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After the Ecuador priest got taken out by a falling crucifix during Mass… this guy said “not today.”
Hard hat on. Crucifix chained to the ceiling. Still hitting the Sign of the Cross like nothing’s wrong. 💀
Better safe than sorry, Father.
Total madness in a town hall in Florida, USA.
A Muslim councilwoman covered in a burka recites the call to prayer in the middle of the session, protesting because the vote for a license for a new mosque didn't go through.
Cultural assimilation is over.
Bukele announces the deployment of El Salvador's army in Haiti to rescue 4 kidnapped aviation technicians:
“We are giving a lesson to the gangs”
This video explains the train incident in Spain so clearly. (The video is in Spanish.)
Este video explica el accidente.
Cortesía 📹 Estoesasiporque
Step-by-step English translation of the video narration:
0:00–0:06
An AVE has rear-ended a stopped train in Toledo and at least sixty-eight people have died.
0:06–0:08
And in Spain that shouldn’t be able to happen.
0:09–0:13
This is the story of the twenty-three minutes that ended in tragedy.
0:14–0:21
It’s eight in the morning at Atocha station in Madrid. A Renfe AVE departs for Seville with almost four hundred passengers.
0:22–0:27
Six minutes earlier an Iryo train with one hundred and forty-seven people left on the same track.
0:28–0:36
Both are heading south, one behind the other. And they don’t collide because the track is divided into sections, and only one train is allowed in each section.
0:36–0:44
That is monitored by a system called LZB — a cable between the rails that communicates with each train and brakes it if it gets too close to the one ahead.
0:45–0:54
But at half past eight the LZB fails. Three computers stop communicating with each other and more than sixty kilometers of track are left without supervision.
0:55–1:00
The six trains on that section brake automatically and come to a stop. Up to this point everything works as it should.
1:01–1:12
From the Atocha control center they order the trains to resume, but the Iryo cannot start. It remains stopped on the track at the entrance to Urda station, and the signal behind it turns red.
1:13–1:23
That red light means one thing: do not pass, there is a train ahead. And this is where the error occurs, according to the government. From control they allow the AVE to continue normally.
1:24–1:38
When a train is allowed to pass a red signal, it must proceed at sight, at about forty kilometers per hour, so it can stop if it sees something. But the AVE, according to the minister, was going at about two hundred. It covers twenty-five kilometers in seventeen minutes.
1:39–1:49
At seven minutes to nine, at kilometer one hundred and eighteen, the AVE catches up with the Iryo. It rear-ends it, both trains leave the tracks, and several cars fall down the embankment.
1:49–2:00
Passengers get out by breaking the windows, and people working in the fields cut holes in the fence to get them out. About two hundred UME soldiers and more than three hundred Civil Guard officers arrive.
2:01–2:13
The toll so far: at least sixty-eight dead — twenty-four on the AVE and forty-four on the Iryo — and one hundred and fifteen injured, fifteen of them serious. And there could still be more people under the cars.
2:14–2:26
The Civil Guard has already questioned the control-center operator, and the investigation will determine what really happened, because even the minister has said that one train rear-ending another in Spain is unthinkable.
2:26–2:33
And it is the second high-speed tragedy in nine months. In January, in Adamuz, forty-six people died.
2:33–2:40
Twenty-three minutes, a system that fails, a train that cannot start, and a red light that was not respected. Rest in peace.
Last week Haitian gangs were posting “come try us” videos with buckets of ammo.
This week Port-au-Prince media is showing operations and another thousand Salvadoran soldiers are inbound.
The “Haiti is not El Salvador” line is aging like milk left out in the sun. Mega prison reservations might be opening soon.
The leader of the Haitian gang 400 MAWOZO Wilson Joseph, alias "Lanmo San Jou," sends a message to the president of El Salvador, @nayibbukele .
Video 1: "Bukele, I hear you talking. I hear you threatening us. But let me tell you something: you are in El Salvador, and we are in Haiti. Haiti is not El Salvador. You think you can just come here with your soldiers and clean us out the way you did with the gangs in your country? Come on then, try it. Look at what we have here. Look at this arsenal. We are not afraid of you, and we are not afraid of your military.If you step foot in our territory, we are ready for you. You are talking to Lanmo San Jou. We rule here, and your threats mean nothing to us. If you want your men back, you will have to deal with us on our terms, not yours."
Video 2: "Bukele, I am speaking directly to you. I see you talking on the internet, threatening us and making grand statements because you think Haiti is El Salvador.
Look at what we have here. Look at these buckets, look at these trays. This is all heavy ammunition, and we have the automatic rifles to match them. We aren’t running away. I have nowhere to go, and I am not hiding from you.
If you think your soldiers are just going to walk in here and take over, come try it. We are standing our ground right here. We are waiting for you, and we are fully prepared to fight you and your troops."
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Check out these two short 3D and AI-animated physics simulations of a train collision and derailment in Spain. 🚂🇪🇸💥
So tragic 😥
"Till death do us part" nearly became "till the wind do us part" 🌬️🎈
Bride nearly flies away after giant balloons catch wind during wedding photo shoot trib.al/1UE3T7s
Haiti 🇭🇹
Bukele and his army are already taking control of the neighborhoods, and the Haitian police are securing the area and cleaning up the mess.
Check out these two short 3D and AI-animated physics simulations of a train collision and derailment in Spain. 🚂🇪🇸💥
So tragic 😥
Please share this video until you're sick of it, so it reaches even those who have never opened a social network.
Don't let the spain government slip us the farce of "human error" or try to load onto the back of a poor worker the more than 68 deaths....
Step-by-step English translation of the video
How can one train catch up to another on a high-speed line?
To understand it, we have to look at the safety chain that should have prevented it.
The track is divided into sections of several kilometers, called block sections.
The rule is simple: in each block section, only one train.
Electrical circuits in the rails detect whether the block is occupied.
If it is, the train coming behind cannot enter.
On the Madrid–Seville line, this is monitored by a system called LZB.
It talks to the train all the time, via a cable laid between the rails.
It knows which blocks are occupied, so it calculates how far each train can go and at what speed.
The driver sees it on his screen.
And if there’s a train ahead, the LZB marks a stopping point before reaching it.
If the driver doesn’t brake in time, the system brakes the train itself, automatically.
But today, at 8:32, the LZB center in the area failed.
Six trains were left stopped over about ninety kilometers.
When the LZB goes down, Plan B kicks in: light signals beside the track, and a system called ASFA Digital.
Balises on the ground check that the train respects each signal.
If it passes a red one without permission, it brakes it.
And here’s the key.
A red signal can be passed if the control center authorizes it.
It’s called an authorized override.
And in that mode, the ASFA only monitors the speed—it doesn’t know if there’s a train ahead.
That’s why the rule requires proceeding at sight.
Slowly, at about 40 km/h, so you can stop for anything you see.
The main hypothesis, according to the Ministry of Transport, is that the Atocha control center authorized resuming the journey with the Iryo still ahead, stopped.
The minister has called it an inexplicable error.
But an order from Atocha isn’t enough for this to happen.
Even if control authorizes continuing, the backup barriers are still there.
Proceeding at sight requires going slowly, and the ASFA, in authorized override mode, monitors that speed.
If the train exceeds it, it should brake it.
What is still not known is why that order was given, what the driver saw, and why none of those barriers stopped the train.
That is now being investigated by the Railway Accident Investigation Commission.
A system like this has several layers, so that a single failure is not enough.
🇪🇸 | TRAGEDY IN SPAIN: This is how the emergency teams entered the trains to rescue the passengers in toledo,spain.