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[REGNUM] The cost of potatoes in Russia has stabilized. This was announced on October 20 by the chairman of the Potato Union Sergei Lupekhin at a press conference in Moscow, a REGNUM correspondent reports .
"An anomalous incident occurred in September - prices for potatoes were going up, although they should have decreased." the expert said.
According to Lupekhin, now the situation has stabilized and in the near future we should expect a decrease in prices for root crops.
"Prices are now stabilizing and will gradually begin to decline. It's the same with root vegetables. I'm not talking about retail prices, but about wholesale ones. The trend is generally positive," said Lupekhin.
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Reminds me of a favorite old joke. An American general and a Russian general at a cocktail party a couple years after the fall of the Soviet Union:
Russian general: "My troops get a 2200 calorie battle ration every day in the field."
American general: "That's pathetic. All our boys get access to 3200 calories a day in battlefield conditions."
Russian general: "That's impossible. No man can eat that many potatoes."
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^ Good one. I enjoy the old jokes or stories. In the href="">old video's I have seen potatoes a vital necessity. I recall the Irish famine but also Norway's famine at the same time. Norway had a massive die off. Icelandic peoples to this day speak in the original Norwegian language and of course many came to America.
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What with potatoes having been introduced from the Americas, the question I have is: What did these people eat before they had potatoes? I suppose, not much.
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^I would think fish primarily.I just assumed potatoes as was said among the Irish but could have been plaque. I will find out.
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No. See the traditional Irish diet. Dairy products have always been what Irish cuisine and diet are known for . . . Best cream and butter to be found anywhere, and tons of it. Milk, sour cream, even a protein milkshake-like product.
The other staple has always been oats, followed by barley.
Add beef and pork, along with some fish, some vegetables such as cabbage, greens, leeks, carrots, and you have the basic elements of a very healthy diet.
All of these were avaialable in large quantities before the potato arrived.
As with all famines, the devastation that occurred in 1847-48 was essentially a political phenomenon caused by idiotic decisions of Her Majesty's ministers. Hint: Britain was EXPORTING grain during the Famine.
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^Thank you for that information. An Irish history not well known to myself. I recalled history taught in High School years ago. Needed an update. Thank you. Norway information was from a related local there. He was a teacher. History taught in other countries has always interested me.
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The arrival of the potato supported a population boom in Ireland, if I understand correctly, so before potatoes, those people could not have existed. Potatoes plus dairy equals a complete protein, and the potato skin contains loads of vitamins and minerals.
The potato blight fungus is found all over the world, with different potato varieties having differing resistance to it. The cause of the famine was that the Irish planted only a single variety, which all succumbed at once.
"There was an interesting problem that confused some people for a while many years ago.
A survey of school children in Scotland indicated that a larger than normal percentage of Catholic children had an uncommon type of color blindness.
The obvious question was: What does being Catholic have to do with being color blind? A quick check of statistics from other countries indicated normal percentages for Catholics in other countries. That indicated that it was being Scot and Catholic.
Somebody quickly realized that most Catholics in Scotland were descendants of Irish immigrants. A check of statistics in Ireland indicated that this type of color blindness was extremely rare in Ireland and also rarer than usual among Irish in countries other than Scotland. In spite of the statistics, the phenomenon had to be due to being Irish. Strange?
Then the light dawned in somebody's mind. People with this form of color blindness could not tell the difference between blighted potatoes and normal potatoes. Such people used blighted potatoes as seed for next year's crop, resulting in a disastrous crop the next year. These were the first Irish to emigrate from Ireland due to the famine caused by the potato blight. Most of them went to Scotland, the most convenient country (England & Ireland were at odds even then).
That first wave of Irish emigrants mostly went to Scotland and included almost all of those with this type of color blindness. This resulted in its being rarer than usual in Ireland, and higher than usual among Irish in Scotland. Later waves of Irish emigrants (without color blindness) went to the US and various countries other than Scotland, which already had more than its desired share of Irish."
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[LB] Ukraine has harvested a record harvest of buckwheat in recent years
Ukrainian farmers have already threshed 107,000 tons of buckwheat with a total forecast of 100,000 tons. Moreover, this figure is 94%, as only 15 oblasts have completed the harvest.
This was announced by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Roman Leshchenko.
"This year is rich in records for harvesting crops. We have the largest harvest of buckwheat in the last few years.
Two months ago, our forecasts were at the level of 100 thousand tons. And today, being on the finish line, but not yet crossed, farmers threshed 107 thousand tons of buckwheat. This figure is 94 percent, as only 15 oblasts have completed the harvest. Therefore, our updated forecasts are over 110 thousand tons.
The highest yield is currently recorded in Vinnytsia oblast, 1,509 kilograms per hectare," the press service quoted Leshchenko as saying. Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine .
The Minister added that thanks to the program of state support for buckwheat production, farmers receive subsidies of up to UAH 5,000 per hectare of arable land where buckwheat was grown. This program was launched by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy this year.
Earlier it was reported that Ukraine had a record harvest of early grain crops: 44.8 million tons
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#1
Thanks for this article and the one directly above. A welcome antidote to all the Chicken Little scare stories that predominate in the news these days.
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How many of the erroneous plates got issued before it was noticed? Might be collectables. “Gee Officer ,I had my plates stolen last night. Yes I know thew technically belong to the state but, well i have no idea where they are…”
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[LB] Since the morning of Saturday, October 23, three violations of the ceasefire have been recorded by the Russian occupation forces in the combat zone in Donbas.
The enemy used weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements.
Not far from Novozvanovka, the occupiers fired 120mm mortars. Novozvanovka is in northern Lugansk
In the direction of Novohryhorivka, the mercenaries fired twice, using an anti-tank missile system, grenade launchers of various systems, large-caliber machine guns and other small arms. Novohryhorivka is just north of Debaltsevo
As a result of hostile actions, two Ukrainian servicemen were wounded. The soldiers were given home medical care and evacuated to a medical facility. The state of health of both is satisfactory.
"Our defenders opened fire in response to force the enemy to cease shelling without using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements," the statement said.
We will remind, during Friday, October 22 in a zone of hostilities in Donbass occupiers violated a ceasefire 13 times, twice using the weapon forbidden by the Minsk agreements . As a result of enemy shelling, one Allied serviceman was wounded and another was wounded in action.
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[Rusvesna] Footage from a downed drone of the Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade showed the installation of a 120-mm mortar by Ukrainian soldiers, from which they subsequently hit the village of Vasilyevka near Donetsk. Vasilyevka is the village of Trudovskay Mine, west of Donetsk city
The video appeared in the Donbass telegram channels and raises a number of questions. Namely, one circumstance attracted attention to it: next to the mortar there is a white ZIL with the symbols of Ukrainian representatives in the Joint Center for the Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
VGTRK reporter Andrei Rudenko, who has covered the hottest events in Donbass since 2014, named the main question in his author's Telegram channel.
Video from the shot a downed UAV.
Strange video footage taken from this aircraft. During the ascent, the UAV recorded (on the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine) a vehicle of the JCCC of Ukraine and a mortar of the Kiev military was standing nearby.
This begs one question: what is the JCCC of Ukraine doing next to the mortar crew? Or is it their mortar? Or what is it? I would like answers!" writes Rudenko.
However, the answer has been there for a long time and this information was also voiced more than once.
The video is proof that the Kiev militants are using vehicles with the JCCC logo for the unhindered delivery of weapons and ammunition to the front line. This has been repeatedly stated by the defense departments of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
The militants use the vehicles of the observation mission to conduct shelling in the LPNR, whose tasks include monitoring the observance of the ceasefire regime. According to the agreements, these white cars are not fired upon. But at the same time, they successfully help the militants with impunity to strike at the civilian population of Donbass, as confirmed by footage from the lost UAV.
As the authors of the Svarschiki telegram channel emphasize, "Ukraine has completely discredited the activities of the JCCC: first, the abduction of an observer from the LPR, now there are shelling using their vehicles."
Says Lt Colonel Eduard Basurin:
"The People's Militia has repeatedly stated that the Ukrainian command uses white ZIL-131 vehicles with the JCCC logo not only to carry out an observation mission, but also to directly support combat missions," Basurin said.
"The video clip presented to your attention clearly shows that the militants of the 25th Airborne Assault Brigade are unloading a 120 mm mortar and ammunition from a white ZIL car. Symbols of Ukrainian observers are discernible on the car."
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[KP] Imposingly, like the hero of a Hollywood action movie, he falls out of a pickup truck with a sniper rifle at the ready. A languid look from under the curls, a careless beard flutters in the wind, a perfectly fitted expensive outfit.
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American psychos and neo-Nazis, killing people for sport: this is the kind of story that you'd expect our media morons would scream from the rooftops.
But no -- only tiny little Buzzfeed is reporting on this. Why so?
You mean they're killing people who support Russia? Got it. All good, thx
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