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 simply. 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 and 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 this bill with this person 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 taken of these planes coming 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 solve it they have a hydrophilic you know lipophilic in. into them and they form little packages

around their 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 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 more readily 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 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 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. 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. and they were used. to adam.

so that it's not as visible to the public in other words they're used for a cover up 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 there 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 in its own country of england. using core which we're told has been banned in great britain for the last ten years why it's toxic 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 coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robotic arms 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. 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. seventy five percent but they increased it some. they kept using the same and.

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 decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or 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 either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i do 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 all natural resource the average just for releasing the oil just for releasing oil. tins of billions of dollars of foreign well if you can wait. how much oil is released. those pictures down from twenty five billion to maybe one or two billion billion dollars here a billion dollars are you talk to real movie. the company that makes correct it now coke is a joint venture with exxon mobil but received over twenty four million dollars in u.s. government contracts over the past decade. now co-chairs 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 the distance about five hundred miles. west for. boy 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 we thought was a good product turns out to have vial consequences i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this bill still. calling for exit because chemical dispersant is the best to come into my father for these drugs are common ground.

to cover. the costs for the curves for each of your houses so you're saying here today the beach he's had known as a species there is none of them similar to this moment it always had some corruption but i mean i never thought it was this little has anyone been thinking inside because of this incident moodswings to be feed just big to fit through enough money to get full the american public to look like a successful a deal on a movie thinking of putting a million people that you think you can get away with this i think this is amazing is toxic waste cobra payment system. 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 and b.p.'s incident commander but b.p. denied permission to use this interview. three months later in september he snuck onto beaches where b.p. was working to find the truth for ourselves. that 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 yourself by turning these away the lights on. to tell that something's in there i'm going to have a. respirators on a movie station is just right across this cut. despite

the piece claims they had stopped spraying our cameras caught the still transporting and spraying dispersants. already become cashier played. at 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 in resound whose 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 or lingus the same time they're making campaign contributions in every election 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 foam. players. if you need to with the economic ups and downs in the final months day the longer the deal sank night and the rest the life case it'll be if we call came in. place right on the scene. of the first strike. and i think the church.

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economy in the kinds of reports on our t.v. . last. it's just it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states are so done by well wishers where the number one issues. 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. 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. on a congressional delegation is known as the all delegation our senators when they retire go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year cooling off period before you can 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 watts of energy clients lots of oil violence little plants gas clients and them a lot of power. to see.

your over the oil industry which is enormously powerful wish to avoid future about slowly a campaign contributions but this is a very very short law if you present all year if washington d.c. and they've got a number of people on their leash. with only five hundred thirty eight 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 after the federal government lobbied is the next biggest business the washington d.c. . lobbyists function is the razor to guard dogs from fake 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 ball three to make the money maybe your excellent

job 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 is that we're 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. but didn't we throw those old 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 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. brock obama or in the most successful campaign ever it was very smart it was very well done it was articulately laid out and they capitalized on the desperation in this country and it was so prevalent i don't want that. to bring about a sensible energy policy this. billion dollars this past quarter. seasonally. you know a lot of people on the left demonized president bush thought it was all about president bush and if you could just. rid of bush in light mint would take over and you'd 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 whether the culture. an oligarchy exists and co-ops all of those institutions if you're a billionaire 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 put them at 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 or 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 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. meddling 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 wall versus 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's 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. nears 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 the 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. large oil companies are greedy companies or don't. dudley's no three days in the week this maltese look.

back. 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's back to business as usual you can throw out tony hayward just another one out of their frankenstein machine with a different hairdo and a different name they all operate they say you got to get the oil out the cheapest way is the filthiest 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 it's an enormous 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 well in the gulf of mexico operated in partnership with b.p. . just as planes are cool less a. battle in charge of the response before the. soonest searching for the. gas me valve the impossible i'll tell you there are seeing is

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