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World War I Battlefield Gas Believed In Use Against Paris Protesters Today
Nextrush Free ^ | 12/8/2018 | Nextrush/Self

Posted on 12/08/2018 5:45:00 AM PST by Nextrush

"The gas is believed to be phosgene"

As published around 5am by BBC News online, removed from later versions

It was just last month (November 11th) that world leaders from some 80 nations gathered at the Arc de Triomphe to commemorate the end of World War I.

It was reported earlier this morning that its believed a battlefield gas from World War I, phosgene, is being used in that same area against the "yellow vest" protesters today.

An account on the BBC website saying that was published around 5am Eastern, but a later version did not mention it.....

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I describe it as it happened while I was monitoring and reporting news on my blog from the Paris protests. It needs follow up and I wanted it to be on the record.
1 posted on 12/08/2018 5:45:00 AM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

“it is believed”???


2 posted on 12/08/2018 5:47:06 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Nextrush

That’s some nasty stuff. Occasionally I was exposed to it in the Refrigeration field though not a super pure form of it.


3 posted on 12/08/2018 5:48:52 AM PST by headstamp 2
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What stopped you from posting the whole thing?

4 posted on 12/08/2018 5:49:03 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Nextrush

It looks like the phosgene story can be traced back to a BBC report that the Been may have either retracted or sent down a memory hole. Can’t find any confirmation on the use of phosgene.


5 posted on 12/08/2018 5:51:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: babble-on

No it’s BS. Phosgene kills.


6 posted on 12/08/2018 5:53:20 AM PST by HenpeckedCon (Covfefe Trump!)
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https://smyrnathemes.com/17935/phosgene-market-2018-2022-growth-key-players-drivers/

FWIW.


7 posted on 12/08/2018 5:54:00 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Nextrush

Low does of phosgene are FATAL. 50 PPM IIRC will induce severe pulmonary edema.

Your lungs drown, you die.

Has to be a translation issue.


8 posted on 12/08/2018 5:55:17 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: HenpeckedCon

Agreed. If the phosgene alert went off , or you smelled cherries, it was a bad day at the workplace.


9 posted on 12/08/2018 5:57:27 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Nextrush

Phosgene, which smells like moldy hay, is also an irritant but six times more deadly than chlorine gas. Phosgene is also a much stealthier weapon: it’s colorless, and soldiers did not at first know they had received a fatal dose. After a day or two, victims’ lungs would fill with fluid, and they would slowly suffocate in an agonizing death. Although the Germans were the first to use phosgene on the battlefield, it became the primary chemical weapon of the Allies. Phosgene was responsible for 85% of chemical-weapons fatalities during World War I.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/a-brief-history-of-chemical-war

Phosgene is used in plastics manufacturing, so it is an available chemical. It would be grotesque if the government was using this, but governments have done many grotesque things to their own citizens through history, including murder by the millions.


10 posted on 12/08/2018 5:59:02 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Blueflag

Macaroni would not dare use phosgene on his own people.


11 posted on 12/08/2018 6:00:00 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Blueflag
Yes.

Hard to believe the French government would commit suicide that way.

They are not the Chinese or Russians.

12 posted on 12/08/2018 6:01:05 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Yeah, and it just happened to be laying around in a deployable state today, not in 100 year old artillery rounds. ‘Hey, let’s use this!’


13 posted on 12/08/2018 6:01:05 AM PST by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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Yeah. What a load of crap.


14 posted on 12/08/2018 6:02:34 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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15 posted on 12/08/2018 6:06:07 AM PST by HangnJudge
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Marcon would not dare to use phosgene on his own people

Assad would not use chemical weapons on his own people, especially at times when he was near victory. Government troops would not kill protestors at the Kiev protests. It doesn't matter if Macron uses the deadly weapons or not. If people believe that troops are being ruthless in curtailing the protestors, that's as effective as it actually happening.

16 posted on 12/08/2018 6:07:34 AM PST by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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17 posted on 12/08/2018 6:11:54 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Nextrush

I am still waiting for Al Queda’s suitcase nukes to be exploded.

If the French were using gas, the Germans and the Brits would already be moving on Paris. No one is going to let that crap happen in the west without a significant response.


18 posted on 12/08/2018 6:12:02 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Nextrush; humblegunner

Hey no big deal but you really messed up on this one. You’d have done better to listen to Humblegunner the first time.


19 posted on 12/08/2018 6:12:02 AM PST by OKSooner (Whatever happened to, "The midterms are safe."?)
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To: Nextrush

If a nation used phosgene against an enemy in wartime, that would be a war crime. To do so against rioting civilians in your in country is inconceivable, especially when governments have gases that can make people vomit and skunkspray, which would disperse any crowd. I call BS on this report.


20 posted on 12/08/2018 6:13:11 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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