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All this prompted some countries to start talking about looking for alternatives to the Suez Canal, and many transportation companies that carry goods between Europe and Asia have already begun to seriously review some of them. Objectively, one of the most interesting options is the route that lies through Russia: This means either the Northern Sea Route (NSR) or the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway. Much has already been said about the prospects held by the NSR: the polar ice is rapidly melting, vast bodies of water are swiftly becoming freed up, and the distance between Europe and Asia is significantly shrinking. 

But the real question is whether something is going to change in the Cuban system. The US is very hopeful of it as Washington is anticipating a moral decline for the Cuban revolution.

Josep Borrell, EU's chief diplomat, was "forced" to speak positively about the Russian vaccine at the time when Moscow "demonstrated disrespect" and expelled EU diplomats from Russia. In the second episode, another EU official was "forced" to say positive words about a "reset in relations" against the background of an act of blatant gender inequality in relation to Ursula von der Leyen.

... Furthermore, who would have thought that, through a driven, clever, peculiar and extraordinary sequence of events, an inevitable combination of instinct of self-preservation, desire, weakness and assuefaction to unchallenged ideas propounded by authorities, would become the instrument and the engine for establishing a new world order – what everyone now glibly calls ‘The Great Reset.’One year ago that notion would brand its holder as a conspiracy theorist. One of many who pry into the world of conjectures, and amuse themselves with phantoms in the clouds. ...

In these times of coronavirus pandemic, we have been told that our mental health can suffer as a result of all the restrictions imposed on our personal freedom. Further, we have been encouraged to do as much as we can to take care of our mental wellbeing. We have been informed that our mental wellbeing has a direct effect on our physical wellbeing, which is, of course, true. In this regard, we have been urged to go for regular walks and have video calls with our families and friends instead of the face-to-face interactions we would normally have with them. ...

Various fighters against “domestic extremism” from the U.S. intelligence community, as well as representatives of major cable TV providers will be invited to the hearings. The latter have already been put in the position of a kind of “defendant” beforehand. - The Globist News

Using the conditions of the most recent coronavirus lockdown, the German government’s agriculture minister has made a stealth decision, without open debate, to re-instate a banned class of systemic insecticides known as neonicotinoids. The German move ...

In the struggle for supremacy in world trade, the battle for major seaports flares up. According to the Italian publication Formiche, the German state-owned company HHLA (Hamburger Hafen und Logistik) from Hamburg acquired a controlling stake in the multifunctional terminal in the Trieste port. Trieste will become a trade important geopolitical center on China's new Silk Road.

“It appears from evidence in the Bureau of Military Justice that the … murder of … Abraham Lincoln … [was] incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jefferson Davis, late of Richmond, Va., and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, [Nathaniel] Beverly Tucker, George N. Sanders, William C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against the government of the United States harbored in Canada.”

“With the unsolicited millions of ballots that they’re sending, it’s a scam; it’s a hoax. Everybody knows that. And the Democrats know it better than anybody else. So you’re going to need nine justices up there. I think it’s going to be very important. Because what they’re doing is a hoax, with the ballots.”

FAO’s concern is justified. Vietnam, one of the top three rice

He predicted the Tiananmen Square events, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the terror attacks on September 11. I wrote about several forecasts about the End of America, as well as astrologers, psychics and scientists do. The End of the USA covers a wide range of scenarios - from the scenario of its destruction by a worldwide inundation or by an eruption of a supervolcano in the Yellowstone national park to the scenario of its collapse with the fall of the Pax Americana. Prognosticators usually determine dates with precision and there is one forecast for the year 2020. Its prognosticator is Johan Vincent Galtung, a well-known Norwegian professor and sociologist, who turns 90 years old this year. His name has become widely popular for more than 60 years ago, when he founded  ... 

The Lithuanian farmer’s situation in the sanctions war context with Russia is becoming increasingly deplorable. Farmers complain about their products low purchase prices and the agricultural land cheapening, Europe refuses to compensate their drought losses, and President Gitanas Nauseda is going to deprive their benefits in order to get

Emissions of greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the climate, whereas small airborne particles in the atmosphere, aerosols, act as a cooling mechanism. That is the received wisdom in any case. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden can now show that the tiniest aerosols are increasing at the expense of the normal sized and slightly larger aerosols – and it is only the latter that have a cooling effect.

For a while, all the guns have fallen silent. I am near Idlib, the last stronghold of the terrorists in Syria. The area where the deadliest anti-government fighters, most of them injected into Syria from Turkey, with Saudi, Qatari and Western ‘help’, are literally holed up, ready for the final showdown