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

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!

Supply Shortage Shenanigans: No Testing required for Veterans to drive Big-Rigs in Idaho?

27 January 2023 (14:39-UTC-07 Tango 06) 07 Bahman 1401/05 Rajab 1444/06 Gui-Chou 4721/27 январь 2023 года

The Idaho Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) allows Veterans, and even current military personnel, to be waived from taking the test for Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)!  But wait, not just any veteran or current military personnel, you specifically must have driven truck in the military.  Whew, that’s good.

Here is the real good news for Veterans and military personnel with truck driving experience; the Idaho DMV has offered two forms for CDL testing waiver, except those forms had to be filled out by hand, that is until now. On 18JAN2023, the Idaho DMV announced two new ‘digital fillable forms’, in an attempt to streamline the process, and get more experienced truck driving Veterans on the road.

The old forms had to be printed then hand filled in, the new forms can be filled in before printing.  Employees of Idaho DMV claim they were having a hard time reading the hand-filled forms, and some potential applicants gave up simply because they had to handwrite on the forms!

Application for Military CDL Skills Test Waiver

Application for Even Exchange CDL Military Knowledge and Skills Test Waiver

November 2022:

CHINA TURNS TO ROBOTS & DRONES TO SUPPLY ITS MILITARY!

May 2022: FEMA PREPS FOR FOOD SUPPLY CATASTROPHE? “52% OF OUR POPULATION IS ONE CRISIS AWAY FROM POVERTY”

April 2022: CONTAINER SHIPS GOING DOWN, U.S. TAXPAYERS TO THE ‘RESCUE’!

November 2021: SKYROCKETING USED CAR PRICES & INSURANCE RATES STARTED YEARS BEFORE THE SHORTAGES!

May 2019: THE U.S. ARMY HAS BEEN PREPPING FOR DRIVERLESS SUPPLY TRUCKS FOR AT LEAST A DECADE!

Hunger Games 2023: Chickens & Cows starving to death, blamed on Union Pacific, Climate Change, Labor Shortage?

06 January 2023 (14:49-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Dey 1401/13 Jumada t-Tania 1444/15 Xin-Chou 4720/06 январь 2023 года

For the second time, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) ordered railroad logistics company Union Pacific (UP) to deliver feed to the Foster Farms operations in Livingston, California.  Millions of chickens and hundreds of cattle are in danger of starving to death, due to ongoing logistics problems with deliveries of feed!

The first time UP was ordered to make the deliveries it blamed lack of employees, now it blames climate change!  UP claims snowy weather, in December 2022, disrupted deliveries to 20 western states.

This latest ‘order’ by the STB is specifically about deliveries to the industrial food producer Foster Farms, which lodged a complaint with the STB.  Foster Farms claims it is being forced to buy much more expensive feed in the meantime. The feed is more expensive because it is being hauled in by tractor-trailers, of course this means Foster Farms will pass on the extra cost to the consumers.

The delivery problems involving UP are not new, the STB got many similar complaints about UP delivery problems in Spring 2022.

More recent problems for UP:  UP joins three other railroad operations to halt STB arbitration order concerning rail shipping rates

Unions, rails clash over hiring data as UP faces regulatory heat

U.S. Hunger Games 2022: AGED INFRASTRUCTURE CUTS OFF WATER SUPPLY TO ARKANSAS SCHOOL/CITY, NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED!

Global Hunger Games 2022: STARVATION IN YEMEN? 36-TONS OF FOOD THROWN AWAY, FISHERMEN PREVENTED FROM FISHING!

Operation Jupiter: Pandemic logistic shenanigans hit U.S. military nano-vax operations!

22 April 2022  (11:56-UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Ordibehest 1401/20 Ramadan 1443/22 Jia Chen 4720

“Supply chains are pivotal in the production of both military and civilian products and technologies. Our team looked at two questions; a: How do you assess the impacts of supply chain disruptions on the manufacturing bottom line and product availability to consumers, and b: How do you mitigate supply chain disruption and increase their ability to recover, particularly when the various secondary or tertiary contributors to a supply chain are poorly characterized?”-Igor Linkov, senior scientific technical manager for U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory

Image via U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development.

The U.S. Army inadvertently admitted that supply chain problems blamed on The Pandemic are actually because the global supply system became a ‘just-in-time’ system (based on the Japanese system) operated by A-I and robots, which has proven to be a failure when something unexpected like government pandemic mandates, or other catastrophes, strikes.

The Japanese just-in-time supply system has proven itself to be a failure time and time again, every time Japan experiences some kind of natural disaster.  Yet, the globalized supply operation adopted the just-in-time system, along with A-I and robots, because it creates huge profits by supposedly reducing the need for massive warehouse operations, at least that is what was thought.  Since governments began panicking over The Pandemic and implementing pandemic mandates, which directly affected the globalized supply system, it has been realized (ironically) that in order to deal with natural and human-made catastrophes the globalized just-in-time system needs even more warehouse operations than before the just-in-time system was adopted: “In both retail and manufacturing, we see businesses abandoning the dominant lean, Just-in-Time, low-inventory, procurement-led supply chain model. With increasing risk from events such as, Covid, Brexit, trade friction with China, flooded Taiwanese chip-makers, and the Suez Canal blockage, businesses are facing greater uncertainty and are looking to build resilience into their supply chains. And that means holding more inventory, which in turn puts further pressure on available warehouse space.”-Logistics Manager, 26APR2021

Concerned about being able to get the supplies it needs to produce its own Pandemic nano-vaccines, the U.S. Army’s ERDC-Environmental Laboratory studied how the current just-in-time supply chain could adversely affect nano-vaccine production: “We have tried to attract attention to the problem that in manufacturing nano-enabled products, supply chain operations are foundational logistical challenges that require careful governance. We tried to look at how supply chain works for nano-enabled products and use this as a way to illustrate the importance of resilience and efficiency in supply chains.”-Benjamin Trump, U.S. Army ERDC-Environmental Laboratory

Read the study for yourself: Resilience and efficiency for the nanotechnology supply chains underpinning COVID-19 vaccine development

Operation Jupiter: U.S. ARMY UPDATES PROGRESS ON NANO-SPONGE VACCINE, claims it to be 90% EFFECTIVE!

Pandemic Logistics Perfidy: SKYROCKETING USED CAR PRICES & INSURANCE RATES actually STARTED YEARS BEFORE THE SHORTAGES!

Pandemic Perfidy: LIFE INSURANCE INDUSTRY & MILITARY REPORT MASSIVE INCREASE IN ‘NON-PANDEMIC’ DEATHS, BLAME THE ‘NEW’ UN-WHO ICD-10-CM CODES?

Operation Jupiter 2015: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU!