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Jilin Province in China has announced that efforts will continue to ensure that spring plowing continues despite a province-wide COVID-19 lockdown. However, online videos showed police interrupting farmers working in the fields throughout China. Fearing the delay in spring plowing could lead to a food shortage, analysts say the crisis is beyond fallow fields, viable seeds and fertilizers are the real crisis Chinese farmers are facing. Lockdown Threatens Food SupplyJilin, located in China’s corn belt, is an important processing and production region for the country’s cereals. The authorities locked down the entire province on March 14. The lockdown has affected...

So I turn on the TV and this guy, with a horrible toupe' is talking about sowing and money. He keeps going on and on about anointing people with oil, as if it has any effect and Low and Behold "We got $400k and then we got a check a few days later for $1 million!" "Send me $1,000 now. I just received instructions from God that led me to more miracles in my life than I'd had in three years. In fact, I bought a Cessna Citation and a few weeks later I bought an even more expensive one!"...

Dutch Center-Right Coalition Stands up to Islamism By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 22, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and his center-right coalition are standing up to Islamism, the true enemy of all civilized nations in the 21st century. Balkenende said Muslim groups “were sowing hatred, and [he] promised new anti-terror measures” in a speech to the European Parliament yesterday. On February 18 of this year, Dutch lawmakers promised to expel approximately 26,000 asylum seekers after digesting a parliamentary report which concluded … that the country's 30-year experiment in tolerant multiculturalism had been a failure, and has...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed in a six-hour firefight Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on a tip from an Iraqi informant, surrounded and then stormed a palatial villa in this northern Iraqi town, a senior American general said. Four coalition soldiers were wounded and two other Iraqis were killed in the raid, but Saddam was not among them. The house belonged to one of Saddam's cousins, a key tribal leader in the region. "We are certain that Odai and Qusai were killed today," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez at a news conference in...

"Farming: 101" Even when I'm at my best I've learned I'm a poor example Where Christ's concerned So, I asked Him why He doesn't choose Perfect vessels for His use Then He showed me His perspective: "...My child" He said, - You forget: There was but, - ONE pattern That was: "...A Perfect Fit" So I let each field grow And see what's of use For a season or two I'll accept an "Excuse" But if I come to collect And find no fruit I check to see if there's Any root - If all it does it drink Of...