Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse

(NaturalNews) It’s one of the signs of the approaching food collapse our world will soon be facing: Honeybees are disappearing at a truly alarming rate all around the world. Up to 30 percent of the honeybee population is collapsing in North America every year , and there’s no end in sight to “the silence of the bees.” Honeybees, of course, pollinate about a third of all the food consumed by first-world nations. Without them, the global food supply crashes and food prices skyrocket. The human population, not surprisingly, would plummet. Honeybees are absolutely crucial to the chain of life on planet Earth, and they are dying in record numbers. Efforts to understand the cause of the honeybee population collapse (sometimes called “Colony Collapse Disorder”) have so far pointed to pesticides , air pollution and even GMOs. All of those are no doubt important factors, but new research carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology may have unveiled the real key: Cell phone signals . How cell towers cause honeybee hives to collapse Researcher Daniel Favre and his colleagues performed 83 experiment recording the reaction of honeybees to cell phones in their off state, standby state or active talking state. It turns out that when cell phones are in their “active” state (sending or receiving signals), honeybees are strongly disoriented and suffer from widespread miscommunication that causes them to stop seeking out food and begin swarming. Specifically, their “worker piping” activity increases by 1000 percent (ten times). This was determined with a detailed scientific approach that’s outlined in his paper: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf As Favre explains in his paper, entitled “Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping:” Worker piping in a bee colony is not frequent, and when it occurs in a colony, that is not in a swarming process, no more than two bees are simultaneously active. The induction of honeybee worker piping by the electromagnetic fields of mobile phones might have dramatic consequences in terms of colony losses due to unexpected swarming. Favre went on to tell Fast Company: (http://www.fastcompany.com/1752894/are-cell-phones-killing-all-the-bees) “Among other factors such as the varroa mite and pesticides, signals from mobile phones and masts could be contributing to the decline of honeybees around the world. I am calling the international scientific community for more research in this field.” Of course, by the time additional studies are done, it may simply be too late. If the honeybee population collapse continues for just a few more years, pollination of the global food supply may become nearly impossible. That will lead to the great die-off of human beings. Funny how that works, isn’t it? Imagine the narrative of future historians: Humans multiplied and expanded their cell phone towers to the point where the pollinators all died. Then human civilization collapsed and the cell towers went silent. Within a decade, the honeybees were once again prolific and healthy… Honeybees don’t need humans, you see. But we need them. The arrogance of science and technology In Rome, the scientists manufactured the municipal water delivery canals and pipes out of lead, thereby causing the widespread lead poisoning of the population without even knowing it. Science and technology has always come with a heavy dose of arrogance and willful ignorance. Today, the pesticide chemical companies keep producing toxics that poison our planet, and they keep doing it in the name of “scientific agriculture.” See my related documentary – The God Within – to understand just how dark and deep this abandonment of life by the scientific community reality goes: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12 Whether it’s pesticides, cell towers, GMOs or some other technology, scientists always insist their technologies are harmless to the natural world, even while the sixth great extinction is now under way on planet Earth. But no one can deny that the collapse of the honeybees is indeed taking place, and the beauty of Mother Nature is that when so-called “scientific advancements” get completely out of balance with the natural world and actually become a threat to life on Earth, the world has a way of keeping the expansion of the human race in check. It’s called population collapse . And it’s coming soon. If we could turn off the cell towers, halt the GMOs, stop the spraying of pesticides and end the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet, then our honeybees (and other important animal species) might have a chance. But human beings are too shortsighted to understand their role in causing almost anything that impacts the delicate web of life on Earth. So humans will deny any responsibility for their actions, cover up the truth about what’s really going on, and even accelerate their own global population collapse. Science cannot turn a seed into a living food plant It will all be led by “science” and “technology,” of course. And yet all the science in the world can’t create one scrap of real food that will keep you alive . Only Mother Nature can grow a plant from a seed, pollinate it, produce a flower and then a vegetable or fruit. Only Mother Nature can keep us alive, not science and not technology. And in the end, when the history of our modern world is fully written, it will show how the scientists nearly wiped out the human race through their arrogance, their mass poisoning of the world, and their complete disregard for the value of life. All these things have been carried out under the name of science: Genetically Modified crops, terminator seeds that self destruct, chemical pesticides, cell towers, water fluoridation, mercury fillings, psychiatric drugs and much more. Each one of these, in its own way, threatens the sustainability of life on our planet. And that’s why “science” as practiced today has become the pathway to our own self destruction. The disappearing honeybees are merely a symptom of what’s wrong . The real cancer in our civilization is the arrogance and widespread destruction of the scientists who play God with our world while having absolutely no clue about the consequences of their actions. Watch my documentary to learn more about the soulless, mindless and utterly insane philosophy that underpins modern-day science: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12 Sources for this story include: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1385907/Why-mobile-phone-ring-make-bees-buzz-Insects-infuriated-handset-signals.html http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/13/cell-phones-caused-mysterious-worldwide-bee-deaths-study-finds/

Personal Health Transformation Video Contest won with story of healing Lyme Disease

(NaturalNews) The latest video contest on NaturalNews.TV — the Personal Health Transformation Video Contest — just wrapped up earlier this week. The contest invited participants to post their true video stories of how they’ve used natural healing therapies to overcome serious health challenges. The contest was sponsored by YogaBody (www.YogaBodyNaturals.com), Healthforce Nutritionals (www.Healthforce.com) and Purest Colloids (www.PurestColloids.com), all of which pledged valuable products to the top three winners. In addition, NaturalNews.TV is awarding $500 to the first place winner, and $250 to each of the 2nd and 3rd place winners. The official winners are: 1st place: My Natural Recovery from Lyme and Vaccine Damage (by Alix) – 1,083 votes http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=48B2719E75E7528DB40F903188663F9C Alix’s website is www.mednauseam.com 2nd place: Organic Slant Health Transformation (by OrganicSlant) – 826 votes http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=ECB7EBA1678C1FC9CAC92B7A981AFDFA www.OrganicSlant.com 3rd place: Death avoided 4 times Naturally: Lyme disease (by ScientificLiving) – 821 votes http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=77FF396DE503FF5ECCD3EF0B84066374 David’s website is http://scientificliving.net Also, notably, a video by Kaviji (http://www.divine-kitchen.com) was in 2nd place until right up to the very last day, it seems (when a flurry of voting took place), and his video was so informative that I wanted to mention it here even though he didn’t win the contest: “My body was a Taxi, until it crashed! Hear how I got back on the road” http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E2CE2D8B249CE2C7FF483CB3FCBBB1FC Important clarification: There was a question from one person who for some reason thought that Alix was some sort of employee of NaturalNews because she submits videos that say things like, “…reporting for NaturalNews.TV.” For the record, Alix is not an employee or contractor with NaturalNews. She simply submits her videos with that attribution line in much the same way that many other people do. It creates a closer connection to the NaturalNews audience because viewers know that she is speaking directly to them and not making the video for YouTube or some other video site. In fact, all employees or contractors of NaturalNews were barred from entering this contest from the start. Thank you to everyone who entered the contest! And just for the record, so everybody knows, this contest was in no way a net revenue generator for NaturalNews. It actually cost us more to run this contest than we received in sponsor revenues for the related views. We also did not charge sponsors to sponsor the contest. We just asked if they would offer up some prizes to the winners and receive some name recognition for stepping up on this important effort. This contest was important for its own reasons — to get these stories of healing shared with the world — even if it meant we had to operate it at a net loss. You may or may not know this, but the business of serving free videos on the web has very high hard costs and very low revenue potential. It’s not a business to get into for those who are merely driven by profits. What did the winners receive in prizes? The 1st place winner receives $500 in cash plus: * The Yoga Trapeze from YOGABODY (www.YogaBodyNaturals.com) * Vitamineral Earth (500 grams), Vitamineral Green (500 grams) and Warrior Food Vanilla (20 gram trial size) from Health Force (www.HealthForce.com) * 500 ml bottle of MesoSilver, 500 ml bottle of MesoGold and 250 ml bottle of MesoSilica from Purest Colloids (www.PurestColloids.com) The 2nd place winner receives $250 in cash plus: * YOGABODY Stretch (Fleximine) and the YOGABODY Handbook * Vitamineral Earth (500 grams), Warrior Food Vanilla (20 gram trial size) and Vitamineral Green (20 gram trial size) from Health Force * Spray bottle of MesoCopper, 250 ml bottle of MesoCopper and 250 ml bottle of MesoZinc from Purest Colloids. The 3rd place winner also receives $250 in cash plus: * YOGABODY Stretch (Fleximine) and the YOGABODY Handbook * Warrior Food Vanilla (1,000 grams), Vitamineral Green (20 gram trial size) and Vitamineral Earth (20 gram trial size) from Health Force * Spray bottle of MesoSilver, 250 ml bottle of MesoSilver and 250 bottle of MesoSilica from Purest Colloids. What did they say about winning? We are reaching out to all the top 3 winners. So far, we’ve heard back from Alix who offered the following statement about winning the contest: I’m thrilled to have placed first in the contest. Since I pride myself on “passing” as totally healthy, I still feel very shy about having my personal Lyme story in a public video format, but I was comforted gradually after receiving so many uplifting emails from other long-term Lyme sufferers. Until I had a bunch of those emails, once an hour I thought about pulling my video down. Thank you to the wonderful people who wrote me — you are my partners! I was equally uplifted watching the other videos in the contest, and have seen all but a few of them at this point. It’s not surprising to me that two people fighting Lyme ended up placing in this contest. Lyme patients are among the most maligned, marginalized, and misunderstood group in all of medicine. Politics have led to policies that favor insurance companies and Lyme vaccine patent holders. Patients with late Lyme or chronic Lyme need long-term antibiotics (whether prescription or herbal) yet these compromised policies lead their own doctors to deny them both diagnosis and treatment. These are the same doctors who prescribe months of antibiotics for a case of acne. Never mind that Lyme often leaves people disabled, bankrupt and without medical or disability insurance. I hope that publicity from this contest will help chip away at this political brick wall in the medical system. To further the awareness and policy efforts in the Lyme community, I’m giving half my winnings ($250) to a Lyme non-profit and will have that matched 100% by a foundation I work with, for a total gift of $500. The other half of my winnings I’ll apply to my way-too-expensive Lyme protocol. I’m excited to win food that I and my Lyme friends can actually eat — that is a first! As for the yoga trapeze prize, maybe I’ll record my next video while dangling from it. Like most Lyme patients, I had to fight the system to get a diagnosis. I knew from all my research that I could be treated successfully with natural medicine, but then my next fight was to find a practitioner who felt confident treating that way. Eighteen years after getting a tick bite, I finally began an intense treatment plan that is expected to last three years. Two years in, I’m not fully recovered, but am doing great. Thanks to everyone in this contest, to those who viewed and voted and made my video viral, and to the Lyme community for pursuing natural treatments and sharing what you know with others! – Alix (www.mednauseam.com) (http://www.naturalnews.tv/alix)

GM salmon Frankenfish about to be unleashed into US food supply

(NaturalNews) It’s that time of year again, when the FDA gathers its experts to decide what new horror to unleash into the food supply. This year it’s genetically modified salmon , a “frankenfish” pumped up with extra growth hormone genes that make it rapidly grow into a kind of super-Schwarzenegger creature that’s triple the size of a regular salmon. And you’re supposed to eat this, by the way. In fact, the FDA will almost certainly allow this to be sold without any warning labels , so now when you buy salmon at the store, you’ll have no way to tell whether it’s normal salmon or frankenfish GM salmon. See my related cartoon about GM frankfish at: http://www.naturalnews.com/029769_GM_salmon_frankenfish.html Or see the entire archives of CounterThink cartoons at www.CounterThink.com Food engineering gone bad GM salmon is just the latest form of food engineering to receive the FDA’s endorsement. Well, technically the FDA hasn’t officially decided to approve it yet, but FDA officials have already announced — ahead of the public meeting — that they believe GM salmon is safe. It’s a good bet they intend to allow it to enter the food supply. Genetically modified salmon is “is as safe as food from conventional Atlantic salmon,” according to an FDA statement on its website. “There is a reasonable certainty of no harm from consumption of food from this animal.” But even if that’s true, that’s not the only worry here: The other major concern is about the environmental impact of GM salmon escaping to the wild (or their eggs escaping) and genetically polluting the world’s salmon stocks. Now, sure, the company creating these frankenfish promises that will never happen. They insist on it. But gee, have you ever heard of industrial accidents? That’s where things go wrong that everybody promised would never go wrong. Bhopal, India comes to mind. Or Chernobyl. There are seemingly countless cases where companies that promised nothing would go wrong end up apologizing when things went terribly wrong. How can we be sure GM salmon won’t one day turn into another large-scale disaster? One way would be to conduct safety testing before pursuing full-scale production. But that isn’t being done. To my knowledge, there are no rigorous environmental or human health safety tests being conducted on GM salmon whatsoever. So, in effect, we are the experiment . The FDA, if it approves GM salmon, will be launching a brand new game called “let’s play genetic roulette with the whole world and see what happens.” It’s a stupid way to proceed with something as potentially dangerous as genetic pollution because if it escapes into the wild, it is irreversible. You can’t take it back. Tell the FDA what you think The FDA’s three-day panel starts this weekend! Sign up to attend the meeting and express your thoughts on the matter at the following link: http://www.fedmeetings.net/common/registration.cfm?mid=3210 You can also write the FDA at: Division of Dockets Management Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 Be sure to reference Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0385. In the mean time, if you see a giant piece of salmon flesh in the grocery store that looks more like a side of beef from a 1,000 pound cow, you may want to avoid it.

17 big questions about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

(NaturalNews) What’s clear about the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is that the independent journalists are doing a better job of asking the really tough questions than the mainstream media. Sure, CNN, Fox and others are bringing some attention to the matter, and they’ve done some solid reporting on it, but they haven’t yet found a way to ask the deeper questions like why the U.S. government seems to be colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill. Just the other day, I found an article entitled, “16 Burning Questions About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill” on the TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com site (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/16-burning-questions-about-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-that-we-deserve-some-answers-to). It was a really insightful collection of important questions, so I’ve repeated them below. The author of these questions wasn’t mentioned on the page, so I regret I cannot properly attribute the list, but I do think they’re worth reviewing, so I’ve included my own commentary and an extra question below. Here are the 16 questions: #1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used “as needed” by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or to control the public? Mike’s comment: Good question. Much of the response activity to the spill seems to be about controlling the public’s perception and limiting media access to the spill site rather than actually cleaning up the mess. #2) Barack Obama has also announced the creation of a “Gulf recovery czar” who will be in charge of overseeing the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico region following the oil spill. So is appointing a “czar” Obama’s idea of taking charge of a situation? #3) Because it is so incredibly toxic, the UK’s Marine Management Organization has completely banned Corexit 9500, so if there was a major oil spill in the UK’s North Sea, BP would not be able to use it. So why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico? Mike’s answer: Because Corexit kills sea animals and makes them sink and disappear rather than allowing them to wash up on shore where the emotional outcry would be even worse than it is already. #4) It is being reported that 2.61 parts per million of Corexit 9500 (mixed with oil at a ratio of 1:1o) is lethal to 50% of fish exposed to it within 96 hours. That means that 1 gallon of Corexit 9500/oil mixture is capable of rendering 383,141 gallons of water highly toxic to fish. So why was BP allowed to dump 1,021,000 gallons of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 into the Gulf of Mexico, and why aren’t they being stopped from dumping another 805,000 gallons of these dispersants that they have on order into the Gulf? Mike’s answer: Sadly, BP is running the show in the Gulf, not the government! The U.S. government has sold out to private corporations who now think they own the gulf and can run operations there however they see fit. #5) If these dispersants are so incredibly toxic to fish, what are they going to do to crops? What are they going to do to people? Mike’s answer: They’re obviously going to poison the entire Gulf Coast region if hurricanes whip up these chemicals and deposit them on land. We could be looking at a complete wipeout of the Florida citrus industry, for example, if all the worst conditions converge. #6) If the smell of the oil on some Gulf beaches is already so strong that it burns your nostrils, then what in the world is this oil doing to wildlife that encounter it? #7) Is it a bad sign that birds from the Gulf region are flocking north by the thousands? Mike answer: Remember the Tsunami in the Indian ocean a few years back? The animals fled first, while the clueless people stayed behind and got clobbered by the deadly wave. I think a similar thing could be happening in the Gulf. All it takes is one hurricane to turn the entire region into a toxic stew of chemical poison. #8) Why is BP being allowed to use private security contractors to keep the American people away from the oil cleanup sites? Mike’s answer: Yes, this is the real question. BP is running security in the Gulf the same way Halliburton runs security in the Middle East. The corporate contractors are now the police force in the area, and they’re running the Gulf as if they owned it! This is a clear indication that the corporations have taken over our government. #9) Why is BP openly attempting to manipulate the search results on sites like Google and Yahoo? #10) Why has the FAA shut down the airspace above the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? What don’t they want the American people to see? Mike’s answer: There are lots of answer to this one: The feds probably don’t want people in small airplanes taking aerial photos and posting them online (because the Obama administration is working overtime to cover up the truth here, much like the Bush administration did with the flag-draped coffins coming home from war in the Middle East). It could also be that they are planning something really crazy like a deep ocean nuke to collapse the well, and they don’t want civilians falling out of the sky when the mushroom cloud appears. #11) Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says there are reports that there are additional ruptures in the sea floor from which oil is leaking. If there are quite a few of these additional ruptures, then how in the world does BP expect to completely stop this oil leak? Mike’s answer: BP actually doesn’t expect to stop this leak anytime soon. They are clearly in full-on spin mode, just trying to deny the truth and spin the words to buy themselves more time to offload stock shares before the whole thing comes tumbling down. #12) Why are scientists finding concentrations of methane at up to 10,000 times normal background levels in Gulf waters? Mike’s answer: Because BP broke the ocean floor, and now huge volumes of gas hydrates (which contain methane) are bubbling up from places that were previously trapped safely underground. #13) At some testing stations in the Gulf of Mexico, levels of benzene have been detected at over 3000 parts per billion, and levels of hydrogen sulfide have been detected as high as 1192 parts per billion. Considering that these levels would be highly toxic to humans, why hasn’t the general public been warned? #14) Why are so many Gulf oil spill disaster workers showing up at local hospitals complaining of a “mysterious illness”? Mike’s answer: This is going to be the Gulf War Syndrome of the Gulf Coast. Or the 9/11 asbestos question affecting firefighters. There will be a wave of toxic side effects from the use of chemicals in the Gulf, and both BP and the federal government will predictably deny any link between the chemicals and the health effects for years to come. #15) If “70% or 80%” of the protective booms are doing absolutely nothing at all to stop the oil, then what is going to stop the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf from eventually reaching shore? Mike’s answer: Nothing, of course. The oil is going to reach the shore, and there’s nothing BP or the feds can do to stop in. In fact, it seems as if they are trying to interfere with the cleanup by halting the barges that were supposed to be vacuuming oil just off the beaches. #16) It is being reported that the deep sea oil plumes are creating huge “dead zones” where all creatures are dying as they are deprived of oxygen. If this oil spill continues to grow could the vast majority of the Gulf of Mexico become one gigantic “dead zone”? Mike’s answer: Indeed, that is precisely what looks likely to happen. The Gulf of Mexico could become a massive dead zone, adding to the long list of humanity’s crimes against the planet. See my related CounterThink cartoon at: http://www.naturalnews.com/029015_atrocities_nature.html I’ve also added one more question of my own: #17) Why is our government colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill? Remember the BP press conferences on cable news? A U.S. Coast Guard representative was standing right there beside the BP spokesperson, almost as if she were a subordinate of BP. This is insane! If anything, the US Coast Guard should be telling BP what to do, not the other way around. And why is the US Coast Guard restricting reporters’ access to the spill areas, threatening them with arrest if they “trespass.” Trespass into PUBLIC waters? Doesn’t anybody realize that BP does not own the Gulf of Mexico and if we want to take our boats out into the Gulf to get some video of what’s really happening there, that’s our right! But the U.S. government is now working for BP, it seems, and they’re trying to protect BP’s image by restricting the freedoms of ordinary Americans. Sound familiar? That’s why I think this Gulf of Mexico disaster is another 9/11 reactionary freedom squasher in the works. Just wait… you’ll see what kind of freedom-destroying ideas are put forth by our lawmakers in response to this catastrophe. When it’s all said and done, it won’t only be British Petroleum that loses; it will be all of us. The Corporatocracy and government collusion What we’re really witnessing here with the BP disaster is our own government colluding with the powerful corporatocracy to cover up the truth all while making it worse by interfering with legitimate cleanup efforts. It’s almost as if the federal government were actively working to worsen the problem and expand the impact of the disaster. But that brings up the question: Why? Why would our own government worsen a catastrophe? The answer, of course, is right in front of you. Just visit ground zero in New York City and remind yourself of all the various ways the U.S. government expanded its power following the collapse of the twin towers. “Never waste a good crisis” is the mantra of Big Government today, and the easiest way to steal even more power away from the people is to turn a small disaster into a big disaster, then leap in with a “government solution” that enacts some large, oppressive new act that never would have been possible before the disaster. So what kind of oppressive new laws does the Obama administration want to put in place in response to this disaster? Perhaps government control over all oceans, or government control over all seafood. Maybe they want to outlaw oil over the next 25 years and force everybody to transition to some other form of energy (which may not actually be a bad idea from an ecological perspective, but at what price to freedom?). There are a thousand other conspiracy theories that try to guess at what the government’s true agenda might be in this moment. While it’s hard to say which of them (if any) might be true, one thing is crystal clear: The government does not seem interested in solving the problem in the Gulf of Mexico. It is covering up the truth, threatening mainstream journalists who try to photograph the region, restricting air travel over the well site, restricting boat travel anywhere near the spill, and basically lying to the public on a daily basis about what’s really happening there. That alone should make any thinking person suspicious. If the situation were really under control, why would they have to lie about it? US government poisons its own citizens There is precedent for believing that the U.S. government might try to poison its own citizens in order to achieve a political goal. During Prohibition, the U.S. government actually released poisoned alcohol in order to harm (or kill) those who were defying the law and drinking liquor. That story is published today here on NaturalNews.com. Read it to learn more about what our own government may be capable of doing when it wishes to exercise power of the People.