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http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/jul/10/spills-toll-felt-every-breath/
Every time Linda Young takes her dog out for a walk, morning or evening, she can smell it. Young, an environmental activist who lives near the beach in Navarre, next door to Pensacola Beach, said the odor of oil is now a constant part of her life.
If the wind is blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, she said, "the oil smell is often very strong, too strong to be outside."
...Some of the changes are easy to spot. On Pensacola's television station, the daily weather report now includes an oil forecast. Boats that in past years spent the summer z
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taking them to public pools or the zoo. Buyers have walked away from closing on pricey homes at Perdido Key, saying they wanted to wait and see how bad the spill would be. B
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''The trust of the people in the institutions they've come to rely on, like the government and business, if it was damaged in the past, it's in a terminal phase now," said Kirby,
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Even building sand castles is a hazardous activity now, because oil has been found as deep as a foot below a clean-looking surface. Children scooping out moats around their sandy turrets have discovered what looks like lumps of brown Play-Doh.
Despite the warning signs, as of this week 27 people have reported they've become ill after coming in contact with oil at Pensacola Beach, according to the Escambia County Health Department. They were nauseous, coughing, short of breath, their skin was irritated — not the kind of beach visit memories the Chamber of Commerce would...
scoop up oil-tainted sand. In Escambia County, about 400 cleanup workers spent the last Sunday in June picking up 88,000 pounds of tar balls and stringy mousse spread across the beach. Then the tide came in and they had to go back and clean the beach again. And then again.
The ripples from the disaster have spread far inland. Gas stations and convenience stores in rural Gadsden County, near Tallahassee, have long counted on tourists from Atlanta stopping by on their way down to the Panhandle beaches. This summer, the road through Gadsden County is quiet.
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0710/acorn-employee-sues-okeefe-giles/Former ACORN employee sues O’Keefe and Giles
A former ACORN employee in San Diego who lost his job after being filmed giving advice to "ACORN pimp" James O'Keefe is suing the amateur videographer and his partner, Hannah Giles, San Diego CityBeat's Dave Maass reported Friday.
Juan Carlos Vera was one of a number of ACORN employees who in the summer of 2009 was secretly filmed giving advice to O'Keefe and Giles, who told media they were posing as a pimp and prostitute with plans to bring underage prostitutes to the US from Latin America.
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown cleared Vera of wrongdoing in a report earlier this year. Brown found that, though Vera appeared sympathetic to the "pimp and prostitute" during the taped meeting, he immediately notified the police of the conversation. Brown's investigation also found that the O'Keefe videos were "significantly edited."
The shocking prospect of ACORN employees aiding in human trafficking prompted Congress to de-fund the group last year, a move that was later ruled unconstitutional. And a report from the Government Accountability Office, released earlier this year, found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of ACORN, which received some $40 million in federal funding from 2005 to 2009.
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In February, Hannah Giles admitted that the flamboyant pimp and prostitutes costumes in which she and O'Keefe were seen in some of the videos were never worn inside ACORN offices, contrary to most news reports. "In truth, O'Keefe represented himself to low-level ACORN...
Last month, former ACORN president Bertha Lewis told RAW STORY she believes the political campaign against ACORN "was a McCarthy-era style war against the poor and minorities."
Lewis said the ACORN controversy "proves the right will resort to anything to maintain power to continue the war on poor black and brown people. ... Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh can call me a racist all they want to, but there is no way there was not a racial element and class element to this whole attack."
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