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BP Oil Disaster ~ Hell No It’s Not Over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2Ezxc7AcU Gulf Coast residents gathered in Grand Isle LA on Nov. 20th to expose the lies of BP and tell their stories of Sickness, share what they've seen and been through AND TO WARN THE WORLD NOT TO EAT THE GULF SEAFOOD. The commercial fishermen are fishing and sending the food to market because the government & FDA says it's safe. But they won't feed it to their own families. 1 corporate (local) news crew covered this event. ONE. Live streamed the entire event and it is archived here http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/story/Rally-Truth-Grand-Isle-LA added by: samantha420

CONFIRMED – LAB TESTED Gulf Coast Water Samples are ‘VERY TOXIC’

Oil and water samples were taken from both the Shores of Grand Isle and from 20 miles out. The preliminary analysis was done at an academic analytical chemistry laboratory. Looking for the likely pollutants from the deep water Horizon Oil spill. It was focused on the detection of benzene and propylene glycol. Benzene and other highly toxic contaminants were very low however the concentration of propylene glycol was between 360 and 440 parts per million. Just 25 parts per million is known to kill most fish and propylene glycol is just one of many ingredients found in Corexit. In short, the Gulf is being poisoned by BP's usage of the dispersants even after the EPA asked them to stop back in May. We are willing to provide ANY respected/known laboratory these samples or provide them with more. This is very serious to all people and marine life in and around the Gulf. added by: TomTucker

Oil/Water samples from Gulf…VERY TOXIC

This comes from the YouTube video: Oil and water samples were taken from both the Shores of Grand Isle and from 20 miles out. The preliminary analysis was done at an academic analytical chemistry laboratory. Looking for the likely pollutants from the deep water Horizon Oil spill. It was focused on the detection of benzene and propylene glycol. Benzene and other highly toxic contaminants were very low however the concentration of propylene glycol was between 360 and 440 parts per million. Just 25 parts per million is know to kill most fish and propylene glycol is just one of many ingredients found in Corexit. In short, the Gulf is being poisoned by BP's usage of the dispersants even after the EPA asked them to stop back in May. We are willing to provide ANY respected/known laboratory these samples or provide them with more. This is very serious to all people and marine life in and around the Gulf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k This comes from a blog: A group of daring citizen journalists collected water samples from Grand Isle, Louisiana, a few days ago and sent them to an Academic Chemistry lab for analysis. The findings were startling: The concentrations of Propylene Glycol were off the charts: 360 and 440 parts per million, concentrations indicating a much higher level of Corexit (of which Propylene Glycol is only one part). Toxicity tests have shown that a concentration of Corexit at 25 parts per million kills most fish and only 2.6 parts per million has the same effect in the presence of dispersed oil. The level of the water samples collected at Grand Isle is roughly 150 times the toxic level for fish. Overall, this water analysis suggests high Corexit concentrations in surface water near New Orleans and suggests a public health Hazard that should be taken extremely seriously along the entire Gulf Coast. Simply put: This water is poisonous! http://activerain.com/blogsview/1731102/this-water-is-poisonous- added by: samantha420

You don’t bring sand to the beach: BP’s newest cover-up (video)

BP’s new cover up is literally covering up the beaches. I am getting reports from Grand Isle, Louisiana, from C.S. Muncy, a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, that BP is now trucking in sand to cover up the Gulf beaches instead of cleaning up the oil that spreading on our shores. When asked if it was true that BP has been covering some of the oil on the beach with sand: “Yeah. Yeah, this is interesting…We went down onto the beaches, and we started inspecting them. There were tar balls, tar residue, and there was some oil on the beach. Apparently, the day before there was a lot of tar balls, and BP was working in the area pretty heavily, and we started noticing there was a different consistency in the sand. Closer to shore, there was this grainy, very rough shell-filled sand, and then you could see almost like a border where it just spilled over onto the beach sand, which is a very fine-grained sand. And it looked as if it was dumped. I mean, you could dig a few inches down, and you could see that it was a different type of sand beneath that, you know, without all the shell and grit, and what not. It looked very much like that. Our first assumption was, yeah, that they were dumping sand to cover up the tar balls.” Read the rest on the original post. added by: CLGreen

The Path,…..Cold Steel, Enchantment, and Cthulhu

A really fun and well done Arthurian/Lovecraftian/Swords and Sorcery web-comic, This would be one hell of an RPG setting! About the Author— bio James Riot was born to unstable parents. They were a happy couple, but were perturbed at the idea of having to raise a child…as it would cut into their favorite game of tricking the local kids into eating their own pets. At 20 months, Riot was learning to speak when a doctor told his family that he seemed to be developmentally delayed and possibly mildly retarded. His father took the opinion to extremes, believing that he was profoundly retarded. He took him to the ocean and threw him in. Rescued from death by the horrible denizens of the undersea city R'lyeh, Riot was raised under the sea: playing amidst the massive slumbering form of Cthulhu. This close proximity was not without incident, however, as when Riot emerged from the bosom of the sea 25 years later, he returned to the world of man with malice in his heart and destruction on his mind. A weapon of the Great Old Ones, tempered at the unfathomable depths of the unforgiving sea.Then he discovered whiskey, moved to southern California, and makes a living doing freelance artwork and drawing comics. He lives in Long Beach with his girlfriend, likes re-reading Lovecraft to the point of insanity, Orange Chicken from Panda Express, and B-grade horror movies. influences Mike Mignola, Matt Wagner, Mike Allred, H.P. Lovecraft, P. Craig Russell hobbies Drawing, writing, drinking. music Bad Religion, The Darkest of Hillside Thickets, Sham 69, The Jam, Queen, Billie Holiday, GWAR, Stephen Lynch, The Blues Brothers, The Ramones, The Pixies, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Black 47, Misfits, Rudimentary Peni, The Dwarves, Sloppy Seconds, The Vandals, NOFX, The Clash, The Damned, The Slackers, Agent Orange, Biohazard, The Cramps, The Horrorpops, Oxymoron,The Pillows, The Seatbelts, Foo Fighters, garbage, Greg Graffin's solo stuff, Johnny Cash, Clapton, Hendrix, Kieven Rus, Social Distortion, Murphy's Law, Pennywise, Queen, Reel Big Fish, Strung Out, The Smiths, The Suicide Machines, System of a Down, Zebrahead, etc. books Anything by Lovecraft, Poe, and the like. Anything on mythology and/or folklore. THE FORBIDDEN LORE—– http://www.needcomics.com/The_Path/page/1/ added by: remanns

Soldier Busted for Leaking to WikiLeaks

Washington D.C. — Army officials apprehended an intelligence analyst accused of releasing classified military information to the self-proclaimed “whistle-blowing” website, WikiLeaks. The militay said Monday Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland is being held in pre-trial confinement in Kuwait. Manning is deployed with 2nd Brigade 10th Mountain Division, in Baghdad, Iraq. “The Department of Defense takes the management of classified information very seriously because it affects our national security, the lives of our Soldiers, and our operations abroad,” a statement from U.S Forces-Iraq reads. In April WikiLeaks made headlines when it released classified military footage it titled “Collateral Murder”, which showed showed Army forces shooting Iraqis from helicopters and killing two Reuters cameramen, among others. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the video amounted to the “indiscriminate slaying” of Iraqis and “another day at the office” for the U.S. Army. Fox News later reported that Assange failed show that some of the Iraqi's in that video were carrying weapons, including RPG's and AK-47's. According the WIRED.com, Manning was exposed after telling online hacker, Adrian Lamo, that he was the one who released the video. Lamo told the FBI and the Army's Criminal Investigation Command that he felt compelled to turn Manning in after Manning also took credit for releasing hundreds of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables from the State Department. Lamo said Manning also boasted of using his top secret clearance to access a separate video he gave to WikiLeaks that captured the deadly 2009 Garani air strike in Afghanistan. WikiLeaks told Fox News in April that it has that video in its possession and that it will eventually be made public. On its website WikiLeaks published two references to diplomatic cables in January and February of 2010, but so far neither of those documents have received as much attention as the video it released. Christopher Grey, a spokesman for Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), says an investigation into Manning's alleged crimes is ongoing and that his division is in contact with prosecutors in Iraq. Formal charges could be announced out at any point. added by: curtisreed

LA Family’s Grave Yard Protest, a Dedication to Everything Lost to the Oil Spill

River Shay walks his dog in the front yard of his Grand Isle, Louisiana house planted with crosses with the names some of the marine life, seafood dishes and recreational activities that are being lost due oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico June 7, 2010. The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning, leaking record amounts of crude oil from the broken pipeline into the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. Photo

Doodle 4 Google National Winner 2010 Wants to Save the Rainforest

The winning Doodle 4 Google drawing by Makenzie Melton, Age 9, Grade 3. A Green Doodle 4 Google Wins! Every year, Google holds a competition for kids. The winner gets to have its drawing of the Google logo seen by hundreds of millions of people on the search giant’s homepage. The Doodle 4 Google (aka Doodle4Google) competition is open to all students in U.S. schools from kindergarten to grade 12, including homeschoolers, and this year’s winner has been announced: It’s Makenzie Melton, age 9, from El Dorado Springs, Missouri. Her drawing shows the Google logo in the rainforest, a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Spill in the Mangroves Is a Disgusting, Sticky Mess (Exclusive Photos + Video)

No joke, this is Philippe dipping his hand into oil on a Louisiana beach. All photos and video courtesy of Philippe Cousteau. Guest blogger Philippe Cousteau is chief ocean correspondent for Planet Green , and will host the network’s forthcoming Blue August programming. He is reporting from the Gulf oil spill in Louisiana. Grand Isle, Louisiana – May 25, 2010 Another early morning, all the more early because we didn’t stop work till 2 a.m. last night. Today we head off … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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