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Earth Focus

http://LINKTV.org/video/4158/earth-focus-episode-15-greening-the-military
The Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S and the US military is the biggest purchaser of oil in the world. In 2006 the US Military consumed 117 million barrels or 320,000 barrels per day. Who approves the payments for all that OIL... and who profits from the sales of this #1 cause of climate change and Ocean Acidification.

If the scientists are correct, our own military may be the #1 cause of our looming human extinction... This video report from 12 retired military Admirals and Generals is openly stating that irregardless of the profits, the military must go to an alternative "Green Energy" ASAP to avoid the repercussions, if it's not already too late.

The Oceans of Earth are currently absorbing One Million TONS of carbon dioxide PER HOUR of industrial CO2 in the atmosphere.... http://www3.ncc.edu/faculty/bio/fanellis/biosci119/SEAWATER.htm

Even slightly acidified seawater is toxic to the eggs and larvae of some fish species. In others, including amberjack and halibut, it can cause heart attacks, experiments show. Acidified waters also tend to asphyxiate animals that require a lot of oxygen, such as fast-swimming squid.
If CO2 emissions continue at their current pace, the pH of the ocean is expected to dip to 7.9 or lower by the end of the century -- a 150% change.

The last time ocean chemistry underwent such a radical transformation, Caldeira said, "was when all the dinosaurs went extinct."

B52 bomber (only pictured above) consumes 3,300 gallons per HOUR... Who approves the payments for all that OIL... and who profits from the largest sales on Earth...

In 2006 Air Force consumed around 2.6 billion gallons of jet-fuel which is the same amount of fuel U.S. airplanes consumed during WWII (between December 1941 and August 1945). The mighty B52 bomber (pictured above) consumes 3300 gallons per hour, the F16 Falcon burns 800 gallons per hour and the KC-135 Statotanker an aerial refueling tanker aircraft consumes 2650 gallons per hour.

The Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S and the US military is the biggest purchaser of oil in the world. In 2006 the US Military consumed 117 million barrels or 320,000 barrels per day.

http://newlaunches.com/archives/top_5_facts_on_us_military_oil_consumption.php

The oceans are absorbing One Million Tons of carbon dioxide PER HOUR from the atmosphere .... http://www.postindependent.com/article/20101111/VALLEYNEWS/101119984/1083&ParentProfile=1074

An environmental news magazine that puts a human face on the environment by featuring under-publicized stories about how changes in our environment are affecting everyday people.

The "fully burdened" cost of fuel accounts for the cost of transporting it to where it is needed, Geiss said. And moving fuel by convoy or even airlift is expensive.

"In some places you have to fly it in by plane or by helicopter and drop off bladders of fuel," he said. "Those costs can be an additional $200 a gallon. To complete that mission with weapons a system in a remote location in Afghanistan, for a week, you (might) need 1,000 gallons. For us to get that in there, it's going to cost us maybe $200 a gallon. So that's $200,000."

In some places, Geiss said, analysts have estimated the fully burdened cost of FUEL might even be as high as $1,000 per gallon.

Energy consumed by a combat vehicle may not even be for actual mobility of the vehicle, Geiss said, but instead to run the systems onboard the vehicle, including the communications equipment and the cooling systems to protect the electronics onboard.

One combat vehicle, Geiss said, operates an 800-horsepower power plant -- of which only 200 horsepower are used for mobility. The rest is to power the vehicle's subsystems.

"What is it cooling? Electronics and sensors, some for the engine," Geiss said. "That's how significant this other stuff is."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2009/07/mil-090716-arnews05.htm

From the Carbon Monitoring for Action (Carma) website, the list of worst polluting countries by their power stations (in tons of CO2):

* US - 2,530 million
* China - 2,430 million
* Russia - 600 million
* India - 529 million
* Japan - 363 million
* Germany - 323 million
* Australia - 205 million
* South Africa - 201 million
* UK - 192 million
* South Korea - 168 million

U.S. Government Looting Social

Security To Wage Wars

Americans, apparently, are unaware of how the federal government’s illegal, foreign wars sap the economy and rob every household. The Iraq war cost alone is 20 percent of the size of last year’s entire U.S. economy. Instead of investing that sum at home, “which would have produced income and jobs growth and solvency for state and local governments, the US government wasted the equivalent of 20% of the economy in 2010 in blowing up infrastructure and people in foreign lands,” Roberts says.

“The US government spent a huge sum of money committing war crimes, while millions of Americans were thrown out of their jobs and foreclosed out of their homes,” he added. Viewed another way, the Pentagon continues to expand and put people to work to modernize its 700-800 bases abroad in order to dominate every corner of the globe while public works and public employment in America are going into the toilet. 

Massive Oil Extraction...  More Earthquakes & Tsunami? 

  Yearly Oil War Tax Paid by the people

ref: http://armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/US_vs_Global/

Will There Be Life After Wartime...

... the United States flew 580,000 bombing runs over Laotians an average of ONE EVERY EIGHT MINUTES for NINE YEARS. Today, Laotians live and die among 80 million unexploded munitions, some of them valuable as scrap metal or turned into flower boxes, many of them as dangerous as the day they dropped from the sky...

Text by Karen J. Coates | Photography by Jerry Redfern
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http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201101/laos.aspx

Earth Focus

http://www.linktv.org/video/4158/earth-focus-episode-15-greening-the-military
The environmental issues raised in this 27 minute video are major causes of extinction of Life on planet Earth...

http://EcoDelMar.org/Green_Military

The EPA Could Keep Millions
of Pounds of Toxic Waste
Out of America's Waterway

REF: http://www.sys-con.com/node/1605163  

It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to talk about it's massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. "The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels." Brian pointed me to the Daily Press's in depth coverage of this whole issue. Registration is free and only takes a minute or two and is extremely worthwhile. Included at the site are maps of disposal sites (downloadable as pdfs), stories, descriptions of items dumped including nerve and mustard gas, and rather depressing pictures some are below the fold (all from the Daily Press).

Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Virginia and New Jersey shorelines in 1987 with burns similar to mustard gas exposure. One marine-mammal specialist suspects Army-dumped chemical weapons killed them. (Photo courtesy of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in New Jersey) The SS William Ralston filled with 301,000 mustard gas bombs and 1,500 1-ton canisters of Lewsite -- sinks in the Pacific off San Francisco in 1958 (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army) http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/06/munitions_dumping_at_sea.php

Earth's Oceans Loosing Phytoplanton and Oxygen...

http://EcoDelMar.org/phytoplankton

Defending our Oceans The front line of environmental crime

On the surface, the ocean may look calm and serene. But, beneath the surface is a different story. All around the world, our oceans are in crisis. Whale slaughter continues to put endangered species at risk and pollution from land-based sources is turning the oceans into a dumping ground. Throughout the seven seas, there are many industries committing crimes against nature, but no one is holding them accountable.

http://Greenpeace.org/oceans/

http://Greenpeace.org/the-front-line-of-environment/

Greenpeace and the Italian environmental group Lega Ambiente have been compiling lists of ships that have disappeared off Italy and Greece as they pursue reports of boats laden with toxic substances being sunk.

A Greenpeace official, Alessandro Gianni, told Associated Press Television News in an interview that his organization tried to learn the fate of ships that might have been involved in toxic dumping.
http://EcoDelMar.org/sea-x-ray/
http://www.mnn.com/robot-sub-hunts-toxic-waste-off-italian-coast
http://Greenpeace.org.uk/blog/nuclear/mafia-accused-of-trafficking-nuclear-waste

With the glaring exception of the military and reckless industrial tycoons... WE THE PEOPLE demand that the common industrial "money saving" practice of TOXIC OCEAN DUMPING BE STOPPED... ... and because no one can manage what they can't measure... we need to know the FACTS that have been hidden from the public, who simply don't understand why they are dying of cancer, please see the most current data at:

http://WorldoMeters.info/view/toxchem/

GIGA TONS of toxic chemicals, dispersants, solvents, and PCBs dumped by industry and the military into the only known Living Oceans in the entire universe... these chemicals are known to be Toxic to Living cells, such as phytoplankton... thereby impairing the ability for phytoplankton to absorb giga tons CO2... and to make the Life giving OXYGEN that PHYTOPLANKTON has freely produced for millions of years until we started burning mountains of COAL and tankers of OIL driving Life on Earth to the brink of extinction... for profit... virtually stealing the raw materials from Nature.

The environmental issues we all face today are directly related to the giga tons of CO2 and industrial toxic chemicals dumped into the atmosphere and waterways leading to the Oceans. 

Reported to the public at http://www.worldometers.info/view/toxchem

http://EcoDelMar.org/pcb

http://EcoDelMar.org/clean_water
 
http://EcoDelMar.org/phytoplankton

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Planned "Toxic Chemical Release", Report On Rising Levels:
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Mercury and PCB Pollution RISE Dramatically (EPA)

Releases of mercury, PCBs, lead and dioxin into the environment increased significantly between 2006 and 2007, according to the annual "Toxics Release Inventory," published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

"This information underscores the need for fundamental transparency and provides a powerful tool for protecting public health and the environment," said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. "Serving the public’s right to know is the crucial first step in reducing toxic chemicals in the places where we live, work and raise children."
The "Toxics Release Inventory" classifies all releases together, including legal and illegal dumping, disposal in mine reclamation ponds (which leach into groundwater) and disposal in toxic dump sites.

Between 2006 and 2007, PCB releases INCREASED by 40 percent, due to disposal of supplies manufactured before the substances were banned in 1979. Mercury releases, mostly due to mining, INCREASED by 38 percent. Dioxin releases increased by 11 percent, and lead releases INCREASED. Overall releases of all persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals or metals also increased.

PCBs and dioxins are well know to be highly toxic to marine life and children. Both accumulate in animals (including human) bodies and disrupt the body’s hormonal and reproductive systems. Lead and mercury can cause neurological and behavioral problems, particularly in children. All four pollutants are especially dangerous to pregnant women and children, due to their effects on the body’s development.

According to the "Toxics Release Inventory," slight decreases in air and water pollution occurred between 2006 and 2007 -- 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

In December 2006, the Bush administration implemented a rule diluting the thoroughness of the EPA’s toxic release reporting program. In March of this year, however, President Obama signed a law overturning the Bush policy.

"The public does have a "right to know" about the toxic chemicals in the air and water," said New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who authored the law. "The Bush administration diluted the law and let industrial facilities hide the critical data about the toxic chemical emissions. It is time to restore the public’s "right to know" about the release of toxic chemicals in their communities."

Source: www.ens-newswire.com and

REF: http://dprogram.net/2009/07/07/toxic-chemicals-release-report-shows-mercury-pcb-pollution-rise-dramatically/

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Cooking with Natural Gas...

www.epa.gov
PCBs are also present in natural gas pipelines as a result of the historical practice of oil 'fogging'. Reclaimed transformer oils, containing PCBs, were used...

http://epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/monitoring/tsca/manuals/pcbinspect/pcbinspectappg.pdf

The CLEAN WATER ACT of 1972 was clearly created to protect Americas rivers, streams, and tributaries that carry water for drinking and eventually arriving to the only Living Oceans in the known universe.

Now a single word, "navigable", threatens to undo years of protection against the industrial dumping of millions of tons of known carcinogens into our Rivers and Oceans.

Because of the wording "navigable waters", the law might not apply to small creeks that lead to rivers... "Court Cases are now being "lost" because industry is dumping into a "small stream" that flows into a river, rather than the river itself," said David M. Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan who led the environmental crimes section of the Justice Department.

Hundreds of Million of Americans get their drinking water from sources fed by waters that are now vulnerable to exclusion from the "Clean Water Act" of 1972.

Half of the major polluters might become outside the "navigable" regulatory reach.

In many US states, big polluters say the "CLEAN WATER ACT of 1972" no longer applies to them... and are therefore refusing to renew or apply for permits, making it impossible to monitor what they are dumping, say US officials.

Setting an example, the US Air Force Base near Clovis, N.M., for instance, recently informed the E.P.A. that it no longer considers itself subject to the CLEAN WATER ACT of 1972.

More than 200 "oil spill" rulings have recently become "delayed".

"We are, in essence, shutting down our Clean Water programs in some states," said Douglas F. Mundrick, an E.P.A. lawyer in Atlanta. "This is a huge step backward. When companies figure out the cops can't operate, they start remembering how much cheaper it is to just dump the tons of toxic leftovers into a nearby creek."

"If you can get Glenn Beck to say that government storm troopers are going to invade your property and check into your mud-puddles, farmers will panic in the Midwest and "light up" their congressmen’s switchboards," said the coalition member, who asked not to be identified.

Source: NYtimes.com/2010/03/01/us/water

Our task must be to free ourselves of this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ( including phytoplankton )

-Albert Einstein

TOP 10 US WATERWAYS UNDER ATTACK
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Parkersburg News and Sentinel:
America's Ohio River leads the nation in toxic discharge:

A NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP has released a study indicating two rivers are among the TOP 10 WATERWAYS for total toxic discharge... The bulk of the New River's 14 MILLION pounds of toxic discharge is largely the result of the U.S. Army Radford Army Ammunition plant in Radford, Va. The study claims the plant is responsible for more than 13.6 million pounds of toxic pollutants into the New River. Calls to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection office in Parkersburg were referred to Charleston. After several days of leaving messages, officials in Charleston referred questions to Melyssa Savage, Title III program manager for the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. Savage was out of the office...

Tennant said. "Publishing of this information and making it available to the PUBLIC has a real impact."

Tennant said companies listed in the report very well might see this and issue corporate directives to clean up.

According to ORSANCO, the OHIO RIVER is a SOURCE of DRINKING WATER for more than three million PEOPLE and more than 25 million PEOPLE live in the Ohio River Basin.

The Emergency Management Agency contact person, was 'out of the office'...

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http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/523273.html?nav=5061

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