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Tomato shortage emerges in drought-stricken Californian as ketchup prices soar

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:20 UTC
california drought map
Days ago, we said the next food insecurity problem that may impact Americans' eating habits could be an emerging potato shortage. Now there appears to be another issue: Tomatoes are getting squeezed, and risks of a ketchup shortage rise as a severe drought batter California's farmland.

California accounts for a quarter of the world's tomato output. The worst drought in 1,200 years has forced farmers to abandon fields as crops turn to dust amid a water crisis.

Comment: This is only the beginning of the shortages we're about to see around the world. While asking Americans to go without ketchup is like asking other humans to go without water, wait until true essentials start running out.

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UCLA creates database to 'track attacks on critical race theory'

Carol Cassis
The Epoch Times
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
latinos against crt
© John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesA woman holds a sign against critical race theory in Los Alamitos, Calif., on May 11, 2021.
Faculty at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law have created a database to identify and record efforts to block critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools across the country.

The database, called the CRT Forward Tracking Project, allows users to "track attacks on critical race theory" and filter the information as part of an effort to "support anti-racist education, training and research," according to the school.

The project was created by UCLA's Critical Race Studies Program, founded in 2000 as the first law school program in the nation dedicated to critical race theory.

Comment: This sounds a lot like a tool for activists to know where to target their attacks. What reason would their be to catalogue places where CRT is being rejected than to mobilize people to fight back?

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Ukraine issues new ban on Russian language


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:44 UTC
Teacher and students in a classroom
© Pierre Crom / Getty Images
Kiev has removed a range of courses from the national school curriculum.

Russian language and literature courses will no longer be taught in Ukraine, according to an updated curriculum posted by the Ministry of Education on its website on Tuesday.

Among the courses excluded were 'Russian and Foreign Literature', 'Russian language for general educational institutions with instruction in Russian' for grades 5-9, and instruction in Ukrainian or Russian for grades 10-11.

While nearly all Russian and Belarusian books will be dropped from the school program, the ministry notes that it will allow some works by authors who wrote in Russian but whose "life and work were closely connected with Ukraine," such as Nikolay Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov.

According to the updated curriculum, foreign literature courses in Ukrainian schools will now focus on works by writers such as Jean de La Fontaine, O. Henry, Anna Gavalda, and Joseph Roth.

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Fire at London Bridge forces closure of railway tracks


BBC
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 23:06 UTC
london fire 2022
© Network Rail Kent & SussexLondon Fire Brigade has asked residents to keep doors and windows shut due to the heavy smoke
Train services have been disrupted and several buildings were evacuated after a fire broke out near London Bridge.

More than 70 firefighters tackled the blaze in a railway arch on Union Street, Southwark.

London Fire Brigade said a garage in the arch which contained vehicles had been destroyed along with another unit.

Four rail lines and the Jubilee line were closed for safety reasons. Network Rail said they have all reopened but warned train delays would continue.

Comment: In June 2021 there was a huge explosion & fire underneath London's Elephant and Castle tube station.

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Putin advises on tackling alcoholism in Russia - prohibition is not the way


RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:17 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Pável ByrkinVladímir Putin, President of Russia
Hard or soft prohibition is not the way to help people with a drink problem kick the habit, the Russian president says

The government should promote healthy alternatives to excessive alcohol consumption rather than adopting restrictive policies, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

"You cannot prohibit it or impose excessively high excise duties to ramp up the prices," the Russian leader said during video meeting with a Russian governor on Wednesday, adding that ignoring the problem and saying "people drink and they always will" is also the wrong approach.

There are "simple things" that can be done to deal with the issue effectively, Putin suggested, including promoting better lifestyles and offering healthier alternative ways for people to spend their free time.

Comment: Breaking against stereotype, Russians under Putin are drinking less and living healthier lives

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Former Moscow nightclub king found dead in US


RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:09 UTC
millionaire dan rappaport dead
© FacebookDan Rapoport, millionaire founder of Moscow's SOHO Club was found dead in Washington, DC
Wife of millionaire Dan Rapoport confirms the death of the financier who founded the prestigious SOHO Rooms nightclub

Latvian-born millionaire Dan Rapoport, known for founding Moscow's exclusive SOHO Rooms nightclub, has been found dead in Washington DC, his wife Alena confirmed on Wednesday.

While she did not provide any details of his death, she denied earlier reports that the 52-year-old businessman had committed suicide.

On Tuesday, journalist Yuniya Pugacheva announced on her Telegram channel that Rapoport had killed himself, but not before apparently letting his dog out into a park along with some money and a suicide note attached. The journalist also claimed she had seen Rapoport in a London bar in May surrounded by young women and suggested that his wife had left him.
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After initially blaming Palestinians, Israel admits to airstrike that killed 5 children in Gaza

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
dead children
© Middle East EyeGaza children killed August 7, 2022
The Israeli army has admitted to conducting the airstrike that killed five Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip earlier this month, after initially blaming their deaths on a misfire from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.

The airstrike occurred on August 7th, the last day of a three-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, dubbed by the Israeli military as "Operation Breaking Dawn."

The strike targeted the al-Faluja cemetery in the town of Jabalia, and struck five children while they were visiting the grave of their grandfather. The youngest victim of the strike was just three-years-old.

Nathmi Karsh, 15, Hamed Nejm, 16, Mohammad Nejm, 16, Jamil Ihab Nejm, 13, and Jamil Najim al-Din Nejm, 3, were all killed in the strike. The Nejm boys were all cousins, and Nathmi Karsh was their close family friend and neighbor.

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Border crisis hits home in DC, so Mayor Bowser finally cares

Chad Wolf
Fox News
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:00 UTC
Bowser
© Reuters/Brian SnyderWashington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
For the past 18 months, our nation has experienced a historic crisis at the southern border fueled by the Biden administration's immigration policies allowing millions of illegal aliens into the country. Texas and Arizona are ground zero for this border crisis and, over the past 17 months, have been pleading with the federal government to address the record number of illegal aliens and amounts of deadly fentanyl flooding into their communities.

The federal government's response has been derelict. President Joe Biden and his supposed border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have refused to visit the border. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues a deliberate disinformation campaign by stating that the "border is closed, the border is secure." Apparently, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser didn't get the party line memo, as even she recently begged the Department of Defense to deploy the National Guard to address the "humanitarian crisis" in her city and her insistence that D.C. taxpayers not foot the bill.

I offer my congratulations to the first big city mayor to finally recognize that the disaster at the border does not end at the border states, and I say — "welcome to the fight." But it raises a larger question — where has the mayor of the nation's capital and other big city mayors been on this issue the last year and a half?

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More illegal immigrants en route from Texas to Muriel Bowser's D.C.

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UK to launch 'emergency alert system', may also include public health and terror attack warnings

Tom Symonds
BBC
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:39 UTC
house fire uk
© PAThe alerts could have been used during the 2022 summer heatwaves which saw these homes on the outskirts of London destroyed in wildfires
An emergency warning system, allowing alerts about severe weather and other life-threatening events to be sent to mobile phones, will go live in October in England, Scotland and Wales.

The Cabinet Office says the technology will alert up to 85% of the population.

The messages will be sent automatically to any smartphone which is switched on, although it is possible to opt out by changing a mobile phone setting.

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Finland to sharply cut Russian tourist visas amid outcry over Ukraine war


RFE/RL
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto
© BelapanFinnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Russian tourist visas would be cut to 10 percent of current volumes as of September 1.
Finland said it will cut the number of Russian tourist visas it issues by 90 percent due to rising discontent over the war in Ukraine.

The decision, announced on August 16 by Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, is the latest in a series of moves by the country in direct response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking to reporters in Helsinki, Haavisto said Russian tourist visas would be cut to 10 percent of current volumes as of September 1.

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