what's interesting about this talk about democracy and about china whether or not it's become a democrat because we believe it is in a very different different way is that the western democracies are so dysfunctional these days the western in their lockers see the parliaments are paralyzed all over the place and clean the latest examples australia and almost all the represented democracies are including india and japan. so what what's happening to the traditional so-called universal western democracies have the same time that there are other countries struggling for maybe a new a new manifestation of how are you sure that in the end the people right ok i saw we have time here for i want to thank our guest for our discussion here on the politics of recession and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are t. see you next time and remember crosstalk rules.

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live from our studios in central moscow this is our teeth certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at our headlines now one of russia's most wanted terror suspects has been released after a polish court turned down the prosecutor's request for his forty day arrest. was detained as he arrived in the polish capital of warsaw to take part in an international conference on chechnya however psychiatry is still pending a court hearing on whether he can be ended over to russian authorities. afghanistan's president hamid karzai has urged citizens to vote in saturday's parliamentary election and ignore threats from the taliban at least twenty four people have been killed and eighteen abducted in election related attacks across the country the violence has escalated despite increased police efforts to provide safety. a suspected russian mafia boss is being treated at

a moscow hospital after an attempt on his life nicknamed grandpa his son he is thought to have fallen victim to a gang land turf war reports say the hit man missed the target with several shots before skipping from a nearby building. now it's time for our special report for almost sixty years the residents of the puerto rican island of have endured their home being used as a firing range by the u.s. navy however when a misfired shell killed an islander a harsh new light was shed on the economic and environmental problems endured by locals.

the navy called it green. this is the furthest western. in relation to. the act is continuous very. southern coast based. on the claims of nature. this is the eastern end of the island which is where all the bombs. drop. the navy used. these eight thousand acres.

and the. fish and wildlife. from here on. this is. this is. the area. and from there. when the winds blow in this direction. any contamination that is produced bombs depleted uranium so on and so forth that are used in the target area they carry a. population area. for the last sixty years we have been breathing. and we have. percent higher cancer rate. but look at these beautiful beach miles on and off. white thing.

not to be a canon site an example for the rest of the country to really view. is worth every little bit of struggle. getting back to. the old. days. is not convenient for a small community in one thousand be believed on the name the legend he now is said of presley. and then all the communities like ok now australia and people that go on the internet is dizzy how we do know how and how we fight at would you do the same. thing. on

this. site on this song. and the navy gets over ninety a million dollars a year for renting the fire range in the eastern end of the island and yet. they still ring that area to all nato nations all allies come from bombing and the people of the it is the government of that does not get a sense out of those ninety eight million dollars. so it's very hard to let go of the good candy store when no one in town has diabetes our civil disobedience

represents the diabetes because everything that we need to run their maneuvers means they do see money. the eight case 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 to recall and with it be 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 when because the only former spanish colony in the americas that never gained independence and be a case has remained a pawn in the complicated relationship between the united states and puerto rico. i was born in puerto rico the thirtieth of december night in forty six. i moved to be at the age of three months old i went to school here i grew up in this house i graduated high school making sixty four 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 and being nine hundred sixty six. i found myself with four different jobs factories which i didn't care for i would quit so i to run my joining the army. 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 a war i carried seventy two missions disappointment i was an expert reading maps in kompas i lead the group into the jungle. i can find my way around the tropical jungle zig zag grown up here.

i am learning english i'm also learning part of the culture. so i am becoming influenced by the youth movement. realized 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 be called a commercial artist. i consider it one of my my ways of contributing to the struggle because it is a means of communications has been a means of communications throughout the history of the world from the case. to present time once it is finished people will see it and the words that are printed remain printed we cannot be carried away by the wind like

spoken words and if it helps my island. and i think is in my contribution to the struggle because i hardly paint anything else. than the struggle of you since i can remember these nine hundred eighty one. basically all i paint. and any struggle. and. let. 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 . and 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 are being left wedged and only twenty three percent of the island sandwiched between a weapon steeple and a bombing cell. i 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. charge of delivering the terrible messages and he said to my mom look three me 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 was not a professor 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 did not believe him because she thought it was unheard of. and we stayed the next day the bulldozers arrived to knock down the house. on the muscle and my mother only had time to run into the house inscribed a bed sheet book 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 to 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. so i invaded it's here i am in the marine one hundred fifty for the one we stall 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 put

in. a worrier and foxholes. this charged and came back to take a look here also there was some messages this from family because there were we had . people in who didn't come back. i was one of the intentions but i didn't really want to see what reactors looked like with. the name of the. throw or the stone as i was able to come back. i've had. since the early sixty's way first. the reality of the situation it was a politically one of the seventy eight you know soprano there's a puerto rico but in real life it's a world apart. and historically has been used as the bargaining

chip between the. washings and the want not with. washington gets the bases sour wine gets the bark and. that. the navy has not contributed in any in order way to. really know. ground troop inspections or. the navy never had more than a person out on the whole i. became kind of like. for weaponry you know try a french exercise and as a british jet. 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 n.b.a. for any size you and i. may wonder if a fleet of. worldwide inventory of. conventional weapons. 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 from the coast of africa. three thousand miles of open ocean and one bombing range.

meanwhile where are. all these heavy metal oracles with your identified as explosive residue. i played soldiers. 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 always and my children poisoned my grandchildren my neighbors and so forth. riva. my name is made a leader not pentagon 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 that and idle come true. i found out i had. at a time in my life when i was feeling so wonderful i so great now. very active and. commentary from many friends wow great you gloat really growing was 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 in spain.

but it was an unforgettable day for me because we had a town this family that day and we were paying homage to former community members who died 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 here is big statistics and now i have become one of the statistics. and. i'm good to make the navy pay for this. 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. i've been through uterine 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 trying 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. 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 for daughtry. kids

between the ages of eleven and nineteen have more than a fifty percent chance contracting cancer and their peers in puerto rico a time except. we have undergone a process where we are now a way we are now alert and we're ready you know to get out there and be advocates for ourselves. the first time i came to get this was in then one nine hundred ninety. i wanted to go back to puerto rico used to live in new york for thirty years with my children some my wife and i decided to go. with my friend. telling me well and to come to v.a. because you know this is like a pot of i.c.u.

you come by a piece of land and build a house i said i would i would go over there and. have a look and see if i like it's like game and i like it. when i was in the yard i didn't know nothing about the problem of because all that my friend knowing vegas we got the navy but don't worry if you come to vegas you 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. makes me change my mind was a case of my friend the one who mean to come into a vehicle. he used to eat. shellfish. and this shellfish was picked up by his father in though it was a fisherman used to collect these fish from the naria and the. so on.

he got sick. two years later he died in the central many cohens 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 him you came on point six of lead. and arsenic and lead america. and the doctor said that this is impossible the human being cannot hold all these gun timing nation in his body so they did the test twice. and then he came out again the saying. that he'd die in the house beat that on scenes he's very ill the day of his burial i was in the cemetery when these golfing when down the hall. i. joined the. navy will leave.

it to. when my friend i one month we bury him coming to the meeting showing people how. how we do see even disobedience what will happen when they come to us so i fall in love with this troll. for all the things that i see the my life i work in this because for almost eight years when i was like 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 hostile deal with life with people so i fall in love with this. and here i know what. was.

in the roof evil thing about this struggle is that different people do different things and different people contribute to the struggle in different ways my my part is i go through many a struggle on the common man on the editor i don't do it for profit i work for nothing this is something that i love to do i give all of my time in this and many other people do the same thing you know the artist who they're your old painting before and people contribute in different ways that's why our goals are going to be accomplished to stop the bombing and because i can get the navy out of. the navy i came to the gas in one thousand nine hundred one to work i came here to work and stayed for eleven years already i got married to have a sauna house so it looks like i'll be here for a while and be

a cancer. i have a lot of pressure on me from my parents mine alone sometimes they've said if you're irresponsible if you don't take care of your 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 and their. family the women's alliance will be a case from the concerns of legislative a colleague and a friend who works with schools at 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 zation so working on the issue of the military presence and much to our surprise there were very few women participating . in the bible i invited gladys to my house.