6 posts tagged “bees”

• Pele is on the move out here. The vog is getting really bad. And in another unprecedented event, Kilauea is releasing steam from what is being called juvenile water, which has never been seen before anywhere on the planet.

• Saturn storm has hurricane-like features. “Massive whirling vortex” has scientists perplexed. Really? How about taking a note from Nassim Haramein and the Power of Spin?

• And on that note, Pi in the Sky telescope captures massive gamma ray burst which originated some 7.5 billion light years away. Wow.

• The giant particle accelerator in CERN delays its start up date until July. Meanwhile someone here in Hawaii has filed suit against the project, fearing that a newly-created micro-black hole will slurp up our very existence.

• Interview with Fritjof Capra, author of the Tao of Physics: Quantum particles, the dance of Shiva and “Consciousness is an aspect of life.”

• Army toyed with telepathic ray gun. Brings to mind Project Blue Beam, and the reason I’m putting off commenting on my frustration with the UFO community and the issue of disclosure and religious manipulation, which seems to be contaminated with propaganda and disinformation.

• Supposedly in a period of minimum activity, the Sun has been flaring. See SOHO for more.

• All our favorite NWO peeps recently met to advise the next administration on foreign policy. Got to be sure the torch is passed. One question; how do they know who will be the next administration?

• …Probably because they’re all related. They’ve worked it out long ago, family-style.

• Check out The Thoughts for a cool take on symbology and a graphic comparing the Eye of Horus with a cross section of our brains. I’m down with that.

• Planet X makes the news in Australia. Disasters quadruple over last 20 years. Officials prepare for giant earthquake. Firefighters trained for UFO contact. Someone knows something they’re not telling us.

• First the bees, then the bats and the rabbits; now the starfish. When I hear a dolphin say, “So long and thanks for all the fish,” I’m packing my towel.

• Here’s the latest in internet rumors; is Barack Obama the antichrist? Apparently many think so. What’s for sure is the near hysteria he seems to leave in his wake.

• For a dose of reality in an unreal world, check out Neil Kramer’s new post Crossing the Rubicon: Breaking the Fake News Trance over at The Cleaver.

• 2012: A Time Odyssey by Sharron Rose

• Rearranging Stars to Communicate with Aliens by Jaron Lanier

• Is Hell freezing over?

• Some may think so; “Euros Accepted” signs are popping up in New York.

• Note from the bees; rabbits disappear from Yellowstone and the bats are dying off.

• Hey, Coppertop; ‘Power Shirt’ generates watts as you walk; or how about a knee-brace power generator?

• New flashlight weapon dazes and confuses.

• WiMAX as a Military Technology?

• Have scientists discovered a way of peering into the future?

• The Secret of the Universe is not 42, as erroneously suggested by the likes of Douglas Adams; it is in fact, 10¹²².

• Cool underwater car video! Your pen as cutlery!

• One of my all-time favorites, Rabindranath Tagore in conversation with Einstein.

• And if you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend The Story of Stuff.

Climate change is in the news. And it’s not just the UN Climate Change Commission in Bali, which recently completed negotiations for its new Bali Roadmap, the successor pact to the Kyoto Protocols regarding greenhouse gas emissions, slated to go into effect in 2013. News about all sorts of crazy weather patterns and climate-related disasters seems to be dominating much of the mainstream. Devastating floods and droughts worldwide. Rising sea levels. Wicked storms. Sunburns in Antarctica. Italy’s woodlands dying. The vanishing of the bees – here’s a trailer for a documentary about that. At this point few are denying that there is something going on. But when Presidential candidates are lining up for the opportunity to use climate change to their advantage, and when Rupert Murdoch is vocally pushing the issue on us, I must cry fnord.

What’s causing the apparent changes is up for debate everywhere except in the mainstream, which insists global warming is our own fault and that reducing emissions and going green is the only answer. Those who dare debate this anymore are accused of creating propaganda for the oil industry, or being mean-spirited Al Gore-haters; or perhaps, of just being crazy paranoids. Certainly I would never argue with going green; fossil fuels are dangerous and polluting, not to mention ridiculous (free energy, anyone?) and very expensive nowadays – which also makes me wonder; why would these guys push the cause if they’re only going to lose their precious oil dollars? Are they all looking to make their next fortunes in corn-based ethanol instead (or poised to rake it in on wheat futures when world food supplies are depleted), or just falling onto the politically-correct bandwagon; or, is there some other agenda lurking in the background?

Usually, if there’s hype, there’s also cover-up. Here is a site that lists articles about many other climate change opinions which I found it interesting, especially the articles about cosmic rays, the sun and other planets in our solar system also heating up. Could it be, perchance, something much larger going on? Something that might cause global panic if it made the news? Better sweep those notions into the lunatic fringe - no room for that in the mainstream. Too messy.

However, as this gentleman points out in The Times, “chaos theory rules.” With all the various potential contributors to climate change, how to know for sure what the exact cause is, especially since we’ve only been keeping records for a relatively short period, compared to vast geologic time? Even a large volcanic eruption can throw off the climate, as evidenced by this slice of history picked up by The Economist about the extraordinary summer of 1783. Or how about this article about ancient global warming?

So, maybe it’s just a minor blurp in the climate cycle; an exchange of gases or just a combination of elements that’s causing only slight deviations which seem larger due to our limited scope in time, or the huge population now present on the planet.

Or, maybe it’s not.

Maybe there really is a Dark Star, a Nemesis sister sun, an extra planet or some other celestial body on it’s way towards us, threatening our Earth’s delicate balance like a spinning top. Laura Knight-Jadczyk’s intriguing article caught my eye, especially her point involving the fractal and multidimensional structure of space-time and the concept of cosmic, quantum jumps within it. And yet, it’s only part of the lunatic fringe, at this point, to be sure. All I’m suggesting is – pay attention. Read up on everything, and don’t be fooled. Sure; buy a hybrid, recycle and install solar panels. Head off to the hills, if you must. But notice unusual puzzles, like comets going missing, controversial pyramids in Bosnia or Russia, and even the Mayan calendar 2012 end date. Just be prepared, be wise to the hype and resistant to the propaganda. Maybe the ancients were trying to tell us something – something the powers-that-be don’t want us to know.

From the Kolbrin Bible:

MAN:3:1 Men forget the days of the Destroyer. Only the wise know where it went and that it will return in its appointed hour.

MAN:3:4-6 When blood drops upon the Earth, the Destroyer will appear, and mountains will open up and belch forth fire and ashes. Trees will be destroyed and all living things engulfed. Waters will be swallowed up by the land, and seas will boil…The people will scatter in madness. They will…seek refuge within dens in the Earth. Terror will eat away their hearts…They will be eaten up in the flames of wrath and consumed by the breath of the Destroyer.

MAN:3:7 Thus it was in the Days of Heavenly Wrath, which have gone, and thus it will be in the Days of Doom when it comes again. The times of its coming and going are known unto the wise. These are the signs and times which shall precede the Destroyer’s return: A hundred and ten generations shall pass unto the West, and nations will rise and fall. Men will flying the air as birds and swim in the seas as fishes. Men will talk peace one with another’ hypocrisy and deceit shall have their day. Women will be as men and men as women; passion will be a plaything of men.

GLN:4:24-26 …There, riding on a great black rolling cloud, came the Destroyer, newly released from the confines of the sky vaults, and she raged about the Heavens, for it was her day of judgment. The beast with her opened its mouth and belched forth fire, hot stones and a vile smoke. It covered the whole sky above and the meeting place of Earth and Heaven could no longer be seen. In the evening, the places of the stars were changed, they rolled across the sky to new stations; then, the floodwaters came…The pillars of Heaven were broken and fell down to Earth. The skyvault was rent and broken; the whole of creation was in chaos. The stars in the Heavens were loosened from their places, so they dashed about in confusion. There was a revolt on high; a new ruler appeared there and swept across the sky in majesty.

CRT:4:5-9 Then came the day when all things became still and apprehensive, for God caused a sign to appear in the Heavens, so that men should know the Earth would be afflicted, and the sign was a strange star…The star grew and waxed to a great brightness and was awesome to behold…He was clothed with smoke and fire. He carried lightnings in His hand, and His breath, falling upon the Earth, brought forth brimstone and embers…the sun and moon hid themselves in fear and there was a heavy darkness over the face of the Earth…Great fires and smoke rose up from the ground and men gasped for air. The land was rent asunder and swept clean by a mighty deluge of waters. A hole opened up in the middle of the land; the waters entered, and it sank beneath the seas.

…or remark-able items from my own Surfing the Tao journey

• May 25^th was Universal Day of the Jedi, and it was a big one this year, 30 years since the first Star Wars movie came out!  True geeks might also know that May 25 is also Towel Day…that’s towel as is The Number 42, not Towelie…don’t forget your towel…

• This article about a disruptive bee swarm, and then this one about a swarm actually forcing a plane to land recently, made me wonder for a moment about what is really going on with the bees; what if it were all part of some kind of bizarre ‘bee revolt’ – or worse, an attempt to warn us about something!

• This month is a Blue Moon – in most places; see what I mean here.   More interesting Moon thoughts.  Cool, short video of Comet McNaught seen in Australia earlier this year.  The Economist recently published an article about the Earth’s approaching magnetic pole reversal.  A star is about to go supernova in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the ‘serpent-holder’ or The Dragon, the only one of the 13 zodiacal constellations that doesn’t have its own astrological sign – and rumored to be the source of Planet X and varies species of aliens among other things.

• I joined YouTube and am enjoying bookmarking all sorts of fun things, from Prince Charles being the anti-Christ to some gorgeous video fractals.  

• Be prepared for the disappearance of the US Dollar.  The CFR and others are actively working towards a currency union in the Americas called the “Amero”, much like the Europeans did with the Euro.  Along that vein, They’re talking about microchipping Alzheimer’s patients as well as airline employees.  You know it’s not going to stop there.  And in Scotland, Masonic symbols have been discovered in the heart of Glasgow – fully 37 acres of symbol, according to one theory.

• In case you missed this sleight of hand, President Bush recently issued himself sweeping dictatorial powers in the case of any large-scale catastrophe.  “The Day After” is a recent meeting of senior government and military officials and other experts which focused on a response to a large-scale nuclear attack.  And probably other potential disasters as well, don’t you think? ;)  In the spirit of Towel Day, Don’t Panic and bring your towel. 

In the past week I’ve received several links from friends about the missing bees.  The media continues to report on current research into the cause of the disappearance of bees from their hives around the world.  Taiwan  just announced the loss of over 10 million bees.  The other day The New York Times reviewed various theories.  One involves radiation from cell phone towers, and rumors abound as one might expect; people are blaming everything from terrorism to a ‘bee rapture’.  (BTW, did you know the military is testing the use of bees for sniffing out bombs?)

Yesterday a press release from the Army announced several pathogens had been found to be potential culprits.  Some have found evidence of a fungus; in Hawaii, the news is centering on a harmful mite, and bee colonies are now quarantined to prevent its spread.  More information on current research can be found here.  What’s interesting is that while most of these articles claim Colony Collapse Disorder is yet to be found in Hawaii, this article claims otherwise, and I’m going to pay attention especially since my neighbor lost 20 of his 60 hives here on the Big Island just in the past two or three months. 

A friend reminded me of the importance of bees to our local coffee industry, among other crops.  I can’t even begin to comprehend the disaster.

Tawain bees vanish and Hawaii bees dying

I live in Hawaii in a relatively rural place so we are used to seeing things like wild turkeys wandering around our neighborhood.  Yesterday a wild goat scampered across the street in front of my car to join its family on the other side.  The Big Island has wild pigs, cattle, goats, horses, mongoose, parrots and even donkeys.  (Not to digress, but Hawaii even has its own Bigfoot myths – two of my family members have personal stories about that.)  In suburban neighborhoods it’s not unusual for people to keep chickens or goats; the best eggs I ever had were from a friend’s backyard.  In fact the people across the street from us keep a goat as a lawnmower and have a beehive. 

They’ve given us some honey before; it’s wonderful.  I used to have a patch of mint that flowered and the bees just took over my garden.  One time a few months ago they swarmed, coming right up our driveway next to our porch.  We all ran inside, including the dogs, at a loss as to what might have upset them.

In the evenings lately I’ve noticed there is always one lone and angry bee buzzing around our porch light rather frantically, as if it’s bound and determined to go somewhere.  With all the talk about the bees disappearing lately, I always hope it will find its way home.

The bee apocalypse is hot news right now – truly a sign of the times.  So far no one is sure what’s going on - a virus, genetically modified crops, insecticides or maybe the effect of an increase in UV radiation which bees use to navigate.  People are quoting Einstein as having said, "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

Next time I see my neighbor I will ask about the bees.  It’s important to know if they are still around, and we would miss them very much indeed if they weren’t.