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Governments of the European Union are engaged in wargames which simulate and foresee a global food crisis. A mix of major factors including the Russia-Ukraine war and impact on grain supplies there, as well as weather events like El Niño and La Niña and their impact on Latin American soy output, and the anti-EU farmers’ protests …
Regional banks have been setting aside more money to deal with future losses on commercial real estate. Some analysts now fear it hasn’t been enough. The stock of commercial real estate lender New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) slid by 22% Tuesday and has now fallen nearly 60% since it surprised Wall Street last week by …
DAVOS, Switzerland — U.S. diplomats have been so worried about the size and intent of a Chinese delegation in Switzerland this week that they’re trying to arrange a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken with a Swiss official while he’s in the country for the World Economic Forum. The discussion about adjusting Blinken’s schedule …
via Yahoo: As American warships rack up kills against Houthi drones and missiles in the Red Sea, Pentagon officials are increasingly alarmed not just at the threat to U.S. naval forces and international shipping — but at the growing cost of keeping them safe. U.S. Navy destroyers have shot down 38 drones and multiple missiles …
https://twitter.com/_/status/1710403836433531206 https://twitter.com/_/status/1709975195623059956 h/t Dan
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/04/1203685361/biden-says-hes-worried-about-ukraine-aid-he-plans-to-give-a-major-address-about- Dem Sen. Bennet: I’ll ‘Definitely’ Shut Down Government if We Don’t Have Ukraine Money On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said that he is “definitely” willing to shut down the government if a bill to keep it open doesn’t include Ukraine funding. Host Katy Tur asked, “Are you ready …
by TallTree9127 https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/ For those wondering why Joe Biden is soft on China, consider this never-before-reported revelation: The Biden family has done five deals in China totaling some $31 million arranged by individuals with direct ties to Chinese intelligence — some reaching the very top of China’s spy agency. Indeed, every known deal that the Biden family enjoyed with …
by Martin Armstrong Masks were ineffective. They forced us to cover half our face to appear in public for years. It had nothing to do with health and everything to do with being a mass social experiment to see how blindly the people would obey their laws. Anthony Fauci realizes that a second round of …
As I have predicted for many months, the closer we get to the start of US Election season, the louder the din to freeze the Ukrainian Conflict becomes. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, cutting Russia off from SWIFT was supposed to cause Russia to just roll over and die, tcollapsing into chaos and …
More proof that all the Obamunists running the Democrat Party care about are media narratives. Not facts… Not truth… Not lives… Nothing matters but Media Narratives and News Cycles they can Virtue Signal for or against. Nothing else…. #UkraineRussiaWar #RussiaIs #Ukraine's #counteroffensive failing? #Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative Some …
by Chris Black Countries going into an election such as the Netherlands and Spain are going to have to deal with a contentious issue that their mainstream parties would rather ignore. The same EU polling (https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2932) finds that only 31% of Europeans think the EU is going in the right direction. People do not want …
By Graham Summers, MBA Inflation has very likely bottomed for 2023. The inflation data published in the U.S. is based on year over year comparisons. When the Consumer Price Index (CPI) comes out at 5%, what it’s really stating is that a basket of goods and services costs ~5% more currently than it did a …
🇵🇱 Polish President Duda's security. Is seems like he's kind of worried something might happen to him. 🤔Notice the guy with the "umbrella" 😁 pic.twitter.com/9BnfWbQLhW — Jos Quinten (@TaranQ) July 13, 2023
