East Palestine, Ohio Residents Urged to Document Health Concerns by Environmental Activist Erin Brockovich

 There are growing reports of health concerns from residents following the chemical explosion and toxic train derailment that upended the community of East Palestine, Ohio over three weeks ago.

50 train carriages, 10 of which were carrying hazardous materials, derailed in East Palestine on February 3rd. Hundreds of residents had to be evacuated as a result of the controlled release of poisonous gasses that was carried out on February 6th to stop an explosion.

East Palestine residents were able to safely return home on February 8th despite the reports of hundreds of dead fish in the Ohio river near East Palestine and residents complaining of headaches and illness since the derailment.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich urged residents during a town hall meeting on Friday, to document any health effects they are experiencing.

The activist cautioned residents saying "You want to be heard, but you're going to be told it's safe; you're going to be told not to worry. That's just rubbish because you're going to worry. Communities want to be seen and heard. Health and environmental risks will remain for years." "These chemicals take time to move in the water. You're going to need groundwater monitoring. People on well water: You really need to be on alert. They're going to need to implement soil vapor intrusion modeling. Believe us. It's coming," Brockovich said.

The Ohio Department of Health created a temporary medical clinic earlier last week as residents continue to report symptoms such as nausea, headaches, skin irritation, and other ailments.

According to the Ohio Department of Health, their medical clinic for resident health concerns will be open at least through March 4th.

https://theohiostar.com/2023/02/27/east-palestine-ohio-residents-urged-to-document-health-concerns-by-environmental-activist-erin-brockovich/

Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls

 

• Los Angeles County, California confirmed it had removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its rolls thanks to a settlement with the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch, the group announced Friday.
• Election Integrity Project California, Inc., another public interest group, was also a part of the lawsuit.
• Back in 2017 when Judicial Watch first filed its lawsuit, it argued Los Angeles County had more registered voters than residents eligible to register and the “highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.”
• According to data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at that time, voter registration for the county was 112 percent of its adult citizen population.
• This isn’t the first lawsuit of its kind by Judicial Watch.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/27/lawsuit-forces-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-2-million-ineligible-voters-from-rolls/

Georgia election chief blasts county for taking $2M in Zuckerbucks, suggests legislative remedy

 

• Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) slammed DeKalb County for accepting $2 million in private money for election administration — or "Zuckerbucks" — in "violation" of state law while suggesting a legislative remedy to prevent counties from directly receiving such funds.

• To then try and restrict counties from pursuing the funding necessary to meet our legal obligations — a longstanding practice for many government services besides elections — is a slap in the face and seems to indicate that their intention is to hamstring election administration entirely."

• Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) filed a legal complaint with the Georgia State Election Board against DeKalb, saying the county "was willing to violate state law to secure millions from a progressive dark money organization."

• Meanwhile, Early County, Ga., received $37,109.

• DeKalb's population was 762,009 in 2020, meaning that CTCL awarded the county $12.63 per capita.

• "We have to ensure the funding of our elections comes from lawfully appropriated public funds," said Senate Ethics Chairman Max Burns (R), according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ga-sos-raffensperger-blasts-dekalb-county-taking-2m-zuckerbucks-suggests

COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship

 

• The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.

• AFP via Getty Images However, one former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade chastised his former colleagues for ignoring the obvious evidence supporting a lab theory as well as Chinese efforts to arrest scientists and destroy evidence that could establish the origin.

• AFP via Getty Images The media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as conspiracy theorists.

• A laboratory technician working on samples from people to be tested for the coronavirus at laboratory in Wuhan.

• In a House hearing, democratic leaders like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md).

• Many of those questions are only being recognized as legitimate and worthy of debate.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/covid-lab-leak-is-a-scandal-of-media-and-government-censorship/

Food Industry Insider Warns Of Contaminated Crops As A Result Of The East Palestine Environmental Disaster

 

• The horrific environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio has contaminated the air, the soil and the water in much of the region.

• But we do know that some companies have already started to take action due to concerns about contamination.

• Doctors say I definitely have the chemicals in me but there’s no one in town who can run the toxicological tests to find out which ones they are,” Lovett, 40, an auto detailer, said in an extremely high-pitched voice. “

• Right now, a lot of people are wondering why the EPA has suddenly stopped all shipments of contaminated waste from the disaster site… Federal environmental authorities have ordered a temporary halt in the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line.

• I would highly recommend stocking up while you still can, because we are moving into times of great uncertainty.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/food-industry-insider-warns-of-contaminated-crops-as-a-result-of-the-east-palestine-environmental-disaster/

U.S. Defense Dept Purchased Chinese IT Equipment with Known Vulnerabilities for Use at Sensitive Base.

 

• TP-LINK DEVICES IN THE UNITED STATES.

  A review of the online retail websites for United States military exchanges, the retail stores located on American military bases worldwide, shows multiple TP-Link devices being sold. This has the potential for an enormous risk of data compromise and should be considered a matter of national security. In addition to online sales and retail stores on military bases, a review of federal contracts through the website USASpending.gov reveals purchases of TP-Link equipment by the Department of Defense for operational purposes. They may want to start with not purchasing vulnerable Chinese equipment. Four additional contracts between 2021-2022 totaling $9,703 were awarded for purchases of TP-Link equipment by the Defense Logistics Agency. In 2017, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center purchased 8 fiber network converters made by TP-Link.

• WHAT IS TP-LINK?

  TP-Link primarily manufactures routers, network switches, access points, wi-fi range extenders, and related accessories, including mesh network devices under the brand name Deco. Additionally, they have entered the smartphone market under the brand name Neffos. TP-Link’s Privacy Policy states, “Your information will be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in…Places we have infrastructure or data centers, including the United States, Ireland, and Singapore, among other Countries where TP-Link Products and Services are available.” TP-Link is headquartered in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. The policy goes on to say, “These countries may have different privacy standards that differ from where you are. Currently, 15 of the top 50 best-selling routers on Amazon.com are manufactured by TP-Link.

• TP-Link products are a notorious security risk. In March 2022, the website GizChina, which reviews Chinese technology products, reported that TP-Link routers had been discovered sending a users traffic to a third-party company, despite user settings that had been switched off to prevent this. With all of the security vulnerabilities being discovered in electronics manufactured in China that can be exploited by the Chinese government, it seems these vulnerabilities are more of a feature, not a bug. In addition to China’s creeping control over technology used in the United States, many have also sounded the alarm regarding Chinese purchases of American agricultural land. A number of state governments are looking to ban such purchases.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/02/24/u-s-defense-dept-purchased-chinese-it-equipment-with-known-vulnerabilities-for-use-at-sensitive-base/

NATO & Biden Dismiss China’s Ukraine War Peace Proposals

 In the absence of U.S. initiative, China had put forth a 12-point paper calling for a “political settlement” between Ukraine and Russia, which included calls to “respect national sovereignty” and draw down sanctions.

The plan is as follows:

• 1. Respecting the sovereignty of all countries.
• 2. Abandoning the Cold War mentality.
• 3. Ceasing hostilities.
• 4. Resuming peace talks.
• 5. Resolving the humanitarian crisis. 
• 6. Protecting civilians and prisoners of war (POWs). 
• 7. Keeping nuclear power plants safe.
• 8. Reducing strategic risks.
• 9. Facilitating grain exports.
• 10. Stopping unilateral sanctions.
• 11. Keeping industrial and supply chains stable.
• 12. Promoting post-conflict reconstruction.

Though China’s proposal is obviously not set up to be advantageous to the West, the bulk of the proposals are reasonable for all parties prima facie.

And at least the communist nation offered a plan for peace at all.

Biden and Ukraine have not only rejected numerous calls for peace negotiations, but have even escalated their saber-rattling towards Russia, insisting that no negotiations will take place until Russian forces leave Ukraine.

https://newspunch.com/nato-biden-dismiss-chinas-ukraine-war-peace-proposals/