it's 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 they big business are often complicit. the vattenfall group for example had the chancellor's ear she even appointed its ex e.e.o. lawyers just of thin to be her personal advisor on energy transition. most heads of state are ambivalent. given you don't consider the fast and. long. i have is your. they're looking for you cannot use you to prison on producing

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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. 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 herculaneum misery. 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 you smell lead and then 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 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 went to the side of the smelter this smokestack is. tons of pollution what you see is the passive contamination of what's leaking out 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. quality of or

really mean. we don't know this one now and i'm only receive the really really know if i think you're going to be sure to say he. was that. he said yeah larry. the torah was noisy. when the peruvian state filled in foundry dover in peru to the ranko group in 1907 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

la roja which south americans call the chernobyl of the indies is ever more polluted. and the 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 europe with folks in peru. hunter farrel mission director for the presbyterian church in peru learned from pastor eleanor stark of st louis that another equally polluting dover one plant was located in herculaneum missouri. this foundry also belong to franco. the pastor decided to go there with. movie an

archbishop. 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 la jolla 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 was that's the same situation we're facing the same situation in our city. and the stories are the same same things that were happening same relationship with the company same kind of intimidation and threats same kind of denying that 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 valley no one to peru to do the 1st blood tests on the people of that over a our. journey printer plenty of those means to see when our own eyes to the. good but at the will . there are 30 going only was there they mean. he sees a load oh yeah. i mean maybe it was. then they do this without. know. and seal i love the

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following the blood tests done by us doctors the community is torn apart. leaflets are distributed denouncing the 3 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 ng. there are a lot and there were a lot of mostly by the. dea and because of the. continual parade to prove government was continually assaulted by the threats of the company which said $4000.00 jobs will be gone tomorrow local folks

desperately needed to 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. not. easy as you know. yeah. didn't they have it only that i didn't they know you and your way i mean i just love it if you believe it was out of the basement. when i found. only only at

this time in the knowledge that these 2. little jojo looks he's been. because the same is possible to look a little used to me just as when he's on the scene your lawyer somebody in the senate who built the myth of the foreperson of this will end up in the running not used to list unless you're not i want to personally i can do anything on the. right . oh. oh. oh. oh you. know you're the foreground. oh no you won't be.

going 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 astonied states disenfranchising the company and then on the other side the executives who are 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 now is don't longer a viable company. all my own to the company stable boy tonight for the. people who come to the. it's not. going to.

move. on which i didn't get showed up to move this because of almost anything i'm going to be i didn't show up and i must. i thought does not. cause it is a constant you must a much. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. the conclusions of the study are revocable the foundry is poisoning citizens

for reuben the health of his eldest son klein is particularly worrying the couple can prove that there was to be sure this except doesn't look at look up us so. broken so that it would look to work through. our city go said look we're going to do to you what you. knew we already know it's those dozens if you see it the good earth there's too much features for so he said this form of the work you just don't know it could look we don't know. lit the fire of all of the you hear the noise. you know. 97 percent of the children had legs in the halls. or some of us highest $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be a crucial children in such conditions in the us from the hospital i. yes here in

the u.s. . plano. there's 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 i've been. meaning to. get out is it will be i'm open one of these you julie you got elaine but it's not going down. completely until in order. to get a. really. good noise there was

a couple yes and he said no we're not going to get a little bit of very useful eager to get him or she's at the u.s. eagerly malky yes here he immediately really is that if you need here is that you know we're going. in 2009 because of the lack of investment by ranko in environmental standards at the site and due to health issues the state ordered its closure just what iran had was hoping for. it's an 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 so enough to release its own up. record source of

course. it's one of. us costs us yglesias. mean us by the rays mother he's going impress us. economical as you'll. 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 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 this clause 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 the 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 fernando serrano were called to testify in july 2012 and 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 of 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 hail 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 and then black eagle as you then either load or yes eco matter to put out. after hope you know that i mean. i mean us have them what. have not yet. but that is but i have this. 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 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 that important area. who is lawyers over 1000 children from laos filed a lawsuit against iran or to get 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. 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 and in 2016 the international tribunal found that renta 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 tribunal found that there was a violation of that treaty requirement and the claim and go to the arbitration wrinkle was refused because of every songs but sure wrinkle can again

wreak labor receive the proof you have government so that is why we do need to act with a lot of careful to avoid. the risk of the regular gigs 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 a comedian. in europe the 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 into 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. yes. you know world of big partisan movies lot of things and conspiracy it's time to

wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy

at tax solo down to engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to know on. one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules. that's what happens when you put her into the. troof will switch who is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's monopolistic access to credit or to politicians and probably both but the crony financial isn't crony capitalism that's the big problem.

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