80% of the bees are gone.

I knew that these industrious insects were essential to Orange, Apples, Peaches, Cherries and a countless variety of farm products and essential crops and aside from the occasional skunk or ant attract, these hives could protect themselves from most all of the enemies they encounter eager for the honey and there weren’t any bears in Altadena. Now they are being wiped out by a new enemy they cannot protect themselves from.

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Bee Colony Collapse Disorder  - 

Recent Honey Bee Colony Declines  [Adobe PDF]

colony losses are occurring mostly because bees are ... 80% 90% 350.9. CA, WI, MN, WA. Other fruits & nuts. c. 10% - 90% 10 ... of Colony Collapse Disorder ...

from: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33938.pdf

Discovery Channel :: News - Travel :: Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers

A mysterious agent is killing off honey bees across North America. ... What's being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has now been seen in ...

from: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/05/bees_ani.html?cat...ravel&guid=20070205144500

Bee Colony Collapse Disorder

leaving the queen bee and baby bees behind. Researchers call it Colony Collapse Disorder. ... report losses of up to 80%.

more hits from: http://www.beedisorder.com/  

Bees...

As a former bee keeper, I had the pleasure of overseeing the furious activity of these incredible, little animals as they produced for me a valuable product.

I got used to being stung every time I opened a hive to inspect for foulbrood, or to remove the ‘supers’ [ queen screened upper sections that allowed only the workers into, in order to produce the combs filled with what I considered liquid gold ] for sale to my various neighbors.

During the summer, I would get calls from the fire dept. ( I don’t know why the people freaked out about swarms in their yard and most always called the fire dept. about it, but I guess the fire dept. always gets the panic calls ) to handle the ‘problem’ ( there is no ‘problem’ as the bees simply won’t sting while in a swarm as they are drunk with honey and it’s a bee party in their little minds, I guess ) and I would have yet another honey factory as soon as I shook the mass into a prepared apiary.

They also polinate alfalfa which feeds our meat animals.

Interesting to note is that these creatures allow 80% of the food we eat to arrive on our table.

Are we facing famine? You bet we are.

Your stupid arch-racist neo-Nazi obsession with "anti-Zionism" caused you to be too dumb so as to fail to foresee that the radiation would wipe out entire bee colonies.

You've reaped what you've sown. Enjoy it.

There are studies linking GMO corn to the digestive tract of these creatures which interferes with their physiology.

The Anomalies Network : Where have all the Bee's Gone?

Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is the name of the phenomenon that describes ... that colonies afflicted by CCD elsewhere had been collecting corn pollen. ...

more hits from: http://www.anomalies.net/object/ccd.html

The links between radiation and death of bees is only a possibility in regions with higher levels of nuclear energy production. However, the Sacramento Valley of CA is not frequently exposed to radiation (except from inland delta winds?) , though pesticides and experimental GMO crops are more probable cause;

"Reports that bee populations are declining at rates of up to 80% in areas of the U.S. and Europe should set alarm bells ringing and demand immediate action on behalf of environmental organizations. Experts are calling the worrying trend "colony collapse disorder" or CCD.

"Bee numbers on parts of the east coast and in Texas have fallen by more than 70 percent, while California has seen colonies drop by 30 to 60 percent," reports AFP .

"Approximately 40 percent of my 2,000 colonies are currently dead and this is the greatest winter colony mortality I have ever experienced in my 30 years of beekeeping," apiarist Gene Brandi, from the California State Beekeepers Association, told Congress recently.

The article states that U.S. bee colonies have been dropping since 1980 and the number of beekeepers have halved.

Scientists are thus far stumped as to what is causing the decline, ruling out parasites but leaning towards some kind of new toxin or chemical used in agriculture as being responsible. "Experts believe that the large-scale use of genetically modified plants in the US could be a factor," reports Germany's Spiegal Online . "

this article continues @;

http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/bees_ecological_apocalypse_why_are_bees_dying.htm

This is another example of a human (via corporations y police state governments) induced attack on our collective ecosystem. Nuclear warfare and deaths resulting from exposure to radiation (downwinders of nuclear power plants, soldiers, Iraqi civilians exposed to depleted uranium [DU], etc..) should not be downplayed either!!

Our current government headed by the illegal GW Bush's regime of petrocartel OILygarchys is using legitimate concerns about global warming as a lame excuse to advance their adgenda of nuclear weapons/energy proliferation despite no known safe method of nuclear weapons/waste disposal besides the cruelty of DU melted into exploding bullets, tank armor, etc.. that shatters into radioactive dust particles upon explosion with target..

Since the previous Iraqi Gulf War (George Bush Sr.) the dangers of DU were known to the global scientific community, yet George Jr. refuses cease and desist (as he is asked by the people he refuses to hear!) using DU in Iraq!!

This early on message from downwinders;

"During January 1993 following analysis of our written reports and personal discussions, scientists and physicians assigned to the United States General Accounting Office issued a report ("Operation Desert Storm: Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal With Depleted Uranium Contamination", GAO/NSAID-93-90, January 1993, page 7) recommending that the Secretary of the Army quote:

1. ensure that appropriate Army training schools provide adequate information and training to personnel who would come in contact with DU contaminated equipment, 2. develop time frames to implement the proposed DU testing policy involving the testing of all crew members inside vehicles penetrated by DU munitions, 3. expand testing to include personnel involved in the vehicle recovery process should testing of the Army National Guard personnel show that uranium is present in excess of the standards being applied in the medical tests, and 4. develop a formal plan for dealing with the recovery of DU-contaminated equipment.

At approximately the same time that this report was being prepared, the United States Army's Environmental Policy Institute, AEPI, was tasked (December 13, 1992) by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational health to determine (quote):

1. The health and environmental consequences of using DU on the battlefield. 2. Which remediation technologies exist or might be developed to clean up DU contamination. 3. Ways to reduce DU toxicity. 4. How to best protect the environment from the long-term consequences of DU use.

Therefore it was and still is obvious that United States military leaders knew that using DU would cause health and environmental problems. I was asked to help conduct the research and prepare the recommendations and final AEPI report because I was the Army health physicist who helped clean up the DU mess following Desert Storm and was working for the Army preparing environmental compliance procedures. The findings issued in 1995 (Health and Environmental Consequences of Depleted Uranium Use in the Army: Technical Report, U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute, June 1995) were quote 1. The battlefield is contaminated with many dangerous things. The impact of DU contamination on the battlefield is not well defined. Relative to many of the other hazards, such as unexploded ordnance. The hazards are probably small; however, additional environmental modeling and data are needed to support this judgment. 2. DU remediation technologies involve one or more of the following: excavation and earth moving, physical separation, chemical separation, and in-place stabilization. The Army will continue to identify and evaluate remediation technologies by comparing the cost and effectiveness. From this analysis, the Army will seek effective, less expensive DU remediation technologies. 3. There are no technologies available that can significantly change the inherent chemical and radiological toxicity of DU. 4. Range management and DU recovery systems have been implemented and are being improved. Models to better describe the environmental fate and effect are being developed. DU migration on test ranges in the United States has been minimal because soil and water conditions on those test ranges tend to prevent formation of soluable DU."

article cont's @;

http://www.downwinders.org/rokke.htm

Here we can witness similarity in transport modality between the dustlike dispersal of DU particulates and similar powdery pollen of GMO corn (maize) plants into wind. Since we all breath the same air and farm in the same valley, we have to reclaim the right over the air we breathe..

NO MAS GMO & DU into our global ecosystem!!

Since the heavy bribery ( oops, I mean contributions ) has sewn up the judicial system and the robber barons who will attempt to avoid consequences, seem unaware of the catastrophe that is coming in the way of food prices, perhaps ravaging scarcity and contamination issues in long term effects, will force the Masses, " who shall hold these bastards responsible for damage?"

Maybe this is the reason for gun confiscation.

Has anyone pondered the possibility that this path into genetic hell from tinkering with the process of life in a typical clumsy and rapacious disregard for public safety, was not a 'mistake'?

The consequences of a reduction in food supply, together with warming and dangerous, permanent global pollution trends ( keeping the ghastly horror of what has been done in the middle east in mind ) is a serious issue.

The effects could carry dire consequences for a majority of humanity.

Contamination issues were never addressed; seriously or competently, relying on economic rather than general welfare motivations by corporations driven by greedy uncaring psychopaths who give not a spit about the suffering of others and even relish the power and position of supremacy with the cruel perversity such power and inbred privilege produces.

Was this by accident?

Of course not, the rulers have decided to rape and kill us, in my very humble opinion. They're finding all of us just a bit too uppity and educated away from the mask they have worn all these centuries.

see also Types of Bees