#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 4/12/2024
The forces of capitalism and deregulation loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up with new focus brought to the issue by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and the series of dangerous and deadly failures from Boeing.
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SHOW NOTES
Two full days after the disastrous collapse of a bridge in Baltimore, little is known about six construction workers who went missing—and are now presumed dead.
The Real News convened a panel of journalists working all sides of this story to get a sense of what we know about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, what key questions still need to be answered, and what happens next.
Ch. 3: Cars, Bridges, Ships and Planes - The Zero Hour - Air Date 04-06-24
Discussing the Baltimore disaster in the context of infrastructure investment more broadly
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the threat to society of runaway corporate executive pay
References:
The failure of Bill Clinton's CEO pay reform - Politico
The Executive Pay Cap That Backfired - ProPublica
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Description: Photo taken from inside the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 Boeing plane that lost its door mid-flight. A rectangular hole in the side of the plane reveals a wall of white clouds. The nearby seats are empty and oxygen masks hang from the ceiling.
Credit: Photo taken by unidentified passenger and provided to the public by the National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB) as part of their investigation. | License: Public Domain
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in |
| 0:06.7 | which we will come to understand the forces of capitalism and deregulation which |
| 0:10.9 | loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up with new focus brought to the issue by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and the series of dangerous and deadly failures from Boeing. |
| 0:23.7 | Sources today include The Daily Blast with Greg Sergeant, The Real News, |
| 0:28.7 | the Zero Hour with R.J. Esco, |
| 0:31.2 | last week tonight with John Oliver. The Majorter Report and Democracy Now with additional |
| 0:36.4 | members only clips from The Daily Blast last week tonight and the Tom Harpen program. At around 1.30 in the morning on Tuesday, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore after a massive cargo ship lost power and rammed into it. |
| 0:58.0 | Nearly 48 hours later, as of this recording, six of the workers on that bridge are still missing. |
| 1:05.6 | Who were these workers? |
| 1:07.6 | They all appear to have been immigrants from Central America and Mexico, but as of now |
| 1:12.0 | little is known about them. |
| 1:14.0 | This tragedy tells a larger story about the plight of immigrant workers in America and our collective treatment of them, |
| 1:20.0 | which is often pretty terrible. |
| 1:22.0 | Here to discuss this today is Maximilian Alvarez, |
| 1:25.6 | editor-in-chief of the Real News Network, which is based in Baltimore. Max has been working |
| 1:30.5 | this story pretty hard. Thanks for coming on today. Thank you so much for |
| 1:35.0 | having. So these workers were filling potholes on the bridge. The Coast Guard has ended its |
| 1:41.0 | search, presuming that six of those workers are dead and they may |
| 1:44.7 | never be found. Two others were rescued. You've been trying to figure out more |
| 1:49.1 | about the missing workers, right? I have. And even from, you know, the initial reports, I had a lot of questions, right? But I think that it's really telling, you know, the kinds of questions people ask depending on who they |
| 2:06.1 | know and what they know right I mean because I watched white anchors here in the city talking about the fact that eight you know |
| 2:17.2 | workers went down into the water. |
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