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Why are you turning Jo’s site into Pravda Of The Pacific?
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I guess the comment is meant as a Wednesday funny. Much like Baghdad Bob, Maria Zakharova is just doing her best in a difficult job. She might otherwise find herself taking a leap off a tall building.
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It’s newsworthy, especially in the light of the Wuhan Flu and overseas illegal gain of function research funded by America. Russia has many secrets and so has everyone else involved in Ukraine. It’s science. Blended with politics, like all science these days. From pharmaceuticals to Climate Change. Pravda means truth and it would be great to have some. Australians were punished by China for even asking about the origins of the man made pandemic.
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Carrying from end yesterday – new ABC head appointment (#2 – a bit closer to home Hanrahan….?):
So someone who owns a production company already producing for the ABC is appointed to run the ABC. Conflicted somewhat yeah? https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/news/the-role-of-a-lifetime-starts-production-for-abc-2647420/
I’m less worried by the ‘toxic culture’ at 9 than by the obvious financial conflicts: https://theconversation.com/hugh-marks-is-the-new-managing-director-of-the-abc-is-he-the-right-person-for-the-job-246124 (I guess the toxic work culture is the main concern for Aussie journalists hoping for an ABC gig as a future career hop too….)
Also just now thinking that ‘Dreamchaser’ is an odd name for a company producing ‘factual and documentary content’….
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Food Inflation on the Rise –
“Our models do not indicate that food inflation will ease in 2025. In fact, I have repeatedly warned that people may want to stockpile food for the next two years as there will be weather events and supply chain shortages. Our model warns that we may see another severe drought, probably between 2025 to 2027, in both the US and Canada. The drought conditions are already beginning, and this is in line with our model, which warns it will expand into the 2025-2027 period.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon announced last week that he expects persistent high prices at the grocery store. “I don’t know what the whole year is going to look like. I hope and I think it could be better as these commodities adjust — some of them,” he said per GroceryDrive. According to McMillon, he was “disappointed” at where food inflation was currently and cited that eggs and dairy were the main problems.
Food prices shot up during the pandemic and never fully recovered. Then the was in Ukraine hurt Europe’s food supply in a major way. In America, the Food Industry Association conducted a study that revealed food inflation in America rose 25% since the pandemic, and recently rose 1.1% on a monthly basis in November.
We then have those adhering to the climate change agenda reducing farmland and available cattle. They have repeatedly stated that humans simply consume too much meat, and our diets must change to reduce our carbon footprint.
Tariffs are inflationary and always hurt the consumer and have not helped in recent years. Additional tariffs will disrupt the supply chain and cause prices to rise. Obviously this is not limited to Walmart, the grocer who perhaps sells the cheapest goods in mass. Central banks are cheering that inflation has tamed but utterly ignore the persistently high cost of basic necessities like food.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/food-inflation-on-the-rise/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Someone tell Dim Chalmers and Upgrade Albo. The RBA has already worked it out even if other Central Banks haven’t.
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” Our model warns that we may see another severe drought, probably between 2025 to 2027, in both the US and Canada. The drought conditions are already beginning, …”
Our model — whose?
Meanwhile, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center:
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead01/off01_prcp.gif
. . . seems not to confirm “seeing” a severe drought. Further, it is snowing hard on the east slopes of the Washington Cascades — a somewhat rare event.
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