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Birds, Fish... And Now Crabs

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First it was birds, then fish. Not it's crabs. For those with a keen eye for patterns, this apocalypse "thing" appears to be crawling along the signs of the zodiac. Next up: thousands of dead lions and soon after, virgins. Ergo New York is safe. Joking aside, the reason for this latest mass death is hypothermia. So good of BP to do its best to "adjust" the global climate. Luckily, $10 billion will be more than sufficient to recreate entire ecosystems by the time the full impact of the oil spill is uncovered. 

From the Star:

More than 40,000 Velvet swimming crabs have wound up dead on England beaches. The possible reason? Hypothermia.

The Thanet shoreline is littered with the crabs, along with dead starfish, lobsters, sponges and anemones.

The crabs benefit from warm seas, but when winter hits and snow covers the beaches, they just can’t handle the freezing temperatures, Tony Child, Thanet Coast Project manager, told the Star.

“It is a horrendous crash in the population,” he said, adding similar crab deaths happened in the same place two years and five years ago.

“During the winter . . . they come closer to the shore . . . foraging where the seaweed is,” he said.

“There are more starfish this year that have been casualties. Lobsters have been washed in a bit frozen. Seagulls are doing quite well at the moment.”

The creatures started washing up when snow blasted Europe shortly before Christmas, he said.

h/t Themos Mitsos

 

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Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:56 | 857244 Problem Is
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+1... Classic
Stacked brunette... You'd still do her...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:45 | 856925 redpill
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Too bad you can't kill all the crabs on the Jersey Shore eh

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:46 | 856937 Bear
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Too bad we can't just kill "Jersey Shore"

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:38 | 857731 turds in the pu...
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whatever mr. fancypants. jersey shore is the best thing on tv. go watch frontline, reflect on the pertinent issue to which your awareness has been brought to bear, then basque in this awareness and sigh because the world just gets to be too much for you sometimes. 

 

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:49 | 856941 uno
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good one, also the Real Housewives of ....

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:45 | 856928 mark mchugh
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To all you virgins out there:

Thanks for nothing.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:54 | 856955 Dr. Engali
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Praise Allah.......72 reserved for each of the faithful.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:08 | 857005 Sudden Debt
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I want to go to hell where the hookers are and all the sinners party all day long ;)

 

you can have the virgins in heaven. Angels don't have a dick remember!

 

Also, when a woman dies and goes to heaven as a virgin: I DON'T THINK SHE'S GOIGN TO BE A BEAUTY!!!!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:08 | 857023 Jim Cramer
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To all you virgins out there:

Thanks for nothing.

 

I can save you!  I'm free for teaching times at............

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:48 | 856942 Rainman
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Good for the seagulls.....they are having a feast !! The seagull is smart like a raven and can survive nearly anything. Humans are the most wasteful creatures on the planet, most dumber than crabs and not remotely tasty. When they perish, they are not eaten. 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:51 | 856944 bob_dabolina
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Corexit is good for fish, birds, crabs.

-Tony Hayword

There is no oil and I'm not Muslim

-Hussein Obama

There is global warming

-Al Gore

Really...we are fucking assholes for dealing with this bullshit.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:26 | 857356 Problem Is
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Tony Hayward is quite the gay fop... isn't he?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:49 | 856950 LawsofPhysics
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Free food!  Send it to the third world quick!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:59 | 856979 Sudden Debt
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Would you like to SUPERSIZE that Mc. Airkill order?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:00 | 857259 Problem Is
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The Pentagon will buy it like Corexit Shrimp to feed our troops...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:54 | 856952 King_of_simpletons
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Age of Aquarius - 2012.....the transformation is begining.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:05 | 856992 tgatliff
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Age of Stupidity of human beings believing that the world will always end soon... no transformation required.

So a couple thousand thousand craps wash up on the shore.  Umm... The point here is what??? If they had arrived in a 2 fishing boats (which occur daily I might add), no one would have said a word.   When you start seeing millions wash up, then you have a problem.  Until that point, its just empty noise to feel the news... 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:10 | 857042 Jim Cramer
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Use your words in the right context and you might be considered smart.  For example, "Until that point, its just empty noise to feel the news... "  How about fill not feel.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:16 | 857319 Ganja Jane
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It's the explaination of why this is happening that everyone is concerned about.

 

When a fishing boat goes out and comes back with thousands of dead crabs, we can assume most of the time that they are for market; when thousands wash up on the shore, it's a very relevant question of why.

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:19 | 857333 Cathartes Aura
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isolated incidents tell you nothing.

try working with a timeline, and connecting the dots - the world may seem to work like the movie "groundhog day" - endless looped days - but in reality, there are seemingly random events that are inter-connected should you care to ponder.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:09 | 857294 Ganja Jane
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Waterworld?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:22 | 857304 Problem Is
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By astronomical axial precession (not astrological)... The solstice sunrise in the constellation Aquarius will occur around 2150...

This is a fact... In can be astronomically measured...

Pieces started around 1 AD... you know the age of Jesus thing... 2150 BC Moses went all ape shit over worshipping a calf? No longer Taurus.. It's Aries blow the damn Ram Horn for Moses...

These are each astronomically measured as the earth's axis slowly wobbles changing the solstice sunrise to different constellations in precession...

What will happen in 2012 is that the angle of our sun's astral plane will move the sun's orbit across our galaxy's center in line with the black hole at the center of our galaxy...

That is similar to earth's solstice positions in relation to our sun...

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 02:30 | 858338 Terminus C
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Some religious dude doesn't like your logic and science talk.

 

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 16:56 | 859493 trx
Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:54 | 856954 Sophist Economicus
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Wake me when it effects Keith Richards

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:01 | 857266 Thanatos
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Due to his proven capicity to exist in austere chemical environs, 99.9993% of all humans will be dead before KR realizes while in his "Smoke Tent" (similar to an oxygen tent but with Marlboros instead of O2) that something might be amiss...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:18 | 857508 Dr. Porkchop
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Anyone notice KH is looking a lot like Freddy Krueger?

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/keith-richards-sweeney-todd-the-...

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 16:21 | 859344 trx
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"You've got the sun, the moon and The Rolling Stones."

 

In 10 years time you've got nothing...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:53 | 856958 Sqworl
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When Politicians start falling from the sky it will be a sign of Salvation!!!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:05 | 857004 tgatliff
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Just wait until they start to shrink government budgets.  You have will more than enough pols and gov. workers saying the sky is falling.   If people want only feel good news, then they should turn their channel over to cnbc.  Only roses and sunflowered covered fields on that channel...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:43 | 857573 Sqworl
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They just raised debt ceiling, not happening anytime soon...doom

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:54 | 856961 sbenard
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I love crab, but those don't look fresh enough to eat!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 14:59 | 856980 Colonel Sun
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Why assume, without evidence, that these crab deaths are somehow due to human action?

 

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:09 | 857033 tgatliff
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Because the average nieve person is programmed from birth to believe the principle that the world was perfect until humans arrived.   For example... Biblical Garden of Eden... Things would still be great if man hadnt pulled that forbidden fruit... Gosh we are sooo dumb arent we?

People forget that just 10,000 years ago half of the north american (and most of europe) was under glaciers.   Nope, its all mans fault.  If we had only listened to Al Gore and our sunday school pastor everything would be smelling like roses right now....

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:14 | 857058 Sudden Debt
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Planet earth is only arround for 6000 years and Columbus hadn't discovered America yet Genius!

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 19:27 | 857822 SPONGE
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Dumbshit. The earth is 8000 years old. And don't think I don't know. I'm from Kansas.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:14 | 857062 Jim Cramer
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And somehow you know for "fact" that is not true?  What "if" we had listened, not to Al Gore, but to God?  Ohh wait......maybe we just happened.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:47 | 857200 the grateful un...
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fairly obvious they died from human INaction. maybe we should bailout the crab population, from their own mistaken greed and avarice.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:00 | 856981 Ragnarok
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This ain't nothing, you should see the crab migrations in Mexico.  Million of crabs come down from the hills around the shore to go lay their eggs in the shallow waters after which they die.  Not a good time to visit, it can be a bit smelly (that's what she said...).

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:01 | 856990 Sudden Debt
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Looks like Mother Nature has THE CRABS!!

 

slut....

 

 

 

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:39 | 857165 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Don't you be talkin' about our Mama that way!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:03 | 856996 High Plains Drifter
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Maybe one day real soon , there will be a massive kill off of bankers, which will be caused by massive blunt trauma.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:10 | 857039 Sudden Debt
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They'll be the only once being able to afford a ticket on NOAH'S ARK II

so I wouldn't count on it.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:09 | 858262 trx
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Well, remember that the Ark was built by a bunch of amateurs - the professionals built Titanic...

(I'm still hoping my inflatable madrass will hold).

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:03 | 857001 Common_Cents22
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hmmmph.  I put my crabs on ice and it didnt do any good.  Still had to pick up a prescription.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:07 | 857027 Ragnarok
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Zing!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:51 | 857221 Problem Is
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Did you use an ice pack?

Ouch. Whole new meaning to "numb nuts"...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:05 | 857006 hazenyc
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What Zodiac sign would be a bird?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:25 | 857102 Protonrick
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Gemini would be the closest.  It's an air sign ruled by Mercury, who, as messenger of the Gods, has wings on his ankles and his helmet.  

Doesn't wear much else except sandals, though...

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:05 | 857278 Ganja Jane
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I don't know but I think your question maybe wrong or irrelevant; but, if i were to head in that direction, I'd ask: What occult symbol is a bird? Particularly one the dies and rises again stronger...

I don't think we'll see massive amounts of dead owls.

It's not a pregnant idea and I admit it's an idea with little thought but I don't think about this in that 'light.'

I doubt there is any symbolism here... Just science and biological/chemical warfare testing...canary in the mine shaft....

Who are 'they' going to use 'this' on? and what are they testing?

It's a good sign when sheeple aren't buying the SOFCOM explanation...

 

...and Virgo is winged...

 

 

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:44 | 857421 Cathartes Aura
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the (simple) lore for scorpio is 3 stages of being, the first is the scorpion that stings itself to death, just for the sensation - next the eagle, a sharp-eyed predator, and finally, the phoenix, a transformation of the base instincts, "rising from the ashes" of the personality.

that's about the closest you'll get to a "bird" in astrological archetypes. . .

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:16 | 857065 Buttcathead
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wow...  What would Bernack do if this happened to his Zombie Bankster buddys..  holly crap

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:32 | 857143 Sudden Debt
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he would print them back to life

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:33 | 857141 Skeebo
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Old news.  Report is from a couple of days ago and considering the cold snap through Europe right now, completely understandable.

Yearly warmer waters later in the season drew them further north than usual and a quick switch in the weather catches them unawares.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:38 | 857162 Ecoman11
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China: Check out our new J-20 stealth fighter! It's just like yours.

US: Ya that's pretty cool but old news. What you really need is a High Frequency Tesla Electromagnetic Microwavable Earth frying machine! (HAARP) It works like a charm! 

 

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:12 | 857308 Thanatos
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Haarp is old hat.. It was used to prove that the concept of ionospheric influence can work on a large scale.

Satellites are now the rage... They can be "distributed" to cover areas on short notice... More efficient... They are not visible to people on Earth...

XB37? returned from a loooong trip recently...

 

 

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 03:09 | 858354 awakened
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http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-us-official-murdered-after-arkansas-w...

hmmm...connecting the dots...John P Wheeler III...5000 dead birds and Iraq WMD's.
This makes much more sense than fireworks.

"To the direct reason for Wheeler’s murder, this report says, was this past week’s transport of Iraqi Phosgene poisonous gas aboard a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft from Little Rock Air Force Base enroute to Afghanistan that shortly after takeoff had a ‘critical malfunction’ of its aerial spraying computer directed command and control system over central Arkansas causing the deaths of thousands of red-wing blackbirds."

And what exactly is meant by a "critical malfunction"?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:50 | 857206 Problem Is
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"this apocalypse "thing" appears to be crawling along the signs of the zodiac"

Crabs => Lions =>  Then Virgins...

But Virgo also means Sheaths of Wheat or the House of Bread...

Would Virgo mean famine?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:00 | 857459 Cathartes Aura
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virgo archetype includes the "harvest" - the dates from end of august to end of september, with the fall equinox marking the point of movement from the final degree of virgo to zero degrees libra. . . virgo would include the concept of famine if there is "affliction" - nothing in isolation with astrology, it's simply a map of interacting archetypes correlated with time/date/locations. . .

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:48 | 857213 f16hoser
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I'm curious as to what BP has to say about all this? Well, I'm waiting!

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:51 | 857225 Ecoman11
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And just in, hundreds of turtle doves found dead in Italy. This is freaky shit man.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/917889--aflockalypse-now-hundr...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:57 | 857246 Hephasteus
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Psychopaths get comfort in killing small animals. This is probably just some sort of socializing thing. They dump the core-exit all over the gulf. It works it's way through the biosphere and people have to start witnessing these mass murders of animals. Just seeing this is damaging to people and makes them more likely to start exhibiting psychopathic behavior.

So this is probably just some sort of trigger mechanism to try to recruit more psychopaths into the fold. See "god" or gang violence backed corporate hegemony is able to kill anything it wants. Join us.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:02 | 857464 Cathartes Aura
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fear is a powerful e-motion.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:03 | 857272 downrodeo
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One thing I don't understand is why all of this is being brought to our attention. If this string of events can be explained through mundane and unconnected causes, why all the media attention?

If fireworks actually did cause the bird deaths, for example, then this must happen at least twice a year all over the country on the 4th of July and New Years Eve. This might be the case, but this still leaves one to wonder why this type of thing is rarely, if ever, mentioned on a national scale until now.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:12 | 857312 cougar_w
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"Fish kills" are fairly common and usually easy to explain. And we hear about oceanic mammal stranding all the time. These can be really bad doings (fish kills usually point to pollutants like sewer) I'm not saying they are not, just saying we've become used to them.

I think the "birds falling from the sky" thing was so disconcerting that it got a lot of air time. Once that rolled, it was easy to pig-a-back other "animals are doing crazy shit" stories, even ones that happen once in a while. On any given day animals are doing crazy shit, you can find examples if you dig around. Again, these can be real problems but they don't get any time until birds are falling from the sky.

We accept a lot of crazy shit. It's been crazy shit for a long time. Sure some day the crazy shit will be so in your grill you'll look around and wonder why is there so much crazy shit going on. By then, it will be too late. Some level of crazy shit going on is lethal. Ask the birds.

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:31 | 857349 downrodeo
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Well, whatever it is that gets our attention off of american idol and jersey shore is a good thing, i guess...

 

More and more, I feel like an alien on my own planet. Nothing is familiar to me, and I feel that I know and understand less with each passing day. Pretty soon here, I'm going to have to give away all my shit and wander off into the desert to look for peyote buttons. That kind of action is more rational than continuing on in the redundant mediocrity of everyday life.

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:53 | 857441 DarkAgeAhead
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Sounds like a fundamental disconnect from a healthy pattern/interconnection to living systems.

Wandering into the desert is probably exactly the best thing to do.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:07 | 857475 downrodeo
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I guess I'll take that as a complement.

There are many systems i'm connected to, but very few are living...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:18 | 857507 cougar_w
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Enjoy any "life support" where and when you find it. Harder to come by with every passing day.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:19 | 857509 DarkAgeAhead
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A compliment for sure.  I highly recommend the harsh clarity, both biophysical and spiritual/whatever-you-call-it the desert offers.

I agree on the alien thing - I think the cause is that the world's actually changed to such an extent, that is, evolution and our alteration of living systems is so pervasive and intrusive, most of the co-evolved relationships that created that inner sense of health, balance and adaptation...is all off.

These days, with nothing but ecological darkness and a literal disintegration on the visible horizon...once one becomes aware and surveys the damage, there's really no reason to be optimistic, but at best, hopeful.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:28 | 857548 cougar_w
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On the subject of hope:

I'm way past being hopeful. I tell people now, lose all hope and quickly. The reason I say that is because standing around hoping for a miracle is --- well it's stupid. And under some conditions, it is lethal. You don't stand under a falling cliff face and hope for a miracle, no you get the fuck out of the way or you die buried under it.

We are at the point where we all need to make some changes and right now. Changes in our expectations, changes in our life style choices, changes in how we view the natural world and each other. A good start is throwing away the last 200 years of industrial development as a fluke, an accident, a gift from the fossil gods. And then visualizing life without oil and coal. It ain't pretty, but it's still life and it's better than being buried alive along with your hopes.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:52 | 857612 DarkAgeAhead
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Agreed, inaction or blind hope will only be lethal.  I should clarify/condition my position.  Hopeful...yes, but actively, aligned and well-adapted relative to the higher absolute jurisdictions, of natural laws.  Basically hopeful that the shift you describe is not only possible (it is and will eventually be the only way of life available)...but also means not only survival, but survival with the benefit of civilization.  That's my definition of "sustainability", in the work I do.

And a complete disregard of any advocates of intermediate action that is predicated on the paradigm of efficiency. 

I see the choice as black and white - either align your actions in ways that honor natural laws (aiming toward things like designing for resilience, reinforcing/restoring ecosystem services, biodiversity, etc...).  I have only contempt for any argument based on efficiency or economics. 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:11 | 857662 cougar_w
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Huzzah. Nicely put.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:31 | 857716 downrodeo
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" I have only contempt for any argument based on efficiency or economics. "

I couldn't agree with you more on this. One of the first lessons my economics 101 teacher taught us is that we don't deal with right or wrong, good or bad, but rather what is. Essentially, it felt like he was saying, 'check your humanity at the door'. Needless to say, I was pretty disgusted with that notion.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 23:05 | 858102 Yits and the Yimrum
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I can visualize a life without the jackboot gov't and military waste-dustrial complex?

we are not out of oil, but the comietards want us to believe that

the US military uses as much oil as scandanvia each day- or i should say wastes that oil

some people are going to have to go to turn this situation around

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:43 | 857570 downrodeo
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thank you for the encouragement, i needed it right then.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:01 | 857634 DarkAgeAhead
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Sure, I struggle with the same thing.  If not for the fact that I reproduced! (that is, have a wonderful daughter), I'd most certainly be wandering both the literal and proverbial desert, probably holding out in some unfaced monastery in some unknown desert.

I was on that path, in the proverbial desert.  Virtually no possessions, a frictionless life.  Loved it, but now for better or worse (and it's Better), I'm back in the fight.  There's no way I can put a child into this approaching storm, a literal disintegration of Life and health, if I didn't believe there still existed a path of Grace, Peace and Justice still available.

And I do believe that alienation arises, at for me, from a fundamental break in what should be an intimate interconnection with Life.  The alienation arises from our way of life, a living pattern of Death...that's just modernity and modern life.  It's not about even protecting other life for its intrinsic value, but rather because we've created a literal ecology of death, from the water we drink, to the air we breath, to the food we eat.  All death.  Walk into a supermarket, that wonderful detached place where we sanitized death and dying so others/we can live, all that crumbles as ancient sunlight (fossil fuel) falters. 

We're in a deep ecological twilight and for whatever one might believe, we just know it and feel it.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:03 | 858256 Cathartes Aura
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thanks for all your thoughtful posts here, time spent in contemplation is evident.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:08 | 857296 Blano
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Not to mention it happened now, then two years ago, then five years ago.  The word "pattern" comes to mind.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:09 | 857299 dark pools of soros
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"Seagulls are doing quite well at the moment"

all that free dead buffet got them coming back for more!!! 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:16 | 857318 cougar_w
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And gulls are rats with wings. The "rats" doing really well is usually not a good sign.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:52 | 857435 DarkAgeAhead
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Absolutely.  One of the better essays I've read on that theme is Planet of Weeds, by Quammen.  Worth the quick read.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:17 | 857313 DarkAgeAhead
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Lions are dying.  A cheap, universally available poison, Furadan, as retaliation for eating villagers' crops (or villagers).

Could be extinct at some point in your child's life.

http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=1910

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:18 | 857328 cougar_w
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Villagers are venturing deeper into lion territory is all. Looking for food and water in a crowded world, same as the lions. But like you say the villagers have rifles and poison, too bad for the lions.

We are turning the entire planet into human flesh. When that process reaches its logical end the rifles and poison will be for each other. That nobody can see this is proof that we are not that smart.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 13:12 | 858745 thefatasswilly
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You see it. I see it. Most ZH'ers see it.

And yet, even the people on this website seem to believe that wholesale extermination of humans, such as that which Hitler, Mao, and Stalin participated in, is a BAD thing.

Seriously, cognitive dissonance much?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:29 | 857372 M4570D0N
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I think my favorite outlandish tin foil hat theory is that John Wheeler, Pentagon official and army vet who was a key part of the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and who wrote the manual on the effectiveness of biological and chemical weapons, was murdered on new years because he was going to leak information about the US military weapons tests of poisonous gas, which is the "real" cause of these animal deaths.

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-us-official-murdered-after-arkansas-w...

The fact that new evidence that the police have released which suggests that it was a neighbor who did it over a housing construction dispute is obviously just a governement cover up.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/07/delaware.pentagon.official.death/

http://www.examiner.com/criminal-profiles-in-national/new-evidence-john-...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:37 | 857399 Weimar Ben Bernanke
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What is next? An 8.3 earthquake in New Madrid faultline?

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:39 | 857402 Thanatos
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Please take a look at this Film: "What in the world are they spraying"

http://vimeo.com/16219493

Has anyone seen this? I thought it was pretty interesting. I want to see a lot more data before deciding anything...

Then this: Dioxin in 4500 German small farms

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/world/europe/08dioxin.html?src=twrhp

There is more and more spooky shit every day...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:14 | 857492 Cathartes Aura
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I've seen it, and many others. . .

In Cancun, Mexico, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under pressure to overturn the UN ban on chemtrails. This would dissolve an agreement reached in October at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Japan. In that landmark decision, the 193-member CBD agreed by consensus to a moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments.

The US has not agreed to it. . .

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/un-climate-concern-morphs-in...

you might be interested in the research Cliff Carnicom has been doing this past decade:

http://www.carnicom.com/

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:43 | 857542 DarkAgeAhead
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The geoengineering thing really pisses me off.  Even the more "enlightened" in that community can go shit in their hat (especially the "futurists", the singularity crowd, and the bright green douchebags).  Geoengineering fundamentally misunderstands that nature and framework of life.  It's a great profit strategy for multinational corporations, but just more Death for the rest.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:11 | 858264 Cathartes Aura
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agree.

I'll admit it's been a tough one for me to take in, the knowledge that I am helpless to change the air that I need to breathe, that anything I attempt to grow or raise as food is also affected by these poisons, and that we still only can guess at the "science" behind what's going down. . .

but we live with the knowledge that our awareness can be gone in the blink of an eye, surrendered to this inevitable truth.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:13 | 857493 velobabe
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that second link is very troubling, holy shit†

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 16:49 | 857431 Son of Shame
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Mail Online has the total number of doves dead at 8,000.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/animal-death-mystery-two...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:18 | 857513 buzzard beak
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I hate it when they drag things out trying to build up suspense like this. Tried to do the same in ancient Egypt with that damn plague of frogs, who the hell came up with that? Come on, get to the part where the humans wiped out already. I'm hungry, Seymour.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 17:46 | 857588 cougar_w
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The idea was never to wipe us out.

The idea was to make us suffer.

The gods are a sick bunch of bastards.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:00 | 857629 gasmiinder
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Or much like the terrifying epidemic of vicious shark attacks from a few years ago, it's just this years random events linked by media into a pattern.

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.
 http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/01/07/science-us-sci-dead-wildlife-f...

 The human brain is a pattern recognition machine - unfortunately it is good at recognizing "patterns" but not in determining whether they are valid or simply manifestations of randomness.  And yes I am aware that I will NEVER convince the majority of posters here of that fact.

 

There is no such thing as luck.  There is only preparation or lack of preparation to deal with a statistical universe.

 

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 18:21 | 857690 cougar_w
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You don't have to convince me because I already agree.

However (notice how there is always a however):

There really are patterns in the world. The recognition of this gave birth to the entire field of abstract mathematics. Finding interesting patterns is a useful occupation. Finding important patterns can lead to an improved understanding of how the universe operates.

Finding a pattern where none exists is a risk of looking for them at all. Use of scientific processes and mathematical tools combined with rigorous peer review is how we avoid falling into the trap of seeing a pattern where one does not exist.

Perceiving a pattern where one does not exist is usually pretty benign. The world is full of harmless cranks and crackpots. However missing an important pattern that is actually there is likely to cause trouble down the road (ask any forensic engineer about what happens when people ignore a series of related failures).

It is all random until it isn't and then it becomes interesting.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 23:47 | 858172 Caviar Emptor
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@Cougar: you're on the right path. You have picked up that things are not alright anymore. many who deny it do so because of the pit in their stomach which they can't deal with. Others do so because they truly don't care about life. It's cheap to them. Never forget that.

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 21:20 | 865827 gasmiinder
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Hmmm - well I think we mostly see the world in similar fashion but I would point out that the "field of abstract mathematics" is in fact a creation of our minds.  Which as I said are basically pattern recognition engines.  So a "pattern" is what we say it is and thus I was not a clear as I should have been.

My poorly worded point was that the imputation of MEANING to these "patterns" that we recognize is fraught with peril.  The events in question happen every day on average.  Thus nothing we've seen or heard would be abnormal statistically speaking.  It is only the media pickup on the original Arkansas event and the resulting meme going "viral" that results in people imputing MEANING to these events.  They are just normal events that are being inappropriately interpreted as a cluster that requires explanation.  Using Occam's Razor (which is far to boring for this board) it's pretty clear that none of the worrying and speculation is warranted.

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 19:00 | 857771 Hephasteus
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I believe that's how dna is made. Big light burst twist the dna around. I checked it out and it works for the elements involved and even works for bigger things like white blood cells and many standard sugar coated protiens.

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 21:46 | 858006 trx
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And the turtle doves...don't forget the turtle doves!

 

"The mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8.000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks. The blue stains are believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia – lack of oxygen. Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is known to cause confusion and illness in animals. It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness."

 

Mystery of Mass Animal Death Deepens

 

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 21:50 | 858013 Winston Smith 2009
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Tyler et al:

You typically have a clue about economic realities, so now get a clue about this.

Mass animal deaths are quite common. The U.S. Geological Service's website lists 90 mass deaths of birds and other wildlife just from June through Dec. 12, 2010. Worldwide, the number is much larger, of course.

When two or more events eventually happen to cluster in one area, the idiotic press suddenly pays attention to mass animal deaths and discovers that there are a lot of them, ignorantly assuming, like their readers, that they all began with the cluster event and not investigating further to find that these seemingly strange events are actually quite common.

And on that whole Armageddon BS, here are a few failed predictions from the past. Actually, more than a few:

http://www.armageddononline.org/failed_armageddon.php

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:23 | 858271 trx
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True:

Records kept by the United States Geological Survey list at least 16 die-offs of more than 1.000 blackbirds or starlings over the past 30 years, according to Marisa Lubeck, spokesperson for the USGS in Denver.

But group deaths among animals have been going on for a lot longer than that. In one case, an estimated 1.5 million Lapland Longspurs died during a March 1904 storm in Minnesota and Iowa.

 

(The link above).

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:33 | 858284 Caviar Emptor
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Once upon a time the skies were filled with those birds. Gone are the days. Numerous countries have been reporting sharp decreases for years. So a die-off has a much bigger impact now. 

And that's not the only species where huge % decreases in population are being reported from all over. Momentum is gathering. But go on thinking what you're thinking, human.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 02:01 | 858316 Rusty Shorts
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--and the rivers were filled with fish ...

Fri, 01/07/2011 - 23:42 | 858163 Caviar Emptor
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The global warming story is a parable of human nature: man continues to believe that, ultimately, he can control the forces of nature and the universe. :-) How cute. The most vocal deniers have a notion that we could fix those problems if we needed too. Another dirty secret is that some of them actually believe there's a problem but that you were put on this earth to take advantage and not worry about the fate of people in the future, or the fate of wildlife and the planet. 

There's a good chance we'll have no more wild large mammals on earth within a decade. That is why Sarah Palin's 'thrill kill' of caribous at 15 feet range broadcast on TV is particularly naive and very telling of a person who by choice is destroying the planet. Not a good prospect for President unless chosen by the dark one.

Tue, 01/11/2011 - 12:10 | 867159 gasmiinder
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There's a good chance we'll have no more wild large mammals on earth within a decade.

 

Do you have any idea how utterly ignorant that statement is?  There is absolutely zero chance that "we'll have no more wild large mammals on earth within a decade" and only an utter moron would state it as fact.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:31 | 858276 Aristarchan
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I guess it would be too much to hope that Banksta squid are next?

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:36 | 858289 Caviar Emptor
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Some squid hide in the Mariana Trench at 30,000 feet. Clever these squiddies. Even in the abyss

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:39 | 858293 Aristarchan
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I guess they can even give those hot rod's from the SEC the slip down there.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:47 | 858303 Caviar Emptor
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They live as close to hell as possible. Where they feel comfortable

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:51 | 858310 Aristarchan
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That explains those weird flatfish that Piccard and Walsh claimed to see.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 01:50 | 858307 Aristarchan
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I once (1990) took a boat out of Guam carrying a group of divers with the intention of swimming and diving to about a 100 ft. depth right above the Challenger Deep. I must admit, it was a weird feeling...but, If I would have known that Squid Lloyd was hanging out down there, amongst the nine tons of iron pellets dropped by the Trieste...I would have never got out of the boat.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 06:36 | 858403 gwar5
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The clowns, don't forget the clowns.

Street clowns are mysteriously dropping dead in Mexico after they were mistakenly suspected of being government observers by cartel members.

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 16:25 | 859360 trx
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...or coca-addicts in rehab....

Sat, 01/08/2011 - 10:18 | 858507 JimboJammer
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youtube  is  buzzing  with  info..

 

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