[sthompson]

<strong>Written By:</strong> sthompson
<strong>Date:</strong> 2004-03-04 14:57:00
<a href="/article/155718753-george-bushs-junk-science">Article Link</a>

I've had my own experiences with Torquemada's modern successors, both personal and related to my work as an environmental lawyer and advocate working for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Waterkeeper Alliance. <p> At the time of the World Trade Center catastrophe on September 11, 2001, I had just opened an office at 115 Broadway, cater-corner from the World Trade Center and within the official security zone to which access was, afterward, restricted for several months. Upon returning to the office in October my partner, Kevin Madonna, suffered a burning throat, nausea and a headache that was still pounding twenty-four hours after he left the building. Despite the Environmental Protection Agency's claims that air quality was safe, Kevin refused to return and we closed the office. Many workers did not have that option; their employers relied on the EPA's nine press releases between September and December of 2001 reassuring the public about the wholesome air quality downtown. We have since learned that the government was lying to us. An Inspector General's report released last August revealed that the EPA's data did not support those assurances and that its press releases were being drafted or doctored by White House officials intent on reopening Wall Street. <p> On September 13, just two days after the terror attack, the EPA announced that asbestos dust in the area was "very low" or entirely absent. On September 18 the agency said the air was "safe to breathe." In fact, more than 25 percent of the samples collected by the EPA before September 18 showed presence of asbestos above the 1 percent safety benchmark. Among outside studies, one performed by scientists at the University of California, Davis, found particulates at levels never before seen in more than 7,000 similar tests worldwide. A study being performed by Mt. Sinai School of Medicine has found that 78 percent of rescue workers suffered lung ailments and 88 percent had ear, nose and throat problems in the months following the attack and that about half still had persistent lung and respiratory illnesses nine months to a year later. <p> Full story: <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_030204C.shtml">truthout</a> OR the original at <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040308&s=kennedy">the Nation</a>

[Jim Callaghan]

You expected the truth from the Bush administration ??

Boy, do you have a surprise coming. Dig a little deeper, he lied about Iraq, he lied about job creation, etc. If Dubya says he\'s for it, I\'m automatically against it. The man is mentally unstable.

Don\'t forget, this is the same person that rumour has it knew about 9/11 in ADVANCE !! The very day it happened !

Only rumour, but most rumours have a grain of truth in them.



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

[Guest]

Knew in advance more than a day...from what I\'ve been reading...I can\'t find the print on this...but I remember very clearly that Laura Bush was being interviewed and she made a slip...she said that they had the Christmas Card designed and had to change it because they knew the country would be in mourning...that was in August(the designing of the cards)...I have looked and looked for this reprinted but nada...she wasn\'t interviewed again for quite awhile...

[Dave Ruston]

GEORGE BUSH`S JUNK POLITICS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR FRIENDS AT EXXON-MOBIL-OIL IS YOUR BLOOD! AND HALLIBURTON -WE COOK MORE THAN BOOKS! AND- THE PENTAGON-DROPPING BOMBS SINCE 1945!

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Dave Ruston