tv Documentary RT April 1, 2021 7:30pm-8:00pm EDT
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i don't need to tell people here in alaska what's happened. over the past few years i've been trying to make the rest of the country more aware. of a changing climate where you're already living and. following permafrost that threatens homes and infrastructure faster glacier melt rising seas melting sea ice that contributes to some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world and i've talked to folks whose villages are literally in danger of slipping away. and for many of those alaskans it's no longer a question of if they're going to relocate but when.
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and my grandfather. used to say his new top will become one big. salary in 9 and. the river around us in one not high when it comes in. it's like this one big island surrounded by the lodge or. feel like it's getting danger danger every time it gets close. to us who knowns this one is one big village it's can come out snap. to swear on the permafrost are on the permafrost and newtok it it's it's really heavy you know. and dislodged keeps coming off the ice than that
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years. and that was in the. statement i've come to know you know the short legged world is going to tell us 3 years. i think. not to bugger hardly needs to take a make of the. remember that movie com cruise and they're renovating a house the money they would ask the. contractor is going to take 2 weeks and so it always rises we are that is because of the state words hours 2 weeks carrots 4 years. i would like will move across the river are because it's higher ground i think people who are thinking about stay here forget that it floods here in the.
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people who. need to be prepared and they were steered by some car flow. not a safe place. 2 below when it was both patrols i am 19 years old and i am from a small village called new dog. i go to a school that has 137 student i'm writing about a village trying to move because of climate change the talk is small place toto's about 350 people and we are trying to move to a place called most i'm humbled 200 miles of new town.
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i have been in need talk to strictly all my life and it has always been the same movie here we lose a number of feet to flanders. sure what sometime it curb bridge with us but most of time to. rid of into doesn't do we lost 150 feet of land from water washing we lie and nursed on to the water's about a 100 yards we're going to have a disaster if we don't move. we need to act as soon as possible before the water just force or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. playing. all the land just falls down and. cannot pick up.
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i strongly believe we can do this but we will need help this place is very important to us because home much hunting we do how much we move around a whole lot but the hardest thing we have to 1st is having no running water or earth or sewer line we hunted buckets was which is a 5 gallon bucket for him and always literally don't get down into the water when it is 4. according to the government it's about $230000000.00 climate change that like playing chess in a test checkmate us. please we need to make a move because we have the possible to might lose this battle. we'll just want to sit at a table noses just like everyone else and just have a cup of tea. and laughing away with our cars. life is too short to see a swim meet to the nearest village that's about 40 miles and the water is to comb.
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you know their early contacts with stairs were mainly for trade with the trade of course and government and so with the government came either a post office or school so wherever they placed those structures where these communities were told that you have to now live so regardless if your main camp which is probably your richer camp is the most prominent structure you
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have you can't go back there after you have to relocate your family here. they were not a one location people they were migratory and. in their way they were able to keep them there it was too sick their children off to boarding schools they didn't live near the school so the challenge began. in that initial contact. i think were a part of america 1st for murder for crime. worse or. you know when you had to go over the layers of. what started this problem there was a bar. the 1950s i was bringing in the school for. our
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. parts. have not been corner our floor here. the wrong side of. on this. group are enough for school. from your. hard to understand what psychological impacts where and they said you no longer can to get through that and if you don't come here are taking your children so i would think that. and i know they talk about generational trauma and when you have been doing this for 15000 years and then somebody puts
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a stop to it and the consequences are what we have to. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off she did. and really became his drug dealer soon is to blame patients doctors manufacturers.
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all of the information in the world when you put it together and it's the final thing is lee. says the dad. up to nothing all delusion of differentiation will be obliterated the illusion of making a profit will be obliterated because we're entering into a period of the singularity. is an individual community crime some of the student initial community crime and trying to break even 2 years later when my individual is 40 are you still punishing the person who committed the crime or is the person being punished for something that they were a completely different person at the time one doesn't expire one is a person's actions no longer love you need to judge them for an everyday basis. her or her to in.
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the end. a. little better for us this down now what is happening into the permafrost ended up now to be had so i'll tell you nobody did it because it's melting it causes the rouge so many people gone and walked along the edge of the river. lots of people you wish no walk in the house because that's where you guys don't your honey but it's a you know but if you do walk along there why what's happening to all of the shoreline it's disappearing in my class last semester in the fall we went out there and we measured how much the religion was how much do you think we lost last year he. we lost about 35 feet i was close you were close 35 feet of
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ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring that it is fast and that means the river is $35.00. closer to the town then what it was the year or so you guys think the river's doing. is one thing to say the river is going to move you but this prompted a whole whole bunch of things this village is completely divided and there's just no way around you know to travel councils families don't talk to each other just all kinds of issues that have. prompted by this river here moving in and rooting their communities.
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the snow looks are from the outside it's far from the community they're not originally from new to. sit through troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom and eleanor 1st because it's a tradition versus you know the new prostitution or majority way of thinking so you have that tremendous divide different philosophies together and stanley represents one side and tom represents the other so my name is strongly tom i'm the
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tribal minister for a new car chris and colmes originally i was to be a tribal at the ministry. with its council teaching new in tape. there was a election dispute. in october korn did call. the new car traditional console. somebody who works there. said we've never had a. quite a while. and it's an excellent piece you were being accused of not having a tonight year's election when we moved in the wrong you had electric all these years i knew it was coming up. and some of the smarter words began following the money and realizing some of the money's not accounted for while they actually suspended the elections once they suspended the elections and there was a there was
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a feeling that the community was being left out of the process yeah they were scheduled to leave in 2012. but through the division and the infighting and some of the you know bureaucratic issues there stalled as it stands now the federal government cannot. contract with either group so what they did was they basically took the contract out of. it's a shack when it comes down to some 3rd world shack it's basically. a last resort for people who want to live in. their own.
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is created a lot of problems health what is a no we've been to the clinic several times in our family structure road strollers you know dysentery and everything else just kind of one rampant. at certain times for not one full. 40. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. the frustration levels fairly high. sometimes you wonder if they're doing this on purpose. i mean really when you come down to it this could be a foreign totally foreign country ignored by any infrastructure all live in the united states never just sitting in this is home there's no running water whatsoever so. it's a very crowded. in
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the bush is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers call 12 years and they leave they don't never study. i guess is just a culture shock to. we came in 2000 some 2008. year career since. moving to village then. everybody roots you could much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we look out now don't you could see the water. now. it's close we can see it always buzzing over land when it when he gets rough. before lie so. we can see land working away.
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back home they have these here we have hurricanes they are already and help people move in. do whatever you want to do just sing like i just taken forever are you almost big enough to go to school you know you're ready now. i guess that's just what's. tears me up and said. thank you no come on man these people these people are just like us there's no difference and these people and the people all for you and. we all. human and all it's just a little village 3300 people still big up and that's what i'm thinking it's no big deal is a big do some big deal it's their lives leg
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no matter. how high or. how there are students who cared. yes there are another 3rd world country. even though it's united states i see a part of america. it might be americans or diggers or 3rd world country and there's fichtner to curious. kind of new turkeys thinking. the hotel or you could really see it. so how does might be too late. in half a town to be moved to the new set by now but the power struggle and money greed
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to too much money are too. hard tyrone and putting in their pocket. oh it's just as good of the earth even though it's up all the loony tunes of. 2 different totals think they're running legally. beyond angry. out of nowhere you know clears were around that. will meet june. who will do them dazed and confused.
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nothing to do this nothing nothing yeah yeah. but i. think. you. know if somebody can get out your 2 day bring like 2 bags to you have some eye for me and with 2 or 3 bags this is for me this is for my sister this is for my brother to say you know what he said to caesar to jim doing open job as well as he was handy to go under the tree. top floor.
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historically speaking in the cold war was a great ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism according to joe biden the great geopolitical struggle of our time is democracy versus a talk recy for by we are in another great ideological struggle but there is a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. again at the risk of
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a no no rush to just throw up our stuff just simply chose for ways to prove things in your bios at their church. back home but i can merican suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that not the smug the real. one by elsa store on her by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the african americans who are your new. found great crowd. golf you you're going to call. me and now almost a 100 years later history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. probably the worst time to go anywhere why not me. when i come here.
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