According to a few of the articles, Senators are being issued these phones in the event of a "Large communications outage". Why now? Usually when they "suddenly prepare" for strange events, those events materialize in short order.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senators-is...-measures/

Quote:Members of the U.S. Senate were recently offered satellite phones that will allow them to communicate in the case of a “man-made” or natural disaster, according to a report.

“A Department of Homeland Security advisory said satellite phones are a tool for responding to and coordinating government services in the case of a ‘man-made’ or natural disaster that wipes out communication.”

Old John Pebbles gently shook the clay flagon and hearing the reassuring sloshing of his homemade cider, wondered
if he should delay his usual ritual of getting to his bed before the sun went down and continue his blather with the little
woman sitting across from him. She too had partaken of the fermented juice and even though the Gnome was probably
twice her age, the occasional flash of his visitor's bare thigh still aroused feelings in him he'd believed had left long ago.

A large circle of fairies were coming to the last verse of their special Midsummer ballad and the bonfire they'd been
dancing around since late-afternoon was waning in its effulgence. The old Gnome and the small bare-footed female
watching the gaiety sighed as one at the simple exultation of life from beings who were and always will be one with
nature.

But even the sweet liquid wasn't powerful enough to shroud John's reminder that the tipsy lady in the poncho was
also a Witch and a half-Fae one to boot. The discreet festival hadn't been her sole reason for their meeting. Being
one of the rare exorcisers of those beyond the veil, his guest had recently expelled the spine-chilling creature known
as the Mowing Devil from a homestead over near Nine Banks. Seeing the tiredness around the eyes of the woman
under a wide-brimmed hat, he wondered what lay ahead for this cleanser of demons and monsters.

"After the Litha celebration is over, where do yer' think yer'll be heading to?" John asked in his best casual voice and
with all his will to keep the slurring out of his question. His sociable guest for the last two days pushed back her large
headwear and peered up at the blue-orange sky of early evening. "These old dogs are whisperin' that Ah' should head
towards the coast..." she answered amiably and wiggled her toes to emphasise what she meant. "...But me-heart has
been beckonin' me te' teke' a trip to somewhere Ah' have nay prevailed since Ah' was a young'un" the wool-gathering
wanderer added with a whimsical smile.

The full explanation wouldn't be revealed until the next day when the Gnome's guest finished her breakfast of unsalted
porridge and stood up from the small homemade table in his burrow. Hoisting a well-worn satchel onto her shoulder,
the famous necromancer of a hundred villages smiled as John Pebble also got to his feet and approached the woman
who'd been kind enough to spend a Midsummer's festival with someone many knew as a grouchy old bastard.

"Ah'll be on me-way now Mister Pebbles..." she said meekly and accepted the old Fae's rushed embrace, the ancient
Gnome's sparse hair smelled oddly of cinnamon with a faint wisp of last night's cider. "...Yon road is callin' again and
Ah'm itchin' te' go back te' see what home looks like" she added and gently patted her host on the shoulder.

As the little Witch skirted a ring of toadstools, stepped over the remains of a rotting log and disappeared behind a large
flowering rhododendron bush, one the fairies from the previous evening's merriment stepped out from the tall grasses
that hid John's little underground home from predators and followed the old Gnome's gaze.

"Where is she going" the almost-transparent spirit known as Bubbles asked as glitter-dust floated above the fairy's wake
through the undergrowth. The Gnome had seen almost a hundred Midsummer nights and had heard most of the tales
regarding the small sorceress who shunned footwear, most of them he was certain couldn't be true. Allowing a sigh to
leave his ponderings, John Pebbles scratched the raspy stubble on his chin and replied "Where would the Last Witch
of Underhill go when she says she's goin' home?".
.................................................................

With the dew still cooling her heels, Peggy Powler left the lush greenery of the forest and clambered unceremoniously
over the drystone that segregated the thick woodland and her favourite road of travel. The diminutive Witch knew that
Calder's Way passed close to the secluded area where Gnomes and other Fae lived and her need to be those of a more
magical predisposition than most humans had been too enticing to resist.

The farming community of Nine Banks lay a good day's walk behind her and ahead was the village of Beggar's Well,
a place she'd once killed a Barguest with an axe and felt great guilt about the act for several days. Peggy shivered as
she recalled those cold winter days across the moors, keeping away from farmhouses and the like. But with a quick
whip of her head and a glance towards the bright morning sky, the memories fell away and the little augurer's gait
improved along the cemented sea-cobbles of the fabled highway.

Underhill awaited and the woman who'd once been an auntie to the young girl left by her mother and the Carnival
would certainly be there. Peggy Powler smiled once more as she recalled the woman who was twice as old as
John Pebbles and could drink more in a night than the Gnome would manage in a week. Wicked Hetty, the Hag
of the Well.

Some useless trivia I find of interest. Here are some of their stories...


AMAZON:



Originally, it was an online bookstore called Cadabra.

As Brad Stone writes in his 2013 best seller, "The Everything Store," "Cadabra" was intended as a reference to the word "abracadabra" (as in, magic) back in July 1994. He writes that CEO Jeff Bezos' first lawyer pointed out that the reference was too obscure. Plus, when you were on the phone, people sometimes heard "Cadaver" instead.

So, Bezos and his then-wife, MacKenzie Tuttle, started exploring other possibilities. They registered the domain names Awake.com, Browse.com, and Bookmall.com. They also registered the domain name Relentless.com and kept it. (if you type that into your browser today, you'll be redirected to Amazon.com)

Bezos then started paging through the "A" section of the dictionary. At the time, website listings were alphabetized, so he wanted a word that started with "A." When he landed on the word "Amazon," the name of the largest river on the planet, he decided that was the perfect name for what would become earth's largest bookstore. The new URL was registered on November 1, 1994.

Jeff Bezos at his office desk in 1999. The desk was made out of an old door (stolen from Freija's workshop?)



Door desk: "It's a symbol."



Android:




Android is based on co-founder Andy Rubin’s nickname. He previously worked at Apple and in 1989, co-workers there had given him the name based on his love of robots. Android dot com was his personal website until 2008. Fired from Google in 2014 for sexual misconduct and paid a $90 million severance package to expedite the process. Nice work.




Google:



Initially called BackRub because the system checked back-links to estimate the importance of a site..."Googolplex" was suggested as a new name for the search engine. Larry Page countered with "Googol." When they checked to see if the googol domain name was taken...they typed in google by mistake. But, Page liked that even better.
Google origin



iPhone: 2007

Steve Jobs explained the "i" when the iMac launched in 1998. Aside from internet, it represented: individual, instruct, inform, inspire. But several names were reportedly considered for the iPhone, including:

Telepod, Mobi, Tripod...even iPad.




Band-Aid:


The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by a Johnson & Johnson employee, Earle Dickson, in Highland Park, New Jersey, for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. Dickson was a cotton buyer for J&J who made large cotton bandages. But Dickson’s wife needed something smaller that was easier to use. So he pitched Band-Aid’s. The word combines "bandage" and "first-aid."

Quote:Back in 1920, this newlywed was living in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with her husband Earle, and though married life agreed with her, housekeeping did not. Not that she didn't try. When Earle came home from his job as a cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson, Josephine would always have dinner on the table. Unfortunately, she'd also have several cuts or burns on her fingers. Without an adhesive bandage, Josephine had no easy way of bandaging her own cuts. Earle had to cut pieces of adhesive tape and cotton gauze and make a bandage for each wound. This happened day after day-and, day after day Josephine needed more bandages. They were in a real bind.

Finally, after several weeks of kitchen accidents, Earle hit upon an idea. (Luckily for Johnson & Johnson, his idea was not to go out and hire a cook.) No, Earle sat down and prepared some ready-made bandages by placing squares of cotton gauze at intervals along an adhesive strip and covering them with crinoline. Now all Josephine had to do was cut off a length of the strip and wrap it over her cut. In a way, it was a mother who was responsible for the invention of the BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandage.
BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandages Beginnings

I have Mexican friends who at one time would have welcomed any help in destroying the Cartels.

Several years ago a Marine friend of mine said we should put boots on the ground and have them move south until we can get a border we can defend; probably around the Panama Canal.

Nothing has improved and has only gotten worse since our DEA Agent Kiki Camarena was tortured to death many years ago. 

U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) seems to be provoking and threatening violence if Biden ends up negotiating any budget cuts !!

Jesus. Why would any sitting Congress Person want to see violence over the Budget?

Although Jayapal has always been on the edge of mental breakdowns, this is not the time to get nit-picky over wild ass Democrat spending and the possibility some of that spending may have to be chopped a little.

She also slipped-up and revealed the name of a MS13 member who is a minor !!

Could it be she is being told to raise Hell because some of her cohorts might get less gravy payoffs?

(warning: possible biased article!!! )


Extreme Left Warns of ‘Huge Backlash…in the Streets’ if Joe Biden Negotiates Any Budget Cuts

Quote:The extreme left raised alarm over President Joe Biden negotiating spending cuts to the federal budget with House Republicans during talks to raise the debt ceiling.

Although the White House claimed Biden would not negotiate with Republicans on reducing wasteful spending, the administration engaged with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on spending cuts, an idea that enraged the far left.

Extreme-left Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) warned Tuesday that any cuts to wasteful spending, including obsolete pandemic funding, would receive a backlash in the streets.

“I think there would be a huge backlash from our entire House democratic caucus, certainly the progressives — but also in the streets,” she told CNN.

Jayapal tried to couch her statement by pinning Biden to the previously passed reckless spending that fueled systemic inflation.

“It’s important we don’t take steps back from the very strong agenda that president himself shepherd and led over the past two years,” she said.

Quote:Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) entered into public record the previously undisclosed name of a 17-year-old illegal alien murder suspect while she was admonishing House Republicans Tuesday during a congressional hearing for revealing details of the case.

Jayapal, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, appeared to have accidentally exposed the name, which appeared in the subject line of an email from Health and Human Services (HHS) that she made public during the hearing.

So, disclosure: I did not write this.  I saw this, or variations of it, posted on various forums in the 2010s.  The author's name was always different, yet, it was clearly the same person who was making these comments.

My take is there is a lot of truth in the comments.  I'm not sure what the precise agenda of the author was, considering this was being posted in the comments section of various forums.  But you may (or not) enjoy the read.  I will split the comments into multiple posts.

Cheers

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By "Stephen Morris"

It's not "Goodbye to the West" but "Goodbye to the Modern Era" as Elitist politicians (like those who write for Project Syndicate) pursue their relentless campaign for the "refeudalisation" of society.

It's easy to forget that the Modern Era with its Modern Era values of egalitarianism, democratisation and national self-determination is . . . well . . . MODERN. It hasn’t been around for very long.

It is easy to forget that when viewed with proper perspective, human history up until the time of the Modern Era was a story of aggressively narcissistic, machiavellian psychopaths competing (sometimes collaborating) to attain positions of power, then using that power to dominate and brutalise their fellow human beings. We know from the historical record that these rulers showed no remorse in wasting the lives of thousands - even millions - of people they regarded as “their” Subjects.

That is the norm. That is the “base case” for human behaviour.

In that behaviour, psychopathic rulers were abetted by “sycophants” - typically timid, less dominant males - who sought to promote their own survival and reproductive prospects by allying themselves with the dominant males. Articulate sycophants often provided the “theology” of elite rule, constructing elaborate justifications for the privilege of their patrons.

Significantly, in times past the ability of such elites to dominate and brutalise others was limited by the capacity of individual human beings to kill each other, and therefore by the need to recruit and reward a circle of allies (a “praetorian guard”) which could carry out such enforcement.

Now, if that long-standing behaviour seemed to change in the Modern Era it was not because the psychopaths woke up one morning and said, “Oh my God!! Is that the time!? Is it the Modern Era already? Quick. We’d better start enacting social reforms!”

Human psychology has not evolved. Evolution operates over a much longer time frame. The psychopaths (and their sycophant supporters) have not gone away.

All that happened in the Modern Era was a temporary change in the environment: the demands of the industrial economy meant that it was expedient – for a time – for the rulers to make limited concessions to their Subjects.

The industrial state required the training of large numbers of Subjects to operate the complex – but not fully automated – machinery of industrial production. Having had so much invested in their training, Subjects acquired value and their bargaining power relative to their rulers improved. In the extreme, they could withdraw their labour and quickly impose greater costs on the owners of capital than they themselves suffered.

Under such conditions, the optimal strategy for rulers (and only after they had tried violent suppression and found it ineffective!) was to make certain limited concession to their Subjects. Thus we had the quintessential ideals of the Modern Era, culminating in the 20th century:

a) egalitarianism, the ideal that all people are entitled to the same basic opportunities irrespective of their ancestry;

b) democratisation, the ideal that Subjects are entitled to have some say in how they are governed; and

c) national self-determination, the ideal that self-identifying communities are allowed to choose for themselves how they will govern themselves.

If there was one ideal that characterised the 20th century it was surely that of national self-determination: from the first shots fired by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo in July 1914, through Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, through the post World War II era of decolonisation, through the collapse of the Soviet Empire, and right back to Sarajevo and the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Given the opportunity, like-minded communities like to govern themselves.

But none of these concessions meant that the psychopaths had gone away. And there was never anything to say that the conditions of industrial production would last forever.

What we are witnessing now is an elite response to the post-industrial world of AI and robotics.

No longer are large numbers of Subjects required to run complex but not fully automated machinery. Now it is small numbers of very highly trained technicians required to manage the robotic workforce. Small in number, they can easily be bought off. Better still, they can effectively be reduced to the status of indentured workers through the weapon of crippling student debt. They dare not rebel for fear of their debts being called in.

As for the rest of humanity, they are now redundant or soon will be. Their rulers no longer need them. And those the earlier concessions are - as the saying goes - “inoperative”.

To be sure, the masses may get employment of a kind, especially in providing personal services. But it will be employment in the “Uber Economy”, the “Gig Economy”, of savage competition between workers with all economic rent flowing to the owners of the monopolistic market platforms.

And the New Elite are responding precisely as one would expect an aggressively narcissistic, self-serving elite to respond. They are relentlessly winding back any concessions hitherto made, while their sycophant economic theologians are busy justifying it all as being for the “Greater Good”.

Inequality is quickly returning to its historical norm, as Piketty has documented. Piketty’s U-shaped graphs show inequality of wealth in the most developed countries declining into the mid 20th century then rising steadily again. It’s the past century that was the anomaly. We are returning to a “feudal” state in which property is owned by the magnates and almost everyone else is reduced to the status of dependent serf.

Where conventional property has proved insufficient, they’ve invented novel forms of “intellectual property” to expand the scope of private ownership.


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As for democratisation, in most countries it never developed beyond “elective” government dominated by elite parties. Moneyed interests and pressure groups found it a trivial exercise to subvert that. Campaign bribery and the revolving door of jobs-for-the-boys ensure that the interests of politicians and senior bureaucrats remain aligned with those of the elite.

This past year has seen an outbreak of rebellion, but it’s unlikely to last.

In the wake of Brexit and the Trump rebellion, there is now open talk in elite circles on whether it is appropriate to allow “obviously ignorant” people to vote on critical issues. “They’re not college educated, you know.”

There is now open talk on whether those who “receive more in government benefits than they pay in tax” should be allowed to vote at all. Significantly, there is no suggestion that those monopolists who receive more in economic rent than they pay in tax, or those lobbyists who receive more in government contracts than they pay in tax, or those too-big-to-fail bankers who receive more in bail-outs than they pay in tax, should be similarly disenfranchised.

Remember that the universal adult franchise is modern. In most countries it’s barely a century old. There is nothing to say that the Elite won’t campaign to remove it again. Or effectively subvert it by making it difficult for lesser mortals to enrol. Or re-jig the electoral system to ensure that minor parties have no hope of election.

Even minor parties and “outsiders” who do get elected prove to be a disappointment. Never forget that those attracted to politics are inevitably those who yearn to exercise power.

For example, following the 2010 election, the Liberal Democrats were given a once-in-a-century opportunity to reform Britain’s voting system and introduce proportional representation. Nick Clegg threw it all away in return for the chance to be Deputy Prime Minister for five years.

In the US, those who threw in their lot with the supposed "outsider" Donald Trump (out of sheer desperation for an alternative) may not have long to wait before suffering the pangs of disappointment.

In any event, the Elite are entrenching their gains by taking ever more critical decisions out of the hands of elective government altogether: the privatisation of strategic monopolies, essential services and critical databases means that elected politicians are forced negotiate with private magnates on terms dictated by the private magnates.

And finally there is national self-determination which has been eroded by the growth of undemocratic, opaque and unaccountable “neo-empires” like the EU, and so-called “trade” agreements which have less to do with trade and more to do with signing away sovereign powers to unaccountable committees of elite business interests.

Organisations like the EU may be created with the best of intentions, but no sooner do they come into existence than an “iron law of megalomania” takes hold. They begin to attract those self-same narcissistic, machiavellian individuals who are drawn to the prospect of exercising dominion over millions of other human beings.

As with any empire, the Subjects soon end up suffering in the pursuit of some “greater good”. Witness the economically counter-productive brutality inflicted on Greece. Witness the “Lost Generation” of unemployed European youth sacrificed to the Eurozone fantasy.

Now, like Elites throughout history the post-modern Elite seek to weave a cloak of virtue to conceal the nakedness of their self-interest. Their theologians devise all manner of mellifluous apologia.

Elite theologians love to talk in honeyed terms about the “end of borders”, but do not be deceived. They don’t really intend to abolish ALL borders. They simply want to replace “national borders” (over which the mass of ordinary citizens might have had some control) with “private borders”: elite private property.

The Elite do not intend to rub shoulders with the plebs. They retreat to their private mansions, their private country estates, their private campuses, their private gated communities, all surrounded by private borders marked with “KEEP OUT. Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted!” signs.

The Elite do not intend to stand, crushed cheek-to-sweaty-cheek with the prols on inadequate and overcrowded public transport. Not at all. They whizz from their private mansions to their private offices on roads which have been tolled (or “road-priced”) out of the reach of the masses. It’s like the Zil Lanes of old Soviet Moscow but nowadays it’s justified by deference to that Great God, “Efficiency”.

And from behind their private borders the Elite sermonise piously on the supposed intolerance of those outside! Hypocrites blind to their own hypocrisy.

On all fronts the trend is the same: the alienation of public rights - over which the citizens used to have some say - to elite private interests.

And if all of that sound depressing, it may be only the beginning.

Unless there is some spectacular change, at some point the Elite may decide that the continued existence of masses of redundant and increasingly disgruntled human beings is a threat to their own security.

In the past year we have seen the Chinese unveil lethal weaponised robotic “security guards” with rudimentary artificial intelligence that can be used to control “anti-social” elements. In the US we saw the first remote execution of a suspected gunman by a police robot.

If this does not send a chill down your spine, you’ve not been paying attention. The technology of robotic “pacification” is indifferent to Good and Bad. Not only do the Elite not need workers. They no longer require humans for their Praetorian Guard.

Now, some might be inclined to dismiss this as “conspiracy theory”. But here’s the thing: there is no conspiracy. There’s nothing underhand going on. There are no secrets. All this is happening in plain sight. One merely needs to look about and then remember that human psychology has not evolved.

There has always existed within the human population a small proportion of individuals who are not like the rest of us. They are aggressively narcissistic, machiavellian, possibly psychopathic, with a strong appetite for attaining power and dominating others. They may not always be apparent. One of the defining characteristics of psychopathy is “superficial charm”. The psychopath knows more about you than you know about yourself. He or she knows exactly which buttons to press to gain your confidence, your trust, even your admiration.

Had it been possible to establish genuine Democracy with the right of recall, veto, initiative and referendum there might have been some hope for the rest of the human race, some hope of effectively controlling these people. That is why elite theologians universally abhor genuine Democracy in favour of the corrupt system of “elective” government: elective government which perversely attracts the most undesirable narcissists.

Elective government provides no safeguards. It will prove no barrier to containing the psychopaths once the cost of pacification falls as a result of robotics.

You don’t need to be Einstein to see how this game must play itself out.

For most people it’s not going to be a happy ending.

The Holocaust is approaching.


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People have probably heard of the Cola wars between Coke and Pepsi but have you ever heard of how Pepsi got started and survived two bankruptcies to become one of the largest conglomerates in the world ? Pepsi's formula was initially brought together as a more healthy product without the habit forming harmful ingredients in their syrup that Coke was known for..

The following video traces Pepsi's history from before 1898 until today. I did not think I would be all that interested in the history of Pepsi but alas I was surprised.

I'm posting this because, honestly, I find that question so often met with blank stares by even the most self proclaimed "conspiracy theorists".

His political slant aside, he's dredged through all the classic topics for decades, been there/done that and written the books to show for it.

I can't, for the life of me, think that he hasn't at some point in every conspiracy theorists trek through knowledge been atleast somewhere with regard to their exposure.

So, not so much a reference to his political sided videos, but what, if anything, has he been apart of in your journey. Secrets societies, aliens, government programs/coverups. etc.

He seems like at the end of the day, no matter how many books he sells, how many views he gets, he'll keep hammering away at what so many self proclaimed "truth seekers" shy away from in order to keep their money flowing.

A doctored photo of The Pentagon blowing up on a fake Bloomberg Twitter account sent the stock markets plunging until they figured out it was all fake !! ROFLOL

The DOW suicided itself by about 800 points and other markets tumbled as well ROFLOL

Bet this was staged to draw attention to the new Bill in Congress to "Police" "fake news" !!  




BREAKING: STOCK MARKET Takes Brief Tumble After Fake AI-Generated Photo on Fake Bloomberg Twitter Account Shows Explosion at Pentagon This Morning

Quote:A fake (verified blue check-mark) Bloomberg Twitter account posted an apparently AI-generated photo of an explosion at the Pentagon this morning, and the stock market reacted.


100 Percent Fed Up reports – The reportedly AI-generated image showed a fake explosion at the Pentagon this morning that spread like wildfire across social media platforms, causing a brief selloff on the US Stock market this morning. According to the Kobeissi Letter, there was a $500 billion market cap swing and a drop of 500 points on the S&P in a 30 minute span, as a result of the fake AI image.

Quote:Huge Shipment of Explosive Chemicals Disappears In Mojave Desert, Investigation Underway (May 19, 2023)

30 tons of ammonium nitrate was reported missing from a train car after it stopped in the Mojave Desert.

California officials are investigating the disappearance of 30 tons (61,000 pounds) of ammonium nitrate from a railcar crossing the Midwest. Ammonium nitrate, which is used as fertilizer, can also be used to create explosives and was a key component in the homemade bomb used in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The chemical was shipped by train from Cheyenne, Wyoming last month but when it arrived in the Mojave Desert two weeks later, its holding car was empty and the nitrate was gone. Dyno Nobel, the company responsible for shipping the ammonium nitrate is a leader in commercial explosives and filed a report with the federal National Response Center (NRC) on May 10 and an investigation is currently underway.

The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific, and Dyno Nobel are looking into the disappearance, and the railcar is being transported back to Wyoming to undergo a thorough inspection.

It is unclear how or when the chemical disappeared during transit, but Dyno Nobel told KQED News, “The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit.”

Given that the chemical can be used to make highly explosive bombs, the loss of such an enormous amount of explosive material is highly concerning, and Stan Blake, a former Wyoming lawmaker and retired train conductor told Cowboy State Daily News it wouldn’t have been difficult to drain the train car of the material. Blake told the outlet that each car has two or three sections with a gate at the bottom, and said, “You can use up a big bar and open that gate and it’ll pour out.”

Dyno Nobel did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment but said in a statement to Cowboy State Daily News that the railcar had made multiple stops on its journey and that there is a team working to investigate how the supposed leak occurred. “We take this matter seriously and will work to understand how it happened and how it can be prevented from occurring again,” the spokesperson said.

A Union Pacific spokesperson told Cowboy State Daily News that the loss of the ammonium nitrate is not something to be overly concerned about. “Assuming the loss occurred during transport, the release of the fertilizer to the ground beneath railroad tracks should pose no risk to public health or the environment.”

David King, a Campbell County emergency management coordinator, told the outlet that it isn’t likely the chemical was stolen and said he doesn’t believe it was gathered to be used to create illegal explosives. “If I was going to make an IED [improvised explosive device], ammonia nitrate wouldn’t be my choice of explosive,” he told the outlet, adding, “It’s not a ‘set your hair on fire’ situation.”