Here (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/au...iterranean), 200 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean, from Lybia.
I don't remember anyone making a big deal either way (and it's almost a sure thing that all were muslims).
Here (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/19/africa...-capsizes/), more than 500 dead when another boat capsized, also from Lybia.
What's going on down in Lybia?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/se...-to-europe
(half are Syrians)
100 die after a, somewhat foreseeable accident, and all hell breaks lose among otherwise rational people.
On the one side, I hear: good riddance.
On the other: they're humans, too - have you no heart?
I find this bickering pointless.
Of course the authorities will investigate and find someone to blame for this. And the poor sod who'll be blamed will be the guy that left the crane where it was, knowing full well that a storm was coming and that was not a fixed crane, so it should have been retracted and lowered to the max... instead, as we see in the footage, it was almost vertical and ready to be used.
Of course, the guy that left it that way, probably did so, because his boss demanded that he not waste time properly parking the thing. But that boss never gets any blame...
I also discovered something new today: the construction company responsible for that is Saudi's largest construction company, and virtually the only doing any jobs for the government... also it was founded by Osama Bin Laden's father a few decades ago. How the world turns?...
I don't remember anyone making a big deal either way (and it's almost a sure thing that all were muslims).
Here (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/19/africa...-capsizes/), more than 500 dead when another boat capsized, also from Lybia.
What's going on down in Lybia?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/se...-to-europe
(half are Syrians)
100 die after a, somewhat foreseeable accident, and all hell breaks lose among otherwise rational people.
On the one side, I hear: good riddance.
On the other: they're humans, too - have you no heart?
I find this bickering pointless.
Of course the authorities will investigate and find someone to blame for this. And the poor sod who'll be blamed will be the guy that left the crane where it was, knowing full well that a storm was coming and that was not a fixed crane, so it should have been retracted and lowered to the max... instead, as we see in the footage, it was almost vertical and ready to be used.
Of course, the guy that left it that way, probably did so, because his boss demanded that he not waste time properly parking the thing. But that boss never gets any blame...
I also discovered something new today: the construction company responsible for that is Saudi's largest construction company, and virtually the only doing any jobs for the government... also it was founded by Osama Bin Laden's father a few decades ago. How the world turns?...
