Joseph john articles
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John Bolton: “The Illegitmate ICC Will Come After The US Next”
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton spoke to several media outlets following the unprecedented announcement by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he is filing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders along with senior Hamas murderers. “As I first wrote in 1998, the International Criminal Court is fundamentally illegitimate,” Bolton told The […]
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John Oliver tackles the US corn industry: ‘You might be thinking, so what?’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding ‘America’s No 1 crop’John Oliver dug into the US corn industry on Last Week Tonight, from how the government subsidizes it, to its many uses and the effects of its dominance. The US is the world’s largest producer of corn, and produces more of it than any other crop. Farming it is a nearly $90bn industry; corn fields occupy nearly 90m acres a year, or about 5% of the land surface in the contiguous...
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John Krasinski’s IF leads an uninspiring weekend box office
John Krasinski’s IF is somehow both a winner and a loser at the weekend box office. Sure, it was the #1 movie in theaters this past weekend, but it also came up a few million short of projections. The film was expected to make $40 million and only raked in $35 million domestically, according to Variety. IF’s worldwide box office total came to $55 million, about half of the movie’s $110 million budget (and that doesn’t include marketing costs). It’s really not a bad showing for an original...