70 dead in floods in South Africa
January 22, 2011 – JOHANNESBURG — The death toll from torrential rain in South Africa has reached 70, with another 8,000 people displaced, an official said Saturday, as the government stepped up its emergency efforts. “The number of fatalities currently recorded nationally have sadly increased to 70… The number of displaced and affected households reported at 8400,” cooperative governance spokesman Vuyelwa Qinga said in a statement. She added that, after consultations with various experts, the government had decided to establish national disaster joint operations to “improve coordination of government interventions and streamline communication in relation to the disasters.” Displaced families are currently living in community halls or tents and are receiving food parcels. Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka said the flood damage was estimated at 356 million rands (51 million dollars, 32 million euros) so far with reports from some provinces yet to come in. In Mozambique 10 people have died as a result of floods, with more than 10,000 others evacuated from their homes. Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have also been affected by the heavy rains. Though there have been no reports yet of major incidents in those countries, people in low-lying areas have been warned to leave their homes. -AFP
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Thousands of dead herring wash ashore on Vancouver Island
January 22, 2011 – NANAIMO — “Large numbers of dead herring that washed ashore this week on a Vancouver Island beach have both fishery officials and local fishermen looking for answers. Will Meeks, who works close to Cedar’s North Beach where the fish washed ashore, said he knew something was amiss when he saw unusually large numbers of birds congregating on the beach Thursday morning. He said he was surprised to find “thousands” of dead herring washed ashore, a scene he can’t recall ever seeing before on local beaches. Meeks said the dead herring appear to localized to North Beach because he and friends checked nearby beaches and found nothing similar. Lisa Mijacika, a spokeswoman with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said DFO officers are being sent to North Beach to determine what killed so many herring. Paul Kershaw, a commercial herring fisherman, speculated that the fish could have ended up in an area of the ocean close to the beach that was low in oxygen, which could have caused the deaths. “There may have been thousands of dead herring in this incident, but there are usually billions of herring in the biomass,” Kershaw said. “However, this will obviously be a big concern if lots more show up dead on the beaches.” -Vancouver Sun
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Planetary seismic stresses continue to destablize tectonic plates
January 22, 2011 – The 3.6 magnitude quake in the Virgin Islands testifies of the growing unrest along the Caribbean plate that is being jostled eastward as the North American plate and the opposing Coscos plate continue to play havoc with the planet’s geological structure. The Coscos plate tension has created an eruption of quakes that have rippled up the Yucatan- 5.0 in Chiapas, Mexico, a 4.9 south of Panama, and a 5.1 north of Nicaragua. The Yucatan is a region that is destined to see catastrophic geological upheaval as Earthchanges intensify. Below are the latest notable seismographs from a mild tremor that shook plates across the planet at 8:00 GMT. -The Extinction Protocol
Enshi China
Barbados – Caribbean
Thailand
Researchers find even tiny oscillations in magnetic fields short-circuits birds perception
January 22, 2011 – LONDON – “Researchers have been investigating the mechanism which enables birds to detect the Earth’s magnetic field to help them navigate over vast distances. This ability, known as magnetoreception, has been linked to chemical reactions inside birds’ eyes. Now a team from Oxford University and Singapore believe that this ‘compass’ is making use of something called quantum coherence. In a forthcoming article in Physical Review Letters the team report how they anaylsed data from an experiment by Oxford and Frankfurt scientists on robins. The experiment showed that the magnetic compass used by robins could be distrupted by extremely small levels of magnetic ‘noise‘. When this noise, a tiny oscillating magnetic field, was introduced it completely disabled the Robins’ compass sense which then returned to normal once the noise was removed – good news for robins which have to navigate on the long migration route to Scandinavia and Africa and back every year. In their analysis the Oxford/Singapore team show that only a system with components operating at a quantum level would be this sensitive to such a small amount of noise.” -Physics.org
So what do animals do when the entire planet is vibrating from tremors and the coherence patterns in the planet’s magnetic are disrupted? According to the latest research, parts of the animal’s mental cognitive processes are impaired.
See Magnetic field & life on Earth
Mass global animal die-offs sparking extinction fears
January 22, 2011 - New Zealand – “Little penguins are dying in their hundreds, leading conservationists to fear they are starving as a result of the La Niña weather system. Other seabirds are washing up dead on beaches, raising concerns that species could become extinct if climate change causes extreme weather events to become more frequent. At Wellington Zoo, two starving little blue penguin chicks have been brought in this week. One died on Wednesday and the other, found at Lyall Bay, was hanging on to life yesterday. The zoo’s veterinary science manager, Lisa Argilla, said petrels were also starving around Wellington’s south coast, and five shags had been brought in this month. “They’re unable to find enough food. We’ve had a lot of starvations and a lot of mortalities.” At Banks Peninsula, hundreds of little white-flippered penguin chicks have died of starvation, according to Shireen Helps, who has been caring for the colony on her property for about 25 years. “There were chicks dying in their burrows, in the hillside, and heaps dying on the water.” Dr Argilla said the calm La Niña seas meant fewer small fish and plankton close to the surface of the water for them to feed on. Those brought into the zoo were likely to be just a very small portion of those dying. She was concerned that more frequent extreme weather events could lead to extinctions in some species – penguins, for example, needed five or six years of good conditions for populations to regenerate. The strong La Niña had brought with it conditions that made for a bad breeding year. “They’re natural occurrences that always happen, but now they’re happening more regularly and it’s playing havoc with wildlife populations.” -Stuff.NZ
This year’s La Niña is the strongest ever detected in recorded history. I warned in my book this day was coming. The protocol is underway…
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Deadly H5N1 virus confirmed in chickens in Japan
January 22, 2011 -TOKYO — Japan has began slaughtering some 10,000 chickens at a poultry farm in western Miyazaki prefecture in a bid to contain an outbreak of bird flu, according to the local government. Officials in the prefecture, 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo, said 36 chickens were found dead on Friday at the poultry farm. Preliminary tests confirmed that six of the birds had died of the H5 subtype of the avian flu virus, the officials said. In an effort to prevent a larger outbreak, the local government decided to slaughter all the chickens at the farm while setting up 20 checkpoints for disinfection and banned any movement of chickens within 10 kilometres. It was the first bird flu outbreak since 2007 in Miyazaki, where a foot-and-mouth outbreak also forced the slaughter of almost 300,000 farm animals last year. In Tokyo, Prime Minister Naoto Kan set up a task force Saturday morning to “promptly” introduce necessary measures to contain the bird flu outbreak, officials said. -AFP
Hong Kong – A Large-billed crow and an Oriental magpie robin were both recently found dead in Hong Kong. Lab results from tests on the dead birds confirmed both birds died from progressive stages of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus. -7th Space
*See chapter 15 in the Extinction Protocol on Pestilence threat
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24 beached pilot whales die on New Zealand beach
January 22, 2011 – Wellington - Twenty-four pilot whales have died on a remote beach in the far north of New Zealand, the Department of Conservation was quoted as saying on Friday by press reports. Fourteen of the whales were already dead when the group was found scattered over 150 metres of rocks, mud and mangrove early Friday in Parengarenga Harbour, 15 kilometres south of North Cape. They appeared to have become stranded the previous day. The department said the others had to be put down because they were in poor condition and chances of successfully refloating them in deteriorating weather were remote. ”If we felt there was a real chance we could have successfully rescued them, we would have,” the department’s area manager Jonathan Maxwell was quoted as saying by the New Zealand Press Association. ”Sadly, the current conditions were against these animals,” Maxwell said. “The kindest thing was to end their suffering.” -Earth Times
Scientist believes there may be 2 suns in the sky in 2012
Signs in the heavens?January 21, 2011 – “Earth could be getting a second sun, at least temporarily. Dr. Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, outlined the scenario to news.com.au. Betelgeuse, one of the night sky’s brightest stars, is losing mass, indicating it is collapsing. It could run out of fuel and go super-nova at any time. When that happens, for at least a few weeks, we’d see a second sun, Carter says. There may also be no night during that timeframe. The Star Wars-esque scenario could happen by 2012, Carter says… or it could take longer. The explosion could also cause a neutron star or result in the formation of a black hole 1300 light years from Earth, reports news.com.au. But doomsday sayers should be careful about speculation on this one. If the star does go super-nova, Earth will be showered with harmless particles, according to Carter. “They will flood through the Earth and bizarrely enough, even though the supernova we see visually will light up the night sky, 99 per cent of the energy in the supernova is released in these particles that will come through our bodies and through the Earth with absolutely no harm whatsoever,” he told news.com.au. In fact, a neutrino shower could be beneficial to Earth. According to Carter this “star stuff” makes up the universe. “It literally makes things like gold, silver – all the heavy elements – even things like uranium….a star like Betelgeuse is instantly forming for us all sorts of heavy elements and atoms that our own Earth and our own bodies have from long past supernovi,” said Carter. -The Huffington Post
Signs in the heavens?
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