'External force' behind Swedish bird death
Published: 6 Jan 11 10:11 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/31278/20110106/
The cause of death of the jackdaws found dead on the streets of Falköping, in central Sweden, was external force, not infection or disease, showed the autopsy completed on Wednesday.
According to Marianne Elvander, zoologist at SVA, the jackdaws were killed by severe internal bleeding. None of the birds showed sign of infection or illness.
"Our assessment is that they weren't carrying any contagious disease, but figuring out exactly what did kill them, other than being some sort of external force, is rather outside our area," said Olov Andersson, SVA's information officer, to TT news agency.
"What comes to mind is that they may have flown up, and been hit, or something of the sort," he speculated, a theory defended by most experts.
The birds may have been frightened by something in the middle of the night, flown about blindly, and died in collisions with different objects in the dark.
"Jackdaws overnight in trees in huge flocks. If something scares them, hundreds of birds can take to the skies as one," Anders Wirdheim of the Swedish Ornithological Society (Sveriges ornitologiska förening, SOF) told TT.
The jackdaws were discovered on a street in Falköping, just before midnight on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday. In total, between 50 and 100 dead birds were found.
Similar events have recently been reported from at least two US locations. A few days ago, 5000 birds were found dead in a town in Arkansas, and some days later a similar mass death occurred in Louisiana, as 500 birds plummeted from the sky.
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Disease would lead to the birds being spread over such a large geographical area they would not be noticed.
Fireworks would also cause the birds to scatter. Scared animals travel in all directions. Fire several shotguns at a flock of crows and they will disperse, not maintain a narrow flight pattern.
The bird kills are weird.
They are not natural.
Something is badly wrong with how this is being presented.
The local would do well to actually go do some digging on this, instead of doing web searches and badly translating through google.
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I find your lack of faith disturbing."
"You don't know the power of the dark side!"
someone is trying so hard to convince us otherwise and it seems it works!!!
Look for this on Youtube:
-HAARP CBC Broadcast Weather control part 1
-HAARP CBC Broadcast Weather control part 2
Governments have secretly spraying the sky all around the world with aluminium and others metals. Look for "What in the world are they spraying" It is well documented that China and Russia, (but surely other countries, starting with USA and Sweden actually) change the weather with spraying chemicals and using HAARP alike technologies. Hence, we know animals have a kind of 6th sense, a radar, and normally avoid bad weather. But if some people play with the weather, animals are doomed. And we are next, make no mistake. God has nothing to do in all this, other than if God exists, he should stop those mad scientists who play mother nature.
The areas are too far away from each other for a disease or fireworks stuff (btw: we celebrate every year, and I never heard about such incidents).
Some may disbelief this 2012 things (I'm skeptik as well), but if we think about floods, earthquakes, climate change (either caused by humans or not), economic and social crysis, oil drilling platforms incidents and so on, you must admit something is just damn worrying.
As I wrote, Haarp is well documented. A lot from alternative medias, but also on mainstream media, like Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
And for the chemtrails it is the same.
Google to find this article on the BBC website " Russian appeal of 'weather control' "
In this article, you will read "He has seeded clouds over Moscow on important state holidays for many years. He says the Russians use two different methods to try to drive the rain away. "
In the article, Russians openly say they spray Silver iodide in the sky.
Chemtrails are real. I see them on a weekly, and sometimes daily basis in the Goteborg.
If you create or move clouds, it affects the weather, the natural system.
I feel like an alien, because I don't understand why the mainstream media don't look further into that direction. You have crazy people playing with the weather. It has been going on for decades and it is becoming global.
Anyway,my prediction is that people will rather believe that GOD and Aliens are behind it, or some fire crackers.
But to me, it is obvious: Chemtrails and HAARP, over a long period, phoque up the system.
We are next. People who got the vaccine full of mercury, they will be the first affected by the Haarp radio waves because metal conduct waves.
It looks a lot of crazy people are doing everything to make the 2012 prophecy happens.
Don't buy into the GOD thing. God, if it was real, would stop those crazy.
Line my hat! I'm lining my jock strap...priorities.
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LOL. Eating road salt? Sure thing if you believe everything you hear. Sounds like the truck driver wanted attention. There is no way to hit even 15 birds at one time unless they are deaf, dumb, and blind.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-wisconsin-lab-blackbird-die-off.html
Research the amount of earthquakes that have been occuring lately in Arkansas near the drilling sites. This shouldn't be a surprise to ANYONE, especially so-called scientists and experts.
Natural gas companies are messing with the tectonic plates and exposing magnetic fields, which birds rely on to migrate. They are drilling for natural gas ALL OVER THE PLACE now, including offshore Brazil.
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I honestly believe this is the cause. The megatons of aluminum, barium and iodine being spread into our atmosphere across the globe on a daily basis probably doesn't help either. The sky has become a NATO science experiment. :( We need to demand answers and BAN GEOENGINEERING TOO.