Red Tide, Lake Okeechobee and Big Sugar

The parasitic behavior of U.S. corporations never ceases to increase death, habitat destruction and illness wherever our corporate overlords extend their despicable tentacles. When did mass killing and slow suicide become acceptable? A civilized society would place vile, delusional predators like Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and members of the Fanjul Crime Family in prison. The United States Of Corporations puts them in charge and gives them tons of money.

Here’s a look at what some of their violent business tactics have wrought on the west coast of Florida this past year:

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Red Tide

Those of you who don’t live around here think of Florida as a paradise of  Disney for the kiddies, palm trees and pristine beaches.  Indeed we have some of the finest beaches in America.  I am lucky to live within a short drive of several of them.

Well southwest Florida beaches are in dire straits this year.  From Naples to Sanibel Island here in the Tampa metro area we are seeing the scourge of Red Tide; “pristine” beaches covered with dead fish and pinkish waters which will make swimmers sick.

The first thing you notice is the smell. It’s not a scent, exactly, but a tingling in the nose that quickly spreads to the throat and burns the lungs. But then you see the carcasses.

Southwest Florida beaches

Thousands of sea creatures now litter many of southern Florida’s typically picturesque beaches. Most are fish—mullet fish, catfish, pufferfish, snook…

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