Welcome back, truth seekers. We are here just outside of East Palestine.
It's seven thirty pm Eastern time. It was a beautiful day rolling around with
the windows down. Really nice day. I went back obviously late afternoon into
the early evening and there was a lot more people out. I went to
the East Palestine City Park, beautiful park, and again please do go to
Instagram. I have uploaded tons of pictures and about a ninety second video of
the actual site. They're proud Freemasons. Their signs, you know, whichever
direction you come into town, there's signs greeting you, proudly displaying you know
what is that Lodge four seventeen, their Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter
three eighty one, and all of these types of things. I'll tell you
it seems half the town is doing well and the other half of the town
isn't doing so well. I had a story. Let me pull up my
notes here. I did stop at like a local restaurant slash diner to talk
with a few of the people. It's called the Original Roadhoust if you want
to look it up on Facebook or Google, and that the guy grew up
there. He said he grew up there. His entire life. He moved
away somewhere I think outside of Canton, Ohio maybe, and after the incident
happened, of course he was shocked. Right, It's one of those things
that you never think would happen in your hometown. Obviously it was huge news
when it happened, but he said everyone in his family was ill. So
he came back this past summer, which would have been the summer of twenty
twenty three, and you know he it has definitely affected all the businesses.
A lot of the employees there were talking about out how they got their initial
one thousand dollars payment from Norfolk Southern and they were told that it was tax
exempt. Well it turns out it was not, and if they didn't pay
it in their taxes. Now this is again, this is the stories that
I'm being told. But one of the young ladies in there, I mean
she was in her forties, she said her parents is on SSI disability and
it was taken out of her disability. So again February, these guys are
going around and I have some audio to play to prove it. Norfolk Southern,
you know, we call them NDAs. I think they were actually the
actual forms were called hold harmless forms, like here's a check for a thousand
dollars, and I'm here to tell you, for a lot of these people,
one thousand dollars is a huge amount of money, you know. You
know, the economy is tough on everyone. I've been running around all day.
But apparently there's video of Janet Yellen apologizing, well, I thought this
was just going to be a temporary hyperinflation type of deal. We're in big
trouble. We're hitting a trillion dollars every hundred days. Go to the deck
clock and people were paying with change when they were tapping out, and one
guy apologized, I sorry, I couldn't leave you a tip. I'll get
you next time. You know, it's a very interesting town. The park
is beautiful, the what is it? The northwest side of town, older,
like the nicer part of town. And then you know there's another side
of town where maybe people are struggling little more. But they're all decent people
going about their day. But none of them really wanted to talk, which
was you know, I get it, like maybe we live in a world
where people are more comfortable talking to people through their telephone. Who calls it
a telephone anymore, right, their cell phone, or their Instagram, or
their tweets, or their messages, right, even with their family members,
We'll just send messages. So I think a few of the people found it
odd. You know, here's this guy, you know, hey, do
you got a minute? No happy, Nobody pulled out their mace. But
so I went into more comfortable environments and I sat down in two different diners
type you know. The one was called obviously, what did I say?
That was called the original Roadhouse. And then there was another place between my
hotel and East Palestine, which obviously was only three miles from East Palestine.
And they're aware of the situation and they just don't want to talk about it.
I don't know if it's because of the hold harmless, which some people
basically nodded and said, you there was, you know, this type of
agreement when people accepted the money or what it is. But the first few
people I talked to they said, yeah, yeah, they're being taken care
of. But I will tell you the people who I did talk to in
the two had different stories that the people aren't being helped maybe as much as
they hoped they would be. And then obviously the people who accept that the
initial one thousand dollars and then it was counted as income and then they had
it deducted from their SSI. You know, if that's true, then that's
terrible, right, That's just horrible. But that's the government for you,
right. So where do I want to start. Let me go through my
notes. I've got a little bit of audio to play for you. By
the way, the trains are rolling again. There was a train that went
right through downtown when I was leaving the park. So again, we always
look at the financial side of things. But before we do, we mentioned
this. I want to play this audio clip really briefly. I don't think
I played it. This is the National Transportation Safety Board chairman telling Senator Jdvance
that the chemical explosion here in East Palestine didn't have to happen. So I'll
let you listen to it firsthand of summarize. This is an extraordinary finding.
We were told, effectively that there were two bad options, the uncontrolled burn
or excuse me, the controlled burn or the uncontrolled explosion. And it seems,
based on the data that we have, that there was not a ton
of reason to do the uncontrolled burn, and that of course, is what
spread toxic chemicals all over this community and the surrounding region. It's really an
extraordinary finding. It goes to highlight the importance of your work. But I
also have to note that the residents on the ground talk about the fact that
immediately after the uncontrolled burn, they moved the tank cars and train traffic was
moving through their town and moving through their community. I won't ask you to
speak to motivations here, but when you have an unnecessary, uncontrolled burn that
poisoned a lot of people that then led to rapid transitive train traffic, a
lot of people, including me, are wondering did they do this not because
it was necessary, but because it allowed them to move traffic and freight more
quickly. And if so, that is an extraordinary thing that I think requires
a lot of further work from this committee, from others. But we will
we will stop there because I see my time is up. Thank you to
to here. How many may I add something something to that? Senator?
It's even you know, I would say, the factual information in our docket
shows that oxy Vinyls was on scene and providing information to Norfolk Southern and their
contractors on the fourth fifth and sixth, they informed them that polymerization. They
believed polymerization was not occurring and there was no justification to do a vent and
burn. Rightfully, Norfolk Southern's contractors said ruled out hot tapping and transloading because
it would have been a potential safety issue for their employees, but there was
another option, let it cool down. It was cooling down. We know
for a fact that when that pressure relief device went off that it had to
have been above one hundred and eighty five degrees. Later, much late,
over the course of twenty two hours, that tank car was cooling, not
to mention the other four tank cars that were only between sixty four and sixty
nine degrees. So oxy vinyls was on scene providing information to Norfolk southerns contractor,
who was in the room when the decision made was made, and when
advice was given to the Governor of Ohio. To the incident commander, they
were not given full information because no one was told Oxyvinyl was on scene.
They were left out of the room. The incident commander didn't even know they
existed, neither did the governor, so they were provided incomplete information to make
a decision and there you go, incomplete information to make a decision. How
surprising. There was no justification to do this vent and burn. You heard
it right there. And I apologize if the volumes between my microphone and these
audio are a little off. I'm not with my master mixer. But here's
a few things I wanted to talk about. I'm want to leave this document.
This is from the EPA and this is basically a recent revision that includes
a lot of the people who were contracted by both the local, the state,
and federal government. These people who are making contracts. The first company
is called Arcadis. Arcadis and I'm going to put all this information in the
show notes. And this is a global company. It's a big company.
Their shares are sit at about sixty two dollars a share. And again,
if you look through it, these are one of these companies that are getting
scooped up. And they're quite a powerful company. So they are making a
lot of money off of what's happening. And of course you know this is
needed. But at the same time, these companies are doing quite well.
SPsi is the second one, so I should say Arcadis is responsible for segregating
the waste on site storage, labeling it right and then sampling it and then
tracking it so that they have a big portion of the contract. When the
waste comes over, it segregated, they store it to ensure it doesn't affect
anyone else. They label it, they sample it, and they track it.
Then the next company is called SPsi. That is a very small company
and it's in Pennsylvania, so obviously they're benefiting from it. Their jobs is
more logistical. They're part of coordinating, they build for transportation of the liquid
wastes, the equipment operator for solid waste loading. Then the next company is
Green Rock and that is another big company as well. They are based out
of Charleston, South Carolina, and they're in the news a lot as well,
a big up and coming company, and their job is where we at
here. Green Rock another one of these coordination and billing for transportation of solid
waste. And then you have CTEH which is responsible for monitoring the tank farm
and the solid waste area. And it's interesting because they are known as having
a checkered past and they're again responsible for monitoring the air and eas Palestine,
and that company has been cited by lawmakers for releasing findings defending the corporate interests
that employ them. So basically what they're saying is that they're privy to taking
payoffs to say, okay, this is good to save Norfolk Southern lots of
money. So that's a big deal. And this article from Prospect dot org,
and there's several articles out there, but it talks about how this company
CTEH, which stands for the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health. Again,
it is a private, for profit corporation that has been present in a lot
of disasters. Guess what they were on the ground at nine to eleven Katrina
deep Water Horizon in COVID nineteen and now Norfolk Southern has hired them for this
occasion and onto other spills. So again, if you get if Norfolk Southern
gets to say, who gets to say, you know, good job or
not? Right, it's basically having your teacher on your payroll, right,
and then you tell your teacher, I got one hundred on that test,
right teacher, oh yeah, yeah yeah, And then you drop one hundred
dollars bill in her desk and you walk out. That is preposterous. So
you know, we'll do some research into CTEH that's a big problem. That
is a huge problem. And then Heppico, another big, big company.
I had a news story on them here somewhere, but it is another big
company. Their responsibilities are traffic coordination for the tank farm. So I'm assuming,
because I don't see a company that I posted on Instagram, AWP Safety,
I'm assuming Hepico subcontracted AWP Safety to kind of handle the security and the
flagging. Anytime the trucks are moving out, they would come out, they
would block the roads. The trucks would go to the other farm where they
take the waste, They consolidate it, they test it, like we were
talking about early Arcadis's responsibility. So Hepico subcontracted AWP Safety, who also they've
been in the news quite a bit lately as well. They just purchased someone
else for four hundred million dollars. The numbers involved with both the disaster and
the companies involved are staggering in hundreds of millions of dollars, and one of
the stories are at Today quoted it as being close just under a billion dollars
what they've spent so far, and a lot of people are making money off
of it. The SPCI subcontractor. They got cronin Clean Harbors. That's the
one I wanted to mention because Clean Harbors is a giant company. Their stock
price is almost two hundred dollars per share, so they just a huge corporation
and it's a big deal. So again, a lot of these companies are
making a lot of money off of this disaster. I want to pull my
notes out and continue on that note, which is again from THEEPA dot gov,
which talks about the site history. It lists every everything that was leaked
from the train, vinyl chloride, propylene glycol, ethyl hexel, acrylle,
petroleum, lube oil, ethyl alcohol, polyvinyl. Of course, all of
these things were leaked and then of course burned off, which didn't need to
be done. And again you come into this town and there's the Order of
the Eastern Star Freemasons. I posted pictures of the Masonic Lodge, lots of
pictures and videos on Instagram at the fact Hunard. Again, half the pe
people are really struggling and half the people seem to be doing okay. And
that's really the bottom line. And of course there was a push for a
rail safety bill to get pushed through the year after the East Palestine derailment.
But the story goes that some Congressional Republicans have ejected to the regulations that would
be imposed on the railroad industry. And this is something that really goes back
to Abraham Lincoln. He was very subservient to the railroad industry. So again
it seems like people are looking out for the big guy, which in this
case is Norfolk Southern, then looking out for the little guy, which are
the people of East Palestine. And then let's look at the Attorney General of
Ohio. He says that the settlement of East Palestine lawsuit is not imminent,
and again this is thirteen months on. Ohio Attorney General David Yos said Friday
that his office will not agree to settle with Norfolk Southern without a detailed understanding
of how a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the town of East Palestine a
year ago. In a statement on Friday, one day before the anniversary of
the crash of this article was again three weeks ago, yo said he does
not anticipate in imminent resolution to the fifty eight count federal lawsuit that he filed
against the railroad last year, and it goes on to say, you know,
there are whispers of a settlement being worked out to bring this tragedy to
an end. And make no mistake, we all want closure on this avoidable
disaster. But I cannot in good conscience agree to a settlement without a detailed
understanding of what happened, who was responsible, and how we avoid other communities
like East Palestine from being victims to this type of incident. No responsible person
should want to rush judgment in the form of a settlement without having all the
facts. It would be irresponsible. So you know, the gentleman side of
me is saying, well, this guy is really looking out for the people.
He wants to make sure that the people who made the mistakes are held
accountable so this will never happen again. But the conspiratorial side of me says,
is this guy in cahoots with Big Railroad? Is he dragging right?
Is he waiting it out? Is he playing the long game, hoping people
just give up and forget about it. I don't put anything past politicians,
and I will tell you what was I going to say. I had it
on the tip of my dumb oh. I had mentioned about the CEO of
Norfolk Southern getting the huge rays right, he went from what eight million to
thirteen million per year, and that really everybody was aware of that, Like
everyone in that room was completely aware of it. And they don't like that
guy. I mean, obviously that's like Captain Obvious times one hundred. But
I just found it interesting that, like everybody was aware that guy got a
five million dollar raise. So, you know, as usual as per and
the other thing people mentioned, they're very cognizant of all the hundreds of millions
of dollars, billions of dollars going out every week to Ukraine, Israel,
you know, all around the world to illegal immigrants coming through. But when
it comes to people whose lives were directly affected by you know, big railroad,
well, we're going to drag our feet and hopefully the people, right,
that's the long game. They wear people out, right, they'll come
up with another distraction. Eventually there'll be a settlement and most of the settlement
will probably go to lawyer's fees. That's usually how it works. And by
the way, if you're not tracking, there was a diesel train that derailed
and spilled diesel into the Lehigh River just last week, which is on the
eastern side of pennsyl s Ania. You know, we're seeing this stuff more
and more all the time. Is it just money to enrich these hazardous material
companies? Is it truly accidents just because of the incompetencies of diversity world right?
Who knows, But there is a lot, a lot of things going
on. It's hard to keep up with. I have a couple clips to
play for you. The first one is the East Palestine resident refuses to sign
a whold harmless form and this is what we were talking about earlier. Unfortunately
many residents did sign this. We're going to bring it now. Investigative corresponder
Rich mc kew, who was also in East Palestine, And Rich, you've
been looking into Norfolk Southern, the actual train company. Yep, good evening
call, that's right. So there's new scrutiny on Norfolk Southern Southern the train
company, and there's safety record over the past years, but there's also scrutiny
over how they're handling this locally. Folks to a couple just a little bit
ago who wanted their home tested to see if it was contaminated because they lived
close to the site. Norfolk Southern basically asked them to sign a whole harmless
agreement, which would indemnify them. The couple refused. Take a look,
it's nothing that a person could ever imagine experiencing from one day going to a
beautiful place, a beautiful home, multiple businesses one day and it's beautiful and
it's thriving, to the next day feeling like you have absolutely nothing. It's
surreal. Caitlin Schwartzwelder and her boyfriend Chris Wells, lived just down the tracks
from where the train derailed and the toxic chemicals released, upending their lives.
I have symptoms myself. I know other people have been having symptoms. My
symptoms have been like my eyes, pulsating, headaches, and tangling nests a
little bit. They helped maintain police dogs and had to transport over thirty from
their home for they say got sick and this was the water they pulled from
around their pretty After the chemical release last week, Caitlin says that Norfolk Southern,
the company that operated the train, came to the door to test for
toxins in their home, but before they could they would need to sign this
document. We were told that they were an independent testing agency. Before they
could enter the premises. They handed us a contract. The contract was essentially,
you know, to be able to get onto the property, but also
at the bottom was a whole harmless agreement. It states that upon signature,
the landowner agrees to hold harmless the company for any and all legal claims personal
injury or property damage. She refused to sign. So, if I get
this straight, Norfolk Southern essentially asked you to sign a hold harmless agreement in
exchange for testing correct, and you did not sign correct? Would they give
you the paper? They did not give us the paper. I asked if
I could take a physical picture with my cell phone of the paper, and
I did. Ohio Senator jd Vance is outraged. We contacted Norfolk Southern right
away and the answer that they gave us not joking what that was an accidental
indignification agreement. We didn't mean to give her that when we gave her the
wrong one. Okay, come on. It all raises serious questions about Norfolk
Southern and their history of safety. The communities that these products are running through,
they should be made aware of what's going through their backyard. It shouldn't
be a mystery as to what's inside the tank car. In fact, Norfolk
Southern has had one hundred and eleven freight train accidents in the last year one
hundred and twenty five the year prior, making them one of the worst in
terms of safety. Norfolk Southern didn't come to the town of Hall last night.
How do you feel about that? From what I've been told, they
are worried about their safety, but they're not worried about our safeties. Now,
Caitlyn says that several hundred of her neighbors did sign this, despite the
fact that she didn't sign it. I asked Norfolk Southern if they wish to
comment. They have yet to respond. Nicole, thank you for watching.
Good All right, there's our first clip, apologize at the wrong button.
The second clip is the attorney explains why he told clients to decline Northern Norfolk
Southern payments. Attorney Micha Oshay represents a number of East Palestine residents. He
joins US Live Mike, thank you for your time. So you're representing these
residents here, have you already filed lawsuits on behalf of your clients? And
if so, what are they alleging and what are they hoping to get?
Well? Thank you. We have filed two class actions last night. The
first was a class action dedicated to try to get medical monitoring for the people
that have been injured already by these chemicals. The second class action is one
that we'll deal with property damage. And as a matter of fact, I'm
right now out at one of our clients who runs up a bed and breakfast
whose business is essentially shut down from being overwhelmed with business, you know,
up until February second, by whose business is dead as a door nail going
forward from February third. All right, So, Mike, we know that
two user clients, if they were able to afford it, to reject this
one thousand dollars so called inconvenience offer from Norfolk Southern tell us, why,
well, because of the conditions they were having they being Norfolk and Southern.
We're having folks, these good folks signed these things called W nine's, so
that would be reported as functional income to the irs by Norfolk and Southern.
They were also having them give Norfolk and Southern sensitive information data burst social security
numbers, stuff like that, and they were having them sign a form and
then they were taking this inconvenience fee of one thousand dollars per person and combining
it with a reimbursement amount and giving them one check. Now, you know,
there's a doctor in an ohiolaw called the cord and satisfaction, which means
if you back into somebody's car, to give you an example, and you
get out and you go, here's a one hundred bucks sorry for the damage,
and that person goes and gets an estimate two days later and it's five
hundred bucks. Then that person that you'd backed into can't get the other four
hundred bucks from you because they took that money. It was essentially a handshake
deal. You've settled the claim. So we were just testifying today in Pennsylvania
and a senate, you know, a state senate hearing about this very issue.
And there are a lot of people in the audience that are very angry
about this check business. And believe me when I tell you, a thousand
bucks to a lot of hard working people up here in East Palastine where we
are is a lot of money and a very very tempting amount of money.
And Mike, my last question for you, and I know that this question
maybe isn't fair at this point because there's so much left to assess. But
how long do you anticipate it it's going to take for your clients to ultimately
recover from this. Well, I'll tell you this. The only way lawsuits
like this take a long time is if the defendant tries to make it take
a long time. With one caveat Now, a lot of these folks are
going to be able to get fair market appraisals for the lost value of their
property and come up with the price tag, and then it'll be up to
Norfolk and Southern to pay that amount. Then there's going to be a longer
period of time because our medical monitoring class action is going to, essentially,
because of the nature of the chemicals we're dealing with, require that Norfolk and
Southern pay to have these folks health monitored for the next ten, fifteen or
twenty years to make sure that they don't manifest any of the more serious injuries
that you can get. So some of it will take a long time,
but some of it shouldn't take a long time, all right. Mike O'Shea
attorney four several clients. They are in East Palestine. Thank you for your
time, sir boy. And there's a lot to unpack from that one,
he has so many nails on the head. That was the biggest concern.
And if I didn't drive that home enough that these people are genuinely concerned about
long term health issues. Genuinely concern And if you go back and watch the
video, actually, you know, I'll put all of these clips in the
show notes. This one's entitled Attorney explains why he told clients to decline Norfolk
Southern payments. While they're discussing this, they were showing clips of the explosion
in it it looked like a small mushroom cloud. So again, not just
the people you know right there within the geolocation of that incident, but the
people you know downstream from the water. There is water that runs parallel to
the accident site. And again, understand how big of a cleanup it is.
That happened February third, twenty twenty three. Here it is March thirteenth,
twenty twenty four, so it's been thirteen and a half months and they
are still going through this. That is just incredible, and it's look,
it's not any anytime soon. You know, You've got a lot of contractors
making a lot of money, You've got lawyers making a lot of money.
Anytime there's a class action lawsuit, the lawyers get their chunk first, and
it's a big portion of it. And the little guys they always get crushed,
right. And I'm telling you, I drove around the entire town,
and the one thousand dollars did mean a lot to a lot of people.
And then to hear stories like well then they want to tax it right,
and all these other things, and again long term effects ten fifteen years.
Do you really think Norfolk Southern is still going to be paying people's medical bills
in twenty thirty five, I would wager to bet hell no, of course
not. That's what big corporations do. What a slap in the face for
an incident of that scale to happen, and just looking at it thirteen months
later, I can't even fathom how bad it was when it happened. And
they want to just hand someone one thousand dollars sorry for your troubles. Oh,
we accidentally, we didn't really mean to have that whold harmless form there.
That was an accident. We're sorry, we didn't mean that. And
then I don't know if I've played this one before, but this is the
one year anniversary. This was a couple of weeks ago from ABC News East
Palestine, Ohio. It's been a year since that toxic train derailment, some
residents still reporting health problems. ABC's Alex Purche has been following this from the
very beginning and is in Ohio with the latest. Good Morning, Alex Ariel.
This morning, we're getting a new look at new drone video released by
the NTSB of that derailment site and the toxic plume, and it's only amplifying
questions raised by this East Palestine community for the last year. This morning,
new video showing the toxic plume one year ago in East Palestine, Ohio.
Today, the town is still shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty. Authorities insists
the soil and tap water are safe, but many residents simply aren't buying it.
I had headaches, metallic taste in my mouth. Wayne and Laurie O'Connell
live about three miles from the derailment. Months after the accident, both tested
positive for vinyl chloride, a carcinogen, aboard that train, and weeks later
Wayne was diagnosed with breast cancer. Wayne, do you think your breast cancer
is linked to that derailment. I can you say for sure, quite it
seems awful. You feel confident that this area is safe. I very much
feel confident this area is safe. I can tell you I've been here from
you know, the very beginning here, and I'm not having issues. Norfolk
Southern and the EPA have taken forty five thousand samples since the accident. No
readings or results for contaminants have been found above actionable levels, and the railroad
saying it's invested more than one hundred and three million dollars into the region.
But the pressure to an measures to keep this from happening again is growing.
So was the scrutiny of the East Palestine emergency response. My strong suspicion is
there were a lot of mistakes, whether they're credinal mistakes. I got to
see more evidence where I can say that. Now. The NTSB investigation is
slated to rap later this year, and President Biden, who's scheduled to visit
later this month, is being urged by many here to declare a federal disaster.
Wait all right, Alex for sche thank you, and there you go.
Oh Biden coming through right. You've got to love it, so,
you know, We're going to go through town again tomorrow. I'm going to
walk around and talk to a few more folks Tonight. We're going to leave
before lunch tomorrow. There's a storm coming through and the last thing that I
want to do is drive the Pennsylvania Turnpike and rain five and a half hours.
But it's an interesting town. It really is. If you're ever driving
through, you know, you can say, hey, yeah, I saw
that place, even though it was a year ago, and it's an interesting
town. It's not a very big town. Again, the twenty twenty Senses,
I believe it said it was forty seven hundred people. It just really
boggles my mind that they have so many little Masonic lodges Order of the Eastern
Star. They have another type of Moose lodge. They've got a golf course.
And then there's the other side of town, like the other side of
the tracks, as they say, and it's a completely different life. That's
why it's very keen sense of half the people seem to be doing well,
in the other half not so much. So definitely keep these people in your
prayers. These are real people, you know. The one thing that I
didn't even have the I didn't remember to ask or even if I should ask.
But again, that movie White Noise is that's just a coincidence that that
was filmed and was it twenty twenty one and two years later that exact thing
happened. Maybe I'll there's a restaurant within walking distance. I'll walk down there
and see if I can find somebody, and if we're friendly enough, maybe
I'll just mention it to him. But again, there's not too many conspiratorial
minds like us, right, But there you go, Hey, listen all
again. Instagram at the fact Hunter lots of pictures and there's a video of
the site I put up there. So go to Instagram at the fact hunter
for pictures and video. And then tomorrow when I get back, there's another
big story that will be breaking, I think. At three o'clock Eastern time,
which is eight o'clock in France, good Old Macrone will be speaking to
the Nation of France. He's scheduled to give an urgent address to the nation
Thursday evening at eight pm Local time, which is three pm Eastern time,
to discuss the situation in Ukraine. The French Parliament approved the French President's strategy
towards Ukraine and supported the Bilateral Security Agreement that was signed by Macron and Zelensky.
Under this bilateral Security Agreement, a country like France can agree to send
its active duty military troops into Ukraine, which would be separate and distinct from
a NATO action. So all eyes on France tomorrow. I don't think he
would have the kahonis right to actually do that, because you know, you
send a NATO you know, we know there's been NATO folks there, there's
been contractors there working on the Patriot missile batteries, et cetera. But to
actually have troops in there that you know, officially, that would be a
big deal and I think it would be seen as an escalation. So all
eyes on France tomorrow. Again, thank you to everybody for your continued support
and your prayers, and certainly for the people of East Palestine and the surrounding
areas. By the way, a lot of the local businesses obviously suffered.
There's still many of them that have not reopened thirteen months later. There's a
couple of restaurants, and of course the gas station which where it happened,
right behind the gas station, so there you go. I think that's it
for now. I'm going to go take a walk. It's been a long
day, and get some sleep, and take one more run through the town
tomorrow, and then we're going to head back to the homestead. I missed
the chickens and the dogs and missus Hobbs. We've been talking most of the
day, and it's been a while since I've been away. Right, this
was like par for the course for quite some time, going away for you
know, years at a time. So, but this is very important to
me, these stories, to see them firsthand. Right, It's something that's
close enough where you can get to it, to see it, to get
a feel for it, talk to local people, and to see how,
you know, all levels of government, from the mayor to the county,
to the state to the federal government, have they come through for these people,
and per you know, per usual, it certainly seems like they're more
concerned about big corporations than the local folks who are truly affected. So God
Bless, keep your head on a swivel, and we'll talk again real soon.
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we'll see it