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go out of my way to lunch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is going to say we are apparently better than that. i see people you've never heard of love jack tonight president of the world bank take. me seriously send us an email. eight hundred fifty children are now registered where she did the center. i did but to now to count but it was not that i am signed out so much to once again what was said upon those about to what they claim they can cite is that it says so much to do i want to do it was going on how does that example goes out of
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a job of us got that amount of us may and most of the damage that this second choice though can be good thing for any of us are going to mean that it is that is a bit long but depend on what they say the most as it will count that in you i mean personally i mean i can make good money supply subset them and tell you it was good but was it me that he made us all still believe they will be that funny number a remember that i dont is that is a part of what this ng is. not a surprise to make the i member i mean pretty damn was not about about the one you love me and. in two thousand and fifteen gave four point five billion dollars to it shareholders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination. for weeks we try to reach the communications department at dow to get an interview like you without success while the people treat was going to answer those questions it's pretty important i'm not aware. that is the top of my head we have fifty
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thousand employees i have. 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. yeah i did been talking about this here whether any resolution was at least. in the past. for me ask you to please leave. your. respects to our stamp here to understand you're arrested yet understand. we quickly realized that we were not welcome. yes they're. ok so i can stay there in the traffic. ok so we carefully followed their rules for forty five long minutes.
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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 him no sorry. i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about. 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. and. i'm not on the property here. no are. you working for mr t.
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there is the company are you working for. are you concerned about siri are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know they're all still clinton in one thousand the kids look rational she's just thirteen years old is terrible so wide though is not doing anything. i don't know sir. but it doesn't you don't mind that's never good so why 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 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
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. was working to make water safe and readily available to people all over the globe you know. nothing is more fundamental. nothing. in dollars wake countless victims and human tragedies pile up without any damage to the company's profit. in december two thousand and fifteen. the biggest financial operation in its history. 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.
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nylon. and tough line it was a magical material that prevents food from sticking to. however behind the success of tough line dupont hides a dark secret i just can't believe. and do. more than people. in. this respect. at the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg.
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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 . i took up 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 job i mean everybody wanted the money for the benefits and everything like that it was secure the chemical industry of the growing. by leaps and. i mean you can just mention to dupont name and doors. nope and it was like princes coming through the
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door you know. in fact the environment you can look bright future with. where you're at the so i was thrilled i was absolutely thrilled that it. 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 little bucky. when he was born it was very traumatic they didn't know what to do with it they've 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
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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 in a span of you know six or seven years where they took cartilage so for my nose a metal plate here. they stretched my forehead out so that they could use the. old one it was here still have one functioning. we had to put a hockey mask on him and it guards because he was in the lab the teachers face a whole. 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
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a key to good and to have you know so many surgeries and it's pretty intense from walking out of public 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. 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. 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
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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 that there was something wrong i thought that's why i connect. the scientific studies suzanne bailey found had been 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. a thing year or two. but in the meantime dupont was secretly investigating the pregnant women working in their factory to out of seven children born to the factory workers had facial
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deformities like bucky. shortly after dupont decided to transfer suzanne 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 send all the women home out. as well 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 he handled c eight for thirty years breed 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
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near him. and we didn't realize our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnosed me have a new cancer. so he had to take all my rectum part of my cold. what politicians do listen to them. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more somehow want to be.
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the two going to be prosperous like that before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters and let us. sit. there. for every morning since you're doing the same now continue emsley has to live with an astronomy bag attached to his stomach and he changes it day and night. at the factory he worked in a team with three other technicians. my buddies people i really love seen him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't him see retardant not up. and his colleagues were
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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. a met and can say well. we could have prevented a lot of laws. unfavored told us there's
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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 they were told the language 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 taken your own please. push it . dupont would not only put their employees in danger
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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 a letter. the siphon good form letters all the time saying like ants own bang 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
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or x. let's do have to do a. joe cocker's sought clarification on the matter. 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 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
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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 under the radar. for so long they have done nothing but lie for years the faithful about what they are. here because of what they've done there's people dying because of what they've done. during all these years more
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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. time and out of quietness for about seventeen years. and i still have time for a problem and i have our cholesterol. there's a ross machine we're seeing. today can doesn't have
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a colon 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 this controls don't want to things in my wife. in a way i mean 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 du pont headquarters the directors are worried about the consequences for the inhabitance they plan to eliminate all c eight emissions.
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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 no no. that's crazy that's all they said bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded kept going 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 people they prefer to study the cases one by one as
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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 all it is drawn out of the father of the baby out of the fifty or more. there won't be a trial so. transfers are made living long enough to receive. orders to know you're going. to be tracked on which may very well you're strong and i think they should stand up. and i can write with their marriage.
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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 base 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 think you can see me here i'm making signs but. you know there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known the duple for the past thirty years. and you are that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints. season well you know the rico nies in the
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fight they do have delivery of clothes and so i was of 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 response. abilities are you waiting that day old i. doubt it will provide for your nothing else. no out like if people provide us with the. night. we did receive a press release from dupont. but without
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a single word from the victims. they claim to have studied see it carefully for decades and affirmed 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 . in their laboratories new toxic molecules are constantly being
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developed. but in ten twenty thirty or forty years who knows how many new victims will be poisoned.
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we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but no news was signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people saying stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between brom 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 read literally send a v.a. growth and they don't want to pay it so the waiting in the decades
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