Published: April 26th, 2012 at 9:51 am ET
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Title: Looming Crisis: Officials Close Gulf Waters to Shrimping As Reports of Deformed Seafood Intensify
Source: Stuart H. Smith
Date: April 23, 2012
Alarmed by widespread reports of visibly sick, deformed seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, state officials have closed area waters to shrimping this morning (April 23). The waters will be closed indefinitely as scientists run tests in an effort to get a handle on a situation that is fast becoming a full-blown crisis on the Gulf Coast.
The closures – including all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay and Little Lagoon – mark the first official step in responding to increasingly urgent reports from fishermen and scientists of grotesquely disfigured seafood from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle.
[...] I am deeply saddened but not surprised by the shrimping closures. I applaud the courageous move by state officials to put consumer safety first. There’s no doubt in my mind – as I’ve said for months on end – that seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico is unfit for human consumption. [...]
Title: Waters Closed to Shrimping
Source: WEAR-TV ABC 3
Date: Wednesday, April 25 2012, 12:05 PM CDT
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has temporarily closed some local waterways to shrimping [...] in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay, and Little Lagoon.
The closure is in response to routine shrimp sampling that indicated the average size were smaller than 68 head-on shrimp per pound. [...]
And we’d like to clarify that the closures were not due to lesions being found on shrimp as we reported earlier this weekend and Monday morning.
PREVIOUS REPORT: Area waters close to shrimping, April 21: [...] The closure comes after scientists found smaller than average shrimp and lesions. They say the plan to test the water and will continue to run samples until the waters are re-opened. There is no set time when the waters will be open for shrimping again.
Title: Gulf Shrimping Shut Down
Source: 104.1 FM (Birmingham, AL)
Author: Todd Prater
Date: Apr. 23, 2012
[...] The closure comes after scientists found smaller than average population of shrimp and lesions. They say the plan to test the water and will continue to run samples until the waters are re-opened. There is no set time when the waters will be open for shrimping again
Title: Shrimp Without Eyes Found in the Gulf of Mexico
Source: WSAV-TV
Author: Kris Allred
Date: April 24, 2012
[...] fishermen and scientists have found horrifying creatures in the Gulf of Mexico…including blue crabs without claws, shrimp without eyes and fish with lesions. [...]
And it’s not just deformities that has researchers worried. It’s also the drastic decline in sea life populations, and that decline’s impact on the food chain.
In the continental United States, more than 40 percent of seafood is caught in the Gulf, making the levels of mutations in the region’s sea life a major cause for concern.
So does this mean that humans should stop consuming seafood caught in the Gulf? Well, the answer remains unclear. [...]
But here is what one fisherman says…”We’re continuing to pull up oil in our nets. People who live here know better than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters.”
h/t Anonymous tip
Published: April 26th, 2012 at 9:51 am ET
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sending...
There was a time when the Gulf was like some picture of paradise, and immensely full of healthy sea and bird life.
There was nothing better than a swim on the beach there.
I can't believe how ugly we have made this planet over the course of my lifetime.
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@charlie3: agreed. We must all hang our heads in shame. Aside from a massive cleanup bill, we've left little-else to our offspring…
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Very sad and true comment. I feel as if I never hear about the bequest value to future generations. We owe it to them. How will we look our grandchildren in the eye?
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Even a dog has better sense to shit in his drinking water !
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@xdrfox: though I think you mashed the grammar in your statement, it reminds what mom used to say, that "You don't shit where you eat!" Unfortunate that so-many-others weren't parented with such eloquent wisdom…
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my mom would say, …
when I would say, I thought,…
"Thought went to take a shit and fell overboard !"
LOL
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LOL
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Maybe it's a combination of toxic goo? I wonder if Fuku Fallout could be contributing?
No mention of testing for radioactive contamination. (?)
from article:
"And it’s not just the shrimp. Commercial fishermen are reporting red snapper and grouper riddled with deep lesions and covered with strange black streaks. Highly underdeveloped blue crabs are being pulled up in traps without eyes and claws…"
[yet another] "…impact on the food chain."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit
The important things in life are appearances. Appearance of health, appearance of no oil spill, appearance of no nuke meltdowns. To everything spin, spin, spin, There is a reason spin, spin, spin… <Sarc off>
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ChasAha,
Dolphins began to die in Feb 2010 when BP abandoned the first well they messed up on and got two drills stuck in, then went to another site started to drill, leaks were being flooded with corexit at that point containing the leaks from reaching the surface !
The fish were getting sick from the beginning, the latest radiation assault from the air/rain may be only a very small part of the problem !
Dr. Busby showed radiation from the deep-wells was also a problem as I have wrote an article on almost a year before bringing radiation from the well possibly making the workers sick ! I believe Corexit still mixed with oil in the Gulf is the biggest
problem we face, for I saw the wild life die as it was introduced into the waters !
Is it Radiation poisoning too ?? Sick Gulf oil spill workers !! 2346
To Gulf Oil Spill on Saturday, July 24, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/112/572/
Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material in the Gulf, Dr. Busby warns, SHOCKING REPORT 1898
To Gulf Oil Spill on Sunday, May 01, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/602/820/
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Baby Dolphin Die-Offs Continue in the Gulf of Mexico
To Gulf Oil Spill on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2070/795/
FDA: Gulf Seafood Safe despite Oil Spill and Sick Fish Concerns
To Gulf Oil Spill on Saturday, April 21, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2054/854/
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Thousands of Dolphins Dying in Gulf of Mexico NOAA
To Mass Animal Death on Tuesday, April 03, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1973/518/
ALERT !! NOAA Confirms Sick Fish in Gulf *GROSS PHOTOS*
To Gulf Oil Spill on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/677/418/
Deformed Sheephead believed to be caught off Alabama
To Gulf Oil Spill on Saturday, March 03, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1846/796/
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great links doc, thanks, and there was much hidden at the time on the toxic multiplier effect of mixing COREXIT and oil. …I called it CO _WRECKS IT…see Dr Susan Shaw on the effect on humans (and many other related YT clips on the same page): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1mI-DJII1U&feature=player_embedded#! (from the pesn article http://pesn.com/2011/03/12/9501787_Toxic_Gulf_Brew_Still_Reaping_Death_and_Misery/) and check this page of links on genetically modified microbes in corexit, or google 'gm microbes corexit' : http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=gm+microbes+corexit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=dd-ZT4GoEoijiQf3l7nuDQ
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omniversling,
See them many times, yes Lisa came to FOSL with her symptoms, she was fortunate to get up with some fine people on the site and get to a doctor ! It was too late to do any thing and it was inoperable !
: (
So much yet to see in the microbes and the results, I haven't eat or swam in GOM or Atlantic since it started !
If you see the link "Corexit being used on the East Coast"
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ChasAha,…." Highly underdeveloped blue crabs are being pulled up in traps without eyes and claws…"
That ought to make an (interesting), episode of "Deadliest Catch"!
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I am not sure of the rivers in USA, but I believe the Mississippi flows into those areas. Calhoun plant I believe flows in this area, I have always thought the river flowed throw all of the fuel rods and nuclear bomb waste like plutonium and radiated the water in the river. So I was wondering if they have looked at this possibility.
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girlfriend's cat recently keeled-over and died. It began to run around in a panic then instantly died at her feet. Needless to say, she was more than distraught by this unannounced demise of her long-cherished friend. She had the cat for many years, so we thought it only natural. Well, she brought-over what was left of her cat's canned food for mine to use. Her cat only ate shrimp; refused anything else. Now I'm reluctant to feed it to mine.
I noticed the food manufacturer ground-up the shrimp and plopped a little one on top of the meal. The one they used (within all the cans that were opened) had this tiny shrimp and appeared to be a visual confirmation of quality, for the person feeding the cats. Have to say, it was a nice touch. I'm just curious as to where they sourced the shrimp; if it came out of the Gulf of Mexico or South East Asia.
I'm keeping the cans that haven't been opened…
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Heartbreaking AS. So sad. So horrific all of this.
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AFTERSHOCK,
True break down the the EPA mumbo jumbo of how much seafood a day is ‘safe’ to eat.
To Gulf Oil Spill on Wednesday, August 31, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1032/068/
Be wise to hear this womans video out and the message you need to hear !!
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@xdrfox: awesome video fox! Thanks for the link. I'll be pushing it out to everyone today…
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Yes, great video, thanks!
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I am also very sorry to hear this. Curious why you haven't 'chosen' to place this tidbit in 'possible anomalies'?
I further hope you are making a more than concerted effort to give your girlfriend sympathy,….(you know, like knowing how many years 'she' spent with the beloved pet.)
Please don't minimize this AFTERSHOCK!
This is HUGE!
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@StillJill: appreciate the sentiments. She's a (former) medical professional who knows well how to assimilate tragedy. I refrained from mentioning this incident (which occurred a week ago), as I'd rather give her some time to heal from the loss. She'll let me know when she's ready to discuss it further.
Just-the-same, your loving words are appreciated…
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So sorry to hear about your girlfriend's cat. One of my fears for both the Gulf toxins and Fukushima, is that contaminated seafood is going to wind up in the pet food supply and poison our pets. I wouldn't put it past the large operations to knowingly sell contaminated diseased seafood to the pet industry. Not when there's a buck to be made.
I realize to some, this may seem unimportant in the greater scheme of things, but to animal lovers, it is a serious concern. It's another sad aspect of this unfolding tragedy. For myself, I've basically given up seafood since I can't trust that it's safe to eat.
By the way, I'm on the west coast, and my previously healthy as a horse mixed breed dog recently had a cancerous tumor removed from his thyroid. I strongly suspect exposure to radioactive iodine courtesy of Fukushima, but of course, I'll never be able to conclusively prove it. And that's what the nuke bastards count on.
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We need to take the earth back, and stop anyone from harming it.
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Hi BigPicture,
I agree with you here.
Perhaps it is not ANYONE whom would harm the Earth, but consistantly, it is the corporations.
If we the people cannot strip the corporations of their uncontestable influence and power to manipulate human societies than we are simply going to see more disasters. Nuclear, Petroleum, Dioxin, Masers…….We must find a way to ensure that corporations are SUBSERVIENT to symbiotic life!
A corporation doesn't GET old and doesn't EVER stop wanting to squeeze MORE out of EVERYTHING.
If we cannot 'De-Fang' the corporations and force THEM to serve US, then perhaps we are forever their slaves.
Personally, I can barely stand to watch this slow motion train wreck of genetic sabotage. Is this what happened to Mars…….?
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Exactly it will continue and continue. I can't help thinking the corporations will be thrill when the gulf is totally polluted. Think of the money they will save when dumping and polluting are no longer prohibited. When the last polar bear goes to a zoo, there will be no reason to have laws to protect the enviroment..they can pollute freely. About this time they will develop some plastic synthetic food source grown in labratories that will "nourish" us…no need for earth, water, air it will be manufactured and sold to us….The masses can change this but we have to ORGANIZE!
Organize or perish like the gulf.
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Truer words were never spoken, Selfsovereign. That's the entire heart of the matter.
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TheBigPicture! Right on! Hell yes! I sure want to STOP them from ruining this precious EARTH!
I sure WANT to be the GOOD PARENT,…or protector,….I WOULD NEVER allow this with my children! How dare they,…….and sadly,…they know damned good and well they CAN get away with it! All day long!
(For today)
But,……….:-) O.K. no sermon this time,….but YOU KNOW THE DRILL!
Amen!
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After the Gulf BP Disaster, along with ongoing concern for conditions in oriental fishfarms, I wrote to Red Lobster, asking for the sources of seafood used in my favorite dishes. I further requested that the source for seafood be clearly set forth on future menus. The reply letter was a testimate to the "It's all good" mentality of corporations in the face of ecological disaster. Since I love seafood, the Red Lobster restaurant, I have been limiting my post-Fuku selections to Atlantic fish and lobster, avoiding anything from the Gulf or the Pacific. But I know in my heart that I'll soon become a strict vegetarian in order to avoid some of the bio-accumulation hazzard. I have to recognize that thanks to the nuke industry, radiation is now everywhere, and that staying healthy means avoiding the meat and the seafood I love.
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philipupnorth,
Will mean avoiding most foods too, only enclosed gardens will be somewhat safe but too few to feed the masses !
We will be changing a few things in how/what we say, …
It's all bad !
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Red Lobster gets seafood from over 30 countries it is inspected all the way to the store.
FROM RED LOBSTER—– > We have buyers and total quality inspectors who work with suppliers in over 30 countries to bring you "the best of the sea." We examine and test seafood at every point of our supply chain – all the way to the source – so guests know they are enjoying safe meals in our restaurants. All Red Lobster seafood meets our industry-leading standards which, in turn, meet or exceed all U.S. government requirements.
Hope this helps Markww in Houston
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@markww: which begs the question, what type of analysis is being done? They may be doing biological tests for listeria bacteria and the like, but what's being done to ensure against chemical toxicity? Corexit won't show up in a Petri dish. Used have to use mass-spectrometers to find it…
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Seems thoroughly appropriate to post this again since it begins to explain the harm BP have unleashed in the Gulf!! Like radiation spreading through natural precipitation etc, the micro-bacteria they released to eat up the oil has gone crazy and has started to attack everything!!
Not sure I like using the "Armageddon" word but……… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssL8JPayaw&list=FLnhBUED4uQIXi6wPBBauhFQ&index=46&feature=plpp_video
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For those that missed this one this morning.
Very important article. Lessons of #Chernobyl and #Fukushima: #Nuclear Safety is an Oxymoron http://t.co/bgr2MCLi
Maggie Tweeted it this a.m.
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JP gov is shifting from decontamination to evacuation | Fukushima Diary http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/jp-gov-is-shifting-from-decontamination-to-evacuation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jp-gov-is-shifting-from-decontamination-to-evacuation
Japanese government published their prediction that some areas will remain more radioactive than 20mSv/y even in 10 years, where will still be uninhabitable on 4/22/2012.
SHIFTING THEIR POSITION!? THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT MARCH 12TH!
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Not that the signs have not been there all along..the destruction that BP has caused to the environment of the Gulf of GOM is raising… it's ugly head.
TPTB can't hide this one forever either.
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I love seafood, love sushi, love west coast cheese and california clemetines and honduran melons…and I won't eat any of them anymore. Last melon and californai orange I tested with my Inspector Alert showed five times background, and my NPP friend tells me "Oh it's just sunlight" bullshit! Small householder controlled gardening. We could take a lesson from castro's Cuba that fed itself after the 1963 missle crisis and embargo. But waht about the water? where are we goning to get that radiation-free????
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Good question. Our water is already full of poison, this will contaminate it forever.
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Hi sonnen.blum.239 – are you saying a melon from Honduras tested at five times background? That seems odd – do I misunderstand you?
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It's quite possible… apples from Chile do pretty good until they travel and land in dusty stores in Japan and the USA … The surface exposure gets them some hot particles. The apples tested last summer at the Japanese motocross race had a few hot particles of cesium, far below Japanese fruit. I speculated the transit and sitting in Honshu stores gave them external radiation.
But if fruits are soaking in fallout isotopes in Honduras then that is bad news indeed. No place to run, no place to hide. Lots of bananas from Central America… The naked ape race is losing options for southern migration in this new threat to mankind… The Fallout Age.
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Hi Sickputer. I think it would be really important to know whether the radiation is picked up in the source countries, in transit, or on the shelves. If we can find out where the hazards are, we might be able to avoid them to some extent.
I'll be very surprised if Honduran melons are picking up radiation at source, but I guess we have to wait for evidence of one kind or another.
Hehe – it would be ironic if bananas actually became "hot" from Fukushima radiation. I can imagine the last pro-nuker saying "I just ate a prawn from Fukushima and it was no more dangerous than the banana I had for breakfast".
sonnen.blum.239 – are you around? Can you confirm or disconfirm the Honduran melon measurement bit – five times background?
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sonnen.blum.239,
Well the biggest aquifer in the world was in Libya and the UN went and got it days after the Fukushima explosions and meltdowns started !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River
Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_System
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You can remove everything but tritium and tritium is not likely to be around in large quantities unless you are directly downstream or the plant has leaked into your aquifer.
Dont freak, research,
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@stock: references? I'm always interested in your input. From what I know, there's only one type of water purification technology that removes all radioactive contaminants. Problem is, it's energy intensive…
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Some small links to water & air decontamination of radiation
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,9.msg26.html#msg26
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A simple point for enewsers to understand concerning water filtration. The harmful radioactive isotopes that have an afinity to carbon will bond to the carbon in an activated charcoal filter instead of the carbon in your body.
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But here is what one fisherman says…”We’re continuing to pull up oil in our nets. People who live here know better than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters.”
Meanwhile the local goverments have been broadcasting ads throughout the US promoting the gulf. The ads show families playing on the beaches, eating shrimp at restaurants, enjoying themselves…"We've cleaned up the gulf…come on back"
To those of you who didn't believe it…you aren't conspiracy theorist…you were just blessed with good sense!
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Oh yeah! They've quadrupled the BP ads. How those people can stand there and lie is beyond me. "Come on down to the gulf! The beaches are clean and business is great!"
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Now all they need is to get Bubba and Forrest Gump to do some "shrimping is great and so are the Gulf shrimp" ads.
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Where's that Bubba when you need him?
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Why, Him saying a box of chocolates ain't going to fix this mess !
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Beyond the Corexit the DNA damage, How would anyone know what shrimp had eyes or not after they are deheaded and placed on your plate ?
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Blessed INDEED! Thanks for the reminder, many moons!
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Great news! Kevin Blanch is in REMISSION!!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/KevinBlanchDonationFund/
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Oh Whoopie,…aren't you the barer of GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!
Father has much work for that special soul,…as 'we' ALL know,…….:-)
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Whoops,…I joined his page so as to make a comment. I see yours there also! You rock, as always!
I love you for carrying the torch, Sister!
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HI SJ. I posted then left for an appt. It's great news isn't it!? Go Kevin!!
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That's wonderful news.
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Finally. Furthur info of poisoning of the GoM by BP
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/board,5.0.html
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Sadly, we're all complicit. Might sound harsh, but everyone owning a car, enjoying food being flown in from other countries, using plastic, sporting the "modern lifestyle"…is part of the problem.
Ever moaned about high gas prices?
There's no production without demand.
*peace
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B&B,….one more small breeze (push), and I'm hanging up my 'keys'!
The expense of registering, insuring, gassing up,…..I am looking at 'non-op'ing my car. But,…..Oh shit,…the end of my freedom? Living with a bastard? Oh crap girl,……I just don't know,….!
You are right about how much that very act would help ALL of the problems we are speaking of here!
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@BreadAndButter: I can't agree more. Though I'm a licensed driver, I got rid of my car years ago and have been riding a nice ATB (all terrain bike) since. It forces me to stay local but I'd done enough commuting over the years.
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B&B, "There's no production without demand."
Candidates for exceptions to your rule: nuclear weapons, nuclear power, Cheez Doodles, income tax forms, rubber noses, lava lamps, colored paper clips?…
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No, we aren't to blame. The guilt thing "you used a bag, you drive a car" is to make you feel guilty. The real problem is a few certain men, running a few certain industries.
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Yep, well said. The corporations, the psychopaths, and ultimately the governments that have gotten so fat their base cannot support them, even with their slave tenders trying their hardest under threat.
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This is not the fault of the oil, but of the corexit, which thinned the oil and allowed it to penetrate into creatures, where the oil wouldn't have by itself …
Corexit is the problem here … This is the only difference in this oil spill, than hundreds of other oil spills in the world …
They dumped more than 100,000 gallons into the gulf to cover up the extent of the spill and to break down the oil which has changed the chemical composition of the oil characteristics ….
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Here is the oil from the Gulf, it's on Beaches and everywhere !! And Many have been swimming in it !!! (pics)
To Gulf Oil Spill on Tuesday, August 10, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/131/964/
Oil, Water, Sand, and Beaches
To Gulf Oil Spill on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/116/096/
Oil appears to be sinking under the sands on beaches (PICS)
To Gulf Oil Spill on Saturday, August 14, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/138/150/
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Corexit Being Used On The East Coast ??
To Gulf Oil Spill on Thursday, August 19, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/143/686/
East Coast Beach sand anomilalies with black stuff — what is that foam in the water ? (Video)
To Gulf Oil Spill on Sunday, October 10, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/209/739/
****MUST READ !!!***
Synthetic Virus Nothing new, First synthetic virus created July, 2002 More Links & Inf.
To Gulf Oil Spill on Monday, November 01, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/244/490/
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big plus Cindy! You got it right. It was all about 'hiding' the problem. Now, BP will be facing an even bigger battle when it's proven (and it will be) that their strategy (of using Corexit) was preemptive and ultimately unnecessary. But this was a boardroom decision that was made thousands of miles away.
Everyone should make a point of committing to a lifetime ban of all BP products. Don't wait for others to do it. Do what I'm doing and just do it!!!
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Interesting that you mention this. Last weekend I pulled off of the freeway to refuel and was confronted with Exxon, BP and Shell. Choices were Valdez, Macondo or nat gas leak in North Atlantic. Which would you choose?
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@Joe Ebslap: nice one! Shell is riddled with criminals. Exxon is no better. And BP just happens to have the spotlight on them. Guess you're right…they're all bums…
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agreed, although the oil itself is pretty bad too, its both.
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Concerning deformities and ‘horrifying creatures’..
"according to BP and Federal Agencies, this doesn’t necessarily have to do with the BP Oil Spill in spring 2010."
BP is right; it wasn't the oil, it was and is the corexit.
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Here are some links everyone should check out. I have been tracking things down for hour .Hope you please read and pass on to otherh. also tell what you think. Thanks
http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1031
you can scroll down to vimeo video. no need to read just listen also 14 other links on page.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riki-ott/bio-remediation-or-bio-ha_b_720461.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKxmqMH4w_A&feature=related.
This is yet another extinction level event of 2012.
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@ holland see my links. All you need to see is the first one.
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Thanks. I'll check it out…
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I just googled Gulf shrimp fishing closed, shrimp fishing in the gulf closed..etc. I pulled up this stream and a few other mentions…not one large news agency reporting on the story??????
This is very significant news….I wonder…if the problems the seafood have (holes, no eyes,) had not been so visible….would there still be a ban?
Would there even be testing? Wh
I want to know where are all those rich texas oil men buying the shrimp for their parties???? Thailand??? Will they serve lobster without claws…OH my this is news worthy.
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This is becuase of Corexit and Bp spill. The chemicals have gotten into the food chains too have been keeping up with this since I live on the coastline here in The Gulf.
markww
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@markww: if you've been following this, you should partner with xdrfox. He's been posting a slew of these stories long before this story came back to haunt us. I just happened to post this story (off-topic forum) to enenews when the first report of these mutations came out. I knew it was big the moment I saw it. I'm also happy that admin's recognized its importance and moved it to the 'front page'…
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Here is MORE BREAKING NEWS OF BP SPILL.
from MARKWW found on the Internet
You'll find that not all is well with the marine life in the northern Gulf of Mexico, especially Louisiana. “Although the oil has stopped flowing from the wellhead, the Gulf oil spill is not over,” Doug Inkley, senior scientist for the National Wildlife Federation, told the New Orleans Times Picayune.
A recent NWF report claims there are six key areas still at risk due to the spill —as well as a variety of creatures, including bottle nose dolphins, a variety of sea turtles, brown pelicans, and Atlantic blue fin tuna. It’s still too soon to assess the long-term impact on much of the region’s wetlands, but the NWF is asking Congress to pass the Restore Act, which would dedicate fines and penalties against BP and other responsible parties toward long-term restoration of the Gulf.
As for the seafood shipped from the Gulf across the country, the verdict is still out on how healthy it is. Seafood processors say last year’s brown-shrimp season was good, but the white-shrimp catch was off. Oyster beds unharmed by the floods of fresh Mississippi River water—released to keep the oil offshore or to relieve record flooding last year—have seen strong harvests. Areas where the harvest was delayed in 2010 because of concerns about oil tainting the shellfish have seen weaker harvests. A variety of studies and reports detailing just how much of that crude oil still lurks in both the ocean, and the fish,…
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markww,
Mislabeling of Seafood Widespread In LA
To Gulf Oil Spill on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/2041/695
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AFTERSHOCK,
admin's runs
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/
Posted Fuku there for a few weeks before this site was created to carry the crisis in Japan ! FOSL site is active with updates, many posters here came from FOSL and we are very attune to that whole story as well, we have some good news crews/commenter's here from there !
Oh you did get my post I am on the east coast near Daytona Bch. In Volusia county !
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"grotesquely disfigured seafood" and "visibly sick, deformed seafood". I find the framing of Smith's story really repulsive. There is no concern expressed for "disfigured living creatures" or "visibly sick, deformed fellow inhabitants of the planet", just "seafood". It's still all about making a buck.
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MORE ON BP YESTERDAY 4-26-2012
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/2-years-after-the-bp-oil-spill-is-the-gulf-ecosystem-collapsing.html
BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS
The most visibly at-risk creatures are the bottle nose dolphins, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has labeled in “poor health” since the spill, thanks to an “unexplained mortality event.” Stranded dolphins have been showing up on beaches from Louisiana to Peru since the spill, suffering from lung and liver disease and abnormally low levels of hormones that help with stress response, metabolism and immune function.
“They are at the top of the food chain in the Gulf, perhaps even more than we are, because they eat whole fish. They consume everything,” said George Crozier, retired director of Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama. “That creates a situation where they might be bio-accumulating any toxic's in the food chain.”
Because they breathe air, the dolphins are also likely to have inhaled toxic fumes, in addition to have swum through oil.
CORAL
Travel seven miles from the site of the spill, dive a mile deep and, according to a study cofunded by NOAA and BP, the corals lining the ocean floor are dead and dying and coated in “brown gunk.”
Extensive damage to the coral became apparent eight months after the spill. Many thought the bulk of the ecological damage would be limited to close to the surface, but thanks to the depth of the spill and cold temperatures, plumes of oil…
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ZOOPLANKTON
It’s not just the charismatic sea creatures that suffered; scientists have confirmed that hydrocarbons from the spill have entered the ocean’s food chain through zoo plankton, small organisms that drift through the ocean and are used as food by shrimp and baby fish.
The contaminated zoo plankton serve as food for small fish and shrimps, thus acting as “conduits for the movement of oil contamination and pollutants into the food chain.”
BUGS
Insects have not escaped scrutiny, or the oil.
A Louisiana State University entomologist says that since the spill, her studies show falling numbers for a variety of bugs.
Linda Hooper-Bui of the LSU Agricultural Center collected insects about 20 or 25 times last year at 45 sites, from Cocodrie to Breton Sound, Louisiana, using both vacuums and nets. She has been studying the same sites since 2009, and has discovered that insects and spiders hit by the spill have declined in population. She reports seeing growth only in some species, while others are still low in numbers, or even collapsing.
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I have lots more information but keep running out of room due to 1500 limit
Markww
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JUST A GUT FEELING I THINK LIFE IS DYING ALL OVER THE GULF NOT JUST IN SOME AREAS. BP EXTERMINATION (COULD THIS BE ONE WORLD ORDER DEVELOPING)
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Plants are Showing Us There Is Something in The Rain. (Pictures)
To Gulf Oil Spill on Monday, October 11, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/211/091/
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MOST OF YOU ARE MISSING THE STORY. ITS PURE SCIENCE NON-FICTION.(THAT MEANS ITS TRUE)
BEYOND PETROCHEMICAL BP NEW SLOGAN IS THE STORY. JUST SEE THESE LINKS. NOT SPAM, VIRUSES, OF ANYTHING OF THE SORT. THERE IS A TEST TUBE MICROBE THAT SPLITS BY ITSELF. IS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT. MADE TO EAT AND BREAK DOWN OIL. THE OIL WAS SUNK WITH COREXIT AND THE MICROBES WHERE RELEASED BY BP. THEY OWN THE PATENT ON THE MICROBES THAT EAT THE OIL. THE OIL IS FOOD, THESE THINGS ARE MULTIPLYING UNCONTROLLABLY. THERE HAS BEEN NO STUDY ON HUMANS. GUESS WHAT YOU GET AS SICK AS THE SHRIMP,FISH,DOLPHINS.
THATS THE DUMB DOWN VERSION. ITS WORSE. SEARCH "SYNTHETIC GENOMES" "Syntetic Genomics of Rockville Maryland ".
ANYWAY THESE ARE MUST SEE. THE FIRST LINK HAS A VEMIO VIDEO SCROLL DOWN ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LISTEN.
http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=1031
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riki-ott/bio-remediation-or-bio-ha_b_720461.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKxmqMH4w_A&feature=related
I CANT BELIEVE MY EYES ANYMORE THE RICH WILL KILL MANKIND FOR MONEY. EVERYONE CLAIMS TO HAVE A GOD WHERE IS THE HUMANITY?
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"Festival of Shrimp" Red Lobster TV Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXmtqsFYCLQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"pffft" Tragic!
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AS to the shrimp festival you have I go this from Red Lobster as to their seafood
FROM RED LOBSTER—– > We have buyers and total quality inspectors who work with suppliers in over 30 countries to bring you "the best of the sea." We examine and test seafood at every point of our supply chain – all the way to the source – so guests know they are enjoying safe meals in our restaurants. All Red Lobster seafood meets our industry-leading standards which, in turn, meet or exceed all U.S. government requirements.
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Sure, from CB—–> Enjoy!
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Yeah, blah, blah, blah,…boy scout's honor!
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Giant cannibal shrimp more than a FOOT long invade waters off Gulf Coast Tiger shrimp are native to Asia though there have been more sightings in recent years
Prawns are known to grow to the size of lobsters and eat smaller shrimp
enoughalrady45 says: We have messed up the balance of nature in the Gulf. That is my theory.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135907/Giant-cannibal-shrimp-grow-13-INCHES-long-invade-waters-Gulf-Coast.html
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Chemical and biological degrading agents to oil and it's by products…?
It only makes sense that there will be devastating consequences
to the basic balance and chemistry of everything in the Gulf.
The explained deformities of sea dwelling creatures
and fundamental effects of their basic lipid metabolism
alone, is just numbing to imagine on many levels,
but makes sense to me… they are very sick.
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We might have destroyed the ecosystem of the gulf and taken away the pleasure of a dip in the ocean but look at all the pople arond the world who have ground massively rich from the oil in the gulf. We have given our land so that that England can be richer, hmm wonder whose idea that was?
I use to travel to the Gulf every year to enjoy the atmosphere, the pleasant sea side attractions. Gulf seafood. I always thought I would retire there.
Well BP I know you said you would make everything right with all your money but I guess you can't buy prestine…that's a gift and you people grabbed it from all of us and made a profit by selling us the oil you got out of the ocean…destroying everything that lay in your path from oil to the gold you wear…. take a trip to Japan!
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