I have nightmares about this ...

May 29, 2007 at 17:08:44 PACIFIC OCEAN PLASTIC STEW ENTERING OUR FOOD SYSTEM by Allen L Roland http://www.opednews.com

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A dead Ocean bird from a dying Pacific Ocean garbage patch that is growing and is now twice the size of Texas ~ and could well be contaminating our food chain : Allen L Roland

This is a must read story for it has dire implications for all human beings and especially mothers and newborn infants.

This story is a wake up call to the world that we must help and cooperate with one another, especially pursuant to polluting our oceans, if we are to survive as a human species.

Next time you look out at this beautiful Pacific ocean, as I often do, realize that there is a garbage patch of discarded plastic twice the size of Texas a few hundred miles away and its growing !

Then we add this stunning announcement last week from The Center for American Progress ~ which should not be a surprise.

ENVIRONMENT / POLLUTERS FLOURISH UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION:


"Environmental enforcement efforts by the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department have plummeted over the last five years, resulting in a 38 percent decline in criminal fines and a 25 percent drop in civil penalties, according to a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)."

Susan Casey and photographer Gregg Segal will lead you on this journey through a man made hell.

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Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?

By Susan Casey, Photographs by Gregg Segal May 11, 2007 - 11:45:03 PM

http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/health-fitness/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we_2_printer.shtml

A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse.

To Captain Charles Moore

Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem unusual that Captain Charles Moore found his life’s purpose in a nightmare.

Unfortunately, he was awake at the time, and 800 miles north of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

It happened on August 3, 1997, a lovely day, at least in the beginning: Sunny. Little wind. Water the color of sapphires. Moore and the crew of Alguita, his 50-foot aluminum-hulled catamaran, sliced through the sea.

Returning to Southern California from Hawaii after a sailing race, Moore had altered Alguita’s course, veering slightly north. He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. This was an odd stretch of ocean, a place most boats purposely avoided. For one thing, it was becalmed. "The doldrums," sailors called it, and they steered clear. So did the ocean’s top predators: the tuna, sharks, and other large fish that required livelier waters, flush with prey. The gyre was more like a desert—a slow, deep, clockwise-swirling vortex of air and water caused by a mountain of high-pressure air that lingered above it.

The area’s reputation didn’t deter Moore. He had grown up in Long Beach, 40 miles south of L.A., with the Pacific literally in his front yard, and he possessed an impressive aquatic résumé: deckhand, able seaman, sailor, scuba diver, surfer, and finally captain.

Moore had spent countless hours in the ocean, fascinated by its vast trove of secrets and terrors.

He’d seen a lot of things out there, things that were glorious and grand; things that were ferocious and humbling. But he had never seen anything nearly as chilling as what lay ahead of him in the gyre.

It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a landfill.

How did all the plastic end up here? How did this trash tsunami begin? What did it mean? If the questions seemed overwhelming, Moore would soon learn that the answers were even more so, and that his discovery had dire implications for human—and planetary—health. As Alguita glided through the area that scientists now refer to as the "Eastern Garbage Patch," Moore realized that the trail of plastic went on for hundreds of miles. Depressed and stunned, he sailed for a week through bobbing, toxic debris trapped in a purgatory of circling currents. To his horror, he had stumbled across the 21st-century Leviathan. It had no head, no tail. Just an endless body.

"Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." This Andy Warhol quote is emblazoned on a six-foot-long magenta and yellow banner that hangs—with extreme irony—in the solar-powered workshop in Moore’s Long Beach home. The workshop is surrounded by a crazy Eden of trees, bushes, flowers, fruits, and vegetables, ranging from the prosaic (tomatoes) to the exotic (cherimoyas, guavas, chocolate persimmons, white figs the size of baseballs). This is the house in which Moore, 59, was raised, and it has a kind of open-air earthiness that reflects his ’60s-activist roots, which included a stint in a Berkeley commune.

Composting and organic gardening are serious business here—you can practically smell the humus—but there is also a kidney-shaped hot tub surrounded by palm trees. Two wet suits hang drying on a clothesline above it.

This afternoon, Moore strides the grounds. "How about a nice, fresh boysenberry?" he asks, and plucks one off a bush. He’s a striking man wearing no-nonsense black trousers and a shirt with official-looking epaulettes. A thick brush of salt-and-pepper hair frames his intense blue eyes and serious face. But the first thing you notice about Moore is his voice, a deep, bemused drawl that becomes animated and sardonic when the subject turns to plastic pollution. This problem is Moore’s calling, a passion he inherited from his father, an industrial chemist who studied waste management as a hobby. On family vacations, Moore recalls, part of the agenda would be to see what the locals threw out. "We could be in paradise, but we would go to the dump," he says with a shrug. "That’s what we wanted to see."

Since his first encounter with the Garbage Patch nine years ago, Moore has been on a mission to learn exactly what’s going on out there. Leaving behind a 25-year career running a furniture-restoration business, he has created the Algalita Marine Research Foundation to spread the word of his findings. He has resumed his science studies, which he’d set aside when his attention swerved from pursuing a university degree to protesting the Vietnam War. His tireless effort has placed him on the front lines of this new, more abstract battle. After enlisting scientists such as Steven B. Weisberg, Ph.D. (executive director of the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project and an expert in marine environmental monitoring), to develop methods for analyzing the gyre’s contents, Moore has sailed Alguita back to the Garbage Patch several times.

On each trip, the volume of plastic has grown alarmingly. The area in which it accumulates is now twice the size of Texas.

At the same time, all over the globe, there are signs that plastic pollution is doing more than blighting the scenery; it is also making its way into the food chain. Some of the most obvious victims are the dead seabirds that have been washing ashore in startling numbers, their bodies packed with plastic: things like bottle caps, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, and colored scraps that, to a foraging bird, resemble baitfish. (One animal dissected by Dutch researchers contained 1,603 pieces of plastic.) And the birds aren’t alone. All sea creatures are threatened by floating plastic, from whales down to zooplankton.

There’s a basic moral horror in seeing the pictures: a sea turtle with a plastic band strangling its shell into an hourglass shape; a humpback towing plastic nets that cut into its flesh and make it impossible for the animal to hunt. More than a million seabirds, 100,000 marine mammals, and countless fish die in the North Pacific each year, either from mistakenly eating this junk or from being ensnared in it and drowning.

Bad enough. But Moore soon learned that the big, tentacled balls of trash were only the most visible signs of the problem; others were far less obvious, and far more evil. Dragging a fine-meshed net known as a manta trawl, he discovered minuscule pieces of plastic, some barely visible to the eye, swirling like fish food throughout the water. He and his researchers parsed, measured, and sorted their samples and arrived at the following conclusion: By weight, this swath of sea contains six times as much plastic as it does plankton.

This statistic is grim—for marine animals, of course, but even more so for humans. The more invisible and ubiquitous the pollution, the more likely it will end up inside us. And there’s growing—and disturbing—proof that we’re ingesting plastic toxins constantly, and that even slight doses of these substances can severely disrupt gene activity. "Every one of us has this huge body burden," Moore says. "You could take your serum to a lab now, and they’d find at least 100 industrial chemicals that weren’t around in 1950." The fact that these toxins don’t cause violent and immediate reactions does not mean they’re benign:

Scientists are just beginning to research the long-term ways in which the chemicals used to make plastic interact with our own biochemistry.

Plastic never really goes away ~ discover why and what are its effects on humans ~ here's a short trailer before you read on .

Each of us tosses about 185 pounds of plastic per year. We could certainly reduce that. And yet—do our products have to be quite so lethal? Must a discarded flip-flop remain with us until the end of time? Aren’t disposable razors and foam packing peanuts a poor consolation prize for the destruction of the world’s oceans, not to mention our own bodies and the health of future generations? “If ‘more is better’ and that’s the only mantra we have, we’re doomed,” Moore says, summing it up

Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Ph.D., an expert on marine debris, agrees. “If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig…you’d find a little line of plastic,” he told The Seattle Times last April. “What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren’t able to reproduce. They didn’t last very long because they killed themselves."

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Time, Manifestation....and Changes to the Fabric of Reality as Experienced on Planet Earth

Archangel Michael and Celia Fenn: A Dialogue

"Infinity" by Janosh at http://www.the-arcturians.com/

A few weeks ago, Archangel Michael and the Whales began sending information, on separate occasions, about the "Infinity Codes". At the time, I was in the Netherlands on a working tour, and was too occupied to give this much attention. But, more recently, I have begun to understand that these new "Infinity Codes" are being integrated into Earth frequency this year, and that they will be the most powerful of the energy frequencies to enter through the Lion's Gate this year. We are already feeling their approach as the energy shifts and changes.

When I was in the Netherlands, I began a working relationship with Dutch artist Janosh, who channels holograms from the Arcturians. The image at the top of this article is called "Infinity", and it a representation through Janosh, from the Arcturians, of the first Crop Circle of the 2007 season. Indeed, the codes are being received right now, and the Archangel Michael energy is working with the Arcturian intelligence to assist humanity to integrate these codes on their journey of Transformation and Change.

The changes will be felt most in how we perceive reality as we move towards the 2012 date for the "great shift". And reality is perceived mostly through Time and Space on the Earth plane. This article and channel will discuss Time, and a later article will discuss our perceptions of Space and the implications of this.

Changing Perceptions of Time and the Nature of Holographic or Quantum Reality

Have you noticed what has happened to time recently? I have heard from a lot of people that they feel "stuck", as if they are not moving and they should be somewhere else. Then, often these same people tell me that their lives are chaotic and intense and they can't keep up. The standard explanation is that modern life has "speeded up", and since Earth began her transformations, we are experiencing higher vibrations.

Well, as you learn in basic Metaphysics, when the vibrations increase on the higher level, the physical level slows down. That is why meditation helps to slow down the busy mind and relax the body, for the influence of the peaceful energy of the higher vibrations takes over.

So, I asked Archangel Michael about this, and this is our dialogue together.

Celia: So, what is happening with time on the planet?

AAM: Time is slowing down.

Celia: But everyone keeps saying that time is speeding up. That doesn't correlate?

AAM: Well, it depends on which perspective you take. Indeed the vibrational frequency of Earth plane has increased significantly as Earth entered the Fifth Dimension. And yes, as the frequencies increase, the experience of time on your planet slows down.

Celia: Is this a process? What is happening?

AAM: Well, by 2012, you will enter "no time". You will release the concept of linear time to enter into holographic or Cosmic time. In effect, there will be no time as you know it. Linear time is an artificial construct that creates a rhythm that is not in alignment with the Cosmic pulse. Now, as you move out of this artificial construct into "no time", you are raising frequency to the point that linear time no longer exists for you. You live in a state of total immediacy, what we will call ultimate presence. Your rational mind is learning to perceive these changes as a gradual slowing of time.

Now, as time slows to the point of ceasing altogether, and as you prepare to enter holographic time by raising your vibrational frequency to match that of the Cosmic hologram, that is outside of linear time, you will become more proficient at the skill of manifestation. As you align with the Cosmic pulse, you will also align more fully with your inner Light and Divinity, and your ability to create and manifest. And, since you are manifesting at an increased rate, it will appear as if time is speeding up.

What is in fact speeding up is the rate of manifestation, since that is where your planetary energy is primarily focused right now. You, as a Collective, have learnt to manifest "things" and "material objects" at an alarming rate. You may wish, as you become more accustomed to the new vibrational frequencies, to focus your creative energies beyond the economic paradigm of producing material goods in exchange for money. You will, in any event, need to slow down, otherwise you will probably disappear under a mountain of redundant "objects".

Celia: I guess you are right. That is what we would call a sustainable future, where we don't bury the Earth in waste matter from the rate of our creations of material things that we think that we need. We are being manipulated into thinking that we need to keep getting new "things" all the time. I suppose it is fun to keep creating new things, but we need also to begin to be more responsible in our creations, and to see what it is that we really need and what we can do to live in a more responsible way, where we think about other people and the effects on the planet as a whole.

Why is no one really noticing these changes in the fabric of time and reality right now.

AAM: But of course, they do. But, not yet with the rational mind; for, the mind is till trying to maintain the illusion that all is as it has always been and that nothing has really changed that much. The mind feels safer this way. It is as yet still very uncertain about the stability of this new quantum reality. But, the rest of your being is moving inexorably into holographic reality or time, and so the mind registers the stress on the body as panic or anxiety, as the known world changes. Many people suffer from anxiety and panic disorders as they seek to cope with the deep changes.

I am sure that most of you are familiar with the "Ascension symptoms". Well, most of these, including the exhaustion, the nausea, the dizziness and headaches etc, have little to do with "cleansing", and more to do with the body adjusting to a new time frame. It is a process of recalibration of the being to a higher frequency that manifests as a much "slower" reality frame. But, within that slower time frame, the process of manifestation is moving much faster, creating feelings of anxiety and disorientation in some.

The deep emotional and mental changes are a result of this recalibration and re-alignment. As you align more closely to the Divine Essence within you, your core center of light and love, you move into a clearer and purer sense of your own being, that which we call the Absolute Truth of Who You Are. With each small shift you become more of who you truly are, and more of the illusions and the dross falls away. You discover that you are a Being of Light in a Cosmos of Manifest Love. That is your true identity in the realms of light called "heaven", and it is your true identity as you bring heaven to earth to create the New Earth as a place of Love made Manifest.

These changes can cause intense anxiety and stress, as your body/mind complex registers that there is something not quite as it used to be, and that the fabric of "reality", as it has been for thousands of years, is now changing very rapidly. This can also cause deep inner depression, as the being feels out of control. For the process of linear time is a control mechanism. You always knew how and why things would happen, and within a given time frame. Now, you are moving into a seemingly random field where the laws of synchronicity and resonance are what create reality, and these operate outside of linear time.

We would now introduce a new term, localized time, to replace the idea of linear time. Localized time is where you are right now. It is that point of consciousness that you have chosen to focus into the Earth plane from the whole spectrum of who you are on many dimensions of light. So, you perceive your reality within a "local" setting that is where you are right now on Earth. But, at the same time, you exist in holographic or cosmic time, which is a much larger frame that contains the reality of who you are.

Celia: So is humanity moving into a perception of Non-localized or Cosmic time?

AAM: Yes indeed, this is the purpose of the great shift for humanity. It is not "business as usual", but an enormous shift in the fabric of reality and how that reality is perceived. From this perceptual shift will also come a new way of living and creating. But humanity is still only on the brink of this true shift that will awaken them to the possibilities within their creative matrix, and what can be achieved when they awaken to their true being as Masters of Light and Co-Creators with Spirit.

Celia: Can you give us an idea of what this will mean for us?

AAM; Well, yes, you as a Collective, Humanity, Human Angels, will begin to perceive yourselves as you are. As Infinite Beings on a Continuum of Light that expresses pure Love at all times.

What does this mean? It means that you have the power to see your reality for what it is, beyond the narrow confines of linear time and duality. You can see and understand how simple it is. For, when you created linear time, you created the paradigm for conflict. For linear time is, as I have already mentioned, a control system, and all control systems go against the Cosmic flow and cause friction. This is what you have come to call the "war of dark and light". In truth, it is merely the heavy nature of linear time that causes the sense of darkness, for indeed all is light. Once linear time has been removed and you are integrated once more into the cosmic pulse, you will have the freedom to create as you choose within the flow of Divine Creative Intelligence or Holographic time. The friction will be removed, and the frequencies of light will pour forth onto the planet in a symphony of Cosmic Creation that will be beautiful and wonderful to behold.

Celia: Well, the obvious question would seem to be, why did we create linear time?

AAM: It was a necessary part of the evolution of the Human Angel that you are. In order to experience the density of material existence to its fullest, you were allowed to create this dense control system that would direct and control your material existence and create the illusion that you were indeed separate from Light. But now, you have pierced the illusion, and you no longer need linear time to hold you in your material bodies. Now that you fully understand the nature of material density, and that you are Infinite Beings of Light, you are free to choose to be within a material body and experience yourself as a limitless being of light at the same time.

So, you are learning to replace linear time with a sense of possibility and infinity. All things are possible on the continuum of Infinity, which is your creative space now.

You are ready to fully release the concept of linear time and become fully conscious "holographic" beings. If course, there are implications here also for how you experience space as well, but we will speak of that at another time.

I will leave you now....

And so, that was our conversation. We surely are in another space and place and time frame - a magical, fluid, creative and awesome place. We are finally waking up to who we are......magnificent beings of Light experiencing material existence for the sheer pleasure and delight of being here in this superb and wonderful Dream of Existence!

So, to complete this article, here is another image from Janosh and the Arcturians. It is called "Time Shift". If you wish, you can focus your eyes into the center of the image and meditate on the concept of time. The codes within the image will activate you into the Time Shift reality. Then, work with the "Infinity" hologram in the same way...and open yourself to the magic of the Infinity Codes that are coming to the planet at this time.

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