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Of 10,000 Ground Zero workers suing the city, medical records show 67 percent suffer respiratory ailments and 45 percent have a gastrointestinal disease, their lawyers claim.
The numbers, filed in court last night, aim to rebut the city’s argument that 30 percent have “only nominal injuries” and that serious claims are not proven.
The lawyers say they’re still collecting records from Mount Sinai Hospital, which has treated thousands of 9/11 responders.
“As information continues to be received, there is a clear picture that these plaintiffs’ conditions are tending to get worse, not better,” the lawyers say. Read the rest of this entry »
The Barry Jennings interview with an introduction by Jason Bermas. The clip here will appear in Bermas’ upcoming documentary, Fabled Enemies.
It is obvious watching the BBC’s trailer of its “The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Third Tower,” set to air on Sunday, 6 July, that “Auntie Beeb” will attempt to make it appear Building 7 at the WTC complex came down as a result of fire (see trailer below). In other words, it appears the BBC will push — and defend — the government explanation hastily cooked up after attention was focused on the mysterious collapse by researchers, a collapse diligently ignored by the 9/11 Commission in its final report, or that is to say its final whitewash.
The BBC interviewed Dylan Avery, writer and director of the documentary “Loose Change,” and during the interview the BBC disputed Avery’s claim that there were dead bodies in the lobby of Building 7 as the result of an explosion prior to the collapse of either WTC buildings. In order to make his point, Dylan showed the BBC video footage of one Barry Jennings, the New York City Housing Authority worker who made the claim of dead bodies strewn in the rubble. The Jennings interview included here was to appear in Loose Change, but Mr. Jennings had reservations after receiving threatening phone calls. He was worried about losing his job and requested the interview not be included.
Washington, D.C. - May 9th, 2008, 10 bipartisan New York Members of Congress sharply rebuked a new report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the status of the federal government’s response to the health impacts of the 9/11 attacks. HHS’s report (click here for a full copy), which was requested by Congress in the FY 2008 federal Labor-HHS appropriations bill, revealed that the Bush Administration has no plans to spend congressionally-approved funding to treat and monitor lower Manhattan residents, area workers, students and others who were exposed to the toxic aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In addition, HHS failed to provide, again as requested by Congress, a “long-term, comprehensive federal plan for monitoring, screening, analysis and medical treatment for all individuals who were exposed to the toxins at the World Trade Center site.”
Please click here to read the entire Press Release on our Bulletin page.
“When the judiciary and the executive fail to provide justice to the living victims of 9/11, it is the moral imperative of Congress to do right. Nearly seven years after 9/11, and the federal government still has not met its obligations. We can, and must, do more.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties today issued the following statement regarding the Second Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision that former Environmental Protect Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman is immune from liability for false statements she made about air quality and public safety after the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001:
“I am deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s decision. There is a mountain of evidence demonstrating that Ms. Whitman and the Bush administration mislead the public about air quality in the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center. By falsely assuring the public that the air was safe to breathe – when all the evidence indicated that it was in fact extremely hazardous – she caused thousands of residents, workers, and first responders to suffer injury and, in some cases, death due to unnecessary exposure to toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings. Much of this evidence has been made public in hearings held last year by Senator Clinton and me.
NEW YORK — Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman cannot be held liable for telling residents near the World Trade Center site that the air was safe to breathe after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court said today.
In ordering the dismissal of the lawsuit, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that the EPA’s own inspector general had found the agency’s performance after the attacks was flawed. “But legal remedies are not always available for every instance of arguably deficient governmental performance,” the judges wrote.
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit by residents, students and workers in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who said they were exposed to hazardous dust and debris from the fallen twin towers after Sept. 11.
The plaintiffs alleged that Whitman and EPA officials acting on her behalf made statements regarding air quality that failed to report or misrepresented health risks associated with the dust from the ruined skyscrapers.
NYC Mayor’s Office has compiled a map showing the number of volunteers and retired responders residing in each state. Everyone is encouraged to write to their members of Congress to advocate for 9/11 health funding
Click here to see the map in it’s original PDF file for a closer-up view.
Fox News NEW YORK — The city has identified the remains of four more victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, including one man whose DNA was found beneath a service road that was initially paved over, officials said Monday
Ronald Keith Milstein’s remains were found beneath the road that was built to carry cleanup and construction trucks in and out of the World Trade Center site after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the city medical examiner’s office said. Milstein of Queens was 54 when he was killed.
More than 400 human bone pieces have been recovered from beneath the road, which has become known as “Haul Road” because of the hauling of debris.
Also identified was Alejandro Castano whose remains were found in the Liberty Street area, the medical examiner’s office said.
The 35-year-old from Englewood, N.J., was in the area that day to deliver pens and paper to a brokerage firm on the 97th floor of the south tower, his family told The Record of Hackensack, N.J.
For now, authorities are not releasing the names of the two other victims whose remains were identified. Their families will decide whether to publicly announce the names of the 52-year-old woman identified from remains found in the former Deutsche Bank building and the 59-year-old man identified from remains discovered on Liberty Street.
A federal appeals court has refused to give New York City immunity from the lawsuits of thousands of city workers and construction laborers who say they now suffer from respiratory illnesses after they helped clean up ground zero in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The lawsuits claim that the city failed to ensure that ground zero was a safe work place. High among the claims is the assertion that the city failed to enforce rules requiring workers to wear respirators while working amid the toxins and rubble.
Citing the unprecedented nature of the disaster, New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, both defendants in the suits, have argued that they are entitled to immunity from the claims. The defendants say they cannot be required to pay out to the workers what could amount to billions of dollars in damages. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON - Chanting “$25 million isn’t enough!” dozens of sick 9/11 first responders stood in the rain on Capitol Hill Tuesday and urged President Bush to restore funding to help pay their medical bills. Joseph Zadroga, whose son James died of lung disease after working 100 hours at the site for the NYPD, said the government needs to help those who helped the city get back on its feet after the towers fell.
“They dug this country out of a hole and now it’s time for this country to dig them out of their holes,” he said as he held back tears. Bush has budgeted just $25 million for 9/11 health care programs in 2009 - compared with $108 million for this year. The Daily News, in a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials, has also fought for more funding for the city’s sick heroes. “We lost 3,000 lives on 9/11, but thousands more have lost their health,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens). She is sponsoring a bill named after James Zadroga that would mandate health care funding for ailing 9/11 workers.
“It is a scandal that we do not have health care for these men and women who risked so much to help others.” John Feal, a Ground Zero volunteer who lost part of his foot when an 8-ton steel beam fell on it, organized the rally, which had been expected to draw hundreds of people. He said he wasn’t discouraged by the small turnout.
“Numbers don’t compare to our spirit,” he said. “Our spirit is strong.” Sick workers were also meeting privately with several members of Congress to urge them to pass the Zadroga bill.
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