A flag floats off the coastline, just one day after American’s celebrated Independence Day / AFP

I want to be clear that I do not know with absolute certainty what is really happening in the Gulf region but one thing that is – we have a media and government failing to disclose to us the full facts regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Some rumors they are debunking to avoid panic but the evidence clearly shows otherwise. That includes information the EPA and NOAA are putting out. Their number one job is to keep people safe but through secrecy and crony corporatism they are making making matters worse for Gulf coast residents and the entire United States. Plus on top of it we have an administration with an ideological agenda. I can only surmise that there is a lot more to this that we do not know, something larger at work that will affect us all. Where is President Obama in all of this? Still missing in action.

In my attempt to provide sound information based on my research of what is taking place, it’s up to us to take what is being put out very carefully as these are assumptions being made from a variety of sources. What is true is that more troubling news arises by the week. These are not reports from just anyone but those with expert knowledge — geologists, environmentalists, marine biologists, toxicologists (and even victims). My posts regarding the spill is not to create fear or panic but to warn those living along the Gulf region to take precautions and use some common-sense. If that means not swimming in the ocean water or temporarily making alternate living arrangements out of the region then that is a choice one needs to make on their own.

I do not know where this goes from here but we must start treating this oil spill as a catastrophe not just any spill. The internet can be full of misinformation but we have to try our best to rely on citizen reports and independent sources to help us get the best accurate information out to the public. Our eyes need to be wide open and not just believe what anyone says. Of course if the facts do hold out to be true and something dangerous is indeed looming ahead, mass hysteria would break out which is another whole disaster in itself. For those who have understanding in Bible Prophecy and who are following the signs know that the spill along with the Middle East situation and worsening economic climate is the perfect storm. These are times when we need to press in to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in prayer.

Message from Merle Savage:
General Foreman during the Exxon Valdez oil spill clean-up in Anchorage in 1989

Gulf Coast Cleanup: Caution Urged

Dear Gulf Coast residents,

The continuing health problems of people involved in cleanup of the Exxon Valdez spill present urgent lessons for the Gulf cleanup crews.

My name is Merle Savage, a female general foreman during the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) beach cleanup in 1989. I am one of the 11,000+ cleanup workers from the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS), who is suffering from health issues from that toxic cleanup, without compensation from Exxon.

Dr. Riki Ott visited me in 2007 to explain about the toxic spraying on the beaches. She also informed me that Exxon’s medical records and the reports that surfaced in litigation by sick workers in 1994, had been sealed from the public, making it impossible to hold Exxon responsible for their actions.

Exxon developed the toxic spraying; OSHA, the Coast Guard, and the state of Alaska authorized the procedure. Beach crews breathed in crude oil that splashed off the rocks and into the air — the toxic exposure turned into chronic breathing conditions and central nervous system problems, neurological impairment, chronic respiratory disease, leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors, liver damage, and blood disease.

My web site, http://silenceinthesound.com, is devoted to searching for EVOS cleanup workers who were exposed to the toxic spraying, and are suffering from the same illnesses that I have. There is an on going Longshoreman’s claim for workers with medical problems from the oil cleanup. Our summer employment turned into a death sentence for many — and a life of unending medical conditions for the rest of Exxon’s Collateral Damaged.

Sincerely,

Merle Savage

Now in touch with Merle directly and she responded with this comment:
Crude oil continues to invade the Gulf; while BP, the US Government, and other official agencies monitoring the toxic crude, continues to FIDDLE. I call that the “Dance of Deliberate Deception”. No one will come forward with the intestinal fortitude, and declare the obvious – that crude oil is toxic to our health. I have been told that a medical study cannot be conducted until after 6 months of exposure. WHAT? There have been 21 years since the exposure of the crude oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska. So we have to wait until after 6 months of workers, in the Gulf, breathing in the crude oil fumes, before a study can be conducted? That leads me to believe that the government is holding up the rug, while BP sweeps known reports under that same rug, and the other agencies conduct the “Dance of Deliberate Deception” on top of that rug.

Toxic Crude Oil In The Gulf
A message about the health hazards of cleaning up the toxic crude oil spill in the Gulf.

Worker Health and Safety During the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Cleanup in Alaska in 1989

Exxon Valdez oil risks spur warning for gulf cleanup crews

They called it the “Valdez crud,” but it was more than a cough and diarrhea.

“We thought it was a flu that was going around and every body kept getting it,” said Merle Savage, who was general foreman of the cleanup crews of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.

Instead, the stuff that was making cleanup workers sick was a toxic cocktail of oil droplets in mist they inhaled from spraying the shoreline with hot water and chemicals that were used to disperse the spill’s massive black wave.

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Merle Savage was an “outdoors person” who found joy in the big things Mother Nature had to offer. She climbed Alaska’s mountains and hiked the Grand Canyon. But then the big spill hit, and there would be no more climbing, no more hiking, and very little joy.

BP’s Other Toxic Legacy: ‘Decades of Misery’ for Gulf Health

As a cleanup worker in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez disaster, Savage says she breathed crude- and dispersant-laced mist for weeks. (This photograph speaks for itself.) She was healthy for age fifty — she looked healthy — but soon experienced crippling health problems that have lasted for two decades: coughing spells, violent diarrhea, pneumonia, obstructed blood vessels. Her liver cirrhosis onset baffled doctors.

“We were all coughing and vomiting for months,” says Savage, who had no prior history of drinking or smoking and did not wear a respirator during the cleanup. “We thought it was the flu. Exxon told us crude oil was non-toxic and we believed them.”

She has limited legal recourse — a court sealed Exxon’s medical records until 2023, she says — but now, twenty-one years later, her primary concern is not herself. Savage’s “quest,” and that of several environmental activists and locals taking a hard look at the aftershocks of the 2010 disaster, has become protecting the health of her modern counterparts in the Gulf of Mexico, who have been exposed to a variation of the same dispersant — and even more toxic oil. Because she doesn’t want any of them to live her waking nightmare, and no one wants the BP spill to become for local volunteers and fisherman what 9/11 became for workers at the World Trade Center.

The Trouble with Suing BP

A hundred cleanup workers in Louisiana and Alabama have reported chest pains, skin-and-eye irritation, nose bleeds, stomach problems, nausea, and cognitive disruption, which medical experts believe is just the beginning. Last week a group of Louisiana fishermen sued BP and dispersant manufacturer Nalco over toxicity concerns. For the thousands who have already been exposed, it could already be too late.

“The average age of a person working in Valdez was fifty-one and they’re mostly dead now,” says Arlen Braud, the attorney representing the Louisiana plaintiffs. “One of my clients had severe migraines and respiratory problems after traveling near the dispersants. It’s so arrogant: a UK company using a chemical banned in the UK for endangering the food chain.” According to Braud, BP is “telling workers ‘you can’t have lawyers and talk to us,’” possibly because “lawyers might warn people about the health effects ten years down the road.”

BP claims that air quality is acceptable and respirators are unnecessary (based on decades-old OSHA standards that its director decries as “outrageously out of date”), and Nalco defends its product as “a safe, effective, and critical tool in mitigating additional damage in the Gulf,” despite conflicting messages from the EPA.

But Louisiana residents with their hands both literally and figuratively in the oil remain deeply skeptical of BP’s response.

“The only people getting sick are the ones cleaning up the spill,” says Jim Gossen, CEO of Louisiana Foods-Global Seafood Source, who owns a beach house in Grand Isle. “My friend’s brother-in-law was sick for days; he said dispersants were sprayed ten miles from their shrimp boat. The deckhand threw up blood in the hospital — they must have had dispersants in their blood — but I can’t imagine BP would admit it.”
Wilma Subra, a Louisiana chemist who regularly meets with federal officials about the spill, testified before a congressional committee that workers have been forced to handle crude oil with their bare hands, and “[t]hose fishermen who attempted to wear respirators while working were threatened to be fired by BP due to the workers using respirators.” (BP insists that it provides respirators and hazmat gear upon request.)

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Message being passed along on FB:

Hello, my name is Merle Savage, and I was General Foreman, during the Exxon Valdez oil spill clean-up in Anchorage in 1989. I am just like a lot of the workers. There were approximately 11,000 workers who cleaned the beaches, and all of them, just like me, have respiratory problems and other illnesses that come from the toxic crude which is etoxic.

The reason why I am here today is to let people know, because no one is telling people in the Gulf region that the crude oil is toxic, and the people are going out there and cleaning, and they’re becoming sick just like we were many years ago: twenty-one years and they were not able to do any reports that would show that the crude oil is toxic.

So I’m asking President Obama to come forward and indicate that he’s going to do something about it. He needs to protect his people, and no one is doing it. They need respirators and no one is giving it to them, and no one is even telling them. I’ve been trying for two months to let people know about it.

If there’s any doubt about it, go to my website, http://silenceinthesound.com/. There are pictures there that show the crude oil mist that we workers had to work in and breathe, which caused our health to deteriorate. My immune system is collapsed. I had angioplasty and I have rheumatoid arthritis that I’m taking shots for twice a month. It’s a very bad health issue that’s going on. Fortunately for me, I’m still alive. A lot of my friends have passed away with the same symptoms that I have.

Again, I would like to ask President Obama to do something. You’re the only one that can. So step up. Step up, and do something, and order BP to give the workers respirators. Stand up and say, Yes, it’s toxic. You know it is. We see the warning signs when we get gas at the gas station and that’s refined oil. Once again. My name is Merle Savage, and I would appreciate it if you would pass this message on. Anyone who’s listening, just pass it on.

Thank you.

Exxon Valdez Survivor To Gulf Residents –

AU 60 Minutes BP Oil Spill Video, 13 June 2010, Removed by BP Demand

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TILT: The illness afflicting workers exposed to BP’s oil disaster?

Workers cleaning up the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have reported suffering from flu-like symptoms that may be the consequence of exposure to chemicals in the oil as well as the petroleum-derived solvent being used to disperse the spill.

The illness — marked by headaches, fatigue, upset stomach, and problems with memory and concentration — has been dubbed toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, or TILT. People suffering from TILT lose the ability to tolerate exposures to household chemical products, medication or even food, Dr. Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center told WOAI TV:

“Things like diesel fuel, exposure to fragrances, cleaning agents that never bothered them before suddenly bother them,” adds Dr. Miller.

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BP OIL DISASTER! DR. RIKI OTT TALKS ABOUT DISPERSANT AND WHAT BP IS HIDING! – July 04, 2010
Dr. Riki Ott talks to Project Gulf Impact about the AWFUL health risks that Corexit and the oil spill impose on the mass population.

You think the dispersant isn’t harmful? – July 01, 2010

BP OIL SPILL DISASTER! BLACK BEACHES IN PENSACOLA! – July 04, 2010

Poison Spreads: Gulf air turns toxic after oil spill ‘relief effort’ – July 1, 2010

Oil Spills Raise Ocean’s Arsenic Level, Create ‘Toxic Time Bomb’

July 2 (Bloomberg) — Oil spills like the one in the Gulf of Mexico interfere with the ocean’s natural filtration system, allowing arsenic levels to build up and threaten the long-term health of marine plants and animals, researchers found.

Minerals on the ocean floor attract arsenic found in seawater, latching onto the poison and burying it under layers of sand, silt and sediment, according to a new study released today by scientists from Imperial College London. The study was published today in the journal Water Research.

Arsenic is also found in oil. Leaks from underground reservoirs, spills and wastewater from rigs all increase levels of the chemical in the ocean and threaten the marine ecosystem as well as the food chain, the researchers said.

“The real danger lies in arsenic’s ability to accumulate, which means that each subsequent spill raises the levels of this pollutant in seawater,” said Mark Sephton, a professor at Imperial’s department of earth science and engineering. “Our study is a timely reminder that oil spills could create a toxic ticking time bomb, which could threaten the fabric of the marine ecosystem in the future.”

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They said the arsenic then gets “magnified” up the food chain, as fish eat small amounts of the deadly poison and may eventually impact humans, researchers said.

More bad news for BP as arsenic levels rise in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico

BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.

British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.

BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been spilling between 3,681,500 litres and 911,454,000 litres of oil into the sea per day since it exploded on 22 April.

The spill is already being labeled as America’s worst environmental disaster and has turned into a economic and PR nightmare for the British company.

The clean-up operation which has already cost, $US3.12 billion (A3.7 billion) is expected to rise even further efforts have been hampered by technical setbacks to cap the leak and Hurricane Alex.

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BP Gulf Oil Spill Disaster, An Impossible Well to Cap? – July 3, 2010
By Joshua S. Burnett

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That being said there are some rather severe long-term economic implications across all of the Gulf States. Fishing and tourism industries should expect a severe decline for years; recovery will have to be built from the ground up over the course of what looks like the next several decades before pre-spill strength is achieved. Because of the fact that these are driving industries across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, the rest of the industries in these states should expect to see an economic downturn ripple effect. The impacts will of course be lessened but they will be no less significant. There is a possibility (though how probable remains to be seen) that certain crops could be damaged by any oil-infused rain; even if they remain effectively safe for human consumption they may not remain so legally (it is possible the FDA will forbid any crops from “contaminated” areas to be sold); farmers should be prepared for the possibility that this negative impact may occur. Consumers should be prepared for across the board food price increases this summer; this will especially be true the longer the Mississippi River is impacted as a shipping lane.

The concern still exists that capping the well may be a long way off. The problem BP is facing is not that the pressures in the well are so high that it is impossible to be capped (as I originally thought) but rather that the casing is most likely broken. This causes oil and gas to vector out around the well casing whenever it is shut off, further damaging the wellhead’s attachments to the sea floor. According to Matthew Simmons, energy advisor to George W. Bush and founder of the Ocean Energy Institute an intact casing is necessary for the relief wells to work. If the casing is busted what we’re looking at is trying to seal an increasingly porous and leaking ocean floor, not a wellhead. This makes the case fundamentally different from and incomparable to cases such as the Ixtoc oil well (in addition to being in 5,000 feet of water as verses 160 feet with the Ixtoc). If such indeed proves to be the case more drastic measures may be necessary, such as attempting to collapse the floor around the leak using explosives. This brings up an entire host of issues and I sincerely hope we won’t have to cross that bridge.

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Methane’s hidden impact in Gulf oil spill
Large quantities of methane released by BP’s oil blowout aren’t fouling beaches like the Gulf oil spill is, but could endanger a key link in the undersea food chain. (read article)

VIDEO BELOW: The first part is a collection of clips put together of the oil and toxic waters washing up on shore. The second half is on the extreme side of what could happen, ie. tsunami. From my research – only if a platonic shift such as an earthquake would then possibly lead to some other natural event, ie. underwater volcano – this of which is highly unlikely but not out of possibility. However, the toxic gases and toxic crude oil mixed in with Corexit should be of significant concern. Hurricanes in the Gulf could pick up oil and deposit it 300 miles inland from the coast. This could poison the vegetation and freshwater sources, resulting in large scale evacuations and massive refugee needs.

Gulf Air Toxic – BP Oil Spill Truth – Beyond Repair – Fissures and Fractures Leaking

BP Oil Disaster WORST CASE SCENARIO w/ Kindra Arnesen, BP Community Liaison – July 02, 2010

VIDEO BELOW — I cannot verify with accuracy but I feel I should pass it along. There are issues I have with Jeff Rense as he is out there with some conspiracies but Lindsay Williams seems to have some valid concerns.

URGENT – BP SPILL – 10s Of Millions Being Allowed To Breath Deadly Air!! – July 03, 2010

Lindsay Williams brings us his latest update via the Jeff Rense radio show. Williams discusses the possibility and the dangers attached to using a nuclear device to try and seal the hole. If the nuclear device was to fail we may have oil leaking/gushing into the gulf for up to 30 years. And with the EPA not reporting the air quality since the end of May, there is the potential for 10s of millions to be breathing in deadly toxins. And for those out there that attack me for this info, let me just remind you that out of all the workers that were part of the clean up crew working on the Exxon Valdez are not alive today.

BP Oil Spill Global Catastrophe Reaches Epic Proportions
By: T. Anthony Michael

Dr. Tom Termotto writes: As BP Oil Spill Lets the Genie Out Of The Bottle

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It doesn’t take much understanding or knowledge to apprehend the enormity and gravity of the potential consequences of such a standard operating principle in the oil and gas exploration and drilling business. Especially when you’re drilling 5000 feet underwater, and between 22,000 and 32,000 feet (they won’t tell us how deep) through the Earth’s crust and mantle. When you throw in the likes of Transocean and Halliburton into the mix, it’s not a matter of what, or if, or when, the greatest disaster of all time is going to happen. IT’S A MATTER OF JUST HOW CATASTROPHIC IT WILL BE FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET!

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Alex Gives His Full Report of The BP Gulf Oil Spill “False Flag” Event on Alex Jones

BP and Military on Panama City Beach – July 4 2010