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Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:07:57 -0400
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http://www.drudgereport.com/

The Matt Drudge Report,  one of the busiest web sites in the world carries the headline tonight

ARE CELL PHONES WIPING OUT OUR BEES? 

with this story below linked. 

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece

"Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when 
mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a 
"hint" to a possible cause."

Simultaneously several european outlets are carrying bee loss stories trying their best to make this 
seem world wide.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/01/nbees01.xml

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-04-11-voa65.cfm

and some people now outright predicting the end of the earth

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=3103

"It could yet become a much greater curse, contributing to the famines prophesied in the Bible to 
occur on an epidemic scale at the time of the end, shortly before the return of Jesus Christ to 
Earth."

What next Oprah ?

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