February 19, 2025 • 40 mins
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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree
I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.
With the weather outside frightful all across north America again this week, and with all of the chaos Trump and company is still creating all across the world, the average citizens everywhere are starting to feel it.
One again, I have discovered new stories from across the spectrum to point a finger at how all of this is going to affect the average citizens here in the U.S, and this week, Europe.
Once I have brought you the stories and commentary for this week, I ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break, so I can read to you another chapter of The Priest, from Michael Campi.
So, come sit you down next to someplace warm and listen to me tell you a little of what the media isn't telling you.
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Welcome to the Village Oak Tree. I'm your host, Terence O'Donnell. With the weather outside
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frightful all across North America again this week, and with all the chaos Trump and company
still creating all across the world, the average citizens everywhere are starting to feel it.
Once again, I've discovered new stores from across the spectrum to point a finger at all
how all this is going to affect the average citizens here in EOS and this week Europe.
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Once I've brought you the stores and commentary for this week, I'll ask everyone to stick around
through my commercial break so I can read you another chapter of The Priest from Michael
Seppi. So, come sit you down next to someplace warm and listen to me tell you a little bit
about what the media is not telling you. So, more and more chaos across the world, especially
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in Europe right now, after Vice President J.D. Vance's inflammatory speech in Munich last
week. He's basically telling the EU that the US is stepping back from Europe and Ukraine
is their problem now. Meanwhile, Trump is telling Zelensky that he must give 50% of
all their mineral wealth in Ukraine to the US to pay back the money the US gave them
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to fight their war. Zelensky refused to deal so things are moving around them. Trump and
Putin are scheduled to have their first Ukraine negotiation, Saudi Arabia soon, without the
Ukraine or Europe invited. So, you have to know this set off a lot of shouting and gnashing
of Ds in Europe. You know, the big thing about all this is that right now the new Secretary
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of State, Mark O'Rubio and the equivalent Secretary of State for Russia met in Saudi
this week and did this a little bit of initial negotiations and so on. And I had a report
this morning saying that basically somebody's upset because it sounds like Trump's giving
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Putin whatever he wants. Well, you know, we'll have to wait and see how that works out. Meanwhile,
Macron and a bunch of other people, leaders from the EU have gotten together all upset
about what Trump's doing and so on and so forth. And so, yeah, there's a whole lot of
chaos going on in Europe right now over all of this. And speaking of chaos, I want to,
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you know, this whole idea is to keep this at a kind of a street level, okay? So, also
from Europe, I started subscribing to a young Austrian lady who likes to give YouTube news
reports about the news from around Europe. She likes to focus on the politics and the
economics over there to give everyone an idea of what's like to live in Europe now. The
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average citizen's getting pretty bad according to her. The price of energy and groceries
is getting out of hand. And they wonder why the AFD is becoming so popular in the rural
areas of Austria and Germany. Does this sound familiar? So, if you're interested in listening
to her, her YouTube channel is called Surviving Lily. You know, and now we move across to
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Palestine. It's business as usual. Israel's killing and bombing people still while the
ceasefires are sort of holding together by threats. Although the one with Lebanon is
coming upon its deadline very soon. With all the violations that Israel committed, as well
as likely to come out of the ceasefire swinging heavily, it seems that the Israelis have left,
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sort of, they pulled back, leaving five small outposts behind, much like what they're doing
in southern Syria. So, the question being asked is, now what? And that's exactly it. What
are we going to see now that the ceasefire is pretty much over with? And what are they
going to do? I don't know. Again, it changes on a daily basis. Israel is still tearing
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up the West Bank with little interference. And the ceasefire in Gaza is running on very
thin threats. Now, they are still a ceasefire. They are exchanging hostages, you know, what
they can, and they're still kind of going through. So, you know, Hamas is hoping that
it's going to hold. But, you know, no one Israel, chances are they're going to find something.
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I got a feeling the only reason it's held together so far is because there's some leverage
being held over Israel right now, making them stay with it. So, in Central Africa, the war
in Sudan is still ongoing, as is the one in the DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo. South
Africa is still reeling from Trump's latest deal, offering sanctuary to the white Africaners
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in the U.S. And, you know, he wants to let them come here because they're being picked
on. All because of that new land law they passed that Trump didn't like. Sounds like
maybe a few Krugerans may have been passed to the Trump's campaign, and he's going to
do what it takes to keep them happy and the money flowing. I don't know. That may be a
backdoor deal we never, we never know about. In the U.S., Trump and his crew are still
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gutting the federal government. Last week, I reported that the new education secretary
was supposed to be a figurehead with no real job, as Trump wants to close the Department
of Education, but can't without the approval of Congress. Meanwhile, he's telling his people
to shut it all down as much as possible. So, I'm going to start pulling up some news articles
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here and kind of give you an idea of what we're talking about. So, let me pull up this
first one here. And this is part of the Department of Education's deal. So, let me do this.
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And so, this is basically what I was just talking about. Remember I said last week,
the new secretary of state was basically told, sit in your chair, don't do anything, shut
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it all down. And now we're seeing, like in this article here from ProPublica, we've been
essentially muzzled. The Department of Education halts thousands of civil rights investigations
under Trump. And, you know, it says since the inauguration day, the Office for Civil
Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump's priorities, placing more
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than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment
on hold. Now, that's just one thing, okay? But basically, they're shutting down pretty
much all of it. And as Trump said, he wants to kick it back to the states, okay? So,
you know, I'm like, all right, whatever. Again, this is going to be an ongoing thing. We really
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don't know where this is all going to end up here. But that's what's been said so far.
So now, all we can do is run with what we know, okay? So then I have this other article
here that kind of runs with more about this, what I was just talking about. So let me bring
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this up here. And there's this one from The Guardian. It says, Trump administration gives
schools deadline to cut DEI or lose federal funds. So what did I just say? My first article
was Trump wants to, you know, cut funds for everything. And now he's telling them basically,
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cut all your DEI stuff out across the country, or we're going to pull all your funding. And
of course, you know, colleges are scrambling like crazy to get this done. But it goes to
show you where this is all going. And so let's, let's go. And, you know, here's the other
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thing. This is this is just the Department of Education. Right? So let me let me kind
of bring this up. So he's like I said, two weeks to dump DEI or lose federal, and schools
are scrambling to comply. Is this a deliberate attempt to set up college enrollments for
only those who could afford it? No more Pell grants or school loans backed by the federal
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government. Other departments and agencies are seeing their staff being furloughed, laid
off, terminated, so on. Then we have blatant corrupt corrupt officials installed in positions
that are sure to further erode the ability of the federal government to take care of
essential services needed by so many people in the country and abroad. And I found an
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article in ProPublica about one such man. Let me see if I can find. Yeah, there's this
guy right here. Right? He's been kicked out of federal government positions for incompetence,
colluding with people in Bosnia behind the ambassador's back. And this is like back in
the late nineties, 1990s, and, you know, the odds and other things. And now he's the director
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for foreign assistance with the State Department. He's in a prime position to dismantle foreign
aid to other countries. With his record, there'll be some bad things to come out of this before
they fire him again. So let me let me pull this guy up here. And you need to get to know
this guy. His name is Peter Morocco. And he's in charge of the foreign aid going out to
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USAID, but he also controls US, any of USAID funding for programs here in the United States.
So if you wonder why something got cut, it's probably this guy. He's the guy who probably
cut it for you. So
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you know, chances are, you know, like last time Trump had people in office, he started
fire him after they started screwing up. Well, this guy might be one. He might be one of
those. Yeah, but we got to give him time to do his dirty deeds. And then when people,
you know, in a public eye, Trump will fire him and get somebody else in there. So in
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the New York, in New York, the New York state, the state judicial system took a big hit when
nearly all of the state prosecutors, regardless of party affiliation, resigned in mass. And
another famous litigator resigned a day later with a fiery letter over Trump's Justice
Office demanded that the corruption charges be dropped for the New York City mayor, Eric
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Adams, for favors rendered. You can't be more blatant, mafia style corruption scandal.
You can't find one anywhere. And then Trump just pardoned a corrupt former Illinois official
Rod Blagovich. He just recently, because he's another loyalist. So let's talk about this
next one. They called this the Thursday afternoon massacre. Okay, so I've got this article from
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Substack by a guy by the name of Kevin Cruz. And he talks all about how all these people
just quit over the corruption. One guy was all about it here. You know, this guy, Emil
Bov, you know, facilitated it. This Republican deputy, she's a Trump owner. I'm going to
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read this to you. So let me, let me pull this up here. You can kind of read along a little
bit. According to a must read letter from Trump's own appointee as US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, Emily Bob, the third overruled the prosecutors
who were planning to introduce a superseding indictment, which included additional charges
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of so on and so forth. And furthermore, a Sassoon-related letter, Bob didn't just overrule
the prosecutors or report to him. He reposed a new defense for the politician they were
trying to convict, suggesting that the prosecution interfering with a filing for a project around
the immigrants. So in other words, as long as Eric Adams was willing to round up immigrants
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all over New York City, he could get off and they would pressure the prosecutors to leave
him alone. So, you know, quit pro-crow. All right. Come on now. Doesn't get more blatant
than that. I'm sorry. Like I said, I'll put, I'll put all these things in the links. But
you get the idea. All these people quit. And then a day later, there was another guy who
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was pretty famous. You know, he quit right off. Let me see if I can, I don't know, he
didn't write it in this article here. But there's, I have this other article here. Another
lead prosecutor and his name is Hagan Scotton from the 7th Federal Prosec, the 7th Federal
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Prosecuer signed a New York crushing case designed after a fuse. And this is what he said, I
expect you will eventually find someone who was enough of a fool or enough of a coward
to file your motion. Scotton wrote in a fiery letter obtained by the New York Times, but
it was never going to be me. And again, this is, they calling this the, you know, the massacre
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of attorneys here. So that's pretty, that's pretty sad, you know, when you got things
like that going on. So that's, you know, basically what they're going, what they're
saying is they don't care if they're breaking any laws. They're not trying to hide what
they're doing. They Trump space is saying I'm untouchable and so are my people come
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and get us if you dare. With all the firings and terminations going on, I picked one out
that will likely go relatively unnoticed, the resignation of the head of the National
Archives. I got this out of Mother Jones. So there's another article about people resigning
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all over the federal government. National Archives had resides as Trump take control
of records sources named conservative radio host you, you, it and far right journalist
John Solomon as potential replacements. Well, you know, it's like, uh, like, you know, putting
Joe Rogan in charge of all this stuff. So, you know, you get an idea of what's going
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on here. Um, basically with all the firings and terminations going on, this agency keeps
the records of government and other historical documents with Trump in charge is prosecution
is prosecuted for running off and possibly selling of classified documents after his
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last term that goes away. So Trump can now rewrite history in his favor and never be
prosecuted for hoarding all those documents down or Mar-a-Lago not so long ago and possibly
selling them to foreign agents. They, you know, that story disappeared quickly. They're
not talking about whether he sold anything to any foreign agents anymore. So another
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set of agencies that have been gutted in this rolling purge are the health agencies because
the ones associated with you, you know, both the ones associated with us ID and the WHO,
but also the ones that receive support for researching infectious diseases and providing
medical assistance. So I've got another article here, um, from one of my favorite doomers.
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And she's been around for several years writing about all the bad things that are going on
around us. And her name is Jessica Wildfire. You can find her on stub, sub stack, uh, under
the set no intelligence and everything you need to know about H five and one Bert flu,
an article with ongoing updates. So here's the thing. She's been talking about this a
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lot. All right. And her article talks about how to take care of ourselves when a H, you
know, when Bert flu finally breaks out everywhere. So we remember what happened that it took
you know, with, you know, across the world with COVID back in late 2019 and 2020. So
I, you know, it's something I mentioned on a post on her article here. I think we may
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already be there. So my son was fighting about the flu recently, according to my daughter
in law, my very good friend in Florida had a back out of a podcast with me recently for
the same thing. Told me he had tested for flu. My wife reported me recently that the
rate of recorded COVID infections was through the roof of my state, according to one of
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her friends on WeChat. So that begs the question, how bad is the flu virus around the country
right now? Still winter in most of the Northern hemisphere. And that's keep people keep people
inside it a lot this time of year. I mean, it's snowing outside my studio here right
now. Colds COVID and flu viruses are being passed around like crazy when school late
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kids bring it home and infect everyone in a house with everyone staying inside. Do the
cold and snowy weather? It only gets worse. So for anyone who's ever raised kids, they
know what I'm talking about. My question is just how bad is it right now? With the CDC
gutted, no one has made a report to the government anymore, according to Ms. Wildfire. So even
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if you do get sick, who are you going to tell? There's no one left to tell anymore, you know,
at all apparently. And I read an article this morning on this very same thing. So the big
thing about this is what I was saying. And this article kind of reinforces that now I
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didn't pull it up here, but it is saying that the flu virus, this regular flu virus that
everybody's talking about is running rampant across the country right now. Thousands of
people are sick with it right now. I think the article quoted like 820,000 cases have
been reported. And you have to, you know, you have, that's just the ones are being reported.
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That does not include all the ones not being reported. So when you have reporting, you
know, reporting stations that are gone dark because there's no funding anymore, you have
to wonder. So here's the thing, what's going to happen when, and I say when, because we
are past the if stage, blue bird flu starts killing a lot of people like back in 2020
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during the COVID pandemic. How many flu victims actually have bird flu and don't know it?
There have been a reported 67 people so far that have contracted H5N1 bird flu, but how
many are going unreported or misdiagnosed as regular flu?
With the federal government kicking everything back to the States to take care of now, we
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all know how Trump wouldn't handle a new pandemic from the last time we endured one
back in late 2019 and 2020. My advice is for everyone to check out this article and click
the links with the list of things you could use to protect detect yourselves because the
government's not going to help you. My daughter in law complained of having
pink eye both eyes when I talked to her a couple of weeks ago. Bleeding eyes, which
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is commonly mistaken for pink eye is one of the symptoms of bird flu, according to
Jessica Wildfire. Did my son and daughter in law have bird flu and it wasn't diagnosed
correctly or at all? That makes you wonder. With medical services being severely diminished
in the U.S. and around the world, actually, what few doctors that are left are being overworked
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in rural areas and they're not so rural anymore. Healthcare systems in the U.S. and other countries
such as Canada and the U.K. are collapsing due to a severe shortage of qualified doctors.
Add that to all the losses of healthcare administrators being able to take care of yourselves is becoming
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more paramount all the time. With that in mind, I would say go out and scavenge up some
medical books written for the average person to put in your homes for future use. You might
be able to survive the coming collapse. It's already started in earnest in the rural areas
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of North America and the U.K. Soon it will manifest in the more suburban areas and after
that everywhere. Doctors are retiring and young people do not have the resources anymore
to pay for medical schools. For most of the Americans, venture capitalism is where college
students are going after graduation, to a lesser degree, the tech industry. The medical
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profession requires too much work and money to get into anymore and the affluent kids
who could be doctors would rather get rich quick by getting into the finance investment
industry and into tech. That is where they think the money is now. Law schools probably
still popular with the rich kids as the law degree helps with getting into politics and
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to a degree finance. I've seen quite a few urgent care facilities up close to the last
few years as they close up because they can't afford to stay open. Lack of doctors and nurses
from one thing is creating a severe shortage of healthcare everywhere. Equity management
companies buying out the real estate out from one of these facilities has also become a
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big issue. Basically, they buy out the real estate, sell it off and or they rent it back
to the people using the building at a higher rate and they can't afford it so they close
down. There are no good answers for this other than for us to learn how to take care of ourselves
for anything other than the most serious medical issues because pretty soon the nearest hospital
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may be a very long ways if you live in a real estate. I say maybe but this is actually true.
You got a lot of states especially out west places like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado
and all these other places. You get away from the urban areas and hospitals are a long drive
away especially for specialty care. Now my sister-in-law is going through that right
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now. She had something she needed a specialist for because of an injury from a car accident.
They had to drive over an hour away one way to see a doctor in her state. This is becoming
the new normal in US and Canada. I say Canada because Canada is having a big problem with
that too. They've had to close down a lot of their hospitals because of doctor shortages
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and financing. Canada has such a severe shortage of family practitioners that wait times for
appointments for family medicine and into poor provinces can be up to months away. I would
give an example like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maritime provinces. You go out west places
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like Saskatoon, Alberta. They have a trouble with putting together facilities for people
to go to. Now I have basic medical books in my house to manage the smaller things. We
have a couple of Chinese herbal medicine and some survival guides with basic first aid
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procedures in them if things get really bad where I am. I was also trained in basic combat
first aid in the military so I can manage if I have to. Not everyone is trained or capable
but you can be if you want to. There are a lot of YouTube videos out these days that
can help. There are also local institutions like the Red Cross and others that still teach
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some classes but the grant money for those will probably dry up soon but as not ready.
I recommend books though because at the grid collapses, so will the internet. You don't
need electricity to read a book. When I was growing up reading by Landon and Catilite
was a real thing. We used to experience lots of power outages in rural Maine. I grew up
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in an old farm back in the 1960s and early 1970s. We always kept oil landers, candles
and flashlights around because of the freight court outages. In later years when I moved
back home after my military career I still experienced occasional power outages in the
21st century as once again I was living in a very rural part of Maine. Although rarely
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reported, this is apparently a fairly regular occurrence in the poorest parts of the states
and the richest country of the world or that's what they tell us we are anyway. I'm not talking
about when the power grid goes down due to an extreme weather event. I'm talking about
everyday life. Old power pole transformers going out in a thunderstorm or a heavy snowstorm
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for example. Trees falling on power lines and the crews no longer available to take
care of things anymore or other weather related infrastructure failures. Even just failures
outright because of old age. We can expect to see a lot more of this starting this year
due to lack of people going out there and putting it back together again. This is what
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happens when people like Elon Musk are allowed to gut the civil service to make the government
run more efficiently. Essential services end up not being there anymore. So you better
get used to more things like extended power outages, lack of healthcare providers and
other essential services no longer being available here in the near future. Infrastructure in
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the US is failing everywhere and now that the federal government is being gutted to
make it more efficient there will be fewer and fewer people to repair things like bridges,
electric power transmission systems, internet infrastructure, roads and other basic things
we take for granted every day. Without the federal government to oversee these things
private corporate private providers will not be held a task if they fail to provide something
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to somewhere. This means that without the federal government services will fail and
only be provided to areas that can afford to pay whatever the corporations want to charge.
No money, no services. For those very rural areas in the country, sorry Charlie, if the
state and local municipalities are broke there will be no electricity, water, healthcare,
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internet or other essential community services anymore. Maine just went through this not
too long ago and lost the argument a year or so ago. They wanted to move away from private
corporations owning their electric power grids but they couldn't convince enough voters to
go along with it, such as the power of the lobbyists. Wait until these providers run
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utility prices up beyond the ability of consumers to pay. States like Maine will end up back
where they used to were when I was a kid. Local communities will have to get used to
frequent power outages once again. I mentioned Maine a lot because I lived there a number
of years and I know firsthand what it's like. But there are a lot of other poor states
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that will also start experiencing this as well if they aren't already. Once Trump and
company completely gusts the federal government and fills the ranks with unqualified butt-lickers,
he has already filled a lot of these seats with idiots and more and more are coming as
per this project 2025. If anyone has actually read this thing and I have, you're willing
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to step back and compare what Trump and Musk are doing with the project 2025 type template,
you can see that this blueprint is well underway. You just have to see the force for the trees.
If you want more evidence that the corporations don't care about the little people, take a
look at this story I found about Boeing Corporation. Here, let me pull it up. Well, it disappeared
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on me here. There it is. Boeing covering up another fatal mass law. If you're worried
about flying, well, here you go. If you want more evidence that corporations don't care,
there's another one about this beleaguered corporation that can't seem to figure out
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how to keep their planes from crashing and burning all over the world. In this independent
article, the journalist tells us about a design flaw that's killing people and the federal
government keeps bailing this company out just because they're such an integral part
of the US economy and military industrial complex that government can't afford for them
to go under. Much like what Obama told us about the begging industry, he bailed out
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back in 2008, 2009. Meanwhile, people are dying in their airplanes, including the infamous
F-35, our junk. This is one of the main reasons I don't fly anywhere anymore, unless it's
an emergency or near to one. Between the last COVID protocols, rude people, and now, and
bigger potential for planes to kill people, I will drive, thank you very much, or not
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go anywhere at all other than local shopping. That's all I've got for you here. I want to
just let everybody know here that this is what's going on at a ground level. This is
what we, the people, are enduring and are going to be enduring more of going forward.
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Plan on this, okay? As Musk guts everything, they try to remake the federal government
and into whatever they want to make it. A lot of people are going to suffer and you're
going to see a whole bunch of stuff happening because the states don't have money. Now,
some do. California has money. Texas has some money, but you got to understand there are
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a lot of poor states in the United States that do not have the money to afford essential
services. And when the federal government dries up their funds, a lot of bad things are going
to start happening. It's coming. I mean, some states have experienced this, but you're going
to see a lot more of it. Bet on it, okay? I'm sorry. So remember what I said. Prepare
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yourselves, take, buy books, okay? Don't rely on the internet because it might not be there
when you need it the most. In a real emergency like last year when that hurricane in Helene
rolled up through North Carolina, oh well, guess what? They lost everything. They lost
their electricity, their ability for clean water, and most especially the internet, so
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on and so forth. So plan on that happening. And we don't need extreme weather events anymore
because even just regular weather is knocking this stuff out. As I experienced in the last
storm here, they rolled through my era in the Atlantic states. I had a day where I could
barely put this show together because the internet was cutting in and out. You know,
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a lot of editing on my part. So, just because. But again, this is becoming the new normal.
So I'm telling you, get ready, okay? It's coming. So with that, I will leave you to
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So let me bring you another chapter of The Priest, formerly known as Bob. This one is
chapter 26 by Michael Campy. This one, Dolly does the dreadfuls. We had found an old adobe
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shack to hold up for the day and when we awoke just before sunset Dolly was missing and so
was my stick. I shook stuffy awake and asked if he had seen Dolly leave. Is he gone? Yeah
and he took my stick. I had to guess. I would say that he has gone to do something really
violent and bloody, bloody, but that's just me. I think you're right, but the suspicious
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part of me says that since the dreadfuls are more like him than we are, we might have to
go, he might have gone to join them. Join who? said Tiki. Dolly's gone I said. He sat up
and looked around. So is the pile of rags I hadn't noticed. What the fuck? Why would they leave?
Stuffy looked over and said, you're not overly bright, are you? What's that supposed to mean?
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I rest my case. What are you talking about? I'm talking about the idea that Dolly has
done nothing during our trip to inspire anything less than absolute trust and in spite of that,
your first impulse is to mistrust him. Were you this insecure fragile in the old world?
I'm not insecure and fragile. I killed a man in the service of a defenseless child. Tiki said,
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I'm not a child. He'll be back. They both will, said Stuffy, walking after midnight. Dolly had
walking, poor up, a little after midnight. He nudged her and whispered, do you want to go hunting?
Hunting for what? Not what? Who? Are you going after those men? I am. I thought you might want
to come along. Very violent and dangerous. Dolly smiled, looked both ways, winked and said,
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if you promise not to tell anyone, so am I. You don't seem violent and dangerous. I try not to
make a big thing out of it. We need to go if you're going. We need to go if we're going. You coming?
Yes. I'll need you to tell me everything you can remember about them on our way there. Like what?
First, do they have any weapons? Yes. They have some guns, some crossbows. They all seem to have
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knives. And I guess some of them watched too many episodes of The Walking Dead and decided they
wanted to be Negan and start carrying baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire. Seriously? Yeah.
The problem is there were several of them that wanted to be Negan and they had to kind of
share the name. Otherwise, they would have ended up killing each other. Sounds like some real gems.
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Do they have any vehicles? They had a couple, but then the gas started going bad and they
eventually just stopped working. They had them hitch two horses for a while, but then it got too
hot and the horses died. Now they pretty much stick to this area other than going on expeditions
every now and again to see if they can find people to rob, kill or take prisoner. Did they find a
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lot of people? They did it first, but then all the smart money got out of the desert. They talked
about the ones they had found in that town in Arizona and they talked a little bit about you guys,
but they couldn't seem to find you as horrible as they are. I don't think they're ideally suited for
the post-collapse world. They seem more like those types type A personality guys who go on outdoor
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adventures in extreme training camps will make no mistake. They have become killers, but I don't
think any of them actually killed anyone before the collapse. Well, that's going to be our to our
advantage. Why is that? Because before the collapse, I kill people for a living. For real? Yeah,
but don't make a big thing out of it. It's just something I did. Are you going to kill them?
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If I have to, you may not consider this very ladylike, but can I help? That's not very ladylike
at all. Of course you can. Have you killed anyone before? No, but since I was taken by this group,
I thought about it a lot. Did you come to any conclusions about what it might be like?
I imagine that I would enjoy it. I thought I could even I thought I could even develop a taste
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for killing. It's an acquired taste. I think I might be good at it. Can you teach me? Sure. I
have to teach the priest guy too. Why do you have to teach him? He killed someone before I met him,
and I think he really felt bad about it. He might take he may take some work. Will I take some work?
Other than the practical application of physical force, I think you're actually off to a good start.
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Do you think there's something wrong with me? No, you're just one of us. One of who? The few,
the proud, the psychopathic. We're in a late group. I hope the priest doesn't get mad that you started
with me. He'll be fine. Shall we? This is going to be fun. So after this chapter, he moved everything
over to sub stack. So I'll be pulling his our pulling his future chapters from over there.
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But you get the idea again of what the world could be like, especially here in the United States,
under a total collapse. So let me end with this.
Now, I appreciate everybody showing up. I hope you listen or watch the video.
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If you do, I hope you enjoyed it. And you'll return again to, you know, a more about the world we
live in. Again, this is going to be my theme going forward from now on, that we're going to be talking
about the everyday person, not just here, but in Europe. And whenever I can find stories from people
over there, and so on and so forth. But, you know, everything, everything to do with who we are,
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we're just regular people. And we want to know what's going to happen here. I mean, nobody likes
change, but change is coming. And it's not going to be good. So please like, subscribe, reply,
and share the videos or audio podcast, however you watch or listen. The goal here is to resist
the people who want to take our freedoms away from us. I appreciate everyone around the world.
And no matter who or where you are, together, using independent media like this, we can resist
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all authoritarian or oligarchs everywhere. As I say goodbye this week, I wish to leave you
with this Irish blessing as we try to survive another week of mayhem. In the season of Imon,
may the warm winds of spring finally find their way to you and push the calic away from your doors.
Slong loaf foil.
Welcome to the Village Oak Tree. I'm your host, Terence O'Donnell. With the weather outside
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frightful all across North America again this week, and with all the chaos Trump and company
still creating all across the world, the average citizens everywhere are starting to feel it.
Once again, I've discovered new stores from across the spectrum to point a finger at all
how all this is going to affect the average citizens here in EOS and this week Europe.
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Once I've brought you the stores and commentary for this week, I'll ask everyone to stick around
through my commercial break so I can read you another chapter of The Priest from Michael
Seppi. So, come sit you down next to someplace warm and listen to me tell you a little bit
about what the media is not telling you. So, more and more chaos across the world, especially
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in Europe right now, after Vice President J.D. Vance's inflammatory speech in Munich last
week. He's basically telling the EU that the US is stepping back from Europe and Ukraine
is their problem now. Meanwhile, Trump is telling Zelensky that he must give 50% of
all their mineral wealth in Ukraine to the US to pay back the money the US gave them
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to fight their war. Zelensky refused to deal so things are moving around them. Trump and
Putin are scheduled to have their first Ukraine negotiation, Saudi Arabia soon, without the
Ukraine or Europe invited. So, you have to know this set off a lot of shouting and gnashing
of Ds in Europe. You know, the big thing about all this is that right now the new Secretary
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of State, Mark O'Rubio and the equivalent Secretary of State for Russia met in Saudi
this week and did this a little bit of initial negotiations and so on. And I had a report
this morning saying that basically somebody's upset because it sounds like Trump's giving
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Putin whatever he wants. Well, you know, we'll have to wait and see how that works out. Meanwhile,
Macron and a bunch of other people, leaders from the EU have gotten together all upset
about what Trump's doing and so on and so forth. And so, yeah, there's a whole lot of
chaos going on in Europe right now over all of this. And speaking of chaos, I want to,
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you know, this whole idea is to keep this at a kind of a street level, okay? So, also
from Europe, I started subscribing to a young Austrian lady who likes to give YouTube news
reports about the news from around Europe. She likes to focus on the politics and the
economics over there to give everyone an idea of what's like to live in Europe now. The
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average citizen's getting pretty bad according to her. The price of energy and groceries
is getting out of hand. And they wonder why the AFD is becoming so popular in the rural
areas of Austria and Germany. Does this sound familiar? So, if you're interested in listening
to her, her YouTube channel is called Surviving Lily. You know, and now we move across to
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Palestine. It's business as usual. Israel's killing and bombing people still while the
ceasefires are sort of holding together by threats. Although the one with Lebanon is
coming upon its deadline very soon. With all the violations that Israel committed, as well
as likely to come out of the ceasefire swinging heavily, it seems that the Israelis have left,
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sort of, they pulled back, leaving five small outposts behind, much like what they're doing
in southern Syria. So, the question being asked is, now what? And that's exactly it. What
are we going to see now that the ceasefire is pretty much over with? And what are they
going to do? I don't know. Again, it changes on a daily basis. Israel is still tearing
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up the West Bank with little interference. And the ceasefire in Gaza is running on very
thin threats. Now, they are still a ceasefire. They are exchanging hostages, you know, what
they can, and they're still kind of going through. So, you know, Hamas is hoping that
it's going to hold. But, you know, no one Israel, chances are they're going to find something.
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I got a feeling the only reason it's held together so far is because there's some leverage
being held over Israel right now, making them stay with it. So, in Central Africa, the war
in Sudan is still ongoing, as is the one in the DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo. South
Africa is still reeling from Trump's latest deal, offering sanctuary to the white Africaners
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in the U.S. And, you know, he wants to let them come here because they're being picked
on. All because of that new land law they passed that Trump didn't like. Sounds like
maybe a few Krugerans may have been passed to the Trump's campaign, and he's going to
do what it takes to keep them happy and the money flowing. I don't know. That may be a
backdoor deal we never, we never know about. In the U.S., Trump and his crew are still
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gutting the federal government. Last week, I reported that the new education secretary
was supposed to be a figurehead with no real job, as Trump wants to close the Department
of Education, but can't without the approval of Congress. Meanwhile, he's telling his people
to shut it all down as much as possible. So, I'm going to start pulling up some news articles
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here and kind of give you an idea of what we're talking about. So, let me pull up this
first one here. And this is part of the Department of Education's deal. So, let me do this.
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And so, this is basically what I was just talking about. Remember I said last week,
the new secretary of state was basically told, sit in your chair, don't do anything, shut
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it all down. And now we're seeing, like in this article here from ProPublica, we've been
essentially muzzled. The Department of Education halts thousands of civil rights investigations
under Trump. And, you know, it says since the inauguration day, the Office for Civil
Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump's priorities, placing more
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than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment
on hold. Now, that's just one thing, okay? But basically, they're shutting down pretty
much all of it. And as Trump said, he wants to kick it back to the states, okay? So,
you know, I'm like, all right, whatever. Again, this is going to be an ongoing thing. We really
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don't know where this is all going to end up here. But that's what's been said so far.
So now, all we can do is run with what we know, okay? So then I have this other article
here that kind of runs with more about this, what I was just talking about. So let me bring
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this up here. And there's this one from The Guardian. It says, Trump administration gives
schools deadline to cut DEI or lose federal funds. So what did I just say? My first article
was Trump wants to, you know, cut funds for everything. And now he's telling them basically,
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cut all your DEI stuff out across the country, or we're going to pull all your funding. And
of course, you know, colleges are scrambling like crazy to get this done. But it goes to
show you where this is all going. And so let's, let's go. And, you know, here's the other
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thing. This is this is just the Department of Education. Right? So let me let me kind
of bring this up. So he's like I said, two weeks to dump DEI or lose federal, and schools
are scrambling to comply. Is this a deliberate attempt to set up college enrollments for
only those who could afford it? No more Pell grants or school loans backed by the federal
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government. Other departments and agencies are seeing their staff being furloughed, laid
off, terminated, so on. Then we have blatant corrupt corrupt officials installed in positions
that are sure to further erode the ability of the federal government to take care of
essential services needed by so many people in the country and abroad. And I found an
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article in ProPublica about one such man. Let me see if I can find. Yeah, there's this
guy right here. Right? He's been kicked out of federal government positions for incompetence,
colluding with people in Bosnia behind the ambassador's back. And this is like back in
the late nineties, 1990s, and, you know, the odds and other things. And now he's the director
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for foreign assistance with the State Department. He's in a prime position to dismantle foreign
aid to other countries. With his record, there'll be some bad things to come out of this before
they fire him again. So let me let me pull this guy up here. And you need to get to know
this guy. His name is Peter Morocco. And he's in charge of the foreign aid going out to
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USAID, but he also controls US, any of USAID funding for programs here in the United States.
So if you wonder why something got cut, it's probably this guy. He's the guy who probably
cut it for you. So
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you know, chances are, you know, like last time Trump had people in office, he started
fire him after they started screwing up. Well, this guy might be one. He might be one of
those. Yeah, but we got to give him time to do his dirty deeds. And then when people,
you know, in a public eye, Trump will fire him and get somebody else in there. So in
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the New York, in New York, the New York state, the state judicial system took a big hit when
nearly all of the state prosecutors, regardless of party affiliation, resigned in mass. And
another famous litigator resigned a day later with a fiery letter over Trump's Justice
Office demanded that the corruption charges be dropped for the New York City mayor, Eric
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Adams, for favors rendered. You can't be more blatant, mafia style corruption scandal.
You can't find one anywhere. And then Trump just pardoned a corrupt former Illinois official
Rod Blagovich. He just recently, because he's another loyalist. So let's talk about this
next one. They called this the Thursday afternoon massacre. Okay, so I've got this article from
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Substack by a guy by the name of Kevin Cruz. And he talks all about how all these people
just quit over the corruption. One guy was all about it here. You know, this guy, Emil
Bov, you know, facilitated it. This Republican deputy, she's a Trump owner. I'm going to
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read this to you. So let me, let me pull this up here. You can kind of read along a little
bit. According to a must read letter from Trump's own appointee as US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, Emily Bob, the third overruled the prosecutors
who were planning to introduce a superseding indictment, which included additional charges
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of so on and so forth. And furthermore, a Sassoon-related letter, Bob didn't just overrule
the prosecutors or report to him. He reposed a new defense for the politician they were
trying to convict, suggesting that the prosecution interfering with a filing for a project around
the immigrants. So in other words, as long as Eric Adams was willing to round up immigrants
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all over New York City, he could get off and they would pressure the prosecutors to leave
him alone. So, you know, quit pro-crow. All right. Come on now. Doesn't get more blatant
than that. I'm sorry. Like I said, I'll put, I'll put all these things in the links. But
you get the idea. All these people quit. And then a day later, there was another guy who
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was pretty famous. You know, he quit right off. Let me see if I can, I don't know, he
didn't write it in this article here. But there's, I have this other article here. Another
lead prosecutor and his name is Hagan Scotton from the 7th Federal Prosec, the 7th Federal
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Prosecuer signed a New York crushing case designed after a fuse. And this is what he said, I
expect you will eventually find someone who was enough of a fool or enough of a coward
to file your motion. Scotton wrote in a fiery letter obtained by the New York Times, but
it was never going to be me. And again, this is, they calling this the, you know, the massacre
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of attorneys here. So that's pretty, that's pretty sad, you know, when you got things
like that going on. So that's, you know, basically what they're going, what they're
saying is they don't care if they're breaking any laws. They're not trying to hide what
they're doing. They Trump space is saying I'm untouchable and so are my people come
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and get us if you dare. With all the firings and terminations going on, I picked one out
that will likely go relatively unnoticed, the resignation of the head of the National
Archives. I got this out of Mother Jones. So there's another article about people resigning
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all over the federal government. National Archives had resides as Trump take control
of records sources named conservative radio host you, you, it and far right journalist
John Solomon as potential replacements. Well, you know, it's like, uh, like, you know, putting
Joe Rogan in charge of all this stuff. So, you know, you get an idea of what's going
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on here. Um, basically with all the firings and terminations going on, this agency keeps
the records of government and other historical documents with Trump in charge is prosecution
is prosecuted for running off and possibly selling of classified documents after his
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last term that goes away. So Trump can now rewrite history in his favor and never be
prosecuted for hoarding all those documents down or Mar-a-Lago not so long ago and possibly
selling them to foreign agents. They, you know, that story disappeared quickly. They're
not talking about whether he sold anything to any foreign agents anymore. So another
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set of agencies that have been gutted in this rolling purge are the health agencies because
the ones associated with you, you know, both the ones associated with us ID and the WHO,
but also the ones that receive support for researching infectious diseases and providing
medical assistance. So I've got another article here, um, from one of my favorite doomers.
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And she's been around for several years writing about all the bad things that are going on
around us. And her name is Jessica Wildfire. You can find her on stub, sub stack, uh, under
the set no intelligence and everything you need to know about H five and one Bert flu,
an article with ongoing updates. So here's the thing. She's been talking about this a
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lot. All right. And her article talks about how to take care of ourselves when a H, you
know, when Bert flu finally breaks out everywhere. So we remember what happened that it took
you know, with, you know, across the world with COVID back in late 2019 and 2020. So
I, you know, it's something I mentioned on a post on her article here. I think we may
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already be there. So my son was fighting about the flu recently, according to my daughter
in law, my very good friend in Florida had a back out of a podcast with me recently for
the same thing. Told me he had tested for flu. My wife reported me recently that the
rate of recorded COVID infections was through the roof of my state, according to one of
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her friends on WeChat. So that begs the question, how bad is the flu virus around the country
right now? Still winter in most of the Northern hemisphere. And that's keep people keep people
inside it a lot this time of year. I mean, it's snowing outside my studio here right
now. Colds COVID and flu viruses are being passed around like crazy when school late
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kids bring it home and infect everyone in a house with everyone staying inside. Do the
cold and snowy weather? It only gets worse. So for anyone who's ever raised kids, they
know what I'm talking about. My question is just how bad is it right now? With the CDC
gutted, no one has made a report to the government anymore, according to Ms. Wildfire. So even
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if you do get sick, who are you going to tell? There's no one left to tell anymore, you know,
at all apparently. And I read an article this morning on this very same thing. So the big
thing about this is what I was saying. And this article kind of reinforces that now I
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didn't pull it up here, but it is saying that the flu virus, this regular flu virus that
everybody's talking about is running rampant across the country right now. Thousands of
people are sick with it right now. I think the article quoted like 820,000 cases have
been reported. And you have to, you know, you have, that's just the ones are being reported.
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That does not include all the ones not being reported. So when you have reporting, you
know, reporting stations that are gone dark because there's no funding anymore, you have
to wonder. So here's the thing, what's going to happen when, and I say when, because we
are past the if stage, blue bird flu starts killing a lot of people like back in 2020
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during the COVID pandemic. How many flu victims actually have bird flu and don't know it?
There have been a reported 67 people so far that have contracted H5N1 bird flu, but how
many are going unreported or misdiagnosed as regular flu?
With the federal government kicking everything back to the States to take care of now, we
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all know how Trump wouldn't handle a new pandemic from the last time we endured one
back in late 2019 and 2020. My advice is for everyone to check out this article and click
the links with the list of things you could use to protect detect yourselves because the
government's not going to help you. My daughter in law complained of having
pink eye both eyes when I talked to her a couple of weeks ago. Bleeding eyes, which
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is commonly mistaken for pink eye is one of the symptoms of bird flu, according to
Jessica Wildfire. Did my son and daughter in law have bird flu and it wasn't diagnosed
correctly or at all? That makes you wonder. With medical services being severely diminished
in the U.S. and around the world, actually, what few doctors that are left are being overworked
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in rural areas and they're not so rural anymore. Healthcare systems in the U.S. and other countries
such as Canada and the U.K. are collapsing due to a severe shortage of qualified doctors.
Add that to all the losses of healthcare administrators being able to take care of yourselves is becoming
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more paramount all the time. With that in mind, I would say go out and scavenge up some
medical books written for the average person to put in your homes for future use. You might
be able to survive the coming collapse. It's already started in earnest in the rural areas
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of North America and the U.K. Soon it will manifest in the more suburban areas and after
that everywhere. Doctors are retiring and young people do not have the resources anymore
to pay for medical schools. For most of the Americans, venture capitalism is where college
students are going after graduation, to a lesser degree, the tech industry. The medical
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profession requires too much work and money to get into anymore and the affluent kids
who could be doctors would rather get rich quick by getting into the finance investment
industry and into tech. That is where they think the money is now. Law schools probably
still popular with the rich kids as the law degree helps with getting into politics and
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to a degree finance. I've seen quite a few urgent care facilities up close to the last
few years as they close up because they can't afford to stay open. Lack of doctors and nurses
from one thing is creating a severe shortage of healthcare everywhere. Equity management
companies buying out the real estate out from one of these facilities has also become a
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big issue. Basically, they buy out the real estate, sell it off and or they rent it back
to the people using the building at a higher rate and they can't afford it so they close
down. There are no good answers for this other than for us to learn how to take care of ourselves
for anything other than the most serious medical issues because pretty soon the nearest hospital
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may be a very long ways if you live in a real estate. I say maybe but this is actually true.
You got a lot of states especially out west places like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado
and all these other places. You get away from the urban areas and hospitals are a long drive
away especially for specialty care. Now my sister-in-law is going through that right
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now. She had something she needed a specialist for because of an injury from a car accident.
They had to drive over an hour away one way to see a doctor in her state. This is becoming
the new normal in US and Canada. I say Canada because Canada is having a big problem with
that too. They've had to close down a lot of their hospitals because of doctor shortages
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and financing. Canada has such a severe shortage of family practitioners that wait times for
appointments for family medicine and into poor provinces can be up to months away. I would
give an example like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maritime provinces. You go out west places
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like Saskatoon, Alberta. They have a trouble with putting together facilities for people
to go to. Now I have basic medical books in my house to manage the smaller things. We
have a couple of Chinese herbal medicine and some survival guides with basic first aid
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procedures in them if things get really bad where I am. I was also trained in basic combat
first aid in the military so I can manage if I have to. Not everyone is trained or capable
but you can be if you want to. There are a lot of YouTube videos out these days that
can help. There are also local institutions like the Red Cross and others that still teach
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some classes but the grant money for those will probably dry up soon but as not ready.
I recommend books though because at the grid collapses, so will the internet. You don't
need electricity to read a book. When I was growing up reading by Landon and Catilite
was a real thing. We used to experience lots of power outages in rural Maine. I grew up
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in an old farm back in the 1960s and early 1970s. We always kept oil landers, candles
and flashlights around because of the freight court outages. In later years when I moved
back home after my military career I still experienced occasional power outages in the
21st century as once again I was living in a very rural part of Maine. Although rarely
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reported, this is apparently a fairly regular occurrence in the poorest parts of the states
and the richest country of the world or that's what they tell us we are anyway. I'm not talking
about when the power grid goes down due to an extreme weather event. I'm talking about
everyday life. Old power pole transformers going out in a thunderstorm or a heavy snowstorm
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for example. Trees falling on power lines and the crews no longer available to take
care of things anymore or other weather related infrastructure failures. Even just failures
outright because of old age. We can expect to see a lot more of this starting this year
due to lack of people going out there and putting it back together again. This is what
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happens when people like Elon Musk are allowed to gut the civil service to make the government
run more efficiently. Essential services end up not being there anymore. So you better
get used to more things like extended power outages, lack of healthcare providers and
other essential services no longer being available here in the near future. Infrastructure in
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the US is failing everywhere and now that the federal government is being gutted to
make it more efficient there will be fewer and fewer people to repair things like bridges,
electric power transmission systems, internet infrastructure, roads and other basic things
we take for granted every day. Without the federal government to oversee these things
private corporate private providers will not be held a task if they fail to provide something
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to somewhere. This means that without the federal government services will fail and
only be provided to areas that can afford to pay whatever the corporations want to charge.
No money, no services. For those very rural areas in the country, sorry Charlie, if the
state and local municipalities are broke there will be no electricity, water, healthcare,
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internet or other essential community services anymore. Maine just went through this not
too long ago and lost the argument a year or so ago. They wanted to move away from private
corporations owning their electric power grids but they couldn't convince enough voters to
go along with it, such as the power of the lobbyists. Wait until these providers run
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utility prices up beyond the ability of consumers to pay. States like Maine will end up back
where they used to were when I was a kid. Local communities will have to get used to
frequent power outages once again. I mentioned Maine a lot because I lived there a number
of years and I know firsthand what it's like. But there are a lot of other poor states
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that will also start experiencing this as well if they aren't already. Once Trump and
company completely gusts the federal government and fills the ranks with unqualified butt-lickers,
he has already filled a lot of these seats with idiots and more and more are coming as
per this project 2025. If anyone has actually read this thing and I have, you're willing
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to step back and compare what Trump and Musk are doing with the project 2025 type template,
you can see that this blueprint is well underway. You just have to see the force for the trees.
If you want more evidence that the corporations don't care about the little people, take a
look at this story I found about Boeing Corporation. Here, let me pull it up. Well, it disappeared
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on me here. There it is. Boeing covering up another fatal mass law. If you're worried
about flying, well, here you go. If you want more evidence that corporations don't care,
there's another one about this beleaguered corporation that can't seem to figure out
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how to keep their planes from crashing and burning all over the world. In this independent
article, the journalist tells us about a design flaw that's killing people and the federal
government keeps bailing this company out just because they're such an integral part
of the US economy and military industrial complex that government can't afford for them
to go under. Much like what Obama told us about the begging industry, he bailed out
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back in 2008, 2009. Meanwhile, people are dying in their airplanes, including the infamous
F-35, our junk. This is one of the main reasons I don't fly anywhere anymore, unless it's
an emergency or near to one. Between the last COVID protocols, rude people, and now, and
bigger potential for planes to kill people, I will drive, thank you very much, or not
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go anywhere at all other than local shopping. That's all I've got for you here. I want to
just let everybody know here that this is what's going on at a ground level. This is
what we, the people, are enduring and are going to be enduring more of going forward.
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Plan on this, okay? As Musk guts everything, they try to remake the federal government
and into whatever they want to make it. A lot of people are going to suffer and you're
going to see a whole bunch of stuff happening because the states don't have money. Now,
some do. California has money. Texas has some money, but you got to understand there are
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a lot of poor states in the United States that do not have the money to afford essential
services. And when the federal government dries up their funds, a lot of bad things are going
to start happening. It's coming. I mean, some states have experienced this, but you're going
to see a lot more of it. Bet on it, okay? I'm sorry. So remember what I said. Prepare
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yourselves, take, buy books, okay? Don't rely on the internet because it might not be there
when you need it the most. In a real emergency like last year when that hurricane in Helene
rolled up through North Carolina, oh well, guess what? They lost everything. They lost
their electricity, their ability for clean water, and most especially the internet, so
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on and so forth. So plan on that happening. And we don't need extreme weather events anymore
because even just regular weather is knocking this stuff out. As I experienced in the last
storm here, they rolled through my era in the Atlantic states. I had a day where I could
barely put this show together because the internet was cutting in and out. You know,
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a lot of editing on my part. So, just because. But again, this is becoming the new normal.
So I'm telling you, get ready, okay? It's coming. So with that, I will leave you to
it. Listen to my little advert and I'll be back with an episode of The Priest.
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backdrop of US societal collapse. The story follows a tree of resistance fighters as they
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So that's all I have here and I appreciate any effort you can to support this endeavor
that I'm doing no matter how small it may be. Thank you very much. Alright welcome back.
So let me bring you another chapter of The Priest, formerly known as Bob. This one is
chapter 26 by Michael Campy. This one, Dolly does the dreadfuls. We had found an old adobe
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shack to hold up for the day and when we awoke just before sunset Dolly was missing and so
was my stick. I shook stuffy awake and asked if he had seen Dolly leave. Is he gone? Yeah
and he took my stick. I had to guess. I would say that he has gone to do something really
violent and bloody, bloody, but that's just me. I think you're right, but the suspicious
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part of me says that since the dreadfuls are more like him than we are, we might have to
go, he might have gone to join them. Join who? said Tiki. Dolly's gone I said. He sat up
and looked around. So is the pile of rags I hadn't noticed. What the fuck? Why would they leave?
Stuffy looked over and said, you're not overly bright, are you? What's that supposed to mean?
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I rest my case. What are you talking about? I'm talking about the idea that Dolly has
done nothing during our trip to inspire anything less than absolute trust and in spite of that,
your first impulse is to mistrust him. Were you this insecure fragile in the old world?
I'm not insecure and fragile. I killed a man in the service of a defenseless child. Tiki said,
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I'm not a child. He'll be back. They both will, said Stuffy, walking after midnight. Dolly had
walking, poor up, a little after midnight. He nudged her and whispered, do you want to go hunting?
Hunting for what? Not what? Who? Are you going after those men? I am. I thought you might want
to come along. Very violent and dangerous. Dolly smiled, looked both ways, winked and said,
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if you promise not to tell anyone, so am I. You don't seem violent and dangerous. I try not to
make a big thing out of it. We need to go if you're going. We need to go if we're going. You coming?
Yes. I'll need you to tell me everything you can remember about them on our way there. Like what?
First, do they have any weapons? Yes. They have some guns, some crossbows. They all seem to have
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knives. And I guess some of them watched too many episodes of The Walking Dead and decided they
wanted to be Negan and start carrying baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire. Seriously? Yeah.
The problem is there were several of them that wanted to be Negan and they had to kind of
share the name. Otherwise, they would have ended up killing each other. Sounds like some real gems.
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Do they have any vehicles? They had a couple, but then the gas started going bad and they
eventually just stopped working. They had them hitch two horses for a while, but then it got too
hot and the horses died. Now they pretty much stick to this area other than going on expeditions
every now and again to see if they can find people to rob, kill or take prisoner. Did they find a
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lot of people? They did it first, but then all the smart money got out of the desert. They talked
about the ones they had found in that town in Arizona and they talked a little bit about you guys,
but they couldn't seem to find you as horrible as they are. I don't think they're ideally suited for
the post-collapse world. They seem more like those types type A personality guys who go on outdoor
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adventures in extreme training camps will make no mistake. They have become killers, but I don't
think any of them actually killed anyone before the collapse. Well, that's going to be our to our
advantage. Why is that? Because before the collapse, I kill people for a living. For real? Yeah,
but don't make a big thing out of it. It's just something I did. Are you going to kill them?
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If I have to, you may not consider this very ladylike, but can I help? That's not very ladylike
at all. Of course you can. Have you killed anyone before? No, but since I was taken by this group,
I thought about it a lot. Did you come to any conclusions about what it might be like?
I imagine that I would enjoy it. I thought I could even I thought I could even develop a taste
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for killing. It's an acquired taste. I think I might be good at it. Can you teach me? Sure. I
have to teach the priest guy too. Why do you have to teach him? He killed someone before I met him,
and I think he really felt bad about it. He might take he may take some work. Will I take some work?
Other than the practical application of physical force, I think you're actually off to a good start.
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Do you think there's something wrong with me? No, you're just one of us. One of who? The few,
the proud, the psychopathic. We're in a late group. I hope the priest doesn't get mad that you started
with me. He'll be fine. Shall we? This is going to be fun. So after this chapter, he moved everything
over to sub stack. So I'll be pulling his our pulling his future chapters from over there.
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But you get the idea again of what the world could be like, especially here in the United States,
under a total collapse. So let me end with this.
Now, I appreciate everybody showing up. I hope you listen or watch the video.
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If you do, I hope you enjoyed it. And you'll return again to, you know, a more about the world we
live in. Again, this is going to be my theme going forward from now on, that we're going to be talking
about the everyday person, not just here, but in Europe. And whenever I can find stories from people
over there, and so on and so forth. But, you know, everything, everything to do with who we are,
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we're just regular people. And we want to know what's going to happen here. I mean, nobody likes
change, but change is coming. And it's not going to be good. So please like, subscribe, reply,
and share the videos or audio podcast, however you watch or listen. The goal here is to resist
the people who want to take our freedoms away from us. I appreciate everyone around the world.
And no matter who or where you are, together, using independent media like this, we can resist
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all authoritarian or oligarchs everywhere. As I say goodbye this week, I wish to leave you
with this Irish blessing as we try to survive another week of mayhem. In the season of Imon,
may the warm winds of spring finally find their way to you and push the calic away from your doors.
Slong loaf foil.
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