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Scientists Find Thick Layer Of Oil On Seafloor

Scientists on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico are finding a substantial layer of oily sediment stretching for dozens of miles in all directions. Their discovery suggests that a lot of oil from the Deepwater Horizon didn't simply evaporate or dissipate into the water — it has settled to the seafloor. The Research Vessel Oceanus sailed on Aug. 21 on a mission to figure out what happened to the more than 4 million barrels of oil that gushed into the water. Onboard, Samantha Joye, a professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, says she suddenly has a pretty good idea about where a lot of it ended up. It's showing up in samples of the seafloor, between the well site and the coast. “I've collected literally hundreds of sediment cores from the Gulf of Mexico, including around this area. And I've never seen anything like this,” she said in an interview via satellite phone from the boat. Joye describes seeing layers of oily material — in some places more than 2 inches thick — covering the bottom of the seafloor. “It's very fluffy and porous. And there are little tar balls in there you can see that look like microscopic cauliflower heads,” she says. It's very clearly a fresh layer. Right below it she finds much more typical seafloor mud. And in that layer, she finds recently dead shrimp, worms and other invertebrates. 'A Slime Highway' … story continued at link. added by: Jessica_Bryant

Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Yet Built… There’s Still Time to Turn It Around

We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we’ve built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published in the journal

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Why "Gandhi of Water" Rajendra Singh Is Walking the Length of the Ganges River

Image of Rajendra Singh in the documentary Flow via Mongrel Media Considered the Gandhi of water issues, Rajendra Singh is an activist about to begin an incredible walk in order to bring attention to India’s water problems. Starting on October 1st at the threatened Goumouk glacier in the Himalayas, the head of the Ganges River, he will walk along the river’s length to its mouth at the Bay of Bengal. Singh is embarking on this 37-day journey for a singular purpose — to illustrate how the health of our fresh water systems determines the health of human populati… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How California Can Save 1 Million Acre-Feet of Water On The Cheap

Photo via PhillipC The Pacific Institute has released a new report titled “California’s Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy and Money that outlines the steps the state can take to come up with its next one million acre-feet of water. All of it would be relatively easy and a whole lot cheaper than trying to drum up even more fresh water out of a dried-out state — even cheaper than surface storage projects. The steps all involve existing technology and a l… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Heidi Montag Post-Surgery Body before and after

Heidi Montag, 23, has been flaunting her body, posing in a bikini in the water while still sporting a bandage on her nose. Why? “To keep the swelling down and hold my nose in place the way [my plastic surgeon] Dr. Ryan sculpted it,” she has said. She#39;s Tweeted about massaging her breast implants to keep them soft, worried about her nose falling off and complained of jaw pain recently – but Heidi Montag doesn#39;t want to be a cautionary tale against plastic surgery. After her jaw-dropping (

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Kings of Leon ‘Radioactive’ Video Pays Tribute To Band’s Southern Roots

Tennessee rock quartet serves up all-American apple pie and soda in sun-drenched clip for gospel-tinged single. By Peter de Saint Phalle Kings of Leon Photo: Gareth Cattermole/ Getty Images Kings of Leon have featured exploding buildings (“Notion”) and fast-paced montages of sold-out concert venues (“Use Somebody”) in their videos, but for their newest, they take a more laid-back approach. The band released the sepia-tone video for “Radioactive” on Wednesday (September 8) on their website , KingsofLeon.com, and it finds the Kings at a Southern-style summer barbecue. The band substitutes beer and cigarettes for sodas and pie as a youth choir is seen backing the band throughout the song. “It’s in the water/ It’s where you came from,” lead vocalist Caleb Followill belts out on the track’s chorus. As images of sun-drenched green fields and tables full of apple pies are set to gospel vocals and Matthew Followill’s heavy guitar riffs, “Radioactive” provides a glimpse of KOL’s Southern origins. “We grew up in this type of lifestyle,” drummer Nathan Followill explained in a video posted on the group’s site about making the video. “Gospel music was a big part of us growing up, so to be able to come back and revisit that part of our lives at this stage in our lives is a very special thing.” The VMA-nominated Kings of Leon (“Use Somebody” is up for Best Rock Video) are originally from Tennessee, but they can call most of the Southern states home after spending much of their childhoods traveling with their father, a Pentecostal preacher, to various Southern churches and congregations. “Radioactive” is the first single from the band’s fifth studio album, Come Around Sundown, which is set to for a October 19 release. There were problems, however, in the early stages, bassist Jared Followill explained in the video. The new single almost didn’t make it onto the upcoming record. “The choruses started off kind of spiritual but the verses were never matched up to them at all. … We went into the studio and we tried it and it wasn’t really working … we were going to scrap the whole song.” It was only when the band began recalling childhood memories that the tune came to life. “Caleb, he kind of went back to an old spiritual song that we had all sung growing up,” Jared continued. “It matched up with the chorus so nice that it all worked out from there.” What do you think of KOL’s new video for “Radioactive”? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists Kings Of Leon

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Wyoming Town Close to Drilling Told To Avoid Drinking Water

image via Gasland I lived in Wyoming for 8 years and it breaks my heart that the state’s landscape is being so significantly altered by the oil, coal and gas industry. I never visited the town of Pavillion when I was in Wyoming, and now I don’t have much of a desire to go there after federal officials told locals to avoid drinking their tap water and to make sure they have ventilation when showering. Pavillion is located close to several natural gas drilling sites. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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ABC Nightline Hit Piece Smears Alex Jones As King of “Paranoia Porn”

An ABC Nightline hit piece on Alex Jones which aired last night attempts to smear the radio talk show host as a dangerous purveyor of “paranoia porn” who is inciting followers to violence, an unfortunate angle to take in light of the fact that just a day earlier, James Jay Lee was inspired not by Alex Jones, but by top-down establishment propaganda about environmentalism, when he decided to take hostages at gunpoint during the Discovery Channel building siege. The headline of the piece, “Angry in America: Inside Alex Jones’ World,” instantly implies that Jones lives within his own paranoid fantasy bubble and that “Alex Jones’ world” bears no relation to the real world. The agenda from the outset is to portray Jones as a kind of freak show leader for mentally disturbed conspiracy theorists. Interviewer Dan Harris constantly asks Jones if he believes in what he says, an ceaseless ploy to undermine the authenticity of the subjects about which Jones warns his listeners. Jones is depicted not as a journalist, but as an entertainer and a purveyor of “paranoia porn,” as if his entire career is just one big sideshow, something to be scoffed at by real intellectuals who watch ABC News. The problem with this smear is the fact that ABC News, along with almost every other establishment media network, is hemorrhaging viewers because their credibility is shot. In the Nightline piece, Harris fumbled in his effort to characterize Jones as a conspiracy nut after Jones pointed out the obvious — the global elite are establishing world government. ABC and the corporate media have reported on this fact numerous times. Jones showed Harris and ABC documentation of this fact, but it ended up on the cutting room floor because the point of the Nightline segment is not to present objective facts, but portray Jones as a dangerous conspiracy kook. Is the usually staid Wall Street Journal a coven of conspiracy nuts? In November of 2009, the newspaper reported that the Copenhagen Agreement engineered plans for “a transnational ‘government’ on a scale the world has never before seen” under the aegis of the United Nations. The Financial Times published an article in late 2008 on the agenda to establish “global governance,” shorthand for world government. Gideon Rachman, FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator, wrote that while he does not believe in black helicopters, “for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.” Earlier this year, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy went on the record in a very visible way and demanded world government in response to the bankster engineered financial crisis, itself a ploy to force world government on Europe and the rest of the developed world. Van Rompuy’s call was covered by the Independent, another staid establishment newspaper. Nobody called the editors deranged conspiracy theory mental cases. Indeed, when Jones provided Harris and ABC News with articles and clips of Van Rompuy and a multitude of other top globalists calling for a new world order and a one world government, Harris simply claimed that they were talking about a different kind of world government, whatever that is supposed to mean. Presumably, the conspiracy for world government only exists if it is characterized as a happy-clappy utopia for everyone. As soon as you dare criticize it and point out that its very nature is fundamentally undemocratic, you instantly become a dangerous lunatic and the whole thing doesn’t exist. ABC is well aware of the world government agenda, but they count on the ignorance of their audience — or the perceived ignorance, since millions of people are now awake to the reality of a one-world authoritarian government. ABC’s assigned task is to convince people Jones is a dangerous nut, not present the facts in an objective manner. It is irrelevant that Jones backs up his claims with plenty of research. Harris repeated the corporate media canard that the water is safe to drink and only paranoid right-wing nut cases talk about fluoride and drugs in our drinking water. And yet the corporate media routinely reports on the dangers of water fluoridation and numerous cities and municipalities around the country are calling for the substance to be removed. In 2008, paranoid and dangerous radicals at none other than USA Today reported that pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. The New York Times attempted to mollify the herd by claiming the presence of this cocktail of poison is not necessarily a bad thing. “Little study has been devoted to the long-term effects of low-concentration exposure on humans,” the Gray Lady reported, never mind numerous studies revealing the presence of drugs has feminized male fish, earthworms and zooplankton. ABC wasn’t going to allow Jones the time to present a shred of evidence because this wasn’t a balanced investigation, it was a hit piece. John P. Holdren, the current White House science czar, wrote a textbook in which he called for a “planetary regime” to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures, as well as drugging the water supply in an effort to cull the human surplus. Harris wasn’t about to give that issue a moment’s attention because the whole process was about shooting down the messenger, not seriously evaluating any of the evidence of Alex Jones’ claims. It should come as no surprise Dan Harris and ABC did not include documentation Alex Jones provided to make his point, documentation easy enough to find if one searches the corporate media’s own stories posted on the internet. ABC and other corporate media dinosaurs are not interested in reporting the truth. A million people listening and watching Alex Jones six days a week is the issue, not world government or the soft kill agenda of the global elite. Indeed, ABC itself reported on the secret meeting between billionaires such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and David Rockefeller, a gathering to discuss ways of curbing overpopulation, and yet Harris cites a CNN article about encouraging women not to have children and dismisses it as nothing more than sarcasm. ABC’s hit piece — while mostly polite with well-placed zingers designed to convince people to stay away from Jones and the patriot and truth movement — is mostly a flailing and doomed effort. Far too many people are awake and many of them understand what ABC’s Nightline segment on Alex Jones represents — a desperate and feeble attempt to shut down the opposition. Casting Jones as a dangerous hatemonger is absurd and will not demonize the man or his message. In fact, it will likely do the opposite of what ABC and the establishment media intend. added by: im1mjrpain

Postcard from Venice: Michelle Williams (and Her Sunbonnet) Takes the Day in Meek’s Cutoff

I don’t know about you, but even when I haven’t been immersed for days in the beauty and sophistication of a city like Venice, I want to head for the hills whenever I see sunbonnets in the opening shots of a movie. For that reason, the early moments of Kelly Reichardt’s ultra-quiet period drama Meek’s Cutoff had me worried. The picture is set in 1845 along the Oregon Trail — Reichardt’s home territory — and in its early moments we watch as three women in calico dresses cross a river on foot. One carries a basket on her head; another, a birdcage with a parakeet inside. As the third emerges from the water, we see that she’s pregnant. The other members of this little troupe include the women’s husbands and the pregnant woman’s preteen son, as well as a know-it-all guide who may, they fear, be leading them down the wrong path.

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Alleged Comedian Lizz Winstead Fantasizes It Would Be ‘Awesome!’ to Electrocute Glenn Beck

Give the woman credit — liberals are seldom this candid about their impulse toward totalitarianism. Usually it takes a bit of prodding before you’ll hear that voice of the guard in the gulag. Lizz Winstead, co-founder of The Daily Show and alumna of the late, hardly lamented Air America Radio, revealed her pathological side while appearing on Ed Schultz’s radio show yesterday, as described by Brian Maloney over at The Radio Equalizer — WINSTEAD: Ed, I’ve always wished that somebody would invent, maybe you and I could go into business and do this, if somebody would invent, you know those shock collars that you put on the dog? (Schultz laughs) That when they bark they get jarred? If we could make one that actually fact-checked and we just put it around Glenn Beck’s neck and when he spoke (pause), or just fake tears, if it could detect when tears were actually crocodile tears, and then you just get electrocuted by the water and jarred, like, that would be awesome! Force him to wear it. “Always” wished for that, have you, Lizz? Two words come to mind — Nurse Ratched . Any relation?

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