🇫🇷 French unions are demanding that Air France stop a shipment of military equipment they say is bound for Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems on a Paris–Tel Aviv flight Thursday.
The CGT and Solidaires unions at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport say they were alerted by Urgence Palestine and the Palestinian Youth Movement that flight AF966, scheduled to depart at 9:35 a.m. on Oct. 8, will carry French-made "gearheads," planetary gear reducers used in military vehicle systems.
The unions say the cargo was sent from Saint-Étienne via Lyon and is destined for Elbit Systems Land, which makes turrets, artillery, mortars and munitions.
"Not one flight to feed the war machine!" the unions said. They stated that the shipment would violate France's obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty and the Genocide Convention.
There's been many empires. The British empire was fortunate that their empire was around about the time of the industrial revolution. But remember one thing, they all fall.
I have a lot of respect for Jim Thome, but it's disappointing to see him wearing all black at the game today. There isn't a statue of him in front of that shitty stadium in Chicago.
The corruption in the second term of the Trump presidency -- profiteering off public power to enrich not just himself but his kids and their spouses with billions of new wealth -- is unlike anything seen before by any American president in scope or shamelessness.
Another chance to…
start another war?
add another $4 trillion to the debt?
spy on Americans w/o a warrant?
fund a genocide?
keep the Epstein files hidden?
send more weapons to Ukraine?
Usually when someone asks for another chance, they tell you what they’d do differently.
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S. southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the GOP needs to scare you into voting because nothing else is working.
Interesting questions. There's no way to obtain the answers until the Trump administration and the US State Department release an audit.
To date, the US State Department has been stonewalling and refuses to release an audit.
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If there ever was a Xenogears remake, I'd want Monolith Soft involved, specifically Tetsuya Takahashi.
Otherwise, it just wouldn't feel right to me.
Square Enix and Nintendo allowed Super Mario RPG Remake to happen, so this isn't impossible (just unlikely).
@larrysalibra@btc_albert@Molson_Hart Also what’s crazy about Chinese not spending any ¥ is that I think they can retire earlier too compared to us counterparts, my DR cousin can retire at like after 55, my family was also shocked at how much I bought from taobao when I went to China. I’m like it’s cheap.
What’s happening with China’s economy?
I don’t know.
I don’t think anyone does.
Economies are complex systems, too big and dynamically predictable to understand.
But something is definitely happening.
I think that China is being scared.
Scared to spend money.
Scared to go out and eat, drink, and be merry.
Scared to make love, to live life.
“Economy is bad.”
“Ai will take my job.”
With its manufacturing (atoms, not bits) China probably has the most AI-resistant economy in the world.
And things are getting cheaper every year.
Salaries are rising in most places while food is less.
Imagine that.
But people just aren’t spending.
It feels like the country and its people has worked itself into a psychological funk that it cannot break itself out of.
The solution is to just stop being scared and go out and live.
Meanwhile, America needs to the opposite.
It needs to stop being stupid.
It needs to save, stop doing drugs, work harder etc.
Like I said in the video, both countries would be better off if they imitated each other a bit.
America, stop being stupid.
China, stop being scared.
Today Trump tried to buy the midterms by offering all voters a $5,000 bribe in exchange for their votes, provided they spend the cash in the U.S. Since the Fed will have to print the money, the result would be massive inflation, well in excess of anything experienced under Biden.
I predicted they’d call off Congress until the election to stop our new Epstein bill.
Johnson said on TV that was “stupid” and “nonsensical.”
But then he got a call from “upstairs” and canceled Congress from the middle of September until the election.