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the train wreck in east palestine, ohio is much worse than we are being told
and we are all responsible
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The February 3 derailment of the Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio caused a total of 38 cars to derail, 11 of which were tanker cars carrying various forms of toxic chemicals that collided into each other and leaked toxins onto the ground. By itself, that was a disaster. As you will learn, the decision to set that toxic spill and those tanker cars on fire to burn it off may very well go down as one of the worst decisions in the long and sordid history of environmental disasters.
A lot of finger pointing has been taking place trying to pin the blame on Norfolk Southern, government regulators and others. The reality is, there is plenty of blame to go around. Anyone who uses plastics holds a certain mount of responsibility, myself included.
As of this writing, Pete Buttigieg, whose job as Secretary of Transportation is to take charge of transportation crises events like this, has yet to make an appearance in East Palestine. And our President, that “man of the people” who promised to stand by all Americans, instead went to Ukraine to boost arms sales for the Military Industrial Complex.
From the investigative journalism side of this story, I’ve been following two people who seem to have their pulse on this more than anyone else, Eric Coppolino and Dr. Robert O. Young. Some of you may remember Dr. Young from this September 2021 piece.
Let’s first consider the extensive experience Eric Coppolino brings to this discussion, then we’ll look at some recent research done by Dr. Robert Young. Then we’ll determine ways we can all curb our use of plastics.
coppolino
Some time back I saw an interview with Eric Coppolino discussing questions he had about germ theory and the relationship between that topic and covid. It was apparent that we had similar questions regarding that topic. Like me - when there is no proof that viruses are causative of disease and that the ongoing belief in germ theory clearly serves the interests of the DoD, Gates, big pharma and the other players in the jab-weapons industry - he has questioned why people like RFK Jr. continue to buy into germ theory.
Eric’s work on the subject of toxins goes all the way back to December of 1991 and some investigative journalism he did on the SUNY New Paltz disaster in which a transformer leaked PCB’s and contaminated campus dorms. It took a decade to clean up that mess and cost $50 million to do so.
PCB’s are part of the same class of toxins in the train wreck
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that a car carrying “plastic pellets” had an axle that overheated and caused that car to burn, which was caught on a surveillance camera 20 miles before East Palestine.
Track detectors are placed every 20 miles along tracks to let engineers on board know if wheels and axles are getting hot. At least three detectors had indicated that some cars were getting progressively hotter and by the time the train passed a security video 20 miles before East Palestine, the aforementioned car was on fire. To be clear, this was not a tanker car carrying the highly volatile toxins, it was a belly-dump car carrying PVC pellets. The question is, why did the engineers not stop the train to investigate the fire?
Because Eric has continued to cover toxic spills, he knew right away that the volatile polyvinyl chloride pellets (PVC - the nebulous sounding “plastic pellets” referred to by the NTSB) contained in some of the cars that derailed are not only toxic by themself, but that when burned one of the byproducts is dioxin, arguably one of the most dangerous toxins ever created by man.
Dioxin is resistant to breakdown - it persists for a very long time. Depending on the environment (in the earth, in water, in our bodies) it can last for decades. The immediate effects in adults are less acute. But, because of its negative effects on the hormonal system, the harm is much greater in children and pregnant women. However, the long term effects of its toxicity can continue to cause harm in the second and third generations of those exposed.
It’s toxicity in the environment can be seen in the extinction of life in streams near the derailment and the thousands of birds dying in the downwind direction of the toxic plume of smoke that arose from the mindless burning of the hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxins.
This derailment and fire may prove to be one of the most consequential environmental disasters in history.
Part of the reason for this is due to the fact that this derailment happened in the midst of some of the finest farm land in the world, much of it home to the Amish people who have long been targeted by those who despise their wholistic approach to growing food, living simply and avoiding the modern medical system, including jabs of any kind.
Because dioxin and some of the other toxins released are bioaccumulative, small amounts of them that get taken up by cattle grazing on pastures that have been contaminated by the toxic plume will accumulate in their meat and especially in the milk fat of dairy cows. That becomes even more concentrated in products like butter and cheese. Corn and other crops grown in soils contaminated with these toxins can take up the toxins through their vascular system and deposit them in the seed that gets fed to the beef, chicken and pork we buy at the store. For the same reason, fruit and vegetable crops grown on contaminated fields will also be problematic. All of these toxins will further accumulate in the bodies of those who eat any of food grown in farming regions exposed to the toxic plume emanating from the toxic burn-off of PCV and other chemicals in the wreck.
beware
When officials tell you that the amount of dioxins and other toxins people are being exposed to are below acceptable levels, they’re lying. When it comes to dioxin, any exposure is toxic, down to tiny fractional parts per billion. According to Coppolino, there is no such thing as a safe exposure level to dioxin.
PVC is ubiquitous. After polyethylene and polypropylene, it’s the third most produced form synthetic polymer plastic (40 million tons per year). It’s used to make PVC pipe, shower curtains, tape, shoes, carpet, clothing and it can be found in numerous products used in most homes built in recent decades; roofing, wiring, windows, doors, molding, cabinets and so on. It’s commonly used throughout cars and trucks. Worst of all, it’s used to make baby toys which millions of babies use to cut their teeth.
Coppolino speculates that the second largest release of dioxin may have been the burning and collapse of the World Trade Center towers, which, as modern buildings, were full of highly flammable products made from PVC; carpet, desks, furniture, curtains, fixtures etc.
Half of the worlds PVC production is in China, but Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan accounts for 30% of the world market for PVC. That means there is a good chance that the PVC in those rail cars traveled half way around the world before derailing and being burned in East Palestine. This begs the question: How much of these toxic products never make it to their destination? How much gets swept off the decks of cargo ships into the ocean during big storms or is dumped or spilled in other incidents which we never hear about?
We know that this train was eastbound on Norfolk Southern tracks.
The destination of the PVC in many of those east bound cars could have been Sylvin Technolgies in Denver, Pennsylvania, Emco Industrial Plastics in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Trident Plastics in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, Griff Paper and Film in Fallsington, Pennsylvania or E & T Plastics Mfg. Co., Inc. in Long Island City, New York, or… all of them. They all make some of the products listed above.
I could rehash much of what Coppolino has said, but he knows the topic much better than anyone I know. If you want the full story on what happened in East Palestine, Ohio, I recommend you read these posts from his Substack, Planet Waves.
Dr. Young’s research follows.
dr. young
According to Dr. Robert O. Young, five of the eleven tanker cars on this train were hauling toxic waste from a Dow Chemical (who released agent orange upon the earth) toxic waste site facility in Madison Illinois, now owned by Spectrulite. I would have included a link to their website but not surprisingly, their website has been “temporarily disabled”.
But I found this CDC/NOISH page which lists all sites that have radioactive contamination (hundreds of them). Here’s a screenshot of the pertinent information about the former Dow facility now owned by Spectrulite.
The official narrative from the authorities - the EPA, Norfolk Southern and the NTSB - is that the five tankers mindlessly set ablaze contained vinyl chloride. In the interview Dr. Young doesn’t make clear whether those 5 cars or five other cars contained highly volatile vinylidene dichloride, also known as 1.1 Dichloroethene, used by Dow to clean uranium fuel rods it was making for the US nuclear energy program. It had been stored at the Madison facility in steel holding tanks and was finally being transported away for disposal. Where it was to be disposed remains unknown at this time. However, Dr. Young speculates that the tankers were headed to the US Army Aberdeen proving ground on Chesapeake bay.
According to Dr. Young, burning V. dichloride turns it into phosgene, which he says generated the unusual black mushroom cloud seen in the photos. Phosgene was used as a chemical weapon during WWI when it was reported to have killed 85,000 people. Keep in mind, this particular batch was likely radioactive as well.
This ABC report also states that phosgene would be released by the “controlled burning” of the drained-out vinyl chloride.
There seems to be some conflict between what ABC says and what Dr. Young says. Or maybe burning either of those toxins produces phosgene. Any chemists out there?
In an idiotic attempt to provide an excuse for setting fire to the spill, one authority was quoted as saying, “We can’t control what happens if it explodes” - as if they can control what happens to the much more toxic smoke plume.
affected areas
The rain and snow that has fallen since the burn has moved many of the toxins from the air to the ground. The area affected by this fallout includes the counties surrounding East Palestine and vast areas downwind of the burn. That would include most of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southern Quebec and Nova Scotia. Until testing of milk and the fatty tissues of local pigs and other livestock for these toxins takes place on a grand scale by numerous, independent organizations to determine that food from this region is safe, I would recommend not eating anything coming from this area. This would include seafood from the coastlines of this region.
Because the streams and rivers in the region of the derailment are all in the Ohio river basin, which flows into the Mississippi, another problematic zone may be the Gulf of Mexico where the Mississippi drains into it an currents carry it eastward along the gulf coast.
Timeframe on food safety from this region? Indefinite.
our role
This derailment shines a bright light on the complacency we have all developed regarding a convenient lifestyle that has needlessly, become overly dependent on plastic.
Some of us are old enough to remember a time before plastic. That was when all shopping bags were paper, when there was no such thing as a paper towels (pv is used in making paper), when everyone used recyclable rags and furniture was made of wood and natural fiber.
One of the biggest changes came in fibers. Rayon, nylon and polyester came to replace Gods natural fibers used in carpets like cotton or wool. They also replaced the fiber used in our clothing, curtains and bedding. Small farmers and local industries that produced cotton, wool, alpaca, hemp, flax, silk and down feathers - all part Gods plan - were decimated by the introduction of mans synthetic fibers.
As I pointed out above, for anyone owning in a house built after 1970, more so after 1990 and even more so after 2010, that home probably accounts for your largest use of plastic.
In that respect, I’ve been more fortunate then some. The home in which I grew up was built by my dad and grandpa around 1950 (along with two others homes on the block, one in which my grandparents lived). Upon completion it had no plastic components. However, like most housewives at the time, Mom loved all the new modern conveniences that were coming out during the 60’s and 70’s, so our house got ‘upgraded’ with carpet, drapes, Formica counter tops and furniture, all made with plastic components of some sort. I remember not being particularly fond of any of it.
My education on good home karma was further expanded when I began subcontracting for a natural home contractor in Tucson in 1985. Some years later I began construction on the natural cob home in which I’m writing these words.
The homes we chose to live in not only represent the largest financial investment most of us will make in our lives, they can also represent our largest investment in plastics. Because we spend so much of our time in them, depending on the materials used, they may also represent our largest exposure to toxins released by those plastics over the course of our lives.
Keep in mind that many of those plastic components (and all other highly processed components in modern houses) are being made from resources coming from all over the world, shipped to your building site at great energy expense. To add insult to injury, many of those products are being made with what essentially amounts to slave labor in third world countries.
It is possible to build a comfortable home that does not require the use of any plastics or imported resources. It’s like choosing the right doctor. If you chose a conventional doctor, he or she will want to prescribe toxic pharmaceuticals and recommend that you take all the latest Satanic jabs. If you chose the right naturopathic doctor, he or she will steer you clear of those nasty toxins and prescribe natural herbs and make dietary recommendations, all part of Gods health plan. If you chose a conventional builder you’ll get a conventional toxic house. If you chose a natural builder, you’ll get a safe home made from as many locally derived, naturally occurring resources as possible; stones from the nearby hills or mountains, adobe soil excavated from the building site, trees cut from regional forest and milled at the local Ma and Pa mill, cabinetry made by the old guy down the road with the shop… you get the picture.
At the very least we need to return to the way homes were built when my dad and grandpa built our home. That home had everything we need, comfort, heat, lots of windows to open in the summer, a functional kitchen, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room and a dining room - all without plastic. Who needs more than that?
At the very most we need a revolution in housing.
Because plastic has become so ubiquitous, it’s hard to believe that as recently as my youth it was essentially nonexistent in day to day life. In fact, the very beginnings of the industry go back only about 100 years. As Dustin Hoffman was told by an investor in the 1967 movie The Graduate, “plastics” was one of the investment buzzwords of that time.
The rapid rise of the plastics industry is just another case of something being done because it can be done and, because doing so is profitable. No one ever asked - do we really need this? Plastics appeared, were heavily marketed by Madison Avenue and people accepted them into their lives as if they were right as rain.
The derailment in East Palestine has shown us they are not.
We can do better.
Thanks Kyle
There were cars on that train that burned which were not listed as hazardous but were, including a tanker of lubricating oil and four bin cars full of PVC pellets — neither of which was technically hazmat, but which are dangerous when burned, especially together, and especially in an environment where chlorine-based chemicals like vinyl chloride is off-gassing (as we were told it was, thus the distress call and claimed need to dump ad burn).
Meanwhile, the dioxin testing plan of EPA is a scam, on its face; I dismantle that here:
https://planetwavesfm.substack.com/p/epa-orders-dioxin-tests-in-e-palestine#details
And I do a better job on my program last night:
https://planetwaves.fm/tonight-on-planet-waves-fm-who-decides-what-is-an-acceptable-risk/
and here is my dioxin resource for citizens and journalists
https://planetwavesfm.substack.com/p/dioxin-resources-page-for-citizens#details
When Al gore initially started his global warming campaign, I knew it was a hoax because we didn’t go back to wax paper and glass bottles. This is terrifying, the Ohio disaster.
So many farms that are organic have been compromised & the Amish & Mennonite have been faithful neighbors when I lived in upstate New York .