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Americans set to ban French railway firm from bidding on £4 billion contract..
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 5, 2014 | Peter Allen

Posted on 02/05/2014 6:37:45 AM PST by C19fan

France's state-owned railway is set to be banned from bidding for a £4 billion contract in the USA because of its role in the World War II Holocaust, it emerged today. SNCF runs some of the fastest and most efficient lines in the world but has a dark history which saw it transport thousands of Jews to their deaths in German concentration camps. Now senators in the US state of Maryland have proposed a bill which would make it illegal for the French to apply for prestige projects.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: holocaust; rail; sncf
I wonder if the politicans would ban Krupp, etc from doing business too?
1 posted on 02/05/2014 6:37:45 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

But China is not banned for slavery and death today as opposed to over a generation ago.


2 posted on 02/05/2014 6:38:55 AM PST by edcoil ( "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal)
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To: C19fan

So did Ford...


3 posted on 02/05/2014 6:41:29 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: edcoil

China now exports more than America exports.

America runs a $300 billion / year trade deficit with China.

We only sell China $100 billion / year.

We buy $400 billion. Every year. And the amount is growing.

America it is time to pay a very large amount of attention to the single most highly-populated country on earth.

China is beating America, bigtime.

We are losing.

Badly.


4 posted on 02/05/2014 6:45:52 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ( http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The real question is what is mac daddy getting in return.


5 posted on 02/05/2014 6:55:26 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: C19fan

If US politicians are going to pursue this course they will have to ban the democrat party and exhume half the Federal Government politicians from the WWII war years and the Cold War years.

After they dig them up they will have to be put on trial for everything from collusion with Nazis and Communists on up to openly traitorous action to aid and abet the enemy.

Then they can move on to arresting and prosecuting the new generation of democrat traitors in the White House and inside the beltway.


6 posted on 02/05/2014 7:26:09 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
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To: C19fan
Let me guess, Deutsche Bahn will be free to bid.

We are governed by idiots, and I wouldn't be surprised if DB weren't paying them off.

7 posted on 02/05/2014 7:31:13 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Our elites have no interest in winning: they can simply take what they want from Treasury, earn interest on their overseas investments or make money re-selling Chinese crap.

Once they get another 20-40 million Mexicans 'voting', it will be nothing but an EBT card and a feather boa stomping on a human face, forever.

8 posted on 02/05/2014 7:33:50 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: Iron Munro

When will we stop beating the dead horse of WW II? How many generations must pass? Every nation has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. America and England bombed civilian targets in Germany killing millions of women and children. Japan killed millions of Chinese with germ warfare. Italy used poison gas in Africa-—It was a grim and terrible war.


9 posted on 02/05/2014 7:34:35 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: C19fan
It's interesting to me that more and more stories posted on FR about the outrageous stupidity or corruption of the US government at all levels, from the Feds, to the states or local police brutality are coming from the British press.

Guess we need our own 'Radio Free Liberty' now to cover what the Ministry of Propaganda here doesn't want known.

10 posted on 02/05/2014 7:37:42 AM PST by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: C19fan

Maryland? Union-generated red herring.


11 posted on 02/05/2014 10:27:52 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: pierrem15

>>>Let me guess, Deutsche Bahn will be free to bid.<<<

Siemens company building these trains in Germany are famous for fabulous kickback schemes.
The French are only famous for building the best trains and their pricing is too transparent so they had no chance since the very beginning.


12 posted on 02/05/2014 7:13:54 PM PST by cunning_fish
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To: C19fan; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Cardin and Mikulski are embarrassments. It’s been nearly 70 years.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


13 posted on 02/05/2014 8:04:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: chiefqc

The real question is what is mac daddy getting in return.

**
Bingo! Follow the money.


14 posted on 02/06/2014 7:26:22 AM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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To: C19fan

Old news trumps current events. China is welcomed to do anything here, France not so much.


15 posted on 02/06/2014 7:54:54 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Thank you. Hate to say it, but it’s a sacred cow - NAZIs and Jews.


16 posted on 02/06/2014 7:56:45 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“When will we stop beating the dead horse of WW II? How many generations must pass?”

A dead horse??? Really? You think Hitler and the Nazis were just another in a string of bad guys?

Eisenhower made sure we would never forget the particular evil the Nazi’s wrought upon the earth...
Never forget...


17 posted on 02/06/2014 8:03:38 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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