Fears of a wider health and environmental disaster are growing, after a 150-car freight train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed and a so-called controlled burn released toxic chemicals last week in East Palestine, Ohio.
Fears of a wider health and environmental disaster are growing, after a 150-car freight train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed and a so-called controlled burn released toxic chemicals last week in East Palestine, Ohio.
Residents reported seeing a fireball and mushroom cloud of smoke fill the skyline. Data released by the Environmental Protection Agency shows the train contained more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals than initially reported, including phosgene, a poisonous gas that has been used as a chemical weapon in war.
Officials lifted an evacuation order for residents last Wednesday, saying the air and water were safe, but residents have reported sore throats, burning eyes and respiratory problems, and wildlife has been found dead.
Meanwhile, scrutiny has turned onto Norfolk Southern, which in recent years has challenged regulatory laws aimed at making the rail industry safer and made mass cuts to railroad staffing while spending billions on stock buybacks and executive compensation.
We get an update from Emily Wright, community organizer based near the site of the derailment; Ross Grooters, a locomotive engineer and co-chair of Railroad Workers United; and Julia Rock, an investigative reporter with The Lever.
Originally published by Democracy Now!
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How is it that this happens in a country where the citizens have hundreds of millions of firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition?
Fear, apathy & just plain I don’t give a shit attitude. That said, most of the rest are bought and paid for. That leaves a small percentage of the people like you and me to stand strong. JMO
Canukistan version here, will be bringing some friends too. It’ll be a party
You da man, Brian!
I meet every Friday for lunch, and cigars, at a cigar friendly restaurant and pub nearby. There are anywhere from 8 – 12 people on any given Friday. All are conservatives and…all but one of the guys are clueless to what is going on. (Most of them are jabbed too). I’m sure when I decide to inform them of events happening (an every day occurrence now) I’m seen as probably a bit “out there”. Last week, when I brought up all the egg production farms/business burning down, and all the meat processing plants burning down, and the culling of live foul because of a purported avian flu, one of them asked me why? Why would this be happening if it is all on purpose. I mentioned controlling of the food &, population control. I then brought up the now destroyed and removed Georgia Guidestones (a one our drive from where I live) and they had no clue about them either and what the 10 things listed there said.
So, long story short — TOO MANY WANT TO REMAIN IGNORANT. TOO MANY SAY, WHAT CAN I DO ANYWAY?
“Priceless”
Loyal Rush / Hannity / Levin listeners , 100 %
Joe….I ask myself that same question every damn day!
If the locals knew fire was going to be set they could have gone to the scene and shot anyone that tried.
Lack of commonly agreed-upon values.
Apathy, complacency and mostly…. the impotent chest-thumping bravado of all-hat, no cattle, “men”.
Much like with the Ukrainian incursion, it is being fought by the 101st Chairborn twatters
It really boggles the mind doesn’t it? Time to put that ammo to good use
The same way that the FauciFlu and the jabs were spread … the same way that ‘climate change’ has been spread … the same way our own government acts day in and day out in its official capacity: propaganda and the submission and fear that it deliberately generates.
The collapse is enemy action, just as they planned.
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responseblity to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.“
– Club of Rome , Premier environmental think-tank
Covid-1984
Its Not The Aliens We Need To Worry About…
It’s The Ones Behind 9/11… The Same Ones Behind Covid-1984…
Thats Who We Should Be Worried About…
They Aren’t Finished Yet…
Maurice Strong was an industrialist scumbag, so he wanted to collapse the middle class in order to rule a serf-filled fiefdom. Evil POS
Holy smokes! Corporate greed? Got to be kidding.
http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en/inclusion-and-diversity.html
Dispatch all those diversity hires to Palestine to do the clean up.
People responsible need crucified over this, real live nailed up crucifixion, and then live streamed as they scream and moan so the world can see what happens to those that do this and play it off as nothing
Buttplug goes first
We’ll assume Pete’s mother (if he has one) is the down vote.
It’s never going to change, things will only get worse, these Satanic Pedophile Murdering rich asshats will never stop until We The People STOP Them, by any means necessary
I hear the Butt Burglar said “Trump did this” but what I did not hear was I have had years to fix this but imaginary breast feeding got in the way
Hey mr admin…
Any updates for this story?
Seems to me the affects of a bunch of toxins is an ongoing disaster story.
Jes sain.