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  1. Until the charge is proven, a worker cannot be suspended without pay. It applies to everyone.
  2. Lufthansa is sticking its nose into a region where it is unwanted. BR, NH and SQ are all star alliane carriers and provide a better quality of service. The fact that LH still only offers dual seating in Business class says it all. Adding insult to injury are the seat surcharges for business. I avoid Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian because of their format.
  3. Harry Truman was a WWI veteran. and saw service in France. Dwight Eisenhowser was the concialiatory commander of the allies in WWII. Both men would have been disgusted by what is going on today.
  4. I would have used the term ignorant. Your statement was apolitical and valid. Tesla sales are tanking. Space X just had another catastrophic loss. He needs to get back to his knitting.
  5. What would you like them to do? If the law allows for the man to keep his pay, then their hands are bound. No point in wasting legal fees to pursue a case they cannot win.
  6. Yes, some do. Mind you, not everyone needs to live in central London. Others live on the dole as their parents did and their parents did. As usual, a small number of abusers bleed the system and hurt those it was intended for.
  7. Their space vehicles have not exploded as the Musk machine did today. It shut down air traffic in Florida.
  8. What changed? Blackrock does not operate ports. It has partnered with TiL, the multinational terminal operator, and they are not a US company. Blackrock has a stake in them, but so does MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (owned by the Aponte family) and the Singapore government. Hutchison was the Hong Kong based owner and is controlled by Canadian Chinese dual national Li Ka-shing, one of the the most powerful businessmen in Asia. He will still hold 20% of the assets. The same workers who were working at the port when there was Hong kong investment will still be there with the new owners. All that changed is that the cards were rearranged. There will still be foreign control and it still won't necessarily be pro-USA. It will be pro profit. And if someone wants to sabotage the ports it can still be done. Congratulations to the USA for alienating Latin America with one idiotic threat. Congratulations too for making an enemy with Li Ka shing.
  9. Please note that PM Starmer took a bold decision. Overseas development aid will fall from 0.5% of the UK’s gross national income to 0.3% – a cut of about £6bn – in order to pay for increased defence spending. UK has no choice as its survival is on the line now.
  10. How is it a disgrace? Musk's claim is unfounded. You do know that the astronauts and the engineers at NASA responsible for safety told him to clean up his deficiencies. His dragon ship wasn't used because of safety issues. And you do know that his spaceships have had multiple failures in the past year. Musk's claims seem like an attempt to deflect from his problems.
  11. The Greenlandic Inuit people are descendants of the Canadian Inuit and have more in common with their Inuit Canadian people than they do with Denmark. They have nothing in common with the USA and its creeping colonialism. The USA is seeking to steal the mineral wealth of Greenland, a wealth that the Greenlanders have sought to develop together with Canada. Denmark and the EU don't want to lose a mineral wealth payday. The USA wants to snatch one. The USA's attempt to coerce Greenland is disgusting.
  12. The Chinese vehicles are not sold in USA or Canada. Even with growth of Chinese sales in the EU market, they only account for 3.7% of market share and are subject to high tariffs. Chinese vehicles dominate the Chinese domestic market, and rightly so. The reality is that the horror stories of Tesla products are steamrolling now. It is notorious for its poor customer service and harsh application of sale conditions and warranty support.
  13. Then there is nothing to criticize. She did her job. You don't like the fact that she transitioned and have a bias. However, no one asked you to be intimate with her, although you would probably be lucky to meet an employed well regarded physician, even an elderly one like Dr. Levine.
  14. You are obviously not aware of what the problem is. Large numbers of financially stable, young and healthy people are abusing the social benefits programs. There are young people who live at home, who refuse to work, collecting benefits. Other people exploit the sick leave system to claim for bogus illnesses. Because of these people, the groups you champion are most at risk of not be able to collect benefits because some are abusing the system.
  15. No it is not. Daily Mail was pushing this story, but it is nonsensical. The astronaut is depressed and wants off the ISS. Understandable. Wilmore says; he acknowledged that he was not fully informed about the political discussions surrounding his extended stay, I don’t know all those details. In case you missed it the experts in space travel tore a strip off of Musk last November because of his disregard for safety. https://spacenews.com/nasa-panel-calls-on-spacex-to-maintain-focus-on-dragon-safety-after-recent-anomalies/ SpaceX uses the dragon craft to fly the rout, but Dragon has some safety issues. WASHINGTON — A recent series of anomalies by SpaceX prompted a warning by a NASA safety panel to stay focused on safety for crewed flights. At an Oct. 31 meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), Kent Rominger, a former astronaut who serves on the committee, went through a list of “recent issues” with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that he said served as a reminder to remain vigilant as the company increases its pace of missions. Musk is looking for cover for his problems at SpaceX. . In case you also forgot; the SpaceX Starship has only been been launched 7 times, of which 3 were failures. Biden does not make the launch decisions. The experts at NASA do. Musk is not an aeronautical engineer, nor an astronaut.
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