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eight hundred fifty children are now registered where 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 upon those about to would be incorrect they can side by side it says about did i want to kill me was going on how does that example goes out of a job of us got them on my bus and they and most of them when that big second choice the cubicle thing for any of us or document that is that is a bit long but depend on what they say the must visit look out that evening i meant as an a.m.a. i can make it on exert myself sit them and say it was good but was immediately made a soft although they don't feel that funny number a remember that i don't is that is a part of what this ng it. that no surprise i make the honor of my liberty and
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was not about the money you got me anything. in two thousand and fifteen gave four point five billion dollars to a chair holders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination of bhopal. for weeks we tried to reach the communications department at tao to get an interview but without success while the good portrait 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 sorry you are
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a shareholder. yeah i get been talking about both here with a new resolution because at least you. can look at me as if i what are you search for i may ask you to please leave. 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 don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about. you don't want to talk
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about the kids that are sick there i'm sorry it would 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. you know are. you working for mr neither is over the company don't you are you working for. are you concerned about syria are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know there was too cold i mean the kids look at russia now she's just thirteen years old it's terrible so why does not doing anything. i don't know sir. but doesn't touch you you don't mind
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that's everybody so why dolly'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 responsibility 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 dowen else 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 patterns.
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however behind the success of teflon dupont hides a dark secret sauce his can't believe. in lending more than people. in the dying bank. 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. 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 . it took the pictures it's you it's me. without grey hair. in the middle yeah you know i was so happy i was that was the lead job i mean everybody wanted there because for the money and the benefits and everything like that it was secure the chemical industry of the growing growing by leaps and by. i mean you can just mention to dupont name and door swung open it was like princes coming through the door you know. i'm far from the environment. bright future with. where you're 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 they 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 my nose a metal plate here. they stretched more or head out so that they could use the. nose here still have one functioning. we had to put a hockey mask on him and it guards because he was in the lab the 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 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 she is here to for.
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after her maternity leave susanne bailey began to suspect her job as the cause of bucky's deformity. a mysterious source of to one molecule in particular. the molecule in tough line that stops food from sticking to pans 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 in. it was very similar to what they said absolutely very similar almost identical to what he had that's why i knew there was something wrong i thought that's why i didn't connect. the scientific studies suzanne bailey found had been conducted by
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a subcontractor of dupont it studied 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 on his plate. it was a motto to do instead. of here. but in the meantime. secretly investigating the pregnant women working in the factory to bring children born to the factory workers had facial deformities like bucky. shortly after and decided to transfer suzanne and her colleagues to other departments. at the time canton whimsically also worked in the manufacturing department of tough line. he remembers
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the discussion he had with his manager he said can we sell the women home out all. he said don't worry him or her the men just the when we feel the. calls. so awesome. me. clinton whimsically was a lab technician he handled c eight for thirty years breed the fumes from all the samples we breathe. we just you know telling when we saw when you would take care of us and. so i just did mage all those for years. and we didn't realize who our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnosed me is have a new cancer. he had taken all my rectum.
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it was you know provision of my back going to what. we saw as you know. any of those it doesn't but that's honest. so i says you know what i was you know. you know just i mean what i'm already but it was just going to go. i mean it was going to go. if it up i must. get it i'm getting worse but those. people are going to respect i'm one of the. this by this part of this i'm going to get my will my body in which i see credible and i just but that's already yes it will be and he thought if you think of it i think with you you seem to me and think it.
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went. seemed wrong. but. just don't call. me that yet to say proud disdain to come to etiquette and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just of the for common ground. for every morning. now continue emsley has to live with an astronomy bag attached to 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 seeing him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't see
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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 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 at. a met and can say well. we could have prevented
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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 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 takin your own
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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 and the setting in my court yard to live with water in the flowers and we got our water bill and the mail on with that bill came a letter. the psychic gift for mothers all the time saying like ants own banging in front of over and you think about the next thing you know that you throw it away and that's basically what this was it just caught my attention and i started.
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then the flag started first of all what was say air which is used by the or what do you have to do. joe cocker's sought clarification on the matter. and called dupont 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 if you see this film is not in the 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 seeing. joe cocker discovers the truth behind the factory of parkersburg
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. 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 hit him up about it and they. 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 under the radar. for so long they have done nothing but lie for a year the faithful about what this stuff is all about they're all out here because
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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 can. and out of quietness for about seventeen years. to document couple. of times more and problems and her cholesterol.
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there's a ross machine we're seeing. today can doesn't have a cool in anymore he too is living with an astronomy bag of a sudden you don't function normally but you and. that's when. there is not any. any hope and that's called change. controllers. and just controls you want to things in my wife. and they way out here throughout. the document reveals that all of these victims could have been spared. on may twenty second one thousand nine hundred eighty four
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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 you're ready for. that's 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 and every door it was company green cross 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
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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 you're still confident that you will get to trial at some point. i don't think probably have to be out and. there will be a trial so. the transfers made living long enough to receive. orders to know they're going. to be tracked on has made three millions of
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dollars 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 doing a documentary feed 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. you know that there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known that people for the past thirty years. and knew that you were poisoning your
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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 the first sense. ok. the 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 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 provide for your for nothing else. no out like if people provide with the. night.
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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. 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
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greenspan doesn't really seem to understand that the point of having a central bank is to try to mitigate the risks of these shares are the swings in interest rates in other words interest rates been at through financial repression and they can look to stomp on google there's a term for it when the central banks are financially trust the economy they're stealing from savers that's the definition of a. typical. opening up and. in the. house he will be useful so please will be talking to. me if you believe. that a lot of what i think about comedy is good but i'm about the same as art but when i
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