Posted on 04/04/2024 9:18:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Even with all the attention it has recently received, following the first anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and President Joe Biden’s much-delayed visit, East Palestine is easy to miss. Located directly on the state’s northeastern border with Pennsylvania, a little over half an hour away from Youngstown, one could accidentally drive past its main access point were it not for a large, sun-faded sign beckoning travelers off State Route 14. “East Palestine,” it reads, “the place to be.”
If you follow the aforementioned sign down a fork in the road toward the village’s downtown area, you will be greeted by what, at the outset, appears to be a typical farm-adjacent, rural community. Small to medium-sized single-family homes take the place of farmhouses; gravel driveways and tire swings replace corn fields and grain silos. But if you drive a little further, you encounter a part of America that is perhaps unlike any other yet somehow all too familiar to those who know the American Midwest.
East Palestine was once known as a manufacturing hub. Today, the village is far from its industrial heyday — offering a unique glimpse into the generational consequences of American deindustrialization — but one can easily picture it as home to a thriving and self-sustaining community in decades past.
Statues of the local school system’s mascot, a bulldog donning an orange sweater, pepper the town. Murals commemorate fallen service members, and people walk to and from chain discount stores and fast-food eateries located between shuttered historic buildings and a closed-down community theater.
The surrounding area appears to be equal parts residential and industrial. Suburban homes, awash in a sea of Republican campaign signs, are neighbored by industrial facilities and manufacturing plants, at least half of which were vacant, if not entirely defunct. Small, locally-owned shops...
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As I like to say, K Street/DC and Wall Street have been selling out Main Street to China for more than 30 years at this point.
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The free traitors got their 30 pieces of silver and we got cheap chinese junk at walmart
An elected official from Ohio captured the issue perfectly at a conference I attended a few years ago: ”It’s stupid to blame China and globalism when a steel manufacturer closes a plant in Ohio and opens a new one in Arkansas or Texas.”
As long as there’s an option, why would anyone choose to work in a factory setting?
People move from East Palestine because they want to improve their situation in life.
That’s respectable too.
“An elected official from Ohio captured the issue perfectly at a conference I attended a few years ago: ”It’s stupid to blame China and globalism when a steel manufacturer closes a plant in Ohio and opens a new one in Arkansas or Texas.”
Often, they go to a different or nearby state and/or sometimes just a different county/city to open a new plant.
East Palestine — and countless other places like it — has been strip-mined by the prevailing ethos of the American ruling class. Prioritizing financialization over domestic manufacturing, the industrial engine of small-town America was shipped abroad piece by piece until virtually nothing was left.
The "American ruling class" has for decades, carried out the bidding of the Euro-globalist elites. It's just become more obvious in recent years.
The America of free men - hasn't existed for a very long time. The Euro-elites have worked their plan, incrementally and stealthily.
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59. Some were former members and leaders of the Nazi Party.
The OSS - Office of Strategic Services, was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. It was formed mid-1942, and dissolved September 1945.
The CIA was created in 1947, though we can assume that U.S. Intelligence carried out its activities between the dissolution of the OSS and the formation of the CIA. The obvious critical event within this timeline was Operation Paperclip.
We talk about the "invasion" of illegal immigration, as we should. But rarely is discussed a much more influential - and potent - invasion that occurred decades ago, that was designed to quitely subvert and transform American institutions, American life - and American liberty.
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