Bad grains harvest forecast for EU - including France, who is usually exporter

Worsens global outlook for #wheat shortages

"The EU is expected to produce almost 5% less wheat this year compared with 2021. It was also forecast to produce 278.8 million metric tons of all grains in the 2022-2023 growing season, down over 4% from last year, because of the dry weather.

Production in France, which is the fifth-largest grower of wheat in the world, was also projected to decline by more than 5%. The country accounts for about 18% of European agricultural production, according to the French Ministry of Agriculture. France is also the fourth-biggest wheat exporter globally.

In addition to dry weather, the country’s agricultural land has been hit with severe storms, that damaged wheat, fruit and vineyard land.

https://www.rt.com/business/556891-eu-bad-harvest-forecast/

🐝🇫🇷 JUST IN — With less than 10,000 tons of honey produced in France, the year 2021 was "the worst for French beekeeping".

🗣 «The French honey harvest this year is disastrous. Many varieties will be almost impossible to find in the next few months with a guarantee of French production»

«Taking into account the information which is communicated to us by our various contacts on the ground, one can reasonably estimate that the 2021 harvest of honey in France amounts to between 7 and 9 000 tons, meaning only a third of 2020»

«The climatic upheaval is the main reason of this very bad year for beekeeping. The weather conditions have deteriorated all over the country, sparing no region. As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the mild winter and the spring flowering were very unfavorable for bees»

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 FRANCE MIGHT HAVE DELIVERED BANNED AMMUNITION TO UKRAINE

👉🏻 From the Russian Telegram channel Rybar

«After a little digging in the Ukrainian documents related to the French CAESAR 155 mm self-propelled artillery, we found something very interesting: they used 155 mm shell OGR F1.

OGR F1 is a 155mm cassette ammunition. The concept of this type of weaponry involves a bursting of the main warhead in mid-air with dozens of smaller submunitions capable of covering a wide area. In the case of the OGR, the bomb explodes into 63 small elements.

Because of the extremely high likelihood of civilians casualties, cluster munitions were banned by the UN Oslo Convention, drafted and approved by 46 states including France, in 2010.

The National Commission for the Destruction of Anti-Personnel Mines (CNEMA) under the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs successfully reported the elimination of all M26 and OGR F1 munitions in 2016.

Thanks to Ukraine's leaky data protection system, it is clearly visible that not only did the French have not destroyed the banned type of weapons, but they also handed them over to the Ukrainian military. And they, in turn, "successfully" use them against the civilian population of Donbass»

🇫🇷❗France announced its readiness to take part in the operation to unblock the port of Odessa, - AFP

The essence of the "operation" is not specified.

These media give substance to the feeling of proximity and immediacy of the risk, allow to visualize, and sometimes amplify to give relief to the event. It is the operational playground of the military-intellectual complex actors. From now on, it is the passage in the media that makes the expert and the event.

To skillfully master the media becomes indispensable to war. The American invasion of Panama in December 1989, contemporary with the events in Bucharest, caused twice as many deaths (about two thousand, mostly civilians), but no one spoke of a "Panamanian genocide" or a "mass grave".

Journalists were forbidden to film, and an "invisible" war does not impress, and therefore does not revolt.

📖 Selling the War: the Military-Intellectual Complex — Pierre Conesa, 2022

🇫🇷🔪 Just another day in France: there were 3 different headlines about throat slits over the last 3 days.

👉🏻 As explained in this article, we usually don't report on crimes committed in France, because of the amount of them. But understand they are always 2 to 5 stories like these one on any given day.

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🇫🇷🎬 Meet the DGSE (French foreign intelligence services)

👉🏻 From the TV Show The Bureau

🎵 In these lowly political times: Ploum ploum!

☀️ Happy Sunday to all of our subscribers, and remember to not take any of this too seriously.

🇫🇷🥵 And it's not even summer yet: next week's weather forecast foresees 40°C (104°F) across most of France

🇫🇷🗳 FRENCH LEGISLATIVE ELECTION: THE FAR-LEFT COALITION AND MACRON'S PARTY LEAD THE 1ST ROUND

☀️ With an abstention rate of 52.8%, the highest since 1958, it seems like most Frenchmen preferred to enjoy a sunny Sunday rather than to go vote.

👉🏻 Here are the definitive results:
🔴 NUPES (far-left coalition): 25.2%
🟣 ENSEMBLE! (Macron's party): 25.2%
🔵 RN (Le Pen's far-right party): 18.9%
⚪️ Moderate Right: 13.7%
🟡 Moderate Left: 4.1%
🟤 Reconquête (Zemmour's far-right party): 3.9%

The "old-fashioned" intelligence services had succeeded in creating a tight network of "problematic" territories and communities, and in having useful "sensors" to anticipate individual or collective "risky" situations.

Twenty years later, in the absence of enlightened and resolute political decisions, DGSI agents find themselves like firemen or medical and social services: banned from and virtually blind to entire neighborhoods removed from the authority of the state, left to the exclusive control and domination of criminal gangs and salafist militants.

According to the Court of Auditors, an organization that is justly fussy about the use of public money spent on "urban policies", but impartial (because not concerned) with collective security policies, there are 1,514 of these "sensitive neighborhoods" in France today, located in 859 municipalities and comprising a little over 4 million inhabitants...

This means that approximately 6% of the population of France lives outside of the Republic's law.

📖 Seven Steps Toward Hell — Alain Chouet, 2022