over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. not better than other people. because a lot of handicapped person. or people get it wrong. they look at all the law and they thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are life these are my parents too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous faith is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. wow what a thrill that's what it is i do think. thank you i thought and i was going to have to be

a nine. i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around in that for pools and you go skinny and that's what we did for entertainment. i have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but i couldn't get the stupid. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses maybe notice. i found my now wife when she was sixteen and.

maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not still pretty. for most 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 physically to get behind the wheel and do up her seat. in the. driving instructor not. disable. somebody. but the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference

between so not driving and the transfer in 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 know it depend on people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or using a cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving i want to get a lot of different things not all to do. most people don't consider the power of my mind and i'm my mind is 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 exist. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of his deformed arms because all . the meat on the farm. fortissimo i realised quite. or a painter or a. i can't sing so i became a director because i'm you know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nico 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 the documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's so 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 mite. and she looked at me and said. they go it's time to look the devil in the. eye and 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 back again 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 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 it's 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 carry my own luggage with straps i check into hotels all on my own i i rent cars i make these there you go oh thank you boss and my toes think you know why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs or because strangely they don't stop when you go . still trotting around all 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 about getting 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 out in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a job that you minutes. and then it was. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children in my shoes 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 forced to me. to make this film. i want to look at myself. i mean come on nobody's perfect change as if. it changed 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 fight i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy change. the gulf on blood is all a logical thing nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on the. days defining for media and for media heist i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank the rest of

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. 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 limo ride 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 all the alters sound technician zoom dan 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 are 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.

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you know world of big partisan food a 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 smart 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. us the better for the tremendously economically through the cloud of the wheels of the world by coming out now for effect are we giving up the power to impose structural adjustment on global thought countries or is it is a lie that is from fundamentally doesn't understand how these are these are useful

tools of us imperialism of the facts right so it's not clear what his brother is i mean it's true that these institutions are deeply unfair with an unfair to the us their own affairs here to the majority world to the global south and that's really the reason we need to reform the. 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. to have five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand he was at all or if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son.

brought back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching know what to call them teach him to play frisbee and teach him to throw or 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 you know 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 arms don't realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. he's big he was a little that. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is

a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings in what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice. it's 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 that louis haven't been very well and kind to a christmas card and calm down and said aloud i think the park reignited if the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and butterflies. i was sort of floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to

impact our. and then he moved down in. the been together since. politico did up an understanding with the two of them it's really weird you know that we cannot act on thin and you go i wouldn't know. what you don't about brownout straight away what you pointed out you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know but the little mode if you can pick up on it for that if you go got to fix things you know it really really fascinating that we're we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to the to be on. our member thinking twenty years old divorced god a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduced himself to his future wife darlene who was sitting in the audience

one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak and it actually believe you know it sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making a found this isn't 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 or for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melted. friends to 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 that finger and the 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. write.

yes 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 have. a lot of. lows just like anybody else. getting better and. better. work 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 . in australia.

with the british company that bought and still is co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the net through case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drug's manufacturer agreement the company wanted the case in germany where it's never successfully been sued but the supreme victorian. frame 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 a dying court have to move to germany for the next forty s. 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 climb i 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 none of them 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 a 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 only surely going the first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. that doesn't obviously have to sell out their apologized for some that can reach out to us all. they are they never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they did pay

for that you know for their wrong it was no a pledge it already comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it is the n.h. goes along as. a size and just among us adults is even. i was taught f.m. they couldn't have gone into some of the chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court where the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do . to me many of them won't go. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die 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 to suppose i did not only want the money i want the revanche. i want the revenge you know they they kill two thousand children. they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable they make the life of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible they should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the mind and continue to deny most the little mite 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 left recy unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous

controls and regulations as a result a little babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.

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ok see that i know is that the bios to look at them on your phone is capello it's most it's a hoot from a show such as the fluid sort of rules that. you do when you're. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the spot place the phone for conviction if you had any interrogations out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an

answer don't accept their denials she said or forward cooperate send a statement that i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture or on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their cry.

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