Prophecy 20
"Beware Of Horror Of New Boiling Black Blood Plague To Come"
5/25/98

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Thursday, October 4, 2001

Red Plague + Dead Birds
West Nile Virus Takes Toll On Birds

Hundreds of dead birds rain down on town

Birds in Breese, Illinois., were killed by poison distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (AP)

Associated Press
Jan. 24, 2002 02:15:00

BREESE, Ill. - It looked like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: hundreds of dead birds covering JoAnn Thole's lawn in this southwestern Illinois town.

"I've got 117 pounds of dead birds - I weighed them," Thole said as she opened her garage, which she had made into a makeshift bird morgue.

The European starlings hadn't died of some mysterious disease, but of poison distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the request of local farmers, who said the birds had been eating their cattle feed and causing other problems.

It's not the first time the issue of poisoning birds has surfaced in the region.

Last year, Harvey Culli of Freeburg had to devote 30 of his prime woodland acres to conservation for 25 years to settle a lawsuit after he admitted poisoning red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, common grackles and horned larks. The birds had been damaging his family's crops, he said.

The difference between the government's killing spree and Culli's is that the 81-year-old farmer was poisoning birds protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act with a pesticide that had not been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Kirk Gustad, director of the Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services unit in Springfield.

Gustad uses a poison that is EPA-approved for killing birds and is sprinkling it only where the starlings, which do not enjoy special legal protection, look for their food, he said. Still, some blackbirds are likely killed in the process, he said.

The agency has received about two dozen requests from farmers around the state to kill off the starlings, which eat feed meant for cows and spread disease in their droppings, Gustad said.

This week, thousands of dead birds dotted the streets of Breese, a town of 4,000 where they've been seeking out trees to sleep in after spending their days eating feed - and poisoned pellets- at nearby farms.

There were so many dead birds last weekend, Breese Police Chief Jim Hummert told residents to put the carcasses in containers at the curb with their garbage.

"There are some subdivisions with so many dead birds and so much bird droppings that kids can't go out and play," Hummert said.

Flood Gates
Posted 8.12.2002

I awoke from a dream where Father was speaking to me and telling me these audible words...

"They will open the flood gates of the reservoirs and people will be drowned."

Within days of these words being spoken to Elisabeth, massive flooding began all across Europe and Asia. What she first thought would be the opening of reservoir flood gates turned out to be the flood gates of Heaven pouring out rain, rain, and more rain...

Cambodia	China	Czeck Republic
England	Germany	Hungary

Prophecy 60
"Hide Yourselves, My Children, For Just A Little While Longer!"
 
Cloned Food Products Near Reality
Items Could Reach Shelves by 2003

Monday, September 16, 2002 - ©Washington Post

Milk from cloned cows and meat from the offspring of cloned cows and pigs could show up on grocery shelves as early as next year under the plans of livestock breeders who are already raising scores of clones on American farmsteads.

A special NAS panel that reviewed developments in animal biotechnology was alarmed by genetic manipulation of fish and insects that might escape and harm wild species, but it found cloning of farm animals less troublesome, since the technique involves copying adult animals without altering their genes. The committee called for a few additional studies but said the technique was unlikely to affect the safety of the food supply.

"I think our message was fairly loud and clear," said panel member Eric Hallerman, a biologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. "The concern about food safety, we thought, was just way overblown."

A few cloned cows scattered around the country are already producing milk. Farmers and companies have held off selling it only because of informal requests from the Food and Drug Administration, which is reviewing whether clones, their byproducts or their offspring should be allowed into the food supply.

The agency hopes for a decision by late this year. Absent compelling evidence of a problem, it's not clear the FDA or any other government agency would have the legal power to keep cloned animals out of the food supply.

For that reason, products made from clones are likely to be a mere trickle in the marketplace, at least at first, farmers said. But if the technique becomes established and the price of cloning falls, farmers envision a day when entire dairy herds may be stocked with nothing but clones of the most prolific cows.