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On February 3rd, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying tens of thousands of gallons of toxic vinyl chloride derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. This event, while not unique in the least, is a striking example of how corporate negligence causes environmental an humanitarian disasters. In the weeks since the crash, several other trains have derailed, including at least one more of Norfolk Southern’s. Why is this such a common problem? What has led to the US having over 1,000 derailments per year, and why isn’t anything being done about it? We flew out to East Palestine to speak to residents and take a look at the issue.
How Corporate Greed Destroyed East Palestine – Second Thought
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love seeing the evolution of this channel comrade, keep up the good work.
Ohio State Govt: No, we don't want federal help
Also Ohio State Govt: WhY dIdN'T yoU hELP uS?
Should we nationalize the railroads?
Gotta love how the Government didn't allow mainstream reporters or Journalists to report on this "accident" before they could be fed a script to make it seem like the spill had nothing to do with the workers trying to unionize
Great video
Lmao I thought the video was about Palestine the country 💀
Buttigieg worked for McKinsey consulting which is the same company used by Norfolk Southern so obviously he is a piece of shit corpo shill. The USA should nationalize the railways like most western counties.
The hot box being tampered with has nothing to do with regulations.
this was a beautifully crafted video
Can you do a video on the 2008 financial crisis? Or even the similarities to the current banking failure? You’re awesome JT.
Yes. We can make a better world for our children & future generations. Fight!
We live in dystopia. These things are preventable. It could be handled better. But instead it's people are suffering and generations will die.
livin the american dream, baby
Welcome too the black world
The only difference there'll be giving you snowpeople a check….
One caveat I have with this video is that the ECP brakes would not have stopped this derailment, as explained by Alan Fisher in his "A Train Derailed in East Palestine, Ohio; Why did that Happen?" video
This incident is something you would hear about in the pre-war Fallout world just a bit of time before the bombs fell. Considering that WWIII might be around the corner, uhh, yeah. Better hope Bethesda isn't prophetical in writing terminal entries for their games.
11:58 this dumb mf already tried to rent the house out to someone and the disaster happened only a month ago. He just tried to pass the problem off on someone. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed
Infuriating
The CEO and board of NFS should be imprisoned for life. We should be making an example of them.
$1000 isn't a slap in the face, from a multi-billion dollar company it's pissing in their faces.
You were so close man, you fell apart at the end. Fantastic video, but read Atlas Shrugged, I'm rereading it rn and it's freaking me out. The biggest problem with your final analysis you proved wrong earlier in your video. Obama's regulations were destroyed by lobbyists because politicians don't care. And who do you think will be incharge if you nationalize, I'm thinking it's going to be tge same CEO's who have government friends. It's never been a money thing, it's a class and power thing, in the words of George Carlin, it's a big fucking club, and you ain't in it.
smh only in ohio
In America, corporations are allowed to buy your government.🤡
'These people serve no purpose'. As a former executive, can confirm. Great video, excellent!
Something simmilar happened in canada, at Lac Mégantic in 2013. It's crazy how some things never get fixed.
Dox the owners of the company already…
On the plus side, all those East Palestine Repubs can bask in knowing that they "owned the libs" by supporting deregulation while they simultaneously bask in toxic waste
Beautiful
Good work.
This is the first time I heard they blew holes in those tankers! That's the best way to keep something from blowing up on it's own.🙄