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The origin was a request by the European Association of Banana Trade Association (ECBTA) (no joke) and several member States which asked for clearly defined quality standards. As a result, bent bananas have been classified as class 2, but have not been prohibited.

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There is an extradition treaty and the concept of pimping is very extensive in the French law.

Cabbage and beetroots! ????

Ahem... he was a threat to himself and he was saved by being killed....????

Fun time! ????

Just one quote from the article I linked: "While additional trade with other counties could offset some of the decline in trade with the EU, none of the agreements concluded to date are of a sufficient scale to have a material impact on our forecast," the OBR stated. Loiner, where are you? ????

There's no way the Chinese will accept it. So what will they do? Grant the discounted tariff to Asian customers and have a farangs only surcharge, as in soapy massage establishments? ????

Strong but already handcuffed, so not really a threat. On top of it, as you mentioned, they were 4 cops against an handcuffed guy.

So apart from ranting, what do you suggest? That Chauvin should have been forgiven?

Floyd was served 4 years in prison for his offenses.

Just one quote from the article I linked: "While additional trade with other counties could offset some of the decline in trade with the EU, none of the agreements concluded to date are of a sufficient scale to have a material impact on our forecast," the OBR stated. Loiner, where are you? ????

It's an outmoded view. Nowadays, whoever is concerned (right wing, left wing, BLM), it all goes through social media when there is a protest. It's only (relatively) old folks like us who are paying so much attention to traditional media.

I got mainly 2019 (the video), and 2022 (the killer promoted, and SCOTUS decision). It's a pity it did not raise more interest. Anyway, who is to blame for the lack of justice in this case? The City Police who covered it up? The AG and the justice system? Or mainstream media and BLM?

I typed Tony Timpa pinned on Google and found several articles, not only local news but also the nytimes, the guardian, usatoday, etc... So It's not true the media don't tell us I also found out It's not over as the Timpa family has been allowed by the SCOTUS to sue Dallas cop's again. Anyway, we don't disagree on the fact that It's shocking that It's difficult to get fair justice without social media outrage or protests. Actually, we fully agree on it. Expressing outrage should not ne necessary in order to obtain justice. We just disagree on the fact that people who are showing outrage or are protesting to get justice (I.e. BLM) should be blamed because they allegedly do it selectively, while others do nothing. Blame it on those who don't move their ass, not on people who do move their ass.

There is absolutely not the same pattern in UK (the excess deaths number has been recently in the +/- 1000 range which is not significant).

You did not read well. My reply was general, I mentioned "such crimes", not this crime, as the poster was complaining that: "White Lives clearly do not matter and it is actually considered racist to say otherwise." Quote "So what are you complaining about? Black people deciding to take this matter into their own hands while others were doing nothing against such crimes? There was nothing done about such crimes before BLM (be the victims black or white). BLM was focused on helping black people but at least, they did something!" Moreover, I did not address the issue of arrest in the post you commented (nor did the poster I was replying to). I did address it in some way in my first post, stressing that in Floyd's case, videos have been diffused at once, and not three years later. If you want to comment what I really wrote, you are welcome!

And your post was a distraction. The subject brought up by another poster was why another case involving a white victim did not cause as much "outrage" as Floyd's case. Isn't protesting a way to express outrage?

Others have been silenced too, from what I read.

And guess where did Maxwell recruit Giuffre? ???? "A prominent Epstein victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, says his ex-girlfriend and alleged "madam," Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her into Epstein's sex trafficking operation when she worked as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 1999, when she was 15." https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-and-trump-mar-a-lago-resort-connections?r=US&IR=T

People who did not protest complaining about others not protesting! ???? So what are you complaining about? Black people deciding to take this matter into their own hands while others were doing nothing against such crimes? There was nothing done about such crimes before BLM (be the victims black or white). BLM was focused on helping black people but at least, they did something! Then we had "All lives matter". Fine, why not? However, what did "all lives matter" do to fight police crimes? Nothing! They just complain about a dominantly black organisation being (allegedly selectively) very active, while they are doing nothing. Like you!

How quickly we try to discard information which is fully on topic! ???? The topic is: With pressures mounting, Biden thinks GOP will make his midterm case for him.

Basically the EU is about converging on, generating and applying norms and rules allowing individual people and countries to live side by side and interact peacefully. Voluntarily or involuntarily, it tends to diffuse these norms and rules outside the EU. It sometimes directly imposes rules outside the E.U., I.e. by linking financial help to the application of some rules, but it mainly works through contagion.

It's true that they don't care about the political regime of the "partner" country, and will never impose conditions such as more democracy, better human rights protection, etc.. However, they do care about geopolitics and clear patterns can be identified (I.e. encircling India). There are usually strings attached on this respect. They export "support for Chinese policy" Having said that, China is free to have a geopolitical strategy and other countries are free to oppose it.

Get your facts right. He was not accused of being xenophobic for partly blocking flights from China (more than two weeks after WHO warned about possible human-to-human transmission risk). That's lame MAGA propaganda. He was accused of being xenophobic because of the so-called "Muslim ban".