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here you understand you're under arrest here on this and. we quickly realized that we were not welcome. yes or. 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. a low sorry to disturb you i'm a french journalist for the property relations and we told no sorry. i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about boko. you don't want to talk about the kids that are sick there i'm sorry it wouldn't be appropriate for me to spend it. so we thought of another solution. we would bring our questions directly to the personal residence
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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 d. there is over at the company are you working for. are you concerned about syria are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know there are two clinton aides in the kids look at russia now she's just thirteen years old is terrible so why does not doing anything. i don't know sir. but doesn't touch you you don't mind. so well dolly's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an email from dow the company in the manse bhopal it was a terrible tragedy that we will never forget. but they relieve themselves of all
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responsibilities stating that we acquired union carbide more than sixteen years after the catastrophe of one thousand nine hundred four 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 on the mend. in down his 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
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billion dollars with another american chemical giant du pont. a match made in heaven. deal and. 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 patterns on. the field. however behind the success of teflon dupont hides a dark secret sauce just can't believe. in line more than people. just dying because of what they. think. there's
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a girl with a window on. this respect. at the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg. lost in the eastern u.s. . this city was built around the dupont factory. 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 right there i took up pictures it's you that's me. without grey hair. in the middle yeah you know i was so happy just my age i was that was the lead job i
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mean everybody want to go there because of the money but the benefits and everything like that it was secure the chemical industry is a growing growing by leaps and bounds. i mean you can just mention to dupont name and door swung open it was like prince is coming through the door you know. him first one buyer and one. bright future with. where you are at the so i was thrilled i was absolutely thrilled to death. a few months after starting her job at dupont suzanne bailey became pregnant in january of one thousand new one she gives birth to the little bucky. when he was born it was very traumatic they didn't know what to do with him they've never seen
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anything like it. i cannot figure out what happened. he had half an hour. half and knows the eye is a keyhole pupil. i didn't know what to do i was fraid. i had no idea what was wrong. bucky survived he is now thirty five years old. but his childhood was spent between his home and the hospital. had thirty surgeries. a span of you know six or seven years where they took cartilage so for one of those metal plate here they stretched her forehead out so that they could use the. old one of those here still have one for sure you know we had to put
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a hockey mask on him and it guards because he was in the lab the tattoos face the whole. 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 grow and to have you know so many surgeries and it's pretty intense from walking out of public and going through a store or a restaurant. so it is you answer all the eyes are on you. school when you go in and you're trying to make here for. all this is your 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.
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eight the molecule in teflon that stops food from sticking to and i went back to work the first day i went to the locker and i found a 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 it had rounder face. and i thought that sounds just like back and. it was very similar to what they see absolutely very similar almost identical to what he had that's why i knew that there was something wrong i think that's why connect. the scientific studies suzanne believed found had been conducted by a sub contractor 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. it was
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a motto. that. a thing year or two. but in the mean time 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 canton whimsically also worked in the manufacturing department of tough line. he remembers the discussion he had with his manager he said can we sell the women home out of all of. these oh don't worry it won't hurt them in just the when we feel that it can cause trouble so awesome or hurt me. kenton whimsically it was
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a lab technician he handled c eight for thirty years to bring the fumes from all the samples we bring. the we just you know and a ton when we would take care of us and. so i just did mage all those for years near. and we didn't realize our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnosed may have been cancer. so he had to take all my rectum part of my coal.
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survival guide ecstacy just like all to start simply at least. don't forget the past. back to. its repatriations look at the rest the seventy years. bill of the separate kaiser report. this talk about blackness and blues of being black. and always will in a big house down at least that's what i've been told but it was simply did we in remains as such because we simply forgot i don't. seem we've allowed them to rearrange the plane you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy we came to face. that's what i call the lack of blackness or understanding the blues of being black. sheep the blues of being black should mandate that we attack knowing how
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when and what to do to come this simple in his national is being begged is simply to the feeling blue is black and blue. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last. year at the top to you as we all knew it would i
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tell you i'm sorry only i could so i write these last words in 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 feeling started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this will differ . speech because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. the. same now continue emsley has to live with an astronomy bag attached to his stomach
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. he changes it day and night. at the factory he worked in a team with three other technicians. the buddies people i really love seeing him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't aim senior in tara. not up. 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 two thirty four years ago. then 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
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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. a met you 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. 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
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told the truth they were told the language you actually know i have interviewed some employees and they were not aware of anything we told or lawyers everything we do. you go 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 . 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 water no flowers and we got our
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water bill and the mail and with that bill came a letter. the so i can get for mothers all the time saying like ants own banging in front of over and you think about the next thing you know you throw it away and that's basically what this was it just caught my attention and i started. then the flag started first of all what was say air which is used by or what do have to do with. joe cocker's sought clarification on the matter. and called upon to try to find out so they put me in touch with a guy i don't know mr kennedy they. 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
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to the bottom of it he takes to pont to court. after a long legal battle the judge forces the company to declassify their internal studies on seeing. joe cocker discovers the truth behind the factory of parkersburg . for decades 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 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 it sixteen years yeah before we even hit him up about it and they. say right here they chose not to do anything about it and they
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knew what was common with a liability if they got they were trying to slide under the radar people 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've done. 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 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 when bought.
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and out of quietness for about seventeen years. to document up a. restaurant of current problems and her cholesterol. and theirs are also shared with siri. today can doesn't have a colon anymore. is living with an astronomy bag of a sudden you don't function normally but you and. that's when. there is not any and only hope and that's called. controllers. and just controls want to things in my wife. and they way i did
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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 dupont headquarters the directors are worried about the consequences for the inhabitants they plan to eliminate all c. eight emissions. i wanted to show you these sentences here. but finally no measures are taken as opposed to their argument it's not economically attractive. that was what year paid for. france for we were married at all. oh and all. that's crazy that's all the bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded kept on it every door it
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was company green 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 thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like robot can are still waiting at the current pace of the trials the last one would take place in one hundred years do you trust and then that you will get a trial at some point. i don't think it's probably have to be out or.
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there will be a trial so. the chances of made living long enough to receive probably. more interesting those are going. to be tracked on which may very well years of strong and i think they should stand up. and i can write with marriage. dupont refused all of our requests for an interview so we drove to their headquarters in 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 seen you can see me making signs that.
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you know that there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known the duple for the past thirty years. and knew that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints. season well you know the recognizing the fact that you have to leave very close and so i was in the first sense. ok. first question. yeah. my question is ok i'll be. fine later today we are in two thousand and sixteen steals three thousand five hundred person we serve a disease that's a way to just have the right to get the trial. i mean for how long are you going to deny your responsibilities are you waiting that day old i. doubt it will
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provide for your for nothing else. no out like if people provide with it. but. we did receive a press release from dupont. but without a single word from the victims. they claim to have studied see it carefully for decades and affirm to have always acted responsibly. 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.
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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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fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to tune in to some field guy it's going to be fun. let's talk about blackness and the blues of being black. and always well in a big house down at least that's what i've been told but he surely did weigh in remains as such because we simply forgot i'm. being seen we've allowed them to rearrange their plane you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy we became defaced. in that's what i call a lack of blackness or understanding the blues of being black. sheep the blues of being black should mandate that we attack knowing how when and what to do to come to simple in his natural as be black and simply tag the field in blue as black and blue. believe.
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