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Oh No, It Just Can’t Be – Gulf Disaster

     I received this note: “Thanks for the Gulf update! But you forgot one important recommendation - MOVE OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY! Pack up your wife and kids and get the heck out of there NOW!!! Many already in those Gulf States are being slowly poisoned, but now with the new storm or anyone storm yet to come they will get well oiled and gassed with many, many VOCs from the heavy rain and wind. People need to get out of there! Curious don’t you think that with all they know, all the articles and news about people getting ill, crops and landscapes dying inland from the toxic rain falling there in the last few weeks, that there has been NO mass exodus of people leaving those affected areas?”

     Kind of extreme don’t you think? Don’t you think it’s better to wait for an evacuation order from the government? I don’t think so because if you wait for the government to warn about dangerous toxic exposures you are waiting on an organization famous for allowing industry, doctors and dentists to expose the public to massive amounts of chemicals and heavy metals. Sorry to be a spoiler on a holiday weekend but it is really not time to party and relax; it’s time to make plans to deal with an emergency the likes of which has never been seen.

     Below you will see three map overlays tracking complaints from the oil disaster since its beginnings and you can see how the effects are spreading. And it will keep spreading and spreading out as the toxic tidal situation slowly spreads its wings and takes flight in the atmosphere.

End of April

End of May

End of June

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will gradually find its way toward
Europe and the Arctic to damage and endanger wider ecological areas.

     Dr. Shira Kramer, an epidemiologist who has conducted research for the petroleum industry on the health consequences of exposure to petroleum, said she is concerned that the risks are being downplayed. “It’s completely scientifically dishonest to pooh-pooh the potential here when you are talking about some of the most toxic chemicals that we know.”

     “Oil is a complex mixture containing substances like benzene, heavy metals, arsenic, and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons – all known to cause human health problems such as cancer, birth defects or miscarriages,” said Kenneth Olden, founding dean of New York’s CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, who is monitoring a panel on possible delayed effects. “The potential here is huge and we have to be diligent about protecting the public health and these workers.”

The greatest threat is from the poison that species-killing
storms will soon be churning over Gulf cities, pouring 
degraded oil and dispersants everywhere the rain falls.

     The government has not been providing the news people are looking for, and the mainstream media seems to have gone blind in recent days, airing less specific information about the crisis even as the crisis continues to expand and more and more oil and toxic chemicals are leaked into the sea, land and air. Perhaps the government is being kind by sparing its people disturbance and stress. David Ike said, “The potential magnitude of what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico simply cannot be overstated. It is far, far worse than is being admitted, and what we are allowed to see is catastrophic enough.”

Thermal Image of Gulf Steam Current and Possible Path of Oil Spill

     Ike and, I am afraid, others are asserting that Goldman Sachs sold 44 percent of its holdings in BP, a total of 4,680,822 shares worth the best part of $300 million, in the weeks before the Gulf disaster that sent BP shares plummeting, and Tony Hayward, BP’s disgraceful chief executive, is reported to have sold his £1.4 million shares in BP a month before the explosion. Just eight days before the Gulf blow-out, Halliburton also announced that it had agreed to buy Boots & Coots for $240.4 million. Who are Boots & Coots? The world’s largest oil-spill clean-up company that also deals with oil well and gas well fires and blowouts.

Did the explosion rupture the casing for its entire length?
If that is so, then a relief well will be unable to plug the
hole. Ten relief wells would be unable to plug the hole.
What on earth is going to plug the hole in the earth?

     I heard it said that if BP loses control of the flow completely, the scope of the disaster would be unfathomable. Well, no one is in control of the flow and the disaster is continuing to expand and surround the State of Florida as the oil begins its race up the east coast. Things are so out of control that today in the mainstream press they finally started talking about nuking the well. Bill Clinton at least thinks it’s a good idea and we should hope for the best.

     Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching well are unprecedented in “human history” and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life, a team of scientists said, a finding confirmed by federal officials. Researchers aboard the F.G. Walton Smith vessel briefed reporters on a two-week cruise in which they traced an underwater oil plume 15 miles wide, 3 miles long and about 600 feet thick. The plume’s core is 1,100 to 1,300 meters below the surface, they said. “It’s an infusion of oil and gas unlike anything else that has ever been seen anywhere, certainly in human history,” said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia, the expedition leader.

This graphic demonstrates how the oil could interact
with the world’s major ocean currents.

     On May 3rd, Dick Snyder, director of the Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation at the University of West Florida, began conducting water samples on Pensacola Beach every Tuesday and Thursday because beach and health officials were only doing visual assessments. In recent weeks water samples tested positive for dissolved oil. There are molecules that are dissolved in the water that you cannot see. Some of the oil will just naturally dissolve into the water so we don’t know how much of that there is. We suspect it’s a lot. What you can’t see in the water may be more dangerous than what you can see.”

People along the beach are getting sick but
public officials still have not closed the beaches.

     Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri writes, “Even before the explosion, there is enough evidence (even from the New York Times) to show that this was more than an accident. Insiders sold shares before April 20. Poor-to-no management. Warnings from those on site that went unheeded. The list goes on and on. With a well this deep, on a geologically unstable seabed, there was no precaution. No emergency plans. No care. No solid science. Just an accident waiting to happen. More likely it was no accident. Just another false flag to distract us from all the financial theft and economic depression while another illegal war is planned. Greed trumps safety.”

We could smell the oil long before we saw it – the stench of garage forecourts
and rotting vegetation hanging thickly in the air. The farther we travelled,
the more nauseating it became. Soon we were swimming in pools of light
Nigerian crude, the best-quality oil in the world. One of the many hundreds
of 40-year-old pipelines that crisscross the Niger delta had corroded and
spewed oil for several months. Forest and farmland were now covered in a
sheen of greasy oil. Drinking wells were polluted and people were distraught.

     You’d think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. You’d be wrong. “We don’t know a damn thing,” said Anchorage lawyer Michael Schneider, whose firm talked with dozens of Alaska cleanup workers following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in preparation for a class-action lawsuit that never came. And this unfortunately is a big problem for the government and British Petroleum can continue to plead ignorance, which is just a cover for their arrogance and greed and the stupidity that breeds.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
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Death & Doom in the Gulf

Scientists found this sperm whale 77 miles south from the
Deepwater spill site off the Gulf Coast.

     The very survival of our energy-centric civilization increasingly relies on supplies obtained from risky locations – deep underground, far at sea, north of the Arctic Circle, etc. Our civilization gave rise to the Gulf oil disaster. Happily leading the effort for over a hundred years were the big oil companies who have created dead zones – with the help of their pharmaceutical and chemical friends – all over the planet. The richest and most elitist of the elite have had their fingers deep in oil for a long time. But it looks like they have outdone themselves in the Gulf with something they cannot fix, or, as we will see to our horror, don’t want to fix.

     You watch this video and you have to come to terms with the question of why microbes are not being used to eat the oil as quickly as it comes up to the surface. I have seen videos of people using oil-eating microbes and even simple things like straw to clean up the oil but not in the mainstream of course where it really is the Matrix with monsters controlling exactly what the masses see and read. Death is what these people want and there is little stopping them. It’s going to be death to the environment, death to the creatures that swim below or fly above the sea. And it’s going to be death for many people whose systems are not strong enough to withstand the chemical onslaught. Today we have to learn how to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable.

     The government knows what the consequence to this disaster already is and we can be assured that governmental think tanks are working up their worst-case scenarios and preparing for them. And people in the Gulf region should individually be doing the same to protect their families as best they can by applying some basic home medical treatments.

     It is just starting to become obvious that humanity is being taken right into to jaws of disaster by a group of men and organizations that have death on their breath –men and women who refuse to do the right thing and let all the oil come to the surface where it could possibly be dealt with in an organic way. These psychopaths portend a very bad future for not only America but also Europe and in actuality the whole of the Earth’s population. In my book Into the Ashes I write about the psychopaths who populate the top of the corporate ladder.

     These people are just not capable of doing the right thing for all they have known is wrong things. We could be dealing with this mega disaster in an organic way with microbes but what they do is the exact opposite. We are looking at good and evil displayed nakedly around this entire subject of the use of chemical dispersants that break up the oil and keep most of it from rising to the surface where it can be dealt with. They are just making matters worse for they are adding to the toxic quagmire, not subtracting from it in any significant way.

     “Oil dispersant does not pose environmental threat, early EPA findings suggest,” runs the headline in the Washington Post. The Environmental Protection Agency released its first round of testing results indicating that the toxicity of oil dispersants does not pose as significant an environmental threat as the spill does. Amazing, simply amazing. I on the other hand would be pushing the disaster warning horns and doing everything in my might to protect people from harm. Of course the government thinks mercury is safe enough with no need to warn people so we can understand their light treatment of COREXIT® EC9527A.

     Listening to Dr. Chris Pinceptich, Marine Biologist and Toxicologist, speak about COREXIT® EC9527A will shake one awake about the issues of toxicity. But this is nothing new. The wealthiest families in the world have made their money by poisoning the environment and everyone in it. It’s even how we approach food; the food industry makes it as poisonous and as lacking in nutrition as it can. Civilization uses pesticides and antibiotics everywhere it can so it’s no surprise that those in charge go the least organic route in addressing this crisis.

     Workers helping to clean up the oil spill are at high risk due to direct exposure to chemicals and toxic vapors near areas where the oil plumes are surfacing. Chemical dispersants used by BP in the cleaning process pose health risks as do vapors such as benzene, one of the volatile hydrocarbons in oil.

     COREXIT® EC9527A is toxic at 2.61 PPM (parts per million) and can go through a phase transition from liquid to gas and return to earth as toxic rain. It is estimated the BP has released over 1,000,000 gallons of dispersant. When you pour more than a million gallons of toxic oil dispersants on top of oil, it doesn’t just disappear; instead it moves into the atmosphere where it can travel for hundreds if not thousands of miles in the form of toxic rain.

     The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is now a terrible reality and things seem only destined to get worse from here. Pelicans are struggling to free themselves from oil thick as tar that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore coated in the sludge. Seashells that once shined pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson. “It’s like pouring gas in your aquarium. What do you think that’s going to do?” cried out boat captain Dave Marino.

I feel like I’ve gone from owning a piece of
paradise to owning a toxic waste dump.
                                                                Erin Tamber

     Sports Illustrated sent Gary Smith to the Gulf. He reported, “I awoke and left New Orleans behind, driving south into the bayou. Everywhere I turned, it looked like war. Black Hawk helicopters ripped the sky. National Guard trucks and Humvees and bulldozers rumbled across the land, Coast Guard boats zipped across the water, strike teams prowled the bays for oil. Reporting from the Gulf: “This is the death of the Gulf of Mexico,” said Capt. Brian Clark of the marine division of the St. Bernard Parish sheriff’s office. “How can we clean up something that’s not even fixed? It’s like mopping a bathroom floor while the toilet’s still spewing. I’m thinking, there’s a monster out there ... a beast we’ve never fooled with,” Governor Bobby Jindal said. “You can see pictures, but until you come here and see it, touch it, smell it, you don’t really understand. It’s tragic.”

     Jinal must be hallucinating right? Come on, read the paper, they are not making such a big deal out of it. The EPA says there is nothing to worry much about with millions of gallons of COREXIT® EC9527A being added into the Gulf. You believe them? You trust the US government? I don’t know about you but when I read Jindal saying its tragic I take him seriously, deadly so. I wouldn’t take the EPA seriously about anything.

     Millions of birds are set to fly into Gulf oil soon, right into the face of hell. An Audubon Society official said, “They won’t be safe on their fall passage.” In the coming weeks, millions of waterfowl and other birds that flock to the Gulf Coast on their annual fall migration will arrive in the region either to roost for the winter or to make brief stopovers en route farther south and many if not most of them will die.

     F. A. Williams writes, “We are evacuating. Air quality is worsening [methane gas]. EPA is NOT monitoring [been working for BP]. The oil on the beaches is increasing, seeping underneath, soon to destroy our water table. Methane gas could take you away in your sleep. Toxic rain would contaminate the entire region, now a quarantined area, and you would be allowed to leave. It’s time to leave. Now!”

     Obviously few are prepared to listen to such a call but don’t you think it’s time to at least think of sending the young ones to safety? I have family in Florida as well as old friends and work associates and I am getting more and more nervous about their safety and wellbeing.

     I regret deleting a man’s words about the pain of dislocation, of that feeling of losing everything and having nowhere to go where there will be anything that would make him feel at home. I could never compete with his words and the feelings they carried for he was living it.

     An enduring feature of the gulf oil spill is that, even when you think you’ve heard the worst-case scenario, there’s always another that’s even direr. But whatever people are thinking the oil is advancing day-by-day, week-by-week and now month-by-month with no end in sight. Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill found on a Texas beach were confirmed Monday, the fifth of July as the first evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.

     The baseline measures of the crisis have steadily worsened. The estimated flow rate keeps rising. From many converging sources we are looking at some huge drops in the human carrying capacity (less food and more toxicity) of our earth’s environment, meaning a lot of people are about to die. I hope that does not “make you want to shoot yourself”, as one reader wrote in. Those feelings are understandable, but this is a time when we all have to be tough and deal with this adversity by getting stronger.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
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BP Gulf Oil Spill
Protection with Respirators

     The tyranny of medicine is ruling in the Gulf and there will be no way for medical officials to live this one down. Today we have an abhorrent demonstration of medicine exposing it as a political and corporate driven affair that is doing little to nothing to protect citizens in the worst affected areas. It is not difficult to sustain the view that there is really no legitimate public health and medical response in the Gulf of Mexico.

     Pharmaceutical medicine is worse than impotent during a toxic disaster because it increases peoples’ toxic exposures via the use of medicines, chemotherapy and radiation that only add to the toxic burden on our bodies. None of these approaches is appropriate for airborne oil mixed with toxicity magnifying chemicals like Corexit.

     The United States governmental agencies and most medical organizations will defend to the bitter end the safety of injecting organic mercury into little children with their vaccines. And of course putting metallic mercury in dental fillings (oral toxic waste dumps inches from the brain) is also considered safe. These people are the worst in the world to direct aid against heavy metal and chemical toxicity. They tend to think everything is safe or exposure levels are not high enough to seriously hurt people.

A new study suggests that the air we breathe
increases insulin resistance and inflammation [1]

     You know what’s going to happen to you and your children if you live too close to one of thousands of coal fired plants, municipal incinerators, industrial plants and even crematoriums? How about if you live in a city with high levels of pollution or even too close to highways with high traffic levels? What would the EPA say about the pollution levels from the Gulf? We don’t like to think of such things because the majority of us live in cities and way too many of us live downwind of single point pollution sources. A lot of people are in harm’s way around the Gulf with the highest exposures being closest to the beaches.

     The New York Times published that, according to British Petroleum, 20% of Gulf spill responders are being exposed to chemicals that sickened Valdez cleanup workers. In an under-the-radar release of new test results for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill workers, BP PLC is reporting potentially hazardous exposures. Natural Resources Defense Council Senior Scientist Gina Solomon described BP’s continued offshore 2-butoxyethanol detection during the month of June as “worrisome.” “It suggests to me that there is still, clearly, a serious air-quality concern. ... [Gulf] air quality, if anything, seems to be deteriorating.”

     If oil is close to the coastline, people may be able to smell the oil spill from the shore. This odor may cause irritation of the eyes, nose, throat, and skin. People with asthma or other respiratory ailments may be more sensitive to the effects of inhaled fumes. Complicating the issue of toxic exposure is the fact that the federal government has authorized BP to set a portion of collected oil on fire. “When ignited, the boom transformed the oil into a roaring mass of flames as high as 150 feet and a column of smoke of biblical proportions,” according to the Huffington Post. Burning large amounts of oil creates toxic gas air pollution. Symptoms of toxicity include coughing, irritation of the eyes and lungs, rashes, headaches, and nausea. Young children and the elderly are more susceptible to health risks that may be caused by pollution from burning the oil.

     The Environmental Protection Agency says the air in some places along the Louisiana coast poses a health risk to vulnerable people. The EPA says recent air sampling shows a moderate health risk in Venice and Grand Isle, two Louisiana towns about 50 miles from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site. The agency says anyone unusually sensitive to low-quality air should avoid "prolonged or heavy exertion." EPA's warning comes as concerns grow that the Gulf oil spill may be fouling not just the water and shores but also the air.

     Toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw warns people of the serious effects of Corexit saying it, “Ruptures red blood cells, causes internal bleeding, liver and kidney damage and allows crude oil to penetrate into the cells and every organ system.” She is saying that the combination of oil and Corexit is extremely toxic and goes right through skin. It’s the solvents [from dispersant] that penetrate the skin taking the oil into the cells — takes the oil into the organs… and this stuff is toxic to every organ system in the body.

     The New York Times printed her words, “Last week I had the chance to see the effects of the spill from another perspective — when I dived into the oil slick a few miles off the Pass a Loutre wetlands in southern Louisiana. What I witnessed was a surreal, sickening scene beyond anything I could have imagined. As the boat entered the slick, I had to cover my nose to block the fumes. Yes, the dispersants have made for cleaner beaches. But they’re not worth the destruction they cause at sea, far out of sight. It would be better to halt their use and just siphon and skim as much of the oil off the surface as we can. The Deepwater Horizon spill has done enough damage, without our adding to it.”

     Similarly, marine biologist and toxicologist Dr. Chris Pincetich – who has an extensive background in testing the affects of chemicals on fish – says that Corexit disrupts cell membranes. He also explains that EPA toxicity testing for Corexit is woefully inadequate, since EPA testing for mortality usually only requires a 96-hour time frame. His doctoral research found that fish that were alive at 96 hours after exposure to pesticide were dead at two weeks, so the chemicals were considered non-lethal for the purposes of the test.

     Toxic substances poison our organs, draining our energy and causing cancer and other killer diseases.

People especially susceptible to harm are:

• those with pre-existing serious health conditions
  
   
• infants, children, and unborn babies
  
   
• pregnant women, especially those carrying multiple babies
  
   
• people working or living in conditions that impose health stresses, including exposures to other toxic chemicals

Home Made Respirators

     Rather than go without any protection at all, alert citizens can make gas masks for themselves and their families, offering some protection from the increasing exposure in the Gulf region. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters or Home Depot) two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime.

     An even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens’ Defense Corps: two 12-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer, but not the Army.

Safety can’t be determined by smell.

     Crude oil’s toxic ingredients can damage every system in the body. Respiratory system, nervous system (including the brain), liver, the reproductive/ urogenital system, kidneys, endocrine system, circulatory system, gastrointestinal system, immune system, sensory systems, musculoskeletal system, hematopoietic (blood forming) system, skin, and metabolism can all be affected. So it is best not to take chances if you are anywhere near the oil or if the wind and rain are bringing it to you.

     Benzene, also known as benzol, is a colorless liquid with a sweet odor. Benzene evaporates into air very quickly and dissolves slightly in water. Some people believe that if they don’t smell the odor of oil, the air does not have any chemicals from the oil and is safe. However, that is not true. The odor threshold for benzene (the minimum amount of a chemical in air that people can smell) is approximately 1,500 ppb (US EPA, 2002). This is more than 10,000 times the level of 0.01 ppb that is considered safe.

     Brief exposure (5-10 minutes) to very high levels of benzene in air (10,000-20,000 ppm) can result in death. Lower levels (700-3,000 ppm) can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. In most cases, people will stop feeling these effects when they are no longer exposed and begin to breathe fresh air. But damage is done quickly and this is just one of many very toxic chemicals stemming from the Gulf disaster. Avoiding exposure is the primary medical directive to follow and respirators help us to do just that.

Appropriate Medical Treatment for Oil Toxicity

     Recently the IMVA published a protocol titled Medical Treatments for Airborne Poisons. It is directing everyone in the Gulf region to be using essential detoxification substances that are widely available in the United States without a prescription. Everyone should be directing consciousness to their medicine cabinets and stocking up on essentials like sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), magnesium oil, different forms of iodine, activated charcoal, selenium (for a mercury polluted world) and clay for hard detoxification and body cleansing. Also very important are super foods that are low on the food chain which minimize our chemical intake. I suggest spirulina, chlorella or Rejuvenate.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
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