- Humans use this world like a cigarette butt - one
long final satisfying drag in pursuit of the poisoned predilection
that promised so much pleasure, then flick it out the window of your
speeding car. Maybe people use people the same way - we smoke them,
then we crush them out, just like the U.S. Army in Iraq.
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- And where the butt lands, nobody knows. Urban myths
like this come back to haunt us, in our lungs, in that stuff that
sticks to our feet, and around that amorphous space known as the heart
region.
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- I once knew a guy, stylish hip liberal type, who was
so environmentally conscious he wouldn't toss his butts out the window
because he was afraid of starting fires, which is a good reflex.
Instead, he'd only throw them out over water, because he lived near
the ocean. Indicating the limit of his grasp.
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- And what's in the water? Our beloved water. Have you
checked out Mr. Emoto? Water is alive and communicates to us on a very
profound, almost pre-human level. It tells us what to do, in a way.
"Mr. Emoto's work provides factual evidence that human vibrational
energy, thoughts, words, ideas and sound affect the molecular
structure of water." Learn about how to get wet at http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp
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- But what's in MY water? Specifically the vast
stretch of tropical fantasy where the dolphins play and the cigarette
boats zoom by, that eases my roiled mind when messages from the world
get too intense, and takes me, in its green eden full of chattering
tropical species, to a sun-drenched sanctuary in time.
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- While I spend my days peering out into cyberspace to
catch the rhythm of the noosphere, something terrible happened right
under my nose, and in my favorite place in the whole world.
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- ENGLEWOOD -- A bizarre
freeway of fish swimming by the thousands along the shore of Englewood
Beach Thursday morning left crowds of beach-goers agog and marine
biologists bewildered. - Englewood
Sun-Herald, 8/5/05
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- I came upon two turtles jousting the other day. One
had flipped the other onto its shell, and his little legs flailed in
vain under the beautiful sky. You didn't need a referee to count this
guy out. His day was done. So a took a stick and flipped him upright.
You should've seen the look I got from the turtle who'd won the fight
fair and square. And a hiss, a long, scratchy, wholly unapproving
hiss.
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- Maybe it's like nature's universal response to what
we're doing to her. We don't think about the consequences of what we,
in our self-directed intent, overlook.
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- I heard on car radio news the other day a disturbing
news item. It was that all the marine life on bottom of Tampa Bay and
the Florida coastline from Sarasota (right near me) north to Tarpon
Springs ... was dead.
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- The newspaper story continued.
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- "I've lived her for 10 years, and I've never seen
anything like this. It's incredible," said Bob Ricci of
Englewood.
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- Beach-goers reported that a wide variety of sea
creatures came swimming south in a narrow band close to the beach at
mid-morning.
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- Included in the swarm were clouds of shrimp, crab,
grouper, snapper, red fish and flounder. They were joined by more
usual species, including sea robins, needlefish and eels. It was a
mile long.
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- Sea critters, getting out of town at breakneck
speed.
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- A fish exodus.
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- Perhaps a prophecy of human migration to come -
fleeing the poison as fast you can.
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- Nearby ecotoxicologists speculated that the fish
could have been trying to escape red tide, which regularly sweeps
Florida's western beaches almost free of beachgoers, and leaves small
dead fish on the shoreline. It also stinks and makes you cough.
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- "Red Tides" are created by microtoxic organisms, the
organism themselves are not toxic, but they produce toxins that that
indeed kill fish, cause neurological damage to marine mammals and
humans, symptoms of respiratory illness, and muscle aches and
pains.
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- Animal manure has been fingered as a cause of the
chemical process that creates these harmful microtoxins. Read more at
http://www.atlanticbreezes.com/aquatic/
- Which describes neurotoxic illness in this scary
manner.
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- These compounds move from nerve, to muscle, to
brain, to sinus, to eye, to GI tract, to skin and joint tissues. These
symptoms just don't go away but cause chronic illness. Even just
breathing the air around the infected areas can cause a contamination.
There is a time period before and after an algae bloom or fish kill,
approximately two weeks, called recreational and residential
contamination. This time period would be in the absence of "fish
kills" warnings randomly being designated by state
authorities....
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- First warnings of contamination ...
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- ... multiple symptoms. Fatigue, weakness, muscle
aches, cramps, unusual pains like and ice pick going in one's back or
neck, muscle cramps. Also memory loss, especially short term
assimilation of data, and sensitivity to bright light, like a new
sensitivity to bright lights at night driving would bother you when it
hadn't before. Respiratory illness, an increase irritation or chronic
respiratory problems that don't go away, even after asthma
medications.
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- Of course, all this is nothing.
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- Just go to Iraq and take a deep breath of uranium
contaminated air, go ahead, take some really deep breaths. This
radioactive poison infuses everything in Iraq with the lethal
potential to give you cancer in short order, whether you're friend or
foe. I know it's an alarming conclusion to reach, but these guys have
put into a place a fiendish plan to eliminate a large percentage of
the world's population. The principal target venue is the Arab world,
but they don't mind wiping out a comfortable coupla million
"friendlies". It's acceptable collateral damage, the cost of doing
business.
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- The fleeing fish and the dead marine mammals? 40 big
ones the other day in Tampa; I can't remember now whether they were
loggerheads or manatees, but they both weigh a thousand pounds, and
are gentle and beautiful.
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- Tampa is a major shipping port, and the bay has an
orimulsion plant, a messy energy technology that leaves tons of toxic
waste, which regularly slops into the bay's estuary system. Sarasota
had a record sewage spill that wasn't officially reported until a year
later. So much for a timely response.
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- Too few people realize how the tentacles of
thoughtless action have a nasty way of sneaking back into their own
lives. As an increasingly frequent example ...
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- Shellfish poisoning, of whatever sort, is UNPLEASANT
AND OFTEN LETHAL. The onset of symptoms occurs as soon as the victim's
digestive system starts to work on the infected shellfish. In the case
of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), the toxin attacks the nervous
system and causes paralysis. There is no antidote; death occurs from
asphyxiation or respiratory paralysis.
- - http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/redtide.htm
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- There is no antidote!
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- What humans produce - mostly waste, but also farm
chemicals that leech into rivers and marshes - wends its way through
microscopic natural processes back into our food chain where it winds
up helping to destroy our bodies. It's a perfect karmic feedback loop,
when you think about it.
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- What humans produce that bounces back on our own
health is not only a symbol of the delusionary direction of our lives,
but a report card on the kind of unconscious dweebs that we really
are.
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- Somehow all animals learn to know that, and fear man
like the plague he is. And now my neighborhood fish know it, too, or
at least the ones that managed to survive.
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- John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf
Coast of Florida whose essays are seen on hundreds of websites around
the world. http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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