Censored Gulf news: German eyewitnesses to report Gulf truth in EU

"Most of the Bay’s surface has sheen on top of it. All of the bay’s marsh is heavily oiled. Birds are covered in oil. The grass is dying. There are some clean-up crews but not nearly enough." Jonathon Henderson, Coastal Resiliency

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On a clear sky autumn day this week, a German radio station reporter traveled by boat to see the poisoned Gulf of Mexico marshlands and then to report truth in Europe where groups are pressuring their governments to take action, as a matter of national security, against the US government for its leadership in the Gulf Operation.

The difference between what the Germans witnessed and what is reported on American television related to the oil an Corexit dispersant impacts could be compared to the difference between freedom and mind/behavior control.

Jonathon Henderson, the Coastal Resiliency organizer for Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) took the Germans to show to them impacts of the petrochemical-military-industrial complex operation on the coastal marshlands. What they saw on October 21 did not match mainstream media's myths it is painting for Americans nor what the BP-Government partnership is teaching 8th graders in Louisiana.

"I took them to Bay Jimmy in Plaquemines Parish, just to the east of Barataria Bay. Despite the picture perfect weather, it was an ugly scene," wrote Henderson in the GRN blog.

"The entire Bay seems to be filled with oil." (See: www.flickr.com/photos/healthygulf/5103537034/)

Most of the Bay’s surface has sheen on top of it. All of the bay’s marsh is heavily oiled. Birds are covered in oil. The grass is dying. There are some clean-up crews but not nearly enough."

Earlier in the week, Henderson hopped in a seaplane for a flight path from Belle Chase, Louisiana, south along eastern side of the Mississippi Delta, around the mouth of the Mississippi River, along the coast all to Timbalier Island, and back via crossing Barataria Bay.

Henderson wrote, "I have seen a lot in the countless flights that I have taken over the last 6 months--lots of oil, lots of fledgling clean-up and containment efforts, and lots of badly damaged marsh."

On his most recent flight, however, he says even he was surprised and saddened to witness "a seemingly unrelenting tide of oil hammering our beaches, bays, and estuaries."

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To gain an idea of what Henderson saw that Americans are not seeing on their TVs, see his slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/healthygulf/sets/72157625075997623/.

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