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However, when a reporter asked him whether the chemicals at the warehouse had been stored far enough away from residences in the area and Wen seemed at a loss for a response, the broadcaster suddenly cut away from the news conference, only to return to it again later.
It also appears that the Chinese authorities are cracking down on critical reporting:
The Chinese could learn a trick or two from TX Governor, Gregg Abbott
A year after a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, exploded, on April 18th, 2013, killing 15 people and injuring more than 200 others, while leveling a significant part of the small town:
Texasâ Abbott: âDrive aroundâ to look for dangerous chemicals
The issue is coming to the fore again recently in the Lone Star State because Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R), the frontrunner in this yearâs gubernatorial race, declared that state records on dangerous chemical locations can be withheld from the public. The Texas Tribune reported yesterday on the state A.G.âs rationaleâŚ
âYou know where they are if you drive around,â Abbott told reporters Tuesday. âYou can ask every facility whether or not they have chemicals or not. You can ask them if they do, and they can tell you, âWell we do have chemicals or we donât have chemicals,â and if they do, they tell which ones they have.â
Yee haw!!..erm⌠Ding Hao�?
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Weird that that the AP style guide, in addition to converting specific distances â â120 kilometers (75 miles)â â also does âseveral kilometers (miles)â. As if people donât know the difference between cm and km roughly; e.g. which is used to measure penises versus planets.
One thing you can say about the Chinese, they will hold someone accountable, maybe not the right person, but someone from management is going to suffer for this. Some days, you kinda wish weâd be a little more like that here in the US. Seeing a bankster or two in cuffs might do us all a bit of good. I am pro-life, that is anti-capital punishment, but I might make an exception, because executing a banker might even work as a deterrent. Whatâs Jamie Dimon up to these days.
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ââŚused to measure Republican penisesâŚâ
Fixed that for you.
Ted Cruz will have to tie this to Obama somehow. And of course it wouldnât have happened if Trump was in charge of the port. Huckabee will say God caused it in retribution for gay marriage. And since the disaster released more pollution into the atmosphere then everything thatâs ever been burned in the history of the planet we may as well forget reining in carbon emissions, whatâs the use if those cunning Chinese are going to ruin it with their fireworks?
Bernie Madoff is in jail for the rest of his life for financial shenanigans and fraud. Life in prison seems a pretty severe sanction for a crime. Yet bankers still commit crimes. You really think the threat of punishment will alter their quest for riches? Hardly.
This is what âWe need fewer regulations!â looks like.
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The Feds let Bernie Madoff continue his fraud for a decade after he had been reported. Iâm sure Madoff is responsible for at least one heart attack suffered by a customer who thought they had put aside enough money for retirement and suddenly found out they were broke. Madoff was not convicted for the bankster frauds of the 2008 Bush depression, he was a long time cheat that was finally prosecuted about then. They messed over Madoff and Martha Stewart thinking weâre all idiots and would not notice all the crooks that were not even prosecuted. Only one banker went to jail for 2008, and only because he was honest enough to plead guilty. Lots of innocents paid for banksterâs crimes with losses that will scar them for a lifetime.
Did anyone even go to jail for that Texas explosion?
If a businessmanâs actions or negligence causes massive suffering and death, life in prison should be considered. Otherwise we should just stop prosecuting people for shoplifting or stealing cars. I mean, if you donât get prosecuted for stealing billions or killing/maiming hundreds, why bother with a crime that is only .000000001% as bad. Stealing 50 billion might, under rare circumstance get an already old man life in prison; so whatâs the appropriate punnishment for $50 in shoplifting? About 10 seconds in jail.