the dying and the being born

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"colony collapse disorder" (decline in honeybee populations, which pollinate one third of our crops):
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Mystery killer silencing honeybees

If the die-off continues, it would be disastrous for U.S. crop yields.

by Sandy Bauers 2/5/7

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16623837.htm
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Colony Collapse Disorder Working Group

http://www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/pressReleases/ColonyCollapseDisorderWG.html

During 2006, an alarming number of honey bee colonies began to die...
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Alarm_sounded_over_US_honey_bee_die-off
...Total U.S. crops that are wholly dependent on the honey-bee are known to exceed $US 15 billion....
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http://www.outlawjournalism.com/news/?m=20070205
...The problem caps 20 years of honeybee woes, including two mites that killed the valuable insect and a predatory beetle that attacked the honeycombs of weak or dead colonies.“This is by far the most alarming,” said Maryann Frazier, an apiculture - or beekeeping - expert at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences...
...pesticides that might impair the bees’ ability to orient to their hives...
“Part of the problem is that today we develop these big monocultures of corn or peas or cabbage,” Frazier said. “They wipe out the diversity of nectar sources and reduce nesting sites for wild bees. And we use, unfortunately, a lot of pesticides to keep the insects we don’t want from eating these crops, which also works to eliminate the pollinators.”
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From:
The Wonga Coup:
Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
by Adam Roberts 2006
http://wongacoup.com
page 262 - Epilogue
"You are a good friend and we welcome you."
~ Condoleeza Rice , American Secretary of State, to Obiang, Washington D.C. April 2006...
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http://www.amazon.com/Wonga-Coup-Ruthless-Determination-Oil-Rich/dp/1586483714
...Siphoning off $350mm of the national wealth of Equatorial Guinea into a personal bank account in the US...
...the US banking system that allows those powerful ones to sock away tainted millions...
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http://www.amazon.com/Wonga-Coup-Ruthless-Determination-Oil-Rich/dp/customer-reviews/1586483714
...Equatorial Guinea and its president, Obiang Nguema is one of the most corrupt and tyrannical leaders in Africa...While keeping his people pitifully impoverished and without health care, education or any real public services, he himself squirrels away hundreds if millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. In this he is aided by American oil companies and banks, who are basically prepared to do anything to keep him happy. Those under him live in constant fear of imprisonment, torture, rape, murder and even cannibalism...
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