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that's already been cooking to thirty seconds. for just one minute at a high temperature the strongest legged blocking source is then added into the sicily. so awesome that we have it. looks wonderful generous portions to. the process. right now it's hard to. see. well at least you know if you're hungry they cook the food here extremely fast thumbs up. when we finish this my favorite. whether you're looking for a green curry or. the restaurant is a safe and a great place to come. the most russians don't like spicy food here it's
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chopsticks at the ready it's one of the most popular holiday destinations for muscovites this restaurant means locals can get that high stakes pool around. dishes representing various countries in our restaurant. the most popular guests even though it's pretty spicy. it's so lovely to see outside in september before it gets too cold the more i see anything the more i. write. wow look at bats we have at my back me. smells great and it just goes to prove that whether you want. japanese when it comes to asian restaurants moscow will never to deliver a strike. you better leave me to do this i'll see you get the same time next week. and.
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with live from moscow all nice now way with headlines a polish court has released a chechen militant wanted by moscow pending extra this increase in defense russia has called on warsaw to handover ahmed's a cry of who was accused of terror and the trial cities in the north caucuses he was detained upon arrival in poland from the u.k. where he house political asylum. preparations for saturday's parliamentary vote in afghanistan are marred by asking waving violence the taliban stepping up threats and to mappings of candidates and election workers. and an attempt on the life of an alleged top mafia boss right in the city center puts him in hospital investigators point out a blood feud and turf war as possible motives behind the attack. now it's time for our team's report on one caribbean island which is struggling with the presence of a u.s. naval base. called
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this is the eastern end of the island which is where all the bombs. drop. the navy used to. these one thousand acres. and the. fish and wildlife. from here on. this. sector and this is. the area. and from there. when the winds blow in this direction. any contamination that is produced bombs. depleted uranium. for their use in the target area they carry
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a. population area. for the last sixty years we have been breathing. and the reason why we have. over a twenty seven percent high cancer rate than the rest of the island of puerto rico but look at this beautiful. miles and of clear waters white. not a beer can. an example for the rest of the country. to relieve you. is worth every little bit of struggle. getting back to.
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the old. days. is not convenient for a small community in one thousand be believed on the name the legend now is setting precedent. and then all the communities like ok now australia and people that go on the internet as disease how we do know how and how we fight at would you do the same. thing. on this. site oh this song. because said it. and the navy gets over ninety a million dollars a year for renting the fire range in the eastern end of the island yet. they still
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ring that area to all nato nations all ice come in bombing and the people of the it is the government of that does not get a sense of those ninety eight million dollars. so it's very hard to let go they do tend to spoil when no one in town has diabetes our civil disobedience represents that diabetes because every time that we interrupt their maneuvers i mean they do see money. the act is a small island off the eastern coast of puerto rico in the caribbean sea the spanish crown claimed the island in fourteen ninety three following columbus a second voyage to the america in one thousand nine hundred eight the u.s. evicted spain from the caribbean following the spanish-american war. and with it be
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a case became a military possession of the united states. for years the u.s. was pressured to ground point to take away their statehood or independence but refused the offer either instead commonwealth emerged as a compromise allowing some local autonomy but the u.s. retain control over defense transportation immigration communication and foreign trade. american citizens they can be drafted they cannot vote for president today because the only former spanish colony in the americas that never gained independence and be a case has remained upon in the complicated relationship between the united states and puerto rico. i was born in puerto rico the thirtieth of september one thousand forty six. i moved to be the age of three months old i went to school here i grew up in
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this house i graduated high school late in sixty four believe years of night in sixty five i married my first wife and when she became pregnant i had to stop my studies and go to new york so that she could be here especially. i arrived in new york on february ninth being nine hundred sixty six i found myself with four different jobs factories which i didn't care for i would quit so i wrote my journey beyond me. when i got to i worked in the communications center for six days and i was going crazy over one hundred teletypes going to the same time and the only way to get out of there was volunteered to go infantry so i did i was a completely dedicated soldier i got even bronze stars for service
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a war. i carried seventy two missions as a point man i was an expert reading maps in kompas i lead the group into the jungle i could find my way around the tropical jungle zus zion grown up here as i. am learning english the learning part of the culture. so i am becoming influenced by the youth movement. then i realised that we had no business being there. after that i lost. my whole tour went for six years then i came out of the. bill to become the commercial artist. i consider it one of my my ways of contributing to the struggle is
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a means of communications has been a means of communications throughout the history of the world from the cage. to present time once it is finished people will see it and words that are printed remain printed it cannot be carried away by the wind like spoken the words and if it helps my island. and. is in my contribution to the struggle because i have how we paint anything else. then the struggle of the it is since i can remember these nine hundred eighty one. basically all i paint body is any stroebel. and. let.
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in one thousand forty one as german forces found across here at the united states declared a national emergency and expropriated twenty one thousand acres in. the intention was to create a naval base big enough to accommodate the entire british navy should germany defeat england. even those who are opposed to the us presence and. were reluctant to criticize expropriations that were done in the name of defeating fascism. after the war the us navy decided that it would be used instead as a target area and training site and seize another four thousand acres on the island . on the western and the navy built hundreds of bunkers to store the weapons on the eastern and they created a target zone to detonate. for almost sixty years the citizens of. and only twenty three percent of the island sandwiched between a weapon steeple and a bombing so. i
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want all of this whenever i have a chance when someone brings me here so that i may reminisce about how things were it's not easy. in this area here more or less is where our house used to be. the navy had a can see who was. in charge of delivering the terrible messages. and he said to my mom looks trina that was my mother's nickname i come to give you the message that you have to move from this area because the navy has bought it and my mother who never went to school not a professor but who understood that she was born in this area and was raised there because she said to him look this is mine this is my house i have lived here all my life she didn't leave him because she thought it was unheard of and we stayed
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the next day the bulldozers arrived to knock down the house. i mean my muscle and my mother only had time to run into the house and grab a bed sheet and i don't know because we were not rich we were poor and humble people but it was our. pick up some john is it some pots tied the bed sheets by the four corners and run to the street to watch the machine knocking down the house and police and first i thought it was a big toy four years old totally innocent but my mother when i looked at her face she was crying. i invaded create this fear i came in the marine nineteen fifty fifty one
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we stalled the beach. we play. we did the full maureen corps storming of the beaches and be acres in training for what we would have to build in korea. i'd put in. over a year and foxholes. this charge that came back to take a look here also the us a message was the same family as they were we had puerto rican people and who didn't come back. i was one of the intentions but i didn't really want to see what the reactors looked like with. the name of the. three or as soon as i was able to come back. i've
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had. four since the early sixties way first. the reality of the situation it was a politically one of the seventy eight municipalities of puerto rico but in real life it's a world apart. and historically has been used as the bargaining chip between the. washington and want not with. washington gets the bases sour wine gets the bark. that. the navy has not contributed in any way to. really know. ground troop inspections or. the navy never had
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more than a person out on the. became kind of thing. for weaponry you know try a french exercise and as all british jazz. they were advertising they used by any allies already qualified certified inventor try anything here. a second to a good doing is advertised. as to their shooting gallery and be acres for any size you and i. may wonder if a fleet of. worldwide inventory of events from no and non conventional weapons.
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figures has no traffic jams there are no chimneys there are no plastic factories on the hills dumping stuff and so the old mill stream. there's nothing between us on the coast of africa. three thousand miles of open ocean and one bombing range. meanwhile where are. all these heavy metal oracles which you're identified as explosive residue. i played soldiers where. i had no idea of heavy metals and p.c.b. . the continue to fight sort of napalm and so forth. we're talking about a silent invisible killers in the air that i get angry i get angry and hazy has poisoned me. always on my wife or even my children poison my grandchildren
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my neighbors and so forth. reba. my name is made a leader not a guy. i've been living in vehicles for thirty seven years. i moved here with my husband charley to drop out and because it was the perfect place for what we wanted which was to live off the land while the sea trolley was fishing. and raise a family by the sea it was an idol come true. i found out i had. at a time in my life when i was feeling so wonderful i felt great now.
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very active and. commentary from many friends wow great you glow really glowing wonderful and when i had been having some symptoms. i went to the doctor. it was on a thursday. and monday the next week i was and. it was an unforgettable day for me because we had a town dissembling that day and we were paying homage to former community members die from cancer. and i almost laughed as i was sitting there waiting to get up because i'm thinking you know. well we're fighting about here is big statistics and now i have become one of the statistics. and dammit i am good to make the baby safe and
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there's. we did heavy metals testing on everybody in our family doug read the little babies all three generations every single person that was tested in this family for heavy metals is contaminated at toxic levels. been through neutering cancer extraction of my reproductive organs radiation treatments etc. i mean you never know is it going to come back is it going to spread is it going to do this out of the other you have to take it day by day we're time doing and i feel great. and if it comes back i feel that. i've got a hell of a lot more knowledge right now as to how to keep myself feeling good.
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what i must deal with right now is a health situation in this community where the rate of cancer is twenty seven percent higher than the rest of puerto rico and growing. if you do get cancer you have fifty percent more probability of dying here than in puerto rico. kids between the age of eleven and nineteen have more than a fifty percent chance contracting cancer and their peers in puerto rico that time except. we have undergone a process where we are now away we are now alert and we're ready you know to get out there and be advocates for ourselves.
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the first time like interview because it was in the ninety's. i wanted to go. back to puerto rico i used to live in new york for thirty years with my children some my wife and i decided to go to puerto rico but my friend. told me why don't you come to v.a. because you know this is like a pot of i.c.u. you can buy a piece of land then build a house i said i will go over there and. have a look and see if i like it so i came and i like it. when i was in the yard i didn't know a thing about the problem of because i knew all that my friend and me knowing big as we got in the navy don't want to leave you come to vegas you and we don't have nothing to do with the navy that's something that is all that they are and that's their business we didn't pay attention to that. what really makes me
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change my mind was the case of my friend the one who mean to come into vehicles. used to eat. shellfish. and this shellfish was picked up by his father in the who was a fisherman he used to collect these fish from the naria and the fact sown. he got sick. two years later he died in the central many goings on one. couple of months before he died they did the hay stool and blood test for heavy metals and he came out point six single point twelve of you running them you came on point six zero lead. and arsenic and lead america. and the doctor said that this is impossible the human being cannot hold all these
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gun timing nation in his body so they did it twice. and then he came out again the same. in the hospital scenes he's very ill the day of his burial i was in the cemetery when these golfing when down the hall i commit myself i will join the. navy will leave. contaminated to. when my friend i one month after we buried him i started coming to the meetings showing people how we how we do see even disobedience what will happen when they come to our cause so i fall in love with this troll. for all the things that i did in my life i work in this because for almost eight years when i was like
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seventeen years old. and i was a commercial artist and i did so many things in my life so i said the most interesting part of my life is getting involved with this people in this struggle because this is a really to do with life with people so i fall in love with this. and here i know. in the roof people thing about this struggle is that different people do different things to different people contribute to the struggle in different ways my my part is i both human struggle on the comedy. i don't do it for profit i do it for nothing be something that i love to do i give all of my time in this and many other people do this thing being the artist to the euro the painting the food and people contribute in different ways that's why our goals are going to be called
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police. to. stop the bombing and because the radio. the navy i came to the casting ninety one to work i came here to work and stayed for eleven years already i got married to have a sauna how it looks like i'll be here for a while in the accounts. i have a lot of pressure on me from my parents mine alone sometimes they've said you are irresponsible if you don't take care of you child you spend all your time on the streets if the land is going to leave. but we believe that when we strengthen women we strengthen the family. the women's alliance will be a case of really strong the concerns of lead a city that a college and a friend who works with schools at
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a time when you didn't hear the presence of the military. so it up yes we knew about the moment yes there were going to work in on the issue of the military presence and much to our surprise there were very few women participating. in the by the way i invited gladys to my house and i said look. i'm so upset so we decided let's announce in return of the women a few cans and see what happens. we were surprised because we were all professional women housewives different political ideologies and religions. because in reality we had our differences other than our views regarding of the military presence. nevertheless it was the issue that was able to bring us together.
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