from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic after no axons chief medical advisor dr kind of ghoul 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 simply. max 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 bill with dispersant i started to notice that the planes and helicopters were flying over they were dropping this 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 taken of these planes going down because it looked like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there carex 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 the in the hydrophilic you know lipophilic into them and they form. all packages around the oil which

says spins 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 earth designed to go through limpets in the oriel 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 or rattling so there are delivery system where they go around like it's south it is toxic to every organ system in the body and the mixture of dispersed in an oil is much more toxic then either oil alone or dispersant one 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 it reported and by default u.s. 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 is the lead researcher on toxics blew the whistle on high levels of 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 and i'm honestly.

so that it's not as visible to the public in other words they're used for a cover up or will alone in a body of water will rise to the surface but 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 be. using core which we're told has been banned in great britain for the last ten years why it's oxic human beings on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved b.p. to use 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 and use of robot arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that had never been 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. 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 to cut it back seventy five percent. and so the people every five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same.

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 fact of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p. these penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released why the head of the v.a. he said if you say i would 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 good and bad but that's a question you needed to know from day one mr forget about cleve forget about the

natural resource rich just for releasing the oil just for releasing oil. tins of billions of dollars of foreign well if you can eat. how much oil is released. 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 it now coke is a joint venture with exxon mobil that received over twenty four million dollars in u.s. government contracts over the past. now shares directors with b.p. and exxon mobil. according to its own web site now co has some pretty influential fans so from here to here this is the scope of the distance about five hundred miles. west detroit problems central nervous system problems the

headaches and dizziness and nausea 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 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 called a pool of exit because chemical dispersant is the best option to come in to my father for these bridges roads are coming from.

and i know you're going. to dump for the clubs because your houses you're saying in the day that b.p. had known reza speaking things move them somewhere to suppose you always had some corruption but i mean i never thought it was that this little has anyone in b.p. been fired because of this incident mood swings from the feed just big to fit through enough money to good old american voters to look like a successful a deal on moving things in a clumsy american people that you think you can get away with this i think this is a toxic waste dump rather tame. after even more scrutiny surrounding b.p.'s continued use of correct 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 seal an b.p.'s incident commander but b.p. denied permission to use this interview. three months later in september we snuck onto beaches where b.p. was working to find the truth for our selves. 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 only the lights on. to tell that something's america they should be put respirators on the. movie station is just right across this cut.

despite the peas claims they had stopped spraying our cameras caught the spill transporting and spray dispersants. should already become cashier played now to shred it right now. 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 thumbs up. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a leg torch relay. m r t r g dot com.

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to the. lives. of the young girls cammo for the future hunter. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the plaza sound is a large you know i mean this teaches them a lot of for a responsibility and simply come to play it through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children for our future what is the country will save. it. over. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy track al gore's. role. in

fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crass cynical we've been a hydrogen lying handful of trans national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one still just i'm tom martin and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try to fix rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have on camera ready to join the movement then walk a little bit but. it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington.

the old i'm sure texas a good old. louisiana political structure is the economic structure of those states or so the play well trips where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were 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 in the ways. ana 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. santa congressional delegation is 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. it's good to see. your of the oil industry which is enormously wish to avoid future about somalia campaign contributions but this is a very very short law if you proceed all year 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. . it's almost one hundred to one there's probably one hundred thousand people in the lobbying business in washington d.c. so it's a big business after the federal government is the next biggest business the washington

d.c. . lobbyists function as the razor to guard dogs from big industry 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 on bullshit making money maybe your excellent job you should know contribute to some fully front organization which can then millions and millions of millions of dollars on television ads into campaigns hold 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 politics. most people go into 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 articulately laid out and they capitalize. on a desperation in this country and it was so prevalent i don't know that it will be to bring about a sensible energy policy in this. billion dollars this past quarter. to

give up the profits 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 four month 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 labor unions whether that's culture. an oligarchy system co-ops all 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 yours for the money 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 its 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 got more. when have the american people been as betrayed investing so much hope energy money in brock 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 it 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 try to care for. really dealt to spill the largest oil consumer in the world as the u.s. department of defense and guess which company is the pentagon single largest supplier of fuel to 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 u.s. 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 hendricks bamberg the u.s. government took no action against b.p. or 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 b.p.

will meet its obligations to them. as publicly pledged to make good on the claims that opposed to the people in the gulf i hear coleman sometimes love large oil companies are all greedy companies or don't. think lazy we care about 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 for out tony hayward and they'll just pull 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. .

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on our reporters twitter. and instagram. be a month. on. we're used to trust element here because even if they even if we have these internet groups break themselves away or attempt to break away from the n.s.a. they have other ways of finding getting into data anyway so it's a. good day to become a doctor and i think one of the things that's really surprising about what the n.s.a. are trying to do is that they try to find every possible way of getting data but we all know that the governments have surveillance and that actually working with them so it's not just the united states it's the governments you know if you're among what is what do we think james bond and all those kind of things that stuff

happened way before the internet so i agree with you completely but great the difference is that the u.s. government says we don't do these things and we keep finding out that they do these things and even more. splits divide the syrian opposition party takes a close look at life on rebel ground is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus it is like a state within a state free syrian army controlling these big still in military and terror artie's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territory. sunni rebel groups on our. good leverage surely to. build on the most sophisticated. fortunately. mission to teach creation and why you should care about. this is why you should

care only. defending its image at all costs qatar detains to journalists investigating the harrowing conditions faced by migrant workers preparing the nation for the twenty twenty two world cup one of those reporters tells us what he uncovered. was just hours until a potentially devastating us debt default the hurt is already being felt from a looming credit rating downgrade to international frustration u.s. lawmakers have done what few animists could put the dollars ferry future on the line. russian opposition figure had only seen a volley avoids a five year jail term as a court overturns the sentence while upholding his conviction for investment.