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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 08:11 AM
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Officials flap as birds fall from sky (Australia)
this happened in Oregon last fall. and Tx just recently.


Officials flap as birds fall from sky
POSTED: 7:37 a.m. EST, January 12, 2007
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Wildlife authorities investigating why thousands of birds fell from the sky over a town in remote southwestern Australia have ruled out infectious diseases but are no closer to figuring out what killed them, a state official said Friday.

Around 5,000 birds have been found dead in Esperance, Western Australia, since mid-December, according to Nigel Higgs, spokesman for the state's Department of Environment and Conservation.

The birds were mostly nectar- and insect-eating species, although some seagulls also have been found, Higgs said in a telephone interview from his office in the Western Australia capital, Perth.

Pathologists at the Western Australia Department of Agriculture examined several of the carcasses..........

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/12/australia.birds.ap/index.html
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 08:40 AM
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1. The birds probably ate the genetic-mutant shit-plants that corporate agribusiness is shoving
Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 08:48 AM by SpiralHawk
down the planetary throat via genetically mutant clone plant crap species.

But what the hell, republicon corporate cronies can make a buck with that crap, so the rest of us can just shut up and sit down and watch the birds drop from the sky. WE ARE NEXT.

Actual photo of a new, 'improved' repubicon-corporate mutant bird,
raised on a diet of corporate-mutant food product:
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 09:12 AM
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2. Thanks a pantload, corporate republicon cronies
Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 09:12 AM by SpiralHawk
for leading the way into the New Mutant Age of corporate crapola & dead birds.

Commander AWOL & corporate republicon cronies uber alles

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