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Purdue Univ. Reports Clothianidin At “Unprecedented Levels” in U. S. Is “Highly Toxic to Honey Bees” 

- “We've been subjected to nine years of this carnage to protect Bayer's market share.”

- Tom Theobald, Owner, Niwot Honey Farm, Colorado

- “Neonicotinoid insecticides in 2012 will be in nearly 200 million acres of annual U. S. crops. ... 2 or 3 billionths of a gram of clothianidin - if it is fed to the bees in sugar solution - is a lethal dose.”

- Christian H. Krupke, Ph.D., Entomologist, Purdue Univ.

Honey bees fly through Indiana corn tassels accumulating clothianidin-contaminated pollen on their bodies. Clothianidin is a neurotoxin that in miniscule amounts kills honey bees. Image by Peacebeefarm.
Honey bees fly through Indiana corn tassels accumulating clothianidin-contaminated pollen on their bodies. Clothianidin is a neurotoxin that in miniscule amounts kills honey bees. Image by Peacebeefarm.
Published January 3, 2012, PLoS One.
Published January 3, 2012, PLoS One.

April 27, 2012  West Lafayette, Indiana - Commercial honey bee colonies and wild pollinators are in serious decline worldwide. Entomologist Christian Krupke, Ph.D., at Purdue University knows that neurotoxins such as the nicotine-based insecticide clothianidin can kill honey bees after the smallest exposures. He also knows that the the number of acres in the United States now being planted with clothianidin-coated seeds is the largest on record - some 200 million acres. And in a January 3, 2012, research article for the science journal PLoS ONE, he explained that “virtually all of the corn seed planted in North America is coated with neonicotinoid insecticides, such as clothianidin and thiamethoxam.”

 

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Updated 042612: Mysterious, Persistent Booms Throughout North America and England

“It sounded as if a large, metal railroad car slammed at full speed into a stone wall.”

- Michael Dinsmore, Chemistry, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

“There was somebody who lived on a boat right close to downtown San Diego and they also felt the boom vibration on their boat.”

- Craig Herrera, Meteorologist, Channel 10 TV, San Diego, CA

“The jets kept circling (the sock-shaped UFO). It was very strange.”

- April 12, 2012 eyewitness, Bath, England

U. K.'s The Sun published this image described as a “sock-shaped UFO” after the huge boom mystery of 6:10 PM local time, April 12, 2012, in southern England.
U. K.'s The Sun published this image described as a “sock-shaped UFO” after the huge boom mystery of 6:10 PM local time, April 12, 2012, in southern England.

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Updated April 26, 2012  Albuquerque, New Mexico - The bizarre and still-unexplained metallic, jolting booms persist into April 2012, including five new geographic locations from Bath, England, to central Ohio, to Tacoma, Washington, to San Diego County, California, to Columbia, Missouri -  all happening within three days.

 

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Huge Boom Heard in Central California and Northwestern Nevada – Did Meteorite Hit?

“There was a tremendous THUD!  ‘under the house’ - the counter against which I was leaning shook, as did the floor.”

- Sutter Creek, CA resident, 8 AM, April 22, 2012

Also see:  Parts 1-3 Boom Update.

April 22, 2012  Sacramento, California - Channel 10, ABC-TV, in Sacramento, California, reported a big, ground-shaking boom this morning around 8 AM Pacific from residents in El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, and San Joaquin counties.

 

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Part 1: Gulf Fishermen Finding Sick Fish, Few Crabs and Shrimp

“In 25 years of fishing off Louisiana, I've never seen fish before
with this ugly blackness and the fish die.”

- Gulf fisherman

 

Black discoloration on a dead Red Snapper caught in Gulf of Mexico off Alabama coast. Discolorations also found on other fish such as Vermilion Snapper, Tomtates, Gray Triggerfish and Golden Tilefish. Other problems are fin rot, lesions and lump deformities, some filled with parasites. Image © 2011 by Florida fisherman.
Black discoloration on a dead Red Snapper caught in Gulf of Mexico off Alabama coast. Discolorations also found on other fish such as Vermilion Snapper, Tomtates, Gray Triggerfish and Golden Tilefish. Other problems are fin rot, lesions and lump deformities, some filled with parasites. Image © 2011 by Florida fisherman.
Normal Red Snapper without black discoloration. Image © by Atlantic Seafood Market.
Normal Red Snapper without black discoloration. Image © by Atlantic Seafood Market.

Reprint April 18, 2012 / May 26, 2011  Milton, Florida, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana - A year ago on April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up killing 11 workers on the platform. Nearly a mile below the rig, the Macondo well erupted. Between that day and four months later at the end of July 2010,  at least 206,000,000 gallons of crude oil gushed uncontrollably into the Gulf of Mexico, while 770,000 gallons of Corexit were pumped and sprayed into the Gulf to allegedly “disperse” BP's massive oil slick.

 

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Part 2: Gulf Fishermen Finding Sick Fish, Few Crabs and Shrimp

“The captain with Northwest Florida University asked (over the VHF marine radio) for captains - who worked in the oil clean up and are coughing up blood, blowing blood out of their nose, and have skin rashes - not to speak to the media till after fishing season. No one wants to be responsible for scaring away tourist dollars.”

- Gulf Fisherman, Destin, Florida

 

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Part 2: Gulf Fishermen Finding Sick Fish, Few Crabs and Shrimp

“The captain with Northwest Florida University asked (over the VHF marine radio) for captains - who worked in the oil clean up and are coughing up blood, blowing blood out of their nose, and have skin rashes - not to speak to the media till after fishing season. No one wants to be responsible for scaring away tourist dollars.”

- Gulf Fisherman, Destin, Florida

Subject:  Sick fish in Gulf of Mexico
Date: May 29, 2011 7:13:58 PM MDT
To: Linda Moulton Howe <[email protected]>

“I run a deep sea fishing business in Destin, Fl. I have been professionally fishing the Gulf since 1998. I'm 42 and grew up fishing the Gulf. I came across your Earthfiles website while searching for info on the sick fish in the Gulf. I have been catching sick fish with lesions. Before now, I have caught tens of thousands of fish and have never thrown one back because of skin lesions.

I took the attached photo on today's fishing trip. This is the first fish of the trip (Amberjack.) We caught 5 more AJ's all with lesions. NOAA is stating a one in 1500 chance of catching a sick fish. Today May 29, my catch ratio was 100% sick fish. My last trip Fri. May 27 we caught 8 AJ's, 5 with lesions.

Sick Amberjack with lesions caught by Gulf fisherman off Destin, Florida, on May 29, 2011. Five more Amberjacks caught with this one all had lesions. Image provided by Destin fisherman.
Sick Amberjack with lesions caught by Gulf fisherman off Destin, Florida, on May 29, 2011. Five more Amberjacks caught with this one all had lesions. Image provided by Destin fisherman.

 

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Part 3: Confusion About North American Booms and Man-Made Quakes

“If it turns out booms are coming from a mile or two deep,
yeah, it's small earthquakes. But if the cause is determined to be
only about 100 feet deep, then something else is happening.”

- Clifford Thurber, Ph.D., Geophysicist, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

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April 7, 2012  Washington, D. C. - A United States Geological Survey (USGS) research team headed by USGS geophysicist William Ellsworth, will be presenting their data at an upcoming Seismological Society of America meeting in San Diego, California, April 17 - 19. The presentations entitled, “Are Seismicity Rate Changes in the Midcontinent Natural or Manmade?”

 

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Part 2:  Fukushima Cesium-137 Danger Is Greater Than Chernobyl

At Fukushima, the amount of long-lived, highly radioactive Cesium-137 is about 134 million curies — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident, as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP).

“If an earthquake or other event were to cause this Unit 4 pool to drain, this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.”

- Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Inst. for Policy Studies

Hole is showing in the wall of Unit # 4 on March 16, 2011, that has been on fire at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japan. Image © 2011 by NHK World TV news.
Hole is showing in the wall of Unit # 4 on March 16, 2011, that has been on fire at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japan. Image © 2011 by NHK World TV news.
March 24, 2011, Unit 4 in foreground after explosions and fires that followed the March 11, 2011, massive 9.1 earthquake and tsunami. There are 1,231 irradiated spent fuel rods in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4, which contain roughly 37 million curies (~1.4E+18 Becquerel) of long-lived radioactivity. The Unit 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this Unit 4 pool to drain, this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown on April 26, 1986.
March 24, 2011, Unit 4 in foreground after explosions and fires that followed the March 11, 2011, massive 9.1 earthquake and tsunami. There are 1,231 irradiated spent fuel rods in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4, which contain roughly 37 million curies (~1.4E+18 Becquerel) of long-lived radioactivity. The Unit 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this Unit 4 pool to drain, this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown on April 26, 1986.

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April 8, 2012  Fukushima, Japan - Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak about the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster at a public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012.

 

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Updated with boom audio Part 2:  Boom Phenomenon in Several States and Canada

“Early Saturday morning on March 17th, 2012, at 5:42 a.m., I was awakened by a single, very intense explosion. The concussion shook the building and was not accompanied by any other sound. Just one explosion that came from out of nowhere and then silence.”

- Resident in Virginia Beach, Virginia

 

- Click here for recording of March 24, 2012
single boom in Clintonville, Wisconsin.

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March 30, 2012  Albuquerque, New Mexico - Since February 2012, Earthfiles has received an increasing number of loud, jolting boom reports from all over North America - and one report from Latvia. So, the March 18 to March 28, 2012, persistent booms in Clintonville, Wisconsin, are part of a larger pattern that are not explained by the March 20, 2012, small 1.5 magnitude quake that USGS recorded in the vicinity of Clintonville.

 

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