Giant cloud of face-melting nitric acid spews into the sky as Russian forces lay waste to Ukrainian city

[More Obama legacy]

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Russian forces stepped up their attack on the battered city of
Severodonetsk by striking a chemical plant that sent a huge
cloud of smoke into the air.

Footage taken by a Ukrainian defender shows a spewing cloud of
nitric acid as Russian forces pushed to take the strategic city
Severodonetsk in a bid to turn the tide of the war.

The Ukrainian authorities have warned people to stay inside due
to the risk posed by toxic fumes after the blast.

Nitric acid, which is yellow or red, is corrosive and can cause
severe burns, ulcerations, and scarring when in contact with
skin.

Its vapor can also cause pulmonary edema when inhaled – which
can be fatal.

Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said the dangerous chemical
release was caused when Vladimir Putin’s forces carried out an
airstrike on a chemicals plant.

Haidai said an aerial attack from a Russian warplane led to the
chemical release, exposing residents to toxic fumes, in a city
with a normal population of 106,000, though many have fled from
the advance of Vladimir Putin’s forces.

The Russian Investigative Committee announced a criminal
investigation into the nitric acid release.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has replied by blasting
Moscow’s airstrikes in the frontline city as “madness.”

In his video address, he condemned the airstrikes in the city
but added he was not surprised by Russia’s attack.

“Given the presence of large-scale chemical production in
Severodonetsk, the Russian army’s strikes there, including blind
air bombing, are just madness,” he said.

“But on the 97th day of such a war, it is no longer surprising
that for the Russian military, for Russian commanders, for
Russian soldiers, any madness is absolutely acceptable.”

Meanwhile, Moscow claimed that Ukrainian forces hit a nitric
acid tank, triggering an explosion and release of the orange
fumes.

A Russian source said: “Footage has emerged of an explosion of a
chemical tanker, presumably containing nitric acid, set off by
the Ukrainian armed forces at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.”

It comes as Putin demanded the city was captured by yesterday.

Both sides said Russian forces now controlled between a third
and half of the city – but Ukrainian forces are still resisting.

Russia’s separatist proxies acknowledged that capturing the city
was taking longer than hoped, despite one of the biggest ground
assaults of the war.

It comes as a bombshell report has revealed Putin could
sacrifice his own army in a bid for a hollow victory in Ukraine
to save his skin despite losing more than 30,000 troops.

A top secret analysis of the shambolic invasion says the Russian
dictator believes 30,350 of his troops are a “price worth
paying” for a small victory in eastern Ukraine.

But the new report – seen by senior UK government officials and
obtained by The Mirror – warns Putin’s blood sacrifice may be a
step too far for his troops.

Comments:

Tigers Blood
1 June, 2022

Ukraine is a sovereign nation. Ukraine should be free to go on
the offensive against Russia by using military equipment and
technology to hit targets within Russia.


Count Mario
1 June, 2022

As long as it is not paid for by the US Taxpayer....


Elias Thienpont
2 June, 2022

No, I am quite willing to halp pay for this, otherwise Russia
will eventually be on our doorstep.


Witchism
2 June, 2022

Well I'm NOT willing to help pay for something that WE helped
create in the first place. You still don't know who the real
enemy is.


Elias Thienpont
2 June, 2022

Support the Ukraine! Increase sanctions on the USSR (er--
Russia). Let their be no win for Russia, and press sanctions
untill all of Ukraine is returned to its pre 2014 borders. Send
whatever weapons, and even forces into Ukraine that are
necessary to stop Russia.



United
1 June, 2022

Joe Biden "greelighted" the invasion in January.


obama's knee dummy
1 June, 2022

Remember obama and the Russian ambassador caught on a open mic
in 2012
"....when I am re-elected I will have the flexibility to get you
what you want..."
2014: Putin takes the Crimea and Donbas areas.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/face-melting-nitric-acid-spews-
into-the-sky-during-russian-attack/

[Fried Cancer]

In article <t2fsh6$3jeoj$***@news.freedyn.de>
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There’s growing evidence that regular exposure to man-made
“forever” chemicals, which are used in a variety of household
products, are linked to rising cancer rates.

A new study that examined the correlation between liver cancer
and the presence of these chemicals in humans found that people
with the highest levels of exposure have 350% greater odds of
eventually developing the disease.

The term “forever” chemicals refers to the more than 4,700
available types of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl
substances, or PFAS, used widely across manufacturing industries
— named as such because the substances degrade very slowly and
build up over time, in soil, drinking water and in the body.

PFAS were first introduced in the 1930s as a revolutionary
material used in the creation of nonstick cookware — hello,
Teflon — and soon adapted to all sorts of products and packaging
— from construction materials to cosmetics — that benefit from
its liquid- and fire-resistant properties, as noted by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Though incredibly useful, such chemicals have since been linked
to the onset of cancer and other illnesses in lab animals.
Following strong anecdotal evidence that perfluorooctanesulfonic
acids (PFOS) alongside another common substance called
perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) were making consumers sick, the
Environmental Protection Agency in 2006 ordered eight
multinational manufacturing corporations represented in the US
to phase out the use of such chemicals. Nevertheless, as their
nickname implies, PFOS and PFOA are still being detected in
foreign products, in groundwater and in people.

The current study, published in JHEP Reports, is the first to
show a clear association between any PFAS and nonviral
hepatocellular carcinoma (the most common type of liver cancer)
in humans, too.

“This builds on the existing research, but takes it one step
further,” said Jesse Goodrich, a postdoctoral public health
researcher at Keck School of Medicine, in a University of
Southern California news release. “Liver cancer is one of the
most serious endpoints in liver disease and this is the first
study in humans to show that PFAS are associated with this
disease.”

Showing an association between PFAS and cancer in humans hasn’t
been easy for scientists.

“Part of the reason there has been few human studies is because
you need the right samples,” added Keck School of Medicine
professor Veronica Wendy Setiawan. “When you are looking at an
environmental exposure, you need samples from well before a
diagnosis because it takes time for cancer to develop.”

To make this leap, researchers were given access to the
Multiethnic Cohort Study database, which entails a survey of
cancer development in more than 200,000 residents of Hawaii as
well as Los Angeles, Calif., conducted by the University of
Hawaii.

Their search was narrowed to 100 survey participants — 50 of
them with liver cancer and 50 without — whose available blood
and tissue samples were sufficient for analysis. Researchers
were looking for traces of “forever” chemicals present in the
body before the group with cancer became ill.

They reportedly found several types of PFAS among participants,
with PFOS appearing most prominently among those in the group
with liver cancer. Indeed, their investigation revealed that
those who fell in the top 10% of PFOS exposure were 4.5 times
more likely to develop hepatocellular carcinoma when compared to
those with the least exposure.

The clear link between PFAS and cancer in humans is crucial to
further study on how these chemicals interfere with biological
processes. Per the current findings, USC scientists now believe
that high concentrations of PFOS in some subjects had impaired
the liver’s ability to metabolize glucose, bile acid and
branched-chain amino acids, resulting in unhealthy levels of fat
accumulation in the organ, otherwise known as nonalcoholic fatty
liver disease — a high-risk factor for liver cancer.

That’s why many scientists agree it’s no coincidence that the
advent and widespread use of “forever” chemicals correlates with
a rise in liver disease, cancer and other illnesses.

“We believe our work is providing important insights into the
long-term health effects that these chemicals have on human
health, especially with respect to how they can damage normal
liver function,” said study author Dr. Leda Chatzi. “This study
fills an important gap in our understanding of the true
consequences of exposure to these chemicals.”

https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/forever-chemicals-linked-to-liver-
cancer-in-first-human-study/