Censored Gulf news: People bleeding internally, millions poisoned says 'EPA whistleblower'

[cory777]

Examiner.com

"...we have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally. And that’s what dispersants are supposed to do... Congressman Markey and Nadler, as well as Senator Mikulski, have been heroes... Mark Kaufman, EPA whistleblower, Democracy Now!

Poisoning millions of people

In its report, EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup, Democracy Now! states that "many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants," so Amy Goodman interviewed Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and a leading critic of the decision to use Corexit" who disclosed how the officials are lying about many things related to the catastrophe poisoning "millions of people." (Listen: Real Audio Strea or MP3 Download)

The rushed transcript includes Kaufman saying, "And I think the media now has to follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf. (Emphasis added)

"While concerns over the impact of chemical dispersants continue to grow, Gulf Coast residents are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money cleanup workers earn by working for the cleanup effort from any future claims.

link - http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d21-Censored-Gulf-news-Whistleblower-EPA-hiding-gassed-people-bleeding-internally

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[jobycom]

1. Maybe, maybe not, but that is one badly done article.

First, they cite an EPA "whistleblower," but if you listen to the whistleblower, he just gives his opinion without any evidence. That's hardly a whistleblower. He gets his info on Corexit off the web, and he even cites a local TV station's non-scientific uncontrolled experiment as proof of oil and Corexit in the water. In case you missed that show, a local station just took some beakers out to various places, tested the water for any petroleum products, and reported it as some type of science. The water, not surprisingly, showed the most oil the closer to a marina they got. In one case, they pulled water out of a hole a kid was digging in, even though the kid was probably wearing sunscreen, which would have boosted the numbers. Also, anyone who knows that area knows that the runoff from highways has always added oil to the water--we never swam off the beach in Gulfport because of the oil and polution in the water, even back in the 70s and 80s.

Just bad reporting, meaningless interviews, and no documentation.

I'd like to see some real research in the area, considering my parents live there and I've been down to those beaches a few times in the last couple months. If my organs are going to burst, I'd like to know it before hand. But "journalism" like that link is worse than none at all.

I remember after Katrina there were all these reports of thousands of bodies floating in Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, and then thousands hanging from trees in Bay St. Louis (which is when I started realizing this was nonsense). None of these were true. When Ike hit Galveston, someone here posted that there were thousands of bodies on the Bolivar Peninsula and more in Galveston, and when she was challenged got all defensive, swearing she heard it directly from someone who witnessed it personally. Obviously, those weren't true, either.

I'm tired of scary undocumented rumors. Where are the millions poisoned, the hemoraging dolphins and people? Interview them, give us medical evidence of that. I don't need to hear some EPA dude repeating rumors he's heard. I want to see evidence. And no, the coverup is not an excuse to not show evidence. These days there's always a coverup. You can't watch a basketball game without somone claiming they have proof the game was rigged and there was a coverup to hide it.

My family and friends are there. I know shrimpers in the area. I want facts, not headline-selling ghost stories.

[Junkdrawer]

2. K&R - Here's a direct link the DemocracyNow story....

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/20/epa_whistleblower_accuses_agency_of_covering

[eShirl]

3. "And I think the media now has to follow the money

This media?