OIL SPILL in GULF: Wake Up America, you are being LIED to!

[Bennyboy]

Run time: 05:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WY7tXce-M   Posted on YouTube: February 11, 2011 By YouTube Member: hccreekkeeper Views on YouTube: 611   Posted on DU: February 12, 2011 By DU Member: Bennyboy Views on DU: 983

 
Lat week. Not over, not by a longshot.

Maybe eternal. I think instead of toppling dictators we ought to start thinking about toppling Corporations.

[CrispyQ]

1. I don't think I've heard any reporting on the Gulf in weeks, maybe longer.

Our "infotainment" corporate media is a huge part of the problem.

You stated, "I think instead of toppling dictators we ought to start thinking about toppling Corporations." You are absolutely right. Corporate rule is the root of our problems.

"When Corporations Rule the World" by David Korten is an excellent book & should be required reading in high school. Here's are some excerpts from the book:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Korten/WhenCorpsRuleWorld_Korten.html

K&R

[Newest Reality]

2. I think your assessment is correct on what to do.

The government appears rather subservient to corporate needs and wishes. I think that this is obvious, now.

The right-wing serves their interests best by manufacturing a pseudo-revolt, (Tea Party, et al) that points at the government as the problem. This gives an impetus to cutting what is beneficial to the people while seeming to be a "take our country" back movement when it is actually a give what's left to the corporate takeover.

Our best interests would be in taking away the status that corporations have gained in degrees, (culminating in person-hood) over many decades. A revolt against our current, Corporate Occupation would be the kind of action needed here. The problem is that the laws of the land are enforced by the government which has become beholden to serving the root of our problem. So, it is rather convoluted.

Rest assured that toppling the multinational, corporate behemoths would be the equivalent to taking down a dictatorial regime ... probably worse. It is not only that they own the media and have a tight grip on government officials, they also provide and control most of what is essential for our survival.

That, to me, is why you have the endless barrage that not only demonizes the word, "socialism", it includes almost everything and anything that would symbolize or suggest breaking-up or breaking-down this stranglehold. We are not allowed to profit form the fruits of our collective labor and we now see that we are also not even assured that we will be able survive from our efforts and productivity.

[Bennyboy]

3. Is the seafood safe to eat?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40494122/ns/us_news-environ

Oyster populations DEEVASTATED. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jKUMVYNeXk

[Bennyboy]

4. "The Story Everybody is talking about."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prt7-mp3tTU&feature=player_embedded

[Bennyboy]

5. Serious Health problems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSGIU7idIs

[Bennyboy]

6. COREXIT in the FOOD SUPPLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKkshc-awzs

Gov't releases "secret" ingedients for COREXIT....
After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve our attention: First, the ingredients that have been disclosed are extremely toxic, and second, why did the EPA protect the oil industry's "trade secrets" for so long by refusing to disclose these ingredients until now?

As reported in the New York Times, Brian Turnbaugh, a policy analyst at OMB Watch said, "EPA had the authority to act all along; its decision to now disclose the ingredients demonstrates this. Yet it took a public outcry and weeks of complaints for the agency to act and place the public's interest ahead of corporate interests."

On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic chemical that has long been linked to the health problems of cleanup crews who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill.

A newer Corexit recipe dubbed the "9500 formula" contains dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, a detergent chemical that's also found in laxatives. What do you suppose happens to the marine ecosystem when fish and sea turtles ingest this chemical through their gills and skin? And just as importantly, what do you think happens to the human beings who are working around this chemical, breathing in its fumes and touching it with their skin?

The answers are currently unknown, which is exactly why it is so inexcusable that Nalco and the oil industry giants would for so long refuse to disclose the chemical ingredients they're dumping into the Gulf of Mexico in huge quantities (over a million gallons dumped into the ocean to date).

But it gets even more interesting when you look at just how widespread this "chemical secrecy" is across Big Business in the USA... and how the U.S. government more often than not conspires with industry to keep these chemicals a secret.

It's time to end chemical trade secrets

Armed with the accomplices in the FDA, EPA, FTC and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, powerful corporations have been keeping secrets from us all. It's not just the toxic chemicals in Corexit, either: Large manufacturers of consumers products -- such as Unilever, Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson -- routinely use toxic chemical ingredients in their products -- ingredients which are usually kept secret from the public.




http://current.com/technology/924860...tm?xid=RSSfeed

[ReggieVeggie]

7. a real "oil slick" on Obama's record

He went swimming in the Gulf to reassure everyone, and the WH started a campaign to say everything was all over, everything's just fine. The spill was a major devastation. Its impacts are still not fully known.

[Bennyboy]

8. And probably never will be known...

And will be endlessly covered up...

[bvar22]

9. "Our beaches are NOT clean."

"Our beaches are NOT safe."

And I don't care WHAT the government and big corporations say,
I'm not eating Gulf Seafood.
:cry:

---bvar
lover of Gulf Seafood,
especially Gulf Oysters.

[Bennyboy]

10. COAST GUARD: Time to stop cleaning the beaches

Coast Guard report: Continued cleanup of oiled Gulf beaches could hurt ecosystem more
By Cain Burdeau (CP) – 20 hours ago


NEW ORLEANS — The cleanup of oiled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico has reached a point where crews, heavy equipment and thorough scrubbing can cause more damage to the ecosystem than good, the Coast Guard said Friday.
Birds, sea turtles, fish and other species are more likely to be harmed by an aggressive cleanup than by simply leaving remnants of oil and letting it slowly degrade, the Coast Guard said.
The report was designed to guide the cleanup of the BP PLC spill from the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. There are 4,265 people still involved in the cleanup and response on 544 miles of coast.
Recent oil samples show weathered oil found along beaches has lost the majority of the toxic compounds in it and the oil left on shores meets federal safety thresholds for people, the Coast Guard said.
At least one researcher questioned the Coast Guard's report.
Wilma Subra, a chemist and consultant for environmental groups, said the toxic elements could last for decades and warned the report could result in BP abandoning the cleanup before it's completed.
"The real concern is if they walk away and it's not clean enough," said Subra, who has been doing her own testing along the coast. If it's not clean enough, people and animals could still be exposed to harmful toxins, she said.
The study focused on beaches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
"Beach cleanup is invasive," said Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Boda of the Coast Guard. "If we were to go in and remove the small bit of oil you'd have to wash the sand, and you'd kill everything else in there."
He said that could include removing plants, shells and other sources of food for birds, as well as damaging sea turtle eggs.



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