19-04-2013, 09:04 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Kenneth Kapel Wrote:On the Chris Hayes MSNBC program tonight it was said that OSHA hasn't inspected the plant since 1985. Big government for the wealthy, serfdom for the bottom 97-99%. Wars and hands for "Mammon", crumbs & water for the rest of us.
A fertilizer plant has very similar chemicals to some explosive plants [obvious, as many bombers have built their own fertilizer-bombs]. To NOT inspect such a plant every year, at minimum, is sheer stupidity and shows the complete upside-down priorities in America now. Having such a plant adjacent to an old-persons home is also stupidity of a high order! America was never even close to the perfection and #1 status of its own mythology and propaganda - but from being a reasonably liveable nation [with hope] to a total ruin [with no hope left] I have watched it fall in my lifetime. Yes, it is the 'overclass' IMHO which has driven this ruination while they have become even more powerful and thousands of times richer; the rest of us....flushed down the toilet.
From what I have read, they have had no complaints since 2006, when inspectors did visit and took care of the problem. I also read that besides the production of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, there were large stockpiles of anhyrous ammonium (anhydrous means without water) which, when mixed with air forms an explosive compound. There was a fire which firemen were attending to before the explosion, and it is possible that heat from this fire might have set off the explosion.
Adele