INDIA - Rice is one of the most important staple foods for more than 3 billion people around the world, and the nation of India accounts for approximately 40 percent of all global rice exports. So if India decides to start placing restrictions on rice exports, that is a really big deal. Unfortunately, that is precisely what just happened on July 20th. Less than a week ago, India “banned the export of non-basmati white rice”, and that has created a tremendous wave of panic all over the planet… The Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry on July 20 banned the export of non-basmati white rice, with immediate effect, to stabilise the volatile retail prices in the country. Rice production has taken a hit owing to vagaries of weather such as heavy monsoon rains in rice-producing States in the north and deficit rainfall in other parts of the country. Non-basmati rice is by far the most common rice used in Asian and Mexican cuisine.

RUSSIA - Most people that live in the western world don’t realize that global hunger has been absolutely exploding and has now become a major worldwide issue. According to the UN, 2.4 billion people do not have enough food to eat on a consistent basis, and 900 million of them are facing severe food insecurity. Unfortunately, things are about to get a whole lot worse. The deal between Russia and Ukraine that had allowed so much grain to be shipped through the Black Sea has completely broken down, and now both sides are threatening to attack any transport ships that come through the area. Since it was implemented, nearly 34 million tons of grain has been shipped out to the rest of the world. But now the deal is over. On July 17th, the Russians announced that they were pulling out, and then on Thursday they warned that any ships sailing to Ukrainian ports “will be regarded as potential carriers of military cargo”…

USA - The Biden administration has sunk billions of taxpayer dollars into “renewable” energy, but a new report won’t surprise Americans who’ve read any honest research on solar panels. It reveals that the panels are nearly as carbon-intensive as natural gas. Not only that, investment in solar benefits America’s number one enemy: China. The research, published as “Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims,” was conducted in collaboration with Environmental Progress and The Blind Spot. Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act funneled billions of Americans’ tax dollars to renewables last year as part of “Build Back Better.” The lesson? The Biden administration shouldn’t be investing tax dollars in solar panels. They’re unreliable and far more carbon intensive than many like to admit. And investment in solar panels inevitably ends up benefiting the Chinese Communist Party.

EUROPE - Running through all the hysterical reporting has been the outrageous use of fake estimates and statistics. Mainstream media were full of reports last week that temperatures would hit 48°C in southern Europe, a steer that seems to have come from the European Space Agency (ESA). It said that many countries were facing a major heatwave including Germany and Poland, while air temperatures were expected to climb to 48°C in Sicily and Sardinia – “potentially the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe”. The temperature in Sicily never went above 35°C, according to the Time and Date website that reports past weather from around the world.

UNITED NATIONS - The World Economic Forum held the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings towards the end of September 2022, convening at the same time as the United Nations General Assembly. In those meetings, UN officials declared that they apparently “own the science”. They also admitted to; among other things – Partnering with Google to censor search results that don’t fit the official narrative and ensure their propaganda is top of the list in relation to things such as ‘Covid-19’ and ‘Climate Change’ in order to shape public opinion.

GERMANY - Support for the far-right Alternative for Germany climbed to a record, widening its lead over all three parties in Chancellor ’s ruling coalition. In the latest sign of voter frustration with the government, support for the AfD — as the party is widely known — increased to 22%, trailing only the conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc at 26%, according to a poll conducted for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper by INSA. The AfD’s advances in recent months have been fueled by discontent over issues ranging from record immigration, persistently high inflation and costly climate-protection measures. Coalition infighting, including a drawn-out feud over measures to shift household heating away from fossil fuels, has further irritated voters. The INSA poll said 70% were dissatisfied with the government and 60% were unhappy with Scholz’s performance as chancellor.

HUNGARY - The world is facing the biggest power shift in decades, with the US poised to lose its leading position to China, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday. This could result in a major conflict between Washington and Beijing unless the US accepts that it cannot be the “winner” forever, he warned. “[China] has become a manufacturing powerhouse and is now overtaking America,” Orban said in his annual speech in the town of Baile Tusnad in Romania’s Eastern Transylvania. In just 30 years, China has undergone the industrial revolution that took the West around three centuries, the Hungarian prime minister said, adding that America is about to say ‘goodbye’ to its status as the world’s only superpower.

UK - Married couples are far more likely than unmarried ones to still be together by the time their children reach teenage years, a report has found. Analysis of a long-running survey of British children born at the turn of the millennium uncovered a 'depressing picture' of family breakdown, researchers said. By the time they turned 14, almost half (46 per cent) of first-born children no longer lived with both their mother and father, the Marriage Foundation think-tank found. This comprised 19 per cent of teenagers born to single parents, 14 per cent whose parents had divorced and another 13 per cent whose parents had split up. But among the 54 per cent still in a stable household, a stark divide emerged. The overwhelming majority (84 per cent) of parents who were still together were married, while just 16 per cent were unmarried, data from the Millennium Cohort Study which followed 18,000 families showed.

UK - Nick Miller paints a disturbing picture of the state of race relations in British schools. 'The 'anti-racism' movement started off very small and no one heard about it for a couple of years,' he told the Mail this week. 'But now they've upped the ante. If they start offering classes to black children only, then soon we could be looking at black-only days out, black-only lunch sittings or white children standing up in class to admit their 'guilt'. All of this stuff is already happening in the US, Australia and Canada — and that's what we're heading for.' Racial segregation in British schools might sound unthinkable. Yet as Mr Miller knows, it has already begun.

USA - Trans surgery nightmares revealed: 81% endure pain in the five years after gender-change procedures. One of the first studies into the side effects of transgender surgeries has revealed alarmingly high rates of post-op pain, aching during intercourse, and bladder problems, raising troubling questions for this new frontier of medicine. A huge majority - 81 percent - of those who had surgery on their genitals in the past five years said they endured pain simply from moving around in the weeks and months after going under the knife. Researchers from the University of Florida and Brooks Rehabilitation, a health non-profit, showed that more than half of trans surgery patients endured pain during sex, and nearly a third could not control their bladders.

USA - Many people know that more than 70% of the Earth’s surface is water. That’s 326 million trillion gallons of water, yet humanity still faces a tight supply. Why is that? It’s because 97% of this water is saline and unfit for consumption. Of the remaining 3% of freshwater, about two-thirds are locked away in the form of snow, glaciers, and polar ice caps. Meanwhile, just under a third of freshwater is found in fast-depleting groundwater resources. That leaves just 1% of global freshwater as “easily” sourced supply from rainfall as well as freshwater reservoirs including rivers and lakes.

USA - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) hints that countries will soon be able to repay debt using Chinese YUAN currency. Following Argentina’s recent debt repayment in the Chinese yuan, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has hinted that it may soon accept the yuan from all countries that need to settle their debt obligations.

USA - The United States Air Force is investigating a company that's purchased $800 million of land near Travis Air Force Base, one of the most critical military bases in the US. But after eight months of investigation, government officials have been unable to identify who's behind it nor rule out any threat to national security. "We're very, very concerned about this," said Representative John Garamendi, a Democrat who represents portions of the Bay Area. "It's so extensive and so secret and it's impossible to get any information about what's happening here." Congressman Garamendi raised the alarm to the US Air Force - prompting a federal investigation.

UK - Hurrah for former Bank of England chief Mervyn King, who has condemned the ‘Left-wing’ policy on inflation of his successors. The collapse in the value of money is quite obviously the result of the mad spending of mountains of non-existent cash during the Covid Panic. Once this had happened, our wages and savings were simply bound to shrivel. That is why I warned against it at the time, for all the good that did. Inflation is described as prices going up, but it is not. It is money shrinking. It has happened.

USA - A disturbing new report has revealed that math scores have now plunged to their lowest-ever levels. The latest data reveals that math test scores for 13-year-old students saw the largest drop ever recorded in 50 years of testing. Between 2020 and 2023, 13-year-old students’ math scores dropped nine points, according to test data from the National Center for Education Statistics, better known as the “Nation’s Report Card.” The same students’ reading scores, meanwhile, dropped four points. The latest set of data demonstrates the learning loss students have suffered as a result of education disruptions, such as school closures during the Covid pandemic.