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  Australian Food News



  • CAFÉ’S, restaurants and takeaway food outlets breaching minimum wage and penalty-rate compliance remain firmly in the sights of authorities, and recent law changes mean franchisors...
  • IN the name of science, and a longer shelf life, a group of brave volunteers are contributing to a research project by smelling sheep meat past it's use-by date...

    • AFTER a decade of turning Coles around, Wesfarmers will demerger their $20 billion supermarket business. Retail expert Gary Mortimer tells Australian Food News why Wesfarmers...

  • This is the closest that Israel and Hamas have been to war since the last major conflict in 2014. There had been ongoing negotiations regarding a long-term ceasefire between Israel...
  • Somebody out there definitely does not want you to see what I have to say. On Sunday I received an email that upset me greatly, and I am about to share it with you. One of my readers recently...

    • Before televisions and computers were invented, Americans didn’t spend any time staring at television and computer screens. They worked hard, raised their families, personally...

  • The BMW i8 gets more power and more electric range, and adds that sweet wind-in-your-hair experience.
  • With 201 horsepower, sticky tires and an excellent shifter, the Turbo R-Spec is a ton of fun.

    • The BMW i8 was never designed to be a roadster, but it sure does look pretty topless.

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



  • Microsoft has invested in its Station Q, a lab dedicated solely to studying the field of topological quantum computing. Google has teamed up with NASA on a Quantum AI Lab that studies...
  • According to recent estimates, there are as many as 700 million trillion terrestrial planets in the observable universe. "Getting some idea of what fraction have been, or might be...

    • The Kepler supernova, of which only the supernova remnant remains, took place in the constellation of Ophiuchus, in the plane of the Milky Way, 16,300 light years from the sun. An international...

  • by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street August 8, 2018 Hundreds of thousands of people showed up across the United States at more than 600 gatherings...

  • Sidebar Breaking News ( RT )
  • Dozens of children slaughtered and injured in alleged coalition airstrike on a bus in northern Yemen
  • The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published Dec. 4, 2016 August 7, 2018 Corporate demons possess our nation’s soul. They crept...

    • by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, Aug. 2, 2018 August 6, 2018 The apparent assassination of a highly regarded...

  • America, you officially have a debt problem, and I am not just talking about the national debt.  Consumer bankruptcies are surging, corporate debt has doubled since the last financial...
  • August 6th was one of darkest days in the history of the Internet.  When I learned that Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Pinterest and others had colluded to take down content from...

    • Major changes are happening to our planet, and the experts are groping for answers.  In recent days some have suggested that what we are witnessing is the natural progression of “man-made...

  • By Payman Yazdani* During a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, US President Trump said he would meet
  • A futuristic experiment simulating warmer environmental conditions has shown that peatland vegetation responds to higher temperatures with an earlier and...

    • A new Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining study has found that using ethanol from corncobs for energy production may help reduce

      Geoengineering Watch



  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Lionel Nation is an extremely important voice that has fully joined the battle to expose and halt climate engineering. Lionel Nation...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Breaking dire headlines about the rapidly deteriorating state of the environment are pouring in from so many directions that it is...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Yet again forests in the Western US are incinerating as the US east coast is anomalously wet and cool. All official sources are blaming...

  • Authorities in Germany announced yesterday the arrest of a German national who is accused of spying on a central German mosque on behalf of Jordan, according to media reports...
  • Yemeni militias backed by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the United Arab Emirates are actively paying off al-Qaeda-allied factions to abstain from the fighting, and are recruiting...

    • A female Russian national who worked for the United States Secret Service in Moscow was quietly dismissed in 2017, amidst concerns that she was spying for Russia...

      Joniopolis



  •           Folks, I have just been attacked by two porcupines.           Okay, that is only a slight exaggeration.  I have just hefted two dead Dwarf Alberta Spruce trees...

  • Ode to Odin

    9 days ago
  •           I have a grand-dog.  Perhaps this is because I have no grandchildren, but it’s also because our middle son, Brandon, has a humongous Great Dane that weighs about 170...

  • Call Me Crazy

    16 days ago

    •           I think we’re all crazy.  I mean, a little bit.  For example, I have several friends who are afraid of irrational things, all of which can be traced to their childhoods...

  • Who Hired Stefan Halper? George Neumayr, Pindo Spectator, Aug 7 2018 It appears that Brennan and Strzok hired this bumptious fraud based on the recommendation of British intelligence...
  • The demise of another Bernie Sanders fraud Patrick Martin, WSWS, Aug 9 2018 Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abd’ul-Rahman el-Sayed went down to a double-digit defeat Tuesday...

    • Stock buybacks will hit $1t in 2018 Barry Grey, WSWS, Aug 8 2018 Pindo corporations will buy back their own stock at a record clip of $1t this year, according to an analysis issued by Goldman...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • IPS correspondent Tharanga Yakupitiyage spoke to Ambassador Amina Mohamed, Kenyan minister for education, science, technology and innovation, about her life-long work, particularly...
  • Jamison Ervin is Manager, UNDP’s Global Programme on Nature for Development   This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds initiated by IPS on the occasion of the International...

    • Sousa, a municipality of 70,000 people in the west of Paraíba, the state in Brazil most threatened by desertification, has become the country’s capital of solar energy, with a...

  • Republicans may be panicking over Ohio’s special election results Ohio Democratic candidate Danny O’Connor, left, and Republican candidate Troy Balderson. AP Photo/John...
  • "When you are young, your political views are being molded, and the things that really stick with you tend to have an echo over time." - Soltis Anderson, GOP pollster. The post Generation...

    • A speeding drunk driver plows into a crowded school bus, but the drunk’s lawyers tell investigators he won’t agree to an interview if it includes questions about the accident...

  • This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A team of international researchers released what looks like a...
  • In June, the New York Times’ op-ed page published a video titled “Trump and Putin: A Love Story.” The brightly colored hand-drawn cartoon depicts a romance between the...

    • If a blue wave floods Capitol Hill in November, dozens of Republican lawmakers could lose their seats, potentially handing control of one or both houses of Congress to Democrats...
    • Nature Communications (July 13, 2018; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05132-5) / by Kai Zhu, Jian Zhang, Shuli Niu, Chengjin Chu and  Yiqi Luo https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05132-5...

  • Foreign companies accommodate the illegal sanctions because the companies do not want to lose access to US markets. To put a halt to this, the sanctioned countries can simply announce...
  • The jobs that the financial presstitutes report to be unfilled are not jobs that provide a living. The BLS reported that the number of Americans working multiple jobs rose in July by...

    • Who destroyed the West? There are different answers to this question. I believe the unleashed greed of Capitalism by deregulation, the burial of Anti-Trust, and the redefinition...

      Unexplained Mysteries



  • An unidentified woman who was murdered back in 1974 has been spotted in a scene in the hit Spielberg movie. The body of the victim, who was believed t...
  • The Gendarmerie of Air Transport (GTA) has launched its own probe amid claims of a government cover-up. Exactly what happened to Malaysia Airlines Fli...

    • Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede is producing 'chorus waves' one million times more powerful than average. The discovery was made by researchers who ha...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks



  • EU vegetable sector in most serious crisis since 1978With the hot and dry weather continuing throughout July across most parts of Europe, vegetables have continued to suffer and...
  • A powerful tornado rated EF-4 ripped through parts of the Canadian province of Manitoba on Friday, August 3, 2018. Environment Canada upgraded the preliminary EF-3 rating to EF-4...

    • Mendocino Fire Complex explodes in size, now 2nd largest fire in the history of CaliforniaThe Mendocino Fire Complex in California exploded in size over the weekend and is now the...

    WebMD Health



  • The team also found that mutations in the BRIP1 and RAD51C genes were associated with a more moderate risk of triple-negative breast cancer.
  • The study, however, does not prove that a religious upbringing prevents suicide, only that there is an association between the two.

    • The reality is that many people will go without mental health care if it doesn’t come from their primary care doctor, so integrating mental and behavioral health care into doctor...

  • WhoWhatWhy founder and Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker talks with radio host Tom Hartmann about the itchy trigger fingers of past presidents, and whether Trump could launch another...
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