Midwest community where howard hu and his team are discovering environmental dangers unearthed from over 60 years of mining. But dangerous exposures are found everywhere. In new yorks inner city robin whyatt is researching the effects some common household chemicals may be having on us and our children. Two studies in two very different places both measuring hazardous exposures, provide a better understanding of the unseen risks that we all take every day and the consequences those risks have on our health. Located in the far northeastern corner of oklahoma the town of picher has a unique landscape. Just steps away from homes schools, and playgrounds sit manmade mountains. Since the turnf the last century through the 1970s, the abundant underground resources of lead and zinc ore were mined to supply among other things material for ammunition used during world war ii. But along with the lead and zinc came tons of mining waste, creating these mounds, called chat piles, that have always b
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Said he would be a good boy or come rad. The dow climbing 89 points and nasdaq falling 1. 25 . I have to tell you if thats what you thought was happening, youre missing the point of how markets work. Let me put on my defrocking hat and away we go. Heres the truth. We rally because in the absence of any genuinely bad news from overseas. Heres what happens. We focus on whats really going on in the world of profits. Profits are what matter. The rest is all distraction unless it deeply impacts or hurts the numbers. Let me tell you how things play out. An event occurs overseas. Immediately its perceived as being threatening to the interest of the United States in one form or another. We know this because someone in the state department or the president or maybe just some negative analyst tells us so. Incidence tantly the Hedge Fund Managers take action. I happened to be rerouting my hedge fund last night. I think its because these guys are paid to be right all the time. They have to make mo
Civilians, not al qaeda, as officials claimed. We will speak with the author of the Human Rights Watch report jeremy scahill. In a university of california scientist tyrone hayes learned a possible herbicide may have harmful effects on the endocrine system. When he tried to publish the results, the company that makes a chemical try to discredit his work. We were surprised that when we exposed rocks to low levels of atrazine, it produced animals that look like this. Two testes, ovaries, more testes, and another set of ovaries. Then we look at the shadow lobbying complex. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Ukraines president Viktor Yanukovych announced concessions to his proeuropean opponents, including plans to hold elections, but it is not clear whether the opposition will affect the deal except the deal. The deal. U. N. General secretary ban kimoon condemned the use of force. I call on all involved to s
And our children. Two studies in two very different places both measuring hazardous exposures, provide a better understanding of the unseen risks that we all take every day and the consequences those risks have on our health. Located in the far northeastern corner of oklahoma the town of picher has a unique landscape. Just steps away from homes schools, and playgrounds sit manmade mountains. Since the turn of the last century through the 1970s, the abundant underground resources of lead and zinc ore were mined to supply among other things material for ammunition used during world war ii. But along with the lead and zinc came tons of mining waste, creating these mounds, called chat piles, that have always been a fixture in this community. Woman ive lived here my entire life and the chat piles were our friends. Thats where your birthday parties were where you had wiener roasts. Where you had Highschool Football bonfires. All those kinds of activities were where we gathered. Narrator but