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A lot of good stories and if its not good ill tell you right doctor to get heard but its been around for 40 years from malaria for lupus for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take it she has been my kind of house more from the white house. Well it was in a word utterly astounding President Trump indicating that he started taking the drug a week and a half ago this sort of will appear following a letter from an unnamed doctor in westchester in upstate new york who tout the use of the drug in this letter to President Trump which he quoted in the course of this News Conference now its very important to note that the food and Drug Administration the f. D. A. Has cautioned against the use of hydroxy chloroquine this it did about 2 weeks ago so President Trump by his own admission started taking the drug few days after the f. D. A. His own if d. A. Advised extreme caution in terms of using it for the treatment of coronavirus and also saying it should only be used in a hospital situation or in the Clinical Trial now the f. D. A. Recommendation followed a report by the u. S. Veterans Health Administration which did take a look into a small study in the use of my drugs a quarter chloroquine it found that the mortality rate actually increased with people using the drugs in its reported said that 27. 8 percent of those who were being treated for corona virus with hydroxy chloroquine the death rate was 27 percent when a zinc additive was added to the hydroxy quite a clerical in that death rate dropped to 22. 00 a but those who were not given either of these drugs or the cocktail the death rate was heart of that 11 percent so it was there as a result of this report along with another number of other global studies that the f. D. A. Made this recommendation a recommendation which President Trump has just completely trampled over. Now the u. S. Has accused the World Health Organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to spin out of control Health Secretary alex as are told the uns agencys Global Health assembly that the w h os failure to tame information the world needed has cost many lives. France and germany are proposing a relief fund of over 540000000000. 00 to help the ear recover from the pandemic the proposal suggests Member States borrow the funds together in an effort to ease divisions over financing initiatives well in the u. K. The government has expanded quote a Virus Testing to anyone over the age of 5 with symptoms it follows weeks of criticism over the number of daily tests being conducted across the country the Prime Minister has set a target for a daily capacity of 200005 the end of the month and in chile there have been violent protests in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital santiago hundreds of protesters broke coronavirus quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid. Mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continuing to rise steadily the 1st stage hours regions with no cases of the virus to reopen with no restrictions social distancing measures will be gradually lifted by june the 1st Security Forces in iraq say a rocket has been fired into the heavily fortified green zone in the capital baghdad it hit an empty house not far from the u. S. Embassy no casualties have been reported on the Nigerian Military says its killed 20 boko haram fighters it says it intercepted a convoy that was on its way to attack villages in baghdad in borno state those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour to stay with us. Im attached to my phone my computer my tablet. And it amazes me how in just 20 years theyve completely changed the way i live and communicate. Our devices are sleek and elegant. We store our lives in a beautiful child. Landslip. I started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. And then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. That it. Was. Our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i love it its a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. If bit. Ill other. Does. In china mess. Industrialization have put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. When it comes to i. T. Industry many people think its. Its grainy or natural its rain or some people think its even think its virtual. But in our investigation we find its not like that. This pollution is having different consequences but i think that the top impact the biggest impact is Public Health we have nearly 300000000 who are residents who dont have access to sufficient saved drinking water. Going to see what they almost see the how to shows you how many come out not. To come to your show you should get them to check. The over there its on them. To just its is a hold up you hold womans event i guess it was shy the ultimate. I keep thinking about the moment when i face all those environmental and social damage. River you know which carries all the ways to lake. River and waste old ladies suddenly found on their knees in front of me i was like. I dont have any sort of government administrative power dont have much Financial Resources to deal with this but i told myself at that moment in front of those ladies i told myself that. At least i need to bring the message out. I need to make sure that all the users of all of these gadgets they need to be informed about this. I moved to this area in 1969 to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didnt have the means to represent themselves. It was a time when most people are not heard of the semiconductor industry. But within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know Global Electronics industry. The. Top names were companies Hewlett Packard apple intel advanced micro devices. The virtually the whos who of the Electronics Industry. And of course the granddaddy of them all was i. B. M. When i got hired and i. B. M. That was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i. B. M. I dont need an id just write a check it was that easy i. B. M. Had that much clout i was the 1st microprocessor buyer for i. B. M. In the early eightys the idea of a personal oakum peer which was was on oxymoron right i mean without personal computer what end it what would you use it for anyway but it got legs and we started the p. C. Business the 1st year they shipped 50000. 00 units. And so we went from a 1000 a week 240008 week and it up oil the peace scene was launched. From almost the very beginning you heard electronics and Semiconductor Production was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they werent telling people was that it was really a chemical and lay industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and thats why they have clean rooms thats why they have bunny suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself over i got those a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would literally have to dip im in severe gas and with a sponge it just with armed with severe i didnt know what it was is i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldnt get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobodys business what what happened was people started getting sick with very strange kinds of illnesses things that didnt seem to make a lot of sense and didnt seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the Chemical Exposure on the job. One put music on yeah right you want to turn on the music from. But some good music on today. Right there. But theres a thing of. The. 1975 i was 18 years old and i started working in the Electronics Field i went to a specter of physics and they just hired me just like. I was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. And get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all the way that i did at that. Event in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of 50 percent little excise she didnt know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in 1079 and that was full term my months and were just really happy about it. That he doesnt even know to cross the street and not know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything whos number one or you know. If i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or fix at the time it was unnecessary it just. Breaks my heart that i could avoid it. Oh were filing this lawsuit against her employer and its a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe Developmental Disabilities and is a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. Marks condition isnt like a cold take antibiotics and youre going to be fine in 5 days this is life. Youre. Just overrides all that and you do what you gotta do to stay oh still do that. Im sorry getting. But. I discovered i. B. M. Had a corporate mentality. Which they kept for 30 years and it kept track of the causes of deaths of their employees the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was 33000. 00 deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u. S. But then when you look at specific plants like the i. B. M. Plant in san jose there was some extraordinary excess costs of deaths one was brain cancer the other was not hard to conceive the fall another was melanoma of the skin and in the women Breast Cancer was 3 and 4 fold higher than expected. That was the heart of this settles a lawsuit. In a santa clara courtroom today the 1st trial out of more than 200. 00 similar lawsuits filed against i. B. M. Former i. B. M. Workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i. B. M. San jose facility in the late seventys to early ninetys i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this cant be used in this case a lot of hernandezs not dead shes going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it it might prejudice the jury if they saw what these excess costs dusts were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a Single Person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of the factories and of discussion but thats not the way that we approach environmental or Occupational Health in the world we are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the Electronics Industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing weve been at this work for 40 years. If you look at the pub listening generated by i. B. M. You would think that we lost everything and thats simply not going. After the trial i. B. M. Matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims did not go to trial. What can you tell us about the settlements. Im not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and. Can you give any details at all. Did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlement all i can say is that the matters were resolved thats what im allowed to say. Here in Silicon Valley Chip Companies and the other Electronics Production Companies Used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once theyre used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. But what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didnt quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good it dissolved ing things and so when you put them into a tank eventually theyre going to eat their way through the tank. Solvents that the Electronics Industry used in production in Silicon Valley in the seventys and eightys are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. That spreads really quickly and its really hard to get that dropping back thats what were dealing with except were dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. In late 1901 there were over 100 families in one little neighborhood who had Serious Problems and the state Health Department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods. Well the Chemical Industry will often say if i know a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into a you know fall into a large body of water and so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff youre exposed to the more harm it causes you but what were seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that its when youre exposed to it the time of exposure so if youre in 3rd trimester and you get even a perp or 1000000000 or part for truly an exposure it can actually cause significant damage. We formed this Silicon Valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e. P. A. Step in with their authority in the Superfund Program yesterday. Yes. Yes. And i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e. P. A. To come in its time for e. P. A. To exercise your authority and to everybodys great surprise they agreed to do that. So Hewlett Packard became a superfund site until became a superfund Site National Semiconductor Advanced micro devices i. B. M. You name it they were there and they were all superfund sites. The cost of cleanup for i. B. M. As well as all the other companies has been tremendous its an enormously slow and tedious process. If you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. Most of the People Living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. And those same chemicals that are still right under where were standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and theyre actually coming into the offices of these Software Engineers a google. And this is the one that e. P. A. Said might take 300 years to clean up. This is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that were really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. The problem is that it just keeps reoccur. Please when companies started moving away from Silicon Valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their backs and. Their Chinese Government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldnt refuse. You need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together well they have all of that in china. Just. Listen. To. Me and one of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable Companies Like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldnt and couldnt make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesnt have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production. And sons of those who. Come in the new. 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