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Mystery: More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall From Sky Over Arkansas

(AP) — Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 black birds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.

Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the he birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that “the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail.”

The commission said that New Year’s Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

Robby King, a wildlife officer for the agency, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.

Rowe said that similar events have occurred elsewhere and that test results “usually were inconclusive.” She said she doubted the birds were poisoned.

Comments (159)

  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:22pm

    progressive methane

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  • shorthanded12
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:19pm

    Do I smell another H1N1 type flu out break? Watch the pharma stocks this week, Im sure a vacine is just waiting in the wings for the WHO/CDC (world health org, Center for Disease Control) another spread the wealth tatic and public control. Remember what Rambo Ralm said “Never let a good crisis go to waste”

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:27pm

      I recommend that everyone pass on the Vaccines .
      Doc Oz’s kids will not be getting them.

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  • bglaidlaw
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:19pm

    Clearly due to the Oil Sands in Fort MacMurray.

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  • calijohn
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:17pm

    it wasn’t the fall that killed them, it was the sudden stop.

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  • GEETAR
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:15pm

    hopefully the science community will test the birds to get an answer, however the michelle o theory is pretty funny. we really should investigate though

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    • calijohn
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:20pm

      you go right ahead and sniff out the problem, bubba.

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  • 60yroldfemale
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:09pm

    This area has been plagued with multiple swarms of earthquakes in the past months. These are small, often shallow, quakes that come frequently over a period of time. There was also a large fish kill nearby.
    Sometimes quakes release gasses which are toxic.
    It must have been spooky to the locals to see the guys in hazmat suits.
    Notice in some of the stories that the local city government had to meet Sat. in emergency session to pay the EPA to come. And the lefties screamed so about Bush’s response to Katrina! How things have changed in so short a time.

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  • Spyder
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:06pm

    HAARP?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPc6Lp8iw4

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    • Spyder
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:45pm

      Go to 36:00 and run through 38:00, where the video just happens to mention bird migration disruption.

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    • Randyrocker
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:47pm

      Who ever gave the United States Military the right to play around and play games with the earth’s ionosphere through the use of HAARP. The ionosphere belongs to everyone and everything living on earth, it knows no national boundary it belongs to the world first and foremost. For the United States Military to turn the ionosphere into a weapon of war, under the guise of HAARP being for the advancement of controlling the atmosphere’s weather systems, which again is suspect in its ramifications and concerns for the life of the planet, the United States is venturing into territories it has no right to, nor any international authority to engage any further down this unknown path.
      If the United States has a paper signed by every other country on the planet earth and the blessing of the various religious faiths on the planet as well as an international referendum signed by the whole of mankind, to mess around and play electrical weather changing games with the delicate nature of earth’s ionosphere including all of its possible repercussions, I believe the United States has no business whatsoever in their continuing any further with the HAARP program or any other that might cause irrevocable harm to the earth and all of its inhabitants. Until then, the United States Military by continuing this line of activity any further is and has and will be committing an act of war against all of mankind. If it’s war that America wants through this mischievous madness, bring it on, the rest of the world will have every right to challenge the United States in every manner and with whatever means they can have at their disposal. Weapons of Mass Destruction – Preemptive Wars – and now – HAARP attacks, has America gone mad? Don’t bother answering, we know the answer.
      The United States of America can’t even figure out how to handle its own economy, and yet they figure they can handle the atmosphere, they truly are out of their minds.

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    • GOTT-EM-MAUSER
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:40pm

      Not exactly, but you’re closer than you think.

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  • Rn mom
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:04pm

    I think we should wait for autopsy results. Why would a tornado, or chem trails or anything else just target one species in a one mile radius? At 11:30 pm, they should have been in their nests. I suspect a pathogen or food poisoning that affected their nervous system because only this species was involved and they exhibited atypical behavior (ie, flying at night) prior to death.

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    • starman70
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:48pm

      If you have ever watched these birds, they fly in packs of thousands and they don’t have “Nests” except during the spring. They roost in trees at night as these birds have no permanant home. As far as fireworks are concerned, someone is grabbing at straws.

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  • darlenekay
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:56pm

    Maybe we should ask the bees!

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:46pm

    The Rapture? rut ro

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Clearly racist……….only dead black birds.
      And the evil white birds are doing just fine

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    • calijohn
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:26pm

      obviously a publicity stunt for a remake of :dumbo”.

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:59pm

      wasn’t this a major part of the story of a show on ABC this year? I swear it got cancelled, but I can’t find it.

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  • lylee
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:45pm

    It‘s Bush’s fault.

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  • lylee
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

    Add your comments

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    • ADDICTED TO TRUTH
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:29pm

      Birds do not see well at night. They find trees to rest in and sit there quiet as a mouse until morning hoping no predator comes along. They will also do this after bathing since they have to work extra hard to fly when wet. These birds did not start falling from the sky until fireworks started and HOURS after dark. I think the fireworks spooked them and they accidentally flew into tree limbs, trees, and anything else in their path as they tried to fly away. It does not take much at all to break a bird’s neck that is flying at high rates of speed. That’s what I think anyway….just from watching how my bird acts…

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  • clockwatcher
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:40pm

    They all had Obamacare and this was the result.

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  • chips1
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:36pm

    Note the name of the town. Coinsidence? I‘d check for BB’s.

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:26pm

    The timing and locale appear to support this was likely linked to th New Year’s celebration. I suspect these birds were subjected to the same shock you see when folks “fish” with explosives. BUT, the nuts on the far right will be looking for God and/or Black Hawks piloted by alien Bigfoots while the nuts on the left will be demanding fire works (and possibly New Year’s Eve) be banned to protect the red wing blackbird. With a couple hundred million of these birds in North America, this story isn’t all that mysterious. Interesting, yes. Tragic and spooky, no.

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  • ZaphodsPlanet
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:18pm

    We all need to know the truth,
    MO….. aka… Michelle O….
    just farted in AF1 it was that gas leaving AF1 on it’s way back to DC that killed those poor birds.

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  • Randyrocker
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:14pm

    Chemtrails HAARP Radiation Tests or Gas Bubbles from Toxic Waste Matter discharged, all secretive government agencies conducting secret testing to create weapons of mass destruction against all reason. Isn’t interesting how they showed up to collect the dead birds some still partially alive. The collectors were seen wearing gas masks and sealed suits, this smacks of either overkill or their fear for exposure, and if so, why weren’t the citizens living in the area informed and told to protect themselves or get out of Dodge. Likely they collected the dead birds themselves before someone in the vicinity decided to do a little testing on their own, uncovering in analysis what the government was up to. In other words the government was protecting its own ass and not the concerns of the public.

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  • parmajohn
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:13pm

    Cell Phone Signals Time For The Goverment to regulate Them Pity The Birds Victims Of Capitalism

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  • tonguetied5
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

    Carried up by a tornado?

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    • starman70
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:42pm

      If it happened during the severe tornado outbreak in Arkansas, that is more than likely the answer. These blackbirds fly in large groups and roost the same way. If a tornado roared across an area where they were roosting. they could have been sucked up into the vortex and being light, they could have been carried 50 to 60 thousand feet into the air. That alone would have caused hypoxia. There would also be the bombardment from hailstones entrained in the thunderhead. As the severe thunderstorms dissapate, they also produce extremely strong downdrafts as the cold air aloft rushes down. If in fact the birds had been carried aloft, the downburst couls have deposited them in a relatively small area.

      It would be interesting to know if this was near any of the tornados.

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:00am

      This makes sense… Tornado.

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  • jagr1850
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:09pm

    i heard the tornado got the birds…….just happened ….remember…..another shovel ready obumma job created……….

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:07pm

    Global warming!

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  • dcwu
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:04pm

    What species?

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:29pm

      The marking on the wing makes is easily identifiable as a red wing blackbird… very common in North America.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:01pm

    Trailer park stench.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:56pm

    http://www.rense.com/general19/ex.htm
    After years of denial from government, military, and environmental agencies, the reality of the controversial issue regarding the covert programs known as Chemtrails has been acknowledged.

    On October 2, 2001 Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio introduced H. R. 2977 during the 1st Session of the 107th Congress of the United States. The “Space Preservation Act of 2001” seeks to “preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benfit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.”

    In the bill Chemtrails are listed as an “exotic weapons system”. Ironically in Section 7 – Definitions. The complete text of the bill may be found at Clifford Carnicom’s website, “Chemtrail Crimes and Coverup Documented”.
    part of the extermination of %80 agenda 21 codex Alimentarius
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ5MOe5muAU
    http://www.fastcompany.com/1708896/wiki-bee-leaks-epa-document-reveals-agency-knowingly-allowed-use-of-bee-toxic-pesticide

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    • AMERICAN BEAR
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:59pm

      I think folks like yourself have profitted greatly from 9/11/01. It has given you something else to convince the world was a conspiracy. When will you grow up and get past the silly theories that have all been proven to be the figments of your latest fantasy.

       
    • joeliberty
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:26pm

      I think TOWER7CAMPFEMA may be right. My wife and I watched three jets very high above the atmosphere the other day and they all had these huge trails behind them and were moving back and forth. At the time we did not think much about it. When we laid down at night we began questioning as to why America always has huge outbreaks of illnesses. Just what are they spraying out of those things? On another occasion 6 years ago, I observed a jet with cloud-like trails behind it and two hours later a Turkey Buzzard dropped out of the sky and landed on the hood of a Chevy Truck? Later on I observed a bird that died while sitting on the electrical wires and was stuck there!

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:50pm

      BEAR who makes money on exposing the NWO ?
      I think most people here can see the opposite is true
      you make money in America by supporting
      Lucifer and the NWO
      what veiw do you see on TV ?
      Even Glen stops short of 911 Truth.
      That doesn’t mean we are wrong and the Big Media is right.

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    • Protege
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:47pm

      OH MY GOD! It all makes so much sense now! Bill and Hillary really WERE space aliens from the Nikto galaxy, just like the Examiner said! They joined up with their fellow aliens who are disguised as the Bilderberg Group in the 90′s, and helped put the mind-controlled puppet GWB in office to hide their intents! Vince Foster was going to expose them until they used their mind-control ray gun powers to force him to commit suicide to hide the TRUTH! On September 10, 2001, they called all their alien masters (the Jews) in the WTC and told them to call in sick the next day (I read it on a site once, so it MUST be true). Then, after the Clintons secretly flew the remote-controlled planes into the explosive-rigged buildings, they took all the helpless passengers away to a secret location to be implanted with the alien embryos of the master warrior aliens! Next, their uber-elite-secret cabal pretended to protest the wars that they ordered their puppet GWB to start, all in order to appear the rational ones! Using the mind-controlled GWB as a scapegoat for everything they could (global warming, Katrina response, oil prices, teenage pregnancy, male-pattern baldness), they have slowly began to amalgamate all functions of government and private sectors into a powerful, elite, super-duper-pooper-scooper NEW WORLD ORDER. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us!

      It’s just too bad for them that their genetically-engineered, middle of the road, half white/half black, racial guilt erasing, perfect stooge puppet Obama was built defective. I mean, seriously: if I was about to take over the world with my grand conspiracy, I would want my figurehead to be smart enough NOT to need a teleprompter to avoid sounding like a stuttering idiot. Guess they’ll have to wait until the willpower-dissolving serum is put into the water supply with the sterilizing agent fluoride before they can try again. Sad day all around.

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    • crazyloon
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:08pm

      I knew it. No wonder I’m going bald.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:23pm

      @Protege very funny I hope you are still laughing 5 yrs from now.

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    • scott2012
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Do ya’ll honestly think our screwed up, partisan, disfunctional government
      could ever pull off such a complex scheme as 9-11 without whistle blowers
      and such? These Jackwagons haven’t done any thing right or secret since
      the Manhatten Project! You give way too much credit to this Braintrust that
      runs(?) the govt. It was MUSLIUM FANATICS! Damn.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:06pm

      SCOTT Do you think the Mossad is dysfunctional ?
      http://www.rense.com/general64/moss.htm
      I don’t know what happened that day but I do know
      I was Lied to about it.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:52pm

    Chemtrails ?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6P_-Czr-E

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:59pm

      wow

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:01pm

      Watch for a group of eco extremist dingbats to blame the causes on man made stressess forcing the birds into commiting a ‘group suicide’ or some such nonsense typical of that. And Tower7, chemtrails are a possibility, yet sheet lightning or a sudden hail storm also could have been part or all of the effects needed.

      Then again, some will just blame Bush for the problems.

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:02pm

      Lightening strike? That should be easy to figure out. Was there storms at the time? Otherwise, I’d be looking for some other explanation.

      Definitely odd.

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    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:06pm

      @TOWER7

      I listened to your interview. AC Griffith is insane. These same nuts think 911 is a conspiracy of the US Govt. Enuf said.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:07pm

      Another thought as well…if the blackbirds passed into the area where the fireworks were detonating in the sky (if that is the case), the shock from the blast could have been enough to either kill them or stun them enough where the fall to the ground would end in their deaths.

      Again, just another possiblility.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:08pm

      http://www.rense.com/general19/ex.htm

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

      Rep. Kucinich’s HR 2977
      Names Chemtrails As
      An ‘Exotic Weapon’

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:21pm

      @CURATOR
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjI-0uA9L8&feature=related
      I have observed this trails turning into clouds myself.
      and what is you explanation of WTC tower 7 demo on 911
      do you believe the carbon fire theory ?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQDFV1HINw

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:32pm

      @CURATOR who gained the most from 911 ?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw&feature=related
      Do you think Saddam or Bin Laden benefited ?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:37pm

      SNOW I agree there could be many reasons I just wanted to bring up
      Chemtrails and maybe Monsanto as possible causes.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:41pm

      How about this video CURATOR ?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw&feature=related

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    • JESUS-IS-LORD
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:42pm

      Only GOD

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 3:43pm

      Let’s stick with the topic .

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    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:07pm

      @TOWER7

      I think every evil person who could have profited from 9/11 did. Islam destroyed the towers. Also, there was a tower that was badly damaged when debris from the towers hit it and had to be brought down. It was even announced. Whats your problem?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:25pm

      CURATOR you throw it out there that tower 7 was DEMO’d
      well that is not the official story , That is was you know now.

      The Official Story in the press is that diesel fuel reservoirs for backup power generators at Guilliani’s Emergency Command Center in the building exploded and brought the resulting fire brought the building down, even though there has never been a case [WWW] on recordof fire-induced collapse of large fire-protected steel buildings, and that there were only sept 11th very small fires in progresswhen the building “collapsed.” Not to mention that, as any one with the slightest technical background knows, diesel at normal pressure is non-explosive and barely flammable.
      you see the LIE was so big they had to change the story.
      did you know the BBC announced tower 7 (Solomen Bros building) fell 20 minutes before it did
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI&feature=related
      I don’t like being Lied to like a sheep

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:26pm

      Lightning or high altitude hail. It happens frequently. But then again it could GWB’s fault.

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    • 101
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:34pm

      .
      Massive fish kill and 1000s of birds fall from the sky in Arkansas

      The Department of Health said several thousands of drum fish have been killed and are lining the bank of the Arkansas River

      http://www.4029tv.com/r/26321190/detail.html

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    • oldguy48
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 4:49pm

      The libs will claim it was Bush and Cheney.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 5:10pm

      It’s not your fault bear, you have been programed
      to respond in a negative way to the truth thru chemical and media
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElrXrE8AmIc&playnext=1&list=PL4A7DFBBB0237476F&index=13
      Why have you lost many freedoms since 911 ?
      You will NEVER get them back.
      I make NOTHING for waking people up
      but many are getting Rich keeping you asleep.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:15pm

      I can only wish that the same trama would come over our city and kill all the crackles.

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    • postscript
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:22pm

      “aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area”…
      First,how many birds were reported friday night from midnight until daylight? My guess, not many (esp. in a mile area). So… when the reports started coming in (my guess during the morning sat), how long did it take for someone to think it was a big story and order up a drone, piper cub or helicopter to survey the area? Did the AP pay for the aerial survey? hhmm….

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    • Ortho
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:28pm

      I live less then 10 miles from Beebe. We had rain earlier in the day and it was overcast all day and night but did not see lightening. Maybe higher elevations

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    • scott2012
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 7:29pm

      When I was a kid in Tennessee they would spray large flocks of these with
      Tergeatol(sp?) It was a detergent that washed the wax off their wings so they
      froze to death on a cold night. Maybe the Storms that moved through that area
      dropped the temp. enough to cause the same effect? Just a thought.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:01pm

      Or bird flu ?
      http://thebirdflupandemic.com/archives/mutant-h1n1-swine-flu-or-pneumonic-plague-number-of-people-in-ukraine-with-mystery-illness-almost-doubles-in-two-days-to-nearly-half-a-million

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    • 8jrts
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:27pm

      I read about chemtrails, but also came across something about methane gas coming up from sinkholes and cracks in the earth. Birds are supposed to be very sensitive to it. Anyone else heard of this??

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    • tgarrett369
      Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:36pm

      lightning explains this x file.

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    • Sickofstupid
      Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:36am

      zzzzzzzzzzzz

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    • 1matters
      Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Oh no did anyone see the black helicopters? I think this is all going to hit the fan on 9/9/99 when the computers blank out or on y2k, hurry hurry everyone the government is trying to kill us. Help us please. Oh wait my mom is calling me and I have to get off the net for awhile. I’ll post more tomorrow after I listen to some tapes of Art Bell and Chuck Harder. GET A JOB GIRLFRIEND DUDE.

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    • sclibertymom
      Posted on January 3, 2011 at 4:05pm

      “80,000 to 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River last week. … just one day before thousands of blackbirds dropped dead from the sky in Beebe, Ark., which is 125 miles away.

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    • Wethepeople1970
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:52pm

      -Woman responsible I Wonder-

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