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We Don’t Know What We Are Breathing’: A Report from East Palestine
The Free Press ^ | February 23,2023 | Salena Zito

Posted on 02/23/2023 4:28:01 PM PST by Hojczyk

But while Trump and Vance and Gabbard are all showing up, the actual people running this country have been missing in action. It took until February 16—nearly a full two weeks after the crash—for the first top Biden official, EPA administrator Michael Regan, to be on the scene.

Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg—who has one job, overseeing the infrastructure of this country—has not yet witnessed the catastrophe in person nor did he acknowledge it until February 13, though he is scheduled to arrive today. President Joe Biden released a fact sheet about the accident and tweeted about it, but he hasn’t given

a speech about it, let alone visited the town. In fact, on Monday, he was 5,000 miles away in Kyiv, meeting with the president of Ukraine and pledging more aid in the war against Russia.

That the president ignored East Palestine and chose to make a big

splash in a foreign country symbolizes what matters most to the White House, the town’s mayor Trent Conaway said. “ That was the biggest slap in the face,” Conaway fumed on Fox. “That tells you right now he doesn’t care about us. He can send every agency he wants to, but I found out this morning that he was in Ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not to us… on President’s Day in our country, so I’m furious.”

Everything has changed. This was our forever home, my husband has a chiropractic practice here, we have a good life, had a good life, an idyllic life, and all of that changed in an instant,” Tsai said. “The lack of caring that has come from the federal government and Norfolk Southern has been shameful.”

She said it feels like Biden is trying to ride out the clock until the media’s spotlight on her town eventually fades away, “while the clock is subtracting time away from our lives.”

Ironically, just last month, Biden said that progressive Democrats have lost sight of the party’s working-class base. Explaining how he won the 1972 Senate race in Delaware by appealing to blue-collar people and their pragmatic, kitchen-table values, he said: “We didn’t pay nearly as much attention to working-class folks as we used to. And the same thing is happening today.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: eastpalestine; salenazito

1 posted on 02/23/2023 4:28:01 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

In the other train wreck in Michigan the authorities were said to have had technicians drill holes into the chemical cars, and this was said to release pent up pressure. Did the fumes rising up integrate into the air that people for miles away were breathing? No one knows.


2 posted on 02/23/2023 4:32:27 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Hojczyk

I know what you were breathing, phosgene gas and hydrochloric acid.


3 posted on 02/23/2023 4:34:30 PM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Hojczyk

Pipe down Ohio! Biden doesn’t care, and you aint the Ukraine! Savvy?


4 posted on 02/23/2023 4:35:25 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Hojczyk

You have to send Hunter a couple million to get some help.


5 posted on 02/23/2023 4:36:02 PM PST by bray (Order at TheRepublicofTexas.store)
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To: frank ballenger
In the other train wreck in Michigan the authorities were said to have had technicians drill holes into the chemical cars, and this was said to release pent up pressure.

A hot tap could be used if welding on the car is allowed.

Close the valve, connect piping and you're set. Nothing released to the atmosphere.

6 posted on 02/23/2023 4:47:53 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Hojczyk

I thought Palestine was crawling with people testing the air, water, ground, ..., and they’ve not found dangerous amounts of toxic substances. Who do we believe?


7 posted on 02/23/2023 4:52:57 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: Hojczyk

Since I live about 400 miles downwind (Southeast) of the site, I would like to know where the ash/soot cloud traveled.


8 posted on 02/23/2023 4:56:06 PM PST by iontheball
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To: philman_36

In the other train wreck in Michigan the authorities were said to have had technicians drill holes into the chemical cars, and this was said to release pent up pressure.
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These tankers have pressure relief valves installed on them. What they should have done is smothered the fire with fire fighting foam available at all major airports, let the cars cool, and then pumped the chemicals into simi-tankers. Now there is toxic ash/soot from East Palistine all the way down the East Coast, and likely south down the Mississippi River.


9 posted on 02/23/2023 5:06:24 PM PST by iontheball
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To: Hojczyk

Based on an anonymous source in the US intelligence community, Seymour Hersh is reporting that the train derailment was in fact a planned chemical weapon attack against the East Palestinians by the Biden administration.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has issued a legal opinion justifying the forced resettlement of the East Palestinians into refugee camps to be administered by FEMA.

The East Palestinians do not intend to go quietly into the camps, however. The East Palestine Liberation Organization (the EPLO) formed by former Beatle Ringo Starr is demanding that the Biden administration remediate the environmental damage, pay compensation to the East Palestinians and return them to their homes.

A rival organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of East Palestine (the PFLEP), opposes any negotiations with the Biden administration and plans to resist any resettlement by force.

A splinter group formed by a defector from the PFLEP called the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of East Palestine (PDFLEP) claims that it is the rightful representative of the East Palestinian people, and not the PFLEP or the EPLO.


10 posted on 02/23/2023 5:10:51 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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Yesterday, hundreds of cheering, chanting people turned out to welcome President Trump. Today, Pete Buttigieg snuck into town at 7 AM and only met with a handful of Fedgov employees.


11 posted on 02/23/2023 5:16:15 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: iontheball; frank ballenger
I didn't make that comment. See reply 2.

Coming your way, frank.

12 posted on 02/23/2023 5:42:49 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Hojczyk

Buttplug is an absolute idiot. Takes him THREE WEEKS to go to a site so heavily affected? Get outta here!


13 posted on 02/23/2023 5:47:48 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: philman_36

Always like to hear from someone who knows something-—like you——about any technical matter.

Thanks for the info.


14 posted on 02/23/2023 8:35:31 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: mylife
Joe Biden's war against America in East Palestine. Now they are gassing patriotic Americans. Maybe Russia will nuke us in another month. That would be a further punishment (deserved punishment of America according to the wokesters) of this racist, homophobic, islamophobic, transphobic; etc., United States of America.
15 posted on 02/24/2023 5:25:01 AM PST by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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