The crime engine of the world is throwing rods and smoking
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Jon Rappoport
The
author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US
Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a
consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he
has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles
on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
Alert: Ukraine chemical time bomb; warning to Putin and the Ukraine military
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THERE ARE MANY STORAGE DEPOTS ALL OVER THE UKRAINE, WHERE DANGEROUS AND BANNED PESTICIDES HAVE BEEN KEPT BADLY FOR YEARS.
Bombing and shelling that happens to strike these depots would cause devastating consequences.
In
2009, I researched the problem of pesticides in the Ukraine. Use is not
the only issue; so is storage. And the scope and danger are huge.
Here is what I found:
Tamara
Gurzhiy, “Expired and prohibited pesticides problem in Ukraine,”
Independent Agency for Ecological Information, Kharkiv, Ukraine (English
translation):
“Twenty
thousand to 25,000 t [tons] of expired or prohibited pesticides are
stored on 4,000 Ukrainian depots. This is a serious threat for people
and environment. Arsenic compounds are highly toxic for cattle. Death
comes within several hours…Majority of pesticide depots were not
designed for long-term usage. Chemicals are stolen and illegally sold to
people. Depots’ roofs collapsed over the time, pesticides’ wrapping
gets [out of] of order, pesticides of different nature may become [a]
catalyst of spontaneous chemical reactions with unpredictable results.
Spontaneous fire may spread toxins on a wide area. Utilization of
expired and prohibited pesticides is Ukrainian national problem.”
Indeed, there was a fire in 2009.
Simferopol,
October 17 (Interfax-Ukraine): “A storehouse with pesticide in Dzhankoi
(Crimea) is on fire...around 200 tonnes of pesticide and magnesium
chloride...around 40 tonnes of pesticide was taken from the
storehouse...” How extensive were the toxic clouds? Was this the real
reason for fake 2009 reports of a million people ill in the Ukraine with
Swine Flu?
“BRNO,
Czech Republic, Sept. 23, 2009 /CNW/ – According to Milieukontakts
Partner IHPA (the International HCH and Pesticides Association) the
health of at least 7 million inhabitants in Moldavia and Ukraine is
seriously threatened by a stock of old pesticides. IHPA calls for fast
EU action to disarm this ‘biggest chemical time bomb of Europe’.”
“...[in]
the former Kalush factory in the west of Ukraine there is a stock of no
less than 10,000 tonnes of superfluous Hexachlorobenzene (HCB). It’s
particularly the positioning along the Dniester river that makes the
situation extremely hazardous: a single flood and the high
concentrations of poison would pollute the natural habitat of some 7
million people in the west of Ukraine and Moldavia.”
“In
total, tens of millions of inhabitants in Europe, Central Asia and the
former Soviet Union are being threatened by pesticides. In Ukraine alone
there are 4,500 storage locations with more than 30,000 tonnes of old
pesticides, a legacy from the Soviet era. The substances have been
prohibited since 2001. As a rule the packaging only lasts five to ten
years. If nothing happens in that time, then the substances could simply
end up in the soil or in the water...”
Today
(2/25/22) I looked for evidence that these horrendous problems in the
Ukraine have been solved. So far, I haven’t found any. However, I did
come across a 2020 study, “Environmental monitoring and recommendations
on decreasing the levels of pesticide pollution in Zhytomyr region of
Ukraine”:
“Environmental
monitoring was conducted of facilities for storage and disposal of
banned and unsuitable pesticides. Pesticide content in the soil, water,
and products of agriculture in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine was
examined, and the accumulation of organochlorine pesticides by
freshwater bivalve mollusks was assessed. Storage facilities of the
Zhytomyr region contain nearly 392.18 t [tons] of pesticides in 137
warehouses, of which 11 meet the requirements, 36 are tolerable, and 90
are in poor condition…”
Not encouraging.
I
doubt the Russians or even the Ukrainians have supplied precise maps of
all these pesticide depots to their military commanders.
WATCH OUT.
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