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guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to go i mean eight percent of the tell with you and do so with all the great the great good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the fall of two thousand and three in the world cup in russia. the special one i was also appreciated me to just say the review the all the teams latest edition make up is bigger than me but i just say look. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. some want.
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to go on to be pros which is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lines of. this should. you keep. one fact. that.
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it's him in december morning and i'm on a bus headed down south from chinatown new york there reckless driver speeds up on the ice who really. am traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of a book. written over dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining area some eastern kentucky the book by italians corner. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle of the words built around mining of coal when any grants were to come to the area to work well paid but often has faded jobs the book tells the story of harlan county that's where i'm going. to bury. this repast. own.
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land. i'm headed to the deep the mary kom of this book i want to see what's left of the. three years since his first visit now that the us is shifting to major and gas and coal mines for shutting down one after another i do not expect to find a lively city when i drive into harlem i find it on a city where people are stuck like car terse and black and white picture their
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stories and there. have not changed much from those recorded by push pills research and that they are leading me in this journey. with. well we really don't know what. they. would have been in thirty. plus at least two it would be. worth. no ma'am. but. in their place now it's. like oh it appalachian man but.
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appalachian male. it's. great. writing on a farm or fall where. i got married when. i was sixteen years old and my husband was seventeen years old and lead me in myriad about six months then he went into the mountains and then six months after that dad and i went to court accident. i had two week old son. lady who lived down the street here only. killed. vertebra that he would hit
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really. low. where no. company wants to cold real it's george said also the coal ready for the christmas they wanted him there and we. shot the whole field but done it was done back to that old wall it. killed him if. they know it much. to three boats that look at it one through till it. feel that. they've paid to see. robert fairly. soon as. i
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find remnants of the mining history older memories of the casualties in the hard labor are alive in the stories told by the young and the like they're not had for the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the local scene dusty barson saloons he conceded their life was and still is mine mine is harder now. relief their collective legend and whether played a part where said when private sector survives first words disappearing before day i ask for the rose parade rest. in their spot branded a bit of a work first see a racist gun ship but they first come in six of them at myers grill. it was work and i got them as my grandpa grandma
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a six awful sweater. maybe three year old. will. go. in every lady made home a and at it. he always had peace because you know now with bates the life that you'll say. you're going through. you won't want to talk you into the water in the mine and soon you would have to drown through water it would get it over your knees and. the horses would have to pull through
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the opponents from there and then they would like to bow folders for tracks sometimes when they'd run out of traffic people here named were you know anywhere. there's nothing for him today and there have been all the young pay for the turning to see after this and. if it were some one would have a state and. say our government would get interested in this place this party can tell you i think we. could make it better if they know that i never day. in this say.
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this or pop. eight point seven downtown weisberg this is johnson brain needs an arcade until ten o'clock tonight so i'm talking to some of the best music of two thousand and thirteen playing the song but all.
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is holding it's all. in one nine hundred eighty and 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 into ground everybody would be kind of gathered to see the. women coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face will be all black but 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. it's all true.
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more and more manalo no. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains all of anything he was brock's 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 the nice cars like the camero i remember thinking when i was younger that isn't a thing ever happened to coal mines here and that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened.
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we now know now. it is what. now and it's time to check. a load of. now. thing. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that midstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting
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past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race is on the offense spearing dramatic developments only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.
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with her in code is looking for the past from. the class struggle still believe they've been done in terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the impact. that you came that it really. nobody said. go get me one. you're wasting your tan they were. very evil people you know they do things to fame days. they do things to the young and. as you say if you notice in season in the never saying it would be.
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all kentucky county it's hardly and produce the most code at a time in which most of what powered the united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active mines in harlan employ less than two thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's manny laid off was for they don't see any other options thirteen the fuel handouts in time on employed and are the usual customers swill her uncanny was founded on coal and there's a reason herring county was bill that's the reason the. baby is born in can his wife and if i squeeze welfare and get me into the building code and they get cold
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there's nothing else here we don't have the luxury of the savings we don't have factories we don't and the reason monday is because the sales 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 flip hamburgers at the local mcdonald's or i go down here peace joy may pay to. well that's not a fan of deals over horrors boom boom voices. you can walk straight fanny's dream only if you did more to get run over people goes both ways your use of the. old man story very strong and numerous give more for their bodies every way home will. continue these days i'll give it believe me man is the only. person sooner and it will go to future. you know my uncles were good examples of this work and to save these
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we now stack in years and years. and they tell me to give to god will not be running out of me what i'm doing. is i don't because i'm in here and you know the chant for your ego i'm going to go things. to the window while you're both really rich or they will be with growth rates are below six so we're now in the home. as i was eighteen years old it was around me and i. worked really coleman's for five years under two years service. waiter here and. my two hours and thirty cents an hour rusty it was insistent how much around anymore. it was our very do. not as much money in the town.
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for my doing here i just got out of jail my. possession of stolen property. i'm not here. jails jail. as. a feature three times a day. for. l.a. stuff. i don't need all those things you. need you. here with me. no. way. you know.
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how well i was a teenager smith and jones and screamed this is through the roof these places really oh and the story carried a pistol on us. enough carried one it was serious the steel. wool i've learned by now oh i. just tell him that way. well. i'm the gun guy here at the pawn shop here for the past five years 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
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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 are shut down 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 towards. 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
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now ask a problem the emptiness. there's a lot of people here this is a big region or a. very good as and. very much anything that makes them feel better and they think makes them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. maybe not just from drug users. that is a problem again i say guinness desperation to try to get some money to maintain i have it 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 or the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty inch in the. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made so only a year in december we pick up ovaries but the race will be able to hope for as we
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carry it for is in yourself for valor again. the black berries will we got a quarter again we get a lift you know. money from there to buy clothes and some food for them where they're. mostly what with troy in the food was cordoned. lowered. so they were going to be at there will be will also be. flat. in the beginning i would only have to take a few of the one in last count it towards the end of my stay. found its way in. and maybe before they switched to the ones in jail. i want to see you know where they have to sales now are they have with
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the jobs around. shed them down all the coal mines or. live to the mines is live. here in a van with people. in poverty. itself or. i want the same road sunday sound tiny walk. signal and works from the opening pair . after his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was on 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 adventurous drivers and it was getting dark. i began to think of the many ways in which that was a presence in this land that anymore the road accidents and of course the corn
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mines beyond and block long. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in the 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 a levy and his whole bar is worth when hurt is little girl's grave. oh daddy dear daddy plays golf ball away. with. don't go to them. by
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drawing. on come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy plays doll away. with. the. lid down south where they. claim to know all. he was gone. down.
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he. didn't steal or still be used.
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effortlessly clear. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to.
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have to try to be for us it's like i'm up for three in the morning can people that i'm interested always in the waters among our. guests. i don't buy any i'm on a few. of the flights. some of my ex from the future so crocker. will have. had i thought. i might have. a. good i'm good i'm glad i made a little good album on. that . front.
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