The Lever's David Sirota on How Corporate Greed Led to the Hazardous Train Derailment in Ohio

Source: Via The Young Turks Youtube channel
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The Lever's David Sirota join Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur on to discuss the recent train derailment in Ohio. Read more HERE: https://www.levernews.com/rail-compan...

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"Before this weekend’s fiery Norfolk Southern train derailment prompted emergency evacuations in Ohio, the company helped kill a federal safety rule aimed at upgrading the rail industry’s Civil War-era braking systems, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

Though the company’s 150-car train in Ohio reportedly burst into 100-foot flames upon derailing — and was transporting materials that triggered a fireball when they were released and incinerated — it was not being regulated as a “high-hazard flammable train,” federal officials told The Lever.

Documents show that when current transportation safety rules were first created, a federal agency sided with industry lobbyists and limited regulations governing the transport of hazardous compounds. The decision effectively exempted many trains hauling dangerous materials — including the one in Ohio — from the “high-hazard” classification and its more stringent safety requirements."

My personal comments: These naive ignorant victims are way too passive. They're not pissed off enough and won't demand criminal charges, arrests and executions. These greedy corporate lobbyists and CEO gangsters should all be held criminally responsible not sued and charged with manslaughter for intentional criminal acts against humanity and nature. Suing these greedy lobbyists and corporations is pointless, they always settle out of court. Time to change the rules and make it a mandatory sentence of the death penalty.

If shareholders were concerned about those new updated brakes so much, they should pull their money out of these greedy criminal corporations as shareholders. That would make the CEO's of criminal corporations take notice and change their ways. They would all be crying all the way to their dropping stock shares! Hit them all where it hurts most, right in the PROFITS!