Magnetic fields can affect animals particularly birds.  They can also affect fish.

  These die-off are a symptom of a pole shift and possibily a pre-curser to not just a shift (the poles have been shifting a few km each year for years) but a complete flip.  Something that happens every few hundreds of years and we're over due for. 

  Survival guides can be found using google.

  How do I know all this?  I just read it on the internet so it must be true.  :) 

pole shifts.  hmmm.  could that explain my splitting headache?  does that mean that i should buy a bikini before all the nice ones are taken?  where will santa go? see all these questions you've sparked jadespring.  did i just derail my own thread?

i've read all sorts of interesting "opinions" about this story on the internet *lol*  mostly doomsdayers and conspiracy theorists....

  Well I figure that if it is an indicator of a pole flip, there isn't much actually not anything to stop it so it's not something to worry about.   Just a matter of going with the flow...

  I looked a couple of the survival guides and a lot of suggestions of where the best places to move to in order to survive.  They all say different things......    :( 

china is saying poll shift.  *checks out jadespring's survival guide link* ;)

My family was talking about the movie, "The Core" - which of course, NASA has pooh-poohed.  It starts with a pile of birds dropping out of the sky thanks to the >>>(insert bad science)>>> core of the earth stopping spinning.  OK whatever, but I couldn't help but think that this many creatures - crabs, fish, birds, more birds, more fish etc in so many countries (New Zealand, Sweden, UK,) and various states - Arkansas, Maryland etc...   CRAZY.  definitely creepy.

But the people in power have enough champagne, they don't need to wander outside and see what is happening to the earth.  They're content for a few years to ignore it.

I don't bite on conspiracy theories, doomsday, etc. but I also don't buy that "it's nothing unusual".  Definitely something, imo. 

i've read this a few times now.  where's wikileaks when you need it?

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week.
According to this report, John P. Wheeler III, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. from 2005-2008, when he became the Special Assistant to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Logistics and Environment, was found brutally murdered and dumped in a landfill, and as we can read as reported by Fox News.Wheeler’s military career included writing one of the most important manuals on the effectiveness of biological and chemical weapons which led to his being hired in 2009 as a consultant to the Mitre Corporation, whose aviation system development department, the GRU reports, is at the forefront of creating the computer command and control systems used by the US Air Force in their fleet of aerial spraying planes.
These aerial spraying planes, this report continues, are based at the Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas that over the past few months have been involved with ‘test dispersants’ of poisonous gasses in the Afghanistan War Theater using chemical weapons stocks obtained from Iraq and held at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, also located in Arkansas.mportant to note about the Pine Bluff Arsenal, which calls itself “America’s Arsenal”, is that it is one of the World’s most specialized munitions and chemical-biological defense products and services bases which Russia had previously accused of not fully reporting the chemical agents removed from Iraq, between 2003 and 2008, and taken to the US for testing and subsequent destruction.
According to this report, the US relocated from Iraq to the Pine Bluff Arsenal an estimated 63,000 metric tonnes of the poisonous gas Phosgene that is described as one of the most feared chemical weapons ever used due to its ability to literally cause the lungs and respiratory system to explode.
Nearly immediately after Russia accused the US this past summer of not fully destroying Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stockpile the Pine Bluff Arsenal began an ‘accelerated’ disposal programme injecting it deep into the ground in central Arkansas, but which, unfortunately, since this past September, has caused over 500 minor earthquakes to occur raising the concerns of their local population.
More frightening, however, is the claim made in this report that the Americans have also begun shipping ‘massive quantities’ of Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stocks to Afghanistan where when used they will be able to say they had nothing to do with it, and believe no one will be able to prove it.

i highly suspect this isn't nature either.  i think someone somewhere has some 'splaynin to do!

where did you get this?  I'm with abpenny- leery of conspiracy theories, but certainly not unaware that we don't get told the whole truth.

i'll track down the link.

Are the frogs dying? That's supposed to be a REALLY bad sign.

I just walked down to the barn and there are LOTS of honeybees dead on the snow.  I called the beekeeper, but they are away.  It was up to 5 above yesterday but I've never seen this in the 25 years he's had beeboxes here.  I'll be really interested to hear what he says??

The newspaper had a big article about bumblebees too...

Canary in the coalmine-  I think we're way past that.

Abpenny - my sweetie jsut said his friend who is a prolific beekeeper out here in Ontario said that is fairly common for bees.   They get tricked by the warmer weather but cant' handle it yet.  He didn't bat an eye at it.   

...makes me wonder... how are the bats?

I doubt it's a conspiracy, but one website is calling it 'Aflockalypse Now'  We may never know but, apparently, such events are not uncommon.

 It the east, not doing well and they haven't been for some time now.   There's been problems for a few years now with white nose syndrome.  Masses of the them are dying in while hibernating in their 'caves'.  In some cases showing up to 95% die-off.   Last I read (haven't looked for a while)  about it (I first became aware a few years ago) it was still spreading and is predicted to move up into Canada and  that researchers have figured out that it is some sort of fungal disease.   However determining why it's attacking them now and in such great numbers is still a question as well as if there anything that could be done to stop it. 

Losing the bats or the this number of bats entirely will change the overall eco-system in ways that I don't think most would imagine.   If I remember correctly it's estimated in the Eastern US bats consume over 4 billion insects per night, mosquitos, moths,  and others that fly around.   Birds and other smaller animals take care of it during the day but at night it's bats.    Without bats  the insect numbers will shoot up exponentially. More insects breed more insects.  The balance or at least what we know as the balance will be quite different.  

This issue while having got some press does not get much widespread coverage.  Bats just aren't that sexy, aren't liked that much and are one of those things that is more out of sight and mind.    Thankfully researchers see it and the seriousnous of it to the point of putting together a huge group of multi-discipline people togeher to try to figure it out.    In that world it's one of the most pressing issues of the current day.  

I was at a Christmas party a talked to a women who runs an ecological education center.  In this role she talks to a lot of sciencey people.  When we were talking of bats she said she had just been talking to a bat biologist and he said the outlook is very dim.   

the fungal disease could be a temperature/humidity related thing actually, since fungal infections are worse in higher humidity & moderately warm temps.  I'd bet if the airflow has changed around a nesting area, or the temp has gone up, that might be related to climate change.  It might also be an overcrowding thing too, but I don't know that much.

And we won't see the mass-die-offs if it happens inside where humans fear to tread.

Yesterday it was turtledoves in Italy, added to the list under the title Aflockalypse Now, as mentioned above.  Considered strange as well by the ecologists of the region.

Thanks birthstone...good to know!

Speaking of bats...

The Mass Animal Deaths Google Map marks 70 dead ones in Arizona

This map is kind of interesting but if I was an American I would be getting a little worried.

Maybe it's a "Crock-of-blip" now?

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-Omni

Somebody let the idiots out again...

not war/famine/murder/greed/corruption/etc, but homosexuality.  interesting.  that's really taking "the birds and the bees" to new levels. sorry, i couldn't resist. 

is haarp real or a conspiracy theory?

Chansen, 28 seconds into that video my computer froze up and wouldn't play it - hmm, message from a higher power perhaps....

LB

A coincidence! ... The odds are enormous against its being coincidence.

     Arthur Conan Doyle,  The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Probably.  It couldn't be that Flash is a notorious resource hog.

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