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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥Kalibr high-precision sea-based long-range missiles near Chortkov in Ternopol Region have destroyed a large warehouse of anti-tank missile systems, portable anti-aircraft missile systems and artillery shells supplied to the Kiev regime from the USA and European countries.

💥High-precision air-based missiles have hit 2 command posts, 15 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

▫️The following have been destroyed: 1 Buk-M1 missile launcher near Barvenkovo in Kharkov Region, 1 airspace control radar near Slavyansk in Donetsk People’s Republic, 1 target detection and tracking radar of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near Krivoi Rog, and 2 batteries of multiple launch rocket systems near Zvanovka in Lugansk People’s Republic and Zakotnoe in Donetsk People’s Republic.

✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 3 strong points and 25 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 150 nationalists, 6 tanks, 5 field artillery mounts and 10 special vehicles of various purposes.

💥Fighter aviation have shot down 2 Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian air force in the Raigorodok and Cherkaskyi districts of Donetsk people’s republic.

💥Russian air defence means have shot down 1 Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Dolgen’koe, Kharkov Region.

▫️Also, 8 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down near Boroven’ki, Druzhba in Luhansk People’s Republic, Vladimirovka in Donetsk People’s Republic, Brazhkovka, Bolshye Prokhody in Kharkiv region, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Velikaya Kamyshevakha.

▫️In addition, 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles and 3 Uragan multiple-launch rockets have been intercepted Kakhovka and Chernobaevka, Kherson Region, near Dolgen’koe, Sinichino, Kharkov Region, and Popasnaya, Lugansk People’s Republic.

💥Missile troops and artillery have hit 248 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 21 command posts and 37 firing positions of AFU artillery units.

▫️The attacks have resulted in the destruction of more than 320 nationalists, 5 armoured vehicles, 6 field artillery mounts and mortars, 15 special vehicles and 5 ammunition and fuel depots.

In total, 201 Ukrainian airplanes and 130 helicopters, 1,188 unmanned aerial vehicles, 338 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,514 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 508 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,870 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,570 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses, and this could lead to a turning point in the conflict

“Any way you count it, the figures are stark: Ukrainian casualties are running at a rate of somewhere between 6oo and 1,000 a day. One presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, told the Guardian this week it was 150 killed and 800 wounded daily; another, Mykhaylo Podolyak, told the BBC that 100 to 200 Ukrainian troops a day were being killed.

The sheer number – more than 20,000 casualties a month – raises questions about what state Ukraine’s army will be in if the war drags on into the autumn“, the MSM are falsely claiming that Ukraine is winning.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has authorized Russia to enter the country

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has authorized the entry of Russian troops, ships and aircraft into the country for humanitarian purposes from the second half of 2022.

Permission granted to participate in training, exercises, humanitarian aid operations and so on.

The country also allowed the entry of military personnel from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Arestovich threatens the West

Arestovich threatens the West: If Putin wins, then 500 thousand Ukrainians will fight for Russia and no one can stop this force

“…if Putin wins. And 500,000 Ukrainian army will join the 1.5 million Russian army. Everyone saw how we can fight. And where then will the troops be able to stop this united force and plus Belarus?“

Zelensky’s representative urged those “who still doesn’t understand” to start weapon supplies to Kiev as quickly and as much as possible.

“If we say we are for Russia, they will shoot us.”

Kids in Ukraine threatened by Ukrainian soldiers

A few words about the situation with mercenaries in the DPR

1️⃣ The US and Britain condemned the death sentence for foreign mercenaries in the DPR, trying to portray them as “Ukrainian military personnel”.

2️⃣ In Ukraine, they said they want to include them in the list for the exchange. It should be mentioned that two of the three convicts previously offered to exchange themselves for Medvedchuk at the rate of 2 mercenaries for 1 Medvedchuk.

3️⃣ In Moscow, the Western statements about the death sentence were called hysteria and the Kremlin advised Kyiv not to interfere with the work of the DPR judicial system.

4️⃣ Moscow does not officially plan to discuss the topic of mercenaries with the West, offering Britain and Co. to apply directly to the DPR, where the judgement rendered.

5️⃣ Britain has so far refused to connect directly to the DPR, as this undermines the policy of non-recognition of the DPR in the West.

6️⃣ During June, the mercenaries will be waiting for the results of the appeal against the verdict, counting on a mitigation of the sentence. They have 30 days to do so. There is also an option to file a clemency petition to Pushilin.

7️⃣ In case of refusal, they are threatened with execution (according to the law, in the DPR they don’t hang, but shoot).

8️⃣ Trials of Ukrainian war criminals should take place in the DPR before the end of summer. As the trial of foreign mercenaries has shown, they will not delay too long.

Ukraine shell citizens again. Two dead

The result of the shelling of the Maisky market, the rear of the Budyonovsky district of Donetsk, by Ukrainian bastards. Two dead and many wounded civilians. Artillery roosters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are unlikely to be captured.

The government is not testing drinking water for PFAS, which studies have linked to numerous health issues

The UK government is not testing drinking water for a group of toxic manmade chemicals linked to a range of diseases including cancers, while across the world people are falling sick and suing for hundreds of millions of dollars at a time after finding the substances in their tap water.

Known collectively as PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances), or “forever chemicals” because they are designed never to break down in the environment, the substances are used for their water- and grease-repellent properties in everything from cookware and clothing to furniture, carpets, packaging, coatings and firefighting foams.

When PFAS, of which there are thousands, enter the environment, they accumulate in soil, water, animals and human blood. Following a landmark legal case in the US made famous by the Mark Ruffalo film Dark Waters, a huge epidemiological study was carried out that linked PFAS to high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, and kidney cancer and pregnancy-induced hypertension.

Separate studies have made connections between PFAS and miscarriage, reduced birth weight, endocrine disruption, reduced sperm quality, delayed puberty, early menopause and reduced immune response to tetanus vaccination. Scientists have also found that the substances can be passed from mother to baby via the placenta and breast milk.

On top of multiple class actions in the US, cases are being brought around the world. In Australia, two towns adjacent to airbases using PFAS in firefighting foam have been warned not to drink their tap water, and in Italy industry is thought to have exposed 350,000 people to the toxic contaminant. It is estimated that almost everyone in the world now has PFAS in their blood.

In England, the Environment Agency says PFAS is “ubiquitous in the environment”, particularly in its waters, making it unlikely that drinking water sources have escaped contamination. But unlike countries such as the US, where a nationwide testing scheme is underway, the UK government has so far only made plans to make plans to understand the levels of drinking water pollution.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) says it takes “the risks posed by PFAS chemicals very seriously, which is why we’re working at pace with regulators to better assess their presence in our natural environment and their sources.” It says it is “developing its approach to managing risk from PFAS” but it is not testing drinking water.

Water companies do not routinely test for PFAS either. Instead, they are expected to “consider” just two restricted PFAS – PFOS and PFOA – in their risk assessments. According to Defra, there “have been no notifications of an event associated with elevated levels of PFOS or PFOA since 2005”. In Scotland, only PFOA is risk-assessed.

Dr Ian Ross, the global PFAS practice lead at the consultancy Tetra Tech, says the huge number of potential PFAS sources – from airfields and industry to landfills and car washes – make risk assessment very difficult.

“Water companies may need to perform a detailed assessment of many catchments considering a multitude of PFAS sources before determining that water from each catchment is unlikely to supply PFAS-impacted water,” Ross said. “This is more concerning now a new, lower, 10 nanogram/litre limit from the drinking water inspectorate has been introduced, which triggers consultation with health professionals.”

The industry group WaterUK said: “Companies in risk areas have monitoring in place to support the removal of PFAS, and other potentially harmful substances, to ensure drinking water is clean and safe.”

Even so, the drinking water inspectorate has only set the 10ng/l limit for PFOS and PFOA, and there are no limits on the wider group of chemicals. In contrast, Denmark has a limit of 100ng/l for the total of 12 PFAS, with lower levels proposed for PFOS of 3ng/l; Sweden has set a 90ng/l for the sum of 11 PFAS, and Bavaria has regulated 13 individual PFAS to a range of limits between 0.1 micrograms (µg)/l and 10µg/l.

The EU recently revised its drinking water directive, reducing the acceptable level to 100ng/l for 20 types of PFAS and 500 ng/l for all PFAS substances. The directive entered into force in January and member states have two years to adopt it.

It is not clear whether the UK will follow suit. Defra has said it will “consider the effect of the changes made to the directive” but did not commit to adopt it.

Dr Paul Johnston, from Greenpeace’s research laboratory at the University of Exeter, said: “We’re flying blind on this as a nation,” adding that the government had “had plenty of heads up on this from what has been going on in the US”.

He said: “It’s quite baffling why it hasn’t been done systematically if only to validate the risk assessments … you need to be able to back it up with real-world analysis.”

Dr Julie Schneider, of the chemicals charity Chem Trust, said: “People have the right to know if the water from their tap is contaminated with these harmful chemicals. We urgently need a full assessment of PFAS contamination in drinking water in the UK. Continuous exposure to PFAS may lead to long-term adverse health effects, and drinking water is recognised as one of the main sources of our exposure to PFAS.”

An outright ban on all non-essential uses of PFAS is under discussion among EU countries, but there are no signs that the UK intends to take the same tack. “Every year of delay in regulating these chemicals means an increasing level of exposure due to their extreme persistence and capacity to accumulate in the water and the wider environment,” said Schneider.

Responding to the use restrictions put in place on PFOS and PFOA, the industry has created replacement chemicals known as GenX, but researchers suggest these could be just as harmful to humans and the environment and could be even harder to detect.

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Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director of Oxfam International

take a look at Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director of Oxfam International say “Covid has been one of the most profitable products ever”

Dr Paul Marik, the 2nd most published Dr on the planet, speaks out about vaccine injuries

Ukraine’s press release about Joe Biden and laundering millions

European Parliament calls on Members of Parliament worldwide.

HCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World

“In 1993, WHO announced a “birth-control vaccine” for “family planning”. Published research shows that by 1976 WHO researchers had conjugated tetanus toxoid (TT) with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) producing a “birth-control” vaccine.

Conjugating TT with hCG causes pregnancy hormones to be attacked by the immune system. Expected results are abortions in females already pregnant and/or infertility in recipients not yet impregnated. Repeated inoculations prolong infertility.

Currently WHO researchers are working on more potent anti-fertility vaccines using recombinant DNA. WHO publications show a long-range purpose to reduce population growth in unstable “less developed countries”.

By November 1993 Catholic publications appeared saying an abortifacient vaccine was being used as a tetanus prophylactic. In November 2014, the Catholic Church asserted that such a program was underway in Kenya. Three independent Nairobi accredited biochemistry laboratories tested samples from vials of the WHO tetanus vaccine being used in March 2014 and found hCG where none should be present. In October 2014, 6 additional vials were obtained by Catholic doctors and were tested in 6 accredited laboratories. Again, hCG was found in half the samples. Subsequently, Nairobi’s AgriQ Quest laboratory, in two sets of analyses, again found hCG in the same vaccine vials that tested positive earlier but found no hCG in 52 samples alleged by the WHO to be vials of the vaccine used in the Kenya campaign 40 with the same identifying batch numbers as the vials that tested positive for hCG.

Given that hCG was found in at least half the WHO vaccine samples known by the doctors involved in administering the vaccines to have been used in Kenya, our opinion is that the Kenya “anti-tetanus” campaign was reasonably called into question by the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association as a front for population growth reduction.”

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USA food manufacturing plants destroyed.

I have the facts, not the Fact-checker’s facts.

Before we start, this is Fact Checkers on google.

Social media users are sharing the claim that there is a planned increase in fires at food processing plants to purposefully create food shortages. However, there is no evidence to support this claim.

Examples can be seen (here) and (here).

Of course, these are simply coincidences. Just 65 plants in the USA alone. Not including the 2 trains that derailed carrying thousands of tonnes of fertilizer. One in Canada and one in the U.S. And a few planes crashed into a few plants too. But hey FACT CHECKERS. You don’t check, you just hide facts best you can.

Also the hundreds of millions of animals that have been culled around the world, pigs, boars, cows, dears and chickens from a variety of pathogens. Bird flu, wind flu and foot in mouth.

It’s amazing how many pathogens have hit the world’s food sources at the same time as fires, crashes and cyber attacks hit the same type of target too. Of course, the UN is ready to step in and save you with its protein alternative. Yep, it was already done and packed 12 months ago. It’s like someone has a crystal ball, the protein alternative is crushed up grasshopper, cockroaches and mealworms. They made the monkeypox vaccine 4 years ago too. I mean it’s like conspiracy theorists look for cures for diseases being made that are not needed and put 2 plus 2 together and get 4. But hey that’s just stupid talk, I’m sure this is all one big coincidence. Everything I ham publishing here is just a conspiracy of course. As I said, I was talking about the food shortages 3 years ago, I wonder what I was reading then? I can’t remember, but it may have been something along the lines of “ disrupt the food supply and get the UN in with those insects.

What? Why? Oh sorry. Yes, there is a why. It costs billions to feed, process and pack meat every day, and the amount of grazing land is phenomenal. But can you imagine how much money this elite would make if they were to buy shares in a company that has not touched its full potential yet? If I knew the name I would not hesitate to buy shares. Plus free up land and less food processing and fertilizer?

Anyway, I said this is all coincidence of course. Ukraine by the way is stopping the wheat from having safe passage along with Turkey. Russia has said yes and given safe passage but of course, Russia will be blamed again. You really should read my other blogs for the truth of what’s going on. If you have any doubt about the list of coincidental fires below, please feel free to contact them all

🔥An updated list of USA-based destroyed Food Manufacturing Plants


1 ➖4/30/21 Monmouth Smithfield Foods pork processing plant
2 ➖7/25/21 Memphis Kellogg plant
3 ➖8/13/21 JBS beef plant
4 ➖8/24/21 Patak Meat Company
5 ➖7/30/21 Tyson River Valley ingredient plant
6 ➖10/21/21 Darigold plant
7 ➖11/15/21 Garrard County food plant
8➖11/29/21 Maid-Rite Steak Company
9➖12/13/21 San Antonio food processing, West side Foods
10➖1/7/22 Hamilton Mountain poultry processing Plant
11➖1/13/22 Cargill-Nutrene feed mill. Lacombe, La
12➖1/31/22 Winston-Salem fertilizer plant
13➖2/3/22 Wisconsin River Meats
14➖2/3/22 Percy dairy farm
15➖2/5/22 Wisconsin River Meats processing facility destroyed by fire in Mauston, Wisconsin.
16➖2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas
17➖2/15/22 Shearer’s Foods Food processing plant explodes in Hermiston, Oregon.
18➖2/16/22 Indiana Louis-Dreyfus soy processing plant
19➖2/18/22 Bess View Farms
20➖2/19/22 Lincoln premiere poultry
21➖2/22/22 Shearer’s Foods potato chip plant
22➖2/22/22 Fire destroys Deli Star Meat Plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.
23➖2/28/22 nutrient AG Solutions fertilizer facility burns
24➖2/28/22 Shadow Brook Farm & Dutch girl Creamery burns
25➖3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri
26➖3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
27➖3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware
28➖3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD
29➖3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA
30➖3/14/22 Wayne Hoover dairy farm, barn full of vows burns
31➖3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin
32➖3/16/22 Walmart Distribution Center burns for 76 hours in Plainfield Ind.
33➖3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas
34➖3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa
35➖3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware
36➖3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
37➖3/19/22 Walmart Food Distribution center catches fire in Plainfield, Indiana
38➖3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota
39➖3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
40➖3/24/22 Major Fire at McCrum Potato Plant in Belfast, Maine.
41➖3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
42➖3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa
43➖3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
44➖3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota
45➖3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa
46➖3/29/22 Maricopa, Az. Food Pantry burns down 50,000 pounds of Food destroyed in Maricopa, Arizona.
47➖3/31/22 Rio Fresh Onion factory damaged by fire in San Juan, Texas.
48➖3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa
49➖3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa
50➖4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
51➖4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
52➖4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
53➖4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
54➖4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska
55➖4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota
56➖4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire.
57➖4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant
58➖4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
59➖4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.
60➖4/14/22 Salinas food processing plant
61➖4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
62➖4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota
63➖ 4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
64➖4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
65➖4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Colorado

Like I’ve said many times. Start Prepping now. America you have 5 months. Maybe more maybe less, but you’re going to feel it within 3 months.

Written by Dave Begley

Is there going to be a food shortage?

There is going to be a food crisis, if not a famine. I warned of this almost 3 years ago now. The best thing to do is stock up on tinned food, especially tinned meat and tuna or anything high in protein.

Here’s some news that you don’t get on your TV. Everything is verified and true just like all the other blogs I do.

Just take a mental note and consider this. For over 100 years we’ve not had a serious problem with pandemics etc. But now we have covid which was run in lockstep with other countries, with over 70 food processing plants destroyed, over 12 million chickens culled because of bird flu, and pigs and boars killed because of African swine flu, cows culled because of foot and mouth and then there’s dear culled too.

They like to blame Africa for everything, don’t they! Because they are easy mute from our media.

So let’s see the hidden news.

Italy: African Swine Fever prompts culling of 2.1 million boar, export bans

The European Union on Monday told Italy to establish an infected zone for African swine fever in areas of Rome and implement special control measures to stop it spreading.

It said Italy must “ensure that consignments of porcine animals kept in the areas listed as an infected zone… and products thereof are not authorised for movements to other Member States and to third countries”.

The government plans to cull wild boar, after several cases of swine fever were detected in Rome and with the animals becoming increasingly brazen about their encroachments into residential areas as they forage, especially in the capital.

The Rome cases, which rose to six Friday, are the first outside the area of the original outbreak in Liguria and Piedmont.

The authorities said two more cases were found in Liguria on Monday, taking the total for that region and Piedmont up to 119.

The Coldiretti farm group said some 2.1 million boar needed to be culled in Italy as “a real risk to public safety”. (ANSA).

Note that Iran plans to use “Digital Coupons” to get bread

. “Other food items will be added later.” — We are already arriving at digital food rationing.

Soaring bread prices have triggered protests in Iran in which some shops were set on fire, prompting police to arrest scores of “provocateurs”

Soaring bread prices spark protests and shop fires in Iran

The protests were triggered by a cut in government subsidies for imported wheat that caused price hikes as high as 300 percent for a variety of flour-based staples.

Iran’s official inflation rate is around 40%, and some estimate it is over 50%. Almost half Iran’s 82 million population are now below the poverty line.

The government plans to offer digital coupons in the next couple of months for limited amounts of bread at subsidised prices. The rest will be offered at market rates. Other food items will be added later.

Soaring bread prices spark protests and shop fires in Iran, IRNA reports

An Iranian man holds stacks of bread as he walks along a street in Tehran, Iran May 1, 2022

DUBAI, May 13 (Reuters) – Soaring bread prices have triggered protests in Iran in which some shops were set on fire, prompting police to arrest scores of “provocateurs”, the official IRNA news agency said on Friday.

The protests were triggered by a cut in government subsidies for imported wheat that caused price hikes as high as 300 percent for a variety of flour-based staples.

Iran’s official inflation rate is around 40%, and some estimate it is over 50%. Almost half Iran’s 82 million population are now below the poverty line.

The government plans to offer digital coupons in the next couple of months for limited amounts of bread at subsidised prices. The rest will be offered at market rates. Other food items will be added later.

There were scattered protests in a number of cities, according to IRNA, in which crowds chanted slogans against price rises and some shops were set on fire.

In total, 22 people were arrested.

“Despite attempts by provocateurs to incite protesters, the rallies ended with the intervention of security forces,” said IRNA, adding that calm had been restored.

The largest protest was in Dezful in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan, where IRNA said an estimated 300 people were dispersed by security forces. It said 15 people were arrested for “trying to create chaos” in the city.

About 200 people demonstrated in Shahr-e Kord in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in western Iran on Thursday, IRNA said.

While state TV said calm had returned to Shahr-e Kord, videos posted on social media indicated that the unrest had spread on Friday to cities including Ardabil in the northwest, Rasht in the north and Iranshahr in the southeast. Reuters could not independently authenticate the videos.

In the first signs of discontent over price rises, Iranian media last week reported disrupted internet services, an apparent attempt to stop the use of social media to organise rallies and disseminate videos.

While Friday’s IRNA report was the first acknowledgement of the protests by Iran’s official media, video posted on social media this week have shown protesters in Dezful and other cities chanting slogans against price hikes and the country’s leaders.

Wheat prices have drastically increased globally since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, adding to the cost of subsidies in Iran.

Iranian officials have also blamed the price hikes on the smuggling of subsidised bread into neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s special statement

Never seen such an honest appraisal from a public servant of an absolutely catastrophic situation as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister just shared – full transcript is linked, and worth reading:

He said;

“The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives. We must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period.

I have no desire to hide the truth and to lie to the public. Although these facts are unpleasant and terrifying, this is the true situation. For a short period, our future will be even more difficult than the tough times that we have passed. We will face considerable challenges and adversity.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s special statement addressing the nation commenced a short while ago.

The Prime Minister explained how he proposes to confront the current economic crisis.

At this moment, Sri Lanka’s economy is at a very dangerous position, the Prime Minister said.

He said Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange reserves were USD 7.5 billion in November 2019, however today the treasury is unable to find even one million US dollars.

Full Speech

Last Thursday, I accepted office as the Prime Minister. I did not request this position. In face of the challenging situation facing the country, the President invited me to take up this position. I assumed this duty not only as a political leader, but also as national leader who has benefited from free education at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo.

At present, the Sri Lankan economy is extremely precarious. Although the former government’s budget projected a revenue of SLR 2.3 trillion, SLR 1.6 trillion is the realistic projection of this year’s revenue.

The estimated government expenditure for this year is SLR 3.3 trillion. However, due to the increase in interest rates and additional expenditure of the former government, the total government expenditure is SLR 4 trillion. The budget deficit for the year is SLR 2.4 trillion. This amount equals 13% of the GDP.

The approved debt ceiling is SLR 3200 billion. By the second week of May, we had spent 1950 billion. Therefore, the remainder is SLR 1250 billion. Yesterday, a cabinet decision was made to present a proposal to parliament to increase the approved limit for issuing treasury bills from 3000 billion to 4000 billion.

In November 2019, our foreign exchange reserves were at USD 7.5 billion. However, today, it is a challenge for the treasury to find USD 1 million. The Ministry of finance is finding it difficult to raise USD 5 million required to import gas.

Amidst all these issues we are faced with several grave concerns. To ease the queues, we must obtain approximately USD 75 million within the next couple of days. At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day. Due to the diesel shipment that arrived yesterday, the diesel lack of diesel will be resolved to some extent. Under the Indian credit line, two more diesel shipments are due to arrive on the 18th May and 1st June. In addition, two petrol shipments are expected on 18th and 29th May. For over 40 days 3 ships with crude oil and furnace oil have been anchored within the maritime zone of Sri Lanka. We are working to obtain dollars in the open market to pay for these shipments.

A quarter of electricity is generated through oil. Therefore, there is a possibility that the daily power outages will increase to 15 hours a day. However, we have already obtained money to avert this crisis. We must also immediately obtain USD 20 million to provide gas to consumers. The situation of kerosene and furnace oil is even more urgent. At present, the Central Bank, local state and private banks, and foreign banks functioning in Sri Lanka are all facing a dollar shortage. As you are already aware, we possess a very low amount of US dollars. Nevertheless, we succeeded in bringing in a diesel shipment yesterday despite these adverse circumstances with Indian assistance. Therefore, you can obtain that diesel from today onwards. We will also work towards making a payment for the gas shipment that arrived on Tuesday. Therefore, you will have some respite from the gas shortage.

Another grave concern is the lack of medicine. There is a severe shortage of a number of medicines including medicine required for heart disease as well as surgical equipment. Payments have not been made for four months to suppliers of medicine, medical equipment, and food for patients. The payment owed to them amounts to SLR 34 billion. In addition, payments have not been made for four months for medicine imported by the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation. As a result, pharmaceutical companies are taking steps to blacklist the SPC. Unfortunately, our Medical Supplies Division is unable to provide even two critical items of the 14 essential medicines that we currently need. These two are a medicine used in treating heart disease and the anti-rabies vaccine. The latter has no alternative treatment.

We have planned to present a new alternative budget to the development budget proposed for 2022. Intend to present it as a concessionary budget.

I further propose to privatise Sri Lankan Airlines which is incurring extensive losses. The loss for the year 2020-2021 alone amounts to SLR 45 billion. By 31st March 2021, the total loss was at 372 billion. Even if we privatise Sri Lankan Airlines, this is a loss that we must bear. You must be aware that this is a loss that must be borne even by the poor people of this country who have never stepped on an airplane.

In the short term we will have to face an even more difficult time period. There is a possibility that inflation will increase further.

At present, the government incurs a loss of SLR 84.38 per liter of 92 octane petrol, 71.19 per liter of 95 octane petrol, 131.55 per liter of diesel, 136.31 per liter of super diesel, and 294.50 per liter of kerosene oil. The Petroleum Corporation can no longer bear this loss. Similarly, although the Electricity Board charges SLR 17 per unit of electricity the cost of production is at around SLR 48 amounting to a loss of about SLR 30 per unit. This is also a serious problem.

Against my own wishes, I am compelled to permit printing money in order to pay state-sector employees and to pay for essential goods and services. However, we must remember that printing money leads to the depreciation of the rupee. Under the current circumstances, even the Petroleum Corporation and the Electricity Board are unable to obtain rupees.

The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives. We must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period.

I have no desire to hide the truth and to lie to the public. Although these facts are unpleasant and terrifying, this is the true situation. For a short period, our future will be even more difficult than the tough times that we have passed. We will face considerable challenges and adversity. However, this period will not be long. In the coming months, our foreign allies will assist us. They have already pledged their support. Therefore, we will have to patiently bear the next couple of months. However, we can overcome this situation. Doing so will require taking a new path.

I thank the opposition leader and the leaders of the political parties who replied to the letters that I sent them informing them of the current situation.

We must immediately establish a national assembly or political body with the participation of all political parties to find solutions for the present crisis. This will enable us to discuss with all parties and to arrive at decisions for short-, medium-, and long-term action plans that will enable us to rebuild our nation within a specified time frame.

We will build a nation without queues for kerosene, gas, and fuel; a nation free of power outages, a nation with plentiful resources where agriculture can freely flourish; a nation where the future of the youth is secure; a nation where people’s labour need not be wasted in queues and in struggles; a nation where everyone can lead their lives freely with three square meals a day.

I am undertaking a dangerous challenge. In the Caucasian Chalk Circle, Grusha crossed the broken rope bridge carrying a child that was not her own. This is an even more difficult undertaking. The precipice is deep and its bottom cannot be seen. The bridge is made of thin glass and there is no handrail. I am wearing shoes with sharp nails that cannot be removed. My task is to safely take the child to the other side. I am accepting this challenge for our nation. My goal and dedication is not to save an individual, a family, or a party. My objective is to save all the people of this country and the future of our younger generation. I will undertake this task willingly risking my life if needed and will overcome the challenges facing us. I ask you to extend your support to me in this endeavour.

I will fulfill my duty towards our nation.

That is my promise to you.

Farmers left heartbroken as Queensland floods ruin crops

Shoppers warned the price of fresh fruit and vegetables will rise after latest rain event

Farmers who risked planting after the February deluge lost entire crops and face financial ruin after the second deluge.

Lockyer Valley’s mayor, Tanya Milligan, said crops were rotting in the ground and 90% of insurance claims have been rejected.

“A lot of those farmers were hoping and depending on that (insurance payout),” Milligan said.

“We will have farmers that have no intention to replant. You have people that have just lost absolutely everything and they will be wondering is it all worth it?

Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time And Losing His Sustainable Farm For Processing His Own Meat

Amos Miller’s private food club members say they don’t want their grass-fed meat treated with the chemical preservatives required by all USDA-approved processing plants

Amos Miller says he is being persecuted by the federal government for practicing his religious freedom to raise and prepare food the way he believes God intended food to be raised and prepared – by nature.

Miller practices rotational grazing on his small, holistically managed, century old farm in Bird-In-Hand Pennsylvania. His heritage-breed cows are raised on organic pastures, with the chickens following behind, eating the bugs from their dropping, and whey-fed pigs trampling all the fertilizer back into the ground after that.

Around 4000 customers of his private, members-only, food buying club are dependent on his meat, eggs and dairy products, as well as fermented fruits and veggies… and are willing to spend top dollar to get it shipped to them all over the country, as they don’t trust food from the grocery store.

But a couple of weeks ago, a federal judge told Miller to cease and desist all meat sales, and sent armed U.S. marshals to search his property, farm store and freezers. They took an inventory of all his meat to make sure he doesn’t sell any or slaughter any more animals.

Last summer, the judge also ordered Miller to pay $250,000 for “contempt of court,” and said he will also have to pay the salaries of the USDA investigators assigned to his case, $50,000 of which was due last week as a “good faith” payment to avoid jail.

Cows may need permit to graze meadows in Netherlands

Dairy farmers are angry and surprised now that a court decision opens the door to a permit requirement to let cows roam in the meadow. “This shows the absurdity of the nitrogen policy,” says Trienke Elshof, a farmer in Oldetrijne.

Ukraine Safe Passage Grain Talks Fail, Expect Still Higher Food Prices Globally

Turkey attempted to mediate safe passage in the Black Sea for Ukraine’s grain harvest but objected to the Black Sea proposal in a statement on Tuesday before the talks in Turkey.

A significant portion of the world’s food supply is on the line, but Ukraine Nixes a Potential Deal.

“We cannot rule out Russia’s plans to use such a corridor to attack Odesa and southern Ukraine. That is why effective security guarantees are needed to restore shipping,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.

The stakes of a possible deal are enormous, with a significant portion of the world’s food supply on the line. Russia’s invasion left around 20 million metric tons of grain and seeds stranded in Ukrainian territory seized by Russia or cut off from the Black Sea ports through which it is normally exported. Russia’s bombing of roads, bridges and other infrastructure, along with a blockade of Ukraine’s ports, have added to the obstacles to getting grain out of the country, Ukrainian officials and farmers say.

“We emphasize that decisions must be made with the participation of all parties involved. We will reject any agreements that do not take into account the interests of Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

What’s happening in Ukraine part 6

Ukraine begins to blackmail the global world with hunger

This follows from the threats of the head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine A. Danilov who said: “If the issue is not resolved that our country is safe, no grain will go anywhere to anyone.”

Now it is clear who prevents the export of grain already purchased by other countries from the country. It shows the complete inadequacy of the Ukrainian side and that it is much more reliable to negotiate with Putin.

As of June 9, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 231 settlements, including Svyatogorsk and Tatyanovka.

Battles are being waged for Slavyansk.

Western experts have repeatedly warned that the weapons transferred to the Kiev regime fall into the hands of terrorists from other regions of the world.

This opinion has received new confirmation. Foreign mercenaries from the illegal armed formation “Sheikh Mansour Battalion” are fighting on the side of Ukraine. They boasted about the new weapons that they managed to take out of Ukraine. They do this under the patronage of representatives of the military-political leadership in Kiev.

A stable channel has been created for the transfer of weapons to the territory of Syria for military operations against the Armed Forces (of the legitimate government in Damascus) and units of the Russian Armed Forces in this country. The “route” of arms traffic runs through Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

The terrorists even announce new supplies from their agents to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, Western governments turned out to be arms suppliers for radical Islamists in the Middle East.

First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov

Zelensky acknowledged that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not capable of conducting a counteroffensive in any direction in the current situation. He told the Financial Times about that. He also transparently hinted that Ukraine needs even more equipment from Europe, because the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot launch a counteroffensive just because of the lack of equipment, and Zelensky allegedly worries about the lives of soldiers.

Meanwhile, the Western community continues to provide military assistance to Ukraine, although not in the amount that Zelensky would like. So, let me remind you that 🇺🇸 the United States agreed to send HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, Mi-17 helicopters, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, vehicles and other means to Ukraine for $700 million.🇸🇪 Sweden also transferred weapons to Ukraine – 22 M109 self-propelled howitzers of 155-mm ammunition. Sweden would have written off these howitzers over time anyway: in their arsenal, the Swedes replaced them with new Korean weapons.

🇩🇪 The Germans are not in a hurry to send all the promised weapons to Ukraine, but Scholz declares that Germany is one of the leaders in military assistance to Ukraine, which amuses the Ukrainian “patriots” a lot: Berlin has promised a lot, yes. But in reality, the situation is exactly the opposite. And it’s not only Germany, who doesn’t hurry to send military aid to Ukraine – the transfer of weapons from Europe is stalled in general. But Scholz doesn’t forget to remind Zelensky that “everything possible must be done to export grain from Ukraine.”

In terms of armament, the blame for everything, most likely, is that the Europeans are not sure that their armored vehicles and artillery will be able to exist on the territory of Ukraine for any long time and generally reach the front. 🇪🇸 Spain, which promised Leopard 2 tanks, has not delivered them yet. 🇬🇷 Greece did not transfer weapons to Ukraine either: it promised a batch of Soviet BMP-1s, but there are no deliveries. No, because Germany promised the Greeks in return (instead of the BMP-1 sent to Ukraine) to send Marder. The Greeks did not receive anything from the Germans, so they decided not to send anything to the Ukrainians either.

Probably the situation with the destroyed T-72 tanks near Kyiv, delivered to Ukraine from Eastern Europe, poured cold water on the Europeans. They figured it out that such multimillion-dollar assistance would backfire by undermining their own combat capability, and in Ukraine their equipment was being scrapped at the speed of Kalibr rockets flying at targets.

Well, in parallel, I would like to note that within Ukraine itself, the tectonic fault continues to worsen: Transcarpathia is increasingly moving away from Ukraine, is not subject to the central government. Thus, the head of the Transcarpathian region, Viktor Mikita, said that Transcarpathia would not share with the rest of Ukraine the European fuel supplied to the region until it covered all its internal needs. The “patriots” of the Ukraine extremely resent this statement.

In such circumstances, it would be foolish for Zelensky to talk about a counteroffensive, but we don’t expect anything smart from him. Yes, and Arestovich often spoke about the counteroffensive in his time. Well, what’s the matter, does it ebbed? Soon, even in Transcarpathia, you will send people to the ATO, and Americans already have missed 200 thousand soldiers. What the embarrassing situation. And also there’s still no military equipment…

Editors note

The bit they forget when talking like this is to be good liars you need good memories.

Now I don’t seem to have heard anything or seen anything that remotely mentions what they are spending the $40 billion on? I mean that’s more than the US spent in 12 months at war in Afghanistan. Surely the West would be saying something about how this taxpayer’s money is being spent?

Well, don’t hold your breath, because I can tell you that it’s a money-laundering system. Biden, Boris and a few of Biden’s team are all getting pretty rich out of this.

This is the biggest shift in wealth in history. They are emptying everything for themselves.

Dave Begley

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksеy Reznikov

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksеy Reznikov said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine daily lose up to 100 people dead and 500 wounded.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

said that Warsaw is pushing Zelensky to transfer control of state functions in Ukraine to it

Poland has already began hosting the reserve data center of the Ukrainian tax service, the SVR intelligence service said.

At night,

the enemy fired our positions with white phosphorus –

a prohibited weapon. These are war crimes.

Assad: Syria supports Russia as it returns the lost international balance of power

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview with RT Arabic:

“Russia is an ally of Syria who, if he wins the battle or if his political position in the international arena becomes stronger, then this is to our advantage.

Or, from another point of view, we can say that the strength of Russia today contributes to the return of the lost international balance, even if this return is partial. And this balance, which we want so much, is reflected primarily in small states, and Syria is one of them.”

The first footage of the battles for Slavyansk. Artillery works.

The Supreme Court of the DPR found a Moroccan citizen and two Britons guilty of mercenaries and other crimes, they were sentenced to death.

I spoke to British Mercenary – Aiden Aslin

He reported from the Donetsk’s custody building. Before he was sentenced. I was going to plead his case but it has fallen on deaf ears. Here’s his report. This report was not taken by me.

The head of the British Foreign Office condemned the death sentence for British mercenaries in the DPR, considering them prisoners of war.

https://odysee.com/@ID:1/brits-mercenary:2?r=Dwv5FuXGX6CyeuXLJEoxNRU2EqnsQLyp

BREAKING, What happened to this small village? The small community are up in arms.

Those who were accepting the migrants into our country had a little bit of a shock when they were told that their village with a population of around 700, was having 1500 migrants, all young middle-aged men within 7 days.

Now they are not happy with the situation and are fighting the council.

It’s these people who know that their towns cannot take in migrants that say “yes we should accept these poor people into our country and we should welcome them”

But now they are landing on these people’s doorsteps they have changed their tune. Interviewed, one lady says “ yes if they come we will welcome them and speak to them, but there’s nothing here for them, no infrastructure, they’ll be so bored.”

Above is a video with some astonishing facts that are kept from the British public by the media and the government.

What’s happening in Ukraine part 5

In response to yesterday’s ruthless shelling of residential areas of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops

In response to yesterday’s ruthless shelling of residential areas of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the Russian Armed Forces this morning calibrated Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities on the territory of Kyiv and other regions.

The T-72 battle tanks supplied by the Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles located in the buildings of the wagon-repair enterprise were the purpose of the morning strikes

13 civilians, including a child, were injured in the center of Donetsk

As a result of the Voroshilovsky district shelling from the Ukrainian side.

The Voroshilovsky district has been subjected to massive shelling for the second time in the last seven days.

On Monday, May 30, 5 people died and 16 were injured.

The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the DPR

The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the DPR has completed the investigation of the criminal case against foreign mercenaries – British citizens Shaun Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadoun Brahim

The investigation established that for material reward they took part in the armed aggression of Ukraine aimed at a violent seizure of power in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Foreigners were charged with committing crimes on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic under 4 articles: commission a crime by a group of persons, forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power, mercenarism, and also training for the purpose of commitment a terrorist activity.

The criminal case was sent to court for consideration on the merits. The first hearing will take place soon. Under martial law, an exceptional measure of punishment – the death penalty may be imposed for mercenaries.

The DPR comes under massive shelling by the AFU, Jun 4

the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a massive artillery strike on the center of Donetsk

Last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a massive artillery strike on the center of Donetsk

40 rockets from BM-21 Grad were fired in the center of Donetsk.

Russian troops taking care of a severely injured Ukrainian soldier

Russian troops taking care of a severely injured Ukrainian soldier near Severodonetsk after his comrades had abandoned him.

This happened near Severodonetsk after his comrades had abandoned him. The Russians are playing by the book, treating the injured and taken POW. Whilst the Ukrainians and Nazis shoot the captured Russians in the groin or legs and torture them.

Spain is ready to send tanks and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine

Earlier, the Spanish authorities handed over to the Ukrainian side ammunition, personal protective equipment and light weapons – grenade launchers or machine guns. Now the government of the Kingdom is preparing to supply Leopard tanks and a battery of anti-aircraft missiles.

Spain has also offered to train Ukraine’s military in handling Western tanks. According to the publication’s sources, the initial training may take place in Latvia, where 500 Spanish soldiers are stationed, and then on the territory of the Kingdom.

On Friday, Ukrainian Ambassador to Madrid Sergey Pogoreltsev thanked the Spanish government for sending 200 tons of military aid, but considered it insufficient. According to the diplomat’s calculations, the weapons sent by Spain “will be enough for two hours of combat.”

Ukrainian militants seized the UN office in Kramatorsk

“Representatives of the international organization have also lost three official vehicles with diplomatic plates. The AFU do not allow the mission staff to their property and forbid them to take photos and videos for reporting to higher authorities,” the DPR Headquarters of the Defense Ministry reports.

The OODA loop

Our enemies are obsessed with jamming our OODA Loops. They do not want us to have even a moment to think. An OODA loop is a decision making process: observe–orient–decide–act. We take in information, and we make a decision on how to act to change things. Our enemies keep distracting us with constantly changing information, and we keep getting stuck in the OO stage, never making decisions, never acting to change things, because we are constantly trying to figure out the nature of the trap we are caught in. But that is the trap we are caught in! We end up stuck in endless puzzling debates, making no productive plans to achieve victory in even one small way.

When a fresh news story gets hyped up, and people say “oh oh they are just distracting us”, it is THINKING TIME they are distracting us from. A moment for the dust to settle, for even a minute of propaganda-free time, to be able to make a plan to counter our enemy’s plans. They cannot allow us this minute. We are allowed no firm place to stand. They have to bombard us with useless factoids and storylines 24/7, little rabbit holes and dead-ends and intrigue and drama, or else we might form together into something capable of defeating their psychological operations. Distraction and overload is their primary weapon against us. Unfortunately, we keep falling for this trick.

The OODA loop is the cycle observe–orient–decide–act, developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Boyd applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the operational level during military campaigns. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The approach explains how agility can overcome raw power in dealing with human opponents. It is especially applicable to cyber security and cyberwarfare.[1]

The OODA loop has become an important concept in litigation,[2] business,[3]law enforcement,[4] and military strategy. According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe–orient–decide–act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby “get inside” the opponent’s decision cycle and gain the advantage.