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Does our government care more about the media and PR than it does about the Gulf and the it's people and eco-system? :waitasec:
WATCHERS: Feds paid man $9,000 a month to “MONITOR MEDIA” for negative media coverage — Now trying to cover it up
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/w...0-month-monitor-media-negative-media-coverage
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T]he Coast Guard… [paid] $9,000 per month for two months to John Brooks Rice of New Orleans, an on-call worker for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under a no-bid contract to monitor media coverage from late May through July.

The Coast Guard provided the AP with a copy of two of Rice’s printouts of news stories but didn’t respond to a request for copies of his reports rating the tone of news stories. Rice said he had already deleted them. The AP requested copies of all Rice’s reports under the Freedom of Information Act but hasn’t received them. …


I'm amazed this got reported on MSM!!
[video=youtube;iIHN-a74wME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIHN-a74wME[/video]
 
So the well is capped and the oil has stopped leaking - the seafood is fine -everyone can go back in the water right? :snooty:
[video=youtube;k7jue71k254]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jue71k254[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnbmXzCrOCM
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The [University of South Florida researchers] discovered plumes of dispersed oil at the bottom of an undersea canyon about 40 miles off the Florida Panhandle. It was found to be toxic to microscopic sea organisms, causing mutations to their DNA. If this plankton at the base of the marine food chain is contaminated, it could affect the whole ecosystem of the Gulf. "I call these canaries in the coal mine as they are the first to feel the effects," [University of South Florida researcher John Paul who is included in a documentary debuting Tuesday night in the National Geographic Channel] says. ... "The problem with mutant DNA is that it can be passed on and we don't how this will affect fish or other marine life," he says, adding that the effects could last for decades.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/se...uded-in-gulf-oil-spill-tv-special/news-metro/
 
I won't be going in the water or eating seafood anytime soon or ever!!!
 
The gulf oil "spill" illness's are starting to come to MSM. I wonder how these victims will be handled by our government and BP?:waitasec:
I have a feeling they won't be treated any better than returning vets getting sick from exposure to the oil fields in Iraq!!:maddening:
[video=youtube;SCSGIU7idIs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSGIU7idIs[/video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKkshc-awzs
Principle Speaker for the Truth Out for the Gulf Forum
Dr. Wilma Subra, Louisiana physiological biochemist interviewed in the award-winning documentary "Gasland", will report on her recent blood test results on the residence of the Gulf Coast. Test most Dr. refuse to perform, tests lawyer disbelieve; tests that proof that corexit is making it's way into our food supply. She is founder and president of the Subra Company of New Iberia. She has been providing blood testing to those exposed to the dispersant Corexit that proof the chemicals are finding there way into the seafood and our bodies.

filmed February 5th 2011
Report and Update from the Front Lines: BP Oil Disaster
http://www.stopgulfoildisaster.org/
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One fisher-woman said they are drum fishermen, and there are no more drum fish in the waters. Are they eligible for a settlement? Yes, but they would have to get a letter from the state stating the drum are gone from the waters, Feinberg said. Catch 22. The state won't release any such letter because they have been given millions of dollars to promote their seafood and tourism from BP, the same company paying Feinberg to give these ridiculous suggestions.

One woman confronted Feinberg on his salary, and Feinberg replied, without a touch of cynicism, that he felt we were all fortunate that BP has agreed to pay for this process.

Fishermen reported lights and water cut off, barely having enough funds with which to eat. One African American fisherman got down on his knees asking for help with which to feed his family and pay his bills. Needless to say, he got the classic line from Feinberg, "I will personally look into this". Claims are not being payed in a timely manner to residents who are desperate, and even if paid, there is the fear of the future: what is to happen to this way of life, this fishing, shrimping, harvesting oysters, charter boats, sports fishermen who fed their families from their catches (they are eligible for a claim, Feinberg said). If you take the full claim, you surrender your right to sue, a violation of human rights by any measure.

Although most of the closed fishing areas have been reopened, and folks are encouraged to eat the seafood, the shrimpers are reporting there is little shrimp to catch, and many refuse to eat their own catch. I'm giving you this as backup to the lack of trust there now is on the Gulf coast, and that is an understatement. Truth is, many on the coast feel that their government is content to sacrifice their lives and health to coverup the extent of the damage to our Gulf waters.

Ironically, even Feinberg at this hearing admitted we don't know the long term impacts of the spill on Gulf waters. Yet we are all encouraged to eat the seafood from those same waters
 
yucky.
I personally don't believe a word of it.
The fish, oysters and mussles etc....made a Mother Mary recovery. Sure.
JMO
 
essies said:
The gulf oil "spill" illness's are starting to come to MSM. I wonder how these victims will be handled by our government and BP?:waitasec:
I have a feeling they won't be treated any better than returning vets getting sick from exposure to the oil fields in Iraq!!:maddening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSGIU7idIs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKkshc-awzs
Principle Speaker for the Truth Out for the Gulf Forum
Dr. Wilma Subra, Louisiana physiological biochemist interviewed in the award-winning documentary "Gasland", will report on her recent blood test results on the residence of the Gulf Coast. Test most Dr. refuse to perform, tests lawyer disbelieve; tests that proof that corexit is making it's way into our food supply. She is founder and president of the Subra Company of New Iberia. She has been providing blood testing to those exposed to the dispersant Corexit that proof the chemicals are finding there way into the seafood and our bodies.

filmed February 5th 2011
Report and Update from the Front Lines: BP Oil Disaster
http://www.stopgulfoildisaster.org/
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One fisher-woman said they are drum fishermen, and there are no more drum fish in the waters. Are they eligible for a settlement? Yes, but they would have to get a letter from the state stating the drum are gone from the waters, Feinberg said. Catch 22. The state won't release any such letter because they have been given millions of dollars to promote their seafood and tourism from BP, the same company paying Feinberg to give these ridiculous suggestions.

One woman confronted Feinberg on his salary, and Feinberg replied, without a touch of cynicism, that he felt we were all fortunate that BP has agreed to pay for this process.

Fishermen reported lights and water cut off, barely having enough funds with which to eat. One African American fisherman got down on his knees asking for help with which to feed his family and pay his bills. Needless to say, he got the classic line from Feinberg, "I will personally look into this". Claims are not being payed in a timely manner to residents who are desperate, and even if paid, there is the fear of the future: what is to happen to this way of life, this fishing, shrimping, harvesting oysters, charter boats, sports fishermen who fed their families from their catches (they are eligible for a claim, Feinberg said). If you take the full claim, you surrender your right to sue, a violation of human rights by any measure.

Although most of the closed fishing areas have been reopened, and folks are encouraged to eat the seafood, the shrimpers are reporting there is little shrimp to catch, and many refuse to eat their own catch. I'm giving you this as backup to the lack of trust there now is on the Gulf coast, and that is an understatement. Truth is, many on the coast feel that their government is content to sacrifice their lives and health to coverup the extent of the damage to our Gulf waters.

Ironically, even Feinberg at this hearing admitted we don't know the long term impacts of the spill on Gulf waters. Yet we are all encouraged to eat the seafood from those same waters
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Thank you essies for bringing back this story. I haven't heard a word in months. BP and our government knew out of sight out of mind. People are sick and dying from 9-11 as well as the Gulf oil spill. I wish on April 20 every city would conduct a giant march like Egypt ( no violence) and peacefully protest all the people who were injured by this financially and physically. A man begging on his hands and knees is just heartbreaking.
 
An article in The Nation mentioned that after the Exxon Valdez spill, fish die offs in some species didn't begin to show up until 3 or 4 years after the disaster.

Although adults of those species weathered the spill (whether it was healthy for humans to eat them is a different issue), the generations that were in the larval stage did not. So 3 or 4 years down the road, when those larvae would have become adults and started breeding, there were sudden drops in entire populations. Some species still haven't recovered, as I understand it.
 
***PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO TO THE END!!!***
Paul Doomm had no pre-existing health problems before swimming often in the Gulf last summer. He had been training to be a Marine. Paul’s symptoms now include:

Internal bleeding
White lesions on brain
Confined to wheelchair
No feeling in left leg
Uncontrollable seizures
Constant headaches
Vertigo

[video=youtube;3rAQ7PACKkg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rAQ7PACKkg[/video]
After about 30 minutes of multiple seizures an ambulance was called and Paul was taken to a New Orleans hospital. According to his parents, this will be the 15th hospital he will have visited in a seemingly endless search for answers to what they (and many) believe is a bp spill related poisioning.

"My parents throughout the summer had told me not to get in the water," said 22-year-old Paul Doom. Still Doom said he spent a lot of time last summer swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off Navarre Beach where he lives. Today, Doom has no feeling in his left leg and suffers with seizures daily.

He said, "in July, I started getting really bad headaches and internal bleeding. I would have nose bleeds and what not daily." Doom said doctors haven't been able to give him answers. Worried he could have been impacted by the Gulf oil disaster, he traveled with his family from Florida to New Orleans for a forum on the issue.
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/tra



EXCLUSIVE Interview with James Cameron about the BP Oil spill. The Gulf Is not Clean!!, February 2, 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOG4jpPunk
Transcript Summary:

BP Oil Disaster is an environmental horror.
Oil and dispersants are still down there.
People are being hoodwinked right now about it being all over — it’s not done.
It’s going to cost billions to clean it up properly.
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/a...bp-oil-disaster-public-being-hoodwinked-video
 
U.S. military purchases Gulf of Mexico seafood, boosting an industry battered by oil spill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020603941.html?hpid=topnews
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By Mary Foster
Sunday, February 6, 2011; 9:15 PM

Sales of Gulf of Mexico seafood are getting a boost from the military after being hammered by last year's BP oil spill, which left consumers fearing that the water's bounty had been tainted.

Ten products, including fish, shrimp, oysters, crab cakes, and packaged Cajun dishes such as jambalaya and shrimp etouffee are being promoted at 72 base commissaries along the East Coast, said Milt Ackerman, president of Military Solutions Inc., which is supplying seafood to the businesses.

Gulf seafood sales fell sharply after a BP gulf well blew out in April, spewing millions of gallons of oil into the sea. Consumers have long feared that fish, oysters and other products could be tainted by oil and chemicals used to fight the spill, although extensive testing has indicated the food is safe. The perception has lingered - along with the poor sales.
 
I love it were not going to let this story die. I feel like the Woodward and Bernstein of the 21st Century. I hope we can all keep this story going right up to the anniversary.
 
[video=youtube;cksCB7HF-YI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cksCB7HF-YI[/video]
Activist, Mother, and Voice of the Gulf People, Kindra Arnesen sat down with the Project Gulf Impact team, Matt Smith, Heather Rally, and Gavin Garrison recently to reveal shocking new information about the BP oil disaster and why the whole world should be paying attention to the Gulf. A must watch for anyone wanting new information on the Gulf of Mexico, she reveals shocking new information sure to send waves through the country.

http://www.projectgulfimpact.org

To visit Kindra's organization, The Coastal Heritage Society of America, please visit:

http://www.chslouisiana.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjtWxXgtJo4
 
BP "Scientist For A Day" Susan Felio-Price Explains Gov. Correlation of Klondike Bars and Corexit
[video=youtube;5NRBS0Gn1Tk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRBS0Gn1Tk[/video]
Susan references the chemical "dipropylene glycol methyl ether," which is found in the chemical composition of Corexit 9500, below.

Susan also references BP's recent launch of the grade-school education program, which seeks to teach children how the cleanup process works, and that the seafood is safe, among other things.

"The primary purpose [of the demonstration] is to inform and educate students on the methods used to clean up the oil in the Gulf and the wetlands and marshes," Janella Newsome, BP media liaison said in a press release. "It's also to dispel myths about dispersants, subsurface oil and seafood safety."

"This is the first session of many going on," Charles Gaiennie, a BP representative said at Oaklawn's library last week. "We are starting here in Terrebonne Parish with eighth grade because they are the first of school age kids that have a defined science class. We wanted to reach out to schools that are near communities that have been directly impacted by the oil spill, so Terrebonne was a good choice. There's a lot of information that's out there isn't current or accurate."

"The plan is to conduct these science projects in affected parishes including Terrebonne, Iberia, Vermillion, Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Mary and St. Tammany," Newsome said. "The science project was very successful very well received by students [at Oaklawn]."

See article here: http://www.tri-parishtimes.com/articles/2010/09/29/busine...

Susan also references BP's "Dockside Chats." Per bpcomplaints.com, the dockside chats allow "for a dialogue between local fishermen and representatives from government agencies engaged in rigorous efforts to ensure Gulf seafood safety following the oil spill." According to restorethegulf.gov, dockside chats were launched "in order to promote accurate information about the safety of Gulf seafood from waters open to fishing." The chats are "designed to engage fishers, shrimpers, oystermen and crabbers, as well as local officials in discussions about steps being taken to verify the safety of Gulf seafood."
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers

Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Sat Feb 19, 8:53 pm ET

In five different expeditions, the last one in December, Joye and colleagues took 250 cores of the sea floor and travelled across 2,600 square miles. Some of the locations she had been studying before the oil spill on April 20 and said there was a noticeable change. Much of the oil she found on the sea floor — and in the water column — was chemically fingerprinted, proving it comes from the BP spill. Joye is still waiting for results to show other oil samples she tested are from BP's Macondo well.

She also showed pictures of oil-choked bottom-dwelling creatures. They included dead crabs and brittle stars — starfish like critters that are normally bright orange and tightly wrapped around coral. These brittle stars were pale, loose and dead. She also saw tube worms so full of oil they suffocated.

"This is Macondo oil on the bottom," Joye said as she showed slides. "This is dead organisms because of oil being deposited on their heads."

Joye said her research shows that the burning of oil left soot on the sea floor, which still had petroleum products. And even more troublesome was the tremendous amount of methane from the BP well that mixed into the Gulf and was mostly ignored by other researchers.
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[video=youtube;g9aj8l8i1Ms]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9aj8l8i1Ms[/video]
I wonder how they'll try to spin this?:banghead:
 
Yeah, "don't rush to any conclusions"......duh! As though 4.9 million gallons of crude wouldn't cause this!!!!

Maybe we could collect all their little bodies and send them to Tony Hayward on his yaht.
 
Why am I not surprised. The government thinks if they let all the oil slink to the bottom of the ocean, the people will forgetaboutit!.Yet, nature can't forget, it lives it.

Out of sight, out of mind on this instance, just doesn't work for me. It'll keep showing up over and over and over. Dead dolphins, dead fish, dead birds.

JMHO
fran
 
[video=youtube;36MqUXm07jc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MqUXm07jc[/video]


ITA with the comment left on this video-:maddening:
@ 1:14

"Of course scientists caution that it could be some time to determine the exact causes of these deaths."

What they actually mean is that it could take some time after a gag order is placed on them under the threat of imprisonment if they announce that big oil is responsible for causing a major and damaging ecological shift in the gulf region. At least that's my assessment...
 
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