May 10, 2007

This is a time of accelerating Earth Changes. Charles sends this email.

Here ya go Ellie ... You're doing a great thing with your website! Between the Earth Changes and the disappearing bees (Colony Collapse Disorder), I really hope we make it to 2012, not to mention that Yellow Stone National Park is a huge (not so?) dormant caldera (supervolcano) that is 400 years overdue to erupt. Earthquakes and volcanoes go hand in hand. There have been 16 earthquakes in Yellow Stone in the past 2 weeks and they are increasing in intensity. There isn't really anything we can do externally to prepare for such natural disasters other than move to what is considered 'safe locations', except work on ourselves, just as you have been saying since the beginning... May I suggest this website Earth Changes Media.

From bees (below) and swarms, we find this blog from Live Science - Earthquake Swarm Hits Yellowstone May 7, 2007

Not far from Yellowstone, as the crow flies ... New Madrid: Source of Major Earthquakes Discovered Beneath U.S. Midsection Live Science - May 2, 2007
Midwest Faces Quake Danger From Shifting Fault, Experts Say National Geographic - May 11, 2007

New Madrid Fault Line Wikipedia

Earthquake of February 7, 1812 (the New Madrid Earthquake), 0945 UTC (4:45 a.m.); 7.9 magnitude; epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. New Madrid was destroyed. At St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were damaged severely, and their chimneys were thrown down. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks. This series of temblors caused permanent changes in the course of the Mississippi River, which flowed backward temporarily, and they were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, where churchbells rang. Large areas sank into the earth, fissures opened, lakes permanently drained, new lakes were formed, and forests were destroyed over an area of 150,000 acres (600 km). Many buildings along the New Madrid were destroyed. "Houses, gardens, and fields were swallowed up" one source notes. But fatalities and damage was low because the area was sparsely settled. Hundreds of aftershocks followed over a period of several years.

1812 was a busy year ...

The War of 1812 (in Britain, the American War of 1812, to distinguish from the war with Napoleon) was fought between the United States of America, on one side, and on the other side the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its colonies, especially Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec), Nova Scotia, and Bermuda. When the war had finished, 1,600 British and 2,260 American troops had died. The war was fought from 1812 to 1815 and involved both land and naval engagements. Britain was at war with France and to impede American trade with France imposed a series of restrictions that the U.S. contested as illegal under international law. The Americans declared war on Britain on June 18, 1812, for a combination of reasons; outrage at the impressment (seizure) of thousands of American sailors into the British navy, frustration at British restraints on neutral trade, and anger at British military support for Native Americans defending their tribal lands from encroaching American settlers.

In an evolving reality laced with the unexplained, as planet Earth goes through a quickening, we find the case of the disappearing bees, a phenomena that is spreading. Is there a metaphor here? I have posted about the bees on Ezine in the past and read many different theories, none conclusive, yet the origin of the bee disappearance does have a physical cause.

Bee Mythology -- "In the ancient Near East and throughout the Aegean world, bees were seen as a bridge between the natural world and the underworld."

Sharon sent an email after linking bee disappearance with something prophetic Albert Einstein once said. "If the bees disappeared, man will have only four years of life left". This comes close to the Mayan Calendar Prophecy date of 2012 for a shift in consciousness. On a scientific level, it also makes sense. Bee pollination is very important (read below).

Study: Cell Phone Radiation Could Be Killing Bees

A mysterious condition known as Colony Collapse Disorder is destroying bee hives around the world. Scientists are still debating the exact cause of the epidemic, but researchers at Landau University suggest that radiation from mobile phones may be at least partially to blame. Scientists found that placing mobile phones near hives causes bees to refuse to go inside.

It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. Som scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massiv food shortages as the world's harvests fail. They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world -- the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some beekeepers claimed that the phenomenon -- which started in the U.S., then spread to continental Europe -- was beginning to hit Britain as well. The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously home-loving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives. The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 percent of its commercial bee population, with 70 percent missing on the East Coast. CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. Last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest beekeepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned. Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and northwest England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."

Need for Bees

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left". No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM (genetically modified) crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks. German research has long shown that bees' behavior changes near power lines. Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr. Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause. Dr. George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the U.S. government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the 1990s, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."

The Case Against Handsets

Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. However, proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up. Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. However, an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 percent more likely to get a brain tumor on the same side as they held the handset. Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives. Studies in India and the U.S. have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. More prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of "text thumb," a form of RSI from constant texting. Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.

Colony Collapse Disorder Wikipedia

Bees Wikipedia

Researchers at Illinois explore queen bee longevity PhysOrg - May 9, 2007