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What's with the dead birds falling out of the sky and the fish, and other sea creatures, washing ashore in masses? Probably not the destruction of epic proportions as folks have been wondering.

As pointed out by Associated Press, mass animal deaths occur regularly. However, we the public just haven't noticed until now.

From JCOnline:

"In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California."

But that hasn't soothe the paranoid minds of many, who have speculated that these incidences are all connected and are the result of various doomsday prophecies including: the apocalypse, the Mayan Calendar 2012 theory, HAARP, the acceleration of global warming, the magnetic pole drifting, so forth and so on...

I really can't blame folks as some in the media have enjoyed playing fast and loose with the doomsday references.  Remember, the whole H1N1 flu stuff from last year? Sometimes it's about the hype, which helps to generate profits, rather than the facts, which are often boring and not newsworthy.

And how can we forget Y2K? There was a shit load of money to be made off of folks fearing that the world was ending when the bells tolled January 1, 2000. Sometimes, I think they set this stuff up to condition folks to seek out death - like cults and stuff - of course, that could be the conspiracy theorist in me.

Not saying that we shouldn't worry about birds falling from the sky or fish washing up on shorelines. The reality is that there are very real environmental concerns happening all around us, just ask the honey bees  - if you can find any.  However, if we only pay attention to these environmental concerns when birds start flying out of the sky, than the odds are we are already too late.

And as a friend of mines once said: "to get to the the truth of a situation, look at what happened a month or two before and a month or two after." Ten bucks that the media will be hyping up similar doomsday scenarios all year long, which only means that NYE '11 party prices will be through the roof.