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swings in interest rates in other words interest rates been through financial repression and they can look this up on google there's a term for it when the central banks are financially repressed the economy is stealing from savers that's the definition of. eight hundred fifty children are now registered and were she to be center. idea but to now to count but it was not that i am so doubts about you once again what was said of them goes over to what the correct they can decide is that it says what to do i want to kill me was going on how does that example goes out of a job of us got that amount of us may end most of the damage that this second choice though can be good thing for any of us or about anybody it is that is a bit long but depend on what they say the must visit look out that evening i mean as an a.m.a. i can make good money exert myself something that i it was good but was immediately bayless off to live they don't feel that money number a remember that i don't is that is a part of what this ng is. madness upright make the honor of my liberty
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was not about the one you got me anything. in two thousand and fifteen gave four point five billion dollars to each shareholders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination of bhopal. for weeks we tried to reach the communications department at dow to get an interview but without success all the people tree 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 employee 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. sorry you are
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a shareholder. yeah you've been talking about bhopal here whether any resolution because you still. have me as if i was. me ask you to please leave ok you're here. stand here you are standing under arrest yeah i understand. we quickly realized that we were not welcome. yes there. is tree line here ok so i can stay there in the traffic. ok so we carefully follow their rules for forty five long minutes. until the communications department has. decided to finally set foot outside. hello sorry to disturb you i'm a french journalist. relations and we told you all sorry why i don't have any
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thing to say you don't want to talk about boko. if you don't want to talk about the kids there are six 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. i'm not on the property here. no are. you working for mr d. there is over think of me don't you are you working for. are you concerned about syria are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know they will still continue the kids look russia now she's just thirteen years old it's terrible so why does he's not doing anything. i don't know sir. but doesn't you
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don't mind. so well dolly's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an e-mail from down the company in the manse 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 dupont. a match made in heaven. there's a lot of chemistry between. dupont made its fortune with dynamite. nylon. and tough line get a magical material that prevents food from sticking to plan. b. below that. however behind the success of tough line dupont
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hides a dark secret i just can't believe. more than people. dying because of what they. are worth a window in. 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. suzanne bailey came here in one thousand seventy eight to work on the tough line production lines. i went to work
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in may the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight that was my glorious day . i took the pictures it's you it's me. but that gray hair. in the middle yeah you know i was so happy i was that was the lead job i mean everybody wanted there because of the money and the benefits and everything like that it was secure but chemical industry is a growing growing by leaps and bomb. i mean you can just mention the dupont name and door swung open it was like princes coming through the door you know. bright future with. where you are at the so i was thrilled i was absolutely thrilled that it.
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a few months after starting her job. susanne bailey became pregnant in january of one nine hundred eighty one she gives birth to little bucky. when he was born it was a very traumatic they didn't know what to do with it they'd never seen 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 his home and the hospital. i had thirty surgeries
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in the span of you know six or seven years where they took cartilage so for one of those metal plate here. they stretched more or head out so that they could use the . nose here i still have one functioning. we had to put a hockey mask on him and the guards because he was in lab face. he had to wear those for. i would say three months one months. 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 you know so many surgeries and it's pretty intense from walking out of public and going through a store or a restaurant. so to answer all the eyes are on you. school when you go in and you're trying to make here for. all this she is here to for.
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after her maternity leave suzanne bailey began to suspect her job as the cause of bucky's deformity. a mysterious source of to one molecule in particular. eight the molecule in tough that stops food from sticking to pans and i went back to work the first day i went to the locker and i found 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 deformities that had around her face. and i thought that sounds just like back in. it was very similar to what they say absolutely very similar almost identical to what he had that's why i knew there was something wrong i thought that's why i connect. the scientific studies suzanne bailey found had been
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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. it was a motto. that. i think here. but in the meantime dupont was secretly investigating the pregnant women working in their factory two out of seven children born to the factory workers had facial deformities like bucky. shortly after dupont decided to transfer susanne bailey and her colleagues to other departments. at the time clinton 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
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home out. don't worry him or her the men just the when we feel that it can cause trouble so awesome or hurt me. clinton whimsically it was a lab technician she handled c eight for thirty years to bring the fumes from all the samples we bring. though we just. as a time when we would take care of us and. so i just did my job for years near enough. and we didn't realize our health issue then. surgeon diagnosed me as having cancer. so he had to take all my rectum.
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you know provision out of my back when i wanted to. ask but i. owe. your. boss because. we sources you know. so i know you're not. you know just i mean most people have sped. up as well i must say i mean i just don't get it getting worse but those. my family fussy about my just but that's already yes it will be and he.
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fears will people been saying about rejected in the sixty's. the only show i go out of my way to. really. is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of. the next president of the world bank. ok. rabbit seriously send us an e-mail. for everybody. you want to see now contain wims lee has to live with an astronomy bag attached to
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his stomach. he changes it day and night. at the factory he worked in a team with three other technicians. the 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 no. way i'm 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 two thirty four years ago. in 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 and can say well. we could have prevented a lot of laws. in favor 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 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 . you know back at night you know. you're trying to do reconstruction history and you can't do that why have you not print takin your own please. dog bullshit. du pont 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 watering the flowers and we got our water bill and the mail and with that bill came
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a letter. the psyching good form letters 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 start it and then the flag started first of all what was say here which is used by the or x. or what's dupont have to do with our. joe cocker sought clarification on the matter. and called them fun to try to find out so they put me in touch with a guy i don't name mr kent of a the. i'd like to know more about the cia if you see this film is not in the worry about about it was this. and i 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
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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 . project gates 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 had 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 law bill these of they got they were trying to slide
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under the radar. for so long they have done nothing but lie for years the faithful about what this stuff is all about. 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 us 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 all and when bought.
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and out of quietness for about seventeen years. to kill me a couple. i still have more and problems and i have our cholesterol. there's a ross machine we're seeing. today can doesn't have a colon anymore he too is living with an astronomy bag of a certain you know function normally but you. know it's one. and there's not any. any hope and that's called change. controllers. and controls want to things in my wife. in
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a way i did 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 in 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 the bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded kept going to every door it was
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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 thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like robots can are still waiting at the current pace of the trials the last one would take place in one hundred years do you still trust and then that you will get a trial at some point. i don't think you probably have to be out and. there will be
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a trial so. transfers are made living long enough to receive. orders to know you're going. to be turned on which may very well you're injured. i think they should stand up. and i can write with. 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. debase 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 i'm 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 boss thirty years. and knew that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints. season well you know the rico nice thing the fight they got delivery of clothes and so i was in soft persons. ok. 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 a waiting to just have the right to get the trial. i mean how long are you going to deny your responsibility 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 when they think. 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. 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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a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between bomb pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send a v.a. growth and they don't want to pay it so the waiting in the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay a. call for help and get the middle finger to their b.s. and model is. delayed and now be done. greenspan doesn't really seem to understand the point of having a central bank is to try to mitigate the risks of these are the swings in interest rates in other words interest rates ben and. through financial repression and. there's a term for it when the central banks are financially repressed the economy savers
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