Comment: Going off of the little information given about the circumstances behind their deaths certainly gives one reason to suspect foul play.

See also:

• Bizarre, Unexplained Marine Colonel 'Suicides': What the Hell's Going on? (2012)
• 'Recurrent' abuse in US Marine Corps as Muslim recruit's death ruled suicide (2016)

Comment: More details from Vox:

In the days after her disappearance, Russell went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms, and received national media attention as law enforcement agencies searched for her. The chilling details surrounding her disappearance — and the prospect that a child was used to lure her into danger — likely contributed to it going viral: Fears about human trafficking and abduction have become a bigger part of the national conversation in recent years.

But then, 49 hours after she went missing, Russell showed up at the doorstep of her family home. Everyone who'd been following the case had a lot of questions. So, apparently, did the police.

In a news conference on July 19, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis revealed that detectives had been unable to verify many of the things that Russell had told investigators in the brief interview she gave them following her return.

According to Derzis, Russell said that after calling 911, a man emerged from the trees near the highway to say he was checking on the child. She then said the man forced her into a car, and "the next thing she remembers is being in the trailer of an 18-wheeler," said Derzis. Russell said that the man who kidnapped her had orange hair with a bald spot, and that she heard the voice of a woman who was with him but never saw her face.

At one point, she said, she managed to escape from the trailer, but was recaptured and taken to a house where she was forced to undress and be photographed. After being put in another vehicle, Russell said she escaped again, and was able to make it to her home by running through the woods.

Derzis shared some other details that seemed to cast doubt on Russell's story. Video footage showed Russell leaving the spa she worked at the day of her disappearance reportedly concealing a bathrobe, toilet paper, and other items. Those items, as well as the snacks she purchased from Target shortly before her disappearance, were missing, despite her purse and other belongings being left with the vehicle.

Derzis also noted that Russell drove 600 yards while on the phone with 911 saying she was watching the child, and police said they received no other reports of a toddler walking alone. (Video footage on the highway appears to show only one figure, Russell, on the side of the road.) "To think that a toddler, barefoot, that could be 3 or 4 years old, could travel six football fields without getting in the roadway, without crying, it's very hard for me to understand," Derzis said.

Comment: Across much of the Western world drug shortages have been reported since at least the end of last year, and a variety of excuses have been given by officials, from the issue of high demand to the bodies responsible 'forgetting' to order sufficient quantities: Shortage of cold and flu medicines in Canada, occurs alongside shortages in UK and France

Comment: See also:

• Nigel Farage claims his bank accounts have been shut down
• Canada threatens to freeze pro-Trump bank accounts
• Left doesn't just want to censor you on social media. It also wants to close your bank accounts.

Comment: See also:

• Germany needs $1 trillion to achieve 2030 green energy goals - Bloomberg
• German industry to pay 40% more for energy than pre-crisis
• Germany's energy crisis explained
• German officials blame gas shortage on consumers, warn 'people will feel the cost of the energy crisis hard'
• Germany unleashes half-trillion dollar energy bailout in bid to stave off blackouts
• Germany to spend €200 billion in attempt to stabilize soaring energy costs
• German diplomat who mocked Trump at UN suddenly silent as President's 'Russian energy' warning comes true
• Germany's Energy Suicide: An Autopsy

Comment: It's a common phenomena for dogs to adopt the personalities of their masters. What then does this say about the first family?

Comment: Will India defy the IMF? It's likely that other nations will be forced to apply export controls as a variety of other commodities suffer a similar fate; will the IMF really try to enforce control over those nations too?

Will this, as we've seen with the Western sanctions, result in a powerful institution degrading its own status, and the influence of its controller, the US hegemon, in their attempts to exert control over on an increasingly multi-polar world?

ZeroHedge reports on yet another commodity suffering shortages and record prices:

On Monday, orange juice futures rocketed to an all-time high due to global supply concerns among agricultural traders. The citrus greening disease continues to affect Florida and is spreading in Brazil -- both regions are top producers, and a potential production loss from these areas could significantly tighten global supplies.

A new report from Bloomberg shows Brazil's Citrosuco, one of the world's top orange juice producers, has considered declaring a force majeure on supplies to clients after the crop disease and extensive rainfall damaged citrus groves.

Europe has also been suffering issues with crops due to a cool, wet spring - not a scorching summer, as the mainstream media would have us believe.

In a July 17 letter sent to clients and seen by Bloomberg, the company said it was being "severely affected" by greening disease and rain that flooded farms. It added it won't be able to ensure supplies at the volumes and prices previously agreed. Citrosuco confirmed the contents of the letter, which it said was sent as a warning to some clients who had contracts for delivery earlier this year. In a statement to Bloomberg on Monday, the company added the communication was part of specific commercial negotiations.

While the letter stated "supply performance is currently prevented by force majeure, until further notice," the company said it had not taken the actual legal step associated with invoking force majeure, a clause companies usually enforce when an unforeseen event, such as a fire or natural disaster, prevents them from complying with a contract. --Bloomberg

Citrosuco's warning was enough to send orange juice futures in New York above the $3 handle per pound, a new record high.

Data from the US Department of Agriculture and Citrosuco show Brazil exports 80% of its orange juice. Consumers who purchased OJ at US supermarkets have increasingly noticed labels on bottles that read: "Contains orange juice from US and Brazil."

This is because Florida supplies are low and exports from Brazil have soared to new highs.

"The proliferation of disease continues to be great in Florida and the chance of a large comeback in production for the new season is limited," Judy Ganes, president of J. Ganes Consulting, told Bloomberg.

Ganes said, "There are signs that disease is more prevalent in Brazil, too, which is also facing long-term problems with their crops."

Even though egg prices have crashed, breakfast inflation remains elevated for yet another reason.

Egg prices are known to be particularly volatile, but, considering all the egg farm fires and global chicken culls, there's every reason to suspect that egg prices will, ultimately, also soar.

What with the endless food plant fires, the increasingly erratic seasons and extreme weather, the collapse of the grain deal, and especially the West's attack on farmers, it seems it'll only be a matter of time before food costs become exhorbitant and a consumer backlash begins:

• Irish farmers revolt over gov'ts 'green' plan to cull 195,000 cattle, 'retirement scheme' offered to willing farmers
• Meat consumption hits record low in Germany, soaring inflation blamed
• Huge fire at farm kills 50,000 hens, exacerbating New Zealand's egg shortage
• Food prices in Italy soar past twice the rate of inflation
• US to tighten rules on animal welfare claims on meat, poultry packaging