Anthony Lévesque

Agro-buisiness and trading managment!
Hogs, Grains, Dairy industry, Maple syrup, Feeder cattle.

Hobby : Sports (hockey🏒, golf⛳), Music festival🎶 & Gaming💻

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.

Both pilots are dead.

Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.

A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.

The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.

The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.

Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.

Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.

The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.

The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.

The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”

One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: French General Michel Yakovleff HUMILIATES Trump for begging Europe to get involved in his Iran War, says that it would be like "buying cheap tickets for the Titanic" after it hit the iceberg.

This is beyond brutal...

"We have five reasons to say no to him, in fact," said Yakovleff. "So, the first one is that he didn't understand that if he wants to carry out a NATO operation, NATO has to take command. So, there will be an American general, but it's a single operation."

“You can’t have an American operation where they’re bombing whatever they can and then below that, the Europeans doing something else,” Yakovleff said. “No, no, no, it has to be one sole operation, under a NATO flag. I don’t think he understood that.”

Yakovleff served as a three general in the French Army, was commander of the French Foreign Legion, and served in top positions in NATO. He's a highly respected military expert in France and regularly weighs in on issues of international importance.

Trump has been pleading with allied nations to get involved in his Iran fiasco. Iranian missiles and drones have made it impossible for oil tankers to obtain insurance to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's petroleum normally passes. Oil prices are skyrocketing. So far, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have refused Trump's request.

General Yakovleff went on to point out that Trump's strategic goals, beyond forcing open the strait, are vague and undefined. If NATO nations were even going to consider involvement, they would need the United States to explain explicitly in writing what the goals are.

"And it's not tweets, and it's not things that change every two minutes. So, already there, it's going to be necessary for Trump himself to know what he wants," said the general.

He said that there's also the issue of the lack of "confidence" in Trump. It's well-known that he regularly abandons his allies and he could do so here immediately after other nations got involved.

“He would let us down whenever it suited him," said Yakovleff.

He ended his tirade by comparing Trump to the captain of the Titanic trying to "sell cheap tickets" for his voyage "after having hit the iceberg."

“And the last argument is American: you don’t reinforce failure. I learnt that at the U.S. Army War College. You don’t reinforce failure, you move on, you find something else.” he added. "So, there are a lot of reasons to say no."

Please ❤️ and share if you think that the Iran War is a total disaster!

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@Whiskey2ooo @fredbourget @MattPaquet62 L'an dernier le gens prennaient des passes en folie suivant l'engouement qu'il y avait eu pour 2024.

Puis plusieurs qui pensaient les revendre à gros prix on resté pris avec. Ça a due déchanter quelques uns d'acheter plus que leurs besoins cette année.

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@OBeaucage @ThevoiceAlexa @RebelNewsOnline

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@fredbourget Je ne suis pas raciste mais

[Chris VB🐷🐖🌾🚤⛳ @chrsvnbk]

Happy pigs, makes walking barns fun!

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

Chaque action est un vote

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

USAID cost is $20B/year and funded hundreds of programs.

Trumps war has cost $7B this week, excluding repairs.

USAID spent $11M of that over 5 years to help produce “Ahlan Simsim” the Arabic Sesame Street.

That led to kids in the Middle East more positive views of the US for the first time in generations, including in Iraq, starting to break long held post-insurgency anti-US extremism.

Trump’s war resulted in Iraqi parliament members chanting “death to America” on live TV.

When America spends billions trying to bomb away ideology, we create hatred and anti-US sentiment.

When America spends a fraction of that money on cultural influence and aid, we break that cycle.

The cost of the war and the damages to our bases just THIS WEEK would have fueled two-years of USAID.

But MAGA was too dumb to realize why we funded a foreign educational program, and instead set back decades of Middle Eastern relations by destabilizing the region.

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@grok @ShawnCyr4 @BGatesIsaPyscho

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas & home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

[Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 @dmacpher]

The closing remarks from @stephenharper, a well deserved standing ovation.

🇨🇦 👏

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@olivier_primeau Pas nos enfants 😭

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@Denfer76 @DimitrisSoudas @DLeBlancNB Qui parle de remplacer l'un par l'autre? On a acheté l'équivalent d'un sac de billes aux Chinois. Puis Carney l'a dit, il veut réduire notre dépendance aux grandes puissances. Que ce soit les Chinois ou les Américains.

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@rocjon74 @GuyLLange @mauraislive Sa vision, très bien exprimé hier devant tous les leader mondiaux ; ne plus être dépendant des Chinois, des Américains ou des Russes. Si vous avez entendu qu'il fallait devenir best buddy avec la Chine, je doute de vos capacités auditives et/ou cognitives.

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@rocjon74 @GuyLLange @mauraislive Le nouvel ordre mondial 👻👻👻

C'est les US qui sont en train de l'instorer. Ils veulent faire cavalier seul. Libre à nous de ne plus faire les mêmes erreurs et de ne plus être dépendant de personne. La Chine vous la voyez dans vos lubies. C'est un acheteur parmis d'autres.

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@rocjon74 @GuyLLange @mauraislive Revenez-en, les américains puis tout le reste du monde achètent chaque jour en Chine! Spas un deal de 1 milliard dans un PIB de 2 400 milliards qui fait de nous une régime communiste totalitaire 👻❄️

[gewurztraminer @benabarr]

Le délire a duré 72 minutes. 72 minutes devant le monde entier.

- 72 minutes où le président américain a confondu le Groenland avec l'Islande. Plusieurs fois. Tout en expliquant pourquoi il veut l'acheter.
- 72 minutes où il a menacé un allié de l'OTAN, le Danemark, avec ces mots : « Vous pouvez dire oui, et nous l'apprécierons. Vous pouvez dire non, et nous nous en souviendrons.
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a qualifié le Groenland de « morceau de glace » dont dépendraient le destin de la planète : « Ce que je demande, c'est un morceau de glace en échange de la paix mondiale ».
- 72 minutes où il n’a pas évoqué la présence des groenlandais.
- 72 minutes au cours de laquelle il a déclaré qu'il avait "100% de sang écossais et 100% de sang allemand". Ce qui ferait 200%. Mais les mathématiques et lui, ça fait 2.
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a déclaré que les États-Unis, après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, « avaient rendu le Groenland au Danemark ». Dommage que ce soit faux. Les États-Unis n'ont jamais possédé le Groenland. Jamais. En 1916, ils ont officiellement reconnu la souveraineté danoise. Pendant la guerre, ils n'ont obtenu que des bases militaires temporaires. Et en 1946, ils ont essayé de l'acheter en offrant 100 millions de dollars. Le Danemark a dit non. Il n'y a pas eu de "restitution".
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a soutenu que "la Chine n'a pas d'éoliennes", alors qu’elle est le premier producteur mondial d'énergie éolienne depuis 15 ans, et qui construit 45% de tous les projets éoliens de la planète. Mais pour Trump, "ils n'ont pas de champs de moulins à vent". Ils les vendent "à des imbéciles".
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a déclaré que "toutes les grandes compagnies pétrolières viennent avec nous au Venezuela". Dommage que le PDG d'ExxonMobil, trois jours plus tôt, lui ait dit en face que le Venezuela n'est pas "investissable". Trump furieux a d’ailleurs menacé d'exclure Exxon. Les autres n’ont rien dit, mais pas pensé moins. Mais lui, à Davos, a dit qu'ils "venaient tous".
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a déclaré qu'il "n'y a pratiquement pas d'inflation" aux États-Unis. L'inflation américaine est de 2,7 %. Supérieur à l'objectif de la Fed. En hausse, selon les prévisions, en raison de ses propres taxes douanières. Mais pour lui, "il n'y en a pratiquement pas".
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a attaqué le président de la Réserve fédérale en le traitant de "stupide". En direct. Devant les dirigeants économiques mondiaux.
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a raconté qu'il avait mis des droits sur la Suisse par dépit, parce qu'"une femme" dont il ne se souvient pas du nom "ne l’avait pas caressé dans le bon sens".
- 72 minutes où il a déclaré que "hier le marché s'est effondré à cause de l'Islande". L'Islande. Un pays de 380.000 habitants. Qui allait faire s'effondrer Wall Street.
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a affirmé que les États-Unis "ont payé 100% de l'OTAN". 100%. Lorsque la part américaine du budget de l'OTAN est d'environ 16 %. Mais pour lui, 100%.
- 72 minutes au cours desquelles il a confondu l'Azerbaïdjan en "Aber-bajian".
- 72 minutes de sautes d’humeur. De mensonges vérifiables. Des nombres inventés. De menaces aux alliés. D'insultes aux fonctionnaires. De gaffes géographiques. De vantardise démentie par les faits.

Et le monde, en silence, a regardé. Pendant 72 longues minutes.

Et dire qu'autrefois, pour beaucoup moins, les carrières politiques se terminaient.

Aujourd'hui, on attend le prochain délire.

Bienvenue en 2026. Et nous ne sommes qu’en janvier.

[Anthony Lévesque @CdCAnthony]

@Pat77432407 @PatrickPel44867 C'est qui ils? Pourquoi le prix augmenterait?

[Trent Loos @trentloos]

Stop blaming drought for reduced cow numbers it is Government programs as discussed today on Across the Pond #BEEF