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Hello again everyone and welcome back to the Underground. This is the Intel update for the 25th of June
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2022 and as always it is being recorded the day prior on the 24th. So let's get right to it
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All right up first are a new series of slides
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I don't know how long I'm going to continue this for but I thought it prudent to start talking about a lot of the
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interesting
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Infrastructural events that have occurred over the past few weeks and months
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So we're going to talk about this from a regional perspective because I tried putting this all on one slide and there's just too many
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So I know a lot of people are very concerned about infrastructure these days rightfully so and
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I know that there's a lot of
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either
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misinformation or propaganda from from all sides
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Regarding who's causing some of these issues or if there is a cause at all
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so what I thought I would do is break this down by state and by
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incident really and see if we can kind of pinpoint some of the more innocent events and some of the more
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Nefarious things that are just really sketchy all the way around so first up is the Northeast region and we'll start off by talking about
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Pennsylvania so if you live in the area you've obviously seen this in the news over the past few weeks and that is
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Avian Flu I of course am no duck farmer right, but it looks like there are a lot of
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Farms being impacted in southeastern, Pennsylvania with regards to either ducks or turkeys
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I think I don't know if it's spread to chickens just yet
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It seems like it's really just a couple of duck farms obviously the state is not going to point out where
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Where most of these avian flu outbreaks are going to be you know located there
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They're obviously for privacy reasons not going to be pointing the fingers at a specific farmer
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But if you can look at this image
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You can see kind of where the the government has put this heat map out to show where most of the avian flu
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Outbreaks are kind of contained. I just wanted to start with the avian flu kind of stuff
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Because we have to remember that some of the things that we're talking about today when it comes to infrastructural concerns are
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Really routine things avian flu is almost a yearly thing
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I'm pretty sure it's a yearly thing in a lot of areas around the country
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So I understand people's concerns with regards to a lot of the things going on in our food supply
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And I understand the the hyper hyper awareness that we place on our meat supply in particular these days
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Especially considering all of the things that the oligarchs and the extreme
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You know leftists and tyrants of the world have been putting out regarding our meat supply
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But I also want to kind of pump the brakes on things that and avoid
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Events that are basically routine from getting out of control
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It would be very easy for someone to create a headline that says oh my god all the ducks in Pennsylvania are being killed at an
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astonishing astonishing rate
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8,000 ducks at two different sites have been massacred right it's easy to it's easy to
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Write those headlines and get a lot of clicks and views, but what they don't tell you is that this is pretty much completely normal
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Nowadays now you can of course do the research on your own and figure out what the avian flu actually is and the causes
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Of it and things like that
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But I'm not exactly going to be peeking around duck farms and houses looking for George Soros sprinkling some stuff in their food
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I'm not exactly going to be doing that so I just wanted to kind of start off with that one a little bit and move
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On to New Hampshire so way back on the 13th of April if you guys can remember that far back
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East Conway beef and pork in Conway, New Hampshire East Conway, New Hampshire was
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Burned to the ground and this is going to be a common theme a very common line throughout this entire brief today
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That the cause of the fire is unknown and the investigation is underway now again with when it comes to arson investigation
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It's really really hard to tell a seasoned arson investigator will be very
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Very much able to pick out the more obvious cases, and I'll mention these as we go along
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But for a lot of these you know you can't really
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You can't really tell what the deal is did somebody is this an accident
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And we just can't figure it out or is this arson and if it is arson did what's the motivation here?
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Is it insurance fraud like I know you know growing up?
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You know where I grew up
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And I guess this is kind of a common thing throughout the the country is man people would burn their stuff down for the
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Insurance money so you know that is that something that is that the case or is this a deliberate attack on our infrastructure?
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I don't know and in most cases throughout this brief today
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I'm not going to know and no one else is going to know either
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But I thought that the information would be valuable to share so so moving on to New Jersey on the 23rd of March the Pepsi Co
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Bottling facility had a very large fire
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there again causes unknown investigations underway and just keep in mind that when it comes to these investigations
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You're really not going to hear very much because
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Remember local news sources local media is where we're going to be notified of these events and local media has zero
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Incentive to revisit an article and say hey you remember three months ago that Pepsi facility that burned down
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Yeah, it turns out it was an accident. You're never going to see those news stories, right?
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So just keep that in mind as we go along
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Massachusetts had an interesting one though both of them kind of well
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You know basically within a month of each other and both of them involving ever source energy so one was in Newton
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Massachusetts and the other one was in Plimpton, Massachusetts
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Both of them were fires at electrical substations
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So the first one or actually the most recent one in June on the 20th of June was it looks like a worker
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Might have been involved with that one, so it may be accidental
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I don't know pure speculation the other one though back on the 30th of May was allegedly due to
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Malfunctioning equipment and again the local sources really provide no information on that whatsoever
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So hard to say what's going on
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But I did think it was interesting that there were two of those incidents very close to to one another in kind of the same
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General area right on the right on the outskirts of Boston
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So very interesting and I guess we'll have to do some more research and figure out what's going on with some of that
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Moving down southeast we'll start off with Virginia back on April 30th
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Purdue farms in the Norfolk area had a major major fire at one of their processing plants
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So this one was it's really hard to tell exactly what went on it may have been some kind of overheated
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You know electrical part or motor or something like on a conveyor belt hard to say but the local news sources
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state that it was
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Due to
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Malfunctioning equipment I don't know but the local Chesapeake Fire Department
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Specifically went out of their way to say that it was accidental and not suspicious quote so again
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You can believe what you want. I don't know what to think. I just thought I'd share it and
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Move along so in Georgia there was a another more interesting one
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This is a smaller company Red Ridge LLC in Calhoun, Georgia
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I can't really I didn't really find very much on the company itself
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But they're there apparently it looks like they're a very small local supplier of rubber or flooring
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Or things like that their facility burned to the ground and again the cause is unknown of that fire moving on down to Florida
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This is a more interesting one back in on the 19th of May
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There was a train derailment in Martin County, Florida
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The train that derailed was carrying limestone and it looks like only five or six cars were involved in that derailment
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Again the cause of the derailment is unknown which is not uncommon when it comes to
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railway things so as one might expect
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Trains and the the rail logistics of this country are very much a national security issue
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So when you see incidents involving trains
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I tend to be more hyper aware of it because I lived in the Pacific Northwest for a few years
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against my will and it
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Was very apparent to me that a lot of trains were being derailed due to
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Eco-terrorists up in the Pacific Northwest that was quite clear. It was very common just a few years ago and probably still is to this day
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But it's very very you very rarely see that cause being attributed to something so when there's a train derailment or something to do with
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Rail, it's kind of you know a little sketchy
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I tend to be hyper aware of it, and I'm not saying that's the case down down in Florida
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You know trains are mechanical devices right and it's not easy to move things by rail around the country
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So you know it could just be something innocent. It could be something nefarious
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I don't know I'll leave it up for you to decide moving on to the Midwest or specifically the eastern central
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Midwestern region if that makes any sense basically the five states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
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I had to break it out that small because I didn't have enough room on the slide
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So starting off with Michigan probably the one that everyone has heard about the most which was Abbott Laboratories
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back on the 16th of June Abbott Laboratories
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Suffered they were put on the plant was put offline due to a severe flooding incident that affected the really whole plant
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Complex now Abbott Laboratories if you recall is been kind of in the news a lot lately due to them being the largest
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supplier of infant formula in the United States so again I
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Really hesitate to point the finger at something like an act of God like rain being an intentional act
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I don't I mean that's it's gonna be kind of hard to make that you know assessment
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However when you have such a large factory that has already been in the news
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You know with regards to being shut down due to
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bacterial contaminations and causing this infant formula shortage that we're still going through
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You tend to take notice you know one would think that they might have thought to put out a few sandbags here and there
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I don't know
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I don't want to you know judge what's going on there because I just I'm just not I just don't know what the situation is
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But I do find it to be interesting so I thought I'd mention it also in Michigan
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There was a very large fire at the Rider integrated logistics facility in Delta Township, Michigan
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So Rider integrated logistics is a massive supplier of automotive parts
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They actually are a huge supplier for general motors
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So GM parts really come from Rider integrated logistics they sort parts and things like that and source them as well so the the fire
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Damage as far as we know is kind of unknown nobody really knows how bad it is
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It does not it did not appear to be too bad, but it's hard to say because we just we just don't have pictures
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We just don't know right and again light clock work the cause is unknown again fires at factories are not particularly rare
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There are hundreds of thousands of fires that occur all over this country, you know every year
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So it's really hard to say what's going on
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But since this one is such a an important part of our automotive parts logistics, you know chain
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I thought I'd mention it moving over to Wisconsin on back on the 13th of June a company called festive foods out of Belmont
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Had a very large fire that damaged most if not all of the building
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They are a major food production facility for some of the more pre packaged food items that you see in grocery stores, right again?
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Causes unknown and it's under investigation
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Really hard to say what any of this really means moving to Illinois on back on the 23rd of May
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So a little bit a little bit further out a company called bio Urja if I'm saying that right or bio Urja if they're trying to
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Go for urea. I don't know. It's an ethanol plant in Peoria
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They are a major ethanol production facility and they had a fairly large fire that destroyed five grain silos
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So for the guys out in the Midwest you you already know how big of a deal a grain silo fire is
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And for anyone else who doesn't know grain dust is one of the most explosive components known to man
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So whenever you see a grain silo fire, that's gonna be that's gonna be a hot one
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But in any case this ethanol plant was shut down
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I don't know how much ethanol they produce but they do produce three grades
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They produce alcohol like human drinking alcohol grade
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They produce hand sanitizer grade and they produce vehicle ethanol grade
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So it's gonna be hard to tell if that plant is online
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Now or if they're gonna be offline for a while really really hard to say and again the cause is unknown
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But it's also under investigation. So again fires at grain silos are not particularly rare
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But since it's happened in an ethanol facility, I wanted to mention it moving over just a little bit to the West Central Midwestern region
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I will start with Minnesota which back on the 29th of May there was a fire at Foreman farms
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In Stockholm, Minnesota. They are of course a major food production facility
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They make a lot of prepackaged freezer goods as well
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They had a major fire that killed a few tens of thousands of chickens
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And again the cause is unknown and is under investigation
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Well with this one, we don't know if the fire affected just the chicken houses or if it affected the production facility
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Can't really tell but also Minnesota again really throughout the whole month of May
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They had a whole avian flu outbreak at multiple sites around the state in Minnesota
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It looked like it was mostly affecting the turkey supply with many news sources
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If you want to believe them quoting three million birds affected so far
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So this is again been kind of a quasi normal thing
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I hate to use that word normal when we're talking about any kind of you know malady, but
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The avian flu is certainly something that just happens every now and then and it's been happening since May in Minnesota
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Moving down to Missouri on the 2nd of June the Paris Brothers incorporated
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Company they're from the Missouri side of Kansas City. They're a major cheese production facility
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They had a listeria contamination so a major recall of a lot of different cheeses
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You can go to their website
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You can go to the FDA's website and figure out if you have that cheese just so you know
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It wasn't really highly publicized at least you know not that I saw but again
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They probably would only you know run
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Ads or notices that there was a listeria contamination in areas where the food probably went
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But I don't know in any case you know it's worth a check, right?
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Moving over a little bit to Nebraska on the 31st of May a company called Knox Crete incorporated out of Omaha. They are a
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company that manufactures
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Cleaning chemicals for concrete if I have that correct this one was it was a relatively small fire or actually
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Sorry the fire was relatively small the risk was great because as you could probably imagine the chemicals used to treat and
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Clean concrete are very noxious and very hazardous so there was a
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shelter-in-place order for Omaha for
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Probably tens of thousands of people for quite a while while that fire kind of just burned itself out the firefighters went into defensive mode
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With this one and just kind of let it just kind of kept it from spreading because they couldn't really get too close to it
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The interesting part about this one was that again according to local news media sources which are known for making stuff up
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The interesting line from a few different local media sources is that there were no employees on the site
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At the time of this fire again. I don't know if that means nefarious or not
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I just think that I just thought it was kind of interesting so and you know the investigation is of course underway and the causes
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Unknown just like most of these other ones also in Nebraska just outside of Omaha City
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They're gonna kind of share the same puck because they were kind of in the same area
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there was a coal train derailment and that was back on the
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20th of June so this one went kind of viral with a lot of people saying oh my god our infrastructure is under attack right
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This is again one of those high-profile events that have kind of got you know pundits and other people making observations and
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Yeah, this was an interesting one a coal train derailed it chewed up quite a bit of track
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So it looked to me like maybe a quarter mile a track was pretty much
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Had to be have to you know be replaced due to this derailment
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But yeah, I was a train carrying a you know full dozens of cars worth of coal and yeah derailed so again
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No cause to the derailment and it's under investigation
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Again like I mentioned with rail things
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You're gonna have
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You're not gonna get a cause right they're not gonna let people know
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What caused this train to derail lest people get some ideas from the internet right moving up to South Dakota?
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Back on the 14th of April there was a pretty big fire at a cabinet manufacturing business park
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I don't really have a specific name for the business there were a few of them there
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It's really hard to tell exactly what business even the local news media couldn't figure it out
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They just said cabinet manufacturer cabinet factory in Blackhawk, South Dakota again very large fire
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Totally destroyed the building that it was in cause was unknown under investigation
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Then jumping back down to Kansas back on the 17th of June
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This was an event that has gotten a lot of press, and I don't really know what to think about it
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This was one of those things where it's it's not it's not the event that makes me suspicious
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It's the reaction to it, and this was the mass death of a few hundred head of cattle down in southwest, Kansas
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So this is something I read about it
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I saw it I saw it pop up on the internet, and I thought you know what you know par for the course
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I'm not a cattle farmer
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I've you know never raised any kind of cattle and I even I know that heat waves particularly in South, Kansas
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You know you get high humidity at night
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You know decently high temperatures during the day it kind of makes a lot of sense right just happens sometimes especially you know amongst
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New farmers who aren't quite so aware of the threat
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Maybe I don't know so when I saw this event. I thought you know what not particularly interesting
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Unfortunate for sure especially when it comes to our beef supply
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You know a couple hundred head of cattle are probably not gonna make a big difference
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But still it's like you know still unfortunate to see however when I started noticing the
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Intense we're talking like military grade media blitz here to cover up this incident and just make it
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Disappear from the internet my interest got piqued a little bit and you know anytime
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I see you know fact checking on something these days. I'm very highly suspicious
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So I wasn't suspicious about this incident before but you know again. Maybe it's my own bias
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Maybe it's just my own experiences right how often how often we equate bias with experience right in any case my own
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Experiences make me think hmm when someone's trying to cover up something this hard. Maybe there's something worth covering up. Maybe I don't know
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Clearly a lot of the more leftist
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media groups see this incident and
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They think that there's something to it even when they're there might not be you you read any
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Agricultural journal, and they're like yeah, man. I was unfortunate, but you know stuff happens right, but the leftists clearly don't think that they think
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That this was they maybe the leftists think that there was something more to this so that's why I'm trying to cover it up
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I don't know either way
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I just thought it was very interesting that out of all of the events that I've been able to find and put on these slides
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This is the one that had absolutely hands down the most fact-checking
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There have been so many articles written, and we're not just talking like a little banner on a tweet, right?
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We're not talking about a little call-out box on an Instagram post no no no we're talking about five or six pages of
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Website talking about how all this is fake news. This is uh
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You know this this this and this and it's like hmm interesting very interesting to see that so I thought I would mention it
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I personally you know I think it's gonna be pretty hard pressed to find there was anything nefarious to do with this specific
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Cattle death, but I'm very interested over the amount of fact-checking
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Activation over this particular incident, so we'll move on down to the southwest down southwest
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We have Texas and again. This is one that to me is not
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particularly
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You know nefarious on the face of it except for considering all of the other stuff that has happened and especially
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The targeting we've seen in our energy infrastructure so in Texas back on the 8th of June
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Freeport LNG out of Freeport, Texas had a very large
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Explosion and a fire at their facility and the facility will not be online
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To full capacity at least until September
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That's kind of a quote that Freeport LNG has has given out to everyone again the cause is unknown and the investigation is underway
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from what I can sort of
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Guess from a lot of the local news media sources is that it might have had something to do with venting
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emergency venting or something like that of
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You know vapors and things like that incidents like this fires explosions at
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Refineries and production facilities pol production facilities are not particularly rare they happen kind of a lot so it's not surprising
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However, but when you see something happen at such an important place you kind of look twice right especially you know five years ago
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We would say oh man. There's a fire. You know Freeport LNG
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You know that's that's too bad
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But nowadays where you immediately want to point the finger at something nefarious because of how important it is Freeport LNG
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produces or really rather processes
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20% of the LNG that we export from the United States
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And we're already seeing countries that we export L liquid natural gas to they've already said hey
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We're gonna immediately have to go to the Saudi markets
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To fill this demand because your facilities offline
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So other countries kind of got the shaft with regards to that you know Freeport LNG that it's not a small complex
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It's a huge complex, and they do you know thousands of different things there
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So I don't know how much of the LNG that is produced or processed or
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Shipped in or shipped out of the Freeport facility where there was the fire
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I don't know how much of that's gonna affect American prices for energy
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I just I don't know I I just think that it's I think it's probably gonna affect the export market more
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But again, it's really hard to say moving out west. Let's start with Oregon
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So we've got to go back kind of you know to the end of my sort of very loose criteria for reporting
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Back to the 19th of April where there was a massive fire at the Shearer's Foods
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Food production facility in Hermiston, Oregon so from what it looks like that facility burned to the ground and was basically a total loss
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Again cause unknown investigation underway, but yeah also just just the very next day on the 20th of April
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Azure Standard in Dewford, Oregon
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They that facility burned to the ground as well now. I don't know if that fire burned the HQ building
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It looks like it took out their office building rather than the actual food production facility
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But again Azure Standard is a pretty big producer of the you know green bio
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You know ecologically sound you know organic foods around the country, so they make a lot of that there
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So I thought it was kind of interesting you have two major major food production facilities up in the Cascades of
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Oregon along the border there and
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They both burned down very very close together again some people would you know say oh, it's just it's miss it
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Misattribution right causation versus you know correlation. I don't know I'm telling you
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I don't know what the correlation is here if there is one
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I'm just saying that it's a very interesting case where you've got a lot of this stuff happening
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Kind of in the same area around the same time you know again could be completely innocent
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I don't know either way we don't know no one knows because the investigation is not concluded on either one of those so
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moving down to
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California another very very large food processing facility Taylor Farms out of Salinas, California
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This was back on the 14th of April and this one actually did get a fair amount of press coverage because Taylor Farms
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produces a lot of
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Pre-packaged
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Salad goods so if you were to go to your average grocery store pretty much anywhere in the country
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And you were to look at the like the pre chopped pre mixed like salad mixes
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They have kind of in the river in the produce section chances are you'll find a Taylor Farms product and that factory
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It looks based on the images it looks like it burned completely to the ground
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I don't know if it was a total loss or not
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They will probably have to rebuild a significant portion of that facility if they choose to rebuild it and again the cause is unknown
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Investigation underway, I think this one there were a few reports of maybe an equipment failure
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I don't know maybe it may be some
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Mechanical problem that ignited some ammonia fumes
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I've seen that on a couple of local news sources that kind of talked about it
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We'll keep our ear to the ground on that moving up to Montana on the 27th of March
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So going back to really kind of like the very end of the of my
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When I started looking for these kinds of things there was a very large fire at the Exxon Mobil
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POL or petroleum oil lubricant refinery in Billings, Montana
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So a facility up there in Billings Billings is well known for hosting that it's a very large like several hundred
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You know acres, maybe several hundred square miles if I remember correctly of a combination of refining
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And then again, I think it's a pretty big facility
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I think it's a pretty big facility in the area and again causes unknown investigation underway
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It's really hard. I couldn't even find any pictures of what the damage was
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I guess we'll have to find out what that is if we find out what it is again
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Just like rail logistics anything regarding a fire or some kind of even if it's like something intentional
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Especially if it's intentional at any time
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So moving to Idaho back on the 14th of April again, so a few months ago
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Jim's State Processing which is again a major food processing facility
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They process I'll be willing to bet probably potatoes potato chips out of Haber and Idaho
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They had actually a plane crash at their facility the facility wasn't really damaged too much
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But a small fire that was going on in the area was actually a plane crash
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The facility wasn't really damaged too much but a small civilian aircraft crashed into the roof
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of one of their facilities there now this one again the cause is listed as unknown
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But I just did a quick look at this on Google Earth anytime I hear of a plane crash at a factory
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I pull up Google Maps or some kind of other mapping service is better
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And you can clearly see that this facility was directly on the approach path for the local
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airports runway so I don't know if it's a case of somebody getting their approach all messed up
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and they just flew into the ground or some kind of other emergency you know we all know that
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you know most airline disasters occur within what five minutes after takeoff and 10 minutes
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before landing something like that so it would make perfect sense if this was kind of a more
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accidental thing but again this particular one got a lot of press from some of the other
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you know some of the more conservative news sites you know pointing fingers ah you know they're
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flying planes into food production facilities I don't know my just my hunch is this was probably
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more more accidental than than intentional so that kind of wraps up the talking about the
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different regions and some of the more the back history I guess if you can call it that of the
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past 90-ish days of interesting infrastructural events and incidents I kind of wanted to set the
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stage get the template up there and kind of get everybody used to seeing this kind of thing because
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uh I really wanted to do just one slide on this and then I started doing a lot more research
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and it became two slides and then three slides and now we're you know we're here at multiple
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slides we might end up having to break this down by state uh someday but again these are not all
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of the incidents I want to stress that very much this these are not all of the incidents that have
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occurred uh in the past 90 days these are just the ones that I had the energy to research uh
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because I had to cut this research off at some point in time or else this brief would just take
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months to get made this is what I've got for now we will be adding to this unfortunately I'd be
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willing to bet we're going to be adding to this quite a lot but I'll see what I can do to find
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more and and see what else we've got so again this is just what I think these are just the incidents
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that caught my eye and again I had to cut the had to cut the research off at some point so I
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will continue making this out I'll see if the rest of the team here has has any to add on some of
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these areas I'm sure if we were if we went looking for nefarious things I'm sure we could find them
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that's one of the the dangers of research is that if you're if you're on a topic you tend to research
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what you tend to find what you research right you tend to find what you're looking for even if that's
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not the most accurate way of doing things if that makes sense again that's why I took a more
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journalistic approach I'm just telling you about these incidents you can think what you want and
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I've given my opinion on a few of these as we've gone along and I'll continue to do that in the
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future but I don't want to put too much emphasis on on some of these incidents because I just do
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not know I think that at the end of the day doesn't really matter you know man if we found
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out that freaking Bill Gates himself snuck into the Exxon Mobil facility and Billings
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and set fire to the sucker would that make any difference whatsoever to you if that occurred or
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if it was a total complete and total accident the result for you is the same right you're impacted
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your your POL market is is impacted you know same thing with the food shortage right if it's a
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legitimate you know Listeria contamination or a legitimate fire that was just legitimate accident
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or if it was something intentional does it matter are you going to stop the intentional acts from
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happening no you know I you know our nation's silent services right the the national counter
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terrorism groups and federal law enforcement agencies that are supposed to be kind of on
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top of this stuff and have kind of you know this is kind of their wheelhouse and has been
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since their creation I think it's you know they've made their they've made their intentions very
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obvious over the past few months and years I guess so I don't really know that if we can expect any
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kind of investigation into any of this stuff I'm talking about so again I just kind of wanted to
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temper expectations slash pump the brakes on a lot of this stuff that it seems to be circulating
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around a lot of internet circles a lot of people are talking about it again rightfully so it's
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rightful to be kind of concerned about this stuff but I just also wanted to point out you know
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something somewhat cynical which is you know what are you going to do about it you know is anybody
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going to go out there and be able to have the intelligence collection capability to know when
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these facilities are going to be attacked if there is to be an attack right you know that's what
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that's what my kind of opinion is we can look at the news and say oh well that makes perfect sense
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all that facility has got a contamination now all that facility caught fire mysteriously in the night
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you know we can look at this and we can react to it but at the end of the day if we're not going to
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have the resources we're not going to have the intelligence collection capability as a citizenry
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to kind of stop these things I guess the best we can do is be vigilant make sure that we are
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you know watching out for ourselves and our communities and you know others who who kind of
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are more vulnerable in situations like this and so if you're a worker if you are an employee or
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if you are somehow associated with a part of our critical infrastructure for this country be vigilant
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you know because you you you might be the first line of defense for for some something nefarious
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but you also might be the last line of defense right so that's something to keep in mind is
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that you you might not have a federal agency come to your aid or or stop an attack it might be just
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you so I just kind of wanted to leave it there I know I've talked a lot about this already but
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I kind of want to leave it there and just kind of let that marinate for a bit and we'll move on to
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inflammatory which is church fires so this is one again that I did not really want to make but I
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did the research and I found myself finding more and more and more and lo and behold I have enough
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for a slide when it comes to specifically fire or any kind of fire event that's how I'll phrase
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any kind of fire event that occurs at a religious institution in this country is going to be
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categorized on this slide now I'm trying to rule out the fires that were obviously accidental
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some some of these fires you can look at and say all right that was that was obviously an accident
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uh so the fires that I have listed on this slide are really the ones that kind of caught my eye
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uh and of course we're not going back very far we're going back to maybe March April this is not
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uh kind of incorporate the you know January February time frame in which there were a lot
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uh and even over the winter time there were kind of a lot uh but I just wanted to kind of cut this
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off and stick with maybe a March or April time frame last you know 90 120 days ish so again just
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to kind of pump the brakes and everybody freaking out a little bit I wanted to remind everybody
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to remember that churches by their very nature are very big targets for arsonists or even just
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the average mentally ill individual which a couple of these were definitely mentally ill
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individuals so you know churches are usually very large structures they're imposing on their
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terrain they're usually on the street corner or in some area where they have got you know
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got a big parking lot things like that and they're usually unoccupied for long you know periods
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of time and in many cases a lot of church buildings are of an older construction right so they're not
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made with the most fire resistant modern materials right a lot of churches around the country are
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they've been made you know either in the 50s or even before that uh so they're not really made
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with the with materials that they're hesitant to burn right so we have to keep this in mind
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you know and we have to remember that not every church fire is caused by Bill Gates himself you
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know and you know I myself do not know the statistics of how many churches catch fire
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every year I just I don't know I know that hundreds of thousands of fires occur every year and
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it's really hard to kind of make make patterns and you know determine patterns with this kind
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of thing all I know is that incidents like this certainly seem to be on the rise or at least we
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are more aware of the increase due to everything that's kind of going on in the world so maybe
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it's not an increase maybe it's just us noticing it now and as you as you can see we've got 17 on
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this slide and that's just the ones that I stopped looking now interestingly enough in my research I
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hit a lot of barriers which you would expect these days of course using Google you're not
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going to find these you literally have to go and search for each state's like local four letter
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you know affiliate like mainstream news site and then you have to search on those sites so as you
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can imagine this took me many many hours to find and a lot of these you're not even going to you're
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not going to find if you search for it and newsflash duck duck go 100 percent sensors sensors at
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search results so you can't even really go to like a source like duck duck go to find some of
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these you really have to be very you have to like search for the specific church name and then you'll
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find an article for it which I thought was very interesting and as you can see a lot of these are
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straight-up arson they either somebody was arrested or they literally have a person of interest that
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they're trying to arrest or they were caught on film arresting you know setting the fire like for
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number eight there on the 11th of march there were actually two churches well a lutheran church
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and a synagogue was set on fire by a crazy lady somewhere so that was kind of you know
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it's a little bit more clear cut but i didn't want to put it on there because it was such a brazen
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attack on two different religions which i thought was kind of interesting usually if you're going
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to see something like this it's going to be some kind of fanaticism or somebody's crazy so yeah
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it's it's very interesting to kind of once you put these on the map you're like whoa there were
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kind of a lot again i don't know if this is normal i don't i don't think it is um i've lived in
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america for kind of a long time i've lived on both coasts for a decent amount of time and you know
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i've spent a lot of time traveling around and i can't say that i think this is a normal kind
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of thing so again just my opinion but of course we'll keep an eye on these uh as we move along
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but um yeah really all i can do is stick you know pins on a map really and uh just kind of
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tell you that i don't know what i don't know what to think about some of these things but it it
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certainly does look to be a very palpable increase in this kind of thing at least just based on my
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own very small sample size so i guess we'll have to keep it keep an eye on this as we move through
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the uh summertime up next i wanted to specifically talk about lake mead and the water shortage that's
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been going on out west so for many of you who live on the east coast like we do and water
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shortages are not really they're not really so much of a cultural thing as they are out west
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i wanted to mention how serious this problem has become if you've been listening to me ramble on
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on these briefs for a while now you will have remembered that i talked about this quite a few
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months ago about the shortages that are that were going to happen and now that we're here i
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thought i'd kind of circle back around and and talk a bit about how serious this has become
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so uh out west uh the caldera river basin and the lake mead specifically have been experiencing a
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very very severe drought now this is not a drought that has just kind of sprung up it has been going
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on for a very very long time some people even say it goes back 23 years but recently the drought
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has become deadly serious unfortunately i don't really have a whole lot to say on the drought
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itself other than the fact that it exists and it's going to cause a lot of problems so i'll just
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briefly kind of recap what some of those problems might be moving forward first of all a lot of
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mainstream media sources are now kind of getting spun up over this again because of reports that
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the water level in lake mead is less than 150 feet away from deadpool status now deadpool status
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for a body of water is when the water level gets so low that the the water cannot flow
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downstream from the dam so in this case it's the hoover dam right the massive hydroelectric project
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that is the source of lake mead right so water levels have gotten so low that they're in danger
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of not even being able to flow at all out of the lake which means that the colorado river after the
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hoover dam would cease to exist so this would be a very very serious and very deadly problem for
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the townships and cities and really the entire population that relies on the colorado river for
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a water source so we're talking about places like lake mojave lake havasu again this sounds really
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bad and it is really bad however we don't really know and when i say we i mean the engineers who
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actually are working on this problem that no one really knows if lake mead will get that low
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this may still be a few years away it might be a few months away nobody really knows it seems to be
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a problem that might be a few years out from what i've been reading but in any case what is very
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true is that the water situation out west is very very dire especially for people who get their
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water source from the colorado river now again just like i mentioned when this whole thing kind of
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came to our attention and we started talking about it in earnest of many months ago the problem
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with this kind of thing the problem with a drought is that it's not just a drought it's never just
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the drought right so when you have water shortages it's not just the water that you have a shortage
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of it's electricity because the colorado river provides a lot of electricity via hydroelectric
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projects to the surrounding areas so you basically have all of these bad things compound at once so
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you're out of water and your power is out right so it's not just one or the other it's going to
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be both at the same time or you're going to be you know around the same time right again for those
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of us who do not live in the areas that are affected by this it's easy for us to get kind
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of very complacent and kind of say well okay that's a problem for out west when in actuality it
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really highlights a universal problem and that is how issues tend to compound at the worst possible
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times right murphys law right that's definitely a thing that happens especially when it comes to
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emergencies involving critical infrastructure so even though for those people who who don't live
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in the area i wanted to kind of bring this up and keep this in people's minds because chances are
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you've probably got something similar going on in your area too as far as when the situation out
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west will be alleviated no one really knows a lot of a lot of engineers are saying that this you
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know we might get some water back this winter time there might be some spring thaw next year
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it really is hard to tell no one really can give can give a straight answer on when this water
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crisis out west will alleviate itself yeah it's very unfortunate um i don't really know what to
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say on it like i mentioned uh but i would say that if you're living out west i would very seriously
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start looking into where your water comes from and if you can add to your water sources with
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groundwater now easier said than done of course but i just think that you know my little two cent
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advice if you want to call it that is that the water crisis out west is illustrating two very
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big infrastructural problems the water supply and electricity you could even say transportation
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as well if the water gets too low to allow boats and things to transit but it really highlights
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these problems and you know it's one of those things where you almost don't even want to talk
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about the problem because there's no solution for it on the very individual level but you know we've
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got to bring this stuff up and we've got to get people thinking because you never know ingenuity
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might come out and we might find some way out of this but yeah i just wanted to briefly talk about
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it even though i don't really have a whole lot to say about it i've gotten a few people
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emailing us and dm-ing us about it so i thought hey now would be a good time to reassess this now
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that we're kind of here uh and the water crisis is most certainly very severe and moving on to
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significant governmental actions i kind of burned myself out this week doing a lot of research for
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a lot of other stuff so i don't have a whole lot to go off of today for this kind of stuff
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all right so up first is the supreme court and they have given us two things to talk about
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this time around and both of them are very interesting so first up is the second amendment
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news which is the supreme court striking down new york's policy of trying to attribute a reason
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to get a gun permit so new york had a law or a series of laws that basically meant that you
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had to provide justification to law enforcement in order to get a certain kind of permit to own
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a certain kind of gun so the supreme court struck that down and so yeah it's really really good
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news really big news for the 2a community you know me being me i want to thank all right what's
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the angle here so i so i don't want to get sucked into kind of the mentality of being pessimistic and
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negative all the time right this is really good news but i also don't want to get
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super excited and i don't want to get sucked into the alternative which is thinking that a court
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can decide what a god-given right is so it's interesting to me and i'm glad that the supreme
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court ruled this one of the very few things they have done that i think is actually good
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over the past few years but i'm also going to leave that caution bulb lit and see what comes
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out in the future and speaking of i had to rerecord this segment because the roe versus wade
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ruling was overturned just a few minutes ago as i'm recording this so so yeah there's that's a
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another very big one a lot of states i think i have to count again but by my very quick count
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in just the past few minutes over a well over 20 states have trigger laws that are effectively
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banning abortions in those states i don't have the list together i'm sure that by the time this
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video comes out the list will be out already i'm actually kind of surprised the supreme
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court made that decision i surely thought it was going to go the other way but i guess that's
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you know watching court proceedings for you i don't really have a whole lot invested
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anymore in trying to cover each little action within our justice system it's just too
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it's just too much for me to handle at this point but i think that really my own thoughts on it and
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really any other thoughts on it are kind of irrelevant because what's going to happen
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is mass pandemonium so as my guess is this will be the catalyst for a lot of violence in pretty
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much every city in the in the country for the next few weeks what i would also fully expect to see
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is something that we i guess often don't really think about too much and that is the the whiplash
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effect with regards to the leftist states which are going to endorse abortion even more than they
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already do so we can again we could have predicted this is going to happen but i just wanted to
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remind everyone out there that there's going to be a lot of nasty stuff out on the tv and on the
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internet and on social media and in real life too so so if you have children that are in public
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school just be advised that right now is is going to be the perfect justification for the wailing
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and gnashing of teeth that is going to come from the left so just keep that in mind if you're
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trying to you know shield your little ones from the the evils of the world so to speak it's it's
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not going to be an easy time so again just remember that this has struck a nerve with a lot of the
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leftists out there with pretty much every leftist and it's it's going to get nasty and if you don't
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want your children to be a part of that as we have illustrated that children nowadays are most
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certainly a huge target for the left on an ideological level so just just keep that in mind
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i'm trying to to to be as as family-friendly as possible when describing it but we all know the
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nasty things that the left has been putting out on tv and you know things that i would never have
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expected to find any human being capable of doing is not just done normally but it's that kind of
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behavior is conducted on live tv for all the world to see so if you don't want your little
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ones to see that just just remember that it's going to be kind of a rough time over the next
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few weeks with regards to that kind of stuff so i'm already seeing the the grotesque actions
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being planned in my local area and i know that it's not going to be pleasant to see for some of
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the more vulnerable populations right so just keep that in mind and as you know as always get
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ready for the riots because that's going to happen yeah there's really not much more to say on that
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so i'll move on so back in 2020 the state electoral college electors they signed the
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people physically who were the you know electoral college right signed a symbolic document that they
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believed that their votes should go to trump due to fraudulent balance i think that's what happened
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i'm not entirely certain a lot of and again this is one of those things where i wasn't really too
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interested or surprised until i started researching it and oh my gosh i've found so much opposition
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propaganda it's ridiculous the leftist media sources which apparently there are tens of
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thousands of these websites are calling these people fake electors and they're just really
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going all in on the story of these people were trying to like impersonate electoral college
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members i really don't know i think that the truth is impossible to determine right now it's just
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it's like an oil fire it's just too hot to get close to right now so i don't know what's going
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on with this i just wanted to kind of bring this to your attention hey fbi targeting 2020
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nevada electors and you can kind of figure out what's going on down the line i'll revisit
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i'll revisit this if there's anything that interesting pops up but again i don't know
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what's going on with this and you know that being said even though it is ordinarily not a wise idea
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to give opinions on a topic that one knows little about people are going to get upset no matter what
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i say so i'll just mention that i think that at least on some level this is a continuation of the
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stasi-like behavior of the fbi is famous for at this point right when there's election fraud that
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comes up it's only the conservatives that get investigated right it's never the the leftist
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right so or it's very rarely the leftist so i think that it's highly suspicious that nothing
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has been said or done for two years and then all of a sudden when federal power is slipping and as
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we get closer to the midterms prominent conservatives are having their homes raided or
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being banned from re-election or even being targeted by their own party for squealing on
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the debauchery that goes on behind closed doors in our political system again in this case the head
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of the gop for nevada has had his phone confiscated by the fbi so i don't know conservative politicians
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of course are certain you know they're certainly not above committing crimes too they're politicians
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like this is just what politicians do right politicians and crime are like you know they're
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like peanut butter and chocolate right so all i know is that i trust gas station sushi more than
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i trust the fbi so when they do stuff like this it really does look like a classic textbook case
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of a secret police organization eliminating their political opposition i don't know maybe my own
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distaste for federal service at this point has has made it so that i can't really have a an
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unbiased opinion but again how often do we equate bias with experience hmm interesting
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philosophical question i think like a lot of times we point the finger of bias when really
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we should be saying that's that person's experience but either way very interesting case indeed
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moving on to number three of course the impending r word that we're all kind of you know living
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through right now but the federal regime has been comically unable to actually say is happening
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and that's a recession so again not an economist haven't really looked too much at the economic
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data but i think that it's quite clear to anyone who can read that we are in fact in some kind of
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recession maybe not technically just yet we have to wait on the earning and spending reports and
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various reports to kind of make that call one thing that i thought was utterly hilarious was
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jerome powell's testimony regarding inflation so i will play the clip so here is a clip of
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jerome powell testifying on his thoughts about inflation to turn to another point chairman
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powell i realize there are a number of factors that play a role in the historic inflation that
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we're experiencing uh supply chain disruptions regulations that constrain supply we've got
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rising inflation expectations and excessive physical spending but the problem hasn't sprung
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out of nowhere and in january of 2021 inflation was at 1.4 percent by december of 2021 it had
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risen to seven percent a five-fold increase now since the word in ukraine began in late february
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the rate of inflation has risen incrementally another 1.6 percent to a current level of 8.6
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percent so again from seven percent to eight point six percent given how inflation has escalated
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over the past 18 months would you say that the word ukraine is the primary driver of inflation
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in america no inflation was high before certainly before the war in ukraine broke up and here were
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some of my first thoughts upon hearing this line uh kind of making this way around the internet
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so
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but in all seriousness i know that uh inflation is most certainly a serious thing for all of us
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uh but i'm just kind of in the mood of you know you have to laugh or else you're gonna lose your
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mind with regards to some of this ridiculous stuff that we're seeing especially when it comes to the
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economy so i guess we should uh just you know prepare for this roller coaster to get even more
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weird on the economic front and we'll just uh do the best we can with it sort of in a similar
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vein is number four there the kind of the kind of continued push for quote unquote green energy that
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is not green whatsoever i just think it's been there's just been so many random events that
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i've just kind of caught wind of over the past a few weeks just are just utterly hilarious like
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people you know pushing these you know electric cars and then the people who make the electric
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cars saying that they run off of 95% coal you know the electricity that actually power the cars
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comes from coal so it's like what's the point you know well you know we know what the point is we
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know that that this the the energy crisis in this country that i think that it's kind of obvious
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now if it's not obvious to you you know i don't know what to tell you but it's obvious to me
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that this green energy stuff it has nothing to do with saving the planet it has everything to do
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with government forces uh restricting your freedom of travel they know that people being able to move
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from state to state is a very powerful tool and they want to prevent people from doing so so
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that's why you see a lot of this stuff also there could be you know there's another thing i will
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i will i will sprinkle over the top of that idea the general thought of elitism and you know the
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kind of whole you know marie antoinette let them eat cake moment i really don't think that anyone
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who makes a decision in this country on a political level none of these people understand what it's
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like to actually pump gas and pay for it you know they just don't it's just something that's not
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comprehensible to them so again we have to be very you know kind of careful you know sticking
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with cake analogies i guess we have to be careful of you know having our cake and eating it too
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you know we can't really say oh they're doing this intentionally or they don't know you know i don't
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think for one minute that nancy pelosi actually understands what it's like she cannot possibly
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understand what it's like to either choose between filling up your gas tank or buying food for your
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child that week she can't understand that and most politicians even your local state representative
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even your local state congressman probably can't fathom that either they just they're incapable of
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understanding that don't get me wrong a lot of people in in politics uh at least i think are
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just straight up evil people and they will stop at nothing to further that cause so you know i i
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guess i guess you couldn't have your cake and eat it too in some regards you know there's a lot of
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i don't think for one minute that nancy pelosi or chuck schumer or you know mitch mcconnell or any of
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these other politicians names that you can think of any of them i don't think they understand uh
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but at the same time i think that most of them if not all of them would not hesitate to do the wrong
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thing or do the thing that harms you the most which is why we're seeing a lot of this you know
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green energy which is nowhere near green uh being sort of forced upon us as a people right so not a
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super cheery and like usual on this particular slide but that's okay we'll move on to international
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news and up first in international news is china so china has recently launched their latest
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aircraft carrier this is their first domestically produced aircraft carrier but it is their third
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total it's not like a kuznetsov or anything like that if you're familiar with russian warships
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actually looks looks more similar to an american jerald ford class aircraft carrier and it's
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comparable in size the one interesting thing that i thought about when looking at this
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uh aircraft carrier is that unlike literally every other aircraft carrier in the world
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that's you know of like western origin all of the american aircraft carriers have this
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but the chinese one does not and that is nuclear power china built this brand new
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brand new aircraft carrier and it's not nuclear powered the sucker is powered by steam turbines
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so it's probably a diesel engine of some kind or maybe even some kind of gas system i'm not
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entirely sure i'm sure the classified reports show exactly what the propulsion system looks like but
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my bet's probably either diesel or man if they went with like fuel oil man they would have made
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a very serious mistake but so china making their own first domestic aircraft carrier
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non-nuclear capable is very interesting and here's what i think about that you know a lot of people
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either in the defense industry or that do some kind of you know blogging about defense issues
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and things like that they're always screaming about how china's such a problem and how they're
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on parity with the west you know all i have to do is just kind of point at russia and ukraine
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and then point out that china is how many years behind russia with regards to their defense
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capabilities you know again this carrier i don't want to kind of completely dismiss it
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because for sure this carrier is going to be making its way through the taiwan strait i
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guarantee that it's going to happen probably very soon but they've still got to go through
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my guess quite a bit of training before they're able to kind of really exert that kind of power
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aircraft carriers are a big deal there's a reason the united states has so many of them is because
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projecting sea power is a huge thing especially in the pacific we we kind of learned our lesson
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from world war ii as to the effectiveness of aircraft carriers in the pacific and how effective
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they are there's also people who would argue that any world of anti-ship cruise missiles how
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effective are they i don't know that's a valid point but it's interesting and i think that china's
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new aircraft carrier is going to cause a lot of you know political fighting between the united
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states and china in the pacific probably very very soon moving to india and sri lanka with india no
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real major update the food situation is is dire there but again moving to sri lanka the situation
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has gotten very severe their prime minister has stated that their government has collapsed
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so if you're looking to see you know what the collapse might look like we like to think about
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these things in western terms look at sri lanka and that's exactly what's going on right there
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so we're talking mass food insecurity complete and utter fuel shortages mass starvation on
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on a scale that is unprecedented these are the kinds of things i would expect in sri lanka
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very soon now again NGOs and international organizations will probably step in at some
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point i don't really know what how that's going to work out because sri lanka is kind of a big
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country we tend to look at it just like you know an extra district of india right but it's a whole
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country you know it's a whole nation with a whole people right so it's going to be very challenging
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to feed the amount of people that need to be fed in order to avoid mass starvation in sri
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lanka which is already underway so very tragic case but we're going to be following it quite
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closely because sri lanka is tied to india and india is a very big player in the you know
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obviously the indian ocean but also throughout the southeast asian region moving to europe
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crow has been on the menu for germany as they have had to resort to very drastic measures to
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make sure their energy needs are met at a time when they both decided to get off of nuclear energy
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and russia decided to shut off or reduce their natural gas supply so brilliant move for german
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politicians in fact a lot of people have noticed and it has been a public record the politicians
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admitting the german government admitting that they are restarting coal power plants in order to
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meet their electrical needs because shocker they can't get all of their electricity from
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renewable sources and like the geniuses that german politicians are they shut down their nuclear
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power plants right when russia was ramping up their rhetoric with regards to ukraine so
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here's what i think about this whole situation
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yes literally everyone saw this coming and somehow the german government did not see this
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now i do not wish to make light of this issue for for the german people i understand that the
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the average german citizen is going to be going through some through some pretty tough times i
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just kind of like i guess everybody else on the world but i really do feel for you because uh
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you know german politicians making very very bad decisions that it's almost worse when they make
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bad decisions and we can all plainly see how bad of a decision it is even before they make it and
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they do it anyway like you know it's bad enough when a politician makes a bad decision but it's
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even worse when you told them beforehand that it was going to be a bad decision which was a very
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hotly debated thing in germany for for quite a while so i guess do the best you can we we've
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talked quite a bit in in other videos regarding how ordinary citizens are going to kind of bear
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the brunt of their government's bad decisions and i think germany is about to find that out right
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now especially when it comes to energy so good luck and we'll do what we can to kind of keep
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eyes on it at least for the net for the for the rest of europe and we're definitely going to be
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looking for some of the same kinds of behavior here here at home in the united states as well
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moving on to russia is a more obscure sort of news item at this stage because there's no real
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intel to go with it and this news item is the death or rather the murder of vadim zemin i think
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is how his name is pronounced vadim was found murdered in his apartment a couple of days ago
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with several gunshot wounds allegedly is what a lot of russian news media sources have been saying
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but the the murder is not particularly interesting so much as who he is vadim is the former carrier
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of russia's version of the nuclear football so he was very much putin's right-hand man in that
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regard for many years he actually served under boris yeltsin as well with the same job so i
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thought it was kind of interesting and to kind of close out today with another issue that we've
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been banned from talking about is ukraine so again i can't talk about anything with regards
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to ukraine really in any depth on youtube because youtube has ordered us to not talk about any
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thing bad that ukraine might be doing but i just wanted to drop this little tidbit because it's
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just too palpable for me to ignore and that is that ukraine has banned a major opposition party
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to the current ruler and has confiscated all of their finances funding and resources so
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interesting i'll just kind of leave that there and you can make your own conclusions but
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yeah very interesting i suppose so at some point we will probably circle back around to ukraine
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but it will not be on this platform like i mentioned before so that's really all i have
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for today thanks for sticking around if you'd like sources here they are we will also drop
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the slides if anybody's you know interested in those so that you can get the links a little
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bit easier but yeah that's pretty much all i've got thanks again everyone for all of your support
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keeping us headed in the right direction i think so many good things to come on that front as you
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know so thank you again for your support and we will see you next time and as always fight in the
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