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  Australian Food News

• Woolworths develops in-store education for kids 5 days ago

  Brick and mortar supermarkets are developing new strategies to woo shoppers to engage in the physical experience of shopping in person.

• ACCC penalises Jenny Craig for its “10kg for $10” TV ads 5 days ago

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken action to reiterate the importance of transparency between businesses and consumers by requiring adequate...

• Winemakers sign MoU with Alibaba, in industry-wide approach 5 days ago

  Australia’s wine producers stand to make significant inroads into the Chinese market from a deal with Alibaba.

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  The American Dream

• Fortnite Addiction Is Real: 9-Year-Old Girl Checks Into Rehab “After Getting Hooked Playing Fortnite For 10 Hours A Day” 4 hours ago

  Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email Fortnite is the most popular video game in the entire world right now, and for some people it is literally taking over their entire lives. More...

• Facebook Is Hiring “News Credibility Specialists” That Will Pass Judgment On Which Sites Are “Credible” And Which Sites Are Not 3 days ago

  Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email The war on “fake news” is about to go to an entirely new level. According to media reports, Facebook has been seeking to hire “news credibility...

• Earth In Travail: Hawaii Has Been Hit By More Than 12,000 Earthquakes Over The Last 30 Days 4 days ago

  Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email We haven’t seen anything like this since Hawaii first became a state back in 1959. Kilauea began erupting on May 3rd, and it hasn’t stopped...

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  CNET

• Net neutrality is really, officially dead. Now what? - CNET an hour ago

  There are no more procedural delays on the FCC's decision -- the rules have been rolled back. Here's everything you need to know.

• Enter for your chance to win the V-Moda On-the-Go Headphone giveaway - CNET an hour ago

  Three lucky winners will dance away with one of V-Moda's awesome Crossfade 'phones.

• Why Silicon Valley CEOs now have France on their to-do lists - CNET 2 hours ago

  France's president Emmanuel Macron is wooing Silicon Valley with his tech-savvy agenda.

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  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech

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  The Habitability Paradox --"Alien Astronomers Could Have Thought Earth Lifeless for Billions of Years" (Today's Most Popular) a day ago

  "The phrase Earth-like does not refer to a planet that necessarily resembles modern-day Earth at all," said Stephanie Olson, an astrobiologist at the University of California...
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  "Earth's Mathematical Bees" --Scientists Discover They Understand the Concept 'Zero or Nothing', Opening New Possibilities for AI 2 days ago

  "Zero is a difficult concept to understand and a mathematical skill that doesn't come easily - it takes children a few years to learn," Dyer said. "We've long believed only humans had...
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  "Alien Satellites of the Milky Way" --Clarke Exobelts: Astronomers Search for Signs of Advanced Technological Civilizations   3 days ago

  A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical artificial satellites...

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  Dandelion Salad

• Inequality, Social Dysfunction and Misery by Graham Peebles 21 hours ago

  by Graham Peebles Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England June 10, 2018 Year on year the economic divisions and sub-divisions in the world deepen, the associated social ills increase...

• Chris Hedges and David Harvey: Enough is Enough of This Capitalist Fraud 2 days ago

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on June 9, 2018 David Harvey, author of Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, discusses the future of global capitalism...

• “Google Should Not Be In The Business of War”: Understanding the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence by Marc Eliot Stein 2 days ago

  Dandelion Salad Republished with permission from David Swanson at World Beyond War by Marc Eliot Stein World Beyond War June 9, 2018 In early April, more than 3100 Google employees...

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  Disclose.tv RSS Feed

• Women Are More Likely To Survive The Apocalypse, New Study Tells 5 hours ago

  Women are better survivors than men especially in times of crisis. It is well known that women generally have a life expectancy that is longer than me...

• High Ranking Missing Airman found 35 years later 5 hours ago

  A high-ranking Kirtland Air Force Base officer with top security clearance who disappeared 35 years ago has been found in California. The Air Force Of...

• Jeff Bezos gained $40 billion in wealth this year while his workers sleep in tents outside warehouses 6 hours ago

  Jeff Bezos makes another $40 billions off Amazon, but what about his employees? According to time.com, Amazon continues to grow by leaps and bounds on...

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  The Economic Collapse

• The Big Secret The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Tell You About America’s Soaring Suicide Rates 2 days ago

  Facebook Twitter Reddit Email This week two celebrity suicides rocked the nation, and neither of them seemed to make any sense.  Kate Spade’s handbag designs had taken the fashion...

• 18 Times The Fed Has Gone Through A Rate Hiking Cycle, And 18 Times It Has Caused A Huge Stock Market Decline And/Or A Recession 3 days ago

  Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Since 1913, the Federal Reserve has engaged in 18 distinct interest rate hiking campaigns, and in every single one of those instances the end result...

• $28,166: What It Costs To Provide Health Care For An American Family Of Four For One Year 4 days ago

  Facebook Twitter Reddit Email One of the primary reasons why the middle class in America is disappearing so rapidly is because of skyrocketing health care costs.  Families all over...

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  Eurasia Review

• Russia’s Foreign Agents In America: Trump Connection Of Armenian Lobbyists – OpEd 11 hours ago

  The concepts of hybrid warfare or asymmetric warfare are not new. A Cambridge University published research states that it “goes

• The Ramsay Twist: Australian University Funding And Western Civilisation – OpEd 11 hours ago

  There is a lot of tattle going on about why the Australian National University rebuffed, after a series of talks,

• Morocco-Nigeria Relations Shine – OpEd 11 hours ago

  Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is on a two-day working visit to the Kingdom of Morocco.The visit is at the invitation

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  Geoengineering Watch

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  Biological Annihilation And The Sixth Mass Extinction 2 days ago

  Source: Resilience Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but...
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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, June 9, 2018, #148 2 days ago

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org To control the flow of information is to control public opinion. How extreme must media censorship become before populations begin to...
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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, June 2, 2018, #147 9 days ago

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Our government continues to do anything they want to the climate, and the planet as a whole. The push to saturate the biosphere with highly...

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  intelNews.org

• Analysis: The Islamic State is far from dead; it is regrouping and rebranding itself 10 hours ago

  Like al-Qaeda before it, the Islamic State is proving to be resilient and able to withstand intense military pressure from its enemies. Currently, all signs show that the group is...

• Most government hackers now target cell phones, not computers, experts say 3 days ago

  The majority of government-sponsored hacking now targets cell phones, not personal computers, according to researchers who say that political dissidents are especially targeted...

• US evacuates more diplomats from China over ‘abnormal sounds and symptoms’ 4 days ago

  The United States has evacuated at least two more diplomatic personnel from its consulate in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, after they experienced “unusual acute auditory or sensory...

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  Joniopolis

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  What Year is This, Again? 6 days ago

            I think I’m stuck in a time warp.  Because my parents were the ages of my friends’ grandparents, I have the upbringing—and even use the expressions—of...
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  Looking for Hay in a Needle Stack 13 days ago

             Here’s how my kids react to medical procedures.  First, the back story: Last week I had another breast biopsy and blood work, then because I am a glutton for punishment...
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  Hot Mess Express 20 days ago

            Folks, you cannot make this stuff up.  About a week ago I fly to another city to join with some girlfriends to celebrate two of their birthdays. Except one of them is sick...

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  Niqnaq

• courage, mes vieux 4 hours ago

  Trump Meets Kim Amid Shifting World Order Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture, Jun 11 2018 It’s almost a surreal spectacle to see the world order shifting before our very eyes...

• keep on rockin’ with the angry arab & co 5 hours ago

  This chant in Jordan today is unprecedented As’ad AbuKhalil, Angry Arab, Jun 9 2018 "يا عبد الله يا بن حسين، اسمع مني هالبيتينإذا ما صار...

• “kites painted with swastikas” 5 hours ago

  Friedman: ‘Keep your mouths shut’ over Gaza Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel, Jun 5 2018 Pindo ambassador to Israel David Friedman attacked the media on Sunday over what he said...

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  Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• World Wakes up to Climate Migration 3 hours ago

  Harjeet Singh is Global Lead on Climate Change at ActionAid International and is based in New Delhi*  Millions of people worldwide are being displaced by natural disasters triggered...

• Great Green Wall Brings Hope, Greener Pastures to Africa’s Sahel 14 hours ago

  This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on June 17.The post Great Green Wall Brings...

• UAE aid ship arrives in Socotra, Yemen a day ago

  The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has sent a ship loaded with humanitarian and food aid to the Yemeni island of Socotra. The move follows the directives of President His Highness...

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The Moderate Voice

• It’s Time For Paul Manafort To Trade In His Designer Threads For A Prison Jumpsuit 3 hours ago

  Of all the bad actors who attached themselves to Donald Trump in the course of the Russia scandal, former campaign manager Paul Manafort may be the baddest, and so it would be fitting...

• Of Special Relationships and ‘Special Places’ 13 hours ago

  “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the...

• Solo (2018) 18 hours ago

  In the years to come, Solo will have to go solo and be relegated as a footnote in the Star Wars cinematic universe — or, galaxy. The post Solo (2018) appeared first on The...

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Mother Jones

• Robert De Niro Says “Fuck Trump” at the Tony Awards 2 hours ago

  Before introducing Bruce Springsteen to the stage at the Tony Awards Sunday evening, legendary actor Robert De Niro took a brief moment to share a simple message about the president...

• Courtney Barnett’s Second Album Is Edgy and Excellent 4 hours ago

  Album Review Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop Thanks to engaging songs like “Avant Gardener” and the charming debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and...

• Forced Migrants Make New Homes in Sanctuary Cities—With Nests, Burrows, and Dens 4 hours ago

  This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  Her name was Lola. No, not “L-O-L-A, Lola,” from the Kinks’...

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  RFF Library Blog

• Alternatives to the Social Cost of Carbon in Taxes and Subsidies 2 days ago

  Columbia University. Center on Global Energy Policy / by Noah Kaufman https://bit.ly/2JtoqNX [Axios] A new analysis says policymakers should consider alternatives to a common...

• The Rise of Renewables and Energy Transition: What Adaptation Strategy for Oil Companies and Oil-exporting Countries? 7 days ago

  Oxford Institute for Energy Studies https://bit.ly/2HiH2OV [Axios] The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies explores the decision-making behind how the industry and oil-exporting...

• State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2018 19 days ago

  World Bank https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29687 [Reuters] The value of global schemes to put a price on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and designed to...

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  RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts

• Ron Unz: A Defender of Truth 2 days ago

  Wars are great producers of lies because propaganda is necessary to motivate soldiers to fight and to ensure that populations accept the associated hardships. The use of history...

• The Absence of Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington 6 days ago

  Any time a country doesn't follow Washington's orders, Washington imposes sanctions. Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela are all bearers of Washington's sanctions. Moreover...

• Democracy Is Fighting to Survive the Rise of Western Authoritarianism 10 days ago

  Considering the seeds of crisis that the self-serving policies of the Western elites have sowed, the responses to the crises will be calls for and acceptance of authoritarian rule...

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  Unexplained Mysteries

• $42,000 found stuffed in priest's confessional 7 hours ago

  The huge sum of money had been left by an anonymous benefactor in the confessional of a church in Rome. When the stash was first discovered inside two...

• New Horizons ready to explore the Kuiper Belt a day ago

  Following its visit to Pluto back in 2015, the spacecraft has been on its way to Kuiper belt object MU69. With a mass approximately 10,000 times that...

• Lost tapes solve 40-year-old Moon mystery a day ago

  Tapes containing data recorded on the Moon back in the 1970s have helped to solve a long-running mystery. During the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in 1971...

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  The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Severe dust storm and lightning hit Uttar Pradesh, claiming another 26 lives 4 hours ago

  A severe thunder and dust storm that hit the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on June 8, 2018, killed 26 people. Meanwhile, an intense dust storm hit national capital, causing traffic...
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  Photogenic EF-3 tornado touched down near Laramie, Wyoming 3 days ago

  A strong EF-3 tornado touched down near Laramie, Wyoming on June 6, 2018, causing damage to some structures and power lines. There were no injuries reported but the tornado was especially...
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  Unusual 'killer' frost hits the Maritimes as temperatures plunge to -4 °C (24.8 °F), Canada 4 days ago

  Crops across the Canadian Maritimes sustained widespread damage after a sharp plunge in spring temperatures caused unusual 'killer' frost. On the same day, a rare June snow accompanied...

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WebMD Health

• 'It's Not a Choice:' Trying to Understand Suicide 3 days ago

  Grief over a suicide can lead people to consider suicide themselves. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 800-273-8255.

• Outbreaks in 36 States Linked to Backyard Poultry 3 days ago

  People who became ill said they got live chicks and ducklings from relatives and from businesses such as feed supply stores, websites and hatcheries, according to the CDC...

• Why Women Struggle to Get The Right Diagnosis 3 days ago

  Many women say they struggle to get a correct diagnosis from health care professionals, sometimes with serious consequences.

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  WhoWhatWhy

• A Deep State: The Gun the US Doesn’t Have 2 hours ago

  The Plame affair reminded us spies are real. And the Trump investigation is reminding us that spying might be necessary...but a sophisticated intelligence apparatus is not necessarily...

• Will the Supreme Court Hand Vote Suppressors Another Tool? 2 hours ago

  The Supreme Court is due to rule on a controversial process Ohio has used to purge more than 2 million voters from the rolls since 2011. If the challenge fails, voter suppression could...

• Dems Are Once Again Poised to Fumble Away a Must Win Election a day ago

  If the Democrats want to win control of the House in the fall, they need to have a plan, a positive vision, and a focus on issues that directly affect Americans. Not surprisingly, they...

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