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U.S.

U.S. Logistics Shenanigans: A week-n-a-half of train derailments!

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Incomplete list of reports and videos about numerous train derailments within the United States, just from March 17th through 29th, 2023!

National Transportation Safety Board inspector reveals that more than 1-thousand trains derail in the U.S. every year, 28MAR2023:

CALIFORNIA: Union Pacific train derails then burns,  27MAR2023;

KCAL; Union Pacific says the train that derailed in the Mojave Desert had no crew in the engine cab!

8NewsNow, 28MAR2023; Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) confirms Union Pacific train that derailed in Mojave Desert had no crew and was a ‘runaway’ train!

People hurt after Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) commuter train derails, 23MAR2023;

COLORADO: Post Independent, 26MAR2023; Local politicians beg Biden to halt dangerous Uinata Basin Railway Project!

ILLINOIS: Cell phone video captures slow moving Canadian Pacific train derailment, 26MAR2023;

NBC Chicago says it was actually two Canadian Pacific trains that derailed!

LOUISIANA: Trains; 25 Union Pacific oil tank-cars derailed in Port Allen, 29MAR2023.

MASSACHUSETTS: RC drone video of Norfolk Southern derailment in Ayer, 23MAR2023, warning bad audio;

NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte Observer; revealed on 28MAR2023, officials fired a Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) employee for trying to warn about lax maintenance, right before the 2022 Blue Line derailment!

NORTH DAKOTA: KMOT; BNSF train derails, takes out grain silo, 29MAR2023.

RC drone video of Canadian Pacific 70-car HazMat derailment, near Wyndmere, 27MAR2023;

INFORUM; Broken rail blamed for causing HazMat train derailment.

OHIO: WSYX, 26MAR2023; video from inside the engine cab involved in the Norfolk Southern East Palestine derailment, mysteriously disappears!

PENNSYLVANIA: WTAE; multiple train cars off the tracks after derailment in Butler County, 29MAR2023.

WASHINGTON: KOMO News; Washington state ranked14th among states with most train derailments.

Court rules BNSF intentionally violated agreements that limited the size of the train, 28MAR2023;

The Seattle Times, 23MAR2023; employee error blamed for BNSF derailment!

U.S. Logistics Shenanigans: ONE WEEK OF EPIDEMIC TRAIN DERAILMENTS!

Idaho, U.S.

Hunger Games: University offers free food preservation tips, for a price!

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Anybody who spends some time on social media knows there are plenty of free advice/video posts about how to preserve food at home, yet the University of Idaho apparently thinks they can make money off food preservation classes.

The University of Idaho is based in northern Idaho’s Moscow (don’t confuse with Idaho State University based in Pocatello), but is offering home-food-preservation classes in eastern Idaho’s City of Rigby, and southeast Idaho’s City of Pocatello, for a price!

The cost to attend the entire food preservation series of classes is $75, or, if you want just one or two classes the price is $15 per class.  There are five classes, registration must be done before 24FEB2023.  A quick scan of the classes revealed to me that, yes, you can find these basic food preservation ideas online and for free!

And if you live in Napoleon Dynamite country, the U of I offers an online Preserve@Home course in Franklin County, for $35 bucks beginning 19JAN2023!  Yes, you can find the info free, elsewhere!

If you don’t like social media, then you can always checkout the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension’s National Center for Home Food Preservation, yes it is free!  The state and federal taxpayer funded National Center for Home Food Preservation has instructions for canning, drying, freezing, smoking/curing, fermenting, pickling, jams/jellys, and storage (whew)!

U.S. Hunger Games 2023: CHICKENS & COWS STARVING TO DEATH, BLAMED ON UNION PACIFIC, CLIMATE CHANGE, LABOR SHORTAGE?

Business/Economics, International

What Economic Recovery? Japan to fight inflation with butter, lots and lots of butter, it’s not funny

Inflation is hitting other countries harder than the United States (so far).  In Japan inflation has caused the price of butter to go up so high, that the government announced they will flood the butter markets with more butter.

But that butter isn’t coming from Japan.  Butter production collapsed after the March 11 disasters, so the Japanese government will import 2,000 tons of butter.

It’s not just butter that will be imported, but fish as well.  This is no thanks to the radiation being poured into the Pacific Ocean off the Japanese coast.  Japanese fishermen are having a hard time selling their catch, even if it’s certified to be free of radiation.  The result is a fish shortage, and of course the price is going up.  Japan will import 13,700 tons of fish.

The situation in Japan will only strain the growing world food crisis.