a story about the power of kindness and on relenting courage in a time of war and it has been targeted for removal from school library shelves. the velshi banned book club convenes this morning with r. j. palacio author of the powerful graphic novel white bird. velshi starts now. good morning. i am ali velshi. it is saturday may 14th, day 80 of the invasion of ukraine and the war that is not going as putin planned or as anyone expected. the consequences of the war of choice on the neighbor, both intended and unintended, are now out in the open and on display for the world to see. there is a global economic toll and ramifications for the world food supply, ukraine being one of the largest producers of green in the world. we will dive into this later on in the show. other consequences are more direct and visual with ukraine being altered. entire cities, towns, villages, big and small, ruined and erased from the landscape. tens of thousands of people have been killed in th
good morning. it is saturday may 14th. according to the latest survey, americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country right now. this is no surprise as the price of everything is rising. there s a lot more going on behind the scenes. i want to get in to it with gas prices. it rose averaging $4.42 a gallon, according to the automobile association. a top $4 per gallon in every state, well above $5 a gallon in california and hawaii. this leads us to the discussion of crude oil prices. the biggest factor that affects how much you pay at the pump. over the past 20 years, it s important to look at it overtime. the price of crude has had peaks and values. you can see the rise starting in 2002, then the fall after the 2008 recession, then another sharp fall in 2014, and then another in 2020, the beginning of the corona pandemic. oil falls when people use less than the world produces. now let s go to socks. i prefer to focus on the s&p 500. it is a better representatio
Hes dead and hes ours, whats ours . Our pilot, senior lieutenant safron, how is ours . How many planes have you shot down . Are you crazy, you cant tell yours from someone elses, the transponder didnt work for him, how many missiles did you fire . One, then two more, six in total, and which one was shot down . Moment, thats it. Rocket, well done, well done, Nikita Sergeevich, the intruder was shot down, well done, well done, how they shot down, thats not all, pilot. Remained alive, they took him, he did a great job, so that means that the pilot is alive, dont tell anyone where he is now, while the kgb is talking to him in serdlovsk, everyone who took part, present the award, there is, hurray, comrades, if you help me, you will be rewarded for this, to whom this message is addressed, whats wrong with the plane, whats the news . In any case, he had already run out of fuel. A pistol with a silencer and a knife were confiscated from you. Why do you need this so that in case of a forced lan
A broken garden, and a great garden park, with ceremonial alleys, where the gardens smothered the gardens. On the slopes of the abaron valleys , waterways were broken up, for the descent of the neman , a boat ramp and bathing areas were created. When the castle ceased to be turned off by the abaronic revival and stopped washing the rock and the ditch, there scenes. The palace is on the first street. Geta palace, a hundred percent of the battles, and in the 19th century, when the pennies appeared and in the future, they were published in the style of nonpredicament, nonpreparedness in the syaredzina of the 19th century, which has not yet experienced its splendor tu, but the very first time i was talking, well, say such a grammatical , meat dwarfs, i was proud of my labor and adnance to the region, and potassium was in this style, this meant nothing. Tym is big, hours 86070th bastards, period uzvyazennya getaga palace, geta period pastal 863 years, what a great change in the mood and the
Factors at once the cold brought with it a northern cyclone, it swept from murmansk to the capital, and then moved towards the republic coma, the situation was aggravated by an anticyclone that formed over karelia, atmospheric vortices drive arctic winds to the south. It turns out that two of these two vortices, two funnels, which are pumped only into the rear part of the cyclone, which is above the coma now there, it pumps counterclockwise, and the anticyclone clockwise, this weather is a real stress for fruit trees, frost for young seedlings for no reason, this tree of course will not suffer, the tree is not afraid of frost, the tree that blooms will suffer already, that is, there will be no fruit, large pears, apple and cherry trees are just blooming, you cant cover them with film. I remember that as a child, my parents saved themselves from frost by lighting fires in different parts of the garden, but i may have to resort to this method of protection. A farmer from the lipetsk regi