Wasn't there news that a private equity firm is going to be responsible for staffing ERs in hospitals to cut down costs?
Such ridiculous schemes to cut costs is only going to end poorly.
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Such ridiculous schemes to cut costs is only going to end poorly.
This whole episode reminds me of this:
A weather balloon gets spotted over and misattributed to being a Japanese plane. It captured the publics imagination and soon after there were multiple objects in the sky, all pointing to an imminent invasion.
While technology like radar has improved, common sense and intelligence has decreased and add to that the provocative and ambiguous Pentagon statements we're seeing you've got all the ingredients for mass panic.
A weather balloon gets spotted over and misattributed to being a Japanese plane. It captured the publics imagination and soon after there were multiple objects in the sky, all pointing to an imminent invasion.
While technology like radar has improved, common sense and intelligence has decreased and add to that the provocative and ambiguous Pentagon statements we're seeing you've got all the ingredients for mass panic.
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Maybe they should just buy those from China like Portugal did.
‘Unspeakable botch’: Spain spends €258 million on trains that are too big for its tunnels
Two senior officials from Renfe and Adif have been dismissed over the error.
By • Updated: 10/02/2023
Spain has spent €258 million on that are too big to pass through its rail network’s tunnels.
Since the blunder was exposed by local newspaper El Comercio late last month, two bosses have been fired.
The 31 commuter trains were ordered by in 2020. They are set to replace an ageing fleet in the poorly connected northern autonomous regions of Asturias and Cantabria.
Originally slated for completion in 2024, the much-needed update is now likely to be delayed until at least 2026.
It has also emerged that the manufacturer, Basque-based CAF, flagged the error back in March 2021.
President Miguel Ángel Revilla has called it “an unspeakable botch” adding that “heads must roll", according to Spanish regional newspaper El Diario Montañés.
Who is to blame for ordering the wrong size trains?
Various parties played a part in the debacle, including ’s national rail operator Renfe, rail infrastructure manager Adif, transport manufacturer CAF and the State Agency for Railway Safety (AESF).
After granting the manufacturing contract to CAF, Renfe says it provided measurements based on infrastructure specifications provided by Adif. CAF later warned that the specifications may not be correct.
Built in the 19th century, the region’s rail network crosses a mountainous landscape. It has varying tunnel sizes that do not adhere to standardised modern dimensions.
So far, two senior officials have been dismissed - a Renfe rolling stock manager and Adif’s head of inspection and track technology.
Spain’s transport minister Raquel Sanchez says she was only recently made aware of the problem. She has launched an internal audit into who knew about the issue and why it wasn’t raised earlier.
Spain’s Secretary General for Infrastructure, Xavier Flores, has admitted that he was made aware of the issue months ago.
What will happen to the oversized trains?
As the trains were still in the design phase, they have not been manufactured yet.
While this minimises the cost of the error, the time-consuming process will need to be repeated, delaying the trains’ construction.
They will now be manufactured using the dimensions of a that already runs on the network for comparison to ensure they fit through the various tunnels. Adif will also update its infrastructure data accordingly to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
France made a similar error in 2014
This is not the first time such a fiasco has taken place. In 2014, French train operator ordered 2,000 regional trains that were too wide for the network’s platforms.
Again, the error was caused by data from the infrastructure manager that did not account for older structures.
In this case, the trains were already made and the platforms had to be rebuilt at great cost.
It's always Xinjiang this Tibet that. But when human rights violations really occurred, most of the Western MSM pretends nothing happened.
Reminder that dioxins were the toxins in Agent Orange that led to so many birth defects in south east Asia in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. This Ohio event is the Chernobyl of our era and the Anglo mass media is trying to kill the story, the only meaningful coverage we’re getting is from TikTok and twitter citizen journalists.
There are now reports also of hydrochloride acid rain melting people’s cars, if it can do that to metal, what can it do to flesh?
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Here is a skit that perfectly describes the current situation by the illustrious Dr. Glaucomflecken
There's lots of rumors, the one I heard is a Seawolf-class has been bottled up in Bohai.
Given the size of Seawolf and depth of Bohai I think we can dismiss that out of hand to be on the same level as Ghost of Kiev or 052D lurking off the coast of California.
In before all the jokes about "Blue October" and how the Seawolf XO would like to have two Chinese wives cooking rabbits for him.