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Disease and death in the Gulf region courtesy of BP

Submitted by jcasey on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 12:06pm
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Department of Stop it! You're killing me!
Thread: 
Environmental Apocalypse
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Al Jazeera
Gulf Oil Spill
BP

It's outside the attention span (or outside the government reservation) for most of the so-called journalists in this country, but the tragedy of BP's Deepwater Horizon screwup is still unfolding. At least it is still on Al Jazeera's horizon.

Our government and its minions are no longer concerned. The public's attention has moved on and Obama himself has declared food from the Gulf safe to eat. Here is a nugget to show you why you should read the entire article:

Paul Doom has been to 18 hospitals and seen 129 doctors.

"I have documentation and images showing lesions in my brain," he said. "Lesions that are the same as lesions on the brains of marine life from the Exxon Valdez spill from marine necropsies. This is a life and death situation and a race against time."

Doom said the water and food along the Gulf Coast are not safe, and he is angry at the Obama administration.

"I would ask them why have they allowed this to happen," he said, "How can you live with yourself knowing you allowed this to happen and continue?"

Aguinaga feels betrayed as well.

"I feel stabbed in the back by my own country," he said, "I feel we are being dictated to by a foreign power. Maybe our president is not strong enough to stand up against them. I know money buys people, but they couldn't offer me enough money for the loss of my friend, and the stuff we’re going through."

Aguinaga's prognosis for the future of Gulf Coast residents?

"We’re all lab rats and we didn’t even know it. We’re waiting to see how it’s going to turn out."

Corporatism has consequences beyond rich guys with too many yachts, like disease and deaths for thousands of people who were just in the way of corporate profits.

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Submitted by Salmo on

You don't have to look far on the streets of New Orleans to find a former clean up worker whose health has been severely compromised by BP gross negligence during the clean-up. Worse, every one I talked with reported that BP's failure to adequately protect their workers was deliberate; they insisted that workers not take normal precautions, and not wear protective gear, in order to present an image that things were "no so bad." Deaths occasioned by such decisions are not industrial accidents - they are murder!

I had a couple of guys point me to a local weekly paper reporting a remarkably gruesome trend: dissolving esophaguses. I did not keep that sort of record of my trip, but a cursory google scan reveals the same sort of reports. Here's one link: http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/toxico.... You really don't have to look far there: almost everybody had some connection to the clean-up, and almost everybody is sick or knows someone who is. Big as the spill was, the death and destruction from BP's spectacularly irresponsible "clean-up/cover-up" and the Coast Guard/US government's incredible failure to do its job will be bigger.

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Submitted by wendy davis on

Even finding info on the Gulf, or Haiti, or Iraq is hard. We have topics du jour, it seems.

Raw Story and washingtonsblog.com follow and compile some news. It was hard to hear that Salazar had given another permit to BP to drill deepwater off Venice, Fla., though they called it by a monority owner's business name.

Thanks for the sad, hard news.