Forgotten East Palestine Is A Silent Declaration Of War

You can't blame incompetence forever.

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, there was a train derailment¹ in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3rd of this year. It’s unclear if this was simply an accident or an act of sabotage, but keep an open mind as you read on. Two days later, people within a small radius around the accident were evacuated due to hazardous chemicals that were identified (although apparently not listed in full on the train’s inventory log). The following day, a “controlled burn” of these hazardous substances took place, sending a plume of cancerous smoke into the air. Meanwhile, countless gallons of chemicals had already seeped into the soil and, subsequently, entered into water sources.

Train owner Norfolk Southern, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) all the descended on the town as people looked for answers. About three weeks later, a small plane carrying employees of CTEH—the environmental consulting agency the government used to cover up the health hazards at ground zero after 9/11—left the Clinton airport in Little Rock, Arkansas for East Palestine and crashed². All five passengers died. Was this merely a coincidence or was someone not convinced CTEH was going to give them the results they wanted? That same week, back to back photo ops for presidential candidate Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg took place.

Five CTEH employees died in a plane crash departing from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock. Staton Breidenthal, AP

As March arrived, there was no plan in place to help the residents of East Palestine who were seeing their health deteriorate rapidly. The media mostly moved on and the government deferred to the wildly corrupt Norfolk Southern to take care of a problem it obviously had no interest in fixing. They have been known for writing $1,000 checks for people’s silence³.

In mid-March, the EPA announced it would take another 2-3 months of cleanup⁴ which is simply not a good enough response. In the 1980’s, there was enough dioxin contamination in the town of Times Beach, Missouri⁵, the EPA used their Superfund⁶ to buy out the town so people could relocate. We know East Palestine is bad because half of the CDC team sent there to assist fell ill⁷; numerous residents tested positive for benzene and vinyl chloride metabolites in their urine⁸; and many have reported awful symptoms⁹ associated with the spill. By the end of March, the EPA would admit they may be missing chemicals during their air testing and they intentionally made certain decisions to limit the number of lawsuits.¹⁰

As contaminated soil quietly started getting moved out of East Palestine and relocated to other parts of the country, a truck would overturn¹¹ which would dump 20,000 pounds of toxic soil onto to the side of the road. Is East Palestine cursed or might there be foul play involved?

Click the image for video from the crash site.

While Republican Governor Mike DeWine and Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown did practically nothing, the local mayor and fire chief complained to each other via leaked texts¹². As if things weren’t bad enough for those suffering, fire chief Keith Drabick would complain about a local volunteer representing the townsfolk in Washington D.C. while elected officials dragged their feet.

Texts between East Palestine mayor Trent Conaway and fire chief Keith Drabick.

In the above exchange, Drabick writes:

That’s what the village gets to represent us in DC. Isn’t that just wonderful”

To which the mayor replied:

What the fuck

He’s referring to Jami Cozza—a proactive community member who has dozens of family members in the area—and her partner Chris Wallace. Jami shares her perspective on all the corruption she has witnessed with healthcare activist Savage Joy Marie Mann in the following interview.

If abandonment on the federal level and pettiness on the local level wasn’t bad enough, a lot of the donations people have made to support East Palestinians never ended up helping those in need. A woman named Lauren Boback (whose parents are EP residents) started a GoFundMe¹³ to help with “finding temporary housing or hotels” but there hasn’t been any transparency whatsoever. At the time of writing this, the GoFundMe page has surpassed $67,000.

Lauren Boback donated GoFundMe money to the East Palestine Community Foundation, Inc.

On February 26th, Lauren popped up in a photo handing off a check to an East Palestine Community Foundation Inc. board member. According to their website, the foundation’s mission is “to provide funding for improvements and projects which will benefit the community.”

Donations might be going towards planting flowers in toxic soil.

A man by the name of Mike Peppel raised around $141,000¹⁴ via the organization Ohio Clean Water Fund on behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank. The problem is that charity only received about $10,000. The Ohio Attorney General is now suing him.

But don’t worry! Norfolk Southern is helping people get back out there by supporting the town’s annual street fair¹⁵. Yikes.

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This is but one of a string of many events creating hazardous living conditions for people in the United States or impacting food supplies around the country in recent days. Other incidents include (but are certainly not limited to) a barge full of methanol sinking in the Ohio River, an explosion at a chemical plant in Cincinnati, a warehouse fire in Richmond, the disappearance of 60,000 pounds of highly explosive ammonium nitrate heading to California from Wyoming by train, as well as hazardous train derailments in Minnesota, Maine, Wisconsin and—of course—another in Ohio. In Dimmitt, Texas, some 18,000 cows were killed at a dairy farm in a massive explosion. On top of that, we’ve recently seen the intentional culling of 58.6 million chickens in America alone for “avian flu mitigation.” These incidents tend to leave many unanswered questions.

There is a coordinated international effort to track all large flocks of poultry (aka food).

Poisoning the countryside and culling farm animals conveniently lends to this newly trending agenda of moving towards fake meats and insects as food sources. Are we seeing intentional destruction happening? Why is there no real support from the federal government? Note: the federal government is the entity that can create money by spending it into existence. Wouldn’t it be a great investment for people’s health? Their livelihoods? Wouldn’t it provide jobs in areas suffering from economic hardship? Wouldn’t it be great for the environment or do we only care about nonsensical carbon credits? There seems to be a much greater interest in funding war which only ends up hurting people and creates pollution on a large scale. Why don’t we see legislation to transform our rail system? Wouldn’t that help America stay competitive? Wouldn’t that get politicians reelected?

It’s safe to say that we are at war, but not the old school traditional kind. No tanks needed! It’s being waged upon us by our “representatives” and those they truly represent—because it’s not us. There is a much bigger and nefarious plot beginning to unfurl right before our very eyes. Heck, if there was any doubt left, remember Flint¹⁶ and Jackson¹⁷ still don’t have clean water.

President Obama pretending to drink Flint tap water.

What is the end game here?

As many a town and city fall into disrepair, there is a lot of discussion about transforming existing cities¹⁸ (while ignoring the needs of those already living there). Donald Trump has announced his plan to build ten new, futuristic (smart) cities¹⁹. Also known as 15-minute cities, these places will be designed so average people travel less while being surveilled even more. You won’t need a plot of land to grow food, because it will be grown in in a lab. The Internet of Bodies will extract an incredible amount of data while artificial intelligence gives everyone orders in which to live by. Since one’s life will mostly be digital—including the money one spends—non-compliance results in getting “turned off.”

What better way to get people in your new digital prisons, but by poisoning the countryside and killing off all the farm animals? Go green, amirite??

It just so happens that Cleveland—a city that never really recovered from The Great Recession of 2008—is slated to be part of the Honeywell Smart City Accelerator Program²⁰. Don’t worry! It sounds like a great place to live, since they will be using facial recognition technology²¹ to scoop up the criminals…and people who disagree with the new rules put in place by their representatives overlords.

This isn’t incompetence. This is the plan.

Shout out to

Status Coup News

for their on-the-ground reporting in East Palestine and

Modern Discontent

for their in-depth updates.

1. https://abcnews.go.com/US/east-palestine-derailment-timeline-key-events-toxic-train/story?id=97522161

2. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/02/22/five-killed-in-plane-crash-that-was-headed-to-columbus-from-arkansas/69933573007/

3. https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/east-palestine-ohio-locals-reveal-illnesses-fury-at-biden/

4. Interim update to East Palestine

5. https://www.stlmag.com/Remember-Times-Beach-The-Dioxin-Disaster-30-Years-Later/

6. https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later

7. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cdc-team-sick-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/

8. EPA releases dioxin results for East Palestine City Park

9. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/27/ohio-train-derailment-chemicals-health

10. East Palestine Bombshell: EPA Official Admits It May Be Missing Toxic Chemicals in Air Testing, Admits Some of Its Decision Making Has Been to Prevent Lawsuits

11. https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/truck-carrying-toxic-soil-from-east-palestine-overturns-in-columbiana-county/

12. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12077073/Texts-reveal-East-Palestine-fire-chiefs-frustration-lack-advice-health-officials.html

13. https://www.gofundme.com/f/relief-for-east-palestine-after-train-derailment

14. https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/04/11/ohio-attorney-general-sues-charity-claiming-help-east-palestine-residents/

15. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/we-follow-through/east-palestine-residents-express-hesitancy-anticipation-for-annual-street-fair-three-months-after-derailment

16. https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2023/01/bottled-water-dries-up-in-flint-as-water-crisis-fallout-continues-in-new-year.html

17. https://www.theroot.com/jackson-mississippi-much-like-other-predominantly-bla-1849935549

18. https://web.archive.org/web/20190701212147/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-sweeping-series-economic-development-partnerships-between-new-york-and

19. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars/index.html

20. https://mayor.clevelandohio.gov/news/cleveland-selected-honeywell-and-accelerator-america-honeywell-smart-city-accelerator-program

21. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202304/clearview-ais-facial-recognition-back-in-ohio-law-enforcement-after-one-year