suspicious levels of activity accounts maybe looks to provide additional information but somehow one guy could have just spammed evo morales out of office so with all this talk of russian bots and kremlin conspiracies perhaps people should look for these cyber manipulators who operate a little closer to washington d.c. they look mop and artsy new york thanks to using up the international way back in 30 minutes and save them. which. includes seeking the system we of course we need to to criticize also the power of the companies and we need to criticize what corporate lawyers do but we also need

to point our fingers at the states and have we have to really say look. states created the systems and states have the power to get rid of the system that's and even if they are colombia or peru or developing countries even if they are mali and what have you the states have the power to get rid of the system if they chose to do so. but do they really want to governments that big business are often complicit. in the vattenfall group for example had the chancellor's ear she even appointed its x e e o last just of sin to be her personal advisor on energy transition. most heads of state are ambivalent. given you don't consider the fast and do. long. i have usually to provide their lucky for you cannot be easy to present

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with conflicts multiplying the power of arbitration tribunals granted and become more threatening. this time 2 populations one in the us and the other in peru where the victims of the same multinational ranko a huge polluter. is c.e.o. i rendered a wall street financier is one of the world's richest man. his foundry had poisoned the small town of her lanie a mystery. he is now poisoning another city in peru. the communities come together to defend themselves. back in about 2001 i was taking a bus from one guy you'll up in the central highlands of peru down to the coast capital city where my family and i lived. before you get to the city you start to

smell the city. you smell think you smell led you see the vegetation begins to get out. and much of the rock is coated with white gravy it almost looks like calcium deposits. and we stopped the bus and i got off to stretch my legs we were taking a break there in la jolla for about 10 minutes and there were a couple kids who were walking down the street with their mother they were hacking their lungs out they were coughing really really bad as we whip. to the side of the smelter the smoke stack is. emitting tons of pollution what you see is the passive contamination of what's leaking out of the holes of the smelter. there's no filter on that there's no chimney to get it up and out of the valley. emilia you know who you know you know the. polio or

really mean. we don't know this one now and i'm only receive. if i think you're going to be sure to say he. was that. he said yeah larry. was noisy. when the peruvian state filled in foundry dover in peru to the rank a group in 1997 its condition was no more polluting emissions. the company agreed to meet the new environmental standards but instead of investing in the site i were rendered committed tax evasion and sent the money to $2.00 subsidiaries one in missouri and the other in the cayman islands.

the city of. which south americans call the chernobyl of the indies is ever more polluted. presbyterian church became more and more aware of the inner connections between. the us economy and. emerging economies around the world particularly around the issue of extractive industries and we asked the question what if there was a connection nexus connecting folks in missouri with folks in peru. hunter farrel mission director for the presbyterian. searchin peru learned from pastor eleanor's talk of st louis that another equally polluting dove run plant was located in a herculean e.-m. missouri. this 3 also belong to franco. the pastor decided to go there with peruvian archbishop federal grant o.

. links are formed between the peruvian and american communities. pastor eleanor stock had organized a meeting she invited some environmental health specialists from st louis university fred mandel struggle and 2 representatives from the lawyer community. we had a conversation had a meal together and talked for a couple of hours really just sharing experiences around the circle and as each person spoke every testimony that was given from people in her kill any of the folks allowed or you would say that's the same situation we're facing the same situation in our city. and the stories were the same same things that were happening same relationship with the company same kind of intimidation and threats same kind of denying there

was an issue of same health issues in both places and. the mobilization began to bear fruit. in 2500 years from the university of st louis led by professor fernando savan know when to peru to do the 1st blood tests on the people of that over. europe printer killing hundreds. goes he still only to the you. can but at the will . they're also going only was there they. he sees a load oh yeah you can see. it was. the only delicious without all those you know. and seal i love them

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let him know really good i mean this you know. if you had never gone to i mean us you. will they lived there so there's no you. i said was that years and gary says this year. it always is mr bush already said. they know what it get as good as a story they will. need all see all the most and in the case i need a laugh what is her. foot is that a gas get out when it is a look at me. and you if you go see your think it is hell. and why we are in full bloom. what are your good evil and it was in a movie. that i can do yet. they had. not i see a lot of. the

. following the blood tests done by us doctors the community is torn apart. leaflets are distributed denouncing the misery vampires who suck the blood of peruvian children. they threaten with violence those like rosa morrow who fight to alert the community about heavy metal contamination. rinko then threatened to close the factory. up in the. cold. there are a lot and there were a lot of for a short mostly by the workers. and also because of the. new operating proving government was continually assaulted by the threats of the door run company which said $4000.00 jobs will be gone tomorrow local folks

desperately needed the jobs so it became a significant issue and every time there was a threat or the rumor moved through saying that the company might be closed or the approving government was going to be forcing the closure of the company folks would hit the streets. in their career or you know not. easy as you know. yeah. again there was no you. know maybe. the stuff on the farm will. be encroaching on. all the little other i do and i know you will let me just love it if you believe it was only a basement. when i started. going to iowa to start telling the not of the

trees to be a little you know you look sees fit. because they may as possibility look a little you know it's a momentous time when the sun goes in your low you know somebody in the senate pull who votes whose time it was a 4 person look at something and then in the living not used to list unless you were not i would personally i don't think i mean on the. right. you know. i wonder if. you will have come from. some other long. hair you are. only doing or if you really are you know the port of ground are. very very in the way you know to find out all those. years. we're going to know you won't.

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who to go to. move on which i. can show them to move this because of almost anything move going to be a good show which the certainly must. not so much of it. considers a. few rough. showing becomes a passer mechanism right so they buy back their own stock with cheap money from the fed and it goes through the company ostensibly to help the company but it's not it's it's disenfranchising the company and then on the other side executives fear

of getting that money from the fed directly into their pocket they use the company as a pastor mechanism so what happens is it leads to incredible malinvestment so boeing that was no longer a viable company. and the conclusions of the study are irrevocable the foundry is poisoning citizens for ruben the health of his eldest son one is particularly worrying the company can't prove that there would be sure this except doesn't look at the. program would like to work through. sydney go to. dozens of these. as for susan once they were 1st told the new york in the way they are not. knowing.

that. 97 percent of the children had legs and i was. $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be crucial children in such conditions in the us from a hospital here in the us. there are some significant cognitive disability there's some significant motor skill coordination issues children a lot would be losing between $1.00 and $3.00 i.q. points for every year that they lived in the city.

that he's it will be a moped one of these usually you got. your mental in order. but he says that lee. will be good noise soon is a little bit of a little bit. useful eager to get him or says. he immediately really is that if you need these don't be guy that you know we're going. in 2000. the 9 because of the lack of investment by raincoat environmental standards at the site and due to health issues the state ordered its closure just what iran had was hoping for. isn't indirect expropriation the domain of international arbitration. iran which attacked

the peruvian state and the trial took place in washington without the people of. that being the case please let us invite mr hamilton to begin his oral submissions thank you. for still enough to release. their record source of course. as one of. the us process yglesias. us by the race murder case or impress us. economical as. the treaty allows an investor to bring a claim against the state either on the claimants own behalf. for its own injuries for state conduct or it may bring a claim on behalf of an enterprise that it owns and controls for loss or damage that the enterprise has suffered free trade treaties have cost the state investor

clause which allow companies corporations to sue local community is government groups states nations if they feel that their profits are being undermined in any way past present or future profits. that means if local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits. they can be sued local folks in peru have real fears a lot of doubts about the arbitration system. feeling that it's almost like it's described as a faceless jury no one knows they're not accountable to us we don't know who they are we don't know who got them into those positions of arbitration put the decision making it took it away from local community and people who would live to reap the

consequences of those decisions and put it in the hands of people whom we don't even know. to give a voice to the community of love the regional archbishop. obtained a public hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the us congress. and the st louis researcher for the man no were called to testify in july 2012 we have sound scientific evidence of the grave threat to the people of the environment as is the studies have shown. great concern again is the multiple exposure all these toxic metals affecting the body and the effects and so in a discussion of the economic and legal in other factors related to the relationship between the united states government emperor in different work of the us trade for you agreement i believe i believe we must put an emphasis is we must make

a priority of the hill needs and rights of the people of illinois especially the children and especially the born we had children being born with lead in their bodies and that is something that we can see they're completely unacceptable like you know. if she would. noisily akiko needed a political. they can equal exploded then black eagle as you then either load or yes eco mad at a political bet up on me because minorities when he says he has the last couple yeah. after hope you know that i make us. iraqi i mean us have them what they. have not yet. but that is but i have this. predicament that would. e.l.o. . this much at this is a man that unless that look at $11.00 of my concerns with each of the free trade

agreements going back to nafta with mexico which i did vote against primarily because of workers' rights and because of environmental protections while on paper it looked to be very strong and robust and i'm wondering cigars to the peruvian free trade agreement is there a similar week this with regards to environmental standards and are we doing our part as a government to push on that an important area. who is lawyers over 1000 children from laos filed a lawsuit against iran or in a local court in missouri which had ordered him to compensate the people of herculaneum in 2010. to avoid this lawsuit. attacked peru before the international arbitration tribunals.

probably after filing the notice of intent in december of 2010 rinko ran directly to the court of the united states. in an effort to remove. claims brought by children. from state court to federal court they'd go did that by bringing to the attention of the united states federal court the existence of a treaty dispute that case played out over a period of years. in 2016 the international tribunal found that rental oh had failed to comply with that obligation under the treaty to waive local proceedings it's a very specific requirement the interpretation of that requirement was agreed upon

by peru and the united states and the tribunals found that there was a violation of that treaty requirement and the claim i'll go to the arbitration wrinkle was refused because of every songs but sure wrinkle kind of game reek label reseal the peruvian government so that is why we do need to act with a lot of careful to avoid adult the risk of the regular gigs we the brew we have will remain. a symbolic victory for the peruvian state which although not condemned is still required to pay between $4.00 to $8000000.00 of legal costs . and while the people of herculaneum were compensated those of lower roya have received nothing and continued to breathe polluted air. my greatest hope is that people typically in the united states will recognize the cost

of a wax legal system that allows corporate polluters to. literally get away with murder. at some point we've got to recognize the fact that while investors have rights. no one has the right to take away the intelligence of any child and no one has the right to contribute towards children in any community . in your ear. well those formidable action has raised awareness. european institutions are starting to act. in march 2018 the european court of justice invalidated a fine of 22000000 euros against slovakia imposed by an arbitration court judging

the sentence incompatible with european law. this could serve as jurisprudence for conflicts within europe. in making this decision the european court of justice seems to want to reaffirm its sovereignty and jurisdiction. the european commission is also preparing a project for a public international and permanent court to replace private arbitration. but we must be realistic multinationals will never relinquish the exorbitant power granted by arbitration tribunals they can count on the world's top lawyers to defend them and remind them of past free trade agreements signed by states.

all the more reason for civil society to remain vigilant and continue to demonstrate and resist so that states don't give in to the lobbies of multinationals. to defend the freedom of states to legislate. to preserve health and the environment all over the world. and to defend the interests of the people rather than the major private corporate interests.

i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's monopolistic access that monopolies have to credit to politicians and probably both but the crony financial isn't crony capitalism that's the big problem that. join me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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