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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 01:53 AM Aug 2014

Duty to Warn: Inconvenient Truths About Military Air Shows

Duty to Warn: Inconvenient Truths About Military Air Shows
Thursday, 14 August 2014, 4:46 pm
Article: Gary G. Kohls

Duty to Warn

Inconvenient Truths About Military Air Shows

by Gary G. Kohls, MD
August 12, 2014

The Big Oil cartels have, for decades, been poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, the Persian Gulf and many other ocean floors with millions of gallons of toxic crude oil via their risky, and very leaky deep water oil wells. It wasn’t just the crime against the planet that British Petroleum and Dick Cheney’s Halliburton perpetrated in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. There are many other things that have contributed to the mortal wounding of the Gulf. A good example of the damage done to the Gulf by corporate entities includes the Mississippi River delta’s massive dead zone that has been extending rapidly into the Gulf for decades, thanks to the many shoreline polluters that have been dumping toxins into the river all the way back to the headwaters in “environmentally friendly” Minnesota.

There are hundreds of dead zones at the mouths of many of the world’s major rivers, but the pollution that caused the huge dead zone at the Mississippi’s mouth started with the over-fertilization and over-application of highly toxic herbicides and pesticides on Upper Midwest farmlands. (See.www.geoengineeringwatch.com for more details.)

Carcinogenic corporate waste products that are dumped directly into the river or otherwise seep into the ground water are known to sicken and then kill living creatures downstream. As I was growing up, I fished in the Minnesota River and I witnessed the beginnings of the near-fatal wounding of that river because of massive corporate farm chemical runoff. The Minnesota went from swimmable and fishable to muddy, smelly, toxic and relatively fishless during the years in which I was coming of age..

So far the corporate criminals in the Big Oil, Big Chemical and Big Agribusiness industries have been making disastrous economic decisions, but they keep getting off with barely a slap on the wrist for heavily contributing to the slow death of our poisoned planet. And all of a sudden, just like Wall Street’s Big Bank predatory lenders, who had controlling power in the Cheney/Bush administration (and who also got off scot-free with the pre-meditated murder of the economy in 2008), are now back to business as usual in the Obama administration, awarding themselves lavish bonuses and getting everything they want from our bribed legislators and co-opted Supreme Court justices.

More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1408/S00088/duty-to-warn-inconvenient-truths-about-military-air-shows.htm

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Duty to Warn: Inconvenient Truths About Military Air Shows (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2014 OP
Kill a planet, no problem, whether you head Exxon or the Pentagon. merrily Aug 2014 #1
Excellent article - thanks for posting it Judy! (n/t) Nihil Aug 2014 #2

merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. Kill a planet, no problem, whether you head Exxon or the Pentagon.
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 03:39 AM
Aug 2014

The military air shows give citizens a warm feeling about our military. They are very good p.r.

The majority of citizens are not eyewitnesses to the murder of harbor waters or a river or an ocean.

Besides, leave the job creators ALOOOONNNNNEEE, ffs. Don't you see how desperate Americans are for jobs (also thanks to job creators and their government enablers).

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