pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot we've seen example after example where we've had to rush children from a public school to an e.r. like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this has been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. as a mom i think about what would i do. if i had to send my child to school every day alongside a field where i knew they were

he says her 3 year old son in law a kid and other koichi are sick from inhaling pesticides sprayed by large seed companies lasers are being handed out like candy to children almost all my friends have a nebulizer doctor issue at their home why the chemical companies are some of the strongest lobbyists that we have in congress yes i know there's an undue amount of influence they have but certainly. they spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year in lobbying and campaign funding to buy their way through congress. oh ok you know ok. minus. the overhead. is that. in contrast. to. the book on those. men. who get back. on the track even jazz often miles to. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. what do you do before you came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution and most of the time the victims' families they are very much

he says her 3 year old son in law a kid and other koichi are sick from inhaling pesticides sprayed by large seed companies lasers are being handed out like candy to children almost all my friends have been nebulizer doctor issues at their home why the chemical companies are some of the strongest lobbyists that we have in congress yes i know there's an undue amount of influence they have but certainly they. spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year in lobbying and in champaign funding to buy their way through congress phed. oh. even. manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. with the flame and. certainly the woman said. starting really in the 1980s under reagan at that sure and deregulation you had the fed takeover and their sole purpose at that point was to try to squeeze workers completely out of the global economy so wages never went up real terms signs that but stock markets keep going up and the reason to justify this is that the fed will say we need to try to take care of deflation even know that they are causing to you p

in november of 2013 when koichi passed bill 249 when it was the shot heard around the world and what you've seen since then in 201-520-1620 extension 17 is the inner duction of multiple builds all of which have tried to do you what bill 2491 fundamentally required the chemical companies to do. in 2017 alone we had 25 different bills and none of them passed and the question is why 2 things really that come to mind that have prevented forward movement one is you have a tremendous amount of money in the political system you look at super pacs and national politics and think you know there's millions of dollars there but there's money at the local level too and it does have an impact. the department of agriculture has been front and center in opposing most of the measures that have been introduced of the legislature that seek better regulation of pesticides i think our state laws may have been great at one point in regulating traditional plantation agriculture but clearly now where we have experimental combinations of pesticides being used on a widespread basis clearly our regulations ar

come at this particular time in the reason for that is because this is the 1st state visit by the koichi in me or 2 now he's been here before he was here for an arab league meeting in 2012 but that was under much different circumstances now he's the head of a delegation they are here to talk about bilateral relations to try to improve the relationship more between and kuwait but really we must say that what's topping the agenda here has to do with what's going on in the region right now namely the increasing tensions between the u.s. and iran those countries both the biggest allies. because feeling increasingly squeezed between these powers and you just have to look at the statement that was issued by the news agency yesterday when they announced that shifts about how to hit us about what's coming to us up they said that his visit comes amid rising and unprecedented tensions and developments witnessed by the region particularly the act which targeted the safety of oil supplies through destruction and strikes on oil and commercial vessels now the queta emir arrived about 2 hours ago he wa

pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why may od koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot we've seen example after example where we've had to rush children from a public school to an e.r. like the ones i work in across the state for severe lung problems we know.

pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot we've seen example after example where we've had to rush children from a public school to an e.r. like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that a chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. as a mom i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to school every day alongside a field where i knew they were spra