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Chicken feces enters a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay from an illegal run-off
It’s from the land of pleasant living we bring you a tale of government sponsored pollution and political corruption that might; if you live near our beautiful bay or have any love for natural wonders; make you sick and disillusioned. Near the banks of the Pokemoke River; on the Eastern Shore of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay there is a chicken farm. This chicken farm is operated by the Hudson Family and has been the subject of much controversy because a local environmental watchdog group has found reason to file a suit that alleges that run-off from the huge piles of uncovered Chicken feces is entering the Chesapeake via the Pokemoke River and the drainage ditch that receives this run-off as it is designed to do.Chicken feces enters a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay from an illegal run-off... more
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Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to account. Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers, which are governed principally by the codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only to their stockholders. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43017-some-of-the-qmost-wantedq-corporate-human-rights-violatorsCorporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times,... more
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People the world over, but especially in the United States are under chemical attack. Deadly and dangerous toxins ranging from Aspartame to Fluoride, GMO, Mercury-tainting, pesticides, cross-species chimeras, plastic compounds in chicken, high fructose corn syrup, cloned meat, rBGH and new aggressive GM species of salmon have all entered into our diets and environments-- whether we want it or not.
Many of these substances knowingly cause or are linked with sterility, low birth weight, miscarriages, smaller or deformed offspring, as well as organ failure, cancer, brain tumors and Death itself, what you DON'T know about on your grocery shelves can hurt you. Further, Alex demonstrates that a pattern of buried studies, fraudulent statistics and a will reduce global population all point to the deliberate criminal poisoning of the food and water supply.
Suffer no fools and warn those you love about need to stop their food from being used as a Depopulation-weapon against us all. Please share this important video with everyone, so the truth about these substances can be known.
http://www.infowars.com/food-the-ultimate-secret-exposed/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpkLk0vYmk&feature=channel_video_titlePeople the world over, but especially in the United States are under chemical attack.... more
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HUGE fire at Macro Plastics "environmental" recycling plant in Fairfield,California.HUGE fire at Macro Plastics "environmental" recycling plant in... more
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Los Angeles Times...
Pacific Ocean study finds fish tainted by plastic
June 30, 2011 | 4:38 pm
Southern California researchers found plastic in nearly 1 in 10 small fish collected in the northern Pacific Ocean in the latest study to call attention to floating marine debris entering the food chain.
The study published this week by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego estimated that fish in the northern Pacific Ocean are ingesting as much as 24,000 tons of plastic each year.
Although the research found a lower percentage of affected fish than previous studies, it is the latest to quantify how many fish are eating marine garbage — most of it confetti-sized flecks of discarded plastic — that has accumulated in vast, slow-moving ocean currents known as gyres.
The results came from a 2009 voyage a group of graduate students made to the so-called Pacific garbage patch, an area of high concentration of fragments of floating garbage about 1,000 miles off the California coast. Researchers cast nets into the water and collected 141 fish, mostly lanternfish measuring just a few inches, and took them to a laboratory in San Diego to dissect.
Scientists found plastic debris in 9.2% of their stomachs, much of it broken down into multicolored fragments smaller than a human fingernail. However, they believe the actual proportion of fish that have consumed plastic is significantly higher.
“We can’t tell how many fish ate plastic and died, how many fish ate plastic and regurgitated it or passed it out of their intestines,” said Rebecca Asch, a Scripps doctoral candidate in biological oceanography and one of the study's authors.
Because the widespread lanternfish is a common food source for larger fish, the study raises concerns that plastics and pollutants they contain, could be making their way up the food chain into seafood ingested by humans.
Scripps found a lower rate of plastic ingestion than previous research, such as a study by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation that found plastic in the stomachs of 35% of fish in the same general area of the Pacific.
Past studies may have been inflated by keeping nets in the water for longer periods, giving fish the chance to eat bits of plastic swept up in the nets with them, Scripps scientists said.
In their study, they tried to minimize that by towing their net only 15 minutes at a time. They stressed that their study broadly concludes the same thing: garbage is present in the food chain.
“We’re still finding a substantial amount of plastic,” Asch said. “It should be zero.”
--Tony Barboza
Photo: Two lanternfish and several bits of plastic collected in 2009 during the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition. Credit: J. LeichterLos Angeles Times...
Pacific Ocean study finds fish tainted by plastic
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I suppose I stepped a bit over the line the other day when I posted that Leland Yee called me a racist. He did, or should I say his twitter account did in a passive aggressive way infer that my dislike of shark finning to provide the main ingredient for the beloved shark fin soup was born out of racism by the use of the hash tag #racism.I suppose I stepped a bit over the line the other day when I posted that Leland Yee... more
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Plants adapt to the local weather and soil conditions in which they grow, and these environmental adaptations are known to evolve over thousands of years as mutations slowly accumulate in plants' genetic code.
:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110503151605.htmPlants adapt to the local weather and soil conditions in which they grow, and these... more
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Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. Thus, instead of avoiding the purchase of products from one bad company only to support another, we avoid buying anything to the greatest degree we are able.
Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42951-freegan-Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has... more
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The piece connects individual alienation, anomie, depression with damage (overt and subtle) wrought by US corporate capitalism i.e., its degradation of US landscapes and individual mindscapes...to the destruction this mode of living inflicts on the global ecosystem.The piece connects individual alienation, anomie, depression with damage (overt and... more
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On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video, we meet confederate ghosts and demons of consumer emptiness. We travel down the highway, propelled by engines of extinction, towards empire's end, where we find ourselves bearing much grief yet are stranded amid ferocious beauty.On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video,... more
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On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video, we meet confederate ghosts and demons of consumer emptiness. We travel down the highway, propelled by engines of extinction, towards empire's end, where we find ourselves bearing much grief yet are stranded amid ferocious beauty.On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video,... more
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What in the world is going on over in Japan? The Japan nuclear crisis seems to get worse with each passing day. Right now environmental activists all over the world are beginning to have grave concerns about the lasting damage to the environment that is going to be caused by all of this radiation. Sadly, this crisis has already become worse than Chernobyl.What in the world is going on over in Japan? The Japan nuclear crisis seems to get... more
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The carcasses coated the surface of the King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, near Los Angeles, and piled as high as 18in (46cm) on the marina floor.
Officials said the fish had sought shelter from rough seas and soon exhausted the water's oxygen supply
"It's quite an astonishing sight. The water is carpeted in places with the carcasses of dead fish. They are jammed up in between the rocks and some of the pleasure boats, and underwater they are lining the shallow sea floor.
There are dozens of people pulling up nets of dead fish but it's going to take several days to clean up the marina. The fish are being dumped into wheelbarrows and taken to giant containers.
Officials say they believe six of these containers could be filled, totalling 150 tonnes of dead fish.
From here, the carcasses will be taken to a landfill site, where they will be turned into fertiliser. Some residents say they are quite upset. One woman woke overnight on her boat and saw fish filling the harbour. As the night wore on, they started to die in increasing numbers."
Rajesh Mirchandani
BBC News, Redondo Beach
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12682145The carcasses coated the surface of the King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, near Los... more
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All hail the power of using energy more efficiently! Study after study after study has shown that, along with energy conservation, energy efficiency is probably the most important component of getting a handle on humanity's growing energy use and the environmental damage that currently entails.
:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/world-energy-use-reduced-73-percent-energy-efficiency.phpAll hail the power of using energy more efficiently! Study after study after study has... more
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A documentary film about artist collective ROBOTS>>>> filmed at the build of a large interactive sculpture at Secret Garden Party festival in July 2010. I was on site for 2 weeks, also helping to build, a truly inspiring time, and I hope the film reflects this! I filmed, directed, edited the piece. My set up was a Canon 7D with an EFS 17-55mm lens, and edited on FCP 6. Tali Clark
http://vimeo.com/15276410A documentary film about artist collective ROBOTS>>>> filmed at the build... more
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Environmental groups in China called out Apple for poor green and safety standards in its Chinese supply chain, agencies report.
The Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) has -- together with other environmentalist groups -- published a report detailing the alleged malpractice in Apple's supply chain, which resulted in some workers being poisoned and disabled, and communities being polluted.Environmental groups in China called out Apple for poor green and safety standards in... more
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A legal hammer-blow was delivered to the British oil giant BP yesterday after the US government sued it and several companies over this year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico claiming they had violated American environmental laws and must be held liable for all costs.
:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-government-sues-bp-for-costs-of-oil-spill-2161646.htmlA legal hammer-blow was delivered to the British oil giant BP yesterday after the US... more
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Eveything your school Superintendent, Principal, and teachers need to know for your school to go green.Eveything your school Superintendent, Principal, and teachers need to know for your... more
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