@hometownsinger I would say that green jobs are a bunch of crap, the white house has been under investigation in the green jobs industry cause it has went belly up. I want more coal mined and more oil drilled from our country
im not to headstrong to learn new green economy skills and i do think don blankenship is a liar but until the rest of yall come up with a better plan be quiet or pay my bills otherwise let me and my boys run some coal so you got heat and lights in the dark
@hometownsinger I like coal mining and coal miners. I married one. It just that my son is in the Army so that this old beady eyed fossil can strut around Europe's water holes drinking his $35.00 a glass of brandy. I'm ashamed of him.
To all who have put this guy and his company down I don't like your tactics . I agree with him and the clean water act is a bunch of bull shit and if yall done get with the program and change this country for the better I ask you kindly to leave my great country
Dear West Virginia I love you but oh my what a ghoul that crawled out of Matewan .That outfit he's wearing is a damn disgrace to American soldier's serving to keep it free . Big old fat coal king! He's a disgrace to coal miner's
"These guys think they're geniuses"; actually they ARE some of the leading inovaters in the world, without whom, might I add, Masey's current technology would not exist.
The government, environmentalists, and democrats democrats are the ones who aren't looking out for the workers? Masey has some of the worst saftey regulations in America. Large coorperations CONTINUALLY look to cut unions, worker regulations, and social programs. Blankenship is way out of his league here.
That this fuckstain is not being sodomized every three hours in a Federal prison while his family lives in a shack because he lost all his assets, is a stain on America.
"They those of us in Appalacia need help because we're not very smart." ...is it perhaps because of the heavy metals present in our drinking water that is causing us brain damage?
It pisses you off when somebody stands up and tells the truth. You just can't handle it. All you socialist / marxist / communists are going down in flames. You're busted, and more and more Americans are wizening up to your deception and lies. The ride is over, and not even obama is going to be able to "transform" America. If y'all wanna live in your "utopia" take a hike. Go live in Cuba with Fidel.
Poor people of West Virginia. Do they really believe this lying SoB??? After all the hell he brought to the family of the workers of the coal mines. How can they be so stupid as to believe anything this man has to say...
What a complete and total doushe. Looks like a whopping crownd of fifteen lemings in attendance. Coal is an evil lie that detroys the environment and makes a few men rich.
Why is Blankenship not behind bars yet for multiple negligent homicide? He boasts that he never had any intention of fulfilling safety requirements. He spends a couple of million a year fighting regulations in court instead of improving safety conditions. He makes fun of politicians who "get emotional" when there is a disaster and "pass all kinds of regulations." This man is a dangerous sociopathic murderer.
It is easy to rile up supporters and encourage climate change deniers when you simply make up facts and sell them as gospel to people still believe the earth is flat.
Don got paid 17.8 million last year. Massey Energy paid out $375,000 to each of the 29 dead miners' families.... (a total of $10.9 million). 29 lives and families= 7 months of his life. Massey Energy made HUGE profits last year; all the while, Don Blankenship paid virtually NOTHING to fix up his mines and keep his workers safe. All he did was complain about government telling him how to run his business. Well Don, maybe there is a reason. People like this are killing America.
@Chewy240284 nuthin crazy about it. the commies are more of a threat now than ever. all progressives are commies theyre just too gutless or slick to admit it. dont believe me? just read 'commondreamsdotorg' or any other commie blog and see for yourself. btw mccarthy was right!!!!!!
@Chewy240284 the ugliness of capitalist greed,excess and inequality(btw communism has inequality) vs the inherent tyranny and oppression of a communist state?!?!?
thats a tough choice... one i ponder a lot. i choose freedom!
Blankenship should be arrested and go to trial for the dead of all those miners.
I hope the civil lawsiuts that will be files in the names of the dead miners will wipe out his company assets and ruin the life of this asshole criminal. 4 seconds ago
Blankenship should be arrested and go to trial for the dead of all those miners.
I hope the civil lawsiuts that will be files in the names of the dead miners will wipe out his company assets and ruin the life of this asshole criminal. 4 seconds ago
Blankenship should be arrested and go to trial for the dead of all those miners.
I hope the civil lawsiuts that will be files in the names of the dead miners will wipe out his company assets and ruin the life of this asshole criminal.
@maplespak yes. I find it most amusing that Don's intro song when considered with FACTS would be an insult to Don but he and the crowd were too damn stupid to realize it. But yes, it's real.
No one here condones the two mindless wonders who are trying to push their perverted anti-working class, pro-nazi agendas. So take your sick thinking else where. We miners are Americans, pro-bible, and many a red neck and whats wrong with that, but we're all brothers.
The only difference between him and any other fucking hillbilly goddamn republican bastard is that he has MUCH more money than most. Fucking asshole redneck. Wrapped in a flag like a jackass! Fool.
Where are these idiots who claim they know more about workers safety than an educated chemist who can analyze molecules to see if enough clean air is available and works for the government..
TYPICAL REPUBLICAN VALUES. It's only BAD until someone GETS KILLED
There is so much irony in watching this video after the death of all these hard working miners.
Since he's dressed as a flag, perhaps he should be run up a flagpole for a few hours? It's perfectly safe up there. Especially during a thunderstorm, so I've heard.
What is IT that makes people think that 'wearing' a flag or any piece of apparel resembling the American flag is patriotic? It's a violation of flag protocol.
This pr*ck has a judge in his pocket who is running for office currently in WVA and calls out the Obama administration as "anti-miner." Really? Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor is anti-miner? Anti-worker. B******t! Don Blankenship is anti-miner.
29 counts of manslaughter. Why is this man allowed to remain out of jail. He should be arrested NOW, held and indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to general population in the W VA prison community. He is a stinking slimeball, scumbag, typica right wing goon who doesnt give a rat's ass for the people he employs. He is a greedy bastard. If this man is not put away for life, then the people of West Virginia just might take it into their hands.. He must not be allowed to escape prison. .
"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system." - The Wobblies
"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
these cave ins couldn't happen to better people.. all bush voters... thats what you get when you vote republican ...these people voted palin so i could give a fuck about it.. i hope they dig em up in 100 years..
Is it just me or is there anybody else that wants to see this mother fucker dying in a methane gas fire in a mine shaft. Enjoy your ass raping in jail you fucking cock sucker!
Where are all the pro-lifers and tea baggers? Isn't he the leader of the death panel in WV? Isn't this like hitler sending people to die? How many Grandpas died in mining accidents? Why isn't Bachmann telling people to take up arms against him, and why isn't Sarah donating some of her speaking fees to these families?
Since his corp is now considered a "person", he should be tried for murder.
THese people are sad. YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHH! KILL MORE MINNERS. SO SAD. He's making millions and paying his miners 8-10 bucks an hour to die, pitiful soul. The same mines that these miners died in had two miners burned alive a few years ago and got away with it because GW bush put the COO of his company in charge of coal mining regulation. And the worst part is the west Virginians will probably stand with tea partiers to try and stop cap and trade. SO SAD.
This piece of CRAP has to be stopped ! press charges against him! 25 counts of murder and endangerment. SHUT HIM DOWN ................ SAID HE DON;T PLAY GOD WHEN HE TOOK THE LIVES OF ALL THESE MEN
this is not someone who gives a rats about workers.all he cares about is lining his own pockets at the expense of the rest of us. he recently flatly denied that Masseys shocking safety violations- including 50 that were deemed 'inexcusable' -lead to the deaths of over 100 workers. anyone who thinsk this man is a freind to the workers of america is sorely mistaken. he has doine everything in his power to drive down workers conditions and pay, while becoming rich. he should be tried for murder.
He buys off the courts but he can't buy off the UNION. UMWA the only way. Brothers, make the call for your family, for your country, for your life. "UNITED" Mine Workers of America.
don't you GET IT? THERE WILL BE NO MORE MINE WORKERS TO UNITE, because GIANT MACHINES ARE TAKING YOUR PLACES AND TAKING OUR MOUNTAINS. and we aren't even seeing the MONEY it all goes to OTHER COUNTRIES and we get sicker, and sicker, because WE CAN'T BREATHE. i think you should get a better job, you sound smart enough. or be some sort of leader of something NOT detrimental to THE EARTH.
Right on! You get it. Just so everyone knows WV loses money on coal each year because the money is funneled directly out ot state.
Massey-Richmond, VA
Consol-Cumberland, MD
Patriot Coal, St Louis, MO
etc.
These aren't West Virginians. Don Blankenshit is NOT a West Virginian and does not give a crap about our state. Wake up West Virginia before these evil men detroy all of our mountains!
Enough flags for ya? I love the way the people that hide behind the flag the most are the very people who are destroying American lives and the American environment the most. Apparently wearing and waving the flag a lot is good enough to confuse the red state retards who ironically suffer the most from this. This guy is responsible for what he is complaining about, leading dumb dogs with a red white and blue leash to the vet to put them down.
It looks like you're shutting your industry all by yourself by ignoring all the safety violations that were reported in your mine repeatedly. You are responsible for one of the deadliest mining incidents in America in 25 years. The unions your workers belonged tried to hold you accountable to provide a SAFE working environment for the. I hope the families of the murdered sue the living daylight out of you, Mr. Blank. You showed no remorse for them and so they shouldn't show any towards you.
While you post a video about "water quality" the guy who really runs WV, Sen.Jay Rockefeller owns 90% of the mineral rights UNDER WV, and Massey LEASES the coal fields. Rockefeller is the "worm under the rock". Blankenship is glues together the LEGITIMATE employment of miners. If there was no coal mining, there would be no work. Moonshining was outlawed by Feds depriving out of work miners (out of work because of leftist meddling) of a living. But we've got healthcare now-s'all good now, sure.
Don Blankenship is a vile human being who is only one more in a long line of profiteers and opportunists who have lied and exploited West Virginians for profit for over a century. If you people think coal mines are here to help you, open up a history book or a newspaper and read about these companies and the people that run them. Fuck you Don Blankenship, from a born-and-raised real-life West Virginian who will hate you and your filthy lies until the day you die.
Hilarious. This guy is lying through his teeth and does it with a straight face. What a fucking jagoff. Complains about the exact things he his participating in, and these fucktards just lap it all up.
Coal mining is my way of live and my families life I live in Harlan County Kentucky we all are for Coal and will continue to be BURN THAT COAL BOYS 4TH GENERATION COAL MINER HERE!!!
I was born and raised in Harlan as well, to see my home town slowly but surly being twisted and destroyed for the dying coal industry is too sad. You can't hike anywhere there these days without seeing or running up on a big strip job. What Massey is doing up in Mary Helen is a disgrace. Harlan wasn't always about coal, hopefully, one day coal will be behind us.
@jakeboggs27 You can hike most of the county if you want and everything that Massey or any Coal company does is regulated by the epa, msha, and osha mining is the most regulated industry in the world. If you want to see wasteland go to where they log and do nothing about reclamation. I am grateful for the jobs the coal industry provides so that our county can be more than meth and pill adicts who suck every dime they have from the government.
@jakeboggs27 What in it's place? Reclaimed flattened mountaintops w/ hotels for people who can't afford to visit there? Before coal, there was mountains & minimalist paradise. Anti-nuke crowd perpetuated the need for coal & now they're after coal. If there were no people doing the mining and it was all robots? The fact remains that coal is still efficient. You can look to the Indonesian Obama & his coal buddies for the impossible situation US coal is in. Uranium is more efficient than coal.
Wind will not suffice human vanity and greed... you want to go green? Then sell your vehicles for working mules and transportive horses.. Lower the american dollar to worth less than bartered grains, meats and herbs... I dare you to cancel the cell phone and write a letter. Thats a lot of work to most americans. Go green=go backwards!
I can't believe I wasted my bandwidth listening to this babbling moron, and the crowd is cheering him on as he calls them idiots. He only cares about his "corporations" bottom line... and that is it. Nothing else, and the world has been cooling?! Where did he get that little nugget, I guess the one eyed man is king in the land of the blind...
He is very very very very very honest .. Haha. He knoiws how to fool workers while amikng the killing himself.
CO2 is bad for the health of the things we rely on.. climate and weather patterns which can and does screw up crops and that drives money out of your pocket.He makes it look like it aint.
@TheSwedechris Man-caused co2 < .02% total co2 admitted into the atmosphere...if you really want to stop this harmful contaminant you should stop breathing or find a way to destroy volcanoes as they are the greatest cause of c02 emission...
our environment is being destroyed because of ignorant people like you. i want my children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the beauty of nature and the appalachian mountains, but with your destructive actions, they won't be able to. i don't know how you can live with yourself knowing the climate crisis is worsening because of your selfish ideals
@mothernature12 Do you want to be able to see the App or do you want to keep a low power bill, and take millions of jobs from the people who work there?
oh does the constitution give equal rights to corporations i give it to this guy though he's got huge balls or is dumb ass fuck the real moonshiners and mountain folk own the hills if anyone does. i bet they could have got him in the scope and disappear back to the hills at this rally full of people fight for a job over their neighbor. Go to china and get our jobs back this is so fuckin funny one of these people even brought an air horn hahhahaha
this guy is ceo who trust him when fascism comes to america it will come carrying a cross and draped in the flag. ask him his salary and i bet it trumps the crowds just clapping in the gaps they will eat each other
It never ceases to amaze me how people can follow "Friends of America" when almost all of their sponsors are ones who stand to lose millions by new green technologies. Of course they're going to talk crap about cap and trade! Of course they're going to instill fear into Americans so they don't support the measure.
@wheresmycorona I hear that there are at least 25+ job vacancies as of Monday (04/05/2010) in the exciting field of coal mining. Good luck! Leave it up to Don to create jobs in West VA the old fashioned way!
i just love how all of you comment negative bullshit on here about the way we feed our children and take care of our family..you just dont get it..why were you not at the rally? do you not have the guts to get up and say that shit to all the hard workers' faces??
if you meant that against me, then let me tell you chinese & other countries have coal too, and if we dont do it, they will to sell to countries, and they don't care how dirty it is..thank you.
@kikicarr if you dont stand up to your bosses and vote against yourself this is what you get... dont vote for republicans and you wont have this shit happen to good hard working people
Hank Jr is singing about Blankenship, CEO who made Total Compensation $11,226,717.00 and wants to talk like he is a working class hero. bull crap. google him and check him out on forbes.
what he is saying i seen 4 about 10 years now an ~~ republicans an democrats are the same greedy party an good things like the environmentalist have been taken over by the government remember the biggest ones like elf,Alf,Peta the church of youth of Nassau are all government funded an thy do some of the most terrorist stuff ive ever seen except 4 the other u.s. government funded group you call the Taliban an look at every thing natural thy will charge you double
the day you get a gas free car is the day thy charge you by the mile cause thy miss taxing you i think the problem is America played 2 much monopoly as a kid thy think thy gota have it all 2 win an id say thy won oready cause i cant think of a place the u.s. went 2 war with then left the people infected with with there ways an products then left them a nice little milliliter base like thy were guarded Nazi Concentration Camp prisoner country's an you wonder y so many hate the u.s. gov. (LOL)
leave nothing for children to come..whatever..we are trying our best to work to feed our children NOW!! i understand where your coming from, i recycle, and try to do my best for the planet, but taking jobs that take care of many, many families now is not the way!!
Jobs is one of the reasons china and other countries are jumping on green energy
As more countries invest, technologies will improve and prices will drop lowering utility bill
Creating more high paying jobs then will be lost in the coal industry
Countries that have positioned there selves to supply these technologies will get these jobs I hope America gets into the race before we find it is one more thing that we buy from china when we could sale it to them to get some of our money back
only retarded inbred redneck conservs are stupid enough to believe that their "belief" is more powerful than reality. all these baby boomer dickheads know is what the television tells them to know.
Fuck this noise.. This guy doesn't seem to have a clue as to how economies of scale work or what RECs and VERs are. Climate change or not, it's hard to argue with the environmental degradation caused by blasting and burning coal.
In the first quarter of 2009, Massey revenue increased 25 percent. Yet, Blankenship announced an average 6% cut in worker's wages and benefits to investors in the same quarter.
Thanks for this Flux. Coal mining has a rotten record of labor relations, child labor, and environmental practices over the centuries. They have exploited the poor for since the first lump of coal came from the ground.
So I guess you will be happy when these Democrat Miners children are hungry. These are the best paying jobs in our state. This video has been so edited that even Don Blankenship wouldn't recognize what it says.
No. I'll be happy when people realize that Climate Change isn't a myth. That there are island nations in the South Pacific that could very well be underwater with in the next twenty years and we are talking millions of people here. I'll be happy when people listen to scientist rather than the CEOs of the fuel industry. I'll be happy when we stop sending jobs offshore and employ the people in the US and retrain folks for new jobs.
Don Blankenship may be one of the dumbest human beings alive. He is a corrupt piece of shit CEO.
school1 2 months ago
@hometownsinger I would say that green jobs are a bunch of crap, the white house has been under investigation in the green jobs industry cause it has went belly up. I want more coal mined and more oil drilled from our country
scaryterry24 2 months ago
@scaryterry24 you mean done went belly up
o0xst 6 days ago
@coricaman which coal ash spill? also do you know what coal ash is used in? I would bet you like your concrete.
scaryterry24 2 months ago
This guy is the epitome of the word monster. I hope you drown in a pile of your own repugnant shit Don!
MrBabyBitch666 3 months ago
Wrapping himself in the American flag, a true coward, scoundrel and greedy swine.....rot in hell Don.
Thejbirdy 5 months ago
im not to headstrong to learn new green economy skills and i do think don blankenship is a liar but until the rest of yall come up with a better plan be quiet or pay my bills otherwise let me and my boys run some coal so you got heat and lights in the dark
hometownsinger 6 months ago 3
@hometownsinger
Ms2blackcats 6 months ago
@hometownsinger I like coal mining and coal miners. I married one. It just that my son is in the Army so that this old beady eyed fossil can strut around Europe's water holes drinking his $35.00 a glass of brandy. I'm ashamed of him.
Ms2blackcats 6 months ago
ah guys don't be so down on Don,he just needs a good woman. That Casey Anthony just got out of jail . They will be a perfect match
Ms2blackcats 6 months ago
And to the guy who made the video and edited it you are a pos and I stand by my statement
scaryterry24 6 months ago
To all who have put this guy and his company down I don't like your tactics . I agree with him and the clean water act is a bunch of bull shit and if yall done get with the program and change this country for the better I ask you kindly to leave my great country
scaryterry24 6 months ago
@scaryterry24
This man killed 24,000 people with a coal ash spill.
Rethink who you allign with when you want to "change a country for the better". This man also refuses to pay taxes.
coricaman 2 months ago
If you are still in contact with Mr. Don Blankenship please have him get in touch with me. I can help you.
SCVORG 6 months ago
Dear West Virginia I love you but oh my what a ghoul that crawled out of Matewan .That outfit he's wearing is a damn disgrace to American soldier's serving to keep it free . Big old fat coal king! He's a disgrace to coal miner's
Astrodan2600 6 months ago
this fucker is going to "" JAAAIL"".
MpowerdAPE 7 months ago
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
- Sinclair Lewis
LonniesImages 7 months ago
"These guys think they're geniuses"; actually they ARE some of the leading inovaters in the world, without whom, might I add, Masey's current technology would not exist.
The government, environmentalists, and democrats democrats are the ones who aren't looking out for the workers? Masey has some of the worst saftey regulations in America. Large coorperations CONTINUALLY look to cut unions, worker regulations, and social programs. Blankenship is way out of his league here.
happyemo4life 8 months ago
Funny that this murderer is talking about sacrificial lambs.
MrPontiusPilate 8 months ago
you wanted to stop mountain top removal? there was your chance. anyone could have killed him.
terrec 8 months ago
That this fuckstain is not being sodomized every three hours in a Federal prison while his family lives in a shack because he lost all his assets, is a stain on America.
beesleeper 8 months ago
Don't stop with just Don but go after the board of directors who are just as corrupt.
lic2kil007 9 months ago
this guy is a piece of shit
vmcadden 9 months ago
No, Don, but WV should be the sacrificial lamb for your personal gain, right? $%#^^ OFF.
littleweloosmom 9 months ago
What a crook.
ebhock101 10 months ago
he speaks the truth
dsp11000 11 months ago
FAIL
billnyefan4ever 1 year ago
A true honest patriotic American.......vomit.
ffairlane57 1 year ago
"They those of us in Appalacia need help because we're not very smart." ...is it perhaps because of the heavy metals present in our drinking water that is causing us brain damage?
melliemae09 1 year ago
It pisses you off when somebody stands up and tells the truth. You just can't handle it. All you socialist / marxist / communists are going down in flames. You're busted, and more and more Americans are wizening up to your deception and lies. The ride is over, and not even obama is going to be able to "transform" America. If y'all wanna live in your "utopia" take a hike. Go live in Cuba with Fidel.
fab4bear 1 year ago
"The flag should never be used as wearing apparel." -Section 8d, US Flag Code
wvutuber 1 year ago
Poor people of West Virginia. Do they really believe this lying SoB??? After all the hell he brought to the family of the workers of the coal mines. How can they be so stupid as to believe anything this man has to say...
pararex1 1 year ago
@pararex1 No, we don't believe him. At least most of us know he's crooked and full of it. He just has the resources to buy off important people.
littleweloosmom 9 months ago
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Its sickening how stupid these people are.
teddybruscie 1 year ago
What a complete and total doushe. Looks like a whopping crownd of fifteen lemings in attendance. Coal is an evil lie that detroys the environment and makes a few men rich.
jeffor13 1 year ago
Support Unions in America or end up like China with armed supervisors !
GameICY 1 year ago
Don Blankenship is one fat cocksucker. Him wearing that shirt makes me sick. Hes a traitor to his own countrymen.
blueridger28 1 year ago
@blueridger28 , no you don't
The guy is a fraud. m
ffairlane57 1 year ago
@ffairlane57 ??? scractching my head
blueridger28 1 year ago
It sickens me hiding behind our flag
Time to get out the tar,rail and feathers
1canyonguy 1 year ago
i love don blankenship
dogsee1 1 year ago
Put a Nazi Uniform on him And Shave up The stash a bit And you Got Hitler!
MichaelD400 1 year ago
Why is Blankenship not behind bars yet for multiple negligent homicide? He boasts that he never had any intention of fulfilling safety requirements. He spends a couple of million a year fighting regulations in court instead of improving safety conditions. He makes fun of politicians who "get emotional" when there is a disaster and "pass all kinds of regulations." This man is a dangerous sociopathic murderer.
mmmmarcy 1 year ago 3
It is easy to rile up supporters and encourage climate change deniers when you simply make up facts and sell them as gospel to people still believe the earth is flat.
ecogreenfirefly 1 year ago
Don got paid 17.8 million last year. Massey Energy paid out $375,000 to each of the 29 dead miners' families.... (a total of $10.9 million). 29 lives and families= 7 months of his life. Massey Energy made HUGE profits last year; all the while, Don Blankenship paid virtually NOTHING to fix up his mines and keep his workers safe. All he did was complain about government telling him how to run his business. Well Don, maybe there is a reason. People like this are killing America.
sheepburn 1 year ago 7
Don Blankenship is Jewish and interested in only making money.
Don Blankenship has an Israeli passport like all American Jews and will escape to Israel to avoid prosecution in the US.
Israel does not extradite its "citizens" - which under the "Law of Return" is any Jew, anywhere in the world.
Don Blankenship is the same as Lloyd Blankfein (Owner of Goldman Sachs) - Jews ripping off America.
gracezchen35 1 year ago
@gracezchen35 Whats with these sick O's trying to push their nazi agenda here when we're talking about real tyrants killing working men!
coal60 1 year ago
this air is on my property so i own it! i can put whatever i want into it!......fucking asshole
Chewy240284 1 year ago
Some times other peoples ignorants amazes me to the point I think Im dream sometimes.
teddybruscie 1 year ago
Thet died so for your wallet burn in hell.
Superhumanattack 1 year ago
amurican
lulz1978 1 year ago
People r such fucking sheep
deadsnowman83 1 year ago
Screw Blankenship. He needs to be put away for life. F him. He is a murderer.
tombeardman 1 year ago
This motherfucker should rot in prison for the rest of his life. There were thousands of safety violations at Massey Mine. Friends of America my ass.
gersane 1 year ago 5
fuck the commies
psyhobill5150 1 year ago
@psyhobill5150
wow....how did u post that comment from 1955? Crazy...
Chewy240284 1 year ago
@Chewy240284 nuthin crazy about it. the commies are more of a threat now than ever. all progressives are commies theyre just too gutless or slick to admit it. dont believe me? just read 'commondreamsdotorg' or any other commie blog and see for yourself. btw mccarthy was right!!!!!!
psyhobill5150 1 year ago
@psyhobill5150
There are only 2 parties to support, one is a wholy bought corporate spin machine and the other is less of the same. I'd go with 'commies' anyday.
Chewy240284 1 year ago
@Chewy240284 the ugliness of capitalist greed,excess and inequality(btw communism has inequality) vs the inherent tyranny and oppression of a communist state?!?!?
thats a tough choice... one i ponder a lot. i choose freedom!
psyhobill5150 1 year ago
Don Blankenship you are a piece of shit...........
myunmadebed 1 year ago
This sick mother fucker needs to go to jail.
slipp3rysnake 1 year ago
Blankenship should be arrested and go to trial for the dead of all those miners.
I hope the civil lawsiuts that will be files in the names of the dead miners will wipe out his company assets and ruin the life of this asshole criminal. 4 seconds ago
monsieurish1 1 year ago
Blankenship should be arrested and go to trial for the dead of all those miners.
I hope the civil lawsiuts that will be files in the names of the dead miners will wipe out his company assets and ruin the life of this asshole criminal. 4 seconds ago
monsieurish1 1 year ago
Blankenship should be arrested and go to trial for the dead of all those miners.
I hope the civil lawsiuts that will be files in the names of the dead miners will wipe out his company assets and ruin the life of this asshole criminal.
monsieurish1 1 year ago
I hope hell is a giant coal mine with lots of methane!
adamsfall 1 year ago
Nice outfit Dicktard! Enjoy prison!
51516 1 year ago 3
Is this for real???
maplespak 1 year ago
@maplespak yes. I find it most amusing that Don's intro song when considered with FACTS would be an insult to Don but he and the crowd were too damn stupid to realize it. But yes, it's real.
FluxRostrum 1 year ago
@FluxRostrum oh Don is a lot of things but not dumb...it's the crowd he owns who are too dumb to realize anything/
telxon04 1 year ago
@maplespak Thomas Frank talks about this filth in his new book, Pity the Billionaire
o0xst 6 days ago
No one here condones the two mindless wonders who are trying to push their perverted anti-working class, pro-nazi agendas. So take your sick thinking else where. We miners are Americans, pro-bible, and many a red neck and whats wrong with that, but we're all brothers.
coal60 1 year ago
This guy is a scat-muncher.
revco68 1 year ago
It takes a lot of balls to wear that patronizing outfit. What a joke.
BillGrates 1 year ago
The only difference between him and any other fucking hillbilly goddamn republican bastard is that he has MUCH more money than most. Fucking asshole redneck. Wrapped in a flag like a jackass! Fool.
seekauwillfinda 1 year ago
this shit head does not take mining works to china only because he cannot moved the mines there.
mytubito 1 year ago
What a douschbag, wrapping himself in the flag, literally.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
DejectedPanda 1 year ago 3
sad that the same who are applauding are the same who died.
rageatm111 1 year ago
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Where is Fox News?
Where is Hank Williams?
Where is Sean Hannity?
Where are these idiots who claim they know more about workers safety than an educated chemist who can analyze molecules to see if enough clean air is available and works for the government..
TYPICAL REPUBLICAN VALUES. It's only BAD until someone GETS KILLED
rageatm111 1 year ago
Who are you going to pay off now Blankenship?
There is so much irony in watching this video after the death of all these hard working miners.
Since he's dressed as a flag, perhaps he should be run up a flagpole for a few hours? It's perfectly safe up there. Especially during a thunderstorm, so I've heard.
Thundercloud5000 1 year ago
What a greedy piece of shit. Do you think he's a Republican? In fact I bet he is a regular at most tea potties.
eks56 1 year ago 7
What a stupid asshole. He's so full of lies. Please somebody, just run him over with a car and do us all a favor. Evil man and a liar.
sabbathtage25 1 year ago
What is IT that makes people think that 'wearing' a flag or any piece of apparel resembling the American flag is patriotic? It's a violation of flag protocol.
This pr*ck has a judge in his pocket who is running for office currently in WVA and calls out the Obama administration as "anti-miner." Really? Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor is anti-miner? Anti-worker. B******t! Don Blankenship is anti-miner.
ecoflame 1 year ago
29 counts of manslaughter. Why is this man allowed to remain out of jail. He should be arrested NOW, held and indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to general population in the W VA prison community. He is a stinking slimeball, scumbag, typica right wing goon who doesnt give a rat's ass for the people he employs. He is a greedy bastard. If this man is not put away for life, then the people of West Virginia just might take it into their hands.. He must not be allowed to escape prison. .
NEMstrodamus 1 year ago
Great Video. Need to keep showing who these people really are!
johnnybball 1 year ago
Thank you Massey/Repubs for shitting on regulations and killing those miners ! WE GOT EM ! ! !
asdfxcxv 1 year ago
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"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
bapyou 1 year ago
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system." - The Wobblies
bapyou 1 year ago
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"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
bapyou 1 year ago
throw that scum in jail.. he is a piece of shit, but again most republicans are thugs
TennesseeNurselady 1 year ago
Anyone else here hate to here these miners being referred to as bodies? They went into the mine as men, lets bring them out as men, not bodies.
coal60 1 year ago
@coal60 You are so right!
385Mercedes 1 year ago
these cave ins couldn't happen to better people.. all bush voters... thats what you get when you vote republican ...these people voted palin so i could give a fuck about it.. i hope they dig em up in 100 years..
bearlooter 1 year ago
Is it just me or is there anybody else that wants to see this mother fucker dying in a methane gas fire in a mine shaft. Enjoy your ass raping in jail you fucking cock sucker!
dbciii 1 year ago 46
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Where are all the pro-lifers and tea baggers? Isn't he the leader of the death panel in WV? Isn't this like hitler sending people to die? How many Grandpas died in mining accidents? Why isn't Bachmann telling people to take up arms against him, and why isn't Sarah donating some of her speaking fees to these families?
Since his corp is now considered a "person", he should be tried for murder.
chgosatrap 1 year ago 2
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Blankenstein was his real name. He is a crypto J*E*W and has blood on his hands.
Should be arrested, today!
StSimonOfTrent 1 year ago
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yeah he didn't go to jail. he said it was an act of god.
luxaeterna713 1 year ago
THese people are sad. YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHH! KILL MORE MINNERS. SO SAD. He's making millions and paying his miners 8-10 bucks an hour to die, pitiful soul. The same mines that these miners died in had two miners burned alive a few years ago and got away with it because GW bush put the COO of his company in charge of coal mining regulation. And the worst part is the west Virginians will probably stand with tea partiers to try and stop cap and trade. SO SAD.
the07tour 1 year ago
This piece of CRAP has to be stopped ! press charges against him! 25 counts of murder and endangerment. SHUT HIM DOWN ................ SAID HE DON;T PLAY GOD WHEN HE TOOK THE LIVES OF ALL THESE MEN
wynonaraindance 1 year ago
This piece of CRAP has to be stopped ! press charges against him 25 counts of murder and endangerment. SHUT HIM DOWN
wynonaraindance 1 year ago
This piece of crap must be stopped !!! looks to me like he should be charged with 25 counts of MURDER PUT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS
wynonaraindance 1 year ago
Do you think Blankenship wore that hat and shirt on the Riviera? What a patriot.
billheartyface 1 year ago
@billheartyface "Do you think Blankenship wore that hat and shirt on the Riviera? What a patriot"
What really hurts is that it works.
People have to start using their brain.
cosmosgato 1 year ago
defend American labor my ass. love the shirt douche bag.
billheartyface 1 year ago
this is not someone who gives a rats about workers.all he cares about is lining his own pockets at the expense of the rest of us. he recently flatly denied that Masseys shocking safety violations- including 50 that were deemed 'inexcusable' -lead to the deaths of over 100 workers. anyone who thinsk this man is a freind to the workers of america is sorely mistaken. he has doine everything in his power to drive down workers conditions and pay, while becoming rich. he should be tried for murder.
actionbrad 1 year ago
He buys off the courts but he can't buy off the UNION. UMWA the only way. Brothers, make the call for your family, for your country, for your life. "UNITED" Mine Workers of America.
coal60 1 year ago 21
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don't you GET IT? THERE WILL BE NO MORE MINE WORKERS TO UNITE, because GIANT MACHINES ARE TAKING YOUR PLACES AND TAKING OUR MOUNTAINS. and we aren't even seeing the MONEY it all goes to OTHER COUNTRIES and we get sicker, and sicker, because WE CAN'T BREATHE. i think you should get a better job, you sound smart enough. or be some sort of leader of something NOT detrimental to THE EARTH.
luxaeterna713 1 year ago
@luxaeterna713
Right on! You get it. Just so everyone knows WV loses money on coal each year because the money is funneled directly out ot state.
Massey-Richmond, VA
Consol-Cumberland, MD
Patriot Coal, St Louis, MO
etc.
These aren't West Virginians. Don Blankenshit is NOT a West Virginian and does not give a crap about our state. Wake up West Virginia before these evil men detroy all of our mountains!
jeffor13 1 year ago
this is the owner/bastard that helped the men in Raleigh County to die
stormridergreyeagle 1 year ago
Blankenship is a huge piece of shit.
Raford146 1 year ago
Great guy !
DIVDRIAN 1 year ago
When you dedicate your life to believing something and succeed in that you deliberately ignore the consequences of your actions.
Mezocosm 1 year ago
well better ask Arthur to come over because i don't trust our labor movement anymore!!
vivascargill 1 year ago
Non-Union piece of shit company.
Britton001 1 year ago
Enough flags for ya? I love the way the people that hide behind the flag the most are the very people who are destroying American lives and the American environment the most. Apparently wearing and waving the flag a lot is good enough to confuse the red state retards who ironically suffer the most from this. This guy is responsible for what he is complaining about, leading dumb dogs with a red white and blue leash to the vet to put them down.
nigelparry 1 year ago
he like a cross between hitler and stalin.
thuggoe 1 year ago
Murderer.
selatik1 1 year ago
Speaking of greed and lies, this pig is the embodiment of both.
Basiliskbay 1 year ago 4
Speaking of greed and lies, this pig is the embodiment of both.
Basiliskbay 1 year ago
25 Miners dead and this scumbag is walking free. Better buy yourself another judge, Blankenship. Sleep well, fucker.
axesbowledaslove 1 year ago 3
He reminds me of Dan Halen
actionist2009 1 year ago
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It looks like you're shutting your industry all by yourself by ignoring all the safety violations that were reported in your mine repeatedly. You are responsible for one of the deadliest mining incidents in America in 25 years. The unions your workers belonged tried to hold you accountable to provide a SAFE working environment for the. I hope the families of the murdered sue the living daylight out of you, Mr. Blank. You showed no remorse for them and so they shouldn't show any towards you.
jancuisine 1 year ago
How you like feeding your family now working for this piece of scum?? He's an
tomA2000 1 year ago
This man, Don Blankenship. Has blood on his hands today.
At least 25 men are dead due to this Company's poor safety policies.
Some of the people in this audience might be among the victims.
Blankenship needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
The mines need to be SAFE!
Thundercloud5000 1 year ago
While you post a video about "water quality" the guy who really runs WV, Sen.Jay Rockefeller owns 90% of the mineral rights UNDER WV, and Massey LEASES the coal fields. Rockefeller is the "worm under the rock". Blankenship is glues together the LEGITIMATE employment of miners. If there was no coal mining, there would be no work. Moonshining was outlawed by Feds depriving out of work miners (out of work because of leftist meddling) of a living. But we've got healthcare now-s'all good now, sure.
altstrasse 1 year ago
Don Blankenship is a vile human being who is only one more in a long line of profiteers and opportunists who have lied and exploited West Virginians for profit for over a century. If you people think coal mines are here to help you, open up a history book or a newspaper and read about these companies and the people that run them. Fuck you Don Blankenship, from a born-and-raised real-life West Virginian who will hate you and your filthy lies until the day you die.
CraggyBackhand 1 year ago
Hilarious. This guy is lying through his teeth and does it with a straight face. What a fucking jagoff. Complains about the exact things he his participating in, and these fucktards just lap it all up.
MeInReverse8 1 year ago
Coal mining is my way of live and my families life I live in Harlan County Kentucky we all are for Coal and will continue to be BURN THAT COAL BOYS 4TH GENERATION COAL MINER HERE!!!
wturner0018 1 year ago
I was born and raised in Harlan as well, to see my home town slowly but surly being twisted and destroyed for the dying coal industry is too sad. You can't hike anywhere there these days without seeing or running up on a big strip job. What Massey is doing up in Mary Helen is a disgrace. Harlan wasn't always about coal, hopefully, one day coal will be behind us.
jakeboggs27 1 year ago
@jakeboggs27 You can hike most of the county if you want and everything that Massey or any Coal company does is regulated by the epa, msha, and osha mining is the most regulated industry in the world. If you want to see wasteland go to where they log and do nothing about reclamation. I am grateful for the jobs the coal industry provides so that our county can be more than meth and pill adicts who suck every dime they have from the government.
wturner0018 1 year ago
@wturner0018 Yeah, those regulations really did the job, didn't they?
CraggyBackhand 1 year ago
@jakeboggs27 What in it's place? Reclaimed flattened mountaintops w/ hotels for people who can't afford to visit there? Before coal, there was mountains & minimalist paradise. Anti-nuke crowd perpetuated the need for coal & now they're after coal. If there were no people doing the mining and it was all robots? The fact remains that coal is still efficient. You can look to the Indonesian Obama & his coal buddies for the impossible situation US coal is in. Uranium is more efficient than coal.
altstrasse 1 year ago
Wind will not suffice human vanity and greed... you want to go green? Then sell your vehicles for working mules and transportive horses.. Lower the american dollar to worth less than bartered grains, meats and herbs... I dare you to cancel the cell phone and write a letter. Thats a lot of work to most americans. Go green=go backwards!
Most don't have the marbles to dare!!!!
MrDevilintheflesh 2 years ago
I really don't like this man, and I can't believe he has a twitter page and youtube page
macroorchidism 2 years ago
I think this is called being in denial.
Someone call out the whitecoats! This guy is a danger to himself and others.
buvoltz 2 years ago
I can't believe I wasted my bandwidth listening to this babbling moron, and the crowd is cheering him on as he calls them idiots. He only cares about his "corporations" bottom line... and that is it. Nothing else, and the world has been cooling?! Where did he get that little nugget, I guess the one eyed man is king in the land of the blind...
DavidMGeere 2 years ago 9
He is very very very very very honest .. Haha. He knoiws how to fool workers while amikng the killing himself.
CO2 is bad for the health of the things we rely on.. climate and weather patterns which can and does screw up crops and that drives money out of your pocket.He makes it look like it aint.
TheSwedechris 2 years ago
@TheSwedechris Man-caused co2 < .02% total co2 admitted into the atmosphere...if you really want to stop this harmful contaminant you should stop breathing or find a way to destroy volcanoes as they are the greatest cause of c02 emission...
wturner0018 1 year ago
Wow...think he's compensating for something with that outfit?
noodles91380 2 years ago 2
our environment is being destroyed because of ignorant people like you. i want my children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the beauty of nature and the appalachian mountains, but with your destructive actions, they won't be able to. i don't know how you can live with yourself knowing the climate crisis is worsening because of your selfish ideals
mothernature12 2 years ago
Prove your against coal mining you fucking idiot....turn your lights off...Its a way of life for these people
keithsmartin 2 years ago
@mothernature12 Do you want to be able to see the App or do you want to keep a low power bill, and take millions of jobs from the people who work there?
Emzieroy 2 years ago
oh does the constitution give equal rights to corporations i give it to this guy though he's got huge balls or is dumb ass fuck the real moonshiners and mountain folk own the hills if anyone does. i bet they could have got him in the scope and disappear back to the hills at this rally full of people fight for a job over their neighbor. Go to china and get our jobs back this is so fuckin funny one of these people even brought an air horn hahhahaha
freedomstartswithyou 2 years ago
this guy is ceo who trust him when fascism comes to america it will come carrying a cross and draped in the flag. ask him his salary and i bet it trumps the crowds just clapping in the gaps they will eat each other
freedomstartswithyou 2 years ago
It never ceases to amaze me how people can follow "Friends of America" when almost all of their sponsors are ones who stand to lose millions by new green technologies. Of course they're going to talk crap about cap and trade! Of course they're going to instill fear into Americans so they don't support the measure.
Can you say conflict of interest???
shayshay3542 2 years ago
Can you also say brainwashed?
MrHowie5 2 years ago
Where are the jobs in America?
wheresmycorona 2 years ago
.. under your beer.. "~)
FluxRostrum 2 years ago
@wheresmycorona I hear that there are at least 25+ job vacancies as of Monday (04/05/2010) in the exciting field of coal mining. Good luck! Leave it up to Don to create jobs in West VA the old fashioned way!
armanflint 1 year ago
@armanflint Good one!
slickjilly 1 year ago
i just love how all of you comment negative bullshit on here about the way we feed our children and take care of our family..you just dont get it..why were you not at the rally? do you not have the guts to get up and say that shit to all the hard workers' faces??
kikicarr 2 years ago
you stubbornness is creating Chinese Jobs ... Thanks alot.
ourfuture . org / blog-entry / 2009114502 / offshoring-wind-energy
FluxRostrum 2 years ago
if you meant that against me, then let me tell you chinese & other countries have coal too, and if we dont do it, they will to sell to countries, and they don't care how dirty it is..thank you.
kikicarr 2 years ago
@kikicarr if you dont stand up to your bosses and vote against yourself this is what you get... dont vote for republicans and you wont have this shit happen to good hard working people
bearlooter 1 year ago
I hope we're saying Massey who? In 5 years or less.
fieyr2002 2 years ago
Hank Jr is singing about Blankenship, CEO who made Total Compensation $11,226,717.00 and wants to talk like he is a working class hero. bull crap. google him and check him out on forbes.
groundinghubris 2 years ago
Beware anyone wrapped in the national flag.
charadester 2 years ago 2
what he is saying i seen 4 about 10 years now an ~~ republicans an democrats are the same greedy party an good things like the environmentalist have been taken over by the government remember the biggest ones like elf,Alf,Peta the church of youth of Nassau are all government funded an thy do some of the most terrorist stuff ive ever seen except 4 the other u.s. government funded group you call the Taliban an look at every thing natural thy will charge you double
crazycoyotie 2 years ago
the day you get a gas free car is the day thy charge you by the mile cause thy miss taxing you i think the problem is America played 2 much monopoly as a kid thy think thy gota have it all 2 win an id say thy won oready cause i cant think of a place the u.s. went 2 war with then left the people infected with with there ways an products then left them a nice little milliliter base like thy were guarded Nazi Concentration Camp prisoner country's an you wonder y so many hate the u.s. gov. (LOL)
crazycoyotie 2 years ago
you are sooo right. so sickening it's laughable, then I feel sicker for laughing... f'd up shit
FluxRostrum 2 years ago
CEO of Massey Energy IS A FAT Racist
jmcnallyua 2 years ago
Massey Energy = money over people
I've heard enough........rally against this garbage or leave nothing for your children.
ecnal30 2 years ago
leave nothing for children to come..whatever..we are trying our best to work to feed our children NOW!! i understand where your coming from, i recycle, and try to do my best for the planet, but taking jobs that take care of many, many families now is not the way!!
kikicarr 2 years ago
industry needs to give you better options.
FluxRostrum 2 years ago
Jobs is one of the reasons china and other countries are jumping on green energy
As more countries invest, technologies will improve and prices will drop lowering utility bill
Creating more high paying jobs then will be lost in the coal industry
Countries that have positioned there selves to supply these technologies will get these jobs I hope America gets into the race before we find it is one more thing that we buy from china when we could sale it to them to get some of our money back
hope2Bfair 2 years ago 6
only retarded inbred redneck conservs are stupid enough to believe that their "belief" is more powerful than reality. all these baby boomer dickheads know is what the television tells them to know.
druidg 2 years ago
What a traitor to the American people, Don Blankenship can choke on Mercury laden fish which his coal plants create.
raleighl 2 years ago
Fuck this noise.. This guy doesn't seem to have a clue as to how economies of scale work or what RECs and VERs are. Climate change or not, it's hard to argue with the environmental degradation caused by blasting and burning coal.
Supralobe 2 years ago
is anyone listening to him?
miguelbovine10 2 years ago
Patriotism is often the refuge of scoundrels.
johniwan 2 years ago
In the first quarter of 2009, Massey revenue increased 25 percent. Yet, Blankenship announced an average 6% cut in worker's wages and benefits to investors in the same quarter.
FluxRostrum 2 years ago
i wonder if big daddy don thought about giving that 1million dollars to his employees that are layed off
kadenblake 2 years ago 3
he would say the earth has been cooling for the last EIGHT years.
WayneRuinedRap 2 years ago
don is so incredibly boring and predictable.
alchea 2 years ago 2
Blankenship is an environmental criminal.
eastwood203 2 years ago 4
Thanks for this Flux. Coal mining has a rotten record of labor relations, child labor, and environmental practices over the centuries. They have exploited the poor for since the first lump of coal came from the ground.
seamoremonster 2 years ago 3
So I guess you will be happy when these Democrat Miners children are hungry. These are the best paying jobs in our state. This video has been so edited that even Don Blankenship wouldn't recognize what it says.
jerdew 2 years ago
No. I'll be happy when people realize that Climate Change isn't a myth. That there are island nations in the South Pacific that could very well be underwater with in the next twenty years and we are talking millions of people here. I'll be happy when people listen to scientist rather than the CEOs of the fuel industry. I'll be happy when we stop sending jobs offshore and employ the people in the US and retrain folks for new jobs.
seamoremonster