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You know they’re desperate when they’ve resorted to chemical warfare against civilians. They’re getting brazen. They’re getting reckless. This is how serial murderers get caught.

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"The woman in this video says there are hundreds of cars and that the say liquid odorless petroleum gas on the cars that are sitting really low on their axles. She also said that the locals said that the train’s presence is unprecedented. Locals know. That does imply that they are full."

This woman clearly knows nothing about railway equipment. There's no way to tell from just looking at a rail car whether it's loaded or not. She also wonders who owns them, but hasn't noticed the reporting marks that tell you who the owners are. You only have look them up.

https://www.railserve.com/aar_railroad_reporting_marks.html

You don't even need the chart, just punch the reporting marks into a search engine.

For example: SHPX: https://www.abbreviations.com/SHPX

You can track individual rail cars using the reporting marks to find out where they are, where they originated, what their cargo is, and who the consignee is. I'm sure if you ran those numbers you'd find they're empty in storage because there's a surplus of tank cars right now, and when that happens they are often stored on unused sidings on secondary lines. No way are those cars loaded, given the remote location. Tank cars are all privately owned these days so you couldn't insure them or their cargo under those conditions. Insurers would demand a more secure location.

If they're in 'odorless' service that means they haul from the wellhead to the refinery, where SH2 is added for safety. That's the rotten egg smell you get from gas products which are odourless and heavier than air, so the smell is added for safety reasons to detect any leaks.

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Mercaptan

A few minutes on the web could have answered all her questions, or she could have just phoned the railroad and asked about it. Instead she gets alarmed based on an emotional response to a recent serious event and broadcasts that on the web, where it gets picked up and rebroadcast by others, without anyone looking into it any further than she did.

This is what happens when you combine fear and ignorance in a mass media environment. It distracts attention, plus it interferes with serious investigative work by making us all look like idiots.

Stay focused people. If something is outside your area of expertise, don't rebroadcast it, ask someone who knows, or look into it yourself. There's far too much at stake right now to be distracted by this sort of thing.

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This event should be taken as suspicious. However, it is important to figure out who could be behind it. And if we cannot---if there is no chain of command in government that would allow for transparency---then we should recognize what that means.

Part of cognitive warfare is the problem of group emotions being manipulated and then aimed. What if we don't know where to aim them? What if some people are misled to fire off their anger at the wrong target?

Also, is this a moment when too few people are speaking to believe this could happen with people being compromised? Compromised...how?

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It’s happening everywhere and it’s really concerning: a fire at a chemical plant in Holland, another fire in Verona (Italy) … ten chemical spills/fires in one week.

That’s a lot of coincidences!

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Where is Bidens Emergency Eco-terrorism Taskforce? Does Ohio need to declare itself a Ukrainian province to get aid?

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High winds tonight, and as usual, the power went out. So we hoped in the car and headed for Timmy's where the lights are always on because it's near the hospital.

On the way there we were stopped by an accident. What happened is a car got hit by a falling tree. Demolished everything aft of the rear window. Driver's area unscathed. So I asked myself (and my wife) how often does a tree fall on you while driving AND you walk away unscathed? What are the odds?

So putting on my magical thinking cap I decided it was telling me to pay attention to the outliers - those rare events that go unnoticed while we're distracted by things like balloons and rail accidents, which themselves are not so rare.

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Feb 21, 2023·edited Feb 21, 2023

When you're sitting up at 2am in the morning looking at the string of recent train derailments and notice a post by one of your substack faves:

GET OUT OF MY MIND 😆 🤣 😂 JK 😜

While you're in there, my mind that is, can you visit what happened a decade ago with investigations into SSRIs having a calming effect on specific autoimmune conditions? I'd had some thoughts about a possibility of SSRIS making IgG4 RD less visible..... it's a little bit of a stretch that needs some finer details ironed out to see if it is even plausible.

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It’s difficult to get too excited about train cars sitting on tracks in the middle of nowhere. Where do you “park” trains not in use? Also, having grown up in CA I know if nuts/walnuts are targeted, Stanislaus is hardly the county to hit. Most of the nut production is in the northern portion of the state. As for contamination of water, there are easier and more discrete ways, a train derailment most likely isn’t the quickest or most thorough. I think what we have here is ignited fear keeping people busy and or distracted.

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Ok, I have to say, if it was “the talk of the valley” I certainly hope they are making FORMAL INQUIRIES and taking action to get RID OF THE TRAINS. I think those ranchers are being excellently observant, and bringing folks together to see it from external to the valley VERY IMPT. It’s a big frustrating to see it stop there... Let’s hope it’s not? Thank you Jessica for sharing this and keeping a bit chute channel.

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I was wondering why we need a Food Security Agency here in the UK. There is my answer... PEOPLE WAKE UP!!! No almonds means no marzipan, we have to get this sorted!

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holy s*t. And apparently a Union Pacific train derailed in Stanislaus today? But I don't see anything with that and "chemical" (yet).

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Take a look at the twitter comments from "The Christpilled Libertarian".

He is a railroad conductor and says:

"The tanks are probably storage, because that's a service that many shortlines offer with spare track they don't use. This is especially true during economic slowdowns like right now."

https://twitter.com/realTCPL/status/1627692528022564865

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Hi Jessica. I suggest being very cautious to not fall into the base rate fallacy. In other words, be cautious until you know the base rates (amount of nasty chemicals transported by rail in the USA, frequency of disasters and near misses, etc.).

Infrastructure in general in the USA and the Western world is in decline (lack of investment in new infrastructure, lack of maintenance of existing infrastructure). This no doubt includes rolling stock. That does not mean there is a "conspiracy".

Hope that helps.

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Where is Bidens Emergency Eco-terrorism Taskforce? Does Ohio need to declare itself a Ukrainian province to get aid?

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Nothing is by accident. Nothing is coincidence. EVERYTHING is planned.

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Hi Jess,

Not a comment on this article, but just listened to your interview on TNT radio. You talked a lot about healthy food and ecosystems and I thought that you might be interested in "permaculture" if you are not already aware of it. It is about working with nature to provide for human needs. The foremost practitioner/teacher is Geoff Lawton (GeoffLawton.com), who is also a surfer.

Thanks for all that you are doing!

Bob

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