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Global food prices rise after Russia ends grain deal and India restricts rice exports

Japan will blame again to external source for daily items price increase.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/11/business/economy-business/japan-price-hikes-inflation-survey/

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To hear the comments here prior to this it sounded like wheat prices were gonna double or triple, not just go up a paltry 1.6%.

nobody is starving to death over that.

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Glad I get my rice from a local farmer and have prepaid for a year.

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Russia can do the right thing and stop firing on grain ships and silos.

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More expensive rice “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swath of the world population, especially those that are most poor and who dedicate a larger share of their incomes to purchase food,” the organization said in a statement.

Expecting Russia to do the right thing? Not likely.

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Of course, the American blocking of Russian grain and fertilizer has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with this.

Nor the American backed ABSOLUTELY NOT A COUP that overthrew the last democratically elected government a united and peaceful Ukraine had.

Nope it is all ENTIRELY the fault of people refusing to let America dictate what happens.

As numerous posters and America's Spin Masters tell us with a frequency and intensity PJB and the short Austrian didn't even fantasize about matching.

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That’s a big change from Russia gonna cause all of Africa starve to death.

they just not doing the “right thing” in the left’s opinion.

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RichardPearce

Of course, the American blocking of Russian grain and fertilizer has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with this.

Lies. America is absolutely not blocking Russian grain and fertilizer. In fact, Russia had a record year selling grain. Why do you lie about this?

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Blacklabel

That’s a big change from Russia gonna cause all of Africa starve to death.

And yet:

Disrupted supplies from the two countries exacerbated a global food crisis because they're leading suppliers of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other affordable food products, especially to nations in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia where millions are struggling with hunger

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I can get food 75 percent off at Big Lots,if it a week near expiration

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World Hunger, brought to you by a cold and uncaring Russia.

They make war because they like to!

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Biden to the world 'Demand Russia stop protecting Ukrainians from the Kyiv regime and let it ship most of its grain to Europe'.

Africa's governments to Biden 'Stop making it hard for us to buy Russia's fertilizer and grain so we can feed ourselves'.

Guess which message gets a story in JT.

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RichardPearce

Demand Russia stop protecting Ukrainians from the Kyiv regime

What are you talking about???

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World Hunger, brought to you by a cold and uncaring Russia.

yeah the African continent in particular has been historically known as being prosperous and well fed until Russia made this decision a few weeks ago.

damn Russians how dare they stave the world!

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Blacklabel

damn Russians how dare they stave the world!

Indeed.

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What are you talking about???

The mental gymnastics of Putin's propaganda pushers...

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Blacklabel

yeah the African continent in particular has been historically known as being prosperous and well fed until Russia made this decision a few weeks ago.

Why do you know so little about Africa? It's on the news daily.

Today a fifth of the African population (278m) is undernourished, and 55 million of its children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. “The hunger African people are facing today is a direct result of inadequate political choices. Feb 17, 2023

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/over-20-million-more-people-hungry-africas-year-nutrition

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yeah the African continent in particular has been historically known as being prosperous and well fed until Russia made this decision a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I'm sure that has nothing do with historical colonialism, the likes of which Russia is currently engaging in, in Africa.

Really weird how the right thinks they know more about any given topic than the actual experts it in the field.

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Russia is colonizing Africa now? How dare they!

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Russia is colonizing Africa now?

Yes. Yes they are.

How dare they!

Ah, so you are for colonialism now? Got it.

How Russia tried to colonise Africa and failed | Opinions | Al Jazeera

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www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/7/30/where-would-africa-be-without-russian-and-western-propaganda

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Rice is preferred as a staple more in South and East India than in the North and Western parts.

Had the Bengalis, Tamils, Malayalis, Kannadigas, Telugus, Assamese turned to chapatis and rotis instead of sticking to rice this ban would not have been needed.

Rotis/chapatis are a healthier option as compared to rice because they are made of wheat and contain proteins, minerals and fibre. They are harder to digest than rice but contains less calories.

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Russia ended the grain deal?

No. Russia did not renew the grain deal because Ukraine broke the agreement.

Sometimes facts matter.

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Mr KiplingToday 04:07 pm JST

Russia ended the grain deal?

No. Russia did not renew the grain deal because Ukraine broke the agreement.

Sometimes facts matter.

Still Putin's decision not to renew the grain deal.

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Love how, when the White Bloc violates an international agreement, it is the other side's responsibility when the agreement falls apart, according to the same people who insist that when the other side violates an agreement and the White Bloc pulls out of it, it is the other side's responsibility.

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RichardPearceToday 05:29 pm JST

Love how, when the White Bloc violates an international agreement, it is the other side's responsibility when the agreement falls apart, according to the same people who insist that when the other side violates an agreement and the White Bloc pulls out of it, it is the other side's responsibility.

Ukraine's agreement was with the UN. If Ukraine violated something, the UN should have ended it and it did not.

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RichardPearce

Love how, when the White Bloc violates an international agreement,

Who is this white bloc you repeatedly post about? You are of the white bloc? So many people in that including Russians, Middle East Arabs, and Jews.

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Answer, stop sanctioning Russia

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Russia can do the right thing and stop firing on grain ships and silos.

Perhaps if the Kiev regime didn't take advantage of the grain deal to attack Russia...

Anyway, prices have been increasing long before the end of the grain deal, even before Russia's SMO. Seems it started soon after Biden's inauguration...

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Ukraine has not been making this situation any better.

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Ukraine has not been making this situation any better.

Agreed, very selfish of them to continue to be invaded.

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Perhaps if the Kiev regime didn't take advantage of the grain deal to attack Russia...

Perhaps if the fascist Putin regime hadn't have invaded Ukraine. Cry me a river.

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Agreed, very selfish of them to continue to be invaded.

Perhaps if the fascist Putin regime hadn't have invaded Ukraine. Cry me a river.

If Clinton didn't allow NATO to expand eastward there would be no dispute.

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If Clinton didn't allow NATO to expand eastward there would be no dispute.

Pathetic. If fascist Russia didn't repeatedly invade their neighbors their neighbors wouldn't have any use for NATO. Anything to avoid placing blame where it belongs with the invaders.

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It's not an invasion.

lol Yes it is. Now you're just making stuff up. Hilarious.

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It's not an invasion.

Haha! It’s like we’re back in 2022.

So what is it? Are the Russians just on holiday there for a bit?

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Valid reasons for invading countries, according to the same people calling Russia a fascist country

Overthrowing a foreign backed corrupt government (Yemen)

Preventing the overthrow of your government by a foreign backed group (Syria)

Political unrest/civil war (long list of Latin American countries)

Though, of course, they all boil down to the one common denominator, breaking away from Washington's control.

But intervening in a civil war between a coup installed regime and the population that wants their peaceful, unified, democratic country back, well that makes you a fascist dictator (unless you live in the White House, of course, then you're a humanitarian no matter how many people you starve, kidnap and torture, bomb, shoot, terrorize...)

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Valid reasons for invading countries, according to the same people calling Russia a fascist country

How isn't Russia a fascist country? It is. Try opposing the Putin regime. Try speaking out against the invasion.

Though, of course, they all boil down to the one common denominator, breaking away from Washington's control.

What does any of this nonsense have to do with Russia invading Ukraine?

But intervening in a civil war between a

"Intervening?" Who do you think you're kidding? They didn't "intervene," they caused the civil unrest.

coup installed regime and the population that wants their peaceful,

Nonsense. President Zelensky was duly elected president of Ukraine, which is more than what we can say for the sham Russian elections.

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cuddlyToday 09:37 pm JST

It's not an invasion.

What a delusional statement. Ignoring reality just makes anything you post irrelevant.

Crossing international borders to kill that countries troops and civilians, then declaring their territory is now your own, is exactly what an invasion is. But you already know that.

So what is the purpose to your lie? The Russian people already understand it is an invasion to expand Russia's borders. The Ukrainians know better than anyone else that this horrendous invasion by Russia is no imaginary thing. And those around the world getting daily video feeds of the death and destruction wrought on Ukraine by its Russian neighbor are under no delusion that this is anything but an invasion by an aggressor nation using terror as one of its weapons to conquer Ukraine.

So if your trying to convince yourself in order to live with the shameful knowledge Russia has become a fully fledged terrorist nation with ambitions of Empire building using murder on a massive scale, I think you will fail in the end. The evidence is simply overwhelming and unable to be ignored by anyone. Russia has invaded Ukraine and intends to steal as much Ukrainian territory as it can hold onto. A plan first enacted way back in 2014 by Putin, who is by now much less confident in taking the entire nation of Ukraine which was the initial intention.

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But intervening in a civil war between a coup installed regime and the population that wants their peaceful, unified, democratic country back, well that makes you a fascist dictator (unless you live in the White House, of course, then you're a humanitarian no matter how many people you starve, kidnap and torture, bomb, shoot, terrorize...)

This is what the Russian propaganda machine is desperate to put out, so people will stop pointing out that they invaded a foreign nation and started war crime-ing it's citizens. Are you intetionally pushing the sae agenda Russian propaganda, or do you just coincidentally have the same agenda?

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