Dying bees...

An article on Prison Planet today says that bees are dying off in alarming numbers, and if bees go extinct, humans will be next.

I've been a fan of Alex Jones for a long time. I think of him as the guy watching for snakes when you're out camping. Sometimes he sees snakes, sometimes he sees a clump of bark that looks like a snake. Usually, though, he sees a knot of snakes so big nobody can believe it exists. I won't say I believe every word he says, but when he says "Snake!" I go check it out.

So, dying bees in alarming percentages. That's honestly something I never thought of. I like bees. They don't sting unless someone gives them a reason. Even if they get on you, just brush them off. Stay calm, and you'll be fine. My theory in childhood was that the sensitive chemical receptors were capable of picking up some kind of fear pheromone that agitates them. I think the same thing about dogs. It's not enough to pretend you're not afraid, you have to actually be unafraid - a neat trick if you can pull it off. And then there's honey. Honey is the best food ever. I just try not to think about the fact that it's delicious bee-vomit. Peanut-butter and honey is vastly superior to peanut-butter and jelly, and honey is a great sweetener for tea. I think I'm more moved by the threat to my honey supply than anything else.

I try not to be alarmist (I know, my last post was called "The end is nigh." I said I try), and I have that natural tendency to be a skeptic when something seems unbelievable. So I seek out a second source to confirm or deny. A google search for "dying bees" turned up 1,370,000 hits, with articles from environmentalists, horticulturists, apiarists (those are beekeepers), and blog posts from hikers and campers commenting on all the dead bees. Some of these posts go back a couple of years, but one from COSMOS Magazine was published yesterday. MSNBC and ABCNews have both reprinted AP articles about it, but there has been extremely little mention of it from the mainstream media that I've been able to find.

So it appears this is real. Bees are dying by the millions. I'm not an environmental expert, but I paid attention in ninth-grade biology class, when we talked about both pollination and extinction. Mrs. Wolfe was worth paying attention to. Anyway, I don't know enough to make dire predictions about how we're all going to die. We are all going to die, but not necessarily at the same time, and not necessarily from this. My main concern is that this is a big deal, it's verifiable, it has potential for global impact, and I haven't heard a word about it from the mainstream media.

I've become something of an annoying letter-writer. I try to express my opinion in a way that will have an effect. I write emails to these media fuckers. Here's a list, if you'd like to do the same. Ask someone what's up with the dying bees. Ask someone why you've hardly heard the name Ron Paul on TV, while the pitifully childish antics of Hillary and Barack get all the attention. Ask them whatever you want. You don't have to dress it up. Type two sentences and hit "send." That's all it takes. You should pick up the pen, now, though, so you don't have to pick up the sword later. And by later I mean really soon.

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