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to see themselves as part of a multi pola world where their needs are heard and results are delivered. and just so you get the full picture together. they encompass around half of the world. the briggs group of developing nations alone, which has just expanded significantly, will now account for 37 percent of the world cvp, such countries, especially the global south, wants to feel that their voices matter in the international arena. and they expect an organizational life. the g 20 so it takes the issues and so a town as much as it does for western powers. otherwise, what's the point? gotcha, so i have coverage all the world's most powerful economic summit to an audience, and i saw throughout this coming weekend. well, so for this news out as a way to expect to have your company here on all t, i'm, well i to allow me or the
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the mission i split the legacy. voluminous and you have to just change the rules and kimball cisco to personalize, can use me what's on the go to the, to the to the which will be sitting up with you. i love it.
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does you learn your image stuff? oh, because a lot of new reaching the for the the
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the we went to bed and 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. nope. our life. a water you know, cell phones. i mean it's just like nothing was work and you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had any
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immediate mission, 80. ready hospitalization, without power, doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. so once like your on your on 40 on the also brain with the people of where to read. we left with the and we also puerto rico, the new response to maria was
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really like a poster child of, of the relationship between, you know, puerto rico and, and the united states. the situation in maria was not just created by maria, but what is maria? plays fair, the reality it strips it down to the bare bones and you can really see that colonialism still exist and a few places and board thought a go is one of them the
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interactions with people. so yes, it is possible to resist break the colonize mentality. that these guys can be part of that there's nothing we can do to change the situation. the sense of the, in the 19 seventy's, when once that guy was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. although many, puerto ricans were angered by a lack of political economy, only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united a even fewer chose ones, past of paramilitary operations and robbing banks.
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the last one i did was 33 years ago, and the most of the times my role was because the protection against the police coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire, who even had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. so i had thought that through the,
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the island of point article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898. it became i us call yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people live a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states would close to has to live in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government that affect exp, resident no vote in congress or in presidential elections.
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the we had a subscription to time magazine and there was an issue in which the cover story was on prep schools in the us. and i read it and, and over was covered prominently there and said they had 7 indoor basketball court that we had made it for very i said, wow, the i had like a shark skin suit which i thought was so cool. the 1st time i walk into the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i walk into the cho take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes,
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hey you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word. let alone address did me when i went up and slapped them in the face, you know as hard as i could just don't want. and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the, to the co room, to have my coat and then go into the, the dining room. and, you know, i said, holy, what else? i've gotten myself for sure. if this was the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. len james, you said, said, how would you like to do a term paper in lieu, the final exam said yeah, sure. and he said want to do a paper on the spanish american war. and i didn't,
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i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional records. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. it was those referring to us for practically as monkeys. and like these round races and this on that, i'm going to wait. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan in the anti imperialist saying this be traced all over the united states is about, we know we flight the colonies. referral for independence. what are we, we're going to become a buyer now. the for over 400 years. puerto rico suffered as a spanish calling but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy. many hopes that this was
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a step towards independence. but it turned out to the addendum, the just months afterwards though he goes to 1st election, the united states invaded the items within 10 weeks. hopes of independence were dashed as the island was a next by the us. and then in 1917 the jones act made for it so he can see us citizens are like okay, we're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with had and we would prefer the, the
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you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i don't know we were supposed to and i know a lot. i see a lot of people doing it. so there you go. okay. who's next? i do know that that's not john harvard. no, that is no because he was dead by the time they did that. so some, some young man posed so on. okay. um as the years not right. and he wasn't just the founder because he was one of, of a whole lot of so that's why they say this was the statue was a 3 lice. ah, okay. the year the, that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. the
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as i looked down that morning i was just starting to be light. there was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of so real quality. and there was a ring of policemen, setting up an outer perimeters. i mean, they all had these elements on visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. and you could hear the screaming and everything else and then started seeing the guys students who were in the building being evicted, one by one. the just pulled it on him. is it as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you inheriting you? until you got to the battery. i can throw you in the battery right and fill the
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battery right and drove it out. and then brought the next one in and stuff. that was what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that change things peaceful in understanding with these guys had to be for in a different way. for me that was the beginning of my radicalization when the crowd man and the people inside the building, the who when i went to the wrong just don't safe house because the application
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and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will support, we choose to look for common ground the a good 50 years earlier. another portability can student matriculate at harvard federal id. so comes in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average in his class privilege minds, a pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blind for reading. so not i, on the
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after harvard be so campus returns to, for the recall where he witnesses the us controlled sugar cartel, extracting higher profits from plantation workers than any other place in the world . the in 1934 b. so compost organizes sugarcane cutters, or much of data to strike against us sugar companies. they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail. and the wages are double to a $1.50 a day. the emboldened diesel campus forms the cadets of the republic who taken oath to find for point the week of independence on palm sunday,
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1937 states and a peaceful march at the last minute. the colonial governor revokes their permit to assemble and they are surrounded by 200 police. some armed with thompson, the on the police begin firing. marchers and bystanders attempt to sleep the flags. there is the 1st to be killed. a 7 year old girl picks up the flag and she is a medium shot. the a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood viva, like a pool because of the whole associates. long lived the republic,
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down with the murders, the $235.00 were 19 killed including the 7 year old girl. the 20000 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies. the none of the police are held accountable. the i didn't know any of that. when i was growing up the, you know, i was like this, what did i know? and i, it wasn't until years later that i sent me on to have a different historical perspective on, on the vehicle. and you know,
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the gag law. they made find the puerto rican flight by itself illegal and punishable by prison. you know, you can speak in favor of independence. re be thrown into prison. the in 1948 law. 53, lay the motor garza known as the gag order makes it a crime. to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seen a patriotic point, 30 can song, can lead to 10 years in prison. in 1950 nationalist across the island, read the staging, coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion, and the us federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery orders for nice 47 bombers,
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the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on the, in the aftermath. 2004 deacons are round it up and arrested the in retaliation to national. this form a plan, the outside warehouse, the presidents temporarily. washington homes. extreme fanatics of the puerto rican nationalist party, tried to force their way in guns, blazing to assassinate the president of the united states. assassin, oscar,
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colorado and 2 other guards are wounded as the plotters for washington's emergency hospital. the 24 hour guard watches over co. you also who despite a chest wound drake covers to face trial for murder. they have tried kill me and i knew that they'd try it again. i knew who they were. there are a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalists rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed them. in fact, it was the us government policy, the governors policy to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where it's either give up or go down and fight and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course,
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they responded and for crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put the invaders, you know, put down all the freedom fighters, cut their heads off and put them on a bike. so everybody knows noticed, don't mess with the us because this is which waiting for you, the why was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. and, you know, we think you're a good candidate. what do you say? i said, yes. the, in 1954, 44 adult ricans, living in new york,
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decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison. i be so campus presents them with a mission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. purchases new sunday dress, the advise one way, tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building. now congress is in session. never on leads them and reciting. the lord's prayer, then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point the only way, long live free point thought equal fire in the house of representatives and the police that in crowds rushing to the capital, the shuttle down wild. i'm aboard or we can put out a grossey. i'm around as photograph moments after he and wrist. andres cordero at joined with the lead on that run and buying more than 20 shops of in crowded house
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for 5. congress. one are wounded in the murder rest of the time, the sail grimly defiant. the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the next time to see them from iceland. and i would like this to happen today. awake because of the amount of good will the government united states to pay for the recall immediately the headings times. okay. nobody random from wayne because all the other ways have been tried as a country a political. it's not easy already punched in any way. it is the gate
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fire and i asked that i came here just to be made statements, not to us as the for most americans that there's no context to that is like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics, pottery gun dependence. so you know, when we've done such good for them, how good they do that the the criminal investigation reveals that no lead delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one the capital police find a note in her handbag. my life i give for the freedom of my country. the united states has to be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country, the
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feeling better all head audio was born in puerto rico in the 1930s. as a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the onset, mastercard. he saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. in his twenties, already and accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. it was clear to feeling better to hear that that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single
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savvy cause of wherever. oh if that's the end. all but he knew so you know, at the end of the names they is convincing me in the game that will leave you in the vice court only. so they can point by the room that going on my the biggest on that 3 and the look at that. pretty good handle. see the, the best 3. let me let me go. some of the, in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding and puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos in department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's. and we'll work for all head there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage all had called these actions. farms propaganda, the
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1950 to us as the was returning to a peaceful life. but the newspapers didn't report on going massacres and the ukrainian saw, according to intelligence, ukrainian nationalist and the ukranian intelligent ami said by romano. she'll give each other to i do these atrocities for future best hold at the old school and what, but i see in your new way to be way to be like this is all possible. do a new one. obviously the preventive was the head of the n t v. the sabotage department at the time, he was tasked with stopping the atrocities in ukraine for a good reason. general sort of blonde. it was very familiar with the situation. pete had experience finding the nationalist before the war, loveless to con, get a z, a do it to made a certain the know could i. e, but it was, well that's funny. so give me the task. was tremendously difficult, but suit up a lot that was determined to complete as we had personal accounts,
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the central with the ukranian nationalist the us is repositioning it to me is for the 1st time since that to the, to a new government in the west african country meanwhile, the village government of the central affirmation of the bond releases that previously allison president allows him to leave the country. we analyze everything that the americans and their allies are doing to promote their interest under the guise of so called in the pacific strategies that we will understand that of course, one of the main goals is to contain china and isolate russia in this region. russia as far as the legs. here's the official visit to the south. asian nation of buying the sounds being south of gate, washington dc, blowing facing efforts in the region.

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