There are five gigantic patches of swirling plastic throughout the Earth’s oceans, known as gyres.
Because of ocean currents, a great majority of the plastic that ends up in the oceans finds its way into these garbage patches, poisoning marine life and ending up in the food supply of the planet. Toxic chemicals like PCBs and DDTs are absorbed by the plastic and cause diseases like cancer, malformation and impaired reproductive ability.
That the plastic lands in these rotating patches is a double edged sword. It is horrible, yes, and causes a multitude of problems, but it also localizes the pollutants and gives us a place to start when cleaning up. It’s estimated that 1/3rd of the world’s oceanic plastic pollution is within the great Pacific Garbage Patch (number 01 on the map above).
One young man saw the problem early in his life. Boyan Slat, at the age of 18, gave a riveting Ted Talk unveiling his plan to clean the pollution using passive flotation devices and the ocean’s own current. After all, “why move through the oceans, if the oceans can move through you?” In 2014, at the age of 19, he realized the plan was actually feasible, and now it’s going into effect off the coast of Japan.
The currents pull the sea life under the floatation devices but the lighter-than-water plastics float into the barriers. What would have taken humanity 70,000 years to clean with boats and nets can be cleaned, instead, in decades.
It’s estimated that a single, 100km cleanup array will clean 42% of the ocean’s plastic in 10 years. The first array will be deployed in 2016 and technology is underway to recycle the plastic into biofuel.
This crop circle found this week in England almost resembles the old Norse art for the viking era. The farmer has requested that people not come to visit and that understandable. If this was made by a UFO or if it was man made, the farmer doesn’t care. He lost some of his crop and thats never good. It would be nice to have some geiger counter readings from the field or magnetic field reading. SCW
Update : So far NO aftershocks which may stay like that in the case of these very deep earthquakes
Update : The earthquake will have been felt in a very wide area, mostly as a long slight shaking.
Update : 1 prefecture got a 5+ shaking value : Ogasawara-mura Hahajima (Chich jima island and nearest to the epicenter). 5+ is considered at ER as a possible damaging earthquake.
Update : JMA Japan reports even a higher Magnitude than those listed on this page M8.5 at 590 km depth
Update : JMA Japan reports NO tsunami warnings or advisories (because of the deep hypocenter)
Update : a very deep earthquake happened in the hot solid mantle of the earth out of the Japan coast
189km (117mi) WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan
771km (479mi) SSE of Shimoda, Japan
781km (485mi) SSE of Oyama, Japan
783km (487mi) SE of Shingu, Japan
874km (543mi) S of Tokyo, Japan
Update 05:41 UTC : JMA reports a max intensity of JMA 5-, just below what we see as the damage potential. Slight damage is however always possible.
Update 05:38 UTC: Magnitude M5.6 at a depth of 590 km. Epicenter : Saitama-ken Hokubu
2km (1mi) NNW of Hasuda, Japan
3km (2mi) SW of Shiraoka, Japan
5km (3mi) ENE of Ageo, Japan
7km (4mi) NW of Iwatsuki, Japan
34km (21mi) N of Tokyo, Japan
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 5.1
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2015-05-25 14:28:10
March Against Monsanto explodes globally… World citizens stage massive protests across 38 countries, 428 cities… mainstream media pretends it never happened
Sunday, May 24, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
(NaturalNews) The March Against Monsanto exploded across the planet today as protesters took to the streets in 38 countries and 428 cities to protest the world’s most evil corporation: Monsanto. (Tweet this story #MarchAgainstMonsanto)
Protesters from New York, London, Berlin, Paris and even across South America, Asia and India rallied against the toxic agricultural practices of Monsanto, a corporation whose business model depends on poisoning the citizens of the planet, destroying the agricultural ecosystem, monopolizing the seed supply and hiring online character assassins to attack anyone who opposes its agenda.
Protesters worldwide took to the streets today to demand GMO labeling and bans on Roundup (glyphosate), the toxic herbicide chemical that even the World Health Organization recently linked to cancer. “We need to stop feeding humanity such a vile toxin,” said one protester.
Watch the protest compilation video from RT here: (see more pictures below)
Photo credit h/t to John Graf for the above two photos.
Mainstream media totally compromised, refuses to cover massive global uprising against Monsanto
As expected, virtually the entire “sellout” mainstream media refused to cover the event, pretending that the citizens of the world aren’t rising up against an enormous corporate evil that threatens the future of our planet.
The Associated Press ran a story mentioning local protests in Hawaii but refused to print the words “March Against Monsanto” or to even mention that these protests were taking place in over 400 cities across the globe.
Nearly the entire western media has been infiltrated and corrupted by Monsanto, including the once-respected magazine National Geographic which now functions as the propaganda arm for the life-destroying biotech industry. National Geographic’s magazines are now filled with multi-page ads for Big Pharma and Big Biotech, while its editors ludicrously attempt to paint scientists and citizens who have concerns about GMOs as tin foil hat-wearing lunatics.
Once-celebrated newspapers like the Washington Post have also been entirely overrun by Monsanto infiltration and disinformation. The paper’s science editors function as nothing more than Monsanto puppets and propaganda mouthpieces, pushing biotech talking points as if they were scientific fact while utterly ignoring the realities of cancer-causing glyphosate, seed supply monopolization, genetic pollution and Monsanto’s lawsuit attacks on farmers.
Today, only the Independent Media covers the truth about Monsanto, GMOs and glyphosate. Every mainstream media news source has sold out humanity to pure evil.
Here are some of the photos from RT’s March Against Monsanto video:
New emphasis on glyphosate (Roundup)
This year’s marches featured increased emphasis on the toxicity of Roundup (glyphosate), Monsanto’s weed killer chemical that’s sprayed liberally on crops.
Glyphosate has been linked to cancer by the World Health Organization, and researchers around the world believe glyphosate is linked to increased risks of cancer tumors in humans and animals that consume GMO crops.
This photo from the Seralini study shows how glyphosate and GMOs caused massive, fatal tumors in laboratory rats:
Glyphosate is also now strongly suspected of contributing to the autism epidemic. Dr. Stephanie Seneff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is now warning that if the chemical poisoning of our world isn’t stopped, nearly half of all children born in the United States by the year 2025 will be autistic.
Watch this video from Next News Network for more details:
Hillary Clinton’s ties to Monsanto exposed
Natural News has been key in exposing Hillary Clinton’s deep ties to Monsanto. Now known as the “Bride of Frankenfood,” Hillary Clinton is a pro-Monsanto operative who hired a top Monsanto lobbyist to help run her campaign.
She also represented Monsanto as a lawyer with her now-infamous Rose Law Firm in Arkansas. Clinton is so pro-Monsanto and pro-GMO that she even spoke on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
If Hillary Clinton becomes President, Monsanto will occupy the White House. This is why it’s absolutely crucial that the Democratic party find someone else to win the primary who isn’t a Monsanto puppet.
If Hillary Clinton becomes president, you can expect the full Monsanto agenda to be aggressively pushed as national policy:
• A nationwide federal ban on GMO labeling.
• Immediate USDA approval of all experimental GMO crops.
• Extreme, politically motivated attacks against all anti-GMO activists, scientists and journalists.
• Huge increases in taxpayer-funded subsidies for farmers who grow GMO crops.
• Aggressive corporate imperialism push to overturn bans on glyphosate and GMOs by other nations.
• Possibly even attempts by the FDA to outlaw non-GMO Project Verified labels in the same way they attacked hormone-free labels for cow’s milk.
Make no mistake: A vote for Hillary is a vote for Monsanto.
29km (18mi) SW of Pratt, Kansas
102km (63mi) ESE of Dodge City, Kansas
104km (65mi) S of Great Bend, Kansas
112km (70mi) SW of Hutchinson, Kansas
252km (157mi) NNW of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 4
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2015-05-23 13:44:29
El Niño Brings Wet Summer to Plains; Western Drought Continues
by Becky Oskin, Senior Writer | May 21, 2015
Forecasts for June, July and August in the United States suggest temperatures will be cooler than usual in the central Plains.
Credit: NOAA
The West can expect its warm and dry weather to continue through the summer, while the central Plains will be relatively cool and wet, according to a summer forecast released today (May 21).
The East will be slightly warmer than average, and drought will intensify in the Northeast and the Pacific Northwest, a pattern that’s typical of El Niño summers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Texas and Oklahoma have already felt the force of El Niño-influenced weather, NOAA said in a briefing today. Both states were in a severe drought last year, but this spring, drenching rainstorms refilled the states’ parched reservoirs to near capacity. Kentucky also saw a soaking spring, recording its second wettest April on record. “This pattern is partially the effect of El Niño conditions,” said David Unger, a forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.
The Texas drought began in October 2010 and was the second-driest spell in the state’s history, said Victor Murphy, a program manager for the National Weather Service’s Southern Region. “It looks like the Texas drought is pretty much over,” Murphy said. [The 5 Worst Droughts in US History]
In summer, a strong El Niño often steers heavy rainstorms toward the southern Plains states and the intermountain West, including Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. However, the summer forecast calls for dry conditions in the West and Alaska, Unger said.
An El Niño also tends to tamp down Atlantic hurricane activity and boost Pacific hurricanes; NOAA plans to release its hurricane forecast on May 27.
The El Niño is a cyclic climate phenomenon that involves both the ocean and the atmosphere. One of its hallmarks is warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Although the El Niño fizzled last winter, the pool of warm water stuck around this spring and strengthened into a full-blown event.
With an El Niño brewing in the Pacific, the warm tropical ocean surface has been helping set new global heat records this year. Global temperatures in April 2015 were the fourth warmest on record since 1880, said Jake Crouch, a NOAA climatologist. And the first four months of 2015 shattered old heat records.
During January through April, the average temperature across land and ocean surfaces was 1.44 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average. This surpassed the previous record, set in 2010, by 0.13 F (0.07 C).
“2015 is very warm compared to other years,” Crouch said. “It has been really quite a bit ahead of the pack.”
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Natural News has been key in exposing 
Strong earthquake mear Caliente, Nevada (felt in St George and Las Vegas)
Last update: May 22, 2015 at 8:32 pm by By Armand Vervaeck
Update : The strongest earthquake since 1900 in this area happened in St. George Utah and measured M5.6 (1992)
Update : The maximum projected shaking will be “light shaking”
Update : Earthquake-Report.com does not expect serious damage from this earthquake mainly because it happened in a very unpopulated area.
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 4.83
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2015-05-22 11:47:43
GMT/UTC Time : 2015-05-22 18:47:43
from: http://earthquake-report.com/2015/05/22/strong-earthquake-caliente-nevada-on-may-22-2015/