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so i walk into. my own body i have a great body. in law found in self in the public limelight and he became this province a spokesman for handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. i'm. not better than other people. because i'm not a handicapped person. or people get it wrong. they look at all the law and they thank god it's tremendous how he can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my feet these are my hands 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 what it is i do think. 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 and i don't fancy i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for the rules and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment not to have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent

girls but i couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i'd never had the cheapest she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but 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 miners 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 up her seat.

driving instructor who never got the shot tonight to save. somebody. but the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference became so natural is not be driving. 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're going to have nine people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or use jam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving what i love the things about to do. most people don't consider the

power of my mind 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 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 was all took even true for the sixers to meet on the phone from bush's one hundred some odd fortissimo i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because i'm you know i can't do anything else and i'm going 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 unfiltered 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 your pate you know and that's so typical you know you give the disabled daughter 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. 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 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 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 carry my own luggage with straps i check into all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys are you go off thank you boss or in my toes thank you are no 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. 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 mundane job that you to five minutes. and then it goes. 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 martyrs anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to me. to make this film. i didn't

want to look at myself. from any come on nobody's perfect changed as. 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 fighting i think for me. also as a lender martyrs but also for the public. the energy change. the eco fund law 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 thunderdome. is defining for me and for me to heist

i know that i spent from you and god shots we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank god 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 limb i 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 alter 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 a big part of newton's law 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 bath 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. with a suitable to submit for. my bill for sunday and this is their. roles canvassing board members that's where the must be so if the. business with. a lot of fellows got a smile bust out all because i am. ok

see that look i'm going back to the bios to look at them out on the funniest diplo it's most of it's own smoke but just just the flu it's almost like. you were doing in. the book. that. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer.

questions. 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. wrote 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. that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. he's big he was a little there and. 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 what he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i

could bring you know he he gives great fatherly advice. it's a great role model as 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 went 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 were. i was 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. polygamy out it up and understanding with each other it's really weird you know but

we cannot it from there you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking about what you don't about but are now straight away what you going to go to to not of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know the little mode if you just pick up on it so that if you go got to fix things you know it really really fascinating now where we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to that to be honest. dharma think i'm twenty eight 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 in it i 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. it was the beginning of the joy that ended in that ring going on 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. he had lighted his leather 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 no me. there i don't stop

traffic. you know you don't care us are. the highs. and lows just like anybody else. getting better and out of beijing it's getting better. 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's 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 road case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drug's manufacturer grin and tell 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 a dying 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 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 tell me 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 you only surety 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. reach out to us all. they are they never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. 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 that lawyers it because he was a longish. size and just him and i should also then. f.m.

they couldn't have gone into song and chuck we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court with 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 ill 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. i would not only want the money i want the revanche. i want to rivera show they they killed feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then make the life of ten thousand

parents also. they are responsible so they should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the mind and continues 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 laugh or say unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result a little mind injured babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to that's a little my disaster. yeah. us

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world by can be ironed out of actually giving it the power to impose structural adjustment on the list of countries over the eighty's and ninety's thought from fundamentally doesn't understand how these are these are useful tools of us imperialism of the facts right so it's not clear to me what is right is i mean it's true that these institutions are deeply unfair with an unfair to the u.s. they're on the verge through to the majority world of the global south and that's really the reason these reforms are. luscious and thank you to the cheek a total moron of each ticket to host next to each team you'll be set it's not that teaching did some shots that's not only shooting against. them you'd better. be uniquely because you know sucky included commissioning you

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