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Dollar Tree ditches egg sales until 'later' this year due to soaring prices

Jessica DiNapoli
The Daily Mail
Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:28 UTC
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Dollar Tree Inc has stopped selling eggs in its Dollar Tree stores, a spokesperson for the U.S. retailer confirmed late Tuesday, as the staple food has skyrocketed in price by as much as 60% during the fall.

The chain, which is increasingly a go-to grocery destination for cash strapped shoppers, has roughly 8,000 Dollar Tree stores across the United States and Canada. Its spokesperson said it does not anticipate being able to bring eggs back into its stores for sale until later this fall.

Egg prices hit record highs of close to an average of $5 a dozen in January, according to economic data, due to a global outbreak of the avian flu. In consumer pricing data released by the government Tuesday, egg prices fell 6.7% in February.

Comment: Fearmongering to keep the dependence going:

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Buffoonish virtue-signal: Newark officials signed diversity-inspired partnership with FAKE COUNTRY led by Indian cult leader

Ronny Reyes
New York Post
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:48 UTC
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© YouTube/TAPinto NewarkNewark officials partnered with the Hindu nation of the United States of Kailasa. But six days after signing the agreement, the nation appeared to be nonexistent.
"Jesus Newark, how can an entire city get catfished?" The Daily Show's Kal Penn said.

It's a textbook case of an overseas scam — except the victim was an American city.

Officials in Newark, New Jersey, were initially thrilled to partner with the Hindu nation of the United States of Kailasa.

The only problem? The country doesn't exist.

After hosting "delegates" from the made-up country at a formal ceremony in January, City Hall has admitted that the whole thing was a scam led by notorious Indian fugitive Swami Nithyananda.

Comment: The Post Millennial adds:
A City Hall spokesperson stated afterward, "Although this was a regrettable incident, the city of Newark remains committed to partnering with people from diverse cultures in order to enrich each other with connectivity, support, and mutual respect."

Since the news broke, officials have been slammed by everyone from citizens, to pundits, to late-night TV show hosts.

"Jesus Newark, how can an entire city get catfished?" The Daily Show's Kal Penn quipped. "Not a single person realized they'd never heard of this country before? Not on a globe, not at the Olympics? ... There must have been so many red flags, the biggest one being that anyone wanted to be sister cities with Newark!"

Fox News' Jesse Watters questioned why nobody had bothered to do any research on the alleged nation beforehand, adding that delegates from Kailasa had managed to dupe the United Nations as well, sneaking into a meeting in Geneva in February.

According to BBC, a UN official told the delegates that their submissions were "irrelevant" and "intangible" to the issues being discussed, and would ignore the statements made to two Geneva public meetings.


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Nuke

Thousands of pounds of uranium go missing in African nation: UN nuclear watchdog UPDATE

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
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The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report this week that 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a site in Libya that is not controlled by the government.

Reuters reported that the U.N. nuclear watchdog informed member states of the news this week, according to documents viewed by the publication.

A statement from IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said:
"The inspection was supposed to happen last year, but had to be postponed because of the security situation in the region. Investigators found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium in the form of UOC (uranium ore concentrate) previously declared by (Libya) ... as being stored at that location were not present at the location. The loss of knowledge about the present location of nuclear material may present a radiological risk, as well as nuclear security concerns."
Officials said that investigations were already underway to locate the missing nuclear materials. The name and location of the site were not revealed, although officials said that getting to it required "complex logistics."

Comment: UPDATE: 16 March 2023 Over 2 tons of 'missing uranium found in Libya:
More than 2 tons of missing radioactive uranium have been found near a warehouse in southern Libya after its disappearance sparked nuclear safety concerns, according to military officials.

Khaled Mahjoub, a spokesperson for the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), said in a statement Thursday that the 10 barrels had been recovered, though a video he shared showed workers counting 18 containers.

Some of the blue-painted drums in the video displayed what appeared to be batch numbers. However, the footage did not show the barrels being opened.

According to the IAEA, the facility is located in an area that is not under the control of the Government of National Unity in Tripoli and requires "complex logistics" to reach it.

Mahjoub said the site was a warehouse near the border with Chad that the IAEA last visited in 2020 and sealed with red wax. The barrels were discovered abandoned about 3 miles from the storage facility.

He speculated that a group of separatist fighters from Chad had raided the warehouse and stolen the barrels, hoping they might contain weapons or ammunition, but had subsequently ditched them.

The IAEA said it was aware of media reports that the uranium has been found and was working to verify them. The UN agency earlier warned that the missing uranium could pose a nuclear security threat.

Although natural uranium ore cannot immediately be used to make a nuclear bomb, a group armed with expertise and the needed equipment, including centrifuges, could refine each ton of the material to 12 pounds of weapons-grade uranium.


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Manhunt launched for helicopter thief who crashed $7.5m aircraft in nighttime raid on private airbase in Sacramento

Kamal Sultan
Daily Mail
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:25 UTC
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A manhunt is underway for a thief who crashed a $7.5million helicopter after his attempts to start four others failed in a private Sacramento airbase.
A manhunt is underway for a thief who crashed a $7.5million helicopter after his attempts to start four others failed at a private Sacramento airbase.

The suspect broke into Sacramento Executive Airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning with the intention of stealing an aircraft.

He tried to start four different helicopters before he got into a fifth and managed to turn the engine on but he failed to get it airborne and crashed on the tarmac damaging multiple other choppers.
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Stock Down

UK Budget 2023: Living standards to suffer biggest fall since records began

Ned Simons
Yahoo! Finance
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:46 UTC
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People will be hit with the biggest fall in living standards since records began following Jeremy Hunt's Budget, which handed a huge tax cut to the rich.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said on Wednesday household disposable income would fall by 5.7% over the two financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24.

While this is 1.4% less than forecast in November, the watchdog said it would still be the largest two-year fall since records began in 1956-57.
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Fire

French protests: Violence erupts in Paris as police clash with protesters at Place de la Concorde

Niamh Lynch
Sky News
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:16 UTC
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Protesters are angry about President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill through parliament to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote.

Police have clashed again with protesters angry at the French government's plans to raise the country's retirement age.

Protestors lit a fire and gathered in the Place de la Concorde, near the National Assembly building in Paris where they faced a line of riot police.

Images of tear gas being used by police to deal with the crowds was broadcast by Reuters TV, while other protesters were heard chanting "Macron, resign".

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Fire

Fire engulfs security service building in major Russian city


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:56 UTC
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An FSB border-guard service facility in Rostov-on-Don became engulfed in flames, reportedly killing one person.

A huge fire has broken out in the building of the Russian Federal Security Service's (FSB) border guard in the port city of Rostov-on-Don. Clouds of thick black smoke could be seen billowing from the city center on Thursday morning, as residents published video footage of the blaze on social media.

Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev has released a statement confirming that the fire started in the utility rooms of the FSB facility. He added that it is currently believed that the cause was a short-circuit in electrical wiring inside the building, the fire from which then spread to containers with fuel and lubricants, causing a series of explosions.

Comment: Whole lot of large scale fires in Russia in the news as of late...

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When is a crime not a crime?

Toby Young
The Spectator
Sat, 18 Mar 2023 06:20 UTC
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On Monday, Suella Braverman published draft guidance designed to rein in the police habit of recording a 'non-crime hate incident' (NCHI) against a person's name whenever someone accuses them of doing something politically incorrect. You may think I'm exaggerating, but in 2017 an NCHI was recorded against Amber Rudd, then the home secretary, after an Oxford professor complained about her references to 'migrant workers' in a Tory party conference speech. NCHIs can show up on an enhanced criminal record check even though, by definition, the person hasn't committed a crime.

The concept first surfaced in guidance published by the College of Policing in 2014 and within five years 119,934 non-crime hate incidents had been recorded by 34 police forces in England and Wales, according to FoI requests submitted by the Telegraph. Nine police forces didn't respond, but if we assume they were logging NCHIs on the same scale, it's likely that more than a quarter of a million have been recorded to date. Little wonder the police won't send anyone round to your house if you report a burglary. They're too busy investigating people accused of wrongthink.

So this new guidance - in reality, a statutory code of practice that requires the approval of both houses of parliament - is long overdue. Free-speech campaigners like me have been lobbying Conservative home secretaries about NCHIs for years, not least because they're used as a weapon by political activists and religious zealots to silence their critics. A carefully worded complaint accusing your antagonist of being motivated by 'hostility' towards you on the basis of a 'protected' characteristic, e.g. your race, religion or sexual orientation, will result in a summons to the local police station. But Suella, God bless her, is the first one to sit up and listen. She recognises that meting out this punishment to anyone who challenges woke dogma is having a chilling effect. 'We need a common sense approach that better protects freedom of speech,' she wrote in the Times.
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Tournament axed after Russian inclusion


RT
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:55 UTC
Michele Gallo
© Getty Images / Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMichele Gallo , Krzysztof Kaczkowski during Sabre de Wolodyjowski World Cup in Warsaw, Poland on February 11, 2023
A tournament under the jurisdiction of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) scheduled for Germany in May has been canceled after the federation voted to allow the inclusion of competitors from Russia and Belarus.

Sportspeople from both countries have been banned from taking part in many major sporting events for the past year, following advice issued by the International Olympic Committee soon after the launch of Russia's military action in Ukraine in February 2022. The directive was subsequently adopted by various other sporting federations, resulting in the blacklisting of Russia and Belarus from several sports.

The FIE, however, voted in favor last week of reinstating Russian and Belarusians to its events, with the upcoming event in Germany being among the first major tournaments at which they would have been eligible to compete.

However, Germany's Deutscher Fechter Bund (DFB) President Claudia Bokel, said the FIE vote had "triggered heated discussions both internally and externally" which, coupled with widespread travel restrictions imposed by several European countries - particularly Germany - led the DFB Executive Committee to state that the May tournament would be impossible to hold under the conditions set out by the FIE.

Comment: The petty and immature 'ban Russia from sports' has been going on since 2016.

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Joe Rogan praises Founding Fathers for building a 'f----ing superior' system to prevent tyranny and censorship

Alexander Hall
Fox News
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 02:07 UTC
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Podcast host Joe Rogan speaks to his guest on a recent episode of his show.
Joe Rogan warned that while America's freedom is being chipped away at, it is still ultimately far freer than any other country on Earth.

Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan spoke on his show about how America was built by the Founding Fathers specifically to battle against tyranny slowly eating away at its freedoms.

"The way this country is run, it's not perfect, the way this country is run is so f----ing superior to any system that is anywhere else in the world because of the checks and balances that were put in place by the Founding Fathers," Rogan said. "They knew that tyranny is a natural course of progression for human nature."

Rogan warned that when tyrants, whether foreign or domestic, do get power, they use it in sinister ways to silence opposition.

"Look at what they try to do, look at what people try to do to stop criticism on Twitter, they f----ing send the FBI to Twitter to try to remove people from Twitter because they're saying things that interferes with the way they govern," Rogan observed. "All that s--- is natural and the Founding Fathers were the only people that put together a system to mitigate that."
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