Mayor Eric Adams' administration will soon start handing out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families being put up in Big Apple hotels, The Post has learned.

The $53 million pilot program, run by the New Jersey company Mobility Capital Finance, will provide asylum seekers arriving at the Roosevelt Hotel with the city cash to help them buy food, according to city records.

It'll start with a group of 500 migrant families in short-term hotel stays and will replace the current food service offered there, according to City Hall.

It's going to be a very big push and will complement other protests taking place throughout Europe.

Poland has the largest number of family farms in Europe - over one million. These farms are a vital resource not just for national food production but also for the maintenance of Poland's unique biodiversity. Particular to this Polish farmer's effort will be a central attack on 'Green New Deal' (see below) which is of course a critically important issue vis-a-vis ensuring the future of all farmers/farming.

Green New Deal links directly into the Agenda 2030 'Sustainability' program whereby the WEF proposes to 100% disenfranchise farmers and substitute synthetic GMO laboratory foods for real food grown in real soil.

[The Following is] a part of the announcement of the NSZZ of Individual Farmers "Solidarity" on the General Strike (from February 9 to March 10, 2024):

"...Our patience has been exhausted. The position of Brussels at the end of January 2024 is unacceptable to the entire agricultural community. In addition, the lack of response from the Polish authorities and declarations of cooperation with the European Commission, along with announcements to respect all decisions on the import of agricultural and food products from Ukraine, leave us no choice but to declare a general strike...We cannot accept the implementation of the "European Green Deal", the European Union's farm-to-table strategy and the proposed form of the Common Agricultural Policy.

The Polish government must present a clear plan for agricultural production, its profitability, the reconstruction of domestic processing and trade. We will fight for this until it happens. Polish farm families are the foundation of our country's food security....

We ask compatriots to be understanding and aware of the situation in which we all find ourselves. We are fighting for our common good, which is to save Polish family-owned, often multi-generational farms from collapse and bankruptcy...."

Credit investors are betting that Germany's difficulties are more than just a temporary blip. Economic stagnation, real estate troubles and the highest corporate bankruptcy rate in Europe have led bondholders to demand higher corporate spreads from German firms than for the broader eurozone, Bloomberg reports.

Bad news keeps piling up: after Germany's economy contracted in the last quarter of last year, bleak early outlooks for 2024 signal a host of problems ahead, according to Bloomberg. "Germany is really in trouble," said Brian Mangwiro, fund manager at Barings. "All major manufacturing economies are slowing down, but in Germany, this is exacerbated by higher electricity costs. There are also issues in the automotive sector with competition from China."

House of Lords report suggests that the Mr Bean actor was partly at fault for 'damaging' public perceptions of EVs.

Rowan Atkinson has been blamed for poor sales of electric cars in a report by the House of Lords.

Atkinson, known for Mr Bean and the Blackadder series, found himself the centre of a real-life drama on Tuesday.

Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has told RT why his country has confidence in cooperating with Moscow on crude imports.

India will continue buying Russian crude as long as prices are favorable, Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told RT on the sidelines of India Energy Week on Thursday. New Dehli has significantly ramped up purchases of Russian crude since the start of the Ukraine conflict.

According to Puri, Russian oil currently accounts for 30%-34% of India's total imports of fuel, up from just 0.2% before February 2022.

"Imports of crude oil are the biggest item in our import basket. And equally, the export of petroleum products is the biggest item in our export basket. We will import from wherever we can, and we will export to wherever we can," the minister explained.

US-based credit rating agency Moody's downgraded Israel and changed the country's outlook to negative due to the ongoing war in Gaza, according to a report published on Friday.

Moody's changed the rating to A2 from A1, concluding a review that began on Oct. 19, almost two weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel.

"The main driver for the downgrade of Israel's rating to A2 is Moody's assessment that the ongoing military conflict with Hamas, its aftermath and wider consequences materially raise political risk for Israel as well as weaken its executive and legislative institutions and its fiscal strength, for the foreseeable future," the report said.

The former Fox News talk show host-turned independent media phenomenon, Tucker Carlson, is in Moscow, where he has committed the mortal sin of interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. The interview is scheduled to air at 6 pm eastern time on Thursday, February 8. Let there be no doubt — Tucker Carlson has pulled off one of the most memorable journalistic accomplishments in modern history, and when the interview does air, it will — literally and figuratively — break the internet.

As someone who has travelled to Russia twice in the past year to engage in "people's diplomacy" designed to advocate for better US-Russian relations, I applaud Tucker Carlson's decision to go to Moscow and get this interview. The American people have been infected with a virulent case of Russophobia transmitted to them via a political and economic elite who have built a model of American relevance predicated on the need for an enemy capable of sustaining a military industrial and congressional complex by justifying an expansive budget that leaves America weaker and shareholders wealthier.

Many units are understrength and dealing with low morale, field commanders have told the newspaper...

The Ukrainian Army is facing a "critical" deficit of troops, driving fears that its frontline may soon collapse, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing recent interviews with several officers.

While weapons and ammunition are also scarce - one newly arrived unit reportedly received just ten shells for its two howitzers - the manpower shortages are resulting in "exhaustion and diminished morale" as many units are unable to rotate from the front.

A deputy commander of an infantry battalion, identified only as Nikita, told the outlet:

"We have direct trouble with personnel. I'm talking with my friends, also officers in other units, and those in infantry; it's almost the same situation everywhere."

The Post spoke with "nearly a dozen" officers and soldiers, who concealed their identities fearing retribution.

An unnamed commander of a battalion in a mechanized brigade said his unit currently had less than 40 infantrymen, compared to 200 when fully staffed. Another battalion commander, identified as Alexander, said his infantry companies were staffed at about 35%. His colleague from an assault brigade said this situation was "typical" for combat units.

Extreme curriculum being taught to the 70,000 children of service members...

In a Congressional hearing last spring, Gil Cisneros, then-Under Secretary for Military Readiness, announced that the Pentagon was closing its newly formed Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within its K-12 school system and reassigning its controversial DEI chief after a ten-month internal investigation.

The Pentagon's climb-down was a big win for OpenTheBooks.com. We had worked alongside whistleblowers, journalists, other investigative non-profits, and ranking members of Congress to expose alleged conflicts of interest, violations of military ethics policies, and radical ideologies being forced on the kids of servicemen and servicewomen.

Today, we are announcing Cisneros was actually faking. The radical curriculum was not dismantled. Instead, it was stealthily embedded into the lesson plans and classrooms throughout the entire school system.

The Pentagon, under Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, is preventing details of their DEI policies from coming to light by abusing the Freedom of Information Act. They bamboozled the public with window dressing in Congressional hearings while forcing woke extremism on the roughly 70,000 children of our military service members.

It's critical that taxpayers understand the scope of the DEI philosophy within the DoD's schools - deployed servicemembers often have no alternative but to use the Pentagon-run school system, called the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).

A top executive at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York recently warned her London counterparts she was on the hunt for more British companies to go public there.

And why not? Nasdaq had successfully persuaded Britain's only real tech champion, Arm, to snub no lesser lobbyist than the Prime Minister and float its shares Stateside.

"We're having a lot of conversations with companies about listing in the US," Karen Snow, Nasdaq's global head of listings, said in the run-up to Christmas.