used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic tort lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic often axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard evaluation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now labile for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresenting the information as called

simple. facts on managed to successfully hide these documents from the media from the people from the sick workers from the court from the federal health care officials b.p. is following pretty closely everything that axon did. we were actually flying over the disaster site on sunday april twenty fifth and what we saw when you're out there were two airplanes were flying over and already carpet bombing the spill with dispersant and i started to notice that the planes and helicopters were flying over they were dropping the stuff the spray they were really secretive about where those planes were coming from and when they were going out they didn't really want shoes to take you know these planes going down because it looked like spray. it was it was not a picture that either the government or. or b.p.

really wanted to have out that corrects it is toxic it's toxic to people it's toxic to the environment what it does is it breaks apart the oil into something called a myself a little oil bubble that's wrapped in this solvent may have a hydrophilic into lipophilic into them and they form little packages around the oil which suspends the oil in the water column they're called myself these my cells go around and they absorb onto biological tissue they're absorbing on to sand grains they're absorbing onto raindrop particles they're absorbing up into the clouds and they're raining down as stinging rain on people who then get rashes just like this person's urge to sign to go through limp it's in the oil they go through the lip in the sound they break down the sound wall which is a liquid membrane they take that whale into the sound into the organs more readily

so there are delivery systems for the go around lying around itself is toxic to every organ system in the body and the mixture of dispersant and whale is much more toxic then either oil alone or dispersant fisherman here have been exposed to this mixture they have literally got ulcerated skin it's not hard to find these people we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported and by default us government can't afford to have it reported the ones who can afford to move have moved and the ones that can't are just begging for help . this is hugh councilman he has worked for the p.a. for four decades as the lead researcher on toxics blew the whistle on highly.

toxics at the now famous love canal he also blew the whistle on the need to protect nine eleven cleanup workers from exposure to toxic dust and now he's trying to blow the whistle on the toxic dispersants used by b.p. dispersions or. and they're used to. so that it's not as visible to the public in other words they're used for a conference will alone in a body of water will rise to the surface there it's collectable it's containable but instead of actually containing it the dispersant was used of the eighteen dispersants on the e.p.a.'s authorized list twelve are more effective on the wheezy and a sweet crude than correct b.p. chose to use the only dispersant so toxic that it's banned its own country of england. which we're told has been banned in great

britain for the last ten years why oxic human beings. on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved feed pete hughes carex it under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrected a day into the cult when they decided to do the subsurface injection of a new survey of robot or to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that it never did for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. was a set up. to protect the pier. and and sort of do a dance for

a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of this persons and the e.p.a. says you got it could back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or here in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released and why the head of the v.a.

so if you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleaning up forget about the natural resource to average just for releasing that oil just for releasing oil. tins of billions of dollars of farm well if you can wait how much oil is released they might be able to get those privileges down from twenty five billion to maybe one or two billion billion dollars here a billion dollars are you talking real moving. the company that makes correct said now coke is a joint venture with exxon mobil that received over twenty four million dollars in u.s. government contracts over the past. decade. now shares directors with b.p.

and exxon mobile. according to its own website now co has some pretty influential fans so from here to here this is the scope the distance about five hundred miles. west detroit problems central nervous system problems the headaches and dizziness. and the skin problems the intense rashes there are hundreds of thousands of people who are dosed with high amounts of toxic material. or risk of having severe health effects often we're told don't worry honey we'll take care of you and it won't hurt we'll we didn't find out that a very good product what we thought was a good product turns out to have vial consequences i don't want dispersants to be the agent. this will still.

be responding to a pool of exit the chemical dispersant is the best to come in to my father for these bridges roads are common ground. how do you know you're going to. dump her to serve if your house is you're saying in a day to be she's had known reza speaking. of them so much we suppose you always knew we had some corruption but i mean i never thought it was that this little has anyone been thinking inside because of this incident mood swings from the feed just big to fit through enough money to get full the american public to look like a successful a deal on moving things in

a clumsy american people that you can get away with that i think this is amazing is toxic waste fraud and there exists. after even more scrutiny surrounding b.p.'s continued use of correct said b.p. quietly announced in july they had stopped spraying dispersant the oil was gone and so were the dead animals. to verify this we interviewed keith sealand b.p.'s incident commander but b.p. denied permission to use the center of the zero. three months later in september we snuck onto beaches where b.p. was working to find the truth cells. at night the oil was clearly visible beaches or some young fish as you can see there climbed up into

a clump of well dead wildlife was also prevalent now risking ourselves by turning these away the lights on. to tell that something they are going to have a. respirators on good look a station is just right across this cut. despite the piece claims they had stopped spraying our cameras caught the still transporting and spray dispersants. we should already have been cashier made. sure of it right now i. can't think of a place like louisiana as the state it is an oil it is only controlled by the oil industry. i ran one of the regulatory agencies as

a result of the environmental quality agency the oil and gas industry lobbyists run our halls every day i mean they're talking to people in the. agency that might have some say over how they would regulate oil and gas the same time they're making campaign contributions in every election that comes along when the time comes for a vote i've seen the oil and gas industry for example kill environmental bills just by putting the phone. interview.

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feed. just it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale and washing. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure and the economic structure of those states are sold on the by well wishers where the number one issues but. one thing that is unique about

louisiana's where tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to. get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade every bill that contain provisions for alternative energy was blocked. the only bills that became law with the five that

subsidized fossil fuels and nuclear. another factor that contributes to the lack of regulation by congress is the proverbial revolving door. but we see on a congressional delegation it's known as the all delegation our senators when every tarak go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year cooling off period before you could become a lobbyist out of the senate senator lott resigned from the senate one month before the end of the session so he didn't have to wait two years he only had to wait one year and then he had a party with john breaux invited all kinds of people to celebrate when the one year was over and now the. a lobbying firm is very successful it with lots of energy clients lots of oil violence little plants gas clients and them a lot of power. says. it's good to see.

your of the oil industry which is enormously don't wish to avoid future about slowly a campaign contributions but this is a very very short law if you present here if washington d.c. and they've got a number of people on their leash. with only five hundred thirty congress members the ratio of lobbyists to congress in d.c. is almost one hundred to one there's probably one hundred thousand people in the lobbying business in washington d.c. so it's big business. through the federal government the next biggest business washington d.c. . lobbyists function as the razor to guard dogs from a chemistry making sure congress does their bidding but big oil uses a far more aggressive means of tightening its leash around congress' neck here's the reality you're sitting there is a billionaire you make money

a little free to make money maybe your exxon mobile you should know contribute to so fully fund organization which can then one million two million two million dollars on television ads in two campaigns for this country what it really is saying is that we are giving unbelievable power to him full of people who control the politics and the nature of our democracy. on a national scale fuel companies have huge power over our government. didn't we throw those oil guys out in the last election. didn't we elect the guy who is going to change things. i believe that americans of every political stripe are desperate they are hungry for a new kind of hope that. most people who are willing to go to go in because they care about what happens there to change something.

i will never forget this victory truly belongs to us. it belongs to you. it belongs to you. brought obama over in the most successful campaign ever it was very smart it was very well done it was particularly laid out and they capitalized on the desperation in this country and it was so prevalent i don't want them. to bring about a sensible energy policy in the sky. this past quarter. to give up the fall that's easily. you know a lot of people on the left demonized president bush thought it was all about evil president bush and if you could just get rid of bush in lightnin it would take over interviewed all be driving around in solar powered cars and life would be beautiful within three or four weeks. chris

hedges it's a form of war correspondent author of nine books and a member of the new york times pulitzer prize winning team a democracy gives expression to the desires and concerns of ordinary citizens whether that's through the press whether labor unions one of the culture. an oligarchy exists and co-ops all of those institutions if you are a billion it you can sit down and say ok i'm going to put three hundred thousand dollars into the race in colorado four hundred thousand dollars into mexico half a million dollars into vermont and you're spread them out it and nobody has to know who i am i can do that with no disclosure whatsoever this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward for oligarchy where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy individuals and large corporations have

a major major major influence over all political life after the obama administration came in with his big hopes of changing everything getting serious about energy getting serious about global warming in certain ways has been as disappointing as president bush was. there's a great deal of in tipis the distrust even anger toward liberals and i don't think it's misplaced it was the democratic party under bill clinton that deregulated the banking system allowed our commercial banks to become hedge funds and precipitated the meltdown that we are now undergoing. this was done consciously. bill clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding he would get over money can buy the one nine hundred ninety s. the democratic party late ninety's and fund raising parity with the republican party and by the time barack obama ran for president they go more. when have the american people been as betrayed investing so much hope energy money in

barack obama's campaign. today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration. take responsibility for solving this crisis and the president and the buck stops with me. obama flies down to florida jumps in the water briefly with his daughter for the photo op and from that point on most of the media has left beaches all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business that's one of the reasons michelle sasha and i are here. in reality neither he nor his daughter touched the water of the gulf they swam at st andrews bay a protected area. what happened with safety regulations in the gulf of mexico in the wake of the b.p. disaster rename a couple of agencies change a couple of faces business as usual full steam ahead what does that tell you.

the administration that promised us change made no alteration to be antiquated spill response plan that still cites walmer says as the most threatened species in the gulf of mexico and it still lists deceased people as the contacts and policemen emergency. obama might have had a good reason to tread carefully when he dealt the spill the largest oil consumer in the world as the us department of defense and gas which company is the pentagon single largest supplier of fuel. if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil. during the last ten years b.p. has been the single largest energy contractor to the various branches of the us military receiving over seventeen billion dollars in direct contracts for jet and

diesel fuel oil is true and b.p. in particular is crucial to the military intelligence and diplomatic complex. on june sixteenth two thousand and ten obama called the meeting at the white house with b.p.'s c.e.o. tony hayward it's managing director bob dudley and its chairman of the board carl henricks bamberg the u.s. government took no action against b.p. for its executives instead it agreed that b.p. would simply create the claims fine for victims of the oil spill the people of the goals have my commitment that he will meet its obligations to them. as publicly pledged to make good on the claims that almost of the people in the gulf i hear call months large oil companies are greedy companies or don't. think lazy weak above the small to the.

last. four days after his meeting with president obama tony hayward was enjoying a yacht race in england. instead of being fired in the wake of the gulf oil spill hayward was sent to run b.p.'s operations in russia and it was back to business as usual you can throw out tony hayward and they'll just kill another one out of their frankenstein machine with a different hairdo and a different name they. all operate the same he got to get the oil out the cheapest way is the filthiest most dangerous way in the most corrupt way. that's what makes these guys rich. by january of two thousand and eleven the obama administration announced it would start issuing permits for new drilling operations in the gulf of

mexico why you may wonder big oil is paying the federal government or percentage of walty that comes out of each barrel that comes out of the ground in student norma's amount of money. behind the i.r.s. the collection of offshore oil field revenues and royalties is the second largest generator of money for the united states government. the first new permit issued by the obama administration was for a while in the gulf of mexico operated in partnership with b.p. . just these planes you can lessen on not only in charge of being responsible for the . assume are searching for the. past me valve the impossible i'll tell you there is the news of pat o'brien for

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on the run and word snowden could be having to latin america with the ears of three countries they're ready to brand him political asylum this after his latest leaks revealed that brazil and russia have been targeted by the u.s. snooping program. egypt is rocked by deadly clashes between backers and opponents of the ousted leader mohamed morsi as russia's president putin warns against an escalation into all out civil war. and also this week with no sign of a let up and the one time obey hunger strike now it's six months prison guards are resorting to new harsh techniques to hand the standoff.