shortly after that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil the the warships of the projected british power all of the world were now running one hundred percent wrong. and then in one nine hundred fifty two. decided to take their oil matter to. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most and nationalize the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting his overthrow so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most of them on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever knew. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in prison and house arrest for life.

after the cia deposed most of the place muhammad raise a shot. to shot ruled for twenty five. precious until finally who provoked them eight hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. with fundamentalists clerics now in power the company that would eventually be known as b.p. was forced to look elsewhere for their oil. for all the products of our environment. i grew up in a place believe. this is one part of dances to

a different. we see as in my blood that shaped who i am. a lot of people i grew up with became fishermen on musicians or oil workers. or chefs. i became from. my family has deep roots in the easy and. the do praise the daily bars in the show vans all immigrated from france and settled in this region over a hundred years ago. and when oil was discovered we released our land to the oil companies. the oil companies supplied the jobs and the money. and we all went along for the ride.

in the gulf of mexico fifty nine miles coast speed an accident or will bring peace by. the rig known as the deepwater horizon was drilling in over a mile of water and over three miles. on april twentieth two thousand and ten approximately nine forty five pm methane gas from the well ignited. eleven workers were never found. the deepwater horizon sank on the morning of april twenty second birthday. shortly thereafter the u.s. coast guard began to observe an oil slick spreading from where the rig once stood in the well as blasting full force of it all and recorders were royalists meanwhile no plates who had their feet. the seven days that oil would flow without pause

leaving the u.s. government the oil industry and the world scrambling for solutions or trying to steal told the truth is we don't know when that's going to start doing everything we can finally on july fifteenth the well was capped and the oil stopped flowing and the world turned its attention elsewhere but the story wasn't over it was a bigger story. southern united states is sort of the rehearsal for us imperialism i'm not a lawyer and the editor of i had my. hand. the reason why our standard came here is because we had something that they would so he made them pay for his position was that these resources below him to the people of louisiana i never heard it here. and let that man think that the

paper want it but i'm sure that people say if you are going to do the things that he wanted to do provide better roads provide better health care for people provide books for poor people you had to have money in the people who headed my would want to phone and. create a very polarized political system people you know him kind of like robin hood he was taken from those hitching lives and we just with among those who did not have enough when he starts to go after standard oil he ends up becoming the target of impeachment attempts i wasn't like that rewrote the movie maybe. when they tried to impeach me not be done when. so many the upper class went on the record saying that there's something needs to be done about law i have the pleasure of going to great to describe. a month after announcing that he would run for president long was shot in the louisiana

state house in baton rouge on september eighth one thousand thirty five his bodyguards riddled the assassin with thirty bullets huey died two days later at the age of forty two. his last words were don't let me die i've got so much to do. such will kill again this is because even more would put after you almost dead their old companies would say they've been treated as adversaries have become the sophisticated allies of the powers that be with the kingfish out of the way the oil companies power in the we see anna grew unabated and they drilled wherever they wanted it's been a symbiotic relationship for about one hundred years where you have two massive employers the fisheries and big oil and it's really become

a part of louisiana's culture mississippi's culture that big oil needs to happen because that's what keeps the food on people's plates. in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight the first offshore oil discovery in the gulf of mexico was the creole field near cameron louisiana they drilled in about twelve feet of water there are more than four thousand production platforms drilling rigs off the louisiana coast it is like steel forest out there. originally the original run off the coast but as those fields played out they began moving further and further as they develop the technology to parish strolling platforms one of those companies that was aggressively pushing into the deepest and most risky that was b.p. . by the one nine hundred sixty s. b.p. developed a reputation for taking on the riskiest ventures. b.p. massive profits it also warned them the worst safety record in the industry. in one

nine hundred sixty seven the tory canyon an oil tanker chartered by b.p. ran aground off the coast of england. over one hundred tons of crude oil dumped into the atlantic and onto the beaches of cornwall. and brittany the largest oil spill ever. around the time of the torrey canyon spill a young man joined b.p. as an apprentice he eventually rose through the ranks to lead b.p. his name was john brown brown acquired other oil companies transforming b.p. into the third largest oil company in the world in response to negative press on b.p.'s poor safety standards brown replanted the company with an eco friendly logo and renamed the company beyond petroleum he also initiated rapid expansion and drove record profits one of the ways he did this was by ruthlessly cutting costs.

major. backlash. on march twenty third two thousand and five fifteen people died an explosion at b.p.'s texas city refinery one hundred seventy more were injured to save money major upgrades to the one nine hundred thirty four refinery had been postponed. brown pledged to prevent another catastrophe three months later b.p.'s giant new production platform in the gulf of mexico. nearly sank because of a workman's error. then in march two thousand and six a hole in b.p.'s probe a pipeline caused over a quarter of a million gallons of oil leak the worst spill ever on alaska's north slope b.p.'s cost cutting and poor maintenance of the pipelines was responsible. in may two thousand and seven after committing perjury regarding his involvement in the sex scandal brown was succeeded by a new rising star his name was tony hayward. hayward promised that he would be

focused on safety like a laser this is about ice fundamental lack of leadership and management in the area of safety. the deepwater horizon had just completed drilling the deepest well ever in north america b.p. hoped the rig could extract oil record apps in the gulf of mexico but eleven days before the disaster on april ninth drilling mud pressure dropped and the oil well showed signs of a dangerous gas build up. the president's commission on the oil spill would later find that b.p. and its contractors ordered the crude to ignore the rigs warning systems and keep drilling according to the christian science monitor on the day of the explosion a team of engineers who had flown to the rig to run a critical safety test were ordered by b.p. to skip the test instead. b.p.

threw a party aboard the deepwater horizon to celebrate the rigs flawless safety record the engineers were air lifted off the rick. twelve hours later. the safety alarms and shut down systems that could have saved lives and possibly altered history had been manually disabled so the rig could drill faster. it's a quick fix for a long and increasingly intoxicating addiction the us may have avoided the fault but it keeps dragging the world into an ever deeper debt tom is it still possible to break this vicious cycle.

i thought that. over. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy shrek albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trying to fix rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing or not to find a job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit but. please

. please the. deliberate torch is on it's a big journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air and sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on r t r c dot com. we see it produces about thirty percent of the seafood for the same game and studds number one and blues graham tramp powerstrip rebel so it is a t.v. industry. multi-billion dollar industry.

of health and human services the f.d.a. sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the grounds or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the

hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity to twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect now that that not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in. the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it

comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because they were prepared they could have actually responded to the b.p. spill and contained it where was the equipment and the sea entire industry and was it just. they were supposed to have eventually respond that's said it didn't exist it just didn't exist they lied it was. the response group who put together these bill response plans the same spill response plan that b.p. use is used by shell and exxon and chevron and it talks about walrus is in the gulf of mexico now we don't have walrus is in the gulf of mexico this is in areas that they were planning for we're not even close to what happened in real time at the deepwater horizon we went down to the water to see what we could find. just in the

sand was think black oil that had been covered. it stretches for miles in each direction this is like a tar that has faults like a liquid asphalt. in nearby orange beach and dolphin island alabama machines piled the oil into the sand while people swam in the water. we were approached by a representative from b.p. has a vanity i don't explain. no no nothing more i agree say all of the first part about tar balls because it's largely been tar balls we have boom deployed throughout the hurriya but we are pulling a lot of that boom off because there simply is no surface oil and. we have had as many as nine hundred people waiting to be to pick up the beach or for a day and sometimes at night. b.p. and its contractors were hard at work making sure it looked like nothing had ever

happened. local residents were getting fed up demonstrators believe the tragedy in the gulf now more than ever bolsters what they believed all along we came down here to find solutions. for the. only way to get around the roadblocks was just to avoid the road completely ac cooper a local fisherman agreed to take us out into the cold ninety percent is still it so we go to a concert focus on the find. yourself you just the whole life we were advised to wear masks because the air was thick with the smell of oil and the chemicals used to break it up our captain took a more fatalistic attitude toward wearing protective gear he felt the damage was already done. everywhere in the fishing grounds that had been reopened showed signs of visible oil not. swimming in the

middle one patrick world was a dolphin. we tried to track it but once again we were stopped by the authorities and told to. turnback. this is jeff goodell a new york times celebrated author writing an article for rolling stone he spent months in the gulf interviewing people and investigating the oil spill you know i've been looking out at this day and it sort of looked normal to him there wasn't like there was an oil slick floating out there we noticed that some of the dolphins and they came up with cough and i asked the dolphin expert is that dolphin coughing or my imagine this and he said no that's it's a coffee said dolphins often react this way to stress. sort of a heart wrenching moment we're really understood the real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds.

they're serving on a ship in washington d.c. . they're still serving gulf seafood all over the country i'm going to be in the moment one of the cleanup who goes in with a little while into the boat one time in the morning the milestone coming up a little sooner now those will not be mine. in the aftermath of the oil catastrophe in the gulf the line between truth and fiction blurred so easily. everyone want to be oil to be gone and there was certainly evidence to suggest that it wants. this is professor ed overton from louisiana state university like many of the science departments of state universities in the gulf coast after the deepwater horizon disaster his department quickly received a large grant from b.p.

there's always going away at such an incredible speed the bacteria that are out there the billions of billions of these. hydro and utilizing bacteria look good for somebody they're rapidly degrading the residual all that's out there. that seventy five percent is gone right now it gets rapidly go and if we're going to talk about it over ten when you talk about how he was talking one way right when the oil disaster happens this is not louisiana sweet crude to very dark crude it's going to be harder to clean up and have other other ramifications and then all the sudden the department he works under for ls you gets a ten million dollar research grant from b.p. now all the sudden it turns into the nicest louisiana sweet crude ever now all the sudden the microbes are just going to eat it all up joining me is alice you environmental scientist has over to over to after dr overton got his grant he went on the media to ultimately this all will get converted by natural bacteria back to call the dockside where it came from initially as you say this is about all that's

leaking each day with as little a bottle full of stuff that that's all that it does seem that bad honestly apart gropes will try to degrade it i think our environment is going through a come out relatively easily unscathed i mean it doesn't take a genius to see what's happening here people are being paid off or they're being threatened. on july fifteenth two thousand and ten heads tour ended with good news b.p.'s contractors had stopped the undersea oil gusher with a temporary plug. but there was at least one person who felt the oil hadn't gone away. this is matthew simmons the founder of simmons and company the largest oil investment firm in america in the late ninety's simmons discovered that saudi arabia was lying about their oil reserves the realization that the largest oil fields on earth were soon to decline changed his life he became an advocate of wave energy invested into its development she wrote

a book about the coming and middle eastern oil. as the drama of the deepwater horizon played out. matthew spoke up and what he said was shocking. just large research this. was the most specific information we know eleven hundred meters below the surface is not the next is the poor hundred three or four hundred meter lake i'm very happy little please. i'm going. on august fourth the white house senate climate and energy advisor carol browner on a series of t.v. interviews where she countered simmonds assertions more than three quarters of the oil is gone the vast majority of the oil is gone it was captured it was standing it was fur and it was contained but mother nature did her part there was certainly an

effort to control the way this event was seen in this event was a media story it had that quality to it of every night the drama who did it you know when's it going to get capped there was this soap opera quality to it it happened on this day in the well for the and then here we go we're going to each day each day come back tomorrow night and see more birds and we're going to go look for more suffering sea turtles and then the next night we're going to go meet the guys who were working on the rig and then you had an ending oh we got capped oh good the story is over we can all go home now who's going to stick around to see what the real consequences of this were. apart from a handful of bloggers and activists the major media networks left the gulf coast but something wasn't adding up. five days after carol browner was on the today show

matthew simmons was found dead in his hot up. according to the autopsy the cause of death was drowning. symons death might have been just a freak accident the timing of events a coincidence. in one thousand nine hundred nine the exxon valdez oil tanker carrying fifty three million gallons of crude oil ran aground in prince william sound spilling oil into christine alaskan waters. exxon developed its own proprietary chemical compound to disperse the oil. they called it corrects it corrects it contain another chemical capable of breaking apart the oil into small droplets that would sink below the sand and water that chemical was to talk c f and a known side effect to become a coal was damaged red blood cells. left local residents were left with oil beaches

fisheries and long term health problems. for the next twenty years dr riki on track that helped of local residents and tested the alaskan water and soil during the last time the least worst use it is vs worst crime. which leaves no plastic reindeer to solve the plastic raise your right and people's good bird rashes bloody your nerves to hear it was sickly the worst to this day and the service was in other words and who used the dispersed. three buells you don't know if you don't per chorused response to rule. out almost

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narrowly escapes to fall with congress raising the debt ceiling ending the government shutdown amid concerns that the temporary fix only delays worse. a new round of austerity imposed by the twenty fourteen budget triggers violence in the streets of rome as protesters take on police after massive anti-government rallies across the city. japanese authorities strive to do their best to dispel citizens fears sparked by radiation levels at the fukushima nuclear plant hitting a record high plus. part of the evil and the potential damage over there that's nowhere at. all.