The Teco website also includes information on hybrids and natural gas vehicles, which they are also adding to their fleet. As far as electric vehicles, Tampa Electric has purchased the Chevy Volt & Nissan Leaf for their fleet, so if you keep your eyes open you may see these cars on Tampa’s streets bearing the TECO logo.

Visit the TECO  Electric vehicle page to learn more about EV’s, their green fleet and other information.

The FDA has begun a program to discourage companies from using BPA, but has thus far not mandated it be removed from food packaging. You can help avoid forcing government to legislate that which can be changed by consumers becoming conscious of there buying habits & making change in the marketplace. Companies will not produce what people will not buy. Watch labels for new notices about BPA content and support the companies that voluntarily have removed it or don’t use it.

You can also See the link below to let the FDA know how you feel.
OR, you could do the most optimal thing for your health and the health of our planet: Buy only fresh food without packaging. Study how to become a vegan. You will set yourself free from low energy, fatigue disease… You will stop producing so much garbage, you will set animals free from confinement, murder, etc. etc.

tell the FDA how you feel about BPA!

http://action.ewg.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1971&tag=201203GMOFinalEmailSubB&utm_source=201203gmofinalemailsubb&utm_medium=email&utm_content=first-link&utm_campaign=food

Side-note to anyone for the movement: I will correct anything I got wrong in this article if you can provide reliably sourced scientific data to support your statement. As you can see from this website, my books & other media, I am a committed environmentalist & will support your effort if it benefits more than the few who want to do what you propose. My direct experience is that it is not right for tightly knit, densely populated city neighborhoods. I don’t just mean for the people either, I mean for the animals too. I’ve actually thought of a way to work this out so all sides may win something & all  (including the animals)  are respected, but more about that later…

The  problem in my experience was that my neighbors did it all wrong. They did not ask in advance for my thoughts about  introducing a hen flock into our lives (and we were once friends & moreover I lived here before they did). They did not offer to work on a solution with me after the fact, they ignored the medical & financial damages they were causing after I described them in detail  & to add insult to injuries, they lectured me with their opinions on environmentalism & told me how they’d argue to skirt the law rather than talk about a solution. It’s people like this that give your cause a black eye. We’re all in this together & need to be respectful of each other’s pleas & plights. Had my neighbors cooperated it wouldn’t have come to the sob story the columnist used as a basis of her article when my neighbor was forced to comply because she was in fact breaking several sections of two codes for over a year. Moreover she was breaking the golden rule & higher laws that cannot be twisted by lawyers in the courts of mortals.

Again, this was my E-mail reply to the journalist’s question:

Dear $[{,  (I won’t use her name because she doesn’t deserve the attention)

Nice speaking with you by phone. I can’t believe this chicken nightmare is resurfacing so soon. I spent a year trying to get the city to remove the five hens from next door & I’ve had the only peaceful sleep past the pre-dawn hours & uninterrupted workdays for the last 3 weeks (they were removed about 3 weeks ago). You simply cannot understand the awful noise, smells & health worries until you’ve lived next door to a few hens  or researched the history of epidemic disease resulting from humans domesticating animals.

Tampa is already spending too many tax dollars on animal services for animals already allowed, how can adding to those budgets while pulling police & firemen off the streets be justified? I can’t believe this matter is even being considered in the midst of budget crunches & a depressed housing market. Example: I had a tenant ready to rent this house until they heard the chickens; what happens if I choose to escape living amidst such conditions & can’t sell my house because no sane buyer would want to live beside a chicken coop either? I am an environmentalist & have been publishing ecological media since the late nineties, but this is the kind of thing that gives environmentalism a bad name & sends the whole movement backwards. I also submit that it’s animal abuse to keep such animals on tiny lots in the hustle & bustle of the inner city.

The history of my correspondence with code enforcement on this matter & my testimony at hearings covers more reasons why adding more animals to the city are a bad idea. Inner city chickens are a bad idea for civil health, finances, anyone who values domestic tranquility & lives a professional city life requiring the ability to concentrate in their home during the day & sleep at their will rather than livestock’s. What of night shift workers who need to sleep by day? I can tell you from experience that is not possible. Nice Thanksgiving dinner with family who traveled far to enjoy the day in Tampa unmolested by chicken squeals? Nope, chickens don’t even take holidays off.

Health wise, consider that rats, ants & roaches are attracted to animal feed & feces/compost piles. Exploding roach populations will readily spread the salmonella common in chicken feces into homes.  Rats are drawn to hen houses (a reason English chicken farmers bred the terrier dog was to keep rats away from their chickens). Ecologically, the nutrients from chicken feces will become part of the storm water run-off into the river & bay at the sensitive point of the delta where we already have a nutrient pollution problem.

Much of the pro urban chicken media on the web is produced by people & companies in the business of selling products related to keeping chickens & is therefore marketing & not reliable information on the risks of bringing such animals into densely populated areas. I trust as a journalist you know how to evaluate sources & can see through the marketing & hype to sell magazines that have helped spark this urban chicken craze (I see “craze” as the key word here).

I pasted some reliable sources below my message that support my statements & should be considered in your research:

The 1998 bird flu outbreak was a chicken to human jump. Every major infectious killer virus pandemic has been from agricultural/domesticated animals to humans. Here in the subtropics we also have mosquitoes to assist in the disease spreading experiment some people seem hell bent on creating in Tampa. This would be a great way to kill our tourism industry. Suppose a bird flu surfaces anywhere in the media again & Tampa is a known urban chicken haven? Even without flu, here’s what can happen to a tourist paradise when chickens escape & multiply. Think they won’t escape? Then why is there a freshly dead road kill cat down the block from me awaiting an animal services scrape-up? Animals escape.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123863006121980573.html .

Chickens, like any animal can escape enclosures, jump fences, etc. A friend was keeping a chicken nearby; it jumped the fence into a neighbor’s yard where it was promptly mangled to death by their dog. Another friend’s divorce was partly prompted by her husband not standing up to their neighbors when their chickens got into their yard & repeatedly dug up her garden. Chickens dig large holes, denude the land of vegetation & create dustbowl like conditions in yards which created a lovely chicken-fecal infused dust problem in my home if I dared do something as simple as open my OWN windows while there was a breeze. With the smell, I often couldn’t open my windows anyway, but who cares? Why should I have a right to fresh air or to lower my carbon footprint by using outside air to help cool my home & lower my bills?

In addition, we get those hurricane things here. Here’s what happens in cities that allow chickens after hurricane hits: http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2011/04/ .feral_chickens_have_proliferat.html

When that kid playing in the street gets run over by the car that swerved to miss the chicken crossing the road, whose fault is that? Who pays for that? We already have enough animals darting through our city streets, when will animal hoarders have enough? Are pigs next?

I am vegan & don’t believe in caging/enslaving animals for any reason & will not be disturbed or taxed by others who choose to make such unhealthy & selfish choices while trying to justify them under the trendy “Green” flag. I’ve flown that flag since before it was trendy & know “greenwashing” when I see it. http://www.consciousconsumers.net/a_greenwash.html

There’s several  obvious, logical, scientific & humane reasons for keeping animal populations out of cities, but at the core of my reasons for fighting this is that I don’t bother anyone with noise, smells or direct threats to their health & I will fight anyone who threatens me with such; no peace given, none returned. I bought a home in the city where I expected city noises, city issues & to be able to go about living my city life unmolested by animals. Chickens are already allowed in vast tracts of municipality abutting Tampa. If this chicken invasion is allowed, where can humans who want to live a civilized, professional city life not surrounded on all sides by animal noises, pollutants, pathogens & feces go? We have a leash & dog cleanup law that I see few dog owners abide by, I’d be a fool to believe chicken owners would or could abide by the multitude of practices required to keep livestock from adversely affecting the health of the commonwealth. Who’s going to police that? Will there be a chicken health advisory board & how much will they try to raise everyone’s taxes to cover that?

Finally, yes I say that going backwards to living in crowded disease ridden hovels ensconced in animal feces, encircled by rats competing for their domestic animal food is NOT the way forward for environmentalism or The CITY of Tampa. Yes, I dare say that backwards is not forwards. I also foresee multitudes of complaints under code 19.77: Animals as a public nuisance once people discover the horrors of living astride chickens on these tiny lots abutting downtown Tampa & scores of neighbor feuds breaking out, so that should get code boards, hospitals & jails even more overburdened than they already are. This is a bad idea for our city. Let’s do the logical, obvious thing of leaving farm animals on the farm on enough space of land where animals and humans can be healthy & happy & leave city resources to concentrate on more pressing matters they already don’t have the budget resources to govern over. Now I return to my forward thinking environmental projects with the health of my fellow citizens & city in mind.

SOURCES:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in631 – A study put out by University of Florida outlining health risks associated with raising chickens.

http://www.examiner.com/country-living-in-detroit/what-diseases-can-chickens-give-people?render=print – Diseases & other health concerns with raising chickens.

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/07/editorial_city_chickens_fair_o.html – This article mentions the risks of backyard chicken raising as well as referring to them as a nuisance….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRk-NTa7KXo – History of killer animal to human pandemics

http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/pdf/intown_flocks.pdf – This mostly centers on bacteria & salmonella that are common in chicks & chickens.  There’s links throughout the document for additional resources.

http://greenrisks.blogspot.com/2010/08/backyard-chickens-&-chesapeake-bay.html – This talks about ENVIRONMENTAL concerns of raising chickens.  Its basis is the Chesapeake area, but the same issues are sure to happen around here too as excess nitrogen deposits wash into the Hillsborough River & out to the Bay…

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/avian-flu-humans.htm – Center for Disease Control, article on avian influenza & its effects on people.

http://www.phadia.com/en/Allergen-information/ImmunoCAP-Allergens/Epidermals-and-Animal-Proteins/Allergens/Chicken-droppings/

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/169/12/1479.full – This article shows a possible link between Brain Cancer & exposure to livestock…

E.

Author, Social Network Engineer, Multi-Media Producer

So that’s what I shared with her, but if you were to read her article promoting that the chicken’s time has come for Tampa, you will find not one reference to ANY of this information. I didn’t even receive a “thanks for sharing” reply or mention of when the article was coming out from her which to me loudly states that what I went through is meaningless to her in comparison to the violators next door who couldn’t continue to get away with affecting my health, property & income by keeping their noisy, smelly animals closer to my house than theirs. From here on out, as far as my neighbors go, it’s eye for an eye & if this columnist who interviewed me has any compassion whatsoever, she’ll simply apologize for anything that may have been misunderstood & explain why she couldn’t even bother to thank me for the information I provided her. Often just knowing someone cares can heal the wounds we all sometimes endure here in the complex perplexity of 21st century Internet-affected civilization. The new interactive frontiers are complicated by the very fact that they are new experiences for all, but compassion & love from which it extends is timeless.

Before The Tampa City Council has any right to change the rules on homeowners in Tampa & possibly decrease your property values, raise your taxes & insurance costs  they should have to live 24 feet from a flock of chickens for a year like I did, then they can make an informed, fair ruling about changing your life after you bought a home in Tampa, expecting the city to be by, for and of the people more than animals.

Why don’t the chicken pushers do the public the service of telling them how much of their tax dollars are already spent dealing with(serving) the animals already allowed in the city & analyzing what the animals they propose will cost before they promote adding more. Why? Because they just want to idealize the situation to get what they want and make everyone pay for it whether we want it or not. That’s just not cool. To every problem there is a solution, so just think it out and work toward one realizing that not everyone’s going to share your point of view and you’re not going to immediately get everything you want nor should you if it does more harm than good to more people than it benefits. This is a complex issue for a large metropolitan area in the midst of a recession.

2011 Writer’s Digest Awards Judge’s commentary on “Apocalypse Near” by “E” (pseudonym)

“The writing resonates with this author’s passion for speculative fiction and his compassion for the human experience with all of its ups and downs, especially in the area of collective consciousness. The author relates a thought-provoking tale while always keeping at the forefront the travails of putting one’s heart on the line and making oneself vulnerable through acts of heroism. An insightful story showing strength of character and personal growth. The narrator and other characters are, individually and together, certainly strong enough to carry the narrative, which prompts the reader’s interest in always wanting to know what will happen next.”

Rip-roaring sci-fi adventure with a serious social conscience
by Cole Bellamy

The author’s self-described ‘metaphysical autobiography’ may just be the next big step in the arms race between fantasy and reality. This book has a strong sense of the fantastical while keeping an eye on the the impact that literature can potentially have on the real world. Filled with scenes of both the beauty and terror, Apocalypse Near is a novel that refuses to exist in a vacuum, it is unashamedly didactic, a book that has a clear and important message yet doesn’t skimp on solid, pulpy, action or original imagery. While the writing is slightly clunky at times, it hardly takes away from the overall experience of the book. I highly recommend it to fans of the social/political pulp sci-fi of the 60′s and the 70′s, authors like Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Keith Laumer and E.E. Doc Smith.

A Multigenre Multimedia Masterpiece!, April 26, 2010

Apocalypse Near: A Metaphysical ODDyssey is truly a work ahead of its time, pioneering the genre of the hyper-real. (According to the author, “Hyper-reality is to reality what metaphysics is to physics.”) In this ultra personal memoir, author and protagonist “E” reveals to the reader that knowledge is the ultimate defence against the imminent annihilation humankind brings on itself– and fear, the ultimate enemy.

The story, unfolding from a first-person vantage point, begins with his looming death sentence under a freeway overpass and continues through rescue, recovery, and REVELution. Upon waking up following intensive emergency brain surgery, the protagonist finds himself with no memory of his former life, and the terrifying revelation of earth’s pending expiration date. This is his quest to simultaneously unravel the mystery of his identity and to reveal to the ignorant unknowing masses their own self-demise– and what might be done to stop it. In the midst of this significant task, he finds himself fighting a new enemy of his own making. In a story at some times comical and others terrifying, the dualistic settings are first described in terms of the physical “seen” and then what lies beyond sensory perception, relentlessly drawing the audience in and converting him from reader to spectator in this divine comedy.

The writer un-apologetically delves into the bigger-picture questions begged by his environmentalist soapbox, and touches on the mysteries of the ages– Who are we? Where are we? Why are we? and the nature of the universe itself. A thrilling and provocative ride from cover to cover, Apocalypse Near will leave the conscious reader both mentally exhilarated and morally responsible. Vive la Revelution!

More than just a good read…

Apocalypse Near is incredible adventure of a book, but it is far more than just a good read. This tale will give you far more than a few hours of reading pleasure: it will change your entire perspective. The world needs to be reading this book sooner, rather than later.

Rebirth of a Sci-Fi Fan

By Tammy

Haase’s inventive and creative writing brought out the Sci-Fi fan in me again. As I was reading this book, I pictured it on the big screen, part anime/part live action. This is an interesting and captivating read that leaves you wanting more so I look forward to the sequel that I hear is in the works.

Something we shoul all read

This is a great book of one man’s struggle with a near death experience and the enlightenment it brought him about our earth’s dire state. Extremely thought provoking, providing an idea of ways we can save this planet and maybe ourselves. We should all join in the REVElution. This book also contains web links so the reader can have an interactive experience and learn more about the REVElution and the mysterious author.

Most Interesting Read Ever

Most Intriguing book I have read in a very long time. This writer will be very famous shortly. Can’t wait to see if made into a movie. Don’t miss out !!!

Author’s note: That last one was by my cousin, so it may be slightly biased ;->. Thanks cous!

Do most inhabitants of “the water planet” even know what H2O is?

Nearly every Westerner I have ever known takes fresh water completely for granted. Therefore, I figured I’d start this series on water with some facts about pure water. Approximately 90% of your body weight is water. Water composes roughly 60% of an average human male body, 55% of the average woman and somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of your brain. The exact amounts can differ by several percentage points depending on individual human weight and health, but no matter what the exact percentage, every living human is mostly water. Water covers roughly 71% of earth’s surface. So, what is water?

Pure water (H20) consists of one oxygen atom bound to two hydrogen atoms. Natural scientists dubbed water the “universal solvent” because it has been found to dissolve more substances than any other liquid. This means that wherever water goes, either through the ground, over riverbeds, through plastic bottles or through human bodies, it takes along chemicals, minerals, and nutrients. This can be good or bad for you and other living things, depending on what the water molecules encounter before you drink them and/or they flow on. This ability to dissolve is also what allows water to carry nutrients so that your body can use them.

Water’s most unique feature is that the hydrogen and oxygen atoms hold together through a process
called “covalent bonding”. Simply stated, this means that the atoms stick together by sharing electrons with each other. It’s sort of like they “like” each other. On an atomic level, it’s like an expression of “love thy neighbor as thyself”. The sharing of electrons stabilizes each individual atom and creates the liquid/gas/solid resource we call water. The covalent bond accounts for the way water bodies hold together within the gravitational and physical fields in which they are contained. Additionally, in zero gravity, water forms perfect spheres. This atomic “stickiness” is also why water falls from clouds as droplets. Covalent bonding also happens to be the strongest atomic bond. Does this prove the Lennon/Harrison/McCartney/Starr assertion that “all you need is love”?

Okay, I was just having fun with that, but covalent bonding gives water several more fascinating properties. If you drank water today you swallowed a three billion year old beverage. Try drinking milk that’s even three days past expiration and you’ll get an idea of the amazing stability of water. Pure water has no expiration date. It is quite simply, the simplest and perhaps the most unusual liquid in the known universe. It’s properties account for the existence of life itself. This is why the first thing cosmologists are looking for on other planets is water (starting with searching for its hydrogen & oxygen components).

Many philosophers, scientists and spiritualists have waxed poetic about water’s properties and after
contemplating the covalent bond and recent research by Japanese scientistMasaru Emoto; I am about to do the same. Emoto’s recent microscopic photography of water crystals drew popular attention as well as criticism from other scientists.

Here’s my theorem on Emoto’s claims that his photographic experiments show water’s ability to hold the vibration of energy fields accompanying different varieties of human consciousness. (Disclaimer: The following paragraph is my “pure speculation”).

Emoto photographed water crystals that he claimed had been exposed to various conscious energy fields and that these energy fields are visible in the crystals. (Click here if you’d like to see Masaru Emoto’s photography of water crystals under the “influence” of different fields of conscious energy.) My 3 a.m. speculation on this is that the interconnected structural lattice formed by the sharing of electrons is the connecting principle that might allow a body of water to hold conscious energy fields. The “lattice-like” architecture of molecules in a body of water is visual evidence of the inter-connectivity between all the molecules & therefore all the atoms in it. The electron sharing connects all the atoms and could, in a sense be the “wiring” that allows energy fields to be held/reflected. Emoto’s critics cite lack of controls in his experimental method and some dismiss his claims as pseudoscience. I haven’t studied his experimental methodology enough to know either way, but I do think the photos are gazing time well spent. What I’m more interested in is the covalent bond and often overlooked physical properties of water.

Regardless of what one thinks of Emoto’s science (or lack there of), we here in Florida directly experience water’s ability to hold and reflect energy. I’m not talking about conscious energy but heat energy and effects of atmospheric pressure. Florida’s stable air temperature patterns are mostly because water surrounds the peninsula. Water has a far greater ability to hold heat energy than air. The violent transfers of the large amounts of energy that can be held by water can become overwhelmingly apparent during hurricane season. Hurricanes are often labeled “windstorms”, but it is the transfer of energy as water moves between different states (liquid/gaseous) under the influences of temperature, atmospheric pressure and planetary rotation that make oceanic cyclone winds in the first place. So, I think it can be said that hurricanes are more of a water storm than anything.

I’ve heard people ask why we can’t come up with a way to stop a hurricane. Answer: Too much energy in transfer between liquid & gaseous phases of water in a hot, low pressure vortex; too much momentum. This is where natural forces demand human respect. There’s nothing you can do but hunker down or run. Hurricane Katrina went from being a written-off tropical storm to a municipality-leveling monster when swirling low pressure met with liquid heat. Were these abnormally high oceanic temps due to manmade global warming? That’s the argument no human can definitively answer. Was Katrina a piece of planetary karma? A lyric from philosopher-warrior-poet Perry Farrell seems applicable here: “Will come a day the water will run and man will stand for things that he has done.” Okay, that was another fun editorial moment for me.

As stated earlier, some of the comments on how the covalent bond allows the absorption/reflection of
energy are my personal theories, but I’d enjoy feedback on my late-night molecular speculations. I lack the biological calculus skills to build the computer model that might demonstrate water’s ability to retain conscious energy, but all that aside; pure water is not something to take for granted. What remains of pure water on this planet is in some cases already being hoarded by private corporations who see “blue gold” in those unspoiled reserves. If there’s a dark side to recently environmentally admired T. Boone Pickens, it’s that he’s buying up huge tracts of land containing some of the last Texas fresh water reserves. Whether Pickens is doing this to protect water reserves or profit from them remains to be seen. Is water the new oil? This second article in my series on water was just to remind what water is. The forthcoming articles will examine planetary issues egarding the effects humankind is having on pure water and water challenges the Tampa Bay area faces.

In closing, I’d like to invite you to consider the throngs of humanity that cannot walk into a separate
room, turn a faucet and imbibe themselves in fresh water and the masses who walk miles just to get to the only available unspoiled supply in order to stave off complete dehydration. Water is an unalterable need for life and when you look under the hood, you see new worlds of why it is. Have a drink on me. I sincerely hope this first piece will invite you into a more respectful relationship to what makes up the physical majority of the entity that is you.

Respectfully submitted,
E.

Sources:
noaa.gov
masaru-emoto.net
usgs.gov
nasaimages.org
royaldutchshellplc.com

Image: by visual artist-Ibsidium Signum

By  The Green Ranter (A.P.P. Associated Psychic Press).

In the use of vast amounts of Nalco Corexit dispersant, BP & their human minions did the planetary equivalent of sweeping dirt under a rug. In this case the rug was the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Please allow me to introduce how this & other factors including factory farms, the typical American lawn, ongoing fossil fuel use, golf courses, municipal waste water, & Hurricane Virginie led to castration on a continental scale as well as the severing of Florida from the lower 48. Humans tinkering with things they don’t understand (i.e. biochemical nanotechnology) have bred their first nano-monster. Didn’t Godzilla teach you anything after you let the nuclear cat out of the bag?

Even before the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and subsequent 3-month, 4.4 million barrel crude oil deluge¹, the Gulf of Mexico needed flushing. You see, when you’re America’s toilet bowl you occasionally need a flush. As anyone can see by looking at a map of North America (below),

the Gulf of Mexico is at the terminal end of the Mississippi River. This puts it in the ill-fated position of being on the receiving end of everything that flows off many of America’s Factory farmlands and wastewater from interconnected municipalities in its basin. Another thing you may notice whilst eyeing the map is that the Gulf’s shape and position astride Florida form the distinct outline of a certain male appendage (I enhanced image just for the fun of it). Hence our apt references to castration and Lorena Bobbitt in covering this latest episode of human-born atrocities. We archived others here.

Perhaps a geography lesson is in order to help understand your latest, greatest disaster. The Mississippi, the largest river system in North America, ends just below New Orleans where it begins to flow into the Gulf. Along with its major tributary, the Missouri River, the Mississippi drains all or parts of 31 U.S. States from the Rockies in the west to the Appalachians in the east to the Canadian border on the north, including most of the Great Plains. It is the fourth longest river in the world and the tenth most powerful river in the world.

Now let’s examine how this created the lethal contents of the Gulf of Mexico and how that morphed into the destruction précis in my headline. Exhibit 1: Factory farms: For the sake of brevity (after all, you humans are running out of time), I’m going to lump both types of factory farms together (animal and vegetable). Animal feedlot facilities spill manure and wastewater into the upper Mississippi River basin.  Livestock facilities cause significant pollution releasing, over 4.5 million gallons of manure into the environment. “The frightening thing is that these numbers only represent the tip of the iceberg,” said Amy Fredregill of the Izaak Walton League.  “There’s no national system for tracking pollution problems at factory farms and most facilities aren’t required to conduct water quality monitoring.”

As for crop production, according to the USDA, as much as 15 percent of the nitrogen fertilizer applied to cropland in the Mississippi River Basin makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of the leading causes of the so-called Gulf “Dead Zone”; an oxygen-deprived area as large as 8,000 square miles in which no fish can survive. What can survive? Karenia brevis, a lovely marine Alga that blooms in summer heat. K. Brevis blooms create what Gulf coast denizens know as “Red Tide”.

K. Brevis produces powerful toxins called brevetoxins, which have killed millions of fish and other marine organisms. A “stinging gas” has been known to accompany red tides and this gas was in the mix when Hurricane Virginie hit. Brevetoxins were in the toxic mixture that resulted in “The Gelded States of America” but more about that later.

Cut back to the Gulf’s toxicology report; Exhibit 2: The ongoing addiction to fossil fuels relentlessly adds petrochemicals to the mixture in the Gulf. Florida has a few coal-fired power plants. Incinerated coal dusts mix with tropical winds and rain to become deeply entrenched throughout Florida’s ecosystems. Then BP added 4.4 million barrels of crude.

Exhibit 3: Organic contamination from municipal and industrial wastewater. This includes anything and everything that washes out of or off the typical American metropolis. From factories, sewage treatment plants and dumps, to whatever anyone chooses to secretly dump or flush plus whatever washes off street and land after a good rain, one can see how this exhibit can include literally anything and everything. A noteworthy major contributor is anything & everything your typical or atypical American decides to spray on their standard American lawn to keep it looking like a giant outdoor carpet. The insult to injury factor is that the typical lawn produces nothing. Similar water pollution is caused by golf courses. Golf courses are a form of monoculture, where exotic soil and grass, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and weedicides are imported to substitute for natural ecosystems. These landscaped foreign systems contaminate soil, water, and air and destroy biodiversity. See http://www.antigolf.org. I have no idea how much impact this has on the Mississippi or the Gulf; I just hate that giant outdoor arcade game & propose all involved with that “sport” pay for the environmental damage it causes.

To sum up; in terms of pollutants, the Mississippi has them all; toxic, sediment, nutrient, and bacterial. So that’s what was already there when Deep Water Horizon dumped all that crude. However, the fatal factor and unknown-unknown that seems to have sub-atomically united these toxins was the fateful addition of roughly two million gallons of Nalco Corexit.

Then, from the just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse dimension of quantum possibility, the humans were confronted with another global warming chicken coming home to roost… Hurricane Virginie, the latest forming category 5 storm on record hit the hottest summer on record, record-high 96-degree Caribbean waters. It grew large enough to cover the entire Gulf and inhale the toxic Gulf soup and worst on record red tide algae bloom.  I neglected to mention your newly discovered prescription drug presence in the aforementioned inventory of pollutants, but let it be known your fix was in the mix when hurricane Virginie hit Florida’s gulf coast on December 1^st (the day after hurricane season ended). The noxious gulf-gumbo was sucked into Virginie’s vortex where it fused with incinerated coal dusts, etc.

Hurricane Virginie was the strongest category five storm ever recorded; so strong that some suggested the formation of a category six category. Others suggested a category 666. Virginie’s driving wind-rain embedded the deadly Gulf-gumbo into America’s wang (i.e. Florida). A leveled Florida was left infused with this combination of human production to the point were all biological activity was stopped dead. This unforeseen amalgamation of nanotech chemical products with biotech products and good old fashioned killer crude began to take on actions akin to life itself (i.e. it replicated itself and seemed to grow) as it killed all life it touched. The mechanism of action was Corexit’s ability to disrupt the bi-lipid binding process necessary for cellular formation (i.e. biological activity).

Here’s the breakdown on that: Oil bound with Corexit in the ecosystem created substances you know very little about, transforming through bacterial processes creating substances you know absolutely nothing about. Anyone who’s ever made salad dressing knows that oil doesn’t bond with water. In a nutshell, Corexit breaks up the oil & makes it soluble with water. It disrupts the natural ability of oil to bond with itself. Oil’s bi-lipid layers next to each other are the basis of cellular life (that includes YOU). Biological cells (i.e. life) are an oil layer, surrounding DNA, surrounding proteins and RNA and other molecules. Introduce a chemical that disrupts that basic cellular bi-lipid biological structure and you open yourself to the monster question mark you now face. YOU are now part of the experiment. Good luck, it appears you’ll need it. While you’re at it, “Drill baby drill”, you’re going to need those holes for your corpses.

After hurricane Virginie dispersed the dispersant into Florida, the peculiar biological action of Karenia brevis enabled its nano components to grow like, well, algae. The post Virginie Corexit-Gulf-Chemical-Soup monster began creeping north toward the border with Georgia and had to be cut off at the pass. This is why America’s wang (i.e. Florida) had to be Bobbitted. Millions of copies of the 1958 film “The Blob” were sold to humans desperate for ways to try to stop this similarly behaving Corexit menace. We suppose you figured that if you had already elected movie stars to office, maybe movies themselves could solve your problems. They amputated that guy’s arm in the movie to stop The Blob, let’s amputate Florida and stop this blob.

The humans were beginning to celebrate Florida’s removal when a typical Florida lightning storm on a typical eighty-five degree Florida December day blew in. A lightning strike set fire to the low flashpoint petrochemicals that Virginie spewed on Florida and set off firestorms that managed to keep burning everything they touched even while rain fell. Methane trapped within the Gulf-gumbo even yielded a good dose of fiery rain. After the rain ceased the sun burned off excess water leaving the heavier flashpoint petrochemicals coating cities, neighborhoods, well, everything. The state was a literal tinderbox. That’s how Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Augustine, Jacksonville and the Ocala National forest burned to the ground. So even if the Corexit nano-chemical storm stopped its killing spree before it left Florida, the canal across the peninsula would have had to be dug to serve as a firebreak.

For the time being, Florida’s removal seems to have stopped the spread of the Virginie-Corexit-Gulf-gumbo-blob from infusing the rest of the lower 48. The new canal across north Florida is, like everything else in Florida, filling up with swamp water and mosquitoes.

With Florida effectively detached, & the Gulf of Mexico now a giant dead zone, we’ve come up with amusing names for the new shape of mainland America: “The Gelded States of America” and “Ameunucha”. You humans, even in your self-destruction, are a constant source of laughter in the quantum possibility dimensions. We wonder what we’ll laugh at when you’ve completed your self-destruction. We’ve been compiling a human blooper reel for our entertainment whence the human reality show fades to black.

Just when we thought we were done laughing, Jimmy Carter came along & gave us another giggle when he handed the Florida Canal over to the Panamanians. This act, like his first canal giveaway, made sense to no one, but was allowed to proceed anyway.

For those of you ready to blame the factory farmer for what I cited above, well if you have a standard American lawn, shut up and use that blame energy to grow your own sustenance and take the factory farmer’s efforts to supply more food from the same amount of mineral depleted land for an ever growing population out of the equation. Grow something yourself, get back into a respectful relationship with your life support system.

You see, I’m not anti-industry or anti-anyone in particular; I’m sort of like the W.C. Fields of The Multiverse, I hate everyone equally (everyone willingly illogical and ignorant that is. You can read more about me here:

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Wait, maybe this is the solution: Release your Frankenfish into the Gulf to see what they can do.

This has been a warning/test of The Emergency MindCast System; this may be among the last warnings you receive. Get symbiotic or get dead.

sources:

1.      http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/23/bp-oil-spill-bp

2.      http://www.realscience.us/2010/06/14/health-concerns-rise-over-use-of-oil-dispersant-corexit/

3.      http://www.protecttheocean.com/gulf-oil-spill-bp/

4.      http://chenected.aiche.org/chemicals/scientists-recruited-to-determine-long-term-effects-of-vanished-dispersant-corexit/

5.      http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/88/8824cover2.html

6.      http://laudyms.wordpress.com/category/energy/

7. http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=38896

This is a warning; a report from News from Your future (The Quantum Possibility Files). & A.P.P. (Associated Psychic Press).