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UK food supply chain crisis worsens, industries appeal to government to intervene


BBC
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:49 UTC
supermarket empty shelves
© GettyFILE PHOTO: The cost of living rose by 4.2% in October, its highest rate in almost 10 years
Food industry representatives have warned that the UK is facing a "worsening food supply chain crisis" without sufficient help from the government.

The National Farmers' Union (NFU) has called for the government to commit to keeping the country's self sufficiency in food production at 60%.

The NFU has convened a summit of organisations to discuss the issues on Tuesday.

Staff shortages will also be discussed.

Comment: There's only so much the system can take, and when it does grind to a halt and people really begin to suffer, will they be more inclined to accept the establishment's dystopian 'Great Reset'? Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Why the Russiagate scandal outranks the rest

J. Peder Zane
Real Clear Politics
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:37 UTC
Jake Sullivan
© AP Photo/Susan WalshUS National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Russiagate is the biggest scandal in American history.

Nothing comes close in size, scope or harm to the republic than the years-long effort to cripple Donald Trump's presidency by claiming he conspired with an enemy state to steal the 2016 election and then do its bidding as commander-in-chief.

Its notorious predecessors - L'Affaire Lewinsky, Iran-Contra, Watergate, Teapot Dome, Crédit Mobilier, the XYZ Affair - involved relatively small numbers of malefactors engaged in specific acts of illegality and corruption (we still don't know who, if anyone, planned the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol)

Russiagate, by contrast, is a vast conspiracy involving innumerable powerful forces, including the Democratic Party, NeverTrump Republicans, the Obama administration, the FBI, Department of Justice and the nation's most prestigious news outlets.

Where previous scandals often ended with public accountability for the perpetrators - Watergate saw the imprisonment of top White House aides and President Nixon's resignation - and public reforms, Russiagate has produced no such reckoning.

Comment: See also:

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Sheriff

Putin tells Boris Johnson urgent talks needed over Nato's plans for Ukraine

Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:48 UTC
putin
© Mikhail Metzel/APThe Russian president told Boris Johnson he wanted a deal to exclude Nato's further incursion into eastern Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin has told Boris Johnson that he wants immediate talks to secure clear legal agreements that Nato will not expand eastwards. According to a Kremlin readout of the two leaders' phone call on Monday, Putin said talks were needed to discuss Nato's future intentions, and to clarify Ukraine's plans for the east of the country.

The call marked the first time the two men had spoken since October before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Johnson expressed the UK's "deep concern over the buildup of Russian forces on Ukraine's border", and warned him "that any destabilising action would be a strategic mistake that would have significant consequences". The British prime minister also called for the issues to be resolved through diplomatic channels.

The lengthier readout of the call from the Kremlin cited what it described as specific examples of Kyiv's destructive disruption of the Minsk agreements, the deal that was supposed to settle the Russian-Ukraine dispute.


Comment: Kiev has not kept to any of the Minsk agreements, Russia has abided by all of them.


Comment: A hot war is unlikely, but that doesn't mean that the demented Western establishment won't contune to stoke the situation in its failing attempts to contain Russia: For insightful analysis on the situation, check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: COVID And Mind Control - Do People Fear The Virus, Or Their Government?



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Sen. Rand Paul tells Dan Bongino COVID restrictions are 'about conditioning the American individual to submit to government'

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:39 UTC
Rand Paul
© Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times/APUS Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky)
Speaking to Dan Bongino over the weekend, Senator Rand Paul, who is also a doctor, took aim at the COVID restrictions that have come down from the Biden administration and from Democrat leaders across the country. Paul said that the restrictions aren't about curbing COVID, but about controlling the American people.

Paul spoke out against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who complained on the Senate floor that the GOP senators who voted to overturn President Joe Biden's mask mandate were "anti-science" and "anti-vaccine."

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Gantz says he instructed Israeli army to prepare military option against Iran

Jonathan Lis
Haaretz
Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Benny
© BBCIsraeli DM Benny Gantz
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Saturday that he had ordered the Israeli army to prepare for the possibility of a military strike on Iran. Gantz, who is currently in the U.S. to persuade them to ramp up the pressure on Iran, also informed Washington of this step, a senior defense official said.

In a briefing in Florida, Gantz said the nuclear talks have yielded "no progress" and that world powers "understand that the Iranians are playing games."


Comment: No sweeping assumptions there! Israel is desperate to stop/reverse negotiations.


On Thursday night, Gantz met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Washington. He said he told his American counterpart:
"Iran currently has terrible cards; its economic situation is difficult. Therefore, there's room for international pressure - diplomatic, economic and military - so that Iran will stop its fantasies about the nuclear program."
Gantz and Austin also discussed increasing both countries' preparedness to counter Iranian aggression.

On his U.S. trip, the Defense Minister also met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday, as part of his effort to convince Washington to expand sanctions on Iran to pressure it into retreating from its nuclear program.

Comment: Gantz looks to gauge how far he can push/control the US. For the US to validate such moves, or knowingly remain silent, is to share the blame.

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Biden's new "regressive" methane tax will raise the average American's gas bill by 17%

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:00 UTC
Joe and tower
© Unknown/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/KJNSmokin' Joe's stealth tax
At a time when the Biden administration is panicking in an attempt to keep energy prices down, the House has slapped a "fee" on methane that is being called a "stealth tax" on natural gas and everyone who uses it.

The House bill results in an "escalating tax on methane emissions by oil and gas producers," a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal points out. The tax will hit $1,500 per ton by 2025 and the fee is supposed to be a contribution to recent promises made in Glasgow to curb methane emissions.

The cost of the fee will obviously get passed along to the consumer, which will then result in even higher energy prices than consumers are already struggling with. 180 million Americans use natural gas to heat their homes, the report says.

In the meantime, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has come out and stated that half of U.S. households that heat with natural gas will pay 30% more this winter than they did last year. This methane tax could add another 17% to an average bill, the WSJ editorial board writes.

The WSJ op-ed board calls it a "regressive tax" and says that "Department of Energy notes the average energy burden for low-income families is three times higher than for more affluent households".

Comment: Biden, and his official mind extensions, are not just blowing smoke, they are guaranteeing America's destruction - one policy after another.

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John Pilger: The judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange

John Pilger
Arena
Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Pilger/Assange arrest
© Radio La Primerisima/KJNJohn Pilger • The arrest of Julian Assange
"Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us"
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre's words should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain's High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces "a living death". This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.

Miscarriage of justice is an inadequate term in these circumstances. It took the bewigged courtiers of Britain's ancien regime just nine minutes last Friday to uphold an American appeal against a District Court judge's acceptance in January of a cataract of evidence that hell on earth awaited Assange across the Atlantic: a hell in which, it was expertly predicted, he would find a way to take his own life.

Volumes of witness by people of distinction, who examined and studied Julian and diagnosed his autism and his Asperger's Syndrome and revealed that he had already come within an ace of killing himself at Belmarsh prison, Britain's very own hell, were ignored.
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President Moon Jae-in: End to Korean War agreed to 'in principle'

Rebecca Falconer
AXIOS
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Moon Jae-in
© Lukas Coch-Pool/Getty ImagesSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday the U.S., North Korea, his country and China have agreed "in principle" to declare a formal end to the Korean War. But they've yet to meet on the matter due to Pyongyang's demands.

Why it matters: Moon believes the move would help restart stalled negotiations between the countries on Pyongyang's denuclearization. A State Department spokesperson said in an emailed statement that U.S. officials were
"prepared to meet without preconditions. We hope [North Korea] will respond positively to our outreach."
Context: There's been no formal treaty ending the 1950-53 Korean War. So South and North Korea are still technically at war, backed by the U.S. and China, respectively.

Driving the news: Moon said during a news conference in Canberra, Australia, that North Korean officials were insistent that the U.S. lift what they describe as a "hostile policy" toward the country — a reference to American action such as sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missiles programs.
"Because of that, we are not able to sit down for a discussion or negotiation on the declarations" to officially end the war. We hope that talks will be initiated."
The bottom line: "The end-of-war declaration itself is not an ultimate goal," Moon said. But it would be an essential step in paving the way to restart negotiations on denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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Israel's PM 'encourages' Covid vaccines for kids by falsely claiming deaths of 2 UK teens was from 'omicron'

Jonathan Lis
Haaretz
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:06 UTC
Naftali Bennett
© Emil SalmanIn an attempt to encourage the children's vaccination drive, Israeli prime minister warns cabinet that two British schoolboys died of omicron, when they had in fact died of the virus well before the variant was reported
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday that two teenagers in Britain had died after contracting the new COVID variant omicron, when no such event had happened.

A source in Bennett's bureau said he had been confused about the story, which had been reported recently.

"Just this week, two middle school students in Britain from the same class died of omicron," Bennett said, in an attempt to bolster the children's vaccination effort. "One wasn't vaccinated at all, and the other had apparently been partially vaccinated." In fact, the deaths of Mohammad Habib and Harry Towers, a week apart, occurred in October; omicron was not discovered until November 9.

Comment: The very same PM who was caught on camera stating outright that vaccine passports were being enforced in order to coerce people into taking the vaccines: Oops: Hot mic catches Israeli health minister admitting vaccine passports are about coercion

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: COVID And Mind Control - Do People Fear The Virus, Or Their Government?



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Mr. Potato

Johnson 'apologises unreservedly' to those 'offended' by No 10 Christmas party video

Peter Walker and Rowena Mason
The Guardian
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:12 UTC
bojo boris johnson
© PRU/AFP via Getty Images
Boris Johnson has said he "apologises unreservedly" for a video showing Downing Street officials joking about a staff party during the peak of lockdown last December, and has promised to hand over any evidence of law-breaking to police.

At a noisy prime minister's questions, Johnson said he had been repeatedly assured that no party took place, and that he had been "shocked" by the emergence of the video.

He promised that Simon Case, the cabinet secretary and the UK's most senior civil servant, would investigate the circumstances surrounding the video and the facts surrounding what happened on 18 December last year.

Comment: The rules only apply to the plebs.



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