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hey everybody i'm stephen bob taft hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. to see just this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well just a little bit different i'm not a good one i know no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country and i'm shooting the brood have some fun meet everyday americans moment to moment and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. were similar to the sports the least you know because in most of the snowboarder
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the only one of them in sort of. beautiful yes good new books and they were going to push will say you know you put him over the i'm close but i'm this material to move to my idea of the oh my mom the grounds of the star you know kissed them. so from him you know will someday in cinemas along with me the spawn of the b.o.p.'s dog you'll see yes so just a little. too cool susan to prevail i'm with someone in the field the monster shows tickle bulls to the police but yes the people still the most of them so just to to go well what you could you put me in step with your solution for the nation as we see what you do you see just as i was telling me of some of the you know what you told me it was a little bit so. i
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. i i i. i i'm. not a. i was. coming up in a report decades of environmental damage on a picture portuguese island in the atlantic has left local fearing for their well being as they continue to suffer increased cancer rates. the u.s. air force for the contamination. i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in. the entrance of the american base both of my parents died
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a panther when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer also coming up in the program heated debate in germany migration policy. just as a member of the. other attacks across that and also in germany to a leading tabloid publishes indisputable evidence of russian medley. got a reaction we knew how truth. and. we came up with a story. like in spite. of the great stories lined up kevin i would hear about c h q. thanks for watching
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ready to do around the world first then to that windswept portuguese arland of the sphere in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean it's in desperate need of decontamination we can reveal decades of u.s. air force like to tease allegedly left and polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals islanders say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. of the marine community but back to twenty thousand this is not constant it oscillates of the releases and have a constant someone now that's eighteen twenty twentieth's here now some twenty thousand twenty days. of them freely and it
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started snowing away from here as well ready of states along. the most what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper and zinc molybdenum because of all of them having matters that in certain concentrations can cost the realty cancer iranian and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family in that area both of my parents died of cancer and my mom a breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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the more cancer cases there are the more that a few way she asks why is this happening why if a private story i wrote on one side of house is have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not your. thing so it's a pretty place where the u.s. has maintained a presence on that island since one thousand nine hundred forty three it serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and is home to the sixty fifth air base group although it's not known how many specifically personnel currently are there there are hundred sixty one houses to accommodate them one former employee there told us about the health risks that workers in the facility say they've also been exposed to go back to you going to your comment there was also a senate commission that came to. legal process from some members of the american
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military who had done the terminal cancer radioactivity on to say they were here for about a week and journalists are not found out that we are doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation the center island radioactive contamination with . all the darvon mental situation on the island was first to acknowledge in a classified report written in two thousand and three that since been leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills and one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel were released when a pipeline was unintentionally activated that was back in one thousand nine hundred four seems has been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the oil in the air and water is what local experts have been telling us. well. we found in the data that was published on referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the priority of the area of the rest of the
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years or so especially regarding the rare cancers for example i can with thirty three percent of those all cases being a prior difference or while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population of the grid. this is a hell of 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 lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations. we contacted both the u.s. and portuguese governments we've received no responses to the specific questions we've asked this far can tell you what the us government did forward as a press release from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation and they say they're seeking expert advice on how best to now proceed . focus next i was living in germany were
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a top representative of the nationalist air of day parties launched a scathing attack on chancellor merkel he told a parliamentary session thursday that her policies are a failure and that she is part of a push she said to impose multiculturalism not just on germany but all of europe is a europe correspondent. 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. 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 socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and
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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 garland say that he supported cooperation between member 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 or loath them alternative for germany how are the folks there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late but 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 some worlds better to be. peter oliver in europe there while merkel's being bashed by the opposition a prominent politician from germany second biggest part of the s.p. days been brought in a scandal the country's best selling newspaper 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's backfired spectacularly as morgue as the of explains build thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here's the meat of it build the published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d.
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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 grow cold 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 cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy a movie deal to kill him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group who campaign thanks for your mail j.
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already told me to expect a man from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'s favorite beverage as he can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh marty ginger oh dear yuri perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me. basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with bots schulze social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from tamika magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and sent it to build but build rabbits without jew checks and very few cation what with there and t. as speedy stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was
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fake couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was suspicious but as to tally it explained bill that was just too excited an anonymous email two or three calls and billed prints everything that piece his agenda remember the drinks name me oh me oh matty ginger well that's now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build. kevin kuhn out in the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by these pictures and he's posted he's also enjoying the show.
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slight sense humor aside over at the social democratic party's youth and leader and says that he would have flatly refused any offer of this kind if it had genuinely be made to it. popova me at i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we don't work with social bots i don't have information even received any offers in the. meantime this terrible magazine itself behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online it shows one of its employees posing with a transcript of the fake emails and the build article tongue in cheek pranksters at titanic also turned on kevin killing it for dismissing the story as a clumsy fake they say they spent all of three hours dreaming up the prank we at italia goals are to record magazine we were up with the same. methods.

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