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way. obama himself said he hasn't ruled out the possibility of another similar terrorist attack that would be blowback for our continuing involvement there but also it comes back in what's happening to our own country in. as our soldiers come home in terrible condition with. appalling physical and mental injuries and casualties and of course in what it costs this country to fight these illegal unnecessary wars and jones thank you very much for your time thank you.
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a. real life stories from. nineteen forty five gold dot com. this is all see coming to you live from moscow with a check of the headlines the top marks the hour. on the war in afghanistan and has its term dead at the tables turned on coalition soldiers posting battlefield videos of the internet a ton of the easing clips uploaded by allied troops to drum up musa pay. attention mounts ahead of this with parents parliamentary election and politically divided security measures are being intensified across the country to avoid conflicts. of america's international broadcasting board whole slew more missiles
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of surprise the growing voice for nice charles including all singing broadcast as from russia iran venezuela and china are named and the news of the u.s. . health all special report what it made those getting back to basics find out why people are telling the box on the bright lights of the city to get one with nature . out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices consume a crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with the natural environment so while they simply escaping big city life for a short break or are they fully rejecting modern civilization ecological settlements a refuge for misfits and down costs or a place for the independent and strong minded of these people moving to be the
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economic crisis or to escape from themselves. that is thirty's or. early on some is an important time for a few that's when he begins collecting honey from his forty bee hives as he pulls out each heavy honeycomb he suggests that bees may be in nature's original eco settlers. i mean bees are very rational creatures that's what is amazing about them and that's why i adore them besides they're very useful creatures they don't harm nature in any way whatsoever nature blossoms with the arrival of. eighty years ago fielder who's
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a former engineer and several of his friends were given a one hundred hectare plot of land one hundred forty kilometers southwest of moscow they divided it into one hundred equal parts they offered the land to anyone willing to adhere to special conditions takers were expected to live in the settlement permanently. we follow these rules there is a ban on pesticides and manmade fancies of trees every one of us must plant trees we are dead set against smoking and alcohol. banned in public places. the name of the settlement means no. the maybe no biblical flood but dozens of people have flocked here from big cities only a few plots of land are still vacant. hello . we shifted i'm doing i was
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a go on. maxine from moscow is one of the most recent newcomers he wants to take advantage of the warm weather to finish building a house he spent a good deal of time and effort preparing for his move to comfort checked his boss and allowed him to report to work in moscow only twice a month he also convinced his wife and children that it was much easier to work outside the. i grew up in a village. that is in my apartment there wasn't enough space for me. to my windows trees all around. so i don't have people cramping. things before lived in the country. seems wife is a doctor by trade after she came here it took her a while to get used to the daily manual work there are neither shops nor centers in the settlement electricity only came here
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a couple of years ago residents are frequently found baking their own bread. when life gets tough i take comfort from the floor to the sci fi i was working in moscow i'd spend three hours going to work and back. i spend as much time in vegetable garden out in the open. this bakery as an eco village in scotland begins work at home. it's in an old fishing village near findhorn scotland's north sea coast and is one of the world's oldest and most famous eco settlements the people here. it's autumn and time for the harvest. it's very important to grow our own food so that we don't have to buy it in from overseas so that we know that the food traverse so
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much but that it's really fresh. and. elliot sank species happy to see the bumper crop strictly speaking growing tomatoes is not his every day job he's in charge of the generation next project at findhorn organizing programs for young eco settlers. and he had maintains that life without physical work is impossible in the village. my boy going to different. people. can be really engage in a different word so i looked. at some of the vegetables that he had gathered this morning will end up in the community center kitchen where the settlers cook their food. meat products are strictly forbidden in this kitchen eggs are permitted for use in
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pounds and salads. and. schools of settlers turn up at the community center and the cooks finish preparing the food for dinner. everybody is expected to join in the communal males. the history of what is now a well known community goes back forty seven years peter. came with a friend. to live in a trailer near the village. when their efforts to grow vegetables succeeded others followed. campaigners for the eco friendly lifestyle began arriving at
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findhorn from around the world during the one nine hundred seventy s. the community grew from twenty to one hundred fifty members. as we come through this landscape here we start to move into what we call a poem a culture a garden. garden is the same thing as co-creating with nature working with nature one of the reasons why i came. because of meditational focus the spiritual progress but also working with nature. gibson was one of the first settlers. he's lived in. his. his house is one of the eco villages clean attractions it's made from whiskey barrels we were looking for would particularly wood to use and so on which is very hot and whiskey barrel wood the hard wood is great. right now the water to
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speak. and as the weather gets richer. inside the whiskey barrel everything is just as simple and ecologically pure as it is outside as a village venture and craig is in charge of several ecological projects we lived very simply we still live quite simply but it was not difficult was really wonderful because we were. not working for money. and doing everything just for the collective. nice climate nice people we're not trying to create something alternative we're trying to just demonstrate a different style of living and we see ourselves more. so we are almost a little town. moscow one of the biggest cities in europe concrete and glass towers are cropping up in the capital the brand new
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financial center housing both russian and foreign firms. and with. i think it's ok on the how. shall we draw conclusions regarding chile i mean school should we tie that in with kazakhstan. this workspace is on the top floor of one of moscow's skyscrapers but the head of the firm with this prestigious office space doesn't care much about the view from his desk he's done instead of golf the man considered to be russia's first millionaire in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he also set up the first russian commodity exchange. but things took an unexpected turn seven years ago when his business went bust sterling of himself also went bankrupt when he was forced to sell off his apartment he took an extreme measure and resolved to leave moscow for a place without central heating running water or electricity. i said to my
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wife i lost my job and money and we could no longer own our apartment and we had to go somewhere else immediately after with. my daily routine is like this i get up at six in the morning to tend the cattle then i have the right first and go to moscow my eldest son stays behind to look after the household i visit the big bad city to formulate anti-crisis measures and mechanisms. of the start of the financial meltdown was asked to head a private and secret service center but even after moving into his huge office in moscow he never even toyed with the idea of returning to the capital permanently.
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thank god we have no apartment in moscow this coffin of an apartment no matter how spacious it might be is a far cry from my house here is my home and this is what i call life. but now only gets to spend weekends in his out of this world settlement. thanks seems door to a computer expert living in gov jackie is fresh from a horse ride the neighbor breeds horses. look at do we she says and she's beautiful. sea of bills that police. most of the one hundred settlers have opted for country life because of their children. they believe raising them outside town is easier to refuse to temptations in the countryside. in the evening.
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the common home. is indian dances night. that. is a newcomer to come she teaches the inhabitants indian dancing and tells them about the country's culture. most local residents have volunteered jobs be a teaching. school children. came here for the first time people asked me to tell them about indian dances and demonstrate some of them. a good deal of interest on the pontiff local residents and they even asked me to teach them and i agreed with. indian songs bring another track to a close. this one's been filled with many activities from work in the vegetable
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the. system. from here under ground. the next step is that. this is a first place. into the time and that kills that. area that was previously. this small facility purified water used here bacteria microorganisms purify it in several phases hey you can see the bubbles in the water and the condition is that. after this process in which. we come to the car if you look into the water.
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and this is the final tank cleaning from this point the water goes underground. which runs it up the wrong way. the end result is crystal clear. in the pond you can see with maybe they. generally speaking a very simple principle. green technology is used. to maintain that people must not take from nature. for the chemical fertilizers and not used. pride we just wanted to have as many renewable features as possible so that you could see the. turbines complement solar panels or the wood stove
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or whatever else. electricity generated in this way. but willing to pay because they know computers are powered. this was a community wind project we also wanted to involve the community and after they were wrecked we had groups of young community artists and school children decorate all three turbans and this was a school project about the ecological footprint. it's daybreak in the russian village of jacques revisits the. indian says the day before but today is the teacher and she's taking a geography global of. would you describe the race a region. strayed. two years ago and has.
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always been in good supply the children. themselves the. children cheerfully generous sent elsewhere. they want to learn things. i get the desired response from them. back if you will. this. recently. last winter living in a small. room. who. came here last july the grass was very high here. the first thing that we did. and when leave here until december little moving into that barn we carried it with this film and did the same inside to make the barn warm. but the and then my
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husband found bricks and outlaw ants. and he used them to make a stone. alexi and his wife nina lived in this tiny bomb until the summer. alexy it was a successful photographer then began building his family a new home in the spring. gave birth to their second child now the house is almost complete alexian lien say they found happiness. we don't do what we don't want to do. people to do what they dislike is no a good it's old. your expectations much what you see in the new place you adapt to the situation naturally and you do what you want to do. people feel much more comfortable here used to have an apartment and money and job
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or a business where everything was ok with that and yet they decided to come here they're successful here too as for escapism it doesn't work out well as a rule. yes it's me. i know i haven't cited some him to the urals as for the money it goes to. government telephone barely stops ringing even on saturday mornings as an entrepreneur whose business was ruined years ago sterling of sees the financial crisis as the best time for spreading the economic lessons that land. this crisis offers a big opportunity for one thing urban people are losing jobs nobody needs this is a powerful stimulus for them to move to other places and if this city sewage system goes down then it compel people to move in no time the government dislikes the term
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eco sattler he calls himself a peasant and hates progress more than even the most radical greens feels that scientific progress does nothing but harm and maintains that people should go back to their roots living as he does just like in days gone by the food should come from your own vegetable garden. just like them and eat them. warry we don't use any cameco to grow them. come on try it. even has an eco solution to making ice without a freezer. this is all free only a short time ago i had always dreamt of making a realized box and that's the right time for a big chunks of meat to be stored here. the freezer is on one side of the fridge bought all jars and canned food are kept on the other one a freeze comes around i crammed into this place. the eyes down their last for
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a whole year. according to government people should eat at home with their families and say prayers to he believes the best way to beat the crisis is to reject innovation and revert to time tested practices. well any novelty is the work of the devil everything that is old has been tested for that dozens of years people used to leave quite well they just gave birth to children and multiplied through they quarreled and went to war but came to terms in the end but now great discoveries by dan scientists. suicide for all of us. back in scotland a closed community has become an education center that's over fifty years old many international organizations hold seminars here. as issues and guests visit to
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london to learn from the experience. of visitors coming to the findhorn eco village this time it's a focus everyone's invited to see the show. another object of pride in finland is the large concert hall which is filled to capacity to see. musicians are not asked to perform at the theatre settlement one hundred forty kilometers from moscow strangers are now treated with suspicion on one occasion house was burned down and there has been burglaries at others visitors need permission to come to. value their privacy. found off as a simple explanation a community of settlers is a convenient arrangement but everyone's responsible for their own livelihood. you
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must leave something behind in this world blending hundreds or thousands of trees bring you more happen as into this world that would be a good outcome from my life. that's the case i'll be happy to have with. other has numerous followers all over russia. settlements have sprung up in siberia and in the far east the recession has prompted people to leave the town behind and move closer to nature. that now people understand. bank balances can be easily lost but if you found a place under the sun. you can stay afloat.
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this place makes sound. cool but another is it sparkles and unexplainable interest. in a place where supernatural things are happening. on . the phone with. those. on our t.v. . almost seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the past. king to make changes the society was immediate. the
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