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Mysterious killer wipes out nation’s honeybees
Loss of pollination could have devastating impact on U.S. food
May 3, 2007
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELTSVILLE, Md. — Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate.
Honeybees don’t just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops Americans have.
Among them: apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots of the really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons.
About one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible for 80% of that pollination, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Even cattle, which feed on alfalfa, depend on bees. So if the collapse worsens, people could end up being "stuck with grains and water," said Kevin Hackett, national program leader for the USDA bee and pollination program. "This is the biggest general threat to our food supply."
While not all scientists foresee a food crisis, noting that large-scale bee die-offs have happened before, this one seems particularly alarming.
U.S. beekeepers in recent months have lost one-quarter of their colonies — about five times the normal winter losses — because of Colony Collapse Disorder.
The problem started in November and seems to have spread to 27 states, with similar collapses reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe.
Scientists are struggling to figure out what is killing the honeybees, and early results of a study this week point to some kind of disease or parasite.
Even before this disorder struck, U.S. honeybees were in trouble. Their numbers were steadily shrinking, because their genes do not equip them to fight poisons and disease well and because their gregarious nature exposes them to ailments afflicting thousands of their close cousins.
"Quite frankly, the question is whether the bees can weather this perfect storm," Hackett said. "Do they have the resilience to bounce back? We’ll know probably by the end of the summer."
Experts from Brazil and Europe have joined in the detective work at the USDA’s bee lab in suburban Washington.
"This crisis threatens to wipe out production of crops dependent on bees for pollination," Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said.
Detroit Free Press Inc.
Forum posts
4 May 2007, 02:01
Disoriented bees? Ah, well this is a possibility. But what would make them disoriented?
Perhaps it is the 250 HZ signals being pumped out of GWEN stations all over America. This signal makes people angry, so that they support the administrations idea of going after Iran and violence in general. It works great for mass manipulation of opinion. Unfortunately, the same signal will induce a misdirection of up to 10 degrees in the navigation ability of the honeybee. They go away from the hive and never come back because they can no longer find it. That’s why it’s only happening in the US.
Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of this is that US media has never ventured to question why it is only happening here. Somebody must have told them to clam up on this issue or the current crop of US reporters got their degrees in journalism out of a Cracker Jack box.
4 May 2007, 02:05
Now what the hell are GWEN stations, you might want to ask, and what could they have to do with the catastrophic die-off of honey bees...
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GWEN, Microwave Arrays and Mobile Phone Radiation
GWEN, the Ground Wave Emergency Network, is a military communications network, consisting of some 300 transmitters dotting the whole of the continental United States. Each tower is 300-500 feet high. The stations are from 200 to 250 miles apart, so that a signal can go from coast to coast from one station to another. The official purpose is "to ensure adequate communication between command authorities and land-based strategic nuclear forces in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States mainland." But others say a hidden use of the system may be "electromagnetic mind-altering technology" by the use of ELF or Extremely Low Frequency waves.
6 May 2007, 07:39
This is correct and recent research has clearly indicated that bees, birds and many other species use ELF to navigate. Even fish use ELF to navigate and all creatures that migrate are especially vunerable. We are surrounded by one billion times the natural background amount of EMR (electromagnetic radiation). Virtually every segment of the EM spectrum is being used or considered for future use, including microwaves. I am one of the people who are sensitive to this kind of technology and have very strange muscle twitches and something called "myoclonic jerks." This is a bizarre symptom where both my arms suddenly fly upwards, with force, and in a completely symmetrical manner! It especially happens every time I lay down. Laying down causes us to be aligned with the magnetic field differently and actually changes our body chemistry. I have learned a lot recently and I recommend the following books if you want to find out the real reason for the demise of the honeybee and OUR future demise:
1. Cross Currents, Robert O. Becker
2. The Body Electric, Robert O. Becker
3. Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, James Oschman
Furthermore, there is the chemtrail component of this issue, not to be ignored. The aluminum, barium, potassium and other salts electrically modify the air, making it a better conductor of electrical charge. This is to facilitate the transfer of energy/information using ELF (extra low frequency) waves in combination with the HAARP system. So our atmosphere has been completely modified over the last two decades for military purposes. If this continues, it will be the end of life. All life is extremely sensitive to EMR in many wavelengths, most of which are unknown. We are swimming in electronic sewage. I will have to move to the country soon to try and escape this crap, but complete escape is impossible. "You can check out any time you like, but you may never leave." Hotel California The Eagles
Scott, M.S.