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Message Subject Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
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Tnx to MUD hf

Reports and facts, proof what SYNTHIA, COREXIT and BP have done and are doing to residents and victims ....

Horrible !


Dangerous allegations in the Gulf of Mexico


Gulf of Mexico residents accuse BP and their security company of harassment.

A simple swim in the Gulf of Mexico has complicated Steven Aguinaga's life in ways he could have never imagined. In July 2010, Aguinaga, now 33-years-old, had gone on a vacation with his wife and some friends to stalker, Florida. After he and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming in the Gulf, they both became extremely sick from what Aguinaga believes were chemicals in BP's oil and dispersants from the largest marine oil spill in US history that began in April 2010. The 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf continues to affect people living near the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
Compounding the problem, BP has admitted to using at least 1.9 million gallons of toxic dispersants, which are banned by some countries, including the UK. According to many scientists, these dispersants create an even more toxic substance when mixed with crude oil. Aguinaga's blood has tested positive for high levels of chemicals present in BP's oil, and he described his ailments to Al Jazeera. "I have terrible chest pain, at times I can't seem to get enough oxygen, and I'm constantly tired with pains all over my body. At times I'm pissing blood, vomiting dark brown stuff, and every pore of my body is dispensing water." His symptoms mirror those which scores of other Gulf Coast residents have told to Al Jazeera, all of them also having had their blood tests reveal chemicals in BP's oil. Yet Aguinaga's hardships have not ended with his health problems. "After we got back from our vacation in Florida, Merrick went to work for a company contracted by BP to clean up oil in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Two weeks after that he dropped dead."


New battles

This Spring Aguinaga filed a lawsuit against BP in hopes of obtaining compensation for his deteriorating health. Aguinaga's attorney encouraged him with the prospect of setting a precedent for other health-related lawsuits against BP. But instead of bringing Aguinaga relief, the process has turned his life upside down. Within 30 days of filing the lawsuit, Aguinaga had his home in Hazelhurst, Mississippi broken into.
"I found the Norton Security alert on my laptop warning me that someone had tried to access my information, and the door to my house was left open," he explained. "I think somebody wanted me to know they could get in easily." Aguinaga's employer, Star Services, who had placed him on workers' compensation for a work-related injury, cut off his cheques after he filed the lawsuit against BP. According to Aguinaga, both he and his wife are being followed, while in early September a truck tried to run him off the road near a bridge. Three of his four security dogs were recently killed, and the fourth was stabbed. While Aguinaga's story is the fodder of conspiracy theorists, it has precedent. Washington DC attorney Billie Garde has seen this kind of thing before. "I've had cases where similar tactics [by the defendant] were used," Garde, whose firm Clifford and Garde often represents whistleblowers, told Al Jazeera, "I represented people in years past in a case against Wackenhut when oil companies [in Alaska] hired a bunch of people to spy on these folks." In December 1993, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement of an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit by whistleblower Chuck Hamel and his associates, that resulted from a spying campaign that Alyeska had mounted against him. Hamel had tipped off regulators and Congress about alleged environmental wrongdoing along the Trans-Alaska pipeline.

At the time, Alyeska, which runs the pipeline for the oil companies, was owned by BP and Exxon/Mobile, among other oil companies, as it is today. Wackenhut's operation was shut down after it had run for seven months by Alyeska's owner oil companies. Alyeska did not contest that during its campaign against Hamel, its operatives from Wackenhut security it had hired to spy on him had secretly taped his phone calls, searched his mail, garbage, phone and credit card records (and those of his associates), and even employed attractive female operatives to try to entice Hamel into admissions or actions that might have discredited him. "Alyeska hired Wackhenhut to basically find the people who were leaking information to Congress and newspapers about the safety issues along the pipeline," Garde said. "Wackenhut at the time had a special investigations department that undertook this task with vigour, and carried out this campaign against Alyeska's critics." The case eventually became the subject of Congressional hearings and lawsuits, and has all become public record. While some of the tactics might sound sensational - the stuff of Hollywood movies - Garde cautions those who may write it off. "When people say you're just paranoid, and that this kind of stuff doesn't happen, I say yes it does."


‘It's happening now in the Gulf'

Aguinaga is not the only victim of harassment in the aftermath of the BP disaster. Cherri Foytlin, co-founder of Gulf Change, a community organisation based in Grand Isle, Louisiana, has been an outspoken critic of BP's actions. Chemicals from BP's oil have also been found in her bloodstream, and she wants justice. "In March we held a press conference calling for more accountability from BP, and immediately afterwards all my emails disappeared off my account," she told Al Jazeera. Karen Savage, an activist with the media project Bridge the Gulf, said she has had "oddly coincidental" email hacks, and other incidents that bring her concern.

"I don't have any proof that any of this is related to my work in the Gulf, but over the course of the past few months, my email has been emptied, as have my addresses," Savage told Al Jazeera. "It seems to increase when there's something important being communicated." She recently conducted an interview with a whistleblower, and the day after the interview her computer was stolen. After attending a recent protest in Washington, DC against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Foytlin discovered upon returning home that several bricks had been thrown through the back window of her car. "No other cars on my block were touched," she said. "Two weeks later, I was at a store and someone asked me what my husband [Forest, who works on offshore oil rigs] thinks about what I do. He went on to say that accidents happen all the time on rigs, and sometimes people fall off." Shortly after the threat, her husband was transferred onto a different rig, with no explanation given as to why. "Forest [Foytlin's husband] told me that, for no reason whatsoever, he was told by his boss that BP told his company that having him on the rig was no longer an option," Foylin said, "He's never been kicked off a rig before. The same company man who pulled Forest onto that rig to work, pulled him off it. I have no doubt it's from the work I've been doing. That's the last straw for me, because I feel like if I don't say something, they will keep doing this." "I don't understand this, because I had worked with that company for a year with a good record and was told I was doing a great job," Forest Foytlin told Al Jazeera, "Throughout this whole drilling moratorium and spill, I've never spoken out against BP. Instead, I spoke out about how the moratorium was affecting people's lives in a negative way. I want somebody to tell me why this happened."

As with Aguinaga, Foytlin and her husband have returned home to find the front door to their house left open on several occasions. They have both filed police reports about several of the incidents. "People are being followed, their homes are being broken into, homes are being staked out, cell phones are being taken, and people's lives are being messed with," said Dr Riki Ott, a toxicologist, marine biologist, Exxon Valdez survivor, and one of Garde's plaintiffs in the suit with Alyeska. "This happened in Alaska after the [Exxon] Valdez disaster, and it's happening now in the Gulf," Ott told Al Jazeera. Foytlin concluded: "They've damaged my property, they've messed with my husband's life, [but] I'm not going to stop [my activism]… [T]he only way I can protect myself is to continue being vocal."


Chemical influence

In addition, on August 29, Aguinaga was pulled over by a Mississippi State Trooper and a Pike County deputy while he was returning home from a doctor's visit. He was handcuffed and taken to jail, where he was charged with Driving Under the Influence despite never having been administered a sobriety test of any kind......


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