"With colonies in decline, bees thrive on rooftops of Paris" by Rachel Kurowski, Associated Press | September 20, 2009
PARIS - Bees are disappearing from fields across France and elsewhere in the world, victims of a slow decline in number because of loss of habitat compounded by a recent and mysterious catastrophe variously blamed on disease, parasites, and pesticides. The most recent science research points to a combination of interacting diseases for new collapses of bee colonies.
Yup, sure, MSM.
Please see: The Sounds of Spring in New England
It's an agenda-pushing corporate paper to the core.
But.... rural bees are dying off from pesticides and fertilizers....
So those children stories about the City Bee and Country Bee are true?
Domesticated bee populations worldwide have dropped significantly since the late 1940s. The causes have been mostly loss of habitat, disease, fungi, and invading parasites, says a 2007 study by the US National Academy of Sciences. It is estimated that half of the honeybee population has disappeared in the United States and Britain, according to an April report from the International Bee Research Association.
That is BAD, BAD, NEWS! We NEED BEES not only for flowers, but FOR FOOD!!!
And lately the world has been hit by a new crisis, called colony collapse disorder. In 2007-2008, it caused the loss of 35 percent of US bees. Wild bee populations have also plunged, with disease and loss of habitat being blamed. Last year, 30 percent of Europe’s 13.6 million beehives died, according to statistics from Apimondia, an international beekeeping body.
A conference last week in Montpellier, France, was told that Ireland had a 53 percent drop in bees in 2006, Slovenia lost 30 to 35 percent of its colonies last year, Italy 37 percent. It is not just about honey. The US Agriculture Department estimates a third of our diet comes from sources pollinated by insects, primarily bees. The French beekeepers’ union believes 65 percent of agricultural plants worldwide risk not getting pollinated. The United States has had to import huge numbers of bees from Australia to pollinate apple orchards and berry fields....
Other than the one surprise, I have not seen very many bees at all this past summer, such as it was.
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Are they just idiots, or....?
More buzz of an entirely different kind:
"Ex-premier Villepin stars in French slander trial" by Verena Von Derschau, Associated Press Writer | September 21, 2009
PARIS -- A slander trial, which also will delve into old international arms deals, offshore bank accounts and the French aviation and defense industries....
The case began with a mysterious list claiming to show clients who held secret accounts with Luxembourg clearing house Clearstream, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other leading French political and business figures. The accounts were purportedly created to hold bribes from a 1991 sale of warships to Taiwan, among other shady income.
Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was given the list, and he asked a retired general to investigate it. It turned out to be a hoax....
Says who? The MSM? Then it must be true given their outrageous propensity for agenda-pushing lies.
See: What is a MSM Update Made Of?
A key defendant is a former vice president at Airbus parent company EADS, Jean-Louis Gergorin. He is accused of cooking up the scheme to discredit leading figures and is charged with "slanderous denunciations."
The other defendants are an accountant accused of stealing Clearstream documents used to make the faked list, Florian Bourges; Denis Robert, an investigative journalist accused of giving the Clearstream documents to computer expert Imad Lahoud; and Lahoud, accused of doctoring the documents.
Reminds me of the forged yellowcake documents from Italy procured by Michael Ledeen.
The trial has transfixed France's political elite, dividing conservatives between Sarkozy's allies and Villepin's shrinking camp. Leftists, meanwhile, are deriding both men....
Sarkozy went on to win the 2007 presidential election. The Clearstream affair cast a shadow over Villepin....
So WHO BENEFITED from the FORGED DOCUMENTS?
Sounds like Dominique got set up.
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Here is something that isn't much talked about anymore:
BERLIN - The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a safety warning for air speed sensors that are made by Goodrich Corp. and fitted on many Airbus jets - just two weeks after advising airlines to use them instead of instruments made by
Experts believe sensors made by Thales may have contributed to the June crash of an Air France Airbus jetliner -- Flight 447 -- from Brazil to Paris that killed 228 people.
That sure is a LOT OF TROUBLE to go through for something that MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED!
See: The Partial Cover-Up of French Flight 447 Continues
The latest EASA emergency directive, effective yesterday, said malfunctions have been reported in pitot tubes that Charlotte, N.C.-based Goodrich made for A330 and A340 Airbus jets.
Then why aren't planes falling out of the sky every day?
It urged airlines to test the devices....
The LENGTHS to which they will go to COVER UP with LIES is UNREAL, isn't it?
Btw, look at 'em reaching for any excuse BUT "terrorism," huh?
Who was on that flight, anyway (turns out a couple of illegal arms foes, cui bono)?
Also see: AmeriKan MSM Covering Up the Fatal Felling of French Flight 447
