the spirit of the twenty twelve olympic games will now be marred by a sponsorship deal with dow chemical the company many believe bears a moral responsibility one of the worst ever industrial disasters in bhopal india parties have a bennett looked into the toxic legacy that the games are adopting a controversial new partnership. organizers claim is the greenest most sustainable a limb pick games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this the bhopal gas leak nine hundred eighty four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsible zn our own by dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but has just quit in protest it's supposed to be an opportunity to showcase the best and the brightest whether that's the host city or the sports all of it is supposed to be about us and instead all of us are going to have the toxic legacy of dow chemicals that. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaked from a factory

that have have arisen from the allegedly that has been left behind by this boy in this factory dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising during the games itself but dow is allowed to splash its logo all over the curtain before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even going to do that says it's nothing to do with the protests but it does mean it's paying seven million pounds for something that won't even show its name but dow will still be able to call itself a sustainable a limping partner and organizers say their conscience is clean supposedly thanks to a green light from the ethics watchdog absolutely i did not agree with it it was the question was asked to look at the process and there were discussions within the question and i lie self presented a lot of evidence about what happened in all and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off that statement i've been trying to get that statement and it's because i'm able to do that i need to resign from the commissio

seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide the factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one but denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding dow stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people's building that water that has been going down needed. garbage factory children are being born with deformities people have more cancers there's growth retardation and boy death there is girls have a problem with their periods or kind of issues that have have been. risen from the ledge and see that has been left behind by this boy in this factory dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising during the games itself is allowed to splash its logo all over the earth and before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even going to do that says it's nothing to do with the protests but it does mean it's paying seven million pounds for something that won't even show its name but tao will still be able to ca

ming lives the company responsibles now owned by dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but is just quit in protest all of it is supposed to be about this and instead all of us are going to have the toxic legacy of dow chemicals. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaked from a factory in rural india the subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area a ten times the norm in the rest of india for was ten at the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and. i can believe that how it would all been high and the money's been. fair i got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollar payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one but denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding down stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people's building that water that has been going down needed union carbide fa

and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off dow chemical refused to speak to us so did london organizers instead they issued this statement from twenty twelve chief lord coe i absolutely stand by our procurement process and now we're by a distance the most sustainable solution to our rock and we are comfortable with that a boy called from indian athletes has been called off but in the is a limp it committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go it's unlikely they'll get their wish and even claims of a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett r.t. . well look now at some other stories from around the world this hour the islamic militants suspect developing bombs used in the two hundred in the two thousand and two bali attack is on trial when mark potok is the top remaining five specked in the bombings which killed more than two hundred people he was arrested last year in pakistan while trying to meet osama bin laden three other suspects have already been tried and executed. families of the victims of the

it isn't a legit see that has been left behind by this poisonous faction dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising curing the games itself is allowed to splash its logo all over that person before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even.

i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off that statement dow chemical refused to speak to us so did london organizers instead they issued this statement from twenty twelve chief lord coe i absolutely stand by our procurement process and distance the most sustainable solution to our rock and we are comfortable with that a boy called from indian athlete has been called off but india is a limpid committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go it's unlikely they'll get their wish leaving claims of a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett r.t. london. you can always find more of our top stories online at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now and stripping down to shake things up find out the naked truth about the message behind this ukrainian activist groups topless tactics on a visit to russia. and nothing says i love you like our cockroach find out about the creepy crawly valentine's day gift some love birds are sharing with their sweethearts on r g dot com. turning now to some other stories making headli

they're not doing it for our benefit, they're doing it for the benefit of dow chemical, coca-cola.hey're multi-national, take money from us and hand it over to those corporations. >> right, right. >> haven't we lost sense of what should be outrageous? >> i mean i'm totally outraged. what's amazing is the reaction between the belt way media types. even calling them journalists now in the belt way, we should just call them regime poll guyists. anything that should cause out ridge, these guys say oh it's not a big deal. we saw this again with the release of the str a.t.f. or emails. they are charging $40,000 for their service. these corporations aren't stupid. some of them are stupid. they're not going to spend 40 grand if they're not getting their value out of it. >> if bradley manning is stripped down naked every night, kept in isolation for 19 months because of a leak and george friedman the guy who found the stratfor, i want him stripped down and kept naked for 19 months. where is the goddamn justice democratic. where is eric holder? i can't find you eric! why aren't you investiga

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and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off as dow chemical refused to speak to us so did london organizers instead they issued this statement from twenty twelve chief lord coe. i absolutely stand by a presumed process by a distance the most sustainable solution to a rock a real comfortable with a boy called from indian athletes has been called off but india is a limp it committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go it's unlikely they'll get their wish leaving claims of a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett marty london. that's coming up to nineteen minutes past the hour let's have a look at some other news from around the world the leader of the left wing rebels captured it through after being shot in a remote jungle beach unknown right they are genuinely has now been airlifted to hospital with the government saying it's a mass signals that defeated the defeat i should say of the shining path route but try to give value to the people in the country to gangs battled against the state of your twenty

report on first-time claims for jobless benefits is out and we'll see earnings from beazer homes, dow chemical, merck and mastercard. also tomorrow, we head to a technology business adding hundreds of jobs in south florida and ask the c.e.o. why saveology is expanding now. it looks like the missing client money at m.f. global has been found. investigators searching for over $1 billion tell the associated press that the funds have been tracked to other customer accounts and banks. the firm, which was headed by former new jersey governor jon corzine, went bankrupt in october. it's alleged client funds were misused as the firm was collapsing. >> tom: indiana has joined the ranks of right-to-work states. it's the first state in a decade to do so and the first in the rust belt. right-to-work laws put an end to labor contracts that require non-union workers to pay fees for representation. supporters say the measure creates a pro-business climate, attracting employers and increasing jobs. opponents say it leads to lower wages and poorer quality jobs. growth and getting paid. those are two powerful in

the spirit of the twenty twelve olympic games may now be marred by a sponsorship deal with dow chemical the company many believe owes a moral debt to victims of one of the worst ever industrial disasters in bhopal india lottie's i would bet it looked into the toxic legacy that the games are adopting with a controversial new partnership. organizers claim is the greenest most sustainable a lympics games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this the bhopal gas leak one nine hundred eighty four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left a toxic legacy still claim.

of london's twenty twelve olympic games or undermine the sponsorship deal with a controversial dow chemical company that activists claim has blood on its hands after the bhopal disaster in india. that this is our carriage last and welcome to the. unprecedented humiliating sellout of greece's sovereignty and future that's the view of greek protesters the approval of a massive new austerity package those pastors are running battles tore through the capital with hundreds of buildings looted or set ablaze by rage mobs one of three hundred m.p.'s hundred ninety nine voted in favor of those who the bell rang out of their parties. the measures were demanded by pieces from national creditors and for a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout but needs the cash to pay off the interest on its massive debts to keep its rapidly shrinking economy from defaulting greek journalist. explains more from the capital. of the greek hello make years finally passed. it was. always had seen violence. hard to violence in the streets of athens it was the worst day since the violence we had the in two thousand

right now again it's very early there are over five million emails to comb through but people like dow chemicals that can not only spy on their competition but also protesters and again it's business for hire without prosecution it's having a middleman it's having what the intelligence networks out there like the n.s.a. and the cia call plausible deniability because again they're doing it through these third party services so you can have a large corporation like tao be able to gather intelligence on a regular met american citizens with really zero repercussions and who do you think should be most aware ia about these intelligence gathering agencies and and other words who is most likely to be tracked and watched by these agencies well unfortunately in many cases it's people like you and me when we oppose the system when we oppose the establishment when we do speak up at our city hall me meetings when we are involved in getting into the political process where for example in upstate new york right now they're trying to do a lot of fracking and intelligence gathering on individuals who oppose the

i met with the chief executive of dow chemical. he said to me that they announced a $20 billion factory that they're building in saudi arabia. he said they hoped to build it in the united states but they couldn't count on a reliable supply of natural gas because of the epa regulators that are making it harder and harder to understand if we can get the gas out of the ground. so they had to build elsewhere. the president's policies of multiplying regulations. he's been adding regulations 2 1/2 times greater than his predecessor. more regulations, dodd-frank, obama care, card check, cap and trade, holding off on energy resources, that has not made it more likely for america and our economy to recover. it's made it harder for this economy to recover. thank heavens the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of the american people is winning out and over coming all these burdens that have been placed upon it by the obama administration. if i'm president, i want to be the ally of entrepreneurs and job creators. i want to make america the b

legislation but once they kind of get connected with a network of national lobbyists whether it's from dow chemical or coal company then those corporations funnel money to the campaign coffers of that legislator are so they can make that go of a reality so basically if you're a new watch maker right and say these these folks at aleko suggest some legislation that may or may not sound kind of ok to you if you sign on to this and go through with this here pretty much guaranteed to get a whole bunch of campaign contribution money well the big loophole here is that you know a lot of states have you know fairly strong lobbying last interview want to provide transparency to the public to see who would help or asians are making contact with which legislators and what issues are being pressed but because american legislative exchange council is organized as a nonprofit as a charitable organization these legislators can attend their events hobnob with obvious go out and party even be reimbursed for their hotel and transportation they never have to disclose because you know it's an out of state organization

in pittsburgh and on the antioch line, we are seeing dow chemical coming home, bringing jobs back to america, investing a large sum of money, millions and millions of dollars in that facility because of the low price on natural gas. all across this winter in every part of america, we've seen homeowners, heating bills not soar but actually decline. yes, it has been a warm winter but the price of home heating in the atlantic and new england states and midwest, the price of natural gas is at an all-time low. last year it was $4.40 but five years it was in the $10 to $12 range. we are seeing an incredible opportunity for america. energy is the foundation, the foundation of our economy. and when you have a ready supply in abundance, you ought to recognize that as a strategic asset. and yet in committee after committee in my own natural resources committee, i have seen my republican colleagues put forth bills that would export natural gas, take this strategic asset and send it overseas because the energy companies can get a higher price overseas. they don't need a higher price. they are do

dow chemical today missed revenues as well. you've seen slowdowns out of amazon and google. a lot of these companies are forecasting much faster revenue companies than the semiconductors. >> a lot of people wondering, based on, what, almost $4 billion in revenue how facebook -- >> you can go to new heights that you can imagine. the thing that makes facebook interesting, you're valuing this company at over 50 times operating income. you know, 25 times revenues. but there's no other real competitor to them. google's trying with google-plus. i don't think it's going to go very well for them. because there's over 480 million, i want to say, daily active users on facebook. you're not going to use google-plus if all your friends are on facebook. there's only $5 billion offered to the public. >> right. >> so it's a scarcity value, too. what else will you buy if you want that kind of exposure. there's not much else you can do. >> i like google-plus, and i like it. that's just me. the last time we spoke, you said not only did you like technology, but you like the mining stocks. which