Balloons, Toxic Water, Radiation Sickness. Slow Motion Into the “Forever War”… Searching for Food

The government is lying—as usual.

By Kurt Nimmo
Global Research, February 17, 2023
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It’s a slow-motion fall into the Final War.

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO chieftain, has told Europe it must prepare for the “long haul” because “this [war] may last for many, many, many, many years.”

In other words, Forever War, this time in Europe.

Of course, at any time, the Forever War can easily morph into nuclear extinction, but this prospect does not seem important to Stoltenberg.

Like Biden and his war boss, Lloyd Austin, the idea here is to take out the Russian “regime,” as Jens calls the elected government in Russia. If we are going to use that term, then the USG is also a regime.

In America, only vetted candidates are allowed to “run” in uniparty elections. Trump was an aberration. The uniparty came together to destroy his presidency, his reputation, and his life.

BTW, I am not a Trump groupie. He is a malignant narcissist guilty of bombing Syria, stealing its oil, and also imposing sanctions on Russia (despite the media calling him a Putin dupe).

Hubris, narcissism, and manifest stupidity are all the rage in DC and Brussels.

In America, corporate oligarchs have poisoned thousands of people in an effort to squeeze every last penny out of unmaintained trains illegally transporting deadly chemicals through East Palestine, Ohio.

I say “illegally” because Norfolk Southern didn’t bother to tell the EPA it was moving hazardous material through the small town of around 5,000 people. In fact, Norfolk Southern lied.

Most of the train’s 150 rail cars were carrying cargo that was not hazardous, officials say, such as cement, steel and frozen vegetables, according a manifest of the derailed cars provided to the Environmental Protection Agency.

You’d think deadly toxins in the Ohio River might prompt the corporate media to cover the story more closely. Instead, the Associated Press tells Ohio Basin residents to chill. Groundwater toxins may be the next conspiracy theory.

Contaminants including butyl acrylate have been detected in the Ohio River, but the amounts so far don’t pose a risk for cities that rely on the river for its drinking water, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and outside experts.

For some reason, the Associated Press failed to mention the presence of vinyl chloride. According to the EPA, it is a serious health hazard at 2 ppb (that’s part per billion).

According to WXIX in Cincinnati, however, zero “contaminants were found in the Ohio River after Greater Cincinnati Water Works tested it for multiple hazardous chemicals.” On Monday, a water quality manager in Louisville said, “right now, any affected water is still in West Virginia.”

Biden and his neocons are not concerned about the mess in East Palestine.  They are busy poking Russia, trying to get WWIII rolling, and also backtracking on Chinese spy balloons.

Now the click-obsessed corporate media is talking about aliens—anything to draw your eyes to web pages burgeoning with obnoxious ads and pop-up videos selling cars few can afford to buy.

Biden’s Commerce Department has enlarged the sanctions war against China in response to… virtually nothing, radar blips of objects in the “sky trash” zone. Spy balloons are, along with illusory weapons of mass destruction, a twist on neocon lies designed to rile up an easily frightened public routinely fed end-to-end lies.

Erin Brockovich, remember her? She was the whistleblower who exposed Pacific Gas & Electric’s contamination of groundwater in Hinkley, California. Brockovich’s successful lawsuit was the subject of an Oscar-awarded film.

On Thursday, she “told residents living near the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio to ignore government claims that the water is safe to drink and leave if they fear for their health,” reported The Times (paywall requires scaling).

Short version: the government is lying—as usual.

Toxins threatening the lives of millions of people in the Ohio Basin are apparently of so little importance the government didn’t bother to send “officials” to a town hall meeting in East Palestine. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was nowhere to be seen.

From his office in DC, Buttigieg blamed Trump for the Biden administration’s decision to let the people of East Palestine twist in the wind while the administration and Congress send billions of dollars and expensive weapons to neo-nazi thugs in Ukraine.

It is business as usual in regard to killing people in foreign lands.

In America, the middle class is sliding into poverty. You and I come in a distant second to neo-nazis fond of burning people alive for daring to resist ending up victims of genocide.

As noted above, the Biden neocons and neolib “hawks” are plotting to escalate the war in Ukraine, thus violating red lines (no NATO on Russia’s border), and careening toward all-out thermonuclear war.

A handful of uniparty “republicans” are said to oppose an escalation that will ultimately lead to species extinction (although, if Trump were still in office and tempting war with Russia, I imagine some of these “representatives” would cheer for thermonuclear war. It’s a uniparty thing).

The Hill reports:

Continued U.S. support of Ukraine is not certain. Some Republican lawmakers oppose it. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said he doesn’t much care what happens to Ukraine. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) voted against another $40 billion in aid, saying, “we have no business getting involved in another war.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) insisted, “not another penny will go to Ukraine.” Other Republicans question the amount of proposed aid.

Government war propaganda and balloon diversions are so effective, millions of Americans ignorantly welcome their own horrible deaths, either the fast way (immediate vaporization) or the slow way (radiation sickness, starvation, disease).

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