NASA Space Images Show Dark Polluted Water Spilling From Carolina Rivers Into Ocean

Brandon Turbeville

Natural Blaze

October 3, 2018

Satellite imagery has discovered Carolina rivers so polluted their streams appear dark from outer space. These streams, unfortunately, are not only polluting and damaging water quality throughout the Carolina’s but also pouring into the ocean.

As Abbie Bennett of the Herald Sun wrote,

A NASA satellite is tracking flooding in the Carolinas following Hurricane Florence, and its images show dark, polluted water flowing from rivers into the Atlantic Ocean. 

Nearly 8 trillion gallons of rain fell across North Carolina during the storm, according to the National Weather Service in Raleigh’s estimate. 

That rain led to catastrophic flooding across the state, and has polluted rivers, streams, creeks and their outflows along the coast, NASA’s satellite images show. 

One image captured on Sept. 19 shows the New River, White Oak River and Adams Creek south of Cape Lookout and the deeply discolored water that appears dark brown — or even black. 

The color of the water in the image “reveals how soils, sediments, decaying leaves, pollution, and other debris have discolored the water in the swollen rivers, bays, estuaries, and the nearshore ocean,” according to NASA.

But that isn’t the only material floating in North and South Carolina’s rivers. Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence were also responsible for the deaths of 3.4 million chickens and thousands of pigs in the state’s notorious factory farm system. While many Americans were horrified to see that these animals were left to suffer and drown, an admittedly horrible and inhumane fate, the issue of factory farming in general was ignored, i.e. the reason why millions of chickens and thousands of pigs were housed in giant factories to begin with.

Factory Farms Make North And South Carolina Flood Waters A Toxic Soup

Brandon Turbeville

Natural Blaze 

October 22, 2016

In another example of the dangers posed by factory farms, the flood waters left by Hurricane Matthew all over North and South Carolina have brought with it the hundreds and hundreds of rotting hog and chicken carcasses leaving a toxic soup of contaminated flood water all across eastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina.

Because North Carolina is one of the largest factory farm states in the entire country, rising water poses a special danger, especially in places like Tar Hill, a small North Carolina town that is actually home to the world’s largest pork production plant. Just in Duplin county alone, more than 2 million hogs are raised. Thus, when the flood waters rise, the factory farm animals simply meet a gruesome death sooner than otherwise planned.

After the waters reach a certain point, however, those carcasses rise to the surface, rot in the sun, decay, and marinate before spreading out amongst the water that has seeped into homes, drinking water systems and virtually everywhere. In Nichols, South Carolina, where hog carcasses had floated and peppered in between homes in the town, home owners who had evacuated returned to inspect the damage only to be greeted with a horrific smell, driving them back out of the town again.

Hog waste lagoons, an environmental catastrophe in their own right, also pose a threat because when the water reaches them, it also carries the waste with it. Hog waste and animal carcasses of course will mix with sewer overflows, oil tankers and other chemical production facilities to ensure an environmental catastrophe.

While the flood waters are not the fault of the farm itself, mass scale factory farming and centralized, industrial-scale farm units play a major role in making the flood waters even worse.

U.N. Vehicles, Mysterious Troop Movement Spotted In VA, NC, W.VA, Ohio,

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
June 26, 2016

UPDATE: It appears that many of the sightings of military convoys containing "construction" equipment in the South and Midwest could possibly be related to the National Guard response to deadly flooding in West Virginia. The sightings of the UN vehicles are more questionable but are being explained as being related to the transport of the vehicles which were manufactured in the United States to sea ports for use outside the country. However, nothing regarding the UN vehicles has been confirmed as of yet either way. 

In the midst of reports circulating around an uptick in U.S. military movement inside the United States, a recent sighting of U.N. vehicles being carried on flatbed trucks is now making its rounds on the internet and alternative media networks.

The U.N. vehicles were spotted near I-81 near Lexington, VA and were being carried by flatbed, two to a trailer.

Not much information exists beyond the sighting, except to say that there have been numerous reports of an increase in military movement in the NC, VA, West VA, and Ohio region.

For the past day or so, military convoys have been witnessed traveling both North and South, with lines of equipment ranging from Humvees, troop transport trucks, and tankers to military personnel following the convoy in civilian vehicles. Interestingly enough, many of the soldiers traveling in the convoy were seen wearing helmets, an unusual procedure for a simple convoy. In addition, the convoys were carrying what appeared to be construction equipment.

North Carolina Files Bill To Place Kratom On Controlled Substances List

Brandon Turbeville

Natural Blaze

June 1, 2016

Wherever there is a good thing, the police state is never far behind. Generally, that police state is made up of uniformed agents throwing peaceful people into cages but also of bureaucrats and parasites working together with corporate hawks to ensure profit, panic and punishment for all.

Such is the case now in North Carolina in regards to the popular plant known as Kratom. For those who may be unaware, mitragyna speciosa (aka Kratom) is a tropical evergreen tree in the coffee family which is native to Southeast Asia.

Although not an opiate itself, Kratom can be used to manage pain and anxiety as well as alcohol dependence. It is possible to use Kratom recreationally, but the effects are generally too mild to classify it as anything resembling a drug.

But that’s not stopping Senator Tom Mcinnis and other members of the North Carolina senate from attempting to make sure that no one is able to alleviate pain, addiction or stress or even (gasp!!!!!) entertain themselves through natural means without permission from government agencies, drug persecutors and drug pushers (with degrees, of course).

Senator McInnis’ bill SB 830 was filed in the Senate by McInnis on May 10, 2016. The bill will add Kratom to the list of controlled substances and appropriate funds for the State Bureau of Investigation so that the SBI will be able to open another front in the costly, tragic and counter-productive War on Drugs.

TAP NC Interview on Truth on the Tracks - Video

Senator Explodes When Confronted on Mandatory Vaccine Law - Linc Austin Video Report

Brandon Turbeville's article covered in this video along with the mandatory vaccine bill attempting to be passed in NC.

Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville - March 23, 2015

Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville - March 23, 2015

Brandon discusses new legislation in North Carolina attempting to remove the option of religious exemption for vaccination, the Syrian crisis, the war in Iraq, ISIS, Noam Chomsky, and the recent claims of "crimes against humanity" leveled against the Iraqi military. Brandon also discusses US support for ISIS and the nature of the terror group.

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SC National Guard Drills Door-to-Door ''Wellness Checks''

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
March 9, 2015

In yet another example of the growing trend of the process of acclimatization of the general public to an open military presence on American streets as well as greater cooperation between the US Military and civilian law enforcement, South Carolina was recently the scene of a statewide “emergency preparedness” drill that incorporated both of these aspects in a visible form.

On March 7, 2015, the state-wide drill, entitled Operation Vigilant Guard, took place under the pretext of preparation for the inevitable destruction a hurricane would bring to South Carolina. According to reports in the local media, the drills were based on the premise of the landfall of a Category 4 hurricane and “how they’d respond to get citizens help” in such an event.

The training involved the South Carolina National Guard as well as National Guard units from Georgia in addition to participants from local and state law enforcement agencies as well as local and state “officials.”

In the Florence area, there were at least 400 hundred military personnel involved in the exercise. All in all, however, around 2,000 military personnel participated state-wide and 5,000 participants were involved from South Carolina emergency management Divisions and county divisions of Emergency Management.

Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville - February 9, 2015

Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville - February 9, 2015

Brandon discusses a NC Perdue farms CAFO expose,' the crisis in Ukraine, Syria, and, in the second half of the show, conducts an interview with Afraa, a Syrian girl currently living in Syria. The two discuss, Israel, terrorism, US sanctions, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and what life is like in Syria under the destabilization campaign.

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NC Farmer Exposes Perdue Farms For Animal Cruelty and False Advertising

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
February 3, 2015

Despite the close relationship between government and Big Agri manifesting itself in the passage of a number of “Ag Gag” laws across the country, the knowledge that animals raised in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are treated in absolutely horrific ways should, by now, be relatively common. Yet the images produced from a visit to these operations never cease to be shocking to those who are finally confronted with it.

The images coming from a Fairmont, North Carolina poultry farm were no exception to the rule in terms of the poor conditions of the animals housed there. However, what was an exception to the rule was the way in which the film was obtained – by the invitation of the farmer, not by a covert agent of the animal rights movement.

Craig Watts, the contract farmer for Perdue farms, reached out to animal welfare organization Compassion in World Farming after pangs of conscience could no longer be ignored. His change of heart occurred after watching a commercial in which the president of Perdue stated that “Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely.”

If doing the right thing is treating your chickens humanely, then Perdue farms is clearly doing the wrong thing. This much is evidenced by the video that was produced after taking a walk across Watts’ contracted Perdue operation.

The chickens, which can be seen in the video below, are undeniably suffering under horrific conditions. Most of them have lost their feathers as well as having exposed and open wounds on their underbellies caused by their lack of ability to move. These chickens are often deformed as a result of the farm conditions and/or breeding techniques. Others are weakened by their abnormally large breasts and the fact that they have virtually no free space in which to move.