Bank of England raises rates with concerns for 10 percent inflation.

5 May 2022
By Eshe Nelson

As prices for energy, food and commodities rise after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, (click here) the impact is being felt sharply around the world. In Britain, the central bank pushed interest rates to their highest level in 13 years on Thursday, in an effort to arrest rapidly rising prices even as the risk of recession is growing.

The bank predicted that inflation would rise to its highest level in four decades in the final quarter of this year, and that the British economy would shrink by nearly 1 percent.

“Global inflationary pressures have intensified sharply in the buildup to and following the invasion,” Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, said on Thursday. “This has led to a material deterioration in the outlook,” he added, for both the global and British economies. On an annual basis, the economy would also shrink next year.

The Bank of England raised interest rates to 1 percent from 0.75 percent, their highest level since 2009. Three members of the nine-person rate-setting committee wanted to take a more aggressive step and raise rates by half a percentage point. The Bank of England has raised rates at every policy meeting since December....

The West must go back to producing it's own goods. It looks like the USA is going to be feeding the world again. The USA can do it better and safer than any other country on the globe. The USA can also go back to producing goods and agricultural commodities with an eye on the climate.

May 6, 2022
By Franco Ordonez

Bilka, Ukraine — For Ukrainian farmer Anatolii Kulibaba, (click here) this year's planting season comes with anguish. Kulibaba is among many who were forced to flee their land as Russian forces moved in with their tanks.

In the first few days of the war, Russian soldiers delivered an even crueler blow: They killed Kulibaba's son, Oleksandr, as he was traveling to their village of Bilka, 25 miles from the Russian border.

"He was just 45. He had his whole life ahead of him," Kulibaba says.

Two months later, Kulibaba, 70, is still trying to work through the pain, but it's a struggle. He desperately misses his son, who also led most of the farm duties.

Kulibaba says he could really use Oleksandr's help right now, trying to restart production after Russian forces took over and destroyed parts of their farm.

Ukraine is one of the biggest producers of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, and the war has wreaked havoc on the so-called "breadbasket of Europe." Ukraine and Russia together account for over a quarter of the world's wheat exports. Ukraine's Ministry of Agriculture now says that 30% of the country's farmland is occupied or unsafe....

A week ago the DOW plunged 1000 points because the cost of crude oil spiked. All this is related to the war in Ukraine. The impact is global and you'll have to excuse me, but, would it be happening if Wall Street wasn't given a shot at cheap labor in Asia?

5 May 2022

By Gabriella Clare

Russian troops (click here) headed by Vladimir Putin are set to go to court to challenge an illegal order for them to fight in the war against Ukraine.

A total of 25 national guards “refuseniks”, who report directly to Putin, are demanding their job back after they were fired for defying commanders’ orders to send them to a foreign war zone.

The Vladikavkaz garrison military court (click here) is due to start considering their lawsuit on Thursday said lawyer and human rights campaigner Pavel Chikov.

Vladikavkaz Garrison is in Osettia. He must be pulling soldiers out from all over Russia. Word about the casualties must be reaching the Russian military. Otherwise why would they question anything?

They aim to prove that their dismissal was “illegal” since it was based on their refusal to enter Ukraine....

President Zelenskyy is correct in asking for a humanitarian corridor to the wounded in Mariupol.

"USA Today" photos show clearly these men are disabled and unable to fight any further. (click here)

May 11, 2022
By Jennifer Hassan

...Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, (click here) speaking to Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, said that more than 1,000 Ukrainian fighters, many of them injured, remain at the plant.

Later that day, Police Chief Mykhailo Vershynin, who is inside the plant, disputed those figures, telling The Post that other officials’ accounting of the number of civilians was wrong, without giving further details. Vershynin said there are more than 500 wounded people in the plant and that that number is increasing “every day.” The Post could not independently confirm any of the estimates....

Under normal conditions of war these humanitarian corridors would be initiated under the Geneva Conventions.

Convention (I) for the Amelioration (click here) of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, 12 August 1949.

However. Vladimir Putin is not interested in humanitarian corridors, he is interested in killing.

October 17, 2019

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) has revoked an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, a Russian parliamentary website cites a letter from him as saying.

The Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Convention was ratified by the Soviet Union’s Supreme Council, or parliament, in 1989.

Putin’s letter, dated Oct. 16 and addressed to the speaker of lower house of parliament on the “recall of the statement made at the ratification”, said an international commission, set up in order to investigate war crimes against civilians, “has effectively failed to carry out its functions since 1991”.

“In the current international environment, the risks of the commission’s power abuse by the states, which are acting in bad faith, are increasing significantly,” says the document cited by the website that documents laws proposed and passed by the Russian parliament.

It also said that there was no Russian representative on the commission, while Russia has been regularly paying its fees.

It gave no further details about what prompted the decision....

Every place one looks, it is more and more obvious that Vladimir Putin has been preparing for genocide of Ukrainians for quite some time.

May 11, 2022
By Nicole Winfield

The wives of two Ukrainian soldiers (click here) defending the Mariupol steel mill met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and begged him to intervene to arrange for a third-party evacuation of the troops before Russian soldiers capture or kill them.

“You are our last hope. We hope you can save their lives. Please don’t let them die,” said a weeping Kateryna Prokopenko as she greeted Francis at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.

Standing by her side, Yuliia Fedusiuk, told Francis that food and water were running out in the mill, that some soldiers were injured or dead and that those who are alive were ready to lay down their arms if they could be evacuated to a third country.

“They will not go to Russian captivity because they will be tortured and killed,” Fedusiuk told Francis, according to a video of the encounter shot by another member of their entourage, Pyotr Verzilov, a prominent member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot who is working on a documentary about Ukraine.

Prokopenko’s husband, Denys Prokopenko, is the commander of the Azov Regiment in the Azovstal mill, while Fedusiuk’s husband, Arseniy Fedusiuk, is one of the Azov fighters who have been defending the mill from encroaching Russian forces for more than two months.

The young women have been in Italy for over two weeks seeking to rally international support for a diplomatic resolution to the standoff at the plant, the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic port city....

Putin's dedication to kill innocent Ukrainians is not ceasing.

April 23, 2022

Russian missiles hit Odessa apartment blocks, killing at least 8 — including baby (click here)

At least eight civilians — including a 3-month-old baby — were killed Saturday after Russian forces fired multiple cruise missiles at Odessa, Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port.

Russian President Volodymyr Zelensky decried Russia’s latest attack on civilians.

“When the war began, this child was a month old,” Zelensky told reporters during a Saturday press conference. “What is going on? Stinkybastards.”...

She is dead though. She was shot dead. Someone is responsible. How does this happen in the West Bank?

May 11, 2022

An Al Jazeera correspondent (click here) who was shot dead on Wednesday during an Israeli raid in the West Bank was a highly respected journalist in the Middle East whose unflinching coverage was known to millions of viewers.

News of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death reverberated across the region. The 51-year-old journalist became a household name synonymous with Al Jazeera’s coverage of life under occupation during her more than two decades reporting in the Palestinian territories, including during the second intifada, or uprising, that killed thousands on both sides, most of them Palestinians.

Abu Akleh’s name trended across Twitter in Arabic on Wednesday, setting social media alight with support for the Palestinians. Her image was projected over the main square in the West Bank city of Ramallah as mourners flooded the Al Jazeera offices there and her family home in east Jerusalem.

Al Jazeera and witnesses, including her producer who was shot in the back Wednesday, said she was killed by Israeli gunfire. Israel said it was unclear who was responsible, calling it “premature and irresponsible to cast blame at this stage.”...

There should be no hesitation to empower women to own their own lives.

A life is not possible without a body. It is time to empower all women to take control of their lives, including that of the future of their families.

11 May 2022
By Lauren Gambino

The Senate (click here) was poised on Wednesday to block a bill that would codify abortion rights into federal law, in a largely symbolic vote Democrats said was critical to mobilizing Americans around the issue ahead of a likely supreme court decision overturning Roe v Wade.

Democrats moved quickly to hold the vote after a leak last week of a draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito in February and confirmed as authentic, indicated that a majority of the court had privately voted to strike down Roe and subsequent rulings.

The extraordinary disclosure ignited protests around the country, pushing the deeply divisive issue to the center of US political life....

Becoming pregnant is a serious decision and it should never be treated as anything less than a choice about a woman's life. Spacing babies matters.

30 October 2018

Mothers should wait at least a year (click here) between giving birth and getting pregnant again to reduce health risks to mother and baby, a new study says.

But researchers say they need not wait as long as the 18 months recommended in the current World Health Organization guidelines.

Small gaps between pregnancies risk premature births, smaller babies and infant and mother mortality.

The researchers hope the findings will be "reassuring" for older women.

Senior study author Dr Wendy Norman said it was "encouraging news" for women over 35 who were planning their families.

"Older mothers for the first time have excellent evidence to guide the spacing of their children," she said....

Women need choices to manage their reproductive health. A lot rides on the option for abortion. Over and over in countries across the world, even Iran, researchers have found that FAMILY PLANNING and the spacing of pregnancies are vital to maternal health and well being to facilitate a strong and vital parent.

Women, no matter their age, should never take pregnancy lightly. Pregnancy can be the one true element that casts women into poverty far more often than any other factor.

Number 8 (Reaffirmed 2021)

This document is endorsed by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health. This document was developed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine in collaboration with Judette Marie Louis MD, MPH; Allison Bryant, MD, MPH; Diana Ramos, MD, MPH; Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc; and Sean C. Blackwell, MD.

...Prepregnancy, postpartum, interpregnancy, and well-woman care (click here) are interrelated and can be defined by their relationship to the timing of pregnancy. For women who become pregnant, pregnancy is recognized as a window to future health because complications during pregnancy, such as gestational diabetes mellitus, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and fetal growth restriction, are associated with risk of health complications later in life. The interpregnancy period is an opportunity to address these complications or medical issues that have developed during pregnancy, to assess a woman’s mental and physical well-being, and to optimize her health along her life course. The yield of this effort is improved maternal health at the start of the next pregnancy, which leads to improved health outcomes for the infant. The proposed long-term yield is improved long-term health for the woman. Therefore, interpregnancy care aims to maximize a woman’s level of wellness not just in between pregnancies and during subsequent pregnancies, but also along her life course. Because the interpregnancy period is a continuum for overall health and wellness, all women of reproductive age who have been pregnant regardless of the outcome of their pregnancies (ie, miscarriage, abortion, preterm, full-term delivery), should receive interpregnancy care as a continuum from postpartum care (see the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ [ACOG] Committee Opinion Optimizing Postpartum Care or the For More Information section). However, it should be acknowledged that not all women will want to or will have subsequent pregnancies or children....

Well Woman Care includes the abortion option. When "Moscow" Mitch makes statements about passing federal law to end abortion if the entire government were majority Republican, he does not care about Well Woman Care, the health of the neonate, or the well being of the country.

...A well-woman exam (click here) also referred to as an annual exam, is a check on female reproductive and gynecological health. Women do not need well-woman exams until the age of 13 or the start of the first menstrual cycle. The doctor will check height, weight, blood pressure, and menstrual cycle symptoms. Irregular periods are to be expected during the first couple of years. Heavy bleeding or intense pain could be a sign of further medical issues. Women generally do not need pelvic exams and Pap tests before the age of 21, unless sexually active. Sexually active females, at any age, will undergo STD testing. Breast exams are part of normal testing. Mammograms are typically not needed until a female reaches age 40....

Black women and Hispanic women die more often in childbirth than any other ethnicity in the USA. That cannot be ignored and abortion is an option to end devastating health issues that occur in full term pregnancies and will effect the well being of the mother for the rest of her life. The idea abortion is some kind of "Moscow" Mitch ranting about babies PROVES he knows NOTHING about the dangers of frequent pregnancies even to the outcomes of the infant, yet alone the all to often infant without a mother due to death in child birth.

The United States of America, MUST, pass a Well Woman Care Act that includes more than adequate funding for all aspects of a woman's life. This is the right and correct path and every woman in the USA should be demanding there be every option available to her and her doctor to maintain and improve the health of mother and baby.

A WOMAN'S BODY IS NOT A POLITICAL WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!