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The United States and the European Union are looking at how to improve food supply chains with export restrictions from India and other nations accentuating global problems, the EU’s trade chief told CNBC. G-7 foreign ministers warned over the weekend that the war in Ukraine is increasing the risk of a global hunger crisis. This is because Ukraine has been unable to export grains, fertilizers and vegetable oil, while the conflict is also destroying crop fields and preventing a normal planting season. This has increased the reliance on nations from other parts of the world for these products. But some...

Putin's commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers rather than retrieving them from the battlefield for medical treatment, captured Russian soldiers reveal Lieutenant-colonel is accused of shooting dead multiple injured Russian troops Army intelligence troops captured by Ukraine say they say the killings Ukraine has accused Russia of failing to take back its war dead Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, according to Putin's own troops. A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured. The commander asked one soldier if he could walk,...

CUMBERLAND, Va., Wednesday, May 14. Gen. MCCLELLAN's headquarters were established here yesterday, and are now pleasantly located on the banks of the Pamunkey River. The main body of the army is rapidly concentrating at the point designated by the commanding General. The Quartermaster and Commissary stores are in abundance. The advance guard of the army, under Gen. STONEMAN, Still remains at White House, within sight of the enemy's position. A contraband, who arrived from Richmond yesterday, states that between that city and the Chickahominy River, a distance of some seventeen miles, the enemy are encamped in large force, where they...

If one were about to compile a list of the five most powerful Americans alive today, most of the names would be different from the ones you’re about to read about below. You’d obviously find resident Joe Biden at the top, because, feeble and brain-addled or not, the president of the United States is always the most powerful person alive. You’d also see former President Donald Trump displayed prominently because he still commands wide support and plays kingmaker in GOP politics. Others, like House Speaker Nancy Pelisi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, would obviously be included, as would Democratic...

/a>The invasion of Ukraine has led many Western companies to suspend or exit Russia, and the latest to do so is McDonald’s, after three decades of operations. NYTimes reports McDonald’s will sell its Russian book of business to a local buyer. The stores will be “de-arched,” meaning the new buyer will no longer use the McDonald’s logo. Most of McDonald’s 847 restaurants in Russia are company-operated. It will write off between $1.2-$1.4 billion and recognize “foreign currency translation losses,” McDonald’s said. “This is a complicated issue that’s without precedent and with profound consequences,” Chris Kempczinski, the chief executive of McDonald’s,...

<p>PHILADELPHIA - Police say a robber is dead after being shot by the man he was trying to rob in South Philadelphia Wednesday night.</p><p>A 24-year-old man was smoking a cigarette outside his house on the 2200 block of South 6th Street when a man approached on a bicycle, according to police.</p>

A Donald Trump return to the White House will see Dr. Anthony Fauci heading for the exit, America’s top infectious disease expert promised Sunday. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director used an interview on CNN to reveal he does not want to serve under the former president if he is re-elected in 2024 and would likely resign. “If Trump were to return to the White House as President, and COVID was still a threat or there was some other public health emergency, would you have confidence in his ability to deal with a pandemic of this nature?...

@ChadPergram 1) The Senate tonight takes a procedural vote to launch debate on a $40 billion aid bill for Ukraine. The Senate tried to get clearance to synch up with the House on the bipartian plan. 2) But Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) unilaterally blocked the bill late last week - despite pleas from his Bluegrass State colleague to approve the measure post-haste, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY. 3) McConnell and three other GOP senators then paid Ukrainian leader Volodomyr Zalenskyy a visit in Kyiv over the weekend. The House approved this bill 368-57. All noes came from Republicans. 4)...

The world is fragmenting and changing in all different directions. Unfortunately, contemporary America is offering no guidance. We are witnessing a number of radical military, social, and political revolutions that are changing the United States—and the world—in fundamental ways that we still have not appreciated. The taboo about never mentioning the first-strike use of nuclear weapons in a major conventional war is now apparently over. Vladimir Putin routinely threatens their use. Communist China hints at its growing nuclear capability and is hell-bent on rushing into production a huge new nuclear missile force. The world is defining nuclear incineration down. The...

Lyra describes Javelin missiles bouncing off Russian tanks, NATO replacing good weapons with fragile junk (follow the money) and other things that nazi soldiers are not allowed to complain about...

Broadcasting of MTV Russia, Paramount Comedy, Nickelodeon and Paramount channels will be suspended on WednesdayParamount will suspend broadcasting of Nickelodeon, Paramount Channel, Paramount Comedy, and MTV Russia TV channels

You gotta hand it to conservatives – we get abused and dumped and generally treated like dishrags, but we never stop falling for the latest politician who is going to sweep us off our feet and make sweet, sweet political love to us. Yet maybe, instead of acting on our infatuations, we should be players instead of getting played. Maybe we should banish the starry-eyed romanticism, stop scratching "Cons + Pol" surrounded by little hearts in our Pee-Chee folders and start, as noted political theorist Sir Mix-A-Lot observed in his renowned treatise "Baby Got Back," to "hit it and quit...

George C. Leef has written a wonderful, definitive book that lays out the difference between self-identified progressives and conservatives. The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, A Political Fable for Our Time is a fictionalized narrative about a Washington Post journalist -- a progressive leftist, of course -- who is chosen to write an official biography of the first woman president, Patricia Farnsworth. The facts of this woman’s eight years in office are essentially the Obama/Biden two terms in all but name. Their destructive policies, briefly interrupted by the successful presidency of Donald Trump, are all in play again. The Supreme...

There’s no such thing as a lone wolf — an appellation often given, in error, to terrorists who act alone, particularly those of the white supremacist variety. There are only those people who, fed a steady diet of violent propaganda and stochastic terror, take annihilatory rhetoric to its logical conclusion.

The following assertion appeared in a Politico article on unprecedented action by the "Jan. 6" inquisitorial cabal issuing subpoenas to members of Congress: "The panel believes that these five GOP lawmakers have insight into Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, an effort they say amounts to a coup attempt." Note the accusation by the inquisitorial panel that President Trump made "a coup attempt." This, of course, is an example of projection of the left of its own mindset and conduct onto its political targets. What was the conduct of the left -- ranging from false accusations that Donald...

In March, the fast-food company temporarily closed all its restaurants in Russia This included its iconic Pushkin Square location. It continued to pay its staff Now, it has said that it will seek to have a Russian buyer take over the business It did not identify a buyer, but said it would start removing its golden arches McDonald's expects to record a non-cash charge of about $1.2bn to McDonald's Corp said on Monday it had initiated a process to sell its business in Russia after 30 years of operating its restaurants in the country, following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. In...

For over a week now, our country has been tossed asunder once again by the abortion issue because Justice Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health was leaked and published in Politico. We knew the day was coming when the Supreme Court would issue its decision, but the leak has hastened the debate, as well as being a surprise attack on the integrity of the Court and the sanctity of our nation’s constitutional rule of law. We still don’t know whether riots, protests, and doxing conservative justices can alter the Court’s tentative decision. We have been subjected to...

We need to talk about why Republicans don’t talk about the most important and visible issues in front of the electorate at any given time. As a party, Republicans are incredibly bad about not getting in front of the narrative-du-jour and shaping the public discussion. Instead, they continually let the Democrats and the liberal media set the parameters, define the rules and control the ball. The Democrats and their media allies dominate the communications game and conservative Republicans are always playing catch-up and never quite getting there. Here are some good examples from the recent past: Hands up, don’t shootIn...

Inflation, over the past year, has gone from conspiracy theory, to transient, to no big deal, to ignored, and now finally reluctantly acknowledged by the ruling class. Yet to consumers paying more for groceries, restaurant meals, airline tickets, and gasoline, it is painfully real. Democrats in Congress and the White House are reticent to take any responsibility for inflation with their reckless spending and deliberate hampering of getting petroleum products out of the ground and into cars and homes. After presiding over a more than doubling of gasoline prices during his first year and a half in office, President Biden...

Inflation is so bad that…. My neighbor got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. I saw a Mormon with only one wife. McDonald's is selling a 1/4 ouncer. Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America. Fifty Cent is now Eleven Cent. Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names. A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico. A picture is now worth 200 words. The Treasure Island Casino is now managed by Somali pirates. When I called to get Blue Book Value on my car, they asked if gas...