Editorial+-+Conspiracy+Theories

Since the creation of the Internet, word has traveled about everything possible around the world, whether true or false. People can believe what they want to believe, and with billions–even trillions–of pieces of information at a person’s fingertips, there is so much to question and theorize about in this world. It has already become apparent that something of dire importance could happen one second in Egypt, and the next second an American citizen in Wyoming can be reading a breaking story about the incident online.
 * New Year, New Conspiracy Theories **

The mass deaths of birds in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Sweden, and many other places around the world have sparked speculation of great proportions. Among the multiple hypotheses, people have theorized conspiracies dealing with the US government regarding Government Testing, Natural Gas Drilling, Global Warming, Scalar Weapons, the Biblical ‘Judgment Day’, and even the theory of invisible UFOs or stealth research projects being behind the die-offs. The reality is likely to be much more mundane, but the media could beg to differ.

In terms of the recent media frenzy over these mass animal deaths around the world, National Geographic note, “The recent buzz, it seems, was mainly hatched by media hype.” Still, the theories continue to unravel.

On Examiner.com, a reader from Essex Connecticut wrote in, saying that dead birds and dead fish are mentioned in two verses of the Bible: Hosea 4:1-3 and Ecclesiastes 9:12. Both the verses do in fact mention the death of fish and birds, a warning before man’s demise due to his own doing. Zephaniah 1:3 even states, “I will sweep away humans and animals. I will sweep away birds of the air and the fish of the sea.” Theories like this – having to do with Judgment Day – scare many of religious faith.

As for the science of it, scientists have warned against Global Warming for the past few decades, but the world didn’t begin to fully notice the effects until the last decade or so. According to Bob Tuskin on his blog TheyLie.com, “The magnetic pole is moving. Add to this a dwindling magnetosphere and falling oxygen levels, plus an increase in sun activity and magnetic storms.”

Also relating to deathly environmental effects, Natural Gas Drilling has been a major topic of controversy for years. Any amount of gases, including many types, can harm the environment, making the possibility of killing off thousands of animals a reality. Birds and fish can be considered to be especially vulnerable to toxins released from gases, since their lungs are weak. Gas drills exist all over the US, and in multiple European and Asian countries. These drill locations include every single US state and country that had reported to finds cores of dead birds and dead fish. Natural gas leaks have been known to happen, dispersing pollutants into the water and atmosphere, and causing the death of animals in the surrounding area.

Moving to the possibility of government causes, secret weapons have been considered grounds for reason. Electromagnetic Scalar Weapons are pieces of technology that can artificially manipulate the environment. Alex Jones of PrisonPlanet.com believes that these weapons could be responsible for the mass die-offs. “We know for a fact that over a decade ago the U.S. Military Industrial Complex was aware of and involved in the testing of such technology,” said Jones in an article he wrote about the mass deaths.

John Wheeler III, a defense consultant and former Pentagon official, was found dead on New Year’s Eve in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. His death generated furious speculation that he was the victim of assault, a professional hit, or even a government plot.

He was said to be seen stumbling around Wilmington, and acting strangely just days before his body was found in the landfill. The state medical examiner's office released information regarding the autopsy, saying that he was beaten to death.

“Wheeler was the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington, D.C. from 2005 through 2008, and toward the end of his military career, served as the Special Assistant to the Acting Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Logistics and Environment. In other words, this was a man not only “in the know,” but with a great deal of power, a strong insider position, and most certainly a great deal of insider knowledge in terms of the military” according to TopSecretWriters.com.

At one point in his career, Wheeler wrote a manual on how effective biological and chemical weapons are, and that the U.S. should never use them. This lead people to believe that the government had been testing biological weapons in the skies over certain states, resulting in these mass animal deaths. Theorists think that Wheeler was trying to prevent such acts from happening, and threatened to approach the media about it, resulting in his immediate death and possible cover-up by the US government.

In an online blog called The Vatic Project, the blogger with a secret identity posts an opinionated note about the recent mass animals deaths, stating, “Add to that the coincidence of the Wheeler death who was an expert in biological, chemical and other Weapons of Mass destruction, occurring at the same time as the dead birds and fish.... add to that the weather anomalies, add to that the depopulation promotion for years by the elite and eugenics funding for manipulating the human population and you have a perfect storm of us being under serious attack by an enemy within, who infiltrated our government in order to set up a parallel chain of command in secret, who does all this and, in some cases, farmed out to private companies controlled and funded by Mossad companies and partner company with the company wheeler contracted with as a consultant that he was working with at the time of his murder.”

Mossad, an Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, is responsible for intelligence collection and covert operations which are suspected to include targeted killings and paramilitary activities.

The only thing I have to question is this: the US government has no jurisdiction over the European countries that also reported finding thousands of birds dead, so they couldn’t have been testing any chemicals or poisons over those skies; what would be the excuse behind that?

At any given time there are "at least ten billion birds in North America ... and there could be as much as 20 billion—and almost half die each year due to natural causes," said ornithologist Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation for the National Audubon Society in Washington, D.C. to National Geographic.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Statistics from the U.S. Geological Survey suggest that wildlife die-offs occur every few days, although the New Year’s Eve blackbird blast in Arkansas rates among the top five in the past year. It has been said that the Arkansas fish kill is likely to be traced to disease, based on the clues gathered so far by University scientists who studied the event and the sick fish.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">After multiple tests were performed, scientists and biologists spoke to the press about why these deaths occurred. The scientific approaches to the recent mass animal deaths sounded the most reasonable compared the multiple theories laid out on the Internet. Since news travels remarkably fast these days, conspiracy theorists have the ability to release all kinds of stories and thought-up explanations within a matter of minutes, even seconds, but they can’t always be believable, or even slightly true.