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First 2005 Dutch Crop Circles Reported in Hoeven, Holland Grass

Hoeven, Holland, is a small farming community marked by the red star near Roosendaal, south of Rotterdam. Map © MapQuest.
Hoeven, Holland, is a small farming community marked by the red star near Roosendaal, south of Rotterdam. Map © MapQuest.

April 12, 2005  Brummen, The Netherlands – Seven years ago on June 7, 1999, a few minutes after midnight, 19-year-old Robbert van den Broeke woke up and felt compelled to look out his second story bedroom window. Robbert opened the curtains and saw a “small, misty, pinkish-purple light” shaped like a football coming over the wheat field at a height of about ten feet. The light stopped about 150 feet from his house. “Then the light started to elongate, spreading out becoming thinner and thinner looking like a disc. When it was about thirty feet in diameter, Robbert saw what he called “electrical discharges” emit from the bottom of the pinkish-purple light. After that, the light faded away. Robbert ran outside into the wheat and there was a 30-foot-diameter circle next to a 10-foot-diameter circle.

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Highly Strange Dog Death in Arkansas; 2000-Pound Bull Dropped On Log Pile and Calf Skinned

Rancher Ricky Lummus and his family have 90 acres between Bloomburg, Texas, and Doddridge, Miller County, Arkansas, near the "T-border" where Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas come together. Hope and Ashdown, Arkansas, circled in black on the map, are areas of animal mutilation reports over the past several decades.
Rancher Ricky Lummus and his family have 90 acres between Bloomburg, Texas, and Doddridge, Miller County, Arkansas, near the “T-border” where Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas come together. Hope and Ashdown, Arkansas, circled in black on the map, are areas of animal mutilation reports over the past several decades.

April 12, 2005  Doddridge, Arkansas – Rancher Ricky Lummus is 43-years-old. He has been raising animals for half his life. Nine years ago, he and his family moved on to 90 acres in southwestern Arkansas between Bloomberg, Texas, and Doddridge, Arkansas, very near the “T-border” where Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana come together. He runs his cattle with cow dogs. Recently he added two male puppies about two-months-old to his other five dogs for a total of seven.Click for report.

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Chronic Wasting Disease Has Spread to New York State Captive Deer

“If it was a positive CWD animal, I would not eat it. In the infectious prion form, we hope the species barrier will protect us. But the recent history of BSE (Mad Cow) suggests it has not.”

– Srinand Sreevatasan, D.V.M., Univ. of Minnesota

Oneida County, New York, where Utica is the County Seat.
Oneida County, New York, where Utica is the County Seat.

 April 7, 2005  Albany, New York – This week on April 2, 2005, a second case of Chronic Wasting Disease was confirmed in a white-tailed deer farm in Oneida County, New York State. Utica is the county seat. The week before, the first case was reported by New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets and the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC).Click for report.

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U. N. Reports Earth’s Ecosystem Deteriorating Rapidly – Will Humans Change Bleak Future?

“This (U. N.) report is essentially an audit of nature’s economy, and the audit shows we’ve driven most of the accounts into the red.”

– Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute

March 31, 2005 Washington, D. C. –  This week, the United Nation’s Millennium Ecosystem Assessment program held press conferences in London, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Beijing, New Delhi, Brasilia, Cairo, Nairobi and Rome to announce results from an unprecedented study of the Earth’s ecosystem by more than 1300 scientists from 95 countries that began in 2001. The current data is sobering. Fifteen of the twenty-four services the assessment analyzed have degraded – most notably fresh air and water, fisheries, water purification, forests, other habitats and the regulation of climate, natural hazards and pests. Click for report.

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Could Avian Flu H5N1 Cause the Next Pandemic?

“I can certainly say the risk is huge! Certainly the H5N1 virus that is out there is a particularly nasty virus. If you want to rank the flu viruses that you don’t want in the human population, this guy is right at the top. The potential (threat) is huge. But exactly what the risk is in terms of this virus going human-to-human, nobody actually has any idea.”

– Richard Webby, Ph.D., Microbiologist and Influenza Virus Specialist

Tuesday, February 22, 2005, Albuquerque Journal. 
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, Albuquerque Journal.

March 12, 2005  Memphis, Tennessee – For the past several weeks, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has made announcements about CDC’s concern that the avian flu virus in Asia, also known as “bird flu,” could be the source for the world’s next dangerous pandemic in the human population. In fact, CDC and the World Health Organization say they are trying with urgency to develop a vaccine that could be ready if the avian flu virus, known as H5N1, expands its host territory from chickens and ducks to transmission human-to-human.Click for report.

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Juan de Fuca Ridge: 4,000 Small Quakes West of Vancouver Island, Feb. 27 – Mar. 4.

One hundred miles west of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 4,000 small earthquakes swarmed between February 27 and March 4, 2005. There, the Juan de Fuca Plate moves downward below the North American Plate along the seismically active Ring of Fire. A large motion downward of the Juan de Fuca Plate could push the North American Plate violently upward in a major earthquake and possibly Indonesia-sized tsunami.
One hundred miles west of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 4,000 small earthquakes swarmed between February 27 and March 4, 2005. There, the Juan de Fuca Plate moves downward below the North American Plate along the seismically active Ring of Fire. A large motion downward of the Juan de Fuca Plate could push the North American Plate violently upward in a major earthquake and possibly Indonesia-sized tsunami.

March 10, 2005  Newport, Oregon – An abnormally large number of small earthquakes swarmed in the Juan de Fuca region off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, between February and March 4. Then on March 8, 2005, Mount St. Helens released a 30,000-foot-high plume of gas and ash. Offshore, U. S. Navy hydrophones picked up at least 4,000 low magnitude rumblings over six days, which provoked university and NOAA scientists to recently dive down to the sea floor to check out what was happening. Of all the seismic regions off shore around the continental United States, the Juan de Fuca ridge is one that could have a subduction event in which plates violently slide over each other as they did in the huge December Indonesian event. If that did happen in Juan de Fuca, there could be a very large tsunami as well.Click for report.

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Collapse of Societies: From Easter Island to Iraq – to Western World?

The statues of Rapa Nui on Easter Island are called moai in the Rapanui language. In the totem tradition of some other Polynesian cultures to honor ancestors and display strength and wealth, statues were carved from the island's lava stone between 900 A.D. and around 1500 A. D. Approximately half of the total of 887 statues documented to date still remain in the immediate vicinity of Rano Raraku, the quarry in which they were produced. The statues were transported and erected with the leverage help of the island's once abundant tall palm trees which were eventually all cut down. Photograph © Cliff Wassman.
The statues of Rapa Nui on Easter Island are called moai in the Rapanui language. In the totem tradition of some other Polynesian cultures to honor ancestors and display strength and wealth, statues were carved from the island’s lava stone between 900 A.D. and around 1500 A. D. Approximately half of the total of 887 statues documented to date still remain in the immediate vicinity of Rano Raraku, the quarry in which they were produced. The statues were transported and erected with the leverage help of the island’s once abundant tall palm trees which were eventually all cut down. Photograph © Cliff Wassman.
The west coast of Chile is 2,300 miles to the east and Polynesia's Pitcairn Islands are 1,300 miles to the west. 
The west coast of Chile is 2,300 miles to the east and Polynesia’s Pitcairn Islands are 1,300 miles to the west.
Easter Island is triangular-shaped and was created entirely from three volcanic eruptions over the past few million years. The entire island is only 9 miles long north to south, 1,670 feet high and covers only 66 square miles.
Easter Island is triangular-shaped and was created entirely from three volcanic eruptions over the past few million years. The entire island is only 9 miles long north to south, 1,670 feet high and covers only 66 square miles.

February 26, 2005  Los Angeles, California – Among earth mysteries, some of the greatest are the haunting remains of past civilizations such as the Mayan pyramids of Mexico and Central America; the elaborate, deserted temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia; and the huge and heavy stone statues on remote Easter Island, 2300 miles west of Chile’ in South America. The island and its strange statues were not discovered until Easter Day on April 5, 1722 by a Dutch explorer named Jacob Roggeveen. Like all subsequent visitors, Roggeveen was puzzled about how the natives there had erected the large lava rock statues, one as tall as 39 feet. And why?Click for report.

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Updated – Bull and Cow Mutilations Northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas

Left: Bull found dead and mutilated on January 5, 2005, in Sandia, Texas, northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas. Right: Cow also found dead and similarly mutilated 150 yards from bull. Photographs by Chris Dimukes © 2005 by South Side Sun.
Left: Bull found dead and mutilated on January 5, 2005, in Sandia, Texas, northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas. Right: Cow also found dead and similarly mutilated 150 yards from bull. Photographs by Chris Dimukes © 2005 by South Side Sun.


Updated on February 21, 2005 with photographs.Original report January 15, 2005  Sandia, Texas – I have investigated the phenomenon of animal mutilations since 1979 and before he died, U. S. Army Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso told me that he had seen with his own eyes, during his work for the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, highly classified documents about unusual and bloodless animal deaths around the world dated as early as 1951. That would be only four years after the Roswell, New Mexico, headlines about an unidentified flying disc that had crashed near Corona.

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Kyoto Protocol Goes Into Affect February 16, 2005. British Scientists Warn Global Temperatures Could Be Even Greater Than Earlier Estimates.

“In the early part of the record around 1958 on, the average annual rate of carbon dioxide growth was something like 0.7 parts per million (ppm) per year, whereas in the past five or six years, the average rate of growth has been more like 1.8 ppm per year ­ two and a half times faster. And up to 2.54 ppm in 2002-2003.”

– Pieter Tans, Ph.D., NOAA

Ever-increasing carbon dioxide since 1958. Graph © 2004 by Pieter Tans, Ph.D., NOAA.
Ever-increasing carbon dioxide since 1958. Graph © 2004 by Pieter Tans, Ph.D., NOAA.
As the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increase in the Earth's atmosphere, the global average temperature of our planet is projected to keep rising as well. Graph above was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC).
As the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increase in the Earth’s atmosphere, the global average temperature of our planet is projected to keep rising as well. Graph above was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC).   

February 3, 2005  Washington, D. C. – While the world has a new consciousness about the danger of tsunamis in the oceans and the need for better warning systems, above us in the atmosphere, another danger increases and warnings grow more loudly than ever. That danger is the ever-increasing amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases surrounding our planet and making it warmer. Yet, the warnings seem to be ignored by the United States, Australia, China, India and Brazil.

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From U. S. to Arctic – A Sea Change in the Weather

“The kind of really severe wet, warm and windy winter that happened less frequently in the past, now the odds are that it will begin to happen more and more often.”

– Drew Shindell, Ph.D., NASA’s GISS

Front page top headline, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22, 2004.
Front page top headline, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22, 2004.
Record-breaking rains and snowfall the first two weeks of 2005 spread destruction and havoc from the West Coast to the East Coast. Above, Associated Press report on January 19, 2005; Below, January 19, 2005 and January 9, 2005, Albuquerque Journal.
Record-breaking rains and snowfall the first two weeks of 2005 spread destruction and havoc from the West Coast to the East Coast. Above, Associated Press report on January 19, 2005; Below, January 19, 2005 and January 9, 2005, Albuquerque Journal.


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