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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=750083713-14052007>Dear
friends,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=750083713-14052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=750083713-14052007>I
wonder if such a threat goes also for bumlebees and
butterflies?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=750083713-14052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=750083713-14052007>With
love from Siberia,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=750083713-14052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=750083713-14052007>Marina
Tyasto</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><B>From:</B> Simon Peter Fuller
[mailto:SimonPeter@wwv.me.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:23
AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Honeybee Die-off summary<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=4>WHOLISTIC WORLD VISION GLOBAL NETWORKING SERVICE (PLEASE PASS
ON!) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>www.wholisticworldvision.org </FONT></P><BR>
<P><FONT size=4>Those who follow the channelled communications 'Letters from
Matthew' will remember that his recent </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>guidance on this subject is that "the devic/elemental kingdom
will take over pollination duties from the bees" </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>Interesting perspective - hope he is right - otherwise what
Einstein said </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>"that within 4 years of the end of bees, the human experiment on
this planet will be over" </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>is a worrisome alternative! </FONT></P><BR><BR><BR>
<P><B><FONT color=#000000>From:</FONT></B><B></B> Richard Giles
<ricgiles@powerup.com.au> </P>
<P><B><FONT color=#000000>Date:</FONT></B><B></B> 11 May 2007 12:55:09 BST </P>
<P><B><FONT color=#000000>To:</FONT></B><B></B> corkies6@bigpond.com </P>
<P><B><FONT color=#000000>Cc:</FONT></B><B></B> ketiaxbali@yahoo.com.au </P>
<P><B><FONT color=#000000>Subject:</FONT></B><B> Honeybee Die-off Threatens Food
Supply </B></P><BR>
<P>Hi All, </P><BR>
<P>A big and comprehensive roundup on the Bees and their </P>
<P>disappearing disease..... </P><BR>
<P>best, Richard </P><BR><BR>
<P>- - - -<B></B><B> <FONT size=4>Honeybee die-off threatens food supply (May
2)</FONT></B><B></B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_sc/honeybee_die_off</FONT>
</P><BR>
<P>BELTSVILLE, Md. - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious
killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a
devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a
glorified bread-and-water diet. Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate
more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have. Among them: apples, nuts,
avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots
of the really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi,
cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons.In
fact, about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and
the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination, according to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Even cattle, which feed on alfalfa, depend on
bees. So if the collapse worsens, we could end up being "stuck with grains and
water," said Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for USDA's bee and
pollination program. "This is the biggest general threat to our food supply,"
Hackett said.While not all scientists foresee a food crisis, noting that
large-scale bee die-offs have happened before, this one seems particularly
baffling and alarming.U.S. beekeepers in the past few months have lost
one-quarter of their colonies - or about five times the normal winter losses -
because of what scientists have dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder. The problem
started in November and seems to have spread to 27 states, with similar
collapses reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe. CLIP </P><BR><BR>
<P><B>Cell Phones Join Pesticides & GMOs as Possible Cause of Mass
Disappearances of Bees</B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4861.cfm</FONT>
</P><BR><BR>
<P><B>COLLAPSING COLONIES - Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
(March 22, 2007)</B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html</FONT>
</P><BR>
<P>A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried,
while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming
catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could
be enormous. DDPIs the mysterious decimation of bee populations in the US and
Germany a result of GM crops? Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting
grim scenarios. He sits on the board of directors of the German Beekeepers
Association (DBIB) and is vice president of the European Professional Beekeepers
Association. And because griping is part of a lobbyist's trade, it is
practically his professional duty to warn that "the very existence of beekeeping
is at stake."The problem, says Haefeker, has a number of causes, one being the
varroa mite, introduced from Asia, and another is the widespread practice in
agriculture of spraying wildflowers with herbicides and practicing monoculture.
Another possible cause, according to Haefeker, is the controversial and growing
use of genetic engineering in agriculture.As far back as 2005, Haefeker ended an
article he contributed to the journal Der Kritischer Agrarbericht (Critical
Agricultural Report) with an Albert Einstein quote: "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."
Mysterious events in recent months have suddenly made Einstein's apocalyptic
vision seem all the more topical. For unknown reasons, bee populations
throughout Germany are disappearing -- something that is so far only harming
beekeepers. But the situation is different in the United States, where bees are
dying in such dramatic numbers that the economic consequences could soon be
dire. No one knows what is causing the bees to perish, but some experts believe
that the large-scale use of genetically modified plants in the US could be a
factor. CLIP </P><BR><BR>
<P><B>Honeybeeworld ... EMF exposures?</B> </P>
<P><FONT color=#000ee0>http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3656661/</FONT> </P>
<P><B>Honey bees navigate by observing changes as small as 0.6% in the Earth's
magnetic field</B> </P>
<P><FONT color=#000ee0>http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3662270/</FONT> </P>
<P><B>Mobile Phones and Vanishing Bees</B> </P>
<P><FONT color=#000ee0>http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3656399/</FONT>
</P><BR><BR>
<P><B>A honey trap set by phone masts</B> </P>
<P><FONT color=#000ee0>http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3665837/</FONT> </P>
<P>FEARS that radiation from phone masts is killing bees could affect decisions
over the location of masts in Bolton. Radiation from masts has been blamed for
dwindling honey bee populations, with scientists claiming it interferes with the
insects' navigation systems and stops them finding their way back to their
hives. Research by Landau University in Germany found that 70 per cent of bees
exposed to radiation failed to find their way back to their hive after searching
for pollen and nectar. CLIP </P><BR>
<P><B>Do You Have Microwave Sickness?</B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/do_you_have_microwave_sickness5[1].doc</FONT>
</P>
<P>I've compiled the simple explanations for leaflet distribution - since people
seem to be so oblivious to the dangers this technology poses. Feel free to make
leaflets and pass it around or just forward it to everyone you know.
</P><BR><BR>
<P><B>Experts May Have Found What's Bugging the Bees (April 26, 2007)</B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-bees26apr26,1,7929894.story</FONT>
</P><BR>
<P>A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia maybe
playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse
Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco
researchers said Wednesday. Researchers have been struggling for months to
explain the disorder, and the new findings provide the first solid evidence
pointing to a potential cause. But the results are "highly preliminary" and are
from only a few hives from Le Grand in Merced County, UCSF biochemist Joe DeRisi
said. "We don't want to give anybody the impression that this thing has been
solved." Other researchers said Wednesday that they too had found the fungus, a
single-celled parasite called Nosema ceranae, in affected hives from around the
country - as well as in some hives where bees had survived. Those researchers
have also found two other fungi and half a dozen viruses in the dead bees.
</P><BR><BR>
<P><B>Deserted Beehives, Starving Young Stun Scientists</B> </P>
<P><FONT color=#000ee0>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050207EC.shtml</FONT>
</P><BR>
<P>"The bees were gone," David Hackenberg says. "The honey was still there.
There are young brood (eggs) still in the hive. Bees just don't do that." On
that November night last year in the Florida field where he wintered his bees,
Hackenberg found 400 hives empty. Another 30 hives were "disappearing, dwindling
or whatever you want to call it," and their bees were "full of a fungus nobody's
ever seen before." </P><BR>
<P><B>Heartwrenching Video of Dying Bees</B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/04/28.html#d</FONT> </P>
<P>Coast listener Larry shares this video of bees dying (slightly graphic) in a
grocery store parking lot. About the video Larry writes: "On April 16, Doris and
I were leaving a local grocery store, when I noticed a bee. I was glad to see
it, until Doris pointed out that all around us there were bees trying, and
failing to stay aloft. The parking lot was covered with them. Most were
struggling to crawl, or regain their feet. It was truly heart-wrenching. On our
way to our car, we noticed that there was a whole swarm dying at our feet. I got
out my video camera, squatted next to my car, and took some footage of their
struggles. To us, it seemed that the bees were reacting to an airborne toxin."
Recommended by Kathleen Roberts (weerkhr@pacbell.net) </P><BR><BR>
<P><B>Hundreds of dead seals wash up on shore (May 2)</B> </P>
<P><FONT
color=#000ee0>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_sc/kazakhstan_dead_seals;_ylt=ApyRo3Bl4qex.14MRTKSIwJxieAA</FONT>
</P>
<P>ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Hundreds of dead seals have washed up on Kazakhstan's
Caspian Sea shoreline in the past several days, bringing the total number of the
animals found dead along the shoreline in recent weeks to 832, the Emergencies
Agency said Wednesday. Environmental officials in the Central Asian nation were
trying to determine what killed seals - most of them young - the agency said in
a statement. Preliminary tests showed some of the animals were infected with the
distemper virus, authorities said.Several dozen dead seals were found by oil
workers on the Caspian shore in western Kazakhstan's Mangistau region about a
month ago. By mid-April, the number had risen above 500.A series of viral
epidemics have killed thousands of Caspian seals since the late
1990s.Environmentalists also have been concerned about the effect on wildlife of
increasing exploration of the inland sea's extensive oil reserves.Last year, 350
seals and thousands of sturgeon died as a result of a heavy metal leak from an
oil field. </P><BR><BR>
<P><B><FONT size=4>Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind
(April 30, 2007) <I> </I></FONT></B><B></B> <FONT
color=#000ee0>http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2494659.ece</FONT>
</P><BR>
<P>(...) Scientists recognise that species continually disappear at a background
extinction rate estimated at about one species per million per year, with new
species replacing the lost in a sustainable fashion. Occasional mass extinctions
convulse this orderly norm, followed by excruciatingly slow recoveries as new
species emerge from the remaining gene-pool, until the world is once again
repopulated by a different catalogue of flora and fauna. From what we understand
so far, five great extinction events have reshaped earth in cataclysmic ways in
the past 439 million years, each one wiping out between 50 and 95 per cent of
the life of the day, including the dominant life forms; the most recent event
killing off the non-avian dinosaurs. Speciations followed, but an analysis
published in Nature showed that it takes 10 million years before biological
diversity even begins to approach what existed before a die-off. Today we're
living through the sixth great extinction, sometimes known as the Holocene
extinction event. We carried its seeds with us 50,000 years ago as we migrated
beyond Africa with Stone Age blades, darts, and harpoons, entering pristine Ice
Age ecosystems and changing them forever by wiping out at least some of the
unique megafauna of the times, including, perhaps, the sabre-toothed cats and
woolly mammoths. </P><BR>
<P>When the ice retreated, we terminated the long and biologically rich epoch
sometimes called the Edenic period with assaults from our newest weapons: hoes,
scythes, cattle, goats, and pigs. But, as harmful as our forebears may have
been, nothing compares to what's under way today. Throughout the 20th century
the causes of extinction - habitat degradation, overexploitation, agricultural
monocultures, human-borne invasive species, human-induced climate-change -
increased exponentially, until now in the 21st century the rate is nothing short
of explosive. The World Conservation Union's Red List - a database measuring the
global status of Earth's 1.5 million scientifically named species - tells a
haunting tale of unchecked, unaddressed, and accelerating biocide.When we hear
of extinction, most of us think of the plight of the rhino, tiger, panda or blue
whale. But these sad sagas are only small pieces of the extinction puzzle. The
overall numbers are terrifying. Of the 40,168 species that the 10,000 scientists
in the World Conservation Union have assessed, one in four mammals, one in eight
birds, one in three amphibians, one in three conifers and other gymnosperms are
at risk of extinction. The peril faced by other classes of organisms is less
thoroughly analysed, but fully 40 per cent of the examined species of planet
earth are in danger, including perhaps 51 per cent of reptiles, 52 per cent of
insects, and 73 per cent of flowering plants.By the most conservative measure -
based on the last century's recorded extinctions - the current rate of
extinction is 100 times the background rate. </P><BR>
<P>But the eminent Harvard biologist Edward O Wilson, and other scientists,
estimate that the true rate is more like 1,000 to 10,000 times the background
rate. The actual annual sum is only an educated guess, because no scientist
believes that the tally of life ends at the 1.5 million species already
discovered; estimates range as high as 100 million species on earth, with 10
million as the median guess. Bracketed between best- and worst-case scenarios,
then, somewhere between 2.7 and 270 species are erased from existence every day.
Including today.We now understand that the majority of life on Earth has never
been - and will never be - known to us. In a staggering forecast, Wilson
predicts that our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all
plant and animal species by 2100.You probably had no idea. Few do. A poll by the
American Museum of Natural History finds that seven in 10 biologists believe
that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence, a more serious
environmental problem than even its contributor, global warming; and that the
dangers of mass extinction are woefully underestimated by almost everyone
outside science. By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct.
Does that matter? CLIP </P><BR><BR><BR><BR>
<P> - - - - - - - </P><BR><BR>
<P><B>FROM: Jean Hudon</B> </P>
<P><B><FONT color=#000ee0>Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator</FONT></B><B></B>
</P><BR>
<P>Hi All, </P><BR>
<P>A comprehensive article in some depth on the multiple roles of bees and
the new </P>
<P>phenomena of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). </P>
<P>best, Richard
</P><BR><BR><BR>
<P>- - - - </P><BR><BR>
<P><B><FONT size=4>Bees - Biological Geiger Counters </FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT size=4>International Medical Veritas Association </FONT></B></P><BR>
<P>Approximately one-third of the typical American's diet (primarily the
healthiest part) is directly or indirectly the result of honey bee pollination.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P>On their travels, they transfer pollen from plant to plant, flower to flower,
fertilizing the blossoms and allowing them to set fruit. This ancient
partnership of pollinator and plant is essential to life as we know it.
One-third of the food we eat comes from crops that need animal pollinators, a
role often filled by bees but sometimes by butterflies, beetles, birds, or bats.
</P><BR>
<P>The New York Times and other major media sources have recently published
scary articles about a catastrophe in the making, about a disaster that will
soon have a direct impact on our collective stomachs. In 24 states throughout
the country, beekeepers are getting the shock of their lives seeing hundreds of
millions of their bees literally disappearing. Beekeepers go out to open their
hives and find them empty. Bees are flying off in search of pollen and nectar
and simply not returning to their homes, they vanish without a trace.
Researchers say the bees are dying in the fields, perhaps becoming exhausted or
simply disoriented and eventually falling victim to the cold. Researchers have
labeled this affliction “colony collapse disorder.” </P><BR>
<P>Farmers across North America have been blitzing their fields with millions of
tons of herbicides and pesticides for decades. And since the mid to late 1990's
massive numbers of genetically engineered crops have been planted. </P>
<P>Greg Ciola </P><BR>
<P>Greg Ciola wrote in his book GMOs, Beware of the Coming Food Apocalypse, “In
one German study done at the University of Jena they tested bees on a field of
genetically engineered rapeseed (canola). The bees were released onto the crop
and then took the pollen back to their hive and fed it to young bees. When
scientists analyzed the bacteria in the gut of the young bees they discovered
that it contained the same gene traits as those of the modified crops. This
study is very alarming because bees are one of the most important insects to
mankind. From bees we get honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, and bees wax.
Irrespective of GM crops, there is already great concern in America over the
health of the honeybee. American apiaries have been dealing with many other
problems over the last few years. They can’t be too pleased to know that altered
genes from rapeseed can now be transferred to the bee. Just think how many
honeybees in America are now pollinating on genetically modified rapeseed!
Better yet, how many honeybees are now pollinating on all genetically modified
crops? When bees start dying off, it’s only a matter of time before men does
too!” </P><BR>
<P>Safe pastures where bees can forage without being poisoned by pesticides are
becoming increasingly rare. </P>
<P>In the UK, there have been "a few but significant examples" of what experts
call the "Marie Celeste phenomenon" - colonies abandoning hives altogether
leaving no evidence of what caused their disappearance. Greece, Italy, Poland,
Portugal, and Spain have also had their bouts with “colony collapse disorder.'
</P><BR>
<P>More than 90 crops in North America rely on honeybees to transport pollen
from flower to flower, effecting fertilization and allowing production of fruit
and seed. The amazing versatility of the species is worth an estimated $14
billion a year to the United States economy. </P><BR>
<P>Honey bees are responsible for approximately one third of the United States
crop pollination including almonds, peaches, soybeans, apples, pears, pumpkins,
cucumbers, cherries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. Investigators
are exploring a range of theories, including viruses, a fungus and poor bee
nutrition. They are also studying a group of pesticides that were banned in some
European countries to see if these are somehow affecting the bees’ innate
ability to find their way back home. It has been noted that to give bees energy
while they are pollinating, beekeepers now feed them protein supplements and a
liquid mix of sucrose and corn syrup. </P><BR>
<P>There are no tell-tale bee corpses inside colonies or out in front of hives,
where bees typically deposit their dead nest mates. </P><BR>
<P>Experts are speculating that it may be the consequence of a new infection, or
of several diseases simultaneously, leading to a fatally compromised immune
system. It is also possible that severe stress brought on by crowding,
inadequate nutrition or perhaps the combined effects of prophylactic antibiotics
and miticides sprayed by beekeepers to ward off infections. Another particularly
sad possibility is that accidental exposure to a new pesticide may cause
non-lethal behavioral changes that interfere with the ability of honeybees to
orient and navigate; brain-damaged foraging bees may simply get lost on their
way home and starve to death away from the hive. </P><BR>
<P>Honeybees contribute to our food chain in more ways than any other animal
species. They are vital to alfalfa and clover, which is processed into hay to
feed beef and dairy cattle. </P><BR>
<P>The public does not recognize the magnitude of the threat that these
mysterious events present but we should be more than alarmed. Scientists have
been observing how one species after another is disappearing from our planet but
never before has one with such a direct bearing on food production been
threatened. Extinction of a species doesn't just affect the group that
disappears - it tends to alter much more. </P><BR>
<P>Earth's biodiversity is being overtaken by a mass extinction which, if
allowed to proceed unchecked, could well eliminate between one quarter and one
half of all species. </P>
<P>Norman Myers </P><BR>
<P>Bees do make excellent biological geiger counters. They are especially
valuable perennial mobile biomonitors of the local environment. Foraging honey
bees fly and crawl into flowers and inspect many substrates and openings. As
such, they come in contact with naturally-occurring materials in the environment
as well as manmade pollutants including heavy metals and pesticides. Pollen and
these exotic materials stick to their hairy bodies and are carried back to the
nest cavity where they often become incorporated into the beeswax, pollen and
honey stores. Thus, with their wide foraging range and collecting activities,
they are natural monitoring agents for investigating the ebb and flow of floral
resources and toxic substances within the environment. At least one researcher
has effectively used honey bees to collect pollutants including heavy metals,
radionuclides and pesticides, which are concentrated within their nests and can
be subsequently analyzed using modern chemical analytical instrumentation.[i]
</P><BR>
<P>This reporting of “colony collapse disorder (CCD)” is a very interesting
lesson in science. Either scientists have lost their ability to think
intuitively[ii] or the media is again demonstrating its dishonesty by refusing
to publish essential but unpopular information that threatens incoming
advertising dollars. Though it is not reasonable to assume that any single
factor is responsible, it is a glaring error to omit from the equation the
rising tide of mercury on the land, water and air to which both we and honey
bees are exposed. Most beekeepers affected by CCD report that they use
antibiotics and miticides in their colonies, though the lack of uniformity as to
which particular chemicals are used makes it seem unlikely that any single such
chemical is involved. Yet when one chemical weakens a biological system, another
can come in with a killer blow. </P>
<P><B>The decline of honeybee populations has brought the agricultural community
to the brink of a pollination crisis. </B></P><BR>
<P>Scientists have already studied mercury levels in the head, abdomen and
thorax of bees (Apis mellifera) from 20 bee populations coming from industrially
contaminated areas with a dominant load of mercury (10 populations) as well as
from uncontaminated areas. The following mercury levels were found in bees from
the contaminated area: heads 0.029-0.385 mg/kg, thorax 0.028-0.595 mg/kg and
abdomen 0.083-2.255 mg/kg. Mercury levels in samples from uncontaminated areas
ranged from 0.004 to 0.024 mg/kg in the heads, from 0.004 to 0.008 mg/kg in the
thorax and from 0.008 to 0.020 mg/kg in the abdomen. In honey samples from the
contaminated and uncontaminated areas mercury levels ranged from 0.050 to 0.212
mg/kg and from 0.001 to 0.003 mg/kg, respectively.[iii] Researchers have also
demonstrated heavy metal accumulation in honey suggested that honey may be
useful for assessing the presence of environmental contaminants.[iv] </P><BR>
<P>Because of their experimental traceability, recently sequenced genome and
well-understood biology, honey bees are an ideal model system for integrating
molecular, genetic, physiological and socio-biological perspectives to advance
our understanding of converging environmental stresses. Honey bees have the
highest rates of flight muscle metabolism and power output ever recorded in the
animal kingdom. Researchers believe that it is likely that changes in muscle
gene expression, biochemistry, metabolism and functional capacity may be driven
primarily by behavior as opposed to age, as is the case for changes in honey bee
brains.[v] Even at low levels of exposure, mercury can permanently damage the
brain and nervous system and cause behavioral changes in people. Mercury is a
harsh neurological poison that affects neurological tissues throughout the
animal kingdom and it is very possible that it is affecting the sensitive brains
of honey bees. </P><BR>
<P>When gilial progenitor stem cells in the brain were exposed to 5 to 6 parts
per billion (ppb) of mercury, these cells stop dividing and simply shut down!
These cells are absolutely crucial in building the brain in infancy and beyond.
</P><BR>
<P><I>Professor Mark Noble </I></P>
<P><I>University of Rochester NY </I></P><BR>
<P> Power plants are the largest unregulated source of mercury emissions,
releasing 48 tons of mercury into the air annually in the United States alone.
Oil, fertilizers, pesticides and the countless other chemicals, byproducts and
debris that enter our water, air and land continually afflict species worldwide
and produce damaging, long-lasting effects. Mercury is however one of the most
prevalent and powerful poisons, and it manages to infiltrate everything.
</P><BR>
<P> Mercury pollution is making its way into nearly every habitat in the
U.S., exposing countless species of wildlife to potentially harmful levels of
this neurological toxin. </P>
<P>“From songbirds to alligators, turtles to bats, eagles to otters, mercury is
accumulating in nearly every corner of the food chain,' says Catherine Bowes,
Northeast Program Manager for the National Wildlife Federation and principal
author of a recent report on the issue. “This report paints a compelling picture
of mercury contamination in the U.S., and many more species are at risk than we
previously thought. Fish, long thought to be the key species affected by
mercury, are just the tip of the iceberg.' </P><BR>
<P>Global decline of amphibians has been a hot issue in recent years among both
the scientists who study them and the general public. A paper by University of
Georgia researchers in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry suggests that
atmospheric deposition of mercury in aquatic habitats has the potential to have
significant impacts on amphibians in the larval stage of development.[vi]
</P><BR>
<P>The National Wildlife Federation report, Poisoning Wildlife: The Reality of
Mercury Pollution, is a compilation of over 65 published studies finding
elevated levels of mercury in a wide range of wildlife species. The report
highlights mercury levels in fish, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians
living in freshwater, marine, and forest habitats from across the country. The
accumulation of mercury in fish has been well-understood for years, leading 46
states in the U.S. to issue consumption advisories warning people to limit or
avoid eating certain species of fish. However, scientists have recently
discovered that mercury accumulates in forest soils, indicating that wildlife
that lives and feeds outside aquatic habitats are also at risk of exposure to
mercury. </P>
<P>“Scientific understanding of the extent of mercury contamination in wildlife
has expanded significantly in recent years,' says Dr. David Evers of the
Biodiversity Research Institute, wildlife toxicologist and leading researcher in
this field. “We are finding mercury accumulation in far more species, and at
much higher levels, than we previously thought was occurring. This poses a very
real threat to the health of many wildlife populations, some of which are highly
endangered.' </P><BR>
<P><B>The scientific studies compiled in the report show mercury in a wide
variety of species: </B></P><BR>
<P>Freshwater Fish: Brook Trout, Walleye, Yellow Perch, Rainbow Trout, Northern
Perch, Largemouth Bass </P><BR>
<P>Birds in Aquatic Habitats: Bald Eagle, Great Egret, Wood Stork, Northern
Shoveler, Common Loon, Red-winged Blackbird, White Ibis, Common Tern, Belted
Kingfisher </P><BR>
<P>Birds in Forest Habitats: Wood Thrush, Red-eyed Vireo, Louisiana Waterthrush,
Bicknell’s Thrush, Carolina Wren, Prothonotary Warbler </P><BR>
<P>Mammals: Florida Panther, Indiana Bat, Mink, River Otter, Raccoon </P><BR>
<P>Reptiles, Amphibians, Invertebrates: Two-lined Salamander, Snapping Turtle,
Crayfish, American Alligator, Bullfrog </P><BR>
<P>Marine Life: Tiger Shark, Sperm Whale, Striped Bass, Loggerhead Sea Turtle,
Narwhal, Polar Bear, Beluga Whale, Ringed Seal </P><BR>
<P>It is understandable that those who are at the helm of our system do not want
to create a massive scare by creating an association between a disaster in
agriculture (via the collapse in bee colonies) and the tremendous rise in
mercury that the government is trying to suppress. This book, The Rising Tide of
Mercury and Other Toxic Chemicals, (coming at the end of 2007 from IMVA
Publications), will clearly demonstrate the threat of mercury which is now
taking on gigantic proportions, and how virtually no one is effectively dealing
with the crisis. What good is it for Europe to eliminate the use of mercury from
the continent when it is being spilled into the environment in huge amounts by
the United States, China and India? Mercury circles the globe just as radiation
from nuclear accidents and the use of deleted uranium weapons does. </P><BR>
<P>It is very possible that the honey bees are being affected in advance of
other species in a massive way but it has already been demonstrated by
scientists that humans, especially children, are also being seriously affected
neurologically by mercury in the air. (See Chapter on Mercury in the Air and
rising rates of autism.) The United States is being hit simultaneously by two
increasing waves of mercury pollution: one could be responsible for triggering
the collapse in bee populations, and the other long-standing issue of constant
large tonnage being released each and every day. </P><BR>
<P>The increasing occurrence and intensity of wildfires due to climate change is
worsening mercury pollution in North America according to a new study from
researchers at Michigan State University, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the
National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the Canadian Forest Service.
Wildfires are releasing mercury long since sequestered in Northern wetlands and
will without doubt add to health problems in both humans and animals. </P>
<P><B>Industry puts out more than carbon monoxide into the air, tons of mercury
are put out into the air each and everyday. </B></P><BR>
<P> A 2002 study from the University of Santa Cruz, California illuminates
the mechanisms of a second pathway where mercury is increasing. This study found
that mercury from coal emissions in China ends up in rainwater on the California
coast.[vii] Atmospheric mercury travels around the globe as a gas and must be
oxidized into charged ions that will attach themselves to water molecules before
they are washed out as rain. Ozone, abundant in industrial and urban smog, plays
a key role in this oxidative process. When the gaseous mercury blows into San
Francisco Bay from Asia, the local smog is there waiting to "enrich" it and set
in motion the process of introducing more mercury into the food chain via rain
onto surface waters. With China and India putting up new dirty coal fired plants
at a furious rate it is literally raining mercury in the United States and all
over the world. By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases
that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought
and scarce water supplies, and of course, though no one is talking about it,
mercury emissions will continue to rise. </P><BR>
<P> Scientists from the University of Quebec who have been studying the
Amazon basin since 1992, measured riverbank sediments for mercury levels in
small increasing increments and discovered that the most recent sediments
contained 1.5 to 3 times the amount of mercury compared to those of 40 years
earlier. The timing of the mercury increases fits well with the huge
colonization of the area initiated during the 1960s by Brazil's National
Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform. Through this program, tens of
thousands of families relocated from the poorer regions of northeastern Brazil
to the Amazon basin. Most of these families turned to farming, and cleared more
than 2.5 million hectares of Amazon forest using "slash and burn" methods. While
most people are aware of the perils of deforestation in terms of global warming
and depletion of protective ozone, only now are scientists beginning to
understand that the consequent erosion of soils contributes to worldwide mercury
contamination. "When you have forest cover, this mercury is extremely stable in
the soils," explains one of the researchers. "There is hardly any release to the
aquatic ecosystem. The mercury is bound to clay, organic matter, humic acids,
and so on."[viii] Without the forest cover, exposed soil is washed into
waterways as regularly as it rains. Once in contact with bacteria in the rivers,
inorganic mercury is converted to methyl mercury and thereby introduced into the
food chain. </P><BR>
<P>Mercury continues to appear in places and via means that scientists could not
have predicted. Two studies in the March 15, 2002 issue of Environmental Science
and Technology describe the phenomenon of "mercury sunrise," an event first
described in 1998 in the Arctic north. During a span of only five months during
the polar spring each year, the northern-most coast of Alaska receives more than
twice the amount of mercury that would usually fall during an entire year on the
northeastern coast of the US. This phenomenon also occurs on the southern polar
region, and researchers estimate that as much as a hundred tons of mercury are
dumped on both poles annually.[ix] </P><BR>
<P>It has been clear since the infamous 1950s case of women in Minimata, Japan
who gave birth to children with severe birth defects because of mercury-tainted
fish in their diet, that exposure to high levels of mercury can be harmful.
Subsequent studies have revealed that even low-level mercury exposure threatens
normal development of the fetus. Problems with vision, hearing, language and
motor skills are typical of mercury-related neurological damage. Some recent
studies indicate that men with elevated mercury levels may suffer more heart
attacks. Animal studies suggest that low-level mercury exposure produces
autoimmune diseases and other immune system anomalies.[x] The mercury is there
but the recent publicity about this issue is centered on how safe it is to eat
mercury contaminated fish! </P><BR>
<P>Because mercury is everywhere - in our water, foods, air, soil, vaccines and
dental amalgam - it needs to be factored into ALL disease etiologies. </P><BR>
<P>Are we next? Will humans start to fall like the bees? It is very possible,
more likely than not, that top federal health officials have already previewed
the looming disaster but cruelly refuse to face the public with the truth. It is
either that or they are the most ignorant medical scientists in the universe.
Instead of warning humanity and directing the government’s efforts to reduce and
even eliminate mercury, as the European Union is setting out to do with earnest,
health officials each and every year, at an increasingly frantic pace, are
warning of hundreds of millions of deaths from influenza and the bird flu. Never
once will you hear them quote research that indicates that mercury toxicity
increases the frequency and intensity of influenza symptoms and could be one of
the root causes of death from the flu. We know that mercury is rising in
threatening concentrations, it is a scientific fact. Yet the United States
government is doing practically nothing to stop mercury pollution. To the
contrary, a hundred and fifty new coal fire plants are on the drawing board.
</P><BR>
<P>The unprecedented human pressure on the Earth's ecosystems threatens our
future as a species. We confront problems more intractable than any previous
generation, some of them at the moment apparently insoluble. </P>
<P>BBC News </P><BR>
<P>Mercury is an inherent insanity in the medical and dental communities.
Doctors, dentists and health officials will not admit the dangers of mercury. If
a physicist denied the basic laws of physics we would find that more than
ridiculous but we allow doctors and dentists to shame themselves in front of
medical history every day. With what we might call intellectual barbarism or
chemical terrorism, they insist on exposing people and children to its dangers
in clinical practice. Thus the medical and dental professions cannot be trusted
with anything when it comes to mercury and its dangers. </P><BR>
<P>There is no way to ignore the fact that we all share one earth, one biosphere
in which our transgressions against nature, either from ignorance or greed or
malice, eventually affect us all. </P><BR>
<P>Humanity is beset by stresses covering every aspect of reality. We do now,
and will continue to, receive signs and symptoms of massive but hidden forces in
motion that the public media will not report on. Finally there has been a turn
around when it comes to climate change. Unfortunately, with something as huge as
the weather, the information is coming too late for us to change the course of
destiny. With mercury it is much the same. Instead of decreasing mercury
pollution, it is increasing through rapid expansion of the use of coal for the
creation of electricity. </P><BR>
<P><B>Treatments for Mercury Toxicity </B></P><BR>
<P>The BBC reports that hazardous chemicals are now found in the bodies of all
new-born babies, and an estimated one in four people worldwide are exposed to
unhealthy concentrations of air pollutants. But this vastly understates the
problem because it does not include the invisible almost radioactive cloud of
mercury that is virtually everywhere, even in the most pristine environments
thousands of miles distant from the nearest point of mercury pollution. When it
comes to mercury everyone is exposed and is at risk though in the southern
hemisphere we would expect to find much less exposure than in the industrial
north. </P><BR>
<P>Instead of highly toxic vaccines containing even more mercury or drugs like
Tamiflu, the public needs to be given a crash course in mercury detoxification
and chelation. Again doctors fail us here, because they can only come up with
more toxic substances to get rid of other toxic substances and a dwindling
percentage of the population can afford these drugs and the doctors that
prescribe them. Fees are as high as $900 an hour for consultations with certain
doctors who specialize in this type of work. Because we live in a heavily
polluted world, our exposure is not only constant but increasing year by year so
there is a need for safe non-toxic substances that we can use safely throughout
our lifetime. Instead of using toxic substances, we can use natural items that
not only sweep the chemical toxins from our bodies but also provide basic
nutrition that strengthens us in many ways. </P><BR>
<P>According to the Marine Technology Society, brown seaweeds, such as kelp,
contain fucoidan and algin, which have been shown to remove lead, mercury,
cadmium, barium, tin and other heavy metals from tissues. Seaweeds also help
remove radioactive isotopes from the body. Using seaweeds both as a condiment
and at least several times a week as a vegetable (so that you consume a half-cup
serving) is necessary for chelating action to take place.[xi] Iodine also
concentrates in seaweed and is another chelator of mercury. Ninety percent
of the population is deficient in iodine.[xii],[xiii] Spirulina and
chlorella have also been used widely in this regard. </P><BR>
<P>Several years ago a researcher studying a possible connection between chronic
bacterial infections and heavy metals in the body found that some patients
released mercury into their urine after eating Vietnamese soup containing
cilantro (Coriandrum sativum).[xiv] This effect has been replicated in other
studies, although scientists have not yet determined exactly which constituents
in cilantro have mercury-chelating effects. As a preventive, then, cilantro can
be eaten, fresh and raw, as a regular part of the diet to orally chelate not
only mercury but lead and aluminum as well. </P><BR>
<P>Several doctors have paid attention and have created chelation formulas that
are safe and effective to use without medical supervision. Dr. Georgiou, after 3
years of research settled on a golden triangle of natural chelation using
Chlorella Growth Factor, Cilantro leaf tincture and Homeopathic energized
cell-decimated chlorella vulgaris. He calls his product HMD (Heavy Metal Detox).
</P><BR>
<P>Dr. Allan Greenburg’s golden triangle uses cilantro, chlorella and ALA and
his formula provides important support substances: selenium, magnesium, zinc,
vitamin C, E, MSM (Methysulfonylmethane), NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine), L-Glutamine
and Taurine, which turns Chelorex into an effective and complete
nutritionally-driven chelation prescription tested for the removal of 16 toxic
metals. This is crucial because the higher the level of intra-body toxins, the
more that an individual's detox nutrients are utilized, and the greater the
likelihood of adverse effects from toxins. (Important news for the medical
community is that Chelorex is now available in a liquid form and this is very
good news for children who are mercury toxic.) </P><BR>
<P>The International Medical Veritas Association promotes the heavy use of
transdermal magnesium therapy as a crucial element in any detoxification and
chelation program. Experimentation with transdermal iodine therapy is now also
beginning. We have been heavily involved in creating awareness of childhood
immunization and the gigantic epidemic in autism and other neurological
disorders, so we favor transdermal and liquid formulations that are much easier
to administer to children. </P><BR>
<P><B>Mark Sircus Ac., OMD </B></P>
<P><B>Director International Medical Veritas Association </B></P>
<P><FONT color=#000ee0>http://www.imva.info</FONT><B> </B></P>
<P><B><FONT color=#000ee0>http://www.magnesiumforlife.com</FONT></B><B>
</B></P><BR><BR>
<P><B>[i] Bromenshenk, et al. 1995 </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[ii] Albert Einstein said, “I think with intuition.” Intuition is
different than conceptual or intellectual thought process as it is different
from the imaginative level of consciousness. It is a special perceptual ability
to sense from a distance, to literally feel the totality of a situation. See
HeartHealth by IMVA Publications available end of 2007/early 2008. </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[iii] Toporcak J, Legath J, Kul'kova J. Univerzita veterinarskeho
lekarstva, Kosice. </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[iv] Environ Monit Assess. 2005 Oct;109(1-3):181-7. Determination of
heavy metals in honey in Kahramanmaras City, Turkey.Erbilir F, Erdogrul O.
Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of
Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam, Kahramanmaras, Turkey. </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[v] J Exp Biol. 2005 Nov;208(Pt 22):4193-8. Muscle biochemistry and the
ontogeny of flight capacity during behavioral development in the honey bee, Apis
mellifera.Roberts SP, Elekonich MM. Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4004, USA. </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[vi] <FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.uga.edu/aboutUGA/research-frogs.html</FONT></B><B>
</B></P><BR>
<P><B>[vii] Mercury in California Rainwater Linked to Industrial Emissions in
Asia; Media Alerts Archive, December 19, 2002; <FONT
color=#000ee0>www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2002/2002121911028.html</FONT></B><B>
</B></P><BR>
<P><B>[viii] R.C.Willis, Mercury Rising: Deforestation and gold mining in the
Amazon basin cause the release of toxic metal, Today's Chemist at Work, March
2001, vol. 10, No. 3, pp 30-36 </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[ix] T. Steele, "Mercury sunrise" effect found in Antarctica,
EurekaAlert!; <FONT
color=#000ee0>www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-03/acs-sp031902.php</FONT></B><B>
</B></P><BR>
<P><B>[x] N. Shute, Heavy Metal Fish, U.S. News & World Report, March 17,
2003 </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[xi] S. Weed, Healing Wise, Ash Tree Publishing, 1989, p.223. </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[xii] Iodine; Why you need it, Why you can’t Live without it; David
Brownstein MD; </B></P><BR>
<P><B>[xiii] Seaweed sold in the United States has a tremendous variation in the
amount of iodine content. In Japan, the average Japanese eats around 13.8 mg of
iodine per day with the vast majority of that iodine coming from seaweed that
has been specifically grown and cultured to maximize iodine trapping in the
seaweed. To my knowledge, this particular type of seaweed is not being sold in
the United States at the present time. Gupta: Consequences of Iodine Deficiency
<FONT
color=#000ee0>http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2007/01/31/consequences_of_iodine_deficiency.htm</FONT></B><B>
</B></P><BR>
<P><B>[xiv] D. Williams, Poor Man's Chelation Therapy, on-line version, <FONT
color=#000ee0>www.home.earthlink.net/~jedcline/cilantro.html</FONT></B><B>
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