People with exposure to the Gulf spill are getting very sick.

[FedUpWithIt All]

There is a lot of smoke and eventually we are going to have to face the fact that there is probably a fire causing it.

Project Gulf Impact report on IntelHub that 1000's of adults and children in S. Louisiana are reporting scabs, lesions and skin rashes.

One woman, preferring to remain anonymous, interviewed by the Project not only has this skin condition, but also "aching bones, weight loss, stomach pains, inflammation in her leg and sties developing in her eyes." (IntelHub: Thousands in Gulf suffer misdiagnosed skin lesions, Jul 31, 2010)

Micha Walsh was a Gulf Coast volunteer in Grand Isle, Louisiana for four weeks. She then received a heavy toxic exposure during a 3-hour trip research team trip to Barataria Bay.

Walsh explains being unprepared for what she saw that day the team went out to collect water samples. Walsh would not be alone in thinking the she would not witness what she did. Mainstream news is blanketing the world with reports that clean-up workers cannot find oil. Walsh explained that the Barataria Bay area of south Louisiana where she went with the team is heavily oiled.

One of those researchers was soon coughing up blood.

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/censored-gulf-eyewitness-testimonies-of-coughing-up-blood-and-other-horror-stories

As a mother this is heartrending. Those children who are swimming in the toxins may suffer a lifetime due to the irresponsibility of the government and BP and the ignorance of their parents on the subject. The shortened lives of the Exxon workers haunts me every time i see another picture of toddlers swimming in the Gulf.

[TheKentuckian]

1. Dive right in and pretend the water is fine. If you die your Social Security will go to the deficit!

[SoCalDem]

2. and to think I would not even let my kids touch the water at Newport Beach

shame on the "tourism folks" who keep claiming the water's "fine-come-on-in".:(

[babylonsister]

3. Might I just share this w/o anyone going nuts?

I just don't trust the source. They have a vested interest in all things negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examiner.com

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Examiner.com is a media company based in Denver, Colorado, that operates a network of hyperlocal news websites, allowing citizen journalists to share their city-based knowledge on a blog-like platform, in 238 markets throughout the United States and parts of Canada.<1><2><3><4>

Examiner.com is a division of Clarity Media Group, with the primary investor being conservative businessman, billionaire Philip Anschutz, owner of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), Regal Cinemas, and other media and entertainment companies.<1><2><5> Examiner.com claims to have 40,000 contributors,<4> commonly referred to as "Examiners", in addition to the citizen journalists at NowPublic, a Vancouver-based website purchased by Examiner.com in September 2009.<2><6> The company has been criticized for the low compensation received by many "Examiners", and the lack of editorial oversight, including accusations of plagiarism.<2><7><8><6>

[FedUpWithIt All]

5. The Examiner has a high number of citizen journalists. And of course should be viewed

with this in mind.

The point that is concerning to myself though is that this information is starting to seep in from a number of sources. Stories of illness and seafood contamination are beginning to occur with a slow regularity.

When the media is being fed it's main talking points from BP and the government, BOTH of which have been obscuring the real devastation occurring in the Gulf since day one, one begins to scan the "other" sources for more accurate information. Especially when the individual stories these other sources are telling is consistent with both history and the growing number of similar reports

[babylonsister]

8. Scanning for more accurate sources is good, and I'm not

trying to diminish the potential that this story is fact. I will search for better sources though.

[truedelphi]

18. Our Corporate Controlled Government's Agency, the EPA has

Tried (Among other things) to fire the researcher who found out that lead brought about serious brain damage and even death to inner city children. Fortunately for our nation's kids, the MacArthur Foundation gave the researcher the Macarthur Genius Award, and the EPA was forced to tear up the pink slip, and instead follow the researcher's suggestions of banning lead in gasoline and paint.

The EPA encouraged the use of MTBE in gasoline, and it took the efforts of the public and the Republican Party to get it banned. And also, one courageous Demcoratic Governor, Gov. Davis, whose Blue Ribbon Panel exposed the toxic MTBE as the detrimental substance that it was.

The EPA approved of lax regs and restrictions in the days following Nine Eleven, giving the air surrounding the Manhattan Ground Zero its approval as being safe to breathe. Who knows how many people have been crippled by respiratory disease, heart disease and death because of the agency's failure to be truthful?

And now the indie scientists try and tell us about the damage to the seafood, and to the water of the Gulf on account of the oil and the dispersant. But the government and BP belittles the indie researchers and the truth they tell.

[PufPuf23]

6. Some posters search and spin for apologetics.

I am surprised by some DU old-timers.

BP-WH-"captured" scientists- Fed agencies placed into the public narrative disinfo; specifically most of the oil was gone.

The thing is that this is a several orders of magnitude federal lie based PR enabled by use of dispersants and limited access to data and independent research. The "bad stuff" bio-accumulates over generations from bottom to top of the food chain.

There is hyperbole on both extremes - the world isn't ending and the GOM isn't dying (but has suffered at least a decade of damage) -- but most of the oil is still there (deep and small particles from dispersant) and the nastiest stuff bio-acccumulates from breakdown at the bottom of the food chain.

[blindpig]

13. Might that be 'nattering nabobs of negativity'?

So what if the publisher has a political agenda in this, it is hardly the only source of these types of stories. The people must be wrong, huh?

Funny how it is always like that with the party in power.

[happy_liberal]

14. I trust citizen journalists more than corporate journalists

but in this instance, all one needs to do is trust your common sense for crying out loud!

Why anyone would pretend all is okay, or attempt to defend the corporations from the severe penalities they should pay...

[Chisox08]

21. The thing is this story is believable

With the long term exposure to oil sickness will happen. It is a good thing that my family members moved up here after Katrina.
The source might not be the best but the material seems accurate.

[pitohui]

4. i've very sick but...

there's no smoke, no fire, no one else around here is sick

i have skin lesions right now, brown vomit on one occasion, and more but i can't work it out, i was in barataria bay 3 days BEFORE the explosion

if someone is to blame, i don't think it's BP

i'm not out to make $ off being sick, i really think there is a bug going around (that is not caused by the spill)...well i won't go into my health history here but i've had lifelong problems yet now i'm starting to get scared

like anybody else i would love to hit the lottery and get a big jackpot for my suffering but i can't work it out how the oil spill could have caused this, the time line is wrong

it sucks being honest

[FedUpWithIt All]

7. I'm very sorry that you've been ill.

What do you think could be the cause of such concerning symptoms over such a diverse group?

[pitohui]

9. i have no idea

right now i'm so fucking sick & tired (pardon my french) i can hardly figure anything out

because of my personal time line i think there's something else but i am not in any shape to figure out what "something else" really is

whatever it is, they'll get away clean if somebody else is blamed, i can figure that much

i was on the water at grand isle on april 17 -- 3 days before the explosion and several days more before the horrible disaster coated those beaches w. oil

at the moment i'm perplexed

i'm throwing this out there in hopes someone else has ideas

the funny thing is, most people in louisiana AREN'T sick right now, i was just in nevada, there's a very nasty summer cold going around there but i'm the only person i know in new orleans who is sick...and i'm v. sick, to the point where i don't know what to do, i'm so sick -- since no one i know has caught it a friend has suggested allergy/environmental allergy OK but to what? at my age? my allergies were doing so well (under control w. meds) and now meds can't touch them

on edit-- NOT seeking medical advice, just trying to describe my situation, hope that's w/in the DU rules...

[FedUpWithIt All]

10. Did the symptoms begin while you were in Grand Isle?

Or did the illness begin later? It sounds horrible and i'm really sorry your going through that.

If you don't mind me asking, do you live in one of the Gulf states?

[indepat]

11. Surely hope BP is picking up the tab for all these medical expenses

:P

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[laughingliberal]

15. K & R nt

[piratefish08]

16. maybe 75% of the sickness and disease will disappear.

just like the oil did.

[disillusioned73]

17. Interesting thread, bizarre posts

[Occulus]

19. Not when you consider the source of those posts

I don't understand how that one has managed to remain a member, and as was noted above, its posts have an oddly familiar, um, "aroma"...

[Mithreal]

20. Same shit different day. Some are more equal than others.