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Santa Cruz Sentinel, Aug. 1, 2014: The Marine Mammal Center [...] has seen a record-breaking number of patients this year, with 727 admitted through July. In 2013, the center admitted 521 animals. There’s a large number of starving, young sea lions and an algal bloom in Monterey is making adult sea lions sick.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 23, 2014: ”We’ve had a record number this year in sea lion admits,” [Marine Mammal Center spokeswoman Laura Sherr] said. The majority of the ailing sea lions have been impacted by a neurological disease caused by large blooms of domoic acid, which is produced by algae. She said the center has also rescued an increasing number of stranded sea lion pups. [...]
KSBY, July 21, 2014: Two dead sea lions were found on the shores of Shell Beach Monday, but wildlife experts say this is not an uncommon sight. [...] Marine Mammal Center officials say there’s been a huge increase in the number of sick sea lions and seals [...]
San Luis Obispo Tribune, July 5, 2014: Sick seals treated at Morro Bay rescue center in record numbers [...] an unprecedented influx of sick seals at the Marine Mammal Center [...] suffering from either starvation or poisoning from toxic algae [...] “It’s been a perfect storm,” [Shawn Johnson, director of veterinary science] said. “We’ve been the busiest we’ve ever been at the center.” [...] This year, the center has rescued 658 seals [...] “We think it is a lack of food availability [...] We’ve been seeing a really high number of domoic acid cases” [...] On Saturday, two sea lions were being nursed [...] after suffering seizures [...] The reason for the large number of sick elephant seals is not known.
Stanford University, 2014: The new foe is domoic acid, a neurotoxin that can cause memory loss, tremors, convulsions and death [...] the sea lions develop a form of epilepsy [...] suffer brain damage [...] half are beyond help and have to be euthanized [...] Many more sea lions, as well as other sea animals, are believed to die in the open ocean of untreated seizures [...]
St. Petersburg Times, July 10, 2014: Sea Lion Population Vanishing in Russia’s Far East — The Steller sea lion [has seen a] mysterious population drop on Russia’s extreme eastern lands this year, researchers said. [They] established new reproductive rookeries [but] this summer, the number of new pups born at the rookeries was the lowest in more than 20 years [...] By the end of the sea lions’ reproductive season in early July, only 163 pups were born on the main colony [...] “The reasons for the sea lion population drop on the islands are unknown, and the decline in their number causes concern both among scientists who are studying it and among nature preserve employees,” the statement said.
KSBY, July 8, 2014: There has been a huge increase in the number of sick seals and sea lions on the Central Coast [...] this year, 346 mammals have been released and 271 have died. These numbers are already up from last year when 277 were released and 176 died. [...] they aren’t sure why that is happening [...] effects of domoic acid [...] could be related to [...] ocean pollution [...] “It has been extremely busy this year [...] We had a rescue this morning [...] head weaving, drool from the mouth,” says [Terry Greene, Marine Mammal Center.] “We’re not sure why that is happening [...] I don’t know if we have enough information at this time to determine exactly why [...] We help them [...] to try and reduce the number of seizures” >> Watch broadcast here
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“The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.” -MLK
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Oh, right, its toxic algae and a neurotoxin called demoic acid, its epilepsy, its the perfect storm.
Its seal dementia. Its, its, …its perplexing.
Fools. Stupid fools and liars.
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…fucking Stanford University…right.
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They are eating too many bananas.. that theory sounds just as good as theirs.
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bf9- Very applicable quote…Noaa's solution was to quit posting the death rates of sea lions May 31, 2013 because the die off was so massive…
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/health/mmume/californiasealions2013.htm
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Yes, remove the root cause…
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8~4~5995 (out of 6000) in this "Twilight Zone Apocalypse"!
The last sorrowful evil days of manmean on this world.
Yahshua the Messiah returns VERY SOON!
When I could not post here the other day I thought I had a personal computer problem. Then I thought that ENE was GONE like almost everything GOOD here on Planet Earth. Many thanks for returning! Long may we post!
Parts of CA had humongous rain yesterday. Never thought I would be happy that we had so very little here (because of added radiation in the rainfall).
By the way, symptoms of the Ebola virus mimic those of radiation.
RIP dear innocent animals!
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This isn't going to get better any time soon.
Get the rad word out, People
http://tinyurl.com/fukushimabusinesscard4u
Other resources for you
http://enenews.com/forum-best-practices-combating-effects-radiation/comment-page-13#comment-478924
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Don't know how long you have been posting that–have printed cards and left them around Texas Seeing it and your posts are a bright remembrance of hope in my day. Keep up the great work
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Hope ahoy. A pleasure … and very simple for All to do
5,934 downloads since first post May 30…x 10= 59,340.
Not bad. But there's got to be more People in the world than that!!! Some with children and lovers of animals. You of those here, please get the rad word out.
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P.S. Jim. Thank you!! May All follow the example you do.
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Thank you both.
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THEIR new clear joy seems to be coming visible. Oh dear! What's the next lie fraud spin, trying to cover up crimes against humanity. A world war three, an engineered plague. Oh yes, just like AIDS! Always trying to fill in their colouring book. AIDS backfired on them!!!! Radiation of human manufacture does the same thing. Silly gooses.
Now I'm off to have a simply super day, while I'm still alive.
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Savvy experts know enough that they would not admit that the basis of the problems is rooted in crimes against humanity. If it is unspoken, then it can not be.
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1000s of marine biologists know the cause and are keeping quiet. The extent of intimidation, fear and silence is astonishing.
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Tip the bitch
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radioisotopes [combined with chemtrails most likely] changed ocean chemistry.
we need indy labs please…
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From wikitoolapedia…..'
"Considerable recent research has been carried out by the Marine Mammal Center and other scientific centers on the association of domoic acid-producing harmful algal blooms and neurological damage in marine mammals of the Pacific Ocean.
Domoic acid can bioaccumulate in marine organisms such as shellfish, anchovies, and sardines that feed on the phytoplankton known to produce this toxin. DA can accumulate in high concentrations in the tissues of these plankton feeders when the toxic phytoplankton itself is high in concentration in the surrounding waters."
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yes, and they never seem to be able correlate these events to the "ground zero" event, the grand daddy cause… the oceans have been warm before… algal blooms have occurred before
this has a catalyst that nobody of any "authority" is willing to discuss.
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I don't understand the chemical processes first-hand, but Yoichi Shimatsu did comment that typhoons across Japan can be expected to get worse because radiation is increasing TEMPERATURES beneath the surface of the sea. Can anyone explain exactly why this is? Because it sounds like this may be a key factor with the algae blooms off the West Coast(?) Thanks.
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Note the Michigan water crisis due to toxic algae bloom within lake eerie, as well as the massive sardine die off both occurring this week…
In my opinion a change in environment has occurred.
An irreversible one as either or: no one understands it? Or No one cares to admit what the catalyst is?…
We fail to accept and compartmentalize these events into sub categories. While ignoring the bigger picture as a whole.
The entire northern hemisphere has undergone an extensive, contaminative event.
The only surprises left, are the ones that we should be expecting (as the result of such catastrophes).
Famine, strangelets, die-offs, and extinctions.
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Yes – and regarding this change in environment – just a reminder →
phytoplanktons and marine algae produce between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere
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We'll be lucky if we make it to famine stage before asphyxsiation..?
Happy Monday
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In the web of life there can NOT be any isolated events …
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have thought of someone that could put this issue up front,Dr Ben Carson perhaps? Any other people that you can think of?
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Mankind Swims Daily In The Sea of Knowledge, Emerging Completely Dry – Is what I have to say about our academic, corporate and state XPERTS.
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But and the non stop 24/7 shopping sprees worldwide have/has been wonderful! The amount of taxes collected has also been massive…
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The question is, have the phytoplankton been mutated to trigger a massive production of domoic acid under circumstances where it normally wouldn't be found? The people pooh poohing radiological contamination are not mentioning this as a possibility.
This bloom has been plaguing the coast for many months. Blooms don't usually last that long. It only takes one small variation to take hold and become the dominant that destroys the ecosystem like a row of dominoes.
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What I remember is that when the phytos are stressed they produce even more toxins than usual. The bottom of the food chain is in stress far beyond it's normal cycles….proof enough for me that it's feeling the radioactive burn too. In fact I think the billions of tiny life forms are screaming at the pronukers, This hormesis shit ain't working for us, ya dig???!!!!
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We looked into this in the last volley of domoic acid related deaths. But its too much labor to reconstruct/remember the details. Essentially there are several different kinds of algae which, along with microbes and virus's, keep a balance.
The Domoic acid producing algae have an interesting tie to light cycles and minerals in the water, and this is where my memory is cloudy on details. But the non poisonous algae is the first to go leaving the place wide open for the algae from hell.
This kind of sea animal sickness was seen after Chernobyl as well. All they would have to do is take a large marine aquarium, add some radionuclides and see if the algae blooms, the plankton die and fall to the bottom, killing off sea stars, the little fish get poisoned, which would then affect the pelicans etc.
Something tells me Woods Hole will just keep asking civilians to collect specimens and send it in along with their donation money, and no body in all of the Universities of the world will make a test to see if adding mass quantities of radioactive poison has a poisonous effect…. what a strange psycho race the ratmen turned out to be
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Pretty bad and there is one you can control in this article and one that you can't? Guess which we can't control?
http://www.michigannow.org/2013/03/27/maddening-algae-on-lake-erie/
http://www.lillooetnews.net/sports/discussion-in-toledo-turns-to-long-term-solutions-for-lake-erie-algae-on-2nd-day-without-water-1.1273656
When the water is gone/poisoned we will be gone..
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More bad news about water..
Water that will/may soon start eating us?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2714719/Swimmers-warned-deadly-flesh-eating-bacteria-kills-three-people-Florida.html
Yummy! Toledo Ohio water..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715005/Toledo-residents-warned-not-shower-local-water-TOXIC-chemicals.html
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Mankind has severely messed with mother nature and father water and we will now be seeing how karma will play out.
The bill will be paid!
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The truth is becoming apparent more and more all the time, you can't tell a lie forever?
Another fine mess you got us into Willie wonderful, smart as a tack you are.
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Can an extinction level event be defined while it is happening?
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It is a slinky…
The last stair is extinction…
The first stair was attributed to tepcos loss of containment.
Everything that is happening in the middle… Is the journey…
Unless you can stop the momentum, the slinky I assure you will stay on course.
This is how Ive always felt about the situation at hand.
Its the only way you can look at it…
A Pandoras box so to speak.
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Welcome back Tacoma, a lot of us here miss your posts in the early days of the fuku crisis, hope all is well.
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I don't why they don't call it what it is.
"… Intoxication by domoic acid in non-human organisms is frequently referred to as "domoic acid poisoning" or "DAP"… Amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) is a human illness caused by consumption of the marine biotoxin called domoic acid.[1] This toxin is produced naturally by marine diatoms belonging to the genus Pseudo-nitzschia and the species Nitzschia navis-varingica. When accumulated in high concentrations by shellfish during filter feeding, domoic acid can then be passed on to humans via consumption of the contaminated shellfish…"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesic_shellfish_poisoning
"…Domoic acid (DA), the neurotoxin that causes amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP), is a kainic acid analog, heterocyclic amino acid associated with certain harmful algal blooms…"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_acid
Further:
"…Diatoms are producers within the food chain. A unique feature of diatom cells is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide) called a frustule…Planktonic diatoms in freshwater and marine environments typically exhibit a "boom and bust" (or "bloom and bust") lifestyle…"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom
Maybe a weak EL Nino causing warmer waters encouraged the blooms but should end with the onset of winter as colder water creates the bust to basically hibernate until the next cycle.
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SUMMARY
Warmer temps due to global warming
More acid
more radiation
methane melting
All of these create a perfect storm creating
less fish and sea creatures
more jellyfish
more toxic bacteria/algae
lots of articles and videos explain all of this on AGRP
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All what I learn on this site is instructive and freightening.
This is like a party that finish in emegency.
We are juste in the middle of that party, end is in approach.
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Nothing will change because nothing can be done. The bastards have destroyed the planet beyond repair. Too late, game over. Enjoy whatever you enjoy.
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Yes I do enjoy this particular moment where I enderstand more and more about what happening.
The thing is that every disease, exctinction appear to be linked with nuclear environmental dispersion.
Ontoligical wake me up with his "cesium sky".
I am now building myself an arduino based Geiger counter to monitor and record the radiation around me.
I am considering what is happening a good reason to enjoy the present time, to act like an initiated.
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Ok, since the mail-order degree experts can't seem to say the "secret word" then let me spell it out:
R-A-D-I-A-T-I-O-N…RADIATION…do scientists have trouble understanding the meaning of certain words? It must be beyond their mental comprehension to connect a severe nuclear meltdown in Japan which, is directly across the ocean to the West(then since they are to the East of that disaster)seeing the connection to the huge fish die-offs and animal genocides occurring in front of their very eyes!
These Einstein's cannot imagine the millions of tons of highly contaminated volumes of seawater poured into these melted cores for the last 3-1/2 years to cool the clumped cores…trillions of tons of seawater becomes polluted when the water is released…really.
Still don't get it do you, you science pinheads? No wonder your social skills suck. So let's use crayon-level reasoning that a 5 year-old uses:
1. If you poo and tinkle in the water that you get your food from and you swim in then, one day you will eat your food and it will taste like poo and when you swim you will smell like poo (when you come out of the water)…what do you think you shouldn't have done?
A 5 year old would figure it out.
But a scientist can't answer it because his "allowance money" or "science welfare check" would stop. So, science whores are of no value in the scheme of things because, they are all schemers and liars. Tisk, Tisk, Tisk….
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<—–This is my super aggressive nook flea tumour. All 4kg of it. Note the scissor handles to gauge the size.
Nope…I wouldn't like to be a dirty rotten low down govt. information witholder when parents kids start to die soon. Nope. I would not.
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"Welcome to the new age"
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2000 views at 9 AM this is going viral today
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The most fragile cells in biology are the cells in the brain and nervous system (neurons). I would assume that all the fish in the Pacific are currently swimming in circles until they die. Larger animals with bigger brains may last a bit longer. Sushi anyone?
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DO NOT put a shrimp on the barbie.
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Current State Of Collapse Of Pacific Ocean Ecosystem
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/07/30/millions-sea-creatures-dying-pacific-coast/
This article is a checklist which pulls together much of the bad news from the ongoing ecosystem collapse.
The entire ecosystem cannot sustain the loss of so many of its components all at once.
The tipping point occurred somewhere in the past.
It makes little difference who wins the argument over which stressor sent the ecosystem over the edge.
The fact remains that the Pacific Ocean Ecosystem has gone over the edge.
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The acidification of the oceans is being cited as the cause of the die-offs. Certainly corals are affected because of their need to live off of calcium carbonate. Diatomaceous organisms in the oceans also need a Ph range that is high enough to form their microscopic exo-skeletons. The tipping point we have reached may be as a result of a perfect storm of many factors – radiation, acidification, increasing nitrogen fixation, heavy metals, plastics, sewage…. all the "good things" being dumped into the oceans by "civilization." There are other factors having to do with the magnetic pole reversal and ozone holes. Increasing cosmic radiation and ultraviolet light must be considered. Them we have chemtrails…. why would planes crisscross emitting visible trails. These cannot be contrails. Why would so many contrails be made worldwide? If there are that many planes, again, that alone would damage the biosphere.
The change in climate plus all of the above has caused an overgrowth of toxic algae species. All of this is aggravated by an overgrowth of toxic humans. The question becomes whether this is reversible, if not, the planet cannot support 7 billions humans.
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Socrates said: "The question becomes whether this is reversible, if not, the planet cannot support 7 billions humans."
Bingo!
Since human actions are part of a historic long-term disrespect and abuse of the environment for profit, and since there seem to be little attempt to reverse those destructive behaviors, it seems likely that the abuses, and the resulting ecosystem destruction, will continue.
It also is becoming clear that Earth cannot sustain a plague of 7 billion humans.
The question becomes how many humans can a severely degraded biosphere support?
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Pacific ocean not anymore so pacific.
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Fish in 16 states with reproductive abnormalities …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-more-male-bass-switch-sex-a-strange-fish-story-expands/2014/08/03/89799b08-11ad-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html
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Sorry, 16 sites.
"Those endocrine-disrupting chemicals throw off functions that regulate hormones and the reproductive system. In the newest findings, at one polluted site in the Susquehanna near Hershey, Pa., 100 percent of male smallmouth bass that were sampled had eggs, Blazer said."
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Radiation that is artificial cannot be excreted from the body as the body has not adapted to radioactive cesium, as opposed to Potassium in bananas. Ionizing rsdiation reduces marine mammals' immunity to a virus known as cetacean moribillivirus.
The algae blooms are known as red tide. Toxic plankton comes in a thick mat doe to.rapid fertilization from land runoff or upwelling of nutrients from the deep ocean.
The fossil record shows die-offs from 10 million years ago of marine mammals. There might be "beachings" of large marine mammals where 4 distinct time periods are involved,at least in Chilean fossil beds that have been studied.
Geological origins are often implicated. Upwellings of currents reflect geological and climactic changes. Runoffs of nutrients before mankind exclude agriculture back then.
What we are seeing is toxic algae and probably a virus together with reduced immunity. That's my take.
The question is whether the ocean and foodweb can bounce back. Overpopulation and bad habits of humans make this virtually impossible.
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Fossils show a thick mat due to….
The fossils of the die-offs has a red residue that was examined under a microscope. Hard to perform toxicology on fossils but the algae blooms can be deadly.
Overgrowths of candida albicans occur in the intestine and uro-genital tracts. Just think how the overgrowth of toxic algae could further pollute the ecosystem in the oceans.
If the oceans fail to produce 02, Houston, we have a problem!
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In the 6 months before my wife's onset of her super-aggressive Inflammatory Breast Cancer Stage 3B she'd begun to have seizures,syncope and bouts of dementia that included "drooling,weaving her head,incontinence and usually followed by either mild seizures or full-on gran mal seizures which tests ruled out epilepsy from the possible causes in late-Summer 2011 and medications would work to control them most of the time but what the ER Dr. and Neurologist's called "breakthrough seizures" still occur often enough for her to have bruises,loss of control of bodily functions and 2 out of 3 trips to the stores,family functions,wakes,etc. ends with seizures & often ambulance rides to the nearest hospital ER. She also is stubborn and has poor judgment as I can't let her out of my sight. I can't even think about finding work or starting up a business and though she claims she "forgot" her appointment,I think she intentionally missed the ones over the past 2 weeks that included the genetic testing & follow-up to determine whether she should have her remaining breast & now ovaries too if she's found to still be cancer-free but "at risk" for developing cancer again,OR they discovered that a blood test that indicates the cancer may be back or missed something in the 1st round of treatments[?], & my hunch that she(we)will be going through chemo/surgery/radiation Round #2 likely proven correct[?]!
post-311 remission stats speaks 4 itself!(not the BS 2010 CDC report!)TTYL…
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Johnny my e mail: concaisanukewhore (at ) hushmail.com
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Johnny Blade, I encourage you and your wife to follow a fresh vegetable diet, no bread, pasta or sugar, use herbs and cleansing protocols. It will make your lives easier. If you can afford it, vitamin C mixed with lecithin
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Thanks code, I want to make the changes in diet & lifestyles but it's a lot easier said than done under the present circumstances & where we have to live for now. An old friend wants us to move into a 5 bdrm 3 bath brand new house he and his wife are in the process of closing on and in just another month or 2 we will finally hopefully be in there with all of our belongings now collecting dust (& bills!)in Public Storage units and it'll be so nice to be off the air mattress on my moms tiny studio apt. floor and have our own kitchen,able to cook healthy meals again! As it stands we are living in near squalor with fast food or microwave crap to eat and I strongly suspect one or more of Sandy's meds are BAD for her,or maybe they're interacting in a harmful way,idk??!! Sandy's always loved fresh vegetables,strangely enough even as a child she would be right at home grazing with bunnies in the garden!LOL..THANk YOU for the kind words & good advice,I have no doubt that it would make things easier as anything improving health would apply to quality of life in general. BO;nice email address!!LOL,hopefully my emails will make it through[?]! And finally Danger Kitty;Thank You as well for your kind,thoughtful words! It means a lot to us & the thoughtful,caring,intelligent good souls like yourself helped bring her around to put Fukushima/nuke cartel crimes & incompetence into a better mindset & closer to the proper perspective on nuke issues.You're very sweet!'NEWSERS ROCK!
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Hats off for being a great spouse, Mr. Blade!!
Good for inspiration: the Ebola patient with
less than a 50% clinical chance of survival &
who only just got admitted to a U.S. hospital
is still alive and IMPROVING. Miracles happen!
And Prayers do help!~
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May courage endure the ages and deliver us safely home.
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Bo wrote:
" phytoplanktons and marine algae produce
between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in
the atmosphere"
You nailed it bo! That is one of the biggest of all the impacts coming at us. Trees produce the other 20-30% of the oxygen. DNA shredding going on in trees, too. If chlorophyll fails…
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I learned it here on enenews I think it was one of codeshutdown's posts
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Johnny Blade,
You and your wife are in my thoughts every day. Thanks for your posts; my heart hears every word. Your Spirit shines through the sadness.
kitty
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Really appreciate the vibration of this talk studio.
We can feel a certain harmony in the discussion with engineer like talking science and social comment on how disturbing is actual weight of injury's caused by our imposed way of life.
Lets be clear, the entire world is endangerd by this first technology of nuclear energy system.
I love science, and I love my kids, and I wish my kid would reproduce not having monster by any possible.
The challenge to get out of this hole we are digging is enormous but whoo does'nt try never will have.
Do you know the colibri story?
One day in the forest happend a huge bush fire and terrifyed animal watching the fire. Only a small colibri bird was going back and forth droping from his beak few drop of water on the fire trying to estinguish. After a while, the armadillo nervous about the silly agitated move tell him : colibri are you mad ? This is not with a drop of water you are gonna extinguish the fire ! and the colibri to answer "I KNOW BUT i DO MY PART"
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Nuclear is clearly humanities downfall = absolute failing.
The tiny atom will make all our beaks fall off first!
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Ouch I read the stories, stock out.
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