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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/uneasy-india-pakistan-ceasefire-holds-but-is-a-return-to-war-inevitable

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" Last week, Israel targeted two of the largest medical facilities in Khan Younis, the Nasser medical complex and the European hospital, among the few that remained operational after 18 months of devastating attacks on Gaza's healthcare system.

The most recent assault on the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza left the hospital reportedly under siege, with Gaza's health ministry accusing Israeli forces of "effectively forcing the hospital out of service". Israel's military also declared an entire city a combat zone and launched airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians over the weekend. "

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/tuesday-briefing-what-israels-new-aid-response-of-basic-food-will-and-wont-deliver

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Local weather's

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/19/dry-spring-weather-rain--europe

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USA, free schools, universities and education, not that they seem to like it that much, just the privileged few.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-terminates-60-million-harvard-grants-over-alleged-antisemitism-2025-05-20/

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Well, the same trend in Sweden.

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What the cost is?

Ignorance

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"By burning more crude, the OPEC kingpin could ease some concerns over global oversupply after OPEC+, which includes the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies such as Russia, agreed to increase production by nearly 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, May and June."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-poised-increase-summer-crude-burn-power-fuel-oil-becomes-costly-2025-05-20/

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The price of it

https://apnews.com/article/russia-amnesty-international-3e6c3d50042b2b27cdd5f20eebafe70c

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At the American wheel


https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c1842c22a9e322a0863ca9a6684d3d47

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Where you put your money

https://apnews.com/article/britain-gold-toilet-theft-court-trial-sentence-3a3955da078af343596606e07addc305

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Hmm, how about asking where those money went?

" In any case, we're left with a bit of a mystery. The only macro trend that lines up very neatly with the great wage stagnation of 1973-1994 is the productivity slowdown, but there's no good theory explaining how that could explain all of the wage stagnation, since productivity rose more than wages. "

And where the union's went?

Here in Sweden we apparently have a (three month?) rotating team of Irish and American work and planning teams leading Micro$ofts new investments up North. And no unions allowed inside it. Same with Tesla. And those 'rotations' doesn't work either, doing it by tax reasons it seems.

https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/the-statistical-truth-about-american-stagnation/

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It's not Microsoft and it's not Tesla allowing it

It's our government

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Same as with oil and gas. How hard can it be for you to understand what I'm stating?

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If you now want to put the blame where it lies. Put it on your governments, but don't forget to ask yourself if you're ready for it.


The truth

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I look at it this way. What worked before does not work today, including common 'wisdom' and experience. With a game lifting up people honed by it, winners all, Politically, ideologically, beliefs and experience. Becoming the last ones willing to change anything about the game rewarding them.

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And being the ones to 'lead' us.

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Cynically expressed

Pavlov's dogs, leading the rest of us lemmings over the cliff

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Here in Sweden we've had the worst crop situation in 30 years, so it made me wonder.

What does USDA say?


World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
 May 12, 2025

" The global wheat outlook for 2025/26 is for larger supplies, increased consumption and trade, and slightly higher stocks. Supplies are projected to rise 4.9 million tons to 1,073.7 million with production projected at a record 808.5 million tons, more than offsetting lower carry-in stocks. Increased output for the EU, India, the United Kingdom, China, Argentina, Russia, and Canada is expected to more than offset reductions for Kazakhstan, Australia, Pakistan, and the United States. "

that's about wheat, but the report on different crops seems on the whole pretty optimistic

https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/3t945q76s/1r66m015q/ws85cd79j/wasde0525v2.pdf

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So how does it look

China   

https://ukragroconsult.com/en/news/china-warns-of-extreme-heat-threatening-wheat-crops-in-key-growing-regions/

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/heavy-rains-kill-5-chinas-south-authorities-issue-disaster-alerts-2025-05-19/

Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/3546/

Argentina

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/severe-floods-hit-argentina-farm-region-thousands-evacuate-2025-05-17/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/argentina-s-soy-farmers-race-ahead-with-harvest-to-beat-the-rains/ar-AA1ERcwc

The UK 

https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/rural/unprecedented-damage-in-parts-of-scotland-after-floods/

2024 https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/arable/england-suffers-second-worst-harvest-on-record/

Russia 

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/weather-set-hit-harvest-russias-largest-grain-region-2025-05-20/


and globally

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/05/global-crop-yields-climate-change-research

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You know

Weather, not averages