The Full Picture: What they didn’t let you know

Isobel Lawrance


2nd Jun 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes

The Full Picture: What they didn’t let you know 

The news and contemporary media could be an amazing source of data on global events, politics, weather and sports. However the mainstream news can often be bias, pushing some happenings greater than others, specializing in some topics heavily and neglecting others. 

Here at MoneyMagpie, we imagine within the importance of sharing the most recent that many mainstream outlets can have did not, or deliberately selected to not, cover. 

Every week, we’ll be rounding up a few of the top stories that you could have missed.

Salaries being recalled by banks 

HR Businesses Partner Wes Griffiths posted the next on LinkedIn just yesterday:

 

The comments show many other people employees at automotive intelligence firm Wejo were facing the identical confusion. After the firm entered a notice to enter administration earlier this week, it appears wages have been recalled after they landed in bank accounts at the tip of the month as usual. 

Even though it appeared to only be banks HSBC and First Direct affected, other high street banks have also began to recall wages. In line with Prolific North, several staff suggested they’ve been forced into unauthorised overdraft or missed payments as a result of the unexpected withdrawal of funds.  

You may read more on this story here. 

What’s happening in East Palestine, Ohio? 

In February of this 12 months, huge fires occurred in East Palestine, Ohio, within the US, after a 38-carriage train carrying chemicals derailed. Five of the cars were carrying vinyl chloride, a substance that becomes hugely toxic when burned. 

Clean-up crews were forced to burn more toxic fumes even after the crash to avoid explosions. The crash is believed to have left as many as 45,000 animals dead, and the town’s residents left with respiratory issues and skin irritation. 

But now, townsfolk are furious that this was ever allowed to occur, why people usually are not told of trains carrying dangerous chemicals are passing through their towns, and plenty of suggesting officials are lying about their safety. 

News recently broke that in the primary instance, frantic members of the general public who called emergency services were told by officials to not evacuate. An enormous number of individuals were told the train was simply carrying alcohol – not dangerous gases with links to liver cancer. 

In line with The Day by day Mail, when one grandmother desperately called the fireplace department, a dispatcher told her: ‘They’re not evacuating anymore, you’re good’. Although some residents very near the crash site were ordered to evacuate in case of an explosion, those further away were told they were protected. 

Greg Mascher, a father who lives near the chemical spill, wrote a powerful opinion piece for The Guardian. “Officials who say we’re protected are lying,” he declares, before outlining his worrying experience. In his piece, he writes that by the following morning after the crash, smog was thick within the air. The day after this, the Enivronmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggested they detected no contaminants within the air. 

Despite this statement from the EPA, Mr Mascher said: “My granddaughters had developed blotches throughout their bodies. They looked like burns, as in the event that they’d spent an excessive amount of time next to a sun lamp. My seven-year-old granddaughter’s leg was beet-red. They were coughing and their eyes were burning. I started to experience constant headaches and a nagging cough.” 

This whole experience is leading many individuals, each in Ohio and beyond, were profits put before safety, could this have been avoided, and have people been lied to concerning the severity of the health implications of such a disaster? 

Read more here. 

Journalist detained by British police

The subject of free speech within the UK has been brought into query, after journalist Kit Klarenberg was detained at London’s Luton airport and questioned for five hours about his work.  

In line with media outlet The Grayzone, where Mr Klarenberg works, the journalist was also asked about his personal opinion on all the things from the present British political leadership to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Kit has previously been vocal about his opinions on censorship and free speech and has made headlines previously as a result of his exposés on the British government, the CIA and more. 

Here’s what Youtube Channel ‘Redacted’ have said:

 

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