even without the regional circumstances, opposite gone is likely to face a bumpy road ahead. as we know that trump does not believe in the jcp away, as he says that the court must be more inclusive and also address the west concerns about that one's missile capabilities. as well, we see that trump, i reiterated this stance during his campaign, is saying he does not have any problem with the islamic republic, but that he wants to stop the country from acquiring nuclear weapons. he set up an economy of sanctions apart, turning disqualified on regional developments, including because of war. while trump has vowed to end the war's information to be seen, how he would approach the waging chaos and conflict in the middle east, especially as it was response to as well is looming a. so again, we need to wait and see whether he intends to resolve the crisis by taking a more hawkish, confrontational course with iran,

or are resorting to the path of diplomacy. and it seems like the one is ready for both scenarios. but as well as continues to react to what's being called the political bombshell of trumps re election, make sure you stay with us for more analysis. we'll see you invest a minute. the e. oh lean uh not e, i need the team. uh 5 i live in paradise. the largest and southern most island in the marianas

archipelago, while han is dotted with blushed, palm trees, and miles and miles of soft white sand, surrounded by turquoise squatters of the pacific ocean. but our paradise has a toxic legacy. while i'm shares the history of contamination with many us and overseas military base communities is common knowledge that the us military use is highly toxic substances. and we are experiencing contamination of our land and waters by the agent orange. p. fast pcp is petroleum fuels heavy metals, fonts, high organic compounds, all the military war time cocktails. so you can imagine from being carpet bomb during world war 2. we're an island that has been referred to by veterans as one big superfund site. a history of military dumping impacts the health of many families here on our 212 square mile island. it only takes 2 hours to drive from one end to the other. that's how small we are. and we're inundated with

environmental contamination. in this episode, i'm sharing real stories of community members whose homes are located by known military toxic dump sites, and how their families are among countless others and the communities suffering from clusters of where cancers in chronic illness. while it's difficult to definitively connect their health issues with the environment, the correlation is enough for them to question why their family members are dying. dr. leasing, let's have it on a professor at university of guam and try american van or a big long coalition for peace and justice. sat down to me and shared just how much this topic legacy left by the us military affects us today. when we talk about the impact of the transition on the health of tomorrow's, of us as an indigenous population. let me see is that the toxicity that comes from military activities, from war preparation,

military exercises. it really is manifested in our physical bodies and we see this in cancer rates for example. and so one such evidence of this is the study that was done by novel and had it which was published in 1997. and in their study, what they did was they looked and surveyed a 25 year period of cancer death certificates and so, and looking at those death certificates they identified and you know, computed what was the incidence of, of death of cancer on, on go on and they were able to establish that tomorrow's or the highest risk for cancer and that the incidence of cancer was increasing. and this is after they use different calculations from the world health organization to standardize that across populations. and the 3rd finding which for me is,

was the most significant was that they were able to glean and 1997 that the villages of santa rita and you go where the ones with the highest incidence rates. and they, in their article and particularly point out that those are the villages with the largest military base presence. and so you see this, this can grow and see in terms of military activities and the very direct impact on the bodies of tomorrow's. i met up with rudy polco mirror municipality at the heart of while i'm calling my mom to to might see where he was born and raised. this municipality is commonly known as mtm and m. c. m is home of the largest flatland area, and juan called the gun. yes, one more than 70 years ago, run off from a navy operated power plant in milan. drained into a portion of the a gun. yes. swamp. contaminating the residential area of west poly chlorinated by fennel's or p c. b, which are industrial chemicals thing to cancer run out from the power plant. when

to ran into yard of paco's childhood home, to the 19 ninety's alco challenged the federal government to test for p. c. bees. not only on the swamp and surrounding soil and but on residents whose health may have been effected by chemicals. but all i asked the federal government was to do a physics for the community of m g m at least every quarter. but that never happens. there's a family right over there in that house, every one of those and so cancer and look up where they live right across from the parks. i met up with the nurse has to be filled with hon. pick her up in the home, directly across the navy power plants. she and 5 of her siblings, that old nasal french healed cancer. tragically, all 5 passed away of cancer and she is the soul cancer survivor. agents where we

refer jaron from care and the government testers, right? good to hear somebody of fans side. so why are you for this case when we were young? i'm sorry, we go through the, from my net or this can of the navy risk it. c and go down there and we put in my, we put your hands inside, we can get to so many they're huge and they're very good ink to find the glass. and they're in the area of those to our area and run to my dad. and then then 5 and same name is my grand kids. and my mom to the brothers and

sisters leave around the area to they say yeah, there is also from the great there's uh huh. are sick during there was time for me it's hardly because, i mean i have been directly affected, but i've had to like grow up my whole life. i have these memories watching my grandma like very her siblings. and that hurts. losing family members is quite okay. i feel like they could have had more years on this or that may maybe run this through. yeah. so yeah, my brother brittany has his cancer from major, very new york and then he was a new bid. and then you know, they can to these boom. and that's what i'm very fortunate,

i think, right around the origin of my exercises a good way from, you know, like i really selfish to because i'm thankful that my grandma was the one that survived on like how many, how many times is did you lose or 5 or vice around my mom to the brother right before the end user, 5209. again, my sister, i or sister, she has a native in your cancer and she had a 5 set of treatment, but she never ran out of it. and then i'd love to years later, i have known that uh,

native ranger cancer. so he st in line. same as me when i ran in 1997 doctor was seeing that there is no. so cancer is not really the and as of right, something is not broke or there is a flat cancer in the same time for lunch going on around the area which is oh, these kind of demonstrations less along my dad fish. and we see a plan and my phone number's not bad then. right. we're not quite, there weren't just pcp use in the nearby waters and figured victoria low,

low younger arrows, childhood home sections of the top. so at this world war 2 dumpsite were found to be contaminated with hazardous levels of mercury, but arsenic pesticides and p c. b. the property was formerly of the location of military supply warehouses, a military vehicle base yard and a shooting range. the department of defense did a partial cleanup and never came back. oh yes, found that metal fee for this was the metal and it listed selected, intense collecting. so there's even, um, the rest of the day on that i think a year. yeah. some of the metal center that really belong to the military. these are all, i don't know what all these are pipes so, but of course for carts and is there might be a couple in there, but you know,

i just threw them all in there. so i know every time the guys comedy kind of fly all over the place. yeah. when i was a kid, i would play in this with martha and bully me and i would like play in the jungle. and then i find like little pieces of metal guns, how her hand creaming me the line that i grew up and talked to is my mother's land . and she inherited it from her mom. and they started living there after world war 2 and wednesday, and that had belonged to the family and was mostly used for farming before the war . and then after the war for both my grandmother and her brother built hose in the app on the property as um, in western. and so we had always known that there was military waste from the war buried in the property. because when we were kids, we went by the playing in the dirt and there was a gun powder or like once my brother found a bomb buried in the yard and had to,

you know, they had to bring the like bomb squad and everything. and it was a bigger deal, but so we had been really aware that the property itself had been used as a jump site after the war. but we had never been informed to what extent or what was buried in the property. and so, in 2008, the army corps of engineers had contracted a team. they came and they had asked permission from our family and from my uncle ben's family, my problem is brother and his children to sort of take it up and, and really study what was there and the degree of contamination that had occurred. and so they and said that in 2008 in 2010, they invited our families to long since my as the community center and have like a public hearing just for our families about what they had found. and so it was the site power point and all bullet points, and they were, you know,

basically saying that it has been both the water and the soil had been so heavily contaminated that the mediation they suggested was excavation and off site removal . which was only which only happened in cases where the contamination was so severe . their member of the town hall meetings. what that experience was like hearing finally in details about contamination and what was in your property for me, it was kind of a almost a shock because nobody ever said we never had any clean up or anything like that. when we, even when they were digging for the house, it was you jogging, build your house and dallas id, right? but um, it was kind of scary. this is the fact and now i have grandkids. and how much pile of dirt do i have to have in the back so that they can be able to play back there? for how much dirt do i have to put a good, clean dirt so that i can plant something back there and eat off. lown,

my not cancer, because that's not a guarantee for me. during the 2nd will pull underground power, military organizations in poland, occupied by german troops, as well as in the bordering regions of bella, ros. we're united into the so called home on a trip to the police, a center or the or the prospect to say is because i use a blue screen time list. and if i put in the front of it is i take this to the ship when they put me through this issue of shy stick of the who mom a was the main organization of the publish resistance 20 against gym and occupation and soviet rule. somebody's been in the army currently away 19. so need to level sheet plenty of the boys, folks. i didn't put those on. anything isn't this? you know, that's most of the home on a county down operations to destroy the nazis. but then switch to settling schools

with soviet partisans and the civilian population that supported them. they have never bytes it automatically over it. you destroy your husband, there me today, but i didn't in the new dig. i bought it for my goal is to have your product is on the new post that has to be a liberal in agreement or just focus is devali. 60 those up let me know 40 points when you go to you. belittle cannot serious deal of when you have no heat. so process jimson, we generally look for usually to cheat anymore. the i think one of the biggest obstacle is we all feel since the lack of accountability and the lack of information. and then so i think the 1st thing for our family is like being fully informed. like when we were requesting information about what, what do these particular account needs for this? what are some of the house uh, conditions that are active said, you know this, this doubled up since combination and the water and soil and we were never provided that information. but we requested that as

a public hearing number. if you have anything for us, the biggest issue is of you know, as part of the community of how bad you know how badly it's been contaminated and then what does that mean for our bodies? what does that mean for our overall house? and then come at some cleaning it up, don't just about this and you know what they found in the property was that the soil high level as a lead pcb, arsenic and a ton of other chemicals? i cannot mean. and that even the water has degrees of contamination that were higher than other areas on the island. and in the public hearing, there were family members from other parts. i've talked to in my loan who had come because in their properties there was military company, you know, waste that they had found over the years just like we had. but they weren't told that the public hearing was only the coming with a logic cavity. banners properties because we were like, i guess,

considered one of the super fun in science. and so any other properties in the village, they weren't even going to investigate that. it wasn't on their list and that this was all that they were there to discuss. so like one guy came and was like, you know, i found like tanks buried in my yard. right. and they're like, oh that's, it's not on our list of properties that needed to be cleaned up. so where we can discuss that. i had followed up because of that very same year. i had lost my 1st child to a very birth dfcs called in on file a solid square. his intestines had formed outside his body in a sack and so abdominal law dfacs are pretty rare, but are very common here in guam. and so when i had been doing research, you know, instead i've just because i was, as a mother, really trying to understand like, how did this happen?

you know, i had found like a connection. i found an article, a scientific article linking the presence of an umbrella, so, or like high incidences of abdominal wall dfacs and a community that had like rocket fuel and the water. and so i was like, well, if there's like a mean it wasn't directly caught and caused, but there was this correlation rates on like could then this environmental contamination have impacted my child. then they did show up a year later with like a construction for most of the contamination was in my uncle ben's property, which is right below my mom's property. and so what they had signed ways of, i dug into the soil like these long rectangles and they had felt like shipping container is full of the soil. and then mid way through the project, they ran out of money and they buried everything back and they have not shown up

sense. so this one is around 2011. and now more than 10 years later they never came to finish the clean up. so they, you know, they investigated what was there, they informed us, what was there, they began to clean up, and then they ran out of money and never finished a job. and my uncle ben's family, you know, my mc norma recently died of cancer. i know that um, you know, a couple of his funds have also had cancer. um and you know, who knows what other health conditions may be connected to this. but you know, a lot of the chemicals on that list are chemicals that are connected to high cancer rates in other communities. but yeah, for me like growing up in psych we were never growing up. we didn't drink water from the time, like it was just always a given that the water is not safe to drink period whether or not we knew how the

land was contaminated, there is always just this way in which i think we're aware as a community of like the fact that we don't have clean drinking water and that is a risk to drink the water coming out of our job. and then when we finally, you know, heard about our specific property. it was confirmed for when i think about what happened to our property. i mean think about like just best idea that we like build our whole lives on this contaminated land. and, you know, with no accountability from the department of defense or not even like, i'm just thinking like there are people who live here. sometimes i wonder and say, when you hear about the way guam is depicted to the rest of the world as the military base, it's like no one ever thinks about the people who actually live here. they only see

one as a military installation, not as a island nation with such a rich history and families who call this place home and have done so for thousands of years freight and that is really terrifying to only be safe to not be seen as the people because what it means is that our actual health and wellbeing our lives, they don't matter, and the military mission is what matters. the defense of the continental united states is what matters. and what sacrifice is our own house and well be. i think we need to go back to back to the table and discuss some more and invite more families in. and even if i don't have a major clean up this way, a test to test the dirt in the ground. because i'm never going to find anything in

the back pc. these aren't just a problem in mtm. presidents in the southern village of reed, so are still being advised to avoid meeting fish from the co goes to do because the level of pcp contamination and sampled fish remains of bugs federal standards for save consumption for it says the closest village should compass island, the farmers site of the us coast star is long range, navigation for a bar m station from 1944 to 1963. p, c, b is from electrical equipment use at the coast, curse lauren stations, such as transformers and capacitors for improperly discarded on purpose island. and in co goes in 2005. the coast guard removes sources of pcp, contamination in around coco's island. but in 2015, follow up sampling showed some spice and pcp levels and levels of toxic pesticide

d d t. and the water is around kobus island including fish planets. so we just took a boat out to this is cocos island. it's right up the coast of one right back there is the village of molest due to the military shut down the navigation station in 1965. but we're still feeling the effects of the p. c. b contamination. up until today. these are lasting decades long impacts of historical contamination done by the us military that our people are still feeling. and a lot of what activists have been saying all these years is that we can't be building up the, you know, the, the military expansion in this region is called the military buildup. and we can't be building up while we're still trying to clean up. there's so much toxicities still in this area. c and so we have to do what we can as

a community to continue to raise awareness so that our families are not affected. so that. c we're not suffering from cancer and other chronic illnesses, from the toxicity across our island. and my name is ronna fi, g. doctor melissa is a born and raised there. i just recently moved up. but my father and all generations before me of all lived in my life with where from there. and i live in this, the more northern side of mother. so which is in b b, b. but we fish there all the time and focus on and try. and so it was a big thing and municipal, my youngest cousin, my cousin at my age at that time, and in his thirty's, dido cancer. and my other cousin who was younger than and his brother died at age of 40 a dido capture. and all that i think is because of what they, what,

what they left in the ocean for us. and luckily i didn't made it a habit to, to go they all the time, but they did because that was whenever there was a party we were sent out to go out and do fishing all the time. every time, every day, whenever we needed to, we have to know was the place we went to. so i think the military has not done the due diligence show. they've not really helped people to control what, what is there? i'm sure others should feel the same way that the pc beach not is, is still there. and is that the position we think there's affected us? i think the federal government needs to continue to do their part not just on the, on the ocean, but also to even us just on our people in the british. very so mere ernest, char gloss says the community has been left in the dark about water quality rather sash too, as far as information because i know they did studies online, they should be cleared up. some other sam, it will show your samples on shar nurse,

your nurse shot in atlanta, as well as the waters in the middle of the area and then instead of the moon and those studies and then whatever scientific things that they were doing in the water were never given in the community as far as the research where i wanted to find it for. so to me is the stair step. when the science dash think or our issue may be a and the coast guard, they should collaborate with their information to disseminate the appropriate information so that you make the people knowledgeable of what's going on and you keep them updated on one of your findings are on an ongoing basis as some read so resident, whose family has subsisted off the land and waters of the last 2 for generations. charged off express, concerned about the health impacts of pcp exposure on there. i was there, the trash grab, blank wrap and colton are crap. and i was let the fish as well,

so the fish in the wrong, they are in the dish back to catch the fish on there. so i'm concerned that, you know, i don't know if i ever, i may have been just it or those that in dollars with the fish that i taught in the area may have been just it. and then a has a bearing under health from shark las prospective. the federal government should continue to conduct regular testing and exhaust all remedies to restore the health of the co goes because the response to move to should be on the federal government . they're the ones that created by re, so those transformers there. and they should know that you don't dispose of it and appropriately use a portion of how to dish ball shelves of pcp containing elements, you know, the transformers or anything. and as she materials you have to discard them, i'm just partial them accordingly. as wanting to chime think they ways of onto the

supporting or my properly dysfunctional or whatever we are page today is something alternative and have to worry about tomorrow. fun. who can, that will not be in the, the, to not fun. who do we have to do? not fun who to see her as look them done on to the other many places in the wells where you can stay on the divide between the 2 oceans and what you might not think it's what is this hey, this is northern. i found guest vision in the channels that us national park. and

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