Bye, Bye Blackbird: Birds Fall Dead from the Sky for Second New Year's Eve in a Row

It must have felt like a bizarre case of deja vu for police officers and emergency service crews in Beebe, Arkansas, last night as they were called out to clean up literally thousands of dead blackbirds, for the second New Year's Eve in as many years.

The small, rural community saw thousands of blackbirds fall from the sky dead last night, a frightening repeat of a similar event that took place on the same evening last year. Officials were quick to blame celebratory New Year's fireworks being shot off or a sudden, intense hail storm as the cause of last year's deaths, but a ban on fireworks and clear weather exclude those theories from being the cause of the bizarre incident this year.

Last year, hundreds of similar incidences of birds and other animals such as mollusks, fish, whales and dolphins, began to die en masse all around the world during the first few weeks of 2011. No official explanation has ever been offered as to the direct cause of such a diverse series of events taking place simultaneously around the world.

Apocalypse Now: Researchers Discover Second Mayan Calendar Confirming 12-21-2012 End Date

The drum beats are quickening...

Researchers and experts on the ancient Mayan culture of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula have admitted that another important Mayan artifact has confirmed the "End of the World" date of December 21, 2012.

Researchers and archeologists with Mexico's prestigious National Institute of Anthropology and History have revealed that a second reference to the specific 2012 date exists on a carved fragment from the Comalcalco ruins. Until now, the only artifact believed to reference the 12-21-2012 End Time date was recorded in glyphs on a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

Arturo Mendez, a spokesperson from the National Institute of Anthropology and History states that the fragment, known as the Comalcalco Brick, was discovered years ago and has been subjected to intense scrutiny by a plethora of experts in the Mayan culture and religious beliefs. The artifact is not on public display and is kept in storage, far from prying, curious eyes. 

The inscriptions on both the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco Brick were carved approximately 1300 years ago, near the end of the Mayan reign in the region. The Tortuguero inscription describes something incredible and mystifying that is supposed to occur at the time of the winter solstice in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. The glyphs speak of the God "Falling to the Earth from the Sky" at this time, which many people have interpreted to mean an asteroid or comet strike upon the earth.

One thing is beyond doubt at this point... the Mayans were right about one thing... 2012 will be The Year of Change... if the incredible, life-altering changes 2011 has brought to us is anything to judge by...