but surely unraveling more and more often washington in brussels by virtue of important foreign policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. in critiquing the system and 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 there 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 last just of sin to be her personal advisor on energy transition. most heads of state are ambivalent. not even you don't consider the fast. do. long. i have visions of their you keep us afloat you cannot be easy to preserve on producing items so that they are. style of play such an easy to transcend. don't ask. you to shop on it because you know it is just nice and you know i know all of you share. and walks off and he's told her mom in a duplicate bottom of their i don't know off. the key some on their. own full so you can see them in cincinnati so while you are. the ones who do that you see poor. no exist those insulted you don't see him. leave.

econo highest stand you know decent that i'm sitting there. and there. are. some days to mark that out for complete. 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 to 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 toyia 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 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 remain. we don't know 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 wrinkle 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 europe with folks in peru. hunter fan. mission director for the presbyterian

church in peru learned from pastor eleanor's talk of saint louis that another equally polluting dove run plant was located in herculaneum missouri. this tree 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 to 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 2005 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 a out. julie

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see you through. the night around. as you go in there in place. and i had to go and. p.s. you know more multi now when told within about an hour what is not simple do you have learning they're really going to i mean this year. if you haven't already gone to i mean this year. will they lived there so there's no you know. i said it was desert and gary said this you. know this is mr bush already said. then that what it get as good as a story. you need all see all the most in either case i need a laugh or it was her. or is that a guess that now going to. look in movies. and you know if you go see your ng it is hell. and while we're in the west what are your good evil and was it

love you need to see know. that it can be yet. there. 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 mostly by the. dea and also because of the. new operating proving the 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 town 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. where you are not. easy as you know. and yeah yeah.

again there were no you. don't need. this stuff on the farm. or the streets encroaching on the. only mother underneath and you able i mean it's just a lot if you believe it was only a basement. when i started and i'm not going to you know you can start telling the not at least to be a little you know you look he's been doing this you know because then it was possible and he looked a little you know it's a momentous time when he's on the scene you're lonely as somebody in the st paul school built his time it was for persona and it was in the lending not used to just look i mean i think most of us you will not i want to personally i can feel it i mean on the. right if. i wanted. to have some fun going.

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lead. on court of the united. because the persona that a kid even. believing in weird things by the way is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system it's a feature that comes equipped in the software of our program mean to try to connect things in the environment just in case there's a real connection. with. the conclusions of the study or revocable the foundry is poisoning the citizens for reuben the health of his eldest son one is particularly worrying i come from brooklyn there would be sure of this except those looking up the. so there it would

look at. our city go to. dozens of these see it the good earth there's too much. top of the work that's done the new work in the way they're not. all of you and your kind of knowing. that. 97 percent of the children had led snowballs. $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be crucial children in such conditions in the us from a hospitalized here in the us. plano. 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. as. people say so i mean it alleys it will be i'm open one of these you do you that claim but it's. almost as you. say but he says that lee. will be. noised i wish to hold us only so we're not going to get a little. eager to get him or sees us. he immediately is that.

in 2009 because of the lack of investment by ranko in environmental standards at the site and due to health issues this state ordered its closure just what it was hoping for. it's an indirect expropriation the domain of international arbitration. ira rennert 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. forceful enough to release. their record source of course. us costs us yglesias. yours by the race murder race 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 the state investor clause which allow companies corporations to sue local community government groups states nations if they feel that their profits are being undermined in a new 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. marrow and the st louis researcher fernando serrano were called to testify in july 2012 and we have sound scientific evidence of the great 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. so 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 u.s. 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 have children being born with lead in our bodies and that is something that we can see they're completely unacceptable like you know. if she would. noisily akiko needed a politico. they can equal exploded and then black eagle as you then either load or yes eco mad at a political bet up on me because i'm a noted. oh yeah. after hope you know that i mean.

i mean us have them what. have not yet. but that is but as this. better. 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 an important area. to

his lawyers over 1000 children from the filed a lawsuit against iran or just 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. 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 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 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 and go to the arbitration wrinkle was refused because of every songs but sure wrinkle can again wreak labor resealed the brewery of government so that is why we do need a. lot of careful to avoid. 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 particularly 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 loons 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 the 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.

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government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to them and when it's gone. but they haven't told you and they haven't told me they haven't announced. imagine something as big as the earth is going to cause tidal waves earthquakes volcanoes erupt and it's going to tell. so very for a while right. my great grandfather's quote. nobody would care about the law or prison so you'd have wallace those should have. a terrible life between the and the.

non action or times they were going underground broke us doing from one of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic is the 2nd week of u.k. prime minister boris johnson so-called lockdown begins coming up in the show a warning for me really we go to go to hear from the health director of a clinic on the frontline of the global pandemic and this chancellor rhee she said act like all the nato nations finance ministers rejects a universal basic income instead opting for arguably impossible loans shadow chancellor john mcdonnell's financial advisor on his new book on basic income and not.