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i mean you get to shape out just to come out to it and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the way. eight hundred fifty children are now registered where she to be center. i did but to now to count but it was not that i am so doubts about you once again what was said upon those about to what they think they can size that it says about did i want to do it was good but i really don't know how does that example goes out of a job of us got that amount of us and they and most of them them and i think second choice though can be good thing for any of us are going to make that is that is a bit long but depending on what they say the must visit will count that in you i mean as an a.m.a. i can make good money exert myself step in and tell you it was good but was immediately made us all still though they don't feel that funny number
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a remember that i don't is that is the pinnacle of this ng it. to me that mr bright may be on there might be pretty ham was another but by then you got me and. in two thousand and fifteen gave four point five billion dollars to each share holders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination. for weeks we tried to reach the communications department at dow to get an interview without success or treat was going to answer those questions it's pretty important i'm not aware of who that is read off the top of my head we have fifty thousand employees so i have to agree. never called us back so we decided to go to the company's general assembly in midland in the us to ask our questions. cameras are not allowed inside so we stayed in the parking lot
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sorry a shareholder. yeah i get been talking about it's here for the new resolution business at least you. look at me as if i want the search well i may ask you to please leave ok you rick. you know you're going to stand under arrest here on this and. we quickly realized that we were not welcome. yes there. this tree line right here ok so i can stay there. ok so we carefully followed their rules for forty five long minutes. until the communications department had. decided to finally set foot outside. hello sorry to disturb you i'm a french journalist for the property relations and we told you all sorry why i
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don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about both. you don't want to talk about the kids that are sick there i'm sorry it wouldn't be appropriate for me to say anything. so we thought of another solution. we would bring our questions directly to the personal residence of the c.e.o. of dow mr liveris along with this letter we displayed an american style election sign to make sure that he would miss it. and i'm not on the property here. though are. you working for mr neither is over the company don't you are you working for. are you concerned about this theory are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know there was to continue the kids look russia not just thirteen years old it's terrible so wide that was not
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doing anything. i don't know sir. but it doesn't touch you you don't mind that's everybody's there so whether he's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an email from dow the company in the men's. bhopal was a terrible tragedy that we will never forget. but they relieve themselves of all responsibilities stating that we acquired union carbide more than sixteen years after the catastrophe of one thousand nine hundred four down continues to address global issues through human solutions. issues like clean water as important as life itself. was working to make water safe and readily available to people all over the globe you know. nothing is more fundamental. nothing.
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in dollars wake countless victims and human tragedies pile up without any damage to the company's profits. in december two thousand and fifteen dow announce the biggest financial operation in its history. a merger of one hundred thirty billion dollars with another american chemical giant du pont. a match made in heaven must be. feeling that. there's a lot of the chemistry between. dupont made its fortune with dynamite. nylon. and tough line get a magical material that prevents food from sticking to plans what i want.
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to be. however behind the success of teflon dupont hides a dark secret sauce his can't believe. on the line more than people. in the dynamic. what they. are worth a window on. this respect. or. at the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg. lost in the eastern u.s. . this city was built around the dupont factory.
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suzanne bailey came here in one thousand seventy eight to work on the tough line production lines. i went to work in may the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight that was my glorious day . it took the pictures it's u. s. me. without grey hair. in the middle yeah you know i was so happy i was that was the only job i mean everybody wanted there because of the money but the benefits and everything like that it was secure the chemical industry of the growing growing by leaps and bomb. i mean you can just mention to dupont name and door swung open it was like princes coming through the door you know. bright future with. where you at the so i was thrilled i was absolutely thrilled that it.
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a few months after starting her job at dupont suzanne bailey became pregnant in january of one nine hundred eighty one she gives birth to the little bucky. when he was born it was very traumatic. they didn't know what to do with it they never see anything like it. i cannot figure out what happened. he had half an hour. half in. the eye as a keyhole pupil. i didn't know what to do i was sprague's. i had no idea what was wrong. bucky survived he is now thirty five years old. but his childhood was spent between
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his home and the hospital. i had thirty surgeries a span of you know six or seven years where they took cartilage so for my nose a metal plate here they stretched my forehead out so that they could use the. nose here i still have one functioning. we had to put a hockey mask on him and it guards because he was in lab face. he had to wear those for. i would say three months it's. only the only way that he got to tame up was just to eat how he sees as a key to good and to have so many surgeries and it's pretty intense from walking out of public going into a store or a restaurant. so it is you answer all the eyes around you. school when you go
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and you're trying to make a for. all they see is you're different. after her maternity leave suzanne bailey began to suspect her job as the cause of bucky's deformity. a mysterious source. to one molecule in particular. the molecule in tough love that stops food from sticking to it and i went back to work the first day i went to the. paper laying there i picked it up i began reading about it. it was talking about how the rats were fed the ca and what the form that had around her base. and i thought that sounds just fine becky. it was very similar to what they said absolutely very similar almost identical to what he had that's why i knew that there was something wrong i thought that's why i connect.
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the scientific studies and believe found had been conducted by a subcontractor of dupont it's study baby rats whose mothers were exposed to see eight they developed abnormal eye lenses. i immediately walked at that door went down to medical and i said is this what's wrong with my baby oh no no i think. it was a motto. that. a thing year or two. but in the meantime dupont was secretly investigating the pregnant women working in their factory to out of seven children born to the factory workers had facial deformities like bucky. shortly after dupont decided to transfer suzanne bailey and her colleagues to other departments. at the time clinton whimsically also worked in the manufacturing department of tough line
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. he remembers the discussion he had with his manager he said can we sell the women home out. don't worry him or her the men just the when we feel that it can cause trouble so i saw. or heard me. canton whimsically it was a lab technician he handled c eight for thirty years bring the fumes from all the samples we bring. no we just you know as i told him when we saw the new pope would take care of us and. so i just did my job for years near enough. and we didn't realize who our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnosed me with have a new cancer. so they had to take all my rectum part of my cold. about
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your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there were no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.
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here the. same now continue emsley has to live with an astronomy bag attached to his stomach. to changes it day and night. at the factory she worked in a team with three other technicians. my buddies people i really love seen him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't see retard. now i. am sleepy and his colleagues were never warned about the risks of c eight. however we procured a confidential document from dupont. it's dated one thousand nine hundred eighty
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two thirty four years ago. and it mr carr the medical director at the time expresses concern about the consequences of c h retained in the blood of employees. he specifically recommends that practical steps be taken to reduce this exposure. all employees not just kept on area more cursed are exposed so rather than to do anything they just read it out. i never seen a letter like that. unmet and can say well. we could have prevented a lot of laws. unfavored told us there's a problem. i had to cover. my day law. why didn't they have us protected. too costly.
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we tracked down bruce carr dupont's former medical director. he is now enjoying a peaceful retirement by the ocean far from parkersburg. i have a document of nine hundred eighty two showing that you are aware that see it was toxic for workers why have you not told them the truth at the time they were all told the truth that they were told everything when you actually know i have interviewed some employees and they were not aware of anything we told her lawyers everything we do is sit in your back at night you know. you're trying to do reconstruction history and you can't do that why have you not print taken your own please. push it. dupont would not only put their employees in danger once again tens of thousands of people would be affected. they live up to seventy kilometers away from the factory
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. one man would discover this a bit by accident. joe kiger. on october thirty first two thousand he received a letter from the municipality concerning the quality of the tap water it mentions c eight the setting in my court yard the wife was watering the flowers and we got our water bill and the mail on with that bill came a letter. the so i can get for mothers all the time saying like asamoah banging in front of over and you think about next thing you know you throw it away and that's basically what this was it just caught my attention and i start. then the flag started first of all what was say here which is used by or what do have to do with. joe cocker's sought clarification on the matter. and called dupont to try to find out so they
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put me in touch with a guy i don't know mr candidate you know like to know more about the cia this you see this film is not to worry about about it was this. and it wasn't anything to worry about and he was flat out lying on the me and i can tell them. to get to the bottom of it he takes dupont to court. after a long legal battle the judge forces the company to declassify their internal studies on cd. joe cocker discovers the truth behind the factory of parkersburg. project kids they've been dumping c eight waste into the river. to make things worse dupont has known since one thousand nine hundred four that the molecule spread into the regions tap water. the company found astronomical levels in public
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taps. up to fifty times the limit of toxicity according to the u.s. environmental protection agency. that was nineteen eighty-four and we didn't come out till two thousand so sixteen years yeah before we even hit them up about it and they as you say right here they chose not to do anything about it and they knew what was common with the liabilities if they got they were trying to slide under the radar trust to do it for so long they have done nothing but lie for years to pay for about what this stuff is all about they're sick people out here because of what they've done there's people dying because of what they. during all these years more than seventy thousand people have been drinking contaminated water. in two thousand and eleven both scientific research and the u.s. justice system established that c. eight could cause six diseases thyroid disorder high cholesterol all sort of
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collide just high blood pressure kidney cancer or testicular cancer. today three thousand five hundred people in the parkersburg region are ill. they've all filed complaints against dupont. this is the case for earl and gwen bought. it out of quietness for about seventeen years. to kill make up a. restaurant of current problems and her cholesterol. and theirs are also shared with siri. today can doesn't have a colon anymore he too is living with an astronomy bag of a sudden you don't function normally but you and. that's when.
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there is not any and only hope and that's called. controllers. what i eat and just control and want to things in my wife. in a way i mean throughout. the document reveals that all of these victims could have been spared. on may twenty second one thousand nine hundred eighty four a meeting took place at the du pont headquarters the directors are worried about the consequences for the inhabitance they plan to eliminate all c eight emissions. i wanted to show you these sentences here. but
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finally no measures are taken as opposed to their argument it's not economically attractive. that was what you're ready for. that's for we were married as a long. haul and all. that's crazy that's all they said bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded kept going and every door it was company greed that caused this whole situation they knew what they were doing to us and they continued to do it for money that's the only reason they continued to do it. dupont refuses to collectively compensate the three thousand five hundred sick people they prefer to study the cases one by one as a result since two thousand and twelve only one victim has been able to get a trial. dupont was sentenced to pay her one point six million dollars the three
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thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like earl bokken are still awaiting at the current pace of the trials the last one would take place in one hundred years do you still trust and you're still confident that you will get to trial at some point all this wrong and out of the department of debate out of the fifty or more. there won't be a trial so. transfers are made living long enough to receive. orders to know you're going. to be tracked on which may very well you're injured. and i think they should straighten up. and i can write with a marriage. dupont refused all of our requests for an interview so we drove to their headquarters in
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delaware on the east coast to convince them to answer our questions. at the other end of the line we reached the head of media relations daniel turner we. are going to repeat the basic ways you know we meet and to make a proper interview you know at some point but first let's me it's you know i'm just here i think you can see me here i'm making signs but. you know that there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known the duple for the past thirty years. and you are that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints and season well you know the recognizing the fact that you have degree poisoned so i was of persons. ok. yeah. my question is ok i'll be.
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fine later today we are in two thousand and sixteen steals three thousand five hundred person we serve a disease a waiting to just have the right to get the trial i mean how long are you going to deny your response. ability are you waiting that day old i. doubt it will provide for your nothing else. no out like if people provide with. we did receive a press release from dupont. but without a single word for the victims. they claim to have studied see it carefully for decades and affirm to have always acted responsibly.
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in two thousand and fifteen dupont finally stopped using c eight the company was also ordered by the courts to clean up the region. but how many generations are still to experience the after effects of this contamination. in the chemical world history inexorably tends to repeat itself. it takes decades to reveal the truth and just as many years for the multinationals to be prosecuted . in their laboratories new toxic molecules are constantly being developed. but in ten twenty thirty or forty years who knows how many new victims will be poisoned.
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pitney. manning jim gilmore does should i'm concerned jellied entered into the jacob feeling of the single and i was in that article going to change isn't into what he calls a stance make the connection don't listen to his i don't need unsettling day believe that did us all living in a society is a decided acid of all the seeking and. this
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