Calif. gas line rupture sparks safety questions

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Calif. gas line rupture sparks safety questions

By JASON DEAREN and JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Writers Jason Dearen And Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 20 mins ago
SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Federal authorities are probing a natural gas pipeline and how it was maintained as they investigate the thunderous line explosion and raging inferno that devastated this suburban San Francisco neighborhood. City leaders called for a town hall meeting Saturday to start San Bruno's healing process.

Officials were trying to determine what led up to the blast that killed at least four people, injured dozens of others and raised questions about the safety of similar lines that crisscross towns across America.

"It looks like a moonscape in some areas," Fire Chief Dennis Haag said Friday.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_large_explosion

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1. The U.S.A. are literally falling apart

Both in terms of the oft-cited crumbling infrastructure and politically.
It's astonishing really - to find ourselves in the mess we are in.
This is what happens when we persist in living as a colonial empire.

We have a eroded our rights. We have essentially killed off our spirit. We have eroded much of what we built - in manufacturing, infrastructure, and a social structure (education, for example).

This is what a fallen empire looks like.

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2. 100 billion in Iraq and Afghanistan this year...

nothing but a drop in the bucket for america