How Precision Scheduled Railroading caused disaster in Ohio

23 02 2023

Rail workers opposed dangerous Precision Scheduled Railroading which caused the catastrophe in Ohio. Biden stopped them by busting their union when they recently threatened to strike.

Every town with railroad tracks running through it is in danger now because of Precision Scheduled Railroading.

 


RWU:
Opposition to Precision Scheduled Railroading

“The rail industry in North America is in the throes of tumultuous changes, collectively known as “Precision Scheduled Railroading” (PSR). As of late 2018, there is no major rail carrier that is immune from the convulsions that are taking place in our industry. This operating plan has been propelled into the forefront in recent years by the quest for short-term profits by hedge fund investors with no concern about the long-term viability nor health of the rail industry. While PSR might help to deliver record profits and all-time low operating ratios, this operating plan is in fact a farce, a thinly veiled disguise that relies on deferred maintenance, lax safety standards, a decline in infrastructure investment, and reduced labor costs to “succeed.”

PSR has been problematic for rail workers of all crafts, shippers of all shipping groups, general rail safety, the industry itself and the nation as a whole. The profit-driven speed-up has contributed to worker fatalities and crippling injuries. Workers are vulnerable to even more hazards and dangers, as are surrounding communities. … (more)

https://www.railroadworkersunited.org/oppose-precision-scheduled-railroading

 

Gus Leonisky’s blog –
precision scheduled railroading… and not a fast train in sight… and plenty of shunting……

“So, the threatened railway workers strike is over. President Joe Biden used his authority over interstate commerce to impose a settlement. “

 

 

 





Crushing American Labor – Bear Witness

13 02 2016

New York Daily News“F–k you!” Workers react to news that their 1,400 jobs are being sent to Mexico — WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE

” . . . Carrier Heating and Cooling announced that it was transferring operations and 1,400 positions to Monterrey, earning a chorus of jeers and shouts during an announcement to workers soon to be unemployed.

F–k you!” one man is heard yelling in a YouTube video shot while employees were told that, “the best way to stay competitive and protect the business long term is to move production from our facility.”

LINK –  http://youtu.be/Y3ttxGMQOrY





Ron Emanuel VS Chicago Teachers

10 09 2012

[snip] . . . .The strike is an expression of deep-seated anger among the 30,000 Chicago teachers, who have faced decades of cuts in school budgets, wages and benefits. In recent years, Chicago teachers have borne the brunt of the assault on public-sector workers in the city, now headed by Emanuel. Emanuel is the former White House chief of staff of President Obama, who is overseeing the assault on public education at the national level, including the expansion of for-profit charter operations and the mass firing of teachers in schools that are labeled as “failing.”  (more)

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/chic-s10.shtml#

 





Pentagon shooter’s web existance being scrubbed

5 03 2010

Pentagon attacker and evidently wanna-be random shooter, J. Patrick Bedell, is disappearing from the web. FYI – His Wikipedia entry was preserved before it was scrubbed and here is a repost. Thanks to mediaelites’ blog.


User:JPatrickBedell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My hope is to use the creativity of markets and advanced technology to transcend the destructive regimes that have fastened themselves upon the world. I have dreamed for an number of years of creating v:production econosystems, which I hope to apply to the creation of v:security service econosystems using new and economic mechanisms and information technology.

I have a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and studied biochemistry at San Jose State University. I’ve studied electrical engineering with the goal of creating microsystems for molecular analysis.[1][2][3][4] You can see a proposal to use aluminum anodization as an adsorption method for DNA molecules on CMOS chips at v:DNA_integrated_circuit/proposal_import_2007 (which originates from an unsuccessful DARPA proposal to create a “microMIRV” interoperable with standard firearms ammunition), and a proposal to use xenon difluoride to create a picoliter-scale computer-controlled device for sorting biomolecules (available at v:Capillary_electrode_array/proposal_import_2007), including DNA and protein molecules. My goals include the discovery of a protein sequence for the diamondase enzyme, enabling the creation of macroscale diamond structures, and the creation of self-assembled macrosystems with CMOS DNA-integrated circuits. The scale of these and other projects have led me to develop financial instruments representing information as a tool to manage large projects that are very knowledge-intensive.

I am determined to see that justice is served in the death of Colonel James Sabow, as a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions and institutions such as the coup regime of 1963 that maintains itself in power through the global drug trade, financial corruption, and murder, among other crimes. My work to develop information currency is an effort to create a framework for information management that uses financial markets to create the economic signals (prices) that will effect complex human actions in the real world based on specified information. My desire for justice led me to violate what I think is one of the most unjust laws, cannabis prohibition, by growing 16 cannabis plants on my balcony in Irvine, CA from March 2006 to June 2006. I’ve posted the Orange County, CA District Attorney’s complaint for this offense at http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/JPatrickBedell_2006-06-06_cannabis_felony_complaint .

One desired result of my effort is (will be) billions and billions of carefully cultivated, highly valuable cannabis plants growing throughout the United States with complete security of property. I have posted the image to the right in order to illustrate the use of cannabis as a monetary system using digital financial instruments. There are two information currency units in each of the PDF417 codes pictured. One of the information currency units is drawn from a series with “one gram cannabis” with the underlying asset, and the second ICU in each code has as its underlying asset the URL http://www.mises.org/humanaction/pdf/humanaction.pdf and the SHA-1 digest value of the file at that location (fd8205cb8b4793d43b57ba6f6c7367aa700c307a). This is a way of associating the work of Ludwig von Mises with financial value, which may be a tool to implement his ideas in reality. I hope someday to see full-reserve banking and observance of Article One, Section 10 of the US Constitution.

I apologize for the graphic content of some of my contributions, but detailed evidence is sometimes necessary to address important matters. I am very disturbed by the fact that Col. Sabow’s civilian superiors and their successors have been able to continue their narco-mercantilism. For historical comparison, I might resemble the odd German still complaining about the murders of the Night of the Long Knives in 1938(?). Of course, Wikipedia didn’t exist in 1938!

I am looking for collaborators for ongoing commercial and intellectual efforts. Email to jpbedell at mises.com is welcome!

 


And here’s his IT idea on youtube about filesharing for chits convertable to currency –

http://www.youtube.com/user/jpbedell2006

From Redacted News’ blog:

Let the Spin Begin: “Pentagon shooter apparently doubted 9/11 facts in Web posting” after DC’s War Game “Metro Active Shooter Exercise”

I’m no coincidence theorist as most official government officials seem to be when anything happens, especially when it concerns government exercises and war games that seem to turn “LIVE” right when the government needs them to happen. That is to say, to implement a plan that is on the books and ready to go, such as what we now truly know about the anomalies surrounding the events of 9/11, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Lavon Affair, the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods, ….(more)

http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/03/let-spin-begin-pentagon-shooter.html