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none of them i don't even think they exist i think they were trolls i think there were people in russia that you can't extradite every would think they're real but anyway you had four man of fortune gates who basically were involved in activities involving ukraine that predated trump then you've got plenty papadopoulos both of them pleading guilty to lying and nothing moaners walking around here saying how much of a cause cost the taxpayers like he cares and wonder why i have to show i've got thirteen imaginary russians and over going to do with this i got two people nobody cares and by the way they're going to fight this one i've got papadopoulos. home his name should be who because that's what people say oh no and that flynn general flynn i got him on lying and then we lie we lie to the guy who pled guilty to lying i mean so this judge sullivan is thinking
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and the other surprises for me i mean this case how many millions think about the child trafficking human rights violations go on by you you pick whatever you think is important how much are the f.b.i. instead of finding out why this nut case in florida was threatening to kill people they were too busy with imaginary russian trolls and this i mean it makes it makes the average american and not so average americans whatever that means say who is running the show here i mean. what's happening and it's almost as if the system itself is broken it can't be. two party system and a simple answer yeah really is why don't i got to say thank you thank you that's the thing that really gets me the other day and thank you for really crystallizing that because woodwind when i think people can get lost in the in the legality of
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the words being thrown around but thank you for really crystallizing out for us and really lamb is so always a pleasure having me on line all been too long thank you so i think you so much thank you very much. greek back in the fifth century b.c. ate a healthy treat of frozen snow mixed with honey and fruit by four hundred b.c.e. the persian side created a royal cold treat of rosewater and south from and today you can even get caribou fact ice cream in alaska called. today south koreans rushed to the coast for black squid ice cream and it's a favorite of your web pick a village this unique black colored soft serve frozen concoction is actually savory rather than sweet described as tasting like salted caramel and the ocean with incentives truckle it and appears sweet after it and while squid may seem strange for a desert in south korea it is so popular even fast food chains like mcdonald's do
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special black squid ice cream promotion and that tyrrell is the scoop squid. squid and it's made from the squid yes and squids two are just that you just think but you know if you go to maine you can get lobster ice cream who has moved all right so there is some strong everybody stay cool and roam around in this world we are told we are loved of sorts all the while i love you i am i rolled with a dive tab of a lot of people are watching those hearts of the joy your black squid ice cream never great but i think i'm. just getting it international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos believe this if you like you know. this is my
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complicity is going on the sunday oh maybe you do. know that you just played with a shit. the only palestinians who gets the most help from it's to some counterparts i don't think this is i'm of those who are on the vision to know who could do this . and that is all of us not just you have to this lady of the muscle that you have i know you competed in the doesn't seem to do more minutes last time but there's also. america is an economy that's been created by financialization of everything and outsourcing manufacturing to countries like china totally at the ignore asian that just made that word up means to ignore something that they can ration your local infrastructure bill now trump saying we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars from who our biggest creditor that will be china
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again china is owning all the cars now in the twenty second century in america can't even get from point a to point b. . join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. coming up decades of environmental damage on a picturesque portuguese island in the atlantic leaves locals fearing for their wealth as they continue to suffer increased cancer rates they blame the u.s. air force for the contamination. i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in prior to victoria right by the entrance of the american base both of my parents died of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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heated debates on germany's migration policy sees angela merkel storm out of parliament just as a member of the anti immigration air day party launched another attack on the chancellor that's coming up also in germany to a leading tabloid publisher what he thought was indisputable evidence of russian meddling only to realize that everything right by a satirical magazine feeding the bogus e-mails. we knew how to think like an editor and what we did was we came up with the story of the techie like a spy and it was a good laugh. life we are to new center moscow just turned four pm here now thanks for watching my name's kevin though in bringing to this news round up starting with this story the wind swept would picturesque portuguese island of tess right in the azores in
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the middle of the atlantic ocean is a desperate need of decontamination that's what we're reporting decades of u.s. air force activity of allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders extremely worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. but back to twenty thousand this is the constant also like this if this is releases and of a constant of someone now that's eighteen twenty twenty eight hours and twenty thousand twenty days of. them freely and it's time to run away from here as we're ready to stay too long.
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most what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals of hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper zinc molybdenum they feel all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause to realty cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer like when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more that appeal ation asks why is this happening and why if private story or other roads are that on one side all houses have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal yours. well the background here the u.s. has maintained a presence on that island since one thousand nine hundred forty three percent or serves as a stopover transatlantic military flight it's home to the sixty fifth base group although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there there are a hundred sixty one houses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facility say they've also been exposed to called going to europe meant there was also a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who are dying of
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terminal cancer and were exposed to radioactivity on to say. we were here for a week and during this time i found out what that we are doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation island radioactive contamination with. the dar environmental situation on mud island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three which has since been leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills in one fifteen thousand gallons of all were released when a pipeline was unintentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four there's been no cleanup since the report was under stress that the island inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil in the air and in the water is what local experts have been telling us about the situation. well far we've found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior area than the rest of the saws
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especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of those or cases being in prior divots or a while the area has only eight point five two percent of the dorian population or sick with them but. this is a hell the repeats itself on various islands occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or a lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations. will follow in this so we've contacted both the us and portuguese governments so far over received no specific responses but to the questions we asked but the us government did their level for the press release from last december it states the two countries are aware of the situation and are seeking expert advice on how best to try to proceed to solve this huge problem. focus on germany and
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their top representative of the nationalist day of day parties launched a scathing attack on chancellor angela merkel he told a parliamentary session thursday that her policies are a failure and that she is part of a push to impose multiculturalism or just on germany but all of europe is our europe correspondent peter all of. finger pointing and a walkout by the chancellor is this the new normal of german politics it was a very heated session in the bundestag on thursday morning here in berlin angela merkel was outlining how she see some of the challenges facing germany and europe and what needed to be done on that but it was really the performance from the political new kids on the block alternative to germany well certainly true a lot of the attention first off we heard from alice vidler who's one of their co-leaders she said that the e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure
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socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported cooperation between the states but not the formation of the
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united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them all loath them alternative for germany have the votes there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late one can't really presume that every time they say something that mrs merkel doesn't agree with she's got to decide she has somewhere else better to be. the role of well work has been bashed by the opposition meantime a prominent politician from germany second biggest party the s.p. day has been embroiled in a scandal can tell you about the country's best selling newspaper there has published what it thought was smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics but in this rush to break the story the tabloid failed to check its sources and that backfired spectacularly word has got the story build thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here is the meat of it build
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that published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the new group campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cooled.

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