planned bombing that injured and killed 3 people. The Federal Givt, State, and local police agencies are on a massive man hunt for a teen. It seems as if the entire Boston area is on lock down, as well as, every news agency reporting any tiny thing that may or may not be occurring whether right or wrong.
In Texas, a fertilizer plant explodes. Killing many more people, blowing up residential homes, etc around the plant, and still leaving cause for possible environmental health/ harm to the people working the effected area and living around the area (the pictures look like a war zone like we've seen out of Iraq or Syria). And this was an incident that occurred from a corporation; in cooperation from paid of politicians and agencies who are supposed to protect workers, not having the resources or "man-power" to have prevented this tragedy or future tragedies.
Which story is getting the most coverage? The foreign/ American persons who planted bombs at the Biston marathon OR the corporate explosion that basically has taken out a town in Texas? The people who owned this company should be sharing space with the brothers on the FBI wanted posters. They are responsible for this!!! And they do it for greed, which may actually be worse than for a delusional, impassioned belief in some sort of "noble cause".
In any case, people have died and have been injured and now have their lives changed forever. It's kind of like the BP deep horizon explosion/ ecological disaster that was created from pure greed. No one went to jail for the killing of 11 (or 12 I forget 3 yrs later) persons who perished after the explosion on the oil rig... And no one will go to jail for the subsequent ecological disaster that will cause countless species to die, mutate, or the humans that will suffer the long term effects on the Gulf region for years into the future, some of which will lead to their deaths by cancer or other manners of health issues.
Who caused more deaths this week? How differently is the response to the two explosions that occurred this week and which one will cause changes to it laws or security responses? I would argue that security protocols will become stricter in public spaces, while coprorate murder by greed will largely continued to be ignored, work place safety measures will not become more stringent, agencies that monitor hazardous work place environments will not get more funding or more people to help monitor work place safety, and Unions will continue to be villianized and continue to lose their effective bargaining abilities (especially in these states that have made Right To Work laws).
Things are so F'd up in this country. It's no wonder what's up is down and what's left is right. Is it any wonder people in this country are so whack? We really need to find our "soul" as a nation and become grounded in a real sense of justice, fairness, equality, and a Govt that works efficiently and effectively for The People with the guidance of principals outlines in our constitution. We are losing or have lost a moral compass on society, general well being, health, compassion, empathy, and common decency. We need desperately to rid ourselves of corporate controlled Govt that rigs the law in favor of the few over the many.
Just look at the gun bill law shot down, or the ACA (ObamaCare) - most of this country is in favor of a Medicare for All approach, or getting out of long assed costly wars, or ignoring the crumbling infrastructure, or the manipulation of extraction public monies for pricate companies in even our education now (which is making the issues with education worse, not better - study after study has shown that test scores and student achievement is directly correlated to poverty of which 25% of our young people are experiencing - and with the definition of "poverty" at an unrealistically low defined amount, I'd say even more children are living in poverty than the official numbers (I'd say its closer to 35 - 45% of our children are living in impoverished circumstances or in homes that are barely making ends meet with parents who are working multiple jobs which leaves children even more vulnerable).
Things are just so damned F'd up. And our corporately controlled media is worthless, doesn't give us truths, facts, or nearly enough information about the world's news. Is it any wonder that when anything happens conspiracy theories begin popping up at the drop of a hat? People have list faith in the Govt, the news media (which is kind of like a 4th branch of Govt to keep the Govt honest by reporting factual news without opinion and sensationalism), and each other. We are so divided in this country. Just look at the vile spewed in the comments sections of articles or FaceBook/ twitter, etc or even here. We the People are turning on ourselves instead of turning towards one another. And that division makes it all the easier for the mess of our Govt to become worse and worse year after year with complete ineffectiveness.
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