The Norfolk Southern train derailment and “controlled release” of toxic vinyl chloride in East Palestine, Ohio, was an avoidable catastrophe. Long before the train cars crashed on Feb. 3 and residents’ lives were turned completely upside down, railroad workers had been warning anyone who would listen that the relentless cost-cutting and profit-maximizing practices implemented on the freight rail system by greedy rail executives and their Wall Street shareholders would endanger workers and the public, and they were right. In recent hearings held in East Palestine by the National Travel Safety Board (NTSB), testimonies by representatives from rail labor and even Norfolk Southern itself have revealed what workers already knew: a combination of reckless business practices by the rail carriers, including yearly staff cuts to rail maintenance workers and the outsourcing of vital safety functions to unregulated machines, and lax federal regulation of the railroads has created the conditions for catastrophes like East Palestine to happen with greater frequency. But it is not too late to reverse course and build a safer, greener, more efficient, more humane rail system. In this episode, we discuss the latest revelations to come out of the ongoing investigations into the East Palestine disaster with Jason Cox, national representative for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, who testified at the NTSB hearings in East Palestine in June.
Additional links/show notes: https://workingpeople.libsyn.com/whatand-whocaused-the-train-derailment-in-east-palestine-w-jason-cox
Music / Post-Production: Jules Taylor
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Apparently, humanity is so disturbingly dumbed down and brainwashed that most people can't seem to comprehend that this derailment was a literal job. It was done purposely. How can anyone believe they made a movie about it filmed it in salem and East palestine ohio, and then it just mysteriously happens the EXACT same way? The most terrifying thing in this life isn't the epidemics and the pandemics and the chaotic weather. It is how frighteningly dumbed down the human race is.
it is weird you haven't done any material about Hawaii disaster
Thank you The Real News for your amazing coverage!
Duh if he is corrupt; well, he messed his own self up.
Your famous now i call snot too, this is a show, and why nothing will get done unless the paper goods are shown and trash is collected and thrown in a iron box.
The real news there was a video of a wheel on fire 20 miles from East Palestine on that train !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aren’t your pension funds being complicit in these accidents? They are allowing all this to happen!
AND PLEASE DONT FORGET ABOUT THE TRAIN LOAD OF IMODIUM NITRATE THAT CAME UP JUST DISSAPEARING A COUPLE MONTHS AGO EIGTHER" IVE BEEN HAVING REACURRING DREAMS/ NIGHTMARES AND BEING IM GIFTED AS WHATS CALLED A SEEIER, SOMETHING FEELS REALLY OFF. " PLEASE DONT BLOW ME OFF ABOUT THIS. I FEEL SOMETHING REALLY OFF IN THE PIT OF MY STOMACH.. COULD SOMEONE WITH JUST A LITTLE BIT OF INFLUENCE LOOK UNDERGROUND IN THE AREA THAT, THAT CHINESE LAB THAT WAS FOUND IN CALIF. AND JUST SEE IF MY VISIONS ARE TRUE.. ITS SCAREING ME AND THE ONLY TIME I HAVE REPEATEING NIGHTMARES IS IF SOMTHINGS VERY WRONG..
You poor people who are affected/afflicted by this tragedy….HAVE GOT NOTHING COMING!
Sorry to inform you of this, but it is the facts.
Beware of unions, they will sell out to anyone offering a dollar.
Poisoning the public…sad
Why is De Wine afraid to declare an emergency? Sue him or recall him.
10:15 'Acrolein'
Where's the government help?!!! This admin is so negligent its disgusting!
What's the link to the video Cox described after 23:00 in this video (in which the thorough and lax car inspections are contrasted)?
Thank you for keeping us updated as to the ongoing and as yet unresolved disaster in
East Palestine, Ohio. It seems like government
officials and regulators are turning a blind eye
to all that has happened! There needs to be
sone accountability, and major changes in
current regulations and oversight, so that such
avoidable disasters don’t become the accepted
norm of our country’s rail transport system.
There must be some way to get policies changed
so that public safety is again safeguarded!
Thank you and your courageous guests for
coming forth, and letting us know what goes
on behind the scenes. Maybe some grassroots
efforts can start to turn this around. Unchecked
on its present trajectory, far worse disasters
are in the offing, and only a matter of time
before they manifest. Our country and its citizens
can’t afford such a risk!
17:38 "we don't want you on the property"… (for arbitrary or discriminatory purposes)… "Can you imagine this going on right now.." Yeah, that was the 1950's and 1960's "Golden Era" that baby boomers want to return to, sooo badly, they're gladly willing to give up our American DEMOCRACY just to go back to those days, not just for themselves, but for ALL OF US. They are so afraid of even what little we have progressed, their fear blinds, their minds tell lies. They think we were free in their Golden Age, forgetting how long and hard fought this battle has been, to get us away from their Age of avoidance, discrimination, and tyranny, and back on a path toward Civil Rights and human freedom that's our as yet unachieved birthright. Let our people go, MAGA! Let us go!
profits matter. People don't.
I heard reporting that Biden recently helped craft a deal for the rail workers… is that true?
I dont got the patience for this intro
A new railroad safety bill from Ohio Senators. Sherrod Brown and JD Vance has been opposed by Republican leaders in Congress and the railroad industry.
The priority: 1) Send Taiwan a $345 million military aid package (new war); 2) Continue sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and sustain nearly 800 military bases around the world, spread across at least 80 countries.
So the cause of the accident was cost cutting to increase profits, that comes as a surprise.
I thought it was because of a freak weather phenomenon, the hand of God or aliens, i certainly wasn't expecting that.
Evil shameless Uncle Sam's Boston Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company Holtec dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons (3.8 million liters) of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay but have no objection in the Japanese Fukushima nuclear plant to start discharging contaminated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.
More reason not to trust Democrats agenda. BILLIONS SENT TO Ukraine, HELL WITH OUR OWN CITIZENS!! THIS BELONGS TO THE DEMOCRATS !!
🦉This country is no longer
"For the People" ~ 🇺🇸
Organized, mobilize & PROTEST ✊️
He car tripped singles 20 miles before the derailment" DIOXINS are the problem from "the purpose burning" of the payload!!! People's animals died in their yard" thousands of animals died in just a few days!!!
RFK Jr hasn't.
He is suing on behalf of the Residents of the Norfolk Southern contamination area.
thank you for continuing to cover East Palestine, Maximilian Alvarez! ❤️
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It’s very possible that the application of the emergency braking system on that train caused the derailment. Briefly, there were over 140 cars on the train. When the air is released from the braking system the brakes come on. If you start at the engine and go backwards towards the end of the train Think about this. The air is being released and the brakes are coming on at the front of the train but at the rear of the train the brakes are not on and they are still pushing the train strictly from momentum. So you have railroad cars that have locked wheels or fairly close to that and you have other cars 100 of them behind you pushing at whatever speed they were traveling before the emergency system engaged. What do you think could happen?