Le plus spectaculaire miracle économique des 500 dernières années s’est produit quand la part du revenu consacrée à l’alimentation est passée d’environ 70% à 10%. Nos ancêtres vivaient pour nourrir leur famille. Aujourd’hui, nous achetons de la nourriture sans y penser. 1/6
Le RC Vannes réalise un gros coup en attirant une légende du rugby argentin !
Après son titre de champion de France, le RC Vannes réalise un recrutement de prestige en signant la légende argentine Matias Alemanno (Gloucester) pour deux saisons ! ⬇️
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Bon, puisqu'à l'appui du programme économique délirant de Mélenchon, on nous ressort régulièrement l'argument d'autorité des 300 "économistes" qui l'auraient validé, il est temps de réanalyser en détail cette fameuse liste.
Spoiler : c'est du flan.
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Première observation : contrairement à ce que beaucoup disent, pas de prix Nobel dans la liste.
Esther Duflo, à ne pas confondre avec Cécile Duflot, a expressément refusé d'apporter sa caution scientifique aux chiffrages macroéconomiques de la coalition.
« J’en profite pour dire que contrairement à ce que j’ai lu dans le journal, je n’ai pas contribué au programme du Front populaire, et je ne l’ai pas non plus “validé” en bloc, parce que ce n’est pas vraiment ma place de le faire, surtout en tant que présidente d’une école d’économie où les professeurs (de Thomas Piketty à Olivier Blanchard) ont des choses très différentes à en dire. »
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𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞 pour votre parcours en Jaune et Noir les gars 💛
🟡⚫️ Il est l'heure de dire au revoir à nos joueurs qui auront porté le maillot maritime avec fierté !
They called them flying coffins. The men who volunteered to fly them knew exactly why.
The Allied gliders of D-Day were made of fabric stretched over a frame of wood and metal tubing. They had no engine. No armor. No weapons. No parachutes for the men inside. They were towed to France at 130 mph on the end of a 300-foot nylon rope attached to a C-47, and when the rope was cut, there was one chance to land.
One. No go-arounds. No second approach. Whatever was below you was where you were going.
What was below them was Normandy at night.
The Germans had spent weeks preparing. Under orders from Field Marshal Rommel, they had driven wooden stakes into every open field in the region, angled to impale gliders on landing. The French called them Rommelspargel. Rommel's asparagus. Thousands of poles, many with mines or artillery shells wired to the tips, packed into every field large enough to land on.
What the glider pilots had not been properly told was the scale of the Norman hedgerows. The bocage. These were not English garden hedges. They were ancient earthen walls, some dating back centuries, topped with dense root systems and trees, rising 50 feet in places, bordering fields barely 200 yards long. A Horsa glider coming in at 100 mph hitting a hedgerow did not survive it. Neither did most people inside.
Some fields were flooded. Some were mined. Many were both.
517 gliders went into Normandy. 97 percent were abandoned in the field by the end of the operation. Most were destroyed.
General Don Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne, was in the first glider wave. His pilot managed to find a field near Hiesville and brought the glider down. It slid across the wet grass without slowing and hit a hedgerow at speed. The co-pilot died instantly. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Murphy, broke both legs. General Pratt suffered a broken neck. He became the first American general to die in the Battle of Normandy. His glider had landed in one piece.
Sergeant Eric Wilson's glider did not. It hit a building at high speed. Both of Wilson's legs were broken. He was trapped inside the wreckage, unable to move, in enemy-held Normandy, for two and a half days before anyone reached him.
Lieutenant Den Brotheridge had come in earlier than anyone, in the first glider to land in France, the silent coup de main assault on Pegasus Bridge just after midnight. His glider stopped 47 yards from its target. He led his men out at a run, reached the bridge, and was shot. He died within minutes, the first Allied soldier killed by enemy fire on D-Day.
The men who survived the landing did not get to stop. Glider pilots were not assigned to combat units. Once down, they were expected to fight as infantry, dig foxholes, guard prisoners, carry ammunition, do whatever was needed. Most of them had trained to fly, not to fight on the ground behind enemy lines in the dark.
They did it anyway.
Of the 517 gliders that went in, 222 were Horsa gliders. Most were destroyed either on landing or by German fire in the hours that followed. The Waco CG-4As fared slightly better but 97 percent of all gliders from the entire operation were eventually abandoned in Norman fields, broken and empty.
The men who flew them were not pilots in the traditional sense. They were soldiers who had been given just enough training to put an unarmed, engineless box of fabric and wood into a dark foreign field at 100 mph, full of men and equipment, with one attempt and no margin for error.
Many of them got it exactly right.
Many of them did not come home.
Today is June 6th.
Remember them too.
✏️ dessin du jour pour @ouestfrance : venue du secrétaire d’État américain à la guerre, Pete Hegseth en Normandie, pour le 82e anniversaire du D-Day. #dday#normandie
Toc-toc, y’a quelqu’un chez @CooperativeU ? Une question pour vous. J’assortis toujours mon gel douche à la couleur de ma chemise. Et là, j’ai un problème ! Laissez-moi vous expliquer…
[ Et je préviens déjà @ThomasSotto et @courbet_julien … ]