every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here i'm not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like someone who'd been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat. buffet and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was amazing this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand dollars is a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days a week. well i guess i should get back to work. here in an inhospitable handful of contrasts before the boom willison was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched

everything has its own place including florida emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that is most in this within his history of the past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift. without so growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never custom made. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by for. the first. in the spring of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know if i was just going to stand a whole tale. it was like one hundred dollars and i was in it ok hundred dollars

a day seven days a week that's seven hundred dollars a course of a whole week and so i just came to the conclusion you know what i'll get me a van fix it up so you know i can be comfortable in it it makes financial sense because i get to keep the majority of my money versus just just on the way on housing and stuff like this. is my first and then. get worse. and that's the biggest. jerry cannot survive very long in his van where winter temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time being nothing is ready everything has happened so quickly it's very hard to find a place to the. makeshift housing known as man camps mine up by the hundreds on the edge of town or close to drilling sites. these dormitory towns built by necessity and empty lots offer respect one hundred

and one hundred fifty dollars a night to meals including. a two thousand and twelve the population living in these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand you have guys from there now to florida nevada. cleveland you name it i've seen the license plate. every week you know this is the best thing for single men you know i mean that's what i mean as far as wages and. to the everything you know the whole country should be this way. because. this place will put like a stress on you know put away that you'll be carrying around on you and you're.

really realize it and when i went home i came back i noticed it that way then that pressure that whatever you want to call it it builds up over time for me and. you you wouldn't come up here unless there's some reason for you to come up here you know nobody was moving up here into the in two thousand and one i was moving up here in two thousand and one or two thousand and so it wasn't until ok i can gain something financially i can i can improve my situation i can better my status my situation or on the level that i met in life now and that's that's what the whole fill up here really brought to a lot of people who were smart about it and save their money. because i'm tell you man i was asking a lot of pressure. there's not much help here to do to keep you busy focused on something you know you know keep your time occupied you

know is really allow me to save all of my money and i'm in a position where you know i can go back home and your house. i just like the sound of it i can go back home and buy me a house they cash for a house not a car not a car but a house. alone with just in the lease it's footprints on the landscape the fast as it leaves a kind of retreat could buy these horses for as far as the eye can see sweeney slowly to extract the blackall from the subtree in temps. to build surely and highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks transporting of kinds of pipes beeves sand and water used in tracking. yes it was planted in france everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work of the enormous influx of workers.

investors of the unemployed rushed in chasing their dream to grab a piece of the pie. german got austrian gonna tell you in an american and my rifles just in case i need to kill someone. most americans have guns in their house. and at the foot of my bed is a bible. most of my adult life was spent in universities doing teaching or research i went to the university of maine and got several degrees there in agricultural engineering information systems then i worked for mit on the human genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into

debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an area that had less than one percent unemployment. i came looking for work but i didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it's fun three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance after the first year i was very playable i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had a hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence and in weaning this country of our foreign

oil dependency. america would sell its own mother for energy. i live in st george utah. and my family's down there i need to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff we're getting there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drive a truck so i chose to drive truck. and i were usually twelve to fourteen hours to get my truck around eight o'clock in the

morning and i work till eight o'clock at night you know somewhere between me and i . mentally. not only my physically fit. but it's a mental fatigue. this is the moment that i like the best. reached down enough to see everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away.

i live in company housing here it's provided by the company i have to share. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with a three hundred fifty pound guy. gets . done. friends are. those. dallas. dolly is what. we got carol we here we care the music with us.

we are here with a drag here. by you know going to get rid of those who are not go away we will not die quiet. real the hard work we do is the truth. and the see on the lying circumstances that's a load for the emergence of this very very eventful violence i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of guys at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken only minutes we. put on the for cations.

us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those without enough. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some just come for an easy. run around trying to find a job and work here or there and it's not a good life. my children have had some some problems so i

spent a lot of money helping my children and cumulated debt so. the original plan was to come up here for six months. and get out of debt but as i came up made money paid off some bills there were other things. happy birthday celestial. six six stitches yes. well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial i mean. i love you too and talk to you in the morning. already of you. i usually park the truck come back to the trailer here get

a frozen meal. throw in microwave sit down to need it and. if we're not too tired. my roommate nial have a bowl of ice cream and and watch part of a d.v.d. a little after. but most of time it and go to sleep i don't take a shower every night because we don't shower well there's a shower in the trailer but there's no running water. and. she. just boom has not solely attract unoiled workers. it was an opportunity for people like jeff and constance to change their lives and to open a small business. before i moved to boston i was in the health care industry and

then a hospital administrator for several years in kansas. my project was going to live and i wanted to be with my family first and i remember talking to some people was talking about wilson about north dakota and the oil boom there's a lot of oil out here and there's a lot of jobs in the water of opportunity for business willesden seemed to have the best opportunities for us and my family and so we drove up to the local and we realized immediately there was a huge opportunity out here so many people out here there must have been at least thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good fit for us and we thought that maybe if you don't show up with work so many other businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and go back home they don't think we're like that

and i think that's one of the reasons we're that's it's not just. a business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community the supported us the deathly didn't help the south. we are current of it and we're always contributed. good did a. lot of kids are going to be really excited to have go it's. we came here they didn't have a donut shop they hadn't had one for over. eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend for. they come into my shop all its high school was long as well go it's. because there are more families that are coming to my list and now i go pick up the land and school and i see other kids you know on the

asian kids african hispanic you know it's a good sign that the community is growing. healthy with me you know. you create lives in bozeman montana a small town six hundred miles away. he is right out of options in his hometown and has decided to settle for willis and he knows he will not see his wife and two kids for several weeks. long hours behind the wheel with the hope that he will find work when he arrives when i leave my family like this i usually feel you know pretty lousy at times there was one incident years ago where my daughter was just in tears as i was leaving and it's like it's hard it's it's not fun it's hard but it's what has to be done. they're getting better at it they're getting used to it i'm getting

used to it but i still like a brother be home. craig is the way he's usually gone he'll be anywhere from about four weeks to this last one was eight weeks really. didn't see him for about eight weeks and then home from home for about a week or so i think it's been hard for the kids because. they were told me that they feel like it's a broken home you know it's almost like we're divorced because we see so little of each other so it's just been really hard for them this is very similar to living on a ship or being on a boat you're gone for months and see you come back and you see the family for a short period of time and then take off on your ship again you're it's a great analogy it's exactly where it's like. we've all talked about this and i think we could do with a little less so that he could spend more time with us and be more of a family. so i think i would rather have that happy family over

here some of the stuff that we he transfer died for us that watching my kids grow up it's difficult until and it's almost five years now there's no doubt about it but it's just it's what we have to do. and him had just lost his job in the oil business when he met us and constance the couple was charged by the courage will power of this young man ready to do anything to save his family from misery. since then adam spends all his nights eating donuts . and doing three jobs right now working every day. trying to get some money i want to relocate my family you. got to

grows two daughters i want something better form where we lived in southern california is not a very nice place to live so it's a lot of crime. gangsters and browns. the north dakota a be a better place to raise a family. is a lot of resources here and you've got the salvation army and they feed you here at the methodist church over it lutheran church down there. but i get food from work too at the donuts trying to send all my money home for my wife to pay the bills and rent it's enough to get by you know just a the red you know a one hundred a week guy me understand i have a family he wanted to say one hundred twenty five but if you drop it down to a hundred a week. you. the

american dream is that you can always chase i really believe that even during the recession there were still opportunities for each is going to look for you got to be overwhelming or move to change that to get going and go go chase go do it. now a lot of people don't do that but the ones they do with usually come out ahead wrong. because our country is never the stable across the whole it's very rare to have all fifty states doing well it's also rare to have all fifty states do and poorly so we're always moving around that's part of our national character it's always find new opportunities wherever they may be. what i do here pretty much is remodeling homes and handyman work fixing other people's mistakes and other people's problems mostly for homeowners residential it keeps me real busy. i bill out usually about sixty hours

a week i can easily put in a twelve hour day no promise you have to run you know my go to bank post office go see clients check on supplies orders stuff a lot of running around to do i love to work how i am a workaholic there's no doubt about it the money's nice but i like to work just the way my family is. these are some of the old cattle pens in corrals here some of the fallen apart completely but this is where they bring in the cattle to the brand have the calves i have the facts work on them and stuff but now i can see it i don't use it anymore . it was kind of a tough life i mean you lose cattle they die and the winners and so on the hot summers and you know drought is just on i was going to happen gamble every year they never made a lot of money doing it most or ranchers and farmers but they really wanted to do that anymore because they've got the palms down there that they can make money off

of. and the oil is put a lot a lot of money into her pocket so now they can do what they want you know take it easy work whatever they want to do so now it's not as risky life's not as risky as it used to be. that or. you don't meet many people that are from. when i'm talking to a bunch of people i don't know and they say we're you from i say here they go what . most people have lived here then they were dismayed to see this many people coming lot of people made

a lot of money so i mean they like that the older folks that lived here on a fixed income renting an apartment they went from three hundred a month two thousand a month and rent so they're gone. i remember the first time i drove out to employees and i was eighteen miles about and i counted fifty or oil rigs that i could see from the road and that's when it started getting crazy i thought you know the oil companies for the most part they're good until we start thinking that they can power right over here because they're big and powerful . one thing they do do and i asked them when they came out the first time they always send a woman along with the initial group to comes out and i asked him straight out i said is that because we will shoot a woman and he said yeah so. we never walk the house now i go take the key out. all the time at my pickup we walk

in the house with no alarm system in the house could change just about everything. going to get my mail. now or get more and more neighbors. it's not the country anymore like it used to be a lot of these are people who moved in with the oil. there was no place to buy in town they bought a lot so we're here probably three four acres watch and build our gear. going to places like camp sundown to get for people that can't decide and they're like so the empire. is like

a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with this because we understand her daughter she was diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she doesn't feel patients and they have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside the skull gets thicker in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles always down to the bone and there's no relief. we're just not sure this is just a. new chick was hounding them out.

i'm one of them but i think it's ended up by gail one mental one is we're buddies. they both plot on some one on one audition have anissa. put them down i don't want that or i can't that's funny as hell and mission to know that i'm working at a yeah. bloom gets killed and he had a chicken dad's going to pay him a them with a photo of the man that he alan a photo temple proud of the. things.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one in one business show you can afford to miss the one in only. you know world of big partisan newton's laws and conspiracies it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell. more than

ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting 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. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no really that hasn't been that we hear even many of the dems families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not

quite enough we've been through this this isn't their way. back to back. thousands all approached us in paris against the ever increasing price of fuel police have used tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators. in my eyes right now not because we've just been in the midst of all of this take us. but. documents placed online by hacker group suggest britain's government is behind clandestine anti russia campaigns.