Al Mussell

Incredible heroism revealed. An aviation expert explains how the pilots in the LaGuardia crash intentionally took the impact head on. They refused to veer away to prevent the fuel filled wings from hitting the truck & exploding. They sacrificed themselves to save the passengers

The Trump administration has threatened and cajoled Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, so far to no avail. What's next for oil prices and global trade? I discussed with @edwardfishman, author and senior fellow at @CFR_org:

In Iran, the future of war has definitively come into view. Advanced military technology had already made war precise. Now with high-volume drone warfare in Iran, that precision is mass-produced. My take:

If you invented a machine that could: - Restore degraded land - Build topsoil - Sequester carbon - Produce fertiliser - Create complete protein - Generate its own fuel - Reproduce itself - Require zero electricity You'd win the Nobel peace prize. Instead, we blame them for climate change. These cows will be tending to their fields as they always have, while city-based career politicians discuss their impact on national climate agenda.

@kevinki16180099 @TerryDaynard I get tired of hearing about how the EU is such a large agri-food exporter; if only we could be more like them. Similar to the orange juice story, the EU exports soy oil and meal. Based on their huge soybean acreage, right?

@AlMussell @TerryDaynard Find it interesting here all the greenhouse produce going South from mega greenhouses.Peppers,tomatoes,ect. flew or trucked in slow season from Mexico ,Holland,ect., locally repacked and exported .They have sopped putting Product of Canada labels on the imports now.

I did not know this. The UK is the top destination. EU is also a net exporter. Canada is also among the top five exporters. Others are US, Brazil and China.

@TerryDaynard It all depends what you want to measure. If you are looking at investment and capital, certainly value of trade is your metric. But if you are trying to connect a country's agricultural system and food security, I think tonnes is the better measure.

@AlMussell Thanks Al. Doesn't sound like this is intra-EU trade but it might be. Certainly a big shift when the UK left the EU. I do think $ value is more meaningful than tonnage, and there will be a lot of $/Euro value added through imports/exports for NL. The net figure is interesting.

2026 Inductee - Brian O'Connor is a transformational leader whose career has profoundly shaped Ontario’s dairy and agricultural sectors. Nominated by @EastGenGenetics. Read the full news release: bit.ly/4asT6Oc

In the event of regime change in Iran, the U.S. could face the enormous costs of helping the country rebuild—which may create openings for America’s adversaries, Tom Nichols tells David Frum. Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=8w7KOo…

The manipulation was orchestrated by Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, who executed one of the most audacious market corners in American history. By late 1955, they had stockpiled roughly 30 million pounds of onions in Chicago, effectively controlling the supply. Once they had the market cornered, they convinced growers to stop selling, which artificially drove prices up to over $2.50 per bag. While the public and farmers saw rising prices, Siegel and Kosuga were secretly taking massive "short" positions, betting that the price of onions would soon experience a manufactured collapse. To trigger the crash, the duo flooded the Chicago market with their massive reserves. They reportedly went as far as "cleaning" rotting onions and re-bagging them to make the visible supply appear even larger than it was. Prices plummeted from $2.75 to a mere 10 cents per bag, at one point, the mesh bags used to hold the onions were worth more than the onions themselves. This wiped out thousands of onion farmers across the country, leading to such public outcry that Congress passed the Onion Futures Act of 1958. To this day, onions remain one of the only agricultural commodities in the U.S. that cannot be traded on a futures exchange. © Reddit #archaeohistories

This knot is called the Tarpaulin Knot. It allows you to grab corners.

How a team at Brantford developed the highest-capacity rotary combine of its day. vist.ly/4rkkh

Apr. 1, 1967. Maple Leaf Gardens. The final #Leafs home game (in the regular season) of the six-team era in the #NHL, vs. the #Rangers. Johnny Bower was cut and needed medical help at the bench. He was then upset to be told (by referee John Ashley) that Terry Sawchuk had to play until the first whistle. #Toronto would win its most-recent #StanleyCup one month and one day later. Bill Hewitt and Brian McFarlane called the game in #CBC. #LeafsForever

Dec. 7, 1963. #Leafs vs. #Blackhawks. One of the wildest hockey brawls in Maple Leaf Gardens history. After Reggie Fleming of #Chicago clipped Eddie Shack with a high stick. Benches emptied. Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita were on the ice. The main bout did not reflect well on Leafs defenseman Carl Brewer, who took a beating from Murray Balfour. The trainers, cops and fans were into it at the bench. Video concludes with goalies Glenn Hall and Don Simmons watching the fight. Note the newspaper photographer on the ice. Not unusual back then. Classic stuff. #LeafsForever

A 19-year-old making minimum wage just taught a billionaire what integrity looks like. Joey Prusak was working the counter at a Dairy Queen in Hopkins, Minnesota, when he noticed something that made his stomach turn. A blind customer had just finished ordering. As the man turned to walk away, a $20 bill slipped from his pocket and floated to the floor. He had no idea. Joey expected what would happen next. The woman standing behind the blind man would tap his shoulder and hand him his money back. That's not what happened. Instead, she looked directly at the blind man struggling to put his wallet away. She watched him walk past her. Then she bent down, picked up the $20, and slipped it into her purse. Joey couldn't believe what he just witnessed. When the woman stepped up to the counter to order, Joey did something that could have gotten him fired. He looked her in the eye and asked her to return the money to the man she had just stolen from. She refused. She claimed the $20 was hers. She said she had dropped it herself. Joey asked again. She refused again. So the 19-year-old manager made a decision. He told her plainly: "I'm not going to serve someone as disrespectful as you. Please return the money or leave this store." The woman exploded. She started yelling. She cursed at him. But Joey stayed calm. She stormed out without her ice cream. But Joey wasn't finished. He walked over to the blind man, who was sitting peacefully eating his sundae, completely unaware of what had just happened. Joey reached into his own pocket, pulled out a $20 bill from his own wallet, and handed it to the customer. Joey made about $10 an hour. That $20 represented two hours of his work. He didn't tell anyone about it. He didn't post about it. He just went back to serving customers. But someone else in line had watched the entire thing unfold. That customer went home and wrote an email to Dairy Queen. The email said: "I was in shock by the generosity that your employee had, taking his own money out of his own wallet to give to the customer because some other lady decided to steal something that wasn't hers. Joey has forever sealed my fate as a lifelong customer." The store owner printed the email and pinned it to the employee bulletin board. A coworker snapped a photo and posted it on Facebook. Within days, Joey's story had traveled around the world. Then something unbelievable happened. Joey's phone rang. On the other end was Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world. Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns Dairy Queen. The billionaire didn't call to offer business advice. He called to say two words: Thank you. "He thanked me for being a role model for all the other employees and people in general," Joey later said. But the rewards kept coming. Strangers started showing up at the store. A woman ran up to Joey with an envelope full of cash for his college fund. A man drove all the way from another town just to hand Joey $100, saying he deserved five times what he had given away. Radio shows invited him on as a guest. Companies offered him jobs. The Minnesota Wild hockey team called and gave him a private suite for 20 of his closest friends. All because a teenager refused to stay silent when he saw something wrong. When reporters asked Joey why he did it, his answer was simple: "I was just doing what I thought was right. I did it without even really thinking about it." He paused, then added something that stuck with people: "Ninety-nine out of 100 people would've done the same thing as me." Maybe he's right. Maybe most of us would do the same thing. But Joey Prusak is the one who actually did it. He didn't have power. He didn't have wealth. He didn't have influence. He was just a teenager behind a counter, making $10 an hour, with nothing but his integrity and a $20 bill. And that was enough to remind millions of people what doing the right thing looks like.

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Ordinary tools, extraordinary result

You don't negotiate with someone who marches into another country, devastates it, killing whoever stands in his way. You get him out, you make him pay, and see that he is never in a position to do these things again.

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