taney never had a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid grand one for a one night stand but that i'd never achieved she was wearing glasses maybe notice . how. i found my now wife when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still whether. she was long and not stupid. for most of the miters getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his sickly to get behind the wheel and do our best.

driving instructor to narrow down the shot tonight to save. somebody. the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's not be driving. me most of my life and. my parents they were the most practical people i think i've ever met in my entire life so when it came to learning how to drive. that was just practical that way you can get around on your own you want to have nine people to care about you don't have to worry about people taking a bus or using a jam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. i just love driving i

got a lot of different things but to do. what people don't consider the power of my mind and i my mind is a very powerful tool and it get into it interjects all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i get really seriously and i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is peoples excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like. this doesn't make any sense to me. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms was all too soon true for the sick so to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so much for to so much i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i become

a director because i'm you know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nikko went to prestigious film schools and apprenticed under the legendary german director rayner vernon fast binder before making a number of successful feature films but there was one prize job he wanted badly directing a big movie until late in mind and the head of german t.v. said no you can't have the job but you can make a documentary on. the to might and i said you know i you know i think that was income and i shouted at him i use the f. word very loudly and very often because i said i apply for the job you know you pay well and not a documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's all typical you know you give the disabled guy the side job you know and then i went home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do

a film about the little mite. and what do i know about the little might go. and she looked at me and said they go it's time to look the devil in the. hand i don't know what your lives are like sometimes life can really be rough on people i understand that i get it i've been in real life alvin law is a motivational speaker who's influenced audiences in north america and australia with his message of hope is specially to more than two million youngsters who heard his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited here you're helping kids and they need to have somebody come in and tell them that it's going to be ok but i get such tremendous joy out of doing it there is nothing in my life that makes you happier than speaking to kids nothing and the next time you're ready to give up or quit or packenham well if it helps even a little bit remember the goofy looking guy that played the drums with his feet but remember the words i live by every day. there's no such word as can't.

thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to wear out it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i can carry my own luggage with straps i check and all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys are you go oh thank you boston micros think you are now why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go.

past all traffic around the airports checking into hotels eat bad food drive in everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think i get paid enough so i mean i can get on a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a job that you to five minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to others the limit is when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the marcus anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of

falls to me. to make this film. i want to look at myself. money come on nobody's perfect change every. change how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors were fighting for us really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a mentor miters but also for the public. the energy change. illegal for the bloods or a logical thing nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his

documentary on climate in. the east of china for media and for media heist i know that i sometimes. we don't deal. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank the us to get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely for sight. although i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugged or you know her very own intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and

we got pregnant very quickly. very quickly. i was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken the limit i was kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something else but also literally i did not know how i was going to carry a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound the alters sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote flights and then other foot hands fingers and.

i was crying and all the intern started babin we knew that she would be ok. and i only best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be a ballet dancer because that's something her mother wanted to be and she was very. humorous to us.

you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. cranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could

make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year good truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in amman just slowed down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than. tim over aren't happy. eighty five percent of global will you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent

market saw thirty percent from its lowest year some with four hundred to five hundred three first record first second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember in one one doesn't show you know or to miss the one and only. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him come out of there with two arms and. two halves of the five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son.

i knew it again. here we go. back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe i teach you know what it's all about teach him to play frisbee impeachment to throw all you know i mean all those things that you want to have a care if yours do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't need arms to be there you don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have wives don't realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. that surprised me. the tears i don't know i'm not sad i'm just. as big he was little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life

works right isn't are in no way a person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and just after the step to knowing he can't just judging by the way he looks what he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he gives great you know fatherly advice is a great role model is a great person. and that's all you can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard louis being very well and kind to a christmas card and calm down and had a loan up at the park reignited if the best way i could describe it he kissed me goodbye and bust of flies. i was sort of floating on

on a cloud. and he told his wife he was leaving. she house impact. and then he moved danny. leaving together since. little about it other than understanding with the two of them it's really weird the way you cannot at something and you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking what you don't about right now straight away what's the point in that you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more if you just pick up on it or that it's as though the six then you know it really is really fascinating where we communicate here we go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. i remember thinking twenty years all divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arm what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how

alan introduce him to our to the future wife. sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in it actually believe tonight sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making a final decision about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees her for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melt. i have friends who tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days that was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on the finger and it's still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of anxious and

frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still. right. here life is letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about there's no option you know me get it there i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us there really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else. getting better and out of beijing it's getting. worse there's a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teacher second and then i had her and those three elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives . me in australia.

with the british company that bought and still has co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the net through case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer agreement the company wanted the . in germany where it's never successfully been so that the victorian supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that might lead him on the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she wishes to have it done in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. a grin tells a defendant's grins how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end distillers took a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the

strength of the claim they settled with when good intel didn't post sent we had to get up and fight aids day every day in court where the incredible damage they grow into adults didn't really know now that the settlement amount was a multi-billion dollar some it was a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of it off really dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement the two months later held a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because you only surety go that's your first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. that doesn't obviously just to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us or. they are never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and they didn't pay

for that you know for their wrong it was no acknowledge it quality comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he was a longish. size and just him and us adults is even. by wednesday f.m. they couldn't have gone into something shocking we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do . too many men have them on. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it today just as it did in one hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets family's tosin a fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the

purse strings and behave in a more generous fashion toward suppose i did not only want the money i want the revanche. i want the rivera she you know they they kill two thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable they make the life of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible. pay for. themselves no longer makes them in mind and continue to deny most intimate is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film. the original thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat letter c

unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result the little mind injured babies are still being. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.

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belief yet to shape our disdain. and in. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. as the media become unhinged in there of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word new cycle after new cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological advocates. have been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the rich eight point six percent market

saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one in one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president. more so more want to be. the to the right to cross the saliva before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first sit.

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