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Unprecedented Northeast Bat Die-off Spreading Rapidly
“People are starting to comb through old historic records to see, but there is no evidence that I know of anywhere in the fossil record, or in recent recorded history, of a die-off of this nature in bats.”
– DeeAnn Reeder, Ph.D., Bucknell University
February 26, 2009 Vicksburg, Mississippi and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania - One year ago in February 2008, I reported at my news website, Earthfiles.com, about thousands of sick and dead cave-dwelling bats in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. [ See 022908 Earthfiles.]
Update and Podcast: Trends Journal Forecasts 2009 Economic Depression
A depression is any economic downturn where real gross domestic product (GDP) declines by more than 10%. A recession is the reduction of a country's gross domestic product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A Bloomberg News survey reported February 12, 2009: “This is the biggest U.S. economic decline since 1946 as consumer spending posts its longest slide on record.”
February 12, 2009: Cong. Budget Office Reports Record $1.2 Trillion Federal Debt in 2009, Bringing Total National Debt to $10.6 Trillion.
Total federal indebtedness has nearly doubled in ten years and every individual (305 million people) in the United States would have to contribute $37,000 each to now pay off the national debt.
What Happens If Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt Volcano Erupts Soon?
Part 1: Viewer Comments On Camouflaged V-Shaped and Other Strange Aircraft
Updated: Star Field Camouflage On Large V-Shaped Craft Near Cape Canaveral, Florida?
“When we stopped our car, the huge V-shaped aircraft stopped, too, and then turned from the direction it was going – which was to the west – it turned back and was facing towards the east looking right at us.”
- Robert Howe, Merritt Island, Florida
January 29, 2009 - For updates about another V-Shaped craft near Cape Canaveral in 1989 and a science breakthrough reported in 2009 about the development of a new cloaking technology, please see More Information at the end of this report.
Part 1: More Mysterious Multi-Colored Aerial Light Patterns Over Reno, Nevada, and Now Over Empire, Ohio
“I finally photographed the mysterious light with my digital camera and was surprised to see colored light patterns similar to the ones that were taken in Stephenville, Texas, during the mass sighting events in January 2008.”
– Penny Rubsam, Reno, Nevada
January 29, 2009 Reno, Nevada - The morning after my December 17, 2008, three hour news broadcast on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, I received the following email from Penny Rubsam - a Reno, Nevada, resident - along with several photographs she had taken on December 10, 2008, after 9 PM Pacific over the Washoe Valley south of Reno. Penny is 52-years-old, has lived in Reno for twenty-three years and moved to her current home in 2005. Her photographs are very similar to the videotape by David Caron near the Stephenville, Texas, Airport on January 19, 2008. [ See a hot link to David Caron's videotape in the Stephenville section of this report below and other Earthfiles report links in More Information at the end of this report.]
Part 2: More Mysterious Multi-Colored Aerial Light Patterns Over Reno, Nevada, and Now Over Empire, Ohio
“I noticed there was a circular-shaped object at 2:41 AM Eastern, and it was just directly west of the power plant. ...it went super fast and zipped to where I was at. And I thought, ‘It’s like this thing knows my every move.’”
– Sarah, Security Guard, Empire, Ohio, January 3, 2009
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January 29, 2009 Empire, Ohio - Between Christmas 2008 and the first week of January 2009, Penny saw the sparkling object projecting colorful patterns in the sky south of her Reno, Nevada, home again and she is going to try more photographing.
Part 2: CIA, UFOs and Hollywood
“If you’ve got government agencies working in Hollywood covertly to improve their own images, that’s not only a bad use of funds, it’s also fundamentally anti-Democratic and wrong.”
- Matthew Alford, Ph.D.
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December 22, 2008 Bristol, England - On December 17, 2008, Earthfiles reported an interview with Robbie Graham about a November 14, 2008, co-authored article in Britain's The Guardian that was the first part of a three-part series. Robbie's writing partner is Matthew Alford, Ph.D., who earned his degree in 2008, from the University of Bath focused on Film and Propaganda. Matthew is now a lecturer in film at the University of Bristol's Department of Drama: Theater, Film and Television. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled, “A Propaganda Model for Hollywood? Representations of American Foreign Policy in Contemporary Films.” Matthew is also author of a forthcoming book, Projecting Power: American Foreign Policy and the Hollywood Propaganda System.
Mystery of Missing East Coast Acorns
“Once I started paying attention, I couldn't find any acorns anywhere. Not from white oaks, red oaks or black oaks, and this was supposed to be their big year. It's really bizarre!”
- Greg Zell, Long Branch Nature Center, Arlington, Virginia
December 21, 2008 Alexandria, Virginia - This fall, Greg Zell, a naturalist working at the Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington, Virginia, went to one of the many oak forests that have long grown around Arlington, Alexandria, Virginia, and in Maryland forests. He wanted to gather a lot of oak acorns to feed flying squirrels in a program run by the Long Branch Nature Center. Greg was in for a surprise. “I couldn't find any acorns anywhere. Not from white oaks, red oaks or black oaks, and this was supposed to be their big year. We're talking zero. Not a single acorn. It's really bizarre!”