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us has by far the world's largest prison population and a booming prison industry it leads me to believe that maybe this one scumbag judge from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there abusing his power if you see a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby guilty of something but that's just my opinion. wealthy british. time in the free. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on r.t. .
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supplier of oil to the united states just a large six border of oil on the planet but in the niger delta the region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no there schools no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of precious natural gas pollutes the ecosystem. well companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited in which militants. sabotaged closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers we had. to leave my kid actually did i had to leave my. eyes. troubled economy. mr leslie.
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the truth is i always tend to root for the underdog and i felt an attraction to these men who were taking on the world's largest oil corporations and the corrupt government of africa's most populous nation so i took my camera to nigeria to try to meet them. bob as'ad. do. you. ever do you feel your i voted for you through. all out. why do.
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i decided to follow the camp commander's advice traveling with some fishermen i set out to see for myself what life is like in the niger delta and hopes of understanding the conditions out of which the militancy was born. my brother such a life is sweet it's just that there is no money. manager good life is not easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers have already been expelled country. government forces. on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the niger delta field as the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonnie island or multi-national oil companies like shell. and agile
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tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in each of the tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. i think it's deserved it. the government we have been i do in the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. or. do you think they're no longer here.
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but i beg go out of office were. the stronger voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they've carried some people in this big bed. made them to. doesn't it . the guard also hold my guess is it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets. the world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. a new home and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal a child. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three
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year old named mom goes into labor for. so. i'm ok mama has come. i'm in a mess when you're done eating please check her stomach moment. when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. that is it is not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to try to. take it ensure you come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it audio no doubt identical love it take it quickly come on. my stomach hurts if you're cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once the demo is gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you but
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they did i didn't you. is the cause is a need to wish you would a knows how to give advice i love you. oh good lord just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such a lover. oh i thought i'd let it live wanted to come out now card you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerge with him bill court is wrapped around his neck and he is not prince nobody. son that. woman. that i love. but. is that enough do you need sun. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to. take take the sun.
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bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out. enough way out then i feel my pains during the delivery name of pain once the baby . oh my god i thought you were going. to. go to god. during my time in a jar career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the region's
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immense natural wealth and inhabitants access to basic necessities like clean drinking water or modern medical care methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants had laid claim seemed just. but i wanted to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders to draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region. israel to a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel and that might add to the image of the greater the niger delta. all mysteries to me lonnie said the salvage on development company modern day. state governments every day are next to enjoin the people of the us known to be terrorized in the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing maiming of innocent people.
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i was. told them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's truck taskforce he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continental for a deal that would permit them to return. book is really about. this my life. about life we have in mind i thought if we don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walked out you know got
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a measured response and i bought some. good. group of local journalists committed to visit a tech is kept for a press conference. a. little while i got. to go zone so. but there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute in the zone and nobody tell them to arrange themselves bad guy men does. and i just wouldn't move. they just do that. i will fit it.
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just did governments i don't want me i'll fight. to win when we win a fight and i'll tell you. how can you help peace if you don't do. governments and. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know i know. the president no don't like like life doesn't like like everybody you know what is involved. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. you should see him do to live. up to the you know there are
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some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know i'm going to i mean i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can. why you've done. this with. an elderly stay. i don't know two governments called to see. if you got my divorce will be lost or thought i. am and if the friends you know if my country congressman i lived first. do nothing but i think. i'm going. to miss.
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one from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink fno good school. no developments when you visit as far as. well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activists. for how many many millions. of people to. do now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if it is my.
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if you. do not. voice. when i first met jayma resided mostly on the outskirts of the camp or at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and a tekken where his own father fell short. nice. and so sweet so. i get through. this is. this is. this it is this. or dishy.
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and my name would go into that i would. have my hair. and yeah i think from from here. there's someone and it's. it's just that i didn't gave it to him but he's my child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes she is a good kid why is hard working. and since do. i want to see him. him i was living here until he died it is his primary school and he went to. his
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father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and he came out but that was when the market was operated as i can move and i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like to come back so i will see him. i don't know i work on my for. you know. if you are good if you go there and that his model was working on the farm. and i'm a jew and i want to i thought he was dead. i've gone to port harcourt to look for him i didn't see him i said maybe he's dead. if you went to any other place i don't know. no i
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was i don't know that we know there was no alcohol i mean i was. smoking was that was that was how i got i that was. valid. value. going going going going to. those who are. yet to try it out they did. that because. they're too much of. my god i got on the side. effect to fix them up when we were. on the. women over stuff like. you know i was i was under.
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a minute time to do its thing before i was it's morning afternoon evening that is drink for you that is signal for you to smoke so these this event left you. food is not one of the money is not. knowing this we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's just like i grew up. without it i'm like i'm not going to buy this i want to know what i got a little bit want what i don't know you by the way not much if you did not would not like that and i was. like what that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know with your job and i'm feeling and it was you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought i was. but you. know what you know well you know good stuff. ok let's go to the bible. i don't want to know what i'm going
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to. go by dan i did hear about him that day and i doubt very much. that i do not. feel. that i've. got to do what it ought to be to avoid it up. but you are not you are you going to do it that way they got find out that. i was my dad's god damn i've done i do not think that i haven't. done the right thing and i have. not found what. i mean. when you look lou. we're almost.
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out of. reach i don't i don't want to be under title and not welcome in times. i don't know the fall but if i don't i will fight i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not the next time i know i am i should and i think there's enough and i'm not. going to. get a good. right oh now like you know my life i.
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