World-News

Anne McClintock, CounterPunch: "In the Gulf, the forever spill has become the forever war. A calamity of untold magnitude is unfolding and, alongside it, a strange militarization has emerged, as the language for managing the crisis becomes the language of war."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-militarization-gulf-oil-disaster61123



Coast Guard Blocks Out Media at the Gulf; Activists Demand Answers

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "Journalists and independent observers of the oil cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico could be fined up $40,000 and be charged with a felony if they get too close to booms and oil cleanup areas, and activist group Seize BP wants to know how authorities can justify such a muzzle on independent information gatherers."

http://www.truth-out.org/coast-guard-blocks-out-media-gulf-activists-demand-answers61209



Scientists Urge US to Move Quickly to Study Gulf Oil Spill

Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers: "Frustrated with limited data on the BP oil gusher, a group of independent scientists has proposed a large experiment that would give a clearer understanding of where the oil and gas are going and where they'll do the most damage."

http://www.truth-out.org/scientists-urge-us-move-quickly-study-gulf-oil-spill61199



BP Exploiting Workers in the Gulf

Video

Laura Flanders, GRITtv: Michael Whitney, who has been following the struggle of workers and Gulf Coast natives affected by the disaster, joins Jordan Flaherty to discuss ongoing problems for workers in the Gulf.

http://www.truth-out.org/bp-exploiting-workers-gulf-video61204



Six Lessons from the BP Oil Spill

Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor: "For years to come, the United States and the oil industry will be absorbing the lessons of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Regulators will toughen inspections. Oil companies will adopt more rigorous safeguards. New cleanup technologies will emerge from university and corporate laboratories. And spill drills could become a regular part of coastal communities' emergency planning."

http://www.truth-out.org/six-lessons-bp-oil-spill61225

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White House Suspends First Amendment Rights in Coverage of Oil Spill Damage
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/same-oiled-bird-over-and-over.html

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Don’t Let BP Play Russian Roulette With the Arctic
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4257

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Abandoned Oil Wells Make Gulf of Mexico 'Environmental Minefield'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/07

The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/07-4

If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/07-4

When the Police Control the Press
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/08

Toxic Justice? BP and Bhopal
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/09-1

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Welcome to Corporate Media Dictactorship
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/891.html

Ecological holocaust
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/893.html

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Dr. Tom Termotto's Press release has been published by Christiane Tourtet B.A., in the American Chronicle and its 21 affiliate magazines.

"DR. TOM TERMOTTO : THE BP GULF OIL GUSHER REPRESENTS AN HISTORIC FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY."

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/168410

"DR. TOM TERMOTTO: PRESSURE AT THE WELLHEAD AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS":

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/169998

Christiane Tourtet's articles in the Press can be read at:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/1766

You may circulate this message worldwide.


Christiane Tourtet B.A.
Founder/President
International MCS/EMS awareness
http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm

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Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP

Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/24178322/detail.html



Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf landfills

After BP crews scoop up the oil off Gulf beaches, the waste is transported to Mississippi's Pecan Grove landfill. Even workers' protective suits, gloves, shovels, rakes and anything else that touches oil is buried there.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0709/bp-dumping-oil-waste-gulf-landfills/



Rarely Seen Pictures Of The Devastating Consequences Of The BP Disaster

Pictures and Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25926.htm



BP to cut payments on 40,000 claims of individuals affected by oil spill, cites paperwork problems

That "will be devastating to individuals surviving financially month-to-month," she said. "This action is irresponsible and in complete contrast to BP's repeated promise that they will 'make things right.'"

http://bit.ly/dmETGD


From Information Clearing House

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Former Contractor: BP Not Interested In Cleaning Up Oil Spill

Founding member of cap and trade lobby will reap financial bounty if worsening crisis is exploited by Obama administration to impose carbon tax on Americans

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, July 12, 2010

Former high-level BP contractor and Army Special Operations soldier Adam Dillon told a New Orleans television station that British Petroleum is not interested in cleaning up the oil spill because the company is run by “cutthroat individuals” who only care about money.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/former-contractor-bp-not-interested-in-cleaning-up-oil-spill.html



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