some sounds a whole lot like two says that it's in the ok. this practice was confidential at the time because multinational chemical companies came here to test the risks of their products. to earn a few dollars the prisoners participated in several tasks but none of them knew what they were being given. what they would do they would put in tape. and stick an implicit in the bullets to get the bullet and then couldn't drop any substance would have it was that was it for in that area and what up enough to. all move move body musk investment. in certain areas along the at last. in money school around in the areas you son of pagans they need then it was informed consent for the was just in pain but

to wave them from being allowed will. if anything go wrong. one company did everything they could to keep this a secret they even paid leo this jones for his silence. dow chemical. the leading manufacturer of plastics in the world and the third largest manufacturer of pesticides alchemical has an annual turnover of forty eight billion dollars and fifty thousand employees around the globe. in the wake of this chemical giant there's an industry of staggering profitability and industry in a frantic race to innovate each year their new toxic products reach the market these multinationals all have one thing in common a culture of secrecy. they are following up.

polluting lands rivers and groundwater. behind the fumes of these factories we have discovered tens of thousands of victims. in india children are born with severe disabilities. in the us those who have dedicated their lives to this industry everybody will get it because it and the money and the benefits it was secure are now paying the price those guys are all dead and i should have meant by they are. faced with these tragedies the chemical giants have adopted a specific course of action. lack of transparency cynicism denial. in the meantime they continue to reap the profits.

in holmes bird prison dow experimented on the inmates with one of the most carcinogenic products in the world dioxin. it's one of the molecules in agent orange the powerful herbicide that doll produced for the american army during the vietnam war. the air force dumped it on the vietcong for a decade at the same time. the tests were being performed at holmesburg. from that time on the dow was already aware of the dangers of dioxin the company put in writing in this confidential note from june one thousand nine hundred sixty five. dioxin is exceptionally toxic. some months later dow would study its side effects on the prisoner's.

kind of thing. in the way. they would if. we would put some pace. with. him when. we found one of the doctors that perform the tests at holmesburg in the one nine hundred sixty s. . today he's an oncologist at northwestern hospital in chicago. sigman vitamin is preparing to retire. he is one of the few witnesses still alive every day i had. twenty. they were coming in all day. all day long people were absolutely it was. a

machine. in one nine hundred sixty seven sigman weitzman was only twenty one years old he was an intern at holmesburg the senior physician overseeing the tests never told him the names of the products used on the prisoners. he only realized later that he administered down to human beings we show him what dow knew back then about the chemical. this cereal is exceptionally. years old yeah. very upset. this is the first time you you read this. i mean and. i'm appalled i'm just very. it's so on. atul i also felt personally. guilty that

i was something. you know and give you hope it's just simple. it's. you know as if these people aren't just experimental animals and nowadays it would be criminal. was never prosecuted when prisoners tried to take action against the company the statute of limitations had expired. this multinational would not only poison inmates with dioxin but also tens of thousands of people in midland michigan in the north of the us. middle of. the birthplace of. here at the dol chemical company in michigan revolutionary chemical killer. this is where

agent orange was manufactured. its production created waste extremely high in dioxin. tao secretly dumped this waste into the river that flows through the city. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one man would discover the truth we had a conclusion there that it was a major source of not the only source to the river and certainly to the community and that people were at risk. at the time milton clark was a toxicologist for the e.p.a. the government agency responsible for environmental protection. with his colleagues he wrote a report condemning dallas practices. just as much right before the report's publication the corporation with six. she didn't pressuring the acting chief of the

e.p.a. in washington. we went into shock we had never heard of such a thing ever but the company that we were regulating they would have the right to review a report comment on it before it's released and where did they ask you about that and it was critically important to say that people were at risk but they did not want to just basically want to squash the report ok and eventually the final report they prevailed and so they truncated it down and removed critical sections and all the conclusions were taken away. pressured by his superiors milton clarke was forced to censor the report. the result pollution in midland michigan would continue for thirty years with impunity. and the executives that

would continue denying the dangers. there is no health problem and there is absolutely no evidence of the oxen doing any damage to humans. in two thousand and six one woman would attack the multinational again. at the time mary gave oversaw all the offices at the environmental agency in the middle unreachable she had leverage she'd been nominated by the president of the united states george w. bush. newly appointed she demands that more testing be done in the city and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever found in the united states one of things that was astonishing to me when this came to my attention was that for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed on. these high levels though yeah we found it end. and yards along side the river system parks where

children play where people launch their boats were fishermen put their boats in the water this is where people live so i immediately called tao senior officials and said we're very concerned about these levels we needed to take action as that unfolded the deck with company was not happy it's extremely expensive to clean up this much contamination hundreds of millions of dollars if not more. to lodge a complaint to dow goes directly to the white house. i was asked on may first of two thousand and eight to either resign or quit by the end of the day. ok were you surprised yes very much so in my thirty some years of working in environmental protection and much of that spend in the government i would have never expected that that was acting in its own interests the doubt was trying to make sure that it saved as much money as possible. as a result of these maneuvers for decades thousands of people have lived surrounded

by dioxin without knowing the risks. we wanted to meet these victims. but in the middle and it's hard to loosen tongues. has supported the city for one hundred twenty years and reminders are at every corner. of the bank the stadium the library the public park the high school. the shadow of the company is everywhere. about your sudden passing i phone lee just learned you are yourself and taken your last turn. here at us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for being so i write these last words and helps 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 more like it was a cave still some more fun to feel 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 and this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. pled. guilty she's old enough to post the official girlfriends. play golf now does the law is it possible that home plate. in a live show so don't tell you that you know. this is

the love. of julie the last but you don't believe the barbecue or not the bar. was i don't know that might possibly go for yourself it was based on fucking cool. but do you investigate the police officers behavior as well. l g drugs that work against closings here. calling people as you close. friends.

it's called the feeling of freedom. everyone in the world should experience clean guns and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. welcome to my world come along for the ride. only one person agreed to break the code of silence. kilter spends most of her life here near the river this is where she raised her family. oh this is where we used to have the zip line way back here how can we use they

have all trails that wind down through here i don't even know if you can see any of them over here. but eighteen years in. that land is very fertile. and it was used for motor cross trails and hiking trails and dune buggy trails and. just you know recreation in the woods very kids it was like a wonderland it was you know an adventure they could explore and they could build forts and they do all those things no one advised you that there was. no. we just that we found a magical spas for us to play in place of family. for nearly forty years the because ultra family would live here blissfully unaware of their toxic surroundings. every spring the river floods their garden bringing in

a fresh wave of dioxin. not discover the true extent of the contamination until two thousand and seven. when tests were conducted in her garden by the local environmental agency. the levels of dioxin were up to seventeen times higher than the legal limit for toxicity. i have my oldest daughter has. diseases you have. kids. disease. i would say all of them. a lesser degree and some to a more severe degree and my husband had a very. quick said her late husband herbert there was a doctor a few days before he passed away the last which was brave enough to. when he was

starting to have his blood drawn when he didn't have very much blood left dioxin levels were taken the thursday before he died on sunday he was volleying to do it. to ascertain that there was a connection. and. the results of my husband's. these. elders husband had sixty four point five nanograms of dioxin per liter of blood three times the us average. we married forty six years. and. have treasured ten more years yet. and. you know that it's been a major impact on my life. the american environmental agency has finally

forced to clean the river. but the process has only just begun it could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. however no date is set for decontaminating neighboring yards like. refused all our requests for an interview. the multinational merely sent us an email stating that we seek science to be. solutions that protect human health while also contributing to the well being of the local community. on the other side of the world another contamination is wreaking havoc and as a result of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in history thousands of children have been affected. but dow has never dealt with it.

it happened in india in bhopal. in one nine hundred eighty four the local chemical plant exploded. killing twenty thousand people and releasing tons of toxic products. at the time the factory belonged to union carbide a pesticide giant that tao would buy up in two thousand and one. the site of the bhopal explosion is still saturated with chemical pollution. over the years these products have spread into the city's groundwater systems. for fifteen years the inhabitants have demanded a full decontamination. invain down refuses to act. the decaying steel site is still excessive today.

here we meet mr shoe on a former engineer at the time he was in charge of the storage of the chemicals in this laboratory. just both. of this when it came close to the meeting and discarded and. writing for. a present but top of the day asked this choir going to the west pull up. and because ground. is that then you know it is dangerous because there is no proper. this other uses. among the products stored in the factory there was lindane an extremely toxic insecticide. today it is forbidden all over the world according to our guide the

soil surrounding the factory is full of it. this whole area as i look on it and there is in the local effect. that. they are dumping water from then on the ground. and i. made up the band's inexorable ride. on this as fuck and then just. along thinking it. benzene hexa chloride is the scientific name for lindane. we go down to the area of the spill to take some samples. the smell is unbearable. we'll have the soil analyzed just before leaving mr swan shows us where the pesticides were made. here beads of mercury by exposed in the open air.

according to the world health organization this is one of the top ten most dangerous chemical products in the world we take some more samples. as well and you know that's enough for. the results of our two tests are astonishing. inside the factory the level of mercury is five million times higher than the environmental standard. at this level of concentration the rich. of developing liver skin or lung cancers are considerable. the levels of lindane are just as alarming exceeding one hundred thousand times the standard level. this can provoke severe cases of cerebral degeneration. yet only twenty metres away we see children playing cricket on the contaminated ground. fights oh yeah

i knew that i got mine do you often come to play cricket here. do you know that's a chemical blend that is then goes. back to your diggers there is another you can. look at these children come here every day to play on the land near the factory they don't seem to realise the risk that they're exposed to. while you play you inside the tree and that's all outside and out and yeah i had to make it back to get out of my juggling it all got adequate millions of guns and that's. what i've learned and yeah i'm getting better and you get over into teams that are being made up of that. these kids are not the only ones in danger in both. the chemical contamination stretches far beyond the

walls of the factory. toxic waste has penetrated the land and has polluted the water of many neighborhoods up to three kilometers from the factory fifty thousand people live there. we went to take water samples to identify the molecules present in their wells. like in shock as family home. they've lived in this house for almost thirty years. the water they consume contains one point nine micrograms of mercury per liter. two times the standard level of toxicity.

that you. will feel i mean. good for you. if you think. the problem is even in boiled water mercury is still a carcinogenic thing. for. me. because sometimes. in other areas of bhopal it's not mercury but lindane that wreaks havoc on human lives. this is a problem in preventing our neighborhood situated one kilometer away from the factory. the municipality has had drink above water since two thousand and eleven but for many years the inhabitants have been drinking severely polluted water.

that's the case for ruth money and her thirteen year old daughter ruch now since her birth she's suffered from limited mental development and muscular dystrophy she can neither talk nor stand up by herself. money her mother drank contaminated water every day during her pregnancy. that. most people. a few months after rush nose birth a governmental study was conducted in the area the levels of lindane were extremely high in the water seventeen times the world health organization limit. did you know about the want to drink you when you were pregnant was full of this inside from the factory then why didn't we want to get in a little blue day why do you say i mean this is what's going into wash no no.

this isn't this it is. elizabeth not going to even deliver the what it was. due to her disability rush has never been able to go to school every day she comes to the rehabilitation center. without these daily exercises she would be completely paralyzed today. is the founder of the center she has watched all these children grow up. that is if anybody even anybody but not give you money but at the you know you have done this that you can find it decided to buy the zip line is he. going to go buy

that bag how did all that get by the gun but to some of it. john manning james olmos mr jenkins and then talking to fill in the thing that i'm assuming in that equal distances means only those the stands make that connection don't. lead and certainly in the old movie that doesn't necessarily this is

a downside as. thank. you let's talk about black and blue of being black. and always well in a big house down the any steps where i've been told anybody should leave that way and remains as such because we simply forgot i don't believe. the scene we've allowed them to rearrange outplaying you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy we became defaced. 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 when and what to do to come this simple in his national has been begging to simply to the feeling blue is black and blue. the nightmare. i got a little bit was the awful. breaking

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