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Blinken Rebukes China’s Top Diplomat on Balloon, Ukraine​

  • US secretary of state rebukes China for ‘irresponsible act’
  • Both sides take blunt tone around meeting at Munich conference

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Looks like the meeting didn't go well, probably a polite shouting match on the two sides.

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Look's like Xi's upcoming peace proposal is serious, maybe thats why Blinken is so upset.
 
ficker22

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This is the quality of German leaders. @ficker22 any opinions? Lol.

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Sadly, yes. Current gouvernment is late GDR level delusional, atleast Honecker had nice drip....

Baerbock is kinda a meme because she spits BS every third sentence. I wait for the day Putin does a 360 no-scope tho....

Inbefore deindustrialisation of vassal germania in full swing, the colleagues of mine who graduate this year all talk about working in the US, with most of them doing a semester there or planning to do internships.
 
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America’s infrastructure is an embarrassment.

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Ineffective oversight and a largely self-monitoring industry that has cut the nation’s rail workforce to the bone in recent years as it puts record profits over safety is responsible for the wreck, said Ron Kaminkow, an Amtrak locomotive engineer and former Norfolk Southern freight engineer.

“The Palestine wreck is the tip of the iceberg and a red flag,” said Kaminkow, who is secretary for the Railroad Workers United, a non-profit labor group that coordinates with the nation’s rail unions. “If something is not done, then it’s going to get worse, and the next derailment could be cataclysmic.”

The Pittsburgh region alone has seen eight train derailments over the last five years, according to the public health advocacy group Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh (RPPP), and about 1,700 annually occur nationally. The causes of the Pittsburgh accidents highlight the myriad ways in which things can go wrong. A crack in a track ignored by rail companies caused a 2018 derailment, while another train hit a dump truck at a crossing with inadequate safety equipment. A broken axle on a train car is thought to be the source of the East Palestine accident.

Rail traffic is projected to increase through the region as a new Shell plastic plant comes online and rail infrastructure, like tracks and bridges, are in a precarious state, said Glenn Olcerst, founder of RPPP.

“The railroads are playing Russian roulette with Pittsburgh,” he said. “We are a prime candidate for a major derailment and explosion.”

Rail companies laid off more than 20,000 rail workers during a year period in 2018-2019, representing the biggest layoffs in rail since the Great Recession, and the nation’s rail force has dipped below 200,000 – the lowest level ever, and down from 1 million at its peak.

“They have cut the hell out of the workforce, and there are big plans to cut it further,” Kaminkow said. “Just because the rail companies are profitable doesn’t mean they’re healthy.”
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