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  • Feb 15, 2023, 06:58 AM
    tomder55
    Toxic cloud over Flint ?
    Nah that would've led the news cycle all week. This is a toxic cloud hovering over flyover country after a "controlled burn" of chemicals from a derailed train caused a massive toxic cloud to spread over the town of East Palestine Ohio. One of the cars contained vinyl chloride . When burned this creates hydrogen chloride and phosgene .....one of the chemicals used in WWI gas attacks . When someone breaths it in the gas prevents oxygen from entering the bloodstream and prevents CO2 from leaving .
    When hydrogen chloride mixes with water it becomes hydrochloric acid. Fish and wildlife in the area is dying .Vinyl chloride is a known carcinogen linked to liver cancer.As the cloud dissipates it will enter the water supply.


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    Transportation Sec. Mayor Pete was AWOL sorta . He did find the time to have a news conference where he said that there were too many white people in construction work....and joked about balloons .
    Pete Buttigieg talks lack of diversity in construction, ignores 'catastrophic' Ohio train derailment | Daily Mail Online
  • Feb 16, 2023, 07:43 AM
    tomder55
    Where is Quid pro Joe on this ? The Norfolk Southern Corp owns the railroad. This is a group that has Vanguard as the top shareholder with 7.68%. BlackRock Fund Advisors and JPMorgan Investment Management tie at 4.54% as other top investors.
    NSC - Norfolk Southern Corp Shareholders - CNNMoney.com

    What else do they have in common ? Vanguard , JPMorgan , and BlackRock all gave significant sums of money to the Biden 2020 campaign

    Vanguard Group Profile: Recipients • OpenSecrets
    JPMorgan Chase & Co Profile: Recipients • OpenSecrets
    BlackRock Inc Profile: Recipients • OpenSecrets

    Also Congressional Rep Bill Johnson was one of the Reps who voted to object to the 2020 election results . So even though this is one of the biggest environmental disasters in recent years ;a state of emergency has yet to be called .
  • Feb 18, 2023, 05:36 AM
    tomder55
    Clueless Joe turned down Ohio Guv DeWine's request for federal assistance even as the town of East Palestine has been turned into the equivalence of a Love Canal super fund site

    "We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open.”

    ‘This Is Absurd’: Train Cars that Derailed in Ohio Were Labeled Non-Hazardous - Government Executive (govexec.com)

    On Tuesday, Ohio environmental regulators confirmed that butyl acrylate was found in nearby waterways and that the spill did make its way to the Ohio River.
  • Feb 18, 2023, 05:48 AM
    tomder55
    Finally some action

    Trump is going to visit the town . So Clueless dispatched FEMA to assess the damage today .

    The derailment was February 3 . Controlled burn and release of the chemicals began February 6.

    It is 2 weeks later and now FEMA is going to work ?
  • Feb 22, 2023, 05:17 PM
    tomder55
    Trump went to East Palestine . Clueless Joe did not . Mayor Pete got his marching orders to go there tomorrow. He will have to interrupt personal time

    Video of Pete Buttigieg Confronted Over East Palestine Viewed 1M Times (newsweek.com)
  • Feb 25, 2023, 05:55 AM
    tomder55
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