According to a report from Adelaide Now, shark tour operator Matt Waller discovered the fish-friendlier alternative to chum, saying music is even more effective at luring great white sharks than ground-up fish. He consulted shark experts and found that the animals are most attracted to sounds within a specific frequency -- and one band seems to strike the right chord.

Great white sharks' taste in music, it would seem, is just as aggressive as their reputation.

"We know the AC/DC music works best by trial and error, and we are doing more research to see what works best with different species of shark," says Waller.

Apparently, sharks are attracted by songs in the low frequency range, and two AC/DC songs in particular are best at working the great whites into a frenzy -- namely the tunes You Shook Me All Night Long and, fittingly, If You Want Blood. Waller, whose business allows tourists to get up close and personal with the ocean predators in shark cages, says the music even gets the sharks head-banging, in a way.

"Quite often we see the sharks on the surface, but most of the time our guests want to get in the cage and see them up close. I've seen the sharks rub their faces on the cage where the sound is coming from as if to feel it," says the tour operator.

Using sound waves to lure in sharks isn't an entirely unprecedented technique. Pacific Islanders have been known to attract sharks by banging together coconut shells submerged in the water.

Certainly, Waller's conclusion that sharks enjoy specific selections of rock music has yet to be confirmed by tedious academic research, but then again, not all great discoveries are made with a stiff upper lip.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/06 ... -ac-dc.php

[8bitagent]

Right before the invasion of Iraq in 2003...

a DIFFERENT kind of Great White attack

(100 people died, including half the band of 80's rocker outfit Great White at a NJ show)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire