Even as US ‘President’ Joe Biden and Canadian premier Justin Trudeau announce food shortages sweeping their respective nations, farmers are being paid to stop farming. In the United States, chickens are now ‘illegal animals’ in more municipalities, requiring a permit, ‘due to bird flu. The claim goes’
The United States and its European cohorts have deprived the Russian Central Bank of access to foreign reserves, which threatens to stop other countries from using the dollar, analysts at Goldman Sachs write in a research note. As Insider argues, countries are concerned about the abusive power such widespread use of the dollar gives the US, and investors might take that seriously, too.
Prices for many essential commodities, food, fuel, plastics, and metals in the Western world, have soared beyond what many consumers can afford. As a result, cash-strapped consumers are forced to cut their spending. If this trend accelerates, it could lead to the fact that Western economies that have already suffered from the pandemic again plunge into the abyss of recession.
At Russian gas stations, gasoline is becoming cheaper. This became reported on Friday, March 11. Thus, on the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange, since February 28, the price of AI-92 gasoline has decreased by a whopping 24.5% and amounted to 36.8 thousand rubles per ton, AI-95 – by 22% to 40.1 thousand rubles.
England does appear to constantly live up to the description applied by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: ‘England the land of consummate cant (supreme hypocrisy).’
Despite the futile efforts of the Spanish government to reduce the prices of gasoline and diesel fuel, the Platform for the Protection of the Transport Sector intends to continue the strike. The truckers’ protest has been going on for almost two weeks. The key workers are not satisfied with the proposed measures and they demand an immediate solution to the problem of skyrocketing fuel prices.
If next time you and your beloved dine at a Chinese restaurant don’t be surprised at a change of menu. There could be Olaf Scholz chicken and chips, Macron chop suey and a la Leyen van orange duck’. The friendly Chinese are quick to show their gratitude to those who dish out nirvana to the Chinese people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the world in a lengthy speech last Wednesday outlining steps the Russian Federation will take in response to harsh economic sanctions levied by the West.
Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev noted that ‘the United States constantly waged senseless wars, and does so usually far from its own territory.’
MINSK, March 5: President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Western countries after a year of sanctions will ask Minsk and Moscow to resume cooperation.
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