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Post by auntym on Jan 4, 2011 15:49:32 GMT -6
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1308605/pg1A LIST of LOCATIONS that have FALLING BIRDS and DEAD FISH in 2011 This thread was started to keep recent reports of dead birds and fish in one place, to make it easier to read. Most links and information are provided by GLP members here, if anyone finds an error in the list or links, please let me know, and I'll try to update it. 2011 Week 1 FALLING/Dead BIRDS Kentucky QTY < 100 Type: Small Birds (not Stated) Suspected Cause Cold Stress Actual Cause : Unknown
Louisiana QTY 500 Type: Starlings and Blackbirds Suspected Cause : Weather Actual: Unknown Links:
Arkansas QTY ~5000 Type: Blackbird, Starling, Grackle Suspected Cause : weather/fireworks Actual Cause : Unknown Links:
Arizona QTY >65 Type: Bats Suspected cause : Weather Actual Cause : Unknown
Japan QTY < 30 Type: Various (Mainly Swan/Heron) Suspected Cause : Bird Flu Actual: Unknown Links :
DEAD FISH
Arkansas > 100,000 Type: Drum Suspected Cause Actual Cause Unknown Links:
Maryland > 10,000 Type: Menhayden, spots and croakers/various Suspected Cause Cold Stress Actual Cause : Unknown Links:
South Wales (UK) QTY>~ 100's Type: Various Carp/Bream/Other Suspected Cause Cold Weather Actual Cause Unknown Links:
Brazil QTY: ~Millions (100 tons) Type: Sardines Suspected cause :Unknown Actual Cause : Unknown Links:
Italy (Scarlino) QTY 100,000s Type: Clams/Small fish/Shellfish/Crabs/Flatfish Suspected Cause : Pollution Actual Cause : Unknown Links :
New Zealand Type: Snapper
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Post by auntym on Jan 4, 2011 22:47:34 GMT -6
www.kdvr.com/news/wpix-birds-fall-from-sky-louisiana,0,2543644.story
New Mass Animal Deaths In Louisiana, Maryland And BrazilBy JEREMY TANNER and MARIYA ABEDI wpix.com 12:07 p.m. MST, January 4, 2011 POINT COUPEE, LA (WPIX) — After the recent bizzare discovery of hundreds of dead birds and fish in Arkansas, more birds plummeted from the sky in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, on Monday. About 500 birds covered a quarter-mile stretch of Louisiana Highway 1, reportedly landing face down, together in groups, or on their back with their wings and legs rigidly pointing upwards. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries have sent some of the dead birds for testing. Similar reasons as to what killed the Arkansas blackbirds are being applied to its neighboring state's incident. Fireworks, storms, extraterrestrial activity and God's wrath have been popular theories. But after an investigation, officials revealed that Arkansas birds died from blood clots caused by internal injuries. According to the U.S Geological Survey, there are records of at least 16 instances in the past 30 years involving more than 1,000 blackbirds dying unexpectedly. But it doesn't stop there. Maryland has also been investigating the cause of hundreds of thousands of dead fish have been showing up in the Chesapeake Bay. Several different species of small fish were found. While they usually migrate towards warmer water during the winter, the state's Department of Environment officials are unsure why they didn't leave this year. Environment officials have said that the fish died due to the stress of the cold water. Outside of the United States, close to 100 tons of dead fish covered the shores of Paranagua, Brazil, on Sunday. Similar incidents are also being reported along other shore-line parts of Brazil.
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Post by auntym on Jan 5, 2011 18:59:52 GMT -6
Chine... More Birds Fall From the Sky...Chinese Say its Magnetic Pole Shift
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Post by auntym on Jan 5, 2011 19:26:33 GMT -6
UPDATE: CRANES, MANATEES BATS CRABS STAR FISH ETC FOUND DEAD
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Post by auntym on Jan 5, 2011 23:07:36 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2011 5:25:26 GMT -6
Does anybody remember the trucker strike a couple of years ago? I'm sure skywalker does.
The reason why I'm bringing up is I've gotten to thinking about all of this. The truckers all went on strike when diesel prices skyrocketed almost overnight (truckers are responsible for paying for their own fuel) because the EPA people started forcing gas stations to sell this new diesel which was supposedly "safer" for the environment and created less pollution.
I wonder........................... if this is the cause?
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Post by skywalker on Jan 6, 2011 23:52:59 GMT -6
There's no telling what those idiots in the government are doing...and I am sure they have no intention of telling us.
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Post by bewildered on Jan 7, 2011 19:27:25 GMT -6
I would be interested in seeing a compilation of similar data extracted several years prior to 2010 and 2011. I recall that on or about 1994 in the greater Atlanta area, millipedes appeared by the millions and expired in great heaps in the basements and crawlspaces of homes and businesses. A few years later, the Southeast was inundated with a bajillion ladybugs...they were so numerous, they were found inside of people's homes by the hundreds and thousands. They in turn died in heaps.
In the case of the ladybugs, the USDA released millions of them as part of an experiment...one which had unintended results. This was not publicized nor announced...the information had to be extracted from the agency via inquiry. In the meantime, folks harbored all kinds of apocalyptic explanations for the appearance of the insects: it was a sign of the end. Even when faced with the explanation of what happened, some people persisted in their belief.
My own experience has taught me to view an event on its own merits, and reserve judgment until I learn more. I "tune out" the media as a general rule. It's far too easy to jump to all kinds of conclusions based on the smallest fragment of reality.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 7, 2011 21:20:52 GMT -6
It's interesting that people would mistake a government project for an apocalyptic event...I wonder how they came up with that idea?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 4:12:39 GMT -6
My own experience has taught me to view an event on its own merits, and reserve judgment until I learn more. I "tune out" the media as a general rule. It's far too easy to jump to all kinds of conclusions based on the smallest fragment of reality. How very true bewildered. Very true indeed. This is something I believe also, but I am easily worked into a panic by others. Alarmists should be ignored, just like terrorists in my mind; but sometimes it is very difficult to ignore such outrageous theories if one gets emotionally caught up in the tornado which is created.
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Post by uncled on Jan 8, 2011 10:03:58 GMT -6
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Post by halfsack13 on Jan 8, 2011 10:31:37 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Jan 8, 2011 11:16:52 GMT -6
I would be interested in seeing a compilation of similar data extracted several years prior to 2010 and 2011. I recall that on or about 1994 in the greater Atlanta area, millipedes appeared by the millions and expired in great heaps in the basements and crawlspaces of homes and businesses. A few years later, the Southeast was inundated with a bajillion ladybugs...they were so numerous, they were found inside of people's homes by the hundreds and thousands. They in turn died in heaps. In the case of the ladybugs, the USDA released millions of them as part of an experiment...one which had unintended results. This was not publicized nor announced...the information had to be extracted from the agency via inquiry. In the meantime, folks harbored all kinds of apocalyptic explanations for the appearance of the insects: it was a sign of the end. Even when faced with the explanation of what happened, some people persisted in their belief. My own experience has taught me to view an event on its own merits, and reserve judgment until I learn more. I "tune out" the media as a general rule. It's far too easy to jump to all kinds of conclusions based on the smallest fragment of reality. I agree with BW, it would be a good idea to see the statistics for previous years to determine how often these types of animal kills actually happen. It could be that the news media has picked up on the public's interest in the recent kills and is trying to capitalize off of it by reporting more of them. I remember several years back when Sharks all of a sudden started attacking people all over the country. For several weeks you couldn't hardly pick up a newspaper without reading a story about sharks. People were panicking and were scared to death to go near the water...local governments passed laws to prohibit scuba divers from feeding sharks...the world was being overrun by sharks! After it was all over it was discovered that there had not been any more shark attacks than usual, it was just a slow news cycle and the media needed something to report.
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Post by harmony on Jan 8, 2011 13:37:14 GMT -6
I remember when hundreds of dolphins washed up for no reason; Here is a video on the birds and fish;
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Post by bewildered on Jan 8, 2011 14:41:59 GMT -6
skywalker: Sometimes we can discover possible underlying causes for the unusual behavior of animals, even on a large scale that transcends a singular locale. In the case of sharks, I recall studies conducted in the "shark attack capital of the world" - that is, Florida - that found evidence of human drugs in their bodies; chiefly, anti-depressants such as Prozac. There is no question that shark attacks happen more frequently there than anywhere else in the world, and the unusual levels of human pharmaceutical products present in their bodies indicates a probable human cause for their behavior. Other than this, a link has been established between great white shark attacks and the similarity of a swimmer's profile to their most popular prey animals. A surfer paddling on a body board appears almost identical to a seal in the eyes of a shark prowling below. Hordes of insects mysteriously appearing appeals to some people's sense of religious belief and the supernatural...even when the insects in question are as innocuous as ladybugs. It's a sign that something is "wrong." Sometimes, as in the case of those ladybugs, there is a very human cause behind their emergence. Other times, environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, predation levels, and opportune life cycles can give rise to zillions of a certain species or grouping of insects. They die off rather swiftly because their population far exceeds the ability of the environment to sustain them. To be honest, there are already zillions of those critters even under "normal" conditions. Insects are the most numerous group of higher-order invertebrate animals on the face of the earth. I studied both them and the order they belong to (arthropods) for a number of years. I daresay the average person has no idea just how many of these critters there are. It boggles the mind. It was a blunder by the USDA (one amongst many ). They weren't exactly shouting it from the rooftops. They probably felt justified in zipping their lips since the insect in question was a harmless one. I'll add as finishing touch to this the rather odd appearance of walking sticks the year after the millipedes. Lots of them. Just hanging out on screen doors and porches. ;D
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Post by bewildered on Jan 8, 2011 15:07:25 GMT -6
How very true bewildered. Very true indeed. This is something I believe also, but I am easily worked into a panic by others. Alarmists should be ignored, just like terrorists in my mind; but sometimes it is very difficult to ignore such outrageous theories if one gets emotionally caught up in the tornado which is created. The appealing to our emotional centers by deploying provocative mental and visual imagery is the modus operandi of the media. On one hand, you have art in its varied forms, a media through which the artist seeks to invoke a sympathetic response within members of their audience. This can be a pleasant or painful experience, all depending on the intent and skill of the artist in question. On the other hand, you have those who employ the media to manipulate and control. An example of such use of the media is Advertising. Possessing control over others brings a great deal of pleasure to some, for it enables them to gain what they want with a minimum of effort on their part. It is, at the core, a confidence game. The con artists are the businesses and the marketing consultants they employ. The shills are actors and actresses performing in artificially created environments - you know, that bar in "Everywhere, USA" where the women just love the men who drink a certain beer. The mark is you and I. Whether the goal is to achieve wealth, fame, or gain a thrill off watching people believe a lie, the results and the mechanics are the same. Confidence schemes are a victimless crime. Why? The con would never work if the mark wasn't a willing participant to begin with. Cons work so well because the architects of the scheme intimately understand the weaknesses of their victims, and appeal to them using that basis. Sometimes, a person's greatest weakness is what they use. Other times, drawing on their strength can achieve the same result. Is it greed? Getting something for nothing? Or, on the other side of the fence, is it a desire to build a better future for yourself and your family? Better health? Make the world a better place? The only sure way to become immune to cons is to stop caring about the things the cons themselves care for. They can't whip you into hysteria if you don't care about their scheme whatsoever.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 8, 2011 19:49:59 GMT -6
I found something that might explain the dead fish that have been turning up in the US lately. So far there have been large fish kills in the states of Maryland, Arkansas, and most recently Florida. It turns out that there is an extremely aggressive species of fish called a snakehead, that was illegally imported into the United States from countries in Asia and Africa. It is considered a delicacy in some parts of the world. Some restaurant owners have been bringing these ugly things into the country and releasing them into local ponds so they can breed, then they come back later and catch them. These fish are extremely aggressive and can wipe out the native fish population very easily. What makes them even more dangerous is that they can actually live out of water for up to three days at a time, and can sometimes crawl across land from one pond to another. They have no natural predators here in the US so if they ever make it into the rivers and lakes it could be disastrous for the local environment. Fish and Game officials have decided to try to wage war on these vicious things by poisoning any pond that they turn up in. So far they have only turned up in the states of California, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, Arkansas and Rhode Island. " Is it any coincidence that the three states that have had large fish kills recently just happen to be three of the states that this snakehead fish has been found in? Here are a couple of links to check out. www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-snakehead-fish.htmen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakehead_(fish)
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Post by auntym on Jan 10, 2011 23:06:52 GMT -6
National Weather Service Radar Spots 'Strange Clouds' When Birds Fell From Sky
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Post by bewildered on Jan 12, 2011 1:26:43 GMT -6
skywalker: History is well-stocked with examples of human incompetence particularly as they apply to our igannance of the environment, how ecosystems work, and what happens when one introduces an organism native to one ecosystem into a foreign one. The fire ant phenomenon in the Southeastern U.S. comes to mind. You can read about it at this link here, though that source might be a bit too "dry" and academic to some. If you live in or have visited this portion of the U.S. for any length of time, then you will likely be familiar with the ant I am referring to. It is a highly aggressive non-native ant species introduced to the U.S. from its native habitat in South America at some point in the 1920s or 1930s. Since its arrival in some unknown port on the Gulf Coast (a lumber shipment is the suspected vector), it has spread across the Southeastern U.S., displacing the relatively more placid and less industrious native fire ant species found in states such as Florida. The difference between the two species is remarkable. The native fire ant colony does not exhibit the aggressive behaviors that are the earmark of the imported species. I was responsible for control measures against the non-native species for a time, and I have seen firsthand what they can do to people who blunder into their conical mounds. These ants secure themselves to the skin by fastening a sure grip with their mandibles, and then proceed to sting over and over again by moving their abdomen around in a circle. The result are nasty, painful circular welts that for some people can engender a systemic backlash to the venom in their sting, as I saw on the arms of one man whose backyard was riddled with colonies of this species. His arms were covered with scabs and scars. I once eliminated a huge colony of this species in rural Georgia that likely numbered in the millions. This colony was built against a fallen tree along the driveway on the property of the unfortunate fellow I mentioned above. I was surprised that no one noticed it before; it was over 10 feet across and naturally extended deep into the ground under the tree. I noticed a casual link between the presence of these non-native ants around damaged or dead wood and the presence of eastern subterranean termites in that damaged or dead wood; I correspondingly found the tell-tale mud tunnels of subterranean termites in the fallen tree that the colony was built against. Elsewhere, I would find non-native fire ant colonies built up against the foundations of homes, sometimes against siding and porches; and where I found this occurring, I also invariably uncovered evidence of eastern subterranean termite activity in the structure of the home itself. These ants seem to predate eastern subterranean termites with great zeal, and this might perhaps explain their explosive spread across the Southeastern United States, itself nothing but home to innumerable eastern subterranean termite colonies. Ants and termites are natural enemies to a degree, and amongst all the ants I have seen, fire ants are dedicated to the task of preying upon them. I only mention this to illustrate that sometimes, it takes studious investigation and observation in order to discern the underlying causes behind the often strange phenomena of our planet. As a footnote, I was able to help that fellow out by eventually eliminating the non-native fire ants from his property. It took some time and patience, but by working around the strength of this species I contained their spread and wiped them out. Their strength: when the colony encounters a stress situation, latent reproductives activate and leave the parent colony in order to create a "satellite" colony. This is why I always advise against anyone applying pesticide to foraging worker ants when you see them, say, in your kitchen or bathroom. Their death leaves chemical alarm markers that other ants sense with their delicate antennae; they relay this to the rest of the colony and as a result, it creates a stress condition. That stress condition invariably results in colony budding, which can only serve to make your ant problems worse than what they were before. Ants are formidable opponents, and their colonies are amazing in how they react almost like an intelligent organism. It's best to "take the fight" to the colony itself. I destroyed the colonies directly and therefore, prevented any budding from taking place. That was how I got rid of them.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 12, 2011 7:13:21 GMT -6
Fire ants are a pain in the behind. They are so aggressive that they attack and kill any other ant species they come into contact with. The population of large red ants has been totally decimated as a result, and this has caused other species of animals to suffer, like the Texas horned lizard, or horny toad. There used to be millions of those cute little lizards running around when I was a kid. We used to catch them and play with them every day, but since the fire ants came moving in and wiped out the red ants that the lizards ate as their primary food source the horned lizard has practically gone extinct. Back in the 70's it was common for me to see five or ten of them every day, since then I think I have seen maybe two in the past twenty years. This is what happens when people start messing around with nature. If I had to take a wild guess at what is happening with all of the animal kills lately, I would say the fish are dying because the government is poisoning the water trying to eliminate those snake head fish, and the birds are probably dying because of something that is being sprayed into the air, either pollution or pesticides or something. That is just my wild guess though.
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