Friday the Thirteenth: The Uncertain Agenda of the World's Wannabe Leaders

Let's bow our head                                                                                 

The mist of misinformation:
Deconstructing the rise of ISIS

For gay Paris's dead
Then ask a question
Of Hollande instead
Something wicked this way comes;
If immigrants live in squalor
And low income slums-
How will French exclusion,
Change your outcomes?
Now let's ask ourselves
About his declaration of war
How will French troops,
Invade a stateless shore?
                                   

French minister condemns
social exclusion of
young Muslims
PARIS | BY GEERT DE CLERCQ

Hollande does not want
A permanent solution
Instead what he craves
Is small minded retribution
France and the world,
Better beware;
Of following self proclaimed, 

Leaders who share;
In the warped delusions
Of George Bush and Tony Blair

War criminals who created ISIS.
Manufacture consent,
Chaos and crisis
Today Western officials
Have reason for being
The Western press                                                                                              

HOW COVERT AGENTS
INFILTRATE THE INTERNET
 TO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE,
AND DESTROY REPUTATIONS

Is the all knowing, all seeing
The American dollar
Is the newish Almighty
And blowhard, Donald Trump
Is a tired, old whitey

ISIS, our Western baby
Whom the press label crazy
To their chagrin
Is neither shiftless nor lazy
If he can display pious aplomb
He can strap on a vest
With a suicide bomb

Now that the child's all grown
He could even man a drone of his own!
You can't have it both ways
Even if the child strays;
When a father doesn't love his child,
Society pays,
When she indubitably runs wild                                                          

Gaze into the crystal ball
Belshazzar's fate has come to call
Where America once stood tall;

America Created Al-Qaeda
and the ISIS Terror Group

Now the writing's on the wall!

God reserves the right
To make fat pockets light
Redistribute your good fortune
Don't piss Him off,
He's in the boardroom!
The ultimate CEO says
"You're fired" Mr. Trump!
You're not a serious candidate,
Just a useless hump;
The American people
Ain't so dumb
Just a tad, slower than some

The press called the attack
A terror plot
What we know about ISIS                                                                    
Doesn't amount to a lot
We buy into lazy reporting
Who knows what information
The press is distorting;

Paul Craig Roberts Slams Western Press-titution

The presses ISIS explanation 

Amounts to pure conjecture or speculation!

Professor Paul Rogers 

University of Bradford
Said overseas attacks
Is not the ISIS standard
It's al Qaeda who bomb soft targets
Like cafes and schools, 

Subways and markets;
Why would ISIS change its modus operandi?
Did the Paris killings,
Really come in that handy?
At the end of the day,
No matter where you are,
You're less likely to be killed by ISIS
Than run over by a car!

The Paris attack,
And the official press story;
Has the makings,
Of true Hollywood territory;
The action/suspense filled category
Movie goers love their breaking news gory
A re-released DiCaprio reprise
Paris is part-two to "Body of Lies"
The American press create the disguise
Trickle down news is what
The whole wide world buys!

If before now ISIS didn't attack
It was because of the capability that it lacked                                    

Netanyahu, the great pretender

ISIS magically took out a Russian plane
If you believe that
The press sabotaged your brain!
                                                                                                         

One fact about the tragedy in Paris
Francois Hollande is 

Thoroughly embarrassed!
But a real leader would accept all the blame
His denial and defiance is France's shame

Real people say
To know is our right
Did the United States,
Pick a dog in this fight?
If Russia is backing Assad
Are America's friends,
Still in Riyadh?
Even after 2003
And the fruits of the Saudi terror tree
Where is Israel in all of this?
If ISIS was a threat you couldn't dismiss
Netanyahu and Hollande 

Would've shared a French kiss!

Are the United States arming 

 Peshmerga and the rebels?
To African Americans,
CIA, are a pack of blue eyed devils!
The sole objective here
Is protracted world war
What did you think all the PSY-OPS was for?
CNN and NPR began using PSY-OPS in the nineties
The CBC and BBC have white men,
Shitting their tighty whities;
And white ladies soiling their nighties -
Thinking terrorists have bombs
Hidden in their Nikes

“The Sins of the Previous Leader are to be Laid Upon the Current Leader and the Nation.”

Margaret Trudeau on Justin, Pierre -
 and that hair
Ex-wife of former
prime minister talks to CBC's
Wendy Mesley about life in the political spotlight

Hot off the press 

This just in

Canada's new PM 

Yes just him

His name is Justin

It was a must win 

Give a victory pin

To Pierre's next of kin!

Big shoes to fill 

Because daddy is still 

Someone loved and respected 

Beyond Parliament Hill

Who said youth, 

Is wasted on the young?

Age equals wisdom,

In places far flung!

Here in the West

Margaret Trudeau says
quitting marijuana helped mental health

It's your social rung

Many would agree                                                                  
That's a big load of dung

It's a pop culture world

Let make-believe unfurl

Bill Blair getting in

Made peace lovers hurl

It's a cheese lovers world 

Give politics a whirl 

Stinky, old cheese 

May make your toes curl!

Politician cops

Are C.O.I. plurals!

They can never be precious                                                                        

Bill Blair wins Scarborough Southwest
Toronto’s former top cop was elected
for the Liberals in Scarborough Southwest.
Scarborough Southwest
is a riding of contradictions.
 Bounded by Victoria Park Ave.
out to Markham Rd.,
 from Lake Ontario up
 to Eglinton Ave. E.,
 it has an affluent swath along
 the water,
including the Scarborough Bluffs,
mixed with neighbourhoods
with extreme poverty.

Like diamonds and pearls

Ban military and cops,

From the political world!

Before we're left with 

More scandals that swirl!

If you don't want to eat

Think of smelly flat feet

Julian Fantino,

May be the bigger elite

Didn't the Liberals learn, 

From the Conservative defeat?

Bill Blair is the new concern 

Now that Fantino lost his seat

Bad news right from day one 

Politician cops 

Have influence, a badge and a gun!

Now that Fantino's out 

Even white boys got to shout,

Baby get back!

They know Black people lack,

Political clout! 

Toronto has a carding loophole                                                                        

For an officer to stick in his big snout

Julian Fantino:
The former Toronto police chief
had a rough ride in Ottawa,
handling four portfolios over
five years, ending as associate
defence minister this year.
Most notably, he had a rough
relationship with veterans when
serving as veterans affairs minister,
closing eight offices providing services
for veterans. He once famously showed
 up late for a meeting with veterans
who wanted to discuss the cuts, then
got into an argument with them.
Mr. Fantino was on track to lose
in Vaughan-Woodbridge, a suburban
riding north of Toronto, to
Liberal Francesco Sorbara.

Ontario remains racist,

Beyond a shadow of doubt!

You'd think by this hour

It'd be progress 

To have minorities in power

Think again!

Black and Native faces look dour 

Living conditions continue to  sour

Chief Saunders, and the Premier 

Both cower! 

One a Black man

The other female and Queer

Yet both allow the tentacles of oppression 

To choke off our air;

Big L Liberal may stand for unfair 

If Liberals don't show us how much that they care

Is it to the brokers behind them,

Whose allegiance they swear? 

For the new age of politics

The public is "the ultimate weapon"

The disenfranchised's needs 

Aren't regarded in the least                                                                                

Bystander who filmed video of
Sammy Yatim shooting testifies at trial

When it's the elite's wealth, 

The people's needs threaten 

Let sullen eyes feast

As Ontario

Descends into the belly of the beast! 

How did "Toronto the Good"
Clean up its streets? 

It jailed Black bodies, 

Check out Babylon's beats!

Beats to the body 

Beats to the head 

Beat you damn bloody 

Young Sammy shot dead!

Sammy Yatim killing:
Toronto police officer pleads
 not guilty"
It's a last resort to use lethal force.
It's the most serious decision for an officer.
Though it doesn't mean an officer
 has to try everything else.
Sometimes there's no time,"
Deputy Chief Michael Federico testified.

How can anyone believe,                                                    
In Canadian justice?

It's rarely been used

That's why it got rusted

Like a jalopy that's abused, 

Yatim got dusted 

Officer James Forcillo 

Left the world disgusted 

He breached the oath

The public entrusted 

To uphold the constitution

Even for those who get busted! 

He pumped a mentally ill boy 

All full of holes 

Left him undignified, lifeless and cold 

Saying he'll get off                                                                                          

Is not really that bold
Prosecutors called "the Crown"

Toronto Police constable
James Forcillo,
right, is accused of second
degree murder
in the death of
Sammy Yatim.

Sound like they're British controlled 

But Canada's independent!

Or so we are told

It's the same tired story 

Now so decrepit and old

The elite never convict 

One of their fold

Can a wealthy nation's healing 

Now begin,

After 10 long years, 

Of Conservative sin?

Is Canada really ready, 

For a Liberal win?

The elite Canadian press 

Took the truth for a spin 

Calling an election win "change"

You need not be a sleuth 

To find that kinda strange; 

Especially when things stay the same;                                                          

Proof That Trudeau Won
Because Strategic Voting Works

But the faces rearrange

Strategic voting,

Left a nation estranged!

It's the same old history 

Repeating yet again 

Like Barbie and Ken

From way back when 

Politicians play dress up 

For their new role 

The next four years 

Liberals think they control

What we see here 

In Canada today 

Is no political party                                                                    

Stephen Harper no longer
the head of the Conservative Party

Has sole right of way

10 years is too long 

To let puppet masters play 

And devour Canada

Like a Peanut Buster Parfait 

Oops, you got a little chocolate 

On your chin;

Conservatives deserved 

Their kick in the shin

Their best thinking 

Made us have to begin 

Beauty and brains DO go together!
Study claims good-looking men
and women have higher IQs

To help to repair 

What they let wear thin

Cutting spending at any expense                                              
Their stinking thinking 

Made everybody tense

Neglecting people, housing - good jobs; 

Shirking responsibility 

Is a luxury that robs,

The common people 

Of adequate health;

Why is Canadian unity,

Second to monetary wealth?

More Is Lost Through Indecision Than Wrong Decision

Advance poll turnout up 34 per cen
t from 2011 election: Elections Canada

Way up in Canada
The cold, cold North
A nation's tug of war,
Is going back and forth
A "Free World" federal election
Not America's social infection
Caused by politically driven
Gun culture predilection
Where mass shootings
Are as common as,
Garbage collection!

Canada's been thrown
On the trash heap of time
Our environmental model                                                                    

Federal government falling further
 behind on emissions reductions, audit finds

Exceeded its prime
Government is soft on
Polluter pay crime
So corporate malfeasance
Is on the taxpayer dime

You can breathe easy
Our cars are going green
Not if they're Volkswagen
If ya know what I mean
Lotsa green is lining CEO pockets
Self proclaimed leaders,
Do nothing, to stop it!
An open invitation
For a tidy corporate profit!                                                                                      
We can use oil sands bread

For an oil spill, to sop it!

What's Canada's big election issue?
It'll make you,
Wish you

U of M engineer explains how
Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests

Had you a box of,
Kleenex tissue!
Conservative's have more faces
Than arms on the Vishnu
Niqab, right wing blab,
Was no campaign miscue!

Bad thoughts in voter's heads
Filled our hearts so full of dread
Conservatives had us fearing 

Soon we'd all be dead!                          

Women with face covers
And the pure panic that it bred;                                                                      
Down the slippery slope,
Full speed ahead!

Niqab issue in election creating
 fear and suspicion of Muslims

Conservatives are like separatists!
Engaged in power trysts;
Inciting intolerance
With a raised fist;
Will you be the first to enlist?

Let the self righteous
Go fight ISIS!
Or let us fight each other                                                    
Canadian sister against brother!
Yet another,
Intolerance blunder;
One day, may tear Canada asunder!

Stephen Harper 'playing a very
divisive game' with niqabs, Tom Mulcair says

Harper plays Quebecers
Like a French fiddle
Since when have Conservatives,
Taken sides mostly Liberal?
His feet are a tapping
Watch his bum start to wiggle
As he plays a familiar tune
Called, stick a wedge up the middle!
Put on a bib

Samaa Elibyari reacts to anti-niqab ad

Catch the blabber mouth dribble
Reasonable Accommodation                                                        

Is Canada's best kept riddle!

Conservative intolerance for the niqab
Spread around Canada
Like a cyber case of crabs
Voice your outrage!
Atta boy take a stab
If you feel so inclined
You go girl take a jab
Be good fanatics
Like good ole Captain Ahab                                                                            

Quebec's Liberal government
introduced Bill 62 in June.
"I believe the Quebec government
has been handling this very controversial
issue in a very responsible manner,
" Harper said while speaking in Saskatoon
 on Wednesday. "And we will do
exactly the same thing in Ottawa."

Devoured by something
The size of a whale
His own obsession
Kicked his own tail

The real voter requirement
Is to put useless feds,
Into early retirement!
Don't let them create,
A hostile environment
Realize for yourself,
Just what the liar meant!

Is Canada the sum of all its resources?
Having few environmental recourses;
Bill C51 will use government forces
To come down on protestors
Like trampling horses!

Voters must decide,                                                                                  
What are their wants                                                                                

Bill C-51 Could Be Used
To Target Activists: Amnesty International

Or don't vote at all,
Dwell in your old haunts;

Turn your back on change
If change is what you fear,
If it's guarantees you crave;
Year after year
Go ahead cast a ballot for Thomas Mulcair

Is it fresh blood you crave?
A well scrubbed youthful glow
In that case your man is Justin Trudeau
But if it entered your mind
To still be one of those
Better you vote for                                                                       

The devil you know

Eventually there will come a day

Canada's boys club will fade away

Elizabeth May willing to mediate
coalition to topple Stephen Harper

Women in politics are here to stay

Vote for Elizabeth come what May

No way you say

If our choices we weigh 

And we hope and pray

Or get led astray

But somehow bow to feet of clay

Remember then to end division

It's better my friend to have a vision
"More is lost through indecision

Than wrong decision"

A Match Made in Ottawa

Young boy

Alan (L), three, his
brother Galip, five,
and their mother died
 trying to get to
 Greece by boat 

Young boy                                                                                
The press misspelled your name 

Then the daggers emerged  

And the guilty assigned blame 

Our leaders dismissed our total and utter shame, 

Canada was once a sanctuary 

With prestige and acclaim 

Seeing young Alan Kurdi on the beach, lain! 

When it's our laser guided missiles 

That are trained 

On targets using CF-18

Jet fighter planes;

It's our bombs showering down   

Like torrential rains, 

Adding to Syria's collective pains;

An ill thought out mission by Conservative brains!                    
A McDonnell Douglas/Boeing 

Mulcair pledges to immediately
 end Canada’s mission in Iraq, Syria

Diabolical bane 

Many sought the refuge 

That many were denied 

It wasn't by choice 

How little Alan died

For a 3 year old boy, 

For once, 

The whole world cried;

As our leaders tightly clutched,

Their lonely, false pride;                                                                                     

Now the truth cannot be decried,

No camera angle can hide 

Mulcair stands by goal to
 bring 10,000 Syrian refugees
to Canada this year

This malignant, ugly side, 

Our adult, human eye spied

Only a dead toddler  

Can inspire press fodder!

A dead mother or a brother 

Gets a "why bother"

The press snatch the story 

Then abscond like a robber 

Beat us with it, daily 

On our heads with a clobber 

Their glazed over eyes,

And chins covered in slobber!

Mention housing refugees

And Conservatives hack and wheeze

Stephen Harper's Refugee Conundrum
Why's the Conservative leader
 so slow to act on the crisis?
  Look at his old political base.

Like someone with cat allergies, 

Is bound to break a sneeze 

From the spotlight Harper flees

Like someone cut the cheese

Then he puts on the squeeze 

On those with the loudest pleas!

Mister Harper, please!

You treat people like a disease 

You want the downtrodden 

On their knees 

What the heck's with these, 

Undemocratic, policies?

Immigration Minister 

Mister Christopher Alexander 

Your phallic must be                                                                                                   

A limp salamander;

Your talking points suddenly lost all their candour 

A big thanks to you 

Conservatives look blander

Nenshi lashes out at
Chris Alexander on refugee crisis

Reading between the lines 

On Mansbridge prime time 

Our PM declined

As a way to save his behind

To allow victims of war crime,

Those fleeing Syria to find 

A home to lay their head 

But really what he said, 

Was he'd much rather instead 

Turn ISIS blood red 

Form a Military Corps

Support protracted war                                                                              

Trudeau takes aim at
government's citizenship
rules during Islamic conference

While you do your best to ignore 

Dead babies washed ashore

Harper wants boots on the ground 

Now how does that sound?                                                      
Was endless revenue found?

It's not so profound

Yet continues to astound

The tired old fight 

For elusive world peace

Billionaire Koch brothers
are big oil players in Alberta

Since World War One 

Taxpayers, still getting fleeced;
Politics in the West                                                              
Hasn't changed in the least 

Promotion of war, refuses to cease

Does Canada want a government, 

Always hitting a foul ball?

Are we Duffy's "kids in short pants down the hall"?

For some, Stephen Harper's words seemed to enthral

For others it didn't mean a damn thing at all!

Stephen Harper explains
 'old-stock Canadians' comment

Harper said of Canadians in the last leaders debate 

There's three stratified categories he could relate; 

Currently in Canada that we know of to date;

I'll make my point soon, 

So just patiently wait!

I think we already know 

Who he considers second rate

Hmm...OK...let's see

In what category could you possibly be?                                                 

So here are the three:

"New, and Existing and Oldstock Canadian"
Which are you?                                                                                                         

Old stock Scot, French, Irish or Brit                                                              

Which Right-wing Strategist
Inspired Harper's 'Old Stock'?
Cracking the coded message
 within Tory leader's
debate comment.

Come on now get with it, 

Maybe you're New-

Syrian, Tamil or Russian Jew 

Or Existing-Black, Polish and Asian too

If you were excluded what can you do?

Our government's not sure where you fit

It would seem in fair old Canada 

There's an ethnicity split!

In any case 

The fact remains 

Canada's Prime Minister 

Is pulling the reins 

Towards total control over our lives 

It'll be Conservative austerity 

If our future survives

We could all get a Greek case                                                                      

Universal drug plan?
Docs say it would save
money, help Canadians

Of the economic hives 

When deeper global recession arrives

When Harper's failed marriage with big oil collides

It'll be like making divorce payments 

To two of his wives!

Canadian society has some really big issues!

Mental health needs more funding 

Not a bloody box of tissues!

Transit in Canada got stuffed in a drawer 

The TTC and Miway are a huge dinosaur                                    

Why are there ballooning police budgets, 

With dropping crime rates?

In a numbers game just nudge it              

Private: Conservatives must
justify $10-13 billion mega-jail price tag

Our fear's working great!

Conservatives must fudge it 

Gain our trust, we take the bait                                                   

Canada is officially the fifty first state!

Canada keeps building more super jails

An unproven model that miserably fails!

Conservative policies and spending 

Only ousting them curtails;                                                
This runaway government train

Has gone off the rails!

Our Lives are Insignificant Obstacles to Power

Who's ever in power,                                                          

Paul Martin says
Stephen Harper
is the ‘king of deficits’

Must take the full blame;
Ridicule should find them
Like a moth to a flame:
Today's leadership,
Turned our lives into a game
Parliament play politics,
We get more of the same!

Who do politicians think they're fooling?
"I know you lie,
Cause your lips are moving"
Few are approving, of what you say?
Actions speak louder anyway!                                                                      

Politicians are good liars
'because they convince
 themselves they are
 telling the truth',
 study reveals

Ah yes the diabolical plan;
Is the disaffected voter,
You're a gift to the man
Worse than a floater
One hundred mill' to Japan
Means more cars for Toyota
Or jobs fly south of Dakota

The cost of living is soaring;
With Conservatives ignoring,
Canada's financial pain;
To them that topic is boring;
Has Ottawa gone soft in the brain?
Canada's Feds are snoring;
It's economic terrorism, all the same
Canada's press ain't underscoring
Why our PM's shirking the blame

Over balanced government budgets                                                                

DEBT: CANADA’S
BORROWING BINGE
In deep: The high risks of
Canada’s growing
addiction to debt

Canadians pout and fret
But we're mere hypocrites
For carrying high personal debt;
2008!
How soon we forget;
When Wall Street bankers,
Hedged their dastardly bet!

If housing prices be any indication
We're in a state of economic threat;
Then record profits
Need condemnation
But it's greater profits,
The chosen few get!
No job from no corporation
If you're green or behind your ears wet!

There's a convenient mechanism,                                                                        

The world this week:
Global economy
has a great fall

Government calls it free trade;
Done under the guise of fairness, open markets and aid
It tells workers to feel lucky,
That you even got paid
Corporate tactics are used
To make top wages fade;
Creating cheap foreign labour, and domestic wage slaves

Moving capital and jobs off of our shores
So manufacturing is drudgery,
For bumpkins and boars;
Like a kiddie allowance
For doing your chores
A cunning little measure used to persuade
Workers to feel fortunate
Instead of betrayed!

A condition better known as Conservative catachresis
Is like calling Intelligence
An outfit named CSIS                              
Because a "socialist" label
Is something that reaches
Conservatives need history lessons
But rather privacy breaches

Students were told
Get an education                                                                                
Get a good job
Pay down good debt
Network and hob knob
We got out of school

Student debt collection to
ramp up, according to
government documents
Documents suggest Harper
government more interested
 in image than dealing with
 student debt, says Bilan Arte

Remaining ever the fool
To find a degree,
No hidden jewel;
But we sure found,
The job environment cruel!

People are forced to forego
Government won't pony up dough!
For vital medication,
Even though,
Uniform coverage
Would cost Canada less to bestow;
On the masses that have
A tough row to hoe
Oh but alas
The press gave Conservatives a pass
They failed to make unaffordable medication,                                                            

Hamilton supports national pharmacare strategy

A voter preoccupation!

Insufficient Fed dollars granted
Conservatives all but abandoned
Big cities transit!
Toronto's half measures
On no front pages splashed
The press let 'em get away
With doing things half-assed!
Why does TTC momentum,
Always run out of gas?
They only halfway adopted
The Presto pass!                                                                                          

Toronto needs transit funding,
 not more talk, from
 Ottawa this federal election

Why is Canada's largest city,
Content in being superficially pretty?
For foreign investment silly!
Isn't it a pity!

People sit for too long in traffic
Rush hour scenes are way too graphic
Canada's payed it lip service for years!
After the vaunted HOV lane, nobody cares
Few people moved by cars is a crying shame
Supporting failed industry is our crying game
While fuel prices fuel our overall pain

Autos are a failed industry                                                                              
A constant public purse drain
Why is corporate welfare,                                                                              
High on the government food chain?
Canadian courts still want jail,

Canadian taxpayers lose
 $3.5-billion on 2009
 bailout of auto firms

For Mary Jane!

Harper and the press
Fear monger about ISIS
While our economic stress
Is Canada's real terror crisis!

Under employment
Is a huge source of annoyment
No available, affordable housing
Another terror that's been arousing

The only real way to kill our jobs                                                                  

IS TOM MULCAIR HIDING
 IN THE WEEDS ON POT?

Is to vote back in power the same old slobs
Oh heck let's legitimize the wack attack ad!
Who can boast,
The Conservative track record really ain't bad?

Huh? So what if you do?
Look at me when I'm talking to you!
Whatever you're sniffing
Smells like glue!
And don't say you're sniffling, from the flu
Wait till Harper's done runnin' us through!

"Government deficits, by definition, create private sector wealth,
While surpluses drain it"

Why You Should Love Government Deficits

Said John T. Harvey of our fiscal health
Conservatives think only of power for them-self
Wealth is no good by itself
Working poor are filed away,
On government's shelf
The weak dollar makes Canada wimpy like an elf

The only job growth,
We've had in nine years,
Is part time, and precarious
Does that allay your fears?

Do we want a federal government that hordes all the cash?
Isn't that tantamount to a dine and dash?
Running out before paying the bill
Big business tax cuts,
Is a wealthy hand in the till!
When do Canadian's get their tax break fill?                              

Bruce Campbell, executive director
 of the Canadian Centre for
 Policy Alternatives,
says the national think-tank
is "advancing a platform as
 an actionable blueprint
for moving forward.”

Income splitting for most is zero or nil

Truth be known
Conservatives had their chance
Now that it's been blown
Their anti social policies
Is like doing a dance
Another term will only clone
Their lackadaisical stance;
While Canadians are left to suffer alone
In the economic danger zone!

After 10 years of Conservative groan
There's nothing new for Canada to be shown

How Canada’s oilsands are
 paving the way for
driverless trucks —
and the threat of big layoffs

Any other party could run the country
But current food prices,
May see us go hungry!                                                                                            
Canada's a pariah,
On the environmental world stage
Dirty oil keeps us in a carbon cage
All our economic eggs
Stuck in the industrial age,
In a filthy oil sands basket;
A climate disaster away,
From a closed casket!
                                                                                             

Cost of living climbing,
StatsCan says
Food prices offset
break at fuel pump