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more news today boylan says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. so.
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for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. the jury is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six power 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 this school good roads good hospitals every year over three
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hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of precious natural gas pollution ecosystem. 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 blow pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. so leave my kid i told him i had to leave my get . some. blue decide lies who come to depend on me. he says leslie. the truth is i was ten to root for the underdog 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.
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yet. bob as bad. as. you thought i bought you a new book. and you feel like i'm going to tell you through. all who go is doing this i got it all why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff this or i let you fall you ya gotta yes or you want my butt out. yes.
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yes or yeah but i don't and i doubt yes you forty if you see only what you see don't add. i decided to follow the care mentors 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 there is no money. manager good life is not easy.
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but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filming 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. the past by bonny island or multinational oil companies like shell. and magic happened at the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in a jock or a tiny fishing to that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. i
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said. i think. still there but never know probably. the government we have been a do in the event not to believe not to and. not to know about. and i joke. or. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go out of office. and the strong voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they carry some people in this big bed. they bend to. what doesn't it
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. is the cargo hold my decision will be bad for them if they run out of bullets what a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life to live a newborn and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal a child. even in the midst of conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. so. i'm ok mom a has come. i mean and that's when you're done please check your stomach moment. when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper
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a traditional remedy tell the birth. that is it is not a man and you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it and sure come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it was a pepper and chew it audio note identical love it take it quickly come on. my stomach and. if you're cheering it you listen still reading. all this once again was a bone demis used all of them does not speak to you but they did i didn't you. is the cause is a need to wish you would a knows how to give advice i loved you. oh good lord this given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma said to deliver.
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god let it live wanted to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerging from bill corpus wrap around his neck there's not presumably getting a good. woman. that i love them. but . is it enough do you need send. a long time to do it to first do it to. take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened to the reason you. want. the baby has come take him out take him out.
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enough way out then they feel my pain during the delivery name of pain once the baby. you guys are. going. to. get a little bit. during my time in h.r. career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the region's 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 have laid claim seem just. but i want 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.
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israel's director of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel that mine had to deliver the greater the niger delta. all until recently launched the salvage on development company monday. every day our legs are enjoying the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing maiming and he said people. on the front of. 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
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a resolution to the continent or a deal that would permit them to return. with. about . this my wife. we had in mind i thought i'll fight the house so we need development schools i just walked out you know the government should do something about it. good. group of local journalists permitted to visit to take a scan for a press conference. will. be goes on so.
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there are some always with guns to cover the faces. and i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen just. and i just do a double then go. to the. i will get it. through the t.v. . you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm todd akin to.
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remember that international airport in the very hot. air i did this when it developments. on tour of what is school everett's in goodreads just like a bridge i know. that really everybody that's what it is using to live in and then i was john lagos and i doubt that i was one of the lead so wanted.
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to do the low on identity event of his to do that it's. maybe a very sad it's kind humble you've done for charlap artist i was fights back i was fights. fights and everybody should go we had asked this dead government i don't want i have problem with me i'll fight them so well when we got back when if i do that i'll tell you it's going to equal how can you have peace if you don't do. without how i just went to program governments and. i just. when you sin city you know it is. this instead it's only what forms of. you know and i know. the president no not like like like doesn't like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok.
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for the last. sixty. you should say and do to live. up to them you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to be and i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can. i use on. this group with. an album will you stay. i don't know two governments because. if you go one divorce will be lost or thought i. am and if. you're my country congressman i believe it's
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first. group nothing but i mean. i'm not going to. run from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink feel good school fees. for when you visit as far as. well but. on somebody like look what i. feel is the. how many many names. to.
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do now. is to go to. this man if it is my. sweet. if you. do not get at the. voice. when i first met jayma resided mostly on the outskirts of the camp at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and a tech and where his own father fell short. and so. i get. this is.
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this is. this it is this. or dishy. body. with these evil presidents. well the destroy his game. after had not taken a fall from where. they left everything. broke on official loomis each day also he doubts and i might think of i think. i want to know that it is game it's. nice for me.
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never to slam. it's. needs our own dissolved. and chronic pain i made our way into. having my hair. and i mean yeah i think i'm from here. there's someone and it's kind. 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. good kid is hard working.
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mizen since do. i want to see him. in mother wasn't even here until he died it is his primary school and he went to. his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when the mark i was operated. with i really want to see. to my operation is the last time i saw him so i would like cheema to come back so i would see him. i don't walk. you know. if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. i'm a gentle warner 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 he went any other place i don't
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know. you know i'm going to go back i was kind of but i know there was no alcohol and i was. lucky because that was that was how i got that i was. about mal. got out i did. i'm going to go got a gun got a book out i was a dog. yet complicated i hated. the way. they do about it but i did my job i got i decided. to stick to fix
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them up when we were. on the. roof over stuff like. you know i was i was wondering. what they mean the time to you it's going to far it's morning it's afternoon it's in the evening that it's drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so this is the federal level. food is not one of the money is not one of the bonus we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god like and i really i do that well i'm not a doctor i'm not going to talk about this i want to know what i'm going to live want what i don't know you by the way you know how much have you been on the job like that and i want to be identical don't want to think that was why we got married couple with you know not yet somehow you know you're right now go back and it's a lot of the love of the family that we're talking about that it's awkward like i
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said i was like you. know well you know the exact. ok let's go to the bible. i don't want to do what i know there's. an idea that i'm going to be and i doubt very much. that i do know we all would want. to do what it ought to be to avoid it. but you are not going to work that way their death by this would have been. what my god five of them have done i do not think that i have if you don't know who i am. well. you know. what. i mean. we look lou.
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we're almost. out of. reach i don't i for one of the hundred mile. welcoming times. i was appalled but i don't i was unanswerable. i must have a comp went to fight. and i fired the next time i know. i should and i think there's a lot and i'm not. a. very good. mother and. who knows. what might. lie.
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ah. fuck i'm glad you know that that i know that. i believe that it is on the your debt load. i. think he's. yeah. i mean on its own legs does a. lot and tries to leave feel
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not only come from. the gulf. to do. not. feel. my. room which i don't like to think i mean that these absolute is the one thing that is not i would be a prison. pro
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. publica. everything you can survive. would. not. striving for a brit and an independent. republic of texas. president
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putin says. the western media never labels those who attack russia as terrorists he was speaking about last week's boston bombings during his annual q. and a session with the nation and you're looking at live pictures right now the q. and a session. braces itself for more anti austerity protests as people direct their anger at the three international financial institutions accused of demanding but offering few visible solution. the u.s. again increases the number of detainees on
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a hunger strike at guantanamo bay is the official figure closer to that claimed by lawyers since the very beginning.

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