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so i see people you never heard of love redacted tonight was the president of the world bank so they can go right many seriously send us an e-mail social environment . right. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is cereal is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. says since the years old industrial giants reaps the benefit. caused by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives 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 for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually
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i was born in one nine hundred fifty nine. ok my mother was accurate number. i was one years old so i can see all my life that i come from this area has seen the changes. beauty me real beauty. you might not see it but i can see the building. i came in was sitting here. and we got buildings right here and people would sit out. there we would hang out on the porch is here you got a bam right here going to see it so you see the owner of ports it is the number three does you know he. can kick in the breeze. make him play and. you know a watch in a sports game some girls play ball is that. we sit here and. we
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plan. this is home this will always be home. i'm just told that me because i know when the. republican congressman from louisiana said about katrina god did in one weekend what we've been trying to do for twenty years in terms of public housing so god was able to close public housing in one weekend while there are many people who have been trying to do that for decades and that's sort of
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a theme in the response to katrina is privatization public housing was privatized private developers were given the land private developers came in and demolished the good units that were there and private developers put up other apartment complexes on those spots which look nice. and are beautiful to look at but. of the thousands of families that lived in public housing before katrina hit the numbers look like roughly ten percent have been able to get back into their neighborhoods where they were before so the government destroyed people's housing turn it over to private developers gave them billions of dollars of subsidies and contracts to be able to do it and then kick the people out who had been there and those individuals those families who lived in public housing who were nearly one hundred percent african-american were not welcome back it was very clear that the official response on the federal level the state level the local level was you all really should go
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someplace else we don't really want. this one would be in my him you see there. because it is a wonder. you said was that it was. you know what i am to do is to. we were never. we noticed only out only to use. people to gaze named believe in. that we helped and we out is to come together find ways to support each other in these difficult times so we're not going to wait we're going to find
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meat and mike deal liberalism on steroids. and that is part i think of the disaster capitalism it's also part of a conscious decision. local government state government federal government because it wasn't just let the market decide it was let the market decide plus we will give all this public money to accelerate what the market wants to do and these longstanding patterns of racial discrimination economic security those are still there and they have helped mold the response to katrina and they've helped side
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who the winners and who are the losers. no really new orleans chose me so new once threw me out because we wanted to be a part of the rebuild about the renaissance of this town so i moved in two thousand age the expectations that i had had was to join another startup company that was going to be able to walk into a new situation and do what i do well which is help companies grow. there were no situations like that so people always ask what's the big idea you have for starting a company the big idea was i had to if i was going to do what i do i was could have
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to create the environment for that from scratch so loose it is only six years old but we've been growing very very quickly. we want to become the largest market research platform on the planet and we're trying to grow as quickly as we possibly can. there are a lot of tax credits this state of louisiana has gone out of its way to establish what we were calling is the digital media tax credit what that means historically thirty five percent of every dollar spent on development technology development engineering and you think technical software development wise could be. would be given back to you by the state so essentially. develop it only cost sixty five percent on every dollar which is a huge benefit to
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a group company. or we're going to very similar experience on a much larger scale in new york new york now is seen as a entrepreneurship startup technical center. but twenty years ago it wasn't in my goal was to have similar outcomes for new ones as for your suddenly new orleans in twenty years will be seen as the epicenter of entrepreneurship in the south. we're trying to be more the next version of itself. europe and the capacity to integrate. the refugees at the same time we cannot accept everybody that comes to all come from countries all
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countries have the control of their borders looks all come through so beautiful so as the rights to control its borders. can ballo rather. be alone than had it not be and you'll. have a lot of. our own soner calling from his alleged will be recreated tomorrow so it's all good their balls are going to be thrown over. there with the party i had. down there at the delegate or with a new. girl is the the dog everybody wants poor and the people here living you are creator does leg or bush.
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the recent spat between the gulf states has highlighted yet another middle eastern conflict while turkey is siding with cretonne iran against saudi arabia the long running tensions between the sunni's. just into the open why did anchorage jump into the fray instead of trying to pull the strings from a distance. but
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this is the same as does this is to say all the water has come back ower the same as have one small boat oh no one has got the money and all the flying right. you know i am angry at this point we are going on. as i think it's been a whole new war because that's when these. are all. huge challenges in oil and in terms of ensuring that people that lived here before katrina were able to return to the city when it comes to
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homeowners their own home program which was the government's response to help homeowners was having a discriminatory effect on people that were applying for grants. your grant was based on either priest or md i heard your house key and so because of historic policies. where in place and ones and many other places around the united states homes and african-american neighborhoods here are worth less than the homes in white neighborhoods here and what that meant in concrete terms is that we would have clients with a home in an african-american neighborhood that would be receiving. sometimes as low as fifteen hundred dollars to rebuild their house and then you would have a family in a white neighborhood that experienced some level of damage that we get the fall grants from our account which was one hundred the house not going to do. we. went to war there. so you see it didn't change and me was. just you know i didn't
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know it correctly everybody moved through the through. so. much as anybody on the property was able to fix the house right to get the funding that being funny how he wasn't able to pay taxes big wasn't able to sustain so they had been people from other states came in and bought up the properties so that was predominate it is not a. people who's been here is new people as people from other states also to people has given a job and they can't afford to come back actually because. they have they had to with a problem. to come back to they have to how they don't know that in a way to fill the holes is back right away i mean. what it is.
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to help to try to get to trying to get it to get them going to get them. so how the road home plea that you know because they've created big. to give you the money into your money hey i got to be a. battle in a very. big dream i want to bet they came in. why whole year graham senator a little while and she'll be all i want to make sure i knew you were a young lady came up to check and see why do i owe you a damn got back with a so evidently they had a love for months ago so i'm still waiting for an answer but i still warmly named gave you not to me do it and here come rooms are not only over a page of you oh yes that's right well i stand had a problem with whether the contract that they raise my house i came in twenty six thousand eleven the way they wanted to stop all the stuff they released. so i stuck
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with that. how to make you feel when and changing when you know helping the see here ma'am hearing i will i can only be here in this league and not come. in. just at the same. thing as they are to lose their after the hurricane for five years when i came back it's like a. maniac of the state in half and half so much i am in. it just out of the field. give.
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when katrina hit the president bush. and his allies along with some foundations across the country and people in louisiana said this is a great opportunity for us to try an experiment and charter rise the whole public school system sensually have a public school. that's a given to a private company and the private company gets the public money to run it but the private company decides who's going to be the teachers what are they going to have bus service what the curriculum is going to be and all that so how that happened was within two weeks the louisiana legislature at the request of the governor and with the support of the president had a special law passed the just applied to the city of new orleans and it was a takeover literally a legal takeover of the. thousand five when act thirty five was winding its way through the legislature many of us
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were still living in other places i was living in texas trying to rebuild my life. and then i was coming back and forth once i was allowed back in the war islands trying to get contractors and electricians and plumbers to help me put my house back together i knew many of the people were not in any kind of position civil fight the takeover of our school. within the first month they decided that they were going to dissolve the union which is one of the biggest union in the state of louisiana. over eight thousand people lost jobs in the school system union jobs really good jobs in the new orleans area the teachers fought in court they lost there were the louisiana
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supreme court said no you're not entitled to your job parents and you're looking for an excellent school for your side take a cademy is back in session our schools have some of the highest growth scores on the leap in the city of new york side tech academy is a perfect fit for scoring high and academics winning championships and tackle football and volleyball and working hard edge. to get into the city's best high schools and colleges we provide a laptop for every child side tech academy is located charter schools or businesses let's just be clear about that and what does a business do a business wants to maximize its profits and reduce its cost that means high cost student students who need more resources to learn or more of a lot billy for those schools so it cost less to educate a higher performing student than to us to educate a student who has a lot of meaning and they get to have autonomy to discriminate and we see that in
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the data. we begin to see a lot of the titles change there were many people who had had no experience running schools they may have been business people who will now become the c.e.o. as they try their hand at operating a school day. so i started working at ash at the end of my six months i knew i wasn't going to retire and. i knew it wasn't a place where i would become the kind of teacher that i want to be. yeah yeah.
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so these three are the first grade class or close to the end of the hallway and i was right in the middle of. the hall from kindergarden. posters everywhere the walls are covered. thanks and test. the student achievement on the test was a big focus the more students who tested well makes the school look successful. school is successful then they can apply for different grants and government funding schools with very low scores considered failing schools sometimes can be shut down or taken over by the state from my experience the understanding kind of comes down to a money issue. test scores were displayed everywhere in the
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classrooms and outside on the walls we had daily meetings and scores were brought up we would be shown. graphs and data from the different schools and discuss what we need to do to to raise those scores. and for the students there was one particular test that they were taking in first grade they were shown their previous score and then on the other side they were shown their goal what we wanted them to get to to show that they were improving getting closer to on level. and said like this is where you are now this is where you need to be and. we were. bribed with stickers and can being in parties if you do well since you like on the reading tests if they stepped up to the next reading level they would be brought pizza and
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cake you have in a classroom with all the other students there watching these kids getting rewarded with their not. all right armstrong collymore and i'm neal hoping. we're going to be your hosts for the two thousand and seventy confederations cup right here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities are sultry as sound secrets in moscow going to be great when i'm talking full fools also folding so i think pretty much covering every topic the fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to join us on field i it's going to be full of living. social environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made
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every day life easier but at what cost this is cereal is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. says since the years old industrial giants reaps the benefit ignoring the caused by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't people just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives 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 for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. this despicable. the earth there's
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a. tough week for the british prime minister she faces calls to resign over one hundred of the. tower tragedy. protesters take to the streets. moscow demands explanations from washington over it shooting down of a syrian fighter jet as russia responds thereby tracking u.s. and coalition aircraft as potential targets. and we now know the four teams through to the semifinals of the confederations cup astrally and germany have done enough in their deciding games we'll have a live update from our special studio in sochi.
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