NeiChuan Posted January 19, 2011 (edited) http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/236128.asp Starting to take notice to these events now. Edited January 19, 2011 by NeiChuan 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted January 20, 2011 Actually, it reminds me more of http://www.100scifimovies.com/tag/dead-cows/ The link is kind of crap, but i do recall the cow death thing. No more mentions of BSE? Thousands of animals were culled /died then too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TommyRyukyu Posted January 20, 2011 The Plot thickens .... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted January 20, 2011 Well it does and it doesn't. in the last, what, 2 weeks: -bird deaths - fish deaths - cow deaths There was a bit of a "bee death" movement for a while but I think that people probably don't "get" the bee death stuff as much as they "get" other animal deaths. BIW I'm referring to reporting. Not actual "what's going on" It ain't easy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
宁 Posted January 20, 2011 Has anyone noticed how the animals that die just become bigger? How long until humans will be affected? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeiChuan Posted January 20, 2011 Well it does and it doesn't. in the last, what, 2 weeks: -bird deaths - fish deaths - cow deaths There was a bit of a "bee death" movement for a while but I think that people probably don't "get" the bee death stuff as much as they "get" other animal deaths. BIW I'm referring to reporting. Not actual "what's going on" It ain't easy. The bee, and fish deaths are what most bother me. Here's a link I found. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_14369.cfm Has to do with Bayer's pesticide being highly toxic to honey bees. In one of the memo's it's actually mentioned it's extremely hostile to honey bees. Also that same pesticide is illegal in many other countries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ninpo-me-this-ninjutsu-me-that Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) Perhaps they were a 'cow cult' and their leader decided it was time to commit mass suicide as Venus was in alignment with the Milky Way 'a la' heavens gate cult. edit: (for the old and English: The Uni-gate cult) Edited January 20, 2011 by Ninpo-me-this-ninjutsu-me-that 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted January 20, 2011 I've been alarmed too. I've been looking for some autopsies and factual info on whats happening. Here is one calmer article thats come to my attention: By Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer / January 7, 2011 Washington First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental. The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated. Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other. "They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science. Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery. In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California. On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada. "Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said. Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths. So what's happening this time? Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more. "This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end." Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment. The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said. also: Link of wheres and what of kill ofs http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/mortality_events/ongoing.jsp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aetherous Posted January 20, 2011 Excellent post, thelerner. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrLoony Posted January 20, 2011 Popular media. >.< Mass panics are how they sell themselves. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeiChuan Posted January 20, 2011 Popular media. >.< Mass panics are how they sell themselves. Haha I think in all cases this is pretty much true. Other then political truths to which they don't report. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrLoony Posted January 21, 2011 Actually, no... it's not just mass panics. It's also political or celebrity intrigue. Don't get me wrong, corrupt politicians need to be dealt with, but it's amazing the ideas people have about politicians from the media reporting on maybe two corrupt politicians a year... out of thousands of career politicians. Arguably, they create mass panics to fill the holes until they can find another corrupt politician. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted January 21, 2011 http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13865540 looks like the birds were poisoned for crapping on somebody's farm...USDA approved Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
三江源 Posted January 21, 2011 Popular media. >.< Mass panics are how they sell themselves. Yes, absurd isnt it. Except I think the love of narrative and the love of a cliff hanger story... waiting for the next installment.. runs deep in the human psyche.. lets sit round the fire and listen to or tell stories.. oooooh, what will happen next?! The media provides all manner of soap operas and so many of those those that scorn the openly scripted ones, fall for the covertly scripted ones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
