Tuesday, August 20, 2013

20 August - The View

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMGENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM (Photo credit: live w mcs)
 http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf


Shocker: Global warming may simply be an artifact of clean air laws
Shocker: Global warming may simply be an artifact of clean air laws
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Pollution controls have contributed to a more transparent atmosphere, thus allowing for “…a staggering increase in


IPCC caught out with an old, known, and uncorrected error pending their new AR5 report
IPCC caught out with an old, known, and uncorrected error pending their new AR5 report
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Spot the error. The IPCC can’t. Story submitted to WUWT by Tony Thomas Leaked reports of the Fifth IPCC Report,

80 per cent of Kenora residential school students had TB

In recent weeks archival documents have revealed nutritional, dental and medical experiments that took place at the school.

Now historical reports, just released by the federal government, show a disturbing rate of tuberculosis among the students.


A survey from 1946 shows that 100 of the 132 children at the Cecilia Jeffery School suffered from the potentially fatal disease.


http://westcoastnativenews.com/80-per-cent-of-kenora-residential-school-students-had-tb/

"Some will debate whether the residential school policy was a policy of assimilation or elimination, but I argue that it was both. The physical abuse for practicing one's culture is a form of forced assimilation; whereas the starvation, torture and medical experiments conducted on the children which resulted in upwards of 40% of the children dying, is elimination. Whether it is assimilation or elimination, all of the acts fit under the definition of genocide as noted in the UN Convention Against Genocide."

Prince Rupert waterfront deaths should be probed more thoroughly, say First Nations groups

B.C. First Nations groups want light shone on a string of mysterious deaths along Prince Rupert’s waterfront.

“There’s a pattern, a disturbing pattern with respect to the death of young aboriginal people,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs...
West Coast Native News shared a link.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote a scathing piece in The Guardian in response to the questionable circumstances under which his partner David Miranda was detained ("under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act of 2000"*) at Heathrow airport by UK authorities. Greenwald says it was a failed attempt at intimidation in light of Greenwald's revelations regarding NSA spying leaks from Edward Snowden.

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Stop whining and start mobilizing. Although "Citizens United" has unleashed a tsunami of big money into our political system, support is growing for a constitutional amendment saying corporations aren't people and money isn't speech. Big money can also be countered by an army of small donors backed by federal matching funds -- the idea behind the Empowering Citizens Act (HR 6448), recently introduced by Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), which matches every $1 of contribution from individuals donating up to $250 with $5 of public funds. It's an important step forward and deserves your support -- and your efforts to mobilize others in support of it.
Hardly a day goes by without the GOP trying to keep the IRS controversy in the news -- but don't hold your breath for when they'll move to end the secretive 401c(4) "social welfare" loophole that allows individuals and corporations to secretly funnel money to candidates, which has been the real issue all along. This past week Republican lawmakers demanded that Lois Lerner, former head of the IRS tax-exempt division, turn over personal emails she sent from her IRS account to a personal account, which, Republicans allege, might hobble their investigation. But the investigation House Republicans should be paying attention to is a new one from the Center for Political Accountability, showing that only about 12 percent of S&P 500 companies voluntarily disclose at least some of the so-called "dark money" contributions they make to 501c(4)s. There's no excuse for congressional Republicans (or Democrats) failing to plug this loophole by requiring full disclosure by all corporations and individuals of all their political spending.

Stop whining and start organizing (continued). Join the nation's fast-food workers on August 29th.
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Another learning lesson brought to you by the folks in Texas and the dangers of fracking. "Imagine If There Were A Town In The USA Where You Couldn't Get Any Water. You Can Stop Imagining."
http://www.upworthy.com/imagine-if-there-was-a-town-in-the-usa-where-you-couldnt-get-any-water-its-not-imaginary-anymore-10?c=upw1

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/08/19/nl-marshall-frack-lash-819.html?cmp=rss



. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/texas-is-fracked-more-than-30-towns-will-soon-be-out-of-water/

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Natural gas is claimed to promise cleaner, more efficient combustion than its petroleum-based competition, but getting natural gas out of the ground through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) can be far more environmentally menacing than getting oil. Now…
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While Bentley touted Canada’s “leadership” in developing tar sands crude resources, Underhill said the lesson to be learned from the Canadian experience is that the extraction of tar sands oil has turned much of the Alberta province “into a strip mined wasteland.” Shipping it through the U.S. has turned America “into a leaky, explosive pipe and train drainage for tar sands headed to Asia.”



Australian Report on the Flora and Fauna and the Human Impact and Health Catastrophe happening in our Gulf Region, RIGHT NOW!We already know the Gulf of Mexico is a toxic soup and animals are dying in massive kill offs.But this is happening to people too.This show will not be broadcast here in the United States.


August 18, 2013: Reporter Michael Usher discussing the 'Crude Solution' story and the use of toxic dispersants in Australia.


From the contamination of drinking water to the release of powerful greenhouse gases, the list of dangers posed by fracking and natural gas production seems to grow longer by the day. It has become increasingly clear that fracking—which involves pumping water, sand, and chemicals deep underground to create cracks in shale formations and release the natural gas trapped inside—is unsafe, unhealthy, and unsustainable. And as gas companies across the country have ramped up their fracking efforts, the drilling technique has started to exacerbate another serious concern: water scarcity.



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The train that derailed in Lawtell, Louisiana is leaking chemicals and at least one of two cars carrying a hazardous chemical, vinyl chrloride, is damaged.

A 1 mile radius evacuation is being enforced by St. Landry Sheriff Deputies and State Police. Evacuees can receive more information at The Delta Grand Theater, 120 S. Market Street, Opelousas. As of right now, approximately 50 homes have been evacuated.

More at http://www.katc.com/news/jindal-chemicals-leaking-from-lawtell-train-derailment/#_
Reports of Train derailment in Lawtell near US Hwy 190 & Acadiana Rd, no other information at this time.

Photo from: Mona Prejean



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130807-fukushima-radioactive-water-leak/

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The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has failed in an effort to control radioactive water leaking into the sea. What does it mean for people and the environment in Japan, and across the Pacific Ocean?



"I worry that such paltry fines fail to discourage defendants from destroying evidence. If the fines do not adequately deter companies, they may begin routinely destroying unfavorable evidence as an acceptable cost of doing business. The Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and led to the massive oil spill that "devastated our treasured shores.' ~ Senator John McCain, the ranking Republican in the Senate's Permanent Committee on Investigations, in a letter to Erick Holder, expressing concern about the size of the fine.


“We have already pushed for buyouts for affected residents and are undertaking a thorough review of all of Texas Brine’s permits in our state,” Jindal said.

“This suit is just the next step in making sure Texas Brine does the right thing and properly addresses the mess it’s caused.”


 
It shocked me that we have Governor Jindal, who talks about being a strong advocate for wetland protection, attacking an agency who's trying to get these wetlands restored,” said Darryl Malek-Wiley of the Sierra Club. The group called on residents to sign a petition in support of the lawsuit.


Video taken today above the Texas Brine Sinkhole near Bayou Corne, LA - by the Assumption Parish Police Jury

"If this 22-acre sinkhole was 30 miles from Boston it would be in the news daily, the federal government would be involved. But you know, it's the wetlands of Louisiana and few people care. Even the big time environmental groups have ignored the significance of this sinkhole." ~ Russel Honoré, a retired army general who advocated for the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina


 
One year ago today Bayou Corne residents were evacuated from their homes due to Texas Brine's sinkhole. Since that time the sinkhole has continued to grow and today is over 24 acres.
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Bayou Corne, Louisiana - Gas bubbles up in the bayou near Texas Brine's sinkhole. Many nearby residents have been evacuated from their homes for more than a year and some fear it will never again be a safe place to live.

Texas Brine is in the process of offering buy-outs to effected homeowners, but many feel they offers are not enough and don't adequately compensate them for the disaster.

Thank you to Dennis Landry for showing us the bubbling site and for showing us one of the most beautiful bayous in Louisiana.
 

John Wathen describes what he saw above the Moblie-area:

"We flew up 3 mile Creek to the ARC Saraland site. Here railroad cars are brought to load truck with oil reported to be tar sands oil. From the photos it was clear to see that there was already problems with the site...These tank trucks are leaking badly and appear to have been doing so for some time. The trucks can be seen in Google Earth as early as Jan. 2012...

....People living close to and impacted by this project are not being heard. Lands have been taken through good old boy politics and greedy oil mongers. That needs to be exposed and shown to the elected powers that have backed this play for profit. Any politician who supports such a recipe for disaster needs to be replaced at the next election. Any and all resources by local groups should be used to stop this before it is done. If such a pipeline is built, it certainly needs to take a different path considering the health and safety of ALL impacted residents.

There are simply too many unknowns and misinformation being released that say this is OK. I call on every group that has any environmental stake in this to examine it for what it's worth and denounce this as a bad idea."

To read John's entire post, which includes more photos and video, go to http://bpoilslick.blogspot.com/.


Photo by John Wathen, pilot Tom Hutchings
 
 
We human beings have seemingly forgotten the old truth, “What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves.” If that is true, and it is, then we humans will truly in very, very bad shape in the near future as this story from ENENews demonstrates. With dolphins dying up and down the East Coast in record numbers, now comes this story from Canada where Pacific Herrings are now dying off in record numbers as well, bleeding out from their eyeballs, faces, fins and tails. What may have caused this? Fukushima radiation? Has the BP oil spill and Corexit made it into the Pacific Ocean now? These mass animal die-offs going on around the world have been big news over the last several years and have poisoned our entire food chain; should this be blamed upon something other than mankind? Government officials were notified of this hemorrhaging shortly after the Fukushima catastrophe on March 11th, 2011 but they ignored it….Why? The story below.
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CRITICAL REPOST: Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.


An analysis of water, sediment and seafood samples taken in 2010 during and after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has found higher contamination levels in some cases than previous studies by federal agencies did, casting doubt on some of the earlier sampling methods. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/science/earth/new-analysis-of-gulf-oil-spill.html?_r=1&

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CHEMICALS used for cleaning up oil spills that have been linked to deaths in the United States are still being stored in Gladstone - but the authority assigned with managing it won't say where. It follows the use of the agent Corexit 9527 in the emergency response to the Shen Neng 1 oil spill in the Great Barrier Reef off Gladstone in 2010. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has told The Observer that 3000 litres of Corexit 9500A is part of a national stockpile kept in Gladstone.


This segment originally aired on the August 18th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The corporate-controlled media has let BP off the hook, not just for their crimes in the Gulf of Mexico, but for their crimes all over the country. But we aren’t willing to give the company a free pass for killing Americans and destroying the environment. Ring of Fire guest host Farron Cousins from The Trial Lawyer Magazine speaks with investigative journalist Rick Outzen about the criminal history of BP.

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Ed Chesney, PhD., Associate Professor at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), specializes in understanding the recruitment of fish, or which eggs and larvae grow to become adults and why. In a series of lab experiments, he and co-principal investigator Ralph Portier of Louisiana State University will attempt to determine the effects of sublethal exposure to oil and related chemicals, that is, not enough to kill, but enough to do indeterminate damage, on these four species in their larval stages to see if and how it inhibits their development.

"The main thing we know about the early life history stages of larvae is that once they begin to feed, that’s all they do. That’s their primary focus in life because they have to grow as quickly as possible in order to survive that early, highly vulnerable stage. So if they’re exposed to a toxicant during that time and it reduces their ability to swim or forage, there will eventually be consequences for that. These experiments are designed to try to look at those effects and determine what they might be." — Ed Chesney, LUMCON

Fish eggs are relatively resistant to oil exposure. That all changes once they hatch. Larval fish populations and the estuaries they live in are incredibly sensitive to any sudden change. Working in the lab at LUMCON, Chesney and Portier plan to create environmental scenarios that mimic the range of chemical exposures larvae might encounter throughout the area affected by a large spill including at the outskirts where oil exposures might be too low to directly kill them. They will observe in the laboratory behaviors of the larval fish and crabs exposed to these conditions: Are they swimming normally? Are they foraging at a rate necessary for survival? Are they able to swim to the surface to swallow air bubbles to help them maintain buoyancy? Has predatory behavior been altered in any way?

They will also look at how oil dispersants affects the oil’s toxicity. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling estimates that responders sprayed over 1.8 million gallons of the dispersant Corexit 9500A into the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Additionally, many square miles of oil on the surface of the GOM was set on fire for quick disposal. Thus the team will log the effects of dispersants and ash on the young animals as well.

http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/the-tiniest-survivors/
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AUGUST 19, 2013 - Like other studies after the spill, the new analysis, published last week in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, found that components of oil were distributed along the Gulf Coast as far west as Galveston, Tex. — about 300 miles from the well site — and southeast to the Florida Keys.

But the study found higher levels of many oil-related compounds than earlier studies by NOAA scientists and others, particularly in seawater and sediment. The compounds studied included polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, some of which are classified as probably carcinogenic, and volatile organic compounds, which can affect the immune and nervous systems.

“When the numbers first started coming in, I thought these looked awfully high,” Dr. Sammarco said, referring to the data he analyzed, which came from samples that he and other researchers had collected. Then he looked at the NOAA data. “Their numbers were very low,” he said, “I thought what is going on here? It didn’t make sense.”

Dr. Sammarco said that a particular sampling method used in some earlier studies might have led to lower readings. That method uses a device called a Niskin bottle, which takes a sample from a specific point in the water. Because of the widespread use of dispersants during the spill — which raised separate concerns about toxicity — the oil, broken into droplets, may have remained in patches in the water rather than dispersing uniformly.

“Sampling a patchy environment, you may not necessarily hit the patches,” he said.

The plastic that the bottles are made from also attracts oily compounds, potentially removing them from any water sample and leading to lower readings of contaminants, Dr. Sammarco said.

Riki Ott, an independent marine toxicologist who has studied effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska as well as the BP spill, said she was “totally shocked” when she read the high numbers in Dr. Sammarco’s study.

“To see NOAA doing this, that’s inexcusable,” Dr. Ott said, referring to the use of Niskin bottles. “It has been known since Exxon Valdez that this spotty sampling does not work.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/science/earth/new-analysis-of-gulf-oil-spill.html?_r=2&



eal Coastal Warriors

AUGUST 19, 2013: But the study found higher levels of many oil-related compounds than earlier studies by NOAA scientists and others, particularly in seawater and sediment. The compounds studied included polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, some of which are classified as probably carcinogenic, and volatile organic compounds, which can affect the immune and nervous systems.

“When the numbers first started coming in, I thought these looked awfully high,” Dr. Sammarco said, referring to the data he analyzed, which came from samples that he and other researchers had collected. Then he looked at the NOAA data. “Their numbers were very low,” he said, “I thought what is going on here? It didn’t make sense.”

Dr. Sammarco said that a particular sampling method used in some earlier studies might have led to lower readings. That method uses a device called a Niskin bottle, which takes a sample from a specific point in the water. Because of the widespread use of dispersants during the spill — which raised separate concerns about toxicity — the oil, broken into droplets, may have remained in patches in the water rather than dispersing uniformly.

“Sampling a patchy environment, you may not necessarily hit the patches,” he said.

The plastic that the bottles are made from also attracts oily compounds, potentially removing them from any water sample and leading to lower readings of contaminants, Dr. Sammarco said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/science/earth/new-analysis-of-gulf-oil-spill.html?_r=2&

Scientists from Louisiana State University, University of California-Davis, and Clemson University, studying Deepwater Horizon impacts on killifish from oiled Louisiana estuaries, found that adult fish exhibited genetic responses that indic...See More
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“We don’t think drilling is safe, and we don’t want it expanded into the Atlantic." http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/noise-from-seismic-air-guns-could-be-skirmish-before-war-over-offshore-drilling/2013/08/18/1d4559dc-05d2-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html

This article is a HUGE step in the right direction, and it's thanks to supporters like you. So far, over 130,000 of you have signed to fight against seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic. In doing so, we're shedding light on seismic airgun testing, taking it from a given first step in offshore drilling, to an issue disputed on the pages of The Washington Post! Let's keep up this fight, keep signing and sharing and commenting on this issue, please! Thank you all!
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Check out this video. It reveals the secret of the Third Eye & Pineal Gland, and their TRUE purpose!

Watch this video and learn how the pineal gland and the third eye function as a remote control for your MIND!

Used to control, influence and manipulate you by psychic, spiritual and mental techniques.

http://youtu.be/gYV5OR4UjTo


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The Pineal Gland & Third Eye: Conspiracy of your Soul & Secrets untold
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From my books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/maggador Human Body was created for a way to

Study shows Fukushima nuclear pollution becoming more concentrated as it nears U.S. West Coast — Plume travels across Pacific in a nearly straight line toward America — Appears to stay together with little dispersion (MODEL)

http://enenews.com/study-shows-fukushima-nuclear-pollution-becoming-more-concentrated-in-pacific-as-it-nears-u-s-west-coast-plume-travels-a-nearly-straight-line-to-america-appears-to-stay-together-with-little-dis

Marijuana businesses and their backers say legalizing the drug and taxing it like alcohol would add billions to the federal treasury. Do you agree?
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