Silent Intruder: Revisited

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Seems so silly somehow, all this drill and training if we never go into action. My three platoon commanders and myself had a carriage to ourselves. They ate sandwiches and chocolate, smoked and slept. None of them had a book. For the first three or four hours they noted the names of the towns and leaned out of the windows when, as often happened, we stopped between stations. Later they lost interest. At midday and again at dark some tepid cocoa was ladled from a container into our mugs.

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The train moved slowly south through flat, drab main-line scenery. The chief incident in the day was the C. We assembled in his carriage, at the summons of an orderly, and found him and the adjutant wearing their steel helmets and equipment. The first thing he said was: I expect you to attend properly dresse4.

The fact that we happen to be in a train is im- material. Wherever I went I found evidence that officers are not doing their duty. The state in which a camp is left is the best possible test of the efficiency of regimental officers. It is on such matters that the reputation of a battalion and its com- mander rests. A more sensitive man would have seen that he had failed to be impressive; perhaps he saw, for he added in a petulant schoolmasterish way: The battaKon is now in transit between location A and location B. This is a major L of C and is liable to bombing and gas attack from the enemy.

I intend to arrive at location B. Train will arrive at destination at approxi- mately hours I told the platoon commanders. He always seems to pick on us for the dirty work. But I say, how am I to find the perimeter in the dark? This seemed to satisfy the commanding officer, for we heard no more from him. After dark we all slept. It was part of our training in security and active service conditions that we should eschew stations and platforms. The drop from the running board to the cinder track made for disorder and breakages in the darkness. Skip it and get a move 1.

I handled stores with them for the first half hour; then broke off to meet the company second-in-command who came down with the first returning truck. Village with one pub and a post office.

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No town within miles. I drove in the last lorry, through tortuous lanes where the overhanging boughs whipped the windscreen; somewhere we left the lane and turned into a drive; somewhere we reached an open space where two drives converged and a ring of storm lanterns marked the heap of stores. Here we un- loaded the truck and, at long last, followed the guides to our quarters, under a starless sky, with a fine drizzle of rain beginning now to fail.

I slept until my servant called me, rose wearily, dressed and shaved. Outside the hut I stood bemused. The rain had ceased but the clouds hung low and heavy overhead. It was a still morn- ing and the smoke from the cookhouse rose straight to the leaden sky. A cart-track, once metalled, then overgrown, now rutted and churned to mud, followed the contom of the hillside and dipped out of sight below a knoll, and on either side of it lay the haphazard litter of corrugated iron, from which rose the rattle and chatter and whisding and catcalls, all the zoo-noises of the battalion beginning a new day.

Be- yond and about us, more familiar still, lay an exquisite man- made landscape. It was a sequestered place, enclosed and embraced in a single, winding valley. Our camp lay along one gentle slope; opposite us the ground led, still unravished, to the neighbourly horizon, and between us flowed a stream it was named the Bride and rose not two miles away at a farm called Bridesprings, where we used sometimes to walk to tea; it became a considerable river lower down before it joined the Avon - which had been dammed here to form three lakes, one no more than a wet slate among the reeds, but the others more spacious, reflecting the clouds and the mighty beeches at their margin.

All this had been planned and planted a century and a half ago so that, at about this date, it might be seen in its maturity. From where I stood the house was hidden by a green spur, but I knew well how and where it lay, couched among the lime trees like a hind in the bracken. Hooper came sidling up and greeted me with his much imitated but inimitable salute. IVe sent the chaps off to get cleaned up. Great barrack of a place. I looked in and there was a kind of service going on - just a padre and one old man.

I felt very awkward. More in your line than mine.

You never saw such a thmg. That day, too, I had come not knowing my destination. It was Eights Week. Oxford - submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as Lyonnesse, so quickly have the waters come flooding in - Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its reson- ance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

Here, discordantly, in Eights Week, came a rabble of womankind, some hundreds strong, twittering and flut- tering over the cobbles and up the steps, sight-seeing and pleasure-seeking, drinking claret cup, eating cucumber sandwiches; pushed in punts about the river, herded in droves to the college barges; greeted in the Isis and in the Union by a sudden display of peculiar, facetious, wholly distressing Gilbert-and-Sullivan badinage, and by peculiar choral effects in the College chapels. We were giving a ball. No one felt more strongly about it than my scout. What do they want with dancing?

There never was dancing before in Eights Week. It all came in with the men back from the war. Is there a circus? I must say the whole of Oxford has become mst peculiar suddenly. Bring some money in case we see any- thing we want to buy. The motor-car is the property of a man called Hardcastle. Sloth has undone them. Sloth undid him too. Well, I did tell him ten.

He leads a double life. At least I assume he does.

He says he knows my father, which is impossible. It was about eleven when Sebastian, without warning, turned the car into a cart track and stopped. It was hot enough now to make us seek the shade. We were in different colleges and came from different schools; I might well have spent my three or four years in the University and never have met him, but for the chance of his getting drunk one evening in my college and of my having ground-floor rooms in the front quadrangle. I had been warned against the dangers of these rooms by my cousin Jasper, who alone, when I first came up, thought me a suitable subject for detailed guidance.

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My father offered me none. Then, as always, he eschewed serious conversation with me. It was not until I was within a fortnight of going up that he mentioned the subject at all; then he said, shyly and rather slyly: I met your future Warden at the Athenaeum. I asked him what your allowance should be. So I shall give you five hundred and fifty.

I suppose this is the time I should give you advice, I never had any myself except once from your cousin Alfred. Do you know, in the summer before I was going up, your cousin Alfred rode over to Boughton es- pecially to give me a piece of advice? And do you know what that advice was? Always wear a tail hat on Sundays during term. It is by that, more than anything, that a man is judged. I never saw any difference between them or heard it commented on, but I always wore mine. It only shows what effect judicious advice can have, properly delivered at the right moment.

A perfectly respectable school. The very worst is EngKsh literature and the next worst is Modern Greats. You want either a first or a fourth. There is no value in anything between. Time spent on a good second is time thrown away. You should go to the best lectures - Arkwright on Demos- thenes for instance - irrespective of whether they are in your school or not. Dress as you do in a country house. And go to a London tailor; you get better cut and longer credit. Join the Carlton now and the Grid at the beginning of your second year.

In fact, steer clear of all the religious groups; they do nothing but harm. They leave their gowns here and come and collect them before hall; you start giving them sherry. I certainly never changed my rooms; there were gillyflowers growing below the windows which on summer evenings filled them with fragrance. I should like to think - indeed I sometimes do think - that I decorated those rooms with Morris stuffs and Arundel prints and that my shelves were filled with seventeenth-century folios and French novels of the second empire in Russia-leather and watered silk.

But this was not the truth. I displayed also a poster by McKnight Kauffer and Rhyme Sheets from the Poetry Bookshop, and, most painful to recall, a porcelain figure of Polly Peachum which stood between black tapers on the chimney-piece. It was by this circle that I found myself adopted during my first term; they provided the kind of company I had enjoyed in the sixth form at school, for which the sixth form had prepared me; but even in the earliest days, when the whole business of living at Oxford, with rooms of my own and my own cheque book, was a source of excitement, I felt at heart that this was not all which Oxford had to offer.

Collins had exposed the fallacy of modem aesthetics to me: I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds. A most amusing young gentleman.

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His brother, the Earl of Brideshead, went down last term. Now he was very different, a very quiet gentleman, quite like an old man. What do you suppose Lord Sebastian wanted? I, however, remained censorious, and subsequent glimpses of him, driving in a hansom cab and dining at the George in false whiskers, did not soften me, although Collins, who was reading Freud, had a num- ber of technical terms to cover everything.

It was shortly before midnight in early March; I had been entertaining the college intellectuals to mulled claret; the fire was roaring, the air of my room heavy with smoke and spice, and my mind weary with metaphysics. I threw open my windows and from the quad outside came the not uncommon sounds of bibulous laughter and un- steady steps. It was not unusual for dinner parties to end in that way; there was in fact a recognized tariff for the scout on such occasions ; we were all learning, by trial and error, to carry our wine.

But, when all is said, it remained an unpropi- tious meeting. His friends bore him to the gate and, in a few minutes, his host, an amiable Etonian of my year, returned to apologize. He, too, was tipsy and his explanations were repetitive and, towards the end, tearful. It was the mixture. Grasp that and you have the root of the matter.

To xmderstand aU is to forgive all. It was someone from out of college. I still frequented the lecture-room in those days, and it was after eleven when I returned to college. Lunt was secreting the last of them in brown paper preparatory to taking them home. It was typical of him, I reflected, to assume I knew where he lived; but, then, I did know. I told Mr Collins and Mr Partridge so - they wanted to have their commons in here with you. I went there uncertainly, for it was foreign ground and there was a tiny, priggish, warning voice in my ear which in the tones of Collins told me it was seemly to hold back.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. His chimney-piece was covered in cards of invitation from London hostesses.

I wish I had a scout like yours. He was sweet to me this morning where some people might have been quite strict. There were three Etonian fresh- men, mild, elegant, detached young men who had all been to a dance in London the night before, and spoke of it as though it had been the funeral of a near but unloved kins- man. They always lay early for her. I was lunching with my p-p-preposterous tutor. He thought it very odd my leaving when I did.

The rest of us wore rough tweeds and brogues. He had on a smooth chocolate-brown suit with loud white stripes, snhdt shoes, a large bow-tie and he drew off yellow, wash- leather gloves as he came into the room; part Gallic, part Yankee, part, perhaps, Jew; wholly exotic. He had been pointed out to me often in the streets, as he pranced along with his high pea- cock tread; I had heard his voice in the George challenging the conventions; and now meeting him, under the spell of Sebastian, I found myself enjoying him voraciously.

All b-boatmen are Grace Darlings to me. To Sebastian he said: T think ifs perfectly brilliant of Sebastian to have discovered you. Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chiwy you out like an old st-t-toat. I rose to go with them, but Sebastian said: He took my arm as we walked under the walls of Merton. Noth- ing except the golden daffodils seemed to be real.

Was it the screen? I turned it face to the wall. It was the end of the screen. Lunt never liked it, and after a few days he took it away, to an obscure refuge he had under the stairs, full of mops and buckets. That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches. Presently we drove on and in another hour were hungry.

We stopped at an inn, which was half farm also, and ate eggs and bacon, pickled walnuts and cheese, and drank our beer in a sunless parlour where an old clock ticked in the shadows and a cat slept by the empty grate. We were at the head of a valley and below us, half a mile distant, grey and gold amid a screen of boskage, shone the dome and columns of an old house. Beyond the dome lay receding steps of water and round it, guarding and hiding it, stood the soft hills.

The dome was false, designed to be seen from below like the cupolas of Ghambord. Its drum was merely an additional storey full of segmental rooms. Here were the nurseries. Long hours of work in her youth, authority in middle life, repose and security in her age, had set their stamp on her lined and serene face.

Just Mrs Chandler and two of the girls and old Bert. Still, I suppose Julia must have her enjoyment the same as other young ladies, though what they always want to go to London for in the best of the summer and the gardens all out, I never have understood. Are you studying hard at your books? He found time to study, too, though.

Did you see this piece about Julia in the paper? She brought it down for me. The very Sebastian and the old woman talked on. It was a ebb- ing room, oddly shaped to conform with the euwe of the dome. I usually go down to Mrs Chandler, but we 11 have it up here today.

My usual girl has gone to London with the others. She will be upset when she hears. It would have been suck a surprise for her. We must go quickly before my sister gets back. They re so Ldly charming. But am I not going to be allowed to see any more of the house? We came to see nanny. Weil, come and look if you want to. He led me through a baize door into a dark corridor; I could dimly see a gilt comice and vaulted plaster above; then, opening a heavy, smooth-swinging, mahogany door, he led me into a darkened hall.

Light streamed through the cracks in the shutters. Sebastian unbarred one, and folded it back; the mellow afternoon sun flooded in, over the bare floor, the vast, twin fireplaces of sculptured marble, the coved ceiling frescoed with classic deities and heroes, the gilt mirrors and scagliola pilasters, the islands of sheeted furniture. It was a glimpse only, such as might be had from the top of an omnibus into a lighted ballroom; then Sebastian quickly shut out the sun. You must see that. One of these was the chapel. We entered it by the public porch another door led direct to the house ; Sebastian dipped his fingers in the water stoup, crossed himself, and genuflected; I copied him.

You wanted to do sight-seeing ; how about this? Angels in printed cotton smocks, rambler-roses, flower-spangled meadows, frisMng lambs, texts in Celtic script, saints in armour, covered the walls in an intricate pattern of clear, bright colours. There was a triptych of pale oak, carved so as to give it the peculiar property of seeming to have been moulded in Plasticine.

The sanctuary lamp and all the metal furniture were of bronze, hand-beaten to the patina of a pock-marked skin; the altar steps had a carpet of grass-green, strewn with white and gold daisies. Brideshead often has that effect on me. There is only my father and myself. An aunt kept an eye on me for a time but my father drove her abroad. My mother was killed in the war. My father has been rather odd in the head ever since. He just lives alone in London with no friends and footles about collecting things. There are lots of us.

Look them up in Debrett. The further we drove from Brideshead, the more he seemed to cast off his uneasiness - the almost furtive restlessness and irritability that had possessed him. The sun was behind us as we drove, so that we seemed to be in pursuit of our own shadows. It was one of several parties designed to comfort Hardcastle - one of the tasks that had lately fallen to Sebastian and me since, by leaving his car out, we had got him into grave trouble with the proctors.

In fact, I have the impression you are avoiding me. You know as well as I do that since your - well, since the war, your father has not been really in touch with things - lives in his own world. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable O. But you, my dear Charles, whether you realize it or not, have gone straight, hook line and sinker, into the my worst set in the University.

In fact, I hear all too much. His brother Brideshead was a very sound fellow. But this friend of yours looks odd to me and he gets himself talked about. The Marchmains have lived apart since the war, you know. An extraordinary thing; everyone thought they were a devoted couple. Then he went off to France with his Yeomanry and just never came back. He was in Mercury again last night. It was true; my room had cast its austere winter garments, and, by not very slow stages, assumed a richer wardrobe.

Have you spoken at the Union or at any of the clubs? Are you connected with any of the maga- zines? Are you even making a position in the O. Your present get-up seems an unhappy compromise between the correct wear for a theatrical party at Maidenhead and a glee-singing competition in a garden suburb. In fact, he ought to, on certain occasions.

Already the perplexities of the examination school were beginning to reassert them- selves in his mind. I usually have a glass of champagne about this time. Will you join me? Thus, in broad outline, Jasper sketched the more pro- minent features of my first year; some detail may be added on the same scale. I had committed myself earlier to spend the Easter vaca- tion with Collins and, though I would have broken my word without compunction, and left my former friend friendless, had Sebastian made a sign, no sign was made; accordingly Collins and I spent several economical and instructive weeks together in Ravenna.

A bleak wind blew from the Adriatic among those mighty tombs. In an hotel bedroom designed for a warmer season, I wrote long letters to Sebastian and called daily at the post office for his answers. There were two, each from a difierent address, neither giving any plain news of himself, for he wrote in a style of remote fantasy It is the feast of S.

Mickodemus of Thyatira, who was martyred by having goatskin nailed to his pate, and is accord- ingly the patron of bald heads. Tell Collins, who I am sure will be bald before us. When, many years later, there appeared the first massive volume of his still un- finished work on Byzantine Art, I was touched to find among two pages of polite, preliminary acknowledgements of debt, my own name: My father in his youth sat for All Souls and, in a year of hot competition, failed; other successes and honours came his way later, but that early failure impressed itself on him, and through him on me, so that I came up with an ill-considered sense that there lay the proper and natural goal of the life of reason.

I, too, should doubtless have failed, but, having failed, I might perhaps have slipped into a less august academic life else- where. It is conceivable, but not, I believe, likely, for the hot spring of anarchy rose from depths where was no soHd earth, and burst into the sunlight - a rainbow in its cooling vapours - with a power the rocks could not re- press. In the event, that Easter vacation formed a short stretch of level road in the precipitous descent of which Jasper warned me.

It seems to me that I grew younger daily with each adult habit that I acquired. I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement; to the hard bachelor- dom of English adolescence, the premature dignity and authority of the school system, I had addeS a sad arid grim strain of my own. At the end of the term I took my first schools; it was necessary to pass, if I was to remain at Oxford, and pass I did, after a week in which I forbade Sebastian my rooms and sat up to a late hour, with iced black coffee and charcoal biscuits, cramming myself with the neglected texts.

I remember no syllable of them now, but the other, more ancient lore which I acquired that term will be with me in one shape or another to my last hour. Is more needed now? Looking back, now, after twenty years, there is little I would have left imdone or done otherwise. I could tell him that all the wickedness of that time was like the spirit they mix with the pure grape of the Douro, heady stuff full of dark ingredients; it at once enriched and retarded the whole process of adolescence as the spirit checks the fermentation of the wine, renders it undrinkable, so that it must lie in the dark, year in, year out, until it is brought up at last fit for the table.

I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. I had my secret and sure defence, like a talisman worn in the bosom, felt for in the moment of danger, found and firmly grasped. So I told him what was not in fact the truth, that I usually had a glass of cham- pagne about that time, and asked him to join me.

I lived now among his friends, but our frequent meetings were more of his choosing than mine, for I held him in considerable awe. In years, he was barely my senior, but he seemed then to be burdened with the experience of the Wandering Jew. He was indeed a nomad of no nationality. An attempt had been made in his childhood to make an , Englishman of him; he was two years at Eton; then in the middle of the war he had defied the submarines, rejoined his mother in the Argentine, and a clever and audacious school- boy was added to the valet, the maid, the two chauffeurs, the Pekinese, and the second husband.

Criss-cross about the world he travelled with them, waxing in wickedness like a Hogarthian page boy. When peace came they returned to Europe, to hotels and furnished villas, spas, casinos, and bathing beaches. At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl and taken to play at the big table in the Jockey Club at Buenos Aires; he dined with Proust and Gide and was on closer terms with Cocteau and Diaghilev; Firbank sent him his novels with fervent inscriptions; he had aroused three irreconcilable feuds in Capri; by his own account he had practised black art in Cefalu and had been cured of drug-taking in California and of an Oedipus com- plex in Vienna.

At times we aU seemed children beside him - at most times, but not always, for there was a bluster and zest in Anthony which the rest of us had shed soinewhere in our more leisured adolescence, on the playing field or in the school-room; his vices flourished less in the pursuit of pleasure than in the wish to shock, and in the midst of his polished exhibitions I was often reminded of an urchin I had once seen.

He was cruel, too, in the wanton, insect-maiming manner of the very young, and fearless like a little boy, charging, head down, small fists whirling, at the school prefects. He asked me to dinner, and I was a little disconcerted to find that we were to dine alone. We will drink Rhine wine and imagine ourselves.

Not on a j-j-jaunt with J-J-Jorrocks, anyway. But first we will have our aperitif. Then I will drink it for you. One, two, three, four, down the red lane they go. How the students stare! I am a little out of sympathy with them for the moment. You heard about their treatment of me on Thursday? It was too naughty. Luckily I was wearing my oldest pyjamas and it was an evening of oppressive heat, or I might have been seriously cross.

I leaned away firom him in the corner of the hired car. I was reminded of some of those leprous fapades in the vteux port at Mar- seille, until suddenly I was disturbed by such a bawling and caterwauling as you never heard, and there, down in the little piazza, I saw a mob of about twenty terrible young men, and do you know what they were chanting?

We want Blanche in a kind of litany. Such a public declaration! Weil, I saw it was all up with Mr Huxley for the evening, and I must say I had reached a point of tedium when any interruption was welcome. I was stirred by the bellows, but, do you know, the louder they shouted, the shyer they seemed? All the young ladies in London are after him. He came to le Touquet at Easter and, in some extra- ordinary way, I seemed to have asked him to stay.

He lost some infinitesimal sum at cards, and as a result expected me to pay for all his treats - well, Mulcaster was in this party; I could see his ungainly form shuffling about below and hear him saying: Have you come to repay me the three hundred francs I lent you for the poor drab you picked up in the Casino? It was a niggardly sum for her trouble, and what a trouble, Mul- caster. Gome up and pay me, poor hooligan! My dear, they looked too extraordinary. They had been having one of their ridiculous club dinners, and they were all wearing coloured tail-coats - a sort of livery.

Put him in Mercury. It would be an ecstacy of the very naughtiest kind. So if any of you wishes to be my partner in joy come and seize me. If, on the other hand, you simply wish to satisfy some obscure and less easily classified libido and see me bathe, come with me quietly, dear louts, to the fountain. Oh, la fatigue du Nord! Do you know, I went round to caU on Sebastian next day? And what do you think I foxmd - besides, of course, his amusing toy bear?

Mulcaster and two of his cronies of the night before. So off they went. I expect they were drunk. I was at school with him. Everyone in pop Hked him, of course, and all the masters. I expect it was really that they were jealous of him. He never seemed to get into trouble.

He was the only boy in my house who was never beaten at all. I can see him now, at the age of fifteen. He never had spots you know; all the other boys were spotty. Boy Mulcaster was positively scrofulous. Or did he have one, rather a stubborn one at the back of his neck? I think, now, that he did. Narcissus, with one pustule. He and I were both Catholics, so we used to go to mass together. He used to spend su k a time in the confessional, I used to wonder what he had to say, because he never did anything wrong; never quite; at least, he never got pxmished.

Perhaps he was just being charming through the grille. It was disconcerting to find how observant that mild old man proved to be. It was a lesson never to trust mild old men - or charming school boys; which? Something different, some bloody, old Burgundy, eh? You see, Charles, I understand all your tastes. You must come to France with me and drink the wine. We will go at the vintage. I will take you to stay at the Vincennes. It is all made up with them now, and he has the finest wine in France; he and the Prince de Portallon - I will take you there, too. I think they would amuse you, and of course they would love you.

I want to introduce you to a lot of my friends. I have told Cocteau about you. He is all agog. You see, my dear Charles, you are that very rare thing, An Artist. Oh yes, you must not look bashful. Behind that cold, English, phlegmatic exterior you are An Artist. I have seen those little drawings you keep hidden away in your room. And you, dear Charles, if you will understand me, are not exquisite; but not at all. Artists are not exquisite. Stefanie de Vincennes really tickled me four years ago.

My dear, I even used the same coloured varnish for my toe-nails. I used her words and lit my cigarette in the same way and spoke with her tone on the telephone so that the duke used to carry on long and intimate conversations with me, thinking that I was her. It was largely that which put his mind on pistol and sabres in such an old-fashioned manner. My step-father thought it an excellent education for me. Poor man, he is very South American, I never heard anyone speak an ill word of Stefanie, except the Duke: It came floating back to him, momentarily, with the coffee and liqueurs.

There are five distinct tastes as it trickles over the tongue. It is like swal- lowing a sp-spectnim. Do you wish Sebastian was with us? Of course you do. How our thoughts do run on that little bundle of charm to be sure, I think you must be mesmerizing me, Charles. I bring you here, at very considerable expense, my dear, simply to talk about my- self, and I find I talk of no one except Sebastian. Well, anything you like. And Julia, you know what she looks like. When the USA refused to cooperate, only then did the Soviets start to ramp up their military, seeing that the people then in charge of the USA, the rightwing Nixonites from the s, was basically announcing that it was planning to militarily conquer them--by refusing to collectively ban such global weather war research.

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Bee "disappearances" are happening in Germany and several other countries, as well as the United States and Canada which is the core of it right now. As "Iridescent Cuttlefish", IC, said on another blog in a galaxy not so far away: Quite unconnected to my mysterious source, I'm thinking that there are several, if not many elements that are contributing to this crisis. I am not a big fan of the mono-causal explanation of complex issues mode of thinking bloody self-serving, single-minded mechanistic determinism, as far as I'm concerned.

Also, there are some parapolitical dimensions By Gunther Latsch 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. Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting grim scenarios.

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.

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No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. 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. Felix Kriechbaum, an official with a regional beekeepers' association in Bavaria, recently reported a decline of almost 12 percent in local bee populations.

When "bee populations disappear without a trace," says Kriechbaum, it is difficult to investigate the causes, because "most bees don't die in the beehive. Manfred Hederer, the president of the German Beekeepers Association, almost simultaneously reported a 25 percent drop in bee populations throughout Germany.

In isolated cases, says Hederer, declines of up to 80 percent have been reported. He speculates that "a particular toxin, some agent with which we are not familiar," is killing the bees. Politicians, until now, have shown little concern for such warnings or the woes of beekeepers. Although apiarists have been given a chance to make their case -- for example in the run-up to the German cabinet's approval of a genetic engineering policy document by Minister of Agriculture Horst Seehofer in February -- their complaints are still largely ignored.

Even when beekeepers actually go to court, as they recently did in a joint effort with the German chapter of the organic farming organization Demeter International and other groups to oppose the use of genetically modified corn plants, they can only dream of the sort of media attention environmental organizations like Greenpeace attract with their protests at test sites. But that could soon change. Since last November, the US has seen a decline in bee populations so dramatic that it eclipses all previous incidences of mass mortality.

Beekeepers on the east coast of the United States complain that they have lost more than 70 percent of their stock since late last year, while the west coast has seen a decline of up to 60 percent. In an article in its business section in late February, the New York Times calculated the damage US agriculture would suffer if bees died out. Scientists call the mysterious phenomenon "Colony Collapse Disorder" CCD , and it is fast turning into a national catastrophe of sorts. A number of universities and government agencies have formed a "CCD Working Group" to search for the causes of the calamity, but have so far come up empty-handed.

But, like Dennis vanEngelsdorp, an apiarist with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, they are already referring to the problem as a potential "AIDS for the bee industry.

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Millions of bees have simply vanished. In most cases, all that's left in the hives are the doomed offspring. But dead bees are nowhere to be found -- neither in nor anywhere close to the hives. Some had five or six infections at the same time and were infested with fungi -- a sign, experts say, that the insects' immune system may have collapsed. The scientists are also surprised that bees and other insects usually leave the abandoned hives untouched.

Nearby bee populations or parasites would normally raid the honey and pollen stores of colonies that have died for other reasons, such as excessive winter cold. Walter Haefeker, the German beekeeping official, speculates that "besides a number of other factors," the fact that genetically modified, insect-resistant plants are now used in 40 percent of cornfields in the United States could be playing a role.

The figure is much lower in Germany -- only 0. Haefeker recently sent a researcher at the CCD Working Group some data from a bee study that he has long felt shows a possible connection between genetic engineering and diseases in bees. The study in question is a small research project conducted at the University of Jena from to The researchers examined the effects of pollen from a genetically modified maize variant called "Bt corn" on bees. A gene from a soil bacterium had been inserted into the corn that enabled the plant to produce an agent that is toxic to insect pests.

The study concluded that there was no evidence of a "toxic effect of Bt corn on healthy honeybee populations. According to the Jena study, a "significantly stronger decline in the number of bees" occurred among the insects that had been fed a highly concentrated Bt poison feed. According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around.

In addition, the bee feed was administered over a relatively lengthy six-week period. Kaatz would have preferred to continue studying the phenomenon but lacked the necessary funding. Another possible cause, according to Haefeker, is the controversial and growing use of genetic engineering in agriculture. Could genetically modified crops be killing bees? Beekeepers spray Bt under hive lids sometimes to control the wax moth, an insect whose larval forms produce messy webs on honey. Canadian beekeepers have detected the disappearance of the wax moth in untreated hives, apparently a result of worker bees foraging in fields of transgenic canola plants.

By John McDonald With reports coming in about a scourge affecting honeybees, researchers are launching a drive to find the cause of the destruction. The reasons for rapid colony collapse are not clear. Old diseases, parasites and new diseases are being looked at. Over the past or so years, beekeepers have experienced colony losses from bacterial agents foulbrood , mites varroa and tracheal and other parasites and pathogens. Beekeepers have dealt with these problems by using antibiotics, miticides or integrated pest management. While losses, particularly in overwintering, are a chronic condition, most beekeepers have learned to limit their losses by staying on top of new advice from entomologists.

Unlike the more common problems, this new die-off has been virtually instantaneous throughout the country, not spreading at the slower pace of conventional classical disease. That there is Bt in beehives is not a question. The Mysterious Disappearance of Honey Bees; Permaculture Mar 5 07, Joe Cummins "The cogent point is that the bees in the colonies appear to have lost their immunity to viruses, bacteria and fungal diseases.

The loss of resistance to disease may be caused by parasites, virus infections, or pesticides both applied and present in GM crops. The report pointed out that an existing decline in honey bee pollinators was devastating North America. The report pointed out the importance of pollinators noting that three quarters of the earth's flowering plants depended on pollinators for propagation. The extensive report dealt with bureaucratic issues aimed at dealing with the catastrophe and delineated ways that more human and financial resources should be focused on honey bee decline.

The report did not pin down causes in decline but instead focused on introduced parasites and microbial disease causing organisms such as fungi, bacteria and viruses Other causes included habitat decline, fragmentation and deterioration. The remedies suggested included testing commercial pollinators to insure that they were disease free and similar bureaucratic measures rather than a sharp focus on the primary causes of decline 1. The impact of pesticide on bees the uses and the spread of genetically modified GM crops modified for insect resistance and herbicide tolerance were barely discussed in the report leaving the impression that these were not considered important by the committee.

The following discussion will deal with those important issues regardless of the views of the NRC Committee. Science Magazine reported on the pollination crisis but emphasized the need to replace the current pollinators with more robust insects 2. The New York Times emphasized the impact of bee decline on farmers and reported a salient observation that bees were flying off from the hive and simply not returning.

The Independent commented on the swift colony decline and noted that the problem of a tremendous pathogen load in the remaining members of a colony 4. The cogent point is that the bees in the colonies appear to have lost their immunity to viruses, bacteria and fungal diseases [which seems to be related to GM-crops and their use of Bt, which is very prevalent in the USA particularly]. The disappearance of bees may have originated with one thing that diminished the bee's immunity or by a combination of environmental factors diminishing the immune system, all hitting the bee colonies at the same time.

The vast majority of our food crops are pollinated by insects, and quite simply without the insects there can be no harvest. Bees are among the most important pollinating insects. By Patrick For some time now bee keepers in the US have noticed their bees have been disappearing, the so called Colony Collapse Disorder. It's hard to overstate the importance of this problem. A Pennsylvania bee farmer has a theory why this is happening. He thinks it's because of GM crops engineered to produce Bt, a naturally occurring pesticide.

I say naturally occurring, because it's present in small quantities in the environment. In these GM crops however, it's another story. Crops engineered to produce Bt do so in very large quantities. It's produced by every cell in the plant including roots, stems, leaves and flowers. It's also present in the pollen of these plants. The amount of Bt in these plants is enough to trigger allergies in some people, and irritate the skin and eyes of farmers who handle the crops. In India, when sheep were used to clear a field of left over Bt cotton, several sheep died after eating it.

Even if this farmer's theory turns out not to be true, it should really serve as a wake up call. The genetic contamination from these GM crops has long ago left the fields where they were grown, and if it is necessary to clean it up, it could prove to be enormously difficult. GM contamination is after all the only self-replicating contamination human beings have ever released into the environment.

Colony Collapse Disorder; Wikipedia "Late in the year and in early , however, the rate of attrition was alleged to have reached new proportions, and the term "Colony Collapse Disorder" was proposed to describe this sudden rash of disappearances. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD is the name of the phenomenon that describes the massive die-off affecting an entire beehive or bee colony.

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It was originally apparently limited to colonies of the Western honey bee in North America,[1] but European beekeepers have recently claimed to be observing a similar phenomenon in Poland and Spain, with initial reports coming in from Switzerland and Germany, albeit to a smaller degree. Theories include environmental change-related stresses[3], malnutrition, unknown pathogens, mites, pesticides, disease[4], or genetically modified GM crops[5].

Late in the year and in early , however, the rate of attrition was alleged to have reached new proportions, and the term "Colony Collapse Disorder" was proposed to describe this sudden rash of disappearances. In none of the past appearances of this syndrome has anyone been able to determine its cause s. Upon recognition that the syndrome does not seem to be seasonally-restricted, and that it may not be a "disease" in the standard sense in that there may not be a specific causative agent , the syndrome was re-named.

Bees normally will not abandon a hive until the capped brood have all hatched. Precursor symptoms that may arise before the final colony collapse are: Possible causes and research While the exact mechanisms of CCD are unknown, pathogens, pesticides or mite associations are suspected as causative agents. Whether any single factor is responsible, or a combination of factors acting independently in different areas affected by CCD, or acting in tandem , is still unknown; it is likewise still uncertain whether this is a genuinely new phenomenon, as opposed to a known phenomenon that previously only had a minor impact.

At present, the primary source of information, and presumed "lead" group investigating the phenomenon, is the Colony Collapse Disorder Working Group,[4] based primarily at Penn State University. Their preliminary report pointed out some patterns, but drew no strong conclusions. Some researchers have attributed the syndrome to the practice of feeding high fructose corn syrup HFCS to supplement winter stores.

European commentators have suggested a possible connection with HFCS produced from genetically modified corn. Pesticides One recently published view is that bees are falling victim to new varieties of nicotine-based pesticides;[9] beekeepers in Canada are also losing their bees and are blaming neonicotinoid pesticides[citation needed].

CCD is possibly linked to pesticide use though several studies have found no common environmental factors between unrelated outbreaks studied. One of the more common general hypotheses concerns pesticides or, more technically, insecticides. For example, the effects of the top Bayer product, labelled Gaucho based on the agent imidacloprid on insects would be perfectly in keeping with the symptoms ;[10][11] e.

However, it is particularly difficult to evaluate pesticide contributions to CCD for several reasons. First, the variety of pesticides in use in the different areas reporting CCD makes it difficult to test for all possible pesticides simultaneously. Second, many commercial beekeeping operations are mobile, transporting hives over large geographic distances over the course of a season, potentially exposing the colonies to different pesticides at each location. Third, the bees themselves place pollen and honey into long-term storage, effectively, meaning that there may be a delay of anywhere from days to months before contaminated provisions are fed to the colony, negating any attempts to associate the appearance of symptoms with the actual time at which exposure to pesticides occurred.

Pesticides used on bee forage are far more likely to enter the colony via the pollen stores rather than via nectar because pollen is carried externally on the bees, while nectar is carried internally, and may kill the bee if too toxic , though not all potentially lethal chemicals, either natural or man-made, affect the adult bees - many primarily affect the brood, but brood die-off does not appear to be happening in CCD.

Most significantly, brood are not fed honey, and adult bees consume very little pollen; accordingly, the pattern in CCD suggests that if contaminants or toxins from the environment are responsible, it is most likely to be via the honey, as it is the adults that are dying or leaving [or unable to find their way back] , not the brood. To date, most of the evaluation of possible roles of pesticides in CCD have relied on the use of surveys submitted by beekeepers, but it seems likely that direct testing of samples from affected colonies will be needed, especially given the possible role of systemic insecticides such as imidacloprid which are applied to the soil and taken up into the plant's tissues, including pollen and nectar , which may be applied to a crop when the beekeeper is not present.

No detailed studies of toxicity or pesticide residue in remaining honey or pollen in failed colonies are yet published, however. 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[6] makes it seem unlikely that any single such chemical is involved. However, it is possible that not all such chemicals in use have been tested for possible effects on honey bees, and could therefore potentially be contributing to the CCD phenomenon.

Pathogens and immunodeficiency Some researchers have commented that the pathway of propagation functions in the manner of a contagious disease; however, there is some sentiment that the disorder may involve an immunosuppressive mechanism, [12] not unlike the analog of HIV in humans, potentially linked to the aforementioned "stress" leading to a weakened immune system. Specifically, according to researchers at Penn State: The testing and diagnosis of samples from affected colonies already performed makes this highly unlikely, as the symptoms are fairly well-known and differ from what is classified as CCD.

A high rate of Nosema infection was reported in samples of bees from Pennsylvania, but this pattern was not reported from samples elsewhere[6]. When a colony is dying, and there are other healthy colonies nearby as is typical in a bee yard , those healthy colonies may enter the dying colony and rob its provisions for their own use. If the dying colony's provisions were contaminated by natural or man-made toxins , the resulting pattern of healthy colonies becoming sick when in proximity to a dying colony would suggest that of a contagious disease.

However, it is often reported in CCD cases that provisions of dying colonies are not being robbed, suggesting that at least this particular factor is not involved in CCD. Poisonous plants Certain plants' nectars and even some pollens such as rhododendrons, azaleas, Passiflora, almond[citation needed], aconites, hellebore, skunk cabbage, golden rain tree, Yellow Jessamine, Aloe littoralis, oleander and Chamaecrista fasciculata Partridge-pea are a few of the species known to be mildly toxic and poisonous to bees and humans.

These plants' nectars are known to include toxic or poisonous substances including alkaloids, anthraquinones, and grayanotoxin. Catalpa speciosa makes bees mildly to very inebriated , honey from Kalmia latifolia, the "mountain laurel" of the northern United States, and allied species such as sheep laurel, Kalmia angustifolia, can produce sickness or even death. The nectar of the Wharangi Bush, Melicope ternata, in New Zealand also produces toxic honey, and this has been fatal. Datura plants, belladonna flowers, henbane Hyoscamus niger , and Serjania lethalis a liana used in making fish killing mixtures from Brazil also produce toxins at dangerous to deadly levels in honey.

The changing climate, cultural, and other environmental factors may be enabling more of some of these plants' nectars to affect bees and other nectar gatherers, either through changes in the distribution of the plants both natural and artificial, the latter due to use of these plants as ornamentals , changes in the likelihood of exposure to these plants due to movement of beehives by beekeepers, or a lack of alternative nectar sources driving bees to use plants they might normally avoid. Genetically modified crops GMO Potential effects of gathering pollen and nectar from genetically modified GM crops that produce Bacillus thuringiensis Bt toxin have been investigated to a minor degree, but corn, the primary crop involved, is not a preferred plant for honey bees, although beekeepers who keep bees near corn fields state that "corn is an excellent source of pollen when in tassel" David Hackenberg, former president of the American Beekeeping Federation.

Most of the short summaries of US risk assessment studies on Bt in relation to honey bees are published on the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA homepage for Biopesticides Registration Action Documents[22], especially there is a document concerning the environmental effects of Bacillus thuringiensis as plant incorporated protectant. The original studies on the effects of Bt pollen on honeybees do not seem to be in the public domain. Thus the studies on Bt-toxins and effects on honey bees originally concentrated more on larvae and their development.

However, as pollen is an important part of bee bread, ["bee bread"? And as the CCD phenomenon involves the disappearance of the adult bees, some think there could be a direct connection[27] despite the absence of symptoms in the larvae, and despite any evidence that the bees experiencing CCD have ever been exposed to GM crops. This indicates that healthy bee colonies are not impaired in any way by the toxin in any of the tested vital functions of colony size, foraging activity, brood care activity or development, even when exposed to extreme levels of Bt maize pollen over a period of six weeks.

However, if "the bee colonies happened to be infested with parasites microsporidia , this infestation led to a reduction in the number of bees and subsequently to reduced broods This effect was significantly more marked in the Bt-fed colonies. Other more recent studies have similarly failed to show any adverse effects of Bt pollen on healthy bee colonies[21]. The preliminary report of the Colony Collapse Disorder Working Group[4] concerning "Fall Dwindle Disease"[6] indicated that "all PA samples were found to have nosema spores in their rectal contents.

The vast majority of the colonies reported to be dying from CCD occur in locations where GM corn is not grown at least in the United States , nor were bees from other areas outside of Pennsylvania reported to be significantly infected by Nosema, meaning that even if GM crops were involved in this fashion, it could only potentially account for a very small number of the reported cases of CCD.

However, similar massive bee die-offs have been recorded for decades prior to the introduction of these crops[4], and also occur in areas in Europe and Canada where there are no GM crops grown at all[21]. The disorder has been identified in a geographically diverse group of states including Georgia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and California[32]. In some states the loss of honey bee colonies is estimated as high as 75 percent of the population. In , the total U. They are responsible for pollination of approximately one third of the United States' crop species, including such species as: While some farmers of a few kinds of native crops do bring in honey bees to help pollinate, none specifically need them, and when honey bees are absent from a region, the native pollinators quickly reclaim the niche, typically being better adapted to serve those plants assuming that the plants normally occur in that specific area.

Life out of Balance is a documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The documentary contains neither dialog nor narration: In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

The commercial viability of these crops is therefore strongly tied to the beekeeping industry. Actually, what they are talking about is that the issue of the scale of a particular field is tied to it. With less bees, what will occur is that other pollinators will take over, as well as smaller fields will be utilized--which would be less degradative actually. Retrieved on March 23, Retrieved on March 27, Retrieved on March 26, Retrieved on March 29, Retrieved on March 25, Retrieved on March 21, Retrieved on February 12, URL accessed March 10, Cornell University As more GM crops are adopted, testing of honey for GM material could evolve into a daunting and expensive task due to the foraging behavior of bees.

Producers of organic honey could face difficulties in marketing their honey since honey containing GM material cannot be certified as organic. The principal GM crops to date have been soybean, canola, cotton, and corn, ["the four Frankencrops of the apocalypse"] genetically modified for herbicide tolerance [i. Honey bees visit all these plant species. Because of their pollination value and the producers of honey and other products, honey bees are one non-target insect species of importance in discussions about the impact of GM crops visited by honey bees.

Three areas of concern assume prominence when GM crops and honey bees are considered: GM material consists of transgene DNA or novel proteins produced from the transgenes, and these may be present in bee products if they occur in the plants tissues pollen and secretions nectar, resins, sap collected by bees. The importance of the public's perception about contamination of hive products with GM material cannot be overestimated. Adverse public reaction can affect the beekeeper's ability to sell hive products that could then reduce the number of beekeepers in business along with a reduction in the number of bees available for free pollination of crops.

Pollen is the most likely source of GM material since it contains ample quantities of DNA and protein. On the other hand, nectar primarily consists of sugars accompanied by minute amounts of amino acids and proteins. Since the pollen content of most honeys is between 0. Food labeling regulations require labeling when the GM material level reaches 0. At present, no labeling requirements for foods containing GM material exists in the US and Canada [which is the major core of the colony collapse disorder presently]. GM material has been detected in honey, and current regulations in the EU require testing of honey for GM material.

The problem has got a name - colony collapse disorder - but no apparent cause. At the time Gaucho http: The situation in the US seems even more severe than what happened in Europe, and certainly the onset is more sudden. According to The Independent http: Millions of bees are abandoning their hives and flying off to die they cannot survive as a colony without the queen, who is always left behind.

Some beekeepers, especially those with big portable apiaries, or bee farms, which are used for large-scale pollination of fruit and vegetable crops, are facing commercial ruin - and there is a growing threat that America's agriculture may be struck a mortal blow by the loss of the pollinators. Yet scientists investigating the problem have no idea what is causing it. Here is what he had to say: After reading several articles on the disappearance of the honeybee, the thought occurred that this appears to be happening only in the US.

A Google search turned up nothing on this phenomenon in any other country, including Canada and Mexico. Why only the US? Also, why are nonsensical excuses being offered up by the pseudo-scientific community for the demise of the bee? Researchers have dubbed the syndrome the "colony collapse disorder. Or, it could just be that the bees are stressed out.

Give me a break! Dying from weather exposure?

Just imagine a tired bee for a moment. Weather cold enough to kill bees in their hives would also decimate other insect populations. No report on that, huh? What, all of a sudden bees get stressed out? What about bees in other countries? Ah, well this is a possibility. But what would make them disoriented? This signal makes people angry, so that they support the administrations idea of going after Iran and violence in general.

It works great for mass manipulation of opinion. Unfortunately, the same signal will induce a misdirection of up to 10 degrees http: They go away from the hive and never come back because they can no longer find it. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of this is that US media has never ventured to question why it is only happening here.

Somebody must have told them to clam up on this issue or the current crop of US reporters got their degrees in journalism out of a Cracker Jack box. Now what the hell are GWEN stations, you might want to ask, and what could they have to do with the catastrophic die-off of honey bees Each tower is feet high. The stations are from to miles apart, so that a signal can go from coast to coast from one station to another. The official purpose is "to ensure adequate communication between command authorities and land-based strategic nuclear forces in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States mainland.

According to a Air Force review of biotechnology, ELF has a number of potential military uses, including "dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. They are silent, and counter-measures to them may be difficult to develop. The Perils of Electropollution http: The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States.

Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. Are these insects, by their unprecedented behavior of flying off without returning to their hives, showing that something insidious is going on? According to a message from Paul Doyon, electromagnetic waves may well have the capacity of disorienting not only bees but a number of flying creatures. Here is a specific instance involving bees he quotes: After extensive research ruled out other causes, someone noticed the hive was next to the building's electric transformer.

The bees were confused by 60 hz magnetism strong enough to interfere with homing and communication to gather nectar and pollen. Also, the weight of the honeycombs of the irradiated bees was found to be smaller than those in the hives of non irradiated bees. Verhaltensaenderung unter elektromagnetischer Exposition. Ferdinand Ruzicka, University professor. The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution. Cellular Phone Taskforce http: See also Alfonso Balmori http: Other indications put together by Doyon about the effects suffered not only by bees but also birds and farm animals from the effects of cell phone radiation: The effects of EMR are being felt by wildlife and the environment as a whole, Birds, bees, worms, trees are all being affected.

We need to fight for not only the future of mankind but for the future of the whole environment.

Vienna physicians are displaying information posters in doctor's surgeries. They state radiation from mobile phones is far from being harmless as they have been told by the cell phone companies. They have therefore, in order to act responsibly, the Chamber of Doctors in Vienna, Austria, has decided to inform people about potential medical risks. My own extraordinary first experience of complete disorientation below the lines may also be relevant; I had never experienced this before, though I have done so since, most notably after I had held up a fluorescent tube for over an hour, to be photographed under the lines; the next day, after a distressingly sleepless night, I found what looked like a burn on that shoulder.

We can now detect and create pictures from signals from spacecraft at our outer planets using transmit powers similar to those use by mobile phones of a few watts! Honeybees have been shown to be sensitive to magnetic flux differences of 1 nanotesla 10 microGauss [4][Theoretically humans could also be sensitive down to less than this level pineal thermal noise c. Biological stochastic resonance from regular pulsing EMFs can effectively amplify coherent signals like power EMFs by vast amounts.

Other studies have shown that other animals, such as sea turtles and homing pigeons, can navigate using the Earth's magnetic field as a guide. In order to navigate to precision, it is necessary to have many magnetosomes with a permanent dipole moment which are able to maintain their direction in the Earth's magnetic field while being buffeted by Brownian thermal fluctuations. A - - - Although the major trouble seems to be in the US, beekeepers in many European countries are also reporting heavy losses. Perhaps we should not concentrate, therefore, on one particular system of electromagnetic emissions.

Mobile phone providers are covering the earth with a fine-mesh network of microwave-emitting senders and repeaters, in addition to the billions of mobile phones we are using. One of the major points of trouble seems to be that the radiations from mobile phones have passed from analog to digital in the last few years, which means they are pulsed at around "packets" per second. That frequency is very close to the native frequency of the bees' hum, which has been measured to be in the range of to cycles http: There are those who warn of health dangers http: Are we going to run our of food before we realize what we're doing?

Carlo laid the blame for the sudden demise often within 72 hours of entire bee colonies on the recent proliferation of electromagnetic waves EMF. He cited the startling statistic that, at present, there are some 2. While this plus the explosive growth of cell phone towers used to be the major concern, the problem has been significantly exacerbated by the recent introduction of satellite radio. Carlo commented that the constant electromagnetic background noise seems to disrupt intercellular communication within individual bees, such that many of them cannot find their way back to the hive.

Before we had all of the electro-pollution, animals could simply orient themselves to the earths electromagnetic signature. Additionally animals could store into memory at a subconscious level the discrete signatures of subtle variations in electromagnetic signalling from various regions.

This would explain the highly specific nature of migratory behaviour seen in certain animals. What has not been appreciated is the ability which has probably evolved over time to see, complex patterns that are generated from the earth's electromagnetic signature. EMF frequencies or microwave frequencies are overriding normal control mechanisms in the body and shutting off energy production http: There is evidence though that GE crops contribute to this, in particular insect resistant crops producing the Bt-toxin.

Though healthy bees do not seem to be affected by Bt pollen, a scientist called Hans-Hinrich Kaatz in Germany has found that bees infested with parasites and fed with Bt pollen were affected and died at a high rate. The Honey Bee is Speaking to Us http: These frequencies are having an effect on the bees along with the chemtrails that work in tandem with these frequencies as plasma antennas.

Bees use natural electromagnetic frequencies to hone in on where the flowers are that they gather their pollen and nectar from and to speak to one another. Birds do the same when it comes to traveling south for the winter. Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up. Bid to halt bumblebee decline http: Here is an article on bumblebees going extinct - at least some species.

Sepp 5 July As the bees are being decimated by a toxic seed coating agent, our entire food supply is threatened. Plants need bees for Earlier this year, I published an article by French journalist Michel Dogna, who had investigated the ecological Many of us asking the "risk" question are - alas - not necessarily informed or even willing to consider the benefits of networking, and those planning the digital and mobile revolution have hardly heard about the risks.

Providers are reluctant to discuss the health implications of the Sepp It is getting quite difficult to imagine a world without mobile communications. Wireless internet access is set to blanket the planet, just like cell phone networks already do. There has been an explosive development - practically all during the last three decades - that brought mobile to the farthest corners of the earth. In the ensuing discussion on this post, the question turns to what would be needed to afford economically decent conditions to the billions of people in developing countries.

It appears that both water and energy will be important, but even more decisive than these factors will be low-input For the time being corporations publicly moved back from the project. But behind the scenes academic, corporate and government laboratories connived to produce terminators with new and more Unless I have misunderstood, this loss of bees is a fairly new phenomenon where as the radiation has been going on for quite a while.

Perhaps the bee loss is caused by several factors working synergistically. I feel that electromagnetic phenomena may be a good area to look into because of the inherent secrecy surrounding them and the chance that a new type of modulation could be added without anyone public knowledge. Other factors that have been cited, such as pesticides, seed treatment chemicals, and genetically modified crops lack the feature of a possible recent change affecting all of the US, and only the US, without similarly affecting other countries.

I hope more people looking into this will bring out more clues. Sepp on March 8, While the GWEN system has been in place for some time, it is only recently that it has turned to transmitting frequencies that disorient the bee population. The PTB inches this thing forward in small steps to allow for the forgetfulness of the population.

A probe by an unfriendly force? Or cue the ominous background music was it a bona fide Unidentified Flying Object of the extraterrestrial upper-case kind, rather than a more earthly unidentified flying object, lower-case version? Three decades after the event and 15 years after Loring was shuttered, is the incident still considered by the government to be too hot for the public to handle? On the Web site www. Richard Chapman, arrived on the scene. The colonel contacted the tower and asked the noncommissioned officer on duty to verify the light that the colonel was seeing.

The NCO insisted he could see nothing out of the ordinary. Readers may reach him by e-mail at olddawg bangordailynews.

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