East Palestine, Ohio

DISTRACTION!
You should probably not read East Palestine, Ohio because it is more important to pay attention to balloons and UFOS.

Eh, oh well. I've always been depressed and had poor health anyways.

On February 3rd @ 9:55PM a Norfolk Southern Train with 150 cars coming from Illinois and carrying 20+ cars full of Toxic Materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The train was headed towards Conway and slammed into a Diesel Storage facility owned by Leake Oil Company Inc.

On Monday February 6th, the national guard used thermite devices to burn a hole into the top and bottom of the remaining cars that were still burning and then drained the Vinyl Chloride, Benzene, HCI and Phosgene and Butyl acrylate into a ditch lined with flares in a failed attempt to burn the material off. The gas cloud has mostly come down now and has poisoned the water supply.

The Train's wheels were discovered to be on fire 20 miles prior to derailment and crew were notified of the defect by a hotbox detector located in Salem, OH. They chose to continue to go nearly 30MPH with their wheels melting until they hit East Palestine, OH where a second hotbox detector notified them of the extreme amount of heat being generated from their melting wheels. At this point they hit the brakes and the train derailed, igniting a fire and spilling millions of lbs of highly toxic fumes and liquids onto the ground and into the air

Update

Mike DeWine brings us up to speed as of 2-14-23

While DeWine said the pollution did not pose a serious threat to five million people who rely on the river for drinking water, he and several Ohio health and environmental officials cautioned at an afternoon press conference that residents using private wells near the derailment should only use bottled water.'^[1]

QRD

Numbers Game

10 of the 20 rail cars contained Vinyl Chloride. On Monday, the national guard used Thermite devices to burn a hole into the bottom of 5 of the remaining that were still burning and then drained the Vinyl Chloride, Phosgene^[2]^[3] and Butyl Acrylate into a ditch lined with flares to purposely burn the material off.

5 rail cars x estimated 200,000 lb vinyl chloride per = 1,000,000 lb vinyl chloride combusted into Phosgene. The combustion products from vinyl chloride monomer gave 27,000 ppm HCl, 58,100 ppm CO2, 9500 ppm CO, 40 ppm phosgene. That's 27,000 lb HCl and 40 lb Phosgene pumped into the troposphere.

The EPA Results^[4]

9x normal levels of Acrolein.^[5]
2x normal levels of Benzene^[6]
23x normal levels of Ethylbenzene^[7]
Phosgene is not included in the panel^[8]

EPA Notice Letter^[9]^[10]

Vinyl Chloride

First of all, you need to know that there is absolutely no safe level of Vinyl Chloride in your air or in your drinking water, no safe level.

Vinyl Chloride gets into the ground water and can volatilize and turn into a vapor that can seep into people's homes through the ground. If it's true then the whole area over the interconnected aquifer is in danger of vinyl chloride exposure whether they drink the water or not.^[11]

Half Life

Under normal environmental conditions, vinyl chloride is extremely persistent. Under anaerobic conditions its half-life in soil is more than 2 years. Aerobic degradation in sewage treatment plants and surface water in an isolated bacteria culture with 20-120 mg/l requires at least 5 weeks (UBA, 1986). OH radicals reduce the half-life to 66 h. The hydrolytic half-life is less than 10 years (calculated, 25°C) (RIPPEN, 1991). The half-life in the troposphere is eleven weeks (abiotic degradation) (ATRI, 1985). An average half-life between 2.2 and 2.7 days is reported by the BUA.(1989).^[12]

Degradation, Decomposition Products

Photochemical oxidation results in the formation of HCl, CO and formyl chloride as well as formaldehyde. There is no photolysis of 10 mg/l in water at 300 nm over 90 hours. Biotic mineralisation is extremely slow.^[13]

Toxicological Profile for Vinyl Chloride

I have uploaded the .pdf file which can be found by clicking here. The maximum allowed concentration at a work place for TCDD is 0,01 ng·m−3 in the air. In a high-CO environment combustion of vinyl chloride (like when you have that kind of black smoke as seen in Ohio) you’ll get PCDDs of 8920 ng/g. That means to stay under the safe level, the fumes of every burned gram of vinyl chloride need to get dissolved with around one million cubic meters or one cubic kilometer of air. For one metric ton of burned vinyl chloride, it’s one million cubic kilometers of air. That’s a lot of atmosphere.

The LD50 of TCDD for a dog is 1 µg·kg−, that means the fumes of one gram of burned vinyl chloride are enough to kill a dog of 8kg weight at a chance of 50/50.

Testing

Testing companies have a terrible track record and have been known to fake test samples. Tetra Tech is doing the testing. Tetra Tech has a history of falsifying results.^[14] CTEH is also contracted to answer questions. CTEH has a history of falsifying results.^[15]

Here is a timeline of what the EPA is doing and what they have done so far.

And here is a list of testing companies by county in Ohio.

Cincinnati, Ohio, far south of the accident is already alarmed and is planning a course of action in case the spilled chemicals reach that far south of the accident site:

Protip: whenever an obviously catastrophic disaster like this occurs, and the authorities assure the public that everything is fine, they are probably doing so because they know that there isn't anything they can do to alleviate the situation, and telling the truth would cause unnecessary anguish.

Timeline Of An Axle

During the NTSB briefing, it was stated that:

They have the Data Recorder
They have the Forward Facing Video
They have the telemetry from the Hot Box detector AND the Defect Detector(s)
They have 3rd party Video
They have the Crew Statements (conductor, engineer, conductor-in-training)

NTSB briefing #1

NTSB briefing #2

3:20 they HAVE identified (via video) the Axle Defect (flaming Bearing)
3:50 THE DEFECT DETECTOR DID ALERT THE CREW (NTSB did NOT state which one, but it must have been East Palestine, the LAST one)
The AXLE DEFECT was DETECTED via the DEFECT DETECTOR(s), and sent a corresponding Alert to the CREW (conductor, engineer, conductor-in-training), which led to a subsequent activation of EMERGENCY BRAKING (per preliminary NTSB Interviews with the Crew on 4 Feb)
NOTE: This seems to indicate that the Crew only responded to the THIRD Defect Detector, which is in East Palestine
They passed THREE, and only reacted by Braking in East Palestine. (too late, as the Axle itself must have separated from the Drive Wheel
This is HIGHLY SUSPECT, unless they were ordered to KEEP MOVING by the Dispatcher or Dispatcher's Manager, which has been suspected from the beginning

Department Of Transportation

As of the time of this writing (2-13-23), The United States Department of Transportation has not uttered a single word on this disaster. Most news and media outlets are keeping this quiet. Normally, democrats seize disaster news and use it for political gain, but for some reason, this story is being completely memory-holed.

On Monday, February 13, 2023, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg completely ignored the disaster. During the National Association of Counties Conference, Buttigieg focused on racial disparities in construction during a Monday conference, claiming that construction sites are not employing local workers in minority communities and outsourcing to White people.^[16]

This guy is a fucking clown.

Even still, the FRA and NTSB have been trying to push through a proposal for a new designation called the High Hazard Flammable Train which would be a step above the current hazard class which is known as a Key Train. Imposing the HHFT would limit speeds of trains carrying certain hazardous materials of which vinyl chloride was one. Chemical producers and railroads were opposed to this change because it would slow delivery and increase costs. Someone changed the profile to try and avoid it being lumped into the HHFT category if they ever get the rule imposed. Most likely there were more chemical profiles that were altered beyond just the vinyl chloride.

CDC, MyID, And Other Coincidences

They shortened it and made it seem like its about as bad as second hand smoke.

What are the odds that, after 17 years, the CDC just happens to update the toxicological profile for Vinyl Chloride mere weeks before the Ohio train derailment?

The CDC changed toxicology for vinyl chloride in January 2023.

Here is a wayback link showing the previous toxicology report that was recently changed. Hmmm...

A few months before the Ohio derailment some company called MyID quietly went to East Palestine and started handing out medical tracking devices for free.^[17] These tracking bracelets are already used for tracking cancer^[18] and have been linked to the Federal Government as a medical contractor.

ID.ME is a government contractor that is currently partnered with the US Treasury department, they are "phasing in" use of ID me on the IRS website. Right now they just encourage you to create an ID me account but it's coming down the pipeline that eventually everyone will be forced to do so. They use your id, SSN, and a facial scan. Normies are already doing it.

But why?

Because Merck & Co. Inc. is a big time cancer treatment and pharmaceutical company. Connect the dots. Merck partners with MyID^[19] who then hands out these medical tracking bracelets to an area that suddenly has a major chemical catastrophe.

Take a horrible condition that's potentially deadly, roll out those medical devices because Ohioans need to be monitored for their safety then fast forward a few months/year and you will start seeing "Wow these devices are so good they've saved a billion Ohioan lives! Better legislate them for everyone...for public safety!" propaganda all over the place.

Norfolk Southern

Vanguard Group Inc is the largest individual Norfolk Southern shareholder, owning 18.60M shares representing 8.17% of the company. Blackrock Inc. is in second place with 15,798,474 shares making it a 6.94% part owner.^[20]

Nothing more needs to be said about the owners of Norfolk Southern.

Scams?

A warning^[21] from East Palestine Police. Someone is walking around town promising money and potentially getting personal information.

East Palestine Police say this person is not employed by Norfolk Southern. The rail company is only addressing residents at the assistance center, with the exception of scheduled meetings with any residents who are confined to their home due to a disability, according to a message on the East Palestine Police Department’s Facebook page.^[22]

Police want you to report anyone coming to your home claiming to be a representative from Norfolk to call them at 330-426-4341. They also advise you not to give anyone you do not know your personal information.

Propaganda?

But who is really doing the scamming here? There are many who think this story is being buried by other news items because of the amount of danger these chemicals cause.

Evan Lambert

Lambert was arrested Wednesday evening by East Palestine, Ohio, police officers and detained in Columbiana County jail on preliminary charges of criminal trespassing and resisting arrest, county Sheriff Brian McLaughlin said.^[23]

During Wednesday’s news conference in an East Palestine school gymnasium, Lambert was told to stop broadcasting because he was delivering his report loudly while Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was speaking, East Palestine police said in a news release. At the event, officials were announcing they were lifting a multi-day evacuation order near the site of a fiery weekend train derailment in that eastern Ohio town.

The reporter was released later that night after posting bond, McLaughlin said. Lambert is scheduled to be arraigned on February 23, according to Columbiana County online court records.

Citizen's view of the arrest.

Police bodycam footage.

News Tidbits

We basically nuked a town with chemicals so ODNR estimates 3,500 fish killed by East Palestine train derailment, spillwe could get a railroad open^[24] -Silverado Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist

Dispersal of chemical plume.

Cross section of chemical plume.

Railroads have slashed labor and other costs to bolster profits in recent years, and have been fiercely opposed to adding paid sick time that would require them to hire more staff. ^[25]