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Historic Marine Life Census Counts Over 250,000 Species

Photo Credit: I. MacDonald Back in February, we were excited to know that the Census of Marine Life — a massive undertaking of accounting for all live in the ocean — had started to wrap up . But details on findings were still under wraps. Just yesterday the researchers finally released a report of the marine life found in 25 key areas of the world, with over 10,000 species in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Historic Marine Life Census Counts Over 250,000 Species

Toxicologists: Corexit ruptures red blood cells, is much more toxic than most realize

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/07/toxicologists-corexit-ruptures-red.html Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”, “Allows Crude Oil To Penetrate “Into The Cells” and “Every Organ System” As I have previously noted, Corexit is toxic, is less effective than other dispersants, and is actually worsening the damage caused by the oil spill. Now, two toxicologists are saying that Corexit is much more harmful to human health and marine life than we've been told. Specifically Gulf toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw – Founder and Director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute – dove into the oil spill to examine the chemicals present. Dr. Shaw told CNN: If I can tell you what happens — because I was in the oil — to people… Shrimpers throwing their nets into water… [then] water from the nets splashed on his skin. … [He experienced a] headache that lasted 3 weeks… heart palpitations… muscle spasms… bleeding from the rectum… And that’s what that Corexit does, it ruptures red blood cells, causes internal bleeding, and liver and kidney damage. … This stuff is so toxic combined… not the oil or dispersants alone. … Very, very toxic and goes right through skin. *** The reason this is so toxic is because of these solvents [from dispersant] that penetrate the skin of anything that’s going through the dispersed oil takes the oil into the cells — takes the oil into the organs… and this stuff is toxic to every organ system in the body. … (more at link and an additional video on corexit) See also: Leaked Corexit info http://beforeitsnews.com/story/98/069/San_Francisco_Chronicle:_Leaked_Corexit_In… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1mI-DJII1U&feature=player_embedded added by: samantha420

Off-Duty Police Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Marine Outside Nightclub

http://renovomedia.com/news/off-duty-police-office-fatally-shoots-unarmed-marine… Baltimore: An off-duty police office fired 13 shots, killing an unarmed Marine outside a nightclub early Saturday. added by: paintedacres

BP Beyond Pathetic

Renowned Marine Biologist Carl Safina on the BP Oil Spill’s Ecological Impact on the Gulf Coast and Worldwide added by: futuregen

Watch The Pacific Season 1 Episode 8 – Iwo Jima Online Streaming Video Link

Watch The Pacific Season 1 Episode 8 – Iwo Jima . The 8th episode of this 1st season that aired 05/02/10, Sunday at 9:00 P.M. on HBO. Watch the latest episode of our favorite marines brought to us by HBO. We have provided the links for you where you can watch it online streaming or download it for your collection, it is located at the beginning and at the end of this post, and right after this paragraph in color blue text/font, in bold letters. Watch The Pacific S1E8: Iwo Jima The Pacific’s new episode entitled “Iwo Jima” has Basilone convincing the Marines to make him the trainer of the new recruits before they head to combat because he have been so frustrated in his role as the campaigner of war bonds. During his transfer in Camp Pendleton, he met a female Marine name Lena Riggi and got in a whirlwind romance with her even though they know that all will end soon as Basilone will soon be leaving to take part in the Marine Landing on Iwo Jima. Watch the full latest episode of The Pacific online for free. Watch The Pacific 1 Continue reading

Watch The Pacific Season 1 Episode 5 (S01E05) – Peleliu Landing

Watch The Pacific Season 1 Episode 5 (S01E05) – Peleliu Landing. In this episode Basilone’s celebrity grows as he travels across the country on the war bonds tour. On Pavuvu, Sledge, assigned to the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, is briefly reunited with Phillips and Leckie rejoins his company. Sledge then gets his first taste of combat as he, Leckie, and the rest of the 1st Marine Division meet fierce Japanese resistance while landing on the intricately and heavily defended coral island of Peleliu. The Pacific is a ten-part television World War II mini-series, it focuses on the United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War. Watch The Pacific Season 1 Episode 5 (S01E05) Source: TV Shows Watch The Pacific Season 1 Episode 5 (S01E05) – Peleliu Landing is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Marine Reportedly Killed by Mercenaries High on Opium

Pentagon originally said Marine killed in combat. The Pentagon confirmed late Tuesday that it is investigating the death of a 24-year-old Indiana Marine after he was shot to death in Afghanistan, allegedly by several US-paid private security contractors. The contractors, according to a fellow Marine in Afghanistan who communicated with an investigative reporter in Chicago, were Afghanis who were found with “copious amounts of opium” and had been paid by the United States as guards. “He was killed by American Hired Local National Contractors that were high on opium the morning of the 19th,” the ABC reporter quotes a friend and fellow colleague of Lance Corporal Joshua Birchfield as saying in an email message. Lance Corporal Joshua Birchfield was killed after being shot in the head Feb. 19. The Department of Defense originally reported that he died of “small arms fire” while in combat. But the story is apparently darker and more complex — raising questions of whether the Pentagon originally concealed information about the Marine's death. The Chicago Marine who tipped off the ABC reporter purportedly wrote a detailed email surrounding the circumstances of Birchfield's death. In it, he asserts that the young Marine was killed by Afghanis paid as private contractors. “These men are armed to the teeth and supposedly here for our protection,” the fellow Marine is said to have emailed. “We have been shot at by the contractors on several cases before this incident. We have been told to refrain from returning fire and attempt to identify ourselves as Marines so they stop shooting.” “They are also drug abusers,” he continued. “The shooter was found to have copious amounts of wet opium on him shortly after the shooting … we found a bag of wet opium in the compound that the contractors were using to get high.” “A mix of drugs and gray areas of loyalty between U.S. forces and Taliban seems to be the motivation behind the shooting,” he added. The Pentagon, announcing an investigation into the death on Wednesday, declined to say what exactly they were investigating. more at link… Afghanistan is the drug war. It has nothing to do with Islam, everything to do with Heroin. added by: rodstradamus