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Ukraine to get just 15% of $40-bln US aid, but must return entire sum, Duma speaker says
According to the recent aid to Ukraine legislation signed by President Joe Biden, 35% of the $40 billion is going to finance the US Armed Forces, he explained. Meanwhile, 45.2% of that amount is set to be spent on other countries, not Ukraine, while another 4.8% will be earmarked to support refugees, and restore the US diplomatic mission in Ukraine. "Ukraine will only receive 15% of the allotted sum,"
China Ready to Cash In with Monkeypox Test Kits and Vaccines
Link: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/05/24/china-ready-cash-in-monkeypox-test-kits-vaccines/
Chinese companies already prepared to cash in on monkeypox panic with test kits and vaccines. China has not reported any monkeypox infections in the current outbreak, Monkeypox is a variant of smallpox, and can generally be treated with existing smallpox vaccines. World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has 31 million doses of smallpox vaccine in storage, but some of the doses are decades old.
One Billion People At Risk Of Power Blackouts As Global Grids Stretched
Power grids worldwide won’t produce enough electricity to meet soaring demand, threatening one billion people with rolling blackouts. Grids are stretched thin by fossil fuel shortages, drought and heatwaves, commodity disruptions and soaring prices due to the war in Ukraine, and the failed green energy transition where grid operators retired too many fossil fuel generation plants. if major blackouts spread across the world this summer, “that could trigger humanitarian crisis with food and energy shortages
Russian oil shipments hit record high
Link: https://alethonews.com/2022/05/24/russian-oil-shipments-hit-record-high/
62 million barrels of Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil, a record amount, are currently in tankers at sea,,traders reportedly struggling to find buyers for some of the cargo. The number of Urals cargoes at sea with no set destination constitutes 15% of the total, also a new high,
UN Food Head Warns Conditions “Worse” Than Arab Spring As Inflation Riots Spread
David Beasley, executive director at the UN World Food Programme, warned of the world’s food security conditions Ukraine normally feeds 400 million people and sideline that … it’s devastating to global food security, socio-economic instabilities developing in Sir Lanka, Indonesia, Peru, and Pakistan, concern that will result in famine, destabilization, and mass migration
Despite Pushback From Parents, Publicly-Funded “Drag Queen Story Hour” Expands into NYC MIDDLE Schools – “Performers” Teach Children “How to Put on Drag Makeup”
NY City Council officially expanded and increased the funding for its “drag queen story hour” program, which will now be offered at public middle schools in addition to libraries and other outdoor areas like parks. Men dress up in hyper-sexualized outfits with over-applied makeup and read books to young kids The drag “performers” will assist and teach young kids how to put on drag queen makeup.
Driver Will Stand Trial for Crash that Killed 2 People While Tesla Was on “Autopilot”
Tesla vehicles continue to be associated with accidents, fires, high costs, high levels of harmful radiation emissions, federal investigations and violations, lawsuits, mechanical issues, security issues, recalls, and other problems;. The driver of a Tesla operating on autopilot must stand trial for a crash that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb,. believed to be the first felony prosecution in the U.S. against a driver using a partially automated driving system
Shocker: State Farm Abandons Grooming Book Program for Kids in Florida After National Backlash
State Farm, the household-name insurance company, abandoned its program to distribute LGBTQ-themed books to teachers, community centers, and libraries, explicitly targeting children as young as kindergartners, after a media exposé based on a whistleblower email caught the company by surprise; announced cancellation of its collaboration with GenderCool, an organization that promotes LGBTQ teaching via speaking events, mentorship programs, DEI/HR consulting, and advising for parents of transgender children.
Russia Offering Massive Salary for 3-Month Stints in Ukraine
Link: https://anti-empire.com/russia-offering-massive-salary-for-3-month-stints-in-ukraine/
Russia is courting ex-servicemembers (ex-pros and ex-conscripts alike) to return to the military for stints as short as 3 months,; paid a staggering 300 thousand rubles per month. At the prewar exchange level that would be 3750 US dollars and is massive money for the Russian province; much higher than the normal salary of a contract soldier of $1000. . Before Ukraine shortest contract the Russian military would enter into was for 2 years of service.
Global ‘wheat war’ is coming – media
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/555679-grain-crisis-russia-sanctions/
Wheat price surged to record highs, caused by conflict between Russia and Ukraine; major producers Russia, Kazakhstan and India scrapped exports to protect their domestic markets,. sparked fears of food insecurity and hunger around the world. Grain crisis felt across the globe, most acutely in Africa, which relies on exports from Black Sea region UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned a fifth of humanity at risk of poverty and hunger due to the current situation in the wheat market,. countries are unlikely to share their grain with those in need, prioritizing their own food security.
No Bees, No Food? 75% of World’s Food Crops Depend on Pollinators
Link: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bees-worlds-food-crops-pollinators/
Between 25,000 and 30,000 different species of bees . 75% of world’s food crops depend on these and other pollinators, University of New Hampshire warn a dramatic decline of 14 wild bee species needed for pollination of apples, blueberries, cranberries and other crops in the Northwest. Researchers warn the pesticide Sivanto (flupyradifurone), which its maker, Bayer CropScience, claims is completely safe for bees, in fact, harms foraging bees, triggering abnormal activity, motor coordination deficits and increased death rates.in the past 50 years;, 300% increase in the volume of crops produced that are dependent on pollination. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, , warns biodiversity is dwindling across the globe, threatening global food production and human survival.
Insurance Companies Offer Free or Discounted Fitness Trackers despite Inaccuracies, Injuries, Lawsuits, Recalls Associated with Them
Fitness trackers are extremely privacy invasive, numerous problems reported have led to lawsuits and recalls Nevertheless, insurance companies are offering them to clients for free or at discounted prices because, they want their personal health data to analyze and perhaps sell to 3rd parties. A fitness tracker, such as a Fitbit or an Apple Watch, makes it easy to monitor many aspects of your health. You can count steps, watch your heart rate and check your sleep habits, among other things.
Cops Forced to Return Over $1 Million for Organizing Armored Car Heists, Robbing Innocent People
Several federal law enforcement agencies and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s department became the subject of a federal lawsuit after they were caught pulling over vehicles from an armored car company and robbing them of their cash. The stops were completely baseless as no crime had been committed and the cash inside the armored cars was from legal businesses. “Civil forfeiture enabled law enforcement to seize over a million dollars in legal business proceeds; creates an incentive for cops to steal money from innocent people This legalized robbery is extremely lucrative as most o do not have the means to hire an attorney to get back their stolen property
GOP rep says she saw ‘multiple stocked warehouses’ of baby formula on border, says Buttigieg told a ‘lie’
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” on Monday she had visited the border after agents sent her pictures of baby formula being stockpiled there during the nationwide shortage, and reported that there were “multiple stocked warehouses” of formula and added, “there’s more en route.” Camack also contended the entire situation shows just “how out of touch” the Biden administration is.
George Bush’s Iraq slip when slamming Putin is perfect irony
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/555760-bush-iraq-slip-slamming-putin/
Former US President George W. Bush made an embarrassing gaffe, perhaps a Freudian slip, when speaking on the importance of democracy and threats to democracy from abroad, and taking aim specifically at Russia. “Russian elections are rigged,” he said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”Then Bush brushed the mistake aside and said, “Iraq, too,” insinuating that Russia was somehow involved in Iraq
School Board Director Plans ‘Queer Night’ For Children Hosted Inside Sex Shop
A school board director in Washington state plans to host a “Queer Youth Open Mic Night” at a sex shop she owns and invited all children aged “0 to 18 years old” to attend. Jenn Mason, Bellingham Public Schools board of directors, will hold the June 1st event at her WinkWink Boutique in Bellingham. asserts, “We believe normalizing, accepting and affirming all bodies, identities and gender experiences is an inherently political act. Pleasure is our revolution.” Mason also offers “sex coaching” to help couples achieve orgasms and advertises how she can help clients in “pleasing yourself or a partner.”
Mortality Among White Collar Workers Jumped 24 Percent Between 2020 And 2021, Life Insurance Data Show
The increase in deaths not attributed to COVID-19 in the working-age population during the summer and into the fall of last year hit white-collar workers more than the blue- and grey-collar ones, according to life insurance data. Less than 64 percent of those were attributed to COVID-19. blue-collar mortality increased 19 percent, over 80 percent was attributed to COVID-19.
Is Monkeypox Hype a Paid Media Campaign?
Link: https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/is-monkeypox-hype-a-paid-media-campaign?s=r
Do we need to trust science, as always, and urgently inject ourselves with a recently developed “monkeypox vaccine”, that is definitely safe and effective? Should we forget Covid vaccination lies and abuses, endless illness among the boosted, etc, , perhaps, this is just noise and the media trying to distract us from something? It is not easy for humans to get infected with monkeypox. It is an animal disease, present among African rodents and other animals, usually requires close human-animal contact to establish transmission. Usually confined to rural Africa where people contact wild animals or butcher bushmeat. One person in the US was diagnosed with monkeypox f May 18, 2022;. dozens of news articles in the corporate press were devoted to monkeypox and this one cas.. 2003, 71 persons in the US were infected with monkeypox. That incident was rodent driven, had very limited human-to-human transmission, and fizzled out as soon as it was identified and the rodents were taken care of.
Top Putin Aide Predicts “Global Famine” by the End of This Year
Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/top-putin-aide-predicts-global-famine-by-the-end-of-this-year/
A top aide to Vladimir Putin predicted a “global famine” that will occur before the end of the year as a result of worldwide grain shortages caused by war in Ukraine. Italian League party leader Matteo Salvini warned if war in Ukraine is not brought to a conclusion by the end of this month, chronic food shortages will cause an immigration wave that will lead to 20 million African migrants trying to enter Europe.. Significant hunger is expected on the African continent, which will be a humanitarian, then a social, and finally an Italian problem,“Without peace there will be famine in the autumn and 20 million Africans will be ready to go,” ” said Salvini . Russia and Ukraine grow a third of the world’s wheat exports, sanctions on Russia and war in Ukraine led to a 60 per cent price surge
Twitter Introduces Policy to Prevent Spreading of Misinformation During Crises
Twitter introduced a new global policy to address spread of misinformation during crisis situations.“Today, we’re introducing our crisis misinformation policy – a global policy that will guide our efforts to elevate credible, authoritative information, and will help to ensure viral misinformation isn’t amplified or recommended by us during crises,” The new approach will help to slow the spread of the most visible, misleading content, particularly that which could lead to severe harms, The social media company explained it may add warning notices to posts, including those that contain: false reporting that mischaracterizes conditions on the ground of a conflict; false allegations regarding use of force or incursions on territorial sovereignty; false allegations of war crimes or mass atrocities against specific populations; and false information regarding international community response, sanctions, defensive actions, or humanitarian operations. Strong commentary, efforts to debunk or fact check and personal anecdotes or first person accounts will not fall within the new policy’s scope,.Tweets that violate the policy will be placed behind a warning notice that informs the reader that the material could be false or misleading, Twitter added.Adding warning notices to highly visible tweets, such as those state-affiliated media or official government accounts, will be a company priority, according to Twitter.
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