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A different perspective on some facts and figures relating to BP’s recent fire/oil-spill and similar events that weren’t BP related:

11:  The number of people killed in accident on oil-rig leased by BP.

15,000+: The number of people killed in accident at Bhopal plant owned by American company Union Carbide.

4: The number of presidential vists (so far) to sites affected by accident at BP.

0: the number of presidential visits to site of Union Carbide accident.

$1.6bn: Spent so far on BP clean-up operations.

Bhopal: No clean-up.

$20bn: Compensation fund established within 2 months by BP.

$470m: Compensation paid since Bhopal accident 20 years ago.

$45m: Compensation paid out by oil firm Trafigura to 30,000 victims of dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast after a 4 year legal battle.

$7bn: Compensation paid out to families of 9/11 victims.

$2.6bn: Dividend from BP, cancelled through political and public pressure.

$1bn: Dividend paid out by Transocean, owners and operators of the ‘BP’ rig, approved one  month after the accident.

 Hmmm….

The information in this post was sourced, extracted and reproduced in good faith from Private Eye issue: 1265

This piece from ‘Today Tonight’ highlights some of the medical opinion against the increasing flouridisation of water supplies and also notes growing use of floruide in many other products.

Various institutions have identified fluoride as a possible developmental toxin. The Lancet, in 2006, listed fluoride as an “emerging neurotoxic substance”. In 2000, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility discussed fluoride as a “known or suspected developmental neurotoxicant”.

In fact, neurological effects were known as early as the 1930′s and 40′s, by scientists working for the Manhattan Project and in Nazi Germany.

The University of Western Ontario says, “Though apparently vague and non-specific, most of the symptoms of Fluoride toxicity point towards some kind of profound metabolic dysfunction, and are strikingly similar to the symptoms of Hypothyroidism.”

Learning Disorders/Difficulty Concentrating/Incoherence/Memory Loss/Confusion, Body Temperature Disturbances/Cold Shivers, Chest Pains, Heart Palpitations, Depression, dizziness/Vertigo, Dyspepsia, Excessive Sleepiness/Fatigue, Headaches/Migraines, Joint Pains, Nausea, Restlessness, Shortness of Breath, Difficulties Swallowing, Thirst, Tinnitus, Visual Disturbances.

Maybe use it as a basis for further investigation of your own.

For those in the developed world, Asbestos may seem like a health hazard from the past: A cancer-causing fibre banned in the EU, Australia and elsewhere and limited to a small number of products in the United States. Scientists have long agreed that any exposure to Asbestos presents grave risks. Yet an investigation from the Center for Public Integrity and the BBC has found that Asbestos is still being used at shockingly high levels throughout the developing world.

See more here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/asbestos/