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What Food Shortage? Humanity Is Sacrificing Itself On The Altar Of Corporate Profits And War
WorldNews.com 17 May 2022
Today, as the world produces more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on Earth are hungry. But the hunger of almost 1 billion people is taking place at the same time corporate food producers sell the food, manipulating production and prices which reap enormous profits ... In “Stuffed and Starved,” Raj Patel writes ... .
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Kremlin says Russia will win 'hybrid war' with Ukraine, West
Anadolu Agency 17 May 2022
The Kremlin contended on Tuesday that Russia will win the "hybrid war" with Ukraine and the West, and will achieve all its goals. "We are sure that everything will be fine, and we are sure that we will win, we will achieve all the goals," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the educational marathon conference New Horizons in Moscow ... .
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Ukraine declares 'combat mission' over in Mariupol amid evacuation
CNN 17 May 2022
(CNN)Ukrainian forces have completed their "combat mission" in the besieged city of Mariupol, according to a statement by the country's military ... Hundreds of people were evacuated on Monday from the steel plant, the last holdout in a city that had become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance under relentless Russian bombardment ... Read More ... JUST WATCHED ... .
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Turkey confirms opposition to NATO membership for Sweden, Finland
Al Jazeera 17 May 2022
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed Turkey’s opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, shooting down a proposal by the Nordic countries to send delegations to Ankara to address the matter ... “Neither of the countries have a clear stance against terror organisations,” Erdogan said. “How can we trust them?” ... .
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Mexico disappearances reach record high of 100,000 amid impunity
BBC News 17 May 2022
The number of people reported as disappeared in Mexico is at a record high of 100,000, figures suggest. Government data, which goes back to 1964, shows that almost all the disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his "war on drugs" ... More on this story. Related Topics. Top Stories. Features ... .
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Echoing Trump’s isolationism, some Republicans oppose more aid for Ukraine
The Los Angeles Times 17 May 2022
WASHINGTON — . Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40-billion aid package to Ukraine, in a re-emergence of the Trump-led isolationist wing of the GOP at a crucial moment in Russia’s ongoing assault on its neighbor ... All 11 no votes in the Senate came from GOP members ... “It won’t create a problem — we’ll get the job done.” ... L.A.
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Pro-Israel lobbying group Aipac secretly pouring millions into defeating progressive Democrats
The Guardian 17 May 2022
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Why does Turkey oppose Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership?
Al Jazeera 17 May 2022
Sweden and Finland’s historic bids to become NATO members have hit a roadblock after top Turkish officials took a tough stance against a Nordic expansion of the transatlantic alliance ... All 30 NATO members must unanimously give the green light for the two historically neutral countries to join the alliance ... “How can we trust them?” ... What is next? ... .
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US says it conducted a successful hypersonic weapon test
Al Jazeera 17 May 2022
The United States Air Force says it has conducted a successful test of a hypersonic weapon, which flew at five times the speed of sound. The test was conducted on Saturday off the coast of Southern California when a B-52 bomber released an Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), the Air Force said in a statement on Monday ... .
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US Congress panel to hold first UFO hearings in half a century
Gulf News 17 May 2022
WASHINGTON. Two top US defence intelligence officials were due to testify on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about what the government knows of unidentified flying objects, in the first public congressional hearing concerning UFOs in more than 50 years ... The focus, instead, was on possible implications for US national security and aviation safety ... .
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Dogecoin founder says 95% of cryptocurrencies are ”scam and garbage”
Cryptopolitan 17 May 2022
Billy Marcus, a Dogecoin co-founder, has called 95% of cryptocurrency projects “scams and garbage.” He made this claim in a recentwhere he urged people to change that. the reason why people think crypto is 95% scams and garbage and most crypto people are assholes is because crypto is 95% scams and garbage and most crypto people are assholes.
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'It was terrifying': Amber Heard testifies Johnny Depp hallucinated in collapse of sobriety
The Guardian 17 May 2022photo: AP / Jon Chol Jin
North Korea's Kim faces 'huge dilemma' on aid as virus surges
AOL 17 May 2022
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin, shunning international help and striving instead for domestic strategies to fix his battered economy ... “If he accepts U.S ... Doing nothing, however, could be calamitous ... .
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Bitcoin edges past $30,000 as traders assess stablecoin fallout
Irish Independent 17 May 2022photo: Creative Commons / Albarubescens
Farm machinery exacting heavy toll on soil - study
Yahoo Daily News 17 May 2022
Combine harvesters on a wheat field. Scientists say massive tractors could be damaging up to a fifth of global land used to grow crops. The weight of modern combine harvesters, tractors and other farm machinery risks compacting the soil, leading to flooding and poor harvests, according to researchers in Sweden ... Carbon in soil vulnerable to warming.