gene randall playing songs by all. is. being. proved. in one thousand nine hundred i was the first woman to work in this one particular mine and my job was what they called the belt boy and then they started calling me the belt person because i was a female so when i would go underground everybody would be kind of gathered to see this woman coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face would be all black with the coldest since i was a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i would wipe my face off before i would come outside so it would be all clean. so that it but the guys would always be looking for me to come out because it was just so amazing i guess to them to see a woman working in the mines molding for its own troops.

for manalo no. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains of anything to do with rocks and my earth science teacher back then said there's going to be eight hundred years of coal and when he said that that's when things were good you know where everybody was working like the guys that worked in the mines they always had nice cars like the camero i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to. coal mines here in that it would become

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. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics school this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. loans will. be given you don't see why sued the teachers what they did equip it. to what they need not through only ten specific. maidstone left in the face kelly said. claiming to know somebody did that to. alex you speak french.

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young and the. opposites and if you notice he sees. me never standing. with my. own kentucky county school produce the most coal at a time in which most of what power do united states. came from kentucky. today thirty three active minds in harden employ less than two thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's many laid off ones for they don't see any other options in the fuel handouts in time unemployed man are the usual customers

it's. just swell current county was founded on coal and there's a reason marin county was feeling that's the reason the. babies are in care is live if they squeeze welfare and get me into the building code and they get coal there's nothing else here we don't have the light to the cities we don't have factories we don't in the reason one of those guys because those are closed in the mountains and we don't have the road boys in which largess a mantra is going to get me in a day and that. i go for the papers at the local mcdaniels already go down here peace joy may pay to. well that's not something that deals over horrors reuben boys . you can walk funny very moot if you did more to get people goes both ways your use of being. told stories very strong and move is good more for

their buys every way home will. continue to be i'll give it easy to the man as the only. person super in it will go duke regional. to all my uncles who are good examples or are working to save the city now stranded in years and years. and they only get to go will now be coming out of the one i'm. if i don't use a mean here and you know you're cheering for your goal i'm going to go find. the let me know why you're rich or they will be. so. when i win in the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around again at. work in a coma and for five years and every two years service from. the waiter here to . take. my two hours

and thirty cents an hour for us to you and says that how much down in the world. are very good. years not as much money in the. one my doing here i just got out of jail. possession of stolen property. i'm not good. jails jail. as of. now good. feature three times a day. it will rise before t.v. . all those things you.

know of. where i was a teenager smithy jules's creek two of the roughest places. a story carried a pistol on us. enough carried whatever seriousness feel. i've learned. just tell. me.

i'm the gun guy here the pawn shop here for the past by the way we take everything from you know d.v.d.'s to. boat motors or whatever you want to madge and we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like us say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred dollar mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining mines you shouldn't be on makes it difficult to sell that stuff because these were so these were being sold to personal miners for their own use they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying that. line. here. where all of them are very accounting. ever. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past

there once made harlan the tories. the county is still mostly dry and was one for years people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are on the rice a trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners now ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of people here this is a big reason or. said and. very much a me say that makes me feel better i think to make him feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. and maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem and i say again it's just peroration try to get some money to maintain a habit you know and i think since all this you know all the mining and depression of the mining everything it's caused. a rising pills. it's the pills are the new

alcohol. we're talking about the forty in the. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made. here in december we'd be cocoa berries but the race will be able to hope for as we carry yourself forward our again. the black berries will we got a quarter again we get a lift you know all. muddy from the. close and some food for them where they're. mostly what with the food it was cold and. lower. so they were going to be at the base with the. flat. and then begin and that would only take a few hours and they wanted him last bit towards the end of my.

family and. maybe before they switch. to the ones in jail that. i want to feed you know and they have sales now or i have with the jobs or ground. shut him down all the coal mines of said. live to. in power. i want the same road so this under a bush tally walked three decades ago and words from the opening paragraph to his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was in the winding road from harlan to our birds driving

a borrowed pickup truck when i began to notice the road kill it was a dangerous road with more than its share of adventures drivers and it was getting dark. i began to think of the many ways in which that was a presence in this land the dyin the most the road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond and black lung. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in an endless rain. i tried to put together the pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse off. my own with wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up the luxury. there was leaving his hall for his work when i heard it is the little girl's grave.

all the daddy dear daddy please don't go away. with. it don't go to the. bar dream. on come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy plays doll way where you have a good. lick down down down the way. claimed to know all. he was.

leaving. town. he. didn't steal or still be. the only. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with us is a full on awesome well the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it

is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of our three americas doing the same we are apparently better than nothing. and see people you've never heard of love back to the night president of the world bank so there you go write me seriously send us an e-mail. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better life better and i think they are inheriting whenever my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than the whole for a million americans have been killed by falls of the us going out is thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in a real scenario so it was interesting to see who actually got hit. and

i just saw you to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met in toto all those years you god i don't know this but we are not. i. i i i. i. i.

mean the pentagon has a us watch dog which oversees the situation in afghanistan publishing information on who controls what on the ground amid a string of deadly terror attacks in the country. was that's the message that u.s. officials were given by angry palestinian protesters. as tensions over jerusalem recognition showed no sign of calming. the u.s. releases a sweeping list of russian politicians and business figures on the. list and it is exactly the kremlin list of officials on its website the mirror is forbes ritualised of russia.

great to have you with us this evening. this is international. in an unprecedented move the pentagon has apparently instructed the inspector general for afghanistan and watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups this is according to the watchdogs latest report . this development is troubling for a number of reasons most least of which is that this is the first time since he's been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we

understand they've instructed him not to give out certain pertinent information especially about casualties among afghan forces but one of the key things that they've told him to leave out of his reports is the balance of power on the ground he's essentially not being permitted to reveal what territory is controlled by the taliban and what territory is controlled by the afghan government what territory is controlled by the i still forces and that's key information if you want to understand what progress is being made and how the war is really going now at this point the usa has been in afghanistan for almost two decades it's had its forces on the ground there have been air strikes and such and we actually have kind of an admission from secretary of defense james mattis that not a lot has been achieved during that time this is what he said during understand the urgency to understand it's my responsibility we are not winning in afghanistan

right now and we will correct this now at this point there has been a little bit of a change in strategy in afghanistan the usa is escalating its airstrikes and bombing of afghanistan at this point four thousand three hundred bombs were actually dropped in the year of twenty seventeen that's more bombs that were dropped in two thousand and fifteen and twenty sixteen combined however it hasn't really had the effect of changing things on the ground in fact the i still forces and the taliban forces have actually increased the number of attacks that they've carried out let's take a look. now

at this point the usa is sending mixed messages about the possibility of negotiations with the taliban we heard in october rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state say that the usa was not willing to negotiate with the taliban entirely but that it was willing to negotiate with what he called moderate voices among the taliban now we've heard from donald trump that there will be no negotiations with the taliban no talking to the taliban whatsoever there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban and we're going to finish what we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish we're going to be able to do it now we've heard a response from the taliban essentially mocking the united states and saying that if the usa wants to find them it knows where their office is located in the city of

doha at this point we are not hearing moves from either side the taliban or the united states about resuming negotiations so at the moment it appears that the violence and chaos in afghanistan is going to continue no expert on middle east in the first risk believes that the latest move by the pentagon is effectively tantamount to an admission of failure in afghanistan. seem in some horrific attacks launched by the tyler taliban and by isis which have there are begun to target kabul the afghani capital previously we saw that the you know there were attacks by these extremist groups but they won't focus so much on kabul kabul was considered to be relatively secure what we've seen now is that even the capital is no longer secure so in light of these failures in this who you were swore i think that the pentagon burned basically or the american mistreated as a whole had no choice but to take this step to try and hide the reality which is

going on on the ground because i think that if the american people are exposed to the real situation of they will be using mense popular pressure for the u.s. to going to just cut and withdraw from that country. u.s. officials had to flee an event in the west bank city of bethlehem of the angry protesters stormed the building they were in. a lot of being a business meeting at the bethlehem chamber of commerce and industry protesters arrived to the banner that condemned trunks decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital clashes the meeting was cut short before leaving the building the americans were given a clear message. so the new.

and the story didn't end there palestinian protesters then ran out of the building and threw tomatoes at the diplomatic cars which were trying to flee the scene. i. it was not easy either as you saw there on the video palace news tried to gain entry to the vehicles loosely has moral much before. but this is just the latest incident in a string of protests that have been taking place on the palestinian street ever since the american president donald trump made an announcement back in the beginning of december saying that he recognized jerusalem as israel's capital also on tuesday there were protests in front of the palestinian prime minister's office in the west bank city of ramallah now there they were protesting against the

reduction of services being offered by where the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services after the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the americans say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protests anger on the palestinian street have gone as far as to enter the israeli parliament or the israeli knesset where just last week the american vice president mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament started shouting and holding up banners with anti american messages citizens of israel.

now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans will be moving their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem since president trump made that announcement on jerusalem back to the beginning of december they have been more than twelve palestinians who have been killed more than a thousand have been injured and hundreds have been arrested so this is a situation that just won't go away and witnessing tensions continue to climb. the u.s. treasury has released a deep classified list of russian individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the list includes the names of some two hundred top officials and business leaders although not actually being targeted with new restrictions or trying to reports. for now the russian government

won't do anything about what was called the u.s. kremlin list and that's how the russian president for now made up his mind about the u.s. treasury document it had to be published before the monday night deadline under the so-called countering america's adverse stories through sanctions act and so it was ten minutes before the deadline america's saying that being put on that list which includes one hundred fourteen top russian government officials as well as nearly one hundred richest businessmen doesn't mean receiving some kind of punishment so you may well ask what's the point something to do with sanctions that's not actually sanctions by the way something that i found rather amusing was the fact that the putin administration section matched the kremlin website name by name while the part about the.