One Dead After Ammonia Leak At Boston, MA Seafoods Company

Stavis Seafoods, Boston, MA

[From article]
The Seaport seafood company where a worker died amid a massive ammonia leak Wednesday has been cited in the past for safety violations, some involving its refrigeration system.
In 2009, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Stavis Seafoods for safety violations related to its refrigeration system. The company was also fined by OSHA in 2000.
“OSHA’s inspection found the initial evaluation of hazards associated with the refrigeration system had not been conducted; standard operating procedures had not been developed for all system activities or were incomplete,” OSHA’s 2009 statement read.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/03/plant_where_man_died_was_fined_before

Plant where man died was fined before
Matt Ingersoll

Friday, March 25, 2016

Boston Herald

Chemical Weapons Appear Ten Years After They Did Not Exist

[From article]
Duelfer and the Iraq Study Group should not to be taken sans sodium; it also said there were no WMD's present, something we now know was monumentally incorrect.
It should be pointed out that many of the current ISIS leaders are former Baathists, buttressing the notion that they were a part of the original insurgency.
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Those weapons weren't hidden from the Iraqis. They were hidden from US.
So why didn't the insurgents use them? Because they were fighting a political war as much as a military one, and the use of those weapons would demolish the carefully crafted fiction that "Bush lied and people died". The principal strategy of the Iraqi insurgency was to outlast America, to sour Americans on the war so we would leave. A gas attack would shock many people and support for the war would rise. Not so with traditional methods of attack, which simply disgusted the citizenry with the loss of life. Many Americans were unwilling to support a war predicated on a lie, but would get behind the Bush Administration if it were shown he had been telling the truth - and that we were now facing those very weapons on the field of battle.
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Bush took a beating in the court of public opinion on this issue, both at home and overseas. It would be a monumental strategic blunder to prove he was right.
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A guerilla war can only drag on as long as the enemy believes he can win. We gave them that hope by our political infighting at home. At the core dispute of that infighting was the claim that there were no WMD's.
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This strategy was absolutely catastrophic; we have ISIS because of it, we have had the disaster that is the Obama Administration and all it has wrought, trillions in spending, socialized medicine, abuse of dissenters by government, open borders, etc. because of the upwelling in disgust for the GOP brand because of it.

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/karl_roves_strategic_concealment_initiative.html

October 23, 2014
Karl Rove's Strategic Concealment Initiative
By Timothy Birdnow

Iraq Chemical Weapons

[From article]
ISIS had used chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Kobani, raising the question of where ISIS would have acquired such weapons. The second, in the New York Times, detailed how U.S. forces in Iraq uncovered thousands of shells filled with chemical munitions from various areas of the country following the invasion, and how they were stored and guarded until 2011.
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reporting would have indicted a number of Western countries for their role in providing Saddam with chemical capabilities in the first place. “Germans built the facilities…aviation bombs from a Spanish manufacturer, American-designed artillery shells from European companies, and Egyptian and Italian ground-to-ground rockets — to be filled in Iraq,” according to the NYT. This is not news. The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq by Kenneth Timmerman was published in 1991 with the details in spades.
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Which is more likely? That ISIS is handling pre-1991-era leaky canisters of CW damaged and improperly stored in Iraq, or that it has taken much more modern stockpiles – perhaps new weapons produced in unshuttered facilities in Syria – for use in its destructive sweep through both countries? The first would indict the Bush administration, the second the Obama administration.
The Pentagon, by the way, denies that ISIS has seized any chemical weapons in either country. “We have no indications right now that they have possession of those kinds of munitions,” according to spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/chemical_weapons_revelations_in_the_middle_east.html

October 17, 2014
Chemical Weapons Revelations in the Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen

Chemical Spill At MIT

[From article]
No injuries have been reported in a chemical spill at MIT earlier today, according to Kimberly Allen, director of media relations for the university.
The university posted an alert around 1:45 p.m. asking people to stay clear of Building 18. According to a tweet from MIT Police, the spill was contained just before 2 p.m. People should still avoid the area near Building 18, Allen said

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20141007/NEWS/141007177

Police: Chemical spill contained on MIT campus
Posted Oct. 7, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
Updated at 2:41 PM

Loophole in MA Law Permits Inhaling Chemicals While Driving

[From article]
A Middlesex defense lawyer has exposed a glaring loophole in the impaired driving law that could let motorists who get high inhaling aerosol gases skate on criminal charges.
Manuel Sousa is a Malden man who in September 2011 was inhaling, or “huffing,” computer cleaner as he drove around his hometown, according to court papers. Sousa stopped in the middle of the road, with the engine running, and as police approached his vehicle, he grabbed an aerosol canister “which he placed to his mouth and sprayed,” court documents state.
Sousa was rung up on four charges and was convicted of operating under the influence and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. He appealed, and his attorney brought up an interesting loophole: ethylene, the chemical Sousa was getting high on, isn’t listed in the statute controlling impaired driving.
That could be enough to let Sousa get away with it.

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It reminds me of the upskirting case,” said Jerry Cibley of Safe Roads Alliance, referring to the controversial Supreme Judicial Court ruling that said it was legal to take photos under a woman’s skirt. “The Legislature changed that law in a matter of days.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/09/loophole_could_leave_das_in_a_huff

Loophole could leave DAs in a huff
Saturday, September 20, 2014
By: Bob McGovern
Boston Herald

HAZMAT Fire At Harvard University Labroratory

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/11/haz-mat-scare-in-harvard-building/

Haz Mat Scare In Harvard Building
November 11, 2012 10:42 PM
CBS News Boston MA

Suicide By Hazardous Chemicals

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9NMA4080&show_article=1

Hollywood suicide points to chemical danger
Jun 6 05:46 AM US/Eastern
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
Breitbart.com