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west virginia is the only state that is entirely located in the apolachian mountains. wild and beautiful, such a slogan can be seen on the license plates of local cars. here everything is surrounded by greenery, rivers, lakes, lonely houses at the foot of the mountains, post-star landscapes, for which this place is so loved by tourists. but there is another west virginia. they write in newspapers and speak government.

i was 17, high school graduation was on sunday, and already on monday i went underground into a coal mine to a depth of almost 5 km. i could have gone to college instead, but in those days miners were paid good money, i could earn more than after 4 years of study. instead of 4 years of college, tony basconi has 40 years of underground experience. when he started his career in the late 1970s, mining jobs paid about $13.

went down in history as the coal wars. the fight against pollution led to a drop in demand for coal. in recent years, hundreds of coal-fired power plants have closed down here across the country. they've switched to gas, solar, or wind power. demand is nowhere near what it used to be, but we still export coal to countries where it remains a major source of energy. however, one cannot rely on export. sales to other countries make up only 10% of the total amount of coal produced in... the usa. today, tony tells visitors to the museum not about economics and figures, but about the everyday life of miners. in his hands he holds a special lunchbox that was used for 60 years. in the upper compartment there was dessert, then the main course, and water at the bottom. look, my can is right here, and i work further down the mine. and then, imagine, my colleague, little johnny, decides to go down to drink, but his water has already run out and he is going to drink mine.

miners have a special sense of humor, despite, or perhaps on the contrary, because of the hard dangerous work. every day, the fire chief checks the methane level. now there is equipment for this, but in the past, miners always took a canary with them, and are not sensitive to gas, and if the bird began to behave restlessly, fell, it meant that there was not enough oxygen in the mine. it is from the miners' lexicon that the expression came canary in the mine, a sign of impending troubles. in west virginia, it came with the closure of coal enterprises and unemployment. having spent years underground, miners earned mainly professional injuries, muscle and joint pain. this is the everyday life of veterans of the coal industry, as well as painkillers. among them, there is a group of particularly strong ones - apioid analgesics. in west virginia, these drugs have provoked an epidemic of... addiction.

there are many houses here that only at first glance seem abandoned. people continue to live in many of them. people, even with the windows boarded up. it is one of the main symbols of modern west virginia and what the apioid crisis has done to it. miners suffering from constant pain became the main target of pharmaceutical companies doctors who, in pursuit of profit, wrote hundreds of prescriptions for powerful drugs. it was easy to get hooked. over the course of seven years, more than a billion painkillers containing apioids were delivered to the region, almost 70 per year for each resident. today , west virginia has the highest the rate of drug overdose deaths in the united states. the opioid crisis was first discussed at the national level several years ago, when the situation developed into an epidemic in a number of states. both doctors who prescribed the drugs and pharmaceutical

giants found themselves in the dock. at the beginning of the crisis , more than $70 million was allocated to combat the opioid crisis in west virginia. the state and its residents will have to return to normal life by... what to do with small towns that boomed in the early 20th century, what to do with places where there are no more jobs or opportunities, how to bring them back to life?

while some hope for the mines to reopen, and others look with hope to the development of shale gas in west virginia, teri is turning her ideas into reality, her plan is to develop the industry. crafts that west virginia was famous for even before the industrial boom. this is how the idea of ​​​​reviving apiaries came about. james boldly puts his hand into the hives, as if he had been doing beekeeping all his life, although he has only been at this apiary for 3 years. before that, he worked miner, crane operator and construction worker. he started out as a beekeeper making hives but eventually learned all the intricacies. james recently got his master's certificate and teaches beekeeping to beginners. you start out as a greenhorn and you learn every day, it takes time to understand what and how, it's incredible what bees can do, how they do it. i love my job, it's the best job i've ever had. beekeeping can

be a full-time or part-time job for west virginians. with twenty hives, the income is about 15 thousand dollars a year, and you can even place them in your backyard, there is enough land in the state. you buy honey from us, this money goes to specific people in the areas that we are trying to restore, and it also goes to the forest restoration program, because west virginia is famous for its forests, and we want to continue this way, we want to restore our land, which has been depleted by industry, we also want to restore our state, because this is the real backbone of the united states. we had to restore the forests almost after their complete destruction in the twenties of the last century. today. west virginia is one of the most beautiful states, probably the greenest. mining region is no exception. here flows the novaya river, which, despite its name, is one of the five oldest on earth.

the two banks are connected by a bridge of the same name, which has its own record, it is the third highest in the usa. before the construction of the bridge, crossing the river took almost an hour, all because first it was necessary to let. covered with forests, hunting, fishing, wineries, alpine skiing, it is difficult to think of a type of active recreation that is not in west virginia, in the southern part of the state there is one of the most famous historical spa hotels, greenbrier, where 26 american

presidents have vacationed. usa greenpr is associated with the term old money - old money, this is what the richest american families are called, who earned their fortune in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. these are such world-famous names as rockefeller, ford or carnegie. people from such families vacationed in greenbrier generations. officially, the hotel was always open to...

remember, this was right after world war ii, and the cold war was in full swing, so in a

sense it was a matter of patriotism. the opulence of greenbriar, however, did not affect the interior of the bunker. this is what the bedrooms for american lawmakers looked like. bunk beds along the walls, a small box for personal belongings. under the west wing of the hotel there is a conference room, a communications room and a dining room. the bunker. stored water and food for six months. the floor in this room looks quite modern, but this is the original color scheme, so saturated, it was made in order to solve the problem of lack of space. at the same time, more than 400 congressmen could not have dinner or lunch here. the calculation was that in such an interior no one would sit for a long time over food. where the bunker was located, even the members of congress themselves did not know. this information was provided only. the senate house of representatives. historians are still arguing about how the leak occurred,

but in 1992 the bunker was declassified by journalists from the washington post. after the inspection the facility had to be closed. today it is a museum, and part of the premises are rented by a computer company. i think the people who leaked the information to the washington post thought that the facility was outdated. it made sense 30 years ago, but since then weapons have improved, become more powerful and accurate, so. perhaps the facility would have been closed anyway, because it was part of the cold war strategy, in the late nineties the general opinion it was such that such bunkers were not needed, but after september 11 , everything changed, and i think today such bunkers are somewhere. however, most of the transportation in west virginia in the late 19th century was not passenger trains, but freight trains. in the town of kaas, you can take the route to lumberjack station. here , the largest collection in the world has been preserved.

this train is not only ancient, it is also heading into the past of west virginia, its destination is whitaker station, once the largest sawmill in these parts, built especially for workers from hungary, they came here. the industrial center has turned into an equally successful tourist city, despite the fact that its entire territory, including

shops and cafes, is a national park in harford-sphere, there is no feeling that you are in a museum, the city seems as alive as at the peak of its industrial development. harford regularly appears in the list of the most beautiful towns in the united states, it was once appreciated by the third president of the country, thomas jefferson, who visited harford farry said that the view of the river was worth the descendant. he stood on a rock and addressed the emigrants from europe. look what you have done to your cities, they are ugly, dirty. the people of manchester, england in those years sometimes did not live to be 20 years old because of the costs of the industrial revolution. and jefferson argued: here in america everything is different, our cities are beautiful. tales had nothing in common with the neatly cobbled streets of today's tourist center. harper's bay became the first of many cities sacrificed

heavy industry. today , environmental pollution is one of the main problems of modern west virginia. welcome to minden, drive carefully, children are playing around, this sign at the entrance to the city is clearly outdated, the residents of mindon try to let their children play outside as little as possible and refuse to use tap water. mindon is a 20- minute drive from beckley, the capital of the mining country, this is one of the most polluted towns in west virginia. see these stains on the surface, this is pcbs.

the doctors did a test to see if i had a gene that is thought to be responsible for the development of cancer, but it turned out that i did not have a cancer gene, but the type of cancer that i had is often caused by the presence of pcbs, because this chemical attacks the reproductive system. minden is like a ghost town, people left the polluted place without looking back, if there was somewhere to go. the main reason i could not leave was the children. my husband had a job here, if you have four children, three of whom are in college at the same time, you can't just up and leave, you can't even sell your house because no one will buy it. in the late 1980s, the u.s. environmental protection agency reported a successful operation to clean up mindon from pollutants, even though the town's residents continued to get sick. dr. hasan amjad

of beckley was the first to notice that most of the patients in minden were suffering from cancer. diseases, he began keeping statistics established linking diseases to pcbs. his daughter, aina, is now continuing his work. since these are typical cancers, lungs or stomach, we were often told that it could be a consequence of working in a mine or smoking, it is not easy to prove the connection scientifically. also, many residents left mindon, and now if someone dies of cancer elsewhere, it is very difficult to trace the connection to the town. for the people of minton, dr. aina amjad is like a guardian angel, largely due to her efforts. in 2019 , the environmental protection agency the u.s. environment has put minden on its list of top priority sites for chemical pollution control. this means that if further tests confirm dangerous levels of pcbs, minden residents will be required to relocate at government expense. in exchange , susie and darrell are determined to fight pollution, disease

, and bureaucracy to the bitter end. traveling around west virginia is most hampered by communication problems, because of the mountainous terrain, and not just the internet, even cell phone calls become a problem once you cross the state line. however, in the town of green bank, the lack of a cell signal is not a problem, but an advantage. the first stop in green bank for a phone call, the connection was lost even more than an hour ago, so we will arrange all meetings the old-fashioned way. the lack of radio interference allowed us to ...

sometimes a new company or store appears, they just install a radio transmitter or an internet router, sometimes they do not even know that there is a quiet zone here, so you have to be careful, our telescope is so sensitive that he could even get a cell phone signal on the surface of mars. mike holstein has been running the greenbank research lab for 28 years. the main thing is not to press the red buttons. the telescope resembles a giant satellite dish. 6,500 hours every year it carefully watches the sky and picks up signals from space, once a week the telescope has a day off for adjustment or repair, and this is the only opportunity to climb onto its... surface, we have just come to the conclusion that these are the first kalookas to step on the surface of the telescope. the snow-white bowl blinds and erases

the line between reality and fantasy, so that we believe that somewhere out there are other worlds. on the very top platform is the heart of the telescope, all the information it receives from space is collected here, but to be completely honest, the oak here is truly captivating not even those greatest.

residents of west virginia are very different, with different destinies and professions. it is customary for us to work hard for ourselves and for the state. and we also have incredible nature, look around. there are thick fogs, wildflowers along the highways and forests with hundreds of streams. nature heals the residents of west virginia from all the trials. even in one of the most popular songs of the musician john denver in country style, it is sung about these mountains and love for the state.

coming round again, my ever dreaming mister could have been,

well the road is always long, and the journey never ends, i will always think of you my friend. alexey works in a social bakery, which was organized by the local tos, this is a territorial public self-government. such an organization of residents can participate in grants, can earn money and receive money to solve issues that are not included in the budget. think about it, try, or look for sponsors or something else somewhere. so, in the village of bely klyuch, an old store building was given over to a bakery and residents wrote an application for another grant to receive money for the improvement of the surrounding area. the area will be landscaped here, there will be flower beds, sidewalks, a gazebo. the russian foreign ministry has declared that it is

time to fight fakes. the official website of the international association for fact-checking has been launched. formally, the foreign ministry has no relation to this initiative, but among its founders is the state news agency tas. in addition, maria zakharova, the official representative of the foreign ministry, is a big specialist in fakes herself. not only did she launch a foreign ministry project to expose allegedly fake news against russia in 2017, but she also regularly gets caught telling half-truths. and outright lies, like the time she said that ukrainians dream of seeing putin as their president, or said that human organs are being taken out of ukraine by the trainload for transplants. an unstoppable stream. fakes in the mid claim that the west regularly throws mud at russia, while in 3 weeks of work on the fakcheckers website there have only been a dozen and a half publications,

most of which do not concern russia. from the united states. hands-of protests are financed by organizations associated with george soros, whose goals are far from improving the situation in the country. the sites are advertised as a platform for experienced journalists and fact-checkers, but so far they publish only three authors with a very dubious reputation. sonja vanden ende, for example, has been playing the role of an independent foreign journalist on various press tours organized by moscow for many years. this is a kind of proxy war here. in ukraine, this is genocide, and i think the russians have simply awakened their genetic memory, they are protecting the russian-speaking population of ukraine. what's wrong with that? alexander guerreiro is a lawyer from portugal, once collaborated with local special services and the government, now in his homeland he is called the voice of moscow. the third author, timofey vi, proudly calls himself an international expert in anti-crisis communications and the fight against disinformation, but

in fact he is only a blogger and host of the propaganda resource solovyovlai, to make a new fuss out of this, there are no real investigations or sensations on the new site yet, it is not very clear why it was created at all, maybe for reporting to the authorities, maybe to legitimize the authors, look at the serious people on our side, or maybe even to feed profitable narratives to search engines and artificial intelligence, a recent investigation by newsgard tracking... disinformation on the internet clearly showed that the russian authorities are actively polluting propaganda, global neural networks, penetrating the chat bots of artificial intelligence , life, ice, blood awaits us,

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